Prof Attacks Chemical Firm Using ... Hip-Hop Lyrics
Chemical company Syngenta has filed an ethics complaint over a Berkeley professor's trash-talking. The company, the world's largest producer of the controversial herbicide artrazine, complains that...
View ArticleUC Berkeley Dumps Rugby, Baseball, Lacrosse Teams
In a shocking cost-cutting move, UC-Berkeley has dumped its baseball, gymnastics, lacrosse, and rugby teams. Rugby, the most successful team in the history of the university, will be turned into a club...
View ArticleUS Hikers in Iran Plead Not Guilty
Two American hikers imprisoned in Iran pleaded not guilty yesterday to charges that included trespassing and spying. UC Berkeley grads Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer have been held in an Iranian prison...
View ArticleProtesters Face Down Berkeley Riot Cops
A tense day of protests against massive budget cuts at UC Berkeley ended with protesters claiming victory. Eight activists who spent seven hours chained together on a fourth-floor ledge as riot police...
View ArticleRacially Charged Bake Sale Sparks Student Outrage
"White/Caucasian" pastries: $2. "Black/African American" pastries: 75 cents. "Native American" pastries: only a quarter. Such is the pricing scheme for a sarcastic "Increase Diversity Bake Sale" posted...
View ArticleBerkeley Cops Clash With Student Occupiers
Things got ugly at UC Berkeley yesterday, when students tried to set up an Occupy encampment on campus against university orders. No sooner had students set up their tents than dozens of cops in riot...
View ArticleOccupiers Battle for New Ground: College Campuses
With city police cracking down on Occupiers nationwide, many protesters are looking for a new place to set up camp: university lawns. Occupiers have pitches their tents at only a few schools so far,...
View ArticleCop Shoots Gunman Near Berkeley Protests
As students and demonstrators began to gather at the University of California at Berkeley yesterday, a police officer shot an armed man inside a business computer lab on the other side of campus....
View ArticleStudy: UC Leftism Not Right
Leftist faculty and "politically correct" thinking at University of California campuses are giving students a dangerously unbalanced education, according to a study by an organization of conservative...
View ArticleBlack Effigies Hung by Necks at UC Berkeley
Amid nationwide protests against police brutality, effigies of three black people hung by their necks turned up on UC Berkeley campus in northern California yesterday—but was it racism or politically...
View ArticleCollege Offers Course on Game of Thrones
Finally, a class to make the maesters proud. Students at UC Berkeley, already home to a philosophy course based on The Simpsons, have entered the world of Westeros with a film studies class based on...
View ArticlePlanet-Hunting Professor Quits in Disgrace
One of the world's leading experts on planets outside our solar system has had to resign in disgrace because he couldn't keep his hands off female students. Astronomer Geoff Marcy stepped down from his...
View ArticleCops: Man Decapitated, Mutilated 300-Pound Statue
The torso of a legendary UC Berkeley crew coach was found in the back of a pickup truck Saturday in San Leandro, California, CBS SF Bay Area reports. According to the Los Angeles Times , his head and...
View Article3 US College Students Among Dead in Bangladesh Attack
Among the 20 hostages killed in the attack on a cafe in Bangladesh's capital of Dhaka were three students attending college in the US, CNN reports. Abinta Kabir of Miami was a sophomore at Georgia's...
View ArticleUC Berkeley Student Still Missing After Nice Attack
A 20-year-old UC Berkeley student is still missing following Thursday's attack in Nice, France , and his family, friends, university, and government are desperately trying to find him. The San...
View ArticleUC Berkeley Student Confirmed Dead in France Attack
Nicolas Leslie, a 20-year-old UC Berkeley student missing since Thursday, has been confirmed as the third American victim of the truck attack in Nice . He was in the French city as part of the...
View ArticleBerkeley Responds to Student Protests With 'Escape' Door
Last year, student protesters stormed the chancellor's suite at California's UC Berkeley, staging a sit-in outside Chancellor Nicholas Dirks' office and later marching to his actual residence. In a...
View ArticleBerkeley Prof Accused of Harassment Sues Accusers
A UC Berkeley instructor accused of sexual harassment has now filed lawsuits against three accusers, as well as the school system itself, SFist.com reports. Blake Wentworth, an instructor in the...
View ArticleViolent Protests Shut Down Milo Berkeley Talk
A talk by far-right commentator Milo Yiannopoulos at the University of California-Berkeley had to be called off Wednesday night as protesters smashed windows, ignited fireworks, and chucked bricks and...
View ArticleTrump Threatens University's Funding After Milo Protest
The UC Berkeley campus erupted in anger Wednesday night during a protest that turned violent against a scheduled speech by far-right Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos (the speech ended up being...
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