May 16: Berkeley SHIP UC Berkeley announced the details of its new campus-run health insurance plan, which expands coverage but increases premiums, after the emergence of concerns about a projected $46.5 million deficit faced by the university’s previous health care provider, UC SHIP. May 21: UC medical strikes Thousands of Read More…
Around 40 protesters marched from Tolman Hall to the residence of UC Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks early Wednesday evening to protest the University of California’s implementation of changes to patient care employees worker’s wages and benefits last week.
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The 2012 gross salaries of more than 191,000 career faculty and staff employees, as well as part-time, temporary and student employees are disclosed in a searchable database on the UC website. Read More…
A man was shot and killed Wednesday evening on the 1800 block of Derby Street near the intersection of Martin Luther King Jr. Way. At approximately 6:52 p.m., police responded to multiple reports of shots fired to find the victim suffering from multiple gunshot wounds, according to a press release Read More…
Spencer’s mom Kristin Perry served as a defendant in Hollingsworth v. Perry, in which the Supreme Court decided in a close 5-4 ruling to void a previous lower court trial on California’s Proposition 8 bill which upheld the statewide ban on same-sex marriage.
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Arriving 10 minutes early to his first official workday on the job, Nicholas Dirks was eager to begin his term as UC Berkeley’s new chancellor. Read More…
UCPD released information about the results of an undercover investigation which has arrested three suspects in connection to over 50 thefts reported at the UC Berkeley Recreational Sports Facility (RSF) basketball courts. Read More…
Many attendees at UC Berkeley’s commencement on Saturday reported that they waited for as long as two hours before being able to walk across the stage because of the rush of students who stood up to get in line. Read More…
The ASUC Judicial Council lifted its gag order on a case regarding the settlement of charges against controversial Senate bill SB 160 on Tuesday. Read More…
The voice of the campus is about to change. In June, Chancellor Robert Birgeneau will step down and make way for Nicholas Dirks, the former executive vice president and dean of the faculty of arts and sciences at Columbia University. Birgeneau, who became the campus’s ninth chancellor in September 2004, Read More…