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The Clog’s power ranking of Berkeley Rec Sports swimming pools

OP-EDS

Community must elevate respect in order to avoid misconduct

ACADEMICS

9 UC Berkeley professors receive Presidential Early Career Awards

FILM & TELEVISION

‘The Farewell’ paints stunning, honest picture of Chinese American experience

FOOTBALL

Cal football’s receiving corps seeks newfound life in 2019

News

Crime & Courts 7/15/19

Trial against Berkeley man accused of sexual assault continues

Research & Ideas 7/15/19

UC Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory plans to send 4 satellites into orbit by 2022

Led by two different teams of scientists and engineers at SSL, the four satellites, which will orbit around Mars and Earth, are a part of two missions to collect information about solar wind and space weather.
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City 7/15/19

Hundreds gather in Berkeley for rally against immigration detention centers

Many community members and public officials gave speeches against the detention centers, including state Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, and Berkeley Poet Laureate Rafael González. The event was led by the office of City Councilmember Rashi Kesarwani.
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Research & Ideas 7/16/19

UC Berkeley researcher examines climate change effects in indigenous Guatemalan farming community

Michael Bakal, a UC Berkeley doctoral student funded by the Center for Latin American Studies and a researcher taking part in an ongoing project in Guatemala, has suggested that climate change could fuel currents of northward immigration in his research.
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Crime & Courts 7/16/19

Berkeley Police Review Commission discusses surveillance policy, introduces new commissioner

Berkeley’s Police Review Commission, or PRC, introduced a new member of the commission, learned that Commissioner Terry Roberts would be leaving the team at the end of July and discussed police surveillance policies at its regular Wednesday night meeting.
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Communities 7/15/19

Sunday Streets event brings Bastille Day, pet parade to Downtown Berkeley

Sunday Streets is a part of the international Open Streets Project, which aims to shut down high-traffic areas for the enjoyment of the public. Berkeley’s street festivities included a family Bastille Day celebration, the second annual Downtown Berkeley Pet Parade, and Cornerfest, an outdoor music concert hosted by Cornerstone Craft Beer & Live Music.
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Administration 7/15/19

Former Haas dean appointed as UC Berkeley’s 1st chief innovation and entrepreneurship officer

A UC Berkeley alumnus, Richard Lyons is a professor of economics and finance in the Haas School of Business, where he served as dean for 11 years.
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Research & Ideas 7/15/19

Patent board announces interference between UC, Broad Institute CRISPR patents

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced an interference between multiple UC and multiple Broad Institute patents, a signal that the USPTO will resolve the seven-year ownership debate regarding CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing in eukaryotic cells.
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UC 7/12/19

John Pérez elected as UC Board of Regents chair for 2019-20

John Pérez was elected as the 2019-20 chair of the UC Board of Regents in May and started working in the new position July 1.
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Academics 7/12/19

9 UC Berkeley professors receive Presidential Early Career Awards

The nine winners of the award from UC Berkeley study a wide variety of research topics that range from detecting radiation emitted after the Big Bang to examining the different ways robots can interact with humans.
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Sports

Football 7/16/19

Cal tailback Marcel Dancy earns Allstate AFCA Good Works Team nomination

Men's Basketball 7/15/19

Cal men’s basketball to play Duke in 1st round of 2019 Empire Classic

Head coach Mike Krzyzewski once again boasts one of the nation’s best incoming classes, featuring a trio of five-star players in Vernon Carey Jr., Matthew Hurt and Wendell Moore, as well as four-star Cassius Stanley. The Blue Devils also bring back several rotation players in Tre Jones, Alex O’Connell and Jack White, among others.
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Men's Basketball 7/15/19

Cal men’s basketball alumnus Tyrone Wallace claimed by Minnesota Timberwolves

Wallace, 25, was waived by the Clippers on July 6, the day after the team shook the basketball landscape by signing Kawhi Leonard and trading for Paul George.
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Men's Basketball 7/15/19

Cal men’s basketball alumnus Theo Robertson hired by Golden State Warriors

Prior to returning to his alma mater, Robertson worked for the Warriors, first as a video intern during the 2014-15 season then as a video coordinator/player development staff member during the 2015-16 season.
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Football 7/15/19

Cal football scores 2020 three-star defensive back Trey Paster

Paster is the third defensive back to join Alexander’s future secondary room, joining fellow three-star recruits Isaiah Young and Dejuan Butler.
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Football 7/11/19

Cal football’s receiving corps seeks newfound life in 2019

With arguably the top secondary in the Pac-12 on the opposite sideline during scrimmages, the Cal offense is anxious to find its own consistency and big-play explosiveness.
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Men's Basketball 7/6/19

Cal men’s basketball alumnus Ryan Anderson waived by Miami Heat

Miami will also stretch Anderson’s salary in order to complete its trade for star Jimmy Butler and will have $5.2 million cap hits in the respective 2020 and 2021 offseasons.
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Men's Basketball 7/6/19

Cal men’s basketball alumnus Tyrone Wallace waived by Los Angeles Clippers

After a strong rookie campaign in 2017-18 in which he averaged 9.7 points, 3.5 rebounds and 2.4 assists in 28.4 minutes, Wallace saw his role reduced this past season, having to play behind the likes of Lou Williams, Patrick Beverley and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, among others.
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Women's Basketball 7/6/19

Cal women’s basketball earns 1st commitment of Charmin Smith era

McIntosh arrives in Berkeley after an accomplished career at Xavier College Preparatory in Phoenix, Arizona, where she was the 2019 6A Premier Region Player of the Year and became a member of the school’s 1,000-point club.
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Baseball 7/6/19

Cal baseball alumnus Andrew Vaughn earns early minor league promotion

In that trio of games, the 2018 Golden Spikes Award winner went on an absolute tear, slashing .600/.625/.933 (batting average, on-base percentage, slugging percentage) with two doubles, a homer and four RBI.
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A&E

Film & Television 7/16/19

2019-20 TV season pilot watch, the rankings: CBS

Illustration of characters from CBS shows

Theater 7/16/19

Cal Shakes up audience conceptions of what it means to be a ‘Good Person’

… this production pierces straight to the heart of the complicated relationship Brecht lays out between morality and economic status.
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Visual Art 7/16/19

Fraenkel Gallery pays tribute to photographer Lee Friedlander with ‘Signs’ exhibition

His works depict sights and scenes that come across as familiar but are captured in a way that renders them dramatic, tucked into new light and brought out from the shadows of mundanity.
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Film & Television 7/16/19

In season 3 of ‘Stranger Things,’ strengths lie in characters’ arcs and nautical uniforms more than storyline

The Duffer brothers have stuck to their nostalgia-pandering, sci-fi meets Stephen King template. And though it should be tiresome, it isn’t.
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Theater 7/15/19

Gatehouse Theatre Company’s raw production of ‘Heathers’ doesn’t hold back

Throughout the musical, dark concepts are embellished with buoyancy, creating an ambivalent message that calls upon audiences to think about these issues with added perspective.
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Film & Television 7/15/19

The Earth is dying — ‘Sea of Shadows’ is a thrilling film about doing something about it

As Sea Shepherd first mate Jack Hutton explains, “To anyone who says one person cannot make a difference, 30 people here have saved thousands of lives.”
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Film & Television 7/14/19

Game of Thorns: Week 9 of ‘The Bachelorette’ is pointless if you think about it

It’s Hometowns week here in the Bachelorette-verse! Which means two things: It is time to silently judge the contestants’ families and Luke P. has been here for 8 weeks too long.
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Singles 7/13/19

San Francisco group Nobody’s Baby teases album with psychedelic yet gritty single

The sting of the guitars throughout the song is carefully juxtaposed against the softness in the vocals, the grooving bass line balancing the two.
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Film & Television 7/12/19

Ob-la-di, ob-la-don’t see ‘Yesterday’

As a romance, it’s putrid. As a morality play, it’s indecipherable. Even as a best-of collection, it’s unimaginatively curated.
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Film & Television 7/12/19

‘The Art of Self-Defense’ needs more offense

There is an imbalance of moods that holds comedic authority in the brighter, more ridiculous segments, yet the movie loses its grasp when latched onto the macabre elements of the film’s development.
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Opinion

Sex on Tuesday 7/16/19

Trusting myself

Columns 7/12/19

It’s just a number

I can’t exactly pinpoint what I thought the outcome of attending Santa Barbara City College for all those years would be, yet starting when I was 18, I managed to be enrolled every fall and spring semester at SBCC, varying between part-time and full-time enrollment.
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Op-Eds 7/11/19

Community must elevate respect in order to avoid misconduct

As a society, and a campus community, have we failed to elevate respectful behavior as an essential element in the profile of a truly successful, venerated person?
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Editorials 7/11/19

Campus Title IX investigations continue to be opaque, discouraging

With the lengthy and tumultuous Searle case finally coming to a close, there is an example of what the timeline for SVSH cases looks like and what disciplinary action comes out of them. But this case makes it strikingly apparent that OPHD processes are flawed
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Columns 7/11/19

Let’s just pretend

Granted I am 19 now and spending my days making fake phone calls to people who don’t exist would certainly raise some valid concerns. But those unburdened years — spent pursuing entirely made-up occupations from the comfort of my living room — seemed valuable to me.
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Sex on Tuesday 7/9/19

Facets and faces

I love sex. I love all its facets and faces, velvet touches and carnal ferocity and gushing wetness. And if I’m not fucking you or you’re not fucking me, then fuck your thoughts on who I am.
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Columns 7/3/19

Love, language and cigarettes

Platonic love is a slow, sustained burn with bright flashes of color, like throwing salts into a fire. By necessity or otherwise, I think queer people have always known this
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Editorials 7/3/19

Undocumented immigrants deserve more from Berkeley in light of upcoming ICE raids

As a community, we must protect undocumented immigrants’ constitutional rights and encourage the city of Berkeley to do the same.
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Editorials 7/3/19

Inmigrantes indocumentados merecen más de Berkeley teniendo en cuenta de redadas de ICE

Como comunidad, debemos proteger los derechos constitucionales de los inmigrantes indocumentados y alentar a la ciudad de Berkeley a hacer lo mismo.
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