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Blog Beat: Harold Camping Says End of World on May 21 "A Mixed Bag"; UCB Student Hunger Strike

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  • SF Weekly interviewed Harold Camping, the president of Oakland's Family Church, the organization behind those billboards around California pegging the date of the end of the world as May 21. When asked whether he considered the end of the world good news, Camping said, "I tell you, it's a mixed bag."
  • Berkeleyside reports on UC Berkeley students on a hunger strike to protest the university's "consolidation of Ethnic Studies with other social science programs."
  • From Burrito Justice, check out this 360 degree panorama from the top of Corona Heights in San Francisco.

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