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...years, the University of California at Berkeley has seen some dramatic changes, according to Troy Duster, a sociology professor there...
Traditionally, consumer spending the day after Thanksgiving has been a good indicator of how successful the holiday season will be for retailers, said Jerry Berkeley, assistant manager of Discount Records...
When these stars hit the big leagues, with salaries to match their talents and egos, opportunities and temptations multiply. Says Harry Edwards, a sociology professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and a personnel adviser to two pro teams: "We are looking at an institution so influenced by images of virility, masculinity, potency and sensuousness that sex and sport have almost become synonymous...
...pressures. "Many star athletes today," he says, "are from poor backgrounds -- poor not only in a financial sense but in terms of education, emotional and social preparation for life. They do not have the wherewithal to deal with the availability of sex, the offers to satisfy almost any gratification." Berkeley's Edwards claims to know of at least seven cases in which athletes have paid off groupies who threatened to go public with phony rape or paternity charges. And as both league officials and team executives increasingly admit, at some of the places where groupies trawl, drugs and alcohol...
...long ago, I was giving Bharati Mukherjee, a writer from India who now lives in Berkeley, what I call the Ishmael Reed Oakland tour, which lately has also been given to an Australian Aborigine writer, three Czech writers and an Italian television crew, a professor of film from the University of Bologna and the French editor of an African magazine. As we rounded Lake Merritt -- an urban gem endowed with islands that attract migratory waterfowl -- she said she hadn't realized that Oakland is so beautiful. I replied that a lot of us run down this city that the rappers...