Chancellor Strong refuses to act on the findings of the committee before the meeting of the Academic Senate on December 8. Regents meet and approve suggestions made by President Kerr and Chancellor Strong concerning the suspension to date of the eight students and the one semester probation of Savio and Gqldberg. Meanwhile a rally of over 3,000 students that had assembled at Sproul Hall marches first to the west gate of the campus to hear Joan Baez and then across the street to University Hall where the regents were meeting, to await the results. Chancellor Strong issues a statement of new rules following the decisions of the regents in their November 20 meeting. Chancellor Strong rejects FSM demands that charges against Savio and Goldberg be dropped.
University ignores ultimatum.
FSM holds rally that attracts thousands, after which approximately one thousand persons move into Sproul Hall. More than eight hundred students remain for the night. The arrest of about 814 students continues for twelve hours, during which time graduate students picket University buildings in protest of police action. Simultaneously, faculty members meet to consider the crisis, to protest the regents' policy of November 20 and the governor's summoning police, and to establish an Academic Senate Committee to which students could appeal regarding the penalties imposed by the administration for political action. Faculty members raise bail for the arrested students.