A view of the Campanile on UC Berkeley from Cal Memorial Stadium. Credit: Ximena Natera, Berkeleyside/CatchLight
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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)
Will Hammond Jr. and Mike Roberts — the East Bay musical duo who crooned about how heat pumps have a “lot of love to give” — have released a new music video produced by Berkeley High students and filmed in multiple Berkeley locales, including the Rose Garden. (YouTube)
A group of UC Berkeley students have been editing Wikipedia in an effort to preserve queer history in the Trump era. (Them)
A UC Berkeley student’s first-person account of why they helped put up a cardboard mosquito sculpture in protest of the Turning Point USA event last year. (Daily Cal)
Ordinary people share their private stories at Berkeley’s “TILT” theater production. (East Bay Times)
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