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
SF News Cal Chancellor’s Mansion Vandalized; Eight Arrested On Saturday night, eight protesters were arrested after breaking windows, lights and planters outside the home of University of California at Berkeley chancellor Robert Birgeneau. "University spokesman Dan Mogulof said 40 to 70
SF News Congratulations, Cal Fulbright Scholars The kids at UC Berkeley have even more reason to brag about their top-ranked stoner school today. Cal will be sending two research students abroad to play beer pong in more esteemed and
SF News Cops Get Tough With UC Berkeley Protesters Oh dear. We found this charming video, which you can view after the jump, over at SF Appeal. It seems that during today's UC Berkeley fee-hike protest, some students got a bit rowdy.
SF News UC Berkeley Protest Update The Daily Cal reports that somewhere around 60 protesters have locked themselves inside Wheeler Hall. And...they're still there! (What happened to the crowbar, cops?) Wheeler Hall, obviously, is closed for the day.
SF News Protesters Take Over 2nd Floor of UC Berkeley's Wheeler Hall Early this morning, "dozens of student protesters" occupied UC Berkeley's Wheeler Hall. . "UCPD officers have surrounded the building, and some are inside," reports the Daily Cal. As of 9 a.m., "[p]olice
SF News Fee Increase Protest Prompts UCLA Students to Take Over Building During a UC Regents meeting, students reportedly "stormed" and "took over" a building at UCLA on Wednesday. SF Chronicle reports that the "[s]tudents, furious at the increase that will bring their yearly
SF News Students, Workers Strike Against the Economy Affecting UC Bubble Your Kaja Silvermans and Teresa De Laurentises aren't going to save you now, UC ilk. The economy knows no bounds, it knows no AP scores, it known no misguided acceptance of one's own
SF News UC Berkeley Prof Receives Economics Nobel Prize Oliver Williamson, a professor at UC Berkeley, won the Nobel economics prize on today. Along with Elinor Ostrom, Williamson nabbed the award "for their analyses of economic governance - the way authority is
SF News Cal Apologizes for Football Game Ah, yes, this is what we like: people apologizing for football games. So scary and confusing and lacking climactic eleventh-hour numbers, they are. What are we talking about? Well, actually, it seems Sandy
SF News UC Walkout Events and Live-blog Fun Whenever we had walkouts at our protest-happy alma mater, more often than not we would press our lips to a bong and head to the beach and/or a bar for the day.
SF News UC-Wide Walkout Date Set In response to the UC President Mark Yudof's bizarre yet timely budget cut/fee increase plan, the UC-wide walkout date has been set for for this Thursday, 9/24. According to the terse
SF News UC Walkout Planned Over Budget Crisis Aside from a freshly-packed bong and high-sodium meals, college students love nothing more than to protest something bad. The most recent something bad to move the UC system to protest is, of course,
SF News UC System: Now With Even More Fee Hikes Oh jeez. In addition to the now paltry 9.3% fee hike approved back in May, the University of California is discussing raising student fees an additional 32%, which would make "annual undergraduate
