Word: berkeley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decade ago, Arthur Jensen discovered that fact the hard way. Jensen, then a little-known professor of educational psychology at the University of California at Berkeley, created a furor and became a target of abuse by publishing an article in the Harvard Educational Review. Its claim: based on IQ tests, whites may be naturally smarter than blacks. Now, battered but unbowed, Jensen, 56, is returning to the fray. In a book to be published in December, he concludes that the IQ tests showing blacks scoring lower than whites are fair, accurate and not-as critics suppose-skewed by culture...
...Berkeley, Calif., they voted local activists onto the school committee. In Madison, Wisc., they are actively sought out by every local pol who wants to win. But in Cambridge, student voters have never been powerful because they've never bothered to vote in city elections...
...government's announcement that it would seek dismissal of restraining orders against The Progressive magazine, located in Madison, Wis., and The California Daily, Berkeley's student-run newspaper, came one day after the full contents of a classified letter on nuclear weaponry were published by the Madison Press Connection...
...many people 30 and younger are drawn to Oriental religions that explore inner spiritual resources through meditative techniques. The Dalai Lama says he is particularly interested in meeting this "younger generation," and he plans to do some gentle evangelizing at campuses from Cambridge to Charlottesville to Ann Arbor to Berkeley. He will also visit other centers that serve America's nearly 200,000 Buddhists...
...Cambridge to divest of its holding in banks operating in South Africa. Committee members will encourage students to register for the vote this week and will canvass on behalf of the referendum right up until the local elections in November. If Cambridge approves the referendum, it will join Berkeley, Cal., which voted last spring to divest of its holdings in banks loaning to South Africa...