SF News Berkeley Falcon Drama Intensifies, as Female Courts New Male While Her Mate Recovers The “soap opera” of the Berkeley peregrine falcons may be turning into a love triangle, as the female Annie is courting a new mate while the male Grinnell recovers from injury.
Arts & Entertainment Patriarch Peregrine Falcon in UC Berkeley Campanile Nest Injured In a Fight Grinnell, the male peregrine falcon in the pair who have resided atop the UC Berkeley Campanile (clock tower) for the last five years, was wounded in a skirmish with two rival falcons, and was found southeast of campus on Friday suffering from these injuries.
SF News Scientist Resigns from UC Berkeley Center Amidst 'Cancel Culture' Debate A UC Berkeley climate scientist very publicly resigned as director of the Berkeley Atmospheric Sciences Center this week after the center refused to host a speech by a scientist who has criticized affirmative action.
Arts & Entertainment One of the Falcon Chicks Hatched at UC Berkeley Has Been Named After Dr. Fauci The names of the three not-quite-fledgling falcons are Fauci, Kaknu, and Wek’-Wek’, with the latter two names being falcon figures from Native American traditions.
SF News UC and Stanford Campus Systems Both Breached In Major Cyber Attack The rival schools have a new common enemy — the cybercriminals sending their students and faculty emails reading “Your personal data has been stolen and will be published."
SF News UC Berkeley Sees COVID-19 Surge, as Frat House Parties Are Becoming A Problem More than 7% of all positive UC Berkeley student body cases in the last six months came in just this past weekend, and school officials are scolding kids for letting their guards down.
SF News Long a Symbol of Anti-Development Activism, Berkeley's People's Park Becomes Development Site Drilling for soil samples is beginning this week at People's Park in Berkeley, the first step in the process of developing the site into a 16-story student housing project — the culmination of a public process that has seen the park's fiercest protectors all but give up their fight.
SF News Suspect In Seemingly Random June Killing of UC Berkeley Student Confessed, Says Friend Murder charges were filed in August against a neighborhood resident with a criminal past, and now a key witness has testified that the suspect confessed to the killing in the weeks after it happened.
Business & Tech Celebrated UC Berkeley Biochemist and CRISPR Pioneer Jennifer Doudna Wins Nobel Prize UC Berkeley professor Jennifer Doudna, along with French colleague Emmanuelle Charpentier, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry today for the pair's pioneering work in the genome-editing technology known as CRISPR-Cas9.
SF News Dozens of Rich White Kids Got 'Inappropriate Admissions’ to UC Berkeley, Says State Audit Another “Varsity Blues” college admissions scandal hits UC Berkeley, as a new audit finds students from households with donor and staff connections inappropriately cruised through the admissions process.
Arts & Entertainment Better Falcon News: Nesting Pair Has Two Chicks on Alcatraz, Famed Berkeley Pair Has Three Fledglings Out of the Nest Hopes were dashed for the falcon nest atop the PG&E building in downtown San Francisco, but other Bay Area falcon pairs are faring better.
SF News UC Berkeley Reverts To Online-Only Classes After Frat Party Outbreak and a Local COVID-19 Spike "After weeks of developing a very elaborate plan for a hybrid model in the fall, we decided after we had a serious fraternity outbreak, that it was just too risky to teach face to face," said UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ in a letter to students on Tuesday.
SF News Berkeley Study Suggests Social-Distancing Measures Prevented 530 Million COVID-19 Infections By April A new peer-reviewed study has found that public health orders to enforce social distancing have saved an untold number of lives and likely prevented around 530 million COVID-19 transmissions across six countries.
SF News Berkeley Officials Claim No Community Spread Yet, But Virus Leaves Cal Campus Deserted UC Berkeley this week called off all in-person classes until the end of spring break on March 29, meaning that professors were lecturing in empty lecture halls in front of web chat screens Tuesday and Wednesday.
SF News UC Berkeley Law School Drops Boalt Name Following Racist Revelations The UC Berkeley School of Law has officially removed the Boalt name from Boalt Hall, the campus building that has been synonymous with the law school almost since its founding, in recognition of racist remarks made by its namesake.
SF News Hundreds Show Up To Protest Ann Coulter at UC Berkeley, Seven Arrested As expected, there was a good deal of anger and protest Wednesday night about white nationalist sympathizer Ann Coulter showing up on the Berkeley campus to promote her four-year-old book about why immigration is bad.
SF News Berkeley Campus Braces For Potential Protest Chaos As Ann Coulter Arrives Conservative opportunist Ann Coulter has landed in the Bay Area for a speaking engagement at UC Berkeley — making good on her promise to set foot in the home of the Free Speech Movement, albeit two years late.
SF News Hong Kong Protests Cause Rift Between UC Berkeley Summer Session Students A bulletin board covered in Post-It notes expressing support for pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong has been vandalized several times on the UC Berkeley campus, and some Chinese students find it offensive.
SF News Former Trump Press Secretary Sean Spicer To Speak At Berkeley Wednesday UC Berkeley's College Republicans group is hosting Sean Spicer Wednesday evening for a talk "about media bias and the threat that it poses to our republic."
SF News Now Trump Is Issuing An Executive Order On Campus Free Speech Inspired By UC Berkeley Punching Incident In the latest example of President Trump's baldfaced pandering to a rabid conservative base that gets worked up every time they see UC Berkeley in a headline, he's signing an executive order about free speech on college campuses.
SF News UC Berkeley Campus Police Make Arrest In Viral Video Attack Case Campus police at UC Berkeley on Friday announced the arrest of 28-year-old Zachary Greenberg in a felony assault on a conservative activist, a video of which has since gone viral and sparked right-wing outrage.
SF News National Park Service Nixes Black Panther Homage Amid Conservative Backlash In the latest chapter of right-leaning newsgroups and placing a high value on disrupting the proceedings of Berkeley, California, the Chronicle reports that an almost-$100,000 grant from the National Park Service
SF News UC Berkeley Paper Apologizes, Retracts Anti-Semitic Cartoon A satirical cartoon of recent UC Berkeley campus speaker, the attorney Alan Dershowitz, that many saw as having anti-Semitic overtones has been retracted by the Daily Californian, and the editor of the student-run
SF News Berkeley Student Paper In Hot Water Over Arguably Anti-Semitic Cartoon Of Alan Dershowitz U. Cal Berkeley chancellor condemns antisemitic cartoon attacking Alan Dershowitz in student newspaper. https://t.co/SFocUOZ6Zs— Jeremy Burton (@BurtonJM) October 25, 2017 There's long been a tension in left-wing politics over the
SF News UC Berkeley Chancellor Calls Out 'Free Speech Week' As A 'Fiction' "When I get on my knees, it's not to disrespect the flag," Milo Yiannopolous told @UCBerkeley crowd https://t.co/08JMtfByjo @Berkeleyside— Carla Marinucci (@cmarinucci) September 25, 2017 After having to placate the
