so i'm walking home from my linguistics midterm today... on the steps in front of one of the eating-places on campus, i see a slightly ratty looking, bearded guy being yelled at by several cops, whose cars are parked by the curb with lights flashing. strange, i think. never seen that before. i keep walking, slowly noticing that many of the people walking around seem to have beards. and dreadlocks. and GOOD LORD, theres a hippie encampment in front of the rec center! beat up volkswagen vans, and legions of longhaired dirty people sitting on the grass. someone is playing guitar, people are smoking, and some guy tells a girl, "This is a dry campus, babe" as she starts shaking a cup that has a few pennies inside of it. i ask one of the beard-y guys whats going on, and he explains that the guy was getting arrested for stealing chicken nuggets from the cafeteria. my narrator belived that cal poly was being hard-assed and had plenty of food for everyone. i wasnt quite sure, but he seemed to say that about 15 people had already gotten in trouble/arrested for something or other. the cal poly police were hovering around en masse, probably deciding if they could arrest everyone for loitering. straaaaaaaange days at cal poly. makes me wonder how it was when my parents went here in the 70's. (by the way, i know not all hippies are dirty. i know many cool people who would fall into that group, but these were definately doin the dirty-people thing) can somebody tell me whats going on?