Michelle Pitcher

An ASUC senate bill addressing academic relations with Israeli institutions was postponed indefinitely following an impassioned discussion from community members at a committee meeting Monday night.

The UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism may raise its costs by more than $10,000 beginning in the 2016-17 academic year to account for a funding deficit.

The standing committees — Finance; Constitutional and Procedural Review; University and External Affairs; and Advocacy Agenda — meet every Monday to deal with specialized ASUC operations. Temporary and ad hoc committees can be formed throughout the term to deal with unforeseen situations such as an unexpected office vacancy.

For the second consecutive year, the ASUC must take action to avoid a government shutdown after failing to appoint a new attorney general before the end of the last academic year.

National legislators gathered with student representatives from UC Berkeley and other California public universities in Washington D.C. last Thursday to inaugurate the California Public Higher Education Caucus.

The UC study abroad program has joined more than 150 U.S. colleges and universities in the push to increase participation in study abroad programs as part of the Generation Study Abroad initiative of the Institute of International Education. To achieve this goal, UCEAP has pledged to increase the number of students studying abroad by 20 percent in the next five years.

A man was arrested for allegedly hitting two men with a baseball bat at a campus fraternity house early Sunday morning.

On March 31, UC Berkeley graduate students received an email from Dean of the Graduate Division Andrew Szeri informing them that the Stephens Hall Graduate Student Lounge, which has operated for over 90 years, will close on May 16.

On April 22, 1914, then-UC President Benjamin Ide Wheeler spoke to members of the Alpha Kappa Lambda fraternity at their founding banquet in Hotel Shattuck, wishing them the best as they transformed their small club into a national organization.

On Tuesday, three experts in the field of biotechnology spoke to UC Berkeley students and community members about the implications of incorporating technology into biological processes.