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The No. 1 California Golden Bears repeated as Intercollegiate Rowing Association (IRA) national champions, as the varsity eight won its grand final at Mercer Lake in June. The title marks the 19th for the program (tied for second most in the country), second for Cal head coach Scott Frandsen (2022, '23), and is the 103rd all-time national championship for Cal Athletics.

Are you moving to UC Berkeley soon and thinking about what you need to bring? If so, this article is for you. While Berkeley Housing provides a standard move-in checklist that should inform your packing, this article contains an in-depth supplemental list tailored for students, by students.

Welcome, incoming Cal students!

You’re new to Berkeley, you’re busy people, but at some point you may find yourself looking for a good book to read (or documentary to watch) – one that isn’t an assignment for a class. When you are, we’d like to invite you to peruse this year’s edition of the Summer Reading List for New Students, a list of great reads suggested just for you by your fellow Cal students, faculty, and staff.

Cal Parents & Families Facebook Live with new UCPD Chief Yogananda Pittman and as well as other representatives from campus administration. If you would like to ask a question to Chief Pittman or our administration, please send your questions to calparents@berkeley.edu or simply write them in the comments on the post.

In Berkeley Talks episode 174, three leading legal scholars — john a. powell, director of UC Berkeley’s Othering & Belonging Institute (OBI); Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of Berkeley Law; and Sheryll Cashin, professor of law at Georgetown Law School — discuss the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that public and private universities cannot use race as a factor in admitting students. The court, with its conservative justices in the majority, ruled that such affirmative action violates the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, reversing decades of legal precedent.