Appearance in Films
Tech was featured in the 1987 film The Principal starring James Belushi and Louis Gossett Jr. The Principal was filmed at what is locally referred to as "Old Tech", located at 5700 Martin Luther King Way (formerly 5700 Grove Street, site of the old University High School, now part of the campus of Children's Hospital Oakland.
In 1993, Tech, at its current location, was featured in the movie Made in America featuring Will Smith, Nia Long, Whoopi Goldberg and Ted Danson.
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“Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and that state of the mind can only be described by presenting that natural appearance as its picture.”
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