Fall 2014 Radicals
Radicals
Features
Rhetoric and Reality: Why Savio, Kerr and Reagan Were All “Radicals”
Each was bent on changing the world—and 50 years ago, their visions clashed in Berkeley’s Free Speech Movement.
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Radical Roots: Finding Environmentalism Amid the Schisms of mid-60s Berkeley
He could have joined with anti-war protesters or the Free Speech Movement, but for the son of David Brower, there was only ever one true path.
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Death to the Fascist Insect: Looking Back 40 Years on the SLA
Nothing symbolizes the violent radicalism of the ’70s like the SLA and its abduction of Patricia Campbell Hearst. But what did it mean?
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Economic Leverage: UC Students Fought Tooth and Nail to Divest from South Africa
UC’s divestment helped bring down the apartheid regime in Pretoria, but it didn’t happen without a struggle.
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A Map of Radical Berkeley
From activism to anarchy—it’s made for an interesting history.
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Lab + Field
In the Driver’s Seat
When can we expect to hand the wheel over to robots?
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Selling Sustainability
Delivering cookstoves is easier than convincing people to use them.
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From Six Feet Under to Sixty Miles High
Honoring pets in the afterlife.
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Silicon Valley’s Disruptive Influence
It’s a brogrammer’s world—but how does that affect tech workers and the outside community?
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Not Just Skin Deep
A Berkeley researcher alerts young women to the dangers of makeup.
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Arts + Letters
The Thing Is—Who Knows?
It’s a periodical package and a total mystery.
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Taste Test
Greenhouse Growing
Climate change is wreaking havoc on your meal table.
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Far Flung
Germany’s Beating Heart
Berlin’s turbulent past gives rise to exuberant culture.
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Sather Gate
Restless Raul Ramirez
Journalist refused to be a “stenographer to the powerful.”
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5 Questions
5 Questions for Novelist Rachel Kushner
The author of The Flamethrowers, on being jaded at 16, loving Didion, and not calling herself a “radical”
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Out of the Gate
My Commie Parents
Their radical past wasn’t exactly secret, but it was past.
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Alumni Gazette
For Pete’s Sake
The men who won Cal’s sole NCAA basketball top title remain united.
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