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Letter to President Obama From a Concerned College Student

Krystie Yandoli | Posted 01.22.2012 | College
Krystie Yandoli

With tears streaming down my face and a sinking feeling in my stomach, I ask you this simple task: please make an official statement about both incidents at UC Berkeley and UC Davis.

Suppressing First Amendment Rights at Our Nation's Laboratories: Police Action Against Students at the University of California

Christina Gagnier | Posted 01.19.2012 | College
Christina Gagnier

Universities are supposed to be laboratories in and of themselves, allowing students to explore their education and interests. This can include becoming passionate about issues and exercising one's First Amendment rights as an expression of such.

WATCH: What Do Shepard Fairey And Buddhist Monks Have In Common?

Posted 11.18.2011 | Arts

An upcoming documentary, 'Art as a Weapon,' will allow viewers access into the closed country of Burma, and illuminate the intersection of street art,...

AmEx Enters Higher Education Marketplace With Prepaid Student Accounts

Turnstyle | Posted 01.16.2012 | Home
Turnstyle

By: Robyn Gee Students at the University of North Florida now only need one item in their wallet to get around campus: their student ID. Starting on ...

WATCH: Stephen Colbert Blasts Bloomberg Over Police Brutality

Posted 11.16.2011 | Comedy

When Occupy Wall Street first started, the protesters knew two things: They were in this for the long haul, and they could probably expect to clash wi...

Exercising "A Degree of Freedom Which Rarely Exists" at UC Berkeley

Michael Roth | Posted 01.15.2012 | College
Michael Roth

Berkeley, like Wesleyan, has a long and proud tradition of protest. The peaceful efforts of students, staff and faculty protesting the dismantling of a once great university deserve our respect. The violent response to these efforts deserves our condemnation.

Faculty And Staff Join Occupy Cal For Teach-Ins At Berkeley Campus

AP | TERENCE CHEA and LISA LEFF | Posted 01.15.2012 | San Francisco

BERKELEY, Calif. — Anti-Wall Street activists began rebuilding their tent encampment on the steps of the University of California, Berkeley, stu...

Tyler Kingkade

Outrage Over Police Violence At Occupy Protest

HuffingtonPost.com | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 11.14.2011 | San Francisco

In light of campus police violence against protesters, University of California, Berkeley Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau faces lawsuits, a letter from...

The Police Riot at Berkeley: If They'll Beat a Poet Laureate, Will They Kill a Student?

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 01.13.2012 | Politics
Jesse Kornbluth

Someone proposed a definition of "class warfare" you won't hear on television: "The rich are now rich enough to pay half the population to kill the other half of the population." Sickening, that -- and, I fear, prophetic.

Tyler Kingkade

Thousands Gather For Occupy Cal As Two Years Of Protest Comes Home

HuffingtonPost.com | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 01.10.2012 | San Francisco

Facing some of the steepest budget cuts and tuition hikes in the country, thousands college students across California staged a mass walkout on Wednes...

State's Elementary Schools Barely Teach Science

Posted 12.26.2011 | Home

California, home to some of the world's leading engineers, tech companies and research institutions, is failing to provide high-quality science educat...

State's Elementary Schools Barely Teach Science

The Huffington Post | Emmeline Zhao | Posted 02.14.2012 | Home

California, home to some of the world's leading engineers, tech companies and research institutions, is failing to provide high-quality science educat...

[Opinion] Occupy Wall Street: Can Big Business Be The Answer, Not The Bad Guy?

Turnstyle | Posted 12.19.2011 | College
Turnstyle

Originally published on turnstylenews.com/occupy, Turnstyle News' special coverage page of original, multimedia reporting on the Occupy Wall Street m...

MUMPS

The Daily Californian | Posted 12.06.2011 | College

There is an outbreak of mumps in the UC Berkeley campus community, campus officials announced late Tuesday night....

UC Berkeley "Racist" Bake Sale Sparks Controversy

Uloop | Posted 12.05.2011 | College
Uloop

Not often does one associate brownies, cookies and cupcakes with hot-topic issues such as race and gender. However, a student group at UC Berkeley managed to do just that.

Berkeley Physicist Shares 2011 Nobel Prize

AP | Posted 12.04.2011 | College

BERKELEY, Calif. — Saul Perlmutter won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday, but it wasn't until the California scientist was awakened by a teleph...

What They Don't Tell You About Those Diversity Bake Sales

Tracy Clayton | Posted 11.29.2011 | Black Voices
Tracy Clayton

If you've been following for a whlie, you know that I went to a pretty racist school. What you don't know is that I actually attended one such bake sale and sure, minorities get discounted goods, but those goods are not created equally.

Racist Republicans in Berkeley?

Doon Baqi | Posted 11.28.2011 | College
Doon Baqi

There's a big huff and puff going on in Berkeley... the Republicans are up in arms about the whole affirmative action madness. They hate the whole idea, and they've put on a bake sale to make a point.

Cupcakes, Cookies, And Race-Conscious Admissions

Cindy Mosqueda | Posted 11.27.2011 | Black Voices
Cindy Mosqueda

I'm surprised College Republican groups are still doing the pay by race bake sale thing. That's so 2000.

'Racist' UC Berkeley Bake Sale Sparks Outrage

Robin Wilkey | Posted 11.24.2011 | San Francisco

In protest against an Affirmative Action-like bill awaiting Gov. Jerry Brown's signature, U.C. Berkeley College Republicans announced plans to host a ...

Former Star UC Berkeley Golfer Found Dead In Parking Lot

Aaron Sankin | Posted 11.09.2011 | San Francisco

The Fremont Police Department is investigating the death of former UC Berkeley golfer Diane Kwon, whose body was found in a Fremont parking lot at 11p...

Students Demand That Jerry Brown Sign CA DREAM Act Part Two

Youth Radio -- Youth Media International | Posted 11.09.2011 | College
Youth Radio -- Youth Media International

Originally published on Youthradio.org, the premier source for youth generated news throughout the globe. By: Robyn Gee Photo Credit: Robyn Gee/Y...

Marilyn Sachs: After All These Years, I Still Love San Francisco

Red Room | Posted 01.23.2012 | San Francisco
Red Room

"No!" I said when my husband proposed that we move to San Francisco. I loved New York, and like most New Yorkers thought that no other city could match my own. But finally, we packed up and moved.

How To Get More Women To Study Economics

WSJ | Ben Casselman | Posted 10.24.2011 | Business

By Ben Casselman of The Wall Street Journal How can we get more women to study economics? Try hiring more female economics professors. That’s ...

Report Blasts Justice System For Allowing Dugard Kidnapper To Roam Free

AP | JASON DEAREN | Posted 10.02.2011 | Crime

SAN FRANCISCO — Disturbing new video released Tuesday shows the wife of convicted kidnapper and rapist Phillip Garrido luring a young girl into ...