Archive for Archive for May, 2007
Your Vote Goes To The Highest Bidder
Like most sane people, we despise the RIAA. Despise it for its undemocratic existence. Despise it for taking power out of the hands of artists and giving it to the record labels. Despise the idiotic amount (any amount) of influence that it has in Capitol Hill. Well, it turns out the Bay Area’s own also [...]
To Those Of You Who Say Cal Girls Aren’t Hot…
We present to you Exhibit A. We’re not just talking about looks (and boy does she have them), because she also has far more. The girl in profile will tell you herself the remaining otherworldly characteristics she possesses. Early this month, 18-year-old Allison Stokke walked into her high school track coach’s office and asked if [...]
The Bears Are Roaring: Blog Roundup
Whew! “Big Game†name is safe from NFL vultures – College Hotline The No Fun League won’t ruin this name. Beetle Beat – Wah Democrats and college associations, back and forth they go. California Golden Bear Football News: Contra Costa Times: Ayoob endures struggles for a Cal degree Joe Ayoob inevitably gets what he wants. [...]
UC Berkeley: Making You Feel Less in Debt, Part I
In a rare act of charity, our beloved school has decided to bestow several students who have excelled in their fields with precious scholarships to shroud them in the idea that they won’t be poor the rest of their lives. We will be featuring several of them over the next couple of days, with the [...]
Oh Yeah, Stanford Cares About OUR Opinion
Considering it’s dead air time around Berkeley (which would explain our infrequent posting schedule since school ended), the big story we’ve been relating about a thousand times is the Stanford impostor story. Or two, to be precise. So of course, the foremost experts on this subject decided to weigh in with their opinions, just to [...]
War And Remembrance
It’s Memorial Day, so we’ve decided to provide those who aren’t out on the road or some holiday entertainment. And what commemorates Memorial Day more than some good old war films (other than serving of course, our humblest regards to our able and finest overseas)? We’ve tried to delve as far as we can, and [...]
The Gateway to the Pacific, Behind Bars
Moving from the serious issues to the sublime, San Francisco has decided that they’re not going to handle you jumping off their landmarks anymore. You don’t like them? Well, too bad, you’re stuck walking on them! An engineering study to test whether a suicide barrier could be built on the Golden Gate Bridge shows that [...]
Sadly, Killing Yourself Doesn’t Improve Your Grades
This story is sobering (if you have trouble logging in, use Bug Me Not). Proceed with caution. “We have had an increasing number of students with serious mental health problems while services are lacking,” said UC Santa Barbara Vice Chancellor Michael Young, co-chairman of the Student Mental Health Committee. “We just don’t have the appropriate [...]
Where Does This Los Angeles Exist, And When Can I Visit?
You know how you hate L.A.? Hate the three hour traffic jams, the impossible maneuvering on the roads, the ineffective transit system, the horrifying gridlock, all in the hot 90 degree summer air? Well, young guns in your government are trying to inject dreams into these auto-honking nightmares. Some transit advocates attend meetings. Others write [...]
The Bears Are Roaring: Blog Roundup
Beetle Beat–Sanctuary! Berkeley residents are cute. A mystery (ContraCostaTimes BearTalk Weblog: Cal Sports) DeVon Hardin, a Piston? Yeah, sure Chad Ford, surre. The Lobotomist’s Dream: Live and Learn… Introducing you to the term philomath. The Present Tense: Pink Floyd, The Wall (Part 2 of 4) Our take? Authority is cool, bro. The Catalytic Triad: A [...]
