Melissa Wen

When I became editor in chief of The Daily Californian, one of the first things I looked forward to was cleaning my new office.

Mark Hawthorne, or “Hate Man,” a locally famous Berkeley figure who lived in People’s Park and formerly wrote for the New York Times, died Sunday. He was 80 years old.

Students from Berkeley College Republicans and Cal Berkeley Democrats found common ground in defending free speech at an on-campus debate Wednesday night, but they clashed on issues regarding how to practice it.

Want to take advantage of the option to get birth control without a doctor’s prescription? Here’s more information about how it works and where it is and isn’t available in Berkeley.

Elected in 2008 as the youngest person and first Latino to win a seat on Berkeley City Council, Jesse Arreguin, 32, positions himself as a leader for the next generation.

When my new friend and freshman year floormate texted me a tongue-in-cheek, “You replied too soon” to a message I took an hour to respond to, I genuinely believed him.

UC Berkeley’s seniors have seen a tumultuous last several years.

At Friday’s tabulations ceremony, it was announced that The Daily Californian Ink Initiative fee measure passed with a “yes” from the majority of student voters.

After former Cal assistant men’s basketball coach Yann Hufnagel submitted more than 900 text messages to UC officials Monday to contest the finding that he had violated UC sexual harassment policies, he submitted a letter of resignation Thursday afternoon, according to campus spokesperson Dan Mogulof.

As UC Berkeley grapples with a slew of sexual harassment scandals, recently released reports show that 19 UC Berkeley employees were found to have violated university sexual misconduct policy since 2011.