Days of Cal: A Virtual Tour through U.C. Berkeley's History

cal fact: How many department chairs fit into an elevator? On Nov. 16, 1965, the answer was 14, stuck for 80 minutes in a broken elevator in Barrows Hall. How did the professors cope? They formed a pool to bet on how long it would take to be rescued and "formed little groups and talked about common topics." Only academics!


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