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Tragedy Strikes Haiti: Ample International Aid Helps Country Move Past Emergency Phase
February 1, 2010 – 12:00 am | One Comment
Tragedy Strikes Haiti: Ample International Aid Helps Country Move Past Emergency Phase

Tragedy struck Haiti on January 12th when a 7.0 MMS earthquake rattled the nation. The quake had an epicenter 16 miles west of the capital Port-au-Prince, its effects spanning 8.1 miles and leading to 52 …

Schwarzenegger Depends on Federal Money to Close Budget Gap: Failure May Result in More Cuts to State Services
February 1, 2010 – 12:00 am | No Comment
Schwarzenegger Depends on Federal Money to Close Budget Gap: Failure May Result in More Cuts to State Services

Governor Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders are counting on the federal government to provide the state with funding to help stave off a massive $19.9 billion budget deficit that may result in significant spending cuts should …

Christmas Day Terror Scare” Plans to Include Racial Profiling in Airport Security?
February 1, 2010 – 12:00 am | No Comment
Christmas Day Terror Scare” Plans to Include Racial Profiling in Airport Security?

On Christmas Day 2009, a 23-year-old Nigerian Muslim man, by the name of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, failed to execute a terrorist bomb on a Detroit-bound Northwest Airlines flight. Just one month after his father warned …

Same-Sex Marriage Battle Continues in Federal Trial: Lawyers Scrutinize Constitution to Persuade Court to Favor Gay Marriage
February 1, 2010 – 12:00 am | No Comment
Same-Sex Marriage Battle Continues in Federal Trial: Lawyers Scrutinize Constitution to Persuade Court to Favor Gay Marriage

When California voters passed Proposition 8 in November 2008, it marked the beginning of a legal battle over same-sex marriage that could eventually make its way to the United States Supreme Court. Proposition 8, or …

Long Road Ahead for Commission for the Future: Yudof Attempts to get Students’ Voices Heard
December 1, 2009 – 12:00 am | One Comment
Long Road Ahead for Commission for the Future: Yudof Attempts to get Students’ Voices Heard

In response to the state’s budget crisis that will increase tuition costs for UC students, UC President Mark Yudof and the Board of Regents created the UC Commission for the Future this July. The Commission …

Fetuses versus Feminists: Berkeley Students for Life Shake up Campus with Display on Sproul
December 1, 2009 – 12:00 am | No Comment
Fetuses versus Feminists: Berkeley Students for Life Shake up Campus with Display on Sproul

When students walked around Sproul Plaza in the heart of UC Berkeley on the afternoon of October 26th, they were greeted by a huge display surrounding the main fountain. Berkeley Students for Life (BSL), along …

Semester Update: Hear About Berkeley’s Premier Political Organizations on the Right!
December 1, 2009 – 12:00 am | No Comment
Semester Update: Hear About Berkeley’s Premier Political Organizations on the Right!

As the semester comes to a close, we decided it would be a good idea to shed some more light on the progress that Berkeley College Republicans, Berkeley Students for Life, and the new Students …

Students for Liberty Update
December 1, 2009 – 12:00 am | No Comment
Students for Liberty Update

On a warm September night early this semester, I nervously sat in front of a sparse crowd in 263 Dwinelle Hall. It was the first general meeting of Students for Liberty, a new freedom-oriented political …

UC Berkeley’s 21st Nobel Laureate: Oliver Williamson’s Nobel Prize in Economics
December 1, 2009 – 12:00 am | No Comment
UC Berkeley’s 21st Nobel Laureate: Oliver Williamson’s Nobel Prize in Economics

On October 12 UC Berkeley added another Nobel Laureate to its roster of twenty previous winners. Haas School of Business emeritus professor Oliver Williamson was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics for his work on …

Cal Students Choose Midterms Over Walkout… or so it Seemed.
October 1, 2009 – 12:01 am | No Comment
Cal Students Choose Midterms Over Walkout… or so it Seemed.

On the afternoon of September 24th, UC Berkeley history professor Heath Pearson gave his routine lecture on the history of economic thought to an emptier than usual room. The LeConte auditorium contained roughly 80 students …