Jake Soiffer

The University of California has sold off direct holdings in coal and tar sands-focused oil companies worth nearly $200 million, a decision fueled by environmental and economic pressures.

Fossil Free Cal, an environmental advocacy group on campus, staged an overnight campout in an effort to convince Chancellor Nicholas Dirks to publicly support their demand for the University of California to divest from fossil fuel companies.

UC President Janet Napolitano spoke Monday at a conference on the university’s five-year commitment to allocate $1 billion to climate change solutions.

In the fifth day of an occupation that began Wednesday evening to protest tuition increases, occupiers started to bump up against shrinking numbers and the looming presence of Thanksgiving break, posing new problems and new opportunities for a largely leaderless movement.

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.

Construction on Jacobs Hall, a new Northside building that will house an engineering design institute, began Monday amid lingering concern from some students who feel that their voices haven’t been heard in the campus’s decision-making process.

The day after the four year anniversary of the catastrophic BP oil spill, about 20 students, clad entirely in black, circled and sprawled around a miniature wooden oil rig covered with protest signs.

Four UC Berkeley students were arrested Monday morning in San Francisco on suspicion of trespassing during a protest against the highly-disputed proposal to construct the Keystone XL Pipeline.