Word: berkeley
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...Radcliffe Combined Charities dropped the American Friends Service Committee because of its "political activities"--"we found that the Friends Service Committee was spending 13 per cent of its time propagandizing for world peace," the Charities' chairman explained. And 200 students showed up at a Harvard rally in solidarity with Berkeley's embattled Free Speech Movement, to hear Arthur MacEwan (then just a former University of Chicago student president) and later Mario Savio himself, expounding a view of the Movement like one that would become increasingly familiar at Harvard--of a struggle of the "managed" against "a managerial tyranny...a knowledge...
...musician. But no one has come closer to unearthing civilization's lost chord than Anne D. Kilmer, who is a professor of Assyriology at the University of California at Berkeley. After five years' study of clay tablets discovered in an excavation of the city of Ugarit (now Ras Shamra, Syria), which flourished more than 3,000 years ago, Kilmer deciphered the thin cuneiform script as the words and musical symbols of an ancient song. Older by 1,400 years than the 400 B.C. papyrus that contains music for Euripides' play Orestes, Kilmer's finding...
...Chicago's Harry Kalven, an expert on juries: "To demand more purity than that is wholly unappealing. At that point, you're not asking for a fair trial, but no trial at all." Which is just what some Watergate defendants seem to be asking for, believes Berkeley Criminal Law Professor Sanford Kadish, and "that makes...
...cited a report by a Columbia University group that ranked MIT's graduate program in engineering first nationally, the architecture program second after Berkeley's, and the business school sixth...
...Berkeley's listener-supported FM station KPFA, which has been used by the S.L.A. as a conduit for messages, also complied. Oakland's KDIA, an AM station catering to the black community, has broadcast almost all the S.L.A. statements. Says News Director Ray Wills: "We thought it incumbent on us to follow the instructions." Ironically, leftist and underground papers have generally printed very little unedited S.L.A. propaganda...