Volume 8, Number 2 · February 9, 1967
Berkeley and the University Revolution
By John H. Schaar, Sheldon S. Wolin
During the recent crisis on the Berkeley campus, the favorite quotation among the cognoscenti was Marx's aphorism that great historical events occur twice, 'the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.' Two years ago, the Berkeley campus was shaken by a series of events culminating on December 2, 1964 with a mass sit-in by the students, followed by mass arrests. What might have been a tragedy was averted by the faculty resolutions of December 8, 1964 which recognized the fundamental political principles for which the students had contended. The faculty declared that there should be no University regulation of the content of speech or advocacy, and only such regulation of the time, place, and manner of political activity as was needed to prevent interference with normal University functions. The crisis had been over political rights and the faculty had responded with a constitutional solution.
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