Over the next couple of months there was a series of sit-ins and attempted negotiations, and then, on December 2, the infamous Sproul Hall sit-in. It took twelve hours for 800 students to be arrested by some 600 instructors of a new course called Introductory Police Brutality. These were
from the lab notes student took.
There was a freshman co-ed at Berkeley who—long after she had forgotten what some professor spouted during an official lecture about Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment—would remember, with perhaps a twinge of frightened pride, learning from a fellow demonstrator that if she planned to go limp when the police arrested her, it would be an act of practical feminine
foresight to remove the earrings from her pierced lobes in advance.
So, now in 2019, fighting over free speech has been happening heavily at Berkeley campus again.
Meanwhile, Trump grabbed a pussy on the Statue of Liberty. Cavalier, anyone?
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