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On Aug. 27, about 7,000 people came out in Berkeley at several rallies and marches to oppose white supremacy and the far right’s latest attempt to use Berkeley as a staging ground for their campaigns of hate. This is a sea change. While 1,500 protested against Milo Yiannopoulos at UC
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As of Sept. 1, the campus has yet to release tickets for the Ben Shapiro speaking event hosted by Berkeley College Republicans and the Young America’s Foundation and scheduled for Sept. 14.
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Hello, newest Golden Bears! It is a great pleasure to welcome you to campus and to this extraordinary community of learning and discovery, where you will spend the next several years developing your mind and deepening your understanding of the world and those who inhabit it. In joining our campus
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At its regular Wednesday meeting, the ASUC Senate discussed the issue of free speech at UC Berkeley in light of several upcoming on-campus events featuring right-wing speakers organized by the Berkeley College Republicans.
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Mayor Jesse Arreguín urged the campus to cancel plans to host Milo Yiannopoulos during a student group’s upcoming “Free Speech Week,” as reported by the San Francisco Chronicle.
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Christopher M. Patti, chief campus counsel, was killed Sunday at the age of 59 in a fatal accident while bicycling in Sonoma County. Patti worked for the university starting in 1990 and began serving as the chief campus counsel in 2010. He handled legal issues across campus and provided legal advice to senior
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In defending and advocating the precept that “all speech should be heard,” you, the administrative head of a world-renowned institution of higher learning, have fallen victim to the most destructive fallacy which anyone who desires the development of knowledge can believe. “All speech should be heard” is nothing more than
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At a time when the removal of controversial monuments from public places has made national headlines, UC Berkeley finds itself revisiting concerns surrounding the names of several contentious buildings on campus.
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UC Berkeley’s fall 2017 new student convocation was much more a lively, raucous concert than a typical series of speeches.
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Conservative author and columnist Ben Shapiro will speak at Zellerbach Hall on Sept. 14, as confirmed by Chancellor Carol Christ in a press conference Tuesday morning.
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