The State - News from July 17, 1989

A fight between two men who bumped into each other at a dance at UC Berkeley erupted into a melee involving about 300 people, police said. Ten adults and four juveniles were arrested after the crowd left the campus, and windows in a dozen businesses were smashed, police said. The initial fight occurred during a dance at a campus pub that serves beer and wine in the student union building. University police ejected the individual believed responsible for starting the fight, but an hour later were called to protect the victim, who was accosted by several people at the dance, a university police spokeswoman said. The officers tried to put the victim into a police car to take him to a hospital for treatment of a broken hand, but they were attacked by a larger crowd. By then, a number of fights had broken out among 300 people who had filled Sproul Plaza.