On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 10:59 AM, JOANNA A. <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
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> Can anyone here write the agitational leaflet which will provoke a few
> million u.s. citizens to take to the streets to demand that NYC community
> college students be admitted, free of charge, to UC Berkeley?
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> Would that necessarily be an improvement?
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> Outside of the sciences, in terms of what an eighteen year old can
> assimilate, classes at a jr college might do just as well. My daughter is
> currently in jr. college. Not one of her classes has more than thirty
> students in it. The teachers are pretty radical. That is no longer the case
> at U.C. She is very enthusiastic about school and very intellectually alive
> -- reads widely outside of school. I think jr college has encouraged this.
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> I go to U.C. Berkeley quite often, either to use the library or to go to
> their film archive. It's actually kind of depressing. Students look
> blinkered, anxious, determined...but I have not seen a single outdoor
> speaker. I have seen no flyers about political meetings. Everyone is riding
> the tricycle of their careers.
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> This is definitely not the U.C. Berkeley I attended. Other than the status
> it confers, I wonder what the advantages would be.
>
> Joanna
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