A recent federal complaint filed against USF by an animal rights group has brought attention to alleged violations of the Animal Welfare Act.
A UC Berkeley professor is being pilloried after telling students to “get out of the Bay Area” if they want a girlfriend. The computer science professor, Jonathan Shewchuk, made the comments on an online discussion board, Roqua Montez, a spokesperson for UC Berkeley, confirmed with SFGATE. The post, which was a reply to a student, read: “If you want a girlfriend, get out of the Bay Area. Almost everywhere else on the planet is better for that. I’m not kidding at all. You’ll be shocked by the...
Despite federal blessing and funding for 8-lane expansion, project faces civil rights review.
Three weeks after violence broke out at a private event organized by Jewish student groups at UC Berkeley and protested by pro-Palestinian demonstrators, the speech took place Monday and unfolded without issue. Monday's event was dramatically different from the one initially scheduled by several Jewish student groups for Feb. 26, when campus police evacuated the Zellerbach Playhouse after about 200 protesters forcefully entered the building. UC Berkeley ramped up police presence and hired...
Parents of students who attend UC Berkeley are reportedly hiring private security to protect their kids from crime while they study at the far-left university just north of crime-ridden Oakland.
William Deary, 49, and his son Hayden Deary, 18, allegedly vandalized road signs and roadways in Bath, Brunswick, Harpswell and Topsham around Jan. 7.
BERKELEY, Calif.—A UC Berkeley spokesman said Monday that the university could not adequately secure Israeli lawyer Ran Bar-Yoshafat’s Feb. 26 campus appearance against the violent student protesters who shut down the event because Jewish student groups didn’t give officials sufficient notice he was coming.
Shewchuk taught computer science at the famously liberal school since 1998. 'Almost everywhere else on the planet is better for' finding a girlfriend, he wrote. Shewchuk was forced to apologize but students are drawing up a grievance
A West Texas A&M University student organization's charity drag show was canceled on Monday, after the United States Supreme Court rejected an emergency appeal that would have allowed it while the group's First Amendment lawsuit against a previous show's cancelation is on appeal.
The nation’s largest Muslim civil rights organization is demanding action and an apology from the city of San Bruno after Muslim constituents were not allowed to break fast or pray inside San Bruno City Hall while attending a City Council meeting. The San Francisco Bay Area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations issued a formal complaint letter to San Bruno Mayor Rico Medina on Thursday, expressing concern over the city’s actions on the night of March 12. Medina did not immediately...
With domestic fees having been capped at £9,250 for the last seven years, universities are having to turn to foreign students, who pay double their UK counterparts, to keep their finances in check.
We need to talk more about Project 2025, the terrifyingly right-wing blueprint crafted by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation that is meant to guide the next Republican administration. If you aren't very familiar with Project 2025, it's time to school yourself and start spreading the word. — Read the rest