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Seven right-wing protesters tried and failed to enter a celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution at Revolution Books, a well-known local communist bookstore, on Sunday evening.
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At the ASUC Senate’s regular Wednesday meeting, senators pushed back against UC Berkeley’s interim guest speaker policy.
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Seeking guidance on security preparations, the University of Florida sent representatives to UC Berkeley during the now-canceled ‘Free Speech Week’ to formulate a plan for prominent white nationalist Richard Spencer’s appearance on the UF campus Thursday.
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On Oct. 5, BridgeUSA co-hosted a symposium with the Berkeley Center for New Media — BCNM — and the Graduate Assembly centered around free speech in the age of social media. To briefly recap: The event went well. Robert Reich and Chancellor Carol Christ delivered excellent keynote addresses, the panel
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Berkeley City Council will discuss proposals related to a city homeless fund and news helicopter noise, among other items, at its regular meeting Oct. 17.
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I fully agree with Mukund Rathi’s op-ed in your Oct. 6 issue. The op-eds that have expressed this point of view are spot-on. Older and more privileged people such as Erwin Chemerinsky are lost in the past and just don’t get it. There’s a huge difference between advocating for free
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It’s the shocked tones, the perplexed looks that take me aback, for it’s as though they see my decision to come to UC Berkeley as a lapse in judgment.
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Erwin Chemerinsky, the new dean of Berkeley Law, has been making waves in campus politics regarding free speech issues. Chemerinsky is a major constitutional law scholar, an outspoken liberal and a free speech absolutist. He’s the perfect figure to defend the UC Berkeley’s administration from people who are angry about
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I — like Chancellor Carol Christ and Vice Chancellor Oscar Dubón Jr. — am a staunch supporter of free speech and honor the university’s commitment to this constitutional right. I wish to suggest, however, as the university moves forward, that administrators devote an equal commitment of time, money and energy
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