Word: berkeley
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Attractive as it is to many students, Stanford's laid-back style is not universally admired. "They don't have a beach, but they ought to," snipes Neil Smelser, a sociologist at Berkeley, Stanford's archrival across the bay. "It's a snootsie private institution where rich white people send their kids to school." (In fact, 33.5% of the current freshman class is black, Chicano, American Indian or Asian American -- more than three times the average at other major private universities.) Even from within the Stanford community, there are those who feel that the place is perhaps a little...
...Everyone is competing now for the top figures in the field of Romance studies," said Jerry R. Craddock, chairman of the Spanish and Portugese department at the University of California-Berkeley...
...There are not enough to go around as it were--so we've been competing directly with Harvard in quite a few cases," Craddock said. He said that Berkeley had not sought to tenure Fernandez-Cifuentes...
...next big push for unionization will be inprivate higher education. A success like Harvardwill make more clerical workers and unions awarethat this kind of organizing is possible," saidJoan Berconi, a coordinator at the Center forLabor and Industrial Relations at the Universityof California-Berkeley...
...have primarily private meaning for Tadashi Suzuki, 48, a leading figure of the international avant-garde, and for the dozen actors from the co-producing ensembles: StageWest in Springfield, Mass., where The Tale of Lear is to run through May 15; Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Arena Stage in Washington and Berkeley Repertory Theater in California. But for the most part, this work sparks audiences to think anew about Shakespeare's original intent...