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With all the campus tours, welcome activities, and CalSO counselors crawling the campus and resident halls, we’ve decided to take a break from all the “helpful tips you need to know about Cal.” Here, instead, are a few useless facts for the Fall 2008 semester.
*UCB currently boasts over 35,000 students, which is the equivalent size of some of the United States’ smallest cities (anyone ever hear of Fort Lee, NJ?).
*55 percent of the freshmen population are female, 42 percent of freshmen identify as Asian-American, and the most common names among the freshmen are Michael and Jessica.
*Jack Bauer (”Lost24″), Dr. Christina Yang (”Grey’s Anatomy”) and Dr. Emmett Brown (”Back to the Future” trilogy) are all fictional UCB alumni.
*Our last count revealed 27 bear statues and images on and around campus. However, we lost count of unidentifiable modern art sculptures.
We at the Clog would like to wish all of you a hearty “Happy first day of the Fall 2008 semester!”
Image Source: Franco Folini under Creative Commons
CalSO [Web site]
UC-Berkeley students return to school[San Jose Mercury News]
List of University of California, Berkeley Alumni [Wikipedia]
Tags:bear statues, Fall 2008, fictional alumni, Fun facts, Student population
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Aug 27, 2008 at 3:42 pm
Fort Lee, NJ is that annoying mess of freeway intersections at the western terminus of the George Washington Bridge, so yes, I have heard of it. Driven through it many times, even. I recommend avoiding it.
Aug 27, 2008 at 5:03 pm
Another NYer says that Fort Lee is not so bad. Leave your Jersey hating in Staten Island.
And Fort Lee is really not a ‘city’. It may be technically a city, but it’s much smaller than most of the ‘towns’ and ‘boroughs’ around it.
Aug 28, 2008 at 3:02 pm
“we lost count of unidentifiable modern art sculptures” lol.
Wasn’t an ‘OC’ character a fictional UCB alumni or did that character drop-out?
35,000 students, 4 square miles, and 165,000 residence of Berkeley — it is a sardine can!
Aug 27, 2008 at 1:39 pm
Hey, my name is Kiefer Sutherland, and I play Jack Bauer on a smash-hit fast-paced TV show.
It’s called “24″!