Editorials

Around this time (1923), editorials started being more prominently featured on their own page.

– Daily Californian Editorial Page

These letters demonstrate that issues of civil rights, race and ethnicity were vigorously debated long before the famous protests of the 1960s. “A Father Speaks …” was written by a father who objected, in strong racist language, to the prospect of white students (such as his daughter) living with students of color.

The next day, the editors wrote: “Seldom has an Ice Box letter produced as much immediate and violent reaction as the one written by ‘An Interested Father.’” They printed several strong rebuttals from students, soldiers and “Another Interested Father,” all strenuously disagreeing with the original letter.

– "A Father Speaks...' "Letters to the Icebox..." "One Who Knows..."

In 1953, The Daily Californian included a six-part series of editorials focusing on the anti-communist hearings happening in the United States Congress.

– Congressional Investigations - Part 5 “A ‘Substitute’ for the Open Mind

“The Occupy Cal movement has succeeded in galvanizing a diverse range of people on campus. It cannot end here.”

– “No Longer Preoccupied”