Student Journalism
The Paly Voice (Palo Alto)
3/15/11 1:00am
The Paly Voice (Palo Alto)
9/5/10 10:42pm
Story Info
Headline:
Five new instructional supervisors to manage Paly
Reporter(s):
Meg Hine
Cee-Ning Wong
Body Text:
With the start of the school year, five teachers have been newly appointed as the...
The Smoke Signal (Mission San Jose High School, Fremont)
9/4/10 3:30pm
Parents have taken matters into their own hands when it comes to FUSD budget cuts. SaveFremontStudents is a campaign...
The Paly Voice (Palo Alto)
9/4/10 1:16pm
Story Info
Headline:
Girls’ cross country predicts success, moves to CCS Division I
Link Headline:
Season Preview: Girls' Cross Country
Reporter(s):
David Lim
Body Text:
The Palo Alto High School girls’ cross country team...
The Paly Voice (Palo Alto)
9/4/10 12:06am
Story Info
Headline:
Girls' water polo falls to Campolindo in season opener
Deck:
Despite tough loss to start off, high hopes remain for rest of season
Reporter(s):
Mariah Philips
Body Text:
The Palo Alto High School girls...
The Cougar Online
9/3/10 3:27pm
“New season of Friday night lights premieres this week!” exclaimed senior Brendan Ward, comparing tonight’s opening varsity football game at Cougar Field to the hit NBC show.
Friday’s game will likely provide clues to the balance of the season as the Cougars take on another pack of cougars from...
The Paly Voice (Palo Alto)
9/3/10 1:53pm
Headline:
What do you wish you had done over the summer?
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The Paly Voice (Palo Alto)
9/3/10 1:31pm
Story Info
Headline:
Brief: Girls' water polo faces off against Campolindo
Reporter(s):
Aaron Zelinger
Body Text:
The Palo Alto High School girls' water polo team will face off against Campolindo High School in a non-league matchup...
The Daily Californian
9/3/10 11:26am
Multiple incidents of group violence in People's Park combined with the area's ongoing trend toward violence during certain parts of the year has some Berkeley City Council candidates vying to turn the park into a more positive - and safe - space.
While exclusively the responsibility of UC...
The Cougar Online
9/3/10 10:12am
The 2010 Albany High School Girls Volleyball team is poised to dominate. The team that went 30-6 and finished in the NCS semifinals last year is back with even more power, not to mention height.
“A lot better,” senior Sita Wong, this year’s libero, replied after being asked about the talent of the...
The Daily Californian
9/2/10 11:44pm
As California legislators continue to delay passing the state budget, childcare centers at UC Berkeley are beginning to wonder how much longer they can withstand the impact of lagging funds and the anxiety caused by the economic recession.
Of the seven campus child care sites, most are still able...
The Daily Californian
9/2/10 11:41pm
The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, which employs some 4,000 employees and conducts research on everything from DNA to climate change, may soon be looking for land to build a new facility.
The lab is in the early planning stages to consolidate its facilities - 20 percent of which are...
The Daily Californian
9/2/10 11:40pm
About 30 people from social justice groups and members of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 192 came together in Downtown Oakland Thursday to protest what they called a misdirection of federal transportation funds.
Rally participants were there to draw attention to the results of a recent...
The Daily Californian
9/2/10 11:39pm
The process of navigating through class schedules, financial aid, class reminders and messages on several different websites may soon be consolidated into a "one-stop shop" for all things UC Berkeley, as the Cal Online Student Experience task force launched a test site for a pilot group to evaluate...
The Daily Californian
9/2/10 11:37pm
UC Berkeley students are given a first-hand and active role in developing policy for the city of Berkeley in positions as city commissioners, who advise the Berkeley City Council during its decision-making processes.
Of the city's 291 commissioners - a position that allows residents to make...
The Daily Californian
9/2/10 11:33pm
As Berkeley City Councilmember Linda Maio seeks re-election this year, three competitors say she has neglected to address odor emissions and health concerns at a West Berkeley steel plant which have plagued the community for years.
If elected this November, Anthony Di Donato, Jasper Kingeter and...
The Paly Voice (Palo Alto)
9/2/10 5:25pm
Story Info
Headline:
Library implements printing fees aimed to reduce waste
Reporter(s):
David Lim
Elizabeth Sawka
Body Text:
Due to overuse of the printer in the library, students are now required to pay...
The Explorer (Moreau Catholic High School, Hayward)
9/2/10 7:45am
The Smoke Signal (Mission San Jose High School, Fremont)
9/2/10 3:30am
For this issue of the Smoke Signal, the editorial board chose their favorite covers!
The Smoke Signal (Mission San Jose High School, Fremont)
9/2/10 3:30am
On Tuesday, March 30, 2010, MSJ teachers gathered on Palm Ave. and Mission Blvd. before and after school to...
The Smoke Signal (Mission San Jose High School, Fremont)
9/2/10 3:30am
Oklahoma!, a musical written by composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II, is set in 1906 and revolves around...
The Smoke Signal (Mission San Jose High School, Fremont)
9/2/10 3:30am
This month, the editors picked their favorite spring-time love songs.
The Smoke Signal (Mission San Jose High School, Fremont)
9/2/10 3:30am
On February 8, the University of California (UC) Board of Regents released a bulletin announcing that eight UC campuses, all...
The Smoke Signal (Mission San Jose High School, Fremont)
9/2/10 3:30am
Three simple, yet incredibly loaded words: second semester senior. This phrase has reached legendary proportions. Apparently, students can cut class...
The Smoke Signal (Mission San Jose High School, Fremont)
9/2/10 3:30am
I admit it; I used to be someone who used Sparknotes indiscriminately. Temptation lured me to err at 2:30 AM,...
The Smoke Signal (Mission San Jose High School, Fremont)
9/2/10 3:30am
Zerg Rush was one of the two teams from MSJ’s Math Club that entered the 2010 Stanford Mathematics Tournament on...
The Smoke Signal (Mission San Jose High School, Fremont)
9/2/10 3:30am
Having been a competitive player for over 33 years and now head coach of the MSJ Boys’ Tennis team, Coach...
The Daily Californian
9/2/10 1:05am
The beginning of the school year in the Berkeley Unified School District Wednesday also marked the end of several before- and after-school programs serving low-income students and their families.
Due to a 75 percent service reduction, supplementary programs at five elementary school sites in the...
The Daily Californian
9/2/10 1:03am
Following two separate robberies near UC Berkeley over the weekend, officers from the Berkeley Police Department arrested a man in connection with an armed robbery and are on the lookout for four strong arm robbery suspects.
At around 10:00 p.m. Saturday, the first victim, a 26-year-old male, was...
The Daily Californian
9/2/10 12:59am
A Wednesday meeting of AC Transit's board of directors was dominated by public comment and presentations on proposed solutions to its $15.7 million deficit following an Aug. 2 court ruling.
Transit riders, employees and other members of the public spoke out against proposed cuts to bus service and...
The Daily Californian
9/2/10 12:58am
A recent spike in violence in People's Park in Berkeley, while alarming to residents, may be little more than another volley in the back-and-forth relationship that has defined police action in the park for years.
At least two high-profile incidents of altercations in the park in the past week may...
The Daily Californian
9/2/10 12:56am
California State Treasurer Bill Lockyer spoke to The Daily Californian Wednesday night about how the current economic status is impacting UC Berkeley and ways in which both the administration and students can work together to improve the campus's financial situation.
Lockyer, a 1965 Berkeley...
The Daily Californian
9/2/10 12:56am
A project launched Tuesday by UC Berkeley researchers may just save the next stranded individual from hitchhiking his or her way home.
Researchers from the UC Berkeley Institute of Transportation Studies developed a pilot program called Networked Traveler that allows travelers to plan a trip based...
The Daily Californian
9/2/10 12:55am
The UC Commission on the Future shelved one of its original recommendations to impose different tuition levels at each campus and approved plans to sharply increase the number of non-resident students across the system at its meeting Tuesday.
The differential tuition recommendation, one of the...
The Daily Californian
9/2/10 12:54am
The Academic Senate Task Force on Intercollegiate Athletics released its final report on the UC Berkeley Department of Intercollegiate Athletics's "mounting financial deficits" Tuesday, pointedly advising the department to revamp its financial structure in order to achieve sustainability.
The...
The Paly Voice (Palo Alto)
9/1/10 8:28pm
Story Info
Headline:
Brief: Paly alum wins Miss Taiwan World 2010
Reporter(s):
Lucas Chan
Body Text:
Palo Alto High School graduate and current University of California at Los Angeles senior Paula Wu won Miss Taiwan World 2010 in Los...
The Paly Voice (Palo Alto)
9/1/10 7:21pm
Story Info
Headline:
Experimental Tutorial periods to start tomorrow
Reporter(s):
Samara Trilling
Body Text:
Students and staff will participate in the first Tutorial tomorrow at 1:50 p.m. after their sixth period classes. Tutorial is...
The Daily Californian
8/31/10 8:23pm
Tuesday marked the final possible day for University of California non-union faculty and staff to take a furlough day, ending a controversial year-long program designed to save the university money after draconian reductions in state funding.
While both UC Berkeley and university officials...
The Daily Californian
8/31/10 8:12pm
Forced to revert back to a costly union contract, AC Transit officials will decide at a meeting Wednesday which service reductions are necessary to combat $15.7 million in added costs for employee benefits.
At the meeting, officials are expected to propose cutting more than half of the weekend bus...
The Daily Californian
8/31/10 8:00pm
The beginning of the school year Wednesday in the Berkeley Unified School District also marks the end of several before- and after-school programs serving low-income students and their families.
Due to a 75 percent service reduction, supplementary programs at five elementary school sites in the...
The Daily Californian
8/31/10 6:22pm
Officers from the Berkeley Police Department shot and killed a mountain lion after tracking it though a North Berkeley neighborhood early Tuesday morning.
The lion was first reported to BPD and the Berkeley Fire Department at approximately 2:13 a.m. by a community member who spotted it in a vacant...
The Daily Californian
8/31/10 5:09pm
The Academic Senate Task Force on Intercollegiate Athletics released a report Tuesday afternoon stating that while the UC Berkeley Department of Intercollegiate Athletics has been able to perpetuate athletic excellence and academic excellence and integrity, its long history of financial woes has...
The Daily Californian
8/31/10 12:16am
Despite unanimous approval by both houses of the California Legislature, most of the recent findings of a state committee charged with examining the current state of California's higher education system will likely not become law, in keeping with past examinations of the state's policies.
The...
The Daily Californian
8/30/10 10:43pm
BART riders experienced an approximately 30-minute delay Monday morning as a train arriving at the Lake Merritt station in Oakland began to emit smoke from one of its cars and was taken out of service at around 11:45 a.m.
The Oakland Fire Department completely evacuated the station after smoke...
The Daily Californian
8/30/10 10:43pm
When a lonely sock is missing its match, a robot can now take on the task of finding it.
The same UC Berkeley researchers who developed software allowing robots to fold towels in April have returned to the robotic scene - this time giving robots the ability to pair socks.
Pieter Abbeel, a UC...
The Daily Californian
8/30/10 10:40pm
Victoria Campbell had dreamed of coming to UC Berkeley since she took a summer class on campus two years ago. Like many other students, she said she liked the atmosphere of the university and the rigorous curriculum.
But unlike other students, Campbell will take her place among UC Berkeley's...
The Daily Californian
8/30/10 10:39pm
"Avatar" may give some audiences shocks and thrills as 3-D characters and explosions spring out of the screen, but errors in the way 3-D images are presented and perceived by human eyes may also give viewers fatigue and headaches, problems that UC Berkeley researchers are trying to correct.
At the...
The Daily Californian
8/30/10 10:38pm
The ASUC Auxiliary and Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions are in negotiations for a commercial sponsorship of the ASUC Lecture Notes Online according to a document given to The Daily Californian Sunday, pending an approval of the sponsorship by the ASUC Auxiliary Store Operations Board.
According to...
The Daily Californian
8/30/10 11:05am
Franz Schurmann, a former UC Berkeley professor of history and sociology, self-described "explorer journalist" and co-founder of the Pacific News Service, died August 20 at his home in San Francisco of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. He was 84.
Schurmann, who spoke 12 languages fluently, was...
The Daily Californian
8/30/10 9:02am
A decision made nearly 20 years ago to stop paying into the University of California's pension program is coming back to haunt the university in the form of a potential $20 billion deficit, pitting UC officials and faculty against each other as they struggle to create a new pension model.
The...
The Daily Californian
8/30/10 12:28am
To raise awareness of Bay Area opportunities for cyclists, three cyclists completed their five-day tour of the 325-mile Bay Area Ridge Trail on Sunday.
Austin McInerny, an avid cyclist and a board member of the Bay Area Ridge Trail Council, conceived of the idea for the ride about six months ago...
The Daily Californian
8/30/10 12:27am
After the threat of a UC-wide boycott of Nature Publishing Group resulted in contention between the University of California and the publishing group, tensions have lifted as both parties recently engaged in discussions to find a compromise, according to a joint statement issued Wednesday.
On Aug...
The Daily Californian
8/30/10 12:26am
A Bay Area construction firm that has been misreporting workers' hourly rates and underpaying employees for years must now pay millions of dollars after a settlement was reached Wednesday with California Attorney General Jerry Brown.
Livermore-based construction company Country Builders - which...
The Daily Californian
8/30/10 12:25am
After spending the last two years monitoring the underground movement of seismic waves, two UC Berkeley scientists say they have broken new ground in understanding the North American continent's geology.
Published Aug. 26 in the journal Nature, the study provides seismological evidence to support...
The Daily Californian
8/30/10 12:23am
A male victim was struck over the head with a skateboard after attempting to help a female victim who was attacked by up to twenty people in People's Park last Wednesday, according to a UCPD crime alert describing the Aug. 25 incident.
The alleged attack and following assault with a deadly weapon...
The Paly Voice (Palo Alto)
8/29/10 8:04pm
Story Info
Headline:
Cracked pump displaces water polo players
Reporter(s):
Suzanna Ackroyd
Body Text:
Palo Alto High School's swimming pool has now been closed for approximately two weeks due to a cracked shaft in the pool’s pump,...
The Paly Voice (Palo Alto)
8/28/10 6:28pm
Story Info
Headline:
Class sizes grow with funding dip
Reporter(s):
Aaron Zelinger
Body Text:
Students and teachers are feeling squeezed in at the start of school by increasing class sizes amid budget cuts by the Palo Alto Unified...
The Daily Californian
8/27/10 1:20am
Throughout the summer, ASUC executives elected last April made preparations for the 2010-11 school year and continued working to address lingering issues facing UC Berkeley such as coping with budget cuts, renovating Lower Sproul Plaza and improving student relations between the administration and...
The Daily Californian
8/27/10 1:20am
The race to fill Berkeley City Council seats is more unpredictable this year than in the past as the city's new ranked-choice voting system may have changed the weight carried by endorsements from labor unions, political groups, individuals and other organizations.
Fourteen candidates are running...
The Daily Californian
8/27/10 1:20am
Public policy professor Michael O'Hare declared in a letter Monday that UC Berkeley students were being "swindled" out of a good education due to statewide inefficiencies.
The next day, his letter had received more than 50,000 hits between two blog sites and more than 150 comments from faculty and...
The Daily Californian
8/27/10 1:20am
As part of a perpetual effort to coordinate efforts, UCPD and Berkeley Police Department officers are operating two squad cars jointly during peak policing hours this fall semester in a program announced Tuesday.
Under the Joint Southside Safety Patrol, two squad cars containing one UCPD officer...
The Daily Californian
8/27/10 1:20am
For the seventh year running, the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control awarded the Berkeley Police Department with a grant to combat alcohol-related crime throughout the city, beginning July 1.
The department originally applied for $93,000 and received $78,000 - $3,000 more than it...
The Daily Californian
8/27/10 1:19am
A newly discovered microbe is thought to be fueling cleanup of the oil plume created in the Gulf of Mexico by the explosion of the Beyond Petroleum-owned Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, according to Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory researchers.
In a study published online Thursday in the...
The Daily Californian
8/27/10 1:19am
o out of all universities in the world, according to this year's Academic Ranking of World Universities released by the Center for World-Class Universities of Shanghai Jiao Tong University on Aug. 15.
The campus fell behind Harvard University at number one and rose above Stanford University, which...
The Daily Californian
8/24/10 4:54pm
Thousands of items at the Berkeley Public Library's central branch will be reorganized by the end of the year in an effort to make the library more accommodating for patrons.
Some of the library's collection of books, audio tapes, VHS videos and DVDs - especially those in the foreign languages and...
The Daily Californian
8/22/10 11:48pm
Hundreds of Bay Area residents swarmed downtown Oakland August 21 and 22 to participate in the city's Art & Soul Festival, an annual gathering aimed at promoting Oakland's offerings in art, food and music.
The festival celebrated its tenth anniversary this year with a line-up of Oakland-based...
The Daily Californian
8/22/10 11:16pm
For the second year in a row, the Princeton Review has placed UC Berkeley on its "Green College Honor Roll" as one of the 18 schools to receive a perfect score this year.
The company tallied the scores of 703 institutions on a scale of 60 to 99 based on survey results from the 2009-10 school year...
The Daily Californian
8/22/10 11:15pm
UC Berkeley was ranked 32nd in the Sierra Club's annual list of the top 100 most environmentally friendly campuses, falling from its number eight ranking last year.
The list, which has been compiled through the Sierra Club's "Coolest Schools" survey since 2007, ranks each university by evaluating...
The Daily Californian
8/22/10 11:13pm
Pregnant women's exposure to pesticides has been linked to the development of attention disorders in their children, according to a new study by UC Berkeley researchers.
The study, conducted by Amy Marks, Kim Harley, Asa Bradman, Katherine Kogut, Dana Boyd Barr, Caroline Johnson, Norma Calderon...
The Daily Californian
8/22/10 11:12pm
Twenty-two demonstrators connected with a month-long Berkeley campout were detained in Sacramento Wednesday while protesting proposed cuts to state disabled services.
The demonstration's lead organizer, Jessica Rothhaar, was arrested for failure to leave an unlawful assembly after the group took...
The Daily Californian
8/22/10 11:11pm
The city of Berkeley's push to reduce greenhouse gas emissions received laudable recognition Tuesday when the California Chapter of the American Planning Association bestowed the city with the 2010 Innovation in Green Community Planning Award.
The award - given annually by the association in an...
The Daily Californian
8/22/10 11:11pm
UC Berkeley alumnus Ortiz Montaigne Walton, a music aficionado and "renaissance man" who struggled with progressive supernuclear palsy in the last few years of his life, died on July 29. He was 76.
Walton's life was characterized by his achievements in music and music-related scholarship,...
The Daily Californian
8/22/10 11:08pm
In an effort to close the racial achievement gap in local schools, the Berkeley Unified School District Board of Education created a new position Wednesday intended to respond to the diverse needs of the city's students and families.
Implemented as part of Berkeley's 2020 Vision plan to create...
The Daily Californian
8/22/10 11:07pm
After an eight-month stint as CEO and president of the Berkeley Chamber of Commerce, Mark Berson resigned from his post Wednesday, adding to more than a year of unsuccessful attempts at securing a long-term CEO for the chamber.
Berson, who has been deemed by chamber officials as not the "right fit...
The Daily Californian
8/22/10 11:05pm
UC Berkeley integrative biology professor Tyrone Hayes - whose work includes research on the effects of the herbicide atrazine on amphibian life - has become the target of an ethics complaint from the principal producer of the chemical, Syngenta Corporation.
The complaint, filed July 19, comes in...
The Paly Voice (Palo Alto)
8/21/10 10:24pm
Story Info
Headline:
Picture Day, schedule and ID pick-up set for Monday
Reporter(s):
Sydney Rock
Body Text:
Breaking with tradition, Palo Alto High School will hold Picture Day on the Monday before school starts.
The administration...
The Daily Californian
8/21/10 8:37pm
The city of Berkeley's push to reduce greenhouse gas emissions received laudable recognition Tuesday when the California Chapter of the American Planning Association bestowed the city with the 2010 Innovation in Green Community Planning Award.
The award - given annually by the association in an...
The Daily Californian
8/19/10 6:27pm
Twenty-two demonstrators connected with a month-long Berkeley campout were detained in Sacramento Wednesday while protesting proposed cuts to state disabled services.
The demonstration's lead organizer, Jessica Rothhaar, was arrested for failure to leave an unlawful assembly after the group took...
The Paly Voice (Palo Alto)
8/19/10 10:41am
Story Info
Headline:
Radio show with Paly students to air next Sunday
Reporter(s):
Chloe Chen
Body Text:
The Philosophy Talk episode recorded at Paly in May will air at 10 a.m. on Sunday, Sept. 5, according to English teacher Lucy...
The Daily Californian
8/19/10 4:10am
UC Berkeley professor of physics Bob Jacobsen was appointed vice chair of the campus division of the Academic Senate earlier this week, serving alongside Fiona Doyle, the senate's chair and professor of materials science and engineering, for the next academic year.
Christopher Kutz, whose term as...
The Daily Californian
8/19/10 4:09am
A man was shot multiple times in southwest Berkeley Monday evening, and many details of the incident remain unclear.
The Berkeley Police Department received multiple reports of a shooting near Oregon and Sacramento streets around 7:12 p.m. and arrived at the scene to find the victim suffering from...
The Daily Californian
8/19/10 4:07am
UC Berkeley administrators are in the midst of a search to find a new person to oversee and retain the campus's excellent professoriate as Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Faculty Welfare Sheldon Zedeck announced his intention to retire at the end of this calendar year.
Zedeck, a campus...
The Daily Californian
8/19/10 4:06am
After 42 years on the UC Berkeley campus, Charles Faulhaber, director of the Bancroft Library, announced Tuesday that he will leave the post he has held for 15 years next summer.
Faulhaber, who first arrived on campus in 1969 as an acting assistant professor of medieval Spanish literature, oversaw...
The Daily Californian
8/19/10 4:04am
After months of preparation, the Berkeley Housing Authority's plan to privatize and renovate its 75 city-owned properties still awaits a federal go-ahead.
In a presentation to the Rent Stabilization Board on Monday, the authority's executive director Tia Ingram outlined the department's progress...
The Daily Californian
8/19/10 4:03am
Helen Duval, a pioneer of women's professional bowling and life-long Berkeley resident who dedicated her life to the advancement of her sport, died July 29 of natural causes. She was 94.
Duval owned the eight-lane Berkeley Bowl - which later became a grocery store with the same name - with her...
The Daily Californian
8/19/10 4:01am
Two of the seven Operational Excellence teams have assembled all of their members and are now preparing to decide how to implement changes that will bring the UC Berkeley initiative closer to its overall goal of saving upwards of $75 million.
The initiative's website announced Tuesday that the...
The Daily Californian
8/19/10 4:00am
After about a year and a half of serving as UC Berkeley's deputy director of undergraduate admissions, Bob Patterson has accepted a job across the bay as associate dean and director of admission at Stanford University.
At UC Berkeley, Patterson was responsible for many of the day-to-day operations...
The Daily Californian
8/19/10 3:58am
UC Berkeley has been named one of California's top "military friendly" schools due largely to its efforts in offering both financial and non-financial support services to veterans on campus, according to a recent poll.
On Monday, G.I. Jobs magazine released their annual Military Friendly Schools...
The Paly Voice (Palo Alto)
8/17/10 8:35am
Story Info
Headline:
Paly grad Joc Pederson signs with Dodgers
Deck:
Pederson to pursue professional baseball out of high school, skip offer at USC
Reporter(s):
George Brown
Body Text:
Former Palo Alto High School baseball...
The Daily Californian
8/15/10 10:33pm
The first-ever contract between the University of California and its nearly 7,000 postdoctoral researchers was ratified last Thursday, with 96 percent of unionized researchers voting in favor of the previously negotiated contract.
Postdoctoral researchers at the UC, who represent close to 10...
The Daily Californian
8/15/10 10:33pm
Customers at the Cal Student Store will now have a new option when shopping for textbooks this semester with the implementation of a program that allows students to rent textbooks.
The Rent-A-Text program, which launched at UC Berkeley in mid-July, is used at many other schools across the country...
The Daily Californian
8/15/10 10:31pm
Economists across California, including seven UC Berkeley professors, penned an open letter earlier this week to Californians calling gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman's economic agenda "dubious" and detrimental to the state's ongoing budgetary dilemma.
The Aug. 10 open letter addressed to "...
The Daily Californian
8/15/10 10:29pm
In the name of undocumented immigrants' educational rights, students from all over California left UC Berkeley Friday morning on a 540-mile bike ride to UCLA, paved with press conferences at various schools and cities.
The second annual "Tour de Dreams" - originally conceived by a collective of UC...
The Daily Californian
8/15/10 10:28pm
UC Berkeley's controversial plan to test incoming freshmen's DNA will no longer provide individual students with their results, but will otherwise continue as planned after a decision Wednesday by the state Department of Public Health.
The campus announced its decision to alter the plan at a press...
The Daily Californian
8/15/10 10:16pm
As the three-way race for the Berkeley City Council District 7 seat speeds up, candidates have raked in an abundance of contributions, and despite the thousands of dollars that separate them, the candidates agree money is not the key to success in this election.
Within the first filing period -...
The Daily Californian
8/15/10 9:45pm
UC Berkeley administrators are in the midst of a search to find a new person to oversee and retain the campus's "excellent" professoriate as Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Faculty Welfare Sheldon Zedeck announced his intention to retire at the end of this calendar year.
Zedeck, a campus...
The Daily Californian
8/13/10 11:36pm
In the name of undocumented immigrants' educational rights, students from all over California left UC Berkeley Friday morning on a 540-mile bike ride to UCLA, paved with press conferences at various schools and cities.
The second annual "Tour de Dreams" - originally conceived by a collective of UC...
The Daily Californian
8/13/10 12:20am
Economists across California, including seven UC Berkeley professors, penned an open letter earlier this week to Californians calling gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman's economic agenda "dubious" and detrimental to the state's ongoing budgetary dilemma.
The Aug. 10 open letter addressed to "...
The Daily Californian
8/12/10 1:53pm
UC Berkeley's controversial DNA testing program will not release personalized results to individual students, but will otherwise continue the program as planned after a decision Wednesday by the state Department of Public Health.
The campus announced its decision Thursday because of the department...
The Explorer (Moreau Catholic High School, Hayward)
8/12/10 12:00pm
The Explorer (Moreau Catholic High School, Hayward)
8/12/10 12:00pm
The Explorer (Moreau Catholic High School, Hayward)
8/12/10 12:00pm
The Explorer (Moreau Catholic High School, Hayward)
8/12/10 12:00pm
The Daily Californian
8/11/10 11:37pm
A 21-year-old male was pronounced dead at a Berkeley hospital early Saturday morning after a night of drinking at a friend's house on Southside, police said.
At around 5:42 a.m., the Berkeley Police Department and the Berkeley Fire Department responded to a 911 call at 2901 Channing Way where the...
The Daily Californian
8/11/10 11:34pm
Berkeley police arrested a carload of armed robbery suspects on Interstate 80 Tuesday night after the victim chased the four suspects into the city from his Oakland store.
At around 9:30 p.m., the victim, who owns a store on the 6700 block of Broadway Terrace in Oakland, was robbed at gunpoint by...
The Daily Californian
8/11/10 11:32pm
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory physicist Gerson Goldhaber, an award-winning scientist with "a great nose for physics" and research contributions ranging from particle to cosmic discoveries, died in his Berkeley home of natural causes July 19 at the age of 86.
An artist as well as a...
The Daily Californian
8/11/10 11:31pm
Nearly a year after UC Berkeley mathematics graduate student Anton Geraschenko created a site that allows mathematicians to share information in a question-and-answer format, the site is "humming along pretty well," seeing about 240,000 visits per month and connecting people around the world in the...
The Daily Californian
8/11/10 11:30pm
Beginning this month, students at UC Berkeley and 35 other college campuses willing to bet on their grades could make a profit through Ultrinsic, a website that allows students to wager money on their academic success.
The New York-based site uses algorithms to predict a student's success in a...
The Daily Californian
8/11/10 11:28pm
The legions of "phans" who follow the legendary jam band Phish while it tours the country came to UC Berkeley this weekend, filling to capacity the 8,500 seats of Hearst Greek Theatre three nights in a row and leaving behind a handful of drug arrests, citations and one instance of battery against a...
The Daily Californian
8/11/10 11:27pm
A new backpack laden with cameras and laser scanners could be the newest architectural breakthrough that enables its wearer to create a 3D map of any building - even a confounding mazes like Dwinelle Hall - simply by walking through it.
A nine-person team of UC Berkeley researchers led by...
The Daily Californian
8/11/10 3:46am
SACRAMENTO - Some called it poorly conceived. Others noted the "benign" nature of the information being studied. But most at Tuesday's hearing regarding UC Berkeley's student DNA testing program before members of a California State Assembly committee agreed the campus should have thought through...
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