Word: berkeley
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many of my friends in Berkeley, Calif, rummaging through trash for food comes naturally. I was one of the few who had a job and a place to stay--in a residential hotel which was cheap compared to tourist hotels, but expensive compared to an apartment. You pay by the week and share your room with an interesting variety of insects, and you can leave any time without losing a deposit...
...weeknights a local organization, the Berkeley. Food Project, cooks a hearty meal and serves it for 25 cents. For most of the people who eat there, dinner is the only meal. Sometimes, running short of money, I ate there--along with my friends. But one of them, Joseph (not his real name) refused to come to the food project meals...
...BERKELEY HAS A more extensive support network for the homeless than do most other American cities. Besides the food project, Berkeley boasts a free clinic. Both are funded for the most part by donations collected on the street, and anyone who shakes a donations box earns a commission in cash. In People's Park, the site of the famous 1969 demonstrations, people leave clothing, books, and anything else they don't want in a wooden "free bin," Berkeley has a shelter for the homeless; in addition, one can get away easily with sleeping on a living room sofa...
That may be an extreme view-as long as music is played, there will be a need for violinists, clarinetists and pianists-but the statement contains more than a little truth. Inventor Buchla, busy designing a new generation of machines in his Berkeley workshop, envisions an instrument without a keyboard at all. Moog, now in North Carolina, is "working with musicians who need instruments that don't exist." If they succeed, the future could hold an aesthetic in which unconventional sounds fall as lightly and harmoniously on the ear as the C major scale...
...recalling treaties because of "bad" Soviet behavior. This policy is based on the ridiculous belief that treaties are rewards to the Soviet Union for good behavior. Bilateral disarmament is beneficial to both nations and is necessary for the survival of our planet. Andrew Popell '87 Michael Magoon Freshman, U.C. Berkeley...