California Patriot
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The California Patriot is an independent, student-run, glossy-covered magazine from the University of California, Berkeley. The magazine's mission is to promote conservative politics and opinion at the University. The magazine prints eight issues a year, and is distributed on the Berkeley campus free of charge. Similarly, when a new issue is released, the Patriot homepage provides a link to a pdf version for reading. The Patriot also provides subscription options for those that would like it shipped to them.
In 2002, the California Patriot broke a campus story that the University of California planned to host a 9/11 Memorial event while deliberately excluding any mention of the United States so as not to be too pro-America. Bill O'Reilly hosted the editor of the California Patriot to tell the story on Fox News. After publishing the decision, many UC Berkeley alumni telephoned Chancellor Berdahl with displeasure. Berkeley administration leveraged the student government to reverse the tone of the affair and be quite patriotic.
Former members of the Patriot include founder Kelso Barnett and former California College Republicans State Chairman Michael Davidson, who ran for College Republican National Chairman in 2005.
