UC Berkeley establishes emergency rental assistance program for students
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The The UC Berkeley Student Advocate’s Office and Basic Needs Center, along with others, recently established an emergency rental assistance program.
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Power outages prompt strategies for instructional resilience at UC Berkeley
Loss of instructional time due to power outages this semester has negatively impacted students and instructors, prompting UC Berkeley to seek solutions by creating the Instructional Resilience Task Force.
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UC Berkeley online GSIs petition for health insurance benefits, tuition remission
UC Berkeley School of Public Health students and workers have signed a petition supporting tuition remission, health insurance benefits for online GSIs.
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UC Berkeley alumnus Ben Gould runs for City Council District 4
UC Berkeley alumnus Ben Gould is running for Berkeley City Council’s District 4 seat, against incumbent Councilmember Kate Harrison.
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Graduate Assembly elects executive officers, graduate council representatives for 2018-19 after secession
The Graduate Assembly had a busy night Thursday. After unanimously voting to secede from the ASUC, it elected its executive officers for the 2018-19 year.
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Graduate Assembly unanimously votes to secede from ASUC after months of debate
The Graduate Assembly, or GA, voted unanimously to approve a resolution that would establish a independent governing body for graduate students, separate from the ASUC, during a special meeting Thursday.
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The ASUC and GA need to make peace
CAMPUS ISSUES: Student leaders need to set aside the squabbles and solve some problems
Graduate students want out. They want out of a student government system centered around the undergraduate experience. They want out of an ASUC that has proved difficult to work with and slow to address their financial and academic concerns. They want out now.
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UC Berkeley Graduate Assembly considers leaving ASUC after half century of tension
Berkeley’s graduate students have long been underrepresented — pushed away from student government for decades, denied adequate financial resources and structured to rely on the ASUC. After a history of contentious relations spanning back to the 1960s, the Graduate Assembly, or the GA, is considering separating from the ASUC.
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