7.12.00 - Berkeleyan Table of Contents

Stories for 12 July 2000

•	Summertime, and the living is...hectic

•	State budget provides increase for UC

•	Economist Rabin wins prestigious fellowship for work on human behavior

•	Rabin wins for work to model people's irrational behavior

•	Fitting jobs to people

•	Presidio excavations turn up three centuries of artifacts

•	Understanding the sun's fury

•	Archaeologist's work buries the enduring myth of humans in paradise

•	Astronomy awaits the next challenge: to study the dawn of the universe

•	24-hour news through the looking glass

•	Campus proposes major changes to salary plans

•	Human Resources gets new leadership, structure

•	Professors join senior management

•	Barbara Christian, professor and pioneer of contemporary American literary feminism, dies at age 56

•	Experimental solid state physicist and former dean Walter Knight has died at the age of 80

•	Richard Newton appointed new dean of College of Engineering

•	A river runs through us

•	Summer reading list introduces freshmen to great campus writers

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		Picture of the Month: Grass Eating 101 A goat feeds on grass above the Lawrence Hall of Science as shepherd Felix Mer, silhouetted, keeps a vigilant eye on the rest of the herd. Mer lives in a mobile trailer in the hills, maintaining the animals. The goats come to campus every summer to help control overgrown brush, a fuel for wildfires in the hills. Noah Berger photo

Summertime, and the living is … hectic

They come to soak up the atmosphere, the sunshine, the wealth of academic programs, cultural diversity, international cuisine, sports camps and night life.

Summer session on the Berkeley campus is every bit as busy as the academic year. Nearly 13,000 students from around the world have filled up residence halls and packed classrooms to take advantage of about 450 courses, premiere library facilities, world-renowned research programs and the guidance of a distinguished faculty.

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