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...From Protest to Resistance." Three advocates of dissent - Mario Savio, who led the Free Speech Movement at the University of California in Berkeley, Black Power Pusher Stokely Carmichael, and David Harris, a full-time antidraft resistance worker-have their say in a program about the new radicalism...
Right to Be Heard. Students have also proved highly effective in enforcing campus rules through their own court systems at campuses such as the University of Pennsylvania. Committees at both Wisconsin and Berkeley have even urged that administrators stay out of the disciplinary process on the theory that this sets administrators against students, cripples their leadership and guidance capabilities...
...first "Berkeley" was pretty much of a mess. It had existential significance as a prediction and a hope. In concrete terms, however, little was gained. It affected the spirit of the university, not the structure. After Columbia, it appears that the structure will change, because the university's balance of power has been redistributed. Where Berkeley was merely articulate, Columbia is also strong...
Every university conflict since 1964 has been punctuated by cries of "We'd better watch out or we're going to have another Berkeley on our hands" (administrators), "You'd better watch out or you'll have another Berkeley on your hands" (students), or "This community cannot afford another Berkeley" (faculty). But the impact of these warnings has been marred by the confusion over just what "another Berkeley" would be. It took four years to find out, but now it's clear: "another Berkeley" is Columbia...
...Berkeley, the crisis produced two major committee reports, political and educational. The former committee was composed of prestigious representatives of the power structure not associated with the university. The latter, which came to be known as the Muscetine Committee, was staffed by moderate faculty members. These supposedly "pet" groups concluded their extended studies by submitting reports sharply critical of the administration. Publicly awkward and embarrassing, both reports were ignored...