Talk:Free Speech Movement
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<< regulations prohibiting advocacy of political causes or candidates, signing of members, and collection of funds by student organizations at the intersection of Bancroft and Telegraph Avenues would be "strictly enforced." >>
This was prompted by the advocacy of what political causes and candidates? The signing of members and collection of funds by what student organizations? What was this really about?
What's described here sounds rather insignificant to have garnered the booming title "The Free Speech Movement". Did the outcome affect only the Berkeley campus, or did these events inspire anything larger?-PhD. Joe Shabadabado Jr. -- Beland 07:08, 8 Jun 2004 (UTC)
The outcome was felt nationally, even perhaps globally. It was the first moment in modern U.S. history in which the authority of a campus administration was successfully challenged by students. This led other students on other campuses, and people outside of the university world as well, to believe that it was possible to expand political space and create social and political change from below. I wish there was some explanation in this entry of why the administration, at a time when it knew the civil rights revolution was spreading throughout the country and engaging students everywhere, thought it made any kind of sense to attempt to make the Berkeley campus, a campus which had been a center for political activism throughout the university's history, into a "politics-free zone". Did they really believe they could force the student body to totally disengage from political reality throughout their undergraduate careers?-- Ken Burch 14:05, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
- This article deserves much expansion. The FSM was a pivitol moment in The Sixties that epitomized the rift between administrators expecting docile students and students caught in the social and political fervor of the civil rights movement. It did inspire student uprisings elsewhere, but is remebered as an important event of the decade. --Jiang 08:55, 8 Jun 2004 (UTC)
