Around this time each semester, the air around Berkeley typically reeks of desperation. With finals but a few days away now, the collective brains of Cal students have been fried to the point where all kinds of weird things can happen. Last semester, someone finally lost it and attempted to Read More…
The emphasis placed on food and food culture is everywhere in Berkeley. Local, sustainable and organic are ideas that have emerged in the last 30 years and that continue to resonate with the residents and the students living in the city. This video series explores why organic and sustainable are Read More…
If passed, Assembly Bill 199, the “Choose California” bill, would mandate that state institutions purchase foods from California farms so long as their prices are not more than 5 percent more expensive than identical items from outside the state. Read More…
One news outlet has reported that Berkeley restaurant Top Dog is in talks to sell its popular hot dogs at Memorial Stadium this season. Read More…
Starting this fall, Golden Bear fans will have a new food provider to satisfy their game-time hunger during at-home sporting events. Cal Dining — the campus program that feeds the UC Berkeley community and students who live in the campus’s Residential and Student Service Programs — announced May 24 that Read More…
ASUC Student Action senator Connor Landgraf launched an ASUC smartphone application today. The application provides a collection of resources for UC Berkeley students including ASUC and student group events, features for the Cal Student Store and Cal Dining and monitors of the number of people at the gym and library, Read More…
Efforts to ban the sale of bottled water at UC Berkeley continue this semester, with the Cal Student Store being the first on-campus vendor to eliminate its sale of the product. As of now, the student store is the only campus vendor that has stopped selling water bottles. Store director Read More…
UC Berkeley began competing last week in RecycleMania, a contest between colleges in the United States and Canada designed to divert waste from landfills through recycling and composting. During the eight-week competition, participating schools report the amount of recycling and trash collected on their campuses each week, and competitors can Read More…
Cal Dining signed a 15-year contract beginning July 1 with Cal Athletics to provide all of its concessions for home sporting events, creating an upgraded menu for the upcoming football season. Read More…
Nearly a year after Cal Athletics first announced its 2020 zero-waste initiative last fall, the campus is moving forward on its plans to make the new Memorial Stadium a zero-waste facility. Read More…
