SF News UC Berkeley Third Most Dangerous College In America Once famous as a hotbed of dangerous political thought and fashion statements, now UC Berkeley is just plain dangerous, or so says Business Insider. The news site ranked colleges in the U.S.
SF News USF School Dean Tired of Dealing With Non-English-Speaking Chinese Students Dayle Smith, an associate dean at USF's undergraduate School of Management, has resigned citing his disagreement with the school's aggressive recruitment of Chinese nationals with poor English language skills. Smith believed that the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Flour + Water To Hold Super, Super Fancy Pasta Making Classes Executive Chef Thomas McNaughton attributes much of his acclaim and award-winning prowess to the opportunities he had while in Bologna, Italy under the tutelage of the Tori family. And with that, Francesca Tori
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Learn How To Cultivate Gourmet, Medicinal Mushrooms This Sunday Want to grow mushrooms to get sparkly high? Then go someplace else, Timothy Leary. This class isn't for you. Those of you who want to know more about real mushroom cultivation, listen up:
SF News Forbes Top Colleges 2012: Stanford Wins Bronze, Princeton Takes Gold Forbes annual list of Best Institutes for Higher Learning and Contact Making came out today. The coveted list, compiled by Forbes and Washington, D.C.'s Center for College Affordability and Productivity, focuses
SF News Mitt Romney Campaign Misspells 'America' On New iPhone App Noted bully and GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney and his campaign misspelled the oft-used word "America" on their new With Mitt iPhone app. The new app, which "allows users to take photographs and
Arts & Entertainment Confessions Of A San Francisco Parent: How Many Bake Sales Does It Take To Run S.F. Public Schools? By D. Hanousek Whether it's raffle tickets, silent auction items, gala tickets, or school carnivals, it seems that the San Francisco public school system runs on practically nothing but the blood, sweat, and
SF News Rick Santorum Claims California Universities Are Ruining America Today at a campaign event in Wisconsin, Republican presidential hopeful and jellybean fan Rick Santorum attempted to demonize California for eroding the values of Heartland, America. Santorum, who also believes that Obama was
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 3/26: Jane Lynch TALK: Well isn't this a delightful surprise — Jane Lynch will be at the Jewish Community Center tonight speaking in conversation with San Francisco Chronicle’s David Wiegand about all things Glee. Lynch is
Arts & Entertainment Thursday: Meet The Students & Inventions Behind 2012 Open Minds Drawing from colleges and universities across the country and throughout California, some of the brightest kids lucky enough to be part of the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) will bring a
SF News City College Perv Videos, Then Assaults Man In Locker Room An apparent amateur porn stylist turned into an assault suspect in the men's locker room at CCSF last weekend. Police are looking for a guy who was allegedly attempting to take video of
SF News Stomach Flu Outbreak Prompts S.F. Private School Closure Noted private school St. Ignatius College Preparatory canceled classes for the day after an outbreak of the stomach flu struck an estimated 50 students. Ugh. According to SF Examiner, "the campus will be
SF News UC Considers Students' 'Delayed Tuition' Proposal Fix UC, a group of students at UC Riverside, have come up with a rather impressive proposal that would delay students' tuition until after they graduate, which they say could triple UC's revenue
SF News Gov. Brown Wants to Cut $1 Billion From California Welfare On Thursday, Monsieur Moonbeam prosed slashing a jarring "$1.4 billion in welfare and child care aid for the destitute "while holding voters liable for $5 billion in education funding with a November
SF News UC Davis English Department Calls For Chancellor Katehi's Resignation On the heels of Saturday's brutal pepper spraying of peaceful Occupy student protesters at the at UC Davis campus, the Board of the Davis Faculty Association called for the immediate resignation of UCS
SF News Goy Sues UC Davis Over Sexually Abusive Jewish Fraternity A UC Davis graduate filed a lawsuit against UC Davis for not taking action on his numerous complaints about a Jewish fraternity's sexually-charged and abusive hazing rituals. Ryan Clifford claims that he was
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Make Your Own Mozzarella: 11/16 Cheese. It's why we live. Is there anything better than cheese? Probably not. Even some vegan cheeses are good. Very good. So is (dare we say) the occasional yellow jar cheese bought and
SF News Video: Teen Bashes Gay Student In Ohio Classroom; School District Does Little About It [UPDATED] A brutal gay bashing inside an Ohio high school classroom was captured on video last week. The grainy clip, later posted on Facebook, shows a skinny 15-year-old and openly gay male student being
SF News Suspect Sought in Sexual Assault at Skyline College Police are searching for a man who allegedly sexually assaulted a woman inside a vacant classroom at Skyline College on Tuesday night. "The female victim told police she was alone in a classroom
SF News Scenes From a Public Education Demonstration at the Palace Hotel Protesters affiliated with Occupy SF, the Occupy Wall Street Movement and several teachers groups descended on the Palace Hotel yesterday evening to protest Jeb Bush's conservative education conference and what they view as
Arts & Entertainment Occupy SF to Protest Jeb Bush's Conference at Palace Hotel Today Folks involved in the rapidly-growing Occupy SF and Occupy Wall Street movements will converge on the Palace Hotel today. Why? Well, nothing to do with the hotel itself, that's for sure. (The Palace
SF News Creepy Rupert Murdoch In S.F. On Friday Media rascal and likely criminal Rupert Murdoch will be in town on Friday, kicking it at the Palace Hotel (2 New Montgomery) while "addressing the National Summit on Education Reform at the invitation
SF News Eight Tips for Dealing with Stuttering Students Hey there, folks. You know what blows, and not in a good way? Being afraid to speak in class. It's dreadful, and can have longterm effects. So it is with great empathy--far too
SF News Gov. Jerry Brown Signs California Dream Act Governor Jerry Brown today signed the controversial California Dream Act, which will make it legal for undocumented immigrant college students to get public financial aid. The Sacto Bee notes: "The California Dream Act
SF News Bay Area Schools Considering Less Homework, More Coddling of Stressed Out Kids School districts around the Bay Area are mulling changes to their policies regarding homework assigned to students, because new evidence is emerging that we're raising a generation of over-stressed over-achievers who can't sleep.
