<p>I got in the mail today two brand new DVDs, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon and The Ice Storm, from Berkeley. It came with a letter reading:</p>
<p>"Dear New Students,</p>
<p>Congratulations on your admission to Cal, and welcome to the College of Letters & Sciences!</p>
<p>We send you these DVDs as part of the On the Same Page program..."</p>
<p>Anyone else get this? Pretty cool I thought :)</p>
<p>These are sent to all L&S freshmen as part of the college's On the Same Page program. This was posted as a message on the MyBerkeleyApplication web site quite some time ago. Some seminars and events this year are tied to this, based on everyone in L&S having watched the same DVDs.</p>
<p>Not sure if anyone besides entering freshmen received them, nor if other colleges besides L&S are participating, but all L&S entering freshmen should recieve them.</p>
<p>I got this in the mail yesterday.</p>
<p>Nothing yet. . .</p>
<p>Hah, but CoE got a USB drive and a lanyard!</p>
<p>Nothing here either, but should be pretty soon.</p>
<p>transfer also, got that almost a week now...</p>
<p>i got them!!!! i watched them too!! they are good, in a strange way...</p>
<p>You guys are so lucky that you got Ang Lee. Last year, we freshman received an extremely boring book about Lincoln. </p>
<p>Sad how they didn't include Brokeback Mountain since I would say that it's one of the director's most popular works. I guess it would've been too controversial but then again The Ice Storm is about swingers.</p>
<p>Yeah, before it was books, now its DVD's?! The funny thing is, the DVD's are probably cheaper.</p>
<p>Sharing is even chea...erm, yeah.</p>
<p>i received them and im a junior transfer student</p>
<p>"The funny thing is, the DVD's are probably cheaper."</p>
<p>The Ice Storm, being a Criterion Collection release, is rather pricey. But I don't know how nice the previous books were, so you might be right.</p>
<p>"Sad how they didn't include Brokeback Mountain since I would say that it's one of the director's most popular works. I guess it would've been too controversial but then again The Ice Storm is about swingers."</p>
<p>James Schamus, a CAL grad, wrote both The Ice Storm and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. I believe he will be visiting the campus, along with Lee, next year.</p>
<p>oh what the... !!!!</p>
<p>i love those movies. and as said previously, all we got last year was a hopelessly boring book that barely sufficed as a paper weight...sigh :(</p>
<p>College of Chemistry students don't get anything then, I guess :(</p>