Like many other disorientation projects, we are inspired to do our work by the often massive gap between the official, public face of our university and its true life and history. We aim to air its dirty past -- especially when it lives on in the present -- and to celebrate its joyful moments of freedom. We aim to help inspire our readers to take active part in our public university, to help empower them with an awareness of the many faces of UC Berkeley, of what it has been, what it is, and what it could be.

The 2007/2008 Cal Disorientation is a collaborative, ongoing project at http://caldisorientation.org/2007 . It will be published in January.