Opinion

While budget cuts and deficits are temporary setbacks in the UC system, it is important to note that extinguishing the flame of education is equally catastrophic as it is permanent.

I dream of a bittersweet symbolic and literal end, one that releases me from the silly trivialities of life. I want to be old and nagging, receiving movie theater and bus discounts for the suffering I have endured in my very human experience. 

I fear that there has been too much commentary in this column as of late, so I am going to take this week to just tell a fun summer sex story.

Pointe is probably the greatest illusion I have ever encountered in my entire life. I remember expecting the entire experience to feel as beautiful as it looked. Instead, I was greeted by the fact that my foot looked as flat as a block in pointe shoes and my ability to balance in them was nonexistent.

My parents’ hometowns may be over 1,900 miles away, but here in Gonzales, it doesn’t feel so far. The grief lessens and grows quiet — sometimes, it fades.

At the end of the day, we are all participants on the world stage. Even those who shy away from politics are affected by and affect our globalized society, whether they realize or not.

Everyone benefits from students being able to learn Cantonese to an advanced level, regardless of their personal interest in Cantonese or even their affiliation to Berkeley. We all should empathize with those cut off from their culture and heritage because of educational inequities.

I fear the people around me may become disillusioned with the girl they got to know and fell in love with. You may one day be studying my face and see my grotesque image that stares back at me when I catch my own reflection.

Adapting to work with AI should not be a punishment; rather, it should develop the way we perceive technology’s place in the classroom. 

While its creators Sam Levinson, Reza Fahim and Tesfaye are most certainly to blame for steering “The Idol” in this direction, the show can also be classified as a symptom of a culture that has conflated oversexualization with feminism. Or at least a culture that has justified oversexualization with feminism.