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From the president of a state university, that is a bold proposal. Before it is adopted, Bob Sproul will have to weather a lot of wrangling with Californians who still think Cal should be open to every taxpayer's son & daughter. Says Sproul: "You can't do anything as long as the G.I.s are coming anyway. You can't keep those boys waiting around while you remodel the educational system." But he is sure ("I'll bet my hat on it") that the state university of the future will be "a university more likely to produce great scholars than great football players. It won't be an educational country club."
It will not be, in fact, the kind of college that Bob Sproul himself, and millions of his fellow Americans, went to, and where they had the time of their lives.
* Goober-hanging": a discreet daytime version of what grandmother called spooning. A less active sport is "piping the flock," when Cal males watch Cal "quails" preening in the sun on the steps of Wheeler Hall. * The eight: Berkeley, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, the agricultural college at Davis, a medical center in San Francisco, Mt. Hamilton, La Jolla and a citrus experiment station at Riverside. The last three are campuses only in the imaginative, California sense: they are mainly research centers. Not part of the University of California, and not state-owned: Stanford University (at Palo Alto), the University of Southern California (at Los Angeles), the California Institute of Technology (at Pasadena). * The Berkeley team is known as the Bears; U.C.L.A.'s as the Bruins. † Sproul is now, or has been, president of the Berkeley Rotary Club, Berkeley Community Chest and Berkeley Boy Scouts Council; treasurer of the Save the Redwoods League, a director of the Berkeley and Los Angeles Chambers of Commerce, etc. He takes up 65 lines in Who's Who in America. * Cal tuition: $35 a semester for Californians; $185 for out-of-staters.