Hey! You're talking about my Alma Mater! :-) "Uncle Charlie" was Charles Sinsheimer, a ex-Caltech man who despised the banana slug as our mascot and proposed some silly sea animal as our mascot. We, the student body at the time, disliked him and his absurd notion of turning UCSC into a mini UCLA, fought back with a campus-wide referendum and kept our slug.
I worked for Caltech later and found that Sinsheimer was just as much disliked there... Banana slugs are large, yellow hermaphrodites who engage in hours long sexual couplings and contribute to the ecosystem greatly by processing leaves and other vegetation into nutrient mulch in the forest. A perfect mascot for a campus which was founded to teach liberal arts on the principles of cooperation, collaboration, and learning as opposed to competition, aggression, and hyperbole. Our sports activities were designed to teach us about fair-mindedness and team spirit rather than ruthless "win whatever you can by besting the other guys" aggression. Funny thing was that by learning teamwork and collaboration, we tended to win most of our competitions... :-) Sorry for the soapbox, but I was honored and proud to be a part of the UCSC history and spirit. I love the place and cherish the wonderful education and excellent people there, many of whom I still count amongst my best and closest friends these thirty-some years later. Godfrey > On Oct 12, 2015, at 5:44 PM, Daniel J. Matyola <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 8:39 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: >> Uncle Charlie's Summer Camp is in Santa Cruz, aka Santa Carla not Santa >> Clara. > > They are all slugs out there, as far as I can tell. > > Dan Matyola > http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
