ASA 2 - Sec A01
Week 2
The Berkeley Free Speech Movement in the fall of 1964 served
as a turning point for collegiate activism across America. The Free Speech
Movement’s leader, Mario Savio, declared, “There is a time when the operation
of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart that you can’t
take part.” Fighting for the constitutional right to free speech, thousands of
students gathered to support campus political advocacy which was formerly
prohibited by the University of California, Berkeley. Upon the arrests of
hundreds of student activists, support for the cause arose through a three-day
student demonstration and a favorable resolution proposed by the Academic
Senate, the governing body of Berkeley faculty. As we move forward in the 21st
century, must we accept the systems that our universities have established for
our generation of student activists?
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