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Stanford, Cal Football Players Threaten to Boycott College Football Season Over COVID-19 Concerns

“Hundreds” of players from across the Pac-12 say they will not take the field unless college football cleans up its safety protocols and gives them health insurance.

Arts & Entertainment

Video: Cal Grad Makes Total Fool Of Himself On 'The Bachelorette'

The internet is laughing loudly at 30-year-old Lucas Yancey. The Cal grad and Woodside resident is one of the contestant bachelors on the latest edition of The Bachelorette, and if the above video

Three Berkeley Students Attending Conference Injured In Nice Attack, One Missing

Following yesterday's devastating mass killings in Nice, France, UC Berkeley reports that several students were injured and one is missing in the attack. That act of violence, carried out with a truck during

Up To 5,000 People Riot Near UC Berkeley Campus Overnight

Thousands of partiers and college students took to the streets in Berkeley near the Cal campus on Saturday night and early Sunday morning as Halloween revelry devolved into a massive riot. Hundreds gathered

Child Actor Works The System To Enter UC Berkeley As A 15-Year-Old Junior

There's a story in today's Chronicle about a 15-year-old "hacking" his way into UC Berkeley after dropping out of middle school, doing home-schooling, and taking classes at community colleges. He starts Cal as

UC Berkeley's Football Field Now Brought To You By Kabam

The University of California, Berkeley has announced that the naming rights for the field at Memorial Stadium will go to Kabam, a maker of free video games headquartered in San Francisco. For $18

UC Berkeley Campus Evacuated After Explosion [Updated]

UC Berkeley is being evacuated after an underground fire. pic.twitter.com/XDeuSiI52K— Joe Vazquez (@joenewsman) October 1, 2013 A power outage at UC Berkeley prefaced a major explosion on Monday night, resulting

Arts & Entertainment

Video: Cal Women's Basketball Team Covers Drake's 'Started from the Bottom'

The wildly successful Cal Lady Bears covered potential vagina murderer Drake's "Started from the Bottom." And what the team lacks in vocal skills, they more than make up for in spirit and pluck.

UC Berkeley Librarian To Daily Cal Sex Columnist: 'Please Don't F*ck In The Library'

In this Internet age, when everyone who isn't looking to get off is just searching for a reason to be pissed off, current Daily Californian sex columnist Nadia Cho has ruffled a few

UC Berkeley Fraternity's Halloween Decor Deemed Not Cool

A UC Berkeley fraternity is under fire for misguided haunted house decor left literally hanging outside their frat house on Halloween. Theta Delta Chi thought it would be a good idea to feature

Video: Former Cal QB Throws A World Record... With A Paper Airplane

Former Cal Quarterback Joe Ayoob, who started nine games for the Bears while Nate Longshore was out on an injury back in 2005, can now add "World Record Arm" to his list of

Student Gunman Shot on UC Berkeley Campus Yesterday Has Died

The transfer student who brandished a handgun while in the computer lab at the Haas School of Business at Cal and was subsequently shot by campus police yesterday has died. He's now been

Arts & Entertainment

Johnny Depp Gets Mad Over Boom Mike Question

The Daily Clog posted a brilliant review of a recent appearance by wounded sparrow Johnny Depp at Wheeler Hall. The cloudy actor was in Berkeley for a screening of The Rum Diaries, Depp's

Meanwhile, In Berkeley (via Austin, Texas)...

Cal Berkeley's diving coach Todd Mulzet lands his dive while watched by an unknown spectator after diving off of the 10-meter platform to celebrate his team's 2011 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championship Saturday,

Scenes from Wheeler Hall Protest at UC Berkeley

After 17 protesters were arrested earlier this week over UC budget cuts, among other isues, eight demonstrators occupied a fourth-story ledge at UC Berkeley's Wheeler Hall. Riot police were called in to use

UC Berkeley Sports Teams In Danger

In an effort to save an estimated $4 million dollars, UC Berkeley may have to cut five sports teams, including baseball, lacrosse, men and women’s gymnastics, and rugby. Save Cal Sports has

UC Berkeley Cuts 150 Jobs

Days after Gov. Jerry Brown proposed cutting $500 million from the UC system next year, UC Berkeley plans to prune 150 managers and support staff this year. This comes on top of the

Freed UCB Hostage Shourd's Song About Jailed Hiker Pals

We had no idea that Sarah Shroud, former Iran hostage/UC Berkeley hiker, was so delightfully wacky. Take, for example, the song she just released about her ordeal. It's called "Piece of Time"

Video: Cal vs. Standford Quidditch

Nerd alert: The Cal Quidditch League faced the Stanford Quidditch team on Sunday at the first ever "Big Sweep" match. Quidditch, for those of you not in the know, is a fictional game

Berkeley Student Faces Suspension for Fee-Hike Protests

Laura Zelko, A UC Berkeley student who took part in protesting fee-hikes and campus layoffs last November is now facing a possible one-year suspension in a public disciplinary hearing which took place on

'Mad Men' Taught at UC Berkeley

Mad Men, it's a good show. No, a great show. Quality TV Programming, if you will. It's the kind of show certain viewers turn on their TV to watch, then turn off their

Meanwhile, In Berkeley....

Californ(ia) fans cheer on the Golden Bears during the first half of an NCAA college football game against UC Davis Saturday. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

Cal Hunger Strike Students Free to Eat Quinoa Again

After UCB Chancellor Robert Birgeneau agreed to a meeting with representatives, Cal students called off their 10-day hunger strike last night. The Daily Californian, "The strike, which began May 3 as a demonstration

UC Berkeley Football Coming to AT&T Park In 2011

Oh, brother. While California Memorial Stadium's much-needed retrofit and renovation is underway, Cal's football team will play home games at AT&T Park. That is to say, even more drunken sports fans

Cal Frats Out of Control, Says Breaking Report

We interrupt all other news to tell you that UC Berkeley fraternities are out of control. Whodathunk it? According to Inside Edition the neighborhood just outside the Cal campus "is under siege by