Very sad. The not-wearing-clothes act is old and has been going on for twenty years.
My grandmother and father are from Berkeley and attended St. Joseph the Worker parish on Addison street. Both watched the two bridges get built in 1930s and were very thankful that Joseph Strauss, contractor for the Golden Gate, was careful to prevent accidents. My father told me that Oakland was always blue collar (ships), San Francisco was always art and finance, and Berkeley was always classy and intellectual.
One day I asked him why Berkeley has fruits, nuts and flakes today. He said the baby boom generation overwhelmed the adults, the hippies wore long hair and peace signs to prevent getting beat up by blacks in the 60’s, and the Italian Mafia supplied the Free Speech movement with drugs.
Lots of white kids, some black criminals and lots drugs = 1960s.
Thankfully, Cal (1867) has brilliant faculty and students. A lot of young faculty leave Berkeley, since the schools are pretty bad for their kids.
The Beats
Think Kerouac and Ginsberg and Cassidy and Burroughs and Bukowski all preceded the free speech crap which kinda preceded the Hippies a bit even
Cassidy due to Kesey and the Dead was the bridge between the Beats and the Hippies
I find it a fascinating read albeit an indulgence of decadence
Especially the Beats and Free Speech which had big faggotry overtones
And last but not least
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The Hells Angels had their role
Berkeleys first radicalism really was pre WWI where they worked for Indian independence movement and later 1930s when Debs types infiltrated