It is everything a student-driven blog should be: informative, snarky, irreverent, relevant, and frequently updated. It is The Daily Clog, a blog run by a half-dozen student staffers at The Daily Californian at UC-Berkeley. As the about page notes, “We focus on the UC campus, the city of Berkeley and Berkeley’s online community. We give our two cents on all the goings-on—whether you like it or not.”
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The headlines of a few recent posts really say it all: “This Week’s International Sign of the Apocalypse: French Cafes Get the Guillotine“; “How To: Eek! Get Ready for Finals” and “Symposium Scheduled on Whether Economic Fate of Public Universities Uglier than a Demonic Hairless Cat.” The latter was accompanied by the photo below, which made me laugh out loud half a world away. (Is he chewing on a shoelace or large french fry?
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The Clog is a bit more than two years old and in recent months has become one of my favorite student newspaper blogs worldwide. It works because it is a wonderful complement to its print companion, in content and tone. It also features one of the funnier videos I have seen lately: “How Did They Dance?“, a vid showing members of a student improv comedy group randomly interrupting UC-Berkeley lecture classes with brief dance routines.
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As a college instructor… I would absolutely LOVE it if one my students did the dance routine in class.