SF News 'Gaza Solidarity Encampment,' Like the One at Columbia University, Established at UC Berkeley UC Berkeley has joined in a nationwide protest action on college campuses in which students are pitching tents in prominent plaza spaces, as a sort of "sleep-in" in solidarity with displaced Gazans and in protest of investments in war-profiting corporations.
SF Politics US Congress Targets UC Berkeley With Antisemitism Probe In Wake of Pro-Palestine Protests Republicans in Congress are expanding their probe of alleged antisemitism in the ranks of higher education to now include UC Berkeley, after a late February lecture was disrupted by protesters.
SF News State Supreme Court Set to Hear Berkeley People's Park Development Case, Rule on 'People as Pollution' The California Supreme Court has now set a date to hear arguments in an appeal that has been holding up development of the People's Park site in Berkeley for over a year.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Protesters Shut Down Lecture By Israeli Lawyer at UC Berkeley A protest shut down a lecture by an Israeli lawyer on the UC Berkeley campus; SF officials say the Macy's building on Union Square could become a lot of things besides retail; and two big video game makers announced layoffs.
Arts & Entertainment Berkeley Falcon Annie Has, Yet Again, Taken a New Mate, Naming Contest to Come The falcon soap opera continues atop the Campanile tower on the UC Berkeley campus, and as we approach nesting season, longtime tower resident Annie has taken on a new male suitor after yet another mate disappeared.
SF News Activists Paint Street Mural Around Shipping Containers at Berkeley’s People’s Park, Get Harassed by Security A group opposing the housing complex being put up in People’s Park used their Super Bowl Sunday to paint a street mural around the shipping containers barricading the park, and you’d better believe there was a contentious brush with campus police.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Sotomayor Expresses Frustration With SCOTUS at Berkeley Event Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor was in Berkeley today discussing her frustrations with the court; a Google engineer believed murdered by her husband in Santa Clara has been ID'd; and a person was stabbed near the State Capitol in Sacramento Monday morning.
SF News University of California Might Give London Breed That SF Expansion Campus She’s Been Hankering For It seemed like a desperate trial balloon to fill vacant office space when Mayor London Breed asked the UC system to build an expanded campus in San Francisco, but now the university acknowledges they are at least “exploring” the idea.
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.