Soon after opening the shop, which he called The Ink Stone, an architect friend of Smith's was bemoaning the fact that he had to drive to Richmond to pick up blueprints. Again, Smith saw an opportunity, and began printing blueprints at his store, as well as carrying drafting supplies, balsa and basswood for model making, and other architectural supplies.
A giant cardboard mosquito made for the UC Berkeley class Sculpture: Foundations. Four students were arrested when they tried to hang it from Sather Gate on Monday. Credit: Hayes Gaboury/Daily Californian Heads up: We sometimes link to sites that limit access to non-subscribers. UCPD arrested four UC Berkeley students trying to hang a 5-foot-long cardboard mosquito off Sather Gate before the Turning Point event on Monday. As of Thursday, no charges had been filed.
BERKELEY, Calif. (KGO) -- The Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the Justice Department plans to visit UC Berkeley Thursday. Harmeet Dhillon announced an investigation into Monday's protests ahead of a Turning Point USA tour event. Dhillon's visit also comes as comedian Rob Schneider plans to sue the school over its handling of the protests. He was a speaker.
The U.S. Department of Justice announced Tuesday it is investigating how UC Berkeley prepared for a Turning Point USA event Monday night that sparked intense protests on campus. In two letters posted on X and addressed to university officials, the department's Civil Rights Division requested campus communication records related to how the university prepared security for the event and responded to the protests.
She's a familiar face to anybody who's watched The Haunted Bay, a show she created that ran for three seasons on Amazon Prime in 2020. In the series, Liu and her team of paranormal investigators run around the Bay hunting ghosts: They found one (and showed its face on camera) at the Warfield Theater in San Francisco, and have spectrally spelunked at the USS Hornet aircraft carrier in Alameda.
The University of California (UC), Berkeley in the United States has provided information on more than 150 faculty members and students to President Donald Trump's administration, as part of a federal investigation into alleged incidents of anti-Semitism on college campuses nationwide. UC Berkeley said on Friday the names of the 160 students, faculty and staff were sent to the US Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights, and affected members of the campus were notified by the institution last week.
UCLA, which earned the No. 1 spot last year, was bumped down to the second-best public university in the nation, just behind the University of Michigan, in Niche's 2026 Best Colleges in America rankings, published Monday. ( Niche considers factors such as student reviews, academics, professors, the campus, diversity, safety and student life.) The only other California school that cracked the top 10 on the list of best public universities was UC Berkeley at No. 9.
Students and parents line up outside Unit 3 of the Durant Residence Hall on move-in day in 2024. Credit: Kelly Sullivan Heads up: We sometimes link to sites that limit access to non-subscribers. It's move-in week on campus, as UC Berkeley students and their families fill the dorms and apartments that will be their homes this academic year. (San Francisco Chronicle)
The recruitment process for consulting clubs at UC Berkeley is highly competitive; students are often overwhelmed by the exclusivity and high stakes of the candidacy.
