Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 29, No. 9. 1966.
Attempts
Attempts
Dr. Mrak began by saying that many people have attempted to explain what happened at Berkeley in the fall of 1964. But much of what he has read has been rather nauseating and highly opinionated — written by people who are experts on the Free Speech Movement without having lived through it. Dr. Mrak said he couldn't put his finger on all the factors involved, although he was certain of some.
He suggested that, for a start, faculty members at Berkeley have become so involved in research and creativity of one type or another that they may have drifted away from the students.
Students also resented the impersonality of the IBM approach to the education system. There are 27,000 students at Berkeley. When they register they get a card full of holes: the IBM machine tells them this, that or the other.