I was deeply disturbed by the admission to undergraduate status of Khairi Fortt, a Penn State football player, only a few days before the new term opens. From all indications, he was “admitted” by the Athletic Department, without application or the critical vetting that thousands of other would-be undergraduates went through nearly a year ago. Read More…
The historic post office buildings that are up for sale are, at the moment, public property. Your article “Downtown Berkeley post office to close after 97 years” (July 2) indicates that they will soon be passing into private hands but doesn’t disclose who or what is bidding on them. Read More…
The recent article “Up to 92 percent of Californians under 65 covered by Obamacare, study says” (June 18) described the anticipated health care coverage increase under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The article referred to the proposal by the pejorative “Obamacare,” which title follows from the narrative that President Obama is foisting the law on the American people. Read More…
I have been reading The Daily Californian on campus for more than 40 years; I don’t think the readability, attractiveness and thoughtfulness of the paper has ever been this good. The economic pressure the Daily Cal felt seems to have produced unexpectedly fabulous results, and the editors and other folks Read More…
Arguments against Proposition 28 make fallacious claims This letter is in response to the editorial “On good terms,” originally posted June 4, 2012. There are many sound arguments to be made against term limits, but allowing legislators to “worry less about reelection” is not one of them. It is one Read More…
On Feb. 3, 2012, the Senior Editorial Board of The Daily Californian published an editorial entitled “Delayed Deadline.” The editorial was a critical response to a letter sent by professor Jesse Choper, chair of the Police Review Board, who had been asked by Chancellor Birgeneau to complete, by Jan. 31, Read More…
Anti-Israel ad breaks trust, propagates lies Seeing dangerous lies in a paid display ad (The Daily Californian, Monday, May 21) breaks the trust of the reader in the newspaper’s judgment as a whole. In this case, an especial red flag should have gone up in taking money from anti-Israel activists. Read More…
Evans Diamond lacks satisfactory safety On May 5, 2012, Steven D. Raymond, a UC Berkeley Class of 1977 graduate, filed a report with UCPD about a foul baseball hit he said he had suffered at the game between Cal and Stanford at Evans Diamond on March 23, 2009. He had Read More…
As the recent article “Rising costs of textbooks prove to be concerning” (April 30) pointed out, students are paying more for education — and textbooks continue to be a rising cost. The average student spends around $900 a year on textbooks alone, which only adds to difficulty of being able to Read More…
I am a senior at Cal this year, and I was extremely offended to read the article concerning the men’s gymnastics team and their performance at nationals. I personally know every single man on the team, and I traveled to nationals in Oklahoma City this year to support them. If Read More…