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Something that has evolved out of the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is the #PayMyTuitionChallenge. Education software developer Blackboard is offering a $15,000 scholarship as a first-place prize. Here are some the Daily Clog’s favorite entries.
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Stephen Burke, also known as a DJ under his pseudonym Sirensceol, is a 4th-year American Studies major at UC Berkeley and a full-time producer. His story begins the second semester of his freshman year, while listening to the music his friends would frequently recommend. Burke realized that it would be
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A trip to Europe usually elicits thoughts of culture, architecture and food. But for three UC Berkeley students who recently ventured from Vienna to Berlin with nothing but a 24-pack of Red Bull, it was about charm, resourcefulness and perseverance. Sophomore Jimmy Stewart, sophomore Milad Razavi and junior Jimmy Kollar
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Remember the Easter egg scavenger hunt that happened the Thursday before 4/20? Or the April Fool’s “prank” that Google played on the world? Now imagine what happens when you combine these two awesome ideas. At 2:00 p.m., more than a hundred Pokemon and about 30 Pokeballs will be hidden across campus.
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Here to ameliorate the plight of many college students who forget to bring their wallets around, the Isis Mobile Wallet is a tech bundle that allows you to pay at checkout simply by scanning your phone against a contactless terminal. Sounds cool, huh? We’ve never imagined the human race would reach such
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Answer: nothing short of “pretty darn cool.” Every day, many avid fans of anything along the spectrum of the mainstream to the underground submit their designs for a dream LEGO set to lego.cuusoo.com. There they become “projects,” and people hope their submissions appeal to the masses and gain votes. Once
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Step inside a frat house on a Friday night and you’re greeted by the thumping bass of dance music, an epileptic display of lights, red solo cups and a welcoming cesspool of drunken individuals. “This, right here, is what college is about,” you say to yourself. “I’m going to get
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Now that Tele-BEARS appointments have been released, it’s time to start panicking about classes next semester. We at the Clog understand your biannual Tele-BEARS frustration, and we’re here to try to alleviate that using an old trick from European folklore. The Germanic and Celtic people considered wells to be sacred
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Three UC Berkeley students will head to Europe as finalists in the Red Bull “Can You Make It?” challenge. 100 teams were chosen from universities that spanned the six continents. To qualify for the competition, teams from all over the world were required to submit one-minute videos. Although UC Berkeley students
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It’s no secret that our campus is pretty big. It’s 1,232 acres (which is, like, 947 football fields) of amazing, with 32 libraries and a plethora of other buildings. So it’d be pretty impressive if you could identify and locate places on campus based on a single photograph. Care to
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