UC Berkeley plans to become bigger, greener and more pedestrian friendly
The university’s new long-range plan includes building 12,000 housing units for a projected larger population.
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Zip code map reveals that most of the city’s COVID-19 cases are near Cal or in West Berkeley
Cases are also higher in areas with lower socioeconomic advantages, which has been seen throughout Alameda County.
Dorothea Lange’s legacy lives on through a fellowship at UC Berkeley
On Feb. 22 the Cal J-School presents, “Photographer Dorothea Lange and the Berkeley Connection: 40 Years of Lange Fellowship Winners.”
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Outdoor exercise ban lifted for Cal students amid strict self-quarantine
There have been over 200 COVID-19 cases in the last week alone.
Part 2: Your favorite places, inspired by Berkeley Rep’s Place/Settings
They include the once bustling scene on Telegraph Avenue, a sign in a pool hall, Totland, Berkeley Iceland, Lake Anza and, of course, the Codornices slide.
‘Discredit, disrupt and destroy’: UC Berkeley Library acquires FBI records of surveillance of Black leaders
FBI records show how the federal agency tried to undermine the Black Panthers, Malcom X and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Cal reports 184 COVID-19 cases in 1 week, tells students to quarantine
The number represents 25% of COVID-19 cases at the campus since its first reported case in April 2020.
Your favorite places, inspired by Berkeley Rep’s Place/Settings
They include the now-closed pier, the UC Berkeley eucalyptus grove and the tunnel between Codornices Park and the Rose Garden.
Protesters tear down fences at Berkeley rally to save People’s Park
With echoes of People’s Park’s legacy of resistance, protesters reacted Friday to UC Berkeley taking the first steps towards developing the land for student housing.
UC Berkeley’s Kroeber Hall is fourth building in 1 year to be stripped of its name
Alfred Louis Kroeber, the founder of the study of anthropology in the American West, is a powerful symbol that continues to evoke exclusion and erasure for Native Americans.
UC Berkeley tells tenants of 112-year-old rent-controlled building they must leave
Cal said it will offer $54,000 or more to the occupants of 1921 Walnut St. to leave so it can build a 760-bed student housing project there.
UC Berkeley to start drilling for soil samples in People’s Park, the next step in building housing there
Cal plans to construct housing for 1,200 students on one of Berkeley’s most historic sites.
