Victoria Do

From finding a home on this campus to finding a family, this special issue is a tribute to the memories we’ve made.

Success is finding what I love to do and finding the people I love to work with. I might not be graduating, but as I leave the Daily Cal and UC Berkeley, I know my experiences working here have prepared me to take on anything.

In the face of this intolerance, The Daily Californian wanted to create an issue dedicated to uplifting and celebrating many faiths in the UC Berkeley community and beyond.

On a campus as large as UC Berkeley, there are many different types of mentors. Teachers, fellow students and staff members all support one another in various ways. In this issue of The Daily Californian, we want to take the time to thank all these mentors.

Rehabilitation takes many different forms, but they all strive for the same goal: to help individuals heal and recover from past traumas. This certainly isn’t easy — especially when there aren’t enough resources to go around — and this issue of The Daily Californian is dedicated to giving community members the opportunity to share the struggles they’ve faced in their path to recovery.

I realized our names don’t define us — instead we fill them with our own identities. My name has nothing to do with my dad and I’ve reclaimed it as mine. In the end, I’ve decided I don’t need to change my name. I’m happy with just making it my own.

This issue of the Daily Cal is devoted to exposing these injustices. From important “prison-to-school pipelines” to problematic representations of individuals in the justice system, our stories aim to feature important voices and challenge those who exploit them.

October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month, which was established in 1988 to raise awareness of the employment needs and contributions of individuals with all types of disabilities. In this issue of The Daily Californian, we hope to shed light on these individuals in the Berkeley community.

In today’s issue of The Daily Californian, our staff came together to shed light on this important campus community.

We at The Daily Californian turned to our staff and asked: What does journalism mean to you? And the answer we received was simple: truth and hope.