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JOHN H. MCWHORTER. McWhorter, an Associate Professor of Linguistics at UC-Berkeley, is also author of the bestselling Losing the Race. He is promoting his newest work, Authentically Black: Essays for the Black Silent Majority, which examines the present status of the Black American. Tuesday, Feb. 11, 7 p.m. WordsWorth Books, 30 Brattle...
...folk may have faded to the periphery of popular culture, but the small venue tucked in the alleyway between two halves of the Harvard Coop continues to bring together singer-songwriters—including two Harvard grads, David Berkeley ’99-’00 and Noam I. Weinstein...
...magazine may represent a minority opinion on the Berkeley campus, but a recent survey showed that this generation of students is more conservative than their parents were, and the Patriot is having no trouble finding an audience. "I like reading the Patriot, but I don't agree with everything they say," notes local resident Devora Liss, 21. "They have an impact because there's a very large contingent of students they're appealing...
...foreign students, the Patriot decried the decision. Its vigorous opposition helped bring national attention to the issue, setting in motion a controversy that pushed the administration to eventually reverse its decision. And when the Patriot endorsed a Republican student candidate, he won one of the 20 seats in U.C. Berkeley's student senate--exceptional for a candidate running openly as a Republican. Two more Patriot picks have since been elected to student government...
Because it carries barely any advertising and gives its 4,000-copy print run free to students, the Patriot has relied on donations from wealthy individuals and conservative foundations across the country. Its critics regard such contributions as an attempt by conservatives elsewhere to insinuate themselves into Berkeley politics. But Berkeley's leftist reputation has proved a boon to fund-raising efforts; donors view the Patriot as a beachhead of right-wing thought at a famously liberal university. "In a way, our legacy helps us," says Patriot co-founder Barnett. "People in Alabama may not necessarily be spurred to support...