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Students at UC Berkeley set up handwritten signs and played a variety of games during a phone-free party on campus on Friday, April 24. Credit: Eliza Peppel/KQED On a sunny Friday afternoon at Memorial Glade, the center of UC Berkeley’s campus, students set up volleyball nets, cornhole, picnic blankets and a makeshift plywood stage for live music. Their goal? To throw a phone-free party. Music blasted from a speaker near a snack table. Colorful, handwritten signs read messages like “Favorite app?

News Home / Education Apr 25, 2026 Save Article Failed to save article Please try again Email Students at UC Berkeley set up handwritten signs and played a variety of games during a phone-free party on campus on Friday, April 24, 2026. (Eliza Peppel/KQED) On a sunny Friday afternoon at Memorial Glade, the center of UC Berkeley’s campus, students set up volleyball nets, cornhole, picnic blankets and a makeshift plywood stage for live music. Their goal? To throw a phone-free party.

News Home / Labor Apr 23, 2026 Save Article Failed to save article Please try again Email Alameda County Public Defenders, wearing black, stand on the steps of Alameda County Courthouse in downtown Oakland on April 23, 2026. As friction between public defenders and the courts increases throughout the Bay Area, attorneys called attention to staffing and funding issues.