<p>does anyone know any weird, interesting, mesmerizing, and/or uncommon fact or event that has occurred in UC Berkeley?</p>
<p>For those upper division students,can you tell important experiences that should be passed down to this year’s and next’s freshmen so those events are never forgotten??</p>
<p>No one enforces dog leash laws… and some people act like the UC is a dog park, walking unleashed dogs in any grass plot they can find.</p>
<p>I think they tell you these things in CalSo.</p>
<p>CalSO doesnt give all the info
You can also add personal experiences</p>
<p>i really like the culture of not giving a f what other people do (in a good way). if a cross-dressing clown riding a unicycle were to ride down telegraph, most people wouldn’t think twice about it (including myself). people are also very friendly and chill…</p>
<p>Frats are really close to one another and to dorms, literally takes a couple of minutes to go from one to another, on frat row at least. It’s not “uncommon” or “mesmerizing” but it’s darn useful. ;)</p>
<p>still a struggle depending on how much booze you go in you.</p>
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<p>That is only true if you live in Unit 1 or 2 or CKC</p>
<p>still, frats are close to one another despite where you live.</p>
<p>lolumad, i can see how it’s a struggle for you already. haha</p>
<p>I’ll add a few creepy facts:</p>
<ul>
<li>There’s been several suicides off the campanile</li>
<li>The same applies to the roof at Evans Hall</li>
<li>Cory Hall has been attacked twice by the Unabomber, who was a former math professor here</li>
</ul>
<p>And a disturbing one:</p>
<ul>
<li>There’s a viral video of this person hiring a prostitute into his dorm room at U1 Putnam.</li>
</ul>
<p>Putnam porn!! It is true, we watched it in the laundry room.</p>
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<p>Actually, in Berkeley, dog who show they obey voice commands at a reasonable distance are not required to have a leash… which is why many don’t</p>
<p>why a former math prof attacks cory?</p>
<p>Current undergraduates are probably too young to know who the Unabomber is. Ted Kaczynski by most definitions was a genius. At age 24, Ted Kaczynski was the youngest person ever to become an associate professor at Berkeley (I don’t know if this is still true.) However, Kaczynski loathed industrialization, technology, and urbanization. He left his job as a math professor and started mailing letter bombs to people whose jobs related to the things he loathed.</p>
<p>Lawrence Hall
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California 92470
United States of America</p>
<p>I’ve point this out before. This is the only address in the world in which every proper noun has an element named after it.</p>
<p>Lawrencium Hall
University of Californium, Berkelium
Berkelium, Californium
United States of Americium</p>
<p>bump bump bump</p>
<p>Some stories I have heard over the years, I can’t guarantee all of them are true but here it is:</p>
<ol>
<li><p>There was someone who was referred to as the “triangle man” because he worked out so much that his body looked like a triangle.</p></li>
<li><p>The architecture building (Wurster) is one of the ugliest buildings on campus. Some say it’s so the architecture students would be inspired to one day come back and design something better.</p></li>
<li><p>The Haas school of business is one of the most prestigious business schools in the nation and one of the most attractive buildings on campus. However, before the building was built, the classes would be held in the underground basement area of several buildings on campus.</p></li>
<li><p>There used to be a student who would come on campus naked all the time. Not sure if the following part is true, but supposedly this went on for several months because while there’s a law against indecent exposure, it was a city law and did not apply to UC Berkeley since the campus was not considered part of the city. After many complaints, this was rectified so that UC Berkeley because part of the city.</p></li>
<li><p>This one’s more recent, apparently there was someone dubbed “the finger bandit” who would sneak up behind girls, finger them, and then run away. It took several months for him to be caught.</p></li>
</ol>
<p>The Finger Bandit (AKA Finger Ninja, Piedmont Pindler, etc.) was loose for a while last spring till he got got.</p>
<p>Other interesting facts:</p>
<p>The campus master plan was to have a stretch of fields east-west across campus (including Memorial Glade) that would give awesome views of the Bay, SF, Golden Gate, etc. Then Moffit was built, and they decided to go for broke and build the behemoth that is Evans Hall.</p>
<p>There used to be plenty of deuterium and other radioactive products and byproducts flowing through Strawberry Creek until some legislation changed radioactive waste procedures.</p>
<p>There’s both a Southside Asian Ghetto (that most everyone knows) and a Northside equivalent that only EECS majors seem to go to (cheaper food on Northside, better quality on Southside).</p>
<p>Older buildings on campus only have one door handle so that protestors can’t lock up buildings anymore like they did bad in the 60s.</p>
<p>Some students and other people ****ed off at the UC funding fiasco threw molotovs at the Chancellor’s house last fall.</p>
<p>Academic prestige at Berkeley flows <em>sorta</em> uphill. </p>
<p>Top of the hill: business, chemistry, engineering, math, physics, law
Bottom of the hill: psychology, Haas pavillion, university services</p>
<p>What about VLSB and Bio?</p>
<p>^ 
Those are flies in the ointment I guess…don’t get me wrong - all of Berkeley’s academics are top-notch.</p>