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In the city of Berkeley, California, yellow curbs indicate commercial loading zones reserved for businesses to actively load and unload merchandise or materials. General vehicles may also stop at yellow curbs for up to three minutes to pick up and drop off passengers, and the driver must remain present with the vehicle. Commercial vehicles have a 20-minute parking limit at Read more...
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UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business is named after the late Walter A Haas Sr, a Berkeley alumnus and former president of Levi Strauss & Co. In 1989, his children donated $15 million, through the Walter & Elise Hass Fund, towards the construction of the school’s current building, at the time the largest donation ever made to Berkeley. In recognition Read more...
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The Daily Californian is the student-run newspaper covering the University of California, Berkeley campus and the city of Berkeley. The newspaper has been independent of the university since 1971 and is run entirely by current or recently-graduated UC Berkeley students and published by the nonprofit Independent Berkeley Students Publishing Company, Inc. Known informally as The Daily Cal, it is published Read more...
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The official mascot of the University of California, Berkeley is Oski the Bear, who represents the university’s California Golden Bears sports teams. Oski originated as a cartoon-strip character in Cal’s student newspaper, The Daily Californian, and made his real-life debut on September 27th, 1941, during Cal Football’s victory in a season opener against the Saint Mary’s Gaels. Previously, Cal had Read more...
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The element berkelium is named after the city of Berkeley, California. Berkelium was first produced in December 1949 by Stanley Thompson, Albert Ghiorso, and Glenn Seaborg in the 60-inch cyclotron housed at the University of California at Berkeley’s Crocker Laboratory. They bombarded americium-241 with helium nuclei (alpha particles) for several hours in the cyclotron to synthesize tiny amounts of the Read more...
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There are open air parking lots surrounding North Berkeley BART station. Permit lots are permit parking only between 4 am and 10 am, after which they operate as normal daily fee parking lots. Payment or permit is required in Fee parking lots on weekdays from 4 am to 3 pm and is free on weekends and holidays. The lots are Read more...
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Swimming is allowed at Lake Anza in Berkeley’s Tilden Regional Park in the designated beach area on weekends and holidays from around the end of April and on weekdays from the end of May until around mid-September. Swimming is prohibited from November onwards and when periods of poor water quality are identified by East Bay Regional Park District. When lifeguards Read more...
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The fifth-floor balcony of Unit 405 at 2020 Kittredge Street in downtown Berkeley collapsed in the early hours of June 16th, 2015, and a group of people standing on it fell to the street below. Five Irish students, Eoghan Culligan, Niccolai Schuster, Lorcán Miller, Eimear Walsh, Olivia Burke, and Olivia’s Irish-American cousin, Ashley Donohoe, all in their early 20s, died Read more...
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Tideline Marine operates a weekday scheduled water taxi commuter service as a loop from Berkeley Marina to San Francisco Pier 1.5 (next to the Ferry Building), onward to Pier 52 (for Mission Bay and the Chase Center) and back to Berkeley. There are two morning departures from Berkeley Marina’s K Dock (in front of the Harbormaster’s office) at 7:30 am Read more...
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The closest parking to the Greek Theatre at Berkeley is a few minutes walk away at the Stadium Parking Garage under Maxwell Family Field on Gayley Road between Cal Memorial Stadium and the Greek Theatre. Event parking charges range from $25 – $45. Read more...
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You can take an elevator up the Campanile (also known as the Sather Tower) followed by 38 steps to its 200-foot-high observation deck. It offers 360-degree views of the UC Berkeley Campus and, on clear days, as far as Oakland and San Francisco. The tower is open from 10 am daily and admission charges apply except for UC Berkeley students, Read more...
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Patty Hearst was kidnapped at gunpoint from her apartment at 2603 Benvenue Avenue in Berkeley on the evening of February 4th, 1974 by an urban guerrilla group called The Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA). Hearst, granddaughter of newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, was found in San Francisco 19 months later and arrested for crimes committed with members of the SLA, including Read more...
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Because it was the first school in the University of California system, before the UC system expanded to other California cities, the Berkeley campus was known simply as the University of California and often shortened to Cal. UC Berkeley’s sports teams are called the California Golden Bears and in athletic competition referred to as California or Cal. Read more...
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The first Peets Coffee store was opened by Alfred Peet in 1966 on Vine Street and Walnut Street in Berkeley, California. The location remains open today as a Peet’s coffee shop, but originally just sold coffee beans rather than drinks. Read more...
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The Campanile at Berkeley, also known as the Sather Tower, is 307 feet (or 94 meters) tall. Completed in 1915, the Gothic Revival-style tower, designed by architect John Galen Howard, is the tallest structure on the UC Berkeley campus and is the third-tallest clock and bell tower in the world. The tower’s observation platform is located at the 200-foot level. Read more...
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The nearest BART station to the University of California, Berkeley is Downtown Berkeley, which is served by trains running to and from Richmond. The campus is a block east of the station. Read more...