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“Yes we can” becomes “yes we did”

By Courtney Nuding on November 10, 2008

Barack Hussein Obama was elected the 44th president of the U.S. on Tuesday, swept to victory by an anxious country eager to change course at home and abroad. Obama, 47, becomes the first African-American in U.S. history to win the presidency.

Oakland erupted Tuesday night, from fireworks bursting up from East Oakland, firecrackers exploding on Foothill Avenue, to mobs of people skipping down Broadway and cheering while drivers wailed on their car horns and people danced in the streets all the way west.

Events begin for Native American Heritage month

By Courtney Nuding on November 10, 2008

Mills marked the kick-off of Native American Heritage Month last Wednesday with music, frybread and discussion in Adams Plaza, where Native American Sisterhood Alliance members introduced this year's theme of indigenous community activism and repatriation, the return of sacred sites, artifacts and ancestral remains to the tribal nations to which they belong.

Oktoberfest revives Oakland traditions

By Courtney Nuding on October 6, 2008

While San Francisco hosted its 118th annual Oktoberfest last week, Oakland celebrated its German heritage with its first-ever Oktoberfest in the Dimond district, centered at MacArthur Boulevard and Fruitvale Avenue.

The Oct. 4th event showcased local bands and breweries, community businesses, Dimond history, German food and dance, traditional "oompah" music and an open-air beer garden reminiscent of the many German American social clubs and entertainment halls that lined MacArthur Boulevard from the 1890s until mid-century.

More glass shattered at Mills

By Courtney Nuding on April 21, 2008

On April 12, an unknown suspect smashed the vending machine inside Rothwell Center. The incident occurred at around 3 p.m. while the Mills College Native Alliance Powwow took place on Toyon Meadow.
According to Public Safety, there has yet to be a lead on who is responsible for the machine's damage.

Genital herpes: the low down on the down low

By Courtney Nuding on April 21, 2008

Small college campuses are ideal incubators for colds, viruses and infections, and unfortunately, those ailments include a lot of common sexually transmitted infections.

Herpes is one of the most easily transmitted STIs because it's a virus, it lives in a body for life once infected.

Gentle postures for a healthier body and a peaceful mind

By Courtney Nuding on March 17, 2008

"Yoga is life," said the founder of Kundalini Yoga, Yogi Bhajan. Kundalini is a school of yoga that incorporates meditation, prayer, breathing exercises and postures, called asanas, to fuse the individual soul with a universal consciousness. "Yoga" in Sanskrit means "to unite.