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...last week the level of lamentation rose to a new crescendo in the wake of two incidents. First there was the jailing, for contempt of court, of University of Georgia Education Professor James A. Dinnan, 50; second there was Washington's announcement that the University of California at Berkeley risked becoming the nation's first university to lose federal contracts in a dispute over affirmative action. Under attack in Georgia, as well as California, was one of the academic world's most sacred traditions, the deep confidentiality that shrouds "peer review," the free-spirited appraisal of faculty...
...marked contrast to Dinnan's defiance and the support he got from his university, the confrontation between the University of California at Berkeley and the U.S. Department of Labor began with compliance. In 1978 Berkeley administrators allowed federal investigators to see confidential peer-review documents regarding women. But several weeks later, when Labor Department agents asked to photocopy 466 of the documents and send them to Washington as part of a permanent affirmative-action file, Berkeley balked. Once they became Government documents, administrators reasoned, the Freedom of Information Act would allow third parties to gain access to them...
...university-wide basis, Berkeley points with pride to progress in the hiring of women. The proportion of female associate professors, for example, has risen from 5.9% in 1968 to 15% in 1979. Still, some departments remain almost entirely male. Berkeley's classics department, for example, has only one female professor in a total staff of 16. To pursue its investigation of hiring practices in clas ics and four other departments, Labor's Office of Federal Contract Compliance asked for an administrative hearing to or der delivery of Berkeley's documents. But Administrative Law Judge Thomas Schneider found...
...their first year of varsity competition, the Harvard squad could ask for no finer a group of tutors. Last year, the Bruins were ranked second in the NCAAs, after losing to University of California at Berkeley in the national championship tournament...
...have it, things like bending spoons through the pure power of the mind "are rooted in the essential core of our cosmic existence." Now it seems they will be rooted also in the groves of academe. Mishlove, 34, a former radio personality who spent seven years doing research in Berkeley's individual disciplinary doctorate program, has been awarded a Ph.D. in parapsychology by the University of California at Berkeley. It is believed to be the first doctorate in parapsychology ever granted by an accredited university in the U.S. The degree has also stirred considerable campus controversy, which Mishlove describes...