Colleges and Universities

Debate Sways Youth Vote, According to New UC Davis App

Today's college students overwhelmingly think that President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden won their debates, according to a new app from the University of California at Davis that measures live student reaction.No electrodes were used and no students were harmed in this experiment, but ... More >>

One Goh Identified as Suspect in Deadly Oikos University Shooting; Seven Confirmed Dead

​(Update 5:15 p.m.): Police identified the suspect in today's shooting as 43-year-old One Goh, and Oakland resident and student at the private university. (Update 3:20 p.m.): Police told reporters that the death toll in the Oakland mass killing has now risen to seven. (Update 2 p.m): City Councilm ... More >>

Gavin Newsom's "Access to Education" Event Held at Bar Inaccessible to Students

YYoung man! Let's see some ID!​ou know what gets in the way of an event highlighting the dire plight of young people? Young people.San Francisco's erstwhile mayor Gavin Newsom was last week honored at a slammin' San Diego party. But this wasn't just a fiesta for a fiesta's sake. The purpose of thi ... More >>

Bore No More

UC Regents to Discuss Pepper Spraying Police Incident; Occupy Protesters Plan General Strike

​Protesters have big plans to demonstrate at four UC campuses across the state today when the UC Board of Regents holds a teleconference to discuss a new tuition plan, as well as the recent incident where a UC Davis cop callously doused protesters with pepper spray. Last week's Regents meeting, sc ... More >>

ICE Softens Its Stance on DREAM Act Kids, but Still Hazy On Gays

Can Anthony Makk, left, and Bradford Wells get a break? ​The DREAM Act kids seem to be getting a break, but what about gay couples? A memo sent on Friday from the director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement appears to tell immigration officers to have a little heart when it comes to enforcing ... More >>

Isabel Castillo, Undocumented DREAM Act Advocate, To Be Honored at USF Graduation

Isabel Castillo would like a job in her field already. ​Tomorrow, another class of University of San Francisco graduates will head into the working world. And while they are understandably worried about landing a job, the university will award an honorary doctorate to a young woman who has even le ... More >>

Shoestring Auteurs

Newsom Already Back in San Francisco, Speaks at America's Cup Event

Back Again​Well, as predicted, Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom isn't making news in Sacramento, which is maybe why he came back down to San Francisco today to take the stage. To his credit, Newsom did start out sitting in the audience at the America's Cup press event this morning, but it wasn't long before ... More >>

Show Preview: Mount Kimbie

The Education Trap

In California, many undocumented immigrants are offered cheap college tuition, only to find they can’t get jobs after they graduate.

Sixty-Two Busloads of CCSF Students Headed for March 22 Sacto Budget Rally

​Unions for teachers and other school employees will bus more than 3,000 San Francisco City College students to Sacramento March 22 for a rally protesting budget cuts.According to the CCSF website:March in March" will rally to Sacramento to our State Capitol for the Governor, the legislators, and ... More >>

Career optimization: Being a journalist in the Internet age

Bottomless mimosas and lobotomized jocks

Another 24 Hours: Craigslist Farm and Garden Classifieds

TheBigWRanch12/FlickrTasty as she looks, don't you dare think about eating her.​SFoodie's look at some urban essentials offered up on Craiglist this week. • This de-horned 1-year-old Nigerian Dwarf doe up in Santa Rosa sounds like a goat to be reckoned with. The owner writes: "she is skitti ... More >>

School Daze: S.F. State Announces its 'Furlough Calendar'

Sadly, they're all just trying to crash a biology class at SFSU...​When we see college students walking, serpentine, on Friday nights, talking too loudly, and eating pizza slices in both hands, we feel nostalgic. When we see them hauling 75 pounds of books out of the library, that strikes a chord, ... More >>

'Road Rules'-Like Group of Christian College Students Rolling Through San Francisco

Tom Green would have been available for this 'road trip' as well...Hey, here's an idea for some great television. Take 10 young people -- and make 'em all good-looking and no older than 22. Give some of 'em an ethnic and big-city background, but make sure to get some country mixed in with that rock ... More >>

Local Schools' Fortunes Plummeting in Tournament -- The Recycling Tournament. What Tournament Were You Thinking Of?

Not everything that goes in the trash can is trash. Ask someone who knows...Pulling into the home stretch of Recyclemania, the nationwide recycling competition for colleges and universities, our local institutions appear to be flagging a bit. Ranked 12th and 13th earlier this month, San Francisco St ... More >>

USF Realizes Its Student Insurance Covered Abortions -- and Aborts It

Abortion has commandeered headlines of late with the 36th anniversary of Roe v. Wade last week and Saturday's pro-life rally -- for which many protesters bused into this pro-choice lair from more conservative California zip codes. But there is one story of anti-abortion zeal here in our own bac ... More >>

Modern Love

For Sale: New College's Last Shred of Dignity

By Lauren SmileyIt's over for New College of California, folks. Finally, completely and utterly over. There's nothing that could communicate such utter finality at San Francisco's hippie dippie school of higher education on Valencia Street -- home to so many students of activism and women's spiritua ... More >>

Golden Ticket

Enon

Grass Geysers ... Carbon Clouds (Touch & Go)

New College Out of Money: Teachers Unpaid, Not Teaching

DethKlok Brutality at UC Berkeley Limited To Guitar Hero III

Walk on By

College Carnage 2007: Students In Peril or Scaremongering?

Ira and Abby

Browsing the Shelves, etc.

Take Your Fash Off

Welcome Back to School, Now Stop the Downloading

Lo-fi Spotlight: Julie Sokolow's "Violins"

Communication Breakdown

Waiting for Bordeaux

Drawing Restraint

Disturbing the Peace

The local conversation between pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian activists is getting less civil every day. And Lee Kaplan's tactics aren't helping.

Pacifists for War

How the fractured counterrecruitment movement includes those hoping to bring the draft back

Gang Today, Hair Tomorrow

The Suey Sing Boys of Oakland were a bunch of low-level Chinese-American thugs. Then 10 of them became high-fashion hairstylists.

Destroyer

Notorious Lightning

Palomar

Palomar III: Revenge of Palomar

Guitar Dreams

Adrian Freed's decades-long desire to marry music and technology is finally going public. Will anyone listen?

Brain Drain

We know words like "propinquity." So are we smart enough for Mensa?

Hail to the Ex-Chief

Clinton gets the rock star treatment at UC Berkeley; Chron Covers Enron-Size Bust

The PeopleSoftTouch

PeopleSoft software has forced a Delaware manufacturer to cut paychecks to Mickey Mouse and let failing Wisconsin college students evade expulsion. Guess what software the San Francisco school district owns?

A Piece of the Action

How a bright and beguiling budget analyst allegedly fleeced a showcase minority aid program at SFSU

Coming Clean

Environmental group targets Stanford investment muscle

Slap Shots

Affirmative Reaction

Even with Proposition 209, there are proven ways to help minority kids get to college

Lawyers, Bucks, and Books

Settlement talks on City College bookstore lawsuit collapse

Seismic Punt

UC ignores its own engineering report on shoring up the Golden Bears' stadium, but the fans don't care