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rail issues Looking right at the stereo watch. First step, What is this morning then? We wanted to find out about what we could do at the tables. As of that first day of school, we could sit way

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could have information, but we could not do even as much as to say I am for or against any particular candidate or issue, let alone advocate that you should vote e for the past number of a number of years. At least five at least that we

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know of, uh, tables have been permitted out in front of Bancroft and telegraph, uh, to distribute literature on these literatures, including the ideas of policy and advocating stands at this particular point. We have been denied this, and we think whether or not this is true or

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not as far as why they're doing it, the effect of cutting this off is to stop political activity on this campus. Now we cannot presume to know what's going on in their minds. But we do know that they know, like we know that this is going

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to be the effect the students traditionally have undertaken. Some of these activities on the city streets of Berkeley. It used to be outside, say, their gate. The Berkeley campus then moved to Bend Croft way in the area. Uh, between Bancroft and the start of the campus

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has been available. But as they have increased in numbers and in intensity, they began to move into the campus, which was not proper. And we told them they had to go back on the streets where they've been traditionally for this kind of activity. And they then

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took the position that we want to undertake these activities on campus property itself. When we said This is not possible, The remarkable thing about this entire situation as it has been a coalition that I think is completely unusual in politics. There's been a coalition

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from youth for Goldwater all the way over from the young Socialist Alliance, and usually these two groups don't even speak together, let alone sit in the same table and work out general policies and platforms. I think that this I'm proud to say that American students or

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united on one issue, and that's the First Amendment privileges of freedom of speech allowed toe rightto advocate, discuss at any time in any place it longs it doesn't disturb classes and interfere with traffic. And this is an amazing thing to me in a very happy experience

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of my life to see so many Democratic students. Well, last night we decided in the meeting of United Front that 16 organizations of the left, the right in the middle at the University way, decided that we're going to finally demand our rights, and citizens on members

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of the community of Berkeley in California way demanded first of all, that any student or any non student, any citizen of this country be able to come onto this campus on, say, whatever he thinks, on whatever issue, at whatever time, without giving prior notification, except in

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the cases of preventing traffic congestion or interfering with classes. There are no new regulations of the university as concerns the use of university facilities by students. Our policies have been the policies that we have always maintained in the university. In other words, the university has never

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permitted students to plan and recruit for political and social action on campus directed to the surrounding community on or has it permitted, uh, solicitation are receiving of funds for such purposes? This is the unchanged policy of the University of California, E

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E o expelled, arresting nothing around here. Get yourself kicked out of e. Won't accept that I was one of approximately 100 people. The majority of them were students who was arbitrarily single day. I don't think it was anything particularly was just the first one they picked.

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Almost any one of the other would have done the exact same thing that I'm doing now. I can't feel my mother is a person who intentionally sacrifice himself. I just did what any of my fellow students or fellows and all these organizations would have done, so

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I would just singled out Chance selected me. I'm no murder, Dr. Now what's the word Now? There's been an agreement. Signed agreements yes, by the student groups and by me is President University, which has several points to it. First point is that the student demonstrators shall

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desist from their illegal actions protesting university regulations. We've also agreed to set up a committee Thio, examine the rules, and I have already, as I did this afternoon, declared my own willingness to support dealing of certain university property at the end of Telegraph Avenue to the

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city of Berkley or to the associative students. We expected more of the Board of Regents. The position we presented is eminently reasonable and eminently fair Board has seen fit to accept the president's recommendation without public discussion. In any case, I think the board

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has been very unwise. And supposing that just because the president has said something, it is then unnecessarily the proper and wise course of action way shall make our case quite public. The fight doesn't stop here. In other words, uh, in a manner of speaking, Uh, it's

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not but begun. Thank you. Oh, a I'm learning about the things this university is afraid that we know we're gonna learn about freedom up there and we're gonna learn by doing no more talking. Uhh! Next time we're going to march

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in singing way shall overcome because you have a baby with a with A with a very simple thing. I was advised that people were violating the law. Young people and good people and the peace officers of

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that community recommended that that they be, uh, that they'd be arrested and without passing judgment on whether or not they were violating the law. I told them if they were that they had to do their duty. And as a result of that, the police moved in

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with the university police. They needed some assistance from the Highway Patrol, which I gave them in order to preserve law and order. Governor's job is to see that all the laws of this state or enforced and that I did right? Right at this stage, I don't

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think you might be doing. May I have your attention, please? But I am Dr Edward Strong, chancellor of the Berkeley campus. I have an announcement. This assemblage has developed to such a point that the purpose and work of the university have been materially impaired. Yep. E.

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It is clear that there have been acts of disobedience and illegality which cannot be tolerated in a responsible educational center and would not be tolerated anywhere in our society except Bakley. Thank you. The university has shown great restraint and patience in exercising its legitimate authority. In

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order to allow every opportunity for expressing differing points of view. University always stands ready to engage in the established and accepted procedures for resolving differences of opinion. I request that each of you seize your participation in this unlawful assembly. I urge you both individually and collectively.

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To leave. This area will result in disciplinary action by the university. Please go program E yeah, Way e What? You 0 160 students. It

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says the executive committee of the Berkeley chapter of the A U P unanimously believes that the present crisis cannot be properly resolved without one complete amnesty for past offenses in the course of the free speech controversy and to a new chief campus officer for Berkeley who

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will have the confidence of the university community. This is a complete breakdown of law and order. This is a complete breakdown of respect for the normal rules of conduct that we have every right to expect of our students in these tax supported institutions, the

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universities, a great institution. I'm a graduate of the university. I support it. But I resent very, very much the attempt of outside forces to come in and influence what I think started out to be a basic disagreement of policy between the students and the administration. What

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about these outside forces? Assemblyman Mulford? Who do you think they are? I do not know. I think this is one of the main reasons why we must have a legislative inquiry to obtain fax. I have received much information, but I'm not at liberty to divulge this

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information because I'm not sure of its authenticity. I have reason to believe that it is authentic. However, President Kerr has made a statement concerning of the intrusion of communist interest into this controversy. I have reason to believe that this is true. I concur with a comment

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he has made from my own investigation. People signed that thing just because it was against FSN. They didn't even read the petition there. A lot of them there were opposed to the entire tactics is the F so called free speech movement. We're

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sick and tired of being pushed around by these so called free speech people here. They're not for free speech whatsoever. There for our key. I'm in favor of expelling the students who are disrupting the activities of the university. I think this sort of thing could be

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could have been eliminated, prevented if the in October the students had been expelled from the university that we have taken part in the demonstration and actively tried to disrupt the educational process of the of the university. They have no place that they don't realize what a

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privilege it is to go to the University of California. All of us who've been talking have said repeatedly that were deeply critical of the F S M and particularly its leadership. Now I want to make quite clear that this is not set in an effort to

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appease any hostile public opinion that we would have said that all of us at any time during the last two months, we're also at least as critical at the moment of the administration from which we expect Maura firmness and, in his statements, at least to put

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it mildly, mawr consistency than has been shown. I would say, for instance, that most of us on the faculty feel at a sit in, in the case of a restaurant which has peculiar racial standards of something like that is justified and probably legal. That a sit

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in for the purpose of bringing about a capitulation to political demands is not and that there's a complex borderline between these things which is hard for all of us as well as for students fully to understand