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Old 06-04-2014, 08:53 AM
 
Location: Chicago
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What name do you call the University of California Berkeley?
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Old 06-04-2014, 09:05 AM
 
Location: Bay Area
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...Cal...or UC Berkeley.
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Old 06-04-2014, 09:34 AM
 
Location: East Bay Area
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any of them
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Old 06-04-2014, 10:16 AM
 
Location: State of Transition
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If I'm speaking with locals, I cal it "Cal". If I'm speaking to people not from the area, who wouldn't be familiar with the term, "Cal", I say "UC Berkeley".
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Old 06-04-2014, 10:22 AM
 
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I call it a cesspool of Liberalism and Communism !
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Old 06-04-2014, 10:26 AM
 
Location: SW King County, WA
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I've noticed that alums tend to call it "Cal" where as my potential/hopeful students tend to call it "UC Berkeley" or just "Berkeley".
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Old 06-04-2014, 10:33 AM
 
Location: Oakland, CA
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Cal for sports, Berkeley the rest of the time. UC Berkeley for whatever crazy person doesn't know about Berkeley, or University of California Berkeley.
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Old 06-04-2014, 11:04 AM
 
Location: Los Altos Hills, CA
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They are all correct.

I say Cal most of the time.
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Old 06-04-2014, 11:50 AM
 
Location: Mokelumne Hill, CA & El Pescadero, BCS MX.
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I call it Cal. My son is a senior there. If I talk to someone who gives me a blank look, I call it Berkeley and wonder what year of high school they dropped out in.
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Old 06-04-2014, 01:06 PM
 
Location: SF Bay Area
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I always call it UC Berkeley.
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