Word: berkeleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cahn's music is just half the story of Rolf Cahn the person. He was in Berkeley when Odetta was learning to play the guitar; he was in Los Angeles and Chicago when the folk music movements there were in their infancy; and he has influenced more than any other single person the music being played and sung in the coffee houses of Boston and Cambridge...
...loss in my effort to ascertain just what Mr. Gordon's message was in his February 23 commentary on life at the University of California. Mr. Gordon gives an accurate, if superficial, factual account of college life at Berkeley. But his conclusions leave me puzzled...
...fact, the number of Berkeley students subjected to group pressures seems quite large indeed. With the California Master Plan for State Education, a grand formula for channeling less able high school graduates into the state and junior colleges, still-in its initial stages, Cal admits many students with very capricious academic ambitions and rather dubious abilities...
...survey conducted by the Berkeley Survey Research Center, only 30 percent of the entering freshmen considered the probability that they would graduate as "extremely likely." Also, about 30 per cent of the freshmen were below the top tenth of their class. It is this large block of students who become overwhelmingly concerned with their social life and they are the most susceptible to the social pressure...
Until the Master Plan transforms Berkeley into a more genuine center of academically oriented students, its size and diversity will continue to force many students to withdraw into their own cliques. For those many students caught between somewhat faint academic ambitions and intense social pressures, Berkeley will continue to be a surprisingly unrewarding and sometimes unpleasant experience