Word: berkeley
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INVERTING Herrnstein's logic, SDS concluded that he was saying that current poorer classes are intellectually deficient, and thus the group equated Herrnstein with Berkeley geneticist Arthur Jensen and Stanford engineer William Shockley who say outright that blacks are the intellectual inferiors of whites. The clear implication in Herrnstein's article, SDS said, is that blacks must remain poor because they are genetically inferior...
While the Cambridge community has been undergoing a social tempest. Cambridge politic have been modernized more slowly. The city's often compared to Berkeley, Calif., as a center of "youth culture." But while young people have had a tremendous social impact on Cambridge, so far the city has effectively barred them from local voter rolls and prevented them from having much of an impact on city politics. While radicals tool over the city government of Berkeley two year ago, council elections in tradition-tied Cambridge last year produced only a shaky liberal majority in a City Council shared with ethnic...
Over the past few years of student unrest, boarded-up storefronts and broken glass on sidewalks have given some campus communities the look of inner-city ghettos. Now, as another college term approaches, merchants are preparing for the worst. Around the Berkeley campus of the University of California, for example, a group of store owners is organizing a credit association to help members whose property may be damaged by youthful protesters. Local businessmen are also putting together an area-wide electric-alarm system. They hope to have it finished by election night, in case President Nixon wins...
...nearest "imperialist" institutions they could find, usually stores, banks and campus buildings. The rioters smashed windows, broke doors and set buildings on fire in an outburst of what counterculture lingo identifies as "trashing" -spontaneous revolutionary vandalism. The bill for that spree is yet to be paid. In Berkeley, a group of 31 merchants this month filed a claim against the city for $170,000 in damages, asserting that police failed to protect their property. The city council refused to pay, and the merchants plan...
...spring riots added to a trashing toll that over the years has reached impressive proportions. In Berkeley, an incomplete city battle-damage study shows that in the past four years 72 merchants have suffered losses of nearly $4,000,000-$152,427 in physical damage and $3,659,042 in potential sales unmade because stores were closed or customers stayed away. The tally will doubtless rise as more stores report...