Word: berkeleys
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...degrees from Stanford and a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of California at Berkeley. He taught at Mount Holyoke College and Connecticut College, and after wartime service as a Marine Corps captain assigned to the OSS, he joined the Manhattan-based Carnegie Corporation, in nine years rose to the top. Gardner has also headed the Corporation's education arm, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching...
...many officials involved in last winter's student uprising at Berkeley had their public image scarred that the University of California regents decided to find a brand-new face to run the campus. Last week they chose as chancellor the University of Michigan's highly regarded vice president for academic affairs, Roger W. Heyns, 47. He succeeds Martin Meyerson, acting chancellor for the past seven months, who returns to his permanent job as dean of Berkeley's College of Environmental Design...
...dealing with young people, though not so wild a dreamer that he will go off into orbit with them," says Mrs. Norman ("Buff") Chandler. "He's a man who wants to be working in the tomorrow of education," adds Financier Norton Simon, "and tomorrow is already here at Berkeley." Faculty members are impressed by Heyns's demonstrated emphasis on teaching at Michigan, consider him as open to new ideas as was Meyerson...
Making a dryly witty press-conference debut at Berkeley, Heyns indicated that he has no use for student demonstrations-but does have quiet sympathy for student problems. He called the riots "frankly, a very uncongenial way for a university to conduct itself," adding: "The academic man moves more quietly, motivated by reason and the spirit of inquiry. Civil disobedience is really a breach of academic manners." But in an interview at Michigan he also noted: "If procedures and mechanisms for adjusting grievances aren't trusted by students and faculty, we have to improve them. If student groups feel that...
...lectures-and even ask questions in class. He can borrow a friend's registration card, get free medical treatment, attend free movies. He can sun himself near the union fountain, lunch on cheap sandwiches and pie at the outdoor Terrace, bang on bongo drums on the Lower Plaza. "Berkeley is one of the best places I know of to drop out of the system and yet survive," says Dr. David H. Powelson, director of the campus psychiatric clinic...