By Kayla Mendez BERKELEY-- Berkeley Law Professor Nazune Menka develops a course unpacking the his ...
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Engaging with Justice: Professor Menka’s Decolonizing UC Berkeley
Engaging with Justice: Professor Menka’s Decolonizing UC Berkeley
By Kayla Mendez BERKELEY-- Berkeley Law Professor Nazune Menka develops a course unpacking the history of UC Berkeley through a critical settler colonialism lens: “Decolonizing UC Berkeley.” ...
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Despite Los Angeles Traffic Carnage, Cops May Have Traffic Role Taken Away as Justice Reformers Wish
Despite Los Angeles Traffic Carnage, Cops May Have Traffic Role Taken Away as Justice Reformers Wish
By The Vanguard Staff LOS ANGELES, CA – About 312 people were killed in traffic collisions in 2022 here, ...
By The Vanguard Staff LOS ANGELES, CA – About 312 people were killed in traffic collisions in 2022 here, a 29 percent increase over 2020, and 159 pedestrians and 20 bicyclists were also killed by moto ...
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Crime in Berkeley
Crime in Berkeley
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User:Introvert, CC BY-SA 2.5 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5>, via Wikimedia Commons By Michael Verna BERKELEY- Crime rates are rising in Berkeley, impacting UC Berkeley students ...
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Weather Conditions in California Have Devastatingly Impacted Homeless Populations
Weather Conditions in California Have Devastatingly Impacted Homeless Populations
Photo Attribution: Cyanidethistles, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, ...
Photo Attribution: Cyanidethistles, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons By Sheila Teker Since the beginning of 2023, California has been hit by ...
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UC Berkeley Shuts Libraries: Student Outcry Grows
UC Berkeley Shuts Libraries: Student Outcry Grows
By Michael Verna BERKELEY —UC Berkeley will close down three campus libraries, including Anthropology, Ma ...
By Michael Verna BERKELEY —UC Berkeley will close down three campus libraries, including Anthropology, Mathematics Statistics, and Physics-Astronomy Libraries, as part of a new "long-term space plan" ...
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UC Berkeley Unnames Moses Hall over Racist Ties
UC Berkeley Unnames Moses Hall over Racist Ties
By Ademar Barrera Berkeley, CA--The former Moses Hall building was stripped of its name due to rac ...
By Ademar Barrera Berkeley, CA--The former Moses Hall building was stripped of its name due to racist beliefs tied to former history professor Bernard Moses. On Feb. 7, 2023, UC Berkeley ...
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Campus Soulja Boy Concert Descends into Chaos over Lack of Crowd Control
Campus Soulja Boy Concert Descends into Chaos over Lack of Crowd Control
By Laurel Spear BERKELEY, CA— On January 27, 2023, UC Berkeley arts and entertainment organization ...
By Laurel Spear BERKELEY, CA— On January 27, 2023, UC Berkeley arts and entertainment organization ASUC* Superb Productions held a free concert for UC Berkeley students featuring Soulja Boy, an ...
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Berkeley Law Students’ Pro Bono Project to Defend Vulnerable Communities from ‘Buy Now Pay Later’ Service
Berkeley Law Students’ Pro Bono Project to Defend Vulnerable Communities from ‘Buy Now Pay Later’ Service
BY NANCY HU, PATTY YAO, & HUEY COLLETTE | STAFF WRITERS Image courtesy of Getty Images BERKELEY - St ...
BY NANCY HU, PATTY YAO, & HUEY COLLETTE | STAFF WRITERS Image courtesy of Getty Images BERKELEY - Students at UC Berkeley School of Law are conducting a public survey to research and better under ...
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GSIs Prepare to Go on Statewide Academic Workers Strike against ‘Unlawful’ Negotiations with UC System
GSIs Prepare to Go on Statewide Academic Workers Strike against ‘Unlawful’ Negotiations with UC System
By Huey Collette CALIFORNIA - On Wednesday November 2, a total of 36,558 votes were cast, authorizing the ...
By Huey Collette CALIFORNIA - On Wednesday November 2, a total of 36,558 votes were cast, authorizing the largest strike ever by academic workers in the United States. Graduate student instructors (GS ...
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Jury Finds Paul Flores Guilty of 1996 Murder of Kristin Smart
Jury Finds Paul Flores Guilty of 1996 Murder of Kristin Smart
By Laurel Spear MONTEREY COUNTY – On Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2022, a jury in Monterey County found Paul ...
By Laurel Spear MONTEREY COUNTY – On Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2022, a jury in Monterey County found Paul Flores guilty of the first-degree murder of former classmate Kristin Smart. Flores (who is now ...
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California Paves the Way for Clean Energy with New SB 1020
California Paves the Way for Clean Energy with New SB 1020
By Ademar Barrera Vallejo - California, on Sep. 16, 2022, Newsom signed the 100% Clean Electric Grid (SB ...
By Ademar Barrera Vallejo - California, on Sep. 16, 2022, Newsom signed the 100% Clean Electric Grid (SB 1020) bill which aims to reduce the state’s dependency on fossil fuels in three stages. The fir ...
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Gavin Newsom Signs SB 1008, making phone calls from California prisons free
Gavin Newsom Signs SB 1008, making phone calls from California prisons free
By Gibran Khalil SACRAMENTO, CA – On Thursday Sept. 29, Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 1008, making phon ...
By Gibran Khalil SACRAMENTO, CA – On Thursday Sept. 29, Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 1008, making phone calls from California prisons free. Under this legislation, incarcerated people and the peopl ...
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California Firearm Groups Aim to Challenge Bill Modeled After Texas Anti-Abortion Law
California Firearm Groups Aim to Challenge Bill Modeled After Texas Anti-Abortion Law
BY HUEY COLLETTE CALIFORNIA - California firearm advocates seek to challenge Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Senate B ...
BY HUEY COLLETTE CALIFORNIA - California firearm advocates seek to challenge Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Senate Bill 1327. The CA law attempts to rebuke Texas’ anti-abortion litigation, allowing citizens to s ...
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Authorities Link Stockton Serial Killer to the Bay Area through a 2021 Oakland Homicide
Authorities Link Stockton Serial Killer to the Bay Area through a 2021 Oakland Homicide
By Rick Cruz Oakland--Authorities have linked a slew of killings in Stockton, CA to a homicide in the Bay ...
By Rick Cruz Oakland--Authorities have linked a slew of killings in Stockton, CA to a homicide in the Bay Area. The Oakland Police Department recently announced that a 2021 shooting in East Oakland ma ...
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‘Lunar New Year Now a California Holiday’: Berkeley Students on Newsom’s New Bill
‘Lunar New Year Now a California Holiday’: Berkeley Students on Newsom’s New Bill
By Karen Ha Gov. Newsom recently signed AB 2596, which officially enshrines Lunar New Year–histori ...
By Karen Ha Gov. Newsom recently signed AB 2596, which officially enshrines Lunar New Year–historically celebrated by many Asian American students–as a holiday into California law. While the ma ...
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Alameda County Sheriff’s Office (ACSO) Strips 47 Deputies of Guns and Arrest Powers after Failed Psychological Exams
Alameda County Sheriff’s Office (ACSO) Strips 47 Deputies of Guns and Arrest Powers after Failed Psychological Exams
By Patty Yao Image by Michael Macor Dublin, CA - On Sept. 23, 2022, Alameda County Sheriff Greg Ahern sen ...
By Patty Yao Image by Michael Macor Dublin, CA - On Sept. 23, 2022, Alameda County Sheriff Greg Ahern sent a letter to 47 Sheriff’s deputies notifying them that they are not allowed to perform “any fu ...
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With ASUC** voting in full swing, ASUC** non-partisan offices plan to host carnival to incentivize voting
With ASUC** voting in full swing, ASUC** non-partisan offices plan to host carnival to incentivize voting
By Elizabeth Nguyen BERKELEY, CA – In recent years, voter turnout for Associated Students of the Universi ...
By Elizabeth Nguyen BERKELEY, CA – In recent years, voter turnout for Associated Students of the University of California (ASUC)** elections has been historically low. However, the current office of U ...
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Anjali Jogia-Sattar, Endorsed by the South Asian Community, Runs for ASUC* Senate
Anjali Jogia-Sattar, Endorsed by the South Asian Community, Runs for ASUC* Senate
By Ineka Damen Berkeley- UC Berkeley sophomore Anjali Jogia-Sattar is running for Associated Stud ...
By Ineka Damen Berkeley- UC Berkeley sophomore Anjali Jogia-Sattar is running for Associated Students of the University of California (ASUC)* Senate on platforms that improve South Asian repre ...
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Proposal to Unname UC Berkeley’s Moses Hall on Grounds of Namesake’s White Supremacist Views
Proposal to Unname UC Berkeley’s Moses Hall on Grounds of Namesake’s White Supremacist Views
By Kimberly Bajarias BERKELEY, CA -- In May 2021, faculty and graduate students of the UC Berkeley Depart ...
By Kimberly Bajarias BERKELEY, CA -- In May 2021, faculty and graduate students of the UC Berkeley Department of Philosophy submitted a proposal to unname Moses Hall, citing concerns for building name ...
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Commentary: Berkeley Leaders Stand Up for Students and the Future
Commentary: Berkeley Leaders Stand Up for Students and the Future
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Berkeley, CA – While the battle is between UC Berkeley and a neigh ...
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Berkeley, CA – While the battle is between UC Berkeley and a neighborhood group, it is refreshing to see in an op-ed yesterday in the LA Times, the Berkeley mayo ...
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