Bay Area Rapid Transit’s staff recommended that its Board of Directors sign a $1.5 billion dollar contract for the next generation of trains at its board meeting Thursday. BART will be replacing the current trains because they have been in continuous use since 1972 and are the oldest in America. Read More…
About 30 high school students and affirmative action supporters gathered at UC Berkeley Friday to call for increased underrepresented minority acceptances at the University of California. At a press conference organized by the activist group BAMN, the group criticized the university’s underrepresented minority admittance rate for the 2012-13 school year. Read More…
It was supposed to be the most powerful radio telescope on the planet. Instead, the Allen Telescope Array — built on the Hat Creek Radio Observatory in Northern California — has suffered from a lack of funding and can no longer remain competitive for UC Berkeley researchers to use. SRI Read More…
Management of the Hat Creek Radio Observatory, which houses UC Berkeley telescopes, has been transferred to another organization effective this month. SRI International — a non-profit organization founded by a group of West Coast industrialists and Stanford University in 1970 — is taking over management of the observatory from UC Read More…
The Defend Affirmative Action Party has announced its executive candidates for the 2012 ASUC general election. The party is running on a five-point platform, promising to work toward a reversal of fee hikes, double underrepresented minority student enrollment, campaign for the passage of a federal DREAM Act, stop British Petroleum-funded Read More…
OAKLAND — UC Berkeley associate English professor Celeste Langan pled not guilty Friday morning to charges stemming from her involvement at Occupy Cal’s Nov. 9 protest. Roughly 40 people gathered in a small courtroom at the Wiley W. Manuel Courthouse in Oakland to show support for Langan, who faces one Read More…
About 50 people gathered outside of California Hall at noon Monday to protest criminal charges filed by the district attorney’s office against protesters active in the Nov. 9 protests. Protesters marched in a circle holding banners and chanting in unison, calling for the dissolution of the charges and hoping for Read More…
Cal Lodge, a property near Lake Tahoe owned by the ASUC, will sustain yet another financial loss for the 2011–2012 fiscal year. Reported losses so far for the current fiscal year, which began July 1, 2011, have already reached $18,337, according to Marilyn Stager, interim director of the ASUC Auxiliary. Read More…
In addition to rallies and marches that involved thousands of protesters, extensive student lobbying during the March 5 demonstrations in Sacramento Monday aimed to convince legislators to support bills to increase funding for higher education. While some protesters chose to occupy the Capitol building to draw attention to declining state Read More…
A new program at UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco announced this week aims to save $1 million annually by standardizing computer purchases. The Joint Administrative Computing Standardization Program — announced Wednesday — is a result of combined efforts from UC Berkeley and UCSF administrators working on broader efforts to Read More…