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Danica Li on Saturday, April 12, 2008 01:17 am
Already matriculated? Sure, Cal Day won’t have as much to offer you as it will to next year’s crop of puny freshmen, but damn if live marine animals and racing robot cars don’t sound the teeniest bit cool.
With that in mind, the Clog has compiled a shortlist of events that are - indeed! - worth the investment of your oft-wandering attention. Get ready to roll up your sleeves and get in touch with your inner child at the Archaeological Research Facility. Or you could make a pot. A lot of the museums on campus will be open to the public too, so maybe dropping a live tarantula down the shirt of a loved one at the Essig Museum sounds right up your alley. The options are endless! read more »
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Krista Lane on Sunday, August 26, 2007 04:21 pm
As barely legal freshmen/doe-eyed transfers begin their classes, we figure many are wondering how to get by with a little help from those who are at least a year’s worth of tuition poorer. So allow this meaningless credibility to strongly influence your first semester’s experiences with these new-to-campus tips:* Do NOT ride the 51 bus line between Dana Street and Dwight Way. This covers two important points—avoid our dirty looks, and exercise your otherwise latent quads. By the end of the semester, you (or your love interests) will thank us for keeping up with Foothill residents’ thus far incomparably tight thighs.* Procrastinate! We’re probably the only ones who will ever tell you this, but since it’s inevitable that you will procrastinate writing/studying for at least one critical midterm, we recommend honing this enviable skill.* Don’t eat in class! We attend a public school with notoriously low-paid custodial staff. We don’t want to pick up your trash, and we especially don’t want to smell you crunch away on your Corn Nuts.* Stop stressing! As the handy flier from the toilet stall of Davidson Hall’s 6th floor told us long ago, stress can cause a number of physical ailments that can bring you and your precious GPA down.* We implore you to shower frequently and pick up your damn hair from the drain. Your RA will likely grate you about this later, but for the benefit of the floormates you’ll grow to hate for other reasons, just do it.Last but not least, seek out opportunities. There are a veritable ton of things to do on campus and in Berkeley for cheap or free:* Cal Performances offers 50% ticket discounts to all UCB students* The Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies produces shows with ticket prices from $8 to free* Award-winning a cappella groups sing for free at Sather Gate* There’s free swing dancing (plus lessons!) on Sproul Plaza* Free Tree People-gawking near Memorial StadiumAnd don’t forget the innumerable chances to piss off our biggest fans—Berkeley residents—by just doing what you do: Exist.Image Source: Julie Himes, Daily Cal
So the university is able to preserve a historic landmark while the City of Berkeley struggles to save one of theirs.
The Chron reports that Bowles Hall will continue to be what is today—home to 200 testosterone-saturated, immature freshmen. OK, that’s not exactly what the Chron said, but that’s what we gather from the report.
In November, the Haas School of Business stated its intentions to take Bowles and turn it into some special educational center and hotel for 30 to 40-somethings.
“Other options are being looked into, but nothing far along yet,” campus spokeswoman Marie Felde said.
The Bowles Hall Alumni Association must be relatively happy.
The alumni association questioned where it was “ethically appropriate for UC, or any university, to replace the wishes of donors of yesterday with the wishes of donors of today.”
At least the donors are assured that the largest sausage-fest on campus is still going to continue on next year.
UC backs down on plan to convert dorm [Sf Gate]
We remember when we first got all that spam from Cal the summer before our freshman year.
If we remember correctly, we got shit from CalSO and the Alumni Association, a really shitty DVD and some reading list from the library.
It turns out the library gives the incoming freshman class a summer reading list as it has done for the last 25 years. It’s happened for such a long time that the Oakland Tribune thought it be nice to “do a little story on it”:http://origin.insidebayarea.com/ci_6076181.
The Trib reports that this year’s “reading list is about (oh no!) disaster”:http://blogs.lib.berkeley.edu/readinglist.php.
So, pretty much, UC Berkeley faculty and staff members suggest that you incoming freshmen read books about depressing topics or about men devolving into beasts or about how horrible the next natural disaster is going to be.
Some notable books on the list include the always horrifying “Lord of the Flies,” some “book about Teddy Roosevelt”:http://blogs.lib.berkeley.edu/readinglist.php/2007/05/30/the_river_of_doubt_theodore_roosevelt_s_ and “77 Dream Songs.”
How that last book is supposed to instill fear in young freshmen, we don’t know. We hope it’s good though.
Doom, gloom and survival: Welcome to UC Berkeley [Inside Bay Area]
Survival! UC Berkeley Summer Reading [UC Berkeley Library]
With all the hype about incoming pole vaulter Allison Stokke, we decided to take a closer look at UC Berkeley’s class of 2011. We’ll try to be nice, but we can’t promise anything.
One thing’s for sure—this group is mighty eager. We present exhibit A, the event Berkeley Class of 2011 Freshman Roll Call!! (because one exclamation point just wouldn’t do it justice). About 256 members plan to go and 78 say maybe to the tradition of rolling down 4.0 Hill. The hill may see the most frosh ass it’s ever had in one day.
Kids, the Clog would like to let you know that we still haven’t gotten a 4.0. Don’t major in English.
The freshmen’s happy-go-lucky attitude almost scares us:
bq. First of all, Karen has this rocking new title for the event which is Roll CAL. lol and second of all, one of our goals shall henceforth be to make this event so bangin awesome
We are sad to admit we were once so jubilant too. They’re too joyous and too loving. More than 100 freshies joined the group Unit 1: I love my 2011 UC Berkeley habitat!, so happy to have a place called not-quite-home-but-where-we-will-consume-massive-amounts-of-Ramen. There’s one thread going on about Freeborn, the substance-free building of Unit 1.
“People who don’t need unnatural substances to make them feel better unite!,” one guy exclaimed. He will soon be smoking cloves just like everyone else.
And guess what? Someone’s “bringing the pixie sticks, AND the caffeinated beverages. what now.”
Maybe they should join The Party Group of UCB 2011. This team of freshmen is super organized and taking initiative … to have a beer pong tourney. It’s yet another freshman tradition.
If the phrase “2011 UC Berkeley habitat” wasn’t bad enough, get ready for the kicker.
Berkeley Survivers 2007-2011. Excellence, with an “e.”
They’re in it to win it. They’re sticking it to the man:
bq. “Cal, I will not only reach but surpass all of the expectations I have for myself at this university.” BTW, you should still join even if your goal is just to party and get trashed; we can help you do that as well! 
Oh, childrens.
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