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U.C. FUBAR: The Logo Is Dead. Long Live the Logo

That New UC Logo Everyone Hated Has Been Scrapped

The University of California announced today that it will not use the newly designed logo that some critics compared to a toilet bowl. Calling the controversy over the new design a distraction, Daniel M. Dooley, senior vice president for external relations at the University of California Office o ... More >>

U.C. Logo: Gavin Newsom Is Not a Fan

Erstwhile San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom was a master of government by press release, the Picasso of symbolic leadership. He's now lieutenant governor, a job with a relationship to weightiness and responsibility akin to Picasso's relationship with photorealism. So it came as little surprise when N ... More >>

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Two New Local Cookbooks Help You Cook Like Chinese Nomads, Improve Your Sex Life

Here's a duo of new Bay Area cookery titles worthy of space in that (compact, apartment) library of yours. Linda Lau Anusasananan is a food writer and former Sunset Magazine cookbook consultant who used her own ethnic heritage as a backdrop to research The Hakka Cookbook (University of California P ... More >>

Whoa: Lil B Tries Out for Golden State Warriors' D-League Team

When Lil B tweeted last month that he was going to try out for the Golden State Warriors, it was met with the same skepticism as when he said he was Miley Cyrus or Paris Hilton or Matlock. But our Young Based God actually did it this past Sunday, when he suited up and got on the basketball court at ... More >>

Medical Marijuana Advocates to Argue DEA in Federal Court

Is marijuana a medicine, or is it a vitality-sucking, life-destroying devil weed? Cannabis advocates and law enforcement don't exactly see eye-to-eye on this crucial point -- but for the first time, a judge will be called in to decide.A federal court of appeals in Washington, D.C., late last week ag ... More >>

UC Regents Give Local Photojournalist David Morse $162K in Settlement

University of California Regents, in a civil rights lawsuit settlement agreement announced today, will shell out $162,500 to David Morse, an independent photojournalist who was arrested by UC Berkeley police while covering a student demonstration more than two years ago. In that demonstration, on ... More >>

Occupy the Farm: UC Sues, Hopes Courts Will Evict Protesters

The University of California isn't waiting around for the cops to boot demonstrators from its land. As the Chron reports today, the UC Regents have filed a lawsuit against 14 demonstrators, claiming they cut through gates and have trespassed onto the 10-acre site that's used for university research. ... More >>

Rick Santorum: Don't Know Much About History

It's a shame the "Shit X says" meme is dying out, because Rick Santorum is on a roll. In related news, the "Rick Roll" meme seems to be dying out, too. Shame, that. It was American philosopher George Santayana who famously noted that "those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." B ... More >>

California Colleges Are Not Medical Marijuana Friendly

​For some, cannabis and college may go together like ... well, beer and college, or massive debt and college (and if you manage to show up to 8 a.m. lectures reeking more of Cypress Hill than frat row, points for diversity, anyway).  This is not the case in California, at least not when talki ... More >>

Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal, UC Hikers Jailed in Iran, Set Free

freethehikers.orgShane​The last two University of California jailed hikers have reportedly hopped a flight out of Tehran and are en route to America. Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal, who were convicted this year in Iran for spying on behalf of the United States, were seen by reporters leaving Evin pri ... More >>

Aleka Spurgeon-Heinrici, New UCSF Resident Doctor, Was Once a Drug User

This won't hurt a bit​The University of California will get a new resident physician next week with medical experience -- or at least drug experience -- beyond that of her peers.  Before cleaning herself up and going to medical school, Aleka Spurgeon-Heinrici snorted black tar heroin, smoked ... More >>

NCAA, UC, Sued By College Football Players

City College could have plenty of Favres in the making ​A San Francisco football player is suing the NCAA, Cal State, and the University of California, claiming they are keeping him and other junior college athletes from playing Division I sports. Reginald Davis, a full-time student at City Colle ... More >>

Wine and Awe at Omnivore

Gil Riego Jr./SFoodie​Terry Theise: Reading Between the Wines Where: Omnivore Books on Food, 3885a Cesar Chavez (at Church), 282-4712 When: Thu., Jan. 20, 6-7 p.m. Cost: Free The rundown: In Reading Between the Wines (University of California Press, $24.95), Terry Theise argues that wine o ... More >>

Pepper Spray, Arrests at U.C. Regents Meeting

The times have a-changed since Mario Savio's day...​Prior to a meeting in which the University of California board is set to vote upon an 8 percent tuition hike, protesters were arrested and pepper-sprayed outside U.C. San Francisco's Mission Bay campus. U.C. Spokesman Pete King told the press at ... More >>

University of California: Cop Who Pointed Gun at Crowd Did Nothing Wrong

KTVUProper procedure? ​The University of California and the U.C. Police Department are claiming today that a police officer who pointed his gun at a large and unruly crowd was within his rights. U.C. Office of the President communications director Lynn Tierney said UCSF Police Chief Pam Roskowski ... More >>

Court Rules Undocumented Students Can Pay In-State Tuition. Great, But a Job?

Waiting tables, Ben. Waiting tables. Wave of the future. ​ The California Supreme Court upheld a law yesterday that allows illegal immigrants who've attended California high schools for at least three years to pay in-state tuition at the state's public universities. Well, that's great news for the ... More >>

School District Requirements for College-Ready Students Don't Meet College Standards

Wait a minute! This doesn't add up! ​This year's going-back-to-school story has been that San Francisco public high schools are now requiring all incoming ninth graders to complete the 15 courses required for admission to the University of California or California State University systems. Known i ... More >>

July Literary Events

John Yoo Protests Planned For Berkeley Law School Graduation

Torture? Or graduation night beer-funneling?​Protesters are planning to attend graduation ceremonies this Friday at UC Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law to voice their displeasure at the continued presence of Bush Administration torturer's apprentice John Yoo on the law school's faculty.In a pre ... More >>

TelCo Foils Tin-Hat Crowd, Places Cell Tower on State Property

I want to believe...​Providing effective cell phone coverage in notoriously spotty San Francisco drives telcom executives to baroque political maneuvers as they site cell phone towers.That's because many people in San  Francisco believe cell-tower radiation causes health problems, despite a ... More >>

S.F. State Senator Blasts Pay Increases for U.C. Executives

 We recently wrote about a bevy of protesting University of California faculty members and researchers incensed that they were facing pay cuts and furlough days while top U.C. executives were earning more than the president of the United States -- or, even more unforgivably, Tim Lincecum. The ... More >>

July Book Events: Kevin Starr, Paul Krassner, Jaimal Yogis, and Alan Drew

Nokia, Defense Tech Wizards Unwittingly Help Mother Earth Rise Up Against Humanity

What are you doing, Dave? This is a two-hour spot!If Planet Earth were covered with trillions of synthetic brain cells, each monitoring its surroundings and communicating with neighbor cells, would it develop thoughts and feelings of its own? Would such a planet rise up against its human overlords i ... More >>

SF Gov InAction: Gavin Newsom Will Be Told That David Chiu Is Rejecting MUNI's Budget Sometime In Early 2011

From a numerical standpoint, the Supes are finally getting their act together. At the beginning of the year, we were lucky if they made it through four meetings a week. Now they're hitting six or seven almost every time. That's the good news. The bad news is that the number of meetings appare ... More >>

Jerome Rothenberg and Jefferey Robinson

Department of Shut the F*** Up Already: UC Berkeley Cunnilingus Lessons

SF Mayor Gavin Newsom, apparently unaware that moralists were plotting to ban gay marriage, stood in front of a video camera and gave them the perfect radio spot for promoting Proposition 8: "It is going to happen now, whether you like it or not," Newsom said. Kristine DeGuzman, appar ... More >>

Playing With Food

Last night, as the tryptophan was kicking in, we played Foodie Fight, a Trivial Pursuit-like game published by S.F.'s Chronicle Books. It was unexpectedly difficult overall, and we complained about that a lot, but there would always be an easy question or two just when we were about to get too frust ... More >>

DethKlok to Destroy DESTROYS UC Berkeley in Bloody Surge of Destructive Destruction

No Administrator Left Behind

The University of California system is embroiled in a scandal over perks and compensation for some of its highest-paid employees. Are they worth it? Find out where you stand!

The Chronicles of Ridicule

Only the San Francisco Chronicle makes so many mistakes that it is forced to waste paper partaking in meta-meta-journalism

Remember Los Alamos!

So some computers, disk drives, keys, and uranium have been "misplaced." Don't you still think UC should run the top-secret Los Alamos nuclear lab? Take quiz, find out.

Learning to Compete

Executives involved in outsourcing U.S. jobs should also become involved in sponsoring CA schools

A Question of Risk

Plans for a biodefense "hot lab" at Lawrence Livermore have ecologists, disarmament advocates, and mainstream scientists up in arms

The Oracle of San Francisco

No, not that jerk-led software behemoth down the Peninsula – the real Oracle, with the surefire, bet-the-house prophecies you deserve

Missed Interpretation

Deaf students wonder why officials at UC Berkeley and UC Davis won't hear their plea for equal access to education

Fallout

Newly released documents indicate the Navy dumped far more nuclear waste than it's ever acknowledged in a major commercial fishery just 30 miles west of San Francisco. Why won't the government even study the Farallon Islands Nuclear Waste Site?

Goop and Its Pleasures

Blackberry Ginger

Inside the Big Floop

Threatening Mount Zion means curtains for the clowns who have mismanaged the UCSF-Stanford hospital merger

Three Hours on a Saturday Morning

UC may drop the flawed SAT as an admission requirement. But are the other options any better?

Giving Away the Hospital

University of California regents are set to vote next week on finalizing a merger of the UCSF Medical Center with Stanford University's health service. Supporters claim the merger -- a transfer of $380 million in public assets to the private sector -- is

The Merger's Tangled Web

The Grid

UCSF's Mad Money

The Stanford-UCSF merger's tab -- including a "pro bono" review that cost $191,490 -- is running into the millions

Times Two

In the UCSF-Stanford merger, the busiest health care workers are the doctors of spin

Temperature Rising

The UCSF-Stanford merger goes under a (symbolic) gun

Mulch

Quota Quandary

As Proposition 209 seeks an end to affirmative action by state institutions, minority groups are conflicted

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