voting

Having a part in the process that nudges the political compass that ultimately affects your life is a heavy weight to bear.

It starts with the Facebook profile pictures and steadily spreads until there are hordes of flyerers eager to prey upon students walking to class.

Most Oscar categories are nominated by Academy members of the corresponding discipline within the organization’s total membership of more than 7,000.

I dress up, usually in some subtle combination of campaign-trail colors. I pick a blue-and-white dress and wear red jewelry. I pick a red dress with a blue belt. I am a dork all the way; I update Facebook to gloat about voting, and I Instagram my sticker on the way out.

am writing this because I am now sad and not impressed with the current students at Berkeley. Why haven't the students continued with the Berkeley heritage of standing up and trying to protest wrong actions from their government? Our country has been involved in another wasteful, unjustified war for more than 10 years now, and I have not heard about protests at Berkeley or any other university to the degree that the 1960s students protested.