Word: berkeley
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Twenty years ago, he carefully slipped off his shoes before climbing atop a university police car so as not to damage campus property. The roof buckled some anyway. So did the University of California, Berkeley, as Mario Savio ignited the Free Speech Movement, which in turn lit the fires of nearly a decade of campus activism. Last week, graying and more introspective but still burning with the spirit of protest, Savio, now 41, was back at Berkeley to celebrate the 1964 birth of the Free Speech Movement. Some 3,000 middle-aging rebels and current students gathered at the scene...
...next move was to contact astronomers at the Lawerence Berkeley Laboratory in California who employed specialzed telescopes to attempt to see the phenomenon. After three nights of observations they detected something unusual, but because the pulsar is visible only from the Southern Hempisphere they were unable to confirm its visibile existance until they moved to the 4-meter telescope at Cerro Tololo Observatory in Chilie...
...Washington next month, several high-technology companies will attempt to recruit students, using, appropriately enough, high-tech methods. Business People Inc. of Minneapolis will set up large-screen TVs at 30 of the top schools for technical education, including Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Stanford and the University of California, Berkeley. Then, in a Washington studio, recruiters from such companies and Government agencies as Sperry, Tektronix, Combustion Engineering, the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Security Agency will make their pitches via satellite to the assembled seniors. The students, perhaps 4,000 to 7,000 of them, will be able...
...Berkeley on February 15, 1983, Kirkpatrick was shouted down by Berkeley's Students Against Intervention in El Salvador while giving a speech to a packed crowd of more than 900 at Wheeler Auditorium. Kirkpatrick was forced to leave the stage, but later returned to finish her speech. There was no administrative punishment for students involved...
...group then set about examining how the iridium spread throughout the world, says Helen Michael, one of the Berkeley team's principle researchers. They reasoned that iridium-rich asteroids bombarded the earth, kicking up so much terrestrial and asteroidal debris into the atmosphere that it blocked sunlight from the earth for as long as several months. As temperatures plummeted, plants and animals died, leaving the current fossil record...