‘Champion of the underdog’: Leon Litwack, UC Berkeley history professor emeritus, dies at 91

Despite being a historian, Leon Litwack, UC Berkeley professor emeritus in the department of history, was a man far ahead of his time.
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Despite being a historian, Leon Litwack, UC Berkeley professor emeritus in the department of history, was a man far ahead of his time.
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Within the next five to six weeks, UC Berkeley’s English department and several academic groups displaced by the renewal of Wheeler Hall will undergo the long process of moving to temporary offices and classrooms around campus.
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If the difference between the hot last week of October and the chilly first week of November is any indicator, then it should be apparent that the concept of seasons in Berkeley is a loose one at best. The weather in the Bay Area can change on a dime, which
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New UC Berkeley students can rest assured that scrambling between back-to-back lectures on opposite ends of the campus is a challenge for even the most seasoned of seniors. Wait a couple years, though, and you might finally end up with a Tele-BEARS slot that doesn’t stick you with a lecture in Wheeler Auditorium right off the heels of a discussion in Mulford Hall. Even better, just a bit of familiarity with the campus geography can give you a real leg up in the race to class.
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Hundreds of people filed into Wheeler Auditorium on Thursday night to witness the results of this year’s ASUC elections, driving the room to a fever pitch of cheers as votes were tallied on a projector screen.
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Although we are unable to get to the bottom of this unsolvable mystery due to the massive amount of valid hypotheses floating around, we were able to narrow it down these logical choices. If you do know what they are, however, please feel free clear this ever-growing confusion by commenting. We
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Friday Film Series Where: Wheeler Auditorium When: Check the schedule. Price: $3 with Cal ID ASUC SUPERB hosts a series of film screenings every semester in Wheeler Auditorium. What makes this series exceptional is that it features popular, high-budget and quality films for the discounted price of $3. Films screened
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Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian challenged aspiring entrepreneurs to “just launch” in a discussion of harnessing the power of the web in the 21st century at Wheeler Auditorium on Tuesday.
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Many students filed into Wheeler Auditorium for their Friday afternoon computer science class expecting to find a seat —they just didn’t expect that seat to be the floor.
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Through the course of romantic interactions between the intelligent community — a politically correct way of designating “nerds” — there has usually been paradoxically low expectation for amorous gestures and expressions. There is an underlying belief that there is an inverse correlation between book-smarts and street-smarts, meaning that all those
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