Word: berkeleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...home of the University of California's main campus and of nine Nobel prizewinners, Berkeley likes to think of itself as more enlightened and sophisticated than all of those tract-house havens across the bay from San Francisco. Last January, in keeping with the community's idea of itself, the Berkeley City Council passed an exceedingly tough ordinance against discrimination in housing...
Shortly before, a citizens' committee had concluded that "discrimination within the city is widespread and general, both in the rental and sale of housing." In the last ten years, Berkeley's Negro population had increased 65%. to about 20% of the total (111,000). Most of the Negroes are confined to the west and southwest sections of the city, where two public schools are nearly all-Negro...
...writing this letter in response to an article written in the Harvard CRIMSON on February 23, 193, by a David M. Gordon on life at the University of California at Berkeley...
...Gordon also states "Berkeley students, many of somewhat questionable academic ability and uncertain ambitions,..." While we must admit that many of us when entering the University are uncertain as to our ambitions, we will not admit to being of questionable academic ability. Students are admitted to Berkeley only if they are in the top 12% of their high school graduating class. Ninety-nine per cent of these are certainly not of "questionable academic ability...
...hope that I have presented a few thoughts which may change the somewhat erroneous vie taken of Cal as presented to my Harvard friends. Jack Lacy Junior-Engineering Math University of California at Berkeley...