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Though all these critics support desegregation, they nonetheless accuse the commission of rigging the evidence. Produced by 162 commission staffers in ten months' time, the report based its findings on four hearings (in Boston, Louisville, Denver and Tampa, Fla.), four open meetings (in Berkeley, Calif, Minneapolis, Stamford, Conn., and Corpus Christi, Texas), a mail survey of 1,300 school districts, and analyses of 29 school districts scattered across the nation. But in a memo to the eight regional directors, the commission director of field operations, Isiah T. Creswell Jr., wrote: "In the hearings, the emphasis will be more...
...statements on heredity include Layzer, Kamin, Richard C. Lewontin '50, professor of Biology and Stephan J. Gould, professor of Geology. Agreeing with Burt's conclusions, if not his data, are Richard J. Herrnstein, professor of Psychology, and Arthur Jensen, professor of educational psychology at the University of California at Berkeley...
...Hazing is clearly much less prevalent than it was during the college days of the current undergraduates' parents. One reason: whether it is outlawed or not, most students will not accept it. Says Senior Steve Taylor, president of the Zeta Psi house at the University of California at Berkeley (a position his father held 25 years ago after being branded on the arm as a pledge): "All that stuff, tubbing, paddling, branding is looked down upon today." Gary Ausman, assistant director of student services at the University of Washington, agrees: "The decline in hazing is coming from the kids...
Reich's account of his life is essentially a thin outline on which he strings the clichés of the gray flannel '50s and the youth rebellion at Berkeley and Yale. As in The Greening of America, he wafts nonsensical generalizations like dandelion seeds: "An alienated society is no less a political tyranny because the oppression is found within each individual, rather than coming from a single source such as an army or a dictator...
Macbeth. The Boston Shakespeare Company witches boil their brew. At the corner of Berkeley and Marlborough Streets in Boston, Thursday and Saturday...