November 24, 1919: Cal wins the Big Game
The month of November brings an important tradition: the Big Game. The Daily Californian has long been Berkeley’s sports news source, and sports took the whole front page in 1919 to declare the Bear’s victory. In 1982, the rivalry extended to the two campus’ newspapers, when the Stanford Daily put out a replica of the Daily Cal with the headline “NCAA awards Big Game to Stanford,” days after Cal had actually won — upsetting students and fans alike.
November 28, 1972: Liberation Front party wins ASUC seats
November also means election season, which used to include the ASUC elections for UC Berkeley students. In this election cycle, the Berkeley Liberation Front party secured the most ASUC Senate seats, and only one independent candidate was elected. In a morning session, city council members were set to discuss street vendor rules for the holiday rush and easing the enforcement of marijuana laws.
November 3, 1983
In local news, Berkeley City Council members upheld their rent control ordinance, voting to appeal a State Court of Appeal’s ruling that it was unconstitutional, and in favor of the majority vote that it got from the public. At the state level, the governor, who a Berkeley council member called a “Reaganite” in another front page piece, ordered a 3% job cut after a yearlong hiring freeze, which had already meant the loss of 6,000 positions in the state.
November 8, 1996: Protests continue after Prop. 209 passes
Three days after the presidential election, students continued to protest the passage of Proposition 209, which banned affirmative action in California public schools. They besieged the Campanile to demand campus not adhere to the proposition and spent the day in discussions with administrators who told students there were “ways to maintain the campus’s cultural diversity.” In the years following, UC campuses saw a dramatic decrease in the Black and Latine student population and are still struggling to achieve the campus diversity they saw before Prop. 209 was implemented.
November 5, 2008: Campus reacts to Obama’s ‘historic win’
A photo essay in the center spread of this issue shows students lining up to vote and behind polls. Most photos focus on students celebrating former President Barack Obama’s historic victory, jumping up on the sign outside of the Free Speech Movement Café and crowding the spiral staircase in Gardner Main Stacks.
November 12, 2010
From just 15 years ago, this issue has headlines that may be familiar to some readers. Plans for the revitalization of Downtown Berkeley are debated, contract negotiations between the UC system and the graduate student instructors’ union are stalled. In other news, software that dispersed financial aid was causing delays — with serious implications for some students, especially student parents.