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- <text id=90TT1081>
- <title>
- Apr. 30, 1990: American Notes:Monuments
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Apr. 30, 1990 Vietnam 15 Years Later
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 43
- American Notes
- MONUMENTS
- A Tower of Hot Air
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> The folks at the University of California's Berkeley campus,
- where students used to major in telling the Establishment where
- to get off, know how to give the college administration a
- Maalox moment. Last July more than 100 faculty members who call
- themselves the Berkeley Art Project launched a nationwide
- contest to select a fitting monument to commemorate the 25th
- anniversary of the Free Speech Movement, which paved the way
- for radical political activity and violent anti-Vietnam War
- protests on the campus.
- </p>
- <p> And the winner is...Mark A. Brest van Kempen, 28, a
- graduate student at the San Francisco Art Institute. His idea
- is to set down a granite ring, 6 ft. in diameter, with an
- earth-filled 6-in.-diameter hole in the center. An inscription
- will read, THIS SOIL AND THE AIR SPACE EXTENDING ABOVE IT SHALL
- NOT BE PART OF ANY NATION AND SHALL NOT BE SUBJECT TO ANY
- ENTITY'S JURISDICTION.
- </p>
- <p> It now falls to Berkeley chancellor Ira Michael Heyman, who
- was never enthusiastic about building a monument, to decide
- whether to accept the Art Project's gift. The question he must
- ask himself: Is it right to take free speech for granite?
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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