Posted by
Jill Cowan on Friday, March 13, 2009 09:36 pm
Apparently, for increasing numbers of Berkeley students, the prospect of fixing our own country’s problems just isn’t enough anymore–not when they can minor in saving the whole world! OK, so that might be a bit of a gross over-simplification, but the numbers are in and “Global Poverty and Practice” has officially taken education’s spot as Berkeley’s most popular minor.
The minor has been around for just two years, but darn if it ain’t just the fastest-growin’ li’l academic sprout you ever did see–thanks in no small part to super-professor Ananya Roy. And fortunately for the existential well-being of the 150 or so global poverty minors running around campus, she’s got the savvy to preemptively discourage delusions of globe-rescuing grandeur: read more »
Posted by
Krista Lane on Monday, October 01, 2007 08:47 am
Tonight may be your chance to reduce poverty AND see a Harvard graduate speak!
We suppose the Harvard graduate part is less exciting than Natalie! Portman! “Garden State!” “Star Wars!” or, as the UC Berkeley events calendar notes, “Golden Globe Award-Winning actress and social activist”! Because, you know, celebrities do a lot to bring a crowd to obscure Northside buildings for a lecture on poverty.
We’ve never been inside Bechtel Engineering Center (Near Cory Hall, you say? Never heard of it.), but if some lonely EECS major happens by to catch a glimpse of the female Keanu Reeves saving the world, Portman (and the solving global poverty through microfinance something something) can be found tonight in Sibley Auditorium at 6 p.m.
Don’t need a youthful celebrity name in capital letters to pique your interest in ending poverty? Want to save the world on your own? Here’s the organization Portman is representing.
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