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Some urbanologists think that a second big wave of migration to the farther suburbs is beginning already, made up of the offspring of the first wave, which began just after World War II. In one view, says Berkeley Sociologist Carl Werthman, the city is becoming "a place for all the oddballs and deviants of our society: the lower class, the ethnic minorities, the homosexuals, the artists." As a result, "the young married seldom even look at a place in the city," says Rakove. "The older suburbs are just like the city for them. They are settling way out, where...
...McCarthyism? Franklin's case arises just as new codes of professorial conduct are beginning to be developed. The radical activism of some faculty members, says Berkeley Law Professor Sanford Kadish, president of the American Association of University Professors, "seems to many of us in the profession to require that we, as professors, take cognizance of threats to academic freedom from within our ranks, as well as to deal with threats to academic freedom from the outside...
...Berkeley, Kent State and Illinois State have each recently promulgated codes laying new emphasis upon responsibility. The American Association of State Colleges and Universities has also toughened its faculty responsibility requirements, suggesting that disruptive acts are "the antitheses of academic freedom." Next week the prestigious Carnegie Commission on Higher Education will recommend that standards similar to those of the First Amendment be applied to academic freedom. Such standards protect freedom of speech, belief and association-but not conduct that violates the rights of others...
That's probably because you don't go to too many medieval banquets. The Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) is out to change all that. Founded four years ago in Berkeley, the society is dedicated to recreating the medieval era, "not as it was," as one society member puts it, "but as it should have been...
From its start in Berkeley, the society has spread across the country, so that now it has three kingdoms, with shared Levine's feeling that modern a fourth set to open soon. The Western Kingdom is centered in the San Francisco Bay area, the Middle Kingdom in the Chicago area, and the Eastern Kingdom in New York. A New Kingdom is scheduled to open within the year in Arizona...