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At a White House summit on Thursday, Chancellor Nicholas Dirks and UC President Janet Napolitano joined about 100 college and university officials from across the country to discuss methods to improve access to higher education for low-income students.
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President Barack Obama announced today that UC President Janet Napolitano will lead the U.S. delegation at the opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia.
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The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved two UC Berkeley alumni on Thursday to fill two of three vacant bench seats in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, headquartered in San Francisco.
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Professor is the most prosaic of Noam Chomsky’s titles, but it explains how the octogenarian mustered the stamina to lecture at the Paramount Theatre in Oakland a couple of weeks ago for more than an hour (standing up, pausing once for a sip of water). The occasion celebrated the 25th
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What seemed to be a simple trip to Mexico over winter break took an inauspicious turn when nine-year-old Berkeley student Rodrigo Guzman realized he could not come back home.
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A student at a private Berkeley high school was recently denied the Boy Scouts of America’ most coveted achievement on grounds of being gay, and is now being forced out of membership completely.
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Even though many students leave UC Berkeley for the summer, news continues to happen. Here is a brief look at the major news that occurred over the summer, from news that happened in and around Berkeley, to national news with implications for Berkeley students: May 16: The campus announced the
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President Barack Obama held a fundraiser at the Fox Theater in Oakland on Monday, July 23rd as part of a series of Bay Area fundraisers. Many supporters and protesters gathered outside of the Fox Theatre before, during and after the event.
On Tuesday U.S. Senate leaders announced they have reached a deal that will allow them to avoid increasing student loan interest rates, just five days before the rates were set to double.
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Nine out of 10 Californians under the age of 65 will receive health coverage by 2019 with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, informally known as Obamacare, according to a study by the UC Berkeley Labor Center and the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. Researchers from the centers
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