Following the unveiling of designs for the new Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive building last month, members of Berkeley’s Planning Commission offered their own opinions about the plans at a meeting Wednesday night. Robert Gayle, associate vice chancellor for capital projects at UC Berkeley, presented plans detailing the Read More…
Tomorrow Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom and author Mark Hertsgaard will give keynote addresses for the first day of the Town & Gown Conference in Berkeley — a two-day event where college and city representatives from throughout the state meet to discuss cooperative strategies for dealing with current and potential obstacles. Adelyn Read More…
Representatives from cities and colleges throughout California will flock to Berkeley later this week, as the city hosts the fifth annual Town & Gown Conference. “Town-gown” describes the relationship between large universities and the cities they coexist with. Hence, the conference — which will take place Thursday and Friday at Read More…
UC Berkeley students and community members are planning a protest related to the Occupy Wall Street movement to take place Oct. 15 outside the Bank of America on Shattuck Avenue and Center Street. Occupy Berkeley, is “connected in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street,” and organized by a largely anonymous group Read More…
Berkeley police officers responded to a report of 15 people fighting in front of a bar in Downtown Berkeley early Sunday morning in what turned out to be an altercation between employees and allegedly intoxicated patrons. At about 2:05 a.m., the Berkeley Police Department received a report of fighting in Read More…
UC Berkeley students might frequent Telegraph Avenue and the Downtown area more often if the areas were safer, cleaner and more inviting and possessed fewer panhandlers and people sitting on the sidewalk, according to a recent survey. Conducted by the Graduate Assembly and other components of the ASUC, the online Read More…
