University of California President Michael Drake will live and entertain in the $6.5 million Julia Morgan-designed home in the Claremont neighborhood.
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Cal remains country’s top public, 4th best university in new rankings
A new national ranking puts UC Berkeley at the top of all public universities in the U.S.
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11 years of radical thought and action in Berkeley led to creation of People’s Park
Dozens of protests in support of civil rights, the student movement in France, the Black Panther movement and against the UC Regents set the stage for the creation of the Southside Berkeley park.
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Workers at UC Berkeley, other campuses launch 3-day strike
The service worker union, AFSCME 3299, is calling for higher wages. UC Berkeley said campus operations are still running “smoothly” during the strike.
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Opinion: Blake Garden must be open to the public more than one weekend day per year
Blake Garden, owned by the UC system, is a beautiful public resource. But many working people cannot benefit from it since the garden is only open one weekend a year.
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Opinion: Should the University of California be more like the City of Berkeley?
Janet Napolitano is under fire for findings in the recent performance audit of her President’s Office. Maybe UC should take a leaf out of Berkeley’s auditing practices?
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Op-ed: stop UC from eliminating award-winning medical program that creates life-changing physicians
Proposed budget cuts are threatening UC Berkeley’s award-winning medical program, which partners with UCSF to create life-changing physicians. In a fight to keep the program alive, students, staff and alumni are taking action. Since 1971, the UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program (JMP) has been producing innovative physician leaders. Students spend the first part of the […]
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Hundreds expected to attend ‘Million Student March’ on UC Berkeley campus
Hundreds of protesters are expected to take part in a “Million Student March” demonstration Thursday, Nov. 12, on the UC Berkeley campus at 2 p.m. UC Berkeley students and other activists plan to join a nationwide day of action demanding tuition-free public higher education, cancellation of student debt and a $15 wage for all university workers. According to the […]
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Op-ed: UC should re-invest its fossil-fuel portfolio in renewable energy
As a Cal alumna, I’ve been rooting for my alma mater to be among the first universities to divest from fossil fuels. Alas, Stanford, SF State and Peralta, along with dozens of other universities, religious institutions and cities, including Berkeley, San Francisco, Richmond and Oakland, have already shown us up, divesting billions from the oil, […]
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Students march through Berkeley to protest tuition hikes
Several hundred UC Berkeley students staged a walkout Monday, Nov. 24, to protest proposed tuition increases across the UC system. As part of the walkout, a group around 200-strong took the protest to the streets of downtown Berkeley, starting at Civic Center Park and walking up Center Street toward the campus at around 1 p.m. Police had stopped […]
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Berkeley’s own return to town to perform jazz the LA way
You’ll rarely get an argument on the streets of Berkeley by disparaging Los Angeles. While oft-maligned as a cultural wasteland, LA actually boasts a vast, vibrant and well-entrenched cultural scene that continues to draw the East Bay’s sons and daughters, particularly standout players from Berkeley High’s vaunted jazz program. On Sunday, several recent BHS graduates […]
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John Jauregui, 79, beloved Berkeley family doctor
by Robert Kehlmann John Jauregui, a family practitioner who emerged as one of Berkeley’s most respected and beloved family practitioners during the tumultuous ‘60s and 70s, died in his home on May 3 after a long illness, according to his wife Ann. He was 79. While Berkeley residents debated politics and experimented with LSD, marijuana, […]