Daily Californian

The Daily Californian (or Daily Cal) is an independent, student-run newspaper published by the Independent Berkeley Students Publishing Company, Inc. The newspaper serves the University of California, Berkeley campus and its surrounding community, publishing Monday through Friday during the academic year and twice a week during the summer. Established in 1871, The Daily Californian is one of the oldest newspapers on the West Coast and one of the oldest college newspapers in the country.

On several occasions, when the Daily Californian published an editorial unfavorable to a particular viewpoint, many of the free newspapers were discarded into the trash, presumably by those who disagreed with the editorial. The culprits were rarely ever found. This behavior is quite at odds with the university's history, as it was the birthplace of the Free Speech Movement in 1964.

Most recently, Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates[?] admitted to stealing and trashing 1,000 copies of the Daily Californian in November 2002 when the newspaper endorsed his opponent Shirley Dean in the city's mayoral election.

Links

• The Daily Californian (http://www.dailycal.org/)
• Police Say Mayor Stole Newspapers (http://www.dailycal.org/article.asp?id=10513)
• University of California, Berkeley (http://www.berkeley.edu/)