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Nancy Tingley, an art historian in her 40s from Woodacre, Calif., and a veteran of Berkeley politics in the '60s and '70s, joined her daughter Jessie Hock, 17, a Barnard freshman, at a Friday convocation. Hock felt "stupor and disbelief" at the attack, she says, "but I don't think declaring a war on terrorism or on any country that the government deems terrorist is the right answer. I don't have a perfect answer, but I don't think this is the right one." She and her daughter believe the country is emotionally vulnerable to politicking in the guise...
...higher learning, and the social and economic power that comes with it. Harvard, they aptly point out, is held as a symbol of American higher education to be both rallied around and railed against by thousands. They quote Clark Kerr, the legendary ex-Chancellor of the University of California-Berkeley: Somebody needs to know everything about each college and university but only about Harvard does everybody need to know something...
Members of the X-plicit Players, a Berkeley nudist group, belted the tune “Naked and Free in Berkeley” last Sunday as they headed down Telegraph Ave. for the annual Nude and Breat Freedom Parade, a tradition that’s been around 10 years...
...take control of his plane without a fight. But there is something about the similarities of these three passengers that makes the portrait of them as confederates perfectly imaginable. All three were large, athletic, decisive types. Bingham, 6 ft. 5 in., played rugby when at the University of California, Berkeley, and still played for the San Francisco Fog, a gay amateur team. Glick, 6 ft. 4 in., was a national collegiate judo champion, according to the website of the software firm for which he was a sales manager. Burnett, 6 ft. 1 in., was a former high school football player...
...supporters of more traditional approaches to affirmative action say race remains key. "You can be diverse and not have affirmative action," says Richard Black, U.C. Berkeley's associate vice chancellor for admissions and enrollment. "But the kind of diversity that you get from bringing oboe players and stamp collectors together is different...