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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Vote to uphold UC Berkeley’s free speech legacy
Will UC Berkeley students go to the polls today? The vast majority probably will not, if a recent poll by the Public Religion Research Institute and The Atlantic on young adult voting patterns holds true for this campus. Only 28 percent of those polled were “absolutely certain” that they
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Original Free Speech Movement members speak at voting rally at Sproul Hall
Founding members of the Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley spoke Monday on the steps of Sproul Hall — referencing the campus’s past in political activism — to speak about the importance of voting and exercising free speech.
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Cal students need to vote in the November election
I’m a UC Berkeley alumna, and I have a favor to ask of all my fellow Golden Bears — this November, when the voting polls open, be there to take collective action. Be there to vote. As a UC Berkeley student, you’re either returning to or arriving at one of
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