drinking-fountain

Berkeley sure loves to think of itself as a trend setter. Few would deny: Berkeley is probably the most environmentally stylin’ kid in its (national) class.

In line with this, our campus has decided that old fashioned drinking fountains, the age old alternative to dizzyingly expensive bottled water, are so 2006. In the ‘09, it’s all about hydration stations.

You may have noticed a few of read more »


Berkeley KNOWS we love it. Isn't that ENOUGH?For the most part, we like to remember last year fondly.  The economy wasn’t quite so far down the pisser, the tree-sitters were over by the stadium, throwing fecal matter at people and generally doing what they did, Code Pink was constantly coming up with new ways to be ridiculous … Life was pretty good and we don’t want to complain.

However, that being said, there was one thing from last year we’d kind of hoped we wouldn’t be reminded of ever again (except for, you know, every single solitary time we step onto campus). That was the sudden appearance of these. read more »


Last week, intramural sports proved to be as stress-worthy as those pesky little letters we all fear and loathe. Wednesday through Friday, the sidewalk outside the Recreational Sports Facility played host to either a mini tent city or a parade route, depending on which side of “hobo” you consider the average Cal student, as eager team captains arrived late at night or in the wee hours of the morning to be first in line for the 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. team sign-ups.

Apparently, Dodgeball and Ultimate Frisbee are kind of a big deal. read more »


Steel Drums

We are so over paying that irresistibly affordable $10/semester (and summer) for RSF gym membership, and wanted to turn the escapade into little more than a handful of trips to the gym at the beginning of the school year. In our defense, even when we did have time to burn off some minty Newman-O’s, waiting for our turn on the elliptical machines and watching MTV-U on the silent TV’s got old real fast.

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Bears Necessity, the youngun of the Berkeley blogosphere, posted an interesting video about a Cal student. Filmed mostly in the RSF, it’s about a student’s quest to bulk up for the affection of a certain lady. We guess it’s the modern, college version of a romance.

We wish we could tell you when BN actually posted the vid, but the blogger recently has removed all dates (and bylines) from his post. What’s up with that? It’s all about transparency, dude. Did you see our bylines?

They’re sexy.

Student Special: Raging Bear [Bears Necessity]

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