UC Berkeley graduates reflect on job searches, creating opportunities, luck
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Although COVID-19 has complicated graduates’ ability to obtain jobs, it expanded the creative bounds of graduated seniors.
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On their golden anniversary, finding Berkeley in ‘The Graduate’
The film is replete with enough wistful guitars and empty-eyed closeups of its various players to drive home the supremely identifiable sentiment of being marooned unto oneself, with satisfaction and fulfillment only fleeting.
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Student workers deserve more complete picture of union benefits
As current and former Graduate Student Researchers (GSRs) at UC Berkeley, we are replying to a recent campuswide email from the UC administration regarding GSR unionization. Sent by Graduate Division Dean Fiona Doyle on Oct. 23, with the subject “Message Regarding Union Representation for Graduate Student Researchers,” the message responded
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UC Student Association maintained efforts to appease, collaborate with graduate students
On Oct. 11, the UC Berkeley Graduate Assembly, or GA, published its stance on the viability of the University of California Student Association, or UCSA, claiming the lack of support they received in the organization rendered it necessary to create their own organization, the UC Graduate-Professional Coalition, or UCGPC. The
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Graduate students deserve stronger representation, autonomous student organization
On Oct. 6, The Daily Californian editorial board published an editorial that opined that “graduate students’ vote last week to break away and create UCGPC (University of California Graduate-Professional Coalition) was not only done hastily, but it was also thoroughly ill-considered.” We could not agree less with its assessment of
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Summer resolutions that are bound to be broken
Be warned, Golden Bears! These resolutions have been known to tragically fail in the past, so don’t fall victim to the summer sloth.
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Dear Berkeley: How was your semester?
Another semester has come and gone. For some, it may have gone too fast, while others may be glad it’s over. As you wave goodbye to spring 2015, we at the Clog wanted to hear your parting thoughts. We interviewed some of our fellow Golden Bears and asked one simple
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This is your brain on youth culture
Safe, Sane and Consensual
A gray-brown Taiwanese macaque screeched. Then a human. I turned to see a monkey loping after a student who stabbed backward through the air with her red polka-dot umbrella. She hugged a plastic bag of food to her chest like she was holding an infant. Finally, the macaque retreated. Welcome
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Feeling fine about making do with less
I lived in a walk-in closet in San Francisco. Not in a metaphorical sense, but in the literal one — my room was a converted walk-in closet. I lived in a closet because my roommates and I had jobs in the city, but none of us were making enough to
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Cal alum attends Veteran’s Day Parade
World War II Veteran, David C. Gan joins the Cal Veteran’s group for his first Veteran’s Day Parade in San Francisco. Gan graduated from UC Berkeley in 1956 with a degree in Public Health. Prior to Cal, Gan was an infantryman in the US Army serving in Germany from 1943
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