This will be a privileged cohort. They will get more attention and at least as good an education as on the other UC campuses.

[And the ISE will keep working to develop its electronic systems, keeping its staff small, without paying too much attention to what the competition is up to.] We've got a Silicon Valley mentality, a startup feel, long days, weekends -- that's the culture we want to promote, ... We've never really looked at what anybody else was going to do.

Without question, a diagnosis of an attention deficit disorder does not necessarily equate to a need for special education,

Students with learning and attention challenges have been entering higher education in much increased numbers over the last 10 years. We've seen our alumni go on to graduate school in increasingly larger numbers.

Wow. That's about all I can say. I'm really surprised that it was 2 to 1 against, that was sort of a shocker. But we'll keep on keeping on; that's all we can do. None of us are going to go out of business tomorrow.

What you see architecturally is what you get with personalities here. It's very much a sense of conformity. I became very unpopular because I dared to ask questions.