SF News Jewish Group Sues UC Berkeley Law School Over Student Groups' Anti-Zionism Stance A Jewish advocacy group based in Washington, D.C. has filed a lawsuit that alleges that UC Berkeley's law school has permitted the "longstanding, unchecked spread of antisemitism" among its student groups.
Bay Area Sports Cal and Stanford Officially Switch Conferences to the ACC; PAC-12 Is Probably Dead The Cal Bears and Stanford Cardinal just Transfer Portaled themselves to the Atlantic Coast Conference, effective in 2024, which was the best outcome possible for the two schools as the PAC-12 has turned into a dying husk over the last month.
Bay Area Sports End of an Era? Pac-12 Faces An Unprecedented Exodus As 5 Schools Leave in One Day Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Arizona State, and Utah announced they were leaving in 2024, following USC and UCLA — leaving the future of the PAC-4 in question.
SF News After 3-Month Protest, UC Berkeley Anthropology Library Saved from Closure When Cal planned to shutter the George and Mary Foster Anthropology Library to narrow a budget deficit, anthropology students and faculty occupied it for 85 days — and just reached a compromise with admin to keep it open (mostly).
SF News Skeleton Found in Abandoned Building on UC Berkeley Campus Identified as Texas-Based Homicide Victim The skeletal remains on a UC Berkeley dormitory campus have been identified as Steven Lawrence McCreary, a nomadic Texas man who was last seen in 2009 at the age of 37, but forensic evidence shows his death was likely a homicide.
SF News UC Berkeley Field Biologist Found Murdered In Mexico An ecologist and field biologist who was in graduate school at UC Berkeley was found dead last week in the Mexican state of Sonora, killed in his car in what sounds like a cartel-style hit while he was out collecting plants.
SF News Affirmative Action Decision at Supreme Court Will Likely Mean Less Diversity at California's Private Universities After the conservative-dominated Supreme Court ruled today that race-conscious admissions policies are unconstitutional, the repercussions in higher education are likely to be felt most acutely at the most in-demand and prestigious universities.
SF News UC Berkeley Was Apparently Hiding the Discovery of Human Remains for Two Years This is such a weird story. But apparently, the skeletal human remains we first heard about in January that were discovered inside a building on UC Berkeley's Clark Kerr Campus were actually found almost two years ago, and no one told the police.
SF News Ted Kaczynski, AKA the 'Unabomber' and Former UC Berkeley Professor, Dies in Prison at 81 The Unabomber sent fatal homemade bombs to universities, airports, and computer stores around the U.S. from a rural Montana shack that he moved to after a stint as a UC Berkeley math professor who became disillusioned with modern society.
SF Politics Chesa Boudin Declares He’s ‘Not Running for Office in 2024,’ Takes Job at UC Berkeley Think Tank It looks like the political equivalent of riding off into the sunset for former DA Chesa Boudin, as he’s starting up a UC Berkeley department called the Criminal Law & Justice Center.
Arts & Entertainment Berkeley Baby Falcon Chicks Get Names: Luna, Rosa, and Zephyr The naming contest winners have been declared for the batch of three baby peregrine falcons atop the Berkeley Campanile, and going forward the fast-growing chicks will be known as Luna, Rosa, and Zephyr.
SF News Now Berkeley and UC Berkeley Are Talking Name Change Over Namesake’s Problematic History 18th-century philosopher George Berkeley, who it turns out owned slaves and wrote pro-slavery pamphlets, may spur the latest renaming crusade, as both UC Berkeley and the city of Berkeley delicately consider a possible renaming.
Arts & Entertainment Berkeley Falcon Chicks, Almost Fully Grown, Get Tail Feathers, Naming Contest This year's brood of three falcon chicks atop the UC Berkeley Campanile have been officially banded, and we know there are two females and one male — the latest in falcon Annie's growing lineage.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Berkeley Prof Admits To Faking Native American Heritage SF tourism spending is back to pre-pandemic levels despite all the terrible headlines, some Tahoe campgrounds are shutting for Memorial Day weekend over “Big Melt” concerns, and a prominent UC Berkeley professor has admitted to falsely claiming Native American ancestry.
SF News Suspect In UC Berkeley Sexual Battery Cases Arrested After Being Linked to Similar Crime In Palo Alto A suspect who had allegedly been groping and assaulting women on two sides of the Bay was arrested Tuesday in Berkeley, ending a week in which women at the UC Berkeley campus were on high alert after three separate incidents.
Arts & Entertainment UC Berkeley Falcons Welcome First Hatchling of 2023 Falcon mom Annie got her first hatchling to hatch on Monday afternoon, and there are three more eggs left to go!
Arts & Entertainment Falcons at UC Berkeley Have Two Eggs In Nest, Third Likely Today Just an update on the peregrine falcons atop UC Berkeley's Campanile: There are already two eggs in Annie's nest, and she's ahead of the usual schedule with the laying by a week or two.
SF News Berkeley Poised to Close Famed Anthropology Library, Angry Students In Full ‘Occupy’ Mode UC Berkeley’s 67-year-old George and Mary Foster Anthropology Library is one of only three university anthropology libraries in the U.S., but the school wants to shut it down, prompting an Occupy-style student protest.
SF News More People’s Park Drama, As Appeals Court Again Blocks UC Berkeley’s $312 Million Housing Project The rabble-rousers and CEQA appellants have won another round in their attempts to thwart an 1,100-unit housing development at the site of Berkeley’s People’s Park, as the First District Appellate Court has hit the brakes on the project again.
Arts & Entertainment Annie, Berkeley's Celebrity Falcon, Has Yet Another New Mate, as Bird Soap Opera Continues 'Tis the season when we start paying attention to birds' nests on SFist again — specifically the peregrine falcon nest atop UC Berkeley's Campanile, and maybe, someday again, the nest up on PG&E's old headquarters in downtown SF that no longer has a falcon cam.
SF News Creepy: 'Skeletonized' Remains Found In Long-Shuttered Building on UC Berkeley Campus Human remains — basically just a skeleton — were found in a building on the UC Berkeley campus earlier this week, and so far there's no explanation or identification of the remains.
SF News Appellate Court Might Expand CEQA's Powers In Berkeley Case, and May Stymie People's Park Development Plan In a "draft tentative ruling," a California appellate court is siding with NIMBY activists in Berkeley who have been squabbling with the University of California over its growth plans, and a plan to build student housing at People's Park.
SF News UC Berkeley Law School Chooses to Bolt From Prestigious US News Rankings, as Have Harvard and Yale The UC Berkeley School of Law is joining several of the nation’s top law schools by opting out of the U.S. News & World Report’s annual top law school rankings over equity and diversity concerns, but the magazine says they’ll still include these schools anyway.
Bay Area Sports Crypto Giant FTX’s Massive Implosion Likely Means Curtains for Cal’s $17.5 million Stadium Naming Rights Deal Cryptocurrency brand FTX went from $32 billion to bankrupt in just nine days, and the Cal football stadium’s $17.5 million naming rights deal is likely to go down the drain with it.
SF News UC Berkeley Prof Led Way On Delivering Spectacular New Telescope Images of Jupiter The best pictures ever of the biggest planet in the solar system have been unveiled, and it turns out an astronomer at UC Berkeley played a major role in making them happen.
