Ella Carter-Klauschie

Her platform is focused on fostering opportunities for pre-health majors, basic needs for all students and reproductive rights, Miller said.

The university now requires students to take 18 units of the 180 units required to graduate in person to get their degree, according to Melanie Cocco, chair of the University Committee on Educational Policy.

Stanford University has been criticized this month by several free speech advocacy groups for a system that allows students to anonymously report bias or discrimination. 

Plaintiffs allege Berkeley Unified School District breached a settlement agreement that the district reached with four families in 2021 regarding improvements to reading and literacy programs. 

In conjunction with the Jan. 1 California Senate Bill 367, which aims to end opioid overdoses at public colleges and universities in the state by requiring them to keep opioid reversal drugs on campus, the CDPH, has attempted to increase access to Naloxone.

A new bill introduced Jan. 25 by Congressmen Ken Buck and Josh Hawley aims to expand restrictions, preventing TikTok from being downloaded on U.S. devices and penalizing transactions with TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance.

UC Berkeley is continuing their plan to demolish Clark Kerr Campus’s building 21. Chancellor Carol Christ announced a plan to build a beach volleyball facility next to the currently existing facility in 2018 as part of an effort to address issues surrounding gender equity in sports.

The city of Berkeley’s Agenda and Rules Committee discussed a project organized by former Youth Commission Chair Samuel Kaplan-Pettus and Councilmember Kate Harrison to appoint two youth members to the city’s Environment and Climate Commission, or ECC, on Tuesday. 

Protesters gathered outside Berkeley’s old city hall building on Sunday to urge the city to open more emergency warming shelters for unhoused residents as intense winter rains and an atmospheric river continue to sweep the city.

Carol Zabin, founder of the UC Berkeley Labor Center’s Green Economy Program, received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the California Energy Commission, or CEC, as part of its 2022 Clean Energy Hall of Fame Awards.