European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 15, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                              1 ? i four turbulent years at huge Campus started with demonstrations in 1964 a. And life for Berkeley s freshmen was never the same. Not so sure it was t then that what had to  and shy Elga Jekabsons of Richmond calif., a straight Grade aident who majored in physics and mistry was just one of thousands at Akeley too Busy to become very in ived initially i thought it was going to be a meshing rather trivial and that it fould just pass Over said the 20-year d  i realized that there was a rather Issue at stake and so i did become Lher involved in the movement. Not Stively. I came to associate with it to certain extent. I Don t think the Issue was really pee speech at All. I mean that might ave been a minor Point. But i think was More that the students wanted to heard. And they realized that per paps the Only Way they would be hear dras to go to Sproul Hall 700 of them sit  he Campus scene at that time took a bizarre  Long line of card tables stretched 1 along Sproul Hall Plaza. Sexual free pm was advocated. Sign ups were taken r political followings ranging from thear left to the far right. Peace corpsmen Jere recruited right next to a table or resistance to the  a noon passed without a rally i the Sproul Hall  curious passerby would ask i could anyone possibly get an Educa Jion Here Miller who has found time during his Dies to devise and help establish a better orientation program for fresh men said if you consider your Edu Calion to be what you Learned in the classroom then you re crazy and you re pot getting what Berkeley is All  that s the main thing of a Large Campus your educational experience in includes everything you take part in fori tie four years whether it s Back Home Tor Here or anything  i mass Woric now preparing to enter newspaper work reporting either on education or politics said you tend to enter a University and believe All the Rne Tonc about the Ivory Tower and you a Flung into a shelter for four Yearsly n you 11 Home out and be ready Mead the work that s not True at Berkeley. I think Ani really prepared for the  re prepared for the Power and the politics that go on nip am that s perhaps because a 01 the Best educations that Berkeley Thor c of is being in Contact with All kinds Lent p0i"ts of View and different in 11. Who 5l ans to go on to Harvard jul in t surf whether it will be in Law i think that if people Are serious about getting Edu cation and not just learning facts they can do it Here. I think it s All available Here. And the fact of having the Radical groups and having the Sproul Hall Steps makes it much  activism persisted. Demonstrations continued. They turned against the draft and the Vietnam  blamed a noisy minority. As recently As last april two professors filed a report saying the activists had ulterior motives not the Good of the  prof. Alex Sherriffs later to join the staff of gov. Ronald Reagan a Sharp critic of the Campus demonstrations said most of the students Hereof the silent generation unwilling to become  Clark Kerr later fired by Reagan and other regents for his handling of Campus problems was Amon those who said communists took part in the Campus  really was a silent Genera Tion conceded Crittenden who is going to Oxford for graduate study of under developed countries and International  was part of it. And i think that even now there s a Large percentage of the  i d say it s getting smaller every Day. I think this vocal minority at the time caused this sleeping majority to Wake up. A lot of my friends that you would say Are utterly conservative Are now forced into thinking very Polit  i Don t think anybody can say that communists Aren t going to be in a thing for communist ideas he  the communists would have nothing to step into if there was t problem  initially in the fall of 64, it was maybe 10 people on the steering com Mittee who were willing to speak outland commit themselves said miss Werbe. Then it grew to 756 people who were willing to sit in and go to jail Over Avery important Issue. I think what s happened after that is the new people that have come into the University have read about the free speech movement and wanted to become involved. And that number has  there were obviously communists Stahl conceded and there arc obviously subversives around but people Don to pay any attention to them unless there s a genuine  i turmoil the 4,18 j freshmen of i4-65 began their collegiate career. They were sophomores during the ant draft roubles of 19k5-g6. They were juniors during a lug of War Between Reagan and the regents Over tuition Over budget cuts that University administrators say threaten admission denials for the first time in history an when Kerr was fired us president. Now after a comparatively quiet senior term Hoy end four years at Berkeley. Charles hitch who succeeded Ken a president recently said Don t underrate our students. The students now attending the University Are the Best prepared the most capable the most nearly abreast in their Fields of any who have attended the University in its  that accolade Miller said i think president hitch is sticking his neck out by saying that. Because i think in is too soon in the life of our generation to figure out what we re going to  in sciences i Don t think it the climate of dissent made them belter students said Crittenden. "1 think it made a lot of better students out of people who were just going through lib eral arts. They saw the immediacy of their studies. And i think that it mad most people better students in the sense that they really opened heir minds an became More educated for Hie whole  sociology prof. Robert h. Some Roshas just concluded his own Survey of the current Campus  mood of students on he Berkeley Campus of the University of Californi amay be even More militant than it was Early in the free speech crisis of 1904," he said."1 think that student disorders would be minimal Somers concluded if inspire of a factory like atmosphere at times students could View the univer say blah its faculty and its students us playing a progressive role in Ameri can and world  sure Medicine said 5, 1968 the rubble left by the rebels a been cleaned up but student Power has  now social Force. Paye 1 the stars and stripes