SF News 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
SF News 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
SF News 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
SF News 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
SF News 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
SF News 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
Arts & Entertainment 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
SF News 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
SF News 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
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
