Author Archives: Patricia Ju

Showering without sandals and sitting on a toilet seat without worrying about what deed the previous user may have committed are luxuries students living in the dorms are forced to give up. As if going from private to communal showers and toilets isn’t enough, students have to deal with the pressures of living with one […]

Soft-spoken and thoughtful in manner, Dexter Ligot-Gordon was just another regular student on the campus of University of California, Berkeley. What made Ligot-Gordon stand out from his colleagues, however, was that Ligot-Gordon was responsible for being the voice of thousands of undergraduates across nine UC campuses for the past year. Being the key representative of […]

To address heightened interest in postwar Iraq and other Arab countries, the Center for Near Eastern Studies held a symposium Thursday titled, “The Consequences of the Iraq War for Democracy, Terrorism and Peace.” The main speakers at the four-hour-long event were Professor Shibley Telhami ““ Anwar Sadat Professor of Peace at University of Maryland ““ […]

Less than a week before Gov. Gray Davis is expected to announce deep budget cuts statewide, former California State Assembly Speaker Robert Hertzberg declared that the current state budget crisis is “a political crisis, not a financial crisis.” In a lecture titled “California’s Crisis: Budgeting in a Strait Jacket,” Hertzberg briefly discussed possible solutions to […]