Ways to Help Out CalStuff
I wanted to create a sidebar link for this information, which means I have to post it first. Anyone who wants to give us a hand, here are some ways you can help out.

1. Read CalStuff.

2. Comment on CalStuff. The posters here are never offering the final level of analysis or reporting on any issue. We read the comments posted here, and it almost always helps give us, and the other readers, a better and more complete view of what we are writing about when our readers help fill in information.

3. Tell your friends about CalStuff. The more readers the better, both because it helps with number 2 and 4 above and below, and because we tend to write more if there are more readers around to see it. Here are some easy ways to spread the word about CalStuff:

• Use the "E-mail this Post!" link available at the bottom of each post.
• Place a link to CalStuff somewhere that a number of Cal students might see it (examples include a personal website, your AIM profile (thanks to everyone who did this), your facebook profile, a LiveJournal, or anywhere else.
  
• Join the Facebook CalStuff group.
• Tattoo www.calstuff.com onto your forehead, or if you get around a lot, on your genitals...
  

4. Provide CalStuff with information. We monitor a variety of sources for Berkeley news, but the most effective way to get information to CalStuff is if you drop us a link about something that is happening around campus. Email us at calstuff [at] gmail.com or one of the writers directly with the contact information to the left.

5. Help CalStuff monitor the fire trails. The everpresent threat of rampant marauding gangs of mountain lions is far too large of a danger for CalStuff to monitor on its own, and we are desparate for your assistance.

6. Write a guest post. One interesting limitations of news coverage is that oftentimes coverage of a story will focus around a central figure, and yet that person only gets a brief quotation in the report about the event. If you're involved in a news story, or just have an opinion you would like to express, drop us a line pitching a guest post idea, and we'll let you know if it will fit in here.Email This Post!