Posted by Valerie Woolard on Wednesday, July 01, 2009 11:28 pm
For those of you who have tired of the antics of Demi Moore, Oprah and even President Obama and are searching for new tweets to follow, we’ve found a new celebrity Twitter for you—Mark Yudof.
All right, so the UC President isn’t really a celebrity by any stretch of the imagination. But the twitter, which along with a similar Facebook, we’re assuming was created in attempt to better reach out to students in a time of crippling budget cuts to the university from the state, dispenses such pearls of wisdom as:
Just saw “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” at the IMax. Best line: “Ive got an alien remodeling a pyramid.”
So there you have it, if you are yearning to hear of Mark Yudof’s movie-going activities, as well as, by the looks of it, all the meetings he’s attending, look no further.
But we might as well add that if you really are looking for new folks to follow on Twitter, you can’t go wrong with the Clog’s feed.
Posted by Jill Cowan on Wednesday, July 01, 2009 09:39 pm
We’re stuck. We don’t know who to tell you to vote for in the San Francisco Fashion Awards‘ “Best Blogger/Author” category.
On the one hand, we’ve got Karen Kwok, the Bare Blog editor. And Bare Blog is affiliated with Bare Magazine. And Bare Magazine is affiliated with Berkeley. And it’s sometimes kind of fun to read.
But on the other hand, we’ve got Brock Keeling, editor of SFist. And we sort of love SFist. Even though it is in no way affiliated with Berkeley.
Conundrum! Well, we guess we’ll just have to let you think for yourselves on this one. (Since we know you usually, like, hang on our every word and stuff … ) We’re not entirely sure what they win, but, hey–an award’s an award. Bragging rights are always included.
Image Source: gwen under Creative Commons San Francisco Fashion Awards [Website]
Posted by Diana Newby on Tuesday, June 30, 2009 09:29 pm
John Yoo, lucky duck of a man, can now add the lovely ladies of Code Pink to his ever-expanding fan base. Like so many shameless groupies, the avid activists clamored outside his Berkeley residence early Sunday evening, vying desperately for the law professor’s attention. Haven’t they any dignity?
Okay, so that’s not exactly how it went down, which (transparent sarcasm notwithstanding) read more »
Posted by Alex Bigman on Tuesday, June 30, 2009 03:48 pm
For those of you who drive, live and dwell on or around campus, or simply choose to walk rather than subject yourself to the whims, smells and sad resignation aboard the AC transit system, this year expect a seller’s market for bus pass stickers. Amidst a gaping deficit and, it would follow, looming budget cuts, it looks like bus prices are on the up and up. Our hands protectively cup our oh-so-valuably adorned read more »
Posted by Diana Newby on Monday, June 29, 2009 11:59 pm
If word on the street does not deceive, Zaytuna College in downtown Berkeley might lay claim to fame in becoming the “first fully accredited Islamic University in the nation.”
The pursuit of this prestige comes in the wake of the school’s first graduating class, which totaled five students.
When it comes to educational institutions, the more the merrier, we suppose. Recession, schmeshmeschmen, right?
Image Source: reway2007 under Creative Commons
Berkeley to become home to yet another university [Examiner]
After discovering the latest omen of the world’s coming demise, the Clog encourages Berkeley students to put down their books and enjoy their short-lived time on Earth.
It appears that some cute, seemingly innocent wallabies, such as the one shown at right, have become a bit rebellious and begun getting high off of opium poppies. Tasmania, you see, is the world’s largest producer of legally grown opium, and the poor creatures have been wandering into opium poppy fields, eating the crops and becoming … a bit disoriented.
This bizarre phenomenon has given rise to another—crop circles. As the Tasmanian attorney general puts it, “We have a problem with wallabies entering poppy fields, getting as high as a kite and going around in circles.”
Hmm … uncontrollably going around in circles, that sounds a bit like another Tasmania native. In any case, we can only hope that the adorable, drugged-up wallabies get the help they need. And we advise you, Berkeley students, to go outside and enjoy the vegetation — before the wallabies trample it.
Posted by Diana Newby on Monday, June 29, 2009 03:55 pm
Oh, ’tis a beautiful bubble of surreality in which we live, this quaint little locus for conservative derision. How sweet the instance in which we inspire actual fear; what better means to disseminate the seeds of anarchic malcontent than through the tender minds of our children?
Truly this is the terror gripping the moral majority by the seat of their pants in the wake of a most scandalous revelation exposition: children thinking for themselves! Eighth grade students at our very own Black Pine Circle School have forever left their mark in the form of mosaic tiles depicting, among other deeply horrifying subjects, the Communist hammer and sickle and an epitaph declaring, “Capitalism will fail.”
Lord have mercy. And by that we mean rock on. Fox News, naturally, kind of lost its sh*t and went off about “blatant proof of political indoctrination of young children”–because of course no forward-thinking thirteen year old could possibly be attracted to liberal ideals of their own volition. Brainwashing abounds in Berkeley, friends; it’s a sorry state indeed.
Image Source: oddsock under Creative Commons
‘Capitalism Will Fail,’ Marijuana Leaf Part of California School Mosaic [FoxNews]
The profile paints the Nobel Laureate, professor and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab director-turned Secretary of Energy as a Washington outsider faced with the challenges of dealing with the nation’s global warming and energy crisis. It also touches on a few of Steven Chu’s more “Berkeley” qualities, such as his insistence on relying on his $5,000 bike for transportation rather than owning a car.
Construction is an easy thing to hate. Coincidentally, construction in Berkeley spreads faster than the rats in our kitchen (please don’t ask).
Dear Construction Sites of the Berkeley Campus,
Stop. Just stop it already. Students do not wake up at 7 a.m. or even 8 a.m. (technically they are still half-asleep even if they are so-called “awake” at these times). read more »
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For those of you who have tired of the antics of Demi Moore, Oprah and even President Obama and are searching for new tweets to follow, we’ve found a new celebrity Twitter for you—Mark Yudof.
We’re stuck. We don’t know who to tell you to vote for in the 
After discovering the latest omen of the world’s coming demise, the Clog encourages Berkeley students to put down their books and enjoy their short-lived time on Earth.
Oh, ’tis a beautiful bubble of surreality in which we live, this quaint little locus for conservative derision. How sweet the instance in which we inspire actual fear; what better means to disseminate the seeds of anarchic malcontent than through the tender minds of our children?
Somewhere in between Aerosmith and the Jonas Brothers, UC Berkeley’s 
