Calgary Herald: Students are becoming frightening speech stiflers
What a bunch of wimps a large number of university students are these days. They’re about as far removed from the heady era of Berkeley’s Free Speech Movement in the ’60s and ’70s as Jerry Rubin was from his firebrand days as a socialist Yippie, after he knotted his necktie, grabbed a briefcase and headed for Wall Street. The Free Speech Movement was launched when students –many of whom had gone south to sign up black voters during the Freedom Summer of 1964–set up booths on the Berkeley campus to raise money for various civil rights projects. The university objected because its rules forbade political fundraising unless it was done by the Republican and Democratic student clubs.
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