University of California at Berkeley - The Blue and Gold Yearbook

“Chris Harper and Randy Strauss Junior and Sophomore Civil Engineering and History Paul C. Miles Senior Social Sciences Carbon Yard I found no spring thaw rakes when Stomping through the mud Its clinging to the heel This was a model of I left it there to bake Caking in the sun With nothing left but Hardwood floors for walking on When I came back around Couldn ' t find the place It was a trap that I thought No force could erase There is goes, there goes my footing with the shoe It knows, it knows its altered but not fooled These boot shaped grooves and pits Are filling up with sludge Its coursing through the yard Like tree sap, milk, and blood Lake forming up below The grizzled climbing tree I tried to cross it till I couldn ' t see my knees Below, beneath the roots there is a room Decisions made Persephone and groom Night crawlers moving in Have settled down to stay I can ' t go back outside Part three of new way It sometimes fills my room With stinking flowing mess Someday I ' ll join I know I ' ll ooze in with the rest Here was, here is a candle melted down No heat left to melt the frozen ground Chorus: It ' s only what it seems It ' s only when you saw It ' s only filled with weeds It ' s only the carbon yard There is a new restaurant on Shattuck Avenue called the " King Dong. " For some reason, I hope they don ' t serve foot long hot dogs. When I first came to Cal, I saw a long line coming out of Sproul Hall. I asked a girl what the line was for, and she told me that it was the line you had to stand in, in order to qualify for some other line down the hall. There has never been a famous pro- fessor in the U.C. system whose last name was Hall. This is because the Regents don ' t want to appear foolish when they have to name a building after him. Student athletes and foreign students have similar problems with the English lanuage. They can ' t read or write very I. One group uses a variety of ac- Potshots cents and dialects, so you have to listen very carefully in order to understand what they are trying to say. While the other group, (the foreign students) can be easily understood. What can be done about over- enrollment? Well, two years ago, the General Catalogue did not include a map of the Berkeley campus. Apparent- ly, the Regents hope that freshmen would wander around the halls aimless- ly, get discouraged, and go home. Those who stayed were sent to non-existent classes in Dwinelle Hall. Their bodies have still not been recovered. I saw an ad in the Daily Cal for the " Asian Yellow Pages. " I understand that this will follow in the tradition of other Pac Bell publications such as the " Caucasian White Pages " and the " Native American Red Pages. " If Freud were alive today, he would probably see something symbolic in the fact that our two biggest campus landmarks are the Campanile and Sather Gate. A young lady invited me to a party at here sorority, but I declined. It seems that each Saturday is their " In- traveneous Drug and Shotgun Night. " I want to come on their " Hard Liquor and Indecent Exposure Night. " I felt guilty about the fact that I haven ' t been participating in the Anti-Apartheid demonstration on campus. But I ' m uncomfortable when I am the only black student in an all- white group. Now, I don ' t feel guilty anymore. I hired a Jewish pre-law stu- dent to feel guilty for me. ”