An ode to Berkeley
It is hard to understand what is right or wrong, but to enact true change, we cannot remain passive or become bystanders to history.
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‘Radical and reformist’: The legacy of UC Berkeley’s Free Speech Movement
Savio enacted this civil disobedience — one of the defining moments of the campus Free Speech Movement — to protest the arrest of then-campus graduate student Jack Weinberg, who had been cited for tabling for social justice group Congress of Racial Equality, which was against the UC’s policies at the time.
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On their golden anniversary, finding Berkeley in ‘The Graduate’
The film is replete with enough wistful guitars and empty-eyed closeups of its various players to drive home the supremely identifiable sentiment of being marooned unto oneself, with satisfaction and fulfillment only fleeting.
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Occupation of campus building follows FSM rally on Sproul for 50th anniversary
In an event to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Free Speech Movement, FSM veterans rallied at noon in front of Sproul Hall Wednesday.
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No boundary between free speech, political advocacy
We understand you have issued no regulation nor taken any steps to restrict political advocacy or “uncivil” speech on campus. Nonetheless, we are concerned that your call for “civility” may have — or already has had — a chilling effect on the exercise of free speech by UC Berkeley faculty and students.
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