In addition to listing the reasons for Berkeleys welldeserved academic reputation. Sitomer gives us a better idea of what the Berkeley student is really like. He notes that the Berkeley campus alone has supplied 791 Peace Corps volunteers to datetwice that of any other American universityand that more than 8.000 University of California students "work with poverty youth in Watts. tutor children of migrant workers in the fields of Delano. staff YMCA summer camps for the underprivileged. and send clothing and supplies to homeless Vietnamese youngsters." Mr. Sitomer exhorts the University of California to "get across to the people of the State a basic understanding of the nature of higher education and the role of the university" It seems to me that the author of this article has taken a major step in that direction. Mr.