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Since being admitted to UC Berkeley, I was fixated on being “the” Berkeley student. I was going to replicate my “success” of my community college days while redeeming myself from my failures in high school.
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By failing to standardize basic necessities such as workplace child care and paid time off for caregiving, the structure of our society is setting working women up to struggle and fail.
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Though canceling all student debt would be a bold step, it is vital that the government address the inequities the current system perpetuates.
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Despite receiving a majority “yes” vote, the STF fee referendum failed, falling 0.9% short of a campus quorum requirement of 20%. Now, students are losing access to technology infrastructure, valuable software and tech equity programs.
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Student researchers at the UC system work with much more dangerous chemicals and equipment on a daily basis, but it seems that the UC system would rather exploit loopholes in labor law than implement robust safety and treatment policies.
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It isn’t necessarily the use of processing-intensive programs that causes the issue here. Instead, the problem lies in how we manage these computing resources.
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I realized that the vegan diet was my vain effort to enact control over myself and my eating habits. Ironically, the more I clung to this sense of control, the more my life began to spiral.
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During this year’s move-out season, I have hope that we can collectively mobilize behind the Cooperative Reuse program to redistribute thousands of furniture items and leave Berkeley a more sustainable place.
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Given California’s sizable unhoused population and community-based reports of undercounting, it stands to reason that California might have kept a seat in Congress if the 2020 census accurately counted the unhoused population.
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The pandemic has introduced a degree of uncertainty into almost everybody’s life, but UC lecturers have been living under uncertainty for far too long.
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