As a freshman at Del Campo High School in Sacramento, I was assigned to research and report on a four-year university for a class project. Being a first-generation college student with no family lobbying me to report on any particular school, I considered the fact that my father lived in Read More…
A bill introduced by a California state senator early in February would impose oil taxes to fund public higher education. Read More…
In response to rising college costs, a state assembly member recently proposed two bills collectively named The Affordable College Act to lower the cost of California’s higher education. Read More…
While hundreds of students danced in celebration of President Barack Obama’s re-election to Miley Cyrus’ “Party in the USA” on Sproul Plaza at UC Berkeley, members of the Berkeley College Republicans were huddled around a television in an apartment south of campus. The site where various campus groups spent weeks Read More…
The Nov. 6 election was a day of heightened passions and intense partisanship. Looking forward, our nation’s troubles are far from over. As Americans and as students, we must hope to see a definite change in direction from the past four years of economic hardship and failed policies. If we Read More…
Representatives from Cal Berkeley Democrats and Berkeley College Republicans met at the “Great Debate” Thursday to make their cases for President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney in the presidential race. Read More…
While UC Berkeley has a reputation for student activism, political involvement in local campaigns for the upcoming elections has been been limited in comparison to state and national races. Read More…
Armed with my little blue notebook, I ventured out into Upper Sproul last week with the intention of talking to people about how the religious beliefs of our two main presidential candidates factor into the election. I was shocked to discover that I should have been asking a much more Read More…
Young people are determined to make their voices heard in the upcoming November election on the issue of ever-increasing costs of higher education. The ASUC has already helped register thousands of current UC Berkeley students to vote, stressing the importance of one major ballot initiative: Proposition 30. However, any student Read More…
The UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies Library will be the arena of a lively political gathering Wednesday night, when it broadcasts the first of three debates between the Democratic and Republican presidential nominees.
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