About Meg Elison
Meg Elison
Meg Elison is a transfer student at UC Berkeley. She was recently published in "Alternate Lanes: An Anthology of Travel Using Alternate Transportation in the City of Angels," and Scribendi 2012. She can be found on the periodic table somewhere between iron and silver. @paganmeghan
The Roller Coaster of Emotions: Finals Week
May 8, 2013 | Meg Elison Classes are over. There is time ahead to study and prepare, to read and review. Final exams are headed your way and you may be experiencing some significant emotional highs lows, not unlike a roller coaster, as finals week approaches. It is important that you give your emotions some room, and find Read More
Movie Review: The Kings of Summer
April 29, 2013 | Meg Elison I love a movie that doesn’t fit easily into a category. Give me your tragicomedies, your romantic horror films, your musical thrillers yearning to breathe free. It’s wonderfully refreshing to not see everything coming. The Kings of Summer is this kind of movie. I got tickets to an advance screening Read More
Divestment Answers
April 19, 2013 | Meg Elison In a session lasting long into the night, the ASUC senate passed SB 160, agreeing to encourage divestment of UC funds from companies that support Israel and the settlement of the West Bank. It was a long heated night, with many offering impassioned pleas and logical reasoning for the necessity of Read More
Divestment Questions
April 17, 2013 | Meg Elison Tonight, the ASUC will vote on SB 160, which calls for a divestment of UC assets from companies that support the Israeli military, thereby contributing to what some call apartheid in Israel/Palestine. The bill also targets companies that contribute to the continued settlement of the West Bank, which Read More
Adventure Has Fangs
April 16, 2013 | Meg Elison You’re a little picky. You know what you like. You have your favorites and your regulars and your habits and your comforts. What could be better? The answer is adventure. Don’t get too comfortable. Experience is the great teacher, but every semester or so you might think about getting a new Read More
Me and My Shadow: YWCA Shadow Day
April 9, 2013 | Meg Elison “It's a little childish and stupid, but then, so is high school.” –Ferris Bueller To those who describe high school as the best years of their life, I offer you my dumbstruck confusion. Childish and stupid are the better ways I can think of to describe my experience in those four years. High Read More
**BREAKING NEWS** UC System to Start Drug Testing for Financial Aid
April 1, 2013 | Meg Elison Through a reliable source from the UC Board of Regents, Caliber Magazine received some shocking news over spring break. Beginning with the fall semester of 2013, the University of California will require all recipients of federal and state student aid to pass a drug test. With the passage of House Read More
