VLVL College of the Surf or Pynchon's ironic parody of Sale's SDS

[Terrance]

Bandwraith sez, 

{ Anyway, I think that Pynchon IS being satirical to some extent
(sarcastic might be a better term) when the narrative states that the C
of S demo was "not much by Columbia and Berkeley standards",
institutions
which certainly had their share of very
conservative students and faculty, despite the media hype which
everyone chooses to remember. Although, the atmosphere did become
very polarizing {. . . } }

In other words, Pynchon's College of the Surf is a fictionalized
Berkeley & Columbia. 
Over fifty Colleges and Universities took part in the "student strike" 
on April 26th, but most reports in the media focused on Columbia, which,
as Sale reminds us, was "certainly the most dramatic" ... "but had
nothing whatsoever to do with the nation-wide Ten Days actions, and when
local protests were covered it was often with the implication that they
were aping the events in New York." 

Pynchon's account is a fictionalized ironic parody of the media "events"
as described in Sale's book. 

The Conservative factions were  as important to what was going on as the
radical factions.  Pynchon's MO is to fictionalize the untold or lost
story. And that exactly what he does here. Again, the radicals take it
on the chin. What are they doing at Columbia? They are desperate, they
seize on the explosive race issue. These same folks will drop acid at
Frenesi and Zoyd's wedding ... while cities and villages burn.