Word: savio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...faculty conference-room. By contrast, the windowless basement is taken up by student classrooms and a lecture-hall. This peculiar distribution of floors does not provoke us to launch a Free Speech Movement at Harvard, but it does get us thinking along the lines of some of Mario Savio's complaints about the role of students at a university. It would perhaps be going too far to suggest the deportation to the basement of Professors Erikson, Kagan, Wiley, White, Swanson and McClelland, but we do feel that some small gesture of good will is in order on the part...
Ever since the student protest movement at the University of California degenerated into a naughty-naughty display of obscene words in March, it has fallen into impotent fragments. Last week Mario Savio, the protest leader who got so much attention that he quit his studies to protest full time, mounted his customary podium on Berkeley's Sproul Hall steps to tell 3,000 students that he was quitting as leader of the Free Speech Movement...
Apart from his usual tirade against Cal's "institutional tyranny," Savio did not really explain what was bothering him or what he expects to do now. His cryptic excuse for quitting was: "Lest I feel deserving of the charge of 'Bonapartism,' which even I sometimes have made against myself, I'd like to wish you good luck and goodbye." In a rambling letter to the campus Daily Californian, Savio indicated that he had not lost his selfesteem. "I should do a great disservice to our community if I were to make myself indispensable," he wrote...
Actually, Savio had failed to stir any widespread campus sympathy for his latest claim that the university had ignored "due process" in suspending three students for taking part in the "filthy-speech movement" and flatly expelling one: Savio's longtime F.S.M. Crony Arthur Goldberg. At a later rally, some 2,500 students gathered to hear a few remaining F.S.M. members announce that the organization was being dissolved. In its place, insisted Jack Weinberg, an unemployed former Cal student, would grow a "Free Student Union" patterned after oldtime trade unions and open to "all students who are interested in anything...
...back of it is civil rights; by combining idealism, emotional appeal, techniques, and proof that students can act effectively, this cause has lifted students out of their silent-generation apathy of the late '50s. Students from Yale, Harvard and Princeton were well represented at Selma last week; Mario Savio, the original free-speech leader at Berkeley, showed up too. And a healthy thing it is, insists St. John's Sociology Professor William Osborne: "This generation of students has what other generations have lacked-a holy discontent, courage, and the willingness to sacrifice...