Video: Ron Paul speaks at UC Berkeley
Presidential candidate Ron Paul spoke to a crowd of over 1000 on Thursday. Watch the full speech and read more here. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b7vVynunAw&w=702&h=400]
Letters: Jan. 29
Dirks responds to Columbia faculty criticism On Jan. 22, The Daily Californian published a letter from some of my Columbia colleagues that contains serious misrepresentations of what I actually said during the course of an introductory online video interview (still available through the UC Berkeley NewsCenter) that was released after Read More…
Make change that really matters this time
Voting for a third party candidate does have a long term impact on country
If you have spent any amount of time on Facebook in the last few weeks, chances are good you’ve seen a certain video about losing your political “virginity,” i.e., voting for president for the first time. Having been “barely illegal” by a few months in 2008, Nov. 6 was my Read More…
Campus hypocrisy during bake sale
In a letter this past Monday to the full campus mailing list, Chancellor Birgeneau, together with with Vice Chancellors Gibor Basri and Harry LeGrande, claimed that the Principles of Community “require … a positive intent not to hurt, offend, or denigrate others while expressing a reasoned position,” the implication being Read More…
What are rights without remedies?
Imagine the following scenario: a UC Berkeley administrator doesn’t care for a particular student group -— say, the Cal Students for Liberty — and decides to pursue trumped-up disciplinary charges against the organization’s active members. The university official even goes so far as to submit false evidence against our young Read More…
Biting with freethought
I get flipped off every Tuesday afternoon on Sproul Plaza. Why, you might ask, does such an irregular event occur to me on such a regular basis? The answer, dear reader, is that I am a libertarian at one of the most notoriously liberal universities in the nation: our beloved Read More…
Ron Paul will speak at UC Berkeley April 5
Ron Paul, a Texas congressman and Republican presidential candidate, will speak at UC Berkeley next Thursday. The campus town hall is being hosted by Students for Liberty and Youth for Ron Paul, according to a Facebook event. It will be held in Zellerbach Hall and is open to the public. Read More…
Ron Paul speaks to large crowd at UC Berkeley about his plan to ‘restore America’
More than 1,000 people gathered on Memorial Glade Thursday to see Republican presidential candidate and Texas congressman Ron Paul speak and outline his plan to “restore America.” Paul spoke on an array of issues, including the war on drugs, foreign policy, auditing the Federal Reserve and the importance of the Read More…
Ron Paul’s upcoming appearance at UC Berkeley draws varied reactions
The coming appearance of Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul, who will speak in Zellerbach Hall at 7 p.m. Thursday night, has been met with mixed responses from the campus community. The town hall is expected to draw a large crowd, but the turnout does not necessarily mean that students and faculty Read More…