(Disclaimer: All the places, names and quotes are used fictitiously. None of this is real — absolutely none of it.) Though there are many modern buildings on campus, UC at Berkeley has its roots in the past, having been established along Strawberry Creek in 1868. Some alums can recall when there Read More…
Downtown Shattuck Avenue has undergone several generations of mass transit, the relics and pieces of which are integrated into the restaurants there today. In the pioneering days, the mile-long pier that once docked ferries to and from San Francisco dropped off passengers at Center and Shattuck. Now Center Street is Read More…
Berkeley is a town known for many awesome things, but its smells are not usually considered one of them. Walking down Telegraph Avenue or lifting weights in the RSF do not always provide holidays for our nostrils, and the occasional not-so-delightful aromas of an overflowing trashcan on your way to Read More…
Two city of Berkeley commissions requested a report Tuesday on the effects of the diesel spill that took place on the UC Berkeley campus last December. Read More…
Over a month after an oil spill at UC Berkeley leaked into Strawberry Creek and eventually into the San Francisco Bay, cleanup efforts officially ended Tuesday after over half of the fuel was recovered. Nearly 1,000 gallons of fuel — about 60 percent of the spill — have been recovered. Read More…
About 880 of the 1,650 gallons of oil spilled in Stanley Hall at UC Berkeley have been removed as of Thursday, according to campus spokesperson Kathleen Maclay. After a tank overflowed in the basement of Stanley Hall, diesel fuel collected in the basement of the hall, some of which ended Read More…
An oil spill at UC Berkeley this weekend could have released more than 1,000 gallons of fuel into Strawberry Creek, raising concerns about the environmental impacts on the wildlife living in the stream. After a tank containing diesel fuel was found overflowing in Stanley Hall Saturday evening, approximately 1,700 gallons Read More…
More than a thousand gallons of diesel fuel — of the 1,700 spilled total — escaped from Stanley Hall and could have entered Strawberry Creek, according to campus spokesperson Janet Gilmore. After an equipment failure Saturday caused a tank to overflow in the basement of Stanley Hall on the UC Read More…
Former UC Berkeley professor William Berry, a passionate paleontologist with an ardor for teaching environmental sustainability, died May 20 from skin cancer complications. He was 79. Born and bred in Boston, Berry completed his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Harvard University in 1953 and 1955, respectively, and later earned his Read More…
