Word: berkeley
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Purifying the university will not purify the society. The potential payoffs of changes secured through violence are small. The costs are high in terms of both the physical destruction of university facilities such as computers (Sir George Williams), card catalogues (Illinois), and buildings (Berkeley, etc.), and the weakening of the administrative and faculty structures which provide some degree of insulation from the antipathy of the surrounding society...
...column says that last Spring's decision to set up an Afro-American Studies department was "a hasty agreement under pressure" and "a victory for black militants more complete than was accomplished at Columbia or Berkeley, where administrators were under greater duress...
...young who have already bolted the establishment, the Metropolitan's show may represent another irrelevant exercise in self-aggrandizement for what goes in the marketplace. Peter Selz, director of Berkeley's University Art Museum, observes: "Today's young artists reject pure color paintings as establishment art. They are more interested in changing our total environment." Nonetheless, aside from the majestic scale, the frequent emptiness and the su-persimple icons of the past three decades, there is a lesson to be learned from the Met's show. It is that American artists have persistently practiced a kind...
...campus rally. A Canoga Park housewife, Mrs. Diane Steffin, finds M-day a happy outlet for the antiwar feelings she has had since 1965. "Until now," she says, "there didn't seem to be any way short of going to college and joining in a riot." In Northern California, Berkeley emerged as the biggest center of protest; however, groups other than the familiar hot-eyed types long associated with campus unrest became involved this time. An organiza tional meeting last week on campus turned out a preponderance of "dormies" and "Greeks" not normally on the side of activism. Late last...
...Berkeley, California, many Morator-ium events were rained out. But a crowd of 5,000 gathered in front of the main entrance to the university to pass out pamphlets urging students not to attend classes. Class attendance was down by 60 percent according to the Berkeley's Daily...