Ben Gould sets sights to be Berkeley’s 1st student mayor
If elected, Gould would be the first student to win a major city position since then-UC Berkeley graduate student Nancy Skinner was elected to the council in 1984.
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Campus leadership prompted vice chancellor Bob Lalanne’s resignation
An emailed statement from Lalanne at the time of his resignation shows that administrators’ move to eliminate the vice chancellorship prompted Lalanne’s resignation — not the other way around.
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Kena Hazelwood-Carter wins Graduate Assembly special presidential election
Kena Hazelwood-Carter, a third-year doctoral student in psychology, was elected president of the Graduate Assembly on Thursday after the resignation of former president Iman Sylvain.
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Vice Chancellor for Real Estate Bob Lalanne resigns, position eliminated
Vice Chancellor for Real Estate Robert Lalanne, who oversaw construction, development and maintenance of campus property, resigned Monday.
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After fire, church begins recovery
The service, held at the First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley — across the street from the now-fenced-off campus — reflected on themes of rebirth and adversity, as the church came together to remember the buildings where many had sought refuge and comfort.
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2 UCLA graduate students settle sex harassment suit
The students, Nefertiti Takla and Kristen Glasgow, alleged that they were repeatedly sexually harassed by UCLA history professor Gabriel Piterberg in a lawsuit against the UC Board of Regents in June 2015.
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Students protest after former Berkeley Law dean returns to campus
About 40 students and community members gathered on Sproul Plaza on Wednesday afternoon and later marched through the Berkeley Law campus protesting Choudhry’s return, as well as the publication of an open letter written by Choudhry and published in The Daily Californian’s opinion section Tuesday.
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Former Berkeley Law dean remains on campus despite UC president’s previous ban
Former Berkeley Law dean Sujit Choudhry will be on campus this semester working in his office despite past controversy surrounding sexual misconduct allegations, according to an email sent Thursday by interim Berkeley Law dean Melissa Murray to faculty, staff and students.
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Conservative scholar Steven Hayward to teach at UC Berkeley
Steven Hayward, the conservative columnist and Ronald Reagan Professor of Public Policy at Pepperdine University, begins a three-year term as a visiting scholar at the campus Institute for Governmental Studies, where he will teach classes and hold events in an attempt to expose UC Berkeley to conservative thought.
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Spike expected in sex misconduct complaints after increased campus resources, visibility
Interim lead of the campus’s response to sexual violence Carla Hesse said she anticipates the number of sexual misconduct complaints to the campus Title IX office to jump from 196 in the 2014-15 academic year to more than 300 this year.
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