After a lot of thought, I’ve decided to not buy football season tickets for this coming fall. I have had them the past two seasons, and the medical evidence surrounding the sport’s destructive nature convinced me to pocket my $100 instead. Last May, a group called Intelligence Squared sponsored a Read More…
I’ve been thinking a lot on how people talk about women lately. The way my straight male friends talk about women; the way my guest lecturer talks about women; the way my parents talk about hypothetical women; and perhaps most of all, the way I talk about women. The reason Read More…
I don’t like talking about TED. The conversations always start off the same. Someone asks if I’ve seen the TED Talk by Joshua Foer about memory or Wingham Rowan’s discussion of flexibility in the job market. My answer is always the same: I avoid TED Talks. Sorry. Cue disappointment, frustration, Read More…
This past winter break, I went back to Israel. As I have lived there intermittently over the past few years, the trip served as a way to reconnect with family, friends and a place that has held many meaningful experiences for me. The trip was composed of a few families Read More…
“One man, one vote,” the basic democratic ideal on which our electoral system rests, is under attack. Republicans in the state assemblies and senates of Virginia, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin are seeking to reapportion their states’ votes in the Electoral College to empower predominantly rural and white voters at the expense Read More…
University faculty and nonrepresented staff earning less than $200,000 annually will be eligible for merit raises under a plan announced this past week by the UC Office of the President. The pool of funds — included in the budget passed last fall by the UC Board of Regents — was Read More…
A recently released study from the UC Berkeley Labor Center holds that the returns from public investment in early child care and education far outweigh the costs — findings that illustrate the necessity of state financing for such programs during a recession, public policy analysts said. The study — authored Read More…
With the new Student-Athlete High Performance Center set to open in a few weeks, members of the Berkeley community voiced their concern with the entire Memorial Stadium construction process at Tuesday night’s public hearing to discuss the project’s Environmental Impact Report. The performance center — a project estimated to cost Read More…
After over a year and a half of research and discussion, a federal commission on safe nuclear waste disposal — which includes a UC Berkeley nuclear engineering professor — has released comprehensive draft report recommendations. The draft report was released on July 29 and addresses issues ranging from de-prioritizing the Read More…
UCPD responded to several illegal acts at a rock concert at the Hearst Greek Theatre this past Saturday evening, though the department said none were particularly raucous or unusual. Among the incidents were an arrest for alleged battery of a peace officer and several citations for alleged public drunkenness as Read More…
