Word: berkeley
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This is about as bad as anything that I can recall in the 1960s," said a dismayed University of California, Berkeley, Chancellor Ira Heyman. Some 400 demonstrators, many armed with rocks, bottles and chunks of concrete, faced off against club-swinging police. In two days of fighting, more than 150 were arrested and at least 33 injured...
stance, protesters erected mock shantytowns. When a fire marshal ordered the shanties demolished as a hazard, the battle was joined. As in the 1960s' protests, many of those arrested were not Berkeley students...
...across the nation, city resolutions granting sanctuary to Central American refugees have had little impact on the government's ability to seek out and expel foreigners living here illegally. Among the cities which have declared themselves refugee sanctuaries are Ithaca N.Y., Berkeley, Calif., and St. Paul, Minn. While the city of Los Angeles rescinded its sanctuary status last month, the governor of New Mexico two weeks ago declared the state a haven for illegal aliens. Brookline is the only other Massachusetts community which has declared itself a sanctuary...
Harvard is not the only place where sports have often been used to dismiss the serious concerns of college students. At Berkeley, in 1964, when a large number of students protested what they felt were arbitrary and unfair administrative decisions, a football pep rally threatened to become political counter-demonstration...
...dung expert was needed, Harvard raised its glance from its teacup and and cast a look to the horizon, indulgently regarding the faculties of other universities before raiding them for their academic stars. Often enough those bush-league sluggers were only too happy to escape Madison, or Berkeley, or Chicago--places where nice tweeds were hard to find...