[McB.]

On May 15, 1969, during the People's Park protests at UC Berkeley

[cripplecreek]

from 1:08 is my favorite part.

[HarleyLady27]

That’s exactly what happened and should happen today, except we have turned this country into ‘pink laced pantie boys’ instead of real men.....

[uncitizen]

I was too young in the 60s to know how the student uprisings occurred, but I’ve always been under the impression that it was a student grass roots movement against the establishment. Unlike the top down way that these things are happening now. It is not being driven from the ground up in 2015. Obama is behind this. The establishment is behind this.

[Tau Food]

Well, I do not believe that Reagan would have used buckshot and tear gas to force a football team to play football.

We need to remember that the issue in the current case revolves around the fact that the college was about to lose seven figures per game in the event that the team refused to play. Tim Wolfe quit because this college has become overly dependent upon football revenue. Colleges should not become overly dependent on football teams if they want to be independent to make administrative decisions. The tail is wagging the dog here.

[Tau Food]

Wait until some other football teams (Michigan, for example) figure out what kind of power they have. The revenue from some of these teams is enormous. There is a real problem brewing for schools that have become dependent on these teams.

[Artemis Webb]

What would President Reagan do
If he were here right now
I’m sure he’d kick an ass or two
that’s what President Reagan do.
(apologies to South Park)

[HarleyLady27]

The people running some of our government were the babies of this ‘make love not war’ era....

Woodstock, Berkley, The Flower Children, San Franciso....

Now you know why we are like we are....

[Mariner]

The good ol days.

Reagan was the Governor of California.

[Hebrews 11:6]

Gov. Reagan scared me off from enrolling at UC Berkeley in the fall of 1966. I wanted to be an architect and at that time there were only three accredited architecture schools in my home state of California. The three were USC, Cal Poly-SLO, and Berkeley (Stanford's was then unaccredited). I had early acceptances as a junior from all four. Because my parents were poor and my academics and extracurriculars were good, I had qualified for a Calif. State Scholarship; it carried a full tuition ride, but I needed to stay in-state to use it.

The Free Speech movement (Mario Savio?) had inflamed Berkeley in late '65 when I was choosing and it looked like a very strong possibility that Reagan was just going to shut the whole place down--he certainly talked like it. I decided I couldn't and didn't need to take that chance. Because I'm a Southern California city-boy, San Luis Obispo seemed unattractive, so I became a proud Trojan for life.