Word: berkeley
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...Sociology Department's faculty has recommended the appointment as assistant professor of Ann Swidler '66, a graduate student at the University of California at Berkeley who calls herself "a feminist...
Swidler, contacted yesterday in Berkeley, described herself as a feminist, but not a Marxist, "even though most of my friends are Marxists...
Swidler was chosen largely because of her teaching reputation at Berkeley, sources in the department said yesterday...
...best universities in the nation, California has been buffeted by both the excesses of student demonstrators in the 1960s and the conservative fiscal policies of former Governor Ronald Reagan. Libraries and the physical plant have deteriorated, and the university's vigorous growth has been brought to a halt. Berkeley has dropped its departments of criminology and demography; U.C.L.A. has closed down its department of speech and graduate school of journalism. Although U.C. is still one of the outstanding universities, its quality and reputation have clearly been tarnished...
...intellectual wit, Saxon relaxes by playing the recorder in a Baroque chamber group or sitting down with friends for an evening of poker. An avid gardener, he is getting ready to transplant his 30 carefully tended bonsai trees from Los Angeles to the magnificent hillside house north of Berkeley that-along with a $59,500 salary-goes with the president...