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POLITICS
From free speech, to Vietnam, to apartheid ...
Student protests return to Berkeley
By Jonathan Alberts
As the By arm-apartheid Jonathan Alberts movemeni comer """ of Bancroft and Telegraph. Ooard of Regents, a cemmince >as
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on university campuses across the The students, in protest !o this ».•- appointed to investigate the usue.
nation begins to grow, the situation uon. formed a united front arl .»- Shortly thereafter, a new
U becornimj increasingly rtminisquested the restoration of iris area chancellor was named and provicent
o: the protests staged by the as tl»e center of student political TXMU] rules resolved the protects.
Tree Speech Movement (FSM) in activu*y.
The battc similarities between the
the 60s. and the later protests in op- Unable to achieve an acceptable free speech movement And the aparposition
lo the Vietnam War. compromise with the school's adtheid protests arc apparent.
Apartheid. South Africa's social ministration, the students Students, in both cases, were, and
system urder which 22 million deliberately disobeyed the univer- ire, protestin; the Universe's
blacks are ruled by a minority white sity's resinctV":-, by setting up and policy conccr ing an imr.nr.tfii
aristocracy, has become a manning whfts on campus. is%uc of the time.
household word for many Ditciplifur) action by Berkeley's TLe members of the Ftec Speech
Americans.
administrations only tncaavsl the Mavcncnt were demanding the
Protests demanding divestment of strength of the movement. \ tem- reformation of the Universe's
stock owned by universities are freporary agreement and moratorium rules concerning student political
quent on many campuses nation- on illegal student activity with inc and social action.
wide, the picketing by th= general newly formed FSM •!*] not last, and Sirmlarty, today's apartheid pro-
public of the South African Em- once again tables were runncd and testers arc demanding a change in
bassy ia Washington has received rallies suged.
lhc policy of the University concer-
considerable media coverage. The protests continued with the ning investment in companies doing
business with and in South Africa.
They are alvo demanding immediate
divestment of the SI.7 billion in
''Apartheid, South Africa's social stock the University TOW hold* in
Sproul Hall at L'C Berkeley baa brer* Ibe site of student protests for the
these campan;e*
pwt tw
system under which 22 million blacks Ancther similarity i e methods In general, the public opposed Oic Americans approve of their
used. The apartheid protntcrs protesters of the 60Y Even lhc stu- method*, since ihesc method* are
are ruled by a white aristocracy, has employ- the noii-violc.nl allies and dent govemmem and newspaper of N.* generally recognized av accep-
sit-ins, and the picketing which the ihe University disagreed with the table. Many Americans also v>m-
become a household word for many FSM effectively uved in dc 60 V protesters The opposition was not polhizc with the protcvtcr\ stand*
^Americans. "
The sincerity and id^Iiv n found
so m>-ch with the ISIJC oi free on the issue of apartheid.
in lhc fire speech movcmer.l is also
\pccch av tfce mcthodv cmpl'>ycd in In the Ule 60's and early 70's, the
apparent in the apartheid protect*. In
tie protests.
focus of the Berkeley prtiesters
The relationship between the pro- occupation of Sprout Hill and
turned to the Vietnam War. As the
jdduion to fighting for their tpcech
tests i*t> decades ago and the recent Governor Edmund G - Brow n rightv. the prolcMtrrs of the 60S "7he anti-apar- war turned into an ugly spectacle,
movement can be best determined dispatched police. Over 800
the protests back in America alto
ucrc alwi active in tnc fight fut civil
by comparing the University of students were arrested, but hicr rights, equal employment, and the theid movement is became ugly.
California at Berkeley's involve- released on bail.
right agaitivt the remnants of apar-
Violence previously unknown in
based on the same
ment in the issues of free ipctxh and The students rejected the protheid in America.
the protests became the weapon of
apartheid.
posals of University President Claik
many protesters, and. in turn, of the
The ar.!t>apaithcid movement iv development of
The fice speech controversy Kerr. but the strike 'va» suspended
law enforcement officers. Many
based on the tame development of
erupted on September 14, 1964 ur.til after the meeting of the social conscience. Apartheid pro- social con - buildings were butted, and people
*.hen students were banned, on the Acai'cmic Senate- Then, the
were injured and Killed.
tntc* want divestment in order ti>
basis of a university rule restricting Academic Senate passed a propoul force the abolition ol apartheid in science.''
As violence corrinues in South
political activities, from sctf'ig up ag*i£U the control of student speech Sooth Arrica.
Africa and the demand for aciton
The apartheid protcucn, on the
iahw», raising fundi. recruitir* and political advocacy. While thii Tlicrc arc nlto tome difference*
grows Wronger, there iv speculation
other twid. c^.tvy f.vonble pirn
tsembers. and giving speeches at the propmal wn not accrued by the t>ct*ccit the two ntovcnxntv
»• to whohrr the ptnteus in the
cuvcr^c. Thr tail nujohty of
United SMU.S wtil rcnu.>h«i.