Arielle Swedback

Senior Staff at The Daily Californian

Arielle Swedback began as a general assignment reporter in the fall of 2014. She subsequently became the lead community beat reporter—organizing coverage of Berkeley schools, businesses, and government. In 2016, she served as Assistant Opinion Editor in the spring and a Weekender Editor in the fall.

City

Thursday, August 27, 2015

Berkeley school district board evaluates local funding plan, identifies achievement gaps

Alvin Wu/File

With the school year starting next week, the Berkeley Unified School District Board of Education convened Wednesday to evaluate the beginnings of a locally driven funding plan implemented last year.
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Campus

Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Dirks, Steele talk shut down amid protest, campus reacts

A panel discussion featuring Chancellor Nicholas Dirks and Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Claude Steele was shut down on Tuesday after a group of audience members repeatedly interrupted the speakers.
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Campus

Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Berkeley Forum panel on public higher education shut down amid protest

Campus

Thursday, February 26, 2015

Anita Hill speaks on solutions, rhetoric at closing of UC Berkeley sexual assault conference

Professor and activist Anita Hill addressed the need for transparency on the part of college campuses Wednesday night, amid student criticism of a UC Berkeley-hosted conference on sexual assault and violence.
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City

Tuesday, February 17, 2015

After failure to raise crowdfunding target, Le Bateau Ivre seeks loan from city

A local restaurant is seeking a small business loan from the city of Berkeley after more than four decades of operation.
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Sex Issue 2015

Friday, February 13, 2015

UC Berkeley law student, porn star talks balancing school and work

Boasting hundreds of thousands of views per video, he is making a name for himself as one of only a handful of Asian male performers in the American sex industry.
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City

Thursday, February 12, 2015

Berkeley school board discusses differentiation in district’s Common Core math curriculum

Berkeley Unified School District parents and staff discussed the implementation of the common core curriculum at a school board meeting Wednesday night, focusing on the need for differentiation in teaching math.
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Campus

Sunday, February 8, 2015

At symposium, students discuss whether campus climate is hostile, exclusionary

The UC Berkeley community gathered at Clark Kerr Krutch Theater Friday to discuss issues of campus climate in response to critical results from a university-wide survey published last spring.
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City

Sunday, February 1, 2015

Bookstore gifts $100 to each kindergarten, 1st-grade teacher in Berkeley

A Berkeley bookstore is donating $100 worth of books to every kindergarten and first grade teacher in the school district.
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Obituary

Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Nobel laureate, UC Berkeley professor emeritus Charles Townes dies at 99

Nobel Laureate and campus professor emeritus in physics Charles Hard Townes, most notably remembered for inventing the laser, died Tuesday. He was 99.
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Arielle Swedback

Senior Staff at The Daily Californian

Berkeley school district board evaluates local funding plan, identifies achievement gaps

Dirks, Steele talk shut down amid protest, campus reacts

Berkeley Forum panel on public higher education shut down amid protest

Anita Hill speaks on solutions, rhetoric at closing of UC Berkeley sexual assault conference

After failure to raise crowdfunding target, Le Bateau Ivre seeks loan from city

UC Berkeley law student, porn star talks balancing school and work

Berkeley school board discusses differentiation in district’s Common Core math curriculum

At symposium, students discuss whether campus climate is hostile, exclusionary

Bookstore gifts $100 to each kindergarten, 1st-grade teacher in Berkeley

Nobel laureate, UC Berkeley professor emeritus Charles Townes dies at 99