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Police Destroy Crops In Occupy Farm Raid

Early Monday morning, UC Berkeley police literally plowed through an Occupy offshoot group's latest attempt to turn an empty plot of land into a community farm. More than 100 protesters came to the

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Video: Cal Women's Basketball Team Covers Drake's 'Started from the Bottom'

The wildly successful Cal Lady Bears covered potential vagina murderer Drake's "Started from the Bottom." And what the team lacks in vocal skills, they more than make up for in spirit and pluck.

8-Year-Old Girl Shot With Arrow In Berkeley

While sitting on whale sculpture at Lawrence Hall of Science, just above the UC Berkeley campus, an 8-year-old girl was shot in the leg with an arrow. Which: what?! She did not suffer

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New Fbook Page Helps Berkeley Undergrads Identify Drunken Hookups

If you haven't already heard, the kids are extra slutty these days. And yes, we're sex-positive and everything. But we'd like to point you to this fine new servicey Facebook page called UC

Berkeley Law Student Pleads Not Guilty To Bird Beheading

As we've reported earlier, two guys who attend Boalt Hall law school at Berkeley were caught on security cameras at the Flamingo in Las Vegas, likely during a bender, chasing a bird that

Berkeley Students Whoring Themselves on Sugar Daddy Site to Pay Tuition

An "increasing number" of Berkeley students are earning thousands of dollars a month through the website SeekingArrangement.com, which is a "dating" site for sugar daddies and their "sugar babies" seeking "mutually beneficial

UC Berkeley Fraternity's Halloween Decor Deemed Not Cool

A UC Berkeley fraternity is under fire for misguided haunted house decor left literally hanging outside their frat house on Halloween. Theta Delta Chi thought it would be a good idea to feature

Berkeley Law Students Accused Of Beheading Rare Bird In Las Vegas

Two 24-year-old men claiming to be UC Berkeley law students had something of a wild, deplorable night in Las Vegas. Last week, the duo were spotted by surveillance cameras at the Flamingo Hotel

UC Berkeley Cop Shoots Self In Leg

See, this is something we would do if (God save us all) we held a job as a uniformed police officer. Early this morning, A UC Berkeley cop shot himself in the leg

UC Berkeley Fraternity Mourns Loss of Alum, Ambassador Chris Stevens

Members of the Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity at UC Berkeley held a candlelight vigil last night in honor of slain U.S. Ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens, who was killed Tuesday in

UC Berkeley Student Crashes Car Into Dorm, Severs Gas Line

An estimated 400 students were rattled out of bed this morning at University of California at Berkeley after a 22-year-old male student slammed into a dormitory. Oops. "At around 3 a.m. Wednesday

Berkeley Police Agencies Denied Hippie-Stomping Armored Vehicle

Over in Berkeley, the University of California Police Department's plan to use homeland security funds to purchase an armor-plated, riot-squelching monster truck, has been shot down by city officials and school administrators. In

Berkeley Police Agencies Want Hippie-Stomping Armored Vehicle

After seeing those cool anti-protest riot vehicles in action at Occupy Oakland events this past year, the UCPD, Berkeley PD and Albany PD have acted on their riot squad envy and formed a

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Video: Berkeley Freshman's Rad Automated Dorm Room

Now, this is the roommate we always wanted in college. UC Berkeley freshman Derek Low turned his dorm at aesthetically-jarring Unit 2 into something special and magical. Low fashioned his drab room on

UC Berkeley Assistant Vice Chancellor Gave Unfair Raise To Lover

At a time when UC Berkeley students can afford neither tuition nor another beat down from campus police, assistant vice chancellor Diane Leite "gave repeated raises to a subordinate during their 15-month romance"

Luxury Car Drivers Are Jerks, Says UC Berkeley Study

Here's a big news flash that ought to blow some minds: According to a study conducted by researchers at UC Berkeley, people who drive expensive cars in the Bay Area are four times

UC Berkeley Gives Tuition Price Break To Middle Class

Following the lead of several elite Ivy League schools, UC Berkeley chancellors announced yesterday that they'll be cutting tuition costs for families with annual incomes between $80,000 and $140,000. In a

UC Berkeley Receives Early Warning Earthquake Grant

A couple times in the last two years we've mentioned talk of developing an earthquake early warning system -- something like what they have in Japan -- which would give all of us

Local News Report Investigates the East Bay Hyena Colony

Today in delightful local TV news reports, CBS5 has the hard-hitting report of a secret compound hidden in the East Bay hills that is home to the world's only captive Hyena colony. Created

Occupy Cal Cleared Out, Two Arrested

In another early morning sweep by officers in riot gear, UCPD cleared out some 20 tents from the Occupy Cal camp on Sproul Plaza. Charitably, cops who surrounded the camp around 3:30

Student Gunman Shot on UC Berkeley Campus Yesterday Has Died

The transfer student who brandished a handgun while in the computer lab at the Haas School of Business at Cal and was subsequently shot by campus police yesterday has died. He's now been

Occupy U.C. Berkeley on Colbert Report

Wise man Stephen Colbert took on Occupy Cal's skirmish with abusive police this week. Calling UC Berkeley a "hippie haven" and a "slow food, locavore, patchouli, super-fun granola dump site," Colbert breaks down

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Johnny Depp Gets Mad Over Boom Mike Question

The Daily Clog posted a brilliant review of a recent appearance by wounded sparrow Johnny Depp at Wheeler Hall. The cloudy actor was in Berkeley for a screening of The Rum Diaries, Depp's

Ralph Nader Trashes College Sports at UC Berkeley Lecture

During a lecture at UC Berkeley, former kooky presidential candidate Ralph Nader lambasted college sports, claiming that athletics have dumbed down universities, students, and 'Merica as we know it. And, well, he has

UC Berkeley Professor Nabs Nobel Prize

In yet another year of predicable winners on the horizon (not Konstantin Novoselov again, please!), white hot 'it' astrophysicist Saul Perlmutter surprised many when he took home the Nobel Prize in Physics for