Mike Bellotti and Chip Kelly's Ducks helped me reconnect with my alma mater, and I faithfully fly west with my family once a year to visit the campus and take in a game.

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He describes the time, in the mid-nineties, when Jerry Yang and David Filo took him to visit their campus trailer, which was littered with pizza boxes and soda cans, to show off a directory of Web sites called Yahoo.

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So, as students zip up their backpacks for a return to the classroom, it's a good time for any traveler to pack up a trunk and visit one of these bustling campus locations.

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