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UC Berkeley announced Monday that it will settle a lawsuit brought against the campus over event policies that allegedly discriminated against high-profile speakers invited by conservative student groups.
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In thinking about the midterm elections, it is hard to not reflect on the UC Berkeley community’s political activism in response to the current presidential administration, and how such moments compare to the rich history of free speech on campus.
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Chancellor Carol Christ released a statement Monday outlining the campus’s next steps in updating its policy regarding free speech events, including the designation of free speech zones and increasing communication between administration and the campus community.
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The summit, which was launched by Politico in 2013, features influential women who work toward female empowerment and is “devoted to expanding leadership opportunities for all women,” according to Politico’s website.
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A federal judge denied UC Berkeley’s request to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that the campus discriminated against conservative speakers Wednesday.
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District Judge Maxine Chesney ruled Wednesday that the plaintiffs, Young America’s Foundation, or YAF, and Berkeley College Republicans, or BCR, adequately alleged that campus administrators applied broad “major events” policies to suppress conservative speech.
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The event was organized to demonstrate the campus’s interest in holding meaningful debates with people who hold different viewpoints, including conservative points of view.
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Conservative radio host Dennis Prager debated with two UC Berkeley students, aiming to challenge audience members to think critically about free speech as part of his “No Safe Spaces” event Tuesday.
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Berkeley College Republicans, or BCR, is hosting a Conservative Women in Media panel Thursday, with speakers including Conservative Review TV podcast host Allie Stuckey, founder of Lone Conservative Kassy Dillon and Antonia Okafor, an advocate for students’ rights to carry concealed weapons on campuses.
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We must cement a more coherent and explicit ontology of “free speech.” It is failure to clearly delineate the parameters of freedom of and freedom from speech
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