From the Daily Californian: “Chancellor Robert Birgeneau kicked off the public phase of UC Berkeley's largest fundraising campaign to date on Friday-an attempt to raise $3 billion…the public phase of the campaign will run for nearly five years until June 30, 2013, by which time the campus hopes to reach its target. ‘We're going to meet that fundraising goal,’ Birgeneau said. ‘I'm not even considering that we're not going to.’ The campus already raised more than $1.25 billion during the private phase of the campaign, which began a little more than three years ago.”