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Sleeping bags, pizza and a chicken seem more fitting for an Occupy encampment than a library, but in the days leading up to finals, even those become commonplace at UC Berkeley’s campus libraries. The Gardner Main Stacks and Moffitt Library will be open 24 hours a day starting today and
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Brrrring! Your alarm clock jolts you awake, and you sit upright in bed as you reach over to press the snooze button. As your eyes adjust to the light, a dreaded realization comes over you — it’s 11 a.m. on the Friday of dead week, and you haven’t hit the
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UC Botanical Garden A secluded paradise, the UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley located on Centennial Drive is simply divine. With over 13,000 different kinds of plants, the garden guarantees a beautiful sight for sore eyes and tranquil silence if meditation is your thing (stressed college students, take note). For those
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UC Berkeley senior Alex Horowitz has traditionally spent dead week buried under a pile of books and course readers in Gardner Main Stacks. He usually spends four or five hours at a time surrounded by silence and the pitter-patter of laptop keystrokes, emerging only to feed his need for sustenance,
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Dwinelle Hall If it’s 10 p.m. and you’ve already wasted an hour trying to find a seat at Gardner Main Stacks and Moffitt Library, try Dwinelle Hall. Although there are no official library hours for Dwinelle Hall posted on the UC Berkeley website, there are many open classrooms that can
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Main Stacks During dead and finals weeks, the Gardner Main Stacks is packed with people. For many students, the thought of a 24-hour library answers their prayers, aiding them in cramming a semester’s worth of chemistry, sociology and history into one week. For others, the close proximity to the countless
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For UC Berkeley junior Aya Abounasr, a regular weekday ends as the clock strikes 3 a.m., when after a long day of classes and work she finally closes her textbook and heads to bed. Like many students, Abounasr — an assistant student researcher in the College of Natural Resources —
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When the human experience gets real, we get naked. We burst from the uterus as a babe in a birthday suit, scrub-a-dub-dub when a long day makes us rank and strip down to get in between the sheets. No shirt, no shoes — you’ve got humanity standing there cupping their
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As Occupy Cal finishes its third week and the end of the fall semester approaches, public participation is waning. The general assembly still meets regularly to discuss upcoming action days and proposals, but participation has been low in the last week, according to Berkeley resident Nick Porter, who was one
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