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The truest test cj niE¥l NETTLE, irVUmiUCK CD I o ,- hoosing a college must be the turning point in the life of every high school sen- ior. I look back at the golden year I made my decision and wonder how on earth I chose, of all places, Berkeley. Why not Harvard? (I would had I been accepted.) Or how about Stanford? (Why pay $16,000 when I could get it for less?) What became of UCLA? (The campus was an unimpres- sionable blur the size of Texas.) Ahhh, Berkeley. Hazy memories of my first visit long ago come flooding back. The green, eroding Sather Gate. The zippy ride up the towering Cam- panile. The elegant curves of the marble steps leading to Doe Library. Perhaps best of all. . .piping hot Blondie ' s Pizza. The choice was a simple one of sheer economics — Berkeley is a bargain. In fact, little did I know as a naive freshman back in 1990 that I would be get- ting far more than I bargained for at Berkeley — in education I can ' t say, but in nearly everything else. As my parents (and now the Regents) constantly remind me that Berkeley is the cheapest school on the West Coast in exchange for quality education at a prestigious university, I ' d like to say, Wr-r-o- ong Dad! Can I have more allowance? Instead, in exchange for more than double the tuition since my first year, there have been tremen- dous cuts in basic services like the use of our undergraduate library and the reduction in must-have courses like Spanish 1 and 2 from 12 sections to a rock-bottom low of just 4 sections. I do grudgingly admit that one does get the benefit of the broad education as promised in the university bulletin and virtually every other piece of university propaganda. In reality, we ' re practically forced to take classes outside our intended studies since we aren ' t able 1 get into classes in our ma- jor until maybe the • ' y .y
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a EXCELLENCE AMIDST ADVERSITY V ' oo o U o CO UNDERGRADUATE FEES 1993-94 $4,039.00 1992-93 3,280.00 1991-92 2,678.50 1990-91 1,640.00 1989-90 1,570.00 1988-89 1,530.00 semester of our senior year. Here ' s more on education: being a college student means having the choice of going to and skipping classes at will. So, what happens when bomb threats, striking T.A. ' s, and cancelled classes make that choice for us? When we ' re deprived of our full education time, does that mean we get a partial refund? Remember that it was Cal ' s lovely architecture which was partially responsible for luring me here? Well, gone are the majestic stone steps to Doe Library and the sparkling water in campus ponds. Now, the campus looks more like the excavation site at an archeological ruin, with cranes and bulldozers converging on pathways where students can no longer tread, and endless wire fencing cordoning off the heart of campus. They ' re building the what? The day I started college was the day I finally left the sheltered world of Mommy and Daddy. At last I had entered the real world, where a greater challenge than academic competition was fighting to survive the ugliness and crime that 1 thought existed only in the movies. Living in the real world meant feeling stone cold to the plight of the homeless, staying bolted indoors on u z LU o Ll o I— LU riot nights, and shrugging off the mur- der of a neighbor with a certain survivalist apathy. It also meant the sudden interest in taking judo and taekwondo classes. Welcome to Collegetown, USA. With all these unexpected bonuses, could things get even better? Absolutely. Only in Berkeley can you get free entertainment on the side, everything from topless people, bottomless people, to noth- ing-at-all people just waiting to be noticed, and you don ' t have to spend a fortune in X-rated clubs. After the first few years have passed, most stu- dents begin to realize that the only constancy on this campus, and the only things we really live for, are the players in our own Berkeley Carnival. Take a stroll on campus and stop to hear free religious anti-religious lectures; enjoy a spell- binding act of juggling fire torches or a Houdini straight-jacket escape; listen to a certain green purple-haired man cackle away on every subject imaginable. And don ' t forget all the unexpected afternoon musical interludes — depending on your mood, you can take your pick of jazz, marimba, bucket drumming, and even soon-to-be-famous local rock bands. For only $1655.75 per semester (that ' s $22.08 per day, and rising fast) what a bar- gain! Text by Dobbio Yuan Layout by Lara Vinnard
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