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Category Archives: Op-Eds
California community college transfers should receive equal treatment under pandemic residency guidelines
For a student used to paying in-state rates, the loss of residency could make UC tuition entirely unaffordable — $30,000 more per year.
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Essential workers: essential now, essential always
Moving forward, we must provide beyond “hazard pay,” making sure that essential workers are consistently treated with the respect they deserve.
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Cancel the Memorial Stadium naming rights deal
By accepting payment in cryptocurrency, UC Berkeley is implicitly endorsing payment channels more effective for criminal rather than commercial activity.
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The one size fits all campus reopening plan is dangerous
Whether we like it or not, students, instructors and their households are all about to take part in a giant public health experiment.
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Disabled perspective: Keep the online option
The vast majority of the disabled and immunocompromised population at UC Berkeley faces a difficult choice for their method of instruction this coming fall.
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The revolution will not be purchased
Empowering people to take targeted direct action against destructive institutions is the most effective tactic we have to change the world in the time we have left.
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State agencies need to protect frontline communities
Many Bay Area communities have major legacy contamination sites from industrial and military activities that threaten public health and the environment.
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UC Berkeley students won short-term software funding, but there’s more work on the horizon
If we don’t want to continue to be UC Berkeley’s financial scapegoat, then it is up to us to reject any attempt to put the cost of the software on students.
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Follow the money (or lack of money) in the settlement deal between Berkeley City Council, UC Berkeley
Arreguín should have insisted for the settlement to contain a Pandora’s box of incentives ensuring UC Berkeley lives up to its side of the deal.
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