Berkeley leadership for social movement on climate and justice
The UC Berkeley community must step up again and further educate itself, as well as partner locally and globally on a range of climate-smart actions.
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Chancellor Christ and Mayor Arreguín welcome new students
UC Berkeley is a fantastic place for many reasons, but one of the things that brings so much vitality to our institution is its location within the city of Berkeley.
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Berkeley bops to set your 1st year to
What better way is there to kick off freshman year than jamming to a playlist as alternating feelings of terror and doe-eyed curiosity wash over you?
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My story to tell
This academically rigorous institution and its remarkably challenging English program have given me the tools and strength to tell my story.
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On questioning: A love letter to the Student Advocate’s Office
I cannot help but feel thankful that the wider campus community continues to question norms and ask why — the same culture that changed me in 2015.
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UC faculty must have right to boycott Israeli academic partnerships
UC Berkeley faculty members have quite rightly taken the UC administration to task for a recent statement, signed by all the system’s chancellors, that condemns Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, or BDS. The statement was issued in the name of protecting academic freedom when, in our own view, the only freedom under threat is the bedrock right of faculty and students to engage in political speech.
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Taking off my rose-tinted glasses
Off the Beat
Before I knew that I would be going to school at UC Berkeley, the campus lived in my mind as a kind of promised land. My perception of the school was formed by black-and-white photos of students and community members protesting for what they believed in. I expected social awareness
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What is UC Berkeley? 8 times when UC Berkeley was an answer on ‘Jeopardy!’
Here are eight examples of times Alex Trebek has posed questions to contestants in which the correct answer was our good old campus.
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Reexperiencing ‘Yellow Submarine’ : The countercultural convergence of the Beatles and the Bay Area
Beatlemania culture was both embedded in and popularized by the hippie movement that sprang out of Berkeley and San Francisco during the ‘60s. The quintessential image of the free-spirited, long-blond hippie can be traced to this eclectic era…
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Reflecting on the Free Speech Movement amid the election cycle
In thinking about the midterm elections, it is hard to not reflect on the UC Berkeley community’s political activism in response to the current presidential administration, and how such moments compare to the rich history of free speech on campus.
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