60 years after the day college students won free speech, their rights are vanishing
Will Bunch writes: Years later, somebody would dub them “the Silent Generation.” But on Oct. 1, 1964 — 60 years ago this Tuesday — a cohort of young people born mostly during World War II, raised in consumer affluence and under the threat of nuclear annihilation, could not keep it bottled up any longer. The place was the University of California, Berkeley, and the trigger was school administrators telling students that the strip where students passed out political literature —…