We still consider ourselves a watchdog of the University. We don't have an adversarial relationship, but we're not buddy-buddy. We're fulfilling our traditional journalistic role. After years of struggling with increasing production costs and a crippling mortgage, the newspaper signed a five-year lease with Associated Students of the University of California, which manages Eshleman Hall. We needed to save money.
Students are glad to be back on campus.
It's safer and closer. Whether we're independent or not, we're still the University's newspaper. It makes sense to be where it's all happening. For Aguilar and John Bowman, the Daily Californian's new general manager, the first charge now is to bring the newspaper back to its daily circulation. Lack of funds forced the newspaper to shrink to a twice-weekly publication last fall.