Mostly this is useful as an example of how to produce the front matter. This has recently been updated for LaTeX2e. It gives a lot of useful information if you are going to be writing or modifying classes, and gives a lot of additional information on commonly available style packages. 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. This option is the default and is redundant, but is included for symmetry. 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.