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Music students at UC Berkeley will soon practice on new pianos with a partnership between the campus and a nonprofit foundation, which will loan instruments to the music department in exchange for the opportunity to sell instruments at a sale on campus later this month.
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The Cal Student Store — the official campus store with the backing of the ASUC — will temporarily move from 2470 to 2560 Bancroft Way, due to the change in vendor.
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Maxine Hong Kingston, a UC Berkeley alumna and senior lecturer emerita of English, received the 2013 National Medal of Arts Monday in a White House ceremony.
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In the wake of the dispersal of people living in a large homeless community in Albany, various homeless encampments along the railroad tracks between Cedar and Gilman have raised concerns among local residents.
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UC Berkeley students, alumni and a group of lawyers in the Bay Area initiated an online petition last week to rescind UC Berkeley law professor John Yoo’s recent faculty chair endowment.
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A study conducted at UC Berkeley and published online in May, found that reading a moral message made people more willing to cooperate with a partner.
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Igor Tregub, who is involved in city government, announced Tuesday his candidacy for director at large on AC Transit’s board of directors — the only position in the two-county East Bay bus system that Berkeley residents can vote on this election cycle.
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The Berkeley Personnel Board discussed at its Monday meeting possible training and workshop programs, among other actions, in response to findings from an investigation of alleged racial discrimination against city employees.
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Berkeley City Council unanimously approved an ordinance Tuesday night outlawing the feeding of wild animals in city parks, after dropping a controversial plan to reduce the squirrel population by extermination.
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The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling Monday allowing family-owned corporations to opt out of a health coverage requirement on religious grounds generated a range of perspectives in the Berkeley community.
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