ABSTRACT
After a decade in which college students were condemned by their elders for sins of apathy and docility, the strike and riots at the University of California in Berkeley mark the beginning of a new period of student action in American universities. Much discussion of the genesis of student hostility to administration and faculty has singled out a villain-the "mass university", sometimes called the "multiversity". Bigness is only one thing that has happened to colleges and universities in recent years. In the Berkeley riots it was the administration that bore the lion's share of student hostility. More often the administration is less lion than scapegoat for the faculty. Despite a certain danger implicit in much student action, the Berkeley riots have had a valuable effect on American colleges. In frightening administrators they are leading them to look at "the human equation" in the classroom.
