SF News UC Berkeley Republican 'Diversity Bake Sale' Deemed Racist The UC Berkeley Republicans plan to host a provocative "Increase Diversity Bake Sale" this Thursday, one that many have decried as racist. Why? Well, because the bake sale's organizers plan to charge different
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Meanwhile, In Berkeley... Amalia Mourad, an 18-year-old UC Berkeley student, hawks baked good on Solano Avenue in order to pay for tuition. According to Berkeleyside, "She takes out a $12,000 subsidized loan for the year,
SF News Santa Clara University Better Than UC Berkeley, Says Forbes According to Forbes Magazine, Gavin Newsom's alma mater is a better place for higher education than UC Berkeley. NBC Bay Area notes: "Santa Clara University received its highest-ever ranking from Forbes's 2011 list
SF News Reminder: Cal Football Takes Over AT&T Park Starting in September As UC Berkeley's Memorial Stadium patches up their aging concrete facilities, the Cal football team is set to kick off their 2011 season in San Francisco starting in September. The team's first game
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hey, Berkeley: Free Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream Today From noon to 8 p.m. today, the Ben and Jerry's at 2130 Center Street (near West side of campus) will hand out free scoops of ice cream. And that sounds positively delightful.
SF News Another UC Berkeley Sexual Assault UC Berkeley police are asking the public to help catch that man they think responsible for a series of robberies and sexual assaults. The latest incident occurred Friday morning. "Police say it happened
SF News 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,
SF News Woman Attacked On UC Berkeley Campus KRON 4 Morning News reported that, just this past Tuesday night, a woman was attack on the UC Berkeley campus. A man allegedly exposed himself to the victim. She walked away. He ran
SF News 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
SF News 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
SF News '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
SF News UC Berkeley to Prune 200 Jobs Uh oh. UCB plans to slice an addition 200 jobs next year in order to save money. "Chancellor Robert Birgeneau says a consulting firm hired to help the system save money concluded that
SF News Whoa: Voracious Oil-Eating Bacteria Swiftly Cleaning Up Gulf Spill So you know how BP and various others have been trying to sell us on the idea that the gargantuan oil plume in the Gulf of Mexico had somehow magically disappeared? Well, now
SF News UC Berkeley, On of the Top Military Friendly Schools in Calif. According to The Daily Californian, UC Berkeley has been feted as one of the top "military friendly" schools in California due in large part "to its efforts in offering both financial and non-financial
SF News UC Berkeley Student Dies in Pakistan Crash 19-year-old athlete Misha Dawood was on her way to the sixth annual National Women's Football Championship in Islamabad when she became one of 152 people killed in that Airblue plane crash in Pakistan
SF News UC Librarians Get Politely Vicious About Being Gouged for Subscriptions Here's a funny bit: Librarians at various UC schools are waging a quiet war against Nature Publishing Group, the publishers of influential journals like Nature and Scientific American who have raised the cost
SF News UC Berkeley Professor Discusses Oil Spill on <em>60 Minutes</em> UC Berkeley professor Dr. Robert Bea is an expert in off-shore oil rig accidents, and he was asked by the White House last week to analyze the BP disaster in the Gulf. As
SF News No End to Cal Hunger Strike In lieu of getting ready for graduation, some UC Berkeley students are starving themselves in an effort to get Chancellor Robert Birgeneau to "publicly denounce a recent Arizona immigration law," reports The Daily
misc Meanwhile, In Berkeley... CAL Men's Water Polo Team, who swim "in support of ballot Measure C -- a bond measure to save, rehab and improve Berkeley's city pools." You can sponsor them (and why wouldn't you?
SF News Video: Girl Arrested During UC Berkeley Riot Presumably moments before last night's rally / dance party flash mob at UC Berkeley, sparked by cranky tuition-hike protesters, gained momentum, this student protester was swallowed up by riot police. According to the this
SF News Drunk Protestors Invade UC Berkeley Building, Spill Out Into Streets In another nod to their Boomer parents, a gang of tuition-hike protesters at Berkeley turned their political act into a rowdy party last night, invading a building that's under renovation with spray-paint cans,
SF News Cal Starts Quidditch League, Dorkiness Ensues Last Thursday, the fledgling UC Berkeley Quidditch League held its first try outs for a new quidditch team at Cal. For those who have either spent the last decade in a vegetative state
SF News Bill Clinton Coming to UC Berkeley Former US President Bill Clinton will come to UC Berkeley on Feb 24 in an event sponsored by the Blum Center for Developing Economies. The Daily Cal reports: "Preparations to have Clinton come
SF News Fee Increase Protest Prompts UCLA Students to Take Over Building During a UC Regents meeting, students reportedly "stormed" and "took over" a building at UCLA on Wednesday. SF Chronicle reports that the "[s]tudents, furious at the increase that will bring their yearly
SF News Mother of Cal's 'Naked Guy' Gets $1M in Wrongful Death Lawsuit The man who gained national fame in the early 90s for attending classes at U.C. Berkeley wearing nothing but a G-string, Luis Andrew Martinez a.k.a. The Naked Guy, met his
