What do you get when you combine the efforts of the chief medical officer of the Beijing Olympics, a former professional soccer player turned Chancellor’s Public Scholar, a former Paralympic athlete, a coach from the Bay Area Outreach and Recreations Program, the director of the American Cultures Engaged Scholarship program, Read More…
A man was shot early Sunday morning at Grizzly Peak Boulevard between Centennial Avenue and Claremont Avenue. Read More…
UCPD arrested four protesters on Monday following an early morning raid on the Occupy the Farm encampment on UC-owned land in Albany
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By now, you’ve probably noticed that the new hydrogen fuel cell AC Transit buses have a feature that we’ve never seen before on public transportation: a television. Since it’s not exactly pay-per-view, it’s easy to overlook unless you’re on the bus for a considerable amount of time. But if you’re Read More…
Berkeley Police Department made a serious mistake in delaying the release of the autopsy report from the death of Kayla Moore — one which reflects poorly upon the department’s communication tactics. Moore, a 41-year-old transgender Berkeley resident, died of an accidental drug overdose while in police custody in February, but Read More…
The lack of access to water in unstable developing countries is an international security threat. Although the United Nations declared 2013 as the “International Year of Water Cooperation,” solutions to international water issues will not be met unless the global north directs foreign aid dollars to improve reliable access water, Read More…
Challenge commonly held assumptions As a former member of the People’s Park Community Advisory Board and current university staff, I write in response to Lynn Yu’s piece “Peoples Park Problems” and the general low opinion of these pages for Cal students who serve off-campus communities. If the staff writers and Read More…
The University of California has done the right thing in joining the nationwide open access movement by officially coming out April 26 in support of California state assembly bill AB 609. AB 609, which was introduced to the state assembly in February, aims to make results of government-funded research freely Read More…
While walking on Sproul last week, I was met with one of Cal’s famously spirited protests. The men circled in front of the student store chanting their overwhelming distaste for the brutal “War on Women,” and though I didn’t have time to stop and speak with them about their ideologies, Read More…
