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Though Stanford’s NCAA Self-Study was not made available to The Crimson, its rival, UC Berkeley, reports a typical overrepresentation of African-Americans in sports. In 2004-2005, 16.3 percent of Berkeley’s recruited athletes were black, as opposed to 4 percent of its student body. Likewise, academically elite Division I-AA schools such as William and Mary (14.8 percent vs. 4.5 percent) and Lehigh (13.6 percent vs. 2.9 percent) possess similar profiles...
...positive or negative effects on qi, or life energy. And that applies to airports as much as anything else. "An airport is like the front door to a country," explains Lin Yun, a Chinese-born Grandmaster of Black Sect Tantric Buddhism who founded his own Yun Lin Temple in Berkeley, California. "The proper flow of qi, and designs that bring heaven and earth closer, can affect the nation's entire well-being and economy." (Airports are especially critical for Thailand, given that tourism accounts...
...explosion, the subject of a paper that will appear in an upcoming issue of the Astrophysical Journal, took place 240 million light-years away and was, in the words of astronomer Nathan Smith of the University of California, Berkeley, a leader of the observing team, "truly monstrous." About 100 times as powerful as an ordinary supernova, it resulted from the death of a star that was probably 150 times as massive as our sun, or "as massive as a star can get," says Smith. What's more, a similarly huge and unstable star is rumbling a lot closer to Earth...
...remarks last night that “providing the best and most innovative teaching we can provide” will become a matter of competitive advantage for American universities in an increasingly globalized world. The Levenson Award memorializes Joseph R. Levenson ’41, a University of California-Berkeley professor of Chinese history who died an untimely death in a 1969 canoeing accident. His son Leo, who graduated from the College in 1983, created the award as an undergraduate as a way for students to formally award excellent teaching at Harvard. Members of the Levenson family were present...
It’s been only a few years since the group, who met as middle-schoolers in the hippie-academic community of Berkeley, Calif., started posting videos online as “The Lonely Island,” a sketch troupe specializing in “The O.C.” spoofs and parody raps. But with this summer’s release of “Hot Rod,” a big-budget comedy starring Samberg and directed by Schaffer, the group will attempt to translate their low-fi style to a larger audience and a wider...