November 26, 1999

Ethnic-Studies Controversy Flares Anew at Berkeley

After a fractious spring full of arrests and a hunger strike, it looked as if things were finally quieting down on the ethnic-studies front at the University of California at Berkeley. But it's getting noisy again.

In May, Chancellor Robert M. Berdahl gave in to student demands and promised to fill eight tenure-track slots in the department and to cough up $100,000 for an ethnic-studies research center.

There was just one problem. Mr. Berdahl didn't

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