Wait for the Gov: Caldecott Tunnel fourth bore groundbreaking delayed for Schwarzenegger [CC Times] Party town: Berkeley neighbors to take 35 UC frat houses to court [Oakland Tribune] Swoosh: former Cal student named to US Olympic bobsled team [Wire] Berkeley Rep premieres South African playwright Athol Fugard’s “Coming Home” [Rep] [Photo of Caldecott Tunnel: OpenThreads/Flickr Creative […]
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Two UC Berkeley students safe in Haiti
After concern was expressed about two UC Berkeley graduate students who were known to be in Haiti when the earthquake struck yesterday, it has thankfully emerged they are safe. As one of them, Ryan, reports on his blog, African Summer: Jessica and I are safe, but trying to figure out the status of our return……Here’s […]
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Helios West to go before UC Regents next week
Artist's rendering by Jennifer Mahoney New plans for the Helios Energy Research Facility will be presented to the UC Board of Regents next week. The project calls for a new five-story, 112,800 sq ft building across the street from the UC Berkeley campus, on the site bounded by Oxford, Berkeley Way, Shattuck and Hearst. The […]
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The horses are racing at Golden Gate Fields but the future is uncertain
Golden Gate fields with a glimpse of Albany in the distance The 2010 horse-racing season began in late December at Golden Gate Fields, with the next significant live race scheduled for Martin Luther King Day. But horse-racing lovers really have their eyes posted on Feb. 25, the day Magna Entertainment Group plans to auction off […]
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Michael Pollan breezes through The Daily Show
The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon – Thurs 11p / 10cMichael Pollanwww.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Health Care Crisis Daily Show Full EpisodesPolitical HumorHealth Care CrisisDaily Show Full EpisodesPolitical HumorHealth Care Crisis Didn’t our Michael do well on The Daily Show, promoting his “snack-size book” Food Rules? Clearly very at ease on television, he […]
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John Yoo isn’t too concerned with Berkeley’s radicals
John Yoo John Yoo, the controversial Berkeley law school professor who wrote the infamous torture memos for President George W. Bush, is coming out with a book on January 5. The impending publication of Crisis and Command: A History of Executive Power from George Washington to George W. Bush prompted the normally reclusive Yoo to […]
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Lawyer hired for three UC students in Iran
The families of three Americans arrested in July after crossing into Iran from neighboring Iraq say they have hired a prominent lawyer in Iran to work for their release. The families of UC Berkeley graduates Shane Bauer, Sarah Shourd and Josh Fattal said in statement Sunday that they have retained attorney Masoud Shafii, according to […]
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Astrophysicist strives to add more diversity to UC
Gibor Basri is a professor of astrophysics at UC Berkeley, as well as the first Vice-Chancellor for Equity and Inclusion. The New York Times ran a story recently about what Basri does on Sundays, which briefly touched on his work with the Kepler telescope and his co-discovery of brown dwarfs, which are celestial bodies the […]
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No charges in UC Chancellor’s home case
No charges will be filed for now against any of the people arrested in Friday night’s attack on the UC Chancellor’s Berkeley home pending further investigation. At the Chancellor Robert Birgeneau’s campus home, repair work continued where police said late Friday a crowd of about 75 protesters marched to protest upcoming increases in student fees […]
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Berkeley grads to be put on trial in Iran
The Associated Press reports that the three UC Berkeley graduates who were arrested in July are going to be put on trial in Tehran: Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki did not say when the trial would begin or even what the Americans were charged with, other than that they had “suspicious aims.” Last month, Iran’s […]
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Protesters attack home of UC Chancellor as he sleeps
A broken light in front of chancellor’s home (Courtesy Noah Berger, AP) A broken light in front of chancellor’s home (Courtesy Noah Berger, AP) State and university officials are condemning a Friday night attack on the home of the UC Berkeley Chancellor. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger called the 11:15 pm incident, in which eight people were arrested, […]
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More campus arrests
The four-day, relatively quiet student occupation of Wheeler Hall ended early this morning when police arrested 65 protesters. University spokesman Dan Mogulof said the arrests were triggered when the occupiers announced plans to hold an all-night concert tonight. “Once the group refused to reconsider plans to hold an unauthorized all-night concert in an academic building, […]
