Bob Lalanne

In 2013, the UC Berkeley field hockey team was kicked off its longtime home, Maxwell Family Field, by Cal Athletics. Today, the team plays at Underhill Field, a converted recreational field lacking permanent bathrooms, storage, stands or a press platform.

As the campus faces a chronic housing shortage, construction is set to begin Nov. 1 on the Bancroft Residence Hall at the corner of Bancroft Way and Dana Street that will house an estimated 775 students, replacing the current site of Stiles Hall.

An emailed statement from Lalanne at the time of his resignation shows that administrators’ move to eliminate the vice chancellorship prompted Lalanne’s resignation — not the other way around.

The estimated $3 billion Berkeley Global Campus project the campus had been working toward since 2014 will be suspended indefinitely in light of UC Berkeley’s budget deficit, Chancellor Nicholas Dirks announced at a meeting Thursday.

UC Berkeley will begin construction in late 2017 on an approximately 10-story hotel on University Avenue and Oxford Street, located across from campus in Downtown Berkeley.

Edwards Stadium will be closing its west tunnel starting next week to undergo minor construction, amid safety concerns over the structure’s poor seismic rating and concrete falling from its ceiling.

The UC Regents approved additional funding to expand the size and efficiency of a new building project planned to begin in November and eventually to replace Tolman Hall.

At its weekly meeting Monday, the ASUC senate’s Governance and Internal Affairs Committee passed a bill on to the senate seeking to create a Real Estate Student Board.

Restaurateur and former UC Berkeley student Charles Phan and campus Vice-Chancellor of Real Estate Bob Lalanne are in the midst of reaching an agreement on future plans to replace Ramona’s Cafe in Wurster Hall with a Vietnamese restaurant.

The campus is soliciting a development team to build a new freshman student residential unit between Bancroft Way and Dana Street.