Hannah Piette

Happy Lemon, which serves creamy salted cheese atop boba teas, opened in Berkeley at 2106 Shattuck Ave. on Oct. 21.

After the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced a rule allowing immigrants' federal files to include their social media handles, UC Berkeley immigrant students led a social media campaign to protest the policy Wednesday.

Chancellor Carol Christ announced the appointment of David Robinson as the interim chief campus counsel on Oct. 3 to take over the position of the late Christopher Patti, 59, who was killed in a bicycle accident in August.

Chancellor Carol Christ appeared at Wednesday evening’s ASUC Senate meeting to discuss the administration’s response to last week’s canceled "Free Speech Week" event.

Michael Cohen, a rising star in the computer science field and a research fellow at the UC Berkeley Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, died last week in Berkeley at the age of 25. Berkeley police said he died of natural causes, but the specific cause of death is still pending.

UC Berkeley was ranked the No. 4 public university in the United States — below UCLA, the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill — in the Wall Street Journal and Times Higher Education’s joint college ranking released Tuesday.

Several right-wing protesters attacked Revolution Books at least three times at its 2444 Durant Ave. location over the course of two days.

UC Berkeley’s Office of Communications and Public Affairs recently launched a website dedicated to free speech as part of Chancellor Carol Christ’s promise that UC Berkeley will have a “free speech year.”

Berkeley City Council approved the Berkeley Police Department’s request to use pepper spray against violent protesters with a 6-3 vote at Tuesday’s special meeting.