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State Sen. Connie Leyva, D-Chino, will reintroduce a bill that would require abortion pills to be offered on public university campuses in California on Monday during the first day of the state Senate’s session.
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ASUC Student Advocate Sophie Bandarkar was featured in a Thanksgiving-themed Teen Vogue article published online Thursday for her work addressing student housing and food insecurity on campus.
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The UC Office of the President, or UCOP, is asking for student feedback on proposed changes to the UC Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment, or SVSH, policy.
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UC Berkeley has decided to allow formal instruction during the Monday and Tuesday of Reading, Review and Recitation Week, or RRR week — commonly referred to as “dead week” — to make up for lost class time after the campus canceled instruction because of poor air quality.
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After a tight race, Assemblymember Tony Thurmond has been elected as California superintendent of public instruction.
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BART spokesperson James Allison said the current BART trains would run out of capacity by 2040, driving the need for a second transbay rail crossing. “Plan Bay Area,” a study by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, estimated that the Bay Area is expected to grow by 2 million people over the next 25 years.
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Not In Our Town, or NIOT, community organizer Glo Robinson said the national movement was created last year in response to the violence in Charlottesville, which generated a response in the Bay Area.
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Alameda County is still counting thousands of ballots for a midterm election projected to feature extraordinarily high voter turnout.
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With the election of Rigel Robinson to the Berkeley City Council District 7 seat and Soli Alpert and James Chang to the Rent Stabilization Board, students once again show an interest in local politics.
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The ASUC released a letter Oct. 31 on behalf of UC Berkeley students in an effort to take a stance against pending Title IX legislation.
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