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Colleges and Universities

  • Blogs

    April 2, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 15, 2012

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    January 25, 2012

    Bore No More

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 28, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 20, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 19, 2011

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    May 18, 2011

    Shoestring Auteurs

    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 >>

  • Music

    September 22, 2010

    Show Preview: Mount Kimbie

    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 >>

  • News

    July 21, 2010

    The Education Trap

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

  • News

    December 2, 2009

    Career optimization: Being a journalist in the Internet age

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

  • Music

    December 2, 2009

    Bottomless mimosas and lobotomized jocks

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

  • Blogs

    October 30, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 10, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2009

    '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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2009

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    December 24, 2008

    Modern Love

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 19, 2008

    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 >>

  • Music

    April 9, 2008

    Enon

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

  • News

    February 13, 2008

    New College Out of Money: Teachers Unpaid, Not Teaching

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

  • Blogs

    November 8, 2007

    DethKlok Brutality at UC Berkeley Limited To Guitar Hero III

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

  • Calendar

    November 7, 2007

    Walk on By

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

  • Blogs

    September 26, 2007

    College Carnage 2007: Students In Peril or Scaremongering?

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

  • Film

    September 26, 2007

    Ira and Abby

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

  • Calendar

    September 26, 2007

    Browsing the Shelves, etc.

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

  • Calendar

    September 12, 2007

    Take Your Fash Off

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

  • Blogs

    September 5, 2007

    Welcome Back to School, Now Stop the Downloading

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

  • Blogs

    July 16, 2007

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

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

  • News

    December 13, 2006

    Communication Breakdown

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

  • Culture

    September 13, 2006

    Waiting for Bordeaux

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

  • News

    September 13, 2006

    Drawing Restraint

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

  • News

    August 9, 2006

    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.

  • News

    November 2, 2005

    Pacifists for War

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

  • News

    April 27, 2005

    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.

  • Music

    March 9, 2005

    Destroyer

    Notorious Lightning

  • Music

    September 15, 2004

    Palomar

    Palomar III: Revenge of Palomar

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 19, 2004

    Best Wine Bar

    Hayes and Vine Wine Bar

  • News

    January 7, 2004

    Guitar Dreams

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

  • News

    November 5, 2003

    Brain Drain

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

  • News

    February 6, 2002

    Hail to the Ex-Chief

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

  • News

    May 16, 2001

    Out of Africa

    Some say Phyllis Kanki saved Senegal from AIDS. But can the controversial triage approach she's developing at Stanford protect the continent's western edge from the devastation suffered in the south?

  • News

    November 22, 2000

    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?

  • News

    March 8, 2000

    A Piece of the Action

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

  • News

    April 7, 1999

    Coming Clean

    Environmental group targets Stanford investment muscle

  • Calendar

    November 26, 1997

    Slap Shots

    Environmental group targets Stanford investment muscle

  • News

    November 12, 1997

    Affirmative Reaction

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

  • News

    February 26, 1997

    Lawyers, Bucks, and Books

    Settlement talks on City College bookstore lawsuit collapse

  • News

    November 6, 1996

    Seismic Punt

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

  • Calendar

    February 7, 1996

    Slap Shots

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

  • Calendar

    February 22, 1995

    Slap Shots

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

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