He is an interesting guy to be sure. Santa Cruz is also an interesting place. I arrived via redirect from Berkeley because of too many students until my Degree opened up. I came in with the first wave of american Punk Rockers from L.A. It was funny. All the old hippie professors who stayed in university to avoid the draft and wound up avoiding life- a sentiment I am not unsympathetic to- did everything but circle their VW vans like musk oxen. It was both sad and funny to see their hypocrisy kick in as the  local 'establishment.'
First day there I'm trying to get the dorm room key out holding my old seabag and a backpack. This idiot in black beret with red star and lenin goatee got in my face telling me it was required to subscribe to THE DAILY WORKER. They had scammed several kids who thought it a campus paper! I said something profound, I think " I killed a few of your comrades during the evacuation." He freaked out, I dropped my kit, grabbed  and shoved him down the 3rd story garbage chute into the dumpster. I had the campus provost, police and a women's studies prof in my face screaming expulsion. I finally asked if the regents knew  communists were given special access ? So the revolutionary got booted off campus, women's study prof called me a male chauvinist pig and I propositioned her. Next term I moved off campus with the punkers and Jello showed up. My last hurrah was when Angela Davis, now a teacher there came to lecture. She really is a brilliant teacher if a bit bent to a left limp that sends her in sad circles of thought. She talked in my anthropology class taught by a retired episcopalian priest. She told him " that student is dangerous" He laughed and told her " Yes, he's been in the real world to long."  Santa Cruz transfer office got me into UCB asap.

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Indeed, Mr Rotten, one cannot argue against personal preference.

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