It looks likes that Berkeley residents are going to try to save the Berkeley Iceland. Keyword being “try.” A group of community members have created a website, “saveberkeleyiceland.org”:http://saveberkeleyiceland.org in hopes of generating ideas to save the old rink.
Yes, to generate ideas to save the Iceland. Awesome. These people only have two and a half months to save the Iceland “before it closes”:http://clog.dailycal.org/index.php?id=144 and all they’re doing is trying to “generate ideas.”
Now why hasn’t the University stepped in to buy the Berkeley Iceland, since the Cal ice hockey team plays its home matches there? This is a relatively minute point “brought up in a story”:http://www.berkeleydaily.org/text/article.cfm?issue=01-23-07&storyID=26156 in the Berkeley Daily Planet.
We have a simple answer. The Cal ice hockey team isn’t a varsity sport. No varsity sport = no (monetary) support from the university. Sure, the ice hockey players can gripe all they want about stadium renovations and what not, but the question is does anyone care about Cal ice hockey?
Do you care about Cal ice hockey? Do you love ice skating? Then tell us at “clog@dailycal.org”:mailto:clog@dailycal.org.
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Posted by
Nate Tabak on Monday, January 22, 2007 08:18 pm
We thought Oakgate couldn’t get any sillier. We were wrong. Three ladies with a collective age of almost 250 years old, including former Mayor Shirley Dean and former Councilmember Betty Olds, this morning joined the ongoing Oak-tree sitting by Memorial Stadium.
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Olds told supporters, “This little grove of trees is an oasis. If we can’t save this, we might as well throw in the towel.”
But what does she mean by throwing in the towel? Are we talking about this tree-saving effort or perhaps even human existence as a whole. Now that would be a story.
Ex-mayor, two others join Berkeley tree-sitters “[SF Gate]“:http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/01/22/BAGOBNN0U67.DTL
Hindsight is a weekly recap of the good stuff, for better or for worse.
This semester, the look-back-and-laugh feature is moving to Sundays. That gives you two more days every week to make devistatingly annoying news.
* Berkeley Iceland’s closure means extra Big Freeze. [Facebook]
* Taser vicitim bitch slaps police with federal lawsuit. [LA Times]
* When the Clog demands, it receives. [Daily Cal]
* Despite face time with Boalt Dean, it’s time for NYT to find a new pet university. [NY Times]
* The Clog makes its resolutions for Berkeley. [Daily Clog]
* It’s hard to tell who’s the jerk when one friend befriends a know-it-all friend in national media with proof of arrogance [NY Times]:
“She’s a superior human being, and she comes from a superior area — Berkeley, Calif.,” Ms. Rothman said. “She has told me many times that there are only two places to get good food. One of them is Berkeley, and one of them is France. And France is only second to Berkeley.”
Posted by
Nate Tabak on Saturday, January 20, 2007 09:32 pm
Seeing as we’re about three weeks into the new year, here are a few resolutions for to make these next 12 months even better than the previous.
* Oaks: Get the fuck over them. Everybody loves trees, but some must die in the name of much-needed renovation of Memorial Stadium. These activists should consider getting jobs or perhaps chaining themselves to butcher shops.
* Football team: Tedford should lead the Bears to another glorious season, but please let us not take the national championship. Does Berkeley really need to be the home of the best college football team in the country?
* City Council: It owes itself a sex scandal.
* Politics: Now that the country has finally realized that Republican hegemony is a bad thing, it’s time for Berkeley to become a bastion of conservatism.
* Protests: When was the last time Berkeley had a truly zesty protest? Helicopter-dropped tear gas anyone?
* Cyclists: Cease running god-dammed stop signs.
* Students: Please stop, you’re an embarrassment.
* Residents: Please stop, you’re an embarrassment.
“Defeating Oregon State by three”:http://dailycal.org/sharticle.php?id=22674 isn’t too impressive. It doesn’t matter if the game was in Corvallis, in Berkeley or at the neighborhood YMCA. The way the Bears won Thursday would be like if a college student barely passed an open-book-open-notes exam by only three points.
With that said, Cal plays Oregon today. It’s going to be tough and you’re probably not going to want to Tivo this one.
At least the Bears won’t be losing to a horribly fashioned team. The Ducks basketball team shows some sort of fashion savvy. Just look at those not-so-ugly unis. Hey Ducks football, learn something you’re your hoops brethren. *Oregon rolls 81-65.*
Rumors are circulating in our favorite Livejournal community that AJ from the seventh cycle of America’s Next Top Model was spotted on campus today. Sitting outside Dwinelle. Hall.
This may be as exciting as a when I took a class with Jonny Moseley (who had really poor attendance, btw). It’s sad to think this new “celebrity” may rapidly become what’s on the mind of Berkeley.
In any case, if anybody has any substantial information, send it over to “clog@dailycal.org”:mailto:clog@dailycal.org.
ANTM’s AJ at Cal? [Livejournal community]
Posted by
sjlee on Friday, January 19, 2007 10:33 pm
1964 marks the year those famed Liverpudlian lotharios blew up the American pop stage and fulfilled every prepubescent fantasy left dry by Elvis’ rusty pelvis. Distributed in the the summer of 1964, A Hard Day’s Night is a semi-mockumentary that simultaneously plants its tongue in the cheek of Beatlemania and sells us the soundtrack that first pinned the Beatles on the charts.
Screening at PFA
January 20, 2007
3:00 pm matinee
A split second. Lot’s of things can happen in a split second. You can blink, your scoop of ice cream can fall to the floor, your life can flash before your eyes and you can even win a basketball game.
“Cal was a split second away from a potential loss”:http://dailycal.org/sharticle.php?id=22674 to O! S! U! yesterday night, but the Beavers were a split-second too late, as their final shot attempt went into the basket, but was released just a hair too late for it too count.
It was just one of those games we guess. The Bears should have won easily last night. But as Ben Braun’s club showed, well, games aren’t played on paper.
Now, “like we said yesterday”:http://clog.dailycal.org/index.php?id=141, we hope you Tivo’ed that game. One, because it was an awesome nail-bitter, if you like that sort of thing. And two, well with Oregon, UCLA and USC coming up, it’s going to be awhile before Braun’s club can survive a scare like last night’s.
The Chron reports that Berkeley Iceland announced today it will close March 31.
The ice rink faced many challenges, including replacing its refrigeration system that used ammonia. Now, community members will have to travel to use the rink.
No word yet where the Big Freeze will be played in the future, but we’d like to recommend the Kristi Yamaguchi Holiday Ice Rink. It’s festive.
Iceland Rink to Close March 31 [SF Gate]
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