Why Chancellor Birgeneau is ready to step down

12-05-01 Why Robert Birgeneau is ready to step down

After nine years atop one of the world’s best universities, Chancellor Robert Birgeneau will be ending his reign in just about a month. His resignation, largely overshadowed by the now-infamous and now-nonexistent unibrow of Chancellor-Elect Nicholas Dirks, is now a looming inevitability. Yet, the physics professor appears to be intent Read More…

Clogging Berkeley: Real News Edition

SB 51 plays the name game. SB 51 ghostwriter not so ghostly anymore. Element 118 and gets it’s 1/1000 second of fame. [also NYT] Sea Scouts legal battleship sunk before we could call even call C-2. Oren Gabriel gets personal, recommends using [email protected] instead of [email protected] for SB 51 “comments”.

Breaking News: Three Senators Withdraw Support for SB 51

In what would have otherwise been an anti-climactic meeting of the ASUC Finance Committee, three senators withdrew their co-authorship and sponsorship of SB 51, the bill which would reimburse Oren Gabriel for the legal expenses he incurred this summer. It looked like nothing was going to happen for this week Read More…

Breaking News: Three Senators Withdraw Support for SB 51

In what would have otherwise been an anti-climactic meeting of the ASUC Finance Committee, three senators withdrew their co-authorship and sponsorship of SB 51, the bill which would reimburse Oren Gabriel for the legal expenses he incurred this summer. It looked like nothing was going to happen for this week Read More…

Come to the ASUC Meeting this Wednesday at 7

If you have not been keeping up with The Daily Cal’s coverage and commentary of Oren Gabriel’s attempt to get the ASUC legal defense fund to retroactively pay the legal fees he incurred this summer, now would be a good time to start. The ASUC Senate is voting on the Read More…

Come to the ASUC Meeting this Wednesday at 7

If you have not been keeping up with The Daily Cal’s coverage and commentary of Oren Gabriel’s attempt to get the ASUC legal defense fund to retroactively pay the legal fees he incurred this summer, now would be a good time to start. The ASUC Senate is voting on the Read More…

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Moving mountains with free soda at Chipotle

Not every action you take needs to move mountains. Obviously, the big battles we come across at UC Berkeley and beyond are important to fight. Budget cuts should cease, tuition hikes should stop in their tracks and the administration should always be accountable to students. However, it has been apparent Read More…

10 Ways To Avoid Cal Day

10 ways to avoid Cal Day

For all of us who shrink from the premise of human contact, Cal Day isn’t necessarily the most exciting time of year. The massive number of people jammed into the normally vast Sproul can bring out that inner sense of claustrophobia you held in as a child, and if you’re Read More…

Coming together for campus justice

Students for Justice in Palestine member discusses Birgeneau’s response to student assault

What does the marginalization of a large and diverse coalition of students look like? It looks something like Chancellor Robert Birgeneau’s statement that was recently released in response to SB 160, the ASUC bill that calls for targeted divestment from companies complicit in Israeli apartheid and illegal settlement. Birgeneau explained Read More…