Berkeley in the ’60s: Epicenter of the Counter Culture

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I graduated from Cal fifty years ago last summer, in 1970. We had no graduation service because the Kent State shootings had just happened, and the administration probably feared we’d burn the place down once assembled. Arriving for my freshman year at SFO, I met a “typical” out-of-state student—barefoot, covered in political buttons, carrying a More

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