It's offiCAL........
Yesterday while standing on her grandfather's Hall of Fame plaque at USC....LAURA E. FAIRLY announced that she had made a decision and THE UNIVERSITY AT CALIFORNIA BERKELEY was her destination as well as her destiny.
It was a very strange day on the Trojan campus.
First....it was the day after a SIT-IN DEMONSTRATION had been thwarted by strong arm administrators....who decided the best way to battle students who didn't want clothes sold in the bookstore that had been made in sweat-shops around the world......was to call their mommies and daddies and threaten to cancel their football tickets. NOW THAT'S DIRTY POOL.
Second.... The freakin wind was blowing like it was Northern California. 60 mile an hour gusts of wind followed us around the campus....things were blowing off of buildings and bicycles were laying around like there had been an earthquake. It felt weird and I'm FAIRLY certain that Laura regarded it as a sign from some BEAR contingent living in the hills of Oakland.
Third......THE SPRING FOOTBALL FIELD WAS COMPLETELY DESERTED.
Granted it was only lunch time and within three hours it would be a full of beautiful USC football players, coaches and fabulous media representatives, but looking out at a spring football field without a soul to be seen....is actually a rather sad moment.....for a football fan who loves USC.
For a 17 year old girl who doesn't know who John David Booty is....the moment meant nothing, except.....a big empty field.
A BIG EMPTY FIELD VS THE BAY AREA.
IT WASN'T EVEN A CONTEST.
HOW USC EVER LET PEPPERDINE BUILD THAT CAMPUS IN MALIBU IS BEYOND ME.....BUT I'M SURE IT HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH TRYING TO GET A 100.000 PEOPLE ON PCH ON A SATURDAY DURING THE FALL....wait a sec....that happens every day during the freakin summer....
So now Laura can take her new car....shown above....and peddle off to Norther California...which by the way that hybrid car gets 40,000 miles a gallon.
There are so many personal issues involved in her decision and I'm not about to rain on her parade because she knows what she wants and want she wants is good enough for me, her mother, her sisters,her aunts and uncles and of course her father. But there are some issues that need to be addressed and EVERYBODY involved needs to sit up and take notice.
BUT TODAY THE NOTICE ONLY READS
BERKELEY BABY!
GO BEARS!
I am a bit concerned about the size of the Young Republican organization at CAl....RUMOR HAS IT AS THE LARGEST SINGLE ORGANIZATION AT THE UNIVERSITY.
WHAT'S UP WITH THAT?
Oh well...when Laura drives up in her new car....that her Dad will buy her to replace the one shown above.....she will grab their attention and teach them a thing or two about politically correct behavior.
Michael Timothy McAlevey
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All Uncle Butchie can say is, " Hoo-ahh!" Laura! people at Berkeley (first they know how to spell 'Berkeley!' There's an "e" in there somewheres. . .
Lookit. . . We don't have Santa Anna's up here. We might have shake or two -- but then "THIS IS CALIFORNIA!" Earthquake capital of planet EARTH.
Hope your experience and adventure up here is all tha it can be. Visit all the places here and there about the campus. Take walks in back of Campus -- tons of Berkeley women run in the hills for -- just the beautiful heck of it --there's a view to view for from all the way up there.
And then there's Berkeley...Freight and Salvage and "The Cheap Suits." Yoshi's and Irish Bars.
And then there's AN EDUCATION!
And then there's. . .
"Hoo-Ahh!"
Congratulations. And remember Clege is a gas and to be completely thrilled at and enjoyed.
--Butch
--BLUE & GOLD & GO BEARS! ! !
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