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student rallies at the University of California at Berkeley over the past two months have become commonplace, but today's rally in front of Sproul Hall has taken on a different tone. Several 1000 students have gathered for what has been billed as a victory celebration, a victory the

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students feel is assured as a result of yesterday's action by the Academic senate. The first speaker, the leader of the free speech movement, Mario savio, it's been said that we've, you know, we've been revolutionaries and all this

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sort of thing, uh in a way that's true. We've gone back to a traditional view of the university, the traditional view, the university is a community of scholars of faculty and students get together who, you know, with complete with complete honesty, who bring bring the hard

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light boy, bring a hard light of free inquiry to bear upon upon important matters in the sciences, but also in the social sciences. The question of just, you know, what ought to be, not just what is now, that traditional view of the university, um that's the

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one that had been attacked by the revolutionaries by those who, you know, would make it into a kind of adjunct to industry, to uh to uh, you know, to other government and so forth. Really, the people people us who fought this fight, or maybe the most

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conservative people on the campus, we're asking that there be no no restrictions on the content of speech save those provided by the courts. And that's that's an enormous amount of freedom and people can say things within within that area of freedom which are not responsible. And

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now that's, you know, we've finally gotten into a position where we have to consider being responsible because now we have the freedom within which to be responsible. And I'd like to say now at this time I'm confident I'm confident that the students and the faculty university

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of California will exercise their freedom with the same responsibility they've shown in winning their freedom I have here another birthday gift for Mario which is designed to solve a pressing problem that he faces every now and then. If you saw the photograph in the Chronicle yesterday,

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you saw that the cop was pulling on his tie. You saw also that he was wearing one. Now it's that that creates the dilemma, namely if you're going to get up on the stage of the great theater, you've got to wear a tie in order to

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be respectable. But on the other hand, what happens when the cops get there? What I have in my hand is the solution. It's the what the well dressed demonstrator will wear and what it does and what it does is provide the dilemma for the cup. What

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happens is that when he grabs your tie, it comes off the fact that the the side effect of that is that you have also won badly frustrated cop sitting there weeping and therefore out of commission for the moment. So here here is a box support ties

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for Mario let it be a tie between us. I've seen it. Free speech was what we were after, what we organized around. But I think one of the things that really, in essence we were fighting for was to develop a sense of community at kale, a

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sense of comradeship, a sense of meaning, a sense of purpose, a sense of identity. And I think that when we win the free speech issue and few people will continue getting up at these microphones and handing out leaflets and agitating and screaming and yelling and everybody

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else by and large, we go back to do the things they're here for to do their studies. They're gonna go back a little bit different, they're gonna go back with much warmer feeling toward their fellow students. It would be much more mutual respect between the students

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and the faculty. And I think that in the long run the thing that will be gained from the entire free speech movement will be much more than the issues over which we are fighting. It'll be a much warmer place here at cal then we had before