[PEN-L:7723] sinking, or already there?

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Craven, Jim wrote:

>Berkely has sunk so low

A few months ago I met with a German journalist who was visiting the U.S.
to research a millennium story. The conversation turned, as it often does,
to the embarrassment that is American political discourse. He said he gave
a talk to the Berkeley poli sci department in 1989 and the assembled
faculty had just one question they were obsessed with - was Gorbachev
serious? In 1989! He was shocked speechless.

Seems funny to me to ask how low Berkeley or any other U.S. university has
sunk. When it comes to politics, they've long been pretty low, haven't they?

Doug