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In May, I spend a weekend in that city by the bay. Mostly staying and hanging out with Evan, a great friend from high school, as well as considering UC Berkeley for grad school. Also included: Oakland cafés, Palais des Beaux Arts, the Golden Gate, donuts and Chinese food, shiny tech start-ups, trips by BART, and the best weather I was told I would ever experience in San Francisco? It was beautiful, and I hope to be back very soon.
No one was able to tell where the dudes in capes stood on the affirmative action debate.
While I totally disagree with the College Republicans politically and I think the conservative bakesale with tiered pricing has been done to death on college campuses, this event did not turn out to be all that bad. People were passionately debating the values they care about, conversations were heated but civil. This is what college is supposed to look like.
However, affirmative action is necessary. Especially when it comes to admitting students to public universities in the state of California. Prop 13, passed in 1978, ensured that children in non-wealthy school districts would get an inferior K-12 education. This article explains the pro-affirmative action side pretty well.
And their pricing schema is ludicrous. If it reflected reality, women would be charged a quarter more than men to reflect our relative spending power. The white men should be paying the lowest prices to demonstrate that they make the most money even with commensurate skills and education as female candidates and candidates of color. Women have to get more education to make the same amount of money as men, as do people of color.
UC Berkeley Mathematics Department mug. It demonstrates the classic joke about topologists: they can't tell the difference between a coffee mug and a donut.
Entrance to UC Berkeley near South Hall
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My cousin Josh graduated from University of California, Berkeley yesterday. Thanks to cell phones, he was able to figure out where we were sitting in the sea of thousands of family and friends, and looked up at us with a big smile while he walked onto the stage.
I shot this from the top of the stadium (very high up), with a 300mm lens, sitting in the sun, shooting into the shade, and I was shocked that anything actually came out!!