Picks of the Week: Sustainable, strange, spooky suggestions for mid-October
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Wednesday’s your chance to get a guided tour of the “Strange” at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, or BAMPFA.
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Unknown UC Berkeley professors who deserve an award
UC Berkeley has some pretty amazing professors. Here’s a list of some of the most notable professors at UC Berkeley and some of their accomplishments.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning UC Berkeley professor receives prestigious award
Robert Hass, a distinguished campus professor in poetry and poetics and former U.S. poet laureate, won the prestigious Wallace Stevens Award for poetry this year.
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Charity Through Poetry for Writers of Squaw Valley
The Squaw Valley community of writers brought a night of charitable poetry to San Francisco on Friday night. All who gathered at the First Unitarian Church bought their tickets toward fundraising financial aid for the Squaw Valley community of writers workshops in the California Sierra Nevada. The workshops are for
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In Prose and Poetry: Berkeley literature then and now
In Allen Ginsberg’s 1955 poem “A Strange New Cottage in Berkeley,” he writes, “All afternoon cutting bramble blackberries off a tottering brown fence under a low branch with its rotten old apricots miscellaneous under the leaves, fixing the drip in the intricate gut machinery of a new toilet; found a
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Clog summer reading list: books by Cal professors
You thought this day would never come — you finally have enough free time to read for pleasure. It’s been too long since you last curled up on the sofa and read through the night with nothing but a cup of warm chamomile tea to keep you company. UC Berkeley
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A poet in motion
It was like any other poetry reading — Robert Hass had attended hundreds at this point. But after he finished reciting poems from a recent book, someone from the audience approached him and pointed out to the Pulitzer Prize winner something that had never crossed his mind. All the poems
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Dirks to be formally inaugurated at Friday ceremony
With great fanfare, the UC Berkeley campus community will symbolically usher in the tenure of its new chancellor, Nicholas Dirks, at his inauguration on Friday.
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Thought-provoking advice from professors
Though weeks away, the beginning of the fall semester is in sight. Saying goodbye to the summer, along with its sunshine and festivities, can be bittersweet. But there’s a lot to be excited about in the coming semester. We will see Chancellor Dirks in action. We will hang out with
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