College Feels Like Home for One Cal Student

For one of the new students, his dorm room has an old, familiar feel to it.

A Led Zeppelin poster has been hung on the wall in Aaron Eidelson's first college dorm room - the same band his father listened to when he was a freshman in 1976, living in the same room, Norton 414. Remarkably, Cal freshman Aaron Eidelson is moving in to his father's old dorm room, just as two of his older brothers did before him.

"I'm just extremely excited to be continuing the tradition," said the incoming freshman. "I remember having a lot of fun visiting my brothers here."

   KCBS' Doug Sovern reports

Dad Jon Eidelson said it was comforting to keep bringing his sons back to his old freshman room. "It is nice, we have a lot of memories here. My wife and I met in this dorm."

Jon lived in 414 and Gayle lived in 606. They married their junior year. Thirty years later, UC Berkeley officials are only too happy to let each new Eidelson child have dad's old room . "It's wonderful," proud mom Gayle offered. "It feels like we're visiting an old friend, coming to a place that's very familiar and a sense of a security that I know where Aaron will be."

There are three more kids still in the Eidelson home, and Gayle hopes one of them will want her old dorm room someday.