Word: berkeley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...virtue of the practice comes not with a transitory feeling but with a lasting release from stress. Individuals say they emerge from meditation refreshed and alert. As evidence, one of the pamphlets cites studies made at the University of Texas, UCLA, and Berkeley. Bar charts of the results show Transcendental Meditators were much better at perceptual and motor tasks, as well as learning and short-and long-term memory tests, than normal people. The benefits are corroborated by students, who make up half the beginners in Transcendental Meditation today in America...
...result, department chairmen reacted to the plan with predictable anxiety. Because the Kraus plan's need criteria cut into their freedom to recruit and encourage the most "meritorious" applicants and students, the chairmen warned that such students might be lured away to Yale or Berkeley, where merit scholarships still rule graduate student financing. In short, they warned that the quality of graduate education was at stake. Nonetheless, department chairmen agreed unanimously to adopt the Kraus plan on a trial basis only for next year...
...months later, however, the administrators discovered that current and incoming students qualified collectively for almost half a million dollars more aid than Kraus had estimated. Graduate students at Harvard would actually fare more favorably than their counterparts at Yale and Berkeley. (It was still unclear whether the first-choice applicants had found Harvard's offers uniformly more attractive than others). All their earlier statements notwithstanding administrators would have to find the extra funds which they maintained were unavailable: the highly touted Kraus plan still created a deficit in the Faculty's 1973-74 budget...
...Berkeley, Calif...
...Busch-Reisinger continues its show on the Swiss painter Ferdinand Hodler for a few days more. Hodler, although respected widely in Switzerland and Germany during his lifetime has been little appreciated here, and on previous stops in New York and Berkeley the show gained attention for Holder as a major new point of perspective in viewing early modernist art. The sketches are the most interesting thing in the show, and most of the larger works appear stiff and stilted by comparison. The landscapes are significant for prefiguring German Expressionist works...