Thursday, April 27th 2006
What Happened to the Daily Cals?
A few minutes after noon on Wednesday, I wanted to check out the Daily Cal. Since I was on Sproul I went to the large kiosk thing the Daily Cal has. After I grabbed the day’s issue (Wednesday’s), I decided to grab a paper from the day before. While I had already read Tuesday’s paper, I wanted to get an extra copy or two because they published an op-ed I co-wrote about the RSF fee. I looked in the bin right below the shelves where they put the latest issue. They always dump the old issues in the bin right in front of the shelves. I looked and I saw a few of Monday’s papers and even large stacks from the same issue from last week. However, I could not find a single copy of Tuesday’s Daily Cal. Why would this situation arise? The Monday issue had the voter guide but there were still voter guides and Monday issues around. The only thing special about the Tuesday issue was the Daily Cal endorsements for ASUC elections. The Daily Cal only endorsed people who were qualified, so who would have a problem with their opinion? Who could possibly not like the endorsement of an independent and a SQUELCH! party member over major party candidates?
In case you missed the Daily Cal endorsements or forget:
Executive VP: Ben Narodick
External Affairs VP: Igor Tregub
They endorsed a few other things, but I don’t think any of them would merit the seizure of all the papers 24 hours after they were printed.
Let’s say I think some people wanted students to forget about the Daily Cal endorsements. I don’t think it was Tom Bates.
I guess Tom Bates and Student Action have a little deal going on now.
Comment by RepBast1984 — 4/27/2006 @ 5:50 am
All the Squelch! flyers were torn down last night as well.
Comment by squelcher — 4/27/2006 @ 12:57 pm
Although tearing down the flyers of any party is disrespectful, it is equally disrespectful to cover every surface with flyers. Almost every classroom I have been in is covered with these stupid shallow flyers. Is the classroom wall a posting board for announcements? I dont think so.
Comment by Yuriy Pasko — 4/27/2006 @ 1:40 pm
That’s a violation. Take a picture, and send it to the AG.
Comment by Beetle — 4/27/2006 @ 3:01 pm
I know a GSI that grabbed around 20-25 of Thursday’s edition ( I do not know where either) , and it was not for political reasons but for discussion section only. But nothing to do with Tuesday’s.
Comment by what — 4/27/2006 @ 3:28 pm
come on. daily cals have run out plenty of times (over the summer esp.). The endorsement issue is probably one of the more popular issues.
Oh, and in case you’re wondering, i didn’t vote for any SA candidates, and was quite sad CS didn’t run a slate. So i’m definitely not a SA fiend.
Comment by nuance — 4/27/2006 @ 4:05 pm
Some SQULCH folks spent hours putting up fliers all over Northside, Ridge and Hearst, from Highland down past Casa Z, AND down Euclid, on just about every surface on which it was permissable to post fliers.
Now, unless some homeless people got REEEAAAALY bored, I am going to guess that it was not an accident that every single one of those fliers was gone by the next morning.
There were also Igor fliers hanging in these locations that were removed as well.
I am, therefore, positive that SA has people driving around at 4 AM vandalizing fliers in public spaces where it cannot be proven that they are doing so. I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again - they have goons!
Comment by John W. — 4/28/2006 @ 1:36 pm
lol. listen to yourselves.
Comment by Anonymous — 4/30/2006 @ 12:05 am