FREE SPEECH IMPEDIMENTThe campus craziness has led to one interesting effect: an ever-growing number of high school seniors in the northern U.S. are heading to Clemson, Georgia Tech, South Carolina, Alabama, and other southern universities.
Too many of our nation’s college students are anti-free speech zealots.
It has now been 60 years since the birth of the Free Speech Movement at the University of California, Berkeley. It all started in mid-September 1964, when the school’s dean of students banned tables and political activity along the Bancroft strip, a 26-foot stretch of sidewalk near Telegraph Avenue. Students protested, cops were called in and angry students surrounded the police car. Thousands subsequently joined the crusade, and activist Mario Savio emerged as the leader of the burgeoning Free Speech Movement. The events at Berkeley garnered national attention.