Calstuff Trivia Answer

Congratulations to Mike Heath, who was the first to answer that Ronald Reagan was the VIP at a very special dance on May 22nd, 1970.

During Spring quarter of 1970 the Gay Students Union announced that they were sponsoring a dance in Pauley Ballroom on the evening of May 22nd — the first openly-gay dance ever held on the Berkeley campus. News of the landmark event reached the press, and a KQED reporter earnestly asked Governor Ronald Reagan his reaction to the idea of homosexuals dancing in a University facility. Caught off guard by the question, Reagan ad-libbed, “I haven’t been invited yet!” As soon as Reagan’s comment reached the GSU, a form letter was mimeographed and handed out in Sproul Plaza. Gay students were encouraged to sign the form and send it to Sacramento:

Mr. Heath was the first to send in his answer. Reminder: answers will be graded first on completeness, then on order of entry. In terms of completeness, copying and pasting from your Google Search is not complete. Information from outside Google sources is best.

No one got the second half of the question right. The Tarantula picture is outside of Memorial Stadium, on the little road between it and the I-House.

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