UC Berkeley will participate in a statewide earthquake drill Thursday morning to prepare for the risk of a major earthquake. Read More…
Sports
Started From The Bottom: Kelsie Dickerson’s ascendance from student to varsity star
Cal men’s tennis travels to USTA/ITA Northwest Regional Championships
With two months of preseason experience under its belt, the Cal men’s tennis team is readying itself for the USTA/ITA Northwest Regional Championships, which marks the peak of the fall season. Held at St. Mary’s College in Moraga, Calif., from Friday to Tuesday, the tournament will reward its winners with Read More…
Cal women’s tennis sends entire squad to Northwest Regional Championships
Intact for the first time this season, the entire Cal women’s tennis squad will head to the Northwest Regional Championships this weekend. The annual tournament will be held 40 miles southwest of Berkeley at Stanford University’s Taube Tennis Center, and it will run from Friday to Tuesday. At stake are Read More…
A&E
There are no strong female characters
Expert in FOUND novelties and novels shares findings
Davy Rothbart, the founder and editor of FOUND magazine, strolled onstage at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco. The center is stately and bilingual, and the author was slightly incongruous in his engagement at this venue. He took the stage in a bright pink jersey. He carried a gold Read More…
Paul McCartney’s ‘New’ album only partially true to title
Paul McCartney has set the bar pretty high for himself. It’s hard to not anticipate each of his releases with things like Band on the Run, McCartney and the Beatles in mind. But like his other recent albums, New fails to gratify. Because it’s just that — new. Though the 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
Cookie Butter is the new Nutella
So I’ve got a new obsession. It’s called cookie butter. Now I’m sure you’re probably thinking to yourself, how could a cookie possibly be transformed into a decadent jar of spreadable goodness? To be honest, I don’t know how Trader Joe’s, the manufacturers and (stop me if I’m going to Read More…
The 5 stages of choosing classes for your last semester
All right, seniors, we’re just going to throw it in your face: you only have one semester left at Cal. We’ve already touched upon the basic 5 stages of grief you go through as a senior about to leave Berkeley. Now, there’s something much more specific coming up to remind Read More…
Beyonce weighs in on the bill to make ASUC senators wear nametags
Currently on the table: An ASUC Senate bill suggests ASUC senators and administrators wear nametags around campus and in class — a never-ending “Hello, My Name Is” reminding us that we are indeed in the age of 24/7 accessibility. Will this bill — authored by Independent Campaign for Common Sense Senator Solomon Nwoche Read More…
13 freshman-year experiences as told through ‘Despicable Me’
Now that we’ve been in school for almost two months, first-years at UC Berkeley are (hopefully) beginning to get comfortable with college life as a whole. For those already familiar with Cal, it might be getting harder to remember how you felt when you were a little freshman figuring out Read More…