Word: berkeley
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...vintage New Haven weather yesterday--cold, cloudy, drizzling and dismal--as the Houses and Colleges did battle in The Other Games. The Crimson took most of the contests on the muddy fields around the Yale Bowl. But in the big one, the unofficial world football championship. Calhoun-Berkeley trouneed Dunster-Mather...
...UCal-Berkeley...
DIED. Max Scherr, 65, rotund, disorderly founder of the underground newspaper the Berkeley Barb; of cancer; in Berkeley, Calif. Founded in 1965 during the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley, the Barb proselytized for revolution, drugs and "free" sex, peaking at 90,000 readers in 1969, before closing in 1980. Scherr made the paper profitable not only by anticipating the sentiments of the "flower children" but also by paying low wages and raking in revenue from sexually explicit ads purchased by massage parlors...
...with the radical theories of Michel Foucault, says the philosopher's Translator Alan Sheridan, is like watching "a policeman attempting to arrest a particularly outrageous drag queen." The solemn specialists who patrol the American university have their own difficulties with Foucault. Leo Bersani of the French department at Berkeley eulogizes him as "our most brilliant philosopher of power," but Yale Historian Peter Gay dismisses him: "He doesn't do any research, he just goes on instinct." Anthropologist Clifford Geertz of the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study attempts a new classification: "He has become a kind of impossible object...
Sequantia--"Minstrels and Clerics of the Madieval North"; Church of the Covenant, Berkeley and Newbury Sts., Boston...