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...baked hills of Berkeley, you know you're part of the Establishment when you're protesting it. The spirit of speaking out and sitting in is as sacred as the bygone football heroes whose statues grace the University of California campus. Where else could you find the urgent demand WALK OUT ON THE WAR appearing in large chalk letters on the sidewalk, on cue, the morning after air strikes began? Where else would the city's fire trucks remove their American flags for fear of becoming targets for protesters? And where else would the city council mull over a resolution...
...Berkeley has been shaken up by Sept. 11 too. And while the cause of protest goes on, its effects have been wildly unpredictable. Take that council resolution, only the latest in a long line to address situations, from South Africa to Tibet, for which the city felt it needed a foreign policy. By the time it was passed, it had been watered down to a call to "break the cycle of violence" by bringing the bombing to a halt "as soon as possible." Even then, the vote was deeply divided. But diluting the resolution made no difference. Thousands of boycott...
...hardly good timing for a city with more than 3,000 mom-and-pop outfits, most of which make at least half their sales between Halloween and New Year's. The city's lumber suppliers are seeing orders rescinded by angry customers. The general manager of the Radisson Hotel Berkeley Marina said a local ROTC group canceled a dinner for 250. And some people in nearby San Francisco have decided against buying Berkeley properties...
Ronald Takaki, chair of the Ethnic Studies Department at Berkeley and one of the field’s pioneers, says the changing demographics of the nation alone should cause universities to reconsider the importance of ethnic studies...
Spence will share the prize, worth $943,000, with George A. Akerlof of the University of California at Berkeley and Joseph A. Stiglitz of Columbia University...