
Police say the death of a 23-year-old man who was found unresponsive at the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity in Berkeley early Saturday morning is “suspicious.” The deceased individual was not a current student at UC Berkeley.
by Adelle Nazarian20 Dec 2015, 10:55 AM PST0

“Foodies” studying in the California system can rejoice over new food-oriented courses and minors as higher education responds to a bicoastal cultural trend.
by Adelle Nazarian27 Nov 2015, 2:00 AM PST0

A civil rights complaint has been filed against the City of Berkeley by a group of eleven demonstrators and journalists who are claiming damages for alleged “unconstitutional police attacks on peaceful protesters and journalists” during the violent Black Lives Matter protests that took place on December 6 of 2014.
by Adelle Nazarian24 Nov 2015, 1:13 PM PST0

Los Angeles may become the latest city to ship off Columbus Day in favor of Indigenous Peoples’ Day–and a new city employee day off–if councilman Mitch O’Farrell’s idea eventually is approved.
by Michelle Moons15 Nov 2015, 4:32 AM PST0

In 1967, University of California president Clark Kerr was fired by the Board of Regents for being too lenient in dealing with student protests. On Monday, Tim Wolfe of the University of Missouri resigned because he had not been lenient enough.
by Joel B. Pollak10 Nov 2015, 5:28 AM PST0

Halloween turned into a night of real-life horrors in Berkeley’s Southside neighborhood on Saturday when close to 1,000 rioters took to the streets, smashing cars.
by Adelle Nazarian1 Nov 2015, 11:00 AM PST0

Following a sharp rise in antisemitism across the University of California’s 10 campuses, a group of professors, students, activists and Jewish groups wrangled with a group of UC leaders at a public forum at UCLA on Monday as they sought to make revisions to a proposed policy denouncing intolerance on school grounds.
by Adelle Nazarian27 Oct 2015, 2:02 PM PST0

A second library has closed in Palo Alto following the discovery of bedbugs there. It is the second bedbug-related closure in Palo Alto, and the third in the Bay Area, in the past week.
by Adelle Nazarian30 Sep 2015, 11:15 AM PST0

Bed bugs have infested another Bay Area public library–this time, the North Branch Berkeley Public Library.
by Joel B. Pollak27 Sep 2015, 5:55 AM PST0

A Russian billionaire has offered $100 million to fund researchers at UC Berkeley’s Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Research Center to find extraterrestrial life.
by William Bigelow21 Jul 2015, 12:14 PM PST0

On Saturday, some tree-huggers protesting the removal of eucalyptus trees in the East Bay Hills decided that their hugs needed more intimacy, and stripped naked to hug eucalyptus trees on the University of California Berkeley campus for a photography shoot.
by William Bigelow19 Jul 2015, 8:47 AM PST0

An independent bike registry is aiming to “make bike theft a little less convenient” in Berkeley. Bike Index, started by former bike mechanic Seth Herr in Chicago, allows users to register their bike’s serial numbers free of charge into an open source database to help anyone track whether the wheels they wish to purchase online are stolen goods–and reunite cyclists with their stolen bikes.
by Adelle Nazarian14 Jul 2015, 4:00 AM PST0

Three victims of sexual assault are suing the University of California Berkeley and the University of California Board of Regents for allegedly failing to properly prevent, investigate and handle sexual assaults that reportedly took place while they were taking classes at the school.
by Adelle Nazarian2 Jul 2015, 2:48 PM PST0

Six people, including at least five students from Ireland, died on Tuesday after a balcony collapsed early in the day at an apartment complex near the University of California Berkeley. At least seven other people were injured.
by William Bigelow16 Jun 2015, 11:57 AM PST0

The cell phone industry sued Berkeley this week over a new ordinance it issued requiring that consumers be warned that carrying a switched-on phone in their pockets or bra might exceed federal radiation safety standards.
by Adelle Nazarian10 Jun 2015, 5:47 AM PST0

The rampant rise in antisemitism throughout University of California campuses–particularly at Berkeley, Davis, UCLA and Riverside–has prompted a claim that the state’s thirst for out-of-state tuition has attracted students from countries with endemic anti-Israel prejudices.
by Adelle Nazarian7 May 2015, 4:15 AM PST0

The skinned, bloody carcass of a dead wild boar was left in plain sight of two vegetarian restaurants in Berkeley, California on Monday, raising questions as to whether they were left there intentionally and in an attempt to send a threatening
by Adelle Nazarian21 Jan 2015, 12:44 PM PST0

There was no shortage of “black lives matter” protests this past weekend as activists in Oakland and Berkeley sought to link their cause to the life of late civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr. Close to 150 #BlackLivesMatter protesters took
by Adelle Nazarian19 Jan 2015, 11:41 AM PST0

California Governor Jerry Brown spoke for the first time Friday about the police brutality protests that have consumed the Bay Area and cities across the country in recent weeks.
by Daniel Nussbaum10 Jan 2015, 1:48 PM PST0

One of Ferguson’s highest profile protesters, Joshua Williams, who claimed to advocate for peace, was charged with arson Saturday for setting fire to a Berkeley convenience store.
by Dan Riehl28 Dec 2014, 12:34 PM PST0

Comedian Bill Maher delivered his long-anticipated and controversial speech at the University of California Berkeley winter commencement on Saturday–and it turned out to be a rather conventional liberal address. Though much debate surrounded Maher’s views on Islam, he largely avoided the subject, instead telling
by Joel B. Pollak21 Dec 2014, 5:16 AM PST0

BERKELEY, California — A group of student protesters at Berkeley managed to get their message of disapproval for Bill Maher in plain sight of the comedian during the winter class of 2014’s Saturday commencement. Six protesters, each holding up one
by Adelle Nazarian21 Dec 2014, 4:47 AM PST0

BERKELEY, California — Mixed opinions greeted Bill Maher’s controversial appearance at Berkeley’s Saturday winter commencement. Sentiments ranged in favor of the self-proclaimed far-left talk show host and comedian to literal hatred for him and his beliefs. In October, Maher said Islam
by Adelle Nazarian21 Dec 2014, 4:41 AM PST0

Muslim scholar Hamza Yusuf, president of Zaytuna College in Berkeley, Calif., blamed pornography for the proliferation of jihadist violence during a Georgetown Universitypanel discussion Monday about the status of Muslim minorities in non-Muslim countries. Princeton University law professor Robert George
by The Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT)18 Dec 2014, 6:19 AM PST0