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“I am more than ever convinced that education is the greatest factor in the upward climb of any person or people. My theme song has been: learn, study, read — continuously.” These words were written in the mid-1960s by Ida Louise Jackson, a UC Berkeley alumna and the namesake of
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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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California has the highest poverty rate of any U.S. state, according to new statistics released last month by the United States Census Bureau.
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UC Berkeley has a long history of student activism, from the Free Speech Movement to the campaign for divestment from apartheid South Africa.
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At its regular Tuesday meeting, Berkeley City Council unanimously adopted an item that places sanctions on states — such as North Carolina and Mississippi — deemed to have legislation that discriminates against the LGBTQ community.
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There’s a version of the history of the American Civil War that most of us are probably pretty familiar with. It goes something like this: After lots of fighting, the Northerners, led by the valiant Daniel Day-Lewis — oops, we mean Abe Lincoln, of course — eventually won and forced a
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Where does the widespread and fervent dislike of cardinal red on campus come from? It comes partially from a traditionally constructed identity, the historical genome of the “Cal identity” that many are implanted with. This athletic rivalry alone is not problematic, but it is reflective of the parallel spaces that
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