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Some schools are merely tightening their general education requirements without substantially altering their form. Berkeley's Letters and Sciences program will require the Class of '83 to fulfill a math requirement stressing logic and quantitative reasoning as well as a foreign language requirement. The school, which already requires American history and American institutions courses, is also modifying its Nat Sci, Soc Sci, Hum distribution requirement to make students take courses in both areas outside of their major...
...Phillip Ritter, a Berkeley, Calif, accountant, who last year won (but later lost) custody of his child from his Syna-non-member wife, was jumped by two men outside his home on Sept. 21 and severely beaten. "It was the usual Synanon method of operation," says Jack Hurst, a friend and ex-president of Synanon who quit the group in 1976. "The short hair, the baseball bats, the doctored license plates." Ritter is currently in hiding...
Moses Wine is a sometime Berkeley activist and law school dropout, now beginning a new life and career as a Los Angeles private detective. He drives an unprepossessing yellow Volkswagen convertible and often has to take his two kids along when he's on a stakeout-his ex-wife being much preoccupied with her est-like training and her live-in, est-like trainer. The rest of his family consists of an aunt who once waltzed with Bakunin in Russia, and is too busy to be much help with the kids: she's trying to radicalize her senior...
...fears that the jury's "flukish decision" will encourage other Robin Hood robberies. As for Masover, he was awarded a prestigious state regent's scholarship and plans this week to enter the University of California at Berkeley, where he will study physics and try to forget his close encounter with...
...former public defender with a liberal background (at 15 she campaigned for Adlai Stevenson), a graduate of Berkeley's law school, Bird, 41, is also under fire for her vote in a controversial rape case. A man who had raped a woman over a four-hour period, while holding a knife over her and inflicting minor lacerations, did not commit "great bodily injury," ruled the court. The majority opinion was written by one of Bird's temporary appointees, and Bird concurred, alienating law-and-order advocates and many feminists, her natural allies...