The entire UC system has been afflicted with a thirst for power for decades. Nobody teaches except TAs. All facullty member want to go the Washington, but only after securing tenure. I was chairman of a department aat UCLA from 1964 to 1970 and noticed that most dead woods would start their pointification in meetings with: "When I was in Washington...." Some spirtited younger faculty members would sometimes finish the sentence with an interrruption ".. I sold out." Henry Doug Henwood wrote: > Craven, Jim wrote: > > >Berkely has sunk so low > > A few months ago I met with a German journalist who was visiting the U.S. > to research a millennium story. The conversation turned, as it often does, > to the embarrassment that is American political discourse. He said he gave > a talk to the Berkeley poli sci department in 1989 and the assembled > faculty had just one question they were obsessed with - was Gorbachev > serious? In 1989! He was shocked speechless. > > Seems funny to me to ask how low Berkeley or any other U.S. university has > sunk. When it comes to politics, they've long been pretty low, haven't they? > > Doug
