In an effort to improve access to the city’s key business districts, the City of Berkeley will implement changes to its parking policies Tuesday. Read More…
The campus Jewish Student Union voted Wednesday to deny membership to J Street U at Berkeley, a Jewish student political advocacy group on campus whose application to join the union was also denied two years ago after facing accusations of being anti-Israel. Read More…
UC Berkeley found itself at the center of national media attention Monday night following a bizarre series of events that culminated with an explosion near California Hall and the swift evacuation of campus. Read More…
As debate raged about the future of the U.S. military’s controversial “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy in 2011, Clayton Critcher, and assistant professor of marketing at Haas Business School, was struck by a central question he thought was never addressed. Read More…
The images of the violence halfway across the world have shocked many, but it hits closer to home for some UC Berkeley students who hail from Nairobi. Read More…
I’ll be the first to admit the attitude I developed toward state politics as child was certifiably starry-eyed. I grew up near Sacramento, and it was hard not to be awed by the big white dome downtown. Of course we all grow up, and in politics we grow up fast. Read More…
Nothing like a scandalous political quid pro quo, complete with new information about an ideologically stained physical assault on Sproul alongside bylaw violation charges galore to awaken our senses. I give you, Divestment: Season 2. After this latest flood of melodrama, politicians in Washington, D.C., and Sacramento look like snoozers. Read More…
Let’s get this straight: online education will never completely replace in-person instruction or totally eclipse the most fundamental tenets of the traditional university. At least, it shouldn’t. Nevertheless, California State Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, introduced a bill in late February that would require the 50 most impacted Read More…
If impulsive California legislators and the money-hungry National College Players Association have their way, UC Berkeley athletes may soon be going pro. The Sacramento Bee reported Saturday that California State Assembly Bill 475, currently being considered in committee, would require UC Berkeley and UCLA to pay student athletes an annual Read More…
Things are pretty bad when Washington is happy about a filibuster. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, with help from a small group of primarily Republican senators, staged a nearly 13-hour filibuster of John Brennan’s nomination to direct the Central Intelligence Agency last week. Paul’s anti-Obama rant added up to little more Read More…