Word: berkeley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Storey '78-2 had a view of Boonesville from the outside. Two good friends of hers, whom she had known since the third grade, were attending the University of Colorado. The two were sisters and the oldest, Kathy, had taken a term off to travel in San Francisco and Berkeley. She got involved with the Creative Community Project, and her sister Sara got worried and went to visit her there. When she arrived, she also became caught up in Boonesville. Marion found out about this through their letters, and soon her friend Sara was trying to get her to come...
...Sociologist Lucy Sells, in a 1973 survey at Berkeley, discovered that 57% of male first-year students had taken four years of high school math, while only 8% of females had done so. As a result, 92% of freshmen women could major in only five out of 20 available fields, since calculus was a requirement for the other 15. Sells' charge: "Nobody told girls that they couldn't get jobs in the real world unless they knew math...
...something big? Academics who have read the book are divided in their reactions. Berkeley Psychologist Frank Beach calls it "highly original, provocative and stimulating." Northwestern University Psychologist Carl Duncan is caustic: "Jaynes is extremely clever to think up this thing. I only wish he would put that cleverness to some more serviceable use." Jaynes, who realizes he has rewritten most of human history, expects "to be clobbered by all kinds of professors. If you're an archaeologist who has spent a lifetime working with a little brush at ancient sites, you won't want to hear from some...
...MODERNIZE THE FAMILY: HERMA HILL KAY, 42, of the University of California, Berkeley. Educated at Southern Methodist and University of Chicago Law. Clerked for California Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Traynor. Married to a psychiatrist (her third husband); no children...
...lawyer. She was the driving force behind California's Family Law Act of 1969, which first established the principle of no-fault divorce. She teaches courses in family law, sex discrimination (she and Ruth Ginsburg collaborated on a widely used casebook on the subject), and joins with Berkeley Anthropologist Laura Nader in a seminar on anthropology and the law. Often mentioned as a candidate to become the first woman Supreme Court Justice, Kay believes that law school should turn out students who are "able to separate the relevant from the irrelevant and focus on the core of a problem...