Halloween came early to the Berkeley campus. The party was held in and around Moses Hall on Wednesday, October 23, and it was well attended by a thousand strangely-costumed creatures, some of whom capered around bonfires while others barricaded themselves inside the building and made merry by rifling professors’ desks and destroying whatever came to hand. The party began in the early afternoon and lasted until dawn, when the police moved in quietly and broke it up. It was a great success. But now the bills are rolling in.
No one here was surprised when the activists occupied Moses Hall. They have been burning to take a building ever since they were upstaged by their Columbia cousins last spring. During the past two quarters speaker after agonized speaker at the daily noon rallies has implored students to redeem the tarnished reputation of the Berkeley radical community by shutting down at least some small part of the campus.
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