Cal Strong! said:
Cal Strong wishes all strong posters and strong bears everywhere a happy and strong fourth of July. Cal Strong live in Egypt now. But he still think America really STRONG country. The strongest part of America is that it still houses the University of California, Berkeley. The two weakest parts of America are 1) stanfurd university, and 2) political dysfunction.
In these respects, America need to take hard look in the mirror. America need to be more like Cal, less like furd and current political leaders. Cal not weak!
Is Cal Strong in any way related to Cal's Chancellor Strong of the FSM days.
The way I heard it Clark Kerr left California on important national business overseas while the FSM protest and sit-in at Sproul Hall was getting underway.
CC was an experienced negotiator. CC's instructions to Strong were don't do anything until I get back.
Unfortunately Strong got tired of the student occupation of Sproul Hall. And called the cops to drag the students out. ("That will teach them that we mean business.")
That resulted in awful videos of nonviolent students being manhandled by cops. Which resulted in a groundswell of support for the protestors among the faculty and students.
That in turn resulted in the crowd surrounding the police car holding some of the students who had been arrested. That resulted in Mario Savio (?) standing on top of the police car railing in favor of free speech.
That resulted in Cal getting national media attention.
That eventually resulted in both Clark Kerr and Chancellor Strong losing their jobs.