VLVL(6) - Ch 10 Notes & Questions 3

Meg Larson mgl at tardis.svsu.edu
Tue Dec 1 16:41:51 CST 1998


SD:

>I'm gald someone mentioned Pepperdine, which is my front-runner for the
>"real-world" analog.  I'm not so sure that Pepperdine is very far off,
>since the account of College of the Surf before Weed-mania struck is that
>it was the most unlikely of places for the campus contagion to catch on.
>I don't have the volume with me but I remember references to school
>uniforms (skirts being hiked up and men doffing their jackets were signs
>that the place was beginning to catch the R&R flu), as well as a general
>sense of Eisenhower calm about the place.  Another possibility is Loyola
>Marymount, which, when I was in California, was know on the activist
>circuit as "the bubble on the bluff."  Being a Jesuit institution, I
>suppose uniforms would not be out of place there.
>
>August Institution, which also boasts former Nixon Speechwriter and
>current Cable gameshow host Ben Stein as part of its stellar law faculty.
>
>
In a book I was reading recently, Mr. Stein himself talked about kids
"smoking reefer in the dorm rooms, and the hallways being perpetually
pot-clouded."  Halls in the dorms, not the classroom halls, I assume.

While I too agree that COTS is not real, I'll stick with PU as my model.

Peace and love,
M.
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