Salgu Wissmath/ Staff Photographer

Cans decorated Lower Sproul Plaza as part of the Cal Can Creations Homecoming Week event on Tuesday September 30, 2008. Participants competed to build the most creative sculptures with the canned and non-perishable food they supplied, which will all be donated to the Alameda Food Bank. Homecoming Week events lead up to the homecoming football game this Saturday.

Anna Hiatt/Staff Photographer

Attendees of the annual “How Berkeley Can You Be?” parade dressed up in costumes and designed floats for the festivities on Sunday. The parade started at 11 a.m. and lasted for about two hours. Costumes ranged from motorized cupcakes to McCain look-alikes.

Chocolatier Blue, a gourmet chocolate shop, recently opened in Berkeley at 1964 University Avenue. The shop’s two employees make about 2,000 chocolates a day from mostly fresh, local, and organic ingredients.

Emma Lantos/Photographer

Anne Marie Schuler/Photographer

Members of the Berkeley City Council held a community meeting Monday night to discuss the recent increase in gun violence in South and West Berkeley.

Skyler Reid/Staff Photographer

Tony Askcar, second year at Cal, studies astrophysics outside Doe Library on Sunday, September 21.

Anna Hiatt/Staff Photographer

Chancellor Birgeneau publicly announced the launch of the Campaign for Berkeley today at the unveiling of a wall of portraits taken last school year. Each portrait has a phrase exlaining why that person is thankful for Berkeley.

Fayzan Gowani/Photographer

Students recline in the grass on this warm Thursday afternoon. In the high noon sun, trees near Valley Life Sciences Building cast long shadows.

Chanel Leaf/Photographer

San Francisco’s Financial District on Tuesday, September 16.

Anne Marie Schuler/Photographer

Jorden “Jordy” LaFontaine-Kussmann (4), goalie for Cal women’s soccer team, heads off Underhill Field after practice. LaFontaine-Kussman recently fought cancer and now returns to the women’s soccer team. The women’s soccer team practices almost every day of the week from 8 a.m. till around noon.

Skyler Reid/Staff Photographer

A different view on AC Transit’s #51 bus.