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<p>I found this and though it was amusing. What do you guys think of it?
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<p>Go bears</p>

<p>By Mark Slee and Evan Tana
Features Columnists
Monday, November 22, 2004
last updated November 21, 2004 10:12 PM</p>

<p>This weekend, Cal dominated our football team. No big surprise. Irrelevant. This column is not about football. Spencer Porter’s got us beat when it comes to sport. He also has us beat when it comes to Friday recess.</p>

<p>Enough ballyhoo. What we’re here to say is that Stanford’s Cal-bashing is a load of nonsense. Rubbish. Malarkey. It’s more reflective of a pervasive inferiority complex than of any supposed superiority.</p>

<p>The fact is this: Berkeley is pretty much unequivocally better than Stanford. That’s a bold statement, and we’re here to make it. If anything, Berkeley does not need to “Burst any Bubbles.” They’re living in the real world, not this palm tree-laden, Sunday brunch-studded adventure of ours.</p>

<p>Let’s start by comparing each college’s college town.</p>

<p>University Avenue is littered with overpriced chic restaurants catering to yuppie 20-something-folk, no fewer than three Persian rug stores and multiple independent theaters. We like independent theaters. So we’ve bat one for three. Not bad in baseball. Bad by any Stanford grading standard.</p>

<p>Telegraph Avenue offers restaurants with the finest five-dollar plates of ethnic cuisine, record shops with sounds the likes of which your Dashboard Confe-ssional-loving emo self has never heard and homeless drug addicts, not the entrepreneur-gone-bust-in-the-dotcom-boom vagrants of Palo Alto. Something about Berkeley’s homeless reeks of legitimacy.</p>

<p>Let’s continue by comparing each institution’s academics.</p>

<p>You’re not smarter than the Berkeley crowd. Remember all that crap they feed you freshman year about how you all really deserve to be here? Wake up, kiddos. Reality: it’s all a load of bulwarky. There’s someone at Berkeley way more qualified than you, but less willing to shell out the big bucks for private school. Or they were less approved of by our admissions department.</p>

<p>Those of us that are from out of state are lucky not to have to deal with the guilt of knowing we’re paying three times as much for a less rigorous education. They actually have to do some hard work to get good non-inflated grades across the bay. They sink or swim over there. If we don’t swim, we get to sit down with our friendly advisors from the UAC for milk, cookies and a pep talk at the CoHo.</p>

<p>Anyways, onto our good point (as if we ever have such a thing). How do we psych ourselves up for Big Game? Gaieties. Now, we hate to hate on Gaieties, but how the hell is a musical theater production supposed to get people psyched up for a football game? Imagine if someone told you that Cal was organizing a sick mass ballet routine to get revved up for Big Game. What would you think? I know . . . let’s sign up for a five-unit yoga class next quarter.</p>

<p>This all begs the question: why haven’t the two of us just gotten into our bumbling brown Mercedes and skedaddled up I-880?</p>

<p>You’re right. We haven’t, and we won’t. We’re walking ironies. In fact, we can’t wait to stay here another year. As much as this place pales in comparison to Berkeley, we’d still rather be here than there. It’s kind of like belonging to a country club. You recognize that you’re an undeserving privileged youngster and that everyone else is probably a hell of a lot more genuine and interesting than you, but ****, your membership was by invitation only. Suck on that.</p>

<p>Send Mark and Evan hate mail at <a href="mailto:mcslee@stanford.edu">mcslee@stanford.edu</a> and etana@</p>

<p>stanford.edu. They are sick of only hearing how crappy their columns are in non-electronic form.</p>

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<p>two people expressing their opinion in a newspaper column doesn't make it a fact. STANFORD > CAL</p>

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<p>i think that the general concensus is that stanford>berkeley, but who cares?? if you're smart enough to get into either, you should be smart enough to know that the minute differences don't matter.</p>

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<p>Yeah i think Stanford wins</p>

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<p>Stanford's CoHo sells Boba Milk Tea, although they call it Bubble Milk Tea. And their HotWings are a pretty good mid-night snack.</p>

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<p>I think the authors were being sarcastic and trying to show the schools were pretty beyond comparison and both had strong and weak points?</p>

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<p>period.</p>

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<p>Berkeley and Stanford are both great schools, and, for in-state, it might even be more worthwhile to go to Berkeley.</p>

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<p>Touring the campuses:
2 hot stanford chicks
37 hot berkeley chicks
And yes, reproduction is what it's all about. It's always been that way.</p>

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<p>Hahahaha. I second that dwintz02.</p>

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<p>also the fact that berkeley is about 5X the size might have something to do with it. for girls, we dont gt as sweet a deal. berkeley = william hung. no thank you!</p>

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<p>well good thing stanford hopefuls look at the whole picture</p>

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<p>I'm a male...I'll dance the night away with william hung at cal.</p>

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<p>chicks, you serious? i heard cal had uglier chicks. but i dunno im from NJ.</p>

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<p>i visited both of the campuses twice and stanford chicks were ehhhh and our tour guide was so arrogant i wanted to punch her. STORYTIME! Ok so my tour group is walking along and she asks us (I forget what led up to it but it wasn't random) when Harvard was founded...and I say...1630 something and she looks straight at me and says...OH MY GOD i cant believe you guys dont know when harvard was founded i knew that in like the 6th grade! i told her that i learned how to be a proper host in the 6th grade. ok so i didn't really tell her that but i should've</p>

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<p>Wow, Stanford chicks take the cake. I was there all summer and then I went for a few visits during the fall session. Berkeley is a little...homogeneous, with all of the Asian girls. Plus Stanford's campus is gorgeous. Even the dorms. Stanford bleeds money and Berkeley ... increased tution by 30% in recent years. Stanford's financial aid is so much better than the UC's. In conclusion, most Berkeley kids were severley dissapointed to find thin envelopes from Stanford in their senior h/s year.</p>

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<p>actually my HS's demographic is astonishingly similar to berkeleys, with around 45% asians. ive grown accustomed to asian chicks. stanfords got 25% asians, which aint a small number either.</p>

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<p>actually.. there is probably an equal amount of people who get into stanford and still go to Berkeley than we gets in and goes. I know, from the top of my head, 6 people who rejected Stanford to go to Berkeley.....</p>

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<p>Yeah, I know several people from my school who rejected Stanford to go to Berkeley or UCLA. Probably because of the cost.</p>

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<p>Berkeley rules.</p>

<p>Stanford is better, in my opinion, but there is nothing wrong with Berkeley. I'm in-state, and I know I'd have no problem paying half the tuition for the same, if not better, education.</p>