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With the ongoing fight against sexual assault occurring on college campuses across the nation, including right here at UC Berkeley, three UC Berkeley women have established the movement Redefine Mine in an effort to challenge the dominant notions of gender identity that perpetuate rape culture, as well as Eurocentric stereotypes
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In the ever-changing metropolis of Tehran, they say there exists one constant. When the afternoon sets in, dele adam megeere. Roughly translated, this phrase denotes the midday sense of melancholy that overcomes each city dweller as he gazes at the Tehran skyline. This omnipresent loneliness and longing became familiar to
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When I was a fifth-grader, I overheard some kid in my French class say that I was one of the most pessimistic people he knew. Not really a compliment for a person of any age. But I guess his assessment was, in many ways, true. My chosen reaction — and
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I read once that within 60 seconds of meeting people, we’ve already passed judgment on them. The first few weeks of college were filled with an endless muddle of these moments: new faces and never-ending smalltalk. We freshmen mindlessly asked and answered the same series of questions: name, hometown, major.
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Letters from Michelle Obama and John McCain adorn what at first glance appears to be just another Berkeley flower shop on Durant Avenue. Both Obama and McCain commend the 65-year-old store owner Zafar Honarmand for his continued support of democracy in Iran and abroad. McCain even said he hopes one
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