Chancellor Robert Birgeneau

The Robert D. Haas Undocumented Community Resource Center held its grand opening Feb. 6, creating a space specifically for undocumented students and allies. The Undocumented Community Resource Center, located at 180 César Chávez Student Center, is a space that provides undocumented students and allies with professional academic counseling, mental health support, access to resources and a place to study.

Some former ASUC members have become politicians, including state Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, who served as the academic affairs vice president and a leader in the anti-apartheid movement on campus during her time as a UC Berkeley student.

From your early days as UC Berkeley executive vice chancellor and provost to your time at the helm of Smith College, people seem to like you.

Carol Christ became UC Berkeley’s 11th chancellor Saturday, stepping into the role at a critical juncture in the campus’s history.

It began when students who held a rally commemorating the 30th anniversary of the creation of UC Berkeley’s ethnic studies programs moved in mass to Barrows and locked its front doors with chains.

Today, Christ says that she wouldn’t have addressed the protest in the same way.

While debate about the UC tuition hike is welcome, a recent op-ed on the subject, “Looking into the UC tuition hike,” is riddled with distortions and bad arithmetic.

The soft-spoken New York City native considers himself a “nester” of the campus. In many ways, his achievements at UC Berkeley prove him worthy of the title. He has spent his entire professional career at UC Berkeley — a total of 43 years.

UC Berkeley fulfilled its pledge to reduce the campus’ carbon emissions to 1990 levels two years ahead of schedule, campus officials announced Nov. 12.