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Drawing from the doctrine of users’ rights, Frank Bardacke created the manifesto “Who Owns the Park?” Aformer political science graduate student, Bardacke asserted that the university had left the land disorderedand abandoned and that the park’s developers, whose use was more productive, could rightly lay claim tothe lot. Written against a backdrop of the Native American resister Geronimo, the leaflet was published inthe May 9 issue of the Berkeley Barb and was widely distributed.Courtesy of Terri Compost17