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...British publication’s rankings placed American institutions in 12 of the top 20 slots. MIT came in second ahead of Cambridge University, Oxford University, and Stanford University. All those universities were ranked higher this year than last, when THES first issued its rankings. University of California, Berkeley, ranked second last year, fell four spots to number six in this year’s edition. The rankings were based on a several criteria including reviews by peer institutions and recruiters, and the percentage of international students and faculty at the institution. Two hundred universities worldwide were ranked by THES...
...sued in the latest round of litigation. The schools are: Boston University, Carnegie Mellon University, Columbia University, Drexel University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Michigan State University, New York University, Ohio State University, Princeton University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Rochester Institute of Technology, University of California at Berkeley, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, University of Pennsylvania, and University of Southern California...
...weeks ago, a simple internet post shocked me into a new way of looking at this discussion. The post, which originated with Arin Dube, a Berkeley economist who was involved in the 2001 Harvard living-wage movement, was about New Orleans. In 2001, New Orleans overwhelmingly passed a $1 minimum wage increase in a popular referendum. In a shocking bit of judicial activism, the State Supreme Court ruled that the city had no right to regulate wages. The court struck down the new wage law, dropping the wages of many of the poor city’s poorest citizens...
...Alice Waters was sent off to a party wearing a radish bracelet, strawberry necklace and lettuce-leaf skirt assembled from her parents' Victory garden. It was the beginning of a lifetime of involvement with fresh foods. Chez Panisse, the restaurant she opened in Berkeley, Calif., in 1971, ranks among the best in the country. As a chef and food activist, she "may be the most influential figure in the past 30 years of the American kitchen," says Gourmet magazine. Waters, 61, talked with TIME's BARBARA ISENBERG about why consuming and appreciating natural foods is so important...
...Globe: trashing Harvard. In the opening paragraph of Christopher Shea’s article “Secret Societies: Can the Ivy League’s Big Three live down their history of discrimination?” Shea relates an anecdote about bigoted Harvard admissions policies from Berkeley Sociologist Jerome Karabel’s new book “The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton.” In 1925, when a Harvard alumnus expressed “utter disgust” about the amount of Jews on the Harvard campus...