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Want to stay informed on the latest Berkeley breaking news, commentary, sports and entertainment? Want free tickets to this Saturday’s Cal football game? Today is your lucky day! The Daily Cal is giving away four free regular tickets to this Saturday’s game against Oregon State. There are two very easy
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The following is a reprint of The Daily Californian’s editorial, published 40 years ago tomorrow, declaring independence from the university after months of conflict surrounding a controversial editorial the paper published about People’s Park. Tuesday, September 28,1971 It’s Your Newspaper Now The Daily Californian is now an independent newspaper. We
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Four decades ago, The Daily Californian published an editorial that sparked a heated controversy and prompted its Publishers Board to attempt to bring its publication to a halt. The possibility of the students’ voice being silenced was real, and the editor in chief asserted at the time that it “seriously
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As of today, our main Twitter account (@dailycal) has more than 4,000 followers, signaling progress in our push into the digital age. In August, we were the only college newspaper to jump more than one place in the top 25 rankings of number of twitter followers, according to data compiled
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On Thursday, Sept. 1, Development Editor Matthew Putzulu and Editor in Chief and President Tomer Ovadia answered questions about the Daily Cal application process. Below is a transcript of the live chat. Matthew Putzulu: Hey everyone—Welcome to our special “Ask the Daily Cal” regarding hiring! My name is Matthew Putzulu, and
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It recently came to our attention that we did not fully disclose the affiliations of one of our Letter to the Editor contributors. On Monday, July 11, 2011, we published a letter by Julia Gettle, who identified herself to us as a UC Berkeley third-year undergraduate history major. Only after publication
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Next Sunday will mark 10 years since Sept. 11, 2001 — 10 years since the attacks in New York and at the Pentagon took the lives of 3,000 Americans and altered our culture, our policies and our perspectives. The Daily Californian will be running special features in print and online,
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In case you haven’t noticed, yesterday we decreased the size of the font you see in the text of our articles. We feel this gives it a more accessible and appealing look. While we were partly spurred to make the change as a result of comments from readers, we could
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After much reflection over the degree of freedom we should give our website viewers to comment on our posts, our Senior Editorial Board has decided to allow readers to comment without registering an email address. This new policy, implemented today, returns us to the policy we had for our old
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Today’s issue was the last one of our spring publication cycle. Next week marks the beginning of our summer publication cycle. In spring and fall, we publish print editions on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday; we are online-only on Wednesday. In summer, we publish print editions on Monday and Thursday,
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