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