SF News UC Berkeley Protest Update The Daily Cal reports that somewhere around 60 protesters have locked themselves inside Wheeler Hall. And...they're still there! (What happened to the crowbar, cops?) Wheeler Hall, obviously, is closed for
SF News Protesters Take Over 2nd Floor of UC Berkeley's Wheeler Hall Early this morning, "dozens of student protesters" occupied UC Berkeley's Wheeler Hall. . "UCPD officers have surrounded the building, and some are inside," reports the Daily Cal. As
SF News Students, Workers Strike Against the Economy Affecting UC Bubble Your Kaja Silvermans and Teresa De Laurentises aren't going to save you now, UC ilk. The economy knows no bounds, it knows no AP scores, it known no misguided acceptance of
SF News Woman's Body Found in Berkeley Aquatic Park A woman's body was found in the parking lot along Berkeley's bayside Aquatic Park this morning. And we quote, via SF Gate: "The area is known for drug
SF News UC Berkeley Prof Receives Economics Nobel Prize Oliver Williamson, a professor at UC Berkeley, won the Nobel economics prize on today. Along with Elinor Ostrom, Williamson nabbed the award "for their analyses of economic governance - the way authority is
SF News Cal Apologizes for Football Game Ah, yes, this is what we like: people apologizing for football games. So scary and confusing and lacking climactic eleventh-hour numbers, they are. What are we talking about? Well, actually, it seems
SF News Thousands of Protesters, <i>Ellen</i> Producers, Descend on UC Berkeley Campus Yesterday While an estimated 5,000 students and faculty packed Sproul Plaza at U.C. Berkeley yesterday to protest a whopping 32-percent fee hike in the next year, thousands of different students were
SF News Ahmadinejad Mentions Allah, Nuclear Weapons; Fails to Mention Detained UC Berkeley Grads At U.N. He says it was "a long-shot," but Berkeley professor Ken Light was hoping Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad would take a moment out from invoking Allah and predicting the downfall of
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SF News Cal Ranks No. 1 When It Comes to Public Schoolin' For the 75892432th year in a row, UC Berkeley was named the number-one university when it comes to undergraduate education at a public university. At least according to U.S. News &
SF News Hackers Break Into Berkeley Journalism School's Server While j-schoolers at Cal are busy bemoaning the state of the Journalism and perfecting that well-worn journalist look (hint: spiral notepad, unkempt hair, elbow patches, lots of chin scratching), a hacker
SF News Detained Hikers In Iran Have Bay Area Ties Three hikers (Shane Bauer, Sarah Shourd and Joshua Fattal) were captured by Iranian authorities last week, "after they strayed across the border while hiking in Northern Iraq in a tourist area."
SF News Berkeley Daily Planet: "We Are SO Not Mean to the Homeless" You may recall this study that was released a couple weeks back by the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty in which San Francisco was named the 7th meanest city to the
SF News Two Sexual Assaults at Two Berkeley Homes A woman and a teenage girl were sexually assaulted in two separate incidents inside two Berkeley homes on Thursday morning. First, reported around 2:30 a.m. on the 2100 block of Cedar
SF News Two Children Shot Inside Berkeley Home A few days after a Vallejo toddler was shot while sleeping in her parents' bed, Berkeley played host to another kids-meet-gunfire incident. Two children aged 3 and 6 were shot
SF News Pedestrian Hit, Killed By Amtrak Train In Berkeley Following on the heels of this week's Caltrain suicides, "a pedestrian was struck and killed by an Amtrak train in Berkeley Thursday morning, the third person to be struck by
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Berkeley Bowl West Opening June 4th, Despite Neighbors' Protest For anyone who's ever shopped there -- be it noon on a Tuesday or 6 p.m. on payday -- Berkeley Bowl has pretty much always been a shitshow. Bulk granola-buying hippies
SF News Baby Shaking Death Brings Berkeley 2009 Homicide Tally to 4 Lamar Franklin, 21, was charged with the shaking death of his infant son last week. According to reports, Berkeley police responded to a call around 4:40 p.m. on Friday regarding '
SF News SFist Blotter BERKELEY-OAKLAND/SATURDAY: Three people died after a murder and car chase through the East Bay Saturday night. "It all started at 6:35 p.m. when Berkeley Police responded to reports
SF News Did You Feel It? A magnitude 3.0 earthquake, according to CBS 5, "has struck near Berkeley at 3:34. There are no immediate reports of damage or injuries." Tell us, readers, where were you
SF News Dalai Lama to Cause Traffic Nightmare On Saturday, the arrival of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, along with an Earth Day festival and "special farmer's market celebrating the elimination of plastic bags" (chortle), means that
SF News TMZ's Harvey Levin Speaks at Cal's School of Journalism Inexplicably managing not to spray the room with gunfire or hurl himself out of the nearest open window, TMZ's Harvey Levin spoke to students enrolled at the "elite" Graduate
