Shifting Gears: Law Prof Breaks Cycling Records
Oct 4, 2016 · Berkeley law professor Molly Shaffer Van Houweling started competitive cycling in her 30s, and has since become a bit of a cycle-path. Last September, at 43, she broke the women’s Union Cycliste Internationale World Hour record, having already established herself as five-time amateur world champion in the UCI time trial and road race events. And […]
Union Yet? Worker Protections Elude Graduate Student Researchers
Nearly 15,000 graduate teaching assistants, student instructors, and readers in the UC system are full-fledged members of the labor movement. But UC graduate student researchers (GSRs) are the only student employees who are not protected by the UC Student Workers Union contract, and are not eligible to negotiate for better working conditions. Teaching assistants (TAs) […]
Changed and Unchanged Serbia - Cal Alumni Association
Sep 16, 2009 · Here, they fought for their freedom against the Ottomans and against the Austro-Hungarians. Here, they were shelled mercilessly by the Germans during World War II. And here, they may be forced to summon Kalemegdan and its violent history as a metaphor for Serbian resistance to the next Great Power, the European Union.
Five Moments of Pride for Queer Cal Alumni
Sep 7, 2021 · In the spring semester, the Gay Students Union decided to host the first openly-gay dance ever to be hosted at UC Berkeley. 4 The event took take place on the UC Berkeley campus at the Student Union’s Pauley Ballroom on May 22, 1970. News of this inaugural dance was so widespread that a KQED reporter even asked then-Governor of California ...
Diseases Without Borders - Cal Alumni Association
Sep 15, 2009 · What you see from the windows of the rickety, Soviet-era train is a metaphor for the panorama of disease and collapsing public health across the former Soviet Union. The land is rich, among the most fertile in the world, but most of the farmers tending the privatized strips of earth still dig weeds by hand or plod behind mule-drawn plows.
On Anniversary of his Viral Email, Cal Lecturer Reflects on What …
Nov 29, 2014 · On Monday November 18 th, 2013, the University of California Student-Workers Union announced it would be joining a system-wide one-day strike that Wednesday. Though the UC Student-Worker Union was in the midst of its own contract negotiations with the University, this was to be a sympathy strike with UC’s largest labor union.
2013-2014 CAA Alumni Scholars - Cal Alumni Association
Jun 19, 2013 · Scholars 2013-2014 CAA Alumni Scholars The Cal Alumni Association congratulates our incoming 2013–14 Alumni Scholars. 685 students have been selected from over 10,000 qualified applicants to receive one of our three scholarships: The Achievement Award Program, The Equity Scholarship, or The Leadership Award.
Intellectual Action Hero - Cal Alumni Association
Jun 19, 2010 · The political fictions of Eugene Burdick. The Berkeley “Teach-in,” held over the course of one cold, windy weekend in May 1965, helped set the template for countless Vietnam protests to come. The 33-hour marathon drew senators and journalists and activists, mimes and comedians and folk singers, all of whom railed against American involvement in …
Thoroughly Fair - Cal Alumni Association
There is hope. A ray of light. A few select lawyers around the country have taken up the job—perhaps more a calling—of alleviating, modifying, somehow improving the lot of this prisoner. One of the best known of these lawyers is David Fathi, J.D. ’88. Fathi, 49, is the director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s National Prison ...
2009 January February Effect Change - Cal Alumni Association
Increased interest in Islamic studies has brought new programs to the Graduate Theological Union as well as to Berkeley. Back in 1962, when the Graduate Theological Union (GTU) was founded in Berkeley’s Northside neighborhood, the idea of Protestant and Catholic seminaries working together was thought to be a daring ecumenical experiment.