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"content": "\u003cp>Over the last month, the Black Student Union at UC Berkeley has organized three separate events to protest police killings of unarmed black men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students have marched on the streets, through local businesses and sat in at cafes. The demonstrations have allowed students to grieve, heal and show solidarity with protesters in Ferguson and Staten Island. But they have also been a way to express concerns about race relations at Cal.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘I’m not going to be the last black student at Cal, so it’s time now we start trying to make change.’\u003ccite>Blake Simons, Cal senior\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Cal senior Blake Simons feels “extremely blessed and grateful” to be a student at UC Berkeley. But he is also unhappy with the racist experiences he’s had while attending school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not going to be the last black student at Cal, so it’s time now we start trying to make change,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BSU first \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/12/04/breaking-cal-students-hold-black-lives-matter-rally/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">organized a 4½-hour occupation of Golden Bear Caf\u003c/a>e on Dec. 4, designed to last the same amount of time the body of Michael Brown was left on a Ferguson, Missouri, street after he was killed by a white police officer. On Dec. 13, students peacefully marched from Berkeley to join the Millions March in Oakland. Most recently, BSU organized Black Brunch, where protesters marched through \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/01/05/black-students-march-through-fourth-street-shopping-district/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">breakfast spots on Berkeley’s Fourth Street\u003c/a>. The Jan. 3 event was meant to be reminiscent of sit-ins during the civil rights movement, when black protesters would peacefully occupy restaurants they weren’t allowed in, Simons said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He emphasized that all three protests were peaceful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eniola Abioye, a senior studying integrative biology who co-led all three protests, said organizing the events has helped her feel less frustrated and helpless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having platforms for black people to be able to speak and other people are listening — that’s empowering for us,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”is12gEvjxLWDhHdazx53xI5zJzBMJ0tZ”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Junior Gabrielle Shuman, co-chair of political affairs for BSU, said students have been adamant that their protests are part of a larger movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not just about our problems as Cal students. This is about black people in America,” she said. That being said, “Within that, we feel it’s important to tell our stories as black students at Cal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The students have also expressed their own campus experiences through spoken word and poetry, according to freshman Zaynab AbdulQadir.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the Jan. 3 protest, students sent out a press release that referenced the 2014 Campus Climate Survey that found half of black students at UC Berkeley felt prejudged by faculty based on their identity or background.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The survey revealed that 50 percent of black students felt they didn’t have the same opportunities for success as their classmates, and various racial/ethnic groups unanimously agreed that black students had some of the worst conditions on campus regarding climate and respect from peers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since California adopted Proposition 209 in 1998, which forbade UC schools from using race as a criterion for admission, the percentage of black UC Berkeley students has been halved. In 2012, there were 874 African-American undergraduate students, about 3 percent of the total student body, according to a UC Berkeley diversity census.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s pretty hard when you don’t see people like you, when you don’t see people who have a similar perspective,” said Spencer Pritchard, a senior. He described being in a lecture hall with hundreds of students but few black students as “isolating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘They see me as a black student before they see me as a UC Berkeley student.’\u003cem>Zaynab \u003c/em>\u003ccite>AbdulQadir, Cal freshmen\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Shuman said it’s difficult to articulate the negative experiences felt by black students because other students usually aren’t blatantly racist, she said. Rather, students might appropriate black culture or make fun of being “ghetto.” Students might make black jokes or say, “Is it OK if I say n—– around you? Do you mind that?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simons said his first experience of racism at Cal was when a racial slur was carved on a wall in a Clark Kerr dormitory, where he lived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also recalls a professor using a racial slur in class to say, “I don’t understand why hip-hop artists call each other n—–.” Being one of the few black students in class, Simons remembers the whole room staring at him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abioye said her negative classroom experiences have mostly involved fellow students — she’s one of the few black students in her department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people assume that I can’t do the work or I’m not smart,” she said, adding that the assumptions show when the students are asked to form groups or work together in class and some students don’t want to work with her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abioye, who is originally from Oakland, attended a predominantly black high school. As a freshman, she didn’t live on an African-American themed floor. It was an abrupt transition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Two black people lived on the floor, and we were expected to represent all black people,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pritchard said his friends have been targets of racial slurs hurled by drunken students while passing fraternity row on their way home. “It definitely happens all the time and it’s hard to deal with,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been other issues with fraternities. During Shuman’s freshman year, the fraternity Theta Delta Chi, which happens to be located across the street from a dormitory that has an African-American theme program, hung a “zombie” Halloween decoration — a pair of jeans and a shirt stuffed with straw topped with a gray head — from a noose outside their building for their annual charity Halloween party. The zombie looked like a black man, Shuman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were outraged and disgusted,” she said. Students took the issue to student government and the fraternity took the decoration down and apologized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10408164\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/students-in-front-of-Afro-house-720x480.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10408164 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/students-in-front-of-Afro-house-720x480.jpg\" alt=\"Spencer Pritchard, Gabrielle Shuman and Blake Simons stand in front of the Afro House, an African-American-themed residence owned and operated by the Berkeley Student Cooperative, which is a nonprofit student-run cooperative housing organization. Most of its members attend UC Berkeley.\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/students-in-front-of-Afro-house-720x480.jpg 720w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/students-in-front-of-Afro-house-720x480-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spencer Pritchard, Gabrielle Shuman and Blake Simons stand in front of the Afro House, an African-American-themed residence owned and operated by the Berkeley Student Cooperative, which is a nonprofit student-run cooperative housing organization. Most of its members attend UC Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Mara Van Ells/Berkeleyside)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of the places where black students on campus feel safe is the Afro House, an African-American themed student co-op, said Shuman. It’s also affordable. She said 19 or 20 of the 21 students that live there are black. Several other first-year students eat meals and participate in activities at the house, through the Donald Foster Boarder Scholarship program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For about 10 years, no black students lived at the house, Shuman said. In 2011-2012, one black woman lived at the Afro House; the following year six black men, including Pritchard, lived in the house. The group, who called themselves the Afro Six, launched a campaign to reclaim the space. By 2013-2014, all but one resident of the house identified as black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t come across a lot of space by and for black students. We really, really have to fight for it,” Shuman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freshman AbdulQadir lives on an African-American theme floor in her dormitory. Although she’s able to surround herself with students who have similar viewpoints, she said she experiences many micro-aggressions on campus every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They see me as a black student before they see me as a UC Berkeley student,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fact that campus climate is an issue is “not news” to the administration, said Gibor Basri, vice-chancellor for Equity and Inclusion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Basri, who created his position more than seven years ago, said improving the campus climate has been one of the top strategic goals since the Equity and Inclusion Department was founded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Campus Climate Survey, which included questions such as, “Do you feel excluded from study groups or social situations?” and “Do the faculty make assumptions about you?” produced “confirmatory” data that black staff, students and faculty feel the least included of any of the groups identified within the survey, Basri said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Basri noted that the survey showed that most exclusionary incidents occurred between students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People seem to think faculty to student is the issue, but that was minor compared to student to student,” he said. However, Basri added that faculty is responsible for what goes on in their classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The survey, which was taken by students across the UC system in 2013, showed a correlation between the perceived respect level that specific groups have on campus and the number of students of that group attending a university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I see the climate issue as essentially one of critical mass,” said Basri. “We just don’t have enough [African-American] students [at UC Berkeley] so they don’t feel isolated,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only 40 percent of all students accepted by Cal go on to attend the school. If more of the admitted black students would attend Cal, that could help solve the problem, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re looking to get outside agencies, foundations, whatever to provide targeted financial aid,” Basri said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university is also trying to attract more transfer students. Generally, transfer students are a more diverse population than the freshman class, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides increasing the black student population, the department will continue funding innovation grants that encourage students and staff to propose projects that could improve equity and inclusion, Basri said. “A number of nice initiatives” have come from past innovation grants such as Bears Baking Bread, which brought together Palestinian and Israeli students to bake bread together and have dialogue, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to the campus climate survey findings, a number of new initiatives will take place in the spring. There will be several symposiums focused on the climate for racial minorities on campus and graduate student instructor training will include discussion of climate issues. Staff will receive an email about the issues and a group of about 10 faculty members are working out how to get instructors into a room to discuss the issue, Basri said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A professor from the psychology department hopes to make climate on campus the focus of special discussion sessions within a new course called Critical Dialogues. Students would be encouraged to take what they learn back to their dorms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For several years, Basri said, black administrators have held monthly breakfasts where students can attend and discuss issues. Three top administrators at the school are black: Basri, Vice-Chancellor Harry Le Grande and Executive Vice-Chancellor and Provost Claude Steele. Vice-Chancellor of Student Affairs for Residential and Student Service Programs, LeNorman Strong, is also African-American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shuman said representatives from BSU plan to meet with administration in February to discuss conditions for black students on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite these efforts, many students feel the university isn’t doing enough. “If they really prioritized or cared about students, I’d hope they’d be doing way more than they are,” Simons said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, he acknowledged that black faculty has been supportive of black students, particularly after \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/12/14/anonymous-artist-collective-claims-responsibility-for-lynching-effigies-erected-at-cal/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">effigies hung around campus by an anonymous artist collective\u003c/a> left many students traumatized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They staged a protest during finals week when they knew we were taking finals, which meant a lot to black students,” he said. Counseling hours were extended for black student during finals, AbdulQadir said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simons said he’s speaking up to make the university a better place where students are treated fairly and equally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s all my goals are,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED News Associate \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a> is an independently owned news website based in Berkeley, Calif. \u003ca href=\"http://eepurl.com/lh_3b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here\u003c/a> if you would you like to receive the latest Berkeley news in your inbox once a day for free with Berkeleyside’s Daily Briefing email.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He emphasized that all three protests were peaceful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eniola Abioye, a senior studying integrative biology who co-led all three protests, said organizing the events has helped her feel less frustrated and helpless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having platforms for black people to be able to speak and other people are listening — that’s empowering for us,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Junior Gabrielle Shuman, co-chair of political affairs for BSU, said students have been adamant that their protests are part of a larger movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not just about our problems as Cal students. This is about black people in America,” she said. That being said, “Within that, we feel it’s important to tell our stories as black students at Cal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The students have also expressed their own campus experiences through spoken word and poetry, according to freshman Zaynab AbdulQadir.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the Jan. 3 protest, students sent out a press release that referenced the 2014 Campus Climate Survey that found half of black students at UC Berkeley felt prejudged by faculty based on their identity or background.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The survey revealed that 50 percent of black students felt they didn’t have the same opportunities for success as their classmates, and various racial/ethnic groups unanimously agreed that black students had some of the worst conditions on campus regarding climate and respect from peers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since California adopted Proposition 209 in 1998, which forbade UC schools from using race as a criterion for admission, the percentage of black UC Berkeley students has been halved. In 2012, there were 874 African-American undergraduate students, about 3 percent of the total student body, according to a UC Berkeley diversity census.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s pretty hard when you don’t see people like you, when you don’t see people who have a similar perspective,” said Spencer Pritchard, a senior. He described being in a lecture hall with hundreds of students but few black students as “isolating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘They see me as a black student before they see me as a UC Berkeley student.’\u003cem>Zaynab \u003c/em>\u003ccite>AbdulQadir, Cal freshmen\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Shuman said it’s difficult to articulate the negative experiences felt by black students because other students usually aren’t blatantly racist, she said. Rather, students might appropriate black culture or make fun of being “ghetto.” Students might make black jokes or say, “Is it OK if I say n—– around you? Do you mind that?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simons said his first experience of racism at Cal was when a racial slur was carved on a wall in a Clark Kerr dormitory, where he lived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also recalls a professor using a racial slur in class to say, “I don’t understand why hip-hop artists call each other n—–.” Being one of the few black students in class, Simons remembers the whole room staring at him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abioye said her negative classroom experiences have mostly involved fellow students — she’s one of the few black students in her department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people assume that I can’t do the work or I’m not smart,” she said, adding that the assumptions show when the students are asked to form groups or work together in class and some students don’t want to work with her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abioye, who is originally from Oakland, attended a predominantly black high school. As a freshman, she didn’t live on an African-American themed floor. It was an abrupt transition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Two black people lived on the floor, and we were expected to represent all black people,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pritchard said his friends have been targets of racial slurs hurled by drunken students while passing fraternity row on their way home. “It definitely happens all the time and it’s hard to deal with,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been other issues with fraternities. During Shuman’s freshman year, the fraternity Theta Delta Chi, which happens to be located across the street from a dormitory that has an African-American theme program, hung a “zombie” Halloween decoration — a pair of jeans and a shirt stuffed with straw topped with a gray head — from a noose outside their building for their annual charity Halloween party. The zombie looked like a black man, Shuman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were outraged and disgusted,” she said. Students took the issue to student government and the fraternity took the decoration down and apologized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10408164\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/students-in-front-of-Afro-house-720x480.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10408164 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/students-in-front-of-Afro-house-720x480.jpg\" alt=\"Spencer Pritchard, Gabrielle Shuman and Blake Simons stand in front of the Afro House, an African-American-themed residence owned and operated by the Berkeley Student Cooperative, which is a nonprofit student-run cooperative housing organization. Most of its members attend UC Berkeley.\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/students-in-front-of-Afro-house-720x480.jpg 720w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/students-in-front-of-Afro-house-720x480-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spencer Pritchard, Gabrielle Shuman and Blake Simons stand in front of the Afro House, an African-American-themed residence owned and operated by the Berkeley Student Cooperative, which is a nonprofit student-run cooperative housing organization. Most of its members attend UC Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Mara Van Ells/Berkeleyside)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of the places where black students on campus feel safe is the Afro House, an African-American themed student co-op, said Shuman. It’s also affordable. She said 19 or 20 of the 21 students that live there are black. Several other first-year students eat meals and participate in activities at the house, through the Donald Foster Boarder Scholarship program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For about 10 years, no black students lived at the house, Shuman said. In 2011-2012, one black woman lived at the Afro House; the following year six black men, including Pritchard, lived in the house. The group, who called themselves the Afro Six, launched a campaign to reclaim the space. By 2013-2014, all but one resident of the house identified as black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t come across a lot of space by and for black students. We really, really have to fight for it,” Shuman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freshman AbdulQadir lives on an African-American theme floor in her dormitory. Although she’s able to surround herself with students who have similar viewpoints, she said she experiences many micro-aggressions on campus every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They see me as a black student before they see me as a UC Berkeley student,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fact that campus climate is an issue is “not news” to the administration, said Gibor Basri, vice-chancellor for Equity and Inclusion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Basri, who created his position more than seven years ago, said improving the campus climate has been one of the top strategic goals since the Equity and Inclusion Department was founded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Campus Climate Survey, which included questions such as, “Do you feel excluded from study groups or social situations?” and “Do the faculty make assumptions about you?” produced “confirmatory” data that black staff, students and faculty feel the least included of any of the groups identified within the survey, Basri said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Basri noted that the survey showed that most exclusionary incidents occurred between students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People seem to think faculty to student is the issue, but that was minor compared to student to student,” he said. 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Generally, transfer students are a more diverse population than the freshman class, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides increasing the black student population, the department will continue funding innovation grants that encourage students and staff to propose projects that could improve equity and inclusion, Basri said. “A number of nice initiatives” have come from past innovation grants such as Bears Baking Bread, which brought together Palestinian and Israeli students to bake bread together and have dialogue, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to the campus climate survey findings, a number of new initiatives will take place in the spring. There will be several symposiums focused on the climate for racial minorities on campus and graduate student instructor training will include discussion of climate issues. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 5 p.m. Sunday: \u003c/strong> An anonymous artists’ collective has taken responsibility for the effigies strung up in nooses at UC Berkeley on Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The statement from the collective:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“We are a collective of queer and POC artists responsible for the images of historical lynchings posted to several locations in Berkeley and Oakland,” reads a notice the group found posted on campus Sunday. “These images connect past events to present ones – referencing endemic faultlines of hatred and persecution that are and should be deeply unsettling to the American consciousness. We choose to remain anonymous because this is not about us as artists, but about the growing movement to address these pervasive wrongs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For those who think these images are no longer relevant to the social framework in which black Americans exist everyday – we respectfully disagree. Garner, Brown, and others are victims of systemic racism. For those who think these images depict crimes and attitudes too distasteful to be seen .. we respectfully disagree. Our society must never forget. For those under the mistaken assumption that the images themselves were intended as an act of racism – we vehemently disagree and intended only the confrontation of historical context.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We apologize solely and profusely to Black Americans who felt further attacked by this work. We are sorry – your pain is ours, our families’, our history’s. To all, each image represents a true life ended by an unimaginable act of ignorance and human cruelty: Laura Nelson, George Meadows, Michael Donald, Charlie Hale, Garfield Burley, Curtis Brown. We urge you to further research the lives and deaths of these individuals. History must be confronted.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/autonomyroad/status/544293400095121408\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pablo Gonzalez, a Cal professor of Chicano studies, said the notice above was posted on a bulletin board on the UC Berkeley campus and passed on to him. He, in turn, posted it on Twitter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeleyside has reached out to multiple individuals affiliated with the collective to try to talk directly with them, but has not to this point received a response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 2:45 p.m. Sunday:\u003c/strong> UC Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks sent the following message to the campus community shortly before 1 p.m. Sunday. It appears below in full.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scroll down for details of the noose incident, information from police about what took place on campus Saturday and an interview with a UC Berkeley professor who is an expert on the psychology of race relations. The statement from Nicholas Dirks follows:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Dear campus community,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Saturday morning, two hanging effigies were left on Sather Gate with reports of a third elsewhere on campus. We are not sure about the intent of these effigies as one contained the words “Can’t Breathe,” but nonetheless, the imagery was deeply disturbing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The African American community has historically faced the terrorism of lynchings used in an attempt to suppress and control. While we do not know the intent of the effigies, the impact that it has had on our campus community is undeniable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No individual or group has claimed responsibility. If you were responsible for this, we invite you to come forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We must all be vigilant to ensure that we are creating a campus environment that allows for the free exchange of ideas and doesn’t frighten or intimidate people. Our campus climate reminds us that we still have great deal of work to do to make this campus a welcoming place for all members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have been and will continue to work with the student leadership, the Black Student Union and others on campus staff and groups to create opportunities to address the concerns and develop a plan for improving our campus climate, not only related to these effigies but also the events of the past several weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We recognize the stress and anxiety that current events are generating for the members of our extended community, and have faith that we will emerge stronger and more unified, precisely through our commitment to realizing the inclusion and justice that have long been the promise of this institution and this country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sincerely,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chancellor Nicholas B. Dirks Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, Claude Steele\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 8:30 p.m. Saturday:\u003c/strong> Police are examining the incident. Investigators believe the effigies were connected to a smaller protest in Berkeley at noon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley protest organizers said they didn’t know where they came from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We hope that it’s someone who wanted to bring attention to the issue,” said one of the organizers, Spencer Pritchard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 2:15 p.m. Saturday: \u003c/strong>The Rev.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>Michael McBride, who received tweeted photos of the effigies Saturday morning, said “the anonymity connected to that expression, whether it was by antagonists or allies, contributes to the racial terror that black people have to face in the country. We find it radically insensitive at best and a re-inscription of racial terror … and we need everybody to join with us to say #BlackLivesMatter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 1:40 p.m. Saturday:\u003c/strong> It appears as if one of the effigies hung from Sather Gate is a replica of a famous photo of a young man who was lynched in 1911.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 1:30 p.m.\u003c/strong> \u003cstrong>Saturday:\u003c/strong> One of the effigies is a cardboard cutout of a woman with “#I Can’t Breathe,” and “Laura Nelson 1911” written on it. Nelson and her son, L.D. Nelson, were lynched on May 25, 1911, in Oklahoma, \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Laura_and_L.D._Nelson\">according to Wikipedia.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/pastormykmac/status/543874329587372033/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lynchings happened after the deputy sheriff and three others arrived at the Nelson home on May 2 to investigate the theft of a cow. L.D. Nelson shot and killed the deputy sheriff, and he and Laura Nelson, who had also touched the gun, were charged with murder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-179073 size-medium\" src=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Screen-Shot-2014-12-13-at-1.38.49-PM-251x360.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2014-12-13 at 1.38.49 PM\" width=\"251\" height=\"360\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At around midnight on May 24, Laura and L.D. Nelson were both kidnapped from their cells by a group of between a dozen and 40 men,” according to Wikipedia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sightseers gathered on the bridge the following morning and photographs of the hanging bodies were sold as postcards; the one of Laura is the only known surviving photograph of a female lynching victim. No one was ever charged with the murders; the district judge convened a grand jury, but the killers were never identified.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 1:10 p.m. Saturday: \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"http://mendoza-denton.socialpsychology.org/\">Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton\u003c/a>, a UC Berkeley professor and national expert on intergroup relations — particularly related to race — said Saturday afternoon that he had been upset to learn about the effigies on campus earlier in the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whether it’s commentary or provocation, it’s atrocious,” he said. “It’s just mean, period. And heartless. And whoever did that simply needs to grow up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendoza-Denton said it’s difficult to know exactly how to interpret the effigies, whether as a “thoughtless joke” or “straight-up inflammatory racist behavior.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It falls somewhere along the line between prank and consciously racist messaging,” he said. “But it doesn’t matter. It’s absolutely thoughtless and wrong. Given the volatility of the situation, it’s just damaging to everybody. It’s a very public and clear example that racism exists at all levels of society, and it’s precisely the kind of symbol that protesters are protesting against.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendoza-Denton said he has been keeping a close eye on this past week’s protests in Berkeley, and had been sad to see all the broken windows in businesses downtown as he drove through the area Saturday. He said he does not support the violence but, “at the same time, there’s a lot of pent-up frustration and anger.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendoza-Denton said, beyond the protests, the community needs a forum to come together for healing and communication. A week and a half ago, the UC Berkeley \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/12/04/breaking-cal-students-hold-black-lives-matter-rally/\">Black Student Union held one such event on campus\u003c/a>, and Berkeley High students along with REALM Charter School students staged a \u003ca title=\"Black Lives Matter protest by hundreds of Berkeley High students ‘shows how it’s done’\" href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/12/11/black-lives-matter-protest-by-hundreds-of-berkeley-high-students-shows-how-its-done/\">walkout and rally\u003c/a>, which culminated with a “die-in” on the UC Berkeley campus several days ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendoza-Denton said there have been a number of informal forums, but that nothing large-scale has been planned by the university to his knowledge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to come together to heal,” he said. “There are a lot of different factions, a lot of different voices, and not a lot of control over the messaging one way or another. We need a forum to help us process these very emotionally laden, very relevant events. But that has to be a two-way street. It has to be a dialogue. And there’s got to be goodwill. And effigies are the very antithesis of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 12:26 p.m.\u003c/strong> \u003cstrong>Saturday:\u003c/strong> UC Berkeley spokeswoman Claire Holmes called Berkeleyside back to clarify some information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said University of California Police Department officers found two effigies hanging from Sather Gate on Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also saw a photo of a third effigy in an area they think was the Campanile. When police went to remove it, they could not find it, said Holmes. Police believe that someone else took it down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the effigies hanging from Sather Gate had “Can’t Breathe,” written on it. Eric Garner kept saying that when Staten Island police held him in a chokehold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The effigies were life-size, she said They were cardboard cutouts, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley Police received its first call about the matter at 9:10 a.m., she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 12:07 p.m. Saturday: \u003c/strong>UC police found three effigies hanging from a noose on the UC Berkeley campus this morning, according to Claire Holmes, a university spokeswoman. There was some writing on the effigies, including “Put Your Hands Up,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The effigies were found at Sather Gate and around the Campanile, she said. No suspects have been detained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s unclear what the intent was,,” said Holmes. “It could be that these are related to police violence and the protests that are going on in Ferguson. 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No one was ever charged with the murders; the district judge convened a grand jury, but the killers were never identified.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 1:10 p.m. Saturday: \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"http://mendoza-denton.socialpsychology.org/\">Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton\u003c/a>, a UC Berkeley professor and national expert on intergroup relations — particularly related to race — said Saturday afternoon that he had been upset to learn about the effigies on campus earlier in the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whether it’s commentary or provocation, it’s atrocious,” he said. “It’s just mean, period. And heartless. And whoever did that simply needs to grow up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendoza-Denton said it’s difficult to know exactly how to interpret the effigies, whether as a “thoughtless joke” or “straight-up inflammatory racist behavior.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It falls somewhere along the line between prank and consciously racist messaging,” he said. “But it doesn’t matter. It’s absolutely thoughtless and wrong. Given the volatility of the situation, it’s just damaging to everybody. It’s a very public and clear example that racism exists at all levels of society, and it’s precisely the kind of symbol that protesters are protesting against.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendoza-Denton said he has been keeping a close eye on this past week’s protests in Berkeley, and had been sad to see all the broken windows in businesses downtown as he drove through the area Saturday. He said he does not support the violence but, “at the same time, there’s a lot of pent-up frustration and anger.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendoza-Denton said, beyond the protests, the community needs a forum to come together for healing and communication. A week and a half ago, the UC Berkeley \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/12/04/breaking-cal-students-hold-black-lives-matter-rally/\">Black Student Union held one such event on campus\u003c/a>, and Berkeley High students along with REALM Charter School students staged a \u003ca title=\"Black Lives Matter protest by hundreds of Berkeley High students ‘shows how it’s done’\" href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/12/11/black-lives-matter-protest-by-hundreds-of-berkeley-high-students-shows-how-its-done/\">walkout and rally\u003c/a>, which culminated with a “die-in” on the UC Berkeley campus several days ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendoza-Denton said there have been a number of informal forums, but that nothing large-scale has been planned by the university to his knowledge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to come together to heal,” he said. “There are a lot of different factions, a lot of different voices, and not a lot of control over the messaging one way or another. We need a forum to help us process these very emotionally laden, very relevant events. But that has to be a two-way street. It has to be a dialogue. And there’s got to be goodwill. And effigies are the very antithesis of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 12:26 p.m.\u003c/strong> \u003cstrong>Saturday:\u003c/strong> UC Berkeley spokeswoman Claire Holmes called Berkeleyside back to clarify some information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said University of California Police Department officers found two effigies hanging from Sather Gate on Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also saw a photo of a third effigy in an area they think was the Campanile. When police went to remove it, they could not find it, said Holmes. Police believe that someone else took it down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the effigies hanging from Sather Gate had “Can’t Breathe,” written on it. Eric Garner kept saying that when Staten Island police held him in a chokehold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The effigies were life-size, she said They were cardboard cutouts, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley Police received its first call about the matter at 9:10 a.m., she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 12:07 p.m. Saturday: \u003c/strong>UC police found three effigies hanging from a noose on the UC Berkeley campus this morning, according to Claire Holmes, a university spokeswoman. There was some writing on the effigies, including “Put Your Hands Up,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The effigies were found at Sather Gate and around the Campanile, she said. No suspects have been detained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s unclear what the intent was,,” said Holmes. “It could be that these are related to police violence and the protests that are going on in Ferguson. It could be racially motivated as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police are combing the campus to see if there are any others, said Holmes.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Increase Cal Grant Access Awards for community college students.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Dedicate $25 million each to UC and CSU to increase course offerings.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Provide $50 million each to UC and CSU to increase student support services.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Repeal an 11 percent Cal Grant cut for students attending private, nonprofit universities that is scheduled to take effect next year.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>How it would be funded\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The Senate Democrats' plan would be funded through a mix of increased state money, boosting tuition for out-of-state students by $4,000 a year and redirecting money from the Middle Class Scholarship program. The plan would provide a total of $342 million in the 2015-16 fiscal year.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>ASSEMBLY DEMOCRATS:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Increase UC enrollment of California students by 10,000 over five years by adding 2,000 per year. 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Her plan calls for adding $50 million to the UC system's budget from the state's general fund and increasing Cal Grant financial aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuition has been frozen at the University of California for the past three years following a series of increases that have nearly doubled rates since 2006. Under the new plan, the average annual cost for a California resident would increase by $612 next fall, to $12,804. The total cost would grow to $15,564 by fall 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue has grown particularly contentious, with the Board of Regents' vote drawing criticism from Gov. Jerry Brown, Lt. Gov. 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Students demanded the chancellor, who issued \u003ca href=\"http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2014/11/20/chancellors-statement-on-uc-tuition-plan/\" target=\"_blank\">a statement in support of the tuition increase\u003c/a> last week, come out and meet with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After more than an hour, Dirks did just that, emerging from the building to tell protesters that both students and administrators are on the same side in the dispute -- they all want more money from the state to help fund the university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/JaneNho/status/536988030255374336\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need to work together,\" Dirks told the students. \"This is not a contest. We agree on much more than we disagree. We agree that the state has an obligation to support the great system of higher education that it produced.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/178506158\" params=\"auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>University leaders, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/11/20/gov-brown-and-uc-president-napolitano-very-different-views-of-ucs-future\" target=\"_blank\">led by UC President Janet Napolitano\u003c/a>, have argued that the tuition increase is necessary to offset cuts in state funding. But they also say they hope that negotiations with Gov. 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She said raising tuition imposes a new burden on students already struggling to get by and it could hurt campus diversity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10355080\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/20141124_tuitionhike_jt_0101.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/20141124_tuitionhike_jt_0101-400x266.jpg\" alt=\"Nancy Romo checks Awais Spall's megaphone in Wheeler Hall in Berkeley, Calif. on Monday, Nov. 24, 2014. Romo believes that the system needs to be open to the public instead of those that can afford it. 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I think it really affects the quality of the education they can get. I think it changes the demographic of the university because people do make different choices based on how much it’s going to cost here. So I feel really strongly about public education.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students have been occupying Wheeler Hall since \u003ca href=\"http://www.dailycal.org/2014/11/19/100-individuals-occupy-wheeler-hall-wednesday-night-protest-tuition-hikes/\" target=\"_blank\">Wednesday night\u003c/a> after the regents \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/11/19/gov-brown-tries-to-derail-proposed-uc-tuition-increase\" target=\"_blank\">voted 14-7\u003c/a> to pass the tuition plan. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hall has been the past site of violent clashes between students and campus police. Dirks says authorities are unlikely to don \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/11/15/uc-berkeley-protest-live-updates\" target=\"_blank\">riot gear\u003c/a> or bring out \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/11/10/video-cal-police-aggressively-beat-back-student-protesters\" target=\"_blank\">billy clubs\u003c/a> this time though.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There was a serious review of how campuses responded to protests after 2011. And in the wake of what was a really long and heartfelt reconsideration of how campus police worked, there was a whole new protocol that was out in place,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students are currently occupying other UC campus buildings, including at Davis and Santa Cruz.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/breaking-news/ci_27002538/berkeley-cal-students-plan-walkout-monday-protest-tuition\" target=\"_blank\">Cal students staging walkout to protest tuition increase\u003c/a> (Oakland Tribune):\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Students at UC Berkeley plan to walk out of classes and rally Monday to protest planned tuition hikes, organizers said. The day of action at the Berkeley campus comes after fee increases approved last week by the UC Board of Regents. Protesters have camped out since Nov. 19 at UC Berkeley's Wheeler Hall to protest the increases, which could hike fees by up to 28 percent by 2019, with annual increases of 5 percent. No arrests have been made, and classes at Wheeler Hall have not been affected, Lt. Marc DeCoulode said on Monday. \u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/breaking-news/ci_27002538/berkeley-cal-students-plan-walkout-monday-protest-tuition\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/education/ci_26998525/hidden-cost-ucs-tuition-hike\" target=\"_blank\">The hidden cost of UC tuition hikes\u003c/a> (Bay Area News Group):\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>If the University of California hikes its fees, defying the governor's tuition freeze, students won't be the only ones footing the bill. Taxpayers would likely end up paying an extra $45 million next year alone, and at least $250 million more annually by 2019 -- for their share of the rising costs. As tuition soars, so does taxpayer-funded financial aid, becoming a larger -- though often-overlooked -- piece of the UC funding picture. Each time the state cut the university's budget during the Great Recession, UC hiked tuition, and the state, in turn, gave ever-greater sums of tuition grants to help low-income students pay for their UC educations. UC itself last year granted students $775 million out of its own funds. \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/education/ci_26998525/hidden-cost-ucs-tuition-hike\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_26997943/security-breach-at-san-jose-international-airport\" target=\"_blank\">Another security breach at Mineta San Jose International Airport \u003c/a>(San Jose Mercury News):\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Mineta San Jose International Airport suffered a security breach Sunday morning when an unauthorized man snuck onto the tarmac and then commandeered a maintenance vehicle in the parking lot, police said. Miguel Zaragoza, 39, was booked into county jail Sunday and charged with trespassing and possession of a stolen vehicle, Sgt. Heather Randol of the San Jose Police Department said. Atlantic Aviation employees spotted Zaragoza about 10:15 a.m. near their ramp and escorted him to the lobby to wait for police. \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_26997943/security-breach-at-san-jose-international-airport\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article4081409.html\" target=\"_blank\">In crude-by-rail comments, Benicia mayor at center of debate over city officials' freedom of speech (Sacramento Bee)\u003c/a>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The hot national debate over crude oil train safety has taken an unusual twist in the Bay Area city of Benicia, where a blunt-talking mayor’s right to free speech is being pitted against an oil company’s right to a fair public hearing. This summer, amid tense public debate over a Valero Refining Co. proposal to bring crude oil on trains to its Benicia plant, Mayor Elizabeth Patterson revealed that the city attorney had privately advised her that her frequent public comments about oil transport safety could be seen as bias against the Valero project. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article4081409.html\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2014/11/24/rep-mike-honda-schools-sen-rand-paul/\" target=\"_blank\">Congressman Mike Honda blasts Sen. Rand Paul for likening Obama's immigration orders to World War II internment\u003c/a> (Bay Area News Group):\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., on Friday likened President Barack Obama’s executive action on immigration to President Franklin Roosevelt’s action to put Japanese-Americans in internment camps during World War II. Rep. 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Marc DeCoulode said on Monday. \u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/breaking-news/ci_27002538/berkeley-cal-students-plan-walkout-monday-protest-tuition\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/education/ci_26998525/hidden-cost-ucs-tuition-hike\" target=\"_blank\">The hidden cost of UC tuition hikes\u003c/a> (Bay Area News Group):\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>If the University of California hikes its fees, defying the governor's tuition freeze, students won't be the only ones footing the bill. Taxpayers would likely end up paying an extra $45 million next year alone, and at least $250 million more annually by 2019 -- for their share of the rising costs. As tuition soars, so does taxpayer-funded financial aid, becoming a larger -- though often-overlooked -- piece of the UC funding picture. Each time the state cut the university's budget during the Great Recession, UC hiked tuition, and the state, in turn, gave ever-greater sums of tuition grants to help low-income students pay for their UC educations. UC itself last year granted students $775 million out of its own funds. \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/education/ci_26998525/hidden-cost-ucs-tuition-hike\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_26997943/security-breach-at-san-jose-international-airport\" target=\"_blank\">Another security breach at Mineta San Jose International Airport \u003c/a>(San Jose Mercury News):\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Mineta San Jose International Airport suffered a security breach Sunday morning when an unauthorized man snuck onto the tarmac and then commandeered a maintenance vehicle in the parking lot, police said. Miguel Zaragoza, 39, was booked into county jail Sunday and charged with trespassing and possession of a stolen vehicle, Sgt. Heather Randol of the San Jose Police Department said. Atlantic Aviation employees spotted Zaragoza about 10:15 a.m. near their ramp and escorted him to the lobby to wait for police. \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_26997943/security-breach-at-san-jose-international-airport\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article4081409.html\" target=\"_blank\">In crude-by-rail comments, Benicia mayor at center of debate over city officials' freedom of speech (Sacramento Bee)\u003c/a>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The hot national debate over crude oil train safety has taken an unusual twist in the Bay Area city of Benicia, where a blunt-talking mayor’s right to free speech is being pitted against an oil company’s right to a fair public hearing. This summer, amid tense public debate over a Valero Refining Co. proposal to bring crude oil on trains to its Benicia plant, Mayor Elizabeth Patterson revealed that the city attorney had privately advised her that her frequent public comments about oil transport safety could be seen as bias against the Valero project. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article4081409.html\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2014/11/24/rep-mike-honda-schools-sen-rand-paul/\" target=\"_blank\">Congressman Mike Honda blasts Sen. Rand Paul for likening Obama's immigration orders to World War II internment\u003c/a> (Bay Area News Group):\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., on Friday likened President Barack Obama’s executive action on immigration to President Franklin Roosevelt’s action to put Japanese-Americans in internment camps during World War II. Rep. Mike Honda, D-San Jose, who as a child was forced to live in such a camp, issued a statement Monday taking the presidential aspirant to task. \u003ca href=\"http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2014/11/24/rep-mike-honda-schools-sen-rand-paul/\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/California-drought-S-F-wants-to-add-this-to-5913205.php\" target=\"_blank\">California drought: San Francisco wants to mix groundwater with 'pristine' Hetch Hetchy supplies\u003c/a> (San Francisco Chronicle):\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The recipe for San Francisco’s famously delicious tap water is, gulp, about to change. Most city spigots, which, since the 1930s, have gushed water from Yosemite’s pristine Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, will start delivering the Sierra supply blended with a splash of local groundwater — by many measures, a far inferior source. The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission recently began digging in and around Golden Gate Park in hopes of drawing underground flows into the mix within the next two years. 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(Yes, bacteria also have immune systems -- they, too, have to fight off viruses.) \u003c/span>Anyway, they realized this innovation could change the biotech industry and make bundles of cash. Haurwitz says, “This is just a fantastic example of how funding even very basic research can lead to translational work that you never would have anticipated.” After graduating, she and her professor started a company called Caribou. But that wasn't always the plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Doudna is Haurwitz's old professor and current business partner. “I was just a curious scientist investigating what I thought could be an interesting pathway in bacteria,” Doudna says. Her lab has been studying RNA for more than 20 years. 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Now, however, the University of California hopes to make money in a new way—from the success of the companies themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carol Mimura is from UC Berkeley's office of \u003ca href=\"http://ipira.berkeley.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Intellectual Property & Industry Research Alliances.\u003c/a> She says Napolitano's new policy will allow UC to invest directly in companies that come out of its schools. This is already done at private universities such as MIT, Stanford and Cornell, which, by the way, takes this one step further by turning postdoc pay into a form of angel investment. 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He says there was no indication of these sweeping changes and that the official statement made it sound completely benign. “They said that these are just some technical and trivial changes,” he says, “and it is not even going to be brought up to the Senate.” That was in October, after Napolitano had been president for two weeks. She declined to comment for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clare says the changes are not trivial. He is concerned they will divert resources from basic research — the kind that eventually leads to really big breakthroughs. “I am really worried at a fundamental level that the office of the president is spelling research: T-E-C-H T-R-A-N-S-F-E-R.” Tech transfer — that is, innovations that can be sold to corporations. “We are supposed to be the producers of knowledge,” Clare says, “much more than the producers of widgets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tension between intellectual and commercial pursuits in universities is nothing new. Back in 1918, Thorstein Veblen wrote about how corporate intrusion threatened academia in his \u003ca href=\"http://www.ditext.com/veblen/veblen.html\">memorandum\u003c/a> on “the Conduct of Universities By Business Men.” Today, there are tech transfer offices and startup incubators right on school campuses. Faculty members feel the pressure to develop patents, not just publish papers. According to the \u003ca href=\"http://chronicle.com/article/U-of-Maryland-to-Count/132261/\">Chronicle of Higher Education,\u003c/a> over two dozen institutions now have policies that award promotion and tenure to faculty that generate patents that sell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chris Newfield is a UC professor and author of \"Unmaking the Public University.\" College is increasingly portrayed as a place to train workers and churn out startups, he says. Public schools like the University of California are feeling pressure to keep up, especially amid huge budget cuts. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doudna says this is how America has made big science breakthroughs for decades — not by chasing products but by curious investigation. And for decades, schools like UC Berkeley have made money through patents on the intellectual property or IP. (Well, more precisely since 1980. That is when the government passed the Bayh-Dole Act, which lets universities keep profits from patents developed through governmental funding.) Now, however, the University of California hopes to make money in a new way—from the success of the companies themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carol Mimura is from UC Berkeley's office of \u003ca href=\"http://ipira.berkeley.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Intellectual Property & Industry Research Alliances.\u003c/a> She says Napolitano's new policy will allow UC to invest directly in companies that come out of its schools. This is already done at private universities such as MIT, Stanford and Cornell, which, by the way, takes this one step further by turning postdoc pay into a form of angel investment. Company equity can yield bigger returns, such as with Google, but it’s more tied to corporate success than to intellectual innovation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/166254521&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Napolitano made direct investment possible by removing the 1989 set of industry-academia guidelines. The rescission has roiled faculty — not only because of the change but also because of the abrupt way she did it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Clare is a physics professor at Cal and chair of the University Committee on Research Policy in the Academic Senate. It’s the representative body where faculty can weigh in on issues like this. He says there was no indication of these sweeping changes and that the official statement made it sound completely benign. “They said that these are just some technical and trivial changes,” he says, “and it is not even going to be brought up to the Senate.” That was in October, after Napolitano had been president for two weeks. She declined to comment for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clare says the changes are not trivial. He is concerned they will divert resources from basic research — the kind that eventually leads to really big breakthroughs. “I am really worried at a fundamental level that the office of the president is spelling research: T-E-C-H T-R-A-N-S-F-E-R.” Tech transfer — that is, innovations that can be sold to corporations. “We are supposed to be the producers of knowledge,” Clare says, “much more than the producers of widgets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tension between intellectual and commercial pursuits in universities is nothing new. Back in 1918, Thorstein Veblen wrote about how corporate intrusion threatened academia in his \u003ca href=\"http://www.ditext.com/veblen/veblen.html\">memorandum\u003c/a> on “the Conduct of Universities By Business Men.” Today, there are tech transfer offices and startup incubators right on school campuses. Faculty members feel the pressure to develop patents, not just publish papers. According to the \u003ca href=\"http://chronicle.com/article/U-of-Maryland-to-Count/132261/\">Chronicle of Higher Education,\u003c/a> over two dozen institutions now have policies that award promotion and tenure to faculty that generate patents that sell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chris Newfield is a UC professor and author of \"Unmaking the Public University.\" College is increasingly portrayed as a place to train workers and churn out startups, he says. Public schools like the University of California are feeling pressure to keep up, especially amid huge budget cuts. The UC system lost almost a billion dollars in funding between 2008 and 2013. “The public university is becoming more dependent on private revenues,” Newfield says, and subsequently “it is becoming more interested in serving private interests.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The long-term worries over Napolitano's removal of academic-industry guidelines stem from immediate concerns about conflicts of interest — things like departmental favoritism, or the use of graduate students as labor for commercial research. Boundaries could blur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consider Professor Doudna's position. Her graduate students are working on research related to Caribou, a company she co-founded that could profit from that research. School guidelines prohibit the private lab and the school lab from working together, but that is a fine line to walk, especially with the injection of more money into the environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Sara Hossaini\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_125602\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/02/07/cal-football-player-dies-during-drill/tedagu/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-125602\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-125602\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/tedagu-640x362.jpg\" alt=\"UC Berkeley football player Ted Agu, in image released today by Cal. \" width=\"640\" height=\"362\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC Berkeley football player Ted Agu, in image released by Cal.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/163185658&color=ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"20\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">L\u003c/span>ast Feb. 7, Cal football player Ted Agu \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/02/07/cal-football-player-dies-during-drill/\">collapsed and died\u003c/a> following an off-season training drill. A walk-on defensive player who had worked hard to earn a scholarship, Agu was a popular player known as “Pre-Med Ted” for his ambition to go to medical school. His death devastated family, friends and teammates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that tragedy is the focus of a wrongful death lawsuit by Agu’s parents, who say the university failed to take adequate precautions to respond to a potentially deadly medical condition their son had.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That condition, \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/sicklecell/traits.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sickle cell trait\u003c/a>, is found in people who have inherited just one of the two genes that cause sickle cell disease. Sickle cell trait itself is not uncommon: It’s found in about 8 percent of the African-American population, and it’s distinct from \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/sicklecell/facts.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sickle cell disease\u003c/a> that afflicts people who inherit the gene from both parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Agu’s family and lawyers say Cal officials knew he had sickle cell trait and should have been monitoring him more carefully.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The Agu lawsuit shines a spotlight both on what Cal officials knew about the player’s sickle cell status and on a debate about what measures should be taken to protect student athletes with the condition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Thomas Beaver, Alameda County’s former chief forensic pathologist, performed the initial autopsy on Agu shortly after he died on Feb. 7. He says he observed that Agu’s heart was somewhat enlarged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not what I would call a severe case, it’s not incompatible with life,” Beaver says. He adds that the discovery led him to focus on \u003ca href=\"http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000192.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hypertrophic cardiomyopathy\u003c/a>, a condition that leads to abnormal thickening of the heart muscle, as a possible cause of death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beaver says he was told Agu suddenly collapsed during a conditioning drill and couldn’t be revived, a sequence of events that suggested a sudden cardiac event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Surprise Discovery\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weeks later, Beaver got slides of Agu’s heart tissue and set out to confirm his theory. It was only then that he made a surprising discovery: abnormal, “sickled” red blood cells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t discover the sickle cell until I was looking at the tissues under the microscope, and I was shocked to see it,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”F0CIL9dEcUFt44dGs4JwecbAsGhwWPM4″]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beaver says that none of the medical records he saw suggested Agu had sickle cell trait.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So, I mean I didn’t expect that at all,” says Beaver. He adds that after discovering the condition, he asked Agu’s family for medical records to learn more about the player’s sickle cell history, but he never received any.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coroner’s records show that a nurse at Alta Bates who reported Agu’s death mentioned a “history of sickle cell anemia.” Beaver said that statement was nonspecific and never substantiated. Beaver says “history” could have referred to Agu or his family, and sickle cell “anemia” or “disease” is different from sickle cell trait.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The apparent absence of documentation of Agu’s sickle cell status is remarkable in light of \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncaa.org/health-and-safety/medical-conditions/sickle-cell-trait\">an NCAA policy that took effect in 2010\u003c/a> that acknowledges sickle cell trait’s potential danger and requires athletes to undergo sickle cell tests or submit the results of prior tests. UC Berkeley says \u003ca href=\"http://uhs.berkeley.edu/students/athletics/pdf/Sickle%20Cell%20Parent%20Letter,%20Final%20Spring%202011.pdf\">it complies\u003c/a> with the policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, Beaver’s synopsis of Agu’s cause of death stated the player died of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy “based on the information available to me at this time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you read my comment carefully,” he says, “it’s very hesitant on the diagnosis and it leaves a lot of room for the sickle cell to become the diagnosis, given history or more information or whatever, so I agonized over each of those words.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyers for Agu’s family said during a press conference earlier this month that the player, a defensive star at Bakersfield’s Frontier High School, had tested positive for sickle cell trait in 2010, before he came to Cal. They say the school later confirmed that finding. The family’s suit says Agu’s status meant coaches and trainers should have been monitoring him more carefully during the tough Feb. 7 workout session and should have responded much more promptly when they realized he was in distress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He didn’t die within seconds from the onset of his symptoms,” said attorney Steven Yerrid. “A sickling athlete has very, very definitive symptomatology, it’s very well known. The problem is you have to have people watching, and you have to have people intervening, and looking out for the welfare of the student athlete.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit also alleges that Cal was negligent in hiring and supervising one of the trainers overseeing the workout that preceded Agu’s death. That’s because the trainer was also present during what the lawsuit calls a “remarkably similar” 2008 incident at the University of Central Florida, when another player with sickle cell trait died after a workout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement responding to the lawsuit, UC Berkeley reiterated that it follows “all recommended protocols, including those outlined by the NCAA, for all student-athletes with identified medical conditions” — including the requirement for sickle cell testing. The statement also said that the university provided all “relevant medical records — including the results of all medical testing — to the Alameda County coroner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citing the pending litigation, Cal officials would not say whether the records it provided included information on Agu’s sickle cell status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How Big a Danger? And How to Respond?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the case begins wending its way through Alameda County Superior Court, medical experts are divided on the magnitude of the danger posed by sickle cell trait and on the best way to respond to it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think that kids die of sickle trait,” says Dr. Frans Kuypers. He studies sickle cell trait and its impact on athletes at UCSF-Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In most of the cases, the kids die of very different kind of things that have nothing to do with sickle trait,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kuypers says the risk factors for problems associated with sickle cell trait, and how they vary among athletes, are not well understood or well studied. He’s partnering with UC Berkeley on a $100,000 grant from the National Football League to undertake just such a study. He hopes to find out why, for example, one athlete is more likely to have trouble playing in altitude, while another may not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But other experts say there is evidence that sickle cell trait has killed athletes during workouts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. John Strouse is an assistant professor of pediatrics and medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine who studies and treats patients with sickle cell conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There have been reports from the military where they looked at military recruits undergoing basic training by their sickle cell trait status,” says Strouse, “and they had a much greater risk of having serious heat-related injury” or dying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strouse says the military opted to use “universal precautions” that apply to all recruits, regardless of sickle cell status, including proper hydration and more breaks from exercise when it’s hot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One medical organization, the American Society of Hematology, says that for a variety of reasons, that approach \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/01/26/145923225/blood-doctors-call-foul-on-ncaas-screening-for-sickle-cell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">makes more sense\u003c/a> than the NCAA’s testing requirement. The main benefit, it says, is that the universal approach would reduce the risks that all athletes face from extreme exertion.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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He adds that the discovery led him to focus on \u003ca href=\"http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000192.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hypertrophic cardiomyopathy\u003c/a>, a condition that leads to abnormal thickening of the heart muscle, as a possible cause of death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beaver says he was told Agu suddenly collapsed during a conditioning drill and couldn’t be revived, a sequence of events that suggested a sudden cardiac event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Surprise Discovery\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weeks later, Beaver got slides of Agu’s heart tissue and set out to confirm his theory. It was only then that he made a surprising discovery: abnormal, “sickled” red blood cells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t discover the sickle cell until I was looking at the tissues under the microscope, and I was shocked to see it,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beaver says that none of the medical records he saw suggested Agu had sickle cell trait.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So, I mean I didn’t expect that at all,” says Beaver. He adds that after discovering the condition, he asked Agu’s family for medical records to learn more about the player’s sickle cell history, but he never received any.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coroner’s records show that a nurse at Alta Bates who reported Agu’s death mentioned a “history of sickle cell anemia.” Beaver said that statement was nonspecific and never substantiated. Beaver says “history” could have referred to Agu or his family, and sickle cell “anemia” or “disease” is different from sickle cell trait.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The apparent absence of documentation of Agu’s sickle cell status is remarkable in light of \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncaa.org/health-and-safety/medical-conditions/sickle-cell-trait\">an NCAA policy that took effect in 2010\u003c/a> that acknowledges sickle cell trait’s potential danger and requires athletes to undergo sickle cell tests or submit the results of prior tests. UC Berkeley says \u003ca href=\"http://uhs.berkeley.edu/students/athletics/pdf/Sickle%20Cell%20Parent%20Letter,%20Final%20Spring%202011.pdf\">it complies\u003c/a> with the policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, Beaver’s synopsis of Agu’s cause of death stated the player died of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy “based on the information available to me at this time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you read my comment carefully,” he says, “it’s very hesitant on the diagnosis and it leaves a lot of room for the sickle cell to become the diagnosis, given history or more information or whatever, so I agonized over each of those words.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyers for Agu’s family said during a press conference earlier this month that the player, a defensive star at Bakersfield’s Frontier High School, had tested positive for sickle cell trait in 2010, before he came to Cal. They say the school later confirmed that finding. The family’s suit says Agu’s status meant coaches and trainers should have been monitoring him more carefully during the tough Feb. 7 workout session and should have responded much more promptly when they realized he was in distress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He didn’t die within seconds from the onset of his symptoms,” said attorney Steven Yerrid. “A sickling athlete has very, very definitive symptomatology, it’s very well known. The problem is you have to have people watching, and you have to have people intervening, and looking out for the welfare of the student athlete.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit also alleges that Cal was negligent in hiring and supervising one of the trainers overseeing the workout that preceded Agu’s death. That’s because the trainer was also present during what the lawsuit calls a “remarkably similar” 2008 incident at the University of Central Florida, when another player with sickle cell trait died after a workout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement responding to the lawsuit, UC Berkeley reiterated that it follows “all recommended protocols, including those outlined by the NCAA, for all student-athletes with identified medical conditions” — including the requirement for sickle cell testing. The statement also said that the university provided all “relevant medical records — including the results of all medical testing — to the Alameda County coroner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citing the pending litigation, Cal officials would not say whether the records it provided included information on Agu’s sickle cell status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How Big a Danger? 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