Endowment fund created for Beahrs Environmental Leadership Program
The Rausser College of Natural Resources announced an endowment dedicated to Professor Malcom Kerr for the Beahrs Environmental Leadership Program.
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Jewish American students with IfNotNow movement stage sit-in at Berkeley Hillel
On Friday, a group of Jewish American students associated with the IfNotNow movement staged a sit-in at Berkeley Hillel, asking it to break ties with the Birthright Israel program.
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UC faculty must have right to boycott Israeli academic partnerships
UC Berkeley faculty members have quite rightly taken the UC administration to task for a recent statement, signed by all the system’s chancellors, that condemns Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, or BDS. The statement was issued in the name of protecting academic freedom when, in our own view, the only freedom under threat is the bedrock right of faculty and students to engage in political speech.
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University of California must allow faculty to boycott Israel in academia
On Dec. 13, the 10 UC chancellors took the unusual step of signing a collective statement that opposed the “academic boycott of Israeli academic institutions and/or individual scholars” as being a “direct and serious” threat to academic freedom. When some faculty members expressed concerns that such a high-level collective statement
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The autobiography that never happened — an interview with ‘Sadness is a White Bird’ author Moriel Rothman-Zecher
Whether because of their emotional significance or their relevance to an author’s life, certain stories refuse to remain a mere sticky-note idea.
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Campus group holds vigil to honor Israeli citizens affected by violence in the Middle East
Under the glow of the Campanile, about 40 students and community members gathered at a candlelight vigil Wednesday evening to commemorate Israeli citizens who have been killed or injured in recent acts of terror in the Middle East.
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Students for Justice in Palestine set up faux security checkpoint on Sproul
Approximately fifteen protesters erected two large, illustrated wood barriers at Sather Gate Wednesday afternoon as a public statement portraying Israeli-Palestinian relations and supporting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement.
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UN official calls for assistance to Palestinian refugees in Syria
Filippo Grandi, the commissioner-general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, stressed the need for humanitarian action to support Palestinian refugees affected by the conflict in Syria in a lecture at Berkeley Law School on Monday.
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Demonstrators stage mock military checkpoint by Sather Gate
About 15 demonstrators staged a mock military checkpoint by Sather Gate Monday afternoon in protest of Israeli soldiers’ presence on a main West Bank city thoroughfare. The checkpoint, which was in place around 1 p.m. for about half an hour, was part of a larger series of demonstrations to raise
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