Poetic Obituaries: It was a student protest that lasted

about three months during the 1964-65 school years.

But for [Michael] Rossman it was something that consumed most of his life. He wrote essays, news stories and books about it. He was the president and chief executive officer of the Free Speech Movement Archives and took very seriously the way information was presented on the group's Web site, said Lee Felsenstein, secretary-treasurer of the archive.

"Michael, I would have to call him a renaissance man because he embodied both art and science and activism. He was a poet and had that sort of sensibility, which could be hard to bear when you were reading one of his long writings. Nevertheless, he had a way with metaphors that was a very important part of him," Felsenstein said.

from Oakland Tribune: Free Speech Movement leader dies at 68

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