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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
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<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>
</body>
</article>
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