Word: berkeley
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...following is an interview of sorts with a former Berkeley activist who graduated from Harvard...
...This year's batch of college graduates is socially and politically fogbound," says my 33-year-old friend as we sit in a cafe near the UC Berkeley campus...
...late '60s and early '70s, and it stunted their growth." Patrick always says "late '60s and early '70s" as if it were one word. He graduated from Harvard 10 years ago and gave up going to the law school of his choice in order to join the counterculture in Berkeley. He used to sleep on the floor to express solidarity with the struggle of third world people, but now he does it because it's Japanese...
...Berkeley's not what it used to be. I assure...
Unlike students in the '60s and '70s, these undergraduates did not take time off to "do their own thing." When they did take time off, it was to earn tuition money or work in internships. Bob Ferran, a June graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and an industrial-engineering major, planned his assault on the work force by interrupting his schooling to work six months with AT&T. Now he has a number of unsolicited job offers. His only regret: not having enough time to study history or political science, two reasons why he chose Berkeley...