The Daily Clog » race http://clog.dailycal.org A Cal blog brought to you by The Daily Californian Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:53:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 ‘Colbert Report’ Purchased Rights to Daily Cal Video http://clog.dailycal.org/2008/10/15/colbert-report-purchased-rights-to-daily-cal-video/ http://clog.dailycal.org/2008/10/15/colbert-report-purchased-rights-to-daily-cal-video/#comments Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:56:49 +0000 Christine Borden http://clog.dailycal.org/?p=3930

Earlier today, the Daily Cal’s editor-in-chief Bryan Thomas confirmed through email:

The Colbert Report has purchased rights to run one of our videos tonight, produced by our very own Tess Townsend.

The video in question is about Escape from Berkeley, a race from Berkeley to Las Vegas sans petroleum. If “The Colbert Report” shows the video tonight, we’ll try to update as soon as we can with the clip.

The show may or may not air our hot videographer skills, but at least they’re impressed enough to buy our video? Or they just find something to mock. Dun dun dun.

EDIT: Success! The full episode is up, and Escape from Berkeley hits the Sport Report at 11:40 in. Catch all two seconds of Daily Cal glory and lots of Berkeley jabs.

Escape from Berkeley [YouTube]
Relay Helps Fuel the Use Of Alternative Energy Forms [Daily Cal]
Earlier: Environmentalists Escape From Berkeley

]]> http://clog.dailycal.org/2008/10/15/colbert-report-purchased-rights-to-daily-cal-video/feed/ 1 The News in Our Shorts: Racism Actually Is All Around! http://clog.dailycal.org/2008/02/29/the-news-in-our-shorts-racism-actually-is-all-around/ http://clog.dailycal.org/2008/02/29/the-news-in-our-shorts-racism-actually-is-all-around/#comments Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:02:19 +0000 Patrici Flores http://clog.dailycal.org/2008/02/29/the-news-in-our-shorts-racism-actually-is-all-around/ 800px-yes_it_does.jpg Since many of you readers are hugely excited about the Mar. 3-8 “Reclaiming the Space” Week–during which down folks will “fuck shit up,” according to the Facebook invitation–we at the Clog decided to do a whole post dedicated to a subject quite dear to our, and presumably your, hearts.

Let’s talk about diversity! So, other than reclaiming the Multicultural Center, here are a few more recent items that have Berkeley bubbling about race issues:

UC Berkeley now has a $5 million Chancellor’s Chair in Equity and Inclusion that will help study ways to make people feel more equal and included. We personally believe that feeling included comes partially from the attitude of the “exclusive” group, partially from within yourself and partially from multi-culturally colored sofas in Heller Lounge. [Daily Cal]

Did you hear about Allen Jackson, the President of the NAACP Berkeley Chapter who claimed that all Berkeley police officers were out to kill as many black people as they can? His remarks came after Berkeley resident Anita Gay was shot by an officer two weeks ago. Apparently, the NAACP itself does not condone the President's remarks. Oh, overzealous activists--see, Code Pink? Look what you started. [Mercury News]

Sen. Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) is calling out Chancellor Robert Birgeneau and the university for discrimination! Birgeneau and other officials supposedly went great lengths to avoid confronting Native American tribes' demands to free their ancestors' remains from university Anthropology archives. Apparently, the Birgeneau and his administration have stealthily stepped around that conversation for years. Why? Like most everything in this world, it all has to do with money--along with the reputation of UC Berkeley's prestigious educational opportunities. If we lose those bones, this school would have nothing else to offer! [LA Times]


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