n110  2034  07 Mar 83
BC-SPEECH
By WALLACE TURNER
c. 1983 N.Y. Times News Service
    BERKELEY, Calif. - A civil rights dispute evoking the Free Speech
Movement of 19 years ago has gripped the University of California
campus here since a demonstration interrupted a lecture by Jeane J.
Kirkpatrick, the United States delegate to the United Nations.
    Mrs. Kirkpatrick's lecture on Feb. 15, on the subject of ''Human
Rights and Wrongs in the United States,'' was disrupted by
demonstrators organized by Students Against Intervention in El
Salvador. When she felt she could not be heard above the uproar of
such chants as ''U.S. out of El Salvador'' and ''Genocide in
Guatemala,'' Mrs. Kirkpatrick left the rostrum.
    Jesse Choper, dean of the Boalt Hall Law School, attempted to
restore order, admonishing, ''You children should be ashamed of
yourselves.'' After a delay, Mrs. Kirkpatrick returned to finish her
lecture.
    But overnight she announced that ''urgent business'' in Washington
required cancellation of her second address the next day. Later she
said, ''I have not seen a group so interested in denying free speech
and discussion.''
    Just as in 1964, when students organized the Free Speech Movement to
contest campus rules barring political activity, the issues have
divided faculty and students. But the issues are much different. Then
the students were perceived as fighting to open the campus to
discussion of current issues.
    This time, in the view of the demonstrators' critics, the students
and their off-campus supporters have frustrated free discussion to
force an audience to hear their slogans. A spokesman for the
demonstrators defended their actions.
    ''I think it was right,'' said Robert Bryzman, a law student active
in the group. ''The purpose was to show that people are angry. We've
got to look at what is going on in Central America. The purpose was
not to stop her from talking, but when you have a demonstration like
that, you are not going to have exact control. To me it is important
that we boo.
    ''And when a government official comes on campus,'' he added, ''we
have a right to be heard. We were saying something horrible is going
on in Central America.''
    Roderic B. Park, vice chancellor of the Berkeley campus, said, ''We
have to have some way to deal with those who do not want the
university to be a marketplace of ideas, who want to oppress anything
they do not want to hear.'' He said that the university had made
plans to deal with future disruptions but that to discuss them
''would be like a quarterback announcing his plays.''
    An undercurrent of unhappiness over the lack of any disciplinary
proceeding against student demonstrators runs through talk with
faculty members. Park said that campus officers had provided names of
some students whom they recognized among the demonstrators, but that
the administration had decided against disciplinary proceedings.
    The student senate has twice refused to take any significant action
to criticize the demonstrators and their organization. First the
senate rejected a proposal to examine the organization's accounting
of the $1,250 it was allotted this year from student fees.
    Then, on Wednesday night, it rejected a firm letter of apology that
was to be sent to Mrs. Kirkpatrick, choosing instead to send a letter
stating that some students disapproved of the demonstration but that
''the intent was to register a vocal dissent against the human rights
policy of the Reagan administration and not to prevent the audience
from hearing.''
    The faculty Committee on Academic Freedom called on the chancellor,
Ira Michael Heyman, to ''assure the campus community expeditiously''
that he intended to maintain free speech on the campus. This
resolution will be debated at the March 14 meeting of the Academic
Senate, to which all faculty members belong.
    Several faculty members have already expressed support for the
demonstrators in letters to editors, but majority faculty sentiment
seems to oppose what they did.
    One off-campus sentiment was expressed by Mayor Eugene Newport of
Berkeley, who wrote to The Daily Californian, the campus paper, ''I
am heartened to see that students are once again taking their role as
the conscience of society seriously.''
    
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