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UC Berkeley sophomore Stephanie Gutierrez has been an advocate for marginalized communities since high school, and if elected ASUC president, she hopes to use her own experience in activism to inspire action in the campus community.
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Content warning: Sexual violence My heartbeat grew faster as I watched a man accused of rape and a history of sexual misconduct be appointed to the Supreme Court. I was supposed to be studying for my classes, but I felt my heart sinking, and I couldn’t focus on my work.
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It wasn’t too long ago that Ronald Reagan famously declared Berkeley “a haven for communist sympathizers, protesters and sex deviants.” Weaponizing UC Berkeley in our national culture war is not a new phenomenon. Unfortunately, what we experienced in early 2017 was different. When Milo Yiannopoulos came to deliver a speech
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This is why the new and final season of “House of Cards” is so imperative. It shows that there are powerful solutions and statements to be made in the wake of sexual assault allegations. With the final season of “House of Cards,” Spacey’s personal scandal had direct consequences on his character and his career.
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As a physician, CEO and co-founder of a birth control delivery company with a passion for reproductive justice, I am disheartened by recent political events — from Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation to the most recent action by Gov. Jerry Brown. At the end of September, the governor of one
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Several student protesters assembled outside Phi Gamma Delta, or Fiji, fraternity Saturday afternoon to protest sexual assault. But they were interrupted by members of the fraternity, who began posing behind the protesters in what many alleged was a mockery of the rally.
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Last week, self-titled “San Francisco Resistance” groups held a weeklong “Resist-A-Thon” to “recruit, train, and mobilize activists and bring a blue wave to the 2018 midterm elections.”
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Anti-Semitic posters were found outside of Eshleman Hall this week — an incident that has been met with widespread condemnation from members of the campus Jewish community and the campus administration.
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Far from lulling his audience to slumber, Max Richter and the American Contemporary Music Ensemble’s Friday night performance at Zellerbach Hall, courtesy of Cal Performances, allowed for a visceral experience of Richter’s music.
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Maybe the events of last week — Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court, UC Berkeley’s abysmal equity index score and the disappearance of Washington Post columnist and Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, for a start — have made you feel a sense of deep dissatisfaction in governments, both local and global.
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