2009 Winter Food for Thought
IT Inside
Berkeley undergrads study the benefits of computer learning for inmates. While most people want to avoid the gothic halls of San Quentin State Prison, two Berkeley researchers, West Hays ‘09 and Alayna Johnson ‘10, wanted in. Hays and Johnson are coordinators of Teach in Prison, a DE-Cal class that sends 75 Berkeley volunteers weekly to teach […]
The Varieties of Religious Experience: Scenes from the Acid Conference
The following excerpt is adapted from a chapter of the new book by Don Lattin ‘76 called The Harvard Psychedelic Club. It unfolds in the summer of 1966, when icons of the psychedelic movement like Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert still have one foot in the Academy; Leary still looks the part of the Harvard […]
A Sitting Decoy
I called my sister. “I’ve just met the President,” I said. “I drove a car in his motorcade.” “Good for you,” she said distractedly. “President of what?” “The United States.” “What? You met him? What did you say?” Two years out of Berkeley, I am a scruffy, marginally employed hipster. Meeting the President and driving […]
Making Pictures
Berkeley and the Bay Area art revolution. Berkeley became an official guest in the White House in the fall of 2009. Not the entire city, but rather Berkeley No. 52, a big colorful abstract painting done by the late Richard Diebenkorn, who died at his home in Berkeley in 1993. It is one of 45 pieces […]
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