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Its collection covers 19 countries, represents over 30 languages and is made up of roughly 6,400 reference materials and periodicals, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/libraries/ssea-library\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">school\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those who use the S/SEAL describe it as a cozy and intimate space — a \u003ca href=\"https://news.lib.berkeley.edu/intellectual-legacy-campus-historian-endures-southsoutheast-asia-library\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">space\u003c/a> that's more than just to study or check out books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a place where they can find a sense of community,\" said Khatharya Um, an associate professor in the Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies program who also teaches and conducts research at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at UC Berkeley. \"It's the only dedicated space on this campus for them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the now-scrapped proposal, the S/SEAL would've made room for more offices, and the small library's collections, services and staffing would've been integrated \"with the rest of Doe Library,\" according to the call for comments \u003ca href=\"https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/call_for_public_comment_for_south_southeast_asia_library.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announcement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, the S/SEAL would've been swallowed up by the larger library system and no longer provide a single dedicated space for South and Southeast Asian works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The announcement prompted a swift and vocal mobilization. The ripples traveled beyond the school's — and even the nation's — borders. Students, staff, faculty and alumni amassed support from thousands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.change.org/p/uc-berkeley-library-save-the-south-southeast-asia-library-at-uc-berkeley?redirect=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">petition\u003c/a> to save the S/SEAL has garnered more than 8,500 signatures so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Um says the growing and highly diverse South Asian and Southeast Asian student population on campus were, among others, at the core of this mobilization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/psejenks/status/1374202787181981696\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley declined to speak to KQED on Monday afternoon, and announced it was withdrawing its proposal to close S/SEAL later that evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>University Librarian Jeffrey MacKie-Mason said since opening the public comment period two weeks ago, they \"received substantial input from scholars at Berkeley and beyond, and discussions on this feedback began almost immediately. We spent over a week consulting with decision makers; the decision that resulted from those discussions was announced Monday.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said, \"As soon as it became clear that the university had enough information to make a decision on the proposal, there was no reason to prolong the process.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Second Home; A Space for Rediscovery\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Kashi Gomez is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies at UC Berkeley. She's been a Cal student since 2009, when she began her undergraduate studies. And for the past 12 years, the S/SEAL — a room that fits only 40 seats and the university refers to as \"the smallest of our campus libraries\" — was to Gomez a place of solace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a first-generation college student who opted to live in an apartment in South Berkeley because dorms were too expensive, Gomez spent a considerable amount of time at the S/SEAL. 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Resources centralized in one location and carefully curated by the staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, the space holds a special place in her heart and was integral to her \"process of rediscovery.\" And she hoped other Southeast Asian students like herself would have the opportunity to embark upon a similar journey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She, and many others, said the university's reasoning to close the S/SEAL because it \"attracts the lowest foot traffic\" felt like the school was betraying its values to celebrate diversity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Varsano, the department chair, showed deep concern about the message S/SEAL's closure would send to the Asian community during a time when there have been increasing reports anti-Asian racism and violence against the AAPI community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's this terrible irony that while the campus absolutely seems to be behind these values [of diversity, equity and inclusion], that they would actually eliminate one of the rare spaces that serves this community both intellectually and culturally,\" Varsano said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last Wednesday, UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ released \u003ca href=\"https://news.berkeley.edu/2021/03/17/chancellor-christ-were-united-in-support-of-our-asian-american-community-members/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a letter\u003c/a> in support of the Asian American community and condemning the shootings in Atlanta, Georgia, that left eight people dead, six of whom were Asian women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Varsano, and many others, wrote letters to administrators, library officials and the Chancellor, asking they reconsider the closure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dismantling the S/SEAL would be \"reinforcing the logic that's behind a lot of the the violence and discrimination against Asians and Asian Americans in this country\" both in the present and in the past, said Trent Walker, an alum of UC Berkeley, where he earned a Ph.D. in Buddhist studies and now teaches at Stanford University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/vivientngo/status/1373759384937897987\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the loss of that space would contribute to the \"erasure and marginalization of Asians and Asian Americans in American society\" by devaluing languages and cultures that aren't Western, European and connected with white people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>South and Southeast Asia represent more than 19 countries and have about 2.5 billion people. \"A huge proportion of the world. 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"content": "\u003cp>In 2009, East Bay resident Lisa Teague lost their home. Eighteen months later – after living with a friend in Albany and moving between different motels in Oakland – they were able to secure housing through a Section 8 lottery. Teague’s new home was located near People’s Park, a few blocks from the UC Berkeley campus. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The park quickly became a beacon of comfort and community for them. Teague was able to make connections with the unhoused residents of the park and pick up meals or other donated resources. The park community also helped Teague immensely by welcoming them into a safe space. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was really shaky, I had a tough time,\" Teague said. \"The park community and the resources helped more than I can say until I got it together.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t until 2018 – when UC Berkeley announced plans to build a student housing development on the park's location – that Teague decided to join local organizers as a member of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/savepeoplespark/\">People's Park Committee\u003c/a>, a group dedicated to taking care of the park grounds and its residents by distributing meals in partnership with \u003ca href=\"https://eastbayfoodnotbombs.org/about/\">East Bay Food Not Bombs\u003c/a>. Teague said the university has done little to acknowledge the communal significance behind the park. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You would think that if they wanted to have a relationship with the city that they would respect the fact that People’s Park is a Berkeley landmark. It has been since 1984,” Teague said. “It’s a precious area to the city and they don’t seem to see that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11862379\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47352_018_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11862379\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47352_018_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47352_018_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47352_018_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47352_018_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47352_018_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lisa Teague receives a plate of food from the volunteer-run kitchen at People's Park in Berkeley on Feb. 19, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The history of People’s Park dates back to its creation in 1969 by Berkeley residents after a first attempt by UC Berkeley to build student housing on the site fizzled and the lot, which the university owns, was left deserted. On May 15, 1969 – which would become known as \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/chronicle_vault/article/People-s-Park-Bloody-Thursday-50-years-later-13845759.php\">Bloody Thursday\u003c/a> – police and sheriff’s deputies moved in, made arrests and sealed off the park's perimeter. Mass protests followed that action as students and members of the Berkeley community clashed with police. Dozens of people were injured, and a \u003ca href=\"https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/books/newfound-photos-mark-50th-anniversary-of-the-day-peoples-park-turned-deadly\">25-year-old bystander died days later after being hit by a police shotgun blast\u003c/a>. Then-Gov. Ronald Reagan called in the National Guard the following day. Students and faculty eventually voted to keep the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly 52 years later, UC Berkeley is again determined to reclaim the park, pointing to a dire need for student housing. The proposed development is expected to be up to 17 stories high and house over 1,000 students. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Alecia Harger, UC Berkeley student participating in the current People's Park occupation\"]'A lot of people have considered the development of People’s Park to be an unfortunate inevitability. And we are showing that it is not an inevitability and that we have the ability to push back.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, the university put up fencing, sectioning off areas of the park in order to conduct soil analysis — a process to determine the land’s seismic safety. In a response echoing 1969, students and local residents tore down the fencing, carried it four blocks and dumped it outside Sproul Hall. After the university was quick to resurrect the fencing, an occupation began at the park on Feb. 8, organized by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/peoplesparkberkeley/?igshid=1kis8zt5skpm3\">Save People’s Park Movement\u003c/a>. It continues on as students set up shifts in groups of 20 to 30 people to occupy alongside the park's residents. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alecia Harger, a UC Berkeley undergraduate student participating in the occupation, said the movement has gained more attention as videos and photos from the occupation and park events continue to be shared on Instagram. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that within the Berkeley community a lot of people have considered the development of People’s Park to be an unfortunate inevitability,” Harger said. “And we are showing that it is not an inevitability and that we have the ability to push back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each week, open meetings are planned and donations are distributed to residents of the park and other unhoused folks by volunteers and members of the People's Park Committee. Gardening events and film screenings are also frequently organized. The rise in student solidarity is also a result of heightened community organizing that reaches beyond the Berkeley campus. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has been one of the most powerful community-building experiences that I’ve had, certainly since the pandemic started and maybe in my life,” said Romeo Channer, a Mills College student. “Just the bonds formed in that space and the real immediate connections people make through mutual aid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11862389\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11862389\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign reads, 'Save Peoples Park, No More Buildings' at People's Park in Berkeley on Feb. 19, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The editorial board of The Daily Californian \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailycal.org/2021/02/16/a-park-by-and-for-the-people/\">published a piece\u003c/a> last week rejecting the current development plans and in support of the movement to preserve People’s Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"While the importance of supportive housing in Berkeley cannot be discounted, People’s Park — built for and by Berkeleyans — has never been, and never will be, a place for campus to do its bidding. The park should remain at the will of those who have the most stake in its future,\" said the editorial board of the student-run paper. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Kyle Gibson, director of communications for capital strategies at UC Berkeley, the development would also include supportive housing for low-income and formerly homeless people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are also committed to revitalizing a significant portion of the park as open space that will be inviting, safe and responsive to student and community needs and interests,” said Gibson. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Harger said she isn’t convinced. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The university is claiming to help unhoused people, claiming to help low-income people by building affordable housing, when they are the main driving forces of gentrification in our city,” Harger said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11862394\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47362_028_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11862394\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47362_028_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47362_028_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47362_028_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47362_028_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47362_028_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two men play chess at People's Park in Berkeley on Feb. 19, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many of the neighborhoods in the vicinity of the university have either been gentrified between 2000-2018 or are vulnerable to gentrification, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.urbandisplacement.org/san-francisco/sf-bay-area-gentrification-and-displacement\">Urban Displacement Project\u003c/a>. UC Berkeley currently \u003ca href=\"http://evcp.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/housing_master_plan_task_force_final_draft_january_2017.pdf\">has the lowest percentage\u003c/a> of beds for its student body in the entire UC system. And in 2019, Berkeley's homeless population \u003ca href=\"https://everyonehome.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/2019HIRDReport_Berkeley_2019-Final.pdf\">increased by 14%\u003c/a> within the span of two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ sent a campus-wide email with a \u003ca href=\"https://news.berkeley.edu/2021/02/22/an-update-from-chancellor-christ-on-two-uc-berkeley-student-housing-projects/\">student housing update.\u003c/a> Christ claimed that the People's Park housing development would benefit both the greater Berkeley community and the university's needs, and urged students and community members to review the plans on the \u003ca href=\"https://capitalstrategies.berkeley.edu/peoples-park-housing\">project website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I believe that we can and will serve the interests of all,\" Christ wrote. \"We deeply appreciate and share the concern so many of you have for unhoused people in our community, and that concern is at the heart of all that we currently do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The People's Park Committee quickly \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/10NzHFVWR2Q7ILLxlBUm62JceYmbSKAzS/view\">posted a response\u003c/a> defending their movement and counter-arguing each statement made by the chancellor. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The University’s narrative is predicated upon alleviating the student housing crisis, supporting Berkeley’s homeless community, and reducing crime in Berkeley. For numerous reasons, this is a manipulative facade,\" the People's Park Committee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Construction is not slated to begin until 2022. The UC Regents will have final say on the housing project later this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each week, open meetings are planned and donations are distributed to residents of the park and other unhoused folks by volunteers and members of the People's Park Committee. Gardening events and film screenings are also frequently organized. The rise in student solidarity is also a result of heightened community organizing that reaches beyond the Berkeley campus. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has been one of the most powerful community-building experiences that I’ve had, certainly since the pandemic started and maybe in my life,” said Romeo Channer, a Mills College student. “Just the bonds formed in that space and the real immediate connections people make through mutual aid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11862389\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11862389\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign reads, 'Save Peoples Park, No More Buildings' at People's Park in Berkeley on Feb. 19, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The editorial board of The Daily Californian \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailycal.org/2021/02/16/a-park-by-and-for-the-people/\">published a piece\u003c/a> last week rejecting the current development plans and in support of the movement to preserve People’s Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"While the importance of supportive housing in Berkeley cannot be discounted, People’s Park — built for and by Berkeleyans — has never been, and never will be, a place for campus to do its bidding. The park should remain at the will of those who have the most stake in its future,\" said the editorial board of the student-run paper. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Kyle Gibson, director of communications for capital strategies at UC Berkeley, the development would also include supportive housing for low-income and formerly homeless people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are also committed to revitalizing a significant portion of the park as open space that will be inviting, safe and responsive to student and community needs and interests,” said Gibson. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Harger said she isn’t convinced. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The university is claiming to help unhoused people, claiming to help low-income people by building affordable housing, when they are the main driving forces of gentrification in our city,” Harger said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11862394\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47362_028_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11862394\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47362_028_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47362_028_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47362_028_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47362_028_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47362_028_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two men play chess at People's Park in Berkeley on Feb. 19, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many of the neighborhoods in the vicinity of the university have either been gentrified between 2000-2018 or are vulnerable to gentrification, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.urbandisplacement.org/san-francisco/sf-bay-area-gentrification-and-displacement\">Urban Displacement Project\u003c/a>. UC Berkeley currently \u003ca href=\"http://evcp.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/housing_master_plan_task_force_final_draft_january_2017.pdf\">has the lowest percentage\u003c/a> of beds for its student body in the entire UC system. And in 2019, Berkeley's homeless population \u003ca href=\"https://everyonehome.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/2019HIRDReport_Berkeley_2019-Final.pdf\">increased by 14%\u003c/a> within the span of two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ sent a campus-wide email with a \u003ca href=\"https://news.berkeley.edu/2021/02/22/an-update-from-chancellor-christ-on-two-uc-berkeley-student-housing-projects/\">student housing update.\u003c/a> Christ claimed that the People's Park housing development would benefit both the greater Berkeley community and the university's needs, and urged students and community members to review the plans on the \u003ca href=\"https://capitalstrategies.berkeley.edu/peoples-park-housing\">project website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I believe that we can and will serve the interests of all,\" Christ wrote. \"We deeply appreciate and share the concern so many of you have for unhoused people in our community, and that concern is at the heart of all that we currently do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The People's Park Committee quickly \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/10NzHFVWR2Q7ILLxlBUm62JceYmbSKAzS/view\">posted a response\u003c/a> defending their movement and counter-arguing each statement made by the chancellor. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The University’s narrative is predicated upon alleviating the student housing crisis, supporting Berkeley’s homeless community, and reducing crime in Berkeley. 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"content": "\u003cp>Abdoul Aziz Sandotin Coulibaly has seen plenty of riots and civil unrest in his native Ivory Coast. But the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol this week shocked and saddened the 23-year-old UC Berkeley graduate student.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am not really sure if there will be any real inclusion or acceptance of diversity or end to racism in this country,” he wrote in an email to KQED. “Despite the constant praise of the U.S. as being a country that upholds democracy, this is a clear statement that the U.S. today is like a developing country – susceptible to coups and such actions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For international students like Coulibaly, attending school in the U.S. – and especially California – has long been held up as a dream. The state’s universities draw people from all over the world, many of whom arrive on these shores full of notions of inclusivity, openness and opportunity. Grappling with the caustic political climate is one challenge Coulibaly and fellow students from Africa studying at UC Berkeley have faced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic is another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has been hell,” said Coulibaly. “I never really thought I would have to go through something like that. And especially alone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Sustained by Dreams of California, Met With a Different Reality\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Coulibaly was just a little kid when civil war broke out in Ivory Coast in the early 2000s. Coulibaly said his family was forced to flee their home in the western city of Man as a militia swarmed in. It was a terrifying time – but the war subsided and life went on. Coulibaly was a good student, so he was sent to the capital city when he was just 13 years old to get a better education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Leaving my family, especially my mom, was extremely hard,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said what kept him going as a teenager in the big city all alone was the far-off dream of going to school in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was what was in my mind – the place where diverse people support each other and come together and flourish,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coulibaly was thrilled to get a scholarship to UC Berkeley as an undergrad. But he said it didn’t take long for his expectations to part ways with reality. One day at the library, he overheard a couple of fellow students saying they would never date a Black guy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That day really, really like broke that idea of diversity that I had in my heart,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On top of the racism he’s experienced on campus, Coulibaly said his life experiences don’t necessarily match up with those of the members of the school’s Black student groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even with the people that look like you, you don’t really understand the struggle that they have been through while being in this country,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Idris Muktar Ibrahim, UC Berkeley grad student studying remotely from Kenya\"]‘I’ve never been made aware of my skin color. I’ve never been made aware of where I’m from, or opportunities, or being privileged or not being privileged.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Coulibaly started studying for his doctorate in engineering this past fall, most of the friends he’d made as an undergrad had finished their degrees and moved on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So starting the grad program, I really felt isolated,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he’s reached out to his campus counselor and psychiatrist for help. But he wishes he could get more emotional support from his family. He said there’s a lot of stigma surrounding mental health issues in his home country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The way mental health is taken back home, just like, ‘you will be fine’ or ‘it’s gonna pass’ and stuff like this,” Coulibaly said. “So I had a lot of breakdowns.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While being an international student in the U.S. can be difficult overall, the situation is particularly acute for African students at Berkeley. There are \u003ca href=\"https://internationaloffice.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/student-stats2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">only around 60 students from Africa\u003c/a> at the school right now — about 1% of the international student population — and half of those are undergraduates. With such a small population, it can be hard to connect with people who have shared life experiences, especially during a pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11852656\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11852656\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46482_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.15.57-qut-800x509.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"509\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46482_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.15.57-qut-800x509.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46482_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.15.57-qut-1020x649.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46482_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.15.57-qut-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46482_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.15.57-qut-1536x977.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46482_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.15.57-qut.jpg 1642w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC Berkeley 2020 international student enrollment by country \u003ccite>(Courtesy Berkeley International Office)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Other than going out for occasional runs and bike rides, Coulibaly spends most of his time indoors. He said he’s just focused on getting through the next few months.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Remote Learning, Thousands of Miles Away\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Unlike Coulibaly, many of the international students that chose to enroll this year haven’t even set foot on campus because of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roughly \u003ca href=\"https://opa.berkeley.edu/campus-data/uc-berkeley-quick-facts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one-sixth\u003c/a> of UC Berkeley’s student population (and \u003ca href=\"https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/infocenter/fall-enrollment-glance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one-seventh\u003c/a> of the overall UC system student population) comes from outside the United States. And \u003ca href=\"https://internationaloffice.berkeley.edu/students/current/expenses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">they pay\u003c/a> more than twice as much in tuition fees and living expenses as their \u003ca href=\"https://admissions.berkeley.edu/cost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in-state counterparts\u003c/a>. International student enrollment was at an all-time high during the last academic year at Berkeley, at nearly 7,000 students. But \u003ca href=\"https://internationaloffice.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/student-stats2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the numbers plunged\u003c/a> for the fall 2020 semester, down to less than 6,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And getting a remote education has come with a whole different set of challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11852657\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11852657\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46483_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.24.02-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46483_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.24.02-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46483_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.24.02-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46483_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.24.02-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46483_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.24.02-qut-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46483_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.24.02-qut.jpg 1708w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC Berkeley international student enrollment over the years \u003ccite>(Courtesy Berkeley International Office)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s just been a roller coaster, basically,” said Idris Muktar Ibrahim, a master’s in journalism student at UC Berkeley who’s been studying remotely from Kenya.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that wild ride began during orientation when he came down with COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought I was dying,” Ibrahim said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 28-year-old scholarship student didn’t immediately seek medical help because he said there’s a culture of shame around the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So I kept it to myself,” he said. “I didn’t tell family. I didn’t tell anyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ibrahim eventually regained his health. But he continued to struggle, trying to keep up a day job to help put his siblings through school, at the same time as studying in the face of constant power and internet outages. And that’s to say nothing of the 11-hour time difference between his home in Nairobi and the U.S. west coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11852658\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11852658\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut-1122x1496.jpg 1122w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut-840x1120.jpg 840w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut-687x916.jpg 687w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut-414x552.jpg 414w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut-354x472.jpg 354w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC Berkeley journalism student Idris Muktar Ibrahim is currently studying from Nairobi. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Idris Muktar Ibrahim)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ibrahim’s journalism classes on Zoom typically begin at around 7 p.m. his time and run until 2 a.m. or 3 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would start the class like, high momentum, high energy,” he said. “But by the time it’s midnight, I’m like out. I’m done. I can’t even concentrate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He recently decided to quit his day job, working as a reporter for the German international broadcaster \u003ca href=\"https://www.dw.com/en/top-stories/s-9097\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Deutsche Welle\u003c/a>, so he can focus full time on his studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a sacrifice,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Ibrahim is nothing if not a survivor. He grew up in Korogocho, one of Nairobi’s toughest neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it made us mature at a very early age,” Ibrahim said. “We were forced to be adults when we were supposed to be kids.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said crime was an everyday occurrence. Ibrahim was in high school when his father – who had instilled in his son a love of books – was murdered by gang members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was like my turning point,” Ibrahim said. “And I started writing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He started submitting video stories about crime in his neighborhood to local news outlets and eventually started working regularly as a reporter, covering difficult topics like the \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7xpcz9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">widespread rape of Kenyan women\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.dw.com/en/the-gaping-hole-left-by-ethiopian-airlines-flight-et-302/av-52707218\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">plane crashes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ibrahim said he’s witnessed a lot of violence in Africa. But he’s worried about what’s in store for him in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve never been made aware of my skin color,” he said. “I’ve never been made aware of where I’m from, or opportunities, or being privileged or not being privileged.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ibrahim said systemic racism and the Black Lives Matter movement have been a hot topic of discussion in his UC Berkeley journalism classes. But like fellow African student Coulibaly, he’s found it hard to relate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I couldn’t actively participate in the discussion because I don’t understand the context,” he said. “I don’t relate the same to the issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea that he himself might be a target of racial violence frightened Ibrahim for a while.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s one of the reasons that got me thinking, like, do I really want to do this? Do I really want to move to America?” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite his fears, Ibrahim has decided to come to the U.S. anyway. There’s something about what Berkeley, in particular, represents that’s pulling him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>COVID-19-related travel restrictions permitting, he just found out he’ll be flying out next week – in time for the start of the spring semester.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Berkeley, I’ve always read, is a liberal university, is a center of democracy and protests,” he said. “So I want to see this for myself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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There are \u003ca href=\"https://internationaloffice.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/student-stats2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">only around 60 students from Africa\u003c/a> at the school right now — about 1% of the international student population — and half of those are undergraduates. With such a small population, it can be hard to connect with people who have shared life experiences, especially during a pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11852656\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11852656\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46482_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.15.57-qut-800x509.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"509\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46482_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.15.57-qut-800x509.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46482_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.15.57-qut-1020x649.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46482_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.15.57-qut-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46482_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.15.57-qut-1536x977.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46482_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.15.57-qut.jpg 1642w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC Berkeley 2020 international student enrollment by country \u003ccite>(Courtesy Berkeley International Office)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Other than going out for occasional runs and bike rides, Coulibaly spends most of his time indoors. He said he’s just focused on getting through the next few months.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Remote Learning, Thousands of Miles Away\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Unlike Coulibaly, many of the international students that chose to enroll this year haven’t even set foot on campus because of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roughly \u003ca href=\"https://opa.berkeley.edu/campus-data/uc-berkeley-quick-facts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one-sixth\u003c/a> of UC Berkeley’s student population (and \u003ca href=\"https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/infocenter/fall-enrollment-glance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one-seventh\u003c/a> of the overall UC system student population) comes from outside the United States. And \u003ca href=\"https://internationaloffice.berkeley.edu/students/current/expenses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">they pay\u003c/a> more than twice as much in tuition fees and living expenses as their \u003ca href=\"https://admissions.berkeley.edu/cost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in-state counterparts\u003c/a>. International student enrollment was at an all-time high during the last academic year at Berkeley, at nearly 7,000 students. But \u003ca href=\"https://internationaloffice.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/student-stats2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the numbers plunged\u003c/a> for the fall 2020 semester, down to less than 6,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And getting a remote education has come with a whole different set of challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11852657\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11852657\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46483_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.24.02-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46483_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.24.02-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46483_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.24.02-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46483_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.24.02-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46483_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.24.02-qut-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46483_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.24.02-qut.jpg 1708w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC Berkeley international student enrollment over the years \u003ccite>(Courtesy Berkeley International Office)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s just been a roller coaster, basically,” said Idris Muktar Ibrahim, a master’s in journalism student at UC Berkeley who’s been studying remotely from Kenya.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that wild ride began during orientation when he came down with COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought I was dying,” Ibrahim said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 28-year-old scholarship student didn’t immediately seek medical help because he said there’s a culture of shame around the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So I kept it to myself,” he said. “I didn’t tell family. 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"content": "\u003cp>When the UC Berkeley campus shuts down for the winter break, student Abdoul Aziz Sandotin Coulibaly usually returns home to spend the holidays with his family in the western Ivory Coast city of Man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We follow the traditional way,” Coulibaly said to KQED about his family holiday traditions in Africa. “Just getting some chicken, and then cook and eat together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 23-year-old graduate student studying for a Ph.D. in structural engineering is stuck in Berkeley because of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has been hell,” Coulibaly said. “I never really thought I would have to go through something like that. And especially alone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Abdoul Aziz Sandotin Coulibaly']‘It has been hell … I never really thought I would have to go through something like that. And especially alone.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With cases of the coronavirus increasing around the globe and a no-travel advisory in full force across the Bay Area, many people are making the difficult choice to spend the holidays without family and friends. But for international students like Coulibaly, who infrequently see their families throughout the school year due to distance and cost of travel, it’s an especially bittersweet time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coulibaly ultimately made the decision to stay in the Bay Area due to the complicated travel guidance both here and at home, and because of concern about the spread of the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Life at UC Berkeley has never been easy. Coulibaly has been at the school for a while. But while he made many friends as an undergrad, they’ve mostly all graduated and moved on, while he stayed behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So starting the grad program, I really felt isolated,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the pandemic has only made those feelings of isolation worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While being an international student in the U.S. can be difficult overall, the situation is particularly acute for African students at Berkeley. There are \u003ca href=\"https://internationaloffice.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/student-stats2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">only around 60 students from Africa\u003c/a> at the school right now — about 1% of the international student population — and half of those are undergraduates. With such a small population, it can be hard to connect with people who have shared life experiences, especially during a pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11852656\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11852656\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46482_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.15.57-qut-800x509.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"509\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46482_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.15.57-qut-800x509.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46482_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.15.57-qut-1020x649.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46482_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.15.57-qut-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46482_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.15.57-qut-1536x977.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46482_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.15.57-qut.jpg 1642w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC Berkeley 2020 international student enrollment by country \u003ccite>(Courtesy Berkeley International Office)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the same time, Coulibaly said it’s been tough to fit in with Berkeley’s Black and African American student groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even with the people that look like you, you don’t really understand the struggle that they have been through being in this country,” Coulibaly said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Coulibaly has a generous scholarship, he’s had to work side jobs on campus to send extra cash back home to his family in the Ivory Coast, though this type of work is currently on hold while the school is closed for winter break.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s also been navigating issues of racism and discrimination on campus, like the time he overheard a couple of students say they would never date a Black guy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never experienced that before coming to the United States,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coulibaly said he’s reached out to his campus counselor and psychiatrist for help. But he wishes he could get more emotional support from his family. He said there’s a lot of stigma surrounding mental health issues in his home country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The way mental health is taken back home, just like ‘you will be fine’ or ‘it’s going to pass’ and stuff like this. So I had a lot of breakdowns,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, Coulibaly said, he’s just focused on getting through the holiday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m listening to African music from home and cooking. That’s all I can do,” he said. “And I’m hoping that this situation gets better and be at least able to go home next winter break.” [ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Remote Learning, Thousands of Miles Away\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Unlike Coulibaly, many of the international students that chose to enroll this year haven’t even set foot on campus because of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roughly \u003ca href=\"https://opa.berkeley.edu/campus-data/uc-berkeley-quick-facts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one-sixth\u003c/a> of UC Berkeley’s student population comes from outside the U.S. And \u003ca href=\"https://internationaloffice.berkeley.edu/students/current/expenses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">they pay\u003c/a> more than twice as much in tuition fees and living expenses as their \u003ca href=\"https://admissions.berkeley.edu/cost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in-state counterparts\u003c/a>. International student enrollment was at an all-time high during the last academic year, at nearly 7,000 students. But \u003ca href=\"https://internationaloffice.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/student-stats2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the numbers plunged\u003c/a> for the fall 2020 semester, down to less than 6,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And getting a remote education has come with a whole different set of challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11852657\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11852657\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46483_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.24.02-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46483_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.24.02-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46483_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.24.02-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46483_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.24.02-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46483_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.24.02-qut-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46483_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.24.02-qut.jpg 1708w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC Berkeley international student enrollment over the years \u003ccite>(Courtesy Berkeley International Office)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s just been a roller coaster, basically,” said Idris Muktar Ibrahim, a journalism student.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ibrahim said he’d prefer to be on campus. But since UC Berkeley classes have been happening online during the pandemic, it made more sense for him to stay in Nairobi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I haven’t been to Berkeley. I was really excited, like, when I got the news that I’ve been accepted,” he said. “It’s my dream. I really want to do a graduate program, because of the networking and, of course, enhance my skills.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But going to school remotely means dealing with the 11-hour time difference between his home in Nairobi and the U.S. west coast. Ibrahim’s classes on Zoom typically begin at around 7 p.m. Nairobi time and run till 2 or 3 in the morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11852658\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11852658\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut-1122x1496.jpg 1122w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut-840x1120.jpg 840w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut-687x916.jpg 687w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut-414x552.jpg 414w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut-354x472.jpg 354w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC Berkeley journalism student Idris Muktar Ibrahim is currently studying from Nairobi. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Idris Muktar Ibrahim)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He said he plans to spend most of this holiday season recovering from the fall semester.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m sleeping, first of all,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 28-year-old scholarship student also said he’s been hammered by intermittent tech outages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the middle of class, the power goes off, or there’s no internet,” Ibrahim said. “I miss a lot of the lectures and the discussions. It really frustrates me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All this after working a full shift at his day job, producing video news stories for the German international broadcaster \u003ca href=\"https://www.dw.com/en/top-stories/s-9097\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Deutsche Welle \u003c/a>— like \u003ca href=\"https://www.dw.com/en/the-gaping-hole-left-by-ethiopian-airlines-flight-et-302/av-52707218\">this one\u003c/a> commemorating the anniversary of an Ethiopian Airlines flight crash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As if things weren’t already hard, Ibrahim came down with COVID-19 at the start of the fall semester.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought I was dying, to be honest with you,” Ibrahim said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, he’s made a full recovery, and decided to quit his day job so he can focus full time on his studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a sacrifice,” he said — one of many he has to make this holiday season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He hopes to make it to the UC Berkeley campus sometime next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Remote Learning, Thousands of Miles Away\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Unlike Coulibaly, many of the international students that chose to enroll this year haven’t even set foot on campus because of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roughly \u003ca href=\"https://opa.berkeley.edu/campus-data/uc-berkeley-quick-facts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one-sixth\u003c/a> of UC Berkeley’s student population comes from outside the U.S. And \u003ca href=\"https://internationaloffice.berkeley.edu/students/current/expenses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">they pay\u003c/a> more than twice as much in tuition fees and living expenses as their \u003ca href=\"https://admissions.berkeley.edu/cost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in-state counterparts\u003c/a>. International student enrollment was at an all-time high during the last academic year, at nearly 7,000 students. But \u003ca href=\"https://internationaloffice.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/student-stats2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the numbers plunged\u003c/a> for the fall 2020 semester, down to less than 6,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And getting a remote education has come with a whole different set of challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11852657\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11852657\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46483_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.24.02-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46483_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.24.02-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46483_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.24.02-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46483_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.24.02-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46483_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.24.02-qut-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46483_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.24.02-qut.jpg 1708w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC Berkeley international student enrollment over the years \u003ccite>(Courtesy Berkeley International Office)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s just been a roller coaster, basically,” said Idris Muktar Ibrahim, a journalism student.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ibrahim said he’d prefer to be on campus. But since UC Berkeley classes have been happening online during the pandemic, it made more sense for him to stay in Nairobi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I haven’t been to Berkeley. I was really excited, like, when I got the news that I’ve been accepted,” he said. “It’s my dream. I really want to do a graduate program, because of the networking and, of course, enhance my skills.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But going to school remotely means dealing with the 11-hour time difference between his home in Nairobi and the U.S. west coast. 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"content": "\u003cp>Some 10,000 UC Berkeley staffers can expect to see reductions in pay beginning in February to \"confront the pandemic’s significant and persistent impacts on our finances,\" according to \u003ca href=\"https://hr.berkeley.edu/campus-salary-and-time-reduction-program\">a statement\u003c/a> issued Tuesday from the university's chancellor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her message to campus employees, Carol Christ said the university will implement a year-long program of furloughs starting Feb. 1, 2021 for non-unionized staff and faculty. Unionized staff time will also be reduced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christ said the cuts, which are organized in six tiers according to income levels, are meant to protect the lowest-income workers on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Consistent with our commitment to equity, employees earning less than $59,000 will be exempted, with progressive, graduated reductions up to a top rate of 3.84% for those earning more than $234,000,\" Christ said in the statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cuts are expected to generate roughly $27 million in savings for the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"uc-berkeley\"]The university also recently froze faculty and non-union staff pay, setting aside some $10 million to minimize layoffs, particularly for low-income staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Christ said even with those cuts, the university still faces a $200 million shortfall as a result of pandemic-related losses and additional costs. The school, she added, plans to take additional steps to fill that hole by digging further into its reserves and taking out more loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley's equity-focused approach is in line with a recent message from University of California President Michael Drake urging the system's 10 campuses to prioritize the protection of low-income workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’re discussing programs that we can use to try to find ways to meet our budgetary gap while doing all we can to protect our lowest-income workers. Those are often the most vulnerable in our population,\" Drake told reporters last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her letter, Christ also announced a set of longer-term financial strategies for the university. They include expanding remote learning capacity, finding ways to monetize the intellectual property created by its research efforts, increasing philanthropy and urging state legislators to restore public funding levels. Three decades ago the state provided half of UC Berkeley’s revenue; \u003ca href=\"https://calparents.berkeley.edu/the-funding-conundrum-cals-dwindling-state-support/#:~:text=Since%20UC%20Berkeley%20is%20a,vast%20majority%20of%20Cal's%20budget.&text=Today%2C%20the%20state%20funds%20just,other%20sources%20cover%20the%20rest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">today, it covers roughly one-seventh\u003c/a> of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are active and engaged in Sacramento,\" Christ said in her letter. \"We are making the case for reliable, consistent levels of state funding that are commensurate with the University’s contributions to the state’s economic, scientific, and cultural vitality.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wendy Brown, a UC Berkeley political science professor, said she thinks the cuts should be even more progressive, \"protecting all salaries under $100,000 and cutting more deeply at the upper end, where only privilege, not survival, is at stake.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown also urged the administration to siphon additional funds from certain programs and projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Of course, other things should be on the chopping block, such as the scandalously expensive and exploitative Division I athletics program that is irrelevant to the university’s research and teaching mission,\" she said in an email. \"Or the newly renovated and barely used football stadium, debt service for which sits on the entire university budget like a two-ton boulder.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>The Bay Area’s flagship public university, UC Berkeley, is trying to work its way out of an unprecedented \u003ca href=\"https://news.berkeley.edu/2020/07/15/update-on-budget-expense-reduction-measures/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$340 million deficit\u003c/a> due to the pandemic. And that means some of the hardest-hit departments and individuals on campus are having to fend for themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The campus has seen plunging revenue on several fronts, including $35 million gone in tuition fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We had about 800 students that decided not to come back to the fall,\" said Rosemarie Rae, Berkeley's vice chancellor of finance and chief financial officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11849562\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1806px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11849562\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/rosemarie-rae-scaled.jpg\" alt='\"\"' width=\"1806\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/rosemarie-rae-scaled.jpg 1806w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/rosemarie-rae-800x1134.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/rosemarie-rae-1020x1446.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/rosemarie-rae-160x227.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/rosemarie-rae-1084x1536.jpg 1084w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/rosemarie-rae-1445x2048.jpg 1445w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/rosemarie-rae-1920x2722.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1806px) 100vw, 1806px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rosemarie Rae, Berkeley's vice chancellor of finance and chief financial officer. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of UC Berkeley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Then there's the $100 million to $140 million anticipated loss in housing and dining income. Plus $33 million in revenue from sports events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On top of all of the losses, Rae pointed to tens of millions of dollars in additional pandemic-related expenses — from COVID-19 testing and sanitization, to upgrading systems to accommodate remote learning and meetings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a lot of pain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s been especially tough for Rae herself, who came in seven years ago to oversee the university’s complex $3 billion budget. She spent those years getting the campus out of a $150 million shortfall caused by declining state support, years of frozen tuition and substantial long-term debt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're fragile,\" Rae said. \"We were already running skinny as we came into COVID-19.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university isn't reducing tuition costs — a pain-point for many students who decided to go ahead with their studies during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of students are frustrated with this because we have a lot of fees here at Berkeley, like campus service fees and student service fees,\" said Victoria Vera, political science major and student union president. \"Their argument is, 'If I'm not on campus and I'm not in the area to utilize these services, why should I pay into them?' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rae said the school's strategy for getting back on financial track includes digging into reserves, taking out loans and relying on federal support. Berkeley has received approximately $30 million in federal CARES Act funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she said revenue-generating areas like athletics, and housing and dining, are supposed to be self-sustaining. So aside from some loans that UC Berkeley is making available to these areas, they’re largely on their own when it comes to navigating financial challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Victoria Vera, political science major and student union president']'A lot of students are frustrated with this because we have a lot of fees here at Berkeley, like campus service fees and student service fees ... 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The original financial projections, based on an entirely canceled season, were harsh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You're talking about losing 50% of your revenue just like that,\" Lowry said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that some competitive play has started up again, Lowry said the financial picture is looking less grim. But he said the projections could change again with COVID-19 cases now on the upswing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our employees may sustain some unpaid time off in order to deal with this financial crisis,\" he said. [ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Athletics isn’t the only part of campus taking a long, hard look at workforce costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CFO Rae said, \"65 percent of our budget is related to salaries and benefits. So if we're going to try to contain our costs, it primarily happens there.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rae said the entire campus has implemented a hiring freeze. Some top administrators and senior athletics staff took a 10% dip in pay. And there have been well over 100 temporary layoffs, mainly in the realms of Housing & Dining, and Cal Performances, the university's performing arts presenter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omar Prevost is one of the people the university temporarily let go. He's lead custodian at The Golden Bear Cafe, one of the few eateries currently open on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11849510\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11849510\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46183_IMG_4907-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46183_IMG_4907-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46183_IMG_4907-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46183_IMG_4907-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46183_IMG_4907-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46183_IMG_4907-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46183_IMG_4907-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46183_IMG_4907-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46183_IMG_4907-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46183_IMG_4907-qut-536x402.jpg 536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46183_IMG_4907-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Golden Bear Cafe. One of few eateries currently open on Berkeley's campus. The school's housing and dining operations have sustained enormous losses as a result of the pandemic. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"We're doing simple stuff like coming out every 30 minutes and doing wipe downs on all high contact point areas inside and outside,\" he told KQED while making his rounds one recent lunch time as students chatted and ate around him on the Golden Bear's sunny patio. \"Just trying to stay on pace.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prevost said he was out of work for five months while The Golden Bear was closed. According to UC Berkeley's media relations office, just over 100 campus dining services employees were temporarily laid off as a result of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was the most challenging time,\" Prevost said. \"I definitely learned something about budgeting.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prevost said since he's come back to work, he's been sharing his hard-earned financial know-how with his co-workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Especially with some of the newer people that are working here,\" he said. \"Like, a lot of us don't make a significant amount of money.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley reports no \u003cem>permanent\u003c/em> layoffs so far. However, that doesn’t take into account the roughly 100 lecturers — non-tenure-track teaching staff, also known as \"adjunct professors\" — who were on payroll last academic year, but not this one. [aside tag=\"higher-education\" label=\"more coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They're usually hired on one-semester or one-year contracts that often aren't renewed,\" said Mia McIver, president of the \u003ca href=\"https://ucaft.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">University Council-American Federation of Teachers (UC-AFT)\u003c/a>, the union that advocates for non-tenure-track instructors in the UC system, and a lecturer in the writing program at UCLA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley has set aside $10 million to minimize COVID-19-related layoffs, especially for low-income staff, funded through faculty and non-union staff pay freezes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though they praise the administration's handling of COVID-19-related health and safety measures, some of Berkeley's tenure-track professors are not happy with this type of approach to solving the university's short- and long-term financial woes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're concerned that the already uncompetitive salaries that we have — that don't really sustain a reasonable quality of life in the Bay Area for many — are going to be furloughed,\" said history professor and Berkeley Faculty Association co-chair James Vernon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His concerns will not be unfounded if Berkeley moves ahead with further proposed cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley's financial challenges mirror what's happening in the UC system overall. Since the onset of COVID-19, the 10 campuses have sustained around $1.4 billion in lost revenue and other costs, according to the UC Office of the President.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Campuses are using federal CARES Act funding and reserves to mitigate the negative impacts of some of the losses,\" said Office of the President spokesperson Stett Holbrook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many members of the Berkeley community are saying all of this belt-tightening points to a deeper systemic problem with how we fund higher education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need support as a public institution,\" said student union president Vera. \"We need support from our state government and we need support from our federal government, too.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='James Vernon, history professor and Berkeley Faculty Association co-chair']'Our campus leaders haven’t done a good enough job articulating why UC Berkeley education is a public good that should get publicly funded.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three decades ago, the state provided half of Berkeley’s revenue. \u003ca href=\"https://calparents.berkeley.edu/the-funding-conundrum-cals-dwindling-state-support/#:~:text=Since%20UC%20Berkeley%20is%20a,vast%20majority%20of%20Cal's%20budget.&text=Today%2C%20the%20state%20funds%20just,other%20sources%20cover%20the%20rest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Today, it covers roughly one-seventh\u003c/a>. Vernon said instead of focusing on cost-cutting measures and pursuing more commercial income streams, Berkeley should redouble its efforts to make the case for increased public funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our campus leaders haven’t done a good enough job articulating why UC Berkeley education is a public good that should get publicly funded,\" Vernon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rae said the university is continuing to advocate for more state and federal funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Budget Act of 2020 included a stipulation that would have enabled campuses to receive up to $169.2 million. According to the UC Office of the President, this would have represented a 5% increase in funding equivalent to the FY20-21 state budget allocation before the pandemic. But Congress did not approve those funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rae said Berkeley alone would have received around $40 million from the state if the funding had been approved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, arguably the main reason for Berkeley's existence — its students — are getting hurt as a result of the longstanding drop in state support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When we don't get the proper funding we need to maintain our university, that impacts marginalized students in particular,\" Vera said. \"Not having access to tutoring, to retention recruitment programing, to affordable housing, it really impacts what it's like to be a current student, what it's like to live in the Bay Area.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The Bay Area’s flagship public university, UC Berkeley, is trying to work its way out of an unprecedented \u003ca href=\"https://news.berkeley.edu/2020/07/15/update-on-budget-expense-reduction-measures/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$340 million deficit\u003c/a> due to the pandemic. And that means some of the hardest-hit departments and individuals on campus are having to fend for themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The campus has seen plunging revenue on several fronts, including $35 million gone in tuition fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We had about 800 students that decided not to come back to the fall,\" said Rosemarie Rae, Berkeley's vice chancellor of finance and chief financial officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11849562\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1806px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11849562\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/rosemarie-rae-scaled.jpg\" alt='\"\"' width=\"1806\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/rosemarie-rae-scaled.jpg 1806w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/rosemarie-rae-800x1134.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/rosemarie-rae-1020x1446.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/rosemarie-rae-160x227.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/rosemarie-rae-1084x1536.jpg 1084w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/rosemarie-rae-1445x2048.jpg 1445w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/rosemarie-rae-1920x2722.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1806px) 100vw, 1806px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rosemarie Rae, Berkeley's vice chancellor of finance and chief financial officer. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of UC Berkeley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Then there's the $100 million to $140 million anticipated loss in housing and dining income. Plus $33 million in revenue from sports events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On top of all of the losses, Rae pointed to tens of millions of dollars in additional pandemic-related expenses — from COVID-19 testing and sanitization, to upgrading systems to accommodate remote learning and meetings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a lot of pain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s been especially tough for Rae herself, who came in seven years ago to oversee the university’s complex $3 billion budget. She spent those years getting the campus out of a $150 million shortfall caused by declining state support, years of frozen tuition and substantial long-term debt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're fragile,\" Rae said. \"We were already running skinny as we came into COVID-19.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university isn't reducing tuition costs — a pain-point for many students who decided to go ahead with their studies during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of students are frustrated with this because we have a lot of fees here at Berkeley, like campus service fees and student service fees,\" said Victoria Vera, political science major and student union president. \"Their argument is, 'If I'm not on campus and I'm not in the area to utilize these services, why should I pay into them?' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rae said the school's strategy for getting back on financial track includes digging into reserves, taking out loans and relying on federal support. Berkeley has received approximately $30 million in federal CARES Act funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she said revenue-generating areas like athletics, and housing and dining, are supposed to be self-sustaining. So aside from some loans that UC Berkeley is making available to these areas, they’re largely on their own when it comes to navigating financial challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Athletics isn’t the only part of campus taking a long, hard look at workforce costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CFO Rae said, \"65 percent of our budget is related to salaries and benefits. So if we're going to try to contain our costs, it primarily happens there.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rae said the entire campus has implemented a hiring freeze. Some top administrators and senior athletics staff took a 10% dip in pay. And there have been well over 100 temporary layoffs, mainly in the realms of Housing & Dining, and Cal Performances, the university's performing arts presenter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omar Prevost is one of the people the university temporarily let go. He's lead custodian at The Golden Bear Cafe, one of the few eateries currently open on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11849510\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11849510\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46183_IMG_4907-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46183_IMG_4907-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46183_IMG_4907-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46183_IMG_4907-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46183_IMG_4907-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46183_IMG_4907-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46183_IMG_4907-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46183_IMG_4907-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46183_IMG_4907-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46183_IMG_4907-qut-536x402.jpg 536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46183_IMG_4907-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Golden Bear Cafe. One of few eateries currently open on Berkeley's campus. The school's housing and dining operations have sustained enormous losses as a result of the pandemic. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"We're doing simple stuff like coming out every 30 minutes and doing wipe downs on all high contact point areas inside and outside,\" he told KQED while making his rounds one recent lunch time as students chatted and ate around him on the Golden Bear's sunny patio. \"Just trying to stay on pace.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prevost said he was out of work for five months while The Golden Bear was closed. According to UC Berkeley's media relations office, just over 100 campus dining services employees were temporarily laid off as a result of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was the most challenging time,\" Prevost said. \"I definitely learned something about budgeting.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prevost said since he's come back to work, he's been sharing his hard-earned financial know-how with his co-workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Especially with some of the newer people that are working here,\" he said. \"Like, a lot of us don't make a significant amount of money.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley reports no \u003cem>permanent\u003c/em> layoffs so far. However, that doesn’t take into account the roughly 100 lecturers — non-tenure-track teaching staff, also known as \"adjunct professors\" — who were on payroll last academic year, but not this one. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>After a formal review process lasting four months, officials at UC Berkeley announced the removal of the names on two of its buildings on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LeConte Hall, comprised of a north and south wing housing the physics department, and the social sciences-oriented Barrows Hall, which also houses campus radio station KALX, will be renamed because of their namesakes’ racist and white supremacist legacies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nineteenth-century science professor Joseph LeConte came from a slave-owning confederate family and used scientific language to promote racist ideas. LeConte's brother, John, also taught science at the university and shared similar ideas. Both brothers served the South in the Civil War.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Despite their service to the university, the brothers’ words and deeds profoundly conflict with our values, and with our commitment to equity, inclusion and a true sense of belonging for every member of our community,\" wrote UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ in a \u003ca href=\"https://news.berkeley.edu/2020/11/18/chancellor-christ-on-the-unnaming-of-leconte-and-barrows-halls/\">statement\u003c/a> on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Melissa Charles, assistant director of African American student development at UC Berkeley\"]'Unnamings are just the tip of the issue. They’re a step in the right direction — a necessary step, but a small step.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Prescott Barrows was UC president from 1919 to 1923, and was also a white supremacist. A participant on the front lines of U.S. colonialism in the Philippines, he peppered his writings with dehumanizing statements about people of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Barrows' words and actions were anti-Black, anti-Filipinx, anti-Indigenous, xenophobic and Anglocentric” and “advanced the interests of white supremacy,” the \u003ca href=\"https://chancellor.berkeley.edu/task-forces/building-name-review-committee/building-name-review-barrows-hall\">proposal\u003c/a> to un-name Barrows Hall stated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until the buildings receive new names, university officials said the two wings of LeConte Hall will be known as \"Physics South\" and \"Physics North.\" Barrows Hall will be called \"The Social Sciences Building.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it's a step towards increasing inclusion on our campus and challenging our historic lens of the university,\" student union president and fourth year undergraduate political science major Victoria Vera told KQED earlier this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vera said UC Berkeley is forming a task force to consider how to rename the buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, the university removed namesake John Henry Boalt from its law school, due to his racist leanings. That building is currently called \"The Law Building.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11798912]In her statement, Chancellor Christ said the removal of legacy namesakes from buildings is part of a larger process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have committed my administration to doing everything in its power to identify and eliminate racism, wherever it may be found on our campus and in our community,\" Christ said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unnamings are just the tip of the issue,\" said Melissa Charles, UC Berkeley’s assistant director of African American student development. \"They’re a step in the right direction — a necessary step, but a small step.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>UC Berkeley has long been a national hub for student activism, from the free speech rallies of the 1960s to more recent protests to block far-right figureheads like Anne Coulter and Milo Yiannopoulos from speaking on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Miyako Iwata, a UC Berkeley senior\"]'There is this myth that our vote, especially as California voters, is just a drop in the bucket and that it doesn't make a difference. But the fact of the matter is that actually our vote has a huge potential to make our voices heard.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sproul Plaza is usually the bustling heart of those activism efforts, not to mention one of the most trafficked thoroughfares on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But these days, with many COVID-19 restrictions still in place, the plaza is pretty sleepy; aside from the sound of maintenance trucks, it's largely empty and quiet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Usually there are students handing fliers directly in your face about issues that they're passionate about and organizations that they want you to join,\" said UC Berkeley junior and student activist Sam Warren, describing a typical pre-pandemic scene at the plaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, however, university officials are barring large in-person gatherings on campus because of the pandemic. But that has hardly stopped students from continuing to campaign for causes they care about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is an unprecedented semester,\" said Nicole Anyanwu, a senior majoring in molecular biology. \"Students are going to school online, but they don't have access to the same academic resources at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A student senator, Anyanwu said many of her peers are facing financial instability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11842004\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11842004\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45299_sproul-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45299_sproul-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45299_sproul-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45299_sproul-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45299_sproul-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45299_sproul-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45299_sproul-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45299_sproul-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45299_sproul-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45299_sproul-qut-536x402.jpg 536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45299_sproul-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sproul Plaza is usually the student activism hub on campus. But these days, it is largely lifeless and empty. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Many students have lost their homes,” she said. “And then, the general climate of what's going on around the nation — fires, protests, elections, all sorts of chaotic things. How do you rectify all of that?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like her fellow student activists, Anyanwu has had to find new ways this semester of organizing around social and political issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have been repeatedly conveying the message to our student organizations that all of their activities need to be virtual,” said Sunny Lee, UC Berkeley's assistant vice chancellor and dean of students. “We have a \u003ca href=\"https://coronavirus.berkeley.edu/events/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">COVID-19 temporary provision\u003c/a> to our student code of conduct, due to California’s public health guidance for higher education and local public health orders, that prohibits student organizations from sponsoring or organizing in-person meetings, gatherings, and events for students on or off-campus.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, like almost everything else, a lot of the organizing has moved online, from protests and petitions, to crowdfunding efforts on behalf of students in need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Getting through COVID is getting through COVID with the whole village,” said senior Derek Imai, who this year is also the external affairs vice president for the Associated Students of the University of California (ASUC). “And I think really, what I've seen on Facebook, is when friends are financially struggling or going through something, people will fundraise for their friends and communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a recent webinar, Miyako Iwata, a senior, answered students’ questions about the upcoming national election. The session kicked off with a fundamental question to participants: \"\u003cb>\u003c/b>Why is voting important?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11842003\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45292_derek-and-nicole-2-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11842003\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45292_derek-and-nicole-2-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45292_derek-and-nicole-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45292_derek-and-nicole-2-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45292_derek-and-nicole-2-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45292_derek-and-nicole-2-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45292_derek-and-nicole-2-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45292_derek-and-nicole-2-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45292_derek-and-nicole-2-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45292_derek-and-nicole-2-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45292_derek-and-nicole-2-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45292_derek-and-nicole-2-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC Berkeley student activists Nicole Anyanwu and Derek Imai pose outside the Free Speech Movement Cafe on campus. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A recent \u003ca href=\"https://knightfoundation.org/reports/college-students-voting-and-the-covid-19-election/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Knight Foundation poll\u003c/a> found that college students plan to vote in large numbers, but many have major concerns about the validity of their vote and the fairness of the electoral process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is this myth that our vote, especially as California voters, is just a drop in the bucket and that it doesn't make a difference,” Iwata told the group of virtually-assembled students. “But the fact of the matter is that actually our vote has a huge potential to make our voices heard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest Tufts University \u003ca href=\"https://idhe.tufts.edu/nslve\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Study of Learning, Voting and Engagement\u003c/a> found that UC Berkeley students vote at slightly higher rates than the national student average. Still, Iwata, who heads up UC Berkeley's \u003ca href=\"https://www.castudentvote.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vote Coalition, \u003c/a>was disappointed with turnout in 2016, when just over 50% of the school's eligible student voters cast a ballot. She’s passionate about increasing that number this time around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We're a campus known for our activism,” Iwata said. “But we could certainly be doing a lot better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and her team are currently attending a flurry of online meetings held by various groups and clubs around campus to underscore the importance of voting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And their web-based \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/17Johb9K6E73DloEnjdacQQvspeNfLY0lN9V6YwRrHPk/edit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">petition\u003c/a>, demanding a day off from class so students have the option of voting more easily in person, currently has more than 1,000 signatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we truly want to be a campus that is free of voter suppression and truly committed to the purpose of civic engagement, then we would have an Election Day non-instructional day,” Iwata said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11842024\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11842024\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45296_Miyako-Iwata-Headshot-qut-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45296_Miyako-Iwata-Headshot-qut-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45296_Miyako-Iwata-Headshot-qut-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45296_Miyako-Iwata-Headshot-qut-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45296_Miyako-Iwata-Headshot-qut-1104x1104.jpg 1104w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45296_Miyako-Iwata-Headshot-qut-912x912.jpg 912w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45296_Miyako-Iwata-Headshot-qut-550x550.jpg 550w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45296_Miyako-Iwata-Headshot-qut-470x470.jpg 470w, 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noreferrer\"> on Facebook\u003c/a> — while Black Student Union External Vice President Kyra Abrams delivered an impassioned speech urging students to support Proposition 16, a measure to remove California's affirmative action ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We support affirmative action,\" Abrams said. \"If you don't support \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11840892/prop-16-asks-should-california-allow-affirmative-action-once-again-transcript\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Prop 16\u003c/a>, you cannot say Black Lives Matter ever again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suddenly, a group of gatecrashers burst into the meeting, scrawled the n-word across the screen, blasted loud music and jeered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abrams continued with poise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If there's any opposition tonight, after that just happened, I see how you guys really feel about Black lives,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The event's organizers said the meeting was public, and that ASUC members would have to vote on restricting access to future meetings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"student-activism\"]Lee said the campus administration is monitoring these types of incidents, though the perpetrators can be hard to track.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We're trying to do everything we can in terms of prevention, education and equipping students with the right tools,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to dealing with \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailycal.org/2020/09/25/uc-berkeley-loses-30m-due-to-limited-housing-dining-amid-covid-19-pandemic/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">major financial crises\u003c/a> resulting from the pandemic, university officials around the country have been scrambling to adopt new rules for student activism, with few protocols in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And regardless of how well they are prepared to handle activism on campus, administrators can’t stop students — or protect them — if they decide to demonstrate off campus, as many have done throughout the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet the UC Berkeley campus maintains its place in many students' hearts as the center for their activism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Riya Master, a junior, said she misses the energy of on-campus gatherings. She’s been trying to get students to fill out the 2020 U.S. Census, selling it as an important way to bring in much-needed funds for the local community. And it's been a tough process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We've been doing giveaways. We've been doing census videos,” Master said. “And frankly, we haven't seen that much of an increase in the number of people who are filling it out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Master said things would be much easier if her team could do in-person outreach right on Sproul Plaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11842025\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11842025\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45295_board-with-fliers-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45295_board-with-fliers-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45295_board-with-fliers-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45295_board-with-fliers-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45295_board-with-fliers-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45295_board-with-fliers-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45295_board-with-fliers-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45295_board-with-fliers-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45295_board-with-fliers-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45295_board-with-fliers-qut-536x402.jpg 536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45295_board-with-fliers-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A message board on Sproul Plaza. In pre-COVID-19 times, it would be covered with fliers for various political and social issues and groups. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When kids are walking through, we'll literally just pull them aside for three minutes, and be like, ‘Hey! Can you fill this out right here on a computer?’ Super easy access,” she said. “And it just reduces that friction that's required when we're online and saying, ‘Hey, can you go to this link?’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the university can’t \u003cem>officially\u003c/em> sanction in-person activism on campus per\u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/H5B3CZ6W5Nu75kBxUzzDW8?domain=cityofberkeley.info\"> local public health orders\u003c/a>, Lee said, there is some measure of at least unofficial support for gatherings of under 12 people that are held outdoors, with social distancing and mask requirements in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We support students exercising their First Amendment rights,” Lee said. “There's nothing that replaces the energy, the spirit, the camaraderie which is gathering in person. In\u003cb>\u003c/b>-person activity will come back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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But that has hardly stopped students from continuing to campaign for causes they care about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is an unprecedented semester,\" said Nicole Anyanwu, a senior majoring in molecular biology. \"Students are going to school online, but they don't have access to the same academic resources at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A student senator, Anyanwu said many of her peers are facing financial instability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11842004\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11842004\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45299_sproul-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45299_sproul-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45299_sproul-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45299_sproul-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45299_sproul-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45299_sproul-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45299_sproul-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45299_sproul-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45299_sproul-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45299_sproul-qut-536x402.jpg 536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45299_sproul-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sproul Plaza is usually the student activism hub on campus. But these days, it is largely lifeless and empty. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Many students have lost their homes,” she said. “And then, the general climate of what's going on around the nation — fires, protests, elections, all sorts of chaotic things. How do you rectify all of that?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like her fellow student activists, Anyanwu has had to find new ways this semester of organizing around social and political issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have been repeatedly conveying the message to our student organizations that all of their activities need to be virtual,” said Sunny Lee, UC Berkeley's assistant vice chancellor and dean of students. “We have a \u003ca href=\"https://coronavirus.berkeley.edu/events/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">COVID-19 temporary provision\u003c/a> to our student code of conduct, due to California’s public health guidance for higher education and local public health orders, that prohibits student organizations from sponsoring or organizing in-person meetings, gatherings, and events for students on or off-campus.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, like almost everything else, a lot of the organizing has moved online, from protests and petitions, to crowdfunding efforts on behalf of students in need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Getting through COVID is getting through COVID with the whole village,” said senior Derek Imai, who this year is also the external affairs vice president for the Associated Students of the University of California (ASUC). “And I think really, what I've seen on Facebook, is when friends are financially struggling or going through something, people will fundraise for their friends and communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a recent webinar, Miyako Iwata, a senior, answered students’ questions about the upcoming national election. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We're a campus known for our activism,” Iwata said. “But we could certainly be doing a lot better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and her team are currently attending a flurry of online meetings held by various groups and clubs around campus to underscore the importance of voting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And their web-based \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/17Johb9K6E73DloEnjdacQQvspeNfLY0lN9V6YwRrHPk/edit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">petition\u003c/a>, demanding a day off from class so students have the option of voting more easily in person, currently has more than 1,000 signatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we truly want to be a campus that is free of voter suppression and truly committed to the purpose of civic engagement, then we would have an Election Day non-instructional day,” Iwata said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11842024\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11842024\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45296_Miyako-Iwata-Headshot-qut-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45296_Miyako-Iwata-Headshot-qut-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45296_Miyako-Iwata-Headshot-qut-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45296_Miyako-Iwata-Headshot-qut-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45296_Miyako-Iwata-Headshot-qut-1104x1104.jpg 1104w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45296_Miyako-Iwata-Headshot-qut-912x912.jpg 912w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45296_Miyako-Iwata-Headshot-qut-550x550.jpg 550w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45296_Miyako-Iwata-Headshot-qut-470x470.jpg 470w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45296_Miyako-Iwata-Headshot-qut.jpg 1293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miyako Iwata, a senior, heads up UC Berkeley's Vote Coalition. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Mikako Iwata)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Despite the obvious obstacles, students have found impressive, creative ways to remain politically engaged, said Lee, the dean of students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she also has concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Unfortunately, we've had our share of Zoom bombing incidents,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee said both the campus and city police departments, and even the FBI, have been called in to investigate Zoom bombing incidents in recent months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One such incident, involving hate speech, occurred on Sept. 9 at an ASUC public meeting\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/theASUC/videos/353554912496128\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> on Facebook\u003c/a> — while Black Student Union External Vice President Kyra Abrams delivered an impassioned speech urging students to support Proposition 16, a measure to remove California's affirmative action ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We support affirmative action,\" Abrams said. \"If you don't support \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11840892/prop-16-asks-should-california-allow-affirmative-action-once-again-transcript\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Prop 16\u003c/a>, you cannot say Black Lives Matter ever again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suddenly, a group of gatecrashers burst into the meeting, scrawled the n-word across the screen, blasted loud music and jeered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abrams continued with poise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If there's any opposition tonight, after that just happened, I see how you guys really feel about Black lives,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The event's organizers said the meeting was public, and that ASUC members would have to vote on restricting access to future meetings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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