With those Proustian details sprinkled through the story, you must have actually attended UCSC. I was there more than three decades ago (Crown), but your juxtaposition of stoned airheads and dangerous communists, in a setting of ravishing natural beauty, certainly captures something essential about the place back then. Doubtless still true today. Really enjoyed this!
Is it an accident that the Board of Sexual Equalization shares an acronym with mad cow disease? 😉
Already addressed over 45 years ago . . .
https://harpers.org/archive/1983/01/sex-and-the-democrats/
With those Proustian details sprinkled through the story, you must have actually attended UCSC. I was there more than three decades ago (Crown), but your juxtaposition of stoned airheads and dangerous communists, in a setting of ravishing natural beauty, certainly captures something essential about the place back then. Doubtless still true today. Really enjoyed this!
Really fun story.