Noon rally at Sproul Hall after Greek Theater meeting

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Noon rally at Sproul Hall after Greek Theater meeting
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AZ1393
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Philosophy Professor Joseph Tussman addresses the crowd about the faculty's decision to suspend classes and their decision to create a chairman's proposal. He ends by saying, "I want to express directly my high appreciation for the moral quality and integrity of students who have been involved in this whole controversy." Following, Morris W. Hirsch from the Department of Mathematics, reads the resolution which was approved unanimously at a meeting of approximately 200 faculty members on December 7, 1964 for presentation at a meeting of the Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate of December 9. Steve Weissman of FSM speaks of the police brutality being unwarranted and criticizes the departmental chairmen for being manipulated into keeping the issues behind closed doors. Professor Harlan Jones, chair of Biophysics Group, argues that free speech is not the issue. He states that they have free speech in an extraordinary degree and to realize that society depends upon orderly procedures, not the usurpation of platform and privileges. The recording ends with Sociology Professor James Leggett expressing that the struggle has just begun and that the big issue is civil rights. He states, "I think that the radical right and the democratic senators are trying to crush it [Civil Rights Movement] and it's our job to defend it".

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1974-12-07
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00:34:56
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