
On becoming a dog person
Off the Beat
When we fostered a puppy for half of July, we joked that we were “microdosing on parenting,” pretending to know how it feels to raise a child.
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When we fostered a puppy for half of July, we joked that we were “microdosing on parenting,” pretending to know how it feels to raise a child.
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Opinion editors Aidan Bassett and Kat Shok address the importance of allyship in the queer community, examining the intersection of queerness with race as they discuss how queer people should be allies — and how nonqueer people can best practice LGBTQ+ solidarity.
Opinion editors Aidan Bassett and Kat Shok explore the notion of queer community, how well it welcomes — or at times, erases — different queer identities and how queer community manifests differently for everyone.
Opinion editors Aidan Bassett and Kat Shok discuss the power of media representation — and misrepresentation — to influence how younger queer people see themselves and to shape or distort how the queer community appears to the wider world.
Opinion editors Aidan Bassett and Kat Shok discuss their experiences coming out and coming to terms with being queer, examining the role models, media, pitfalls and joys they encountered along the way.
My old ambitions died at UC Berkeley, yet the very concept of aspiration holds new meaning. I no longer wish to *be*, but to *do*.
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There is evidence indicating that not only can high ventilation rates raise students’ test scores and increase focus, but they can also lower the supply of contaminants, which in turn reduces respiratory disease rates.
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In retrospect, I’ve learned nothing in college except that I was wrong about everything.
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There’s almost nothing as private as sex. Yet even fewer things are so ubiquitous.
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I have always felt the need to get New Year’s Eve “right.” I don’t think of myself as a festive person, but the pressure weighs on me to make certain days special — typically turning points or important dates from years past. And New Year’s Eve checks both boxes for
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