Arts + Letters
It was the publication that launched Gonzo journalism and helped spawn Rolling Stone and Mother Jones. Peter Richardson remembers Ramparts, the glossy magazine of radicals.
Plus: Matías Tarnolpolsky takes the helm at Cal Performances; Shakespeare; book reports.
Free Speech
The UC system began as the pride of California. John Wildermuth examines whether that has changed.
Far Flung
Chris Smith recounts his travels in Mauritania.
The Play
There's one award that Russel White is especially proud of from his time at Cal. His degree.
In terms of demographics, funding, architecture, student culture, politics, you name it, Berkeley keeps changing. Charles Burress surveys Cal's new realities.
Cal wants to be both elite and equitable. It's proving difficult.
Is examining the past, from the Big Bang to the present, a legitimate scholarly endeavor? Walter Alvarez thinks so.
As newspapers struggle to survive, the journalism school strives to redefine its mission.
Asian students flock to evangelical Christian ministries—and not just on Sundays.
Researchers in Moorea are inventorying the island's ecosystem, one organism at a time.
Sather GateBerkeley students can change the world—and do.