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Article: New UC Berkeley policy aims to keep students from harm
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- December 2, 2006
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BERKELEY -- The rockets' red glare has become a bit too bright
for University of California, Berkeley leaders.
Concerned by last summer's Hezbollah missile attacks that
threatened Berkeley archaeology students in northern Israel, the
university has suspended courses in countries subject to U.S. State
Department travel warnings. Besides Israel, the list includes
Indonesia and the Philippines.
The new policy threatens to end UC Berkeley's 21-year presence at
Tel Dor, the site of an abandoned 3,000-year-old city on Israel's
Mediterranean coast, just south of Haifa.
As many as 70 Berkeley students at a time have joined researchers
from other univer-sities at Tel Dor during the annual ...