California Magazine Archive
What to Read, Watch, and Listen to This Spring
Here are a few of our favorite books, shows, and films by people from Berkeley.
5 Questions
By Dhoha BarecheA conversation with Ann E. Harrison ’82, Dean and Professor, Haas School of Business
Snapp Chats
By Martin SnappThe National Lawyers' Guild, distributing basic necessities, and the uphill battle for transfer students.
FIRST PERSON
By Robin Dellabough, as told to Anabel SosaI was 66. It was 2018, and a friend of mine said she had done 23andMe. So I thought oh, what the hell.
Editor’s Note
By Pat JosephEyes open, eyes closed, it didn’t matter, I saw the same thing: an ant venturing deeper and deeper into a fern. Then somehow I became that ant, in the fern, going deeper and deeper.
Chancellor’s Letter
By Chancellor Carol T. ChristLet’s face it, over the last few years, every day seems to arrive with a new set of unhappy headlines about existential issues.
Electric Kool-Aid Peer Review
By Coby McDonaldOn Good Friday, 1962—five years before the hallucinogen-fueled Summer of Love—something remarkable took place in a chapel on the Boston University campus. The Good Friday Experiment, as it would later be known, was designed by a graduate student at Harvard University named Walter Pahnke under the guidance of professor Timothy Leary. Ten seminary student volunteers were taken to the basement of the Marsh Chapel, provided doses of psilocybin (the active ingredient in hallucinogenic mushrooms), and observed as the sounds of the Good Friday service above—sermon, hymns, chanting—were piped in. Pahnke’s aim was to see if psilocybin, delivered under such conditions, could induce a full-blown mystical experience.
Susan Lin ’00, MFA
Susan R. Lin ’00 (BA, mass communications) has been named Master of Wine by the Institute of Masters of Wine. The Master of Wine credential is recognized globally for the highest standards of rigor in its holistic examination of all aspects of wine. Lin joins a prestigious group of 418 Masters of Wine around the world, and is one of 56 Masters of Wine in the United States.
What’s behind Cuba’s recent historic protests?
By Rebecca BodenheimerA Q&A with Cuba expert Elena Schneider.
Editor’s Note: How Much Worse Will We Allow It to Get?
By Pat JosephDrought and climate change, but solutions abound.
Gospel is the Foundation of American Music
By Dhoha BarecheA Q&A with documentarian Matt Durning.
The San Joaquin Valley Has a Salinity Problem
By Glen MartinAfter decades of salt accumulation, Berkeley scientists look for new solutions.
