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WOMEN'S WATER POLO

Cal women’s water polo suffer overtime loss in NCAA semifinal

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Upper Hearst Development will provide much needed housing, classroom space

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Ways UC Berkeley will haunt you during summer vacation

FILM & TELEVISION

Pour one out for halfheartedly pinot-gregious comedy ‘Wine Country’

News

Student Life 5/19/19

UC Board of Regents approves Upper Hearst Development project

Research & Ideas 5/19/19

UC Berkeley alumna wins award from Association for Computing Machinery for dissertation

UC Berkeley alumna Chelsea Finn was announced as the winner of the 2018 Association for Computing Machinery, or ACM, Doctoral Dissertation Award for her work on approaches in machine learning and robotics.
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Crime & Courts 5/17/19

UC Berkeley student arrested on suspicion of multiple sexual assaults

UC Berkeley student Finn Wolff was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of committing two sexual assaults, according to a Nixle alert released by Berkeley Police Department.
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City Government 5/17/19

Berkeley City Council passes parking enforcement resolutions

During Tuesday’s meeting, Berkeley City Council voted on resolutions to purchase 15 parking enforcement vehicles and to increase parking enforcement on UC Berkeley football game days.
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Crime & Courts 5/16/19

Facebook video shows UCPD officer forcibly arresting man with prop sword

A video uploaded to Facebook on Monday morning shows a man being arrested and thrown to the ground by a UCPD officer outside of Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union.
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Local Businesses 5/15/19

Renowned North Berkeley restaurant Grégoire reopens after 5-week closure due to kitchen fire

Grégoire, an artisanal takeout restaurant in the heart of Berkeley’s Gourmet Ghetto, reopened Monday. Known for its “cult status” potato puffs, the restaurant had been temporarily closed for more than a month after suffering a kitchen fire April 1.
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City Government 5/15/19

City approves measure to create higher parking fines on Cal football days

At Tuesday’s City Council meeting the council approved a new parking fine schedule to create an “enhanced fine schedule” to be used during Cal football home games, according to Farid Javandel, the city transportation manager.
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Local Schools 5/15/19

Public educator housing could become reality in Berkeley

Berkeley Housing Opportunities for Municipal Employees, or BeHOME, was formed to advocate for and develop a plan to expedite the development of workforce housing.
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Local Businesses 5/15/19

Berkeley City Council approves construction of Kaiser Permanente offices, parking lot

On April 30, Berkeley City Council voted to approve the construction of a Kaiser Permanente medical office building and a surface parking lot to serve patients.
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ASUC 5/15/19

ASUC Judicial Council meeting ends with 2 plea deals, certification of referendum results

Student Action’s three executive candidates and 11 Senate candidates are no longer disqualified after this process, although final elections results for ASUC Senate and executive positions have yet to be certified.
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Sports

Men's Crew, Women's Crew 5/19/19

Cal rowing looks to take back Pac-12 championship from Washington

Football 5/18/19

Cal football inside linebacker Evan Weaver named to Lott IMPACT Trophy watchlist

Weaver is the third Bear in three consecutive seasons to earn this nomination, joining fellow linebackers Jordan Kunaszyk (2018) and Devante Downs’ (2017).
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Baseball 5/18/19

Cal baseball catcher named semifinalist for Buster Posey Award

Lee is in the final days of what has been a breakout season, currently slashing .333/.409/.612 (batting average, on-base percentage, slugging percentage) with 13 home runs and a team-high 51 RBI, all of which are career highs.
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Men's Golf 5/17/19

Cal men’s golf finishes 4th at regionals, qualifies for NCAA Championships

A strong team performance this time around from the Bears saw them finish in fourth place, earning a chance to play in Arkansas for the national title.
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Women's Water Polo 5/16/19

Cal women’s water polo suffer overtime loss in NCAA semifinal

Its semifinal, overtime, 10-8 loss to No. 1 USC on Saturday put a damper on the sheer force that was on display from the Bears throughout the tournament.
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Baseball 5/16/19

Cal, Arizona State baseball’s weekend duel to shake up playoff picture

Not only will a series win rightfully secure fourth place in the Pac-12, but it will also prove to the rest of the country which team can rise to the occasion when the pressure is on.
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Baseball, Uncategorized 5/15/19

Cal baseball slugger named semifinalist for Golden Spikes Award

Cal baseball’s Andrew Vaughn has once again been recognized for his slugging prowess, being named one of 25 semifinalists for the 2019 Golden Spikes Award.
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Track & Field 5/15/19

Cal track and field struggles at electric Pac-12 Championships

The weather turned literally electric when thunderstorms halted events for several hours at the 2019 Pac-12 Track & Field Championships.
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Men's Basketball 5/15/19

Former Cal men’s basketball center to transfer to Arkansas

Vanover emerged as one of the Bears’ most promising young players last season, averaging 7.5 points, 3.0 rebounds and 1.3 blocks per game while shooting 46.9 percent from the floor and 35.5 percent from three.
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Baseball 5/14/19

Cal baseball falls short in close series against No. 3 Stanford

By the time freshman Mitchell Scott recorded the final out on the mound, Cal had put up 18 runs and 20 hits against one of the top 15 pitching staffs in the country.
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A&E

Film & Television 5/15/19

Pour one out for halfheartedly pinot-gregious comedy ‘Wine Country’

Concerts 5/14/19

Hot Mulligan carries intense emotion through Cornerstone show

This energy transferred into the audience as the halcyon crowd jumped around, aggressively pointing fingers up at the boys of Hot Mulligan.
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Concerts 5/14/19

The 1975 brings vibrant sound to two-night San Francisco performance

The spellbinding Brit pop band dazzled in a synth-wave to blow the hipster beanies right off the audience.
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Concerts 5/14/19

Cornerstone hosts magnetic lineup of local bands MintJulep, More Fatter, Westpark

In a sea of local support, the crowd at Cornerstone came together to enjoy some of the best of recent additions to Berkeley’s music scene.
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Film & Television 5/10/19

Got a question about sex? ‘Ask Dr. Ruth’ addresses that and more in new biographical documentary

In full, “Ask Dr. Ruth” is a study in frankness, both in how Dr. Ruth is unabashedly open about her own life experiences and in making discussions around sex accessible to the too-often-repressed public.
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Literature 5/9/19

A communion of interiorities: At Bay Area Book Festival, readers and writers make personal, social discourses heard

The Bay Area Book Festival embodies the communal aspect of literature — its potential to bridge differences and highlight commonalities.
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Literature 5/9/19

David Thomson discusses cinematic voyeurism for his book ‘Sleeping with Strangers: How the Movies Shaped Desire’

Thomson noted that being able to intrude upon the lives of others is taboo in real life but is a fundamental aspect of desire in movies.
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Literature 5/9/19

David Wallace-Wells, author of ‘The Uninhabitable Earth,’ argues for role of alarmism in confronting climate change

For two people battling with the label of “alarmism,” moreover, Wallace-Wells and NoiseCat were both nuanced and articulate throughout their conversation.
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Literature 5/9/19

Laurie R. King moderates panel of 4 European crime writers at Bay Area Book Festival

When interviewing four high-profile robbers, make sure to put them in the same room, or else they’ll give you four different stories.
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Literature 5/9/19

At Bay Area Book Festival’s ‘On Not Mothering,’ talk of freedom, lack of direction

Choosing whether or not to have children, the panelists noted, is one of the most consequential decisions a woman has to make.
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Opinion

Columns 5/16/19

A case for studying abroad

Op-Eds 5/16/19

Upper Hearst Development will provide much needed housing, classroom space

The UC Berkeley campus needs to decide what is more important: maintaining a parking garage or improving campus by building housing and classrooms.
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Editorials 5/16/19

With removal of ‘FreeBox’ at People’s Park, UC Berkeley administration disregards community, student wishes

On a campus that encourages its students to give back to the community, it is disillusioning to see efforts to aid that community barred.
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Op-Eds 5/16/19

UC Berkeley’s parking crisis, and how we got here

The plan was rejected by UC Berkeley faculty, who voted 174-69 to ask Chancellor Carol Christ to suspend the project in a special meeting of the Academic Senate on May 1.
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Columns 5/15/19

Planning ahead

I hadn’t planned for these moments, but they were just as valuable as the things I’d accounted for in my planner — if not more so.
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Columns 5/14/19

Room to room to room

I came across a room that’s become a great match for me: a bed that’s just the right size, a series of well-placed posters that populate my walls.
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Editorials 5/9/19

UC community needs to stand in solidarity with university employees

Show your support for these invaluable workers by joining the strikes. Don’t break the picket line — and do what you can to remind the university that it needs these employees.
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Op-Eds 5/9/19

Berkeley community need to understand, support homeless population

There is only one cause of homelessness: not being able to pay rent. There is only one solution: enough affordable housing.
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Columns 5/9/19

Stories we tell

I was supposed to follow him. But just as Harrison started to crawl through the gap, someone hollered. The grown-ups were after us.
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Op-Eds 5/9/19

Every UC Berkeley student must recognize anti-Semitism on campus

Moving forward, students must renounce anti-Semitism as passionately as they renounce sexism, Islamophobia, homophobia, transphobia and racism in social justice discourse.
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