The Daily Californian will leave its sixth floor office in Eshleman Hall this Friday following the upcoming demolition of the building. There is no place reserved for it in the limited space allotted to other student organizations. Instead the Daily Cal will move editorial and business operations to a new Read More…
On July 4, two experiments analyzing data from the Large Hadron Collider at the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) at the border of Switzerland and France announced that they had discovered a new particle, which looks similar to the long-sought Higgs boson. Read More…
You can always tell when it’s August. School backpacks are rushed to the front of the shelves, the weather is caught in a monotonous standstill between the heat of summer and the cool of fall and an entire slew of mediocre movies are thrust upon an audience, fatigued from the Read More…
There’s something automatically intriguing about a production of “The Merchant of Venice,” Shakespeare’s most controversial play. Yes, even for San Francisco. Though the city rarely shies away from addressing contentious subjects, something about “Merchant” raises brows. San Francisco is progressive, certainly, but progressive stops where political correctness begins. Fortunately for Read More…
Some years ago, The New York Times published an anthology of its front pages on the days of important historical events. Though the book’s ‘best-of’ style of selection made for good reading, the real fun was to be had with the accompanying CD-ROM which included every front page of the Read More…
There’s no lion about it: On Wednesday running back Khairi Fortt ditched Penn State to sign a scholarship commitment with Cal. Fortt is one of three players who have left the Nittany Lions in the past few days in the aftermath of the Jerry Sandusky scandal. At the end of Read More…
Erin Cafaro and the U.S. women’s eight team captured gold for the sixth straight year. The United States held off Canada by two thirds of a length at the finish. Julie Nichols and partner Kristin Hedstrom came in fourth in the semifinals of the women’s lightweight double sculls with a time of 7:12.61. Read More…
Future generations of Daily Cal staffers will never know 600 Eshleman. They will never know the sunsets on the 6th floor balcony. They will never know the bulky wooden typewriter desks that decades of editors signed on the last night of production. Read More…
The following is a sample of crime in Berkeley from July 22 — July 28, provided by the Berkeley Police Department. Loud Party – 1700 Block of Woolsey Street On July 22, at approximately 11:51 p.m., BPD officers were dispatched to a report of a loud party in the 1700 Block Read More…
The city of Berkeley began construction last week of a new bike path extending through the Berkeley Marina, a project that has been in the making for more than eight years in order to create a safer cycling environment in the area. Read More…
