I stand corrected. After photographing a dining hall that looked like it was the model for the one at Hogwarts, I came across a vigorous frisbee toss on the quad. In Whitman’s defense the players were only modestly skilled.
One of the stealth tactics that this group has been using to get student quotes for the viewbook is to post empty poster boards about campus with the slogan, "A Life Of The Mind Is…", and a marker taped to it on a string. There has been a vigorous response (though the half life of a poster on a bulletin board seems to be about 12 hours before it is covered over with new announcements). Examples from one poster:
A Life Of The Mind Is...
Ineluctable hierophany
Differential laundry
Hurting my head
Physics for breakfast
Just as import as the life of the body, So go have some sex.
In the afternoon I was scheduled to photograph the dinosaur class. Specifically Paul Sereno and his undergrads. Even if you’re a Big Name in a field (and this guy is one of the biggest), at UC you still teach undergrads. I walked into a classroom/storage room full of bones. Big bones. Femurs bigger than me. Plaster casts of entire small skeletons. Shelves and shelves full of bones. Cardboard boxes full of bones. A case full of animal embryos in jars. It was a room full of enormous visual riches. "This is a really cool classroom!" I told the TA, not concealing my excitement at all. "It is a really cool classroom!" she responded.
At the end of my second day I can say I am now truly exhausted. The light, though, is good for the first time in two days, and there are exteriors yet to get.
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