“...I began pulling out old pictures and yearbooks from our Los Angeles high schools and UC Berkeley. Suddenly there we were, thousands of trim-haired, neatly-dressed, conservative-looking youngsters, with perky, forced smiles, encased in identical inch by inch-and-a-quarter boxes for our children to snicker at. Only they did not snicker. “Mom, this isn’t the 60s, is it?” Students1968RadicalsHippiesUc BerkeleyProtesters Book:A Time to Cast Away Stones Source: A Time to Cast Away Stones
“A study of the San Francisco Beat enclave by psychiatrist Dr. Francis Rigney in the late 1950's showed 60 percent "were so psychotic or crippled by tensions, anxiety and neurosis as to be nonfunctional in the competitive world." In contrast, the several studies released so far made of the student radicals at Berkeley show them to be stable, serious, and of above-average intelligence. The point is that the Beats had to "cop out" of the Rat Race because they couldn't perform; the New Left chooses to reject a society it could easily be successful in.” BeatsActivismLiberalismFree SpeechRadicalismUc BerkeleyFree Speech MovementFsm Author:Jack Newfield
“It isn't that information is exploding, but accessibility is. There's just about as much information this year as there was last year; it's been growing at a steady rate. It's just that now it's so much more accessible because of information technology. The consensus is that a Web crawler could get to a terabyte of publicly accesible HTML. A terabyte is about a million books. the UC Berkeley library has about 8 million books, and the Library of Congress has 20 million books.” YearsBookLastsMillionsTechnologyGrowingInformationRateLibraryCongressSteadyLast YearConsensusInformation TechnologyExplodingAccessibilityBerkeleyHtmlUc Berkeley Author:Hal Varian
“I studied music for my first two years in college. When I went to UC Berkeley, I failed the admission requirements to get into the music school there, so I studied communications and public policy, which actually were a greater engine for my career than a musical education would have been. If I had gotten into the music department at Berkeley, I'd probably be a timpanist in an orchestra right now.” IfsYearsFirstsHas BeensTwoSchoolCareersGreaterPolicyCollegeCommunicationRight NowMusicalDepartmentTwo YearsEnginesRequirementsOrchestraAdmissionPublic PolicyBerkeleyMusical EducationUc Berkeley Author:Stewart Copeland
“Oh my research. Well, I got an English Degree. And I got that degree in a certain time/at a certain place. If you add UC Berkeley + 1984 the other side of the = is "new historian" meaning that I studied with and was influenced by those who were interested in how the personal shaped the political (and literary), how science and literature might interact, and what the body got to do with it.” IfsWellsBodyMightPoliticalCertainLiteratureSidesDegreesResearchAddHistorianBerkeleyUc Berkeley Author:Laura Mullen
“My filmmaking style of remixing came out of necessity. When I was a film theory student at UC Berkeley in the early 1990s, there were no film production facilities. The only way I learned to tell stories on film was by re-cutting and splicing together celluloid of old movies, early animated films, home films, sound slug - anything I could get my hands on.” WayStoriesHomeHandsTogetherFilmSoundCuttingStyleStudentsTheoryProductionsFilmmakingFacilityAnimatedBerkeleySlugsOld MovieAnimated FilmsCelluloidUc BerkeleyFilm Production Author:Elisa Kreisinger
“When I was at the University of California at Berkeley, I went to some classes that must have had more than four hundred students in them. I almost always sat in the far back of the auditorium so I could read the newspaper. I remember that I stayed late one day to ask the professor a question, and when I got up to him, all I could think to myself was, 'So this is what the professor looks like.” ThinkingLooksRememberAsksClassFourStudentsOne DayLateHundredUniversityNewspapersCaliforniaSatProfessorsBerkeleyAuditoriumsUc Berkeley Author:Stephan Pastis
“At the very top state institutions, like UCLA, Berkeley and the University of Texas, however, the trend of downward minority enrollment remains persistent and discouraging.” StatesInstitutionsRemainsUniversityMinoritiesTrendsTexasPersistentDiscouragingBerkeleyUclaEnrollmentUniversity Of TexasUc Berkeley Author:Adam Schiff
“I was a grad student at UC Berkeley when I bought my Apple II and it suddenly because a lot more interesting than school” SchoolInterestingStudentsApplesBerkeleyGradUc Berkeley Author:Andy Hertzfeld
“I liked Berkeley tremendously, Berkeley was a very leftist campus. I came to love that city as much as I love Paris or the south of France or New York.” CitiesNew YorkSouthFranceParisCampusLeftistsBerkeleyUc Berkeley Author:Whitfield Diffie
“...60 advocates of unorthodox therapies whose credentials are given in the ACS book (above).(:) Of these 60, thirty-nine or almost two-thirds, hold...medical degrees from such universities as Harvard, Illinois, Northwestern, Yale, Dublin, Oxford, or Toronto. Two are osteopaths. 3...also hold...(PhD's)....scientific....reputable....8 others received PhD's in such fields as chemistry, physiology, bacteriology, parasitology, or medical physics, from...Yale, Johns Hopkins, UC Berkeley, Columbia, and NYU. Thus over 75%...are medical doctors or doctors of philosophy in scientific areas.” TwoBookPhilosophyAgeGivenDarkFieldsDegreesAreasDoctorsThirdsUniversityMedicalPhysicsNineTherapyThirtyChemistryHarvardDark AgesOxfordTorontoYaleColumbiaHold MeIllinoisPhysiologyHopkinsDublinCredentialsBerkeleyPhdsUnorthodoxNyuMedical DoctorNorthwesternUc Berkeley Author:Ralph W. Moss
“I went to UC Berkeley for college, and it was during the period when the whole punk movement was happening.” WholeMovementCollegePeriodsHappeningsPunkBerkeleyUc Berkeley Author:Susanna Hoffs