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  • What does a yellow curb mean in Berkeley?

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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...
  • Who is Haas School of Business named after?

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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...
  • What is the student newspaper at UC Berkeley?

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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...
  • What is Cal’s mascot?

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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...
  • Which chemical element is named after Berkeley?

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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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