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...affairs. Kinsey's figure for infidelity, reported in 1953, was 26%, and more recent studies, including the Redbook poll, have shown little change. Others dispute Hite's allegation that 91% of divorcees initiated the split-up. Women do take the first step in the majority of divorces, according to Berkeley Psychologist Judith Wallerstein, but her own studies indicate that the proportion is closer to two-thirds...
Nonetheless, even the experts are reluctant to dismiss Hite out of hand. "It's very hard to get a representative group," says Quinley. "I wouldn't say it kills the whole thing." Berkeley Psychologist Bernard Apfelbaum, a Hite supporter, believes it is not important to get a completely representative sample when delving into the field of sex and love. By virtue of their willingness to participate in the survey, Hite's women may be unusual, he says, "but they are giving voice to a problem in ways other women cannot...
...California the Rand/UCLA Center for the Study of Soviet International Behavior was bombarded by ten applicants for each of its five openings. At Vermont's Middlebury College, almost 10% of the 1,900 undergraduates now major in Soviet studies, a program only in its third year. Says Berkeley Political Scientist Gail Lapidus: "Suddenly, it's an exciting time to be in Soviet studies...
Moscow has been quick to respond to the renewed interest. Soviet archives that have been nailed shut for decades are suddenly springing open. Jonathan Sanders, assistant director of the Harriman Institute, was recently supplied with hundreds of previously unpublished photos for a book in progress. A Berkeley graduate student, Stephen Kotkin, was permitted not only to visit the remote steelmaking city of Magnitogorsk last summer but also to write three separate columns on his observations for a local Soviet newspaper. In the most striking development of the new academic glasnost, Olin Robison, president of Middlebury, announced in September that...
...faculty can have some very substantial divisions on philosophical issues for a long time and still continue to do its thing in the classroom," said Jesse Choper, dean of the Law School at the University of California at Berkeley...