Word: berkeley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...helped establish a new precedent: the belief that everyone should (and could) go to college, an idea that resulted in the creation of a continuing class of students, semidetached from their society and their parents. Twenty years later, under different circumstances, that group was heard from at Berkeley, Kent State and Columbia...
...they thought I was from, because they would never guess right. I found that I could make people believe I was exactly like them--I adopted their mannerisms and even their way of speaking, so that people would swear to me that I was surely from White Plains, or Berkeley, or Washington, or Vermont...
...other cities with large university populations, students became involved in local campaigns--in Berkeley, Madison and Ann Arbor they elected radical city governments. Cambridge City Councilor Saundra Graham may have had something like that in mind for her Grass Roots Organization, but the GRO's candidates--except for her--did miserably their first time out. Individual Harvard students have gone in to electoral politics quite frequently--McGovern's pre-convention pollsters in 1972 were Harvard seniors--and back in 1968, Harvard students ran an anti-war referendum campaign. But even then it was clear that Cambridge was not Berkeley. Even...
...Berkeley, Calif...
There were scattered scenes of rejoicing and scenes of sorrow across the nation last week. In Cambridge and Berkeley, throngs of students celebrated in the streets. At a World Football League game in Jacksonville, cheerleaders burst into tears when the news was announced. For most Americans, however, the reaction to Richard Nixon's resignation was curiously muted. At the Houston Astrodome, a crowd of 12,000 baseball fans reacted to the news with a long pause followed by scattered applause. In Lawrence, Kans., the phone company put extra long-distance operators on duty in anticipation of a flood...