Word: berkeley
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Haight-Ashbury hosted theSummer of Love. In 1969, upstate New York became the Woodstock Nation. In 1968, a year bracketed by marijuana smoke and good vibrations, the world -- especially the world of youth -- exploded into the Theater of Revolution. Chicago. Paris. Prague. Mexico City. Berkeley and ) the London School of Economics. Everywhere and all at once, students rose in protest and revolt. Red and black flags, mycelia of defiance, sprouted overnight. France ground to a standstill. Charles de Gaulle tottered. Lyndon Johnson left politics. To revolution's fervid practitioners, it was 1848 and the 1871 Paris Commune rolled into...
Since 1985, several articles have appeared in the national press attacking Asian-American admissions policies at public universities in the West and selective Eastern institutions, particularly Harvard. Critics, like Berkeley professor L.C. Wang and MIT graduate Arthur Hu, have charged that Asian-Americans are admitted at a substantially lower rate here than whites and other minorities and that Asian-Americans have to be more academically qualified than others to be admitted...
...course of his lengthy academic career, Leyser has spent time in the United States as a visiting professor at the University of California at Berkeley. His stint at Harvard this spring was arranged before his retirement last year from Oxford, so the scholar decided to prolong his stay in academia for at least another semester...
While Boskin fits into the conservative range of the economic spectrum, he is no ideologue. Born in New York City, Boskin earned his three degrees at Berkeley. Says he: "I am eclectic, but I have a lot of strong principles." His precepts center on the belief that "market forces work best, but there are situations where they don't work perfectly." Boskin's primary concern about the U.S. economy is its low savings and investment rate, a problem he attributes partly to the high deficits of the Reagan era. The economist concedes that the Reagan Administration's tax cuts...
...same time, competition for college admissions, as well as jobs and promotions, has made remedies for past inequities less appealing. At Berkeley, 22% of the students in last year's entering class fell into "protected" categories, including Native Americans, Hispanics and blacks. Asian Americans, who make up 26.5% of Berkeley's undergraduate population, are an especially | tempting target for abuse because of their high academic performance. "People say they're too motivated," explains a student. "Especially in the sciences, whites are insecure." Such fears may even have tainted the admissions process: last fall the Department of Education launched an inquiry...