As an independent student newspaper and the paper of record for the city of Berkeley, the Daily Cal has been communicating important updates during this pandemic. Your support is essential to maintaining this coverage.
For the past month, I’ve spent a couple of hours each week registering voters on Sproul Plaza. Every Friday I step inside the busy crowd of people headed to and from class and ask them politely if they’ve registered to vote. If I get a response, it’s most likely, “I’m
Read More…
Having a part in the process that nudges the political compass that ultimately affects your life is a heavy weight to bear.
Read More…
It starts with the Facebook profile pictures and steadily spreads until there are hordes of flyerers eager to prey upon students walking to class.
Read More…
Most Oscar categories are nominated by Academy members of the corresponding discipline within the organization’s total membership of more than 7,000.
Read More…
So election results are in, and the candidate you wanted to win didn’t win. You’re sitting in sad silence in your residence hall, unsure of what to do. Cry, sob, laugh hysterically, take a long trip around the world? Eat every possible burrito at the Golden Bear Cafe while at
Read More…
I dress up, usually in some subtle combination of campaign-trail colors. I pick a blue-and-white dress and wear red jewelry. I pick a red dress with a blue belt. I am a dork all the way; I update Facebook to gloat about voting, and I Instagram my sticker on the way out.
Read More…
am writing this because I am now sad and not impressed with the current students at Berkeley. Why haven’t the students continued with the Berkeley heritage of standing up and trying to protest wrong actions from their government? Our country has been involved in another wasteful, unjustified war for more than 10 years now, and I have not heard about protests at Berkeley or any other university to the degree that the 1960s students protested.
Read More…
To be liberal is a good thing. To be a Democrat in the year 2014 is a complete disgrace. In 2014, the Democratic Party has become a neurotic mess that cannot seem to do anything right. Democrats cannot think and reason on their own, nor can they tolerate dissent in
Read More…
Gun violence, health insurance reform and education funding are often on the tip of the tongue of mainstream political commentators these days. But what you wouldn’t know from reading those headlines is that entwined in every political issue is a concerted attack on the right to a functioning democracy, manifested
Read More…
