Lee Xuan

There is certainly a stigma attached to homelessness that stems from a fundamental lack of understanding. It is so easy to see people who are houseless one-dimensionally.

It must be the first time I am away / From home this time of year / I sit in the stillness, feel the silence / And think of Singapore — so far from me.

In these first two weeks living on campus, I have quickly realized that my school trip to China was not the microcosm of college I thought it would be.

If language truly is what makes us who we are and what defines our paradigms, then have I turned my back not on my family or my home, but on my culture?

We were curious to know how UC Berkeley students in Asia are handling the pandemic and their course loads from home.

When I turned 20 last week, my family gave me cake and everything else I wanted; my friends called to wish me a happy birthday.

Watching the livestream, I thought that the thrust of my piece would be fairly simple. In the wake of the 2020 election, the United States faces unprecedented division. Bipartisanship is good and important. The campus community is hugely left-leaning, and we should be more open to conservative viewpoints — so let’s talk.There is, however, a lot more to the issue of bipartisanship than the simplistic argument I had built up in my mind. I came to see that all three seemingly straightforward prongs of my hypothesis were problematic or debatable in various ways.

The immense influence the United States has over the rest of the world means that people care about what goes on within its borders and on Capitol Hill.

However, it has not been all doom and gloom; many international students have been able to find community at UC Berkeley.