What struck me about the admissions scene was the university officials' stubborn labeling of Hal's "sounds" as "subanimalistic." They compare him to a goat, a stick of butter; this organism can be anything but human since they are incapable of understanding him. They can't see beyond his lingustic difficulties/differences and instantly feel like they have to regulate him to a "lower" species because of it. "We witnessed something only marginally mammalian in there, sir" (15).
"And who could not love that special and leonine roar of a public toilet" also seems to imply some irony. They accept that "roar" of the toilet on a regular basis, but can't take similarly animalistic sounds with actual substance behind them?
What struck me about the first passage, in which Hal is in a meeting with the deans of the University of Arizona, was the crudeness of the men after Hal's seizure (?)
"I believe I've seen a vision of hell"
"This boy is a balletic athlete"
""dope him up, seek to act as his moutpiece, muzzling, and now he lies there catatonic"
C.T. obviously cares about Hal, and that the deans are being so rude and unhelpful about the whole situation was kinda surprising. The rest of the scene seemed extremely modern except for at the end, when they concern-for-politcal-correctness that is so overwhelming today is completley lost. It surprised me.