Word: berkeley
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...Persian Nights holding steady, well above the level of conventional romance. In lesser hands, the novel could easily have been called something like A Doctor's Wayward Wife in Iran, and been far more marketable in the bargain. But Johnson, 52, an English professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and a collaborator with Stanley Kubrick on the screenplay of The Shining, has found a middle ground between sensationalism and high seriousness. Chloe Fowler's good intentions provide a fascinating vantage point for the clash of irreconcilable cultures. She comes, unprepared, to a strange place, meaning no harm, believing that...
...widely publicized incident last fall, a female student at the University of California, Berkeley, filed a complaint saying she had been gang-raped by a football player she once dated and three of his teammates. The case was dropped, partly because the victim had been drinking. Said Detective Greg Folster of the University of California, Berkeley, police: "I have no doubt that this was a sexual assault, but I don't think the judicial system is quite ready for acquaintance rape...
During its first year, ODN was largely the domain of a few. The Network expanded through personal contacts made by the Ahmad brothers at such campuses as Brown, Berkeley, Mt. Holyoke, and Wellesley. A development conference at the John F. Kennedy School of Government in April, 1984, attracted students from across the nation, many of whom then went home and founded their own chapters of ODN. By the end of the spring of 1984, ODN had 15 campus branches...
Compared with militant poems by writers like Baraka in the 1960s, poetry has become "more private, more personal, more subjective," said poet and author Ishmael Reed, visiting professor of Afro-American literature from the University of California at Berkeley...
What caused its nearly hysterical reaction? Was the administration so committed to its South African investments that it had to defend them at all costs? Or was the administration frightened by a handful of Berkeley rowdies...