Justin D. Paola <paola@ece.arizona.edu> orignally commented:

   Well, I had the unfortunate privledge of being at the ASU game.
   My wife and I left work early and drove up from Tucson.  We met
   Sean Rouse and went to the game.

   Not only does Sean show up at every away Cal football game, but
   there he is at the away basketball games as well!  This confirms
   a suspicion I've had for some time:

   I know there is a real Sean, having talked to him in person many
   times, but I'm now convinced there is more than one real Sean
   Rouse, Supreme Cal Fan.  In fact, there is one in *every* Pac-10
   home town...and one at NCAA headquarters as well, probably.
   There's probably a minature one inside my computer compiling
   stats, for all I know.

   And don't forget about the Women's Basketball games, as well--he
   tends to show up at those as well...

   And it's worse than that--he also manages to make to most of the
   UC Men's Octet, Overtones, and Artists in Resonance concerts, as
   well.

   Although I knew Yoda when we were students at Cal, I'm with
   Steve: there *must* be a clone ;^).

   Actually they're droids.  They've got some real good storage
   system in there (with a "doubler" like the one Johnny was using
   in the movie, although he doesn't need that often).  That's why
   he knows so much.

   He's got 160 gigabytes of Cal history and trivia on-line, as well
   as rules of various sports and colleges off-line (also known as
   "books").

   But this is all trade secret, so don't tell other people.  It's
   only you and me (and the fellow gobearsians) that know yet.

   I was at the women's basketball game last night, and the most
   amazing thing to me was that Sean wasn't there.  I looked back
   several times wondering "where's Sean?  What's the score of the
   game?"  I just couldn't believe he wasn't there.

   Since there _is_ more than one Sean, why wasn't one of him at the
   women's basketball game?  Well, I hope to see one of him at the
   Gymnastics meet tonight.  :)

   Sorry, SYR2WB3 (that's the model number, it stands for Sean "Yoda"
   Rouse with two caps, women's basketball version 3) had a
   malfunction and was under repair Thursday night.

   I've replaced his faulty vocal chords (you wouldn't have wanted
   him sound like the bug frogs during "Hail to California") and
   also removed the bolts we put in his rib a while ago (he got
   punched by a stupid Stanfurd fan (oops that was redundant) when
   he traveled down to Maples) so he should be fine by Saturday.

   Regards,
   Satoshi "just one of the repairmen that keep Yoda afloat" Asami

I have to say I've gotten a good laugh out of these comments. It makes me recall that three times while I was a student I was reminded that there actually *was* more than one Sean Rouse attending Cal in the '80s.

The first time was when I was an ED-197 tutor at the old Student Learning Center in T-8. Students had to sign in with their reg numbers (none of this SID junk, or photo IDs...this was back in the days when class cards were more valuable than AP cards). One time, someone signed in as Sean Rouse, and had a reg number that was different from mine in only the last digit (I didn't know at the time that the registration number was based on your name). At first I thought someone was playing a joke (some of my regulars were practical jokers)...Then it dawned on me that there could be someone else named Sean Rouse at Cal.

The second time was after that semester, when I received a grade postcard. It seems that my counterpart didn't put his address on his grade card. The TA decided to get his address and send it out. Back then the University used to have a public file of students' addresses in Sproul Hall (students had to fill out a card to have it appear in the public file). My counterpart did not fill out a card. Since I did fill out a card, the TA sent the grade card to me.

The last time (which was the most serious) was when I started receiving notices from a collection agency. It seems that my counterpart stopped paying off his student loan. Unfortunately, some careless person at the Financial Aid Office failed to cross check a request for "Sean Rouse"'s address against the social security number. Eventually the problem was solved.

At least the Alumni House and Development Office have managed to keep us seperate.