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The sundial by the Campanille

The Loafer's Guide says:

The class of 1877 donated the sundial, which in 1915 was placed south of the Campanile, where the subsequent planting of a pine grove rendered it almost completely nonfunctional. The class of '96 contributed the plaque on Founder's Rock. The class of '97 celebrated its silver jubilee (25 years) by building the semicircular bench that faces Bancroft Library. The class of '98 placed the plaque on the LeConte Oak.

It's pretty, eh?

( sundial )

Rooftop scenes

Corey and me on the rooftop of Cloyne Court, looking towards Cory Hall:

( corey and cory and me )

Billy and Cory on the Cloyne roof:

( billy and corey and cloyne )

Hilgard Hall

The Loafer's Guide says:

"To rescue for human society the native values of rural life": This phrase looks out from the side of Hilgard Hall onto a campus increasingly built over and denuded of greenery and open space. Howard had originally planned the inspiring "Given by the people to the State of California, A.D. 1915," but Wheeler preferred "To bring food for the peoples from the breast of the earth." Whether the problem was too socialist a sentiment, or the word "breast," Wheeler changed his mind at the last minute to the existing motto, substituting "native" for "moral."

This phrase was more-or-less the unofficial manifesto of my 1998 urap project.

( hilgard hall )

trains

Did anyone go to this?

What's the current status of this High Speed Rail Authority project?

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Transportation: Does a bullet train for California make sense?
May 13, 12 p.m., Harris Room, 119 Moses Hall

In 1996, the California Legislature appointed the nine-member High-Speed Rail Authority to plan a train network for the state. With the proposed system, passengers would be able to travel via bullet train from the Bay Area to Los Angeles in just 2.5 hours. Other destinations for the high-speed rail network would include the Central Valley and San Diego. Traveling at speeds of 220 miles per hour, the trains would pose an alternative to intrastate airline service.

In spite of its $30 billion price tag, the project seems to make sense. A group of Boalt law students, however, has reviewed the Environmental Impact Report (EIR) and the Environmental Impact Study (EIS) released by the High-Speed Rail Authority and found the project’s viability more complicated than would seem at first glance. On Thursday, May 13, in a brown-bag lunch seminar at the Institute of Government Studies, the Boalt students will share their analysis.

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