@futurebird @blikkie At #UCSC in the late 1960s, we did not have separate dining rooms for faculty in general, although I’m sure that the Chancellor and his minions had a nice place of their own. Each residential college of 500-odd students had a dining commons that sat 300 or more, which we shared with our on-campus faculty couples and many of the commuters. However, the Junior Commons next to the dining halls had televisions, while the faculty-only #CrownCollege Senior Commons had much more comfortable leather couches, a walk-in marble fireplace (borrowed from Hearst’s San Simeon Castle), and sherry. We use it for small reunions now, but the couches haven’t held up so well.

@sundogplanets I am certain that #ElephantSeals are worse. Especially the #AlphaMales from the #DeltaQuadrant. They are much larger, much louder, eat more of the crab and calamari that I like the best, and exhibit wildly excessive #SexualDimorphism. The beach masters’ #harem acquisition also condemns many perfectly fine male elephant seals to lives as #incels. I took a #CrownCollege Core class at #UCSC in 1968 from #BurneyLeBoeuf, who was just beginning his studies at #AñoNuevoStatePark while also fathering the field of #Psychobiology. Admittedly, the class was on an unrelated subject—#ScienceCultureAndMan, but, still, #ProveMeWrong.

@cgoodhistorian @pvonhellermannn When I chose to go to #UCSC instead of Stanford in 1967, one of my hopes was that the whole design—small residential colleges; “Boards of Studies,” rather than Departments; the focus on undergraduate education—would lead to greater faculty and student involvement in governance. It did not. I was a freshman at #CrownCollege when it opened. Our Provost was a research scientist. The founding Chancellor had an academic focus on Caliprnia politics. The President of the UC system was attacked as an ultra-liberal by Ronald Reagan, which sounded good to me. All of these people and all their successors continued the slide toward pure corporate governance. I think that the establishment of faculty unions has exacerbated this. The administration has to focus on fundraising and labor negotiations. The tenured faculty who dominate the unions have become more focused on their privileges, rather than reform, equity for their junior peers, or their students.

@fractalkitty There must be someone at #UCSC who would like this for Christmas. Banana Joe’s at #CrownCollege could have used it for their signs, but they’re long gone, I think. #BananaSlugs