Despite the fact that the semester has not yet actually started, it may please you to know that you’ll have slightly fewer days of class than originally planned.

It seems that the Task Force on Exams (which has a pretty badass name, considering) as well as the Academic Senate came to the agreement that we all needed a bit more time to study before finals. read more »

Get your ass up from the nest of books you’ve created while feverishly studying for your exam tomorrow morning in order to walk the two blocks to “La Burr” and risk breaking the tenuous thread of your concentration? OR have that selfsame burrito delivered to your door, thus minimizing the possibility of total focus annihilation, but also costing you an additional $2.75?

This is the borderline existential dilemma posed by CampusMunch, a new service operated by two entrepreneurial seniors. They’ll deliver food from a few Asian Ghet–er, Durant Food Court (we have got to stop doing that … ) staples, in addition to several others, including Northside pilgrimage-worthy Cheeseboard. Of course, you can order online, but make no mistake–you still have to answer the door.

Campus Much [YouTube]
Service Delivers Local Eats to Students [Daily Cal]

In case you were actually studying or something during finals, and you were not lined up along the pathway on Level C of Main Stacks (psh, you intellectual elitist) then you missed over 3 dozen co-opers freeing themselves of their intellectual and material burdens as they streaked through the stacks this past Monday.

The annual naked run through the library makes UCLA’s Undie Run look about as radical as wearing neon colors and making obscure references to ninjas. So next year, instead of going on Facebook for the 100th time or watching reruns of The Simpsons to liberate your mind from finals, why not liberate your body from its material bonds–or just be a creeper and watch the parade of nudity, like us. We’re not judging, either way.

Cal Streakers Finals Week-Fall 2008 [YouTube]

We know you don’t want to think about it yet, but after Thanksgiving, we’re all going to hell in a handbasket. Just a week and smidge and then finals come to attack our sanity and happiness.

First, don’t panic–we’ve got you covered. Here’s a compacted version of some professor-approved tips. read more »

Moffitt Library computer lab patrons were treated to a show of pure, unadulterated nekkid-ness at around 10:05 p.m. this evening. The Clog was one of the lucky audience members to get a whiff of the magnificent scent of mass body odor.

Unfortunately, our camera phone copped out on us, and our old YouTube video was knocked off the site due to “Terms of Service” violations, so you’ll have to rely on our word (and the totally unrelated picture of the MIT streaker above). Believe us, the smell of swingin’ body parts lingered well after the jaybirds left the labs.

Perhaps they’ll hit the stacks soon–unless they already hit it. Nevertheless, be warned. They’re known to shake their tail-feathers in the face of anyone who turns a head.

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Update, 1:03 a.m.: The Clog just received some lovely point-and-shoot images of streaking in the Stacks from Daily Cal photographer extraordinaire, Justin Gonzaga. See photos after the jump.

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Does attempting to study alone in your room end only in frustration and drool on your course reader? Is the library too dauntingly far away, or are the Main Stacks just too darn quiet? Then boy, do we have the study solution for you!

For the duration of finals week, every dorm-dweller’s favorite late-night hangout, Crossroads, will be open from 10 p.m. until–ohmigawd–6 in the a.m. and will be serving free yum-yums the whole time! Yes, this means free life-blood (sometimes referred to as coffee), free soda, and free muffin tops. (OK, obviously we mean the baked item, not the wardrobe malfunction here.) read more »

After discovering the latest omen of the world’s coming demise, the Clog encourages Berkeley students to put down their books and enjoy their short-lived time on earth.

If you’re the sort of person who relieves stress by burying your head in the sand and pretending everything will be OK, then consider this a spoiler warning and skip to the next paragraph. For those of you ready to accept the truth, here goes nothing: Everything will not be OK. Why? Because next Monday marks the end–of instruction. This also means that next week, we’ll all be irretrievably entrenched in the throes of those torturous tortures, borne of darkness and hellfire–finals. (The horror! The horror!)

Accordingly, here are a few ideas for wholesome use of your last-weekend-of-semi-freedom that won’t leave you with an untimely hangover and undone final papers: read more »

Finals came and went. At this very moment, many of you are making the trek back to your respective homes. Others are already there, basking in the glory of not having to deal with pressing academic responsibilities, vulgar roommates or tree sitters. But before you realize that you need to study for the February LSAT and apply for various internships and jobs (the career website says that now is the best time!)–the Clog would like to remind you that it is called “Winter Break” for a reason.

So sit back, take a load off, and enjoy your time away from the stress and nuttiness that defines our dear university–at least, until the grades come out.

Image Source: Christine Borden

Up through the end of finals, the staffs of the Doe and Moffitt Libraries will be on full alert for expected increases in the smuggling of foodstuffs. Students living in libraries for the last week have had to act surreptitiously to remain well-nourished.

Library staffs have been regularly patrolling these study areas with garbage bags and confiscating everything edible. These patrolmen and women are so confident in their ability to spot even a crumb that they boldly announce their presence in hideous bright lime t-shirts. Apparently, having any sort of fashion sense is not a prerequisite for being a library administrator.
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Finals are over. We can finally have time to take a decent shower and proceed with our normal lives. Some, however, are still acting strangely. Maybe Bear Facts is lagging with grades. Maybe the transition to summer is jarring. Either way, we all need to take a chill pill—wait, is that legal?

Sunday, May 20, 2007
2:27 a.m., Memorial Stadium: Suspicious circumstance regarding owner given advice on controlling an animal.

At two in the morning, this could mean only one thing: werewolves. Arm yourselves with guns and silver bullets, folks.

Monday, May 21, 2007
10:19 p.m., O’Brien Hall: Three students—two males, 21 and 20, and one female, 21—detained for rules violation and scaling building exterior.

Hmm. Were they buildering? They couldn’t possibly be that excited over the recent relase of “Spider-Man 3.”

Tuesday, May 22, 2007
3:21 p.m., Memorial Stadium: A male employee, 73, reports amplified noise, including drums.

The drums again? Let’s hope it’s not some naked weirdo with bongos. We think that already happened.

Wednesday, May 23, 2007
2:45 a.m., Rock Wall: Marijuana activity in vehicle.
8:30 a.m., Shattuck/Channing: Marijuana activity.
12:56 p.m., People’s Park: Marijuana activity.
1:00 p.m., People’s Park: Marijuana activity.
3:35 p.m., The Grove: Marijuana activity

Yes, finals are finally over. We think we’ve … uh … we mean those guys (not us) have made that clear.

PoLo is compiled from the UC Police Department’s online Daily Activity Bulletin.
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