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Articles by Grace Vogel
A (Virtual) Day in the Life of A Berkeley Student
Under shelter-in-place our lives have gone digital: distance learning, virtual conferences, online cocktail hours, and more. As Internet usage is up, bandwidth has been strained. According to BroadbandNow, which provides comparison data about Internet service providers, average download speeds in Berkeley dropped 15 percent between February and March. At least we have ways of staying connected while remaining physically distant—even if it means some buffering.
Summer 2020
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Berkeley Professors Share Their Tips for Surviving Online Classes
UC Berkeley’s spring semester has been anything but normal. On March 13, the university announced that the remainder of the semester would take place online because of the coronavirus outbreak. This was not the first time that alternative instruction has been necessary at Cal. Just last fall, after PG&E shut down power to campus due to extreme fire risk, classes were suspended for a week, forcing professors to prepare for the possibility of extended online teaching.
President Trump's trade war may affect cost of compostables used in Berkeley schools
Students at Oxford Elementary eat off compostable plates. While they use metal forks, other schools use compostable forks. Photo: Natalie Orenstein Minutes after the noon lunch bell rings during the school year, students across Berkeley eagerly grab wheat-straw fiber-based trays, plates and utensils at the front of the lunch line and wait for their locally-grown meals. But the compostable, plant-based foodware that many of BUSD 9,400 students use daily comes at an exorbitant cost.
Cannabis 101: The science behind your high
California’s new law legalizing cannabis has changed the game in terms of recreational drug use. People 21 and older can now buy cannabis at local dispensaries all around California where laws permit it. While there are few public areas in which it is legal to light up, it’s now just as easy to take a few grams of it home and smoke it as it is to buy wine to drink at dinner.
Cannabis 101: The science behind your high
California’s new law legalizing cannabis has changed the game in terms of recreational drug use. People 21 and older can now buy cannabis at local dispensaries all around California where laws permit it. While there are few public areas in which it is legal to light up, it’s now just as easy to take a few grams of it home and smoke it as it is to buy wine to drink at dinner.
Celli@Berkeley talks the new repertoire in cello ensembles
Quality, accessible, cello arrangements: That is what [email protected] does, and they do it well. [email protected] is a cello ensemble consisting of UC Berkeley undergraduate and graduate students. Started in 2012, the organization’s work stretches the possibilities of the cello and creates a space for students to experiment with different sounds and practices available to the instrument.
Last year’s Women’s March arose out of anger; this year there’s a plan
The morning of Jan. 21, 2017 I awoke to the pouring rain. My plans, however, to attend the Women’s March in San Francisco did not waver. I was devastated by the results of the 2016 election. I felt betrayed and alone. I could not believe that the country I had grown up in, the place I called my home, would democratically elect a person as narcissistic as Donald Trump to be its leader. I went to the San Francisco Women’s March in an attempt channel my anger positively. I needed a forum for my voice.
Global political shift affect higher education abroad
A little more than a year ago, Donald Trump was elected president of the United States — an event very few predicted would happen. Many Democrats and Republicans were left dumbfounded as they watched the results of the election roll in, state by state. Once it was clear that Trump would be the 45th president of the United States, people began to respond.
Coping with tragedy
During the past two months, it feels as though there have been more national tragedies than ever before. Not only have Americans had to endure Hurricane Harvey, Irma, Jose and Maria, but we also had to face one of the largest shootings in American history and now the Sonoma County fires, which have burned through more than 100,000 acres of land.
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