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These invaluable essays offer an insider’s perspective on three decades at a major American university during a time of political turmoil. Neil J. Smelser, who spent thirty-six years as a professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, sheds new light on a full range of the issues that dominated virtually all institutions of higher learning during the second half of the twentieth century. Smelser considers student activism—in particular the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley—political surprises, affirmative action, multiculturalism and the culture wars, and much more. As one of the leading sociologists of his generation, Smelser is uniquely qualified to convey and analyze the complexities of administrating a first-rate and very large university as it encounters a highly politicized environment.
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Michael Wright
reviewed Reflections on the University of California on February 05, 2014
Reflections on the University of California
Although I agree most of which what Professors Hanson, Heath, and Thornton had to say about the state of the classics and what needed to be done (writing for the public rather than for specialists, better focus on being undergraduate professors rather than gaining grants and sabbaticals), I did not care for their execution. I became tired of their constant baiting of classics professors that they disagreed with particularly that of Judith Hallett. Apparently after a publication, Hallett claimed she turned both Professors Hanson and Heath in as possible suspects for the Unabomber. This entire story is shown at length in Hanson's essay "Too Much Ego in Your Cosmos" and then once again in the epilogue titled "Not the Unabomber." This distracted me from the purpose of the book (to explain the danger of extinction and promote the classics). That the entire epilogue revolves around this story and is a vindication of Heath and Hanson while explaining the craziness of Hallett made me question the real motive of the book. I think this same information can be gathered elsewhere from a much less scandal-dwelling resource.
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