Opinion: Poets and Tigers and Presidents, Oh My!

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... and Barack Obama makes three.

When Obama takes office, that will make three U.S. presidents who’ve received undergraduate education in California.

The first was Herbert Hoover, a member of Stanford University’s first class. (That was long before the mascot wars, before the ‘’Stanford Indians’’ and now the ‘’Cardinal,’’ but not -- as some students suggested -- the ‘’Robber Barons.’’)

The second was Richard Nixon, a Whittier College grad -- whooo, Poets!

And now the third is Barack Obama, who spent his first two years of higher education at Occidental College before succumbing to the siren call of the East Coast and Columbia. Go Tigers!

The image, courtesy of Occidental College, is of the photo Barack Obama submitted when he applied for admission to the college in 1979.