Alex Berryhill

I’m not the stumbler he describes, but I sure as hell am stumbling — a lot. I’m chasing something I can’t define and trying to figure out who I am — and that’s OK. It’s OK to stumble.

Widely hailed as a seminal moment in the founding of UC Berkeley’s international reputation for unrelenting, unapologetic student activism, the Free Speech Movement this year turns 50.

Studying abroad is about perspective, and it’s something we Americans are especially in need of. For this reason above all others, studying in a foreign country should be a requirement at more universities, and especially at globally, publically oriented ones like UC Berkeley.

As I struggled through an explanation of menstruacion and purchased pads at the small, house-run store, the value of this small luxury became quite real. Never again will I take the menstrual care aisle at Walgreens for granted.

Some things are quite comfortably cyclical. For example, Welcome Week, Caltopia, Calapalooza, Cal-everything, the start of a new year, a new semester, etc. — I like that these events recur. What is — or should be — unbearably cyclical, however, is the crisis that continues to face higher-education institutions.