November 23, 2009

The Berkeley Protest: Fresh Anger in the Footsteps

By Murray Sperber

The sound was familiar, but I had not heard it in many years: police helicopters, hovering overhead. When I left my office on the University of California's Berkeley campus last week and looked up, I could see them clearly.

I last saw police helicopters flying over the Berkeley grounds when I was a graduate student here, in the 1960s. I remember fleeing the tear gas they dropped, and ducking into Wheeler Hall for cover. But on this day in 2009, some students had already occupied a

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