Editor’s Note: Due to ridiculously high traffic all day Friday, the Clog was sporadically down for much of the day. Thus we resorted to Twitter for all of our occupation coverage. The above slideshow is a culmination of all the pictures we posted on Twitter taken by various Daily Cal employees. What follows are the highlights from our Twitter coverage. You can expect a more comprehensive post later.

*BREAKING: Students take over Wheeler Hall. http://tr.im/FnuQ http://tr.im/Fnv8

*http://twitpic.com/q9fq6 – Badass math professor keeps teaching on side of Evans after fire alarm

*One (of) the organizers gave out Vice Chancellor Breslauer’s number and told people to call and ask for amnesty for Wheeler Hall occupiers

*According to one of the organizers, Breslauer has agreed to begin negotiations with them.

*Outside Wheeler, they’re chanting “it’s raining, it’s cold, but UC Berkeley won’t be sold.”

*People are collecting $5 donations from the crowd to pay the bails for protestors arrested this morning #ucstrike

* dailycal Raw footage of the protest from a Daily Cal source: http://bit.ly/5JAQSk #ucstrike

*Still in front of Wheeler. Not too much happening, but a band has appeared. #Ucstrike

*Protester on west side of Wheeler: “You’re sexy, you’re cute, take off that riot suit!”

*Organizers handing out food to the crowd. Like grilled cheese sandwiches. No kidding.

*Ananya Roy and others just entered Wheeler accompanied by police #ucstrike

*Professor George Lakoff announces students will be escorted out of Wheeler and released. #ucstrike

*Occupiers will be cited with misdemeanors #ucstrike

*Prof george lakoff: “their reps will meet with the chancellor, and the vice chancellor is in there now.” #ucstrike

*Dean of Students Jonathan Poullard just entered Wheeler. Wish we knew what was going on in there. #ucstrike

*Professor Roy and others just left building. Occupiers still inside methinks #ucstrike – V.W.

*Police crossing barricade and human chain. People yelling about tear gas #ucstrike

*Everybody is sitting down. Organizers say the goal is to “block and not act with violence.” #ucbprotest #ucstrike

*There are at least three TV cameras here. And a helicopter overhead. #ucstrike

*Chancellor Birgeneau: “Attempts to engage in a conversation with the 15 to 30 protestors estimated to be in the building have been refused.”

*Lights normally (for the Big Game week) on in front of Wheeler Hall just got turned off. #ucstrike #ucbprotest

*Someone broke out into an impromptu a capella rendition of “And I Am Telling You (I’m Not Going)” #ucstrike

*Daily Clog correspondent Jessie Tseng: “This is out of control.” #ucstrike #ucbprotest

*It’s raining. Also, they’ve set up a large spotlight in front of Wheeler pointing out at the crowd. #ucstrike

* dailycal UCB spokesperson Dan Mogulof confirms 41 people arrested. More updates to come. #ucstrike #ucbprotest

*Marika Goodrich: “For anyone who was mistreated, we will have people to represent you.” #ucstrike #ucbprotest

*Some people are heading to the bonfire, expecting Chancellor Birgeneau to speak at the Big Game Rally. #ucstrike #ucbprotest

*Protest fashion: I’ve noticed several people wearing police tape headbands #ucstrike

*Aakash Desai: “I was … on our property and I’m being charged with burglary? They’re stealing our futures!” #ucbprotest #ucstrike

*dailycal Latest Daily Cal video of the protest: http://bit.ly/5rl7zl #ucstrike #ucbprotest

*ASUC President Will Smelko is inside of Wheeler, waiting for people to get out. Many people are cheering. #ucbprotest #ucstrike

*People singing “Na na hey hey kiss him goodbye” by The Steam. It looks like all the people have left Wheeler. #ucstrike #ucbprotest

*New speaker recognizes that none of the occupiers’ demands were met. #ucstrike #ucbprotest

*Anthony Prince, lawyer helping the occupiers: “I can tell you there’s a sense of history tonight.” #ucbprotest #ucstrike

Image Source: Diana Newby
Wheeler Hall Occupation Ends Peacefully [Daily Cal]

The minor has been around for just two years, but darn if it ain’t just the fastest-growin’ li’l academic sprout you ever did see–thanks in no small part to super-professor Ananya Roy.  And fortunately for the existential well-being of the 150 or so global poverty minors running around campus, she’s got the savvy to preemptively discourage delusions of globe-rescuing grandeur:

“We don’t send out students to miraculously solve and fix problems,” said Roy. “We hope they will make a tangible and responsible contribution, but most of all we hope they will be transformed and humbled by their experience, that they will learn from the work of organizations and communities, that they will recognize that they are getting much more than they can ever give.”

Well, we can’t argue with that.
Update: The Daily Cal has more information and quotes from professors.

Image Source: nickwheeleroz under Creative Commons
Fastest Growing Minor at Cal: Saving the World [NBC Bay Area]

A week ago, delivery interrupted a graduate seminar that Roy was teaching to heap much adulation and apples and purty flowers upon her unsuspecting person. The formal Golden Apple Award ceremony will take place in Dwinelle Hall at 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 24, when she’ll deliver her “Ideal Last Lecture” and rack up a couple of grand for being just that awesome.

Roy teaches the wildly popular course, “Global Poverty: Challenges and Hopes in the New Millenium”, every fall semester. Reportedly, the class started out as an eight-week seminar with space for about a couple dozen students. Then it expanded. And expanded. And kept right on expanding. It was like the universe or Google or something.

From a couple dozen, space allotment jumped up to a hundred plus, and then to 600 last fall. Unable to keep up with student demand, Roy and her graduate students had to turn away scores of students last semester, and still the stairs in Dwinelle Hall were so clogged from people using the steps as seats that the place beggared navigation. The Clog was there, and we can tell you that, at 5 to 6:30 every Tuesday and Thursday, the auditorium was packed to full capacity. No one ditched — ever. Sound holy freaking impossible? We speak truth.

Speaking of which, posters advertising the class have been going up around campus again. Check it out. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, and you’ll be able to tell the IMF from the WTO at the end of it all.

Image Source: smackbox under Creative Commons
Fruit and flowers honor a teacher who ‘knows her stuff’ [Berkeley News]