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In response to “Free Speech Week,” several faculty members preemptively cancelled classes. After the event’s sudden cancellation, many of these classes were made optional.
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When prospective students think about college, they often think about all the different kinds of people they’ll meet –– who they’ll live with, what student organizations they’ll join and what their classmates will be like. Yet students don’t often think about the personalities they’ll encounter at the front of the
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While the semester is well underway at UC Berkeley with round two of midterms creeping up, in Sydney classes have barely begun. Although it may now only be week two for me, it’s all I’ve needed to notice how different the American and Australian systems are. Block schedules Everyone brags when
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It’s not a surprise that walking around campus, we’re surrounded by a sea of intellectuals. The brilliance of our campus professors is evident in the designated Nobel laureate parking spaces and casually mentioned awards and grants. As students, we attend lectures with a mix of inspiration from our professors’ passionate
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Graduating high school to land us in college doesn’t mean that all our teachers now will treat us like adults who know better in life. College is only an extension of high school in which students continue to decipher and read in between the lines of what their college professors
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Fresh-faced and free-spirited, we passed under the vast and profound Sather Gate for the first time, much as young children walk into their first day of “big kid school.” The possibilities for our lives expanded and flashed in our mind’s eye, causing our hands to tremble and our cheeks to flush. That
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We sat down with Iranian-American professor Mahmood Monshipouri to get his views on the current Iran nuclear deal, which is set to be formally adopted Monday. Contact Christian Collins at [email protected]
We tested some UC Berkeley professors on millennial slang to see if they knew what we were talking about — and their answers were hilarious. Contact Toby Ho at [email protected]
There’s no doubt that the professors at the best public university in the world are brilliant. But sometimes we wonder how much they really know about what’s happening in our world. Do they know what we mean when we call each other “bae” or when we say that their exams are hard “AF?” Inspired
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We at the Clog asked Berkeley Summer Sessions professors to tell us their favorite summer songs, and here’s what they got back to us with. Jim Pettigrew, earth and planetary sciences Pettigrew usually studies currents in Western Australia, but this summer, he’s in the Bay teaching Introduction to Oceans.
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