Sather Gate

The past few weeks have seen many campus communities come together for healing and support in the wake of the latest Israel-Hamas war.

Chants demanding the reinstatement of Ivonne del Valle echoed throughout Sproul Plaza Thursday as protestors blockaded Sather Gate.

When I can’t order my ideas, when they’re bumbling around like the balls in a wire bingo tumbler, I pull on my shoes and go for a run.

Anthropology students have protested the decision to close three of UC Berkeley’s libraries and reallocate their materials since February, when the “Long-term Space Plan” was proposed.

Over the past decades, movements starting from the Free Speech movement in the mid-1960s to recent protests like the United Automobile Workers, or UAW, strike have shown trends of significant differences and similarities that have translated over time.

UC Berkeley students walking around campus may have noticed the new Loop benches popping up at various locations. 

On Monday morning, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake and subsequent aftershocks struck southern Turkey and Syria. 

“I will keep thinking of it not as four months or as sixteen weeks, but as eleventy-one days, because it feels bigger. Longer. It’s a reminder to take it a day at a time, not to chop it into chunks that make time fly even faster.”

More than 200 people gathered for a campus candlelight vigil Nov. 28 to remember the victims of the Ürümqi fire, but the memorial materials and informational displays were partially removed the next day. 

“Yeah, it was a turkey alright. Everyone saw it, I mean it’s not like Sather Gate was empty at 9 a.m., there were plenty of people going to class,” Grinch said. “We students stand with the turkey. I’m actually a part of the ‘Students Against Early Christmas’ group on campus. We’re just a bunch of people tired of Michael Bublé.”