Elaine Kim on a Reckoning With Race Many Years in the Making
Before Elaine Kim came to Berkeley as a Ph.D. student in 1968, she was used to being the only Asian person in the room.
From the Summer 2021 issue of California.
Perspectives
Safe at Home! Remembering Cal’s Season on the Brink
UNDER DARKENED SKIES laden with humidity and sparked by lightning, Cal’s Devon Rodriquez slowly strode to the plate. It was June 6, 2011, the title game of the NCAA Baseball Regionals in Houston, the Golden Bears’ most crucial at-bat in their most dramatic of seasons—one in which the very existence of the team hung in the balance.
Posted on July 2, 2021 - 1:01pm
Student View: “The Seasons Still Change”
Welcome to “Student View,” a new column featuring the thoughts, opinions, and musings of undergraduate writers at Cal. This spring, for our inaugural “Student View” essay contest, California asked current Cal students to answer the question: How has the pandemic changed you? Below is the winning essay.
From the Summer 2021 issue of California.
Student View: “The Power of ‘No’”
Welcome to “Student View,” a new column featuring the thoughts, opinions, and musings of undergraduate writers at Cal. This spring, for our inaugural “Student View” essay contest, California asked current Cal students to answer the question: How has the pandemic changed you? Below is one of two runners-up.
From the Summer 2021 issue of California.
Student View: “Sunsets and Little Things”
Welcome to “Student View,” a new column featuring the thoughts, opinions, and musings of undergraduate writers at Cal. This spring, for our inaugural “Student View” essay contest, California asked current Cal students to answer the question: How has the pandemic changed you? Below is one of two runners-up.
From the Summer 2021 issue of California.
SUBMIT: The Student View
Are you a writer? Do you want to have your work published, add a clip to your portfolio, and see your byline in a magazine? If so, now’s your chance! California, UC Berkeley’s award-winning alumni magazine, is launching a brand new column and we want to feature you, the students of Cal.
Posted on June 7, 2021 - 3:13pm
Chancellor’s Letter: Summer 2021
As life begins its return to something resembling normal, I want to share some of what I have learned about leadership during these unprecedented times, for it speaks directly to what makes our university a special place.
From the Summer 2021 issue of California.
Sitting Down With Hammer Thrower Camryn Rogers
I didn’t play a sport until 2012, when I picked up my first hammer.
From the Summer 2021 issue of California.
Uncovered Letters Reveal a Forgotten and Tumultuous Journey
ON A JANUARY EVENING, sorting through family memorabilia in my basement, I stumbled on a sealed manila envelope, addressed to me in Berkeley, sent by my grandmother. It was postmarked October 2003. I had no idea why I’d never opened it.
From the Summer 2021 issue of California.
The Myth of the Asian Woman
“Why and how is it,” writes Laura Hyun Yi Kang in her 2020 book Traffic in Asian Women, “so many Asian women continue to suffer in the same coeval space of so much publicity, knowledge production, and activism?”
Posted on May 7, 2021 - 10:02am
“A Day Unlike Any Other”: Two First-Person Accounts of the Capitol Riot
REP. LINDA SÁNCHEZ (D-CALIF.): The night before [the Electoral College vote count], I called my husband and said, “In case anything happens to me, I want you to know where my will is.” He tried to reassure me, but I couldn’t shake my growing sense of unease.
From the Spring 2021 issue of California.
“Our Stories Aren’t Told”: A Discourse on Anti-Asian Hate and How to Move Forward
The recent surge in attacks on Asian, Asian-American, and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities, including the racially motivated shootings at three Atlanta spas, has sparked a nationwide movement to “Stop AAPI Hate.”
Posted on April 14, 2021 - 3:20pm
Snapp Chats: An Infamous Kidnapping, A Selfless Entrepreneur, and the Fight for Tenants’ Rights
FORGET O.J. SIMPSON. The “Trial of the Century” was the Lindbergh kidnapping case in 1935, when a German immigrant named Bruno Richard Hauptmann was sent to the electric chair for killing the infant son of Charles Lindbergh, arguably the most popular man on Earth.
From the Spring 2021 issue of California.
The Editorial That Split the Daily Cal (And May Have Provoked a Riot)
Editor’s note: The Daily Californian, Berkeley’s student newspaper, marks two momentous anniversaries this year. The first is its founding, 150 years ago. Since 1871, the paper—originally called the College Echo—has been published continuously, reporting on the campus and community through world wars and loyalty oaths, depression and recessions, student rebellions and global pandemics.
From the Spring 2021 issue of California.
Editor’s Note: Nothing Writes Itself, Yet
“This practically writes itself,” is something writers often say but don’t really believe. No story worth telling comes without toil. That could change, however, with an assist from artificial intelligence. Already, AI programs are being used to help craft poetry, stories, and essays.
From the Spring 2021 issue of California.
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