SF News Racist Hacker Forced UC Berkeley Printers To Print Swastikas UC Berkeley, along with other colleges across the country, was on the receiving end of notoriously racist hacker Weev's malicious boredom last week. Weev, whose real name is Andrew Auernheimer, forced a hoard
SF News UC Admissions Standards Lowered For Out-Of-State Students Who Pay Higher Tuition, Audit Reveals A quadruple increase over the last decade of out-of-state students who pay higher tuition at the University of California but who may have lower grades and test scores has "undermined" the 10-school system's
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SF News Berkeley Sexual Harassment Allegations Known Two Months Prior By Head Coach Head UC Berkeley basketball coach Cuonzo Martin allegedly knew of the allegations of sexual harassment against his assistant coach, Yann Hufnagel, two months before he alerted university officials reports the Chronicle. The allegations
SF News UC Berkeley Basketball Coach Fired For Sexual Harassment In what can only be called a disturbing trend, a fourth UC Berkeley employee in under six months has been accused of sexual harassment. Assistant men’s basketball coach Yann Hufnagel, reports KQED,
SF News UC Berkeley Law Dean Allegedly Sexually Harassed Women, Received Slap On Wrist The Dean of UC Berkeley Law School sexually harassed his employees, but was allowed to keep his job out of concern for his future career prospects, a suit brought by a former employee
SF News Police: Serial Rapist Probably Lives Near UC Berkeley Campus In a frightening update to the unsolved case of the serial rapist assaulting college-age women near the UC Berkeley Campus, police now say that the suspect likely lives close to the site of
SF News UC Berkeley Reclassifies Master's Degrees As 'Professional' And Bumps Tuition The difference between an "academic" and a "professional" master's degree may be, well, academic, but such re-designations at UC Berkeley have come with increased tuition for a variety of programs. As the rising
SF News UC Berkeley Frat Denies Campus Cop Allegations Of Women Drugged At Parties Two University of California at Berkeley fraternities are under scrutiny this week, after the school sent a crime alert out to students warning that four female students might have been drugged at their
SF News Life-Size Bronze Statue Worth $80K Found Beheaded Remember that life-size, 300-pound bronze statue of a legendary UC Berkeley crew coach that was stolen from an Oakland boathouse last week? Well, police managed to recovered it Saturday night, but not before
SF News [Update] Facebook Shuts Down Berkeley 'White Student Union' Page, Hoax Introduced By Outsiders A Facebook group that listed itself as a "safe space for white students," as if Berkeley itself were not that space, has been the talk of campus at Cal since this weekend. Update:
SF News Up To 5,000 People Riot Near UC Berkeley Campus Overnight Thousands of partiers and college students took to the streets in Berkeley near the Cal campus on Saturday night and early Sunday morning as Halloween revelry devolved into a massive riot. Hundreds gathered
SF News Notable UC Berkeley Professor Resigns Amid Sexual Harassment Claims University of California Berkeley astronomy professor Geoff Marcy resigned today, after a six-month internal university investigation found that he had repeatedly sexually harassed numerous students over the course of years. The investigation, which
SF News Former Cal Football Player Sues School Over Concussions A former football player for U.C. Berkeley is now suing the school for multiple concussions he suffered while playing for the team. Bernard Hicks, who played defensive back for the Calfiornia Golden
SF News UC Berkeley Sleep Study: You Perceive Friends As Enemies When You're Tired For the song "People Are Strange," certified creepy dude and Doors lyricist Jim Morrison wrote that "faces look ugly, when you're alone." Though the band's frontman was musing on his experience of foreignness
SF News UPDATE: 6 Killed In Berkeley Balcony Collapse, 7 Injured Authorities say that five people have died after a fourth floor apartment balcony collapsed early this morning. At least eight others were injured, and "Many of the injured have critical, life-threatening wounds." Update:
SF News Signs Directed UC Berkeley Women To Creepy Bathroom Photographer's Lair UC Berkeley Police officers say they think they know who put a camera in the restroom of a women's dormitory this April, but so far, no arrests have been made in the super
SF News Berkeley Student Charged With Cell Phone Peeping In Dorm Bathrooms At 11:30 p.m. on March 29, a 19-year-old female Berkeley student was using a co-ed restroom in her dorm. There, she noticed a cell phone "extended underneath the stall partition with
SF News Missing UC Berkeley Student Found Dead Near USC, Family Confirms Eloi Vasquez, a UC Berkeley student who had been missing since he left a fraternity party near the University of Southern California this weekend, has been found dead. He was struck by a
Arts & Entertainment Porn Star Jeremy Long Comes Out As UC Berkeley Law Student Asian American, hetero porn star Jeremy Long has dreams of becoming a public defender, and as CBS 5's Joe Vasquez reports, he's currently enrolled in his second year of law school UC Berkeley's
SF News Day Around The Bay: Santa Robs A Bank In what sounds like the plot to a heist film, a bank robber in a Santa suit used Santacon as the perfect cover. [Chronicle] Why do companies think we want our wallets disrupted?
SF News UC System Adopts 5 Percent Tuition Increase "Hey, hey, ho, tuition hikes have got to go," demonstrators chanted at today's UC Board of Regents meeting, as the AP reports. The board voted to increase tuition 5 percent per year for
SF News Dead Person Found In UC Berkeley Frat House Sunday Greek life over at UC Berkeley has taken an especially dark turn this fall as a dead 20-year-old man was discovered in a fraternity house just off campus on Sunday, the day after
SF News Anonymous Letter Alleges Third Sexual Assault at Berkeley Frat After two reports of sexual assault at UC Berkeley fraternities in as many months, a third attack has allegedly occurred, reports ABC 7. Campus police received an anonymous letter describing the alleged incident,
SF News University of California Adopts Transgender-Inclusive Restrooms by Eric Wuestewald On Monday, University of California President Janet Napolitano instructed the 10-campus school system to install gender-neutral restrooms to better accommodate LGBT individuals. The result is a huge victory for gay
