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...Academy of Sciences extended Debreu's fame far beyond such professional confines. The academy announced that it was awarding the 1983 Nobel Prize in Economics to Debreu, 62, for three decades of distinguished achievement. The French-born professor of economics and mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley, a U.S. citizen since 1975, becomes the twelfth American to win the economics prize since it was first awarded...
Officials at the University of California at Berkeley have created a new board to mediate grievances on sexual harassment, designed to provide students with an informal alternative to filing complaints directly with the administration...
Houses also host visitors from their Eli affiliates. The Botts exchange "football visits" with Master Robin Wink of Dunster's sister College, Berkeley College...
...including copies of letters between Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky, Assistant Dean of the College Marlyn M. Lewis '70 and the student victims that had been publicized in The Crimson. Other cases discussed include charges against a sociology professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where 13 students complained that the professor had fondled and propositioned them, and explicitly offered one a grade in exchange for sexual favors. Berkeley suspended the professor without pay and he ultimately resigned. The book also mentions an incident at Clark College when in 1980 an assistant professor filed harassment charges against another junior...
Many computers are used as high-tech flash cards in math and spelling. Scorning such applications, computer scientists argue that students should be "computer literate," and then argue among themselves about what that means. Berkeley Computer Educator Arthur Luehrmann, who coined the term, has defined it as "the ability to do computing and not merely to recognize, identify or be aware of alleged facts about computing." M.I.T. Professor Seymour Papert, author of the influential book Mindstorms: Children, Computers and Powerful Ideas, agrees, insisting that all children should be taught to program computers, both for the intellectual exercise...