Word: savio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crittenden has been permitting the defend ants to file through court and waive their rights to a jury, thus leaving ver dicts to him. Periodically he asked them whether they understood that they were giving up a constitutional right. One day last week he put the question to Mario Savio, leader of the Free Speech Movement that inspired the rioting...
...Replied Savio: "I understand fully the shameless hypocrisy to which the court has been reduced." After an electric silence, Crittenden asked Savio if he cared to repeat his statement. Savio did, and louder. "Mr. Savio," said the judge, "I'm going to cite you for contempt of court." Savio spent 28 hours in jail. His followers predictably held a mass rally to protest the court's action...
Exam Time. First-semester final exams are about to begin at Cal, and for now most students are willing to skip demonstrations and let Meyerson work out his own way of running the university. But the conflict is not settled. Student Leader Mario Savio questions "whether the regents are the proper people to be running the university," and his Free Speech Movement wants to "establish the availability of a revolutionary experience in education." Concessions so far, he says, do not permit "free speech with consequences, free speech which may lead to sit-ins and picket lines and other civil rights...
...capitulation to F.S.M. on the double-jeopardy issue, and a policy that "the content of on-campus speech or advocacy should not be restricted by the university. Off-campus student political activity shall not be subject to university regulation" "This is the best birthday present I ever had," chortled Savio, who had just turned 22 and he acknowledged that if the cops had not dragged him away from the mike, "we would have been dead...
This settlement cannot be effective until approved by the university's board of regents; the only clue to their probable attitude is Chairman Edward Carters concerned reference to "extraordinary problems created by recent incidents." But to turn it down now means risking more than further protest from Savio and F.S.M.: the Berkeley faculty which voted 824 to 115 for its proposed solution, cannot lightly be overridden. Moreover, the proposal is not out of line with practice at other U.S. universities which have come a long way greater freedom of expression since day in 1952 when Senator Robert Taft...