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Part of the difficulty lies in the very definition of art. As anthropologist Margaret Conkey of the University of California, Berkeley puts it, "Many cultures don't really produce art, or even have any concept of it. They have spirits, kinship, group identity. If people from highland New Guinea looked at some of the Cro-Magnon cave art, they wouldn't see anything recognizable"-and not just because there are no woolly rhinos in New Guinea either. Today we can see almost anything as an aesthetic configuration and pull it into the eclectic orbit of late-Western "art experience"; museums...
...native New Yorker, Gewanter studied writing and literature at Madison and Berkeley. His own college projects tended towards the esoteric, including a one-act drama starring a deconstructionist who is charged with writing a bomb threat. (The gist of the excessively postmodern plot is derived from Foucault's "What is Author?" essay. It will not be airing after Married With Children anytime soon...
Kronheimer also had offers from Princeton, Berkeley, and Oxford, according to Taubes. "And he chose us, and we're very happy he did," Taubes said...
...back of you flash their lights? If the answer is yes, then Green Day is for you. If no, then here's a gift you can give to your younger relations that will make them all think you're incredibly cool. While the raucous, cathartic songs of this Berkeley-based punk band are adolescent and snotty, they're always laughing with you, not at you or are they? The best rock CD of the year...
...some students are pleasantly surprised by the liquor-free zones. Sheila Meneves, 18, is no teetotaler. But dormitory space at the University of California at Berkeley is so limited that students take what they can get. So when Meneves moved into Freeborn, a no-alcohol-allowed residence for 228 students, she expected to be bored beyond endurance. Instead, she's become a convert to the concept. "I have time to study here because there's no noise and there's no one throwing up in the hallway at all hours of the night," she says. "It's just like...