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After a discouraging performance the weekend before at the International Collegiate Challenge, the Cal men’s gymnastics team’s first meet of the season outside its home state proved a success for the team, even if it didn’t end with a win.

For the first time in Head Coach Justin Howell’s tenure in Berkeley, the No. 20 Cal women’s gymnastics team competed in two meets in the same weekend.

Contrary to last year, in which the Bears finished the season against then-No. 4 UCLA and No. 1 Oklahoma, the last three meets this season all include unranked opponents.

I never felt ashamed of living half of my life in the Midwest, but from the conversations with the many West Coast natives I’ve met while attending UC Berkeley, I often get the sense that maybe I’m supposed to.

Movies are my own vantage points into the past. Rather than the photo albums my mom meticulously keeps or the half-scribbled-in diaries I sometimes find around my childhood room, movies are access points from which I can tap into my past.

What I enjoy about onomatopoeia is that even with these variations and differentiations and cross-lingual interpretations, I still can hear where each word is coming from and what it’s trying to express.

The 2016-17 ASUC Senate convened Wednesday for its final meeting of the year to discuss campus security arrangements in light of potential protests against Ann Coulter, executive office reports and outgoing ASUC President Will Morrow’s return to his home state of Minnesota, among other items.

Kal Sastry, a UC Berkeley materials science and engineering professor emeritus remembered for his unique life philosophies and his love for the Berkeley community, died Friday night. He was 74.