<p>C-A-L-I-FOR-NIA!</p>
<p>California!
California!
Califoooooonia!</p>
<p>(post other fun chants here)</p>
<p>The timewarp. I can't believe everyone was dancing the timewarp at CalSO now that I think back.</p>
<p>Esp. the parents when I walked out of Dwinelle a few weeks ago, wow that was so funny to see.</p>
<p>Ahh yes...I forget how it goes exactly.</p>
<p>"Jump to the left"
"Step to the right"
"Knees together"
"Now do the pelvic thrust"
"Go insane"
"Timewarp, timewarp"
*jumps around in a circle"</p>
<p>It's better with the Cal Band.</p>
<p>Oh did FPF students have a dance this year at CalSO?</p>
<p>CalSO blew. I want my money back.</p>
<p>We did have a dance although I am more the game night type of person (actually, the majority was). I was a bit dissatisfied because there were too many people and not enough games. Also, for many games, it's hard to just join in once the game starts, like Cranium.</p>
<p>Dranakin: which CalSO did you attend?</p>
<p>Oh heck yeah, finally a thread that shows some school spirit. College is not just about academics, where the hell my dorm's at, and when one should buy their books.</p>
<p>Here are some wonderful songs any True Golden Bear should add to their collection:
* Sons of California (personal favorite, you will hear me scream "Do 'Sons of California' at Big Game Rally)
* Fight for California
* Hail to California
* Stanfurd Jonah
* Cal Drinking Song</p>
<p>I'm not sure whether or not the Men's Octet or the Golden Overtones made appearances at CalSO, but you can check them out weekly on Sproul Plaza singing these and many other wonderful songs. They are usually situated right outside Sather Gate and performances last for about half an hour. If you don't attend Football Games, these weekly "concerts" will give you a quick shot of school spirit. Delicious.</p>
<p>GO ____<strong><em>!,
GO _</em></strong><strong><em>!,
GO </em></strong>_____!</p>
<p>TTG</p>
<p>CalSO rocked for me. As silly as it was, I liked the cheers and the dances. I went home with a HECK of a lot of pride in Cal, way more than I came in with. So I'm super excited now, hooray.</p>
<p>Oh, we had a little party down in Newport,
There was Harry, there was Mary, there was Grace (and me!)
Oh, we had a little party down in Newport,
And we had to carry Harry from the place.</p>
<p>Oh, we had to carry Harry to the ferry (to the ferry!)
And the ferry carried Harry to the shore (the shore!)
And the reason that we had to carry Harry to the ferry
Was that Harry couldn't carry anymore (<em>insert vomiting noise</em>).</p>
<p>For California! For California!
The hills send back the cry, we're out to do or die!
For California! For California!
We'll win the game or know the reason why (that's why!)</p>
<p>And when the game is over, we will buy a keg of booze,
And we'll drink to California 'till we wobble in our shoes.</p>
<p>So drink (tra la la)!
Drink (tra la la)!
Drink! Drank! Drunk last night,
Drunk the night before.
Gonna get drunk tonight, like I never was drunk before.
For when I'm drunk, I'm as happy as can be.
For I am a member of the Souse family.</p>
<p>Now the Souse family is the best family
That ever came over from old Germany.
There's the Highland Dutch, and the Lowland Dutch,
The Rotterdam Dutch, and the IRISH!</p>
<p>Sing glorious, victorious!
One keg of beer for the four of us!
Sing glory be to God that there are no more of us,
For one of us could drink it all alone (damn near!).
Here's to the Irish, dead drunk! The lucky stiffs......</p>
<p>They had four fifths.......</p>
<p>A keg or two......</p>
<p>Of homemade brew.....</p>
<p>Then there was grandma,
Sitting on the outhouse door,
Without her nightie...</p>
<p>Then there was grandpa,
Wishing he could get some more.
But he was eighty, singing
Don'tcha know you gotta GO BEARS!</p>
<p>~ I earnestly believe that the Cal Drinking Song is among the top 3 pieces of music of all time, arguably beating out Beethoven's Violin Concerto and Geto Boys' "Damn It Feels Good To Be A Gangster". :-D</p>
<p>so then it's up with the blue and gold, down with the red...
ttgiang don't forget Big C</p>
<p>There's a difference between having school spirit and paying $185 for being led around like kids on a damn tour. All of the presentations are only amusing if you have the sense of humor comparable to that of a 4th grader. The 'Bear Territory' thing (one where you sit in a classroom and debate) was completely pointless, especially if your group was filled with a bunch of idiots (mine). After talking to a few people, you find out how many freshmen are really ignorant about what really happens at a university. I wonder how the transfer sessions were done. Hopefully, with some level of dignity.</p>
<p>CalSO basically destroyed my school spirit. I will definitely be sitting next to 3rd-years at the Cal football games (which I'm looking forward to).</p>
<p>vicissitudes: June 12-13, I think.</p>
<p>i downloaded the cal drinking song from limewire!!! it's EXCELLENT haha, really awkward wehn u listen 2 it and ur friends look @ u funny...but hell it's cal.</p>
<p>Calso rocked, 2 words, frat party</p>
<p>Did someone say GO BEARS!!!!!???</p>
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There's a difference between having school spirit and paying $185 for being led around like kids on a damn tour. All of the presentations are only amusing if you have the sense of humor comparable to that of a 4th grader. The 'Bear Territory' thing (one where you sit in a classroom and debate) was completely pointless, especially if your group was filled with a bunch of idiots (mine).
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<p>Well, most people don't know the campus well or at all so a tour isn't exactly a bad idea. I thought some of the presentations were pretty interesting. I'm sorry that you didn't find them amusing but apparently most people at the presentations did (judging by the responses of the audience).</p>
<p>I do agree with the Bear Territory though...that was a little dumb.</p>
<p>But I still thought CalSO was great for getting to know the school and building up some school spirit. The Cal Band came in at the end which was great.</p>
<p>GO BEARS!!</p>
<p>Bear Territory is absolubtly essential. Berkeley must make it clear that it is not a school which will tolerate the perpetuation of historical discrimination. And it won't be alone. Few colleges don't have comparable programs.</p>
<p>wait, in the cal drinking song, what happened to the verse about the steward?</p>
<p>^ The bit about the steward is a spoken verse at the very beginning of the Cal Drinking Song. Since I'm in the a cappella community, I just spit out the Men's Octet version, which skips that first bit.</p>
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Bear Territory is absolubtly essential. Berkeley must make it clear that it is not a school which will tolerate the perpetuation of historical discrimination. And it won't be alone. Few colleges don't have comparable programs.
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<p>Whoa there, Bear Territory had nothing to do with discrimination. It was just more liberal rhetoric about how the 80+ black students need more "of their kind" in order to feel comfortable. Idiotic. They're saying that we can't make friends outside of our own race/ethnic background.</p>
<p>Same here, Bear Territory was irritating from my Mexican viewpoint.</p>
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Whoa there, Bear Territory had nothing to do with discrimination. It was just more liberal rhetoric about how the 80+ black students need more "of their kind" in order to feel comfortable. Idiotic.
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<p>Do you agree with this statement::</p>
<p>"Berkeley undergraduates are well known for tending to stick to their high school friends for the entire duration of their Berkeley undergraduate career."</p>
<p>If you're a realist, you'll answer "yes."</p>
<p>Well. Let me tell you that almost none of the African-American undergraduate students at Berkeley come from the same high school. That means they are at a social disadvantage the minute they step into their dormroom. Why? Because as the quote says, the vast majority of Berkeley undergraduate students, though they come from almost every part of California, come from surprisingly few high schools. To nobody's surprise, those high schools are almost universally made up of white and asian students. (The big exception are Los Angeles Unified School District high schools from which the majority of Hispanic Cal students come from.)</p>
<p>So, since African-American undergraduate students do not come to Berkeley with a large stock of friends, and the vast majority of the Berkeley undergraduate student body keeps to its non-African American friends, African-Americans students are friend-starved by default. Since that is the case, they try to get some friends. Many times, they try to do it by signing up for African American Studies classes since they correctly perceive that the vast majority of students in African American Studies are African-American. </p>
<p>And who can blame them? </p>
<p>If a young, suburban, heterosexual, Christian fundamentalist, European-American male was forced to enroll at the most liberal school in American, Reed College, wouldn't he wish he had a friend in the form of a young, suburban, heterosexual, Christian fundamentalist, European-American male to relate to?</p>
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They're saying that we can't make friends outside of our own race/ethnic background.
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<p>I don't think they're saying that at all. I think what they're saying is that people in general are usually drawn, both romantically and platonically, to people who they perceive to be like them.</p>
<p>There is no question about it. Undergraduate African-American students would feel more comfortable studying at Berkeley if the admissions office once again practiced race-based affirmative action.</p>