January 14, 2000

Ethnic Studies Survives Another Round at Berkeley

By ALISON SCHNEIDER

Another round in the ugly fight over ethnic studies at the University of California at Berkeley has drawn to a close, this time without any arrests.

Last month, members of the Academic Senate defeated a resolution challenging the administration's decision to beef up the ethnic-studies department. Under an agreement reached last May, after weeks of student protests and 129 arrests, the department is promised eight tenure-track slots and a $100,000 research

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