4. Why is this story significant to our understanding of UC Berkeley's place in American culture?
Consider what the story of your place and its intersecting feature suggests, demonstrates, or reveals about the cultural meaning and/or function of UC Berkeley as a place
Sather Gate is not just a pathway to let you walk across campus in order to reach the next class. The gate is a place for freedom of speech; to go individually or with a handful of people and say anything that comes to mind. Some people may see the individual or the handful of people as crazy, but that does not stop them from expressing how one feels. Sather Gate is a safe space for one another to feel loved, cherished, and appreciated by their words and actions. The pathway is not just a place to reach a destination by feet, it is a destination to reach through voice in order to find a possible answer or solution towards an issue within the world.
Footnotes: Jensen, "Social Controversy and Public Address in the 1960s and Early 1970s A Rhetorical History of the United States", Vol. IX Lin, "Students Block Sather Gate to Protest Police Brutality, Express Campus Climate Concerns" Miller, “People's Park: Dimensions of a Campus Confrontation.” Nguyen, “After the Revolution, The Commemoration; At Berkeley, The Free Speech Movement of 1964 Is Saluted With Free Speeches" Rhoads, "Student Activism, Diversity, and the Struggle for a Just Society" Ricks, “Notes from the Blackout.”