Don't trust anyone over 30.

• Date: 01 April 2016
• Author: Atkins, Michael

For some reason, I thought it was Mick Jagger who coined the phrase "Don't trust anyone over 30." It wasn't him. It was a fellow named Mark Weinberg from Buffalo, NY. Mark found himself at the University of California, Berkeley, majoring in mathematics with an interest in free speech on the side. It was the beginning of the free speech movement, and on a summer day in 1964 the Berkeley campus police, a little twitchy about campus demonstrations on various topics, including "civil rights," demanded Mark show his identification. He refused.

Shortly thereafter, thousands of students surrounded the campus police car and wouldn't let it move. As the crowds grew and I people began making speeches atop the police car, the administration thought better of their position and negotiated a deal not to charge Mark. He emerged from the police car some 32 hours...