By Vimal Patel | New York Times The dean of Berkeley’s law school is known as a staunch supporter of free speech, but things became personal for him when pro-Palestinian students disrupted a celebratory dinner party for some 60 students at his home. Erwin Chemerinsky, the law school dean, hosted the dinner Tuesday night in … Read more
By Karen Breslau | Bloomberg Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of UC Berkeley’s School of Law and an ardent supporter of free speech, rebuked a group of students for staging a pro-Palestinian protest at his home as the fallout from Israel’s war in Gaza continues to roil US campuses. The incident on Tuesday evening occurred after a … Read more
BERKELEY — Two candidates have thrown their hats in the race to represent Berkeley’s District 7, a part of the city largely populated by university students. Cecilia Lunaparra, a senior at UC Berkeley studying history and urban studies, and James Chang, chief of staff for Councilmember Ben Bartlett and a graduate student at the Haas … Read more
BERKELEY — With two vacant seats open on the Berkeley City Council, voters will get the chance to name new representatives in two separate special elections running on slightly different schedules. Just weeks after Councilmember Rigel Robinson, the youngest councilmember in Berkeley history, resigned, citing escalating harassment, burn out and a wish to focus on … Read more
BERKELEY — With People’s Park successfully walled off by a fortress of double-stacked shipping containers following an overnight hostile takeover, activists lost the base that for years had served as the heart of organizing efforts and community aid. Instead, community members showed up on Friday to the nearby Amoeba Music at the corner of Telegraph … Read more
CNN — A Senate staffer is out of a job after the publication of a video appearing to show two men having sex in a Senate hearing room. Police are “looking into” the video, which was obtained and published by the Daily Caller. CNN has not independently obtained the video nor confirmed the identity of … Read more
