The implications of the UC-wide budget cut affect all of us. The effects are seen in the consistently rising tuition rates and the notorious underfunding of various departments throughout different schools. What we don’t always see, though, is what goes on behind the scenes: for teaching assistants on campus, the uncertainties they face are less positions open, less resources available for research, and less opportunities to finish out their Ph.D.s.
It felt as though the world had completely lost its mind — the zodiac calendar changed and whatever your original sign was probably fell victim to this awful tilt of the Earth’s axis. Gone were the standard 12 zodiac constellations and, with it, our sanity.
