Word: berkeleys
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...their sons and daughters, schools face little opposition when they try to add sexual education to their curricu lum. And the students themselves insist that they want the instruction. "I doubt that I will use algebra when I grow up, but I'll probably be married," says a Berkeley, Calif., high school senior...
During his sabbatical, Alfred plans to teach a freshman composition course at Berkeley, and a drama course to the nuns at the Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart. Another possibility is an experiment in which Alfred will teach English to third-graders in New York City...
Graduate school admissions and fellowship applications reflect similar differences in outlook. That IBM-atmosphere they were rioting about is reflected in the stark simplicity and, perforated, EZ-to-process, pages of Berkeley's form. As for Harvard's GSAS form, its appearance would enthrall any student of the visual arts: at least five different kinds of type reflect the level of significance of various questions. Xeroxed and informally stapled at the corners, Wellesley's graduate fellowship form reflects the combination of casualness and warmth which characterizes afternoon teas at their best...
Perhaps the concept of the multiversity includes a degree of chauvinism: the Berkeley application asks how long one has been a resident of California. (For that matter, the first page features a huge grid in which one is supposed to summarize one's attendance at the University of California; later one discovers a smaller box for attendance at other universities.) Although Harvard may feel unduly proud of the internationalism implied in the directive that "the enclosed application should be completed in English," one should point out another type of broad-mindedness: the application asks one to list "secondary and preparatory...
...next demonstration of the new class loyalty will be a high school revolt "that will look more like Watts than Berkeley," Goodman prophesied. "Some principal will make a guy cut off his locks," he will commit suicide from humiliation, and his friends will burn down the school...