Category: Politics

During the last four months of 1964, a historical battle was fought on the Berkeley campus of the University of California over the issue of political speech. The Berkeley "Free Speech Movement" had its beginning on September 14th of that year, when Katherine Towle, the Dean of Students, wrote to the heads of all off-campus organizations to inform them that the sidewalk at Bancroft Way and Telegraph Avenue, always considered to be city property, was actually the property of the university and that tables, fund-raising, membership recruitment, or speeches would no longer be permitted there.

I’m sure that right wing media maven Rush Limbaugh doesn’t know it, and he would be appalled at the suggestion, but he could become a poster child for the New Age. His recent hearing loss is almost a textbook example of how many alternative medical practitioners believe that diseases manifest on a physical level.