Read more UC Berkeley stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/3389/uc-berkeley.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 8:11:50 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/64727/calif-budget-crisis-cripples-uc-system.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagCalifornia's budget crisis has taken an $813 million toll on its famed UC system, Time reports. The University of California's 10 campuses are attempting to deal with the 20% budget cut by instituting mandatory furloughs for 80% of staff, drastically cutting or even freezing new hires, and increasing tuition by...http://www.newser.com/story/64727/calif-budget-crisis-cripples-uc-system.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 18 Jul 2009 13:48:41 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/58269/bush-lawyers-face-calls-for-dismissal.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Justice Department has signaled it won't prosecute the Bush administration lawyers who approved interrogation tactics widely considered to be torture, but they may have trouble keeping their jobs. A forthcoming report from the DoJ will recommend possible disciplinary action by state bar associations for the Bush lawyers, sources tell...http://www.newser.com/story/58269/bush-lawyers-face-calls-for-dismissal.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 07 May 2009 7:00:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/56770/bankers-leave-street-in-rear-view-head-for-academia.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWith the financial tornado buffeting Wall Street, some of its leading figures are ditching their careers for work in academia, Time reports. Merrill Lynch’s former president is teaching at Yale; Citigroup’s former merger boss headed to Berkeley; a onetime Goldman Sachs exec is now at Harvard. “It’s hard work for...http://www.newser.com/story/56770/bankers-leave-street-in-rear-view-head-for-academia.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 21 Apr 2009 13:19:30 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/54940/colleges-admit-more-students-just-in-case.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPrivate colleges across the nation are boosting the number of students they're accepting and the length of their waiting lists in case applicants can't write the tuition check when the time comes, reports the Washington Post . Applications are at a record high 3 million, but universities fear students planning on...http://www.newser.com/story/54940/colleges-admit-more-students-just-in-case.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 01 Apr 2009 3:21:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/50537/torture-lawyer-flees-berkeley-amid-protests.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIt can be hard to be a professor: publish or perish, sit on committees…dodge protesters? Just ask John Yoo, author of the memos that laid out and justified the harsh interrogation tactics used by the Bush administration. Yoo, a Berkeley law professor, has taken leave from his left-leaning professional home,...http://www.newser.com/story/50537/torture-lawyer-flees-berkeley-amid-protests.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 11 Feb 2009 11:48:42 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/47281/10-biggest-college-libraries.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWhether your purpose is to study, flirt or nap, college libraries are "labyrinths" of opportunity. The editors of College on the Record list the biggest, and why they like them. Harvard (13,617,133 books): "Because size matters." Yale (9,932,080 books): "Because it’s funny to think how little...http://www.newser.com/story/47281/10-biggest-college-libraries.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 11 Jan 2009 7:09:45 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/43020/hoops-coach-newell-simply-the-best-there-ever-was.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPete Newell will be remembered as perhaps the “greatest basketball coach of all time,” Bruce Jenkins writes for the San Francisco Chronicle . The legendary UC-Berkeley coach died yesterday, at 93; he was the first man to win NIT and NCAA titles and Olympic gold. “He built empires out of sawdust,...http://www.newser.com/story/43020/hoops-coach-newell-simply-the-best-there-ever-was.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 18 Nov 2008 15:05:01 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/38795/10-most-buzzed-about-schools.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagInstitutions of higher learning care about their brand as much as any business, so the Global Language Monitor has ranked universities and colleges for the amount of buzz they command on the internet. The winners: Harvard University Columbia University University of Michigan, Ann Arbor University of California, Berkeley Stanford Universityhttp://www.newser.com/story/38795/10-most-buzzed-about-schools.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 30 Sep 2008 15:51:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/37213/ucsc-tree-sitters-hold-their-perches.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagUC Berkeley’s tree-sitters may have surrendered their perches earlier this week, but demonstrators at UC Santa Cruz are not ready to give up their redwood-saving fight. The activists, nearing the 1-year anniversary of their protest, suspect the university will cut down trees before classes begin in two weeks, but acknowledge...http://www.newser.com/story/37213/ucsc-tree-sitters-hold-their-perches.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 11 Sep 2008 14:40:00 CDT