Word: sproules
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...Have love as you do this thing," cooed Folk Singer Joan Baez, "and it will succeed." It was a battle cry, not a ballad. Marching behind their Joan of Arc, who was wearing a jeweled crucifix, a thousand undergraduates of the University of California at Berkeley stormed four-story Sproul Hall, the school's administration building. For 15 hours they camped in the corridors, whanged guitars, played jacks, watched Charlie Chaplin movies. Stairwells be came "freedom" classrooms. An alcove was a kitchen where coeds made thousands of sandwiches for the all-night siege. The school had locked the bath...
...promptly reopened the dispute by threatening to discipline four student leaders, including Savio, who had organized the demonstration around the police car. Shouted Savio: "This factory does unjust things, and we'll have to cause the wheels to grind to a halt." Then he led the investment of Sproul Hall...
State and County police converged on Sproul Hall and bodily dragged the demonstrators to booking stations on the campus. From there they were taken to jails. Numerous complaints of police brutality circulated on the campus
...mass arrests Thursday came after 1000 demonstrators took over Sproul Hall, the main administrative building on the campus, and figuratively established the "Free University of California...
While Joan Baez sang "We Shall Overcome," the students, marching behind an American flag, flowed into sproul for a massive sit-in. They called the sit-in an occupation action, and the students inside figuratively established the Free University of California...