ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the placid setting of the Davis Campus of the University of California to San Francisco State College, where of student strikers and the administration had been battling for control of the campus for more than a month. Late in 1967, there was a severe disruption of State's campus. Members of the Black Students Union (BSU), enraged at what they thought were racist implications in an article in the Daily Gator (the school's paper), invaded the editorial offices and assaulted the editors. No observer could fail to recognize that San Francisco State was a testing ground for both sides to determine the necessary costs of victory. San Francisco State was not a viable educational institution. Some of its best faculty were leaving. Deans and counselors who normally serve as advisers sat idle at their desks. Education may be continuing as a shrunken bureaucratic ritual, but the intangible sinew and spirit that bind an educational community together were absent.
