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The Rausser College of Natural Resources announced an endowment dedicated to Professor Malcom Kerr for the Beahrs Environmental Leadership Program.

On Friday, a group of Jewish American students associated with the IfNotNow movement staged a sit-in at Berkeley Hillel, asking it to break ties with the Birthright Israel program.

UC Berkeley faculty members have quite rightly taken the UC administration to task for a recent statement, signed by all the system’s chancellors, that condemns Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, or BDS. The statement was issued in the name of protecting academic freedom when, in our own view, the only freedom under threat is the bedrock right of faculty and students to engage in political speech.

Whether because of their emotional significance or their relevance to an author's life, certain stories refuse to remain a mere sticky-note idea.

Under the glow of the Campanile, about 40 students and community members gathered at a candlelight vigil Wednesday evening to commemorate Israeli citizens who have been killed or injured in recent acts of terror in the Middle East.

Approximately fifteen protesters erected two large, illustrated wood barriers at Sather Gate Wednesday afternoon as a public statement portraying Israeli-Palestinian relations and supporting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement.

Filippo Grandi, the commissioner-general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, stressed the need for humanitarian action to support Palestinian refugees affected by the conflict in Syria in a lecture at Berkeley Law School on Monday.