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Thursday, July 01, 2004
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Berkeley, Berklee, Berkley...
Too many Berkeley variants out there; it's hard to keep up. The trustees of the Chicago public library system, for instance, assumed that the director of North Chicago's public library, Dr. Hubert "Herb" Hamilton, had a Ph.D. from "the University of California at Berkeley," reports the Chicago Tribune. But it was actually from the missing-the-median-E University of Berkley, a - you know. (The missing-the-Y Berklee College of Music is entirely legitimate.) Berkley, like most of its brethren, is a deeply religious and patriotic institution: affiliated with The Society of God and Pantheistic Philosophy ("non-sectarian, non-dogmatic, and non-judgmental"), it signs its letters to potential students "Yours in educational freedom, brotherhood, and peace." Although not at the moment accredited, it notes that "standards change with time. In fact, thankfully and partly because of our country's heritage and Constitution (re: "freedom of choice") there are no two Universities that have the same structure, philosophies, teaching modalities or evaluation criteria. ... With the rate at which our constantly evolving social consciousness is developing we feel that eventually this situation will change." Chicago's social consciousness remains unevolved: After Berkley failed even to return the library's verification calls, they fired the guy. |