School is officially in session at UC Berkeley, which means the 2010 Cal football season is upon us. It officially begins on Saturday with the 1:00pm game against UC Davis at Memorial Stadium. Next year, games will be taking place at AT&T Park due to construction, so I’m guessing this season opener will be particularly enthusiastic. What’s [...]
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After last year’s tumult, UC officials optimistic
The chancellor of UC Berkeley held an upbeat press conference on Thursday to say that the campus is bouncing back from last year’s tumult. Declaring himself “cautiously optimistic,” Chancellor Robert Birgeneau said that the campus is on a sounder financial footing than it was last year, thanks to a 32% increase in student fees, staff [...]
Berkeley’s Southside gets new joint police focus
Residents living on the Southside of campus will soon see a greater police presence in their neighborhood, particularly late at night on the weekends and during Cal football games. The city of Berkeley police department and the UC Berkeley police department announced Tuesday that they are forming joint patrols to cruise the neighborhood. They hope [...]
UC prof tells students they have been “swindled”
Michael O’Hare, a professor at UC’s Goldman School of Public Policy, will formally welcome new students to the classroom on Wednesday. But in advance of starting his first-day lecture, O’Hare has written a lengthy welcome note that tells students how they have been “swindled.” The once gold-plated education offered by UC Berkeley is now a [...]
Michael Pollan speaks on egg recall
Local food expert Michael Pollan was on CNN Monday night explaining why no one should be surprised that 550 million eggs have been recalled because they may have been tainted by salmonella. Salmonella in eggs can be linked back to the 1970s and 1980s when industrial farmers started crowding chickens together to streamline their growth, [...]
Students move into UC Berkeley dorms
Cal students started moving into their dorms this weekend and will have the chance to attend welcome workshops on everything from where to worship to commuting tips to where to meet other gay students in the next few days. About 4,000 freshman began lugging their stuff into dorms over the weekend, Marty Takimoto, the director [...]
Director of Bancroft Library to retire
Charles Faulhaber, who recently oversaw the $64 million renovation of the Bancroft Library, announced this week that he will retire from his post in June 2011. Faulhaber, 68, will have spent 42 years on the UC Berkeley campus by that time – the last 16 as director of the Bancroft. It’s time to move on, [...]
Protests greet John Yoo on first day of classes
Cindy Sheehan, the anti-war activist, and dozens of protestors from Code Pink, The World Can’t Wait, the Boalt Alliance to Abolish Torture and other groups marched through Berkeley Law School today to protest John Yoo’s position as a member of the faculty. After holding a brief press conference outside the law school, the group marched [...]
Follow-up: State Dept limits DNA testing at Cal
UC Berkeley will go ahead with its controversial DNA testing program for freshmen, but with one key change: students won’t receive personal analyses of the three genes being tested. Instead, professors will lecture on the politics of personalized medicine and the results of the data as a whole. The change was necessitated by a California Department [...]
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