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• Yoo-hoo, world opinion. Where are you?

• Transformation of Berkeley’s Free Speech Movement into the Free Student Movement signifies simultaneously a deepening of its political aim and a narrowing of its “mass base.” Many of the normal students, antagonized by the obscenity episode and wearied by provocative squabbling, have dropped away. The movement is now hardening around political action units under the control of radicalized cadres made up in considerable part of non-enrolled activists from the campus fringes. The neo-FSM is being directed toward the classic revolutionary goal of “the seizure of power”: in this instance, seizure of campus power (over discipline, courses, faculty, administration and even regents) by student committees, along with legal immunization of the campus from the state’s ordinary police power.

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• Yoo-hoo, world opinion. Where are you?

• Transformation of Berkeley’s Free Speech Movement into the Free Student Movement signifies simultaneously a deepening of its political aim and a narrowing of its “mass base.” Many of the normal students, antagonized by the obscenity episode and wearied by provocative squabbling, have dropped away. The movement is now hardening around political action units under the control of radicalized cadres made up in considerable part of non-enrolled activists from the campus fringes. The neo-FSM is being directed toward the classic revolutionary goal of “the seizure of power”: in this instance, seizure of campus power (over discipline, courses, faculty, administration and even regents) by student committees, along with legal immunization of the campus from the state’s ordinary police power.