Berkeley announces vaccination milestone, plans for reopening
Nada Lamie /Staff
In a press release Tuesday, Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguín announced the city has vaccinated half its population with at least one dose.
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Spotify, meet your competition: UC Berkeley student Juliette Mekikian and TREBEL Music
For UC Berkeley junior and art practice major Juliette Mekikian, the history of music mirrors the history of art with a “very beautiful, synchronized” pattern. Both are constantly bending and morphing as the interests and habits of their curators transform from one thing to the next.
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Closure of Alta Bates Hospital endangers community health
Sutter Health plans to shut down Berkeley’s only acute-care hospital, Alta Bates Medical Center, one mile from the UC Berkeley campus and the beloved birthplace of thousands of area residents, including many in the UC Berkeley community. If you are a UC Berkeley student, your health and wellbeing are at risk
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How do you like your eggs, fried or fertilized?
The fact that I’ve had sex with many people besides my one and only “daddy” shouldn’t be the litmus test for parenthood.
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Software engineers must think deeply about ethics
After my sophomore year at UC Berkeley studying computer science, I briefly dropped out to join a medical tech startup in San Francisco. It was a great match: I was going to work on what I was interested in, I had strong personal motivations, and I emotionally connected with the
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Transparency is top priority for administration
University constantly strives to be efficient
Imagine the development of the University of California as a phenomenon of astrophysics. The first sparks of interest in creating a public university came amid the Gold Rush, California’s Big Bang if there ever was one. Out of those sparks, a small college was established, which in relatively short order
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