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¶ By 1965: Berkeley (now 21,563 students) and U.C.LA. (16,512) will stop at 27,500 each. Berkeley will have more graduate students, an even more luminous faculty. U.C.L.A. will also have more graduates, more dormitories, and solider courses to stave off the encircling "commuter" state colleges. ¶ By 1970: Davis (4,950) will hit 10,000, A changing cow college (cheer: "Bossie. cow cow, honey bee bee, oleomargarine, oleo butterine, alfalfa—hey!"), Davis will soon be a general university on a 3,000-acre farm-campus. Santa Barbara (3,504) will hit 10.500. Riverside (1,633) will hit 7,250. Converted from a citrus experimental station, it aimed to be a Western Oberlin, but will soon be bigger.
¶ By 1975: Three new campuses must be built, on their way to 27,500 students apiece. Near the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, imaginative Director Roger Revelle has 14,000 acres for a cluster of small residential "universities" grouped around each subject, is building a faculty from the top down this year, with an advance guard of Nobel Prizewinner Harold Urey and twelve other members of the National Academy of Sciences. Up the coast is the 1,000-acre Orange County site, donated by the vast Irvine Ranch. Somewhere south of San Francisco in the state's North Central area, another site must be acquired.
¶ By 2000: A fourth new campus, for 15,000 students, will probably rise in the San Joaquin Valley because the whole system will still lack room for 24,000 students eligible to go to the University of California.
Last month those who were eligible for Berkeley were greeted at their first "orientation" by a fairly chilly official statement: "We assume you are adults. We won't check up on you to see that you are in a given place at a given time. We won't make sure you ask questions if you need answers, and we won't make sure you seek outside help if you need it. Come to think of it, we won't do much of anything for you. We assume you can take care of yourselves."
How good an education will they get? It all depends on them. The schooling on Cal campuses is on a take-it-or-leave-it basis. Berkeley's brightest faculty lights have long been more interested in their own research than in undergraduates. Still, there is a saying around Berkeley that it is better to be 50 feet from a great man than five feet from an ordinary one.
* The seven: Berkeley, Los Angeles (U.C.L.A.), Santa Barbara, Davis, San Francisco, Riverside, La Jolla. No kin to the University of California and not state-supported: Stanford University (Stanford), the University of Southern California (Los Angeles), the California Institute of Technology (Pasadena).
* Among alumni: Mrs. Herbert Hoover and Poet Edwin Markham.
* An unfortunate diminutive coined in 1901 by the University of Chicago's first president, William Rainey Harper, when he helped launch the first public junior in Joliet, III. A more grown up name is now preferred: community colleges.
† Free in California.
* Explorers from Berkeley settled the southern colony at U.C.L.A. in 1919.