With tensions running high on campus, it seems like a good time for Berkeley to flaunt its multiculturalism and diversity and prove that we can overcome our differences with our collective “spirit of intellectual engagement, rational argumentation, respectful discourse, and regard for the common good.” In other words it’s time to sport your green shirt and look all worldly and informed for the entire week.

Themed “Shattering the Stereotype,” this Monday kicked off the second annual Peace not Prejudice Week, which will be holding events all week long and will culminate in a (hopefully peaceful) rally on Upper Sproul Plaza this Thursday at 5 p.m. We hear it’s gonna be the biggest thing to hit Sproul since the Obama victory “extravaganza.” read more »


Ch-Ch-Changes! Big ones! To your dearly beloved book, of the face variety! Ah yes, Facebook has finally switched permanently to the dark side (a.k.a. New Facebook, a.k.a. Satan’s Vessel of Evil).) At least, that’s what they want us to think … But you already knew this.

Naturally, everyone absolutely hates the new Facebook, so it’s being protested in the only way our generation knows how (besides taking to the trees)–with Facebook groups, created with love right there in the womb of the Zuckerberg demon, himself. What’s that we smell? Why, it’s gotta be the bittersweet aroma of irony! read more »