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Shortly before leaving for college, I cut off my hair, replaced all my clothes and began going by a gender-neutral variant of my given name. I was unprepared for the transitions that would follow.

For UC Berkeley students thinking about future careers, looking up to someone who’s been in similar shoes might help. Here are some iconic UC Berkeley alumni to help inspire your job decisions.

After a mediocre performance in the first two games of the season, the Bears performed extraordinarily well in their first home game against Fairleigh Dickinson by winning 3-0.

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, children stopped going to child care centers and their workers no longer had a source of income; child care programs that had been open for years or even decades were forced to shut down. 

The United States has a constitutionally established federal system in which the Constitution, statutes and treaties are the supreme law of the land, according to Kathryn Abrams, Berkeley Law professor and faculty director of the Center on Reproductive Rights and Justice. State law controls areas the federal law does not operate in.

Social housing has been gaining momentum recently: AB 309 was one of three social housing bills discussed this past year.

Berkeley’s cannabis industry is back in business. A new temporary “tax holiday,” lasting from January 2023 until July 2025, aimed at supporting legal chains was passed unanimously by city council on July 11.

The California Interscholastic Federation, or CIF, approved the creation of the girls’ flag football league this past February. This decision raises the question of how the league will change girls’ flag football throughout the nation.

The Gill Tract, located on San Pablo Avenue in Albany, underwent landscape improvements this spring to support the waning local monarch butterfly population.

The 2022-23 season was nothing short of what spectators and boxing fans have come to expect when tuning into Cal boxing — a fluid trail of consistency.