Bill Maher

Campus administration has announced that public policy professor Robert Reich will deliver the commencement address for the 2015 winter graduating class.

Campus administration has announced that professor Robert Reich of UC Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy will be the December commencement speaker.

Television personality and restaurateur Guy Fieri will not be this spring’s commencement speaker, said according to a campus spokesperson, despite misinformation that circulated social media over the last two weeks.

UC Berkeley sophomore Sumayyah Din announced Sunday night that she will run for senator in this spring’s ASUC elections as an independent candidate.

Comedian Bill Maher urged free thinking and reflected on the meaning of liberalism in his address at UC Berkeley’s Saturday commencement, as several students in the audience held up signs criticizing the comedian for his controversial remarks on religion.

Below is the full text of a letter sent by Chancellor Nicholas Dirks on Wednesday afternoon to a group of about 20 students. The group had met with Dirks on Dec. 10 to discuss issues regarding the choice of Bill Maher as the fall commencement ceremony speaker.

Your administration’s unwillingness to change Bill Maher’s invitation as Saturday's fall 2014 commencement speaker — as well as your unwillingness to issue a public statement in support of concerns raised by students, staff and faculty — is deeply disturbing.

The ASUC extended an invitation to comedian Bill Maher on Monday asking him to participate in an open panel discussion on campus in light of the controversy surrounding his selection as the fall commencement speaker.