Word: berkeley
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...eyes of the nation, Berkeley, Calif. is the nerve center of radical social protest...
...when Berkeley activist and education scholar Pedro Noguera told the university's student newspaper he was accepting a position at Harvard in part because the venerable New England institution had a stronger commitment to diversity, more than a few jaws dropped in amazement...
...only will his Berkeley students and colleagues mourn the loss of Noguera's scholarship and activism, but his unorthodox pronouncement has set tongues wagging on both sides of the land...
Backsliding in Berkeley...
Bove has a long and colorful history as a rabble rouser. Born in Bordeaux in 1953, he spent most of his first seven years in Berkeley, where his parents studied biochemistry at the University of California. Back in France, he refused to do his military service and dropped out of Bordeaux University to immerse himself in various leftist political and ecological movements. In 1975 he and his wife decided to move to the country, take up sheep farming and join a local peasant movement against the planned extension of an army base in southern France. Arrested for "invading" the base...