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...Bradford DeLong ’82, an economist at the University of California, Berkeley, said that the number of top high school students has increased “between five and tenfold over the past half century,” and that, in response, the California system has “scaled itself up roughly from 4,000 to 40,000 undergraduates a year...
...Howl’s trial as a lewd work was hardly in the tradition of Ulysses. It consisted mainly of a parade of poetry professors from nearby universities to justify Ginsberg’s sexual imagery as an instrument of rendering his vision of human experience. Mark Schorer (of Berkeley), Walter Van Tillburg Clark, and Kenneth Rexroth (strawman poet and loquacious spokesman for the North Beach literati) told Judge Clayton Horn that the language of vulgarity was for Ginsberg a natural vernacular. (Ginsberg, after a stint at Columbia had been educated in night-spots, ghost towns, and freight car pilgrimages...
...Since receiving their Ph.D.s from MIT in 1985, the Romers’ careers have followed similar trajectories—both became ladder faculty at Berkeley in 1988 and won tenure five years later...
...Though many remain disappointed with Faust’s decision, at least one Berkeley professor said that he was happy that his department would be keeping the distinguished academics...
...rest of the faculty at Berkeley are extremely delighted that Christina and David decided to stay,” said David E. Card, a prominent labor economist...