Event honors high-achieving middle and high school students [Daily Cal]
UC Berkeley to use waitlists in admissions process [UC Berkeley]
Berkeley one of least safe places for cyclists and pedestrians [Daily Planet]
Berkeley hosts Empowering Women of Color conference [Oakland Tribune]
UC engineers head to Chile to document quake’s impact [UC Berkeley]
Photo: Floral gate in Berkeley by Szymek S./Berkeleyside [...]
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The Berkeley Wire: 3.9.10
UC students help avert a death sentence
Six students at UC Berkeley Law department helped to convert a potential death sentence into a life sentence for a mentally ill Virginia man who faced capital murder charges for his role in the deaths of his ex-girlfriend and brother. Justin Slater, 24, will now be eligible for parole at age 60.
Working within the Death Penalty [...]
Opening: Marc Riboud photography
This Friday, March 12th, sees the official opening of the “Marc Riboud Photographs” exhibition at the Graduate School of Journalism Center for Photography at UC Berkeley.
Marc Riboud is considered one of the great photojournalists of the 20th century. He joined the Magnum photo agency in Paris in the early 1950s and traveled extensively, working with Magnum [...]
Daily Californian reporter arrested at protests
The Daily Californian is reporting that one of its reporters was arrested Thursday while covering the March 4 protests against cuts to public education.
Cameron Burns, 18, who produces content for the newspaper’s website, is still in jail, according to the paper.
“He was last seen by Daily Californian employees filming a rally in Oakland, where 150 [...]
The Berkeley Wire (all-action edition): 3.4.10
Tracking the demonstrations [NY Times]
Voluminous live blog of the Day of Action [Daily Cal]
Excellent slide show of Sather Gate action [Oakland North]
An even better Flickr photo set [Flickr]
[Photo by Youth Radio from UC Berkeley Protest set on Flickr]
Video of today’s march
I Believe in Steve posted some video of today’s Day of Action march on YouTube.
What on earth are the people doing at the start with Impeach Obama signs?
Day of action starts
From early this morning, pickets were out at the main entrances to the University of California Berkeley for the Day of Action to protest cuts to education, K-12, community college and university, in California. At the Hearst entrance, about 20 picketers were handing out leaflets and encouraging passersby to join today’s protest. Bus and truck [...]
Bancroft Library throws itself a 150th birthday party
Attention history lovers! The Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley is 150 years old and is throwing itself a party.
The party won’t be centered around cake and candles (although there will be a reception on Friday night). Instead, it will feature scholarship, which is only fitting for one of the world’s most distinguished libraries.
Historians from around [...]
Video: Watch the dance party turn violent
As the nationwide March 4th protests against cuts to public education grow near, groups around the state are trying to get the word out. In Berkeley, UC students plan to hold a rally at noon and teachers in the Berkeley Unified School district plan to march on Martin Luther King Street after school lets out. [...]
Comment: Why the Black Out was black
Commenting on our post about the silent protest held by black students on campus yesterday, reader s z underwood wrote “It’s a pity and perhaps a sign of increasing Balkanization on our college campuses that this was apparently not a multi-racial or integrated group expressing their common outrage. All people of good conscience deplore racist [...]
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