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U.S. Congressman Barney Frank from Massachusetts’s 4th congressional district gave a speech to U.C. Berkeley students on Thursday night in Dwinelle Hall. Watch highlights from the speech as well as student reactions.
Sports
First-place Bears dismiss Utes in Salt Lake City
Big second half delivers Cal home victory
For much of the second half on Thursday, Utah coach Anthony Levrets looked restless on the sidelines. Despite his nonstop charade of body language, his frustrated facial expression never changed. The first eight minutes were painful for Levrets and the Utes. After a strong first half in which Utah entered Read More…
Cal drops second match in a battle against the Dukes
The Cal lacrosse team’s home opener with James Madison was a back-and-forth contest right until the end of the second half. Tied at nine, the Dukes surged with four consecutive goals to win, 13-9, on Thursday afternoon. At Witter Field, the Bears (1-1, 1-0 in MPSF) played a tough second match Read More…
A&E
Podcast: Arts staff give their Academy Awards predictions
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Glenn Close
People often ask me every February, “Are you excited for the Academy Awards?” It behooves me as a “film critic” (fuck off!) to offer a very emphatic, compulsory “Yes!” in response to this question, which pulls at my shirtsleeves all year like a nagging child. But each year, my enthusiasm Read More…
Tyga: Careless World – Rise of the Last King
Tyga is the newest in a line of mainstream rap artists of Young Money Cash Money Billionaires (YMCMB) fame, and his latest album, Careless World: Rise of the Last King, is just as hackneyed and unnecessarily hedonistic as anything the label has ever put out. Don’t get me wrong — Read More…
Opinion
Stars and sensible advice
Telegraph, post-workout
Jon and Kate Plus 8 (phones)
To the producers of TLC’s Hoarders: Here’s a season finale for ya. According to the multibillion, multinational networking firm from the south side of the Bay, Cisco Systems, this year mobile devices will actually outnumber those who consider mobiles’ prices. There will be more number-padded, data-drinking fully charged smartphones and Read More…
From The Blogs
Barney Frank gives speech on relationship between U.S. and Israel
Well over a hundred UC Berkeley students, faculty and visitors arrived on campus Thursday night to listen to Congressman Barney Frank speak about Israel and its relationship with the United States. The event – sponsored by the ASUC, the Jewish Student Union and the Tikvah Students for Israel – began Read More…
Oscar Predictions
As a companion piece to the puff piece — I mean the column — I wrote this week about the upcoming 84th Academy Awards, which airs this Sunday, I thought I would share my picks and predictions for what seems destined to be yet another relatively safe and predictable Oscar year. You probably will Read More…
Get it together, man
Earlier today, I was perusing through the news section of the Daily Cal’s website and trying to learn about what was happening in the outside world. For the last few days, my life has been spent studying for the impending doom that is midterms. Scrolling down the pages, I noticed Read More…
UC Berkeley administration to answer student questions about campus budget
UC Berkeley campus administrators will release a video Friday urging students to pose questions by next Wednesday about how the campus budget is affected by decreased state funding. The video — which was recorded earlier this week by Vice Chancellor for Administration and Finance John Wilton — offers a way to Read More…
