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
SF News Child Actor Works The System To Enter UC Berkeley As A 15-Year-Old Junior There's a story in today's Chronicle about a 15-year-old "hacking" his way into UC Berkeley after dropping out of middle school, doing home-schooling, and taking classes at community colleges. He starts Cal as
SF News Authorities Combing Woods For Missing UC Berkeley Student/Rapper MC Thor A search for Vernon "Cody" Matthews has entered its fourth day, following the UC Berkeley student/rapper's disappearance during a hiking trip. According to El Dorado County Sheriff's Department spokesperson Lt. Tim Becker,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oakland In-N-Out Allegedly Refuses To Call 911 For Injured Patron Though the UC Berkeley community was thrown into a spiral of despair after a hopes of an In-N-Out Burger's new location near campus were dashed, there's one recent grad who's probably happy that
SF News Family Members Of Measles-Infected BART Rider Fall Ill Remember all the frustration you expressed over the possibly nonvaccinating family of BART/UC Berkeley's Measles Patient Zero? Well, it looks like you might have been proven right, as Contra Costa County health
Arts & Entertainment SF Strip Clubs Want To Get UC Berkeley Co-Eds Naked Who says there are no non-tech jobs available in San Francisco? I can think of at least six businesses in San Francisco that are actively recruiting employees, and the greatest technical skill you
SF News Cal Student Allegedly Gay Bashes, Robs Other Student A UC Berkeley student accused of making homophobic remarks before beating and robbing a classmate may face hate crime charges for the assault, according to a crime report posted by the schools police
SF News UC Berkeley's Football Field Now Brought To You By Kabam The University of California, Berkeley has announced that the naming rights for the field at Memorial Stadium will go to Kabam, a maker of free video games headquartered in San Francisco. For $18
SF News UC Berkeley Nobel Prize Winner Humblebrags Win On Facebook It's nice to know that even Nobel Prize winners are prone to the occasional humblebrag, superpower smarts and all. Shortly after winning the 2013 prize for medicine on Monday, UC Berkeley's Randy Schekman
SF News UC Berkeley Campus Evacuated After Explosion [Updated] UC Berkeley is being evacuated after an underground fire. pic.twitter.com/XDeuSiI52K— Joe Vazquez (@joenewsman) October 1, 2013 A power outage at UC Berkeley prefaced a major explosion on Monday night, resulting
Arts & Entertainment Video: Naked Run At UC Berkeley [NSFW] A gaggle of young adults peeled off their clothing for the semesterly Naked Run last week at UC Berkeley. Lots of jiggling breasts and male bits can be seen in this video, so:
