Professional purgatory
To the Left
My family sees a finance career as something that will keep me content because it’ll bring financial comfort. But I want more than comfort; I want happiness
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What’s in a name? It’s time to update Shattuck Avenue
It’s rare that streets are renamed, so we ought to be responsible and make the name of the two-block stretch of Shattuck Avenue worthwhile.
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Warren pinky promises to fight for college students
After speeches and rallies, as crowds line up by the thousands to shake her hand and take selfies, she greets her youngest fans with her pinky finger and says, “I’m running for president because that’s what girls do.”
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US Sen. Bernie Sanders proposes bill for tuition-free college, end to student debt
Known as the College for All Act, the bill would be paid for by a tax on Wall Street speculation, according to a press release from Sanders’ office.
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‘She made people feel special’: UC Regent Ellen Tauscher dies at 67
UC Regent Ellen Tauscher died at Stanford University Medical Center on Monday after experiencing complications from pneumonia.
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New York City in 48 hours and 48 sentences
Begin your foray into New York City when you hop off the bus at Port Authority with “Empire State of Mind” blasting through your earphones, and dodge 15 different tour guides soliciting their services.
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Transfer or impostor: Why we deserve to be here too
The tendency to doubt one’s academic legitimacy or success — otherwise known as impostor syndrome — seems to occur most frequently among transfer students. It’s a persistent insecurity that persuades us we don’t belong…because we did not begin on the same four-year track as most of our undergraduate peers.
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Rush Bowls to rush into Berkeley in about 2 months
Rush Bowls, a health food restaurant that started in Colorado and sells all-natural bowls including acai and fruit, will be rushing into Berkeley within the next two to three months.
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‘Wall Street’ and the unfortunate necessity of greed in the US
What Stone very brilliantly reveals in the film is the fatal flaw of Wall Street, stock brokerage and capitalism as whole: humanity.
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Bernie Sanders advocates higher minimum wage, free college tuition at campus press conference
Speaking with his fists clenched, his finger pointing and his face flushed, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders expounded on his progressive platforms — including raising the federal minimum wage and making public colleges tuition-free — at a UC Berkeley press conference Friday afternoon.
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