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...Shakesperean “Et Tu Brutray” are some of the wordplays that have delighted diners this year. Millstein says he was inspired by his brothers, who went to Vassar and participated in the schoolwide tradition of decorating trays. He also mentions the students at UC Berkeley who are known for their “grout puns,” wordplay written into the putty between bricks. Other trays have surfaced which take a more neorealist view, such as the intricate “trayl of tears” design, which Millstein says was done by someone else...
...major in Film Studies, and at other Ivies the number are similar. Thirty five Cornell students will graduate with Film Studies majors, forty Penn students with Cinema Studies. Despite its prevalence and popularity, the concentration remains relatively small to medium-sized at most Arts and Science colleges. Though U.C Berkeley has offered a group major in Film Studies since 1976, only 120 students are majoring this year, a tiny proportion of the nearly 23,000 undergraduates attending. Nonetheless, that number is ten times the size of the first majoring class, and similar trends across the board suggest that the boom...
...were discussed for the first time in three seasons. Say what?! Yeah…that’s right…this week’s show was about college.Seth and Sandy had a sentimental mini-conflict: Seth wants to go to Brown, and Sandy was pushing him toward Berkeley. It was all tidily resolved as Sandy accepted his son’s desire to etch his own path, and Summer left behind her West-Coast dreams and decided to apply to Providence College—a school only 20 minutes away from Seth’s desired destination. Convenient...
...pioneering as the lab work is the business triangle Keasling has forged linking the university; Amyris Biotechnologies, a company he co-founded; and OneWorld Health, a nonprofit drug company. "This is one of those 'only in Berkeley' stories," says Keasling, laughing. "No one is going to make any profit out of this." Berkeley, which owns the rights to Keasling's technology, has agreed to give it away for nonprofit use. The Amyris staff is working to commercialize the technology. OneWorld Health hopes to be manufacturing the drug within five years...
...that 59% of all miscarriages of justice in homicide investigations in Illinois--where a year later Governor George Ryan commuted all death sentences--involved false confessions. But despite such evidence, few confessions are ever thrown out. According to Richard J. Ofshe, a social psychologist at the University of California, Berkeley, and an expert in false confessions, only recently have juries been allowed to hear testimony about the phenomenon, which can occur as a result of coercion, exhaustion or mental impairment. The juries in the Norfolk trials were not among those. Many experts say the solution is to require police...