[Farm93]

I am repeating myself, for which I apologize, but 15 or so years ago some good friends of mine went to the C.al-UCLA football game in Berkeley (it was Parents' Weekend and their son was a frosh.) They were incredulous at how much of the conversation around them focused on how much the speakers hated Stanford. This was at a C.al-UCLA game! Can you imagine being at a Stanford-U$C game and spending the game talking about the weenies?

It seems like UCB needs this rivalry to take a certain tone as an easy call to action for students and alums.

They have used that anti-Stanford thing for a few decades now.  And since they use it so consistently at every turn the people at UCB must just come to accept that everyone at UCB has a similar view.  Those that are turned off by that type of obsessive need to compare to some other entity likely do not become part of that community.  Leaving a community of like minded individuals that yearn to compare their school to Stanford.

[Farm93]

I am repeating myself, for which I apologize, but 15 or so years ago some good friends of mine went to the C.al-UCLA football game in Berkeley (it was Parents' Weekend and their son was a frosh.) They were incredulous at how much of the conversation around them focused on how much the speakers hated Stanford. This was at a C.al-UCLA game! Can you imagine being at a Stanford-U$C game and spending the game talking about the weenies?

It seems like UCB needs this rivalry to take a certain tone as an easy call to action for students and alums.

They have used that anti-Stanford thing for a few decades now.  And since they use it so consistently at every turn the people at UCB must just come to accept that everyone at UCB has a similar view.  Those that are turned off by that type of obsessive need to compare to some other entity likely do not become part of that community.  Leaving a community of like minded individuals that yearn to compare their school to Stanford.