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Should a university have the right to get rid of a "grossly incompetent" teacher? Should a professor whose classroom performance does students a "disservice" be sent packing? Outside the ivory tower, few people would say no. But when the University of California, Berkeley, last year became the first school to draft rules for firing tenured teachers, some charged that this amounted to an assault on their intellectual freedom. "You'll never go broke overestimating how sensitive the tenure issue is to faculty," says Richard Chait, director of the National Center for Post-Secondary Governance and Finance at the University...
...long-standing source who has been right on every other occasion." But some editors and press monitors criticized CNN for going public with unconfirmed information. "It's a fundamental of journalism: one-source stories are bad," says Tom Goldstein, dean of the journalism school at the University of California, Berkeley. "Generally we will not go with a single source," says Timothy Russert, senior vice president of news at NBC. "Of course, every news organization makes exceptions." Asserts CNN's Ed Turner: "We double-check sources when it is humanly possible. But you also have to believe in your own journalist...
...South Africa has entered a period of transition which will be short and whose outcome will be in doubt because it can go in two different directions," says Robert M. Price, a political science scholar from the University of California at Berkeley...
...bold move that David Park, a young instructor at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco, made one day in 1949. He gathered up all his abstract-expressionist canvases and, in an act that has gone down in local legend, drove to the Berkeley city dump and destroyed them. Park had become disenchanted with abstract expressionism's strict, non-representational regimen. He wanted, as he put it, to stop producing "paintings" and start painting "pictures." Two years later, he submitted a clearly representational work, Kids on Bikes, 1950, to a competitive show -- and won, to the astonishment...
Though both Harvard and Berkeley each won the same number of rounds, Harvard members said they would have come out on top if a different scoring system had been used...