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Some faculty members think that the burgeoning student movement is due to prosperity, not politics. One reason protests have revived, suggests Stanford Sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset, is because the economy is healthy. Agrees Berkeley Sociologist Neil J. Smelser: "Students are willing to get into a bit of trouble now because they are confident and don't feel the risk they did two or three years...
...magnifying glass on gender would set the Radcliffe Institute apart from other centers of advanced study. Neil J. Smelser, director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Palo Alto, Calif. said such a focus would provide the new school with an inherently "different character" from his school...
...magnifying glass on gender would set theRadcliffe Institute apart from other centers ofadvanced study. Neil J. Smelser director of theCenter for Advanced Study in the BehavioralSciences in Palo Alto, Calif, said such a focuswould provide the new institute with an inherently"difference character...
Attractive as it is to many students, Stanford's laid-back style is not universally admired. "They don't have a beach, but they ought to," snipes Neil Smelser, a sociologist at Berkeley, Stanford's archrival across the bay. "It's a snootsie private institution where rich white people send their kids to school." (In fact, 33.5% of the current freshman class is black, Chicano, American Indian or Asian American -- more than three times the average at other major private universities.) Even from within the Stanford community, there are those who feel that the place is perhaps a little...
...question of what Stanford really is or should be. Some observers feel that it lacks the basic sense of identity that marks the older universities of the East. "I don't know what it stands for," says the president of an elite Eastern university. Adds Berkeley's Smelser: "Stanford is an institution in search of an image. They are forever looking over their shoulders at Harvard and Berkeley...