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Senior guard Natasha Vital cheers on the Cal women’s basketball team at Thursday night’s game against USC. Cal beat USC 61-55.

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Chris Bird, a high school junior from Napa,  practices on a 7×7 Rubik’s cube at the speed-cubing competition at UC Berkeley on Saturday in 145 Dwinelle.

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Two trucks sit side by side in a junk yard in Napa, California.

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Footsteps in the freshly fallen snow in Lake Tahoe, California.

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Rocks are reflected in the water behind Barker Dam in Joshua Tree National Park.

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The grand finale of the half-time show at the Poinsettia Bowl in San Diego, California.

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Fireworks were launched outside of Qualcomm Stadium for the halftime show of the Pointsettia Bowl in San Diego, California.

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Free from the scaffolding that covered its spire for months, Sather Tower stands renewed in the moonlight.

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Red shirt freshman Megan Shimojima keeps the ball in bounds in the NorPac Championship game against Stanford. Cal lost 3-0.

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On Saturday’s Women’s volleyball game against Stanford, Cal middle blocker, Mindi Wiley, signals that three hitters are in the front row on the opposing side. Cal lost to Stanford in 5 games.

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