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...they showed it. At the University ofCalifornia Berkeley, 500 students--both liberaland conservative--marched on Sproul Hall onSeptember 14 to protest a university memorandumforbidding groups to offer literature on a campussidewalk. Eight were arrested after an all-nightsit-in, and other students began activelysolicting on the sidewalk in deliberate defianceof the new rules...
...force was a fatal mistake. Within afew days, 16,000 angry students and faculty hadshut down the Berkeley campus...
...Ioco parentis had given way to a newparadigm in student-administrator interactions: asformer Berkeley student Jack Weinstein said,"Don't trust anyone over...
...Mark Pertschuk, executive director of the national organization Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights, based in Berkeley, California, thinks another historical paradigm is more apt. Around the turn of the century, chewing tobacco was popular, and spittoons were commonplace in bars and restaurants. When an epidemic of tuberculosis broke out and the disease was linked to spittoons, a doctors' group that eventually became the American Lung Association campaigned to have them removed. "At the time, it was considered to be outrageous and anti-American to get rid of spittoons," says Pertschuk. "When historians look back on this ((smoking)) controversy in 25 years...
...they have the evidence. Researchers from the Institute of Human Origins (IHO) in Berkeley, California, and from Tel Aviv University in Israel report in the current issue of Nature that they have discovered a nearly intact skull from a male A. afarensis who lived about 200,000 years after Lucy -- call him Lucy's Grandson -- along with several arm bones from other males. The new fossils virtually clinch the view that A. afarensis is one species, placing it more firmly than ever at the root of the human family tree. And because the specimens are nearly a million years younger...