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The Twelve Best Strange, Absurd, Creative College Flash Mobs Ever

The Twelve Best Strange, Absurd, Creative College Flash Mobs Ever

While drinking is undeniably the #1 college pastime, there are still plenty of other things college students do to avoid studying, reading or writing.

 

Today, we took a look at a longtime favorite of mine: the flash mob.

 

For the uninitiated, a flash mob is a group of people who gather at a specific location at a predetermined time and perform...

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Cal Gets Pumped Up by Burning Stuff Down

Cal Gets Pumped Up by Burning Stuff Down

 What do you get when you put a bunch of wooden pallets in an amphitheater full of Stanford haters? You get UC Berkley’s annual Bonfire Rally to kickoff Big Game Weekend.

 

Thousands of students packed in to Berkeley’s Greek Amphitheater tonight to call out chants, listen to alumni trash Stanford, enjoy the Cal Marching Band and Cheerleaders, an...

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Top 10 Reasons For Cal to beat Stanford

Top 10 Reasons For Cal to beat Stanford

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 Cal to beat Stanford:

 

10. Still no Stanfordium.

9. I don't bleed r...

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UC Davis Students Are Ready For A Protest

UC Davis Students Are Ready For A Protest

This is an important time in our country, and right now it is necessary for everyone out there to get involved and help make a difference. With the past election earlier this month our country faced a great injustice with the passing of prop 8 (or how it should be referred to as prop h8te).

 

Californians are uniting around protesting this disgu...

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The Bike Church Needs Your Help, UC Davis Students

The Bike Church Needs Your Help, UC Davis Students

The Bike Church is in desperate need of our help. All the UC Davis students out there need to gather and help save one of Davis’s finest organizations, The Bike Church. If you haven’t heard, the Bike Church is about to be evicted from their headquarters unless they are able to raise enough money to pay their rent. This is a sad day for Davis ...

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Prop 8 Pass and Prop 4 Rejection: Gay Marriage Ban and Abortion Accomodation in California

Prop 8 Pass and Prop 4 Rejection: Gay Marriage Ban and Abortion Accomodation in California

Not to put a damper on the post post-racial victory, but California is really sucking the big one right now. Looks like Proposition 8, the ban on gay marriage in California, will pass today. It’s at 52% approval to 48% disapproval, and there aren’t all that many votes left to count. Prop 4 results are also almost all in, and Californians have ch...

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Zero Pollution Motors and Air Cars Get UC Berkeley Hippies Revved

Zero Pollution Motors and Air Cars Get UC Berkeley Hippies Revved

Okay, so you go to an uber-liberal school like UC Berkeley but your car is emitting enough crap into the air to start a whole new global warming crisis. You’re on the brink of waking up to demonstrators sitting in trees outside your dorm window to protest your environmentally hostile car. What do you do? Well, perhaps an air car could be for you...

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UC Berkeley Students Treated to Seinfeld Bus, Given Free Candy

UC Berkeley Students Treated to Seinfeld Bus, Given Free Candy

UC Berkeley students were recently startled to find a huge Seinfeld bus on their campus. Evidently the bus was meant to promote the show, which is now in syndication. On the bus, UC Berkeley students could look at the Seinfeld MySpace and Facebook pages, while sitting amongst props and eating candy.

 

The Daily Californian reported:

A bus fille...

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NACAC Says to Chill on the SAT and ACT Scores, UC Schools Say, "You Can't Make Us"

NACAC Says to Chill on the SAT and ACT Scores, UC Schools Say, "You Can't Make Us"

For all of you who thought the SAT and ACT really blew (or that you really blew it on the exams), good news: the National Association for College Admissions Counseling recently conducted a study which found that the standardized tests are not accurate ways to gauge the success of potential students (phew!). The NACAC discouraged the heavy relian...

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On the 7th Day God Said, "Ride a Bike."

On the 7th Day God Said, "Ride a Bike."

Anyone that goes to UC Davis, or has ever been to the city of Davis, is aware of the fact that people love their bikes. I mean it is actually frightening how much people love their bikes.

 

On any given afternoon you can see the streets flooded with a wave of bikers cruising down the streets, but there is a special “biker” amongst the mere civil...

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