Berkeley council election schedules announced
BERKELEY — With two vacant seats open on the Berkeley City Council, voters will get the chance to name new representatives in two separate special elections running on slightly different …
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From Oakland gang-member to renowned California academic
Dr. Victor Rios is not your typical professor. While growing up on welfare in Oakland, Rios and his three siblings learned to fend for themselves as their single mom bounced …
Violent rally shuts down Cal event featuring Israeli speaker
BERKELEY – An event at UC Berkeley featuring a speaker from Israel was canceled and its attendees escorted to safety Monday night after hundreds of protesters surrounded the venue and …
Keeping opinions off UC websites could restrict speech
Something dangerous is happening at the University of California. Echoing similar moves at many private colleges, the powerful regents of our public university system are moving to suppress political speech they …
Biden proposal threatens California’s engine of innovation
The Bay Area has long been an innovation powerhouse. My institution, UC Berkeley, is now the top-ranked university in the world for venture-funded startups. A key element of this extraordinary …
Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki’s son dies at UC Berkeley campus, according to officials, relative
The son of a former YouTube executive died last week at the UC Berkeley campus where he resided, according to officials, relative BERKELEY, Calif. — The 19-year-old son of a …
Expand California community college bachelor’s degrees
Sixty-four years ago, California adopted a master plan for higher education that, among other things, set operational parameters for the state’s three college systems. The University of California would be the research …
Walled out of People’s Park, protesters take to the Berkeley streets – The Mercury News
BERKELEY — With People’s Park successfully walled off by a fortress of double-stacked shipping containers following an overnight hostile takeover, activists lost the base that for years had served as …
Police converge on People’s Park at UC Berkeley in attempt to wall off for construction
BERKELEY — An overnight move by UC Berkeley to wall off historic People’s Park in preparation for a long-term construction project was met with a heated swarm of protesters early …
Students fighting antisemitism use legal tool that tests power at US colleges
David Voreacos and Janet Lorin | (TNS) Bloomberg University of Pennsylvania senior Eyal Yakoby wasn’t going to sit idly by as antisemitism crept across campus this fall. The Israeli American …