Philip Cerles

The UC Board of Regents gathered Tuesday afternoon in Sacramento to discuss an ongoing UC-wide housing initiative and a recent state report on UC out-of-state enrollment.

The California State Auditor released a report Tuesday that sharply criticized the University of California’s policy on nonresident enrollment for disadvantaging in-state students.

About 50 students and workers protested in front of the Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union building and California Hall on Wednesday, alleging unfair treatment and unsafe working conditions in UC jobs.

With the university preparing to take in 6,500 additional students next year and UC Berkeley itself expecting 750 new students, the campus is looking at options to house its share.

In anticipation of a substantial enrollment boost of 6,500 undergraduate students in the 2016-17 academic year, UC President Janet Napolitano unveiled a plan at the UC Board of Regents meeting Wednesday morning to add 14,000 beds to UC campuses by 2020.

Prospective out-of-state students might find UC campuses less accessible than most Ivies next year after Thursday’s approval of a new UC budget plan.

The office is a cool 65 degrees year round, unless you feel a little cold or a bit hot, and then a help desk employee fiddles the knobs for your desk’s personal climate. There are snacks on four floors. The 29th floor has the best coffee, the sixth is full of people, the second has catered meals every Wednesday, and I never made it to the 17th.

The UC student-workers union filed an unfair practice charge last month accusing the UC Berkeley Law School of treating a student-worker unfairly when she was enrolled in an alternatively funded professional program.

Adding to a growing literature on the subject, another study has forecasted an increase in extreme weather due to climate change. In particular, the research struck upon a simple new model to predict the frequency of lightning strikes.