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Yeah, wow. Yeah, yeah. Okay. President Richard Nixon should either resign or the Congress of the United States should impeach him. And the third is that if there is not an immediate reversal of government policies towards the panthers, the lotions,

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cambodians, Vietnamese and american students that there be a general strike in the fall in which no colleges or universities were functioning alright. Make up your mind, they felt that more could be accomplished as students by having keeping as much of the normal structure going as they

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could and working within it rather than you know, making a big to do and then losing the function of university. A lot of them are worried about graduating this quarter like myself for example and you know trying to keep go functioning but still be effective in

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the anti war movement. There seems to be pretty good consensus that you know, the Cambodian invasion is intolerable and we have to do something but it's very confused as to what? Well really, I don't I really don't care where they open and close one class, we

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decided not to meet and we're gonna have individual consultation with Professor and then the other one, it's still, you know, it's up to us if we wish to go or not. I intend to work antiwar work leafleting, you know, helping out with the strike committee but

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I will still keep on doing the work. I'm not on strike and but I am sympathizing with the strikers but I really haven't got the time. Thank you. Hi, I'm not attending classes and I'm trying to urge other people not to attend classes for people to

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get themselves involved in anti war work, especially things like electoral politics. Dellums campaign, George Brown's campaign in the Senate. Other efforts going on now, I'm against the war. Very much so. Are you going to classes? No, not at all. I haven't been to class since last

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week. I asked a few people whether they were going to strike or not, and most people said they didn't know. And then when, when the whole class met, we took a vote on it and we voted to hold classes off campus, but they have on campus

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no business as usual, so that we could, you know, spend the time working in anti war activities. And, you know, I really feel that the professors are going to be what's going to make or break the strike. I think most kids feel that they would go

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on strike if they're not going to get penalized for it. There are many of us who fear attempts to coerce both teaching and learning. We feel that in this national crisis that it is very important for us to see that the university itself may become a

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victim, another casualty of the Vietnam war. We fear this because we fear the problem of coercion in our classrooms. We fear and erosion of our commitment to learning and the erosion of students freedom also to learn. We reaffirm our commitment of the right of teachers to

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teach and students to learn. That is to say that whatever the convictions of the student and I would say the majority at this point, are certainly concerned with the war in Southeast Asia and hope to do what they can personally and in groups to end it.

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Nevertheless, we do not believe that the classroom should become used as a place of political indoctrination or political commitment. First of all, I'd like to point out that to my knowledge, not a single department on the Berkeley campus has officially voted to strike. Ah, what most

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part of departments seem to be tending towards is something that could be called individual option allowing professors to make arrangements with those of their students who want to strike and those who do not want to strike to see how the quarter can best be terminated. As

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far as the history department is concerned. It voted unanimously today, a resolution that said one, we should be flexible in handling the matter of grades, course requirements and so forth. And to the general principle that the history faculty reaffirms the right to teach and to learn

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free of political requirements. In the economics department, there is unanimous feeling of unhappiness about the war, even though some of us may feel that it is just as bad for people to be killed in Vietnam as in cambodia, but we think this is not the real

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issue for us here. The real issue has been an attempt going on for a long time of some people to try to turn the university into a political instrument and they have been able to seize upon the great unhappiness of the mass of the students about

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the war and about the killing of the students in Kent to utilize this for this purpose. The way the essential thing we want to do is to protect the university by saying that the university must keep on teaching and students can keep on learning as much

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as they want to. That individuals as such have the right to take make their known feelings felt. But not to force others to do what they do not want to do. Mm hmm. Yeah. Mm hmm. Well, that depends on whether they are or not, depends on

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what the department does. What do you feel? Should the classes be open or closed? Thank you. Are you attending classes ah, Just to find out what our professor said so far. How do you feel about having the university open or closed? I don't think it should

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be shut down completely though. I think I agree with the proposal. I was given Wednesday of complications. Excuse me, man. Are you attending classes? Well, the way that classes are being organized just there sort of meetings on kids approval or disapproval of the strike. In various

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ways that you can show your disapproval or approval through the school and ways to to direct the classes and satisfied with this. Yeah, I am. How about you? Yes, I am also we met mostly today to talk about ways of getting credit for courses and alternatives

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to regular coursework. Yeah. Thanks. Yes. Excuse me. Classes today, I went to see if I could reconstitute part of, you know, to express my opinion. And what is your opinion? We'll see. I don't believe that war and anti war work and the classes are necessarily exclusive.

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And so, and I, you know, I just don't see why you have to have them mutually exclusive. So, thank you. What about how do you feel about the strike situation? I'm supporting it long time strike. Indefinite strike. Yeah. Here, can you tell me what you feel

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about the strike? Well, it's really hard because like I I am attending classes and today until I find out exactly what my you know what the instructors are going to be putting down as to my requirements for the for the rest of the quarter. But technically,

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are you going to classes? Well, I'm contemplating going to classes. How do you feel about the strike in general? Well, I feel like it's relevant. Do you think you want your both sympathetic, but you want classes to continue? I'm sympathetic with the because of the strike,

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But I feel that. Well, personally, that I, uh, I have to go to class because there's some things that I want to do? No, I'm not. Why not? Would you tell me good job? Yeah, let's go. Excuse me. Are you going to classes? I've just been

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to two classes. How do you feel about this strike? I think it's a good thing. I really do. I myself haven't, haven't resolved the problems of resolving time versus the strike. I don't have the time to drop out of classes. I'm not going to be here

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all summer out of the country. All summer will be out of the country will fall. And so I have to complete my work. But I wish very much that my teachers would allow me and they're not going to to make up my work in other ways

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than going to class. And so far my professors have not indicated a willingness to do this and I feel very unhappy about it. Dr up your mind, please. And you're going prominent. Yeah, mm hmm. Which class? This was neurophysiology in the sociology department. And

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as people were coming in. But you know, if they are going to get penalized, they won't. So okay, thank you. How are you doing? You picked up what sort of feeling the students while they were opposed to cutting it down completely. There was no feeling toward

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that they felt that they had to do something. But have you Excuse me sir, Have you interviewed anybody outside you're a Vietnamese student. Tell me. And I've been trying to call some other Vietnamese students from throughout the state to come here and my name is Don

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Manuel and I'm a student here at the university of California. I'm an anthropology and of course I wouldn't want to threaten that either. I was hoping to called many students from the rest of California. I'm not sure what the response is going to be because they

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are very worried also. Mhm. The whole thing. No double dare to win. Yeah. Mm hmm. Yeah. Mhm. Yeah. Mhm. Okay. Mm hmm, mm hmm. To declare a new basis, declare a new movie. It may seem utopian now, but I think it will turn out

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to be ultimately realistic. The first is that now I'm very busy fourth point late comers to this struggle but uniting with people who have been in the forefront and who have suffered the most. And that means in particular the black panther party because the war that

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has been declared out you do because the title of my talk is the tragedy of the liberal left. Perhaps the most important thing for the american Liberal left to learn at this point in the third world struggle is that there can be no peace in America

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until all oppressed people of the earth are free. A long pull lies ahead of them. We must therefore strengthen, not divide the campus ahead lies the summer ahead lies next fall when we have to make still another and greater supreme effort. Let us try

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to make our commitments therefore as profiles. Mhm. Let me finish by saying that the dangerous one. But the problems we're facing this society really do the van Gogh audacious answers. Creative and innovation. Former roles with two members of society renounce the role of dissent and

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protest and take upon the new responsibility for rebuilding the society. Resource is insufficient in the week ahead and a very dangerous week. It is for the university. Mhm. Can we cut at that point? Alright. Mr Libby. Mr. All right. Well, there have been a number of

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faculty meetings to see what we can do constructively about this crisis and that the majority of the uh faculty that is teaching do not feel that they are competent to lead classes of a political nature. We therefore affirm the right of students who wish to continue

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to attend classes to do so. Mm hmm, mm hmm. I think one could one add another point to that. It seems to me that the basic, the essential issue now and in the future is the question of whether the university itself is transformed into a political

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weapon. The faculty is a group of individualists. I would say that we well, I'd say it's very difficult to generalize about political opinions. But I would say that we do share a general feeling that that certain mistakes have been made by our government in bringing this

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war to an end and that we are as thoroughly committed as our students to seeing that we can do what we can effectively to express our opinion, both to our government and to false. Well, our department, as many other departments is in a very fluid state

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right now. Many people are uncertain as to where other people move. But I would like to say one thing which is that to my knowledge, most of us intend to continue fulfilling our teaching responsibility. And I would like to carry on from a point that George

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made, which is this that a political science department is par excellence. Always concerned with politics. And one of the extraordinary events in the past week for our department has been a really recognition of the respect for diversity of opinion. Uh, we have many differing views in

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our department about the war, some in fact, may even support President Nixon's current policies in cambodia and others may exist on the far end of the spectrum. But there has been an increasing respect for and concern with the preservation of our own right to disagree with

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each other. Professor. And my guess is that the overwhelming majority of the history faculty will in fact teach throughout this so called strike and dr. Lerner, I'm satisfied with what's happening with the weight classes are being organized and most of my classes today, we discussed about

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what we're going to do the rest of the quarter, how the course units would work and what could be done with. Of course it's a different alternatives that the students had. They thought would be more productive to keep the university open and try and reconstitute was

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the word that was bandied about a lot. And I'm supporting the strike and I don't think any activity should go on until the war has stopped. Mm hmm. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. Okay. Mm hmm. There are surprising folks we had planned. Let me explain what

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we have planned. Maybe. How much does your feeling do you think reflect other Vietnamese students? I don't think very much at all. I can say perhaps I'm saying out loud for only a small number of students what they think, but the large majority of them are

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so afraid of reprisals or that you have to understand that a lot of people who go to the university of California aren't going on government grants, they're going on their own family money. So obviously, you know, there going to be in a great deal of jeopardy

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if they speak, they speak out against the war. And of course they're in very comfortable positions financially. And the council for an academic community which represents a group of several 100 professors on the Berkeley campus Have made two assertions in which we believe