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A Berkeley Homecoming

What if all of Berkeley’s heroes came to visit their adoring campus? Well, they’d probably like Top Dog, for starters.

Prologue

STEVE: Hey, you know what’d be awesome? If we got all of our heroes to come to Berkeley.
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Mall Detective

The sun crept into my office like a 550 pound man with no legs. It crawled upward on my Gin bottle GAA Winner’s Cup, because I’m a real Winner–and slowly stopped on my eyes. Behind the eyelids two dozen maraca … Read More

EECS Soccer!

None of us intended to be in the EECS Intermural Soccer Championships. Our only plan was to play a little soccer, lose, then make ironic and funny comments about losing using Monty Python and Comedy Central quotes. Well, Johnny Eighth-floor … Read More

Words from the Top

Prescience – No, Not the Science Fiction Kind

One of the advantages of the Heuristic Squelch as a magazine is the long period of time from when the issue goes to press and when it actually reaches the anxious sweat-drenched and abnormally sticky palms of the student body. … Read More

I’m a Liar

It’s not that I’m a liar, it’s just that I’m often tricked into lying. And nothing makes me lie more than conversing in a foreign language. Well, maybe dead whores.

Practicing verbal skills is essential in a foreign language class. … Read More

Hubert, Legacy of a Hobo

I’ve spent the last thirty years of my life studying the dying American institution of the rail-riding, trash-can-raiding, squirrel-eating hobo. I’d never met one in person until I ran into Hubert Johnson Hackensack in Saginaw, Michigan after he darted in … Read More