Anderson Lanham

Saturday was a busy night for Berkeley police officers, who responded to multiple distress calls occurring that evening, as first reported by Berkeleyside.

A policy brief recently published by the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment found children enrolled in Head Start benefit academically both in the short term and, to a lesser extent, the long term, refuting earlier research to the contrary.

SQUELCH! Senator Anthony Carrasco proposed a bill in support of a campus responsible bystander policy, which went into effect at the beginning of August.

A man in serious condition was taken to Highland Hospital after he was struck by a car at approximately 1:30 p.m. Thursday in South Berkeley, according to Berkeley Police Department Lt. Dan Montgomery.

The Berkeley Police Department is searching for a missing “at-risk” person who was last seen in Berkeley Monday afternoon, according to a crime alert released that night.

Chalk graffiti allegedly supporting the “straight liberation movement” and advocating a “straight-only safe space” appeared on parts of Telegraph Avenue and Sproul Plaza this week, according to UCPD Sgt. Nicole Miller.

The annual report detailed the commission’s work last year and shows that it reviewed 23 complaints, including 51 different allegations regarding police actions, as well as four policy reviews.

A UCPD officer allegedly sent a racially charged email that had been circulating on the internet to UCPD Chief Margo Bennett in 2015, UC Berkeley spokesperson Janet Gilmore confirmed Thursday.

After Chancellor Nicholas Dirks resigned amid controversy yesterday, the students and faculty of UC Berkeley have expressed their sentiments regarding his tumultuous tenure.

UC Berkeley was ranked as the third-best university in the world for research universities in a recent assessment by the Academic Ranking of World Universities, or ARWU.