Word: berkeley
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...women's championships at Brown, Holleran defeated Yale's Berkeley Belknap, 15-12, 15-7, 11-15, 5-15, 17-16. In the men's draw, Bernheimer crushed Cyrus Mehta...
Should a university have the right to get rid of a "grossly incompetent" teacher? Should a professor whose classroom performance does students a "disservice" be sent packing? Outside the ivory tower, few people would say no. But when the University of California, Berkeley, last year became the first school to draft rules for firing tenured teachers, some charged that this amounted to an assault on their intellectual freedom. "You'll never go broke overestimating how sensitive the tenure issue is to faculty," says Richard Chait, director of the National Center for Post-Secondary Governance and Finance at the University...
...Berkeley's action is only one sign that the once sacrosanct institution is vulnerable these days. Last month, in a 9-to-0 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court declared that a university could not refuse to open its tenure files to ) federal investigators when challenged on the grounds of race or sex discrimination. Meanwhile, some universities and politicians are questioning the whole notion of tenure, which at some schools can mean permanent employment after as little as three years on the job. A 1987 survey by the Department of Education found that during the preceding three years...
...long-standing source who has been right on every other occasion." But some editors and press monitors criticized CNN for going public with unconfirmed information. "It's a fundamental of journalism: one-source stories are bad," says Tom Goldstein, dean of the journalism school at the University of California, Berkeley. "Generally we will not go with a single source," says Timothy Russert, senior vice president of news at NBC. "Of course, every news organization makes exceptions." Asserts CNN's Ed Turner: "We double-check sources when it is humanly possible. But you also have to believe in your own journalist...
...South Africa has entered a period of transition which will be short and whose outcome will be in doubt because it can go in two different directions," says Robert M. Price, a political science scholar from the University of California at Berkeley...