Challenge commonly held assumptions As a former member of the People’s Park Community Advisory Board and current university staff, I write in response to Lynn Yu’s piece “Peoples Park Problems” and the general low opinion of these pages for Cal students who serve off-campus communities. If the staff writers and Read More…
Since the lovely ladies of Princeton and now Harvard have received life advice, as a Cal alumna, I felt obligated to share mine. To all the amazing young women at Berkeley, you do not have to find a life partner before you graduate. All you have to do is begin Read More…
We, faculty at UC Berkeley, write to urge that you reject yet another call for a selective boycott against Israel and urge you to instead support ASUC Senate bill 158, “In Support of Positive Steps toward a Negotiated Israeli-Palestinian Peace.” We believe that the passage of the divestment bill would Read More…
I challenge all those who campaigned for ASUC office to one question: What do they mean by “community?” Community is a word that gets thrown around very often here at Cal, especially during campaign season. Candidates will claim support and endorsement from the ____ community, which sounds a lot more Read More…
A presidential feature article printed Monday portrayed DeeJay Pepito — my colleague and an essential part of our senate — as an “aggressive” woman with a mission to propel “minority” groups into the ASUC. I found the article poorly written and contextualized, especially given the amount of times I was Read More…
I am compelled to respond to your March 22 story about the University of California’s appeal of a lower court ruling in a case brought by the media conglomerate — Reuters America — against the regents. This is not a case about the public’s right to know, nor is it Read More…
The benefits of being homeless As an alumnus and an occasional Telegraph Avenue and park bum, I would like to commend Jay Scherf for his kind and sensible words (“Homelessness and Telegraph Avenue,” March 15) with regard to the ‘Ave, in response to a column from Ms. Yu, which I Read More…
Homelessness and Telegraph Avenue Lynn Yu’s column (“Talking on Telegraph. Stop,” March 7) came from a place of such privilege that it rendered the whole article ridiculous. The piece uses the same rhetoric as 19th century British imperial policy. To assume that Telegraph’s ‘potential’ is to gentrify it into some Read More…
Counseling and Psychological Services would like to commend Jordan Bach-Lombardo on his column “Off the beat: Dealing with Suicide” (Jan. 28). CPS consulted with UCPD, and UCPD reported that it did a thorough investigation to determine if there was, in fact, a suicide. Due to the anonymous nature of the Read More…
Dirks responds to Columbia faculty criticism On Jan. 22, The Daily Californian published a letter from some of my Columbia colleagues that contains serious misrepresentations of what I actually said during the course of an introductory online video interview (still available through the UC Berkeley NewsCenter) that was released after Read More…
