1. (15) Washington (4-0, 1-0 Pac-12) at (5) Stanford (4-0, 2-0 Pac-12) When: Saturday 7:30 P.M. TV: ESPN This is a matchup between Stanford’s high-powered offense and Washington’s defense. The Huskies are yielding just 288 yards per game, good enough for first in the Pac-12. But the Cardinal will look Read More…
What does it feel like to stand before a crowd of 63,000 wearing baggy pants, a lumpy sweater and a hairy American Grizzly mask on the hottest day in November? Step into the (size 15!) shoes of Oski, UC Berkeley’s beloved school mascot. For sports fans at Cal, Oski is Read More…
Next year’s Big Game may be leaving the friendly confines of Strawberry Canyon. Late Friday night, reports began to surface about a possible relocation of the 2014 Big Game, currently scheduled to be played in Memorial Stadium, to Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara. Associate athletic director Herb Benenson released a Read More…
We’ve all had some experience with grand theft in our lifetimes. Oh, you haven’t? What about that time you were a small schemer plotting to steal that last piece of cake from the fridge as soon as everyone else had gone to sleep? Or when you moved on to stealing cars Read More…
Breaking news: More Bay Area locals will now be able to experience the sweet goodness that is a CREAM sandwich. CREAM, arguably a grand favorite of Berkeley and East Bay residents, will soon branch out and open another shop. While we applaud the expansion of our favorite supplier of sugary Read More…
This past Saturday, the Frost Music and Arts Festival took place at Stanford’s Frost Amphitheater with MGMT as the headliner. Once we got past the fact that this was taking place at Stanford, we have to admit that it was a pretty cool experience. We thought that it was a Read More…
UC Berkeley architecture graduate student Antony Kim and his faculty mentor have been awarded the new Schmidt-MacArthur Fellowship for his commitment to finding self-sustaining sources of lighting in low income housing developments. Read More…
There’s something permeating the crisp Berkeley air this weekend that’s tainting the entire experience. It smells vaguely familiar, like something your own dorm room might have smelled like 20, 30 years ago … Read More…
A Bear is an awesome mascot to have. To quote Stephen Colbert, they’re “giant, marauding, godless killing-machines.” There’s so much potential for a fierce and intimidating logo and mascot, especially when we compare it to … a tree. And our athletics department, for better or worse, is trying to take advantage Read More…
Last Thursday, UC Berkeley released admission decisions to about 50,000 eager applicants. However, Facebook was not filled with the normal ratio of acceptance to rejection statuses. In fact, many puzzled and frustrated people were left thinking, “Was anyone even admitted at all?” This is due to Berkeley admitting only one Read More…