Free speech on campus is history
As Dave Barry says, we are not making this up. It would never occur to us.
The Contra Costa Times reports that a demonstration planned recently at UC Berkeley to mark the 45th anniversary of the Free Speech Movement on the steps of Sproul Hall was derailed by counter demonstrators with a different agenda.
It was 45 years ago on those same steps that Mario Savio spoke to thousands.
The local newspaper reported, "Organizers of the invading demonstration said it was time to focus on 'a living, breathing movement' rather than a 45-year-old one ..."
Free Speech is history.
Physics professor Richard Muller, arrested during a 1964 sit-in, said, "We could not invite Condoleezza Rice here, as a prominent black woman, because of the fear she would be booed down. We have less free speech today than on the day I was arrested."
Students today are more concerned with fee hikes than principles.
