The Free Speech Movement started as a dispute over 26 feet of sidewalk and escalated into a pitched battle for control of the University of California at Berkeley. In the process, an entire school, students and faculty alike, was polarized into two...

The Free Speech Movement (FSM) was a student protest which took place during the 1964-1965 school year on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley under the informal leadership of students Mario Savio, Brian Turner, Steve Weissman, Art...

Disguised as a Poem: My Years Teaching Poetry at San Quentin by Judith Tannenbaum. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2000, 217 pp., $42.50 hardcover, $15.95 paper. Say how ya doing Outside world? Do you remember me? I'm that intricate part...

The Free Speech Movement: Reflections on Berkeley in the 1960s Robert Cohen and Reginald E. Zelnik, eds. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. Almost four decades after sit-ins at Sproul Hall launched the free apeech movement on the campus of the University of...

Today is Monday, Oct. 1, the 274th day of 2007. There are 91 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Oct. 1, 1908, Henry Ford introduced the Model T automobile to the market.On this date:In 1507, Italian architect Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola was born.In...

Ryan Fleck’s Half Nelson, from a screenplay by Mr. Fleck and Anna Boden, plunges us into an inner-city junior high school in Brooklyn, with all its Marxian-dialectical rhetoric blazing away at the comparatively timid, superintendent-mandated civil-rights curriculum. At least, this is the pedagogical approach of...

In the fall of 1997, students at Cornell University in New York stole 500 copies of the Cornell Review, a conservative campus newspaper, and burned them. The students were protesting the paper’s inclusion of an editorial cartoon suggesting that...