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Jeff Bleich, former California State University, or CSU, trustee chair and UC Berkeley School of Law graduate, is running for lieutenant governor of California in the upcoming 2018 election.

UC Berkeley students and alumni created a petition to remove Nezar AlSayyad after the architecture professor allegedly sexually harassed a former student.

When faceless hedge funds take over local newspapers and impose drastic staffing cuts, employed reporters aren’t the only ones who suffer — the community does too. Without more active financial support for local publications, residents will be forced to see the quality of their news coverage decrease significantly.

Campus doctoral candidate in interdisciplinary studies Eva Hagberg Fisher has agreed not to sue the University of California for alleged indifference after her sexual harassment complaint against UC Berkeley professor Nezar AlSayyad in exchange for an $80,000 settlement, as first reported by the San Francisco Chronicle.

Mayor Jesse Arreguín urged the campus to cancel plans to host Milo Yiannopoulos during a student group's upcoming "Free Speech Week," as reported by the San Francisco Chronicle.

The total number of thefts involving electronic devices at BART stations has decreased over the last few months, likely as a result of BART Police Department’s efforts to crack down on crime, said BART spokesperson Chris Filippi.

Former City Councilmember, longtime Berkeley resident and community leader Betty Olds died on July 16. Olds was 96.

Here’s what you missed in the news since summer began.

Since 2012, the University of California Office of the President has reimbursed the regents more than $225,000 for private dinner parties, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

It began when students who held a rally commemorating the 30th anniversary of the creation of UC Berkeley’s ethnic studies programs moved in mass to Barrows and locked its front doors with chains.