European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 15, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Mario Savio sparked the free speech movement that led to the first mass arrests at Berkeley Campus. A readings St siat4 sue Werbe a pert and Perky Bru Nette from Detroit will be one of 4,600 seniors graduating today from the University of California at Berkeley. Sue and her fellow students came through four turbulent years at the huge Campus years which Shook the foundations of the nation s academic world years which made involvement a by word in the Halls of learning and student Power a new social  were freshmen in 1964 when an All night sit in of the Berkeley administration building set a pattern followed most recently on a Large scale at co Lumbia University. Four years ago All available police vans working in relays carted off to jail More than 700 students protesting discipline procedures at us. Today the freshmen of that time birth Era for College activism Are graduating into a world of turmoil. Just before graduation sue an four of her fellow seniors took careful looks Over their four years at Berkeley and what the experience has meant to Thi in. Initially i was t involved said soft to icel 21-year-old miss Werbe manag ing editor of the Campus newspaper. I attended the rallies but i really did t feel a part of them. Not until the morning when they were arrested continuation of the arrests during the night. "1 walked Down the Campus and had to go a different path because there was a police line. I had never come across police before. There were High Way patrolmen two abreast going Down along the Plaza and completely Guardin Sproul Hall. I did t know exactly what to do next. So i went to my class. I had an activist teaching assistant h rallying by Harold v. Streeter a staff writer in history. I went into the Section and on the table was a note saying if you come Here you should t be Here. You should be on the picket line i just looked at the policemen and 1 just looked at the kids being carried out. And i went and joined a picket  then on i Felt i was  All this started on a Small plot of ground called the Bancroft strip named after the Street separating the City of Berkeley from the University s 1,200 acre  was a Long standing Rule against talking politics and collecting funds on Campus. But it was t enforced. The action on the strip was so interesting that tourist buses stopped there. In october 1964, suddenly the Rule was enforced. A non student was arrested for collecting funds to help Register negro voters in the South. A protesting crowd surrounded and stalled a Campus police car. Student Mario Savio climb Don top and sparked the free speech movement. The administration bickered with the rebels. The arrested Man was released. Freedom to advocate and collect was allowed. But seven of the demonstrators were ordered disciplined. Emotions erupted. In december More than 700 protesters staged a Day and night sit int Sproul Hall the administration build ing. Police and Highway patrolmen broke it up carrying Many bodily out of the building. Campus activism was in full cry. Life for Berkley s 4,186 freshmen of1964 would never be the same.  just before graduation sue and four of Lier fellow seniors took careful looks Over their four years at Berkeley and Inhat the experience has meant to them. When this first came up i just said that s the Way it happens at Berke Ley explained Sandy haired handsome Robert a. Crittenden of san Diego a varsity football Star for three years and co Captain of last season s Golden bears. I just kept my nose out of it. Buti found As it went along the interest in the Campus just became very highly Strung and everything just became focused on this one thing. By the end of november i was for it and i was sympathizing with  i was very conservative when i came Here said bearded Ken Stahl 21, of Jamaica n.y., vice president of the associated students of the University of California. My parents were very  it was sort of fun to go by and watch the kids even though i disagree with most of them. When the administration came out with this ruling at Firsti went along with them. I figured it was their University. As the tension grew and they had the first picket Down in the Plaza i re member debating the whole question out with my roommates two of the were first year graduate students from Brown University. And we went through the whole thing and just decided one night the University was wrong. Fro then on i pretty much went through All the efforts and demonstrations. And i go More Radical As it went along. It changed my political Outlook tremendously because it seems very Clear that the radicals were the ones who were for Freedom and individual rights and the conservatives were against  Jay n. Miller of Palm Springs calif., a 21-Yenr-old political science major who Plant to become a rabbi re called i was interested in civil rights be cause that was the main Issue at the time. I wanted to be a part of the civil rights movement in my own Way. I know it the movement did t Hel the Campus. I know it did t help the image. I know i did t get to study very much that Quarter. But i also know that the policies by the administration that the fam was opposed to were wrong and if that was the Only alternative and sue Werb i initially i was t ind Ken Stahl. University Wasi Elga Jekabsons. Big Issue at sloke.1 Jay n. Miller what had to  Robert Crittenden  on one rage 12 the stars and stripes