The ASUC Senate has introduced a bill asking The Daily Californian to apologize for what the senate claims is a racially insensitive advertisement that ran in the print issue of the newspaper on Sept. 17. Read More…
Sports
Two-Headed Boy: Collin Smith and his two passions
Cal men’s golf hosts only home tournament of fall season at Sonoma Golf Club
Winning is not foreign to the Cal men’s golf team. Coming off of one of the most successful seasons in college golf history allowed the team to have tremendous confidence coming into the new year. Add the top player this year receiving a tremendous accolade last week and a huge Read More…
Cal volleyball treks to Seattle to face No. 6 Washington
The only thing the Cal volleyball team has been able to consistently count on this season has been its inconsistent play. In this season alone, the Bears have lost in upsets to the likes of UC Davis and Kansas State. Yet, they’ve swept then-No. 16 UCLA and and then-No. 19 Read More…
A&E
Zion I concert on Sproul in tune with hip-hop roots
Alice Notley reading featured laughter, musing between the lines
The intimate selections of poetry read by Alice Notley and Simona Schneider at UC Berkeley’s Holloway Reading Series on Thursday made for a night of contradictions; the poets’ performances were lovely yet severe, and their content felt personal yet universal, both descriptive and emotive. Before the event’s slightly delayed start, Read More…
Steep Ravine swaps songs for Hawaiian hamburgers
Making its start in January 2013 as a Hawaiian-bar-and-grill jam band, Steep Ravine and its unique version of bluegrass has recently found its way into the Bay Area music scene. Fresh out of UC Santa Cruz, the group hopes to put down roots in the East Bay, where three of Read More…
Opinion
A carbon map to development
Daily Cal needs to be more culturally sensitive
On Sept. 17 The Daily Californian ran an advertisement from Dr. Chase Lay, a San Jose-based plastic surgeon who specializes in Asian facial plastics throughout the Bay Area. The ad showed two unidentified Asian women in before-and-after photos of blepharoplasty, a procedure more commonly known as “Asian double eyelid surgery.” Read More…
Misplaced acne, bedbugs and stigmas
Ah, sexually transmitted infections. The modern scarlet letter. “Stay away!” we cry. Particularly if it’s herpes. Oh, religious deity, forbid it be herpes. For many, STIs exist on an intangible parallel plane. This or that promiscuous so-and-so might have had it coming, but we’d like to think we’re far removed Read More…
From The Blogs
Tunesday: Halloween, Part I
Last night, we felt a couple more earthquakes (well, some of us anyway). It remains to be seen if the “big one” will come before Halloween or after. We’re gonna go for a bit of both today. The first three songs are going to shake your room a bit if Read More…
Why we’re bummed we missed out on bago this year
Don’t you just love the smell of stale beer in the morning? Love seeing campers with the words “Your daughter is in here” plastered on the side? Love driving six hours to SoCal in a winnebago full of frat stars, making that traditional stop at In-N-Out? If you answered “yes” Read More…
The process of deciding to get a flu shot in Berkeley
Although temporary sickness allows for catching up on Homeland or old Breaking Bad episodes, being immobile because of the flu is probably the worst. When you have the flu, you can’t sit up to finish your reading, do your math homework, walk or function. Read More…
The 3 best cars for Berkeley
Walking sucks. Sure, you get some exercise, but you’re constantly tired out and never on time. So, for those of you who have decided to take the plunge and bring a car to Cal, we at the Clog would like to recommend some of the best. When it comes to Read More…