DeCal

Course founder Crystal Haryanto and lead facilitator Sofia Lendahl will teach the DeCal “Artistry & Entrepreneurship: Taylor’s Version” in spring 2024, looking into Taylor Swift’s interdisciplinary roles as a songwriter, businesswoman and creative influence.

Samala decided to create this DeCal in order to make students feel like they can have a space of wellness without judgment and explore ways to take care of their mental health.

For students interested in studying outside of the Bay and developing their resumes, UC Berkeley, along with the rest of the UC campuses, offers them a chance to move to Washington, D.C., for a semester to study and intern through the UCDC program.

The campus DeCal program has been student-run since its establishment in the Free Speech Movement era and remains rooted in “student agency.” All students can create their own courses or choose to become facilitators of established DeCals.

Sage Lenier, a 2020 graduate from UC Berkeley’s department of conservation and resource studies, is creating a non-profit after the success of the DeCal she started in 2018 called “Zero Waste: Solutions for a Sustainable and Just Future.”

Although I’ll be the one leaving this time, with my graduation more looming than his, I’m glad that he is still here for me. Even after we both move away, I know he’ll still be there.

Campus senior Hari Srinivasan, who currently writes for The Daily Californian, has been awarded the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans – a highly prestigious $90,000 scholarship for children of immigrants to pursue a graduate education. 

Conveniently located just above Memorial Glade, the East Asian Library is relatively accessible for students coming from all directions.

Despite the intimidating reality that we are living amidst human-caused climate change, climate action has faced political and informational roadblocks.

The Maktab Tarighat Oveyssi, or M.T.O, Shahmaghsoudi School of Islamic Sufism in Berkeley kicked off the United Nations World Interfaith Harmony Week with a donation drive to support the Women’s Daytime Drop-In Center.