<p>Into the wayback machine we go with: in 1972-1973 UCB decides to go to the quarter system to synch finals with seasonal holidays. Sounds reasonable. I remember the rest of the UCs grumbling about Berkeley elitist separatism (I am not making this up) but eventually following suit a year or two later depending on the school. I entered UCLA in the Fall of '73 the first quarter of the quarter system for the Big U. Maybe five or six years later (I forget; it was the 70s people) UCB returns to the semester system and starts lobbying for the others to change. In anger, the rest of UC grumbles about particular batches of recreational pharmaceuticals available in Berkeley seven years previously (no seriously, I am not making this up. UC intra-university squabbles are like that) and tells UCB to take a hike. And that leaves us where we are now.</p>