Archive for Events
Adjust Your Tassels, Part IV (Graduation Ceremonies, May 13th)
What groups walk the aisle today? Hopefully it’ll be more festive than the graduation to the right…Buddhist Studies/East Asian Studies in Alumni House at noon. Jeffrey Riegel will be reciting shi, ci, qu, and fu.
English in Greek Theatre at 3 PM. Kate Levin
Asian Studies in Alumni House at 4 PM. Wen-hsin Yeh will talk. Probably [...]
Adjust Your Tassels, Part III (Graduation Ceremonies, May 12th)
School of Public Health in Zellerbach Auditorium at 8 AM. Dr. Lawrence Brilliant (yes, that is his last name), the new Executive Director of Google.org, will be talking about how awesome he is…because he is. Hopefully everyone will be awake enough to listen.
Law School in the Greek Theatre at 9 AM. Bryan Stevenson will be [...]
Adjust Your Tassels, Part II (Graduation Ceremonies, May 11th)
Graduation ceremonies today…
South/Southeast Asian Studies in Alumni House, 10 AM. That’ll be one cozy ceremony.
Classics/AHMA in Zellerbach Playhouse, 1 PM. Erich Gruen, the Gladys Rehard Wood Professor of History and Classics (who thinks Caesar was a little presumptous in becoming dictator–very undictator-like) is your speaker.
Celtic Studies, Comparative Literature, French, German, Italian Studies Program, Scandinavian, Slavic, [...]
Adjust Your Tassels, Part I (Graduation Ceremonies, May 10th)
We have to admit this before we start our rundown of ceremonies…we LOATHE the current system of graduation at UC Berkeley. In most sane colleges, everyone would finish their classes, pound through their finals, and then bathe in the moment of glory. Nope. In Berkeley, students have their commencement…and sometimes have the wonderful fortune of [...]
Commence the Pain
The last rites for Cal seniors begin begin later today at 4 PM in the Greek Theatre, as they get to…listen to the Chancellor talk and…uh, do whatever they do at a 5,000 student commencement. There will be no Danny Glover (as we thought) which leads us to believe that the university really just can’t [...]
The End: Events for May 8th
International affairs: Venezuela-U.S. relations & the Bolivarian Revolution, Ethnic Studies Conference Room in Barrows Hall, 4-5:30 PM. Can we trade you oil for the Oaks people?
Mideast: 1967, Israel’s longest year, Chevron Auditorium in the I-House, 5:30 PM. We’re never sure what a short year is in the Middle East.
Rock the Clock with Golden Overtones [...]
We Near the End, Events for May 7th
American Red Cross Blood Drive sponsored by Theta Chi, Pauley Ballroom, Noon-6 PM. Man, how much blood does America need?
John Prendergast & Dave Eggers: A Discussion on Darfur and Southern Sudan, 2050 VLSB, 7 PM. I believe the discussion will go something like, “Darfur sucks, America isn’t doing anything about it, buy T-shirts.” This [...]
Danny Glover Isn’t Happy With The Man
UC commencements just aren’t what they used to be, are they? In a stunning (STUNNING!) turn of events, the esteemed Danny Glover might not be showing up at Commencement after all.
May 1 Actor Danny Glover said he won’t speak at the University of California-Berkeley graduation unless the university settles a pay dispute with custodians.
Glover, 60, [...]
Damn, Who’s Cooking At Our Lunches Today?
So the big event today (hell, practically the only event today) in Berkeley is the rally for immigrant rights and legalization, where every person plans to walk out in less than an hour or so and get moving toward Upper Sproul, where the official rally begins–the event itself has been taking place from 7 am [...]
Home Stretch, Events For April 30
The French Presidential Elections, 223 Moses Hall, 12 PM. A debate to determine which candidate will bash America more when they’re elected.
Right to Give Life Blood Drive, Tilden Room on Upper Sproul, 12-6 PM. Because you can never give too much blood.
AAA: Last Supper, Meet at Dwinelle Lot, 5:45-8 PM. You see this Jesus? How [...]
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