Aleah Jennings-Newhouse

Less than 24 hours after Arreguin swore in as mayor, city officials disbanded a homeless encampment without his prior knowledge. Arreguin was surprised and upset.

The newly sworn-in City Council confirmed the results of the Nov. 8 municipal elections, established a rotating schedule for the position of vice mayor and appointed council members to committees during its first special meeting Thursday.

Sanders spoke about his new book, “Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In,” in a lecture that was part motivational speech and part office hours. Two independent bookstores, Mrs. Dalloway’s of Berkeley and Diesel, A Bookstore of Oakland, had both been interested in having Sanders come to speak about his book, and decided to reach out to the book’s publisher together.

On Wednesday, the morning before Mayor-elect Jesse Arreguin is to be sworn into office, he kicked off a campaign event for Kate Harrison, who is one of the three candidates running for his former District 4 City Council seat.

In 2011, before economic insecurity brought an end to year-round Pell Grants, more than 13,500 UC students received $18 million in Pell Grant aid to cover their summer sessions, according to the UC Pell Grant Fact Sheet. The Pell program now has a funding surplus, and advocates believe that the program can be expanded to help students finance their summer studies while ensuring its financial stability in the future.

While members of the local and campus community have rallied and marched against Donald Trump’s ascent to the presidency, graduate students at the Goldman School of Public Policy, or GSPP, have composed a professional oath for public policy practitioners in response to the surprising results.

Groceries in hand, campus junior Ismael Chamu was walking home from the 99 Cents Only Store when a red Ford pickup truck driven by two white men slowed beside him — “Son-of-a-bitch wetback,” one of the men yelled before driving away.

All city measures passed except for landlord-backed Measure DD, and the minimum wage ballots Measure BB and Measure CC, which had both been running joint "no-no" campaigns.

That’s the way the cookie crumbles: the popular Pacific Cookie Company, or PCC, on Telegraph Avenue will close Friday afternoon after having served cookies for three and a half years in Berkeley.

The employee, Alex Patz, was fired over the phone Oct. 17, according to a petition for a firearms restraining order against Patz submitted by UCPD Detective Piotr Odyniec on Oct 25. According to UCPD Lt. Marc DeCoulode, Patz has returned to the dining hall on more than one occasion since Oct. 17.