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The Daily Clog (Cal+Blog) accumulates various tidbits about Berkeley and college life. We focus on the UC campus, the city of Berkeley and Berkeley’s online community. We give our two cents on all the goings-on — whether you like it or not. But, hopefully you do!
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The Dudes
Jasmine Mausner — Blog Editor
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Jasmine Mausner is a senior who knows more statistics and facts about the Lakers than she does about herself. Thus, writing this paragraph was not the easiest thing to do. She enjoys eating, but not cooking, solely eating. She can solve a rubix cube in under a minute. She dabbles in a little basketball here and there but tries to stay as far away from physical exercise as possible. She cries at the mere sight of puppies and dreams about the day when teacup tips will be an acceptable pet. And … she loves the Clog!
Chloe Hunt — Assistant Blog Editor
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Chloe Hunt is a sophomore undergraduate student who pretends to know lots of things. She comes to the Clog from a news world of crazy crime and energetic elections. She enjoys daydreaming constantly, and spends an unhealthy amount of time chatting on Facebook. She is a proud listener of wizard rock and Smash Mouth when she gets stressed. Her favorite things include candy, heaters and retail therapy.
Tejas Dave — Writer
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Tejas is a freshman pursuing a degree in bioengineering and considering a simultaneous major in economics. When he’s not doing homework, studying or figuring out how to fit two majors into four years, he enjoys blogging (often as an amateur social commentator), biking, playing tennis and staying updated with the news.
Matt Espinelli — Writer
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Matt is a man who has spent the majority of his life stranded in space near the 53rd quadrant of the Danvillian galaxy. However, after enduring the treacherous years he had spent there fighting off countless space pirates, he has finally returned to earth to write for the Clog. On his off days, when he isn’t saving the world from Soviet Union era killer robots, Matt enjoys playing video games or reading literature. He is also a big fan of imagining that he is a 1940s noire detective whenever he hears jazz music. With his overactive sense of humor, Matt tends to laugh at ridiculous things that aren’t as funny as they seem. Currently, Matt is a resident of Asgard (could secretly be Thor…) and prefers it if you greet him with a Ninja Turtle handshake as opposed to a normal handshake.
Fiona Hannigan — Writer
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Fiona Hannigan is: The Wikipedia Addict! Blog writer by day, super woman by night. Solving all the tough questions, such as: who is Kyösti Kallio? The fourth president of Finland, that’s who.
Kamin Kahrizi — Writer
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Kamin is a freshman and the natural heir to the deposed King of Nigeria. After leaving his homeland and realizing no one is going to help him, he traveled North to the land of the Ontario snows. There, he earned the Inuit name “Whispering Wolf Shadow Runner”. He has also spent many moons in the Orange country. In his free time, he enjoys watching movies, running the Fire Trails and rain. And trees. And clouds. He is also a scientist.
Erum Khan — Writer
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Erum would love to be the next JK Rowling as far as successful writing goes and sincerely hopes she doesn’t have to go down the starving artist role for too long. She wants to spend her life in a Jane Austen novel (minus the lack of women’s rights, of course), and consequently never goes a day without at least a smidgen of reading. Numbers and scientific facts petrify her, so she’ll leave all that to her fellow Golden Bears in the daunting math, chem, engineering, etc etc departments. Chaucer and Faulkner are her cup of tea over equations no matter what day of the week!
Uday Mehta — Writer
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Uday is cynical to the point that even this paragraph should be taken with all the in the shaker. He writes about everything that doesn’t make sense in the universe – which is to say, everything. He is on the run from the authorities for being the self-proclaimed king of the world, and thus threatening the livelihood of politicians everywhere. He writes from various offshore locations, where he finds time to pirate hip-hop music and commandeer the airwaves of Lakers games. He loves the rush of adrenaline, which explains the haste with which he finishes his work seconds before it is due. He has officially been diagnosed with insanity.
Daniel Radding — Writer
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Danny Radding is just a freshman. He thought he was going to be able to go by Daniel when he came to CAL. Unfortunately for him, too many kids from his high school are Bears and yell out “DAAANNY” when ever they see him. Danny is a politician fighting journalistic tendencies. He lightweight thought about getting involved with the ASUC but decided working for The Clog is where it’s at. Danny is a bit of a tech junkie so you probably don’t want to get him started about how Apple sells overpriced computers and thinks they can patent the rectangle …
Hailey Simpson — Writer
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hailey likes to write
well duh. however, she is
not that great at writing haiku
When she is not attempting to write bad haiku while still counting syllables with her fingers, Hailey is probably at a concert, where she spends 66.6% of her free time and 80% of her bank account. She also enjoys British and comedy TV, running around on a broom screaming EXPELLIARMUS, drinking tea, worshiping John Green, chasing Berkeley squirrels, and otherwise exploring the hella bay area. You can probably find her on tumblr. Or Netflix. Oh, you mean the real world? Most likely sitting on a glade of some capacity. With boba. And a fat reader.
Rachel X. Sutton— Writer
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Rachel X. Sutton is a caffeine-powered, carbon-based life form. She is also criminal studies major, activist, artist, model, musician, blogger, gym junkie, Nietzschean, goth-clubber, recovering multitasker, and general weirdo. Rachel’s favorite coffee drink is a Red Eye, and if you know of a cafe in Berkeley that makes a good one, please let her know.
Erik Swan — Writer
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Erik Swan plays piano and likes to write. He avoids structured activities; organic, improvisational recreation is his favorite. Being rich or famous is not really important to him. He often rolls his eyes until he gets dizzy, and nearly everything he says is sarcastic. He doesn’t believe in personal accountability, but that’s not his fault. When it comes to writing, he is the most understated person in the universe. He likes to do impressions: you should hear his Christopher Walken. As a member of the Daily Clog, he hopes to make you laugh and inform you at the same time.
How It All Went Down, Yo
The Daily Clog is a blog from The Daily Californian. In the spring of 2006, Arts Editor Soo Oh had a blogerific idea. Then she split and went to France.
That didn’t stop us. Managing Editor Oscar Shine approached an unsuspecting Jonathan Yorde and propositioned him. Then he asked Yorde to manage the Clog. Without a bead of sweat, Yorde passed the feat of pulling a sword out of a stone and he was since known as King Arthur. Wait, sorry, wrong story.
Anyway, Yorde started out with a splendid cast of characters: Angie Baecker, Gerald Nicdao and Lucas Westmaas. They all helped the blog emerge from its womb on October 16, 2006. It was alive and kicking, but no one knew what was to come.
Almost a month later, on November 8, Jeff Bowman dressed up this baby, and the Clog entered the real world, the big boys’ club if you will. The monster was alive.
Now, here we are, ready to bowl. Just as long as it’s not Shabbos. We don’t roll on Shabbos.
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