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Garry Wills Brings It—But Could He Have Brought More?
Every year the College of Letters and Sciences selects a book to feature in their On the Same Page program. Every freshman and transfer student in the college receives a free copy, a chance to hear the...
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On the Same Crouching Tiger
If you’re a freshman this year, whether you remember it or not, you received a book in the mail over the summer. You were instructed to read the book so you’d have something in common with all the...
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Don’t Forget to Pack Your Genes
OK, can we just call foul on this whole issue? Last year’s incoming L & S freshmen had to read “Omnivore’s Dilemna,” and this year’s incoming freshmen get to have their genes analyzed. Yeah,...
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Backlash to Freshmen Gene Testing: We Saw Gattaca; We’re Not Stupid
What if Cal uses our DNA samples to get going a eugenics-like alumni legacy program? Or what if we all get a letter years down the road: “Seeing how gene sequencing technology has improved since you...
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UC GATTACA: Stanford Follows UCB with Own Controversial DNA Testing
In a typically Stanfordian move, the rival institution trails UC Berkeley’s “Bring Your Genes to Cal” program with its own smaller, more expensive and more in-depth take on student genetic...
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Just Look at Those Genes!
You’ve probably heard by now about the controversy surrounding the 2010 On the Same Page program. This year’s freshmen were asked to swab their cheeks in order to get their DNA tested for specific...
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Iceland, Genetics, and Murder
If you aren’t intrigued by that title, you must have a heart colder than the Icelandic winter. And yeah, we know it’s cold — in fact, we know everything there is to know about Iceland since we just...
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Can You Say, ‘Welcome to Berkeley?’
It looks like UC Berkeley’s On the Same Page program keeps getting better by the year. Rather than have incoming students donate their saliva or read yet another piece on environmentalism and how...
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