Topic - University Of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley (also referred to as Cal, California, Berkeley, Cal-Berkeley, and UC Berkeley), is a public research university located in Berkeley, California, United States. The oldest of the ten major campuses affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley offers some 300 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in a wide range of disciplines. The university occupies in the San Francisco Bay Area.The University was founded in 1868 in a merger of the private College of California and the public Agricultural, Mining, and Mechanical Arts College. Berkeley was a founding member of the Association of American Universities. - Source: Wikipedia

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Students walk through Sproul Plaza on the University of California, Berkeley, campus on March 29, 2022, in Berkeley, Calif. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

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Students walk past Sather Gate on the University of California, Berkeley campus in Berkeley, Calif., April 21, 2017. The University of California Board of Regents voted Thursday, July 18, 2024, to ban employees from posting political statements on the homepages of university websites, saying such comments could be interpreted as the university system's official view. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)

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A sign marks 53 years of resistance at People's Park in Berkeley, Calif., on Aug. 16, 2022. Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday, Sept. 7, 2023, signed a law to alter the state environmental law to say that developers do not need to consider noise from future residents as a form of environmental pollution, clearing the way for the construction of a controversial student housing project at the historic park. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

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In a photo provided by Roxanne Cruz-de Hoyos, Gabriel Trujillo conducts field research for his doctorate in Arizona. His research across North America was tragically cut short last week in Mexico, where Trujillo’s father says he was shot seven times. Authorities discovered his body on June 22 in the state of Sonora, in northwest Mexico — days after his fiancée reported him missing. (Roxanne Cruz-de Hoyos via AP)

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Protesters attempt to push down a gate surrounding People's Park in Berkeley, Calif. on Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2022. Protesters gathered to decry the clearing out of the park in preparation for the development of student housing. (Brontë Wittpenn/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)

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Police officers guard attendees leaving a speech by conservative commentator Ann Coulter on Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2019, in Berkeley, Calif. Hundreds of demonstrators gathered on campus as Coulter delivered a talk titled &quot;Adios, America!&quot; (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

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University of California, Berkeley student Magaly Mercado holds a protest sign as attendees leave a speech by conservative commentator Ann Coulter on Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2019, in Berkeley, Calif. Hundreds of demonstrators gathered on campus as Coulter delivered a talk titled &quot;Adios, America!&quot; (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

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FILE - In this Feb. 1, 2017 file photo, University of California, Berkeley police officers guard the building where Breitbart News editor Milo Yiannopoulos was to speak in Berkeley, Calif. In a cost breakdown released Sunday, Feb. 4, 2018, the university said it spent almost $4 million on security during a one-month spate of free speech events last year, when the famously liberal campus became a flashpoint for country's political divisions. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)

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Pro-First Amendment supporters rally at UC Berkeley's Sproul Plaza before right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos made a brief appearance on campus in Berkeley, Calif., Sunday, Sept. 24, 2017. Yiannopoulos was whisked away in a car after a brief appearance at the University of California, Berkeley that drew a few dozen supporters and a slightly larger crowd protesting the Yiannopoulos. (AP Photo/Daisy Nguyen) ** FILE **

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A group has put up flyers and a booth on Sproul Plaza calling for protesters to "Shut Down Milo Yiannopoulos" at the University of California, Berkeley campus in Berkeley, Calif. (AP Photo/Jocelyn Gecker) ** FILE **

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A group has put up flyers and a booth on Sproul Plaza calling for protesters to "Shut Down Milo Yiannopoulos" at the University of California, Berkeley campus in Berkeley, Calif. (AP Photo/Jocelyn Gecker) ** FILE **

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