Satish Rao

Students are speaking out about the allegedly increasing difficulty of CS 70, the campus discrete mathematics and probability theory course, after a recent midterm described on Reddit as “unbelievable” and “brutal.” 

UC Berkeley's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences announced that future enrollment for Computer Science 70 would not be restricted by major.

Alleged reduced teaching staff and longer office hour wait times are among the myriad problems for undergraduate and graduate student instructors, respectively uGSIs and GSIs, as a result of UC Berkeley budget cuts.

In Reddit posts published Monday, several UC Berkeley students alleged that they were falsely accused of academic misconduct.

A crowd comprising mostly students and faculty from the campus’s electrical engineering and computer sciences department filled Soda Hall’s HP Auditorium on Wednesday night for a town hall discussion, in response to concern spurred by long waitlists for various EECS courses.

In response to concerns about packed waitlists in the electrical engineering and computer sciences department, the administration has said funding for instructional support — which has been incrementally boosted over the past several years — is not to blame.

Waitlisted students face uncertainty about getting into necessary classes every semester, but this year, professors in the department of electrical engineering and computer sciences, or EECS, worry that hundreds of students will not find seats.

The Berkeley School Board released the names of 10 city residents, who applied to fill the board’s current opening, on Thursday.