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Wednesday, March 2, 2022

Campus students, researchers voice concerns over Russia-Ukraine war

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Students are advocating for campus to support Ukraine in multiple ways, including sending out donation links and communicating with impacted students.

Six days after Russia invaded Ukraine, UC Berkeley students and researchers from Russia and Ukraine rallied to express concerns over the humanitarian crisis and the inadequate support from campus.
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City

Sunday, February 27, 2022
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Russian invasion disrupts oil market, to possibly increase gas prices

The ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine has caused disruptions in oil prices across the country, which may lead to higher prices at the pump.
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Research & Ideas

Tuesday, February 1, 2022
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UC Berkeley economists launch tool to track real-time economic inequality, growth

UC Berkeley economists recently launched Realtime Inequality, a web tool to track and visualize income and wealth inequality in the United States within hours of the data’s release.
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Notes from the Field

Tuesday, June 8, 2021
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Celebrating the life of Marguerite Higgins: Daily Cal alumna, Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent

Higgins began her reporting career at the Daily Cal, where she covered wide-ranging topics and worked as an editor in the night department.
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College Life

Friday, April 23, 2021
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Change it up with these unconventional locations for graduation photos

Regardless of whichever location you choose, your friends and family are guaranteed to be very jealous of our — I mean, your, creativity.
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City

Monday, April 12, 2021
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Holocaust survivor shares experience for a day of remembrance

Two-year-old Edith Heines watched the blood as it pooled and snaked across the white tiles of her home. Moments earlier, two Gestapo men had kicked down the 400-year old door of her family’s house and brutally tortured the family’s housemate.
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Portfolio

Friday, April 9, 2021
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Between the lines of an obituary: A personal essay

I don’t know why I remember so little, but I also don’t know why I never asked you for no other reason than to hear you speak, to see as you saw.
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Daily Cal 150

Saturday, March 20, 2021
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The H-bomb ‘secret’: Looking back 42 years later

In 1979, The Daily Californian published two stories that blew open a national debate over whether Americans could face criminal charges for publishing the basic principles behind the hydrogen bomb.
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Campus

Sunday, March 14, 2021
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Wikimedia Foundation CEO Katherine Maher discusses knowledge sharing at Berkeley Forum event

Though Wikipedia covers an array of topics from World War II to Taylor Swift’s discography, there is more to address in accuracy, public trust and representation, discussed Wikimedia Foundation CEO Katherine Maher at a Berkeley Forum event Thursday.
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Culture Shot

Monday, January 11, 2021

Cinema Spelunking: War films (What are they good for?)

By drawing on history, fiction and national memory, war films often invoke national security, collectivism and the social order as virtuous ideals that merit violence — a righteous country deserves to be defended to the death
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