Even the Beatles have history with People’s Park
Yoko Ono and John Lennon at their first Bed-In for Peace in Amsterdam. Mark and Colleen Hayward/Redferns In May 1969, John Lennon and Yoko Ono made Berkeley history while lying …
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Berkeley’s People’s Park is already almost unrecognizable
The operation, which began in the early hours, marks the university’s most brazen attempt to move ahead with its plans to build housing for students, unhoused people and low-income people …
Walled out of People’s Park, protesters take to the Berkeley streets – The Mercury News
BERKELEY — With People’s Park successfully walled off by a fortress of double-stacked shipping containers following an overnight hostile takeover, activists lost the base that for years had served as …
Police converge on People’s Park at UC Berkeley in attempt to wall off for construction
BERKELEY — An overnight move by UC Berkeley to wall off historic People’s Park in preparation for a long-term construction project was met with a heated swarm of protesters early …
Students fighting antisemitism use legal tool that tests power at US colleges
David Voreacos and Janet Lorin | (TNS) Bloomberg University of Pennsylvania senior Eyal Yakoby wasn’t going to sit idly by as antisemitism crept across campus this fall. The Israeli American …
Human-sized robot taught itself to walk and balance, then strolled Berkeley’s streets
A team of Berkeley researchers’ newly trained robot walks out of Sather Gate. The group used billions of simulations and reinforcement learning to teach the robot how to move — …
Bay Area man loses Senate job after hearing room sex tape leak
FILE: A view of the hearing room in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill June 8, 2017. Drew Angerer/Getty Images A Senate staffer who grew up in the …
Palo Alto High grad loses Senate staffer job after allegedly filming sex tape in Senate hearing room
CNN — A Senate staffer is out of a job after the publication of a video appearing to show two men having sex in a Senate hearing room. Police are …
Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate these Bay Area universities’ code of conduct?
At a congressional hearing last week on antisemitism at college campuses, the presidents of three leading universities were asked a question: Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate their …
US college campuses have embraced the Palestinian cause like never before. The story began six decades ago
Jenny Jarvie | (TNS) Los Angeles Times The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was best known for its sit-ins against segregation in the Deep South. But in the summer of 1967, …