Word: berkeley
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They have one at Berkeley. And at Wisconsin. At Yale. Stanford. And even Princeton is starting...
...moving slowly, but some of the big schools are starting to recognize that it is going to be a multi-cultural society in the 21st century and they need ethnic studies programs," says Larry Trujillo, a professor at Berkeley...
...Hawaii Senator Daniel Inouye, who is of Japanese descent, chaired the Senate Select Committee in the Iran-contra hearings, Congress was bombarded with hate letters, telegrams and phone calls that assailed him as "that yellow bastard." Says Japanese-born Aki Yoshikawa, research director of the University of California's Berkeley Roundtable on International Economics: "There's definitely an element of racism among many people who criticize Japan. Something about Japan is alien to them...
...race with Jones appears to have forced Pons and Fleischmann to go public long before they were ready. Their paper on cold fusion is considered less -- far less -- than rigorous. "Every great discovery has had plenty of skeptics," notes Richard Muller, a physicist at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, "but I can't find any great discovery of the past 50 years that was published with a bad paper. If a freshman physics or chemistry major had done it, they would have flunked." Says Robert G. Sachs, former director of ! Argonne National Laboratory: "It doesn't meet the kind of standards...
...goals of higher education is to instill an appreciation of other cultures and races. But the outbreak of racial antagonism that has plagued campuses from Dartmouth to Berkeley over the past few years has jeopardized that objective. Last month the Board of Regents at the University of Wisconsin took a first step toward restoring some measure of racial civility. If the state legislature approves the plan adopted by the regents, students caught hurling racial epithets in a threatening manner will be expelled from school...