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

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Ie and Ciolrf presents and % 3 x 10 8 Once upon a time there was a magical kingdom set in the mossy hills of an elvin fairyland. Though it wasn ' t so very big as kingdoms go, there was something about it that made enchanted youths want to cram into its great monolithic buildings and stand for hours in huge lines for no apparent reason. Fittingly, the kingdom was called Yelekreb Lac; and while the subjects weren ' t called lackeys, they were often referred to as Bears. While no one in Lac had ever seen a bear (except the stuffed one in the lunch room) they felt the need to be called something and Bear isn ' t as bad a name as it could be. One of the problems Lac faced was that it was, well . . . odd. You see, there were thousands of young healthy subjects in Lac, enormously impressive buildings, all the essays you could ever want to plagerize and a great deal of standing, staring, shouting, writing and moving around from place to place, but nobody actually lived there. Odd . It is most usual for a fairy kingdom to disappear in a cloud of Blue and Gold sparkles and reappear when the right frog is kissed, but Lac just stood there year after year, king after king. It was more than some could Bear. Despite its failings the Bears liked Lac . . . and why not fin Lac a bear could spend four years doing some pretty neat things. He could study navels, toes, money, frogs, green and purple, war, women, men and all those things he needs to grow up just like dear old, oops! I almost said Dad. Ah, the Blue and Gold! The kings never told the subjects what Blue and Gold means but after awhile the Bears figured out that Blue is a state of mind, and Gold is something that you smoke with friends. Lac was indeed a kingdom. Sad to tell, it had a veritable army of kings. There was Reagan of Regentsville, Sir Bowker of Berkeley, a bunch of chancellors connected with vice or something, and everybody who gave money to The Great White Father. It was all very confusing. The kings and the subjects went through a great deal of turmoil in Lac, all because they agreed with each other. The kings were heard to say: What we have here is a Lac of understanding, a Lac of relevance, a Lac of freedom and a Lac of individuality. The subjects said the same thing . . . sort of. While most fairy tales have a happy ending, I ' m afraid this one won ' t because, you see, the future the end is yours, and yours alone.