Word: berkeley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wendy R. Peck Berkeley, Calif...
...appointment of Bird, a tall Arizona-born, Berkeley-trained lawyer and close political confidante of Brown's, that is causing a stir. The California Trial Lawyers Association hailed her nomination as "one of the most significant acts" of the Brown administration. But others are not so sure...
Following a hard-knocks childhood -her father died before she was twelve, her mother took a factory job, then moved the family to upstate New York -Bird studied at Long Island University, then went on to graduate school at the University of California at Berkeley. After earning her law degree at Berkeley in 1965, she became the first woman to clerk on the Nevada Supreme Court, where Justice David Zenoff pronounced her "intellectually marvelous." Bird, who has never been married, then became the first female public defender in Santa Clara County, Calif., and also taught litigation and consumer law from...
...declined. Says Princeton's Charles West-off, a world-renowned demographer: "There is a very pronounced change in the attitude of women toward marriage, childbearing and working, and all these attitudes seem to lead in one direction: they don't want three or four children." As Berkeley Demographer Judith Blake Davis puts it succinctly: "You won't find those sacrificial mothers any more...
...Harvard Law School Forum. At UCLA, in 1975 the SYL as part of the Committee to End University Complicity with the CIA, organized a demonstration demanding that all complicity with the CIA be terminated and that all UCLA-CIA correspondence be published. An SYL-initiated committee at U Cal. Berkeley organized a picket and demonstration drawing over 250 participants around the slogans "CIA/NSA Recruiters off campus!" and "Abolish the CIA/NSA!" At Yale, an SYL propaganda campaign protesting the upcoming appearance of CIA recruiters on campus resulted in the cancellation of those scheduled interviews. Here in Boston, the super spy agency...