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in your personal opinion, do you think there's a growing dissatisfaction with the educational structure that we know as we know it today by the student body? I think a lot of it is just that people are saying consult us before you do something that is supposedly

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to benefit us, ask us if it really is benefiting us, that's what happened in the People's Park. We felt that people felt we just were not asked whether it was benefiting us and then when finally we said, well we'll tell you what we think will benefit

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us. We felt it should have been a park and it wasn't. So basically, I think students are saying just listen a little bit you want to be too, you know that it was last May when this piece of Berkeley real estate was dubbed People's Park and

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the controversy over its future use escalated into open street warfare with armed troops and tear gas spraying helicopters overhead. When the battle was over there was one dead, one blinded, scores injured and arrested. Also when it was over the university turned what once was a dirt

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vacant lot into this playing field for authorized intramural organizations. They also retain the cyclone fence that was erected during the battle. No one was too surprised when the liberal and radical students involved in last May's battle, vowed not to use this new field now called Haste

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field and also said they would try to influence others against using it. What is surprising now is that the one organization which will probably be the most authorized and qualified to use the field has vowed they too, will boycott this. It is the intra fraternity council,

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the generally conservative organization made up of the fraternities on the cal campus. Their spokesman is Jim Mulholland, as you know, that with the People's Park in the spring there was A considerable amount of confrontation that took place etc. And at that time there was a referendum

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vote by the students. We had 15,000 students on the campus voting In 85% of those students overwhelmingly felt that the park should be returned to student use. And basically right now, we're the first group on this campus that has been asked to use the park since

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it's been redeveloped into a soccer field. And so, um, this monday they wanted to know if, you know, if we would be willing to use the use the field, um, we feel that basically for several reasons, for moral reasons, for safety reasons and simply due to

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the overwhelming student support that we wanted the park left to park. The Interfraternity Council feels that we wish our intramural program to be rescheduled away from the park. It would seem a mistake to write off all student unrest as the

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expression of a dissident minority of troublemakers or communist dupes. The desire to participate in the process of their own education is one which appears to be growing among the majority of students, of all political persuasions. This is Evan white reporting for eyewitness news from Berkeley