The Nation: The'60s End

In the manic heyday of protest, California students were among the most demonstrative. They burned down the Bank of America at Isla Vista and brought out the National Guard five times. Berkeley, cradle of Mario Savio and the Free Speech Movement, was especially volatile. In 1968 the Berkeley authorities installed Willis A. Shotwell as a full-time disciplinarian to deal with demonstrators.

Last week Shotwell returned to his previous assignment of giving preprofessional counseling to students. It was an interesting shift, though scarcely a revelation. The California administrators had finally held a mirror to...