Word: berkeley
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After years of trouble with Berkeley's radicals, the Alameda County sheriff's deputies were in an ugly mood last May. At issue was "People's Park," a vacant lot owned by the University of California and taken over by a band of students and hippies to occupy and beautify for their own use. After the university ousted the squatters and fenced the lot, inevitably a dissenting march was mounted. When the protesters approached People's Park, the police were ready and waiting...
JOHN BIGGINS Berkeley, Calif...
...time that Indians got off their goddam asses and stopped letting white people lead them around by their noses," says Lehman Brightman, a South Dakota Sioux now working on a Ph.D. at Berkeley. "Even the name Indian is not ours. It was given to us by some dumb honky who got lost and thought he'd landed in India...
...starring Dustin Hoffman, has been filmed on Montana's Crow reservation. It portrays George Custer as a villain leading troops bent on genocide. Three books personalizing Indian alienation have won critical acclaim. A novel, House Made of Dawn, by N. Scott Momaday, a Kiowa who teaches English at Berkeley, won a Pulitzer prize last year. Custer Died for Your Sins, by Vine Deloria, a Standing Rock Sioux, wryly details
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA. Martin Meyerson, 47, was the Harvard-trained head of Berkeley's College of Environmental Design in 1965 when he became acting chancellor after Edward Strong was eased out during the Free Speech Movement. Meyerson quickly proved that he could deal with both angry students and upset professors. A year later, he became president of the State University of New York at Buffalo, where he drew on his planning experience to spur action on the school's proposed move from an obsolete city campus to a new 1,200-acre suburban site, a plan now blocked...