The budget calls for a four-year tuition freeze for all students except those in professional schools, and discontinuation of a proposed unit cap ons state-subsidized coures, which could have affected 2,200 UC students in the next school year. Read More…
Even after surviving a war zone, UC Berkeley freshman Unis Barakat found himself succumbing to the lingering emotional scars of his experience. Read More…
Part 1: Noon march and rally at Tang Center Part 2: 4 p.m. rally at UCOP, march to Wells Fargo
Kenya Wheeler is a graduate student at Berkeley who was diagnosed with brain cancer. Read his full feature here.
UC Berkeley contracted a new information technology firm in January in order to protect over 20,000 faculty and staff members from losing important files on their computing devices. Read More…
For Halloween, I was a Cal track and field champion — not because I went out that night clad in blue and gold short shorts, wristbands and running shoes but because for one night, I had to nearly break the Cal long jump record — on several occasions — just Read More…
More than 50 protesters gathered at Bancroft Way and Telegraph Avenue Wednesday afternoon before marching to the Tang Center to protest changes in UC Student Health Insurance Plan coverage. Read More…
When I arrived at work a couple weeks ago, my email inbox was inundated with emails about the most recent Sex on Tuesday column, titled “Sober isn’t always better.” My initial reaction was, “I don’t understand why people even continue to read this column” — I sure don’t waste my Read More…
Young adults across the nation share many of Angelakos’ struggles of living with mental illness that I believe are reflected in the lyrics of Passion Pit’s latest album Gossamer: institutionalization, strained relationships, depression, medication, substance abuse and mania. In 2006, it was estimated that nearly one third of young adults aged 18 through 26 experienced some kind of mental illness, including high instances of bipolar and major depression. For individuals who develop schizophrenia, their first “psychotic break” is most likely to happen in the late teens or early 20’s. 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…
