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...would be pointless. Many opponents argue that, even if the bridge is made safer, suicidal people will just kill themselves elsewhere. But according to landmark 1978 study by Richard Seiden of the University of California, Berkeley, that is not necessarily so. Seiden tracked down 515 people who were stopped from jumping off the bridge between 1937 and 1971, and found that an average of 26 years after their suicide attempt, 94% were still alive or had died from natural causes. "When a person is unable to kill himself in a particular way," Seiden wrote, "it may be enough...
...seems as though Avakian had the right pedigree to become a modern revolutionary. Like the big man himself, Karl Marx, Avakian was the son of a lawyer and grew up in a decidedly bourgeois household—family vacations and all. Raised in Berkeley during the ’50s and ’60s, Avakian grew out of a culture where subversive was the new chic...
...place--than with the punishment. New research indicates that when it is not lumped together with serious, abusive forms of corporal punishment, spanking doesn't look so bad. In a longitudinal study of 168 white, middle-class families, Diana Baumrind and Elizabeth Owens, psychologists at the University of California, Berkeley, found that occasional mild spanking does not harm a child's social and emotional development...
...proactive approach to preventing plagiarism, which requires the completion of an online tutorial on academic integrity.COPYRIGHT, COPY-WRONGSome students at other campuses have expressed concern that TurnItIn might compromise their intellectual property rights because it stores papers in its database permanently.And when the University of California-Berkeley balked at joining TurnItIn in 2002, the school’s assistant chancellor for legal affairs, Mike R. Smith, told the Chronicle of Higher Education that the issue of students’ intellectual property rights was “one of the trouble spots for us in moving ahead with this proposal...
...thesis was born in J.D. Connor’s “VES 172h: Histories of Cinema 2: Sound, Space & Image to 1960” class, which he took sophomore year. Semesters of interpretation later, he decided to focus on the musical sequences of 1930s musical director Busby Berkeley as they have come to be viewed since being shown in a montage at a 1960s revival theater. Connor, who worked closely with Polonsky throughout, pinpoints the draw of working on a Film Studies thesis. “In other humanities, you get weighed down by the past. In the case...