You are now entering a strange shadow world... where statements don't mean anything, and every word is carefully considered so as to not cause any complaint. This world is.. the Berdahl zone.

Chancellor Berdahl, Berkeley's incredibly uncommittal Chancellor, actually came forth from the shadows for an interview.

We'll start with the Weirdest Sentence:

And there's a fact to that, and it's an unavoidable fact.

Onwards to the Comma Semicolon Comma Award:

At the same time, I think there are a lot of things that we can do and need to do that are part of this undergraduate initiative that I've been talking about in terms of student advising, provision of small classes for freshmen and freshmen seminars, provisions for capstone senior seminars for students to deal with the culmination of their work as undergraduates here, all of which would draw them in more contact with faculty.

Factual Blooper Award:

I think it was the chief of staff of the president who said, "People have to watch what they say."

(Actually, it was the President's Spokesman, Ari Fleischler (sp?), who said that.)

Stating the Obvious Award:

We have a very large and diverse Asian American population on this campus.

Number of substantial things said: 0

Oh well.



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