In the mid 1970s, Alice Munro’s short stories had to travel more than 200 miles across Ontario from rural Wingham to Toronto to get published. But for Mona Simpson – a UC Berkeley undergraduate at the time – the stories weren’t traveling far enough. Read more...

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When a campus-wide email posting called for French teaching assistants, Adrien Forney thought the position would be a perfect fit. With a life lived mainly within the confines of Perloff Hall’s architectural studio, he needed a job that would help pay the rent as well as complement his workload as a second-year architecture graduate student. Read more...

Photo: Graduate architectural student Adrien Forney picked up his position as a French teaching assistant after he answered a campus-wide email posting. Forney’s experience with the language stems from conversations with his mother, who is from France, and his time at Le Lycée Français de Los Angeles. (Aubrey Yeo/Daily Bruin senior staff)

The buzuq twangs, the tapan beats and Sevi Bayraktar lets out a joyous zilgit that pierces the air. The zilgit, a shrill Kurdish cry, expresses the feelings of the female dancers of Asia Minor. Read more...

Photo: Sevi Bayraktar (left), a graduate student in world arts and culture/dance and choreographer, Anna Kouchnerov (center), a second-year music performance student, and Merima Tricic (right), a third-year political science and world arts and cultures student, practice for their “Dancing Asia Minor” piece. (Owen Emerson/Daily Bruin)