Word: berkeleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...protest leaders said they had no immediate plans for further demonstrations. They did, however, say that their organization "The ad hoc committee in Boston for Democracy in Greece" would be tied in with similar committees in New York, Chicago, and Berkeley. In the future, these groups may unite into a national committee, leaders said...
Universities faculties should organize to shift formal administrative power to themselves from boards of trustees, John Kenneth Galbraith told a Berkeley audience last night...
...dozen universities and colleges adopted a lengthy manifesto attacking the quality of American life and the direction of U.S. foreign policy. Besides S.D.S., the New Left includes other small groups, largely consisting of individuals with a surrounding cluster of followers. There is, of course, Mario Savio, of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, but his stature has faded along with the issue. The more stable heroes in the New Left's pantheon are Staughton Lynd, 38, a pacifist and professor of American history at Yale between speaking engagements, and Tom Hayden, 27, an S.D.S. founder who now heads the independent...
...army of royalists, and install an army brand of socialism. Their code name, he said, was Aspida (shield), but his most damaging statement was that their leader was none other than Papandreou's son Andreas, onetime chairman of the department of economics at the University of California at Berkeley and for a while a naturalized U.S. citizen. Andreas' ambitions, his brash style and socialist leanings make him nothing less than a political outlaw to the royalists...
...Harvard's junior faculty salaries are not quite competitive." The word quite distorts the truth: no other major American university offers men who actually hold the Ph.D. degree (regardless of rank) $7800. E.g. the minimum salary, for Ph.D.s (in all departments) at Berkeley, Wisconsin, Princeton, Stanford, and most other major universities, commences at $9000. See the AAUP Bulletin (June 1966), pp. 164-95. Further, a junior faculty member at Harvard who does not actually hold the Ph.D. (i.e. an acting instructor) earns...