Mostly this is useful as an example of how to produce the front matter. In LaTeX 2.09 this seems to be unavoidable, but it makes it very hard to create tables in different font sizes. Margins are 1.5 inches on the left, 1.0 inches elsewhere.
Page numbers are in the top right corner for all pages.
Complete, correct front matter for UC dissertations can be generated. If you are not a UC student, you should make sure that the front matter is OK with your school. The myheadings pagestyle doesn't work well and there is no workaround. The headerfooter and fancyheadings styles are widely distributed, well documented, and easy to use. This facility could be a little easier, but compared to an earlier state of affairs, it's pretty slick.