The premiere for Twilight in Westwood caused quite an inconvenience for Bruins this past Monday.
Part of Broxton was closed off, not to mention there were hoards of crazed, rabid girls waiting for a glimpse of the new obsession.
Even on Sunday when I meandered down for a morning S
The 111th Big Game between Cal and Stanford is on Saturday, and everyone at Berkeley is gearing up for it. With festivities going on around campus all week, including the annual bonfire on Friday night, Cal Bears are ready to bring back the axe. Here are the top ten reasons for Ca
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Screaming fans, midnight showings…vampires?
How do these all relate? The Twilight movie! The movie, opening nationwide November 21, is causing mass chaos among the over 17 million fans who can’t wait to see Edward Cullen on screen. The midnight showing of this
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Generation Y has also been called the Net Generation for our widespread use of web-based technologies. Not only do 97% of us own computers, 75% of college students use Facebook. As such, the internet has been flooded with many similar websites, but some are more evil t
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X-Rays revealed that the wrist injury Tyler Zeller suffered Tuesday night in a game against against Kentucky is multiple fractures. Zeller will most likely be out for the season.
Although Zeller started the first two games of Carolina's season, he was not expected to
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In May 2007, former Penn Marketing professor Scott Ward was sentenced to 15 years in prison for producing child pornography for importation into the United States. On Monday, he pleaded guilty to five more child porn-related charges, including one that entailed de
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Today I was struck with the greatest idea...ever. I'm no economist, but I've figured out a soution to the ailing economy.
You've heard the statistics; 1% of the country posesses blah blah blah amount of the country's wealth and it's totally unfair, etc, etc. I agree, and I know how we
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Some people don't handle bad news very well. University of Minnesota student Jennifer Nicole Anato-Mensah proved herself one of them when she was let go from her position as an intern at news station KSTP.
Upon hearing that her she was not experienced enough
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The Beat Bama Food Drive winner will be announced in the upcoming weeks. The food drive is a 14-year competition between Auburn University and the University of Alabama, where each school tries to collect the largest amount of canned food items for the war on poverty. It’s one of the largest food drives in Alabama, so it’s ki
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When a friend forwarded me this link, I couldn't get past the tabloid-esque headline and assumed the story was fake. However, considering that the Telegraph is a well-respected and widely circulated British newspaper, and other news sources have ran the same story, I guess it's for real. This is blowing my
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Dede Koswara is not even close to your average human being. Why you ask? Because he is turning into a tree. Well, not literally - he doesn't have leaves and can't photosynthesize - but to the naked eye it would seem that he was. When Dede was 14 years old, he fell an
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Two weeks ago, California passed Proposition 8, a referendum that barred gay couples from getting married within state lines, by a relatively small margin (2 percent). Since then, members and supporters of LGBT groups have shown their discontent with the s
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In an effort to ascertain the prevalence of drug use on campus, the Yale Daily News circulated a poll to roughly 600 undergraduates to find out if they had used or seen someone else use drugs during their time in New Haven.
Of the 300 respondents, roughly 35 percent
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In today's Lariat a new coffee establishment had its own four-column, no-jump story (a feat in and of itself for the Baylor daily). The Jakarta Mud Hut offers free - yeah, free - coffee and tea to the college students of McLennan County. Sorry, but no Aggies or Longhorns, please. The Waco Outreach
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Larry Greene, a professor in the Political Science department and lecturer of Polsci 389 (Constitutional Politics, Courts, Politics and Society), stopped showing up to teach his class at the beginning of November. His students were informed that he was in the hospital, and in an int
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