UPDATE: There was a second round of thefts of the salvaged papers around 4 PM.

The Daily Cal suffered paper thefts and an attempted newsroom invasion today by protesters upset about two separate-- racially charged-- pieces. Yesterday the Daily Cal was invaded by about 50 protesters, who roamed room to room searching for reporter Nate Tabak, then yelled at him for awhile. This was in response to Mr. Tabak's article about the arrest of a Cal Football player for allegedly invading a Fraternity House and fracturing the skull of a Fraternity member. The assault left seven with serious injuries. The Protesters claimed the article negatively stereotyped blacks as violent + misrepresented Gray. (Here's the Editor-in-Chief's response).

Today those protestors linked up with others upset over a cartoon of North Korean ruler Kim Jong that ran on April 25th. The cartoon had Kim Jong dressed in a cheerleader outfit rah-rah-ing nuclear warheads. The protesters, mostly pro-affirmative action group BAMN, had claimed it caricatured Asians much like Japanese caricatures of the 1940's.

Today's Daily Cal, which included an article on the newsroom invasion plus a defense of policy by Editor-in-Chief Rong-Gong Lin, was thrown away on Sproul Plaza between 9 and 10:30. Many were recovered from the trash.

After gathering in Lower Sproul, around 30 protesters walked up to the sixth floor of Eshleman Hall, where the Daily Cal is located. They were stymied by a locked door. Still waiting to see what they'll do next.

(Regulars: I'm writing this to fill in Instapundit readers in case I get linked to).
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