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...friends said, 'Berkeley, Berkeley, Berkeley,'" Tiger Dunams, a junior at Irvine, recalls of her college-choosing days. "I went there and looked at it, and it didn't seem like it was the thing for me. My friend goes to Berkeley, and she doesn't really meet people. I'm interacting with professors and graduate students, and I've met the chancellor. You can tell the faculty is really reaching out to students." Melissa Marchand says she chose Irvine over UCLA in part because 34,000-student UCLA struck her as big and impersonal. "At UCLA, a biology class could...
Irvine students say that although the education is rigorous, the atmosphere is supportive. "A lot of universities, including Berkeley, have a cutthroat attitude--I'm going to do well and I don't care about you," says Karen Fleming, a black sophomore who went to Irvine after turning down Berkeley. "This campus has more of a family feeling." Irvine students say minorities on campus pull for one another, both informally and formally, through the Irvine chapter of the California Alliance for Minority Participation, a program, funded by the National Science Foundation, for minorities in the sciences. "At Berkeley...
Coober Pedy is a small town but full of M-E-N. They'll argue all night, but God help you if you cross them. The cops aren't much use out here, and the men take justice into their own hands. Last month, a passing wannabe miner got into another man's mine and rifled a lode of opals that the owner had opened up but left unextracted. (He had taken off to the pub for a beer, committing the fatal error of letting on that he'd struck, and this was overheard by the thief.) His friends identified...
...disappointing to realize that the priorities of summer have shifted. It's not about relaxing anymore--it's about getting stuff done. Sometimes, when I'm standing on a crowded subway during rush hour or helping a particularly obnoxious customer find a book, I find myself longing for the sunny afternoons of New Hampshire, when I could sit on a boat in the middle of a lake without a cloud in the sky or a care in the world. Kevin E. Meyers '02, a Crimson editor, will be living in Winthrop House next year...
...hand, I'm an outsider, an innocent abroad, so I'm somewhat removed from the deep-seated resentment between Catholics and Protestants that drives so much of the politics in Northern Ireland. On the other hand, I'm surrounded at the consulate by people who have spent years studying the politics here, so I can talk to them and get even the thorniest of questions answered. In a very real sense, I get the best of both worlds...