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...such as tennis, swimming and cross country. To get their hands on coveted men's basketball season tickets this year, students camped out two weeks in advance outside Maples Pavilion. And we've got the Axe the trophy given to the winner of the annual football Big Game with Berkeley...
...member of the California Academy of Sciences. At 12 he joined the Sierra Club. At 15 he discovered a member of the heather family, a Presidio manzanita, which had not been seen for 50 years. This subspecies, Ravenii, was later named for him. He did his undergraduate work at Berkeley, got his Ph.D. at UCLA and entered teaching, but not a cloister; he also developed a gift for bringing people together for worthwhile projects...
...practicing this week. When hundreds of pre-frosh students descend on campus this weekend, the one thing they will have seen at all the colleges they visit is an "a cappella jam." Harvard features a cappella performance, as does Yale, Brown, Stanford, Tufts, and University of California at Berkeley, among others. In fact, the only other constant across the board is a pre-med information session. Pre-frosh cannot help coming away with the impression that college is about two things: catchy harmonizing and organic chemistry...
...claims are undercut by campus realities: many profs shirk face-to-face, small-group instruction and dump teaching responsibilities onto graduate students. Last month the Supreme Court upheld an Ohio law that prescribes a minimum number of hours that professors at state universities must devote to teaching. Says U.C. Berkeley grad-student activist Ricardo Ochoa: "We do about 60% of the contact with undergraduates. Our working conditions are the undergraduates' learning conditions." For activists and apolitical students alike, getting professors into the classroom would be a radical cause indeed...
Wolff said that in comprison to Yale and Berkeley's doctoral programss, which are largely humanities-based, a Harvard program could build on the department's existing strength : its links to the social science . Many Afro-American studies professors hold joint appionments with other Harvard departments and Faculities...