Word: berkeleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After studying the student revolt, which shook Berkeley in 1964, a nine-man faculty committee headed by Professor Charles Muscatine has proposed a series of sweeping reforms to prevent "dehumanization" of the 27,000-student campus. In a report submitted last week to the powerful Academic Senate, the committee stressed the need to promote more contact between faculty and undergraduates, to channel student opinion to policy-makers, and to improve the quality of teaching. But the committee avoided extremist solutions--the temptation to compensate for past by granting students excessive power...
...Senate. These proposals for channeling opinion to policy-makers will increase cooperation between faculty and students. The success of the report in practice, of course, will depend on the attitude of those who implement it; the machinery for transmitting undergraduate criticism will not function unless the elements of the Berkeley power structure--the Board of Regents, the administration and faculty--are receptive to suggestions for broader innovation...
Bergthold said he did not feel the draft was a factor in the increase of applications. He noted that applications for the Corps have not increased across the country--just at Harvard and Berkeley--and that the male-female ratio of 60-40 has remained the same...
Interviewees Down. Last week, from Berkeley to Boston, that annual rite of spring called campus recruiting was well under way. And if students like Hartman and Grimm made it sound like a buyer's market-well, it was. "Almost any warm body can get a job," comments M.I.T.'s Placement Director Thomas W. Harrington. This year even more firms are sending out personnel experts to round up bodies for even more jobs than they did in a heavy campaign last year. At the University of Chicago Business School, for instance, 230 companies are recruiting v. 190 last year...
...students went along with the university's ban. Larry Mininger, 21, the student council president, insists that no Bob Jones students would have gone to Graham's rallies even if Jones had not forbidden attendance. "We don't do things like they do on the Berkeley campus," he said in an explanation that seemed at once wildly irrelevant and indisputably true...