ABSTRACT
In the fall of 1964, a twenty-one-year-old Berkeley undergraduate named Mario Savio climbed the steps of Sproul Hall and denounced his university for bending over backwards to "serve the need of American industry." Savio, the leader of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, accused, the university of functioning as "a factory that turns out a certain product needed by industry" rather than serving as the conscience and a critic of society. University-industry collaborations, Dean Gordon Rausser argues, have brought important new products—anti-aids treatments, cancer drugs—to market, and have spurred America's booming biotech and computing industries. The university filed criminal charges against Taborsky and spent more than ten times the amount of the original research grant on outside legal counsel alone. In 1990, a jury found Taborsky guilty of stealing university property, and the State of Florida required him to begin serving his sentence on a chain gang in 1996.
