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February 22, 2019
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February 21, 2019
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December 3, 2018
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October 26, 2018

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March 21, 2018
UC Berkeley sophomore Manu Meel (middle right) speaks during a forum on Free Speech at the BAMPFA. The other panelists included, from left: Ira Glasser, the former head of the ACLU; Charlene Stern, director of "Near Normal Man;" Ben Stern, an activist, educator and Holocaust survivor; moderator Edward Wasserman, dean of Berkeley's journalism school; Meel; Luis Tenorio, a sociology Ph.D candidate and director of Queer and Trans Advocacy Project at UC Berkeley; and Simone Dill, a senior film and media studies major and president of the Cal Black Student Union. (UC Berkeley photo by Jeremy Snowden)

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January 29, 2018
Under the revised Major Events policy, event organizers who want to invite guests who could draw large crowds — like Senator Bernie Sanders, who visited UC Berkeley in June 2016 — will need to give campus six weeks notice instead of eight. (UC Berkeley photo by Brittany Hosea-Small)

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January 18, 2018
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December 13, 2017
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November 21, 2017
Mark Bray, an adjunct professor of history at Dartmouth College and author of Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook, speaks at UC Berkeley on Monday, Nov. 13. (UC Berkeley photo by Thomas Texeira)

Campus speaker: Who is Antifa, anyway?

November 14, 2017
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November 9, 2017
Arthur Brooks, president of the American Enterprise Institute, gives a talk about how the competition of ideas can reunite the country. (UC Berkeley photo by Hulda Nelson)

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November 2, 2017

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October 12, 2017
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October 5, 2017
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October 4, 2017
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October 2, 2017

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