02-04-2014, 04:11 PM
We had Mario Cuomo in '85, but what I remember most was all of the "Free South Africa" sashes that folks were wearing. At one point, Cuomo acknowledged the anti-apartheid crowd and someone jumped on stage and handed him a sash. I'm pretty sure that his speech was strongly anti-Reagan, but--and I hate to sound so insensitive--I really wasn't in the mood for a social justice/political rally that day. I was just so sad that my tenure on the Farm was over, and I was overly anxious about my uncertain future.
If there's one thing people have learned in Berkeley, it's that you can't put "Cal football" and "Rose Bowl" in the same sentence. The words just don't fit. You'd be better off linking "covered wagons" with "Mars travel." (Bruce Jenkins, Cal '70, SF Chronicle, Nov. 11, 2017)