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...California to visit relatives and visit several schools, including the University of California at Berkeley, where he was considering pursuing graduate studies...
...education, good citizenship. At the college level, the ambiguities become more complex. Should a morally objectionable person be allowed to teach? (Not Timothy Leary, said Harvard.) Should a morally objectionable doctrine be permitted? (Not Arthur Jensen's claims of racial differences in intelligence, said student protesters at Berkeley...
Charles Muscatine, a professor of English at Berkeley and member of a committee that is analyzing liberal arts curriculums for the Association of American Colleges, is even harsher. He calls today's educational programs "a marvelous convenience for a mediocre society." The key goal of education, says Muscatine, should be "informed decision making that recognizes there is a moral and ethical component to life." Instead, he says, most universities are "propagating the dangerous myth that technical skills are more important than ethical reasoning...
White said he believes that Podryhula "demonstrated a serious lack of control and judgment" in the incident of October 22, 1979. At about 3 a.m. on that date, Podryhula stopped a Black Yale student entering the Berkeley College gate and asked to see his identification...
...also be greater than that of any other state." In the past ten years Hawaii has channeled an astonishing $65 million into researching and developing such alternative energy sources as solar, wind and geothermal power, and making them commercially competitive with oil. A 1981 study by the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory for the U.S. Department of Energy predicted that by the year 2005, the state could be producing 90% of its electricity through renewable resources that are also abundant, environmentally benign and safe from foreign political vicissitudes...