University of California Berkeley - Blue and Gold Yearbook (Berkeley, CA)

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Cowell Hospital new-student physicals are required by law. If you fail to show at the appointed time, your admission to the university may be blocked. So everyone shows up an hour and a half early. A bunch of guys standing in line. White Smock tells you what room to go to. No. nol Not that room, that room He absently waves one of his little arrows in an obscure direction. Looks like a locker room. Some guys taking off their clothes. Others putting somebody ' s on. Someone says you ' d better keep your valuables with you. You do. Hallway lined with chairs. Lots of guys sitting around in their shorts. Nurses wandering up and down the halls. Some guys are embarrassed. Most are indifferent. Urine sample. Carry the little bottle gingerly down the hall. Around a corner. Another room, and another until you reach the end of your rope, and their rooms.

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Live at home or move out and support yourself. Ultimatums don ' t sustain love. So I spend three hours a day jostling back and forth to Oakland on a bus. It ' s probably less hassle than trying to park near campus, if I had a car . . . . '

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A Pre-Enrollment Bleary-eyed. I stagger out of bed - my mind stabbed to life by a raucous bell. Pavlov missed a bet. Cold air... misty halucinations puff before me. 126 Barrows, gotta get there. Ah. Barrows the door swings open, and. . . Hot muggy air rises from torpid bodies. A jammed sweaty quagmire of flesh and soggy computer cards. Words bubble to the surface ... mumbled threats of conjured senior status. I enter, and I am swallowed. Hours later I emerge -- thoroughly digested ... I need a place, alone, to nurse my soul. I 10