<p><a href=“http://daily.stanford.edu/tempo?page=content&id=15400&repository=0001_article[/url]”>http://daily.stanford.edu/tempo?page=content&id=15400&repository=0001_article</a></p>
<p>enjoy fellow golden bears =)</p>
<p>Why does it have ads at the bottom?</p>
<p>i'm sorry...but I could not find it on the webpage....could u tell me the headings of the article, thanks.</p>
<p>mosharma134, just try clicking the link or copy pasting it. it's a direct link, so you shouldn't really have trouble finding it.</p>
<p>that was great</p>
<p>If you read that, you should also read these</p>
<p>Just cause no one likes one-sided reports, right?</p>
<p>and also</p>
<p>It is a Stanford site, after all...</p>
<p>another reason why berkeley rocks, we care whats going on around us =P unlike those farmboys down there.........</p>
<p>Uhhhhh,
That whole article was loaded with irony and actually puts down Berkeley, or more clearly, the elitist attitude that some Berkeleyites have AS PERCEIVED BY stanford kids.</p>
<p>Check out the interpretation:</p>
<p>Quote: "If anything, Berkeley does not need to 'Burst any Bubbles.' "</p>
<p>Meaning: Double-meaning, and both can be insults. The writer suggests that Berkeley has no bubble to burst in the first place. Also, there is suggestion that Berkeley itself is a cultural bubble that doesn't need bursting, criticizing Berkeley's "radical" reputation as being out-of-step with the real world.</p>
<p>Quote: "We like independent theaters. So weve bat one for three. Not bad in baseball. Bad by any Stanford grading standard."</p>
<p>Meaning: not a coincidence that the writer alludes to Stanford's grading standard. Suggests that Stanford is more honest in looking at its students and its surroundings.</p>
<p>Compare that to</p>
<p>Quote: "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 Berkeleys homeless reeks of legitimacy."</p>
<p>Notice the absence of mentioning "theaters" which is considered a high-culture venue. The tone suggests that the surrounding area relies on low-culture activities in shops owned by businessmen who never "went bust" because they always were be losers. Also, there is the typical accusation that Berk is a college of druggies and smelly hippies. A "legitimate" assessment according to the writer.</p>
<p>Quote:Theres 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>Meaning: Obvious back-handed remark aimed at "Stanford rejects" who now go to Berkeley.</p>
<p>Quote: "They sink or swim over there (at Berkeley). If we dont 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>Meaning: Writer suggests Stanford students don't sink like Berk's do; no, Stanford students merely become discouraged. What sounds like childish coddling isn't so bad compared to drowning, something the writer thinks happens a lot at Berkeley.</p>
<p>Quote: "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 . . . lets sign up for a five-unit yoga class next quarter."</p>
<p>Meaning: Sarcastic if read in context of entire paragraph. (Sorry too much to quote)... Plus, yoga compared to a sick or deranged mass ballet...actually a funny comparison.</p>
<p>Quote: "This all begs the question: why havent the two of us just gotten into our bumbling brown Mercedes and skedaddled up I-880? </p>
<p>Youre right. We havent, and we wont. Were walking ironies."</p>
<p>Meaning: In case any readers missed the point, there it is. Walking, talking, and writing ironies.</p>
<p>Anyone think they were actually praising Cal?</p>
<p>btw, I'm a Cal Berkeley admit and am overjoyed at the prospect of attending my first choice school.</p>
<p>oh finally someone who sees it as i do! and i thought i was stupid or seeing too much irony or something! LOL. thanks writingwell for the balls to point it out. i didnt dare. </p>
<p>im looking forward to meeting u at Cal. Go bears!!! :)</p>
<p>THe reason the guy wrote this was because Cal had just killed stanfurd in the big game and he was feeling dejected. I see some irony, but your post makes no sense. You are reading way to much into this. Let me try. "If anything, Berkeley doesn't need to burst any bubbles."
--That obviously means that bubbles have already been burst, meaning the dot.com bubble in palo alto. So palo alto sucks now that the bubble has burst.
"We like independent theaters, so we've bat one for three. Not bad for baseball, bad by any stanfurd grading policy."
--He's really saying that not only does stanfurd have a bad baseball team, but there grading standards are so inflated that nobody ever get only one of three answers wrong.
Quote: "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 Berkeleys homeless reeks of legitimacy."
--notice how he doesn't mention theaters. Hmm, yes he doesn't mention theaters...he doesn't mention elephants either...or circus clowns...or Uncle Ben's instant rice...hmm, what should we make of all of this omision? Nothing.
Quote:Theres 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.
--meaning: There is someone at Berkeley way more qualified than your typical cardinal. Notice the backhanded comment about being "less aproved" which obviously means they didn't have legacy. </p>
<p>Blah, blah, blah....we could all read whatever we want into this, but did you ever think that maybe this guy was just trying to get a rise out of his fellow students? Save the psychoanalysis for Shakespeare 117.</p>
<p>Stanford is Stanford. Need more be said?</p>
<p>Haha, only HYPS can say something like that.</p>
<p>Hmm...both you guys suck. How's that?</p>
<p>(and it's a joke, for the less comically inclined around here...)</p>
<p>Those two make Stanford look bad they come off as total prestige whores</p>
<p>"but --, your membership was by invitation only. Suck on that."</p>
<p>Ok, we all saw this already. This is like old. They posted this all over the place after the Big Game.</p>
<p>StanFUrd is full of prestige whores. I have this fellow friend who's just the biggest elitist ever. I guess he just doesn't fit in at Cal and he tells everyone to go to StanFUrd. He also says Berkeley is ghetto and southside is just horrible. He's afraid to ride BART on his own to go home and so has his parents pick him up EVERY WEEK (1 hr distance x 4 trips).</p>
<p>That said, I'm sure there are a lot of non prestige people there. I would've gone if I got in I guess.</p>
<p>Between Cal and Stanford, I'd pick Cal hands down. Not only do you get a similarly excellent faculty, you're in a more interesting town.</p>
<p>Palo Alto is nice...but...I dunno. It's not a college town to me.</p>
<p>That's not to say that I wouldn't be really flattered to get into Stanford! I never tried!</p>
<p>Too bad Gentlemanand.... -I can't say it. My hastily written analysis still made much more sense than your hokey stab at my post.</p>
<p>I suspect you think that Moby Dick is just a novel about a whale.</p>
<p>Too bad for you.</p>
<p>But keep on trolling.</p>
<p>Speaking of bubbles....</p>
<p>"we could all read whatever we want into this, but did you ever think that maybe this guy was just trying to [insert whatever text says on most basic level]?</p>
<p>It's not totally random that my interpretation actually coincides with the change of tone in the closing paragraph.</p>
<p>I guess you could read whatever you want into anything, but that would be really stupid and fruitless.</p>
<p>It has to make sense to other readers.</p>
<p>Any idiot can simply regurgitate what the article says. I go through this all the time with many Biz majors who think things can only have one meaning or they can have ANY meaning...wrong wrong wrong.</p>
<p>Writingwell, I'm an English major so yes, I have some experience in disecting words too, but you are just grasping at straws here. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. And you can skip that high and mighty tone, you'll have to excuse me for knocking some highschool kid's attempt at diging deep into some newpaper article that probably took an hour to write.</p>
<p>i feel bad for posting this now =(</p>