Summer 1999 - Berkeley Magazine Table of Contents

In April, 30,000 people visited the campus to meet T. rex, explore Irish culture, attend lectures by renowned faculty, cheer at a Golden Bears football scrimmage and tour Cal on a cable car.

Raised amid fist fights in a tough East L.A. barrio, Antonio Villaraigosa now fights for educational opportunity as speaker of the state Assembly.

Sophisticated computers may aid some lab researchers, but others still rely on the antique art of lathes, calipers and blue-orange gas flames.

A tribute to a beloved professor, chancellor, Nobel laureate, presidential science policy adviser and one of the most influential chemists of the 20th century.

Four Cal professors venture to lands torn by war, violence and poverty to research human injustice.

Once a secret club, this almost century-old organization of dedicated Berkeley affiliates still meets in an old log cabin on campus.

Football hero Chuck Muncie, Silicon Valley lawyer Larry Sonsini and Alameda County dentist Pamela Arbuckle teach lessons in life to new generations of Cal students.

Women's intercollegiate lacrosse is the campus's latest effort to equalize athletic opportunities for men and women.

A potpourri of what's going on.

Highlights of faculty research.

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