Berkeley community must continue to have compassion for unhoused individuals
We can all take a stake in shaking off the compassion fatigue and stepping up to the plate to break down barriers between the housed and the houseless.
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Category Archives: Op-Eds
UC Berkeley has an ivy problem, here’s why we should take it seriously
Budgetary increases to grounds services should be earmarked for training staff to identify invasive plants, which is difficult on a campus like UC Berkeley.
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Richmond harmed by oil conglomerates, pollution
But the dangerous criminal that makes Richmond and Contra Costa County so deadly happens to be one of the largest oil companies in the world, Chevron.
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UC Berkeley wastes money, electricity lighting empty rooms
The last time campus offered an energy saving program, it saw a 3 percent reduction in electricity use as a result of people choosing conservation options.
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UC Berkeley administration must continue to diversify faculty
If the campus is serious about its commitment to bettering the student experience, it must dramatically increase the number of non-male faculty members and faculty members of color they hire.
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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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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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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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Every UC Berkeley student must recognize anti-Semitism on campus
Moving forward, students must renounce anti-Semitism as passionately as they renounce sexism, Islamophobia, homophobia, transphobia and racism in social justice discourse.
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Public policy must be informed by academic research on gender, sex
UC Berkeley’s research on gender and sexuality has contributed to our understanding of how gender and sex are entwined notions and how the production of genders engages layers of personal experience, institutions, relations of power, and shifting hierarchies and opportunities.
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