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BERKELEY (pronounced as for Busby,
though named after the English philosopher-theologian George Berkeley)
is dominated by the University of California
, one of America's most famous - and infamous - universities.
Its grand buildings and thirty thousand students give off an energy
that spills south down raucous Telegraph Avenue
, where ageing hippies peddle rainbow bracelets in front of vegetarian
restaurants, music stores and pizza joints. The very name of Berkeley
conjures up images of dissent. Sproul Plaza ,
in front of the school's entranceway, Sather Gate, is where the
Free Speech Movement began, and, too, argue some historians, the
experience known as the Sixties. Among the sites of the almost-daily
pitched battles of the Sixties and early Seventies, part of the
broad campus revolt against the Vietnam War, was the now-seedy
People's Park . Things have calmed down considerably,
and now the campus prides itself on its high academic rankings
and Nobel-laureate-laden faculty. In recent years, the biggest
cause c?l?bre on campus was the plight of Naked Man, an undergraduate
who refused to wear clothing while attending class, and the attempted
shutting down of local radio station KPFA. Today's students yell
profanities and shout down Bible-thumpers on Sproul Plaza, unaware
of the irony of it all; feel free to stroll around the campus's
tree-shaded pathways and contemplate the dissent of years long
gone.
Telegraph Avenue holds most of the student hangouts,
and several excellent bookstores. Older students congregate in
Northside , popping down from their woodsy hillside
homes to partake of goodies from "Gourmet Ghetto" -
the restaurants, delis and bakeries on Shattuck Avenue. North
of here, on the hills, Tilden Regional Park has
good trails and a fine rose garden. Along the bay itself, at the
Berkeley Marina , you can rent windsurfing boards
and sailboats, or just watch the sun set behind the Golden Gate.
