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Margaret Wilkerson, associate professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, read excerpts from and analyzed five plays by Black women writers, including "Toussaint" by Lorraine Hansberry and "Wedding Band" by Alice Childress...
Some in the sports world argue that drug abuse among athletes is simply a reflection of a national problem. Harry Edwards, a sports sociologist at the University of California, Berkeley, who predicted back in 1981 that drug use would become a "big catastrophe" for athletes, theorizes that the U.S. has in effect become a "high" society. "The inescapable image emerges of a nation consumed in drug taking, both legal and illicit," says Edwards, adding: "The fact that we have by tradition placed our athletes upon a pedestal does not elevate them above prevailing cultural tides." University of North Carolina Basketball...
Most scientists agree that the small-brained australopithecines were the first manlike creatures to walk upright, 3.5 million or more years ago, and that their evolution ran parallel to that of humanity's direct ancestors. The dispute arises over details. Some researchers, including Anthropologist Donald Johanson, director of the Berkeley-based Institute of Human Origins, think that a single species, Australopithecus afarensis, which includes the celebrated 3 million-year-old skeleton called Lucy, was the common ancestor of all later australopithecines, as well as man. The two branches, they say, split about 3 million years ago, with the Australopithecus line...
...group of 48 students from Harvard, Berkeley and Rutgers raised more than $100,000 as they bicycled across the country, educating people about the problems of hunger...
...half weeks. Every night, they stopped in a small town and were housed and fed by local community or church groups. In each town the students made formal presentations about Oxfam and Save the Children projects, and "just talked to people," said Kevin Peterson, a student at Berkeley...