Sunday Shout-Out picks out the week’s stories that simply slipped our minds.
Last volleyball home game today at 12:30 p.m. and it’s free to all students. Plus: autographs! [Bear Bytes]
The hypothetical Mayor’s Urban Driving Competition: the most dangerous game? [NY Times]
A shitton of books for various Cal classes. But you won’t find any C++ books here. [UCB LJ]
Phillip Garrido apologizes “to every human being.” Somehow we don’t think this quite makes up for anything. [SFist]
Bears win a home game against the ranked Arizona Wildcats with a little circumstantial help [Daily Cal], [ESPN]
Image Source: Shirin Ghaffary, Daily Cal [ASIB]
Earlier: Bad News Bay-ers
Black Oak Books, once providing the perfect location for post-Cheeseboard-meal book shopping, is officially moving out. It seems times are tough, and the store is packing up and looking for greener pastures … or cheaper retail space, as it were.
The new location doesn’t appear to have been officially confirmed, although there has been talk of a move to the intersection of Dwight & San Pablo Avenues. We can only hope that this move will go well and the store will reopen in its full labyrinthine glory at its new location.
However, we can’t help noticing certain similarities between this move and the throes of closing-reopening agony Cody’s Books went through last year before finally succumbing to its wounds. Not that the trend is altogether surprising—given that the current economic downturn seems to be compounding the bookstore-annihilating forces already wielded by Amazon.com.
Image Source: 0olong under Creative Commons
Black Oak Books Moves [Berkeley Daily Planet]
If you’ve never experienced the joy of a Taschen book, now Pegasus Books is giving you the chance. The bookstore will continue its 50-75 percent off Taschen sale until May 5.
The “luscious” Taschen books make for great coffee table decor, though that doesn’t mean that they’re not informative (they are! and pretty!). They tend to cover topics like art, film, architecture, history, film, photography, pop culture and fashion–just to name a few.
Here’s hoping that the store has “The Big Penis Book” in stock!
Where: Pegasus Books at Shattuck and Durant avenues
When: until May 5
Cost: cheaper than normal
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Pegasus Fine Books [Website]
via UCB LJ
Being cheap bastards must come with Daily Cal territory. Today the paper highlighted some deals around campus for all your arts and entertainment purposes. The general gist?
* Blake’s, Shattuck Down Low, 924 Gilman and SF’s Bottom of the Hill for some live music
* United Artists’ Flashback Features for old flicks
* Half-Price Books for–you guessed it–books
* Oh hai, don’t forget the local Chinatowns either
Or you could, you know, download stuff semi- not really legally of the Intarwebz. Just saying.
Image Source: Cayusa under Creative Commons
For A Few Dollars Less [Daily Cal]
Posted by
Danica Li on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 02:55 pm
Sather Gate’s looking a bit destroyed, and the OCF’s decided to succumb to its money woes and postpone its triumphant return to late October, but at least one place on campus is set to reopen for sure. The newly retrofitted Bancroft Library will open its doors on January 5th, at precisely 1 p.m., to a student populace that will have already evacuated Berkeley for the remaining duration of that month. Brilliant timing, guys. read more »
If you want the best deal in textbooks, you need to go online. Sure, you have to pay for shipping and you won’t necessarily get your books on time, but that’s why you can return your “loaners” back to Ned’s or the student store. Don’t be a clueless freshmen–get in the know!
Whether it’s Come Get Used, Amazon or Half that you prefer, we’ve got one better: Big Words. Big Words prowls those other sites and reports back to you on the best deals on the Web. It even tells you all the secret deals, like typing in “BIOLOGY” to get $10 off a $100+ order on Ned’s Web site.
Sometimes buying off a friend doesn’t pan out (and that’s really where you get the best deals). Enter the Web. Ooh. Shiny.
Image: Aloys5268 under Wikimedia Commons
Big Words [Web site]
via Lifehacker
Earlier: Make a Cheap Book Rack
Too many books on your hands? or too many just sitting on your floor? Hang ‘em up!
You can make a book rack out of a cheap wire hanger–yes, a wire hanger. Basically, you’re turning a triangle into a rectangle with a few well placed bends.
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When she was alive, Joyce Columbia Berner loved books so much that she married them. No, really, she pretty much did–Berner had such an affinity for written stories that she eventually changed her last name to “Book.” She died with the name of Joyce Columbia Book last year, and that was that. Berkeley lost one of its many eccentric souls.
Today, however, the name Joyce Columbia Book resurfaces after a recent revelation. When Book died, she left a great amount of money to the Berkeley Public Library–$77,000, to be exact.
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If you compare a 2007 survey on Cal reading tastes to similar surveys administered in 1997 and 1987, what can you infer about Berkeley students? Perhaps we should be afraid–very afraid. In the past 20 years, student preferences strayed away from poignant classics like “The Fountainhead” and “The Color Purple,” to lucrative bestsellers like “Harry Potter” and the “Da Vinci Code.” Alright, we admit it–we read and loved both bestsellers–but what does it mean that the most elite public education institution in the world prefers contemporary fluff over literary heavyweights? Could it be a sign of the apocalypse?
Perhaps, but it could also be that “(t)he 1987 survey, like the ‘97 version, was conducted simply by distributing sheets of paper to freshman English classes,” while the most recent one was a “web-based summer/fall 2007 Survey of New Students (SoNS)” from 2,875 freshmen in every major.
Obviously, that explanation isn’t as fun.
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Newsweek’s ongoing book-recommendation list features the selections of Journalism Dean Orville Schell. It’s really a spot where writers can plug their own book, so just know that Schell has a book out. But what does he recommend?
1. “The Best and the Brightest” by David Halberstam
2. “Imperial Life in the Emerald City” by Rajiv Chandrasekaran
3. “The Trial” by Franz Kafka
4. “The Peloponnesian War” by Thucydides
5. “The Selected Stories of Li Xun”
And the kicker,
An Important Book you haven’t gotten around to reading: Any excellent new book that helps assess the challenges of global climate change … even if it’s by Al Gore.
A Life In Books [Newsweek]
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