An Ode to Sorority Women

April 24, 2012 | Adam Tuetken Cal may be known as the hallowed ground for counterculture, but quickly into any freshmen’s fall semester they realize a major exception walks the streets of Channing and Piedmont. We’re talking Berkeley’s finest: sororities. Whether a Pi Phi sends arrows through your heart or you’re willing Read More

The Types You’ll Encounter at the RSF

April 17, 2012 | Adam Tuetken The Recreational Sports Facility holds a special place in the cardiovascular organs of many Cal students. Whether they despise its reminder of the need to work off the freshman fifteen or venerate it as a temple to fitness, most students have experienced some interaction with the RSF. However, for Read More

On Being a Republican at Berkeley

March 20, 2012 | Adam Tuetken As I compiled pro’s and con’s lists for the colleges I was deciding between senior year, I brushed off my parents’ concerns of liberal versus conservative schools. Though I recognized that each school had a political slant, I assumed that any university of medium to large size must have a diversity Read More

Arrowbands 2012: Smells Like More Than Greek Spirit

March 15, 2012 | Adam Tuetken It’s that time of year again. The time when philanthropy chairs and pledge masters spend a month or the night before respectively choreographing the five stages of a college relationship or making paper mache…props. Yep, it’s Pi Beta Phi’s Arrowbands. While Ace may be the most important event Read More

That Haashole Next to You is a Psychopath

March 6, 2012 | Adam Tuetken Success, as defined vaguely, pervades all of Berkeley culture. From the increasing standards for admission, to the competition for top grades, to the drive towards lucrative careers, Berkeley students are known for their extreme desire to achieve. However, at what point does this desire go from Read More

The Best “Kitchen” on College

February 28, 2012 | Adam Tuetken For many-a one dimensional college students, “American food” connotes images of bleeding burgers, sizzling steaks, and fried fantasies. It is an imagination permeated with calories, fat, and artificiality with a request to the waiter to hold any creativity. However, a ten minute walk down College Read More

The Best 20-Something Book You’ve Never Heard of

February 21, 2012 | Adam Tuetken The icons of teenage angst in literature are well-known by every high school graduate and every turbulent adolescent bearing the themes they describe. Yet past graduation, there is no Catcher in the Rye to unify the complicated plights of college students or disobedient youth born after the 1950’s. Read More

That Profile Picture Cost You the Election

February 14, 2012 | Adam Tuetken While little can be foreseen in the 2012 presidential race, one issue is sure to come to the forefront in the near future: drug use. But the slander ads and pointed fingers won’t be thrown at drug policy, rather, the media and the people will be more concerned with how the candidates themselves Read More