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But they’re usually pretty weak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11969859\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/IMG_1940-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11969859\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/IMG_1940-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A large telescopic machine in a field.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/IMG_1940-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/IMG_1940-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/IMG_1940-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/IMG_1940-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/IMG_1940-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/IMG_1940-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/IMG_1940-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A decommissioned telescope at the Hat Creek Radio Observatory. \u003ccite>(Katherine Monahan/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Technological sources emit stronger signals. And that’s what Gajjar and his colleagues look for because it could indicate an extraterrestrial life form that’s intelligent enough to build machines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we can detect it, we assume it would be an intentional communication,” said Grayce Brown, an associate researcher and observer at the Allen Telescope Array.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, when I first heard of it, I was like, ‘Aliens? What? There’s no way we’re doing real science on that,’” Brown said. “But people are seriously looking into it. 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There must be other life out there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists have yet to find a clear signal of extraterrestrial intelligence, but Gajjar hopes they do within his lifetime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One day,” he said, “these telescopes might be contributing to the biggest discovery humanity has ever made.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.seti.org/ata\">\u003cem>The Allen Telescope Array at the Hat Creek Radio Observatory\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> is open to visitors on Thursdays and Fridays.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>For now, the Allen Telescope Array is all about listening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are not broadcasting,” Gajjar said. “We are a very new kid in this big jungle. So we shouldn’t start shouting; we should first listen to what’s out there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The input gathered by the telescopes runs underground through optical cables to a main lab, where it is processed and displayed on screens. Scientists monitor the display for the appearance of a streak running through it, indicating an intense radio signal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If they have a temperature, all objects in the universe emit radio waves at some level. Stars emit them, and so do humans. But they’re usually pretty weak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11969859\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/IMG_1940-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11969859\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/IMG_1940-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A large telescopic machine in a field.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/IMG_1940-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/IMG_1940-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/IMG_1940-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/IMG_1940-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/IMG_1940-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/IMG_1940-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/IMG_1940-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A decommissioned telescope at the Hat Creek Radio Observatory. \u003ccite>(Katherine Monahan/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Technological sources emit stronger signals. And that’s what Gajjar and his colleagues look for because it could indicate an extraterrestrial life form that’s intelligent enough to build machines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we can detect it, we assume it would be an intentional communication,” said Grayce Brown, an associate researcher and observer at the Allen Telescope Array.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, when I first heard of it, I was like, ‘Aliens? What? There’s no way we’re doing real science on that,’” Brown said. “But people are seriously looking into it. And it blows my mind just how forward-thinking we can be and how plausible actually some of this stuff is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last decade, \u003ca href=\"https://www.space.com/24903-kepler-space-telescope.html\">scientists observed thousands of new planets\u003c/a>, which has ramped up the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Almost every star you see at night has some planet around it,” Gajjar said. “And half of them have Earth-like planets within the habitable zone. So we are definitely not likely to be alone. There must be other life out there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists have yet to find a clear signal of extraterrestrial intelligence, but Gajjar hopes they do within his lifetime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One day,” he said, “these telescopes might be contributing to the biggest discovery humanity has ever made.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.seti.org/ata\">\u003cem>The Allen Telescope Array at the Hat Creek Radio Observatory\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> is open to visitors on Thursdays and Fridays.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Long revered as the birthplace of the free speech movement in the ’60s, UC Berkeley now finds itself at the center of a fractious debate about First Amendment protections and religious intolerance amid the unfolding tragedy in the Middle East.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tempers are running high on all sides amid the bloodshed in the Middle East, which has already claimed thousands of lives, exposing ideological rifts between students and professors at the law school, spurring a \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://brandeiscenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Brandeis-Center-Complaint-11.28.2023.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">discrimination lawsuit (PDF) \u003c/a>against the UC system and setting off a broader a debate over who gets to define the boundaries of First Amendment protections, a drama heightened by Berkeley’s legendary status as the heart of the ’60s student protest movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s emblematic of the polarized times that we live in. We can’t begin to decide what the contours of expressive rights are,” said Will Creeley, the legal director of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, a free-speech advocacy group. “In our pluralistic democracy, there are going to be groups out there with beliefs that you don’t share, that maybe the majority of Americans don’t share. But that’s what our system of government kind of defends and requires. We believe in groups of citizens banding together, even groups of citizens with unpopular ideas. That’s what the First Amendment protects.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Will Creeley, legal director, Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression\"]‘Student groups have an associational right, protected by the First Amendment, to band together over a shared belief, even if that belief is noxious to some, many, or even most.’[/pullquote]The war of words first flared last summer when a student group, Law Students for Justice in Palestine, adopted a bylaw that banned supporters of Zionism from speaking at its events. Roughly 22 other student groups have adopted variations of this bylaw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As law students, we must utilize our privilege in amplifying the voices of indigenous movements for liberation and engage in the academic and political boycott that is essential to furthering goals of freedom,” as the LSJP group noted on its \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CyQ5vo9rkyX/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram\u003c/a> page, framing the bylaw issue as a matter of free speech. Members of the group did not respond to messages seeking comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others view the bylaws as discriminatory toward Jewish students, faculty and invited speakers. Steven Davidoff Solomon, a noted professor of corporate law, took offense at the bylaw, firing off \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/dont-hire-my-anti-semitic-law-students-protests-colleges-universities-jews-palestine-6ad86ad5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal \u003c/a>urging employers: “Don’t Hire My Anti-Semitic Law Students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The student conduct at Berkeley is part of the broader attitude against Jews on university campuses that made last week’s massacre possible,” he wrote in the aftermath of the Hamas attack on Israel on Oct. 7.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to that commentary, a group of alumni wrote an open letter to Erwin Chemerinsky, the dean of the law school, calling on him to uphold the rights of all students. The letter argued that Solomon conflated “support for the Palestinian people or criticism of the Israeli government with antisemitism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chemerinsky responded by voicing the school’s commitment to freedom of speech, including language that “others find offensive, even deeply offensive.” Excluding speakers based on race, religion, sex or sexual orientation would not be allowed, he said, but excluding speakers based on viewpoint is a different matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Student organizations have the First Amendment right to choose speakers based on viewpoint,” Chemerinsky said. “The College Republicans can choose to invite only conservative speakers. The Women of Berkeley Law can choose to invite only pro-choice speakers. I think that is quite clear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, if you consider anti-Zionist to be synonymous with antisemitic, as some do, then excluding Zionist speakers can be seen as a discriminatory act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nobody’s saying you have to include a program on a position that you disagree with,” said Alyza D. Lewin, president of the Brandeis Center For Human Rights under the Law. “They’re saying you cannot exclude an individual on the basis of their identity. That is a form of discrimination they need to address. You can’t have groups saying, ‘Zionists aren’t welcome,’ because that’s excluding Jews on the basis of an integral component of what it means to be a Jew.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s among the reasons the Brandeis Center and Jewish Americans for Fairness in Education are \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://brandeiscenter.com/brandeis-center-sues-uc-berkeley-for-longstanding-unchecked-spread-of-anti-semitism-11-28-23/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">suing\u003c/a> UC Berkeley for what they characterize as the “longstanding, unchecked spread of anti-Semitism” on campus. The suit argues that anti-Zionism is a form of antisemitism and that the student group bylaws violate the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause, the First Amendment right to freedom of religion and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Conditioning a Jew’s ability to participate in a student group on his or her renunciation of a core component of Jewish identity is no less pernicious than demanding the renunciation of some other core element of a student’s identity — whether based on race, ethnicity, gender, or sexual identity,” as the \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://brandeiscenter.com/brandeis-center-sues-uc-berkeley-for-longstanding-unchecked-spread-of-anti-semitism-11-28-23/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lawsuit \u003c/a>said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others reject the notion of equating antisemitism with anti-Zionism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am wary of that argument for a couple reasons. First of all, I do think there is a distinction between anti-Zionism and antisemitism,” Creeley said. “You have a First Amendment right to criticize Israel. That’s core political speech.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the question became a hot-button issue when more than two dozen Wall Street law firms signed a \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/xmvjlxxodvr/Letter%20to%20Law%20School%20Deans.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter warning deans at top law schools (PDF)\u003c/a> that they have “zero tolerance policies for any form of discrimination or harassment, much less the kind that has been taking place on some law school campuses.” \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/davis-polk-revokes-jobs-harvard-columbia-law-students-over-statements-israel-2023-10-17/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harvard, Columbia\u003c/a> and \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20231010192191/en/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NYU\u003c/a> students have already lost job offers over “inflammatory remarks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other voices, however, defend the right of student groups to invite whomever they choose to speak on campus. For instance, it has been noted that some\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/12/11/swarthmore-hillel-rejects-ban-anti-israel-speakers#:~:text=Those%20guidelines%20stipulate%20that%20Hillel,sanctions%20(BDS)%20movement%20against%20Israel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> chapters of Hillel,\u003c/a> the Jewish student group on college campuses, have rules prohibiting speakers who “delegitimize” Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you are a public university, you can’t require your belief-based student groups to either adopt or disavow certain beliefs,” said Creeley. “Student groups have an associational right, protected by the First Amendment, to band together over a shared belief, even if that belief is noxious to some, many, or even most.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some argue that freedom of speech should not trample on the freedom of religion. Kenneth Marcus, chairman and founder of the Brandeis Center as well as \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/27/us/politics/kenneth-marcus-education-department.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the civil rights chief\u003c/a> of the U.S. Education Department during the Trump administration, has likened the bylaws to the \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/opinion/351854/berkeley-develops-jewish-free-zones/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">“Jewish-free zones”\u003c/a> of the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The school is quick to address other types of hatred, but why not antisemitism?” as Marcus, a Berkeley law school alumnus, has put it. “Berkeley, once a beacon of free speech, civil rights and equal treatment of persons regardless of race, religion, ethnicity, national origin, gender and sexual orientation, is heading down a very different and dangerous path from the one I proudly attended as a Jewish law student.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hannah Schlacter, a second-year MBA student at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business who is part of Jewish Americans for Fairness in Education, one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit, said she feels unsafe on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I sense a hostile campus environment towards Jewish students who express their Jewish identity in certain ways. This was the case before 10/7, but it became even more so after 10/7,” she said. “If I express a part of my Jewish identity, like holding a flag of the Jewish homeland, then if I am assaulted, the university has demonstrated they will not investigate nor call it hate crime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dean of the law school, a constitutional law scholar who is Jewish, refutes the central tenet of the suit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no ‘longstanding, unchecked antisemitism’ on the Berkeley campus,” Chemerinsky said. “I have been here six and a half years, and it is just a false narrative. I doubt the people who wrote it have been on campus.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the core of the debate is how you define freedom of speech, which has become an increasingly contentious matter in itself in recent years. Some say there’s not as much common ground on what constitutes free speech and its critical role in feeding a lively marketplace of ideas, the foundation of any participatory democracy, as there once was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have been teaching First Amendment law for 44 years, and I think there is less consensus about free speech than there used to be,” Chemerinsky said. “The first seven weeks of this semester were calm and easy. Since Oct. 7, it has been difficult on our campus and on campuses across the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For his part, the dean has also blamed the media, suggesting that many outlets \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.thedailybeast.com/there-are-no-jewish-free-zones-on-the-uc-berkeley-campus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">have overblown the controversy\u003c/a>, pouring fuel on the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What is the proper role of the university? To be a place where all ideas and views are discussed,” he wrote. “At my law school, the Law Students for Justice in Palestine bring in speakers and hold programs to express their views. At the same time, the Helen Diller Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies holds many programs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lewin disagrees that institutional neutrality is the best approach to combat a rising tide of bias. The suit argues that the university failed to address antisemitic incidents on campus following the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel. In one campus incident, the lawsuit alleges, a Jewish student draped in an Israeli flag was assaulted by two protesters who hit him in the head with his water bottle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There has also been a rise in anti-Islamic incidents. Pro-Palestinian students have reported being harassed and threatened in the wake of Oct. 7, \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://news.berkeley.edu/2023/11/03/chancellor-carol-christ-reaffirming-our-community\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to university officials.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hate doesn’t start with violence. Hate starts with biased attitudes,” Lewin said. “It starts with stereotypes. And then it builds. The reason we’re now seeing the violence is because for all those years when the biased attitudes, the stereotypes, the slurs, the shunning were taking place, the university said we’re not doing anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Certainly, the law school is far from being alone in grappling with these thorny issues. Cases of both Islamophobia and antisemitism have been spiking on campuses across the country. These mounting incidents have prompted a federal response, with President Joe Biden’s Department of Education \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.axios.com/2023/11/29/harvard-nyc-public-schools-antisemitism-investigation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announcing investigations\u003c/a> into antisemitism and Islamophobia at a growing number of universities, including Harvard, Columbia and Cornell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Of all the issues we deal with, of all the topics of speech, abortion, Trump, politics, whatever, Israel and Palestine has always been the most intensely felt. And that was true before Oct. 7. Now, holy moly,” Creeley said. “It’s the intensity of the feelings on both sides and the decades of historical precedent, the general feeling of bitterness and hopelessness. It all coagulates into a very toxic stew on campus.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The social strife rampant on campuses across the country, experts say, may reflect a \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/11/22/heckling-to-be-heard-why-bay-area-protesters-have-increasingly-become-government-disruptors/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">deeply divided nation\u003c/a> coping with myriad crises, foreign and domestic. This has spread far beyond campuses to society at large, with \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/oakland-israel-hamas-cease-fire-947cc31f56055c056768136100d09547\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oakland’s City Council\u003c/a> passing a resolution calling for a cease-fire in Gaza. Demonstrators recently \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/pictures/photos-demonstration-demanding-cease-fire-in-gaza-shuts-down-westbound-bay-bridge/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shut down the San Francisco Bay Bridge\u003c/a> while others staged a \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/11/13/calling-for-ceasefire-in-gaza-protesters-take-over-oakland-federal-building/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sit-in\u003c/a> at Oakland’s Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building, also urging a cease-fire. Protesters have also delayed a ship, which was believed to be carrying military supplies, for nine hours at the Port of Oakland. The use of \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/15/technology/hate-speech-israel-gaza-internet.html#:~:text=Fueled%20by%20the%20conflict%20between,Facebook%20and%20Instagram%2C%20researchers%20said.&text=Sheera%20Frenkel%20and%20Steven%20Lee%20Myers%20reviewed%20thousands%20of%20social,with%20antisemitic%20and%20Islamophobic%20hashtags.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hate speech is also rising online.\u003c/a> Common ground is proving elusive on all fronts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grappling for ways to combat the rising tide of hate, \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2023/uc-pledges-7-million-to-address-islamophobia-antisemitism-on-campuses/700780\">UC President Michael Drake\u003c/a> has pledged $7 million toward addressing “acts of bigotry, intolerance, and intimidation” on campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a crisis today on America’s campuses,” as Marcus said in his testimony before the House Committee on Education in a hearing titled “\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://edworkforce.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=409731\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Confronting the Scourge of Antisemitism on Campus\u003c/a>.” “This is an emergency, and I would suggest to this committee that when the problem is exceptional and unprecedented, the solutions need to be unprecedented and exceptional.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chemerinsky, for one, takes a pragmatic approach to the discord on and off campus in these polarized times. At the law school, he said he hopes to engender a greater sense of civility in the discourse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think we can aspire to unity,” he said. “But we can work to create community and to make all students feel included and respected.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Long revered as the birthplace of the free speech movement in the ’60s, UC Berkeley now finds itself at the center of a fractious debate about First Amendment protections and religious intolerance amid the unfolding tragedy in the Middle East.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tempers are running high on all sides amid the bloodshed in the Middle East, which has already claimed thousands of lives, exposing ideological rifts between students and professors at the law school, spurring a \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://brandeiscenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Brandeis-Center-Complaint-11.28.2023.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">discrimination lawsuit (PDF) \u003c/a>against the UC system and setting off a broader a debate over who gets to define the boundaries of First Amendment protections, a drama heightened by Berkeley’s legendary status as the heart of the ’60s student protest movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s emblematic of the polarized times that we live in. We can’t begin to decide what the contours of expressive rights are,” said Will Creeley, the legal director of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, a free-speech advocacy group. “In our pluralistic democracy, there are going to be groups out there with beliefs that you don’t share, that maybe the majority of Americans don’t share. But that’s what our system of government kind of defends and requires. We believe in groups of citizens banding together, even groups of citizens with unpopular ideas. That’s what the First Amendment protects.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others view the bylaws as discriminatory toward Jewish students, faculty and invited speakers. Steven Davidoff Solomon, a noted professor of corporate law, took offense at the bylaw, firing off \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/dont-hire-my-anti-semitic-law-students-protests-colleges-universities-jews-palestine-6ad86ad5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal \u003c/a>urging employers: “Don’t Hire My Anti-Semitic Law Students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The student conduct at Berkeley is part of the broader attitude against Jews on university campuses that made last week’s massacre possible,” he wrote in the aftermath of the Hamas attack on Israel on Oct. 7.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to that commentary, a group of alumni wrote an open letter to Erwin Chemerinsky, the dean of the law school, calling on him to uphold the rights of all students. The letter argued that Solomon conflated “support for the Palestinian people or criticism of the Israeli government with antisemitism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chemerinsky responded by voicing the school’s commitment to freedom of speech, including language that “others find offensive, even deeply offensive.” Excluding speakers based on race, religion, sex or sexual orientation would not be allowed, he said, but excluding speakers based on viewpoint is a different matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Student organizations have the First Amendment right to choose speakers based on viewpoint,” Chemerinsky said. “The College Republicans can choose to invite only conservative speakers. The Women of Berkeley Law can choose to invite only pro-choice speakers. I think that is quite clear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, if you consider anti-Zionist to be synonymous with antisemitic, as some do, then excluding Zionist speakers can be seen as a discriminatory act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nobody’s saying you have to include a program on a position that you disagree with,” said Alyza D. Lewin, president of the Brandeis Center For Human Rights under the Law. “They’re saying you cannot exclude an individual on the basis of their identity. That is a form of discrimination they need to address. You can’t have groups saying, ‘Zionists aren’t welcome,’ because that’s excluding Jews on the basis of an integral component of what it means to be a Jew.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s among the reasons the Brandeis Center and Jewish Americans for Fairness in Education are \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://brandeiscenter.com/brandeis-center-sues-uc-berkeley-for-longstanding-unchecked-spread-of-anti-semitism-11-28-23/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">suing\u003c/a> UC Berkeley for what they characterize as the “longstanding, unchecked spread of anti-Semitism” on campus. The suit argues that anti-Zionism is a form of antisemitism and that the student group bylaws violate the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause, the First Amendment right to freedom of religion and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Conditioning a Jew’s ability to participate in a student group on his or her renunciation of a core component of Jewish identity is no less pernicious than demanding the renunciation of some other core element of a student’s identity — whether based on race, ethnicity, gender, or sexual identity,” as the \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://brandeiscenter.com/brandeis-center-sues-uc-berkeley-for-longstanding-unchecked-spread-of-anti-semitism-11-28-23/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lawsuit \u003c/a>said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others reject the notion of equating antisemitism with anti-Zionism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am wary of that argument for a couple reasons. First of all, I do think there is a distinction between anti-Zionism and antisemitism,” Creeley said. “You have a First Amendment right to criticize Israel. That’s core political speech.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the question became a hot-button issue when more than two dozen Wall Street law firms signed a \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/xmvjlxxodvr/Letter%20to%20Law%20School%20Deans.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter warning deans at top law schools (PDF)\u003c/a> that they have “zero tolerance policies for any form of discrimination or harassment, much less the kind that has been taking place on some law school campuses.” \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/davis-polk-revokes-jobs-harvard-columbia-law-students-over-statements-israel-2023-10-17/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harvard, Columbia\u003c/a> and \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20231010192191/en/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NYU\u003c/a> students have already lost job offers over “inflammatory remarks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other voices, however, defend the right of student groups to invite whomever they choose to speak on campus. For instance, it has been noted that some\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/12/11/swarthmore-hillel-rejects-ban-anti-israel-speakers#:~:text=Those%20guidelines%20stipulate%20that%20Hillel,sanctions%20(BDS)%20movement%20against%20Israel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> chapters of Hillel,\u003c/a> the Jewish student group on college campuses, have rules prohibiting speakers who “delegitimize” Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you are a public university, you can’t require your belief-based student groups to either adopt or disavow certain beliefs,” said Creeley. “Student groups have an associational right, protected by the First Amendment, to band together over a shared belief, even if that belief is noxious to some, many, or even most.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some argue that freedom of speech should not trample on the freedom of religion. Kenneth Marcus, chairman and founder of the Brandeis Center as well as \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/27/us/politics/kenneth-marcus-education-department.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the civil rights chief\u003c/a> of the U.S. Education Department during the Trump administration, has likened the bylaws to the \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/opinion/351854/berkeley-develops-jewish-free-zones/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">“Jewish-free zones”\u003c/a> of the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The school is quick to address other types of hatred, but why not antisemitism?” as Marcus, a Berkeley law school alumnus, has put it. “Berkeley, once a beacon of free speech, civil rights and equal treatment of persons regardless of race, religion, ethnicity, national origin, gender and sexual orientation, is heading down a very different and dangerous path from the one I proudly attended as a Jewish law student.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hannah Schlacter, a second-year MBA student at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business who is part of Jewish Americans for Fairness in Education, one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit, said she feels unsafe on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I sense a hostile campus environment towards Jewish students who express their Jewish identity in certain ways. This was the case before 10/7, but it became even more so after 10/7,” she said. “If I express a part of my Jewish identity, like holding a flag of the Jewish homeland, then if I am assaulted, the university has demonstrated they will not investigate nor call it hate crime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dean of the law school, a constitutional law scholar who is Jewish, refutes the central tenet of the suit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no ‘longstanding, unchecked antisemitism’ on the Berkeley campus,” Chemerinsky said. “I have been here six and a half years, and it is just a false narrative. I doubt the people who wrote it have been on campus.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the core of the debate is how you define freedom of speech, which has become an increasingly contentious matter in itself in recent years. Some say there’s not as much common ground on what constitutes free speech and its critical role in feeding a lively marketplace of ideas, the foundation of any participatory democracy, as there once was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have been teaching First Amendment law for 44 years, and I think there is less consensus about free speech than there used to be,” Chemerinsky said. “The first seven weeks of this semester were calm and easy. Since Oct. 7, it has been difficult on our campus and on campuses across the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For his part, the dean has also blamed the media, suggesting that many outlets \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.thedailybeast.com/there-are-no-jewish-free-zones-on-the-uc-berkeley-campus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">have overblown the controversy\u003c/a>, pouring fuel on the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What is the proper role of the university? To be a place where all ideas and views are discussed,” he wrote. “At my law school, the Law Students for Justice in Palestine bring in speakers and hold programs to express their views. At the same time, the Helen Diller Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies holds many programs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lewin disagrees that institutional neutrality is the best approach to combat a rising tide of bias. The suit argues that the university failed to address antisemitic incidents on campus following the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel. In one campus incident, the lawsuit alleges, a Jewish student draped in an Israeli flag was assaulted by two protesters who hit him in the head with his water bottle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There has also been a rise in anti-Islamic incidents. Pro-Palestinian students have reported being harassed and threatened in the wake of Oct. 7, \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://news.berkeley.edu/2023/11/03/chancellor-carol-christ-reaffirming-our-community\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to university officials.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hate doesn’t start with violence. Hate starts with biased attitudes,” Lewin said. “It starts with stereotypes. And then it builds. The reason we’re now seeing the violence is because for all those years when the biased attitudes, the stereotypes, the slurs, the shunning were taking place, the university said we’re not doing anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Certainly, the law school is far from being alone in grappling with these thorny issues. Cases of both Islamophobia and antisemitism have been spiking on campuses across the country. These mounting incidents have prompted a federal response, with President Joe Biden’s Department of Education \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.axios.com/2023/11/29/harvard-nyc-public-schools-antisemitism-investigation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announcing investigations\u003c/a> into antisemitism and Islamophobia at a growing number of universities, including Harvard, Columbia and Cornell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Of all the issues we deal with, of all the topics of speech, abortion, Trump, politics, whatever, Israel and Palestine has always been the most intensely felt. And that was true before Oct. 7. Now, holy moly,” Creeley said. “It’s the intensity of the feelings on both sides and the decades of historical precedent, the general feeling of bitterness and hopelessness. It all coagulates into a very toxic stew on campus.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The social strife rampant on campuses across the country, experts say, may reflect a \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/11/22/heckling-to-be-heard-why-bay-area-protesters-have-increasingly-become-government-disruptors/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">deeply divided nation\u003c/a> coping with myriad crises, foreign and domestic. This has spread far beyond campuses to society at large, with \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/oakland-israel-hamas-cease-fire-947cc31f56055c056768136100d09547\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oakland’s City Council\u003c/a> passing a resolution calling for a cease-fire in Gaza. Demonstrators recently \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/pictures/photos-demonstration-demanding-cease-fire-in-gaza-shuts-down-westbound-bay-bridge/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shut down the San Francisco Bay Bridge\u003c/a> while others staged a \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/11/13/calling-for-ceasefire-in-gaza-protesters-take-over-oakland-federal-building/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sit-in\u003c/a> at Oakland’s Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building, also urging a cease-fire. Protesters have also delayed a ship, which was believed to be carrying military supplies, for nine hours at the Port of Oakland. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ci>This story contains a clarification.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A growing group of UC Berkeley students has been staging a months-long protest campaign demanding that the university bring a suspended Spanish and Portuguese professor back to campus. They’ve shared testimonies highlighting how influential Ivonne del Valle has been both as a mentor and as a leading scholar at a school with few Latinx faculty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Professor del Valle isn’t just any faculty member, she’s the top expert in colonial studies,” said Emily Chamale, a second year UC Berkeley student, at a protest last month. “The question that haunts me is: If someone as respected as her is going through such things at Berkeley, what might the future be for the rest of us?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But records obtained by KQED paint a troubling picture of what led to del Valle’s suspension. Over three investigations, which looked into behavior that began in 2018 and continued through 2022, the university found del Valle had repeatedly harassed, stalked and retaliated against Joshua Clover, an English and Comparative Literature professor at UC Davis, and then violated orders not to contact him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Christián González Reyes, Ph.D. student\"]‘We want Ivonne back. We’re not going to be silent anymore.’[/pullquote]Clover declined to comment on the record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Student supporters contend del Valle was acting out of desperation, believing that she is actually the victim of harassment and online stalking. They are preparing to disrupt the Cal football game against the University of Southern California in an undisclosed manner on Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want Ivonne back,” said Christián González Reyes, a Ph.D. student studying comparative literature, who is organizing with the campaign. “We’re not going to be silent anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The supporters say del Valle is beloved at the university, where she is the only first-generation Mexican woman among faculty in the school’s Spanish and Portuguese Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If del Valle is not reinstated, a group of students plan to stage a hunger strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11965711\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/231025-ucberkeleyprofessor-20-bl-kqed/\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11965711\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231025-UCBerkeleyProfessor-20-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"signs posted on a school door\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231025-UCBerkeleyProfessor-20-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231025-UCBerkeleyProfessor-20-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231025-UCBerkeleyProfessor-20-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231025-UCBerkeleyProfessor-20-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231025-UCBerkeleyProfessor-20-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231025-UCBerkeleyProfessor-20-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A poster says, ‘Justice 4 Ivonne’ outside of a student-led town hall meeting to discuss future actions to reinstate professor del Valle. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In an interview with KQED, del Valle acknowledged some of the behavior described in the investigative reports, including keying Clover’s car, vandalizing the area outside his apartment door, contacting his friends, posting an image of his partner online and leaving messages outside the home of his mother. Those messages included one that said “I raised a psychopath,” according to the university’s investigative reports. She has also acknowledged in the report calling Clover’s office phone line at least ten times within 90 minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout each official investigation, del Valle maintains that her actions were the result of being hacked, and that she was not receiving the support she needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I did write outside his door, ‘Here lives a pervert.’ I did that. And again, I’m not proud,” del Valle said. “If I had the opportunity to do things differently, I would do them differently.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Del Valle said that she regretted visiting the mother’s home, but disagreed that the message towards Clover’s mother was a threat or that any of her behavior was sexual harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she had been trying hard to get the attention of anyone who could help her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never received help from anybody,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A UC Berkeley spokesperson, Janet Gilmore, declined to comment on the specifics of the case, citing privacy laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This means that the university may not publicly disclose confidential information or correct the record if others choose to share — or misrepresent — information related to a private matter,” Gilmore said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gilmore added that faculty misconduct allegations are not unilaterally handled by the administration, and that if the Academic Senate’s Privilege and Tenure Committee determines that it is more likely than not in sexual harassment cases that misconduct occurred, then the committee forwards a disciplinary recommendation, up to and including termination, to the chancellor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, termination of a tenured faculty member then requires approval by the UC Board of Regents, Gilmore said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Three investigations find misconduct\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The first investigation, which was completed by UC Berkeley’s Office for the Prevention of Harassment and Discrimination in 2019, found a preponderance of evidence — determined to be more likely to be true than not — that del Valle violated the university’s provisions against stalking and sexual harassment and retaliated against Clover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The evidence additionally demonstrates that Respondent monitored, followed, observed, and threatened Complainant, both electronically and in person, and interfered with his property,” the 2019 investigative report concludes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Del Valle, who has been at UC Berkeley since 2009, said that she was attempting to defend herself when university officials and police all failed to take her concerns that she had been hacked seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"UC Berkeley's 2019 investigative report into professor del Valle's behavior\"]‘The evidence additionally demonstrates that Respondent monitored, followed, observed, and threatened Complainant, both electronically and in person, and interfered with his property.’[/pullquote]KQED could not substantiate del Valle’s allegations that her devices had been hacked by Clover or anyone else. She provided documentation of an analysis of her laptop and cell phone, which found the phone had been compromised, but the computer showed no evidence of hacking or cyber attack. The analysis falls short of proving that any particular person, including Clover, illegally accessed her devices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 2019 investigative report, the UC Berkeley Office for the Prevention of Harassment and Discrimination found there was “insufficient evidence to support a finding” that Clover had “engaged in any hacking of Respondent’s electronic devices and is harassing or stalking her online.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Del Valle says after writing messages to friends or family members on her phone or computer, tweets from the professor on similar topics would appear. However, documentation provided by del Valle does not prove that anyone has eavesdropped on her messages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She provided KQED 261 pages in multiple documents that she addressed to a UC Berkeley administrator and review committee. The documents include several dozen instances of why she believes she was hacked. For example, she cites writing a message to a relative in April 2019 mentioning trucks, and then a Twitter account she claimed belonged to Clover tweeted about “similar trucks” that same day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The investigator also wrote that substantiating the hacking claims was outside their scope and did not “negate the preponderance of the evidence” that del Valle’s conduct “would cause a reasonable person to fear for their safety or suffer substantial emotional distress.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The earliest investigated complaint goes back to May 2018, when del Valle, who met Clover after he gave a talk at UC Berkeley, began sending him Twitter messages saying someone was bothering her and calling her names, according to the investigative report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December that same year, del Valle acknowledged in the investigation knocking on Clover’s apartment door and telling him she “was not leaving until he opened the door and explained what he was doing by hacking her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While sitting outside Clover’s apartment, according to the report, del Valle slid a note under his door that said, “If you make me leave, it’ll be worse” and then later left him a voicemail, saying, “I can do whatever the fuck I want piece of shit” and “You need to still call me and apologize or you’ll see what I’m going to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon after that, del Valle vandalized Clover’s car and residence, investigators found. Del Valle also acknowledges those actions in the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clover told investigators he moved out of his apartment building in large part because of a “persistent sense of and considerable lack of safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said in the report that the whole experience has been psychologically destructive. He described a hyper vigilance that is “accompanied by an anxiety that is similarly corrosive. It’s miserable and I don’t think it will ever go away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a settlement agreement in 2020, del Valle agreed not to contact Clover or any of his friends, family, relatives or students. But the following year, del Valle violated that agreement, according to the second investigation conducted by UC Berkeley in 2021, when she left messages outside and near the home of Clover’s mother, among other violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do understand it’s hard to side with me in that moment, and I was punished for that without salary and benefits,” del Valle said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following that violation, Del Valle was suspended for nine months beginning in November 2021. In its third investigation, the university then found she had again violated the no-contact order in 2022. She said that in the most recent violation she was asking for help from the police on social media, and that she had shared a photograph of Clover’s partner online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"UC Berkeley Professor Ivonne del Valle\"]‘My life is completely destroyed. I don’t want UC Berkeley to think that they can do this to a minority woman in order to protect a white, senior professor. It’s not acceptable.’[/pullquote]Del Valle said since the suspension in the fall of 2021, she has not been teaching at UC Berkeley and has been living out of two suitcases because of the uncertainty around her future. She said she could accept an 18-month suspension UC Berkeley offered as a settlement, but has no plans to do so. If she doesn’t accept that outcome, the case could instead be brought before the university’s Privilege and Tenure Committee, and she could lose her tenure and be fired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My life is completely destroyed,” del Valle said. “I don’t want UC Berkeley to think that they can do this to a minority woman in order to protect a white, senior professor. It’s not acceptable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clover has stirred his own share of controversy. He was widely criticized for a 2014 tweet saying he was thankful that all living police officers “would one day be dead.” He later advocated killing police officers, and suggested the easiest way would be to shoot them in the back. UC Davis’ chancellor \u003ca href=\"https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/statements-regarding-public-comments-made-by-tenured-member-faculty\">condemned those statements\u003c/a> in 2019 but said they were protected free speech.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The campaign to bring del Valle back\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Those involved in the push to reinstate del Valle and who have testified to her character say the university should have thoroughly investigated her claims of electronic hacking and provided institutional support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The campaign has been publishing written, anonymous testimonies on social media about the positive impact del Valle has had on the academic and personal lives of students and alums. Nearly 30 letters posted so far describe how del Valle made her students feel welcome, inspired them to study colonial Latin America and shaped the course of their academic careers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ivonne’s vast knowledge of Hispanic culture was not the only thing I was immediately shaken by; it was also her professional, humble, and welcoming attitude toward us first-year students,” one letter says. “She was doubtlessly wise and an extremely ethical, politically engaged, and ethically committed professor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Alejandra Decker, Ph.D. student\"]‘Our department is missing an entire field of study, so we have no one that is an expert on colonial studies.’[/pullquote]Alejandra Decker, a Ph.D. candidate studying Mexican literature and culture and organizer with the campaign to reinstate del Valle, said the outcrying of support shows how missed del Valle is at UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our department is missing an entire field of study, so we have no one that is an expert on colonial studies,” Decker said. “And so no one is coming to Berkeley right now to study colonial studies because we have no one to advise them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Decker began her Ph.D. at UC Berkeley in 2018, and del Valle would soon become her primary faculty mentor in the field of Mexican Studies. She took every single graduate and undergraduate class with del Valle that she could, she said, and saw her as a “gem” of an academic advisor who welcomed students, checked in on whether they needed help and offered to write them letters of recommendation before they even asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When del Valle was suspended in 2021, Decker says students were concerned and began seeking answers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And for this entire time, there was never any official communication from our department, which was very hard for us,” Decker said. “Had we not had these conversations with Professor Ivonne, we really would have just thought that our professor had disappeared and no one could tell us why, which takes the rug out [from under] your feet and makes you feel really unstable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11965718\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/231026-ivonne-del-valle-hm-kqed/\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11965718\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231026-IVONNE-DEL-VALLE-HM-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person speaks into a megaphone in an outdoor setting in front of a large group of young people.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231026-IVONNE-DEL-VALLE-HM-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231026-IVONNE-DEL-VALLE-HM-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231026-IVONNE-DEL-VALLE-HM-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231026-IVONNE-DEL-VALLE-HM-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231026-IVONNE-DEL-VALLE-HM-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231026-IVONNE-DEL-VALLE-HM-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students rally on Sept. 21 at the University of California, Berkeley, calling for the reinstatement of Ivonne del Valle. \u003ccite>(Holly McDede/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She said she and other students have read the records describing del Valle’s behavior. But she says organizers still stand by del Valle, and that it’s not her place to judge a woman’s actions when in turmoil and isolated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those reports — anyone who reads them, I think we can all admit that they are difficult to read because they paint Professor Ivonne in a way that personally I’ve never seen,” Decker said. “It’s a woman’s actions in her biggest moments of survival.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The hunger strike\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Decker is not alone. More than 275 people and more than 15 organizations have also signed an online petition calling for her reinstatement. Supporters have begun preparing for this Saturday’s football game and the hunger strike to follow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their Oct. 11 letter announcing the plan, students reference Berkeley’s long history of activism, including the 1999 Ethnic Studies Strike. That strike led to the Multicultural Community Center and the Center of Race and Gender on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We reiterate, how far are you willing to go before you fix an injustice?” the letter says. “Are you willing to risk students’ lives over this?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Del Valle has said that if she does lose her job at UC Berkeley, she plans to return to Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for now, she does not want to give up on staying at UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is my university. They are my students. I obtained a job here that I deserve,” she said. “I’m a good teacher, the service I’ve brought to the university, I think it’s significant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Oct. 28: UC Berkeley initially described the standard of evidence applied by the Academic Senate’s Privilege and Tenure Committee as a clear and convincing standard. 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Now, the task force has released \u003ca href=\"https://chancellor.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/berkeley_cal_identity_task_force_recommendations_3.pdf\">its report (PDF) \u003c/a>— and among the findings: People don’t realize all these names are actually the same school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a national survey, when asked if they knew “Berkeley,” “UC Berkeley,” “Cal Berkeley” and “Cal” referred to the same university, 42% said they didn’t know and another 24% said they weren’t sure. Even within California, 36% didn’t know the names were connected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The difference is that “California” (in cursive script) or “Cal” tends to refer to sports teams (or is a term of endearment by alumni), where “Berkeley” is what’s known among academic and research settings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think that Oppenheimer ever once said ‘Cal,’” said journalism professor Bill Drummond — who first came to Cal as an undergrad in 1961 and returned as a professor in 1983. 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This will come up even more often as Cal moves into the Atlantic Coast Conference next year, where East Coast viewers are unlikely to know what school “California” is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem with this, reads the task force’s report, is that the full scope of what UC Berkeley offers is then missed. “The breadth of the institution is lost on them,” says the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The solution they recommend: Moving sports teams to the name “Cal Berkeley.” Cal script on top, Berkeley written underneath or next to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Drummond says it’s all just a bunch of marketing that doesn’t have anything to do with most of the students, the labs, the work or the research that happens at the school. “They need to create something the people who sell that, as a product, can hang their hat on,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not going to work,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he believes it won’t work for precisely the reason that makes UC Berkeley or Cal or Berkeley (whatever you want to call it) such a great place: all the different communities co-existing together in one place. “They want to homogenize it,” he said. “That flies in the face of what this whole thing is about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not the kind of community where you can regiment them,” said Drummond. “That’s its strength.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that’s not going to stop the school from trying to wrestle this thing into one cohesive name. 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Similarly, multiple affinity groups have expressed concerns that current restrictions on the use of the Cal name hinder their equity and inclusion efforts,” she wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many people don’t even realize the school has \u003ca href=\"https://brand.berkeley.edu/berkeley-brand/our-name\">official branding guidelines \u003c/a>— which ban the use of UC-Berkeley, UCB, and University of California at Berkeley — as well as separate \u003ca href=\"https://calbears.com/documents/2017/6/1/17_Cal_BrandGuidelines.pdf\">Cal Athletics branding rules (PDF)\u003c/a>. What’s allowed under the Cal sports parameters? California, Golden Bears, Cal Bears — absolutely not Cal Berkeley. 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Christ, while Jerry Yang, chair of the Stanford University Board of Trustees, said “We appreciate the invitation of the ACC member schools, and we are excited to join them.”[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"John Reinthaler, Cal Bears fan\"]‘Big money has taken over not only the rest of our professional sports, but taken over the NCAA. Everybody chases the money and that’s what it’s all about.’[/pullquote]But for diehard Cal fans, the news came as a shock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m done, I’m done with all that stuff,” said John Reinthaler, a Cal Bears fan since age 6. “Big money has taken over not only the rest of our professional sports, but taken over the NCAA. Everybody chases the money and that’s what it’s all about. 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Very sad circumstances for Cal, Stanford, Washington State and Oregon State, because they were the four left standing at the end of the day.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area schools located just miles from the Pacific Ocean accepted invitations, along with Dallas-based SMU, to the ACC on Friday to be part of a conference with schools almost exclusively in states on the Eastern seaboard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve talked a lot to our student-athletes and got feedback that they want to play at the highest level,” Cal athletic director Jim Knowlton said. “They want to still have opportunities to compete for national championships, to produce Olympians and they want to compete against schools like us.”[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Bernard Muir, director of athletics, Stanford\"]‘Joining the ACC will ensure the Power Conference competitive infrastructure and long-term media revenues that are critical for our student-athletes to compete.’[/pullquote]The seeds for the move were planted when USC and UCLA accepted invitations in June 2022 to join the Big Ten next season. With a diminished Pac-12 unable to get a media rights deal with the revenue and distribution to satisfy many of the remaining schools, the conference started to break up this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Colorado, Arizona, Arizona State and Utah left for the Big 12, with Oregon and Washington headed to the Big Ten. That left Stanford, Cal, Oregon State and Washington State as the only Pac-12 schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area schools had more options because of their location and rich athletic traditions. Both schools felt the move to the ACC was the best financially and to allow the nonrevenue Olympic sports to compete at the top level of college athletics, which would have been difficult in a Pac-12 made up of the remaining four schools and other available additions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The athletes care deeply about being able to play at the highest level of competition and to play with like schools,” UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ said. “This move guarantees or achieves those two goals. A reconstituted Pac-12, though there’s a lot of imaginative attractiveness about that, it’s also very uncertain about whether it would achieve those two goals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford has won a record 134 NCAA championships — including at least one in 46 straight years — and produced 296 medals at the Summer Olympics. Cal is not far behind with 103 national championships and 223 Olympic medals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move doesn’t come without costs with increased travel in many sports and a reduction in revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal and Stanford will receive a partial share of ACC Tier 1 media revenue for the next nine years before getting a full payment in the final three years of the conference’s deal with ESPN, according to a person familiar with the terms. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the ACC and the schools have not disclosed the finances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal and Stanford will get a 30% share in the first seven years, followed by 70% and 75% the next years before getting the full amount, the person said. The schools will immediately get full shares of money from the ACC Network, the College Football Playoff, bowl games and NCAA men’s basketball tournament units.[aside postID=forum_2010101893987 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/43/2023/08/GettyImages-1236700753-1-1020x611.jpg']There will be an initial gap of about $15 million a year from what the schools were currently getting from the Pac-12. Cal will make up some of that gap through a “tax” that the UC Regents placed on UCLA for going to the Big Ten, which will be between $2 million and $10 million a year. 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Harvey Smith, president of the People’s Park Historic District Advocacy Group, said in an interview they’ll “absolutely” proceed with their legal complaint against the campus. How they’ll respond to the bill is to be determined, he added. “Our legal team has been focused on the Supreme Court case, and so, it’s kind of like for us one step at a time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley’s project has been stalled since last summer and has incurred higher projected costs of “many millions of dollars,” Mogulof said, though he declined to give a precise figure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Construction costs in the Bay Area and Los Angeles have \u003ca href=\"https://www.dgs.ca.gov/RESD/Resources/Page-Content/Real-Estate-Services-Division-Resources-List-Folder/DGS-California-Construction-Cost-Index-CCCI\">increased by 21% in the past two years\u003c/a>. The project cost was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/UCB-SB169-COBCP.pdf\">$312 million in 2021 (PDF)\u003c/a>, a third of that backed by a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2022/07/student-housing-affordable-dorms/\">state student housing program\u003c/a> to support at least 300 beds for lower-income students who’ll pay cheaper rents.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How did we get here?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The February appellate court decision overturned a lower court’s ruling that sided with UC Berkeley. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2023/02/california-cannabis-emerald-triangle/#wm-story-1\">The appellate court wrote\u003c/a> that the university ran afoul of the California Environmental Quality Act on two fronts: that UC Berkeley needs to study and mitigate the potential “\u003ca href=\"https://www.courts.ca.gov/opinions/revpub/A165451M.PDF#page=6\">noise impacts from loud student parties (PDF)\u003c/a>” and that UC Berkeley should have considered a different site for its proposed dorms — arguments made by two neighborhood groups that sued UC Berkeley. The University of California appealed and now the case is before the state Supreme Court.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Harvey Smith, president, People’s Park Historic District Advocacy Group\"]‘We don’t see students as pollution, but noise can be an issue, and we certainly are not NIMBY neighbors.’[/pullquote]UC Berkeley for years has struggled to build enough housing for its growing student population — a legacy that came to a head last year when a court nearly forced the campus to enroll fewer new students \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2022/03/uc-enrollment-cap-fix/\">before lawmakers and the governor intervened\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UCLA legal scholar Jonathan Zasloff wrote that UC Berkeley lost its February appellate case \u003ca href=\"https://legal-planet.org/2023/02/28/ceqa-and-uc-berkeley-housing-dont-panic/#:~:text=Calm%20down.%20This%20isn%E2%80%99t%20a%20good%20decision%2C%20but%20it%20isn%E2%80%99t%20an%20awful%20one%2C%20either.%20It%20shows%20a%20Court%20trying%20to%20figure%20things%20out%3A%20while%20it%20could%20have%20been%20more%20creative%2C%20and%20the%20statute%20is%20badly%20flawed%2C%20the%20biggest%20problem%20comes%20from%20the%20university%2C%20which%20basically%20didn%E2%80%99t%20do%20its%20homework.\">largely because it “didn’t do its homework.”\u003c/a> The campus itself \u003ca href=\"https://www.courts.ca.gov/opinions/revpub/A165451M.PDF#page=36\">previously conceded to the court (PDF)\u003c/a> that its students make a lot of noise, yet \u003ca href=\"https://legal-planet.org/2023/02/28/ceqa-and-uc-berkeley-housing-dont-panic/#:~:text=And%20then%20the%20University%20just%20chose%20not%20to%20deal%20with%20it%20in%20the%20EIR.%20That%E2%80%99s%20on%20the%20University%2C%20not%20CEQA.\">didn’t address that point\u003c/a> in its environmental review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith’s group wants UC Berkeley to instead build the dorms one block over, on the site of what they say is a 60-year-old parking structure that needs to be demolished soon anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t see students as pollution, but noise can be an issue, and we certainly are not NIMBY neighbors,” Smith said in an interview. “We want UC to build housing. We want them to do what they neglected to do for nearly a half century. But we see it’s a big problem if you destroy an open space.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the February ruling, another state court cited it in a decision that pumped the brakes on a residential development in Los Angeles, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2023/08/ceqa-noise-pollution/\">reanimating worries that the February decision\u003c/a> will encourage other neighborhood groups to sue developers from creating much-needed housing in California. Environmentalists argue the February decision was the right one, in large part because noise of any kind was always viewed as a potentially significant environmental impact under the state environmental law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers showed no love for that appellate court ruling, never once voting against the bill during any of its hearings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wicks said in May her proposed law “will reverse the bizarre ‘people is pollution’ decision that was created by the recent appellate court decision (in) the UC Berkeley People’s Park case.” She made the comments during an Assembly hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill was introduced in March and along the way had input from the University of California Office of the President, a spokesperson for Wicks wrote in an email. For its part, UC Berkeley “did not ask for or initiate the legislation,” Mogulof wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just before lawmakers sent the bill to Newsom’s desk Monday, Wicks underscored that the proposed law “has been done in response to the court case (at) UC Berkeley; folks are trying to fight student housing there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike most bills, if Newsom signs the bill, it will take effect immediately because it secured two-thirds of the votes in both chambers of the Legislature. Bills that pass with less than two-thirds in each chamber take effect at the start of the next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, a signature from Newsom isn’t enough to give UC Berkeley the green light to start building.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Why won’t this law guarantee student housing at UC Berkeley?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In short, the Legislature cannot tell the courts how to handle a case, even with a new law, so a parallel process in the judicial branch of government must proceed.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Asm. Buffy Wicks (D-Oakland)\"]The proposed law ‘will reverse the bizarre ‘people is pollution’ decision that was created by the recent appellate court decision (in) the UC Berkeley People’s Park case.’[/pullquote]What that process looks like, no one can say with certainty. Legal experts CalMatters spoke with said that what’ll likely happen first is that lawyers representing the University of California and UC Berkeley will write a letter or brief to the Supreme Court noting that Wicks’ bill is now law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’ll probably prompt the court to determine whether it should continue reviewing the case or kick it back to the appellate court to redo its ruling given the new law. It’s doubtful that the Supreme Court will want to hear the case because there’ll be no thorny legal issue at hand if Newsom signs Wicks’ bill — assuming the bill fully neutralized what the appellate court ruled in February, said Brandon Stracener, a senior research fellow at the California Constitution Center, in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the event the case goes back to the appellate court, then both the UC and the neighborhood groups can file more legal briefs within a 30-day window.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the appellate court sees nothing wrong with the new law, it’ll probably de-publish its original ruling so that other courts cannot cite it as precedent, Stracener added.[aside postID=news_119429754,news_11959483]But even if the old ruling is de-published, UC Berkeley still needs to complete required paperwork, though it’ll likely have the legal upper hand if Newsom signs the bill, said Zasloff, who focuses on environmental, housing and land-use issues, in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said if he were legal counsel for UC Berkeley, he’d tell administrators that they will probably need to submit an environmental impact report — the same document that the appellate court ruled was in violation of state environmental law. But in this scenario, because Wicks’ bill would be law, UC Berkeley can use the same draft it submitted the first time and “the neighbors won’t be able to sue you over the things that they sued you” for the last time, Zasloff said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The draft report would require another round of public comment, which takes at least 30 days, \u003ca href=\"https://www.califaep.org/docs/CEQA_Handbook_2023_final.pdf#page=267\">according to state guidance (PDF)\u003c/a>. After that, the UC regents will probably have to approve the environmental report to make it final, which will allow UC Berkeley to start building the dorms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether neighborhood groups can mount another round of legal maneuvers over the same draft environmental report is unclear, Zasloff said. Regardless, he said they may choose to sue again and basically say, “we’re just going to keep delaying you unless you make a deal with us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Yes, a bill meant to help UC Berkeley build dorms for 1,100 students passed the Legislature this week, but the campus said it cannot begin construction until the state’s judicial system gives the green light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Legislature’s goal with \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1307\">AB 1307\u003c/a> is to reverse a state court decision that in effect blocked UC Berkeley from building dorms on the grounds of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2022/05/31/peoples-park-listed-on-national-register-of-historic-places\">storied People’s Park\u003c/a> in Berkeley. A key part of that decision was that human noise caused by housing development is a kind of pollution in California, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2023/08/ceqa-noise-pollution/\">a new legal standard\u003c/a> that the bill seeks to refute. But for UC Berkeley, the bill’s impact will take time, as the issue must still play out in courts, even if Gov. Gavin Newsom signs the bill as many expect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The (state) Supreme Court still has jurisdiction to resolve our pending appeal of the appellate court ruling, even if the statute is adopted,” wrote Dan Mogulof, a senior spokesperson for UC Berkeley, in an email to CalMatters. “The campus will resume construction of the People’s Park project when the lawsuit is resolved and hopes that the new law will substantially hasten the resolution of the lawsuit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/3KfNyJE\">Read a transcript of this episode (PDF).\u003c/a> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unless you’ve been living on a remote island somewhere, you’ve probably heard the buzz about the new film \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYPbbksJxIg\">Oppenheimer\u003c/a>\u003c/em>. It’s a three-hour biographical thriller about the life and work of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, widely considered to be the father of the atomic bomb. But before the Manhattan Project led Oppenheimer to Los Alamos, he was a professor at UC Berkeley, and some of the initial research into nuclear physics that led to the creation of the bomb was done at the university.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Arrival in Berkeley\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Oppenheimer began teaching at Berkeley after returning from work at universities in the Netherlands and Switzerland in the fall of 1928. So in-demand was he that the school worked out a deal to allow Oppenheimer to spend part of his time teaching at CalTech in Pasadena in order to get him to accept the job at UC Berkeley.[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His research interests included theoretical astronomy, nuclear physics, quantum field theory, and later, astrophysics. When he wasn’t in the classroom, Oppenheimer enjoyed campus life, and spent his spare time studying other languages, including Sanskrit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He thought deeply about literature and philosophy and cared about culture and politics by the 1930s in a way that made him a kind of renaissance man,” said UC Berkeley History Department Chair Cathryn Carson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11956613\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Oppenheimer-Fermi-Lawrence.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11956613\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Oppenheimer-Fermi-Lawrence-800x694.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white image of three men in suits standing on the grounds of a college campus.\" width=\"800\" height=\"694\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Oppenheimer-Fermi-Lawrence-800x694.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Oppenheimer-Fermi-Lawrence-1020x885.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Oppenheimer-Fermi-Lawrence-160x139.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Oppenheimer-Fermi-Lawrence-1536x1332.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Oppenheimer-Fermi-Lawrence.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi and Ernest O. Lawrence on the campus at UC Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Roy Kaltschmidt/Courtesy of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It was also at UC Berkeley that Oppenheimer met a fellow professor who would become an important scientific collaborator, Ernest Lawrence. The two men became close friends — Lawrence even named one of his sons Robert, after Oppenheimer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oppenheimer was a theorist. Lawrence was an experimentalist,” said Carson, “And together they both realized that the new frontier of science in the 1920s and 30s was going to be the atomic nucleus.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1929, Lawrence was working in Berkeley’s Radiation Laboratory, now named the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in honor of him. There Lawrence designed the first cyclotron, a type of particle accelerator, which later won him a Nobel Prize.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cyclotron was also the means by which plutonium was first discovered and synthesized at UC Berkeley, an element that would later be used in the first atomic bomb test, as well as in the bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11956616\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Cyclotron.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11956616\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Cyclotron-800x640.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white archival image of 5 men in suits sitting beneath a large, round metal machine, looking up at it.\" width=\"800\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Cyclotron-800x640.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Cyclotron-1020x816.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Cyclotron-160x128.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Cyclotron-1536x1229.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Cyclotron.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A press visit to the 184-cyclotron, taken in the spring of1946. (Left to right: Donald Cooksey, Ernest Orlando Lawrence, Robert Thornton, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and William Brobeck) \u003ccite>(Marilee B Bailey/Courtesy of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Oppenheimer and Lawrence worked together on research to break apart the center of an atom to release energy. It was the early days of nuclear physics. At the time they had no idea that they were laying the foundational science for the atomic bomb.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Into the desert\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 1938, two German scientists released a paper demonstrating that uranium is subject to nuclear fission, setting off alarm bells in the United States. Albert Einstein — who had left Germany by that point — drafted a letter to then U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt, warning that nuclear fission could result in an extraordinary weapon of war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>American military leaders immediately began discussing plans for a secret laboratory to beat the Third Reich to it by creating their own weapon. Los Alamos, New Mexico, was selected as the site for this top secret research facility, and Oppenheimer was tapped to lead the project. The University of California would manage the lab, and brilliant scientists from all over would be brought to the site to work on creating two bombs — one using uranium, and one plutonium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawrence and Oppenheimer lived with their families on a lone mesa in New Mexico. Oppenheimer had previously spent time in New Mexico and had a ranch he called Perro Caliente.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11956614\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Oppenheimer-and-Lawrence-in-NM.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11956614\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Oppenheimer-and-Lawrence-in-NM-800x524.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white image. Two men stand in the open desert, with bright sun blazing. One is leaning against the back corner of a 1930s car while the other stand a little off to the right. They are both wearing knee high black leather boots.\" width=\"800\" height=\"524\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Oppenheimer-and-Lawrence-in-NM-800x524.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Oppenheimer-and-Lawrence-in-NM-1020x668.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Oppenheimer-and-Lawrence-in-NM-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Oppenheimer-and-Lawrence-in-NM-1536x1006.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Oppenheimer-and-Lawrence-in-NM.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Oppenheimer (left) and Ernest Orlando Lawrence at Oppenheimer’s New Mexico ranch, 1931. The two men were close friends and scientific collaborators. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Berkeley Lab)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s a crash program. It’s intense. It’s isolated,” said Carson, “Everything that’s being done in the laboratory or in the seminar room is being tracked against the progress of the war in Europe and the war in the Pacific.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Intelligence from Germany was sparse, so the scientists in Los Alamos just had to work as quickly as possible and hope they were ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A weapon of catastrophic proportions\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The scientists worked diligently and in isolation in the New Mexico desert for several years. At its peak, the Manhattan Project employed 130,000 people and the government would eventually spend billions of dollars. In the spring of 1945, the war in Europe was basically over. Germany had surrendered in May of that year, but the war in Japan raged on so the Manhattan Project continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A plutonium implosion-type weapon, a style of bomb nicknamed “Fat Man,” was developed in Los Alamos, and the U.S. government wanted to test it. On June 16, 1945, the device was set off in a remote section of desert in central New Mexico. It was dubbed the Trinity Test.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18ZFUCOT8Xc\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with NBC, Oppenheimer recalled his reaction upon seeing the destructive capabilities of the atomic bomb during the Trinity Test.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“We knew the world would not be the same. Few people laughed. Few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture of the Bhagavad Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the prince that he should do his duty and to impress him takes on his multi armed form and says, ‘Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.’ I suppose we all thought that one way or another.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>On August 6, 1945, the US government dropped the first atomic bomb in the war, a uranium device, on Hiroshima, Japan. Three days later they dropped a plutonium device, like the one tested in New Mexico, on Nagasaki.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s estimated that 200,000 people died as a result of the explosions and in the aftermath of the bombings. By this time in the war, more than 400,000 Americans had also been killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the end, the American leaders who decided to use the atomic bombs were thinking about the fact that they had a weapon that could end the war,” said Carson, “And if they didn’t use it, how would they explain that choice?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was only after the bombings that anyone outside the strict zone of secrecy realizes what UC Berkeley’s contribution to the war effort is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because this is the bomb that marks the end of the war, it is hugely, extraordinarily celebrated,” said Carson, “It’s a spectacular weapon. And when the news breaks, it’s understood that the University of California has put itself in the service of the nation. And Oppenheimer is seen as the father of the bomb.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11956617\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Oppenheimer-and-LBJ.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11956617\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Oppenheimer-and-LBJ-800x578.jpg\" alt=\"Archival black and white photo of 6 men in dark suits standing in a row inside the White House.\" width=\"800\" height=\"578\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Oppenheimer-and-LBJ-800x578.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Oppenheimer-and-LBJ-1020x737.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Oppenheimer-and-LBJ-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Oppenheimer-and-LBJ-1536x1110.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Oppenheimer-and-LBJ.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Enrico Fermi Award ceremony in December, 1963 at White House with Robert Oppenheimer (center), Glenn Seaborg and President Lyndon B. Johnson. \u003ccite>(Roy Kaltschmidt/Courtesy of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Oppenheimer never said he regretted the use of the bomb, but he always said that he was very sorry that it had to happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the years the University of California has continued to support the study and development of nuclear weapons. However, UC Berkeley’s connection to federal weapon laboratories is not nearly as strong today as it was immediately after World War II.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/3KfNyJE\">Read a transcript of this episode (PDF).\u003c/a> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unless you’ve been living on a remote island somewhere, you’ve probably heard the buzz about the new film \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYPbbksJxIg\">Oppenheimer\u003c/a>\u003c/em>. It’s a three-hour biographical thriller about the life and work of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, widely considered to be the father of the atomic bomb. But before the Manhattan Project led Oppenheimer to Los Alamos, he was a professor at UC Berkeley, and some of the initial research into nuclear physics that led to the creation of the bomb was done at the university.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Arrival in Berkeley\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Oppenheimer began teaching at Berkeley after returning from work at universities in the Netherlands and Switzerland in the fall of 1928. So in-demand was he that the school worked out a deal to allow Oppenheimer to spend part of his time teaching at CalTech in Pasadena in order to get him to accept the job at UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His research interests included theoretical astronomy, nuclear physics, quantum field theory, and later, astrophysics. When he wasn’t in the classroom, Oppenheimer enjoyed campus life, and spent his spare time studying other languages, including Sanskrit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He thought deeply about literature and philosophy and cared about culture and politics by the 1930s in a way that made him a kind of renaissance man,” said UC Berkeley History Department Chair Cathryn Carson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11956613\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Oppenheimer-Fermi-Lawrence.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11956613\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Oppenheimer-Fermi-Lawrence-800x694.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white image of three men in suits standing on the grounds of a college campus.\" width=\"800\" height=\"694\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Oppenheimer-Fermi-Lawrence-800x694.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Oppenheimer-Fermi-Lawrence-1020x885.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Oppenheimer-Fermi-Lawrence-160x139.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Oppenheimer-Fermi-Lawrence-1536x1332.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Oppenheimer-Fermi-Lawrence.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi and Ernest O. Lawrence on the campus at UC Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Roy Kaltschmidt/Courtesy of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It was also at UC Berkeley that Oppenheimer met a fellow professor who would become an important scientific collaborator, Ernest Lawrence. The two men became close friends — Lawrence even named one of his sons Robert, after Oppenheimer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oppenheimer was a theorist. Lawrence was an experimentalist,” said Carson, “And together they both realized that the new frontier of science in the 1920s and 30s was going to be the atomic nucleus.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1929, Lawrence was working in Berkeley’s Radiation Laboratory, now named the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in honor of him. There Lawrence designed the first cyclotron, a type of particle accelerator, which later won him a Nobel Prize.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cyclotron was also the means by which plutonium was first discovered and synthesized at UC Berkeley, an element that would later be used in the first atomic bomb test, as well as in the bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11956616\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Cyclotron.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11956616\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Cyclotron-800x640.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white archival image of 5 men in suits sitting beneath a large, round metal machine, looking up at it.\" width=\"800\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Cyclotron-800x640.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Cyclotron-1020x816.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Cyclotron-160x128.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Cyclotron-1536x1229.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Cyclotron.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A press visit to the 184-cyclotron, taken in the spring of1946. (Left to right: Donald Cooksey, Ernest Orlando Lawrence, Robert Thornton, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and William Brobeck) \u003ccite>(Marilee B Bailey/Courtesy of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Oppenheimer and Lawrence worked together on research to break apart the center of an atom to release energy. It was the early days of nuclear physics. At the time they had no idea that they were laying the foundational science for the atomic bomb.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Into the desert\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 1938, two German scientists released a paper demonstrating that uranium is subject to nuclear fission, setting off alarm bells in the United States. Albert Einstein — who had left Germany by that point — drafted a letter to then U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt, warning that nuclear fission could result in an extraordinary weapon of war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>American military leaders immediately began discussing plans for a secret laboratory to beat the Third Reich to it by creating their own weapon. Los Alamos, New Mexico, was selected as the site for this top secret research facility, and Oppenheimer was tapped to lead the project. The University of California would manage the lab, and brilliant scientists from all over would be brought to the site to work on creating two bombs — one using uranium, and one plutonium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawrence and Oppenheimer lived with their families on a lone mesa in New Mexico. Oppenheimer had previously spent time in New Mexico and had a ranch he called Perro Caliente.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11956614\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Oppenheimer-and-Lawrence-in-NM.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11956614\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Oppenheimer-and-Lawrence-in-NM-800x524.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white image. Two men stand in the open desert, with bright sun blazing. One is leaning against the back corner of a 1930s car while the other stand a little off to the right. They are both wearing knee high black leather boots.\" width=\"800\" height=\"524\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Oppenheimer-and-Lawrence-in-NM-800x524.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Oppenheimer-and-Lawrence-in-NM-1020x668.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Oppenheimer-and-Lawrence-in-NM-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Oppenheimer-and-Lawrence-in-NM-1536x1006.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Oppenheimer-and-Lawrence-in-NM.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Oppenheimer (left) and Ernest Orlando Lawrence at Oppenheimer’s New Mexico ranch, 1931. The two men were close friends and scientific collaborators. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Berkeley Lab)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s a crash program. It’s intense. It’s isolated,” said Carson, “Everything that’s being done in the laboratory or in the seminar room is being tracked against the progress of the war in Europe and the war in the Pacific.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Intelligence from Germany was sparse, so the scientists in Los Alamos just had to work as quickly as possible and hope they were ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A weapon of catastrophic proportions\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The scientists worked diligently and in isolation in the New Mexico desert for several years. At its peak, the Manhattan Project employed 130,000 people and the government would eventually spend billions of dollars. In the spring of 1945, the war in Europe was basically over. Germany had surrendered in May of that year, but the war in Japan raged on so the Manhattan Project continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A plutonium implosion-type weapon, a style of bomb nicknamed “Fat Man,” was developed in Los Alamos, and the U.S. government wanted to test it. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Boudin’s parents were leftist radicals who spent decades in prison for their role in a botched 1981 heist of a Brink’s armored truck. \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/kathy-boudin-obituary-weather-underground-0e89b7c87c29a8f123db35ea28bca1ae\">Kathy Boudin died\u003c/a> last year, soon after \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/david-gilbert-brinks-robbery-parole-00031ee4e41661034cc79086e2aa6ade\">David Gilbert was granted parole\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boudin said in an \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/chesa-boudin-district-attorney-uc-berkeley-18127707.php\">op-ed published in \u003cem>The San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>\u003c/a> Wednesday that his new job “is still consistent with my lifelong commitment to fixing the criminal legal system, ending mass incarceration, and innovating data-driven solutions to public safety challenges.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said UC Berkeley’s new criminal justice center will evaluate the outcomes of specific policies and communicate to the public what is needed to make communities safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We now clearly have two different systems of justice — one for police and security guards who are above the law, who can shoot and kill with impunity, and a different system for everybody else,” Boudin said. “It’s not making us safer and it’s doing tremendous damage to the integrity of the justice system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from KQED’s Riley Palmer and The Associated Press.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Jesús Gutiérrez can often be found perusing a shelf full of myths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tucked among the second-floor stacks of the UC Berkeley Anthropology Library, the collection features stories curated by cultural origin. “For instance, classical European folktales, moving into folktales from Jewish and Black diasporas around the world. And interestingly, some books that contain cross-sections of these different kinds of traditions,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ever since the university stopped staffing the library more than a year ago, the 29-year-old anthropology Ph.D. candidate has served as its de facto librarian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This library would essentially have been closed and just left to languish if the [anthropology] department had not stepped in and offered to hire me as someone to just basically keep the collection open and accessible,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gutiérrez is leading a small but passionate group of students, faculty and community members who have occupied the George and Mary Foster Anthropology Library since April 21, pledging — in true Berkeley protest tradition — to live among its stacks until the administration halts its plan to close the facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are fighting for public resources for all,” said Gutiérrez, as he toured the library on a recent afternoon, passing a handful of students reading quietly at tables on the main floor. Only the cloth protest banners hanging from shelves and folded cots pushed into corners suggested any kind of situation out of the ordinary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gutiérrez said his group has already met with Chancellor Carol Christ and other campus administrators, and “tried every single bureaucratic channel,” to no avail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948357\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64908_001_KQED_UCBerkeleyLibraryProtest_IMG_9697_04302023-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11948357 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64908_001_KQED_UCBerkeleyLibraryProtest_IMG_9697_04302023-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A young man with bushy hair poses among the stacks of a library. \" width=\"2560\" height=\"1829\" 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class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jesús Gutiérrez, a UC Berkeley anthropology graduate student, standing among the stacks of the anthropology library, which he and other activists have occupied since April 21, in an effort to thwart the university’s plans to close it by January 2024. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Facing a projected $75 million budget shortfall, the university in February announced plans to close the library along with two other small specialty libraries — for math statistics and for physics and astronomy — and merge them over the course of the next two years with larger campus libraries as part of its “\u003ca href=\"https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/about/news/space-plan-announcement\">long-term space plan\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The anthropology library is slated to shutter first, by January 2024, with its “low-use materials” moved to a Richmond warehouse and “a significant portion” of its remaining collections transferred to the stacks of the main campus library, \u003ca href=\"https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/about/news/space-plan-announcement\">according to a description of the plan on the school’s website\u003c/a>.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Jesús Gutiérrez, Ph.D. candidate, UC Berkeley Anthropology Department\"]‘We believe that what we’re fighting for here is the collection itself, the actual stories that these shelves tell and the actual communities that they represent.’[/pullquote]In touting its plan, the university suggests that its online library search tool is more effective than physically looking for materials in person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gutiérrez fundamentally disagrees, arguing that the experience of being here in person is deeply valuable and irreplaceable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a serious lack of understanding by some folks in the administration who seem to believe that the future is so digital that there’s no real place for books in a tight and difficult public education budget in California,” he said. “We believe differently.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A library “is not just a room that holds books,” Gutiérrez added. “We believe that what we’re fighting for here is the collection itself, the actual stories that these shelves tell and the actual communities that they represent, many of whom are communities that use this library on the regular.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email, UC Berkeley spokesperson Janet Gilmore said administrators are still considering a proposal to continue using the library as a reading room and meeting space for the anthropology department and for members of Native communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Regarding the Anthropology library’s closure, we, too, wish the library could remain open, but that is not an option at this point,” she said, citing the university’s “series of financial challenges in recent years, including the budgetary impacts of the pandemic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948360\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64911_005_KQED_UCBerkeleyLibraryProtest_IMG_9702_04302023-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948360\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64911_005_KQED_UCBerkeleyLibraryProtest_IMG_9702_04302023-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Cloth protest banners hanging from low shelves in the library, that say, 'Defend Public Education' and 'Save the Anthropology Library.'\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1828\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64911_005_KQED_UCBerkeleyLibraryProtest_IMG_9702_04302023-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64911_005_KQED_UCBerkeleyLibraryProtest_IMG_9702_04302023-800x571.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64911_005_KQED_UCBerkeleyLibraryProtest_IMG_9702_04302023-1020x729.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64911_005_KQED_UCBerkeleyLibraryProtest_IMG_9702_04302023-160x114.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64911_005_KQED_UCBerkeleyLibraryProtest_IMG_9702_04302023-1536x1097.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64911_005_KQED_UCBerkeleyLibraryProtest_IMG_9702_04302023-2048x1463.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64911_005_KQED_UCBerkeleyLibraryProtest_IMG_9702_04302023-1920x1371.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protest banners line the bookshelves on the main floor of the UC Berkeley anthropology library, on April 30, 2023. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Overall, the university continues to experience cost pressures due to historically high inflation, mandated increases in academic and staff wages, and increased expenses associated with aging campus infrastructure,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gilmore noted that funding for campus library services has nose-dived in recent years, dropping by more than 30% since 2003 (when adjusted for inflation). Last year, she said, there were just 64 full-time librarians on campus, down from nearly 80 on staff two decades ago — even as campus enrollment has grown by more 12,000.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Charles Hirschkind, chair, UC Berkeley Anthropology Department\"]‘This decision [to close the library] has been opposed by every unit on campus. Every faculty association voted against it. Despite all of that support for keeping it open, the university has been unwavering in its decision.’[/pullquote]Gutiérrez called that steady disinvestment “a symptom of inverted priorities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would like to see UC Berkeley prioritize educational resources that benefit the public and underrepresented minorities on this campus, such as this collection, such as the other libraries that are closing,” he said. “The conversation is fundamentally about the devaluing of knowledge and the devaluing of the people who make this university work, which are, for the most part, the actual researchers who teach the classes, the actual undergraduates who fight and advocate for themselves on issues of disability, of race and gender equity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added, “We want to use those resources to educate ourselves about the history of violence, subjugation, but also triumph, of the world’s peoples.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UC Berkeley Anthropology Library is one of just three of its kind in the nation, with the other two housed on the campuses of Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania. As of Sunday, nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.change.org/p/return-the-george-and-mary-foster-anthropology-library-to-a-fully-operational-library?source_location=search\">3,000 people had signed the petition\u003c/a> to keep the library open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a larger number of people who have been here in the last day, giving more energy to the place and more optimism,” said UC Berkeley Anthropology Department Chair Charles Hirschkind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948358\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64909_004_KQED_UCBerkeleyLibraryProtest_IMG_9696_04302023-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948358\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64909_004_KQED_UCBerkeleyLibraryProtest_IMG_9696_04302023-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A banner hung from the side of a three-story building says, 'Save the anthro library.'\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1829\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64909_004_KQED_UCBerkeleyLibraryProtest_IMG_9696_04302023-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64909_004_KQED_UCBerkeleyLibraryProtest_IMG_9696_04302023-800x571.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64909_004_KQED_UCBerkeleyLibraryProtest_IMG_9696_04302023-1020x729.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64909_004_KQED_UCBerkeleyLibraryProtest_IMG_9696_04302023-160x114.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64909_004_KQED_UCBerkeleyLibraryProtest_IMG_9696_04302023-1536x1097.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64909_004_KQED_UCBerkeleyLibraryProtest_IMG_9696_04302023-2048x1463.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64909_004_KQED_UCBerkeleyLibraryProtest_IMG_9696_04302023-1920x1371.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Outside UC Berkeley’s anthropology library on April 30, 2023. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The library is an important resource for Indigenous people seeking to rediscover and revitalize some of their own traditions, he added, noting that many students — particularly students of color — have said the library is “important for their own identities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This decision [to close the library] has been opposed by every unit on campus. Every faculty association voted against it,” Hirschkind said. “Despite all of that support for keeping it open, the university has been unwavering in its decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well into the second week of the occupation, Gutiérrez said the group of as many as 30 core activists has fallen into a steady routine, with the handful who have spent the night eating breakfast together at 7:30 a.m. before heading out to their classes or to “you know, shower.” The protesters return in the evening, he said, to participate in teach-ins and “make decisions about how we want to make use of our time here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you walked into the library [at that time], you’d see tons of sleeping bags all over the place, students studying, clubs meeting, teacher assistants from other departments doing office hours, air mattresses and a couple of tents,” Gutiérrez said. “It’s been a space of tremendous amounts of solidarity from professors, student organizations, community groups of all kinds to come here and really demonstrate that we stand for a different set of priorities than those of the current UC Berkeley administration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from KQED’s Erin Baldassari, and Kiley Russell of Bay City News.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In touting its plan, the university suggests that its online library search tool is more effective than physically looking for materials in person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gutiérrez fundamentally disagrees, arguing that the experience of being here in person is deeply valuable and irreplaceable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a serious lack of understanding by some folks in the administration who seem to believe that the future is so digital that there’s no real place for books in a tight and difficult public education budget in California,” he said. “We believe differently.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A library “is not just a room that holds books,” Gutiérrez added. “We believe that what we’re fighting for here is the collection itself, the actual stories that these shelves tell and the actual communities that they represent, many of whom are communities that use this library on the regular.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email, UC Berkeley spokesperson Janet Gilmore said administrators are still considering a proposal to continue using the library as a reading room and meeting space for the anthropology department and for members of Native communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Regarding the Anthropology library’s closure, we, too, wish the library could remain open, but that is not an option at this point,” she said, citing the university’s “series of financial challenges in recent years, including the budgetary impacts of the pandemic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948360\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64911_005_KQED_UCBerkeleyLibraryProtest_IMG_9702_04302023-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948360\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64911_005_KQED_UCBerkeleyLibraryProtest_IMG_9702_04302023-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Cloth protest banners hanging from low shelves in the library, that say, 'Defend Public Education' and 'Save the Anthropology Library.'\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1828\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64911_005_KQED_UCBerkeleyLibraryProtest_IMG_9702_04302023-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64911_005_KQED_UCBerkeleyLibraryProtest_IMG_9702_04302023-800x571.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64911_005_KQED_UCBerkeleyLibraryProtest_IMG_9702_04302023-1020x729.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64911_005_KQED_UCBerkeleyLibraryProtest_IMG_9702_04302023-160x114.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64911_005_KQED_UCBerkeleyLibraryProtest_IMG_9702_04302023-1536x1097.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64911_005_KQED_UCBerkeleyLibraryProtest_IMG_9702_04302023-2048x1463.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64911_005_KQED_UCBerkeleyLibraryProtest_IMG_9702_04302023-1920x1371.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protest banners line the bookshelves on the main floor of the UC Berkeley anthropology library, on April 30, 2023. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Overall, the university continues to experience cost pressures due to historically high inflation, mandated increases in academic and staff wages, and increased expenses associated with aging campus infrastructure,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gilmore noted that funding for campus library services has nose-dived in recent years, dropping by more than 30% since 2003 (when adjusted for inflation). Last year, she said, there were just 64 full-time librarians on campus, down from nearly 80 on staff two decades ago — even as campus enrollment has grown by more 12,000.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Campus housing: Students can’t get enough of it, and California public campuses can’t build dorm rooms fast enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet, Gov. Gavin Newsom has proposed delaying by a year \u003ca href=\"https://ebudget.ca.gov/2023-24/pdf/BudgetSummary/HigherEducation.pdf#page=7\">nearly $1.2 billion in loans and grants (PDF)\u003c/a> that would build housing for thousands of students at affordable rates — money the state promised campuses in last year’s state budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom seeks the delay to help balance the state’s projected $22.5 billion budget deficit in 2023–24. But lawmakers who hold huge sway over higher-education finances are adamant that no money is pulled from the state’s recent, unprecedented \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2022/07/student-housing-affordable-dorms/\">multibillion-dollar down payment\u003c/a> on affordable student housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adding to the intrigue, the Legislature’s own top policy adviser, the Legislative Analyst’s Office, proposed that the state \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/2023/03/california-flood-reservoir-rain-snow/#:~:text=From%20CalMatters%20higher%20education%20reporter%20Mikhail%20Zinshteyn%3A\">completely drop its investment in student housing\u003c/a> or at least change how the money is spent. One such idea? Renege on \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2023/4733/Student-Housing-030923.pdf#page=8\">a promise to continue sending community colleges grants (PDF)\u003c/a> to build more student housing for next year.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Assemblymember Kevin McCarty\"]‘This is such a priority for the Senate and the Assembly the last couple years and just checks so many boxes: Housing crisis, check. College affordability, check. Enrollment growth for students, check.’[/pullquote]Ultimately the state must have a balanced budget before June 30, but if the last three legislative budget hearings on higher education are any indication, how much — and when — to spend on student housing will be a key point of friction between the Democrat-controlled Legislature and Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor’s plans to delay housing funding is “something that we don’t support, and we’re going to be looking at other options,” said Assemblymember Kevin McCarty, a Democrat from Sacramento and chair of the Assembly’s budget subcommittee on education, at a Tuesday hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is such a priority for the Senate and the Assembly the last couple years and just checks so many boxes: Housing crisis, check. College affordability, check. Enrollment growth for students, check,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Newsom gets his way, the $750 million campus housing grants slated for 2023–24 would drop to $500 million, and the remaining $250 million would become available in 2024–25. And rather than spending a combined $1.8 billion on \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2022/01/student-housing-2/\">campus no-interest loans\u003c/a> in 2023–24 and 2024–25, Newsom proposed zero dollars in 2023–24 and spreading the funds across the subsequent two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Effectively the governor’s budget maintains the overall funding commitment for these two student housing programs,” said Michelle Nguyen of the Department of Finance, an office in the governor’s administration. “But given the budget outlook, the governor’s budget proposes funding delays for these programs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That may be bad news for the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/multimedia/podcasts/gimme-shelter/2022/11/california-student-housing-crisis/\">hundreds of thousands of college students\u003c/a> in \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2022/01/student-housing-2/#:~:text=The%20system%20has%20made%20strides%3A\">desperate pursuit\u003c/a> of housing — even if these state efforts can build only a fraction of the living quarters survey data say is needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sparing campus-housing funding from cuts is a bipartisan sentiment in the Legislature. It’s important that “we have the funding available and not delayed … in order to build housing necessary to accommodate those students in the universities, especially when the state is requiring a certain level of enrollment for each university,” said Sen. Rosilicie Ochoa Bogh, a Republican from Rancho Cucamonga, at a Senate subcommittee hearing last Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thirty campuses remain unfazed and have submitted plans exceeding $2.1 billion to build as many as 12,700 additional dorm beds with low rents. The size of the projects varies, including 1,553 affordable beds at UC Riverside, 517 at San José State and 117 at Lassen Community College in northeastern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the University of California, the state grants supplement plans to construct \u003ca href=\"https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/mar23/j1.pdf#page=3\">an extra 22,000 beds by 2028 (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Included in the state grant mix is housing for UC graduate students — 236 dorm beds at UC Merced, a campus \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2023/01/uc-housing-problem-persists-for-graduate-students/\">with just nine beds for graduate students\u003c/a> at a time when affordable housing was a major rallying cry for \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2023/01/six-takeaways-for-californians-after-the-uc-graduate-student-worker-strike/\">students striking late last fall\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All told, the University of California’s \u003ca href=\"https://abgt.assembly.ca.gov/sites/abgt.assembly.ca.gov/files/March%2014%20Sub%202%20%20Agenda.pdf#page=4\">six grant proposals pencil out to about $108,000 per affordable bed (PDF)\u003c/a>; Cal State’s three projects \u003ca href=\"https://abgt.assembly.ca.gov/sites/abgt.assembly.ca.gov/files/March%2014%20Sub%202%20%20Agenda.pdf#page=4\">would cost $170,000 per bed (PDF)\u003c/a>; and the 21 plans submitted by community colleges — schools with little experience building student housing — \u003ca href=\"https://abgt.assembly.ca.gov/sites/abgt.assembly.ca.gov/files/March%2014%20Sub%202%20%20Agenda.pdf#page=5\">would cost $205,000 per bed (PDF)\u003c/a>. (Overall, last year’s approved state-funded dorms \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2022/07/student-housing-affordable-dorms/#:~:text=affordable%20through%20the%20grant\">were slightly more expensive\u003c/a> per bed.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if the Legislature and Newsom agree to pull no dollars from the housing grant in 2023–24, most of those plans will go unfunded by the program. That’s because last year’s spending road map called for pouring $750 million into the grant in 2023–24 — about a third of the money colleges and universities are seeking.[aside postID=\"news_11937658,news_11938865\" label=\"Related Posts\"]It’s a case of déjà vu: When the affordable housing grant program took applications from campuses for the first time in 2021, 42 campuses submitted construction bids totaling $2.8 billion — well above the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2022/07/student-housing-affordable-dorms/#:~:text=Lawmakers%20initially%20created%20a%20%24500%20million%20pot\">$500 million the state planned to spend\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the state eyeing \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2022/05/newsom-budget-spending/\">a $100 billion budget surplus last year\u003c/a>, lawmakers and Newsom nearly tripled last year’s budget for the housing grant program, in part by advancing money from future budgets, ultimately greenlighting the construction of roughly 7,300 affordable residencies for students with lower incomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-budget/2023/01/california-budget-newsom-deficit/\">multibillion-dollar deficit\u003c/a> projected across several years, the state spending more to approve a larger number of projects isn’t likely this year. The Legislature and governor’s office will pick projects based on a rubric that takes into account details such as an area’s unmet need and the number of affordable beds new construction will create.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, budgeting is an inexact science. The Cal State system is reporting that its construction costs for the nine dorms it sought to build last year rose by 14% between fall 2021 — when the system submitted their plans — and this January. A CSU senior official told lawmakers Tuesday that its campuses found most of the necessary outside funds, but the system still needs another $12 million in grant funds to pay for the projects approved last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC also saw costs grow, but they’re paying for those internally, a university official told lawmakers yesterday. A court ruling \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2023/02/california-cannabis-emerald-triangle/#:~:text=Is%20noise%20from%20student%20parties%20a%20type%20of%20pollution%3F%C2%A0\">stalling UC Berkeley’s housing plans\u003c/a> is another headwind for the UC.\u003cbr>\nCosts rising quickly is another reason some lawmakers don’t want to delay building student housing. It’s likely “that delays will increase costs and lessen the number of beds projects can deliver,” staff for the \u003ca href=\"https://abgt.assembly.ca.gov/sites/abgt.assembly.ca.gov/files/March%2014%20Sub%202%20%20Agenda.pdf#page=7\">Assembly’s budget subcommittee on education wrote (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers also considered whether the state should fund the no-interest loan program rather than the housing grants for the upcoming year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An official at the Legislative Analyst’s Office, \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2023/4733/Student-Housing-030923.pdf#page=7\">which floated the idea in a report (PDF)\u003c/a>, said there’s some merit to that because campuses could build more affordable housing with the same amount of money under the loan program. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Campus housing: Students can’t get enough of it, and California public campuses can’t build dorm rooms fast enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet, Gov. Gavin Newsom has proposed delaying by a year \u003ca href=\"https://ebudget.ca.gov/2023-24/pdf/BudgetSummary/HigherEducation.pdf#page=7\">nearly $1.2 billion in loans and grants (PDF)\u003c/a> that would build housing for thousands of students at affordable rates — money the state promised campuses in last year’s state budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom seeks the delay to help balance the state’s projected $22.5 billion budget deficit in 2023–24. But lawmakers who hold huge sway over higher-education finances are adamant that no money is pulled from the state’s recent, unprecedented \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2022/07/student-housing-affordable-dorms/\">multibillion-dollar down payment\u003c/a> on affordable student housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adding to the intrigue, the Legislature’s own top policy adviser, the Legislative Analyst’s Office, proposed that the state \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/2023/03/california-flood-reservoir-rain-snow/#:~:text=From%20CalMatters%20higher%20education%20reporter%20Mikhail%20Zinshteyn%3A\">completely drop its investment in student housing\u003c/a> or at least change how the money is spent. One such idea? Renege on \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2023/4733/Student-Housing-030923.pdf#page=8\">a promise to continue sending community colleges grants (PDF)\u003c/a> to build more student housing for next year.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Ultimately the state must have a balanced budget before June 30, but if the last three legislative budget hearings on higher education are any indication, how much — and when — to spend on student housing will be a key point of friction between the Democrat-controlled Legislature and Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor’s plans to delay housing funding is “something that we don’t support, and we’re going to be looking at other options,” said Assemblymember Kevin McCarty, a Democrat from Sacramento and chair of the Assembly’s budget subcommittee on education, at a Tuesday hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is such a priority for the Senate and the Assembly the last couple years and just checks so many boxes: Housing crisis, check. College affordability, check. Enrollment growth for students, check,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Newsom gets his way, the $750 million campus housing grants slated for 2023–24 would drop to $500 million, and the remaining $250 million would become available in 2024–25. And rather than spending a combined $1.8 billion on \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2022/01/student-housing-2/\">campus no-interest loans\u003c/a> in 2023–24 and 2024–25, Newsom proposed zero dollars in 2023–24 and spreading the funds across the subsequent two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Effectively the governor’s budget maintains the overall funding commitment for these two student housing programs,” said Michelle Nguyen of the Department of Finance, an office in the governor’s administration. “But given the budget outlook, the governor’s budget proposes funding delays for these programs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That may be bad news for the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/multimedia/podcasts/gimme-shelter/2022/11/california-student-housing-crisis/\">hundreds of thousands of college students\u003c/a> in \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2022/01/student-housing-2/#:~:text=The%20system%20has%20made%20strides%3A\">desperate pursuit\u003c/a> of housing — even if these state efforts can build only a fraction of the living quarters survey data say is needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sparing campus-housing funding from cuts is a bipartisan sentiment in the Legislature. It’s important that “we have the funding available and not delayed … in order to build housing necessary to accommodate those students in the universities, especially when the state is requiring a certain level of enrollment for each university,” said Sen. Rosilicie Ochoa Bogh, a Republican from Rancho Cucamonga, at a Senate subcommittee hearing last Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thirty campuses remain unfazed and have submitted plans exceeding $2.1 billion to build as many as 12,700 additional dorm beds with low rents. The size of the projects varies, including 1,553 affordable beds at UC Riverside, 517 at San José State and 117 at Lassen Community College in northeastern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the University of California, the state grants supplement plans to construct \u003ca href=\"https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/mar23/j1.pdf#page=3\">an extra 22,000 beds by 2028 (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Included in the state grant mix is housing for UC graduate students — 236 dorm beds at UC Merced, a campus \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2023/01/uc-housing-problem-persists-for-graduate-students/\">with just nine beds for graduate students\u003c/a> at a time when affordable housing was a major rallying cry for \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2023/01/six-takeaways-for-californians-after-the-uc-graduate-student-worker-strike/\">students striking late last fall\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All told, the University of California’s \u003ca href=\"https://abgt.assembly.ca.gov/sites/abgt.assembly.ca.gov/files/March%2014%20Sub%202%20%20Agenda.pdf#page=4\">six grant proposals pencil out to about $108,000 per affordable bed (PDF)\u003c/a>; Cal State’s three projects \u003ca href=\"https://abgt.assembly.ca.gov/sites/abgt.assembly.ca.gov/files/March%2014%20Sub%202%20%20Agenda.pdf#page=4\">would cost $170,000 per bed (PDF)\u003c/a>; and the 21 plans submitted by community colleges — schools with little experience building student housing — \u003ca href=\"https://abgt.assembly.ca.gov/sites/abgt.assembly.ca.gov/files/March%2014%20Sub%202%20%20Agenda.pdf#page=5\">would cost $205,000 per bed (PDF)\u003c/a>. (Overall, last year’s approved state-funded dorms \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2022/07/student-housing-affordable-dorms/#:~:text=affordable%20through%20the%20grant\">were slightly more expensive\u003c/a> per bed.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if the Legislature and Newsom agree to pull no dollars from the housing grant in 2023–24, most of those plans will go unfunded by the program. That’s because last year’s spending road map called for pouring $750 million into the grant in 2023–24 — about a third of the money colleges and universities are seeking.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>It’s a case of déjà vu: When the affordable housing grant program took applications from campuses for the first time in 2021, 42 campuses submitted construction bids totaling $2.8 billion — well above the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2022/07/student-housing-affordable-dorms/#:~:text=Lawmakers%20initially%20created%20a%20%24500%20million%20pot\">$500 million the state planned to spend\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the state eyeing \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2022/05/newsom-budget-spending/\">a $100 billion budget surplus last year\u003c/a>, lawmakers and Newsom nearly tripled last year’s budget for the housing grant program, in part by advancing money from future budgets, ultimately greenlighting the construction of roughly 7,300 affordable residencies for students with lower incomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-budget/2023/01/california-budget-newsom-deficit/\">multibillion-dollar deficit\u003c/a> projected across several years, the state spending more to approve a larger number of projects isn’t likely this year. The Legislature and governor’s office will pick projects based on a rubric that takes into account details such as an area’s unmet need and the number of affordable beds new construction will create.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, budgeting is an inexact science. The Cal State system is reporting that its construction costs for the nine dorms it sought to build last year rose by 14% between fall 2021 — when the system submitted their plans — and this January. A CSU senior official told lawmakers Tuesday that its campuses found most of the necessary outside funds, but the system still needs another $12 million in grant funds to pay for the projects approved last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC also saw costs grow, but they’re paying for those internally, a university official told lawmakers yesterday. A court ruling \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2023/02/california-cannabis-emerald-triangle/#:~:text=Is%20noise%20from%20student%20parties%20a%20type%20of%20pollution%3F%C2%A0\">stalling UC Berkeley’s housing plans\u003c/a> is another headwind for the UC.\u003cbr>\nCosts rising quickly is another reason some lawmakers don’t want to delay building student housing. It’s likely “that delays will increase costs and lessen the number of beds projects can deliver,” staff for the \u003ca href=\"https://abgt.assembly.ca.gov/sites/abgt.assembly.ca.gov/files/March%2014%20Sub%202%20%20Agenda.pdf#page=7\">Assembly’s budget subcommittee on education wrote (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers also considered whether the state should fund the no-interest loan program rather than the housing grants for the upcoming year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An official at the Legislative Analyst’s Office, \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2023/4733/Student-Housing-030923.pdf#page=7\">which floated the idea in a report (PDF)\u003c/a>, said there’s some merit to that because campuses could build more affordable housing with the same amount of money under the loan program. 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Typically, campuses issue bonds to build dorms and repay those with interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCarty also suggested that the state should pass on funding the dorm plans that community colleges submitted this year because they “aren’t ready for prime time.” He said the state could supply community colleges the money in 18 months to two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A senior official at the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office disputed that assertion. “All of these projects are not in an aspirational stage,” said Lizette Navarette, interim deputy chancellor. 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