Around this time each semester, the air around Berkeley typically reeks of desperation. With finals but a few days away now, the collective brains of Cal students have been fried to the point where all kinds of weird things can happen. Last semester, someone finally lost it and attempted to Read More…
As we slip into the ominous depths of midterm season and paper deadlines, it’s easy to spend our college hours slouching at a desk in Doe, scurrying from class to class or nestling under warm covers at the end of a demanding day. And even when we manage to scrape Read More…
A California state senator proposed legislation that would require at least one polling site on every University of California and California State University campus, Tuesday. Read More…
In the forest of daily news, it is easy to lose sight of today’s overarching and fundamental challenge to public higher education, as governmental financial support has receded. Simply put, how can California and the United States structure and fund higher education so that it can sustain and further hone Read More…
This week marks the fortieth anniversary of Chez Panisse, the legendary Berkeley restaurant that pioneered the Slow Food movement that has now prompted Americans to desire seasonal, local, organic, whole foods. The “mother” of Chez Panisse, Alice Waters, credits her student experiences at UC Berkeley as inspiration. She was among Read More…
Seth Rosenfeld, author of the newly released book “Subversives: The FBI’s War on Student Radicals and Reagan’s Rise to Power,” spoke at UC Berkeley Wednesday evening to discuss his new book in which he reveals the “secret history” of the FBI’s involvement on the Berkeley campus in the 1960s. Read More…
UC Berkeley students met with residents of the surrounding Southside neighborhood Friday as the first meeting of a new effort to facilitate a more peaceful co-existence between students and neighbors. The Quiet Campaign of the Happy Neighbors project hopes to reduce the impact of student parties on surrounding city residents, Read More…
Everything takes time. Natural processes — like tectonic movement and its homo sapiens analogue, gestation — take a certain amount of time, no more and no less. For example, a major earthquake splits the Hayward Fault open every 140 years, on average. No use worrying: Just keep calm and carry Read More…
Through an exhibit that opened in late September at Bancroft Library, signed prints of photographs taken by Ansel Adams are being introduced to a new generation of students. Read More…
Neil Smelser, a UC Berkeley professor emeritus of sociology, outlined what he called “the perfect storm” that higher education faces in a speech Monday. Speaking at the Berkeley Art Museum as part of the Clark Kerr Lecture Series on the Role of Higher Education in Society — established in 2001 Read More…
