Free Speech at Berkeley

Who would have thunk? Real free speech at Berkeley.

An unlikely rally at liberal bastion of universities

Associated Press

Apr. 28, 2003 08:30 AM

BERKELEY, Calif. - Campus demonstrations are commonplace at UC Berkeley. But the one over the weekend was enough to give aging campus radicals heartburn.

About 200 flag-waving young Republicans rallied on the steps of Sproul Hall, where the famed Free Speech movement of the 1960s began.

The University of California students praised President Bush and lauded the war effort in Iraq. Some carried signs like “Give War a Chance” and “Bomb France.”