Word: berkeley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years, Berkeley's chancellor, Roger Heyns. 52, did his best to cool down the original hotbed of U.S. student activism. Last year he was unfairly blamed for the way police handled student demands that one of the university's empty lots be turned into a "people's park." While zealously removing demonstrators, the police and National Guardsmen left one man dead, 150 people injured and nearly 900 arrested, many of them innocent bystanders. But apart from that crisis, Heyns was widely admired for starting an ethnic studies program, aiding poor students and dealing fairly and firmly with...
EIGHTEEN of the candidates are associated with West Coast universities. Outside of Harvard, the largest number come form Stanford (7), Chicago and Berkeley (4 apiece), N.Y.U. (3), and other Ivy schools combined (5). One explanation of the predominance of the West Coast names is the distance and inaccessibility of reliable interviewing on the qualification of candidates...
...Berkeley Field...
...this building." There was also a bow in the direction of Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum. As in the Guggenheim, visitors move from level to level in a flow of curving space. But the tyranny Wright imposed with his irresistible, continuous spiral has been avoided at Berkeley...
...exhibit to detain people, to keep them from moving on. Here we made cul-de-sacs and all kinds of things to keep people in front of a painting." Selz, 51, who quit his post as a curator of the Museum of Modern Art in 1965 to go to Berkeley, is delighted with the building. "I was so tired of boxlike spaces," he explains. "Many architects want to create a neutral space and have it evenly illuminated, but I say neutrality can be as boring for a painting as it is for a person...