Word: savio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...young agitators, it was a dreamlike revival of past hell raising. To Berkeley's recently confident administrators, it was a sickening replay of two-year-old nightmares. Cops swung clubs on campus. Angry students scratched and bit policemen, or defiantly lay prone. The perennial martyr, Non-Student Mario Savio, exhorted cheering students, some perched in trees, to stay out of class. Nearly 2,000 of them did, and Berkeley again seemed close to coming unhinged...
Their five demands are essentially reasonable, and so is the strike of which they are part. This weekend, the strikers made an honest concession in substituting Bettina Aptheker, a student, for Savio, a non-student. But Heyns has still refused to budge, apparently believing the strike will fail of its own accord, because of differences among its sponsors...
...dramatize the point, a group of non-students including Savio established a Conscientous Objectors' table right next to the ROTC table. Fist fights broke out with fraternity hecklers, and 75 students responded by staging a sit-down. It was then that the Vice-Chancellor, Earl F. Cheit, dispatched nearly 100 sheriff's deputies and university police to arrest six non-students, among them Savio, for trespassing and creating a public disturbance. When students attempted to block the police bus carrying Savio and the five others away, three were arrested...
Bettina Aptheker, Mario Savio's heir-apparent as leader of the anti-administration movement, called Heyns "a liar" for that statement. But in a gesture indicative of Heyn's success in curbing student outbreaks these last two years, Miss Aptheker did nothing but submit a petition protesting his restrictions...
...York. Add to that his religion and his voting record, and it just wouldn't go down too well with a lot of people out here." Maybe Javits would offer the nation a new face for 1968, snorted arch-Conservative William F. Buckley Jr.?but "so would Mario Savio." Exclaims a Senate colleague: "Preposterous...