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

 - Class of 1987

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xt V V x K J Gee, Sally. I ' m having an absolutely dreary time deciding upon a school. All these college catalogs sound exactly alike. Oh, don ' t be such a silly goose. Betty! -Catalogs provide the prospective student with an absolute plethora of fascinating facts and amusing anecdotes. Why, certainly you can ' t mean they ' re not helping! Each catalog is written by a staff with true insight on the student ' s plight of deciding upon a school, and therefore they all strive to accurately describe the campus and impart the reader with a true sense of tp 1 legiate atmosphere there. That was quite well put. Sally. Maybe you ' re right! Of course I am. Take a look at this catalog. It describes San Diego State as being an academically challenging univer- sity with an administration receptive to student needs, along ivjt a pleasant climate and a stimulating social atmosphere. Urn, Sally, that s the same thing they said jfi the Harvard atalog . . . Maybe college catalogs are an adaptation the form let- sent out byAiblisher ' s Clearing Housex '

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It seems so. Now I really don ' t know where to turn for trustworthy information. I think I ' ll just get married instead To whom should Betty and Sally turn in this distressing situation? No, not Paul of the Diamond Center or Nancy Reagan or even Steven Matthew David. And above all, never should they put their trust in the stereotypic rumors relayed to them by Aunt Beulah in Podunk or seriously consider a cam- pus on the recommendation of Grandfather Wilbur from his attendance in the fall of ' 28. The only truth in college advertis- ing comes from the students themselves. And so it befalls every university that a hundred peculiarly slanted stories arise, with Cal being no different in this respect. Everyone has conjured up some romanticized vision of Sproul Plaza mobbed with hippies singing folk songs arm in arm in protest of some oppresive governmental plot, or the dimly lit underground clubs swirling in bizarre music and the smoke of clove cigarettes. Yet none of this gives a true pic- ture of what Cal is really like for students. Reeboks are just as common as Birkenstocks, and though there may be a girl with blue hair in your Stat lecture, there ' s also a student from

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