Aleah Jennings-Newhouse

A new set of proposed policies that aim to shift the city’s response to homeless encampments were presented at the Thursday morning meeting of the Ad Hoc Committee on Homelessness.

Aaron Parsons, a campus associate professor of astronomy, wrote an open letter to President Donald Trump soon after Trump’s inauguration to convey the widespread consensus among scientists that anthropogenic climate change is real.

UCPD arrested an assailant on suspicion of battery, resisting arrest and violation of parole Friday afternoon.

Two days after the demonstration that led to the cancellation of Milo Yiannopoulos’ campus appearance Feb. 1, campus chancellor’s professor of public policy Robert Reich published a controversial theory on his blog about why the protests turned violent.

Harley Shaiken, chair of the campus Center for Latin American Studies, researches labor rights and trade and is an advisor to leading members of the United States Congress on these topics.

Roberts, who had post-polio quadriplegia, decided to attend UC Berkeley in 1962 despite the fact that the campus had no accommodations for people with severe disabilities. His advocacy opened the school to more students with disabilities and created the Physically Disabled Student’s Program and then the Center for Independent Living.

Telecommunications service providers recommended that California Public Utilities Commission, or CPUC, use the overlay method, meaning it will add a new area code in the region, in addition to the 510 area code. The plan, pending CPUC approval, would add a new area code by December 2017, according to CPUC’s website.

On Jan. 20, Congresswoman Barbara Lee, D-Oakland, will join about 50 House Democrats in boycotting the inauguration of Donald Trump.

Two new scholarships at Sienna Ranch and the Bay Area Center for Waldorf-Teacher Training will be available as of next school year. They are both named in Emilie Inman’s memory and carry on her legacy of environmental education.

Members of the Berkeley College Republicans and other campus students were the victims of a cyber attack Friday, which exposed their private information in a public post online.