Mallika Seshadri

Conservative author Ann Coulter spoke Wednesday to a crowd of about 400 in UC Berkeley’s Wheeler Hall, as more than a thousand protested outside.

Coulter’s speech, hosted by the Berkeley College Republicans, or BCR, was titled “Adios, America!” after her 2015 book on U.S. immigration policy. The event comes two years after Coulter previously withdrew from her campus speech because of safety concerns.

Berkeley Police Department, California Highway Patrol and UCPD officers from all UC campuses e

Campus administration announced a collaborative effort with the city of Berkeley and local nonprofits Wednesday to temporarily house People’s Park residents at the Rodeway Inn as well as support them in a transition to permanent housing.

UC Berkeley is also collaborating with the city and the First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley to construct a daytime drop-in center, which will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Friday. The center — which will be located at the church — is subject to city

Most UC lecturers do not want to strike.

Many have also said they will if it means reaching a contract with increased security of employment and a more reasonable workload — improvements members of UC-AFT have been vying for since negotiations began with the UC Office of the President, or UCOP, more than two years ago.

“When they are not being compensated fairly — when they are not feeling that they can do the best, that they can and are at capacity — then they are not providing the high-end e

In one semester, campus junior Jae Won Sim lost about 30 pounds — and not because he wanted to.

Sim first stepped foot on the UC Berkeley campus as a freshman in 2014 and has since suffered from severe financial burdens and food insecurity that have forced him to leave campus, often for semesters at a time.

During his time away from the campus community, Sim constantly questioned whether he would be able to come back to complete his bachelor’s degree.

“Some people have everything covered,” Si

How could I possibly explain in 750 words what our little home on 2483 Hearst Ave. means to me?

The office smells like ink. The couches are worn. It’s littered with pieces of paper — a front page with a typo in the headline from 1949, scribbles staffers sketched on lined paper, hundreds of infamous wall quotes commemorating embarrassing words we uttered.

But each little scrap in this office has its place, and they collectively tell the story of hundreds of student journalists. I’ve come to rea