In midst of budget crunch, 2 senior Cal Athletics staffers leave UC Berkeley
Cal Athletics lost two of its most senior financial officials this summer, just as it prepares to find a way to close its more than $20 million budget deficit.
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Budget cuts hit Berkeley Law after scandal, drop in ranking
Chancellor Carol Christ’s substantial budget cuts left few departments unscathed last week, and the UC Berkeley School of Law was no exception.
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The unexpected chancellor: Carol Christ’s journey to academia’s ‘impossible’ job
Today, Christ becomes the 11th chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley. She takes the helm of a school under siege from all sides.
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It’s Memorial again: Kabam pulls name from football field
Kabam, Inc. has recently pulled out of its naming rights partnership with Cal Athletics, meaning the flashy name will no longer be featured on the field at Cal football’s Memorial Stadium.
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No Cal sports cut yet, athletics task force says
UC Berkeley’s Chancellor’s Task Force on Intercollegiate Athletics released its report Monday and could not reach a consensus regarding cutting any of Cal’s sports teams.
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With Carol Christ in charge, campus police used chokeholds to dismantle 1999 protest
Today, Christ says that she wouldn’t have addressed the protest in the same way.
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Erwin Chemerinsky named Berkeley Law dean
Erwin Chemerinsky, the founding dean of the UC Irvine School of Law, was named dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law on Wednesday.
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Former UC Berkeley athletic director says she was overruled on field hockey space decision
Two Title IX investigations are now underway into the team’s displacement to discern whether the campus broke gender equity laws by displacing a women’s team.
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The fight for a field
$7 million, 2 Title IX investigations and a damaged women’s field hockey program
In 2013, the UC Berkeley field hockey team was kicked off its longtime home, Maxwell Family Field, by Cal Athletics. Today, the team plays at Underhill Field, a converted recreational field lacking permanent bathrooms, storage, stands or a press platform.
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Former Berkeley Law dean moves to end proceedings against him
Choudhry, who was found to have violated university sexual misconduct policy, filed a motion in September for the court to stop campus from pursuing its disciplinary proceedings against him.
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