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We almost made a mess of our coffee this morning while scanning the pages of the San Francisco Chronicle.
For an instant we thought that the Chron, which has pretty solid Berkeley coverage, scored a major Berkeley scoop: “the possible conversion of Bowles Hall into an Haas executive training center”:http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/02/22/BAGFMO8PA41.DTL.
But then our momentary delirium tremens subsided, and we remembered that the Daily Cal “reported the story oh … more than a year ago”:http://www.dailycal.org/sharticle.php?id=20616 and then “followed up on it almost three months ago”:http://www.dailycal.org/sharticle.php?id=22430.
Better later than never.
While the Daily Cal took a straightforward approach to the story, the Chron creamed its jeans bigtime in talking about the all-male dorm’s fabled and notorious Bacchic exploits:
bq. “A house mother presided, ‘Bowlesmen’ ran the dorm with legendary fellowship and antics, such as dropping water bags on residents coming home from finals.”
However, the university basically gutted Bowles’ soul of debauchery back in 2005 when it banned returning residents after one too many boys will be boys incident.
Now it’s a freshmen residence, so there’s not much tradition to preserve.
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