Surina Khurana

For the past four years, perhaps ever since my brother’s graduation day, Doe Library has been my favorite building, despite a year passing since I last actually set foot in Doe and other Berkeley places I have come to love.

As sports leagues, owners and franchises engage in the conversation about racial injustice, we must urge them to accompany their words with action and put our support behind the ones that lead with substance in their statements.

The MLB alone may not be able to sway state legislatures from enacting similar voter suppression legislation, but action by the league may still have a powerful impact.

Life in our society is not composed of neatly arranged, mutually exclusive categories. When an athlete begins playing at a professional level, they don’t leave behind their identity.

The countless incidents span time and scope. Williams’ hair, body, attitude and even her skill and excellence have been scrutinized and questioned as her appearance is strikingly different from the blonde white women who have long dominated the sport.

Amid trying times, as the nation continues to battle the COVID-19 pandemic, Amanda Gorman used language to instill awe for community members and foster hope for brighter days ahead.

As the country’s leading collegiate athletic conferences attempted to devise a plan that would allow football to be played, football players across Pac-12 schools crafted their own plan.

With such history, Belichick’s denial of the award is perhaps one of the largest snubs Trump could have gotten from any sports figure. But I’d argue Belichick’s statement did more than serve as a slap in Trump’s face, if not just for the sake of symbolism.

However, the situation differs for alumni and donors to the university. Football games, and their outcomes, influence if and how much they donate. Much like a “free” lunch, the relationship is not contractual, but it very much exists implicitly.

The changes to how we live may not have inherently adverse effects. I’m not arguing that access to more information is all bad, but it can heighten existing feelings of pessimism, exhaustion and stress surrounding the election. It effectively increases the heat on the already steaming water.