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My time at UC Berkeley has been a collection of miniscule moments memorialized in my mind like artifacts in a museum. What I have experienced certainly has not been banal; yet, my mind is enraptured by the beauty of the blanks between events that have altered the course of my life. 

Consumption for consumption’s sake is something I think we all engage in to a degree, but maybe some of us are more prone to it than others.

“Swarm” needs convicted characters and innovative direction to achieve the acclaim or cultural revelation Glover and Nabers show reaches for.

In the aesthetic wasteland, personal artistic tastes are merely superficial. Where they once functioned as a means of sculpting one’s identity, they now serve a higher power: selling stuff.

In early February, Emily McCabe, a campus senior, was evicted from sorority house Alpha Delta Pi after being hospitalized for a manic episode.

The idea of going on a walk in something that makes you feel confident is sound enough, but the problem arises when practicing self-care becomes measured by what you’re wearing.

The Berkeley Forum hosted a Fireside Chat with filmmaker and Buzzfeed executive video producer Aria Inthavong on Feb. 16. Open to the Berkeley community, the event took place at UC Berkeley’s Morrison Library gathering an audience of 25 individuals. 

TikTok might mimic the spontaneity of meeting a stranger or the serendipity of finding common ground with another person, and it may have even served as an anchor in community life during the pandemic, but third places hinge on this element of place, and TikTok would be more fairly considered a “nonplace.” 

While TikTok is a great app for spreading news, discovering new recipes and starting trends, its addicting algorithm has some downsides. Here are some of the drawbacks that I’ve felt while using TikTok.  

A new bill introduced Jan. 25 by Congressmen Ken Buck and Josh Hawley aims to expand restrictions, preventing TikTok from being downloaded on U.S. devices and penalizing transactions with TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance.