Word: berkeleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...well, the infamous soap box orations which are a Berkeley institution are regularly atended by a distinctly "Beatnik" and semi-intellectual crowd. Several espresso cafes also serve as forums for this group...
...Berkeley is also not a melting-pot of left wing non-conformists, as many would like to imagine. The intellectuals and peace marchers are only one of these many groups; their numbers are far less significant than their noise would suggest...
...Berkeley students, many of somewhat questionable academic ability and uncertain ambitions, face from the very beginning of their college careers an implicitly hostile environment. Confronted by a splintered student body, many students are forced more deeply into whatever group affiliations they can salvage...
Another victim of the "groupiness" at Berkeley is the large colony of foreign students. Of the 2300 foreign students at Cal about 350 live in the huge International House. Despite an effort to mix them with Americans, most of the foreign students keep to their own nationality. The large block of Orientals, including 550 Chinese and Japanese citizens, is especially cohesive...
...virtually impossible to ascertain exactly how many students are involved in precisely what cliques or even more important, how many students are influenced. Cal is most certainly not of the Mid-western breed--there are no football idols and there is certainly not as much diehard campus spirit. Berkeley is sophisticated enough to avoid such conformity...