Posted by Christine Borden on Thursday, October 30, 2008 02:30 pm
No matter what happens on Nov. 4, at least you can drown your sorrow or celebrate your victory with free Ben & Jerry’s ice cream. Sweet.
Starting lining up early in front of the student store. The B&J’s crew will serve one scoop per customer from 2-5 p.m. Oh, there is still beauty in the world!
Image Source: Amy the Nurse under Creative Commons
FREE Ben & Jerry’s on Election Day at UC Berkeley! [Facebook]
Posted by Jill Cowan on Monday, October 20, 2008 08:04 pm
Get it? Running? As in, for office? OK, sorry. Moving on. We, the people of the Daily Clog of America, have a very important announcement to make. Ahem. (Cue “Hail to the Chief.“)
For the sake of what we like to call “nagging repetitiveness,” we’d like to remind you that in a couple of weeks you will (hopefully) make some of the more important decisions you, as a citizen can make, when you vote. Now, we understand that by this point your ears might spontaneously start bleeding at the very sound of the “v” word, but fortunately for you, the Clog is mostly text-based. So read on, faithful reader, and do your civic duty. read more »
So you’ve registered to vote. But do you know where your polling place is? Do you even know what’s on the ballot … besides Obama?
The Cal Patriot Blog already mentioned a bit about the Berkeley ballot, but for the complete she-bang check out smartvoter.org. Smart Voter will tell you where your polling place is (ours is Westminster House, for example) and show you the complete ballot for the city you’ve registered in.
Take a good look at your ballot. You’ve got less than three weeks until the big day arrives. You can start your research now.
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Smart Voter [Web site]
The Berkeley Ballot [Cal Patriot]
Posted by Jill Cowan on Sunday, October 12, 2008 10:39 pm
Well, Ricardo Gomez from the ASUC seems to think the Clog is one of them:
He was kind enough to send us the ASUC’s joint project with CalTV, which is supposedly the Berkeley equivalent of the self-proclaimingly viral “5 Friends” video, except the Berkeley one is rendered significantly more boring by the fact that it does not include Jonah Hill, Dustin Hoffman or Sarah Silverman’s bra.
Gomez instructed us to “make a blog post about this” and “Include all the cliche snarkiness you would want.” So, uh, here you go! For your viewing pleasure, we bring you one video version of the Campaign for Berkeley mural, generic political activism style. (Cliche snarkiness included at no extra charge.) Incidentally, you probably should register to vote if you haven’t already. We’re just saying …
Voices for the Vote - UC Berkeley [YouTube]
5 Friends Uncensored [YouTube]
The San Francisco Bay Guardian released its endorsements earlier this week, and there are no surprises for the biggie propositions or for the presidential candidate. Peruse the arguments on the SFBG site if you need some fodder for your absentee vote or just need something to tide you over until the Daily Cal tells you how to vote. Keep in mind that we are no way endorsing these endorsements … but you can use them as a springboard.
President
* Barack Obama (duh)
California Ballot Measures
* Proposition 1A (high speed rail bond): an exuberant Yes
* Proposition 2 (farm animal protection): Yes
* Proposition 3 (children’s hospital bonds): No
* Proposition 4 (parental notification and wait period for abortion): a resounding No
* Proposition 5 (treatment instead of jail): Yes
* Proposition 6 (prison spending): a loud No
* Proposition 7 (renewable-energy generation): No
* Proposition 8 (ban on same-sex marriage): an absolute No
* Proposition 9 (restrictions on parole): another strong No
* Proposition 10 (alternative-fuel vehicles bond): No
* Proposition 11 (redistricting commission): No
* Proposition 12 (veterans bond act): Yes
The SFBG folks also weighed in on East Bay goings-on and congressional races. Don’t forget that Oct. 20 is the last day to register to vote in the state of California, and you know, it might behoove you to register with your Berkeley address.
So there are several student movements trying to get their write-in-vote name to win, and of course, they’re using Facebook to get their message out.
This first group wants to rename our “student section The Domicile. Of course, this is an affectionate reference to that awesome commercial that Cal had a couple of years ago for its first Holiday Bowl appearance. It truly is an awesome commercial. Let’s watch:
Oh Tedford, you’re so smart.
Another group wants to call the “student section The Epicenter.” Now that’s just awesome and it’s poking fun at the fact that the Hayward Fault runs directly underneath the stadium. Now if you’re concerned about basketball games and the name, “The Epicenter,” well, it still works, kind of. The Epicenter will be just a couple of blocks east if there is an earthquake on the fault line.
Of course there are traditionalists. One group just wants to keep the names the same and rename the “student section The Student Section.” And then there are just lame suggestions, “like the Bear Area.”
Of course, why are we renaming the student sections anyways? Some people love the oh-so-fear-striking (read: unintimidating) “The Bench” moniker for men’s basketball games.
Someone, who claims to be an intern for the athletic department, offered this explanation on Facebook.
bq. I am an intern for the Marketing department and I helped brainstorm some of those ideas… by the way, we don’t really like them very much so that’s why we asked for help. Just an FYI about the goal of this is that it is not just for football… the idea is that we can have a branded, defined student section at any sport. That really would bring fans together at sports like Field Hockey or even Volleyball–this is a common thing at other colleges and universities. I agree that football’s student section is just fine, and wouldn’t dream of trying to fix something that’s not broken. I just would like to encourage you to keep your minds open to the benefits this could bring to our athletic programs.
So you’re saying that you came up with some of these lame suggestions, like “Blue Crew” and “Bear Force?”
And if we had a suggestion it would have to be *The World’s Biggest Hyphy Party.* Yeah.
Earlier: “Cal Doesn’t Want Students Coming Off The Bench“
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