Fixing the UC
Last month's Walkout against the UC Regents' and their emergency financial measures shows that Berkeley can still draw the crowds when it needs to. Thousands strong, the protestors rallied around the charge that the Regents were using the state's financial crisis to transform the UC into a private corporation.
SHIP: A Model for the Public Option?
The health care debate is producing so many newsworthy soundbites that even the CNN ticker is struggling to stay apace. While the rhetoric of the debate may have degenerated, at stake are issues that require clarifying and even redefining American conceptions of liberty and rights.
Kennedy’s Second Family
The passing of Edward "Ted" Kennedy has been mourned as the end of an American political dynasty. However, while the patriarchs of the Kennedy clan — America's own version of royalty — may indeed be deceased, there lives on another Kennedy family: one born out of Capitol Hill.
