In a message addressed to the UC-Berkeley campus community, Chancellor Nicholas Dirks and Provost Claude Steele announced that Professor of Astronomy Geoff Marcy resigned from the UC Berkeley faculty on Wednesday morning: “Professor Marcy’s conduct, as determined by the investigation, was contemptible and inexcusable.”
Berkeley Astronomers Disavow Professor Found to Have Sexually Harassed Students
A majority of UC-Berkeley’s astronomy faculty have signed a letter calling for the dismissal of Geoffrey Marcy, an astronomer at the university since 1999, who was found to have sexually harassed his students.
Report: Collapsed Berkeley Balcony That Killed 6 Students Was Decorative
The fourth-floor balcony that collapsed with 13 people on it earlier this week in Berkeley, Ca., was mostly decorative, according to a member of the Berkeley Design Review Committee that approved the building in 2001. Six students—five of them Irish citizens—died and seven more were injured after the balcony plummeted…
New York Times Regrets Calling Dead Irish Students Drunk Party Animals
Yesterday, the New York Times published an article about a deadly balcony collapse in Berkeley that killed six college students from Ireland who had been partying on the structure. The victims had come to California on the J1 work-visa program—which, the Times noted in the second paragraph of the article, has become…
6 Irish Students Dead After Balcony Collapses at Party Near UC Berkeley
Six people were killed and seven more were injured when a fourth-floor balcony collapsed early this morning during a birthday party at a Berkeley, California, apartment complex. All five killed were Irish students, as were some of those injured.
Damn, That's a Lot of Goats
Wow, that sure is a lot of goats. Like just an unbelievable number of goats right there.
Dozens Clash With Police After Killing of Allegedly Armed Black Teen
Berkeley, Mo. police shot and killed a reportedly armed 18-year-old while performing "a routine business check" at a Mobil gas station just miles away from where Michael Brown was killed by Darren Wilson in Ferguson. The teen was with a friend when he allegedly pointed a gun at the officer late Tuesday night.
Hey, Soda, This Is the Beginning of the End For You
While the generally shitty fallout of yesterday's election day can be read about in thorough detail over here, there's at least one law that passed yesterday and should be celebrated: The forthcoming, first-ever soda tax imposed in America which passed yesterday in Berkeley, Calif. with over three-quarters of the…
Lifestyle controversialist Ayelet Waldman and novelist Michael Chabon, but mostly Waldman, overshare the decor of their Craftsman bungalow with Remodelista. Pick your favorite line. ("The house was built in 1907 by a physician," Ayelet says. "Someone in the historical society told us he did abortions.")
Law Students Decapitate Rare Bird Because It's Vegas, Baby
In an apparent attempt to empirically prove the veracity of Robert Frost's 1962 poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay," two men, Eric Cuellar and Justin Teixeira, were arrested in Las Vegas this week after being caught on tape killing an endangered 14-year-old helmeted guinea fowl.
Berkeley Hates Fun, Moves to Shut Down Student's 'Ridiculous' Dorm Improvements
UC Berkeley freshman Derek Low didn't care much for how uncool his non-automated dorm was, so he set out to enhance it with a few practical, dorm-of-the-future additions like automated shades, automated lighting, and automated party and romance settings all controllable via remote and smartphone app.
Video of Police Whacking Students With Batons Doesn't Look Good
It's not clear from this YouTube clip what provoked Berkeley, California cops to begin poking at these UC-Berkeley students with such force, but we wouldn't want to be the police spokesperson tasked with explaining this scene to the public.
College Republicans' Stupid 'Race-Based Bake Sale' Is Exactly What You'd Expect
Today, College Republicans at U.C. Berkeley undertook a hilarious satire, of, like, life, by holding a bake sale and charging different prices for different racial groups. Makes you laugh, doesn't it? But more importantly... it makes you think.
The Top 10 Colleges for Gay Students
With the Tyler Clementi suicide at Rutgers and the recent spate of gay teen suicides in the news, many people are wondering what colleges are safe for gay teens. Here's a guide to 10 of the best.
Berkeley Undertakes Massive Hippie Gene Harvest
Look at what hippie school Berkeley is doing now: getting DNA samples from incoming freshmen. Uh oh, has Berkeley finally turned into a totalitarian nightmare, just as its SDS chapter long suspected? No, of course there is a hippie justification.
Torture Memo Author John Yoo Gets Own Toilet Paper Brand
Boalt Hall, UC Berkeley's law school, controversially employs torture memo lawyer John Yoo. As of today, its bathrooms also stock toilet paper rolls printed with text from the Convention Against Torture and the words "made possible by John Yoo."
Why Are College Protesters So Annoying?
Reading Tad Friend's New Yorker piece about protesting Berkeley students on the plane yesterday, I got to wondering: Why do college kids staging demonstrations piss me off so much these days? Am I stodgy and old, or is Revolution dead?
Alice Waters Seeks Organic Bailout
Ah, California, that prodigious producer of fruits, nuts, and flakes. Alice Waters, the famous Chez Panisse chef, has seized on the national craze for bailouts to demand organic, unprocessed school lunches for all.
Bayer building in Berkeley gets visit from bomb squad
The Berkeley Police department responded to a call of a suspicious suitcase outside a building owned by Bayer AG on 7th street between Dwight and Parker. The pharmaceutical manufacturer has their biotechnology headquarters in the town and contributes grants to student research at the University of California. …
Facebook chat beta required a 1500 SAT score, or at least a legacy
Facebook Chat launched in beta earlier this week, available first to students at Harvard, Stanford, University of Chicago, Berkeley, Brown, Dartmouth and MIT— schools known for their brilliant graduates who go out and change the world. Or at least make a lot of money. Or write nasty things about the people who do.…
