Surpassing Mediocrity

In the spirit of giving credit where credit is due, I’d like to thank the Daily Californian for, after a semester of mediocre opinion columns, finally finding a couple of writers with some talent. And, in a reversal from years past, these are the summer staff writers. Brad Luen and Alex Liu have written some very good articles in the last few weeks.

Now, for those of you who thought that the all-female ensemble from last semester wasn’t representative of the Berkeley student demographic, the two writers for the summer are both Asian males. The reversal in writer gender has also seemed to reverse a trend of writing that lacked, among other things, originality and any thought-provoking substance. Draw any connection between the two independently from this entry. The articles of Ms. Stein are of course exempt from this criticism, though her taste in fraternities and bashing my former RA [see bottom of article, you’ll see the original title] stand to be improved.

In any event, I’m sure you all have some free time this summer, so check in with The Daily Cal for some decent opinion columns. With CalStuff around, no one really goes there for breaking news coverage anyway. They can probably use the traffic.
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