Last updated September 5, 2024.
Created: September 4, 2024.
Welcome to the master list of disorientation guides from across the University of California. This page is intended to be a historical archive of every single disorientation guide ever created by UC students, for UC students.
We also collect disorientation guides from our comrades at private universities whose work inspires us.
Disorientation is a rich, decades-long tradition that offers an alternative to the so-called “orientation” and “convocation” programs typically offered to indoctrinate… er, welcome, young students into the new university system.
An older generation of students realized that their hard-won knowledge about how the UC works was being lost with each graduating class. So a few experienced students and community members collaborated to create “disorientation” guides to educate the next generation of students about important history the university doesn’t want future generations to know, to pass along information typically communicated via oral traditions, and to share community resources beyond the typical university directories.
Have any disorientation guides that aren’t listed here? Send us a link or PDF: ucintelnetwork@proton.me
University of California Disorientation Guides
UC Berkeley
2023: disorientation guide (original source) | website
2022: website
2010: cal disorientation guide (original source)
2008: Cal Disorientation (original source)
2004: Cal Berkeley Disorientation Zine (original source) | website
2003: Cal Berkeley Disorientation Zine (original source) | website
UC Davis
2022: Cops off Campus Disorientation Guide ’22-’23
UC Merced
Coming soon.
UCI
2009: Disorientation Guide (original source)
UCLA
Coming soon.
UCR
Coming soon.
UCSB
Coming soon.
UCSC
2011: Disorientation Guide (original source)
2004: disorientation guide (original source)
UCSD
Coming soon.
UCSF
Coming soon.
Our Comrades’ Disorientation Guides
Brown
2006: Disorientation Guide (original source)
Columbia
2002: Disorientation Guide (original source)
2000: Disorientation Guide (original source)
Harvard
2024: Harvard Crimeson Convocation Zine (original source)
2008: Disorientation Guide (original source)
Stanford
2009: Re-Orientation Guide (original source)
1996: Disorientation Guide (original source)
Disorientation, Radical, and Activist Websites
dis-o (berkeley)
(dis)orientation zine (berkeley)
whose.university.OURuniversity (davis & uc-wide)
reclaim UC (uc-wide)
UCD cops off campus (davis)
Disorientation Zines: A guide to zines, DIY/homemade publications which allow folks to tell their own stories or share information. Topics include mental health, disability, queerness, race and racism, sexual assault, political topics, recipes, and much more.