UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau joined a growing group of student leaders and politicians when he urged for the lifting of coverage caps from the UC Student Health Insurance Plan in a letter signed Wednesday. Read More…
House Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi responded to student concerns with the UC Student Health Insurance Plan Wednesday, urging UC President Mark Yudof to lift coverage caps and ensure easier access to preventive care. Read More…
The U.S. House of Representatives has approved a bill that would eliminate the current diversity visa program and will instead reallocate green cards to foreign postgraduate students attending American universities. Read More…
Campus democrats made one final push for Proposition 30 in a rally on Sproul Plaza on the eve of election day Monday. Read More…
Congresswoman Barbara Lee appeared at UC Berkeley last Thursday for a nonpartisan town hall style meeting for students to discuss the prominent issues in the upcoming election. Read More…
On the surface, Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Oakland, and opponent Marilyn Singleton are awfully similar. Both are black women born in a now antiquated United States where casual racism and segregation were pervasive. Singleton still remembers marching down to Woolworth’s, a now defunct retail firm that featured segregated lunch counters. Segregation Read More…
It is not surprising that Dan Rush would write an article favorable to pot (“Bill’s passage would protect patient welfare,” Aug. 13), but hopefully, the majority of students will see through the smoke and realize that the “medical marijuana” is a hoax to begin with and doomed to fail. To Read More…
Jayden is only 5 years old and suffers from a rare form of epilepsy. His father, Jason David, tearfully shares how the only relief from his son’s physical pain and life-threatening seizures is from a nonpsychoactive molecule found in cannabis, called cannabidiol. Read More…
Although a date of reopening has not yet been determined, construction to renovate the interior and exterior areas of the new property at 2366 San Pablo Avenue in the commercial district has already begun. Read More…
The Berkeley City Council approved the sending of a resolution that formally urges the U.S. Postal Service not to sell the main post office. Read More…
