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Chancellor calls on Sacramento leadership to come debate future of higher education

Chancellor Robert Birgeneau’s career has been characterized by social activism as well as academic research.
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Chancellor Robert Birgeneau’s career has been characterized by social activism as well as academic research.

Late Tuesday afternoon, UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau sent out a campuswide message calling on state leaders to debate about California’s “disinvestment in public higher education.” To the Campus Community: We all share the distress and anger at the State of California’s disinvestment in public higher education. IN THE SPIRIT Read More…

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Protests rooted in imagery and opportunity

While many of the Occupy protests have focused on fighting the negative effects of socioeconomic inequality, to define the Occupy movement in a sentence, or an article, would be contradictory to its purpose. What the movement has been is a movement of real images, images that captured raw emotion of Read More…

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Lower Sproul renovation delayed by postponement of UC regents’ meeting

Lower Sproul’s renovation would have reached one of its final major hurdles before the UC Board of Regents Wednesday, when campus leaders from UC Berkeley were prepared to make their case for the multimillion dollar construction project. But with the board’s meeting’s postponement, campus administrators and student leaders are going Read More…

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Protesters filled Sproul Plaza Wednesday afternoon for the Nov. 9 Day of Action.

Drawing on Occupy movement, protesters turn out en masse

Large turnout at Wednesday’s Day of Action showed signs that UC Berkeley’s signature student protest movement, widely perceived to have been losing its muster in recent years, may have found strength in the nationwide Occupy movement. After more than two years of protests that decreased in size, Wednesday’s demonstration saw Read More…

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Lower Sproul Fee Committee made over a year after referendum

A committee charged with the oversight of the millions of dollars of student fees pouring into Lower Sproul Plaza’s renovation project is just now coming together, more than a year after it should have been formed. Despite being prescribed by student referendum, the campus failed to put the committee together. Read More…

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Two phases of Lower Sproul renovation consolidated into one

Students and administrators have struggled to fit all the pieces of Lower Sproul Plaza’s flashy, multimillion-dollar renovation within its $223 million price tag over the past year. But as the project nears one of its final major hurdles in front of the UC Board of Regents next month, the campus Read More…

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Lower Sproul project to move to one phase

Pending approval by the UC Board of Regents, Lower Sproul Plaza’s renovation will be consolidated into one part instead of two, reducing the cost of the project by millions of dollars. The $223 million project was previously split into two parts: the first including the demolition of Eshleman Hall, and Read More…

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A member of the Berkeley College Republicans sits behind the Increase Diversity bake sale table on Upper Sproul Plaza.

UC Berkeley Republicans consider bake sale success, despite criticism

If he had a chance to do it again in the future, said Berkeley College Republicans President Shawn Lewis, he wouldn’t. But Lewis believes that Tuesday’s “Increase Diversity Bake Sale,” which led to international uproar, disapproval from the campus student government and administration and violent threats for the group’s members, Read More…

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BAM/PFA designs unveiled

On Wednesday, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive officials unveiled the designs of the new BAM/PFA building, to be located on 2120 Oxford St., or at the corner of Oxford and Center streets. BAM/PFA, which is currently located across from the Unit 1 residence halls, was deemed seismically deficient Read More…