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Since Harvard and M.I.T. merged their centers for urban studies in 1959 at the suggestion of the Ford Foundation, and Martin Meyerson, now Acting Chancellor of the University of California at Berkeley, became director of the new Joint Center, "we have been building up intellectual capital," Wilson explains. "Now I think we are ready for something more...
...movement at the University of California degenerated into a naughty-naughty display of obscene words in March, it has fallen into impotent fragments. Last week Mario Savio, the protest leader who got so much attention that he quit his studies to protest full time, mounted his customary podium on Berkeley's Sproul Hall steps to tell 3,000 students that he was quitting as leader of the Free Speech Movement...
...Berkeley crisis and its myriad interpretations-and misinterpretations-were certain to linger long and spread far. Last week the Student Association at the University of Strathclyde in Scotland voted 72 to 66 to disassociate itself from Strathclyde's plan to award an honorary degree to Cal's President Clark Kerr. The students protested his "illiberal views over the rights of the students of the University of California to organize themselves on the campus." The Glasgow students had it all wrong. If anything, Kerr had handled the student rebellion too gingerly...
...Only Berkeley sent more volunteers than Harvard on last summer's COFO project in Mississippi. At present, however, it appears that very few Harvard students will be working in the South this summer. This is not because enthusiasm for civil rights has fallen off appreciably here but because of the decision, and indecisiveness, of the civil rights groups themselves both nationally and on campus...
Henry Rosovsky, an authority on Japanese economics, will join the Harvard Faculty in July as a professor of Economics. He is currently professor of Economics and History at the University of California at Berkeley...