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...Achieving departmental status made a big difference for students to sort of have a sense that women's studies was a legitimate area of study," says Evelyn N. Glenn, chair of the University of California at Berkeley's department...
...number of majors at Berkeley increased by 50 percent after the university bestowed departmental status on the Women's Studies major, Glenn says...
...members of Washington's impoverished Anacostia neighborhood, an area pioneered by slaves working farms they had bought in secret, and so long benighted that some areas lacked electricity in the 1930s. The amateurs are not stereotypical victims or lowlifes: while some come from straitened circumstances, one is a Berkeley-educated attorney, others are students at a selective high school for the performing arts, and one is a former seminarian who does managerial tasks at his church. All were recruited in the isolated ghetto across the Potomac, the "east of river community...
...total gun ban; the American Medical Association wants to ban hollow-point bullets and raise taxes on gun sales. "Surgeons have been removing bullets since the invention of gunpowder," observes Franklin Zimring, a professor of law and director of the Earl Warren Legal Institute at the University of California, Berkeley, "but this is the first time you find a professional constituency like that involved in changing policy toward guns...
Before assuming his current post at Santa Barbara, Evans was a professor at the University of California, Berkeley...