Arrest warrant filed for suspect in alleged on-campus robberies
Police say Kody Smith threatened two students into withdrawing money from an on-campus ATM in separate incidents earlier in September. Read More…
Tag Archives: Sproul Plaza
Protesters disrupt November UC Regents meeting
Protesters briefly brought the UC Board of Regents meeting to a halt Thursday morning. Read More…
Protesters halt UC Regents meeting, set up encampment on Sproul
Protesters briefly brought Thursday’s UC Board of Regents meeting to a halt, though demonstrations throughout the day never reached the scale of last year’s Nov. 15 Day of Action. The meeting, which took place at UCSF’s Mission Bay campus, was the third and final day of the regents’ November meeting. Read More…
Protests planned for Thursday hope to rekindle Occupy Cal spirit
Thursday, protesters will attempt to rekindle the spirit generated by the Occupy Cal movement on campus last fall with a new set of demonstrations. Set to coincide with the third day of the UC Board of Regents meeting and the day campus professor Robert Reich spoke to thousands on Sproul Plaza Read More…
Congratulations, losers!
Man Under Bridge
Ah, Friday. Not just any Friday. This, my friends, is Good Friday. That day in April in when you can wake up and walk through Sproul, unaccosted by enormous signs bearing blown-up pictures of people you’ve never met shamelessly begging for your vote. Would I like a flier? You know, it’s not Read More…
Campus groups plan to erect tents, help point student voters to polling stations
Campus organizations are making a final effort to ensure that students know where to cast their votes Tuesday. Read More…
Tabling
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‘Restless Farewell’
CAMPUS ISSUES: Despite a rocky finish, Chancellor Robert Birgeneau’s leadership has seen UC Berkeley through a very trying era of its history.
Most students at UC Berkeley cannot remember a time when the campus was not continually shaken by budgetary concerns — when the cost of their education wasn’t constantly being launched to greater heights. Neither can Robert J. Birgeneau, who will be resigning his post as chancellor here in December. Though Read More…
East Bay students, teachers protest race-neutral admissions policies
A group of about 350 students and teachers from UC Berkeley and middle and high schools in the East Bay denounced the university’s race-neutral admissions policies at a rally on campus Tuesday afternoon. Read More…
“Gangnam Style” flash mob takes over Sproul
At noon Friday, hundreds of students were out on Upper Sproul to watch a Gangnam Style flashmob as participants jived to the hit song that exploded into popularity in the last few months. Read More…