Michelle Nacouzi

Various members of the Cal community reflect on their time at UC Berkeley and talk about the experiences that made their time at Cal most memorable.

Many of Cloyne Court’s members shifted their focus over the weekend from fighting to keep their house to savoring their final months together.

Cloyne Court will become a substance-free academic theme house and all but one of the house’s current and former members will be prohibited from living in the residence in the fall, following a vote early Friday morning.

The Berkeley Student Cooperative’s Board of Directors will vote this Thursday on the future one of the largest cooperative houses in the country, Cloyne Court, after a month of heated debate, high emotions and late-night conversations among many co-op members.

This is an outcome that nobody wanted. But to limit its liability and ensure that it can continue providing affordable housing to students, the BSC must let Cloyne go.

Almost two weeks after a divisive proposal from the Berkeley Student Cooperative’s executive cabinet sent the membership of its largest house into unrest, the co-op’s Board of Directors is preparing to hear three potential plans for the house’s future at its meeting Thursday.

Cloyne Court may be designated as a substance-free academic theme house following a proposed plan last week by the Berkeley Student Cooperative executive cabinet.

While UC Berkeley students have been among the most outspoken advocates for the creation of a new student majority district, it was community members who stepped up to foot the bill of a campaign seeking to overturn the recently-approved controversial district lines.

After two years of planning, some students are raising concern over the ASUC sponsored Berkeley redistricting map because the proposed student district excludes Northside residences, including 9 Berkeley student housing cooperatives and three dormitories.

When runner Michelle Nacouzi heard the first explosion, she thought it was the sound of celebratory cannon fire. It wasn’t until she saw the plume of smoke and the panicked crowd that she realized something was amiss.