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Top Act Naturally: Now that the university has tighten- ed rules on campus bicycle traffic, students such as David Cook have more time to slow down and observe intriguing sights. Above Rock and Roll Music: One Bay Area band whose music has withstood the test of time is the Grateful Dead. In town for the latest concert series at the Greek, this individual has taken the time to observe the Sproul scene. Opposite Penny Lane: Life around Sproul Plaza is liveliest when the card table communities arrive at their concrete posts. Manned by student groups, this daily forum for the exchange of ideas and events usually starts around 11 a.m., reaches a peak around noon, and gradually slows with the waning afternoon sun. After 2 p.m., only the most ardent activists remain, a testimony to the never-say-die Berkeley spirit. This piece of graffiti first appeared on the wall outside Kinko ' s Copies between Bancroft and Durant as early as September, 1985. How many people have looked at this and immediately found meaning in the words? How many others have scorned it as the last epitaph of a bygone era? Considering the diversity of reaction, it is obviously a statement that evokes strong emo- tions in the hearts of many. It is for this reason that the Blue Gold year- book staff invites you to explore the university and the community of Berkeley in 1986 through the imagery of the last twenty-five years. You ' ll examine with us the attitudes, the ideals, the vogue — symbols of the turbulence, surrealism, the Mother Jonesian outlook of the ' 60 ' s, and the self-indulgence, neo-psychedelia, and pro- gressive intellectualism of the ' 80 ' s. Our history at U.C. Berkeley is a complex mixture of political, social, and cultural conflict and con- sensus. It is also a history of tradition — the tradition of change, of difference, of progress. The University of California at Berkeley is a pro- duct of technological acculturation. It is time to look at the past through the eyes of today. — Traci Gatewood and Crystal Lee On a certain day, a certain philospher with a certain disposition for dabbling, decided to dedicate some time to triviality; namely an after- noon amidst the babble-burble-banter-bicker of Sproul Plaza. But a funny thing happened on the way to the concrete. Mouth agape with disbelief (a condition often referred to as Locke-jaw) the philosopher approaches the plaza cautiously, carefully, as he always has with life itself. The old grey steps they ain ' t what they used to be, sighs the grizzled geezer. I remember Savio. I fought off the National Guard. It made me a philosopher. He sits and watches the procession of paisleyed youths on parade. Eying a young damsel in a dress who seems to resemble a flower girless, the philosopher is whisked whenceword back to the glory days of demonstrations; back to a time when Question was more than a bumper sticker.
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You Better Walk and Don ' t Look Back B. Marley The sudden presence of a rather large mohawk shakes him from his haze and he comes to dwell on present days, and the chang- ing ways: The quality of their bull-shitting has gone down. Their entertainment is better. Their hair- cuts ... well, never mind the haircuts. Never mind the haircuts. That ' s what his long-haired, coffee-housed conscious- burdened buddies used to say. But somehow long hair just doesn ' t match up with the aqua blue tinting. Thinking about coffee houses, however, sends him on that perilous journey which so many before him have taken. After all — all roads lead to Roma. The only place where pretentiousness is a virtue! he exclaims. Beside him, a woman explains to a friend that Godard is phonetically alligned with Godot, and that there must be some connection. A few feet away, he hears a young undergrad say that Beckett, no doubt, believed in a minimalist bout with life and all its absurdities. He feels so at ease among the trivialities, but when the talk turns to I.R.A. ' s, the philosopher realizes that there ' s no capital gain for eaves-dropping on the mundane, so it ' s back to the plaza — back to the basics. With misty eyes he haphazardly clutches the arm off a nervous freshman passing by ... Where is our Utopia? I dunno. Where ' s Le Conte? Feeling the Freudian futility of it all, le philosophique sits brooding over his eternal question: Whatever happened to the Sproul I used to know. I just Kan ' t understand it. He breaks into a sweat. He begins running frantically down Telegraph Avenue and Whoops! Wrong Turn! He ' s headed straight into The Yarmo Zone. Suddenly immersed in a depository of day-glo day-wear and daily minders with pretty pink binders our hero almost arrives at Point Unconsciousness. In- stead, he staggers out the door, and continues his Search For Yesterday. The philosopher meets a girl. Her name is Rhonda. Help me Rhonda. ' Won ' t you please, ' please help me, help me, help nneeee? ' Paul is dead, she says, and goes on her way. Reluctantly trudging back to reality, he comes to the discovery of Sproul ' s new life. Somewhere in between the mindless oration, the verbal constipation, and the non- participation, he comes to something like a revelation. There ' s an ambience here I ' d not noted before. An energy, if you will. I sense life here! Below A Day in the Life: A big part of one ' s college experience is learning how to procrastinate properly. As students, reading something other than homework or catching a quick nap are ideal strategies. Of course, listening to musicians on Sproul is also a time-honored method. Opposite March of the Meanies: Big Fun, located on Shattuck Avenue, showcases wild and crazy fashions for the quintessential- ly unique individual. Ramsey Lewis, always the fashion plate, shops here daily.
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