Aleyni Cerezo

Come out for a week-long series of events celebrating cultural diversity and contemplating such questions as how to deal with historical and cultural significance in our present day. Activities include an MCC library launch party (Thursday), as well as a drag workshop sponsored by Casa Magdalena Mora, Unity House, Chicano Latino Student Development, Gender Equity Resource Center and Queer Alliance and Resource Center (Wednesday. Speaker events include a discussion of collective food justice in the Bay Area (Monday), a panel titled "The Role of Graffiti in the Egyptian Revolution and Against the Apartheid Wall in Palestine" (Tuesday) and many more.

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Saturday, Oct. 21 marked Cal’s annual football match against Stanford University. In addition to the game’s relatively unusual timing—a departure from a more traditional November date—this year’s Big Game Rally saw a change of venue from the Greek Theatre to Edwards Stadium, as well as a consequent absence of the evening’s customary bonfire.

Members of the event’s planning committee compensated for the loss, however, by featuring a series of fire-blasting machines and a finale of blue and gold fireworks. Appearances by guest speakers such as members of the legendary play against Stanford in 1982 provided a larger and entertaining context for the impending game, and performances by student groups like the Golden Overtones and the UC Men’s Octet sustained a high volume of student energy.

Such spirit carried over into the noon commencement of the match, where the blue and gold-clad student section led the mass of Berkeley fans in Memorial Stadium in cheering for the resident team. Though a series of errors and fumbled mistakes on the part of the Golden Bears largely prevented them from taking back the axe—resulting in a score of 3-21—the vivacity of the various stadium-wide chants, the crowd-pleasing appearance by Cal Band, and the overall shared spirit and pride in the school provided a thoroughly enjoyable game day, succeeding in the end where our team, perhaps, did not.

But there’s always next year.

It was that time of year again. The gathering of the fashion elite, the collective anticipation of the curtain reveal. New York’s biannual fashion week saw the unveiling of styles both new and familiar for this upcoming season, but for those of you who haven’t had the chance to scour the spring lines, we’ve collected some of the runways’ most prominent trends.

1. Geometric Prints / 2. Black and White

Prints dominated the runways at New York’s fashion week, taking shape in various takes on solid lines and geometric form. Patterns were particularly prominent in monochromatic shades, appearing in collections for Alice + Olivia (right), Jonathan Saunders, Ohne Titel (left), and Marc Jacobs.

3. Color Blocking

Bright, solid hues took an especially strong turn on the Diane von Furstenberg spring runway, where vivid blues and fresh reds imbued simple silhouettes with a vibrancy natural to the given season. Take a cue from the collections by pairing basic staples in unexpected colors for a doable shift in your everyday style.

4. Collars

From the politically amusing to the pop culturally serious, here are five of this week’s breaking news pieces that you might have missed. 

1. Clint Eastwood at the Republican National Convention

In case you weren’t aware, Barack Obama has the superpower of invisibility. At least according to Clint Eastwood’s presentation on Aug. 30 at the Republican National Convention, where he turned toward an empty chair and addressed the absent president with lengthy remarks spanning topics both irrelevant and otherwise, even admonishing The President Who Wasn’t There with a sassy “I’m not going to shut up, it’s my turn.” But it’s okay because Eastwood totally saved it at the end by yelling “We own this country!”, sending the nearly all-white, over-forty crowd into tender, fangirly sobs.

2. Jersey Shore Cancelled After Six Seasons

Alas, the rise and fall of the GTL empire. MTV has confirmed this season’s run as the last for the network’s charmingly notorious, kind-of-Italian bar-hopping crew. Fist-pump through the tears during the Sept. 6 special Gym, Tan, Look Back, which features riveting cast interviews and a sneak peak at season six, and then catch the final season premiere airing Oct. 4.