While I agree with ASUC Senator Noah Ickowitz’s statement encouraging the importance of ridership data to definitively and objectively decide whether a renewal of the Class Pass referendum provides an overall benefit rather than cost to our student body, this necessity for hard fact is precisely why the referendum needs Read More…
I was thrilled to see the Daily Cal’s recent article on Berkeley City Council’s ordinance to pass the strongest possible ban on single-use plastic bags to protect the ocean (“Berkeley moving forward with tougher plastic bag ban,” Feb. 1). The City Council voted on Tuesday to move forward with a Read More…
Practice safe sex in the month of love Valentine’s Day is stressful. For those with partners, or a special someone in mind, planning a romantic date and buying the perfect gift can be overwhelming. For those kicking it solo, the pressure to find a Valentine or avoid all things mushy Read More…
Dear Chancellor Birgeneau: It was 50 years ago that I proudly enrolled as a freshman at Cal, from which my mother (Class of 1933) and my aunt had graduated long ago. All these years I have bragged about the wonderful experience of my four years at Berkeley and the superb Read More…
I have been a registered nurse for the last 30 years, working the majority of those years in a busy ER in Berkeley, CA. Recent developments are disturbing to me and my colleagues in regard to the contentious environment between employers and nurses. People come into a hospital because they Read More…
Coverage of Occupy Cal disappoints. We are deeply disappointed by the recent Daily Cal coverage of the Occupy Cal events of Nov. 10. The headline piece, titled “Occupy Cal: Protestors, police violently clash,” is factually incorrect or lacking on at least two counts: 1. It suggests that protesters were just Read More…
An appeal to the UC administration to restore Berkeley’s free speech tradition We the undersigned Free Speech Movement (FSM) veterans and historians remind the UC administration that the university’s emergence as a center of free political expression on campus began in 1964 when the Free Speech Movement’s free speech principles Read More…
Chancellor Robert Birgeneau: Your recent “Message to Campus Community” avows solidarity with students regarding their anger about the steady public “disinvestment in public higher education.” Nevertheless, you explain that you have necessarily enacted a “no encampment” policy. Students neglected to ask permission and failed to abide by your rules of Read More…
On Nov. 9, an outdoor encampment, modeled after the encampments in New York, Oakland, and other cities worldwide, will be established at UC Berkeley in order to protest the privatization of public education. We write to express our support for the project of Occupy Cal, and to state publicly that Read More…
The Daily Californian’s Nov. 1 editorial, “Finding Fault,” left an inaccurate impression about campus efforts to prepare for earthquakes and educate the campus community about valuable resources that will help them plan for such an event. For example, since the launch of the SAFER program in 1997, the campus has Read More…
