Word: berkeley
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Dartmouth College, which is slightly more restrictive than Brown, forces its freshmen to join at least a 14-meal plan. But Dartmouth upperclassmen can purchase as few as five meals per week. MIT and the University of California at Berkeley similarly offer a selection of meal plans from which to choose. Amherst College and Stanford University, however, require an eating arrangement similar to Harvard's: students living in university housing must pay for a full week of meals...
Among those who resisted the rise of irrationalism and violence, optimism survived even the confrontations at Columbia, Berkeley, Wisconsin, and Harvard. Speaking at Harvard's tense 1969 Commencement exercises, law student Meldon E. Levine explained to parents, professors and administrators the best his generation had to offer...
Legions of M.B.A. candidates from Boston to Berkeley are wondering the same thing. A record 61,000 students will receive their degrees this year, 26% more than five years ago. The stubborn recession, however, has led many firms to skip the 1983 campus recruiting season, which got under way at numerous schools last week. Result: a student scramble for jobs and a slowdown in salary growth...
...cull, most universities are committed to maintaining what they do best. "You don't destroy one of the greatest classics departments in the world because there is not a great demand for Latin teachers," maintains Richard Sutch, chairman of the graduate council at the University of California at Berkeley...
...study: the quality of the faculty, and how well the program trains students. Because of the difficulties of making overall comparisons, the board decided against picking the top institutions. In TIME's interpretation of the board's two key criteria, the University of California at Berkeley is rated as the leading engineering school, followed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford, and the California Institute of Technology tied with the University of Illinois. In the liberal arts and sciences, Berkeley edged out old rival Harvard, which was followed by old rival Yale, Stanford and the University of Michigan...