The San Francisco Japantown Sumo Wrestling Festival held matches between wrestlers and demonstrations with kids. Featured wrestlers included Byamba, three-time World Sumo Champion, and Kelly Gneiting, four-time U.S. Champion and Guinness World Record holder as the heaviest human to complete a marathon ever.
This year, Cal students have an unprecedented opportunity to have a voice in local Berkeley politics. Currently, Cal students make up about a quarter of Berkeley’s population, but in the last half century, only one student has been elected to Berkeley City Council. The Free Speech Movement — the apex Read More…
It’s been easy to overlook the youth vote — until recently, we’ve been seen as an immobilized voting bloc, to be recruited as volunteers rather than to be courted as a constituency. However, we challenged that notion in 2008 when we more than tripled our turnout as one of the Read More…
After reading, then re-reading Jason Willick’s Monday column “Why we love Israel,” I was upset. I was not upset about the way he portrayed right-wing Israelis, and I am far from a supporter of Sheldon Adelson. Rather, I was upset how the article comes across as a generalization about the Birthright experience, as one operated by hot-headed rightists and supporters of settlers, where brainwashing about the devil incarnate that is “Modern Islam” is rife. It is this sort of sordid idea of the “Birthright experience” that might corrupt an altogether powerful, if not engaging and challenging, trip. Read More…
My name is Andy Furillo, and I am a 21-year-old senior here at Berkeley. I have been an avid Cal football fan since I was a toddler and have been a student season ticket holder every year I have been at Berkeley. As I prefer to remember and analyze the Read More…
For you as readers, I will provide analysis and even more than that — new information that will blow your Cal socks right off — if you care about this stuff. The actions and absence of actions by the ASUC in and out of official meetings bring a fantastically dramatic dimension to the student government and will hopefully do the same for this column. My stories will make you feel like Gossip Girl and The West Wing had a love child named the ASUC. The ridiculous amounts of money students spend on their election campaigns make even Meg Whitman weep. Juiciness will be for another day, but I encourage you to read on. Read More…
Late at night on July 10, Mayor Tom Bates faced a tough decision. The Berkeley City Council meeting, at the time focused on placing the contentious “sit-lie” measure on the November ballot, was being derailed by an unruly crowd of the measure’s detractors, who sang loudly in protest. Bates needed Read More…
Berkeley is a small business town. Here, there are few major chains and no huge department stores — instead, local businesses dominate the commercial atmosphere.Therefore, it is crucial that the city continues to support small businesses and foster their growth. Taxis drivers who hold licenses to operate in Berkeley fall Read More…
Cal coach Jeff Tedford and No. 12 Ohio State coach Urban Meyer maintain a cordial relationship in the offseason. But this past February a taboo elephant came along for a golf outing. “This year there wasn’t a lot of talk about football, as you can imagine,” Tedford said. When Meyer’s Read More…
It’s been a rough two weeks for the Cal football team. Heading into consecutive road trips against ranked opponents, the Bears seem primed for back-to-back blowout losses, and the prospect of going 1-3 for the first third of the season seems imminent. But as daunting as Saturday’s trip to No. Read More…
