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Berkeley City Council is scheduled to vote on referring a plan for installing additional street lighting to areas surrounding campus to the Public Works Commission at its regular meeting Feb. 25.
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A campuswide email — co-signed by Vice Chancellor of Administration Marc Fisher and Ella Callow, Disability Access and Compliance director — was sent Feb. 12 to update the campus community on the Office of Disability Access and Compliance’s first full year of operations.
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Renowned homeless rights activist Mike Zint, who founded the advocacy group First They Came for the Homeless, died at noon Feb. 14 after a lengthy battle with emphysema.
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A working paper for the National Bureau of Economic Research suggests the removal of SAT and ACT scores as a factor in college admissions, which could reduce income segregation in colleges and increase intergenerational income mobility.
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Feelmore Adult, an adult entertainment store and sex shop, opened a Berkeley location Jan. 2 on Shattuck Avenue. The Berkeley location is smaller compared to its other location in Oakland, according to store owner Nenna Joiner.
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Students, Berkeley community members and local government officials gathered in the ASUC Senate chambers on Feb. 13 for a town hall on the 2020 census.
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The ASUC Senate met Wednesday to discuss possibilities of revising a contract with Dignity Health and making the fourth-floor bathrooms in the Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union gender-neutral.
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A study led by a UC Berkeley professor found that under the economic incentives provided by reference pricing, patients switch to lower-priced prescriptions and save money for themselves and their employers.
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After nearly three years, Alborz Persian Restaurant has returned to Berkeley, opening a location on Oxford Street and Allston Way. Alborz Persian Restaurant was forced to close the doors of its previous Berkeley location on Center Street in March 2017 after being evicted.
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The European Patent Office upheld a patent on the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technology following an opposition proceeding that took place from Feb. 5 to Feb. 7.
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