I’m sure Berkeley, like most colleges, still has its share of dirty whiny hippies, but I think it’s on this list because of its history not because of current student radicalism. The best example of dirty hippies the guy could do was Robert Reich. College has gotten very expensive and upper middle class white kids (the ones who actually voted for Romney and to some degree Ron Paul) are attending Berkeley because it’s the most highly ranked school in the California state system. They’re working hard and many of them are probably playing quite hard but they’re definitely not dirty hippies.
A lot of Asians.
My Dad did a few recruiting trips to Berkeley in the late 60s/early 70s when he worked for a big engineering firm that was hiring engineers.
The engineering candidate he met were top notch and very conservative. They also made it clear to him that most of the campus radicals were actually squatters who didn’t even go to the school.
I live near Berkeley. Students for the most part reflect the diversity of the state of California and the nation...Some conservative, some liberal. The town of Berkeley is dirty, filthy, liberal scum and worse. (and their football team sucks)