Archive for Alumni
Francisco Elson Didn’t Learn Enough About Diversity
If the San Antonio Spurs go on to win their 4th title (as many expect they will), the glum, “grasping for straws” Bay Area basketball fan might linger in despair until Baron Davis starts penetrating to the hole in a few weeks. Well, Golden Bears, you can find at least one man to wishy-washily root [...]
Israel Isn’t the Only Naughty Boy Out There
Berkeley and the Bay Area is renowned for its disproportionate Palestine-loving and Israel-bashing, as evidenced by protest rallies to the right. As a sensible editor, we find these rallies ridiculous considering the types of signs you find there. Far-left and far-right elements in this nation might have disparate ideas about why they hate Jews, but [...]
Cal Alumni: Making the World A Better Place…by Taking on ESPN
People who graduate from Berkeley don’t necessarily reach the pinnacles of greatness, or go out and strap themselves to trees immediately, but often settle for more modest goals . Take these two intrepid entrepreneurs who recently conjured up their own user generated sports news site. Introducing Yardbarker; a Digg for Sports fans. Cal alums and [...]
Even Q Didn’t Know About This Not-So-Super-Yet-Spy
Barry Nelson, former Cal grad and the first screened James Bond, died at the age of 89. This would be a sad day for us if we even knew who Barry Nelson was before we read his article. To be honest, we didn’t even know there was a Bond before Connery (to be brutally honest, [...]
Jason Kidd, Role Model
You know, it figures the best basketball player to come out of Cal would end up being socially screwed up. Page Six won’t leave Jason Kidd alone: This morning’s column has an item on the Net cavorting with a “hot young model” in NYC last weekend. Page Six’s source also reports that Kidd has “a [...]
