Student safety still a concern despite calls to police dropping 30%, police say

As UC Berkeley students leave campus, campus streets remain virtually deserted, resulting in a 30% drop in calls for support to the Berkeley police station.
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As UC Berkeley students leave campus, campus streets remain virtually deserted, resulting in a 30% drop in calls for support to the Berkeley police station.
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The shelter-in-place ordinance issued by the city of Berkeley in March to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 has emptied the normally busy streets of the city and campus, reducing police calls for service and shifting the daily lives of officers on duty.
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The Berkeley Energy Commission recommended that City Council develop a referendum to become fossil fuel-free, achieve the Berkeley Climate Action Plan and respond to climate change at the City Council meeting April 28.
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International students talk about their experiences with Zoom classes and what they miss about being in Berkeley.
Both UC Berkeley and the city of Berkeley have announced initiatives to reduce and, to some extent, eliminate all single-use plastics by 2030.
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Due to the COVID-19, or the coronavirus, pandemic, UC Berkeley students’ concerns about summer and fall housing have risen while the number of reservations for off-campus housing has dropped.
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Never Again Action activists called on California Gov. Gavin Newsom to take immediate action to protect migrants in California’s immigration detention facilities from COVID-19, colloquially known as the coronavirus.
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Eye doctors and optometry students held a news conference Monday to announce Medi-Cal’s reestablishment of two “life-saving” benefits for those under the health care program.
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Cal Performances presented the circus company in their show “Hotel,” on February 22 and 23. Hear from circus artists Una Bennett and Vanessa Aviles about their roles in the performance, and what they love about circus arts.
Jigsaw — a unit within Google that foresees and works with emerging cyber threats — launched the platform Assembler, which can detect the manipulation of images, according to a blog post on Medium.
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