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August 16, 2012 11:00 AM
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In the last 30 years the total cost of college has increased 12 fold. It’s 1,120 percent more expensive to get a college degree than it was in 1978, when the United States began keeping track, that’s according to a Bloomberg piece by Michelle Jamrisko and Ilan Kolet, who also provided this chart of the increase:
During the same period, American medical costs have gone up 601 percent and the price of food has increased 244 percent.
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petey on August 16, 2012 4:41 PM:
Likewise, when filming "The Graduate" in 1966, Mike Nichols could not obtain formal permission to film on the Berkeley campus.
That is why, in the finished picture,' the few scenes actually shot on Cal's campus (mostly in Sproul Plaza) were long-distance establishing shots, or taken from a public sidewalk outside the main campus.
Close-ups, including when Ben tries to coax back Elaine, were filmed at USC (the difference in architecture being quite obvious).
When I was a freshman at Berkeley in the 80s, the picture was screened as part of orientation week, and even then we knew to hiss at the scenes where USC was filling in for Cal.