Golden Nuggets: Former Detective Secretary of Labor Robert Reich
Time to rewatch one of my favorite Conan O'Brien clips.
Hello and welcome to Golden Nuggets, our weekly recap article where we try to highlight all the fun, funny, or interesting things you might have missed roughly over the last week across Bear Territory (the whole damn world of course). Think of it like a cheat sheet for small talk about Cal.
Main Course
We start this week with a feature out of UC Berkeley News on the upcoming commencement speaker, Robert Reich. Reich, while a graduate of Dartmouth College, University College, and Yale is of course a currently the emeritus Carmel P. Friesen Professor of Public Policy a the Goldman School of Public Policy. Prof. Reich’s tenure began back in 2006 and he became semi-famous on campus at least for his “Wealth and Poverty” course taught in the main lecture hall of Wheeler Hall where students often filled the aisles and even stood outside to listen. I tried to take it as a student but was DEEP on the waitlist and when I couldn’t even get into the Wheeler hallways, I figured the ship had sailed already.
Prior to his time at Cal, Robert Reich was of cource the Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton where he helped bring out the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), negotiated by the previous George H. W. Bush administration. Of course he’s most famous for his role however as Detective Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich in just an honest to goodness Conan O’Brien sketch.
Stay tuned as I’m sure his speech will be recorded!
URSINE UPDATES: THE ACC IS BEAR TERRITORY. ALSO COLORADO.
It’s time for another installment of Ursine Updates. We start with two bears fighting outside of a North Carolina home.
And then switch over to a bear that just wanted to catch a little nap.
Hot Links
Imagining Human Longevity
This past week, UC Berkeley held a conference imagining human longevity . John Ramos from CBS News put together a nice feature on it. Give it a watch!
Small Bites
Hawai’i has a new Chief Justice of their Supreme Court (and he’s a double Bear!)
I assume some form of white smoke or nuclear radiation was emitted out of Lawrence Berkeley National Lab this week after Katherine Yelick was named Head of the lab
Ron Rivera was interviewed by Sports Byline USA
Rowing celebrated Senior Day
Women’s Basketball put together a nice season recap.
Golden Bear Honors
Jeff Kent’s exhibit is up at Cooperstown (and the Cal Letterman Jacket featured prominently.)
Adora Liu (Women’s Golf) is headed to the NCAA Stanford Regional this weekend!
Portia Sherman, Emma Donley (First Team), Marilu Pally, and Grace Hong (Second Team) were all named to the All-MPSF Team for Beach Volleyball
Portia Sherman was also named a First Team All-American by the AVCA!
Emma Donley was also named a First Team All-American by the AVCA!
Kai Anderson set the Freshman Pole Vault record with a high of 5.32m
Solomon Williams (Rugby) was named National Player of the Year, Cal’s first ever!
Anaya Togia (Softball) was named Third Team All-ACC
Ron Rivera was inducted into the inaugural Hispanic Football Hall of Fame
Cal Men’s Golf is headed to the NCAA Regionals next weekend
This Week in eCommerce
This week on eBay we found shirt celebrating the 97th element Berkelium!
Buy it now before Berkelium97 does.
Cal Pros Recap
Basketball
After being drafted by the Valykries and then cut, Marta Suarez has landed with the Phoenix Mercury. Jaylen Brown…is angry with some officiating after the Celtics were bounced out of the playoffs by the Sixers. Jaylon Tyson and the Cavs made it past the Raptors but lost to the Pistons in Game 1.
Golf
Max Homa made the cut in the Miami Championship and ended the tournament tied for 38th at -4. Michael Kim finished tied for 18th at -7. Collin Morikawa pulled out of the Truist Championship.
Football
Marshawn talked about his path to Cal. And visited Nike Headquarters.
And so we find ourselves again at the end of another beautiful, perfect, Golden Nuggets. Thanks again for reading and hope to see you next week! I’m going down a Conan Youtube rabbit hole now.