I am placing this in General Discussion since it IS an old article. However, it is an interesting look at Berkley University, and also mentions a bit about some of the terrorist criminal activities of Mecha. - DQ

The Unpatriotic University: Berkeley
By Erick Stakelbeck
FrontPageMagazine.com | February 28, 2003

As Mario Savio spoke in front of the University of California-Berkeley’s Sproul Hall on December 2, 1964, carried by nervous energy and a restless mass of students who hung on his every syllable, he hadn’t a clue that immortality beckoned. Yet in the 39 years since that windswept day when Savio delivered an emotion-dripped speech denouncing University Chancellor Clark Kerr, "the operation of the machine" and "The Man" in general, he has gained an exalted, almost deified position in the eyes of the left. The Savio-led march into Sproul Hall and subsequent "sit-in" gave impetus to the Free Speech Movement (FSM) and became the blueprint for the widespread campus uprisings and anti-Vietnam protests that followed. Savio’s influence can be seen today not only in the halls of academia (his December, 1964 speech is still cited as a call to arms by campus radicals from coast to coast) but also in the socialistic worldviews of Phil Donahue, Howard Zinn and Ralph Nader, all of whom are on the Advisory Board of UC Berkeley’s Mario Savio Memorial Lecture Fund. Moreover, as we survey the present politically correct campus landscape, it’s obvious that Savio, who died in 1996, helped accomplish what was always the FSM’s real and primary goal: establishing a political power base at U.S. universities from which the Anti-American left could run amok.

In his book, Uncivil Wars, David Horowitz alludes to this unspoken truth, writing,

"The FSM was ultimately not a movement about free speech. It was about the right of the political left to agitate for its agendas within the confines of the campus itself…this was the real achievement of the FSMâ€â€