Did you spot the last-day squirrel? Friday marked the last issue of spring semester production for The Daily Californian.
Starting next week, the Daily Cal will be available every Monday and Thursday. Summer production ushers in a new crew of editors:
Editor-in-chief: Bryan Thomas
Managing editor: Tamara Bartlett
Night editor: Laura Macarthur
News editor: Angelica Dongallo
Sports editor: Andrew Kim
Arts and entertainment editor: Louis Peitzman
Opinion editor: Victoria Tang
Photo editor: Nathan Yan
Clog editor: Patrici Flores
Staff representative: Salgu Wissmath
Sorry, but you gotta deal with Patrici for yet another semester (what a drag, right?).
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Changing of the Guard [Daily Cal]
Oh snap! This could be you! You could be the next Sex on Tuesday or the next politics “guru” or whatever columnist for the Daily Cal. Can you dig it?
Columnist applications are due this Friday, Apr. 25 for both summer and fall positions. You can pick up apps in the office at 600 Eshleman, or you can print one from online. Here are some more deets:
* Two sample columns needed (750 words for normal columns, 700 for SoT)
* An explanation of your themed column, if that’s the route you take
* Questions? E-mail the upcoming O-Page editor Victoria Tang at opinion@dailycal.org
Good luck!
Today marks the first day of voting for the 2008 ASUC elections and the publication of the Daily Cal endorsements. To vote, go to election.asuc.org or hit up any polling station on campus. Voting ends on Thursday, Apr. 10.
In the Daily Cal’s endorsements, the paper seemed to deliberately choose a split-ticket for the executive slate. Endorsements were considered based on individuals and voting records, not necessarily the parties they represent. And here they are:
* President: Curtis Lee, Student Action
* External Affairs Vice President: Dionne Jirachaikitti, CalSERVE
* Academic Affairs Vice President: Carlo de la Cruz, CalSERVE
* Executive Vice President: Chad Kunert, SQUELCH!
* Student Advocate: Matt DeMartini, Independent
* SUPERB Referendum: No
How does this stack up with other official endorsements? read more »
Wanna see people make themselves into tools? This Friday, the Daily Cal hosts the 2008 ASUC Elections Forum. The deets below:
Who: Executive seat candidates (otherwise that mess would take forever)
When: 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Where: 20 Barrows Hall
It’s a basic Q&A session, so if you want your questions answered, e-mail opinion@dailycal.org under the subject “Forum.”
We suggest you show up. After all, these people will get to play around with some money. Might as well be the people you vote for (unless you’d rather not have that sort of connection). Plus, SQUELCH! usually does something funny.
2008 ASUC Elections Forum [Facebook]
Ooh, look, the Daily Cal site is all pretty! The redesign, which was in the making for a few semesters, is finally up. We love the design, but the search function is still a little wonky–you can look for articles by specific writers but not by keywords.
Thoughts, anyone?
And speaking of pretty sites, we got a tip from Yaman Salahi via Facebook today concerning his own web design:
I thought you might like to check out the new CalSERVE website that I spent the better half of Spring Break working on. For full disclosure purposes: I am the webmaster as well as one of the party coordinators this semester, so by no means am I an “impartial observer” though I’d like to think I’m not wack. It’s at www.calserve.org. I’m not going to lie, I think it’s the best campus party website so far and I think it blows Student Action’s site out of the water.
Does CalSERVE’s site kick more ass and take more names than that of Student Action? We think only Beetle would really care in this matter.
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Daily Cal [Website]
CalSERVE [Website]
Student Action [Website]
Admit it. You’re going to miss Berkeley just a little bit this spring break. If you find yourself dreaming of dollar curry or collective pizza indigenous only to B-town, take a break from sleeping in and vote in the Best of Berkeley.
Tell the Daily Cal you love the Clog, tell the paper what else you love in your neighborhood. It’s up to you to defend all things gastronomically sacred in Berkeley–the best Indian in town (hint: it’s not Naan-N-Curry), the spiciest burrito that won’t empty your wallet, the richest cup of joe (certainly not from The Den). You’ve got to participate to make sure the results don’t suck, i.e. all the besties are within a flipflop shuffle from the Units.
You can also remind yourself to vote (and tell all your friends too) if you join the Facebook event. Voting ends Monday, Apr. 7, and then the Daily Cal will release a special issue highlighting the student body’s faves.
Best of Berkeley [Daily Cal]
Best of Berkeley 2008! [Facebook]
The Daily Cal won nine awards (EDIT: nine individual, 11 total) at the California College Media Association awards presentation last weekend. Translation: We may not be perfect, but at least we’re better than other daily college newspapers in the state.
The Daily Cal got ultimate bragging rights with first place for “General Excellence,” and the Clog would personally like to claim victory with “Breaking news online.” May we remind you that we placed third last year in this category? We think we shall.
Last year, the Daily Cal won a total of 12 awards, but we’d like to blame the dip in laurel wreaths on UCLA’s general selfishness in picking up about 25 awards. Oh, and perhaps all the inches and time we devoted to oak coverage.
Here’s how the Daily Cal stacked up:
read more »
So now that the Daily Cal opinion columnists all have a few columns out, what’s the verdict on the new O-team?
Dangierre says Billy Main has balls and the female Sex on Tuesday is “hot,” but he calls out the “politics guy and food dude” to crank it up. Beetle, though, picks on Taylor Fife, the de facto politics go-to. Yeah, yeah, so give us the deets on Thursday.
Fine, we’ll do it ourselves.
Robin Schramm–we’ll call him the stories guy–wrote today that he no longer wants to become a dinosaur. Instead he’ll opt for silverback gorilla:
1) You get to have a harem of female gorillas from which you can choose whom to impregnate 2) You get to be hairy and fat and eat bananas all day long, but with one grimace, everyone runs away screaming, and 3) Finally I would have an excuse for lying around naked all day long playing with myself.
Inventive mind, that Schramm, but too bad he’d be hung like a gorilla. Yeah, that’s 1.5 inches erect.
God, Bugs and Dinosaurs [Daily Cal]
Billy Main has Balls [Dangierre Blog]
Dude [Beetle Beat]
Today the Daily Cal published a special Travel Issue called “What to Know Before You Go.” You can find your handy guide to worldly wisdom inside Monday’s issue.
Recommended reading:
- A Clog ex-pat on Cal’s presence at the Summer Olympics. Represent!
- Berkeley as an international location, for a glimpse at how the I-students see us
But don’t skip out on the rest either:
- Alex Lau’s column about food safety
- Public health program in Mumbai
- People dishing their travel tales
Bon voyage!
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Travel Issue [Daily Cal]
For those who dare not venture to the perpetually
in-progress Web site for the Daily Cal, you should know that there’s now a spiffy graphic (see right) advertising the new sectional blogs. Surprise. There’s more terror in the world.
OK, so it’s not so much of a surprise. Someone snitched to Danigerre a while back, but now it’s confirmed. And no, the Clog is not going anywhere. Sorry.
The Clog would like to welcome its fellow blog brethren to the Intrawebs. Say hello to:
- Bear Bytes, the sports blog
- Notes From the Field, the extra-news blog
- It’s What’s For Blog, the arts blog
Then there’s also the Editors’ Blog, which has been up for a while actually. We might as well throw that one some love as well.
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Daily Cal Blogs [Daily Cal]
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