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The People's Park dorm design, putting aside all of the legal BS, is truly hideous. Can Sebastabear fix this too?

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Honestly, looks fine to me

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Yah it's better than the rock building down the street.

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Daughter is at the new student convocation this morning. She said Madsen gave a 90 second speech. " I wanna see you at the games this year! If you see me on campus, give me a high five! See me at lunch? I'll pay!" Then he left. Classic mad dog.

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I'd be camping outside his office every day at 11:30 and then following him for a free lunch.

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how much of a bill do y'all think i can rack up on his tab before it becomes impolite?

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What a convocation!!! 9,000 students packed in Haas Pavilion.

A warm welcome to the vibrant @UCBerkeley class of 2027. Nearly broke the record for all-time applicant pool.

Lunch is on me @ Mezzo! Just find us there! pic.twitter.com/g2rYMJo9Sc

— Mark Madsen (@madsen_mark) August 17, 2023

yeah coastie over a free lunch at mezzo with coach is gonna convince him that the key to student attendance is offering free tickets to all students, reality is that berkeley gotta lotta 4.5+ gpa 1st generation college students from lower socioeconomic communities that didn't go to their high school's football or basketball games while studying 24/7 amassing the world class academic accolades that are necessary for admission into berkeley

we gotta get students going to games during their berkeley days thereby imprinting their gameday behavior for a lifetime & that's the key to building a pipeline of future season tix buyers/donors...and the reality is that there's been near zero effort by anybody to build the fanbase since cal's monster class

knowlton & his clueless marketing director markeisha everett will tell you that giving away free tixs undermines the value of tixs but that's just tired azz dumb as **** thinking from outta touch bureaucrats rather than the saavy promoters like the staff at san diego state which offers all students free tixs in an inclusive fun party atmosphere which has resulted in attendance records & a final four appearance this season

the magic of cal basketball (is a grassroots process that grows the fanbase one at a time)#

the university of california, berkeley=#1 ranked public university in the world (that should be inclusively offering free tixs to all students on gamedays)

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During orientation week they have workers approaching students with a $125. deal for all home football (plus the Stanford away game) and basketball tickets. Thats about $5 per game. i dont know how much less expensive it could be.

^ the above post (note: student pass does NOT include the big game in palo alto) is yet another clear indication that the future to be terminated (and hopefully named with criminal charges) james arthur knowlton & markeisha everett (who needs to be demoted as an ineffectual bureaucrat) don't get it re: today's berkeley students & their economic situations

they do not got an extra 125 bucks, got it?

FREE students tixs need to be offered to all (not just incoming students) for ALL football & basketball games

this is really not that complicated but the obstructionists got their own agendas which don't include building the future fan/donor base

I was on campus this weekend. To me, the biggest transformation is happening all around the campus perimeter. Downtown Berkeley looks so different and much nicer than when I was a student. So many new residential buildings. Bancroft is also developing nicely.

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During orientation week they have workers approaching students with a $125. deal for all home football (plus the Stanford away game) and basketball tickets. Thats about $5 per game. i dont know how much less expensive it could be

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That might work for the students who come from money, but students who need grants and scholarships just to attend college won't pay for the combo package. That money would be better spent on food and rent. Speaking from experience from my time as a student who turned down similar ticket deals.

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Maybe there could be some way for students to earn tickets with volunteer work? Maybe even just posting Cal football ads on their social media platforms?

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I would've been happy with earning tickets for volunteering. I volunteered quite a bit as a student. I don't know enough about today's kids to opine ad to whether they would go along the idea, though.

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They will volunteer for their resumes and to get into med school or whatever, not for free football tickets.

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Wow, that's really sad. When did kids become so transactional?

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When have they not? All the kids in HS have hundreds of hours of community service just to try to get into the most desirable colleges

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I volunteered and earned hundreds of community service hours, but I didn't do it for my college applications. In fact, I'm not even sure I included them in my applications. Again, I did it because it was the right thing to do, not because I saw it as a means to pad my resume. I have other friends who also volunteered and earned plenty of community service hours for similar reasons. I guess I just don't understand kids who think everything has to be transactional to be worth doing.

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During orientation week they have workers approaching students with a $125. deal for all home football (plus the Stanford away game) and basketball tickets. Thats about $5 per game. i dont know how much less expensive it could be

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That might work for the students who come from money, but students who need grants and scholarships just to attend college won't pay for the combo package. That money would be better spent on food and rent. Speaking from experience from my time as a student who turned down similar ticket deals.

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Maybe there could be some way for students to earn tickets with volunteer work? Maybe even just posting Cal football ads on their social media platforms?

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I would've been happy with earning tickets for volunteering. I volunteered quite a bit as a student. I don't know enough about today's kids to opine ad to whether they would go along the idea, though.

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They will volunteer for their resumes and to get into med school or whatever, not for free football tickets.

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Wow, that's really sad. When did kids become so transactional?

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When have they not? All the kids in HS have hundreds of hours of community service just to try to get into the most desirable colleges

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I volunteered and earned hundreds of community service hours, but I didn't do it for my college applications. In fact, I'm not even sure I included them in my applications. Again, I did it because it was the right thing to do, not because I saw it as a means to pad my resume. I have other friends who also volunteered and earned plenty of community service hours for similar reasons. I guess I just don't understand kids who think everything has to be transactional to be worth doing.

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Because that's how the world works?

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Daughter is at the new student convocation this morning. She said Madsen gave a 90 second speech. " I wanna see you at the games this year! If you see me on campus, give me a high five! See me at lunch? I'll pay!" Then he left. Classic mad dog.

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I'd be camping outside his office every day at 11:30 and then following him for a free lunch.

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how much of a bill do y'all think i can rack up on his tab before it becomes impolite?

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What a convocation!!! 9,000 students packed in Haas Pavilion.

A warm welcome to the vibrant @UCBerkeley class of 2027. Nearly broke the record for all-time applicant pool.

Lunch is on me @ Mezzo! Just find us there! pic.twitter.com/g2rYMJo9Sc

— Mark Madsen (@madsen_mark) August 17, 2023

yeah coastie over a free lunch at mezzo with coach is gonna convince him that the key to student attendance is offering free tickets to all students, reality is that berkeley gotta lotta 4.5+ gpa 1st generation college students from lower socioeconomic communities that didn't go to their high school's football or basketball games while studying 24/7 amassing the world class academic accolades that are necessary for admission into berkeley

we gotta get students going to games during their berkeley days thereby imprinting their gameday behavior for a lifetime & that's the key to building a pipeline of future season tix buyers/donors...and the reality is that there's been near zero effort by anybody to build the fanbase since cal's monster class

knowlton & his clueless marketing director markeisha everett will tell you that giving away free tixs undermines the value of tixs but that's just tired azz dumb as **** thinking from outta touch bureaucrats rather than the saavy promoters like the staff at san diego state which offers all students free tixs in an inclusive fun party atmosphere which has resulted in attendance records & a final four appearance this season

the magic of cal basketball (is a grassroots process that grows the fanbase one at a time)#

the university of california, berkeley=#1 ranked public university in the world (that should be inclusively offering free tixs to all students on gamedays)

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During orientation week they have workers approaching students with a $125. deal for all home football (plus the Stanford away game) and basketball tickets. Thats about $5 per game. i dont know how much less expensive it could be.

^ the above post (note: student pass does NOT include the big game in palo alto) is yet another clear indication that the future to be terminated (and hopefully named with criminal charges) james arthur knowlton & markeisha everett (who needs to be demoted as an ineffectual bureaucrat) don't get it re: today's berkeley students & their economic situations

they do not got an extra 125 bucks, got it?

FREE students tixs need to be offered to all (not just incoming students) for ALL football & basketball games

this is really not that complicated but the obstructionists got their own agendas which don't include building the future fan/donor base

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Agreed! All students should get free tickets, but seating should be limited to the student section on a first come first served basis. Once the student section is full, the students will have to buy tickets elsewhere in the stadium/pavilion if they wish to attend the game.

I was one of those kids for whom $125 was too much to spend on tickets, even if it meant the average cost of a ticket would be $20 (for football season tickets) or $5 (for football and basketball season tickets). The people making these decisions really don't understand that $125 is a lot for broke students attending school on grants and scholarships. Maybe their salaries should be adjusted downward so they understand just how much $125 means when it's a choice between buying season tickets and going without food.

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The People's Park dorm design, putting aside all of the legal BS, is truly hideous. Can Sebastabear fix this too?

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That looks like the Helsinki City Manager and the Chief of Mission to the Vostok Station got together one night and made an ass baby after putting down 3 fifths of Jose and drawing up plans for a dormitory among other things.

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Priceless. The people in the picture are high comedy too.

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Why is the elderly man with a cane walking out of the xeriscape?
If an elderly man with a cane cane hike through the xeriscaping surely it is hospitable enough for a tent; some heroin needles; and a bucket full of **** and piss
I vote to scrap the xeriscaping in favor of a live grizzly exhibit

Major victory for the good guys!

https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/berkeley-to-resume-housing-development-at-peoples-park/#:~:text=BERKELEY%2C%20Calif.,housing%20construction%20at%20People's%20Park.

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The People's Park dorm design, putting aside all of the legal BS, is truly hideous. Can Sebastabear fix this too?

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That looks like the Helsinki City Manager and the Chief of Mission to the Vostok Station got together one night and made an ass baby after putting down 3 fifths of Jose and drawing up plans for a dormitory among other things.

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Priceless. The people in the picture are high comedy too.

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Why is the elderly man with a cane walking out of the xeriscape?
If an elderly man with a cane cane hike through the xeriscaping surely it is hospitable enough for a tent; some heroin needles; and a bucket full of **** and piss
I vote to scrap the xeriscaping in favor of a live grizzly exhibit

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Looks fine to me.