Come to Berkeley, and you will meet a large community of driven science majors who work in research labs, plan to attend medical school, participate in honors programs, double-major, engage in several extracurricular activities, and/or tutor, all on top of sleeping, eating, working out, and breathing. One nutritional sciences major, Angie Mar, exemplifies one of [...]

On Wednesday nights at the RSF you may hear the upbeat tune of Bollywood music emanating from the Combatives room, where senior UCB student Mayuri Bhandari leads a crowd of eager exercisers in a short choreography of Indian dance. Her choreography consists of energetic moves, including the shoulder-shrugging, leg-lifting, and intricate-gesturing characteristic of Indian dance. [...]

Robert Reich  proper noun, noun \ Rye-sh \   1. a: Secretary of Labor under President Bill Clinton b: Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley c: Author of Supercapitalism and Aftershock d: Professor of Wealth and Poverty, the incredibly popular course at UC Berkeley e: Voice of the Center       This [...]

David Rakoff visited Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall on Sunday night to give a reading of his recent works and work in progress. If you are familiar with his autobiographical essay collections Fraud or Don’t Get Too Comfortable, his contributions to the radio show This American Life, or have read his articles in the New York Times, [...]

 WHITNEY HOUSTON August 9, 1963 – February 11, 2012   Dear Whitney Houston,   Speaking on behalf of the world, you are a treasure. No, even that’s an understatement: you are a queen. You used raw emotion, experience, and soul to string along the perfect words to your melodies and easily convince pop listeners that [...]

Saul Perlmutter did not look at all like I imagined. He walked in, a relatively small man holding the hand of his 9 year old daughter Noa, his wife Laura following from behind. I wont lie, my eyes went straight to Noa in her little maroon frock and all I could think was “awwh, what [...]