Word: berkeleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attempts to create a Berkeley attitude toward toward university life should receive as little attention from the Administration as it has from the students. We have shown repeatedly that we are not interested in chasing the chimera of "student government." Sincerely yours, MICHAEL R. MERZ...
...started when David Hahn, a former M.I.T. student, and Ronald R. Riepen, a student at the Law School, realized Boston was well behind the rest of the nation in high-quality discotheques. Their answer is the new "psychedelic discotheque" at 53 Berkeley St. Rather than attract a spectator crowd of teenie boppers, they have tried to "encourage an atmsophere of sophisticated participation...
Lost His Cool. The truth of the matter was that neither politics nor any supposed anti-intellectual hostility on the part of the regents was the cause of the firing. In his eight years as president and six as Berkeley chancellor, well-meaning Clark Kerr had unquestionably done much for the university. He shaped California's master plan for higher education. During his tenure, student population nearly doubled (to 87,000), and Cal rose in quality to the very top rank of American institutes of higher learning. Yet when the acid test of his executive talent came, during...
...students, prospective faculty, and to donors, both private and corporate. It has to project an image which will attract the best of all three. The University of Chicago does not have as much pure prestige as some of the Ivy League universities. Nor is it as way out as Berkeley. Being Midwestern, it is probably in the middle, and is trying hard to establish its own identity. Three factors will probably determine the outcome of this identity crisis -- the university's educational reputation, its Chicago neighborhood, and financial needs...
...rank high, but none have an assured position in first place. Chicago can proudly claim 27 Nobel Prize winners in some form of affiliation, including its current President, George W. Beadle. But the university just does not have the confident prestige of a Harvard or Yale, even Columbia or Berkeley...