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Things to look forward to this upcoming in-person semester
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After more than a year of remote instruction, UC Berkeley finally announced its plans for a fully in-person fall 2021 semester, leaving many students with a mixture of excitement and dread. As a rising junior who spent my sophomore year in my childhood home all the way across the country in North Carolina, I’ve only had roughly a year’s worth of a true UC Berkeley experience. Nevertheless, the impending return to campus has inspired me to reminisce on aspects of college life that I miss dearly. Here are six things I’m looking forward to and vow to never take for granted again as we prepare for an in-person academic year!
UC Berkeley can be an intimidating place to get used to, and living away from home for the first time can be pretty overwhelming. Although you’ll get the hang of things as you begin to live in Berkeley, it’s so much easier to have a guide to cover all your basic needs and more. According to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, also known as “the pyramid of happiness,” there are five levels of human needs that make us happy. Here are the different ways campus can provide for your needs for each step of the pyramid.
Level 1: Physiological needs
Hands off Palestine: We cannot continue our support of Israeli atrocities
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Last Updated May 25, 2021
Sheikh Jarrah, the latest flashpoint of violence between government-backed Israeli settlers and Palestinian residents, is a neighborhood in East Jerusalem that’s named after Hussam al-Din al-Jarrahi. He was the personal physician to Saladin, an Islamic general whose armies liberated Jerusalem from the Crusaders in the 12th century. Jarrahi’s tomb still rests in Sheikh Jarrah. All these years later, violence continues there although it is now much more one-sided.
As of press time, at least 230 Palestinians have been killed within the last two weeks due to Israeli aerial and naval bombardment in Gaza alone, with 60 of these casualties being children. In Israel, 12 people were killed as a result of rocket fire from Hamas. Even this roughly 19-1 ratio does not tell the full story Gaza is a relatively tiny stretch of land (about the size of Detroit), but
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