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How A University Was (Kind Of) Fooled Into Letting 'Animal House' Film There

William Beaty Boyd was a vice-chancellor at UC Berkeley when the college received an interesting offer. A director wanted to shoot a movie on their campus, a comedy based on the changing sexual politics of the 1960s. It would be edgy and controversial, and if it was a hit, they might benefit from being featured in it. Berkeley turned him down, thinking the association would cause more harm than good.That movie was The Graduate. It ended up being the highest-grossing film of …