This week UC Berkeley opened the $46 million C.V. Starr East Asian Library. Its vast collection includes: Ancient Chinese oracle bones inscribed with pictographs that evolved into Chinese writing. Thousand-year-old Chinese books printed by woodblock, centuries before Gutenberg. More than two thousand historic Japanese maps said to be the most comprehensive outside of Japan. An [...]
Stories in Colleges/universities:
Tough month for academic freedom
“The best that can be said about the University of California’s leaders,” says Peter Scheer of the California First Amendment Coalition, “is that they are neutral in their spinelessness.”
We don’t need no stinkin’ journalists… in the journalism department
From the Daily Forty-Niner student newspaper at Cal State Long Beach:
College of Liberal Arts Dean Gerry Riposa walked out of a meeting Friday morning with journalism department faculty rather than talk to students and press who were present regarding a proposed feasibility study of putting the Daily Forty-Niner online only.
“I thought I was [...]
Tough month for academic freedom
“The best that can be said about the University of California’s leaders,” says Peter Scheer of the California First Amendment Coalition, “is that they are neutral in their spinelessness.”
We don’t need no stinkin’ journalists… in the journalism department
From the Daily Forty-Niner student newspaper at Cal State Long Beach:
College of Liberal Arts Dean Gerry Riposa walked out of a meeting Friday morning with journalism department faculty rather than talk to students and press who were present regarding a proposed feasibility study of putting the Daily Forty-Niner online only.
“I thought I was [...]
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