Malia Obama takes college tour of UC Berkeley
http://blog.sfgate.com/matierandross/2014/06/25/malia-obama-takes-college-tour-of-uc-berkeley/UC officials are mum, but a source in the know tells us the 15-year-old — who has a summer job in L.A. working as a production assistant on a Steven Spielberg-produced sci-fi TV series — showed up for a tour of the campus without either of her parents in tow....
We hear Malia also found time to visit Stanford, which another president’s daughter, Chelsea Clinton, attended....
According to our source, “She made it clear Berkeley compared very favorably with Stanford.”
Yes, please!
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Go Cal!
It's unfortunate that she had to waste some of her visit on Stanford. She's an intelligent young woman, so I'm sure this visit has allowed Malia to see the utter inferiority of any other university she might have been considering. 
And remember, don't trust anyone over 30! 
In and after Vietnam I didn't think I'd live to see 30. Yet here we are, contributing our wisdom and our foolishness to these young pups who still won't get off our lawn.
I once stumbled onto a blog post that provides an interesting footnote about the FSM (Free Speech Movement) at Berkeley and the 'over 30' catchphrase. (The blog link no longer works and is included for source ID only.)
The line was a throw-away intended as a dismissive to a reporter who was pestering Weinberg, trying to get him to confirm false rumors that the FSM was controlled by powerful Communists. The point was that the students were running things, young people, not a bunch of old men in the Kremlin, but an SF Chronicle reporter latched onto it and ran it as an attack on the American Establishment.
Other activists, including Jerry Rubin, Paul Krassner and Abbie Hoffman among many, in turn seized on it for just that purpose, using it repeatedly because it provoked such a virulent reaction by the Powerful. In that sense, I suppose, it could reasonably be called a "Yippie" catch-phrase.
Weinberg is, last I heard, still alive and still raising hell. Thanks be to him and to the new generation of "Robert Ericksons" for having the guts to stand up in person for truth and justice.
Posted by: Graham Firchlis | Nov 16, 2009 at 10:48 PM
http://www.bluestemprairie.com/bluestemprairie/2009/11/ruthiehendrycksfail.html
Stanford's campus is a country club-like snoozefest. Cal is vibrant and exciting.
Go Bears! 
His observations of Stanford: The place is so Disneyland, so anal, there's not even one crack in all the sidewalks.
Go Bruins!
The campus was great -- but I couldn't handle LA for more than a few days!
she could well end up going a year early, as I did.
