Word: berkeleys
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Several years ago a University of California humor magazine published a map which charts the meeting place of every fraternity and sorority on the Berkeley campus. Around the "Sally tree" gather the Tri-Delts and across Dwinelle Plaza mingle the Dekes. This burlesque tour of the "ins and outs" of the Plaza was not only a surprisingly accurate joke, but an ironic comment on life at the Berkeley school...
...uninitiated Easterners the University of California at Berkeley usually glows with the promise of incessant sunshine and 17,000 tanned, wildly social collegiates. When compared to the slush of a Cambridge winter and the frequent dearth of "available" 'Cliffies, the Cal student does indeed lead a glamorous life. Yet it is the unfortunate plight of Berkeley students that intense social pressure deprives many of them of a full share of the advantages which are so glaringly available...
...prime feature of Berkeley is its size and diversity. Students from the 50 states and 97 foreign countries throng through Sather Gate every morning not only with tans but with beards, sandals, and briefcases. Combined with the academic strength of one of the country's ablest faculties are vast athletic and recreational facilities...
...Berkeley, Calif...
Most scientists believe that the solar system-sun, planets and all-condensed out of a vast nebula of gas and dust. Graduate Student Craig M. Merrihue of the University of California at Berkeley is even convinced that some of the first objects that condensed are still around and can be identified. They are "chondrules"-round, pea-sized or even smaller globules of stony material. When they happened to be embedded in meteorites, the tiny pebbles were preserved by the cold and vacuum of interplanetary space and lasted for billions of years...