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The article focuses on the social conflict between universities and students in the U.S. It mentions that students at Notre Dame College return to school in September 1966 and decided that the behavioral restrictions imposed by the school were too demeaning. Meanwhile, students at the University of Michigan have been insisting to be heard on academic policies, faculty tenure, and educational philosophy. It adds that college officials have decided to open new line of communication with students.

The article focuses on the association of the occurrence and prevalence of coronaries to culture. It notes that American men have one of the highest rates of heart diseases in the world, while Japanese men have one of the lowest rates. It notes that most medical researchers were convinced that both groups differ in dietary. Researchers from the University of California at Berkeley point out that the difference is cultural and not dietary. Their findings charge stress as a major cause of these coronaries.

The article reports on the abduction of Patty Hearst, the daughter of Randolph Hearst of the "Rolling Stone" in the U.S. It details Patty's abduction by the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) on February 4, 1975. Implications on Patty's whereabouts link her to an athletics director John V. Scott, with a sequence of events on her kidnapping. It has been examined through the items in the article implicating the connivance of the Scotts and the Harrises. However, it was concluded that Scott knew of Patty's activities and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was somehow convinced that Scott can lead them to Patty Hearst.

The article reports on the terrorist group, Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), which hit San Francisco, California, and took responsible for the two crimes in the Bay Area. It focuses on the second crime of SLA wherein they abducted Patricia Hearst, daughter of Randolph A. Hearst, chairman of board of Hearst Corp. It is said that SLA has no demands and that only Patricia, branded as the daughter of a "corporate enemy of the people," had been "served an arrest and would be executed if anyone tried to rescue her. According the law-enforcement authorities, which includes a team of FBI kidnap-case specialists, they have speculated that the abduction was the demand for the release of two men, Joseph Remiro and Russell Little, who was involved with SLA's first crime, the murder of Marcus Foster.

The article discusses the various student-proposed courses in several U.S. colleges. It says that courses which reflect various student interests include one on poverty, one on collective behavior, and one on pollution. It tells that due to student demands, Wesleyan University will offer a course on witchcraft and the occult. It adds that though some professors doubt the viability of several courses, administrators accept the proposals as indications of student interest on quality education.

The article reports on the protest in Berkeley, California. It mentions that Chancellor Roger Heyns is facing student pressures with a growing firmness, and he refuses to readmit non-student Mario Savio as a student when he broke rules against non-students distributing literature on campus. It shows that activist lit the U.S. Navy recruiters manning tables inside the Berkeley student union.

The article focuses on the performance of Chancellor Roger W. Heyns, former vice president at the University of Michigan, as the peacemaker at the University of California at Berkeley. The students in school remain calm over the draft-deferment tests due to Heyns effort, however, affected other schools like University of Wisconsin. Regent Norton Simon states that Heyns have achieved great balance between the rights of the students and the maintenance of the university traditions.

The article offers information on the 228-page report published by the faculty of the University of California at Berkeley, which examines the crisis faced by the university. The report proposes 42 changes and reforms aimed to maintain the university's ranking as the nation's best public university campus. It also suggests ways how the university can generate a rich pluralism and preserve its integrity and stability while adopting changes.

The article reports on the increasing number of college graduates who directly entered military service in the U.S armed forces. It states that corporations are reducing their employment requirements to compete with government groups such as Central Intelligence Agency and Federal Bureau of Investigation that are recruiting students. It also notes that the decrease in the number of interviewees made professional salaries to soar rapidly.

The article reports on the effects of the unauthorized use of the drug dextro-lysergic acid diethylamide-25 (LSD-25) by students in California. It states that students have been diagnosed by psychotic illnesses with hallucinations caused by non-medical use of LSD which they believe as a source of supernatural powers and an aphrodisiac. Psychiatrist Sidney Cohen explains that the danger with LSD is that it leads to ego loss or psychosis for people with paranoid tendencies distressed by problems.

The article accounts the history of law enforcement in Berkeley, California. It mentions the story of August Vollmer, a self-educated criminologist who initiated to build a police force in the city, whose rules of conduct became the bases of the code of ethics for policemen. It also cites the move of chief Addison Fording to improve the services of the policemen by requiring recruit to have at least two years experience in college and get through psychiatric examination before joining.

The article reports that University of California student Bettina Aptheker was very happy, after the U.S. Supreme Court rule that Communists do not have to register with the Government. Aptheker states that she has been a member in several years and she proposes to remain a member of the Communist Party of the United States. It notes the effort of Berkeley's new chancellor, Roger W. Heyns to take the first steps toward solutions.

The article reports the growth of demonstration trends of college students in the U.S. It highlights the different student protests in various universities in the country including the University of Kansas , the University of Washington , and the University of Chicago , which concerned college administrators about the safety of their administrations respectively. The student's active roles in demonstrations were driven with their willingness to oppose imperfections in universities.

The article reports on the imprisonment of Mario Savio, leader of the Free Speech Movement that encouraged the rioting on the campus at the University of California, for contempt of court as ruled by Municipal Court Judge Rupert Crittenden in Berkeley, California.

The article offers information on the damages caused by the riots to various establishments in the U.S. It states that when President Richard Nixon declared the mining of Haiphong harbor, student riots were organized in some imperialist institutions including stores, banks, and school buildings. It mentions that 31 merchants in Berkeley had experienced riots making 170,000 dollars of damages, while First National City Bank and chemical Bank in Manhattan were hit during riots.

The article focuses on inadequate funds of the state government for the University of California (UC). It states that California Governor Ronald Reagan disputed the approximately 58 million dollar short of the state's budget based on UC's proposal. It notes that UC has also been experiencing a major problem on employing and keeping excellent teachers. According to UC vice president Chester O. McCorkle, their salary is still behind by 5.5% as compared to Harvard and Cornell University.

The article focuses on alternative schools established by public schools in the U.S. to eliminate disorder involving black, white and other minority students in educational institutions. It says that there are 18 alternative schools for all levels in Berkeley, California, and the city is the first district to voluntarily incorporate its educational institutions through busing of white and black students. However, it notes that small alternative school units are hard to manage and more expensive.

The article presents information on Anthony Tankersley, a former graduate student from Berkeley, California, who was convicted of the terrorist bombing of a Pacific Gas & Electric Co. high-tension tower on September 1, 1968. Thereafter, Tankersley, son of a Navy officer, ran away to join the U.S. expatriate community in Canada. In February 1970, he surrendered himself to federal authorities, and is now serving a one-to five-year sentence in a California prison. Tankersley says that his first encounter with the New Left came during the Oakland Induction Center riots of 1967, when he witnessed cruelty against the demonstrators and thought it unjust. He says that after that he started seeing himself as a violent revolutionary, and was ready to take violent action.

The article presents information on some of the recently elected members of the 92nd Congress of the U.S. House of Representatives. Democratic representative from California, Ronald V. Dellum is one of the 12 African Americans elected to the House. Jack Kemp, representative from Buffalo, New York, is supporter of the U.S. president Richard Nixon. Democrat Louise Day Hicks, representative from Boston, Massachusetts, is supporter of blue-collar workers.

The article offers information on the effectiveness of the new gadget used by the police for the purpose of controlling riots. It discusses different aspects of the large-bore guns that fire five wooden plugs from a single cartridge that the police used on a rally that went berserk. The article also highlights the opinions of the police on their new non-lethal weapon.

The article highlights the four campus heads, who successfully manage student activism, in the U.S. It states that Roger W. Heyns of University of California at Berkeley maintain open communications to maintain an open position and to avoid getting in an adversary relationship with one group or another. Martin Meyerson of State University of New York at Buffalo calls a convocation of students and faculty to respond student activism.

The article presents an obituary for nuclear physicist Doctor Eugene Gardner, who died in November 1950.

The article offers information on the visit of U.S. President John F. Kennedy in California to reflect on the hopes and problems of those which have gained independence from their colonizers. According to Kennedy, the emerging nations are now more concerned with establishing their national identity for international recognition and choose freedom rather than communism. Details related to Kennedy's visit at the Vandenberg Air Force Base to inspect the U.S. missile power are also included.

The article focuses on U.S. Peace Corps boot camps, which operate on seven U.S. campuses highlighting Pennsylvania boot camp where John C. Kennedy and his family are training for two-year jobs as teachers aides in the Philippines. It states that thousands of Americans have volunteered for a seven-week cram course to help people in developing countries such as Colombia and Ghana. It adds that volunteers feel elated at the chance to help and make a difference in other people's lives.

The article focuses on the criticism for the works of psychologist Arthur Jensen due to his studies concerning the accountability of heredity to the difference of average intelligence quotient (IQ) scores between whites and blacks. It mentions that the election of Jensen as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science bring forth protest from a number of prominent professors such as anthropologist Margaret Mead. It states that Jensen believes that findings of his study in Southeastern Georgia which is said to undermine his first study in California can help to give evidence to the environmental damage in black children. However, various critics believe that the research of Jensen does not have an important share to knowledge.

The article reports on the criticism against the appointment of Rose Elizabeth Bird as the first woman member and chief justice of the Supreme Court of California. It mentions that Bird's nomination is one of the most significant acts of Governor Jerry Brown, stating among other things that the doubts have nothing to do with her sex; rather to her qualifications as a judge. Attorney General Evelle J. Younger questions Bird's lack of judicial experience and plans to run against Brown in the next year's gubernatorial election.

The article focuses on socialist educator Herbert Kohl in Berkeley, California and his stance on the American educational sytem. Accordingly, Kohl is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate from Harvard University with a degree in philosophy and mathematics and has taught sixth grade students for two years in a Harlem school while advocating his belief for alternative education. However, Kohl has learned to recognize the unconventional education without basic teaching strategies at the Center for Open Learning and Teaching but welcomes the 'back to basics' program for teaching reading, writing, and mathematics.

The article reviews the film "Solaris," starring Donatis Banionis, directed by Andrei Tarkovski.

The article offers information on the legal education in California. It says that California is the place of over 200 law schools in the U.S. in which law education is an increasing business. It also mentions that the education code in the state requires the law schools to have an asset of 50,000 dollars and should be a corporation. However, 32 law schools which have 4,350 students are operating their business without an accreditation from the American Bar Association wherein consultant John Gorfinkle reveals that 17 of those schools are working for profit. Moreover, graduates from the unaccredited law schools are not gaining because 60% of them fails the California bar exam and Van Norman University which welcomes anyone with two years in college had only seven bar passer since 1968.

The article discusses the changes that happened in the town of Butte, Montana. It mentions that there has been a lot of changes that occurred in the area, which include the disappearance of its gambling joints and whorehouses, the failure of its mining sector which boosted the economic growth of the place in the previous years and the passing out of industrial firms. It affirms that many residents in the town fled in search for employment and many of its residents became arsonist and burn their own properties for the sake of its insurance.

The article focuses on the conflict between scientists at the University of California's Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and the Soviet Union's Joint Institute for Nuclear Research on the issue of who had been the first to manufacture element no 106. It mentions that physicist Albert Ghiorso and chemist Glenn Seaborg from Lawrence Berkeley announced their synthesis of the element with the use of the Super-HILAC (heavy ion linear accelerator) particle accelerator. Meanwhile, the Soviet scientists, led by physicist Georgy N. Flerov, have announced a similar accomplishment by firing nuclei of chromium into lead.

The article discusses research conducted by Jim Baumohl and Henry Miller on the condition of young street people in the Berkeley, California. The study found out that these people are poorly educated in which 32.5 percent of them never graduated from high school and only 9.2 percent graduated in college. Researchers believe that this is due to serious family problems or limitation on psychological, intellectual abilities and barely articulated knowledge they acquired. As a result, they end up giving up or dropping out school.

The article reports on the distribution of 2 million dollars worth of food to the poor in San Francisco by the Hearst family and the Hearst Foundation, in the effort to release Patricia Hearst as demanded by her kidnapper, the Symbionese Liberation Army. California Governor Ronald Reagan had objected to the idea of the free food program as it encouraged kidnapper's lawlessness. Moreover, kidnappers have demanded additional 4 million worth of food to be distributed before the release of Hearst.