Word: berkeleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whisking westward next day, Mme. Nhu stopped off for a talk in Phoenix and then waded into Pat Brown's excitable California for appearances in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Berkeley. This week she concludes her 21-day grand tour...
...Grades are your means of getting into graduate school; your means of keeping your parents happy; your means of avoiding the Army," says a student publication at the University of California at Berkeley. But, it adds with splendid candor: "Do not give the professor reason to suppose that your interest is in the grade. You must always act like an interested intellectual, no matter what your motive." Here speaks an authentic voice of U.S. education, in contrast to the stately bromides of college presidents. It sums up the art of conning the professor for higher grades - a sick art that...
...professor will write a paper for you if you just give him a chance," says a Berkeley student tip sheet. "Take in a draft or outline, and tell him you are having trouble with it; then take his criticisms and comments to heart. This will eliminate midnight panic and at least one grade's worth of errors...
...Berkeley, Calif...
...needed sterner stuff-and recalled his days in the foundry. Joining the art faculty of the University of California at Berkeley, Voulkos and two fellow teachers organized a foundry on the junk-strewn east shore of San Francisco Bay. There he now works with huge wax blobs, which he melts and presses into thin sheets. He shapes the sheets into curvilinear planes, joins them into tormented, zigzagging giant winged forms, finally casts them in bronze and welds them into thrusting, soaring pieces of sculpture...