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BERKELEY - A man who tried to alter his appearance after an alleged attack has been arrested in a Valentine's Day sexual assault of a UC Berkeley student in the laundry area of the apartment building where he lived, authorities said Tuesday. The suspect, Ahmad Lutfi, 34, was arrested on suspicion of assault with intent to commit rape, sexual battery and false imprisonment. He was being held at the Berkeley jail in lieu of $160,000 bail and was scheduled to be arraigned in court Wednesday.

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The UC Berkeley Chancellor's Fund, the college's attempt at venture capital, has raised more than $250,000 from a single investor. Chancellor Rich Lyons has said he wants to blur the edge between the university and the region's startup ecosystem. (SF Business Times) A man in his 60s was taken to Highland Hospital on Saturday night after a driver struck him in a crosswalk at San Pablo and Ashby avenues. (Berkeley Scanner)

Marsha eventually brought her salon to campus and founded the Comparative Literature Women's Caucus, an activist collective that established the first women's literature classes in Comparative Literature, conceived and taught by graduate student women. Caucus members helped produce the first major translation anthologies of women's world-wide poetry, encouraged women to write feminist dissertations on women authors, and researched discrimination against women in the department.

Science@Cal is proud to present a series of free public science lectures on the third Saturday of every month. These talks are given by renowned UC Berkeley scientists and aimed at general audiences. Talks take place on the UC Berkeley campus at 11 am. Doors open thirty minutes before the talk and seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. Each talk is planned to last an hour, plus time for at least a few questions at the end.

A Berkeley man has died more than a month after he suffered a head injury when he crashed his scooter on the Cal campus, authorities said. UC Berkeley Police said the man was found unconscious on Dec. 1 near Moffitt Library in the center of campus, after witnesses said he fell off his scooter at high speed and hit his head. The man was unconscious but breathing at the time, Sgt. Jacob Westlie wrote in an email, and was taken to a hospital.

New international student enrollment grew by 43% at UC Berkeley this school year to 2,363, according to University of California data released Thursday, despite a federal immigration crackdown that has deterred some foreign students from studying in the U.S. Enrollment of undergraduates from California also increased, as the university welcomed 46,151 students, its largest-ever student body, up from 45,882 last year.

OAKLAND A 36-year-old man was charged with week with attacking two UC Berkeley police officers, slicing the hand of one, while the officers attempted to take a 12-inch knife from the suspect, according to court records. Xavier Shirley, of Oakland, was charged with assaulting a police officer a felony as well as possessing a dangerous weapon at school, and a misdemeanor count of battery upon another peace officer.

The thing that carved a path for me was the UC Berkeley music department. The practice rooms were also being used by a program called the Young Musicians Program (YMP) that taught local kids. Since I was in that practice room all the time, I met teachers who were also gigging musicians in the area. I started playing with them and slowly started doing gigs.

The fortunes of the city of Berkeley and the university at the foot of its hills have always been intertwined. Today, UC Berkeley owns more than 400 acres of land in Berkeley and is its largest employer, accounting for nearly one in four jobs. Its students, faculty and alumni 63 Nobel laureates among them have made UC Berkeley into a world-class research institution and bolstered the city's reputation as a bastion of free speech and progressive values.

Soon after opening the shop, which he called The Ink Stone, an architect friend of Smith's was bemoaning the fact that he had to drive to Richmond to pick up blueprints. Again, Smith saw an opportunity, and began printing blueprints at his store, as well as carrying drafting supplies, balsa and basswood for model making, and other architectural supplies.

A giant cardboard mosquito made for the UC Berkeley class Sculpture: Foundations. Four students were arrested when they tried to hang it from Sather Gate on Monday. Credit: Hayes Gaboury/Daily Californian Heads up: We sometimes link to sites that limit access to non-subscribers. UCPD arrested four UC Berkeley students trying to hang a 5-foot-long cardboard mosquito off Sather Gate before the Turning Point event on Monday. As of Thursday, no charges had been filed.

BERKELEY, Calif. (KGO) -- The Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the Justice Department plans to visit UC Berkeley Thursday. Harmeet Dhillon announced an investigation into Monday's protests ahead of a Turning Point USA tour event. Dhillon's visit also comes as comedian Rob Schneider plans to sue the school over its handling of the protests. He was a speaker.

The U.S. Department of Justice announced Tuesday it is investigating how UC Berkeley prepared for a Turning Point USA event Monday night that sparked intense protests on campus. In two letters posted on X and addressed to university officials, the department's Civil Rights Division requested campus communication records related to how the university prepared security for the event and responded to the protests.

She's a familiar face to anybody who's watched The Haunted Bay, a show she created that ran for three seasons on Amazon Prime in 2020. In the series, Liu and her team of paranormal investigators run around the Bay hunting ghosts: They found one (and showed its face on camera) at the Warfield Theater in San Francisco, and have spectrally spelunked at the USS Hornet aircraft carrier in Alameda.

The University of California (UC), Berkeley in the United States has provided information on more than 150 faculty members and students to President Donald Trump's administration, as part of a federal investigation into alleged incidents of anti-Semitism on college campuses nationwide. UC Berkeley said on Friday the names of the 160 students, faculty and staff were sent to the US Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights, and affected members of the campus were notified by the institution last week.