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This semester, we set out to tackle university issues that seemed too complicated to address in one week’s column. We thought that maybe with two weeks, we could present a fuller image of the issues we hoped to explore. Unsurprisingly, we found that we could not. While two weeks allowed
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Men sit flipping through books, watching a professor lecture from a whiteboard at the front of the room. Others sit in circles, debating issues and scribbling out homework. It could be any other college classroom — except the students are inmates at San Quentin State Prison and their teacher is
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The names of UC Berkeley’s buildings are so ingrained in the campus’s vocabulary that they seem at times to take on a meaning of their own. Dwinelle, Sproul, Wheeler and other monuments mark not only geographical locations on campus, but serve as forums for countless student experiences. But behind each
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Splashed across Facebook newsfeeds and local media outlets are reports that once again, the campus has failed to adequately address sexual misconduct from one of its faculty and administration. This time, the face of this outrage is the now-former dean of UC Berkeley School of Law, Sujit Choudhry, who stepped
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Berkeley’s winter break is a safe haven for many students: a brief respite from the stress of schoolwork and a time to be with family. But for those who don’t have a place to return to, the holidays can feel ominous. This is especially true for those living in campus
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Fishbowls are filled, pitchers are poured and a fluorescent Budweiser sign lights Kip’s Bar with promise. Huddles of friends push tables together and gather their chairs in anticipation, and as the minutes tick toward 10 p.m., one patron asks another, “Why am I getting drunk on a Tuesday?” It’s Kip’s
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A few facts about attending UC Berkeley are simply preordained: too many people, too few resources and not enough money to go around. These tried-and-true problems of a public university shape the fabric of our academic lives. We, the mass of UC Berkeley students that swell the campus to maximum
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If literature has any one use, it is chiefly as a means of sharing and experiencing great pleasure. That’s what UC Berkeley professor Charles Altieri would argue, anyway, and he’s not afraid to say it — the scholar of Modernist poetry preaches, examines and enjoys the likes of W.B. Yeats
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A baker by profession and a singer-songwriter by night, Kenney is one of many in the Bay Area pursuing her art while simultaneously making a living.
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I walked assuredly down the street a couple weeks ago in Paris, iPhone in hand and overstuffed backpack secured firmly to my shoulders. My passport and wallet hung tightly to the right side of my body in an ugly, copiously zippered black satchel I purchased before going abroad — something
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