Maya Eliahou

Want to spice up your mealtime routine this year and get to know Berkeley at the same time? Try packing a picnic. To help you get started, we compiled a list of picturesque picnicking places around town.

When Café 3 opened its doors last week, Cal Dining unveiled a new menu and food station designed to accommodate Kosher, halal and vegetarian diets. Through food, the campus and Cal Dining hope to satisfy the campus’s hunger for inclusivity and sustainability.

About 30 Berkeley residents, many of whom were students, were displaced last week following a building fire in the Hillside Village complex on Shattuck Avenue and Delaware Street.

Roughly 30 individuals joined hands on the steps of Sproul Hall on Friday afternoon to commemorate the 101st anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.

On April 6, UC Berkeley senior Khairuldeen Makhzoomi was supposed to fly from Los Angeles to Oakland, get to campus and go to class. Instead, Makhzoomi was removed from Southwest Airlines flight 4260, detained by security officers, questioned by the FBI and refused service from Southwest after speaking Arabic before his flight took off.

Realizing that writing was my mother’s soft spot, I turned my little persuasive essays into a tradition. I wrote about why she should take me to see “Shrek 2” in theaters, why we should have breakfast for dinner and why my sister and I should not be forced to visit obscure family friends. And it worked — on the condition that I sat down and watched my mother edit the papers each time.

Crowds gathered around Sather Gate on Tuesday afternoon to watch a mock checkpoint demonstration presented by Students for Justice in Palestine, or SJP, which aimed to illustrate Israeli-Palestinian border relations.

The School of Public Health is suspending the spring admissions cycle this year for undergraduate students interested in the public health major, according to a letter posted on the school’s website Monday.

A UC labor union is calling for a speaker’s boycott at UC Berkeley for the duration of the spring semester, urging the campus to improve its treatment of subcontracted workers.

A group of student activists took to the Sproul Hall steps Wednesday morning to circulate information regarding a report on how increasing textbook prices affect college students nationwide.