VLVL: re PR3: Do Not Fold, Bend, Mutilate or Spindle

[pynchonoid]

Free Speech Movement:
Do Not Fold, Bend, Mutilate or Spindle
                                       
At the beginning, we did not realize the strength of
the forces we were up against. We have learned that we
must fight not only Dean Towle, Chancellor Strong, and
President Kerr, but also the Board of Regents with
their billions of dollars and Governor Brown with his
army of cops.

But neither did they realize the forces they were up
against. At the beginning they thought they had only
to fight a hundred or so "beatniks," "Maoists," and
"Fidelistas." But they put eight hundred of the "hard
core" in jail and found they still had to face
thousands of other students and faculty members.

The source of their power is clear enough: the guns
and the clubs of the Highway Patrol, the banks and
corporations of the Regents. But what is the source of
our power?

It is something we see everywhere on campus but find
hard to define. Perhaps it was best expressed by the
sign one boy pinned to his chest: "I am a UC student.
Please don't bend, fold, spindle or mutilate me." The
source of our strength is, very simply, the fact that
we are human beings and so cannot forever be treated
as raw materials--to be processed. Clark Kerr has
declared, in his writings and by his conduct, that a
university must be like any other factory--a place
where workers who handle raw material are themselves
handled like raw material by the administrators above
them. Kerr is confident that in his utopia "there will
not be any revolt, anyway, except little bureaucratic
revolts that can be handled piecemeal."
                                        
As President of one of the greatest universities in
the world, one which is considered to lie on the
"cutting edge of progress," Kerr hopes to make UC a
model to be proudly presented for the consideration of
even higher authorities.

By our action, we have proved Kerr wrong in his claim
that human beings can be handled like raw material
without provoking revolt. We have smashed to bits his
pretty little doll house. The next task will be to
build in its stead a real house for real people.

--Anonymous statement from the FSM Newsletter

<http://lists.village.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Resources/Primary/Manifestos/FSM_fold_bend.html>

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