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...Berkeley Ph.D. has now learned of such things as the CUE Guide and has come to understand the nuances of attracting shoppers. “Sexier course titles!” proclaims the professor in his New Zealand accent...
...Harvard men’s water polo team finished its weekend series in California with a 3-2 record. The Crimson (11-4) began with a victory over Santa Clara Friday night and went on to finish 13th at the NorCal Tournament held at Berkeley...
...time when Israeli tanks have repeatedly rolled into the West Bank in response to terrorist bombings, a new kind of pro-Palestinian college activism is spreading. Guerrilla theater is one of the tactics. At the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Michigan and the University of California, Berkeley, students dressed like Israeli soldiers have set up mock checkpoints on campus to "harass" students playing Palestinians. But the chief focus of anti-Israel feeling is the divestment campaign, which has been gaining momentum--and opponents. Petitions for divestment have circulated at more than 50 campuses, including Tufts and Cornell...
...Activists claim that Harvard has more than $600 million invested in companies that have interests in Israel.) Some of the divestment activists come from the anti-globalism movement or from campus groups for Muslim students. A few of the groups, like those at the University of Michigan and U.C. Berkeley, take pains to point out that they have Jewish students among their supporters...
...movement thus far has pressed up against a question that didn't complicate the fight against apartheid: At what point does opposition to Israeli policy slide into the mud fields of old-fashioned anti-Semitism? At U.C. Berkeley on the first night of Passover, someone threw a cinder block through the glass door of the campus Hillel center for Jewish students and spray painted the words F--- JEWS on the wall. Around the same time, Jewish students were assaulted on their way to or from campus. Though there's no evidence to suggest a link, the divestment campaign turned into...