“Actually, I wasn’t interested in politics much. I began my career as a law professor,” Dr. Wissanu Krea-ngam, UC Berkeley alumnus and a former Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand, said. Dr. Wissanu has since returned to teaching law, leaving politics three months before the September 2006 ousting of then-Prime Minister Read More…
This is the fourth and final installment in a four-part series exploring UC Berkeley’s “hookup culture.” Students’ names have been changed or withheld in order to protect their privacy and foster honest conversation. While the hookup culture at UC Berkeley is viewed differently by everyone in the campus community, the Read More…
This is the third installment in a four-part series exploring UC Berkeley’s “hookup culture.” Students’ names have been changed or withheld in order to protect their privacy and encourage honest conversation. When the streets of Berkeley start to come alive on Sunday mornings, with early risers out jogging or vendors Read More…
This is the second installment in a four-part series exploring UC Berkeley’s “hookup culture.” Students’ names have been changed or withheld in order to protect their privacy and encourage honest conversation. After a “pretty hard core” make-out session at a party, Wheeler recalled walking a girl back to her room Read More…
This is the first installment in a four-part series exploring UC Berkeley’s “hookup culture.” Students’ names have been changed or withheld in order to protect their privacy and foster honest conversation. It is a typical Friday night party. The musty combination of sweat, hormones and repressed desires are undercut by Read More…
A Berkeley High School counselor was suspended by the state for seven days following allegations of sexual misconduct with a former student, as announced in a notice to the student on May 4. The California Commission on Teaching Credentialing issued the suspension notice to Berkeley High counselor Anthony Smith following Read More…
A proposal made in Tehran’s Evin Prison led to a San Francisco wedding for two recently freed UC Berkeley alumni. With Josh Fattal – the third detained hiker and a former UC Berkeley student – acting as best man, Shane Bauer and Sarah Shourd wed in a private ceremony last Saturday, Read More…
Members of Occupy the Farm — who are part of the 11-day old encampment on UC-owned land in Albany — will meet with campus representatives Thursday night, a day after receiving the support of the ASUC Senate. Occupy the Farm Spokesperson Anya Kamenskaya said members are interested to hear the Read More…
Following an over four-hour long discussion, the ASUC senate chose Student Action Senator Christine Yun as a new representative on the board responsible for overseeing income-producing assets of the ASUC. At the last senate meeting of the year, junior James Ephrati was brought in — nominated by the Commercial and Read More…
At its last meeting of the semester Wednesday, the ASUC Senate approved stipends for executives and other officials — decreasing the stipends for some officials for whom the financial committee deemed a subpar fulfillment of duties. Of the five ASUC executives, the stipend of Academic Affairs Vice President Julia Joung was Read More…
