The public release of the findings of a task force investigating the controversial Nov. 18 pepper spray incident at UC Davis was postponed due to opposition from a university police union. The task force was originally scheduled to present findings and recommendations to the UC Davis community at 3 p.m. Read More…
Gov. Jerry Brown signed into immediate effect a senate bill on Sept. 21 which ended an outdated, state-wide ban on infused alcoholic beverages. SB 32 — proposed by Senator Mark Leno, D-San Francisco — officially lifted an old law in California prohibiting the sale of alcohol that is mixed with Read More…
At its meeting Tuesday evening, the Berkeley City Council will consider a proclamation celebrating the 100th anniversary of women’s right to vote in California.
Following a Feb. 14 proposal to consolidate campus administrative tasks into one main location, a team within Operational Excellence submitted a request for approval of the proposal last Friday. The campus shared services team of Operational Excellence — UC Berkeley’s controversial cost-cutting initiative to streamline campus operations — presented a 19-page request to Read More…
Four UC Berkeley students were awarded $15,000 grants last month for their work on environmental issues.
In reaction to the tumultuous protests of last semester, the UC Berkeley administration adopted a new approach to protest response, which it has already implemented in dealing with recent occupations on campus. In a campuswide email sent Tuesday, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost George Breslauer and Vice Chancellor for Administration Read More…
UC Berkeley’s College of Engineering is striving to increase gender and ethnic diversity among its students following allegations of discrimination last semester, although efforts are progressing gradually. The college garnered much attention last October when a California Watch article pointed out instances of sexism in the campus’s male-dominated engineering student Read More…
Due to a projected cash flow crisis, the state of California could borrow as much as $200 million from the University of California in March. Despite consistently cutting the UC’s budget over the past decade, the state will look to the university’s borrowing ability — due to its high credit Read More…
UC Berkeley students can now apply to live in a new housing complex near People’s Park that is currently under construction and is expected to open in the fall. Maximino Martinez Commons, a complex built for 416 students, will offer priority to continuing sophomores and upper-division students and will open Read More…
Several UC Berkeley students were among the estimated more than 400 individuals arrested at the tumultuous Occupy Oakland “Move-in Day” protest on Saturday. The protest — originally planned as a march to turn a vacant building into a new social and political meeting center for the Occupy Oakland movement — Read More…
