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Info Vendor Gives UC/Berkeley $3.5 MillionInnovative Interfaces President Stephen Silberman has given the University of California/Berkeley $3.5 million to commemorate the Free Speech Movement that campus officials tried so hard to quash in the 1960s. The money will be divided into a $1.6-million expenditure for a cafe with Free-Speech Movement exhibit space in the Moffitt Undergraduate Library, $500,000 to preserve the related archives at Bancroft Library, and $1.4 million to establish the Mario Savio/Free Speech Movement Endowment for books, named after the student protest leader who was expelled in 1964 for his activities. "Mario Savio and the leaders of the Free Speech Movement symbolize the very best of Berkeley, surely just as our top researchers, scholars and athletes," said Silberman, who attended Berkeley in the 1960s. "They are inextricably part of Berkeley history and the Berkeley tradition and we are proud of that." "It sounds like a wonderful place to plot righteous rebellions," Savio's son Nadav remarked about the cafe, the Associated Press reported April 30. Posted May 4, 1998. |
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