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Various demonstrations occurred Wednesday in response to recent grand jury decisions regarding police brutality and the deaths of unarmed black men. The demonstrations marked the fifth consecutive day of protest in Berkeley.

Students returning to campus after the Thanksgiving break reinvigorated plans to demonstrate against the UC tuition increase Monday night at an assembly held by those who had been occupying Wheeler Hall up until the break.

A new species of mushroom was discovered on UC Berkeley grounds by two campus researchers.

On Tuesday a California police union filed a lawsuit against the University of California regents and others, alleging the UC Irvine Police Department illegally collected communications of UC employees, police officers and the public.

About 50 students, faculty and community members gathered Wednesday on Sproul Plaza to help inform the campus on the disappearance of student-teachers in Mexico.

A coalition of campus groups will rally at Sather Gate Tuesday to demonstrate against the University of California’s plan to increase tuition over the next five years--along with other protesting groups across the UC system.

Campus scientists and a cosmology team based at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory were recognized this week with the 2015 Breakthrough prize for their advances in the fields of life science and physics.

BART is opening a new line connecting the Coliseum Station to the Oakland International Airport on Nov. 22. The driverless train system will replace the current AirBart shuttle and will run every five minutes between the hours of 8 a.m. and 8 p.m.

“Occupy the Farm,” a documentary chronicling the urban agricultural activist movement of the same name, premieres in Berkeley Friday.