Walt Whitman

My parents always supported my journey as a baseball player, and I am appreciative that they did so. Perhaps if they did not, I would not have had such a passion for baseball. This same passion brings me hope when I see signs indicating more involvement of South Asian representation in American sports.

The exhibit, “Alexandre Dumas’s Afro: Blackness Caricatured, Erased, and Back Again,” at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, or BAMPFA, grapples with the issue of identity and the mixed race experience through the historical depiction of Alexandre Dumas and his family.

Love, Pamela captures the multiple dimensions of Anderson’s character, granting her an opportunity to provide rationale for her decisions and reflect on an immensely colorful, eventful life.

Leon Litwack, historian emeritus at UC Berkeley, became a cult figure on campus by bringing his leftist intellectual fire to American history.

If Goffman’s theory of actor and audience can be applied literally, then as an audience member, the best thing I can do when experiencing art is to help the artist feel seen.

Some years ago, I tried out that Google Arts & Culture app that matches your selfie to a famous portrait, and my result was a painting of a goblin. 

Here, then, is my last toast to you, Berkeley. For giving to make me glutted and enriched in my soul, for teaching me to treasure the sun so much.

Campus junior Olivia Wakamoto is involved in research that is blurring the stringent lines often drawn between popular music and poetics.

Just remind yourself that once you get your degree, none of your computer science friends will be able to analyze Walt Whitman as well as you can.