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<p>S/he said relatively. Look, let’s not kid ourselves. UC Berkeley does not get nearly as much alumni donations as the top private schools does. Of course you will find alumni with school spirit and students with school spirit, but no one said that there are no loyal UC Berkeley alum or students. Of course there are some. But they are, on the average, not as loyal as say, the Harvard alumni. One or two anecdotes about spirited students doesn’t really relate to the problem. It’s like someone points out that a neighborhood has high poverty and someone else points to a wealthy person in the neighborhood. Well that’s great, but how does that help the poverty that exists? It doesn’t. Trying to detract from the fact that many Berkeley students don’t have a lot of school spirit by pointing to those who are spirited is just avoiding the issue. Instead, let’s tackle the problem and figure out how we can build up more spirit within the Berkeley community.</p>