The Smart Ass
The Hidden Heroes of Public Transit
bY rEN fITZGERALD
As operators bring trains into the yard, cleaners make their final rounds, station agents turn off lights, and administrators shut their laptops for the day, there is another group of public transportation workers still going: Twitter-obsessed teenagers. The majority of these teens and young adults have never even held a job in public transportation – some of them don’t even have a high school diploma. However, they are some of the most important members of a vast team of transit workers.
The Representative we need- An Interview with Cecilia Lunaparra
By Jackie Sauer
Since it’s conception, the city of Berkeley has been built around its flagship UC Campus and the students who reside in it. In the midst of the Civil War, under the Morrill Act, Abraham Lincoln signed into law a bill which provided funding for the first California public collegiate institution that would go on to be founded in the hills of what was then Oakland. Just like that, the University of California Berkeley as we know it today began to take form.
Rank Choice Voting in the U.S.
BY Ella Johnson
American elections are drama. Even The Bachelorette cannot compare to the pure chaos every time presidential candidates are unleashed on the debate stage on live television.
Checking my Twitter notifications to see Donald Trump calling Thailand “thighland” was pure gold. Needless to say, I was drawn into politics before I knew the three branches of government.