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...Beta Kappa has elected this year's Junior Eight. They are Gerald B. Folland '68 of Leverett House and Salt Lake City, Utah, mathematics; Jonathan R. Grandine '68 of Eliot House and Wellesley Hills, English; Geoffrey M. Greenfield '68 of Dunster House and Beverly Hills Cal., biochemistry, David R. Haynor '68 of Lowell House and EI Cerito, Cal., mathematics; Peter Ravn-Hansen '68 of Adams House and Hillsdale, N.J., social studies; Kenneth W. Wachter '68 of Quincy House and Westfield, N.J., history and literature; Charles A. Weber '68 of Dudley House and Bethesda, Md., Far Eastern languages; and Stephen...
...example, said the Economist, no air strike can be made unless the lo cal province chief gives his approval. This may often result in delays that allow the enemy to escape. "British television viewers," said the Economist, "who are conditioned to regard the air war in Viet Nam as an unrelieved exercise in American brutality, could profitably observe this curious partnership between American pilots and Vietnamese officials...
...also an art. Some grants, argues Lewis Yablonsky, a sociology professor at California's San Fernando Valley State College, are really awards for excellence in writing. It is "a form of seduction-you must titillate them to give the money," says Barry Winograd, a grad student at Cal's Santa Barbara campus. He advises that "somewhat vague phrasing" pays off, along with a tactful reference to omissions in previous research...
...that there is rarely a niche for such freewheeling scholars in the modern, highly compartmentalized university. Berkeley Lecturer Ernest Becker, 42, who attracted overflow crowds into a 900-seat auditorium for a wide-ranging course embracing religion, anthropology and sociology, was reminded of that disturbing fact last month when Cal's anthropology department failed to rehire...
...services from other schools around the country. Although impressed by such overwhelming student support for a good teacher, Berkeley officials are reluctant to interfere with the faculty's exclusive right to select members of its staff. If no room for Becker can be found in any of Cal's departments, the university apparently has no objection to his staying on to give noncredit courses, as what one official calls "an educational consultant" to the students...