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Tag Archives: UC Berkeley
Cal frat boy Kyle Crews a hit with Jennifer Lopez & co
American Idol fans know that when a judge says “you’re going to Hollywood”, that’s very good news. These words were spoken by former Aerosmith rocker Steven Tyler to UC Berkeley undergraduate Kyle Crews recently when he auditioned for the show in San Diego, which also happens to be his hometown.
Crews, who dedicated his rendition of Monica’s “Angel of Mine” to Tyler’s fellow judge Jennifer Lopez (telling host Ryan Seacrest beforehand that he couldn’t stop thinking of her “voluptuous lips”), made an impression despite his loud plaid shirt (“you’re going to have to lose that shirt,” said Tyler). Third judge Randy Jackson simply whooped and declared: “That’s crazy. You sound nothing like you look.”
The 19-year-old, whois an enthusiastic member of Cal’s Kappa Alpha fraternity, will now go through to the next rounds in Hollywood. … Continue reading »
A latchkey kid roams Berkeley ghost town full of promise
By Greg Fuson
Nostalgia, like politics and real estate, is local.
Which helps explain how a 40-something man returns to the Berkeley California School for the Deaf and Blind (Clark Kerr Campus, as you know it today) and becomes the 11-year-old boy of his childhood.
I spent the better part of two years at that school, daydreaming in its classrooms, kicking a football across its playing fields, climbing its rooftops when adventure or mischief (or both) swelled up in me, but mostly just wandering its hallways in idle search of who knows what.
I confess: I broke some things. Windows. Drywall. Light fixtures. Toilet paper dispensers.
No teachers ever told me to stop. How could they?
The place was abandoned. … Continue reading »
Scholarship awarded in honor of child killed in Berkeley
Daniela Milian-Cavenecia, a junior at UC Berkeley, has been awarded the first Zachary Michael Cruz Memorial Scholarship, which was established to preserve the memory of Zachary Cruz, who was run over and killed by a truck on a crosswalk in Berkeley in 2009 when he was five years old.
Frank Cruz, Zachary’s father, said he is thrilled they have found such a worthy candidate for the inaugural scholarship, which is worth $5,000 and will be awarded every semester.
“Daniela is a great student and has a great story,” he said.
Milian-Cavenecia, a single mother who transfered to Cal from Berkeley City College, is an undergraduate in Hispanic Languages and Bilingual Issues. Along with her academic achievements to date, she also has a history of community service, including as a volunteer interpreter for the cities of Berkeley and Oakland. … Continue reading »
Student-run project works to rebuild Navajo community
By Grace Garey
During the first week of January, when most college students are lounging at home nursing New Year’s Eve hangovers and enjoying meals and laundry courtesy of mom, 60 California students will be working with the Berkeley-based non-profit Project Pueblo to help rebuild a Navajo Nation community devastated by a 43-year federal ban on development.
The founder of Project Pueblo is 28-year-old Sean Wycliffe. In 2002, Wycliffe was mid-way through his second year at Cal when he opted dropped out to oversee the expansion of a marketing business he’d started on the side. “I wanted to be financially independent,” Wycliffe said, “and I knew I had a good idea, so I just went for it.” Allowing himself to pursue his spontaneous instincts paid off; the business generated over $1 million in new revenue during his first year. … Continue reading »
Impact of on-campus diesel fuel spill felt around Berkeley
Update, 4:15 pm: Officials involved now estimate that 1,290 gallons of fuel were discharged into the environment outside of Stanley Hall out of a total of 1,700 gallons spilled inside the building. According to UC Berkeley, these calculations are based on estimated measurements of fuel that remain inside the UC Berkeley small generator tank and another portable tank.
Original story: A clean-up operation was still ongoing Monday morning after around 1,700 gallons of diesel fuel overflowed on the UC Berkeley campus Saturday evening, some of which was then channelled through sump pumps into Strawberry Creek which leads to the Berkeley Marina and the bay.
Local residents reported seeing and — even more — smelling the fuel in the creek. … Continue reading »
Oil spill on campus, environmental impact being assessed
Update, 12.12.11, 9:20 am: UC Berkeley reports that emergency crews on Sunday removed hundreds of gallons of diesel fuel from Stanley Hall. About 1,700 gallons of fuel spilled within the building, with some fuel reaching Strawberry Creek and a smaller amount making its way to San Francisco Bay. Stanley Hall reopened Monday morning in time for the beginning of final exams.
If members of the public see fuel that may be pooling as a result of the spill, they are asked to avoid touching it, and should report it to (510) 664-4406.
We will continue to provide updates on this story.
[See update at foot of story.]
Emergency crews were on the scene Sunday morning cleaning up a diesel fuel spill that occurred Saturday evening at Stanley Hall on the UC Berkeley campus after what appears to be a pump valve failure.
Staff from East Bay Regional Parks were also assessing the extent of the spill which has flowed into Strawberry Creek. Other agencies called to the incident include UCPD, Berkeley Fire Department, the Coast Guard, and crews from the campus Environmental Health and Safety and Physical Plant.
The incident forced the closure of the Stanley building, which houses Cal’s bioengineering department, after gallons of fuel spilled into the basement and out through pumps to Strawberry Creek, according to a UC Berkeley News Center posting. … Continue reading »
Poet writes about Occupy Cal, protesters plan next steps
Robert Hass, professor of poetry and poetics at UC Berkeley, attended Occupy Cal this month and wrote about his experience in an op-ed piece for the New York Times on Sunday titled “Poet-Bashing Police”.
He decided to go on campus with his wife, Brenda Hillman, after hearing about police beating protesters with truncheons in order gain access to, and dismantle, tents that had been declared unauthorized by the Cal administration.
“I wanted to see what was going to happen and how the police behaved, and how the students behaved. If there was trouble, we wanted to be there to do what we could to protect the students,” he writes.
As we reported on November 14th, the former poet laureate ended up being hit by police and his wife was knocked to the ground. The experience, he writes, got him thinking that “life is full of strange contingencies.” Read the full column in the New York Times. … Continue reading »
Tagged Occupy Cal, Occupy movement, Robert Hass, UC Berkeley
At Occupy Cal: Let books take the place of banned tents
The police may have forcibly evicted slumberers and their tents set up Wednesday night by Occupy Cal protesters on campus, but never let it be said that Berkeley students aren’t creative. Replacing the tents we have — fittingly enough for a storied institution of learning — books, or rather books made to look like tents. Symbolic perhaps, but making a point nonetheless. Thanks to Arturo Snuze for the photograph which was taken after today’s pre-dawn eviction.
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Tagged Occupy Cal, Occupy movement, UC Berkeley
Man shot at Cal’s Haas School identified, died in hospital
Update, 5:34 pm: More details continue to emerge in the case. According to information released by UC Berkeley at 5:23 pm, UCPD Captain Margo Bennett said that four officers, not three as previously reported, entered the school’s computer lab where the suspect Christopher Travis had gone on Tuesday. Nine people were in the room at the time, in addition to Travis, she said. The Alameda County coroner’s office conducted an autopsy this morning on Travis and a report will … Continue reading »
Cal students vote to set up Occupy camp on campus
At the Occupy Cal general assembly held Tuesday night on the UC Berkeley campus, protesters voted to set up an encampment in the style of the Occupy Wall Street and Occupy Oakland tent-cities both of which have been forcibly dismantled by authorities this week.
The vote to establish a camp was passed by 1,267 people according to the Daily Californian reporting on Twitter.
UC Berkeley administration issued a statement last week saying it would not tolerate an encampment. When tents … Continue reading »
Tagged Occupy Cal, Occupy Wall Street, UC Berkeley
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