Tianyi Ding

Six months after the allegations against Searle became public, a group of graduate and undergraduate students came together.

The war on drugs was political, but drugs’ prevalence was social and cultural. Don Lattin, a former Daily Californian staff writer who attended UC Berkeley in the early 1970s, recounted the drug scene: According to Lattin, people in the ‘60s went out to seek mental tranquility, a mystical feeling embodying “a sense of oneness with the universe, with the earth, with nature, with other people

To me, cafés not only brewed various hot drinks but also thought and creativity. Always filled with lively conversations and bustling crowds, they earned themselves the name of “penny universities” in 18th-century England.

With two other colleagues, Harding gathered data from roughly 11,000 former state prisoners in Michigan who were released in 2003, 22 of whom they continuously followed up on for three years. They wanted to make readers aware of the various plights prisoners face in their process of rejoining society.

At the beginning of the semester, my friend, a sophomore at Stanford, proposed a workout bet. It works like this: We would set ourselves weekly exercise goals — running three times a week, playing tennis or going to the gym — to be completed before every Sunday.

He traces the origin of liberalism back to the enlightenment era, when scientists, philosophers, politicians and musicians introduced innovative ideas and inventions that reshaped people’s material and intellectual life.

In fall 2017, 14 UC Berkeley freshmen dove through the 3.8 million cultural and historical artifacts in the Pheobe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology’s collection and emerged with a series of artwork, sculptures and paintings — all of which contain depictions of faces.

When Susan Sontag, celebrated American writer, thinker and philosopher, wrote these words in her diary “Reborn,” she was still a freshman at UC Berkeley.