Word: berkeley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...issue opens with a piece by Martin Trow the sociologist from Berkeley, who touches on a variety of topics. He traces the growth of the university since the War, and the problems created by growth...
...most highly regarded large-scale integration effort outside the South has been the complete integration of the Berkeley public schools. Begun voluntarily, the plan has met little community opposition, was completed in 1968, and still has the unanimous backing of the school board. It involves large-scale busing, including the transfer of 3,800 elementary pupils of both races and in both directions?some from affluent hillside homes into ghetto areas in the coastal flatland. The busing costs $270,000 a year, involves an average ride of 20 minutes each...
...Berkeley's conservative Mayor Wallace Johnson thinks that any vote on the program today would carry by at least a two-thirds majority. Yet no one considers the project a complete success?at least not yet. Racial tension still runs high at the two junior highs and in the high school. At Martin Luther King Junior High, students break down into four groups: the blacks, the straight whites, the hippie whites and Mexican-American Chicanes. The lines are rarely crossed. The noon-hour dance is dominated by blacks; the groups eat separately. There have been interracial fights and class disorders...
Author-Educator Herbert Kohl (36 Children) has studied the Berkeley program and concedes that "no one deep in his heart believes that this is really working yet." But he contends that it will as soon as teachers and students get over their jitters and concentrate on education; he expects the system to develop new techniques for stimulating learning among children of diverse
...Californians eager to protect their children from radical influence at Berkeley, the University of California's branch at Santa Barbara has offered an attractive alternative. Known as "the country club" and "the campus by the sea," its surfing, suntanned students often seem more concerned with meteorological than political phenomena. Many occupy their own apartments in a two-square-mile enclave at Isla Vista. Their relaxed morals offend the Santa Barbara citizenry and law officers, who refer to Isla Vista as Sin City. For their part, students openly provoke the locals and call the cops dumb squares...