Haggis, kilts, scotch and the largest student population in the United Kingdom – what’s not to like? All of this and more is on hand in Edinburgh, a city that seems to exist in the past and the future at once. The architectural stylings remain much as they were when Adam Smith Read More…
Cheers! Things have progressed a bit here in London since the Romans first came to town. The land of foggy skies and overflowing pubs is alive and well as it gears up for the 2012 Summer Olympics. Advertisements featuring muscled athletes abound and the Underground is in the midst of Read More…
UC Berkeley faculty members looking to channel their inner Walter Cronkite can now use the new Multimedia Production Suite, located in Dwinelle Hall, to record lectures and attend virtual conferences as part of the university’s foray into online education.
For most Americans, Thanksgiving is a time of tradition, eating turkey, spending time with family and watching the Detroit Lions lose on national television. For the California Highway Patrol, it is one of their busiest weekends of the year as it brings DUI arrests and traffic fatalities.
Ira Michael Heyman, chancellor of UC Berkeley from 1980 to 1990, died at home on Saturday after an extended battle with emphysema. He was 81. During his tenure as chancellor, Heyman focused on a wide variety of issues, most notably increasing diversity, spearheading the campus’s first major fundraising campaign — Read More…
At 2:55 p.m. Tuesday, the UC Berkeley WarnMe emergency alert service was put into action for the first time this year to inform community members — some as far away as New York — of a shooting at the campus Haas School of Business. The Office of Public Affairs sent Read More…
Berkeley City Council will vote on a bill Tuesday night to support Wednesday’s UC-wide Day of Action — during which demonstrators had planned to protest outside the UC Board of Regents meeting at the UC San Francisco Mission Bay campus. Though the board announced Monday morning that it decided to Read More…
Average student loan debt increased by 5 percent nationally in 2009-10 — making it more than $9,000 higher than the average debt of a graduating UC Berkeley student. The average student loan debt of graduating college seniors rose to $25,250, according to the Project on Student Debt report conducted by Read More…
OAKLAND — Thousands of demonstrators from the Occupy Movement have been gathering in Downtown Oakland since 9 a.m. this morning in the nation’s first general strike since 1946, with many marching through the streets chanting and displaying signs expressing anti-capitalist sentiments. The general strike — centered at the intersection of Read More…
In the wake of protests this summer that raised debate about First Amendment rights, the Bay Area Rapid Transit Board of Directors is scheduled to discuss the latest draft of a policy that would allow BART to temporarily disrupt cellphone service. The transit agency drew harsh criticism when officials disrupted Read More…