And so, in late September of 1970, with a fire raging in the foothills to the east, Michael entered the Santa Rosa dormitories with his mom and dad. He was to embark initially on an intellectual journey into Chemistry and Calculus with his compatriot from North Tustin, Ira. Together they would listen intently to the […]
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His dad welcomed the good news also but expressed some reservations. In the few years prior there had been the Free Speech movement and the rise of the radical SDS in response to the ongoing conflict in Vietnam. He recommended that Michael attend the picturesque sister campus of the UC system, UC Santa Barbara. Since […]
Michael was elated; indeed “emotionally exuberant” when he received the good news–he was accepted to UC Berkeley as a freshman right out of high school! Perhaps the “tipping point” in his selection by the admissions department had been his two A’s that he had received in Physics in his senior year; albeit with the help […]
Let us now go back in time, shall we?
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“Santa Barbaria” is not some meaningless drivel spoken by some wild-eyed storyteller, but comprises a very real-life locale within Santa Barbara County. Its southeastern boundary begins along the shoreline of More Mesa (at the base of Hope Ranch) and continues in a northwesterly direction past the Campus Point of UC Santa Barbara. It then proceeds […]