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...panelist, University of California at Berkeley graduate Margaret Fortune, was an activist on that campus. Berkeley has an ethnic studies department...
Fortune, a recent Berkeley graduate, was the most specific. She said sits-in and other forms of protest are vital to making progress on ethnic studies...
...Activism is an essential part of ethnic studies," Fortune said. "[Berkeley] is where ethnic studies was born...
...problem: our own galaxy has stars believed to be as much as 14 billion to 16 billion years old. And it makes astronomers more than a little uncomfortable to try to explain how stars could have formed before the universe began. Says Alexei Filippenko, a University of California, Berkeley, astronomer who was on the team that made the Hubble observations: "This is fantastic stuff ... it might lead to a revolution in cosmology...
Kael was in her 40s before she became a fixture among cinephiles in Berkeley, California, where her criticism appeared in the form of program notes, radio reviews, screeds in the local film magazine. She couldn't have been further out of the loop -- the double helix, really, that embraced Hollywood movies and Manhattan media -- so she devised a piquant strategy for being heard: she would go to a movie and review the audience. Sometimes she'd review the reviewers, a tactic that led to slams on the New York Times' Bosley Crowther and epochal tussles over the auteur theory with...