Showering without sandals and sitting on a toilet seat without
worrying about what deed the previous user may have committed are
luxuries students living in the dorms are forced to give up.

Soft-spoken and thoughtful in manner, Dexter Ligot-Gordon was
just another regular student on the campus of University of
California, Berkeley.
What made Ligot-Gordon stand out from his colleagues, however,
was that Ligot-Gordon was responsible for being the voice of
thousands of undergraduates across nine UC campuses for the past
year.

To address heightened interest in postwar Iraq and other Arab
countries, the Center for Near Eastern Studies held a symposium
Thursday titled, “The Consequences of the Iraq War for
Democracy, Terrorism and Peace.”
The main speakers at the four-hour-long event were Professor
Shibley Telhami ““ Anwar Sadat Professor of Peace at
University of Maryland ““ and Graham Fuller who once worked
with the CIA and is currently working for the RAND Corporation.

Less than a week before Gov. Gray Davis is expected to announce
deep budget cuts statewide, former California State Assembly
Speaker Robert Hertzberg declared that the current state budget
crisis is “a political crisis, not a financial
crisis.”
In a lecture titled “California’s Crisis: Budgeting
in a Strait Jacket,” Hertzberg briefly discussed possible
solutions to the crisis to a mixed audience of businessmen, city
councilmembers and students.