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In this issue:

• A Message from the Cal Alumni Pride board
• UC Berkeley Professor Oliver Williamson wins Nobel Prize 
• NFL linebacker, Cal alumnus, supports marriage equality
• New York Times op-ed columnist speaks up for Cal 
• Ivy League + Cal and Stanford LGBT alumni mixer
• UC Berkeley Officers break Garrido case, appear on Oprah
• Facts and trivia

A Message from the Cal Alumni Pride Board

Dear Cal Alumni Pride Member,

A big thank you to the Cal Alumni Pride members and friends who stopped by our booth at the Castro Street Fair. This month, we have great news and fascinating stories to share. They include a few Nobel Prize awards, a New York Times op-ed columnist  who cares about Cal,  an NFL linebacker and Cal alumnus who supports gay marriage, and an update on the campus police officers who recently appeared on Oprah to share their story about how they helped crack the Garrido case.

As always, please don't hesitate to send your feedback and suggestions to info@calalumnipride.org.

Go Bears!

Your Cal Alumni Pride Board

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UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus Oliver Williamson wins Nobel Prize

One more member of the UC Berkeley faculty has joined the ranks of the 20 Nobel Laureates from Cal before him,  earning him the most coveted prize of all; a lifetime parking spot on the Berkeley campus.  Last week at 3:30am, Professor Williamson received the call from Sweden that his groundbreaking work on economic governance had won him the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. Just a week earlier, Carol Greider, an alumna, and Elizabeth Blackburn, a former Cal Professor, were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. 

To learn more about Professor Williamson and his work, follow this link. 

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NFL linebacker, Cal alumnus supports marriage equality

His teammates call him a "Pinko Communist Fag from Berkeley." Scott Fujita, the New Orleans Saints linebacker who has two degrees from Cal doesn't care. He recently endorsed the National Equality March and praised a fellow NFL player for publicly supporting marraige equality. 

To read the interview with Fujita, follow this link.

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New York Times op-ed columnist speaks up for Cal

Bob Herbert, after visiting campus and meeting with students, faculty and staff, contributed a New York Times op-ed entitled "Cracks in the Future" where he declared that UC Berkeley, "the finest public university in the world and undoubtedly one of the two or three best universities in the United States, public or private...is being jeopardized by shortsighted politicians."

To read Herbert's op-ed, click here.

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Ivy League + Cal and Stanford LGBT alumni mixer

Join fellow LGBT alumni from the Ivy League and Bay Area schools on October 21st at 6:30pm at Sloane, a new lounge/bar at Mission and 11th that opened just a few weeks ago. 

For more details about the event, click here.

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UC Berkeley Police Officers break Garrido case, appear on Oprah

Ally Jacobs and Lisa Campbell, the two UC Berkeley Police Officers whose vigilance led to the arrest of suspected kidnapper Phillip Garrido, were recently on the Oprah Winfrey Show to tell their story. 

To watch the clip of Jacobs and Campbell on Oprah, follow this link.

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Facts and Trivia

Did you know that over 4,000 students at UC Berkeley are from families where the annual income is $20,000 or less? Cal enrolls more Pell Grant eligible students (students from families with incomes that are less than $45,000) than all of the Ivy League schools combined.

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