Op-Eds

Knowing the repercussions of letting BART fail, how can we save the transportation agency as it faces a “fiscal cliff?” 

We are disappointed that Berkeley approved a surveillance program that goes against its values, ignores history and poses a threat to the civil rights and freedom of community members. 

The more students a department teaches, the more unrestricted funds need to be allocated to supporting TAs and lecturers. This, in turn, poses a significant financial burden for those departments actually performing the university’s stated mission. Financially, departments want — and need — to teach less.

Everyone benefits from students being able to learn Cantonese to an advanced level, regardless of their personal interest in Cantonese or even their affiliation to Berkeley. We all should empathize with those cut off from their culture and heritage because of educational inequities.

Taking personal responsibility in supporting those who provide the food for the U.S. may create a sense of pride and purpose, and perhaps push your thoughts, energy and intentions further.

Lady Justice wears a blindfold for a reason: Impartial decisions lead to higher quality results. This lesson is a core part of a traditional legal education and ought to be applied to legal scholarship as well. 

An economy that incentivizes innovation is also one that ceases to pay a livable wage if you are not the one doing the innovation.

These concerns about the court as an institution should make the justices eager to rid the public of its skepticism. Instead, they dismissed themselves from acknowledging the problem and didn’t even bother to attend the hearing, which tells us what we already know — the Supreme Court is unable and unwilling to keep itself under check.

As of today, there is no memorial on campus to honor the students and locals who gave their lives in the Vietnam War, despite there being a similar monument for every prior major 20th-century American war.

Slowly, however, I started to see an ongoing trend regarding how companies would take advantage of this media. The older I got, the more I began to see how my favorite YouTubers and influencers would amplify their sponsors in their videos or posts.