Zoe Kleinfeld

Damon Frick, a custodial worker at Berkeley’s International House, died as a result of critical injuries sustained in an occupational accident early Monday morning, the campus said Wednesday.

UC Berkeley senior David Ramirez Douglass is running for ASUC President with the Defend Affirmative Action Party on platforms of removing UC President Janet Napolitano from office, restoring affirmative action policies and making public education accessible to all, among others.

Peter Taylor, the UC system’s chief financial officer, will resign from his post to become president of a Los Angeles-based private foundation, UC President Janet Napolitano announced Tuesday.

UC Berkeley professor Harvey Blanch explained the intricate and increasingly valuable world of biotechnology to students, faculty and other community members at a lecture held Thursday at International House.

California voters will not decide in the 2014 election whether race, gender, and ethnicity ought to be considered in college admissions, after lawmakers postponed deliberation on a bill that intends to amend the state constitution.

On Wednesday, the ASUC Senate unanimously voiced its support of Students for Change, an organization that is rallying for Obama to speak at the ceremony.

After working for almost three decades with the Berkeley Fire Department, Nunes died in an off-duty accident Feb. 23 when the tractor he was operating on his family’s property overturned and rolled down a precipitous hill. He was 54.

The Alameda County Board of Supervisors delayed the consideration of a one-year pilot program that would permit court-ordered outpatient treatment for individuals with serious mental illness at their Feb. 25 meeting.

The ASUC senate unanimously voted Wednesday night to fund a scholarship in honor of Maliq Nixon, a UC Berkeley sophomore who passed away last semester.