Name: Revealing Film Captures 1960s Students Rebelling At UConn
Uploaded: 2020-03-27T18:30:56.000Z
Duration: 12 min 28 s
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I'm David Hopping filmmaker, and I was a cameraman on this.

1969 of very tense Time looked at from today.

Kid's out of control and some people thought they were.

But a lot of people thought they weren't why colleges were dominated by males, old men who ran the colleges and treated the students like they were Children.

College wasn't supposed to be more of childhood, but these folks treated like Children and parents were sending their Children to college for more of the same.

Take a look with the mindset that colleges and universities would not what they are today.

I know the president barbarous promise that when we would arrive the skating rink, the riot act would not be read.

And if President Barry wants to come and talk to us that have got to talk to us in here, you know, campus in the same way, with just behind you with something way.

As far as I'm concerned at this point, President marriage is completely discredited.

They really think that I ordered them to read the riot Act, Jack.

In a community other than a university community, If a group of people assemble in this fashion, are they subject to in order to disperse?

In fact, I think that be arrested without even bothering with you enter in an ordinary community.

I mean, if this happened on the main street of heart, policemen were subjected to this type of review, something that just wouldn't take if this happened anywhere but a college campus.

Uh, there just wouldn't be any discussion about what their argument being infringed upon.

But we're not arguing that we want them to stop their education.

What you're doing right now, putting your life by cutting off classrooms and stopping 30,000 other people getting an education, it's just not right.

One inform a lot of people in the state and around the nation that the University of Connecticut will not a small radical minority in the ruling of this campus.

They estimate that we have a crowd of approximately 12 people here.

That isn't a mandate for continuing the policies that have had on this campus.

I think we've given the news media what they are today way.

Believe that the majority of students at this university opposed the tactics of the minority.

We wish for all to know that this minority is strictly such.

They are a handful and do not demand significant support.

They put Richie up against the wall that we have no other alternative.

There's nothing else we could do if these professions want.

If you want to do this other stuff, this is fine.

All we've got right now is for the strike.

If it's tonight, I'm going there and they can grab me, right?

That kind of decisiveness in the part of that individual give me, uh, the impulse to call for a strike at this moment.

You know, the Christmas holidays says we talk right now our only, uh, six days away.

And to be perfectly candid with you, my hope is that we can keep the lid on until the Christmas holidays arrive.

We have one more week of classes, examinations, another vacation between semesters and hopefully in six weeks of of scheduled moratorium.

Uh, a lot of people are gonna collect their wits.

You can read on these wonderful things in our university.

We present this university on your behalf for your benefit.

You pay your money, come in and you read and you'll be able to put your head away forever.

We said, Sure, we're interrupting their civil liberties, their civil privilege to have an interview.

But this country is interrupting the civil rights of people in Vietnam to live to have in existence.

And we thought that that was more important then someone's civil liberty to have.

But if we were if We were in a society that was moral if we were in a society where all people had civil rights and civil liberties.

If we're in a world where all people has civil liberties, then I would say nobody should violate your civil liberties at all.

But when you're living in a society that's corrupt, that's a moral that exists to make profit.

That puts one man against another man and calls it motivation.

Then there's no right to respect one type of civil liberties.

People like to call us Communists and say We're a bunch of red because then they don't have to deal with our politics.

Just can't you know, they call umpires Communists, too.

But the Communists are not the people to be worried about in this world right now, because the Communists are just another form of imperialism.

It's just like the United States are interior.

You seem to think that everyone who goes through high school and then doesn't join us yes, doesn't read well to something.

No, that's not true, because I think myself the time is now.

The time is now to say, Well, maybe some of those things aren't right, you know?

And let's look around and see what what the truth is.

Problem is, the university has decided anyone who's gonna use their right to freedom of speech is gonna get bumped out of school.

When people would be all right, We're very possibly were saying great.

You've paid your money to learn botany, and we're saying maybe, you know, you could use that money for that education for other reasons.

I don't think I was doing last night the night before, but you can't leave that during my class.

When I came here to learn to listen to someone who has a PhD in Matthew's something.

Tell me a little choice over who you gonna listen to and who you gonna be taught by.

That's one of the things we're trying to say.

But I'm a senior and I'm using the placement office.

And I want to know why you think you have the right to interfere in my getting to a placement for you.

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Revealing Film Captures 1960s Students Rebelling At UConn

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