America, listen to your comedians
Off the Beat
Free speech in India is, to put it mildly, restricted. I used to think that being a journalist in India was the most terrifying job to do.
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A case for studying abroad
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To avoid becoming that-one-friend-who-won’t-shut-up-about-her-semester-abroad, I am going to talk about it once in this article.
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Upper Hearst Development will provide much needed housing, classroom space
The UC Berkeley campus needs to decide what is more important: maintaining a parking garage or improving campus by building housing and classrooms.
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With removal of ‘FreeBox’ at People’s Park, UC Berkeley administration disregards community, student wishes
COMMUNITY AFFAIRS: Campus should work with students instead of overturning their efforts to better Berkeley community
On a campus that encourages its students to give back to the community, it is disillusioning to see efforts to aid that community barred.
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UC Berkeley’s parking crisis, and how we got here
The plan was rejected by UC Berkeley faculty, who voted 174-69 to ask Chancellor Carol Christ to suspend the project in a special meeting of the Academic Senate on May 1.
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Planning ahead
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I hadn’t planned for these moments, but they were just as valuable as the things I’d accounted for in my planner — if not more so.
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Room to room to room
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I came across a room that’s become a great match for me: a bed that’s just the right size, a series of well-placed posters that populate my walls.
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UC community needs to stand in solidarity with university employees
UNIVERSITY ISSUES: Students, faculty and staff must join striking union workers to advocate for their rights in the coming weeks
Show your support for these invaluable workers by joining the strikes. Don’t break the picket line — and do what you can to remind the university that it needs these employees.
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Berkeley community need to understand, support homeless population
There is only one cause of homelessness: not being able to pay rent. There is only one solution: enough affordable housing.
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Stories we tell
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I was supposed to follow him. But just as Harrison started to crawl through the gap, someone hollered. The grown-ups were after us.
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