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...urged colleges and universities to stop keeping lists of students participating in undergraduate political organizations. The Council's new policy was a direct challenge to the House Committee on Un-American Affairs, which in the 1966 summer subpeonaed membership lists of leftwing student political groups from Stanford, Michigan, and Berkeley...
...months to go before the Republican Convention, every professed non-candidate last week was waging his noncampaign in his own noncommittal way. George Romney found his way out of the washing machine and into the ghetto. Nelson Rockefeller hummed September Song. Ronald Reagan transferred his pragmatic ire from Berkeley to the conduct of the war. And Rich ard Nixon, purring like a tabby at the cream bowl, mourned the decline of American prestige abroad...
...when Geneticist George Beadle was teaching at Caltech, University of Chicago Law Dean Edward H. Levi persuaded him to give up a life of scholarship and research to take the Chicago presidency. A few years later, when the University of California sought out Levi as chancellor at Berkeley, Beadle told Levi, then Chicago's provost: "If you want to run a university, why don't you take my place and run this one?" Levi stayed on at Chicago-and last week he was named by its trustees to succeed Beadle, who will retire next year. Levi will become...
Many of those courses deal with current social problems, often combine field experience with scholarly theory. Among 15 student-initiated areas of study offered last year at the Berkeley campus of the University of California was a course on poverty, in which students lived in an Oakland ghetto, and a class on the political and intellectual relationship between universities and the state, a topic that understandably arouses strong emotions...
...case study of the river as an example of man's relationship to his environment. Pomona College students secured an interdisciplinary seminar on "the urban quandary," while University of Pennsylvania student interest generated a series of sociology seminars on such topics as an "analysis of the Berkeley riots...