Tag: University of California Berkeley

The Berkeley, California, city council gave police officers the go-ahead after a vote Tuesday evening to use pepper spray on violent protesters.

Left-wing activists are scrambling to excuse the violence carried out by Antifa activists at Sunday’s counter-protest in Berkeley, as Mayor Jesse Arreguin is now calling on UC Berkeley to cancel “Free Speech Week.”

The University of California, Berkeley paid police half a million dollars in overtime last Thursday to deal with the threat created by leftists opposed to letting conservative author Ann Coulter speak — even though she never did.

A growing number of conservative commentators are calling on President Donald Trump to use the California National Guard to escort author Ann Coulter onto the University of California, Berkeley campus when she speaks next week.

Robert Reich, a professor at UC Berkeley and former U.S. Secretary of Labor, has insinuated that President Donald Trump incited Monday’s riots in Sweden — echoing his unproven conspiracy theory just weeks ago that Breitbart News organized violent demonstrations at his university.

Colleges should be places where free thought is encouraged, not met with riots in the streets. For UC Berkeley to declare it has an agenda contrary to Yiannopoulos is telling. It’s obvious the modern campus climate is, and has been for a long time, a progressive one. But if we don’t allow our young people to exchange rational ideas in a peaceful manner in a place that’s supposedly dedicated to learning, what hope does our country—one that is founded on the principle of “ensuring that there is no prohibition on … abridging the freedom of speech”—have left?

Mediaite’s Alex Griswold reports that former Treasury Secretary and U.C. Berkeley professor Robert Reich doubled down on his conspiracy theory that Breitbart News secretly plotted the Berkeley riots caused by violent leftwing anarchists who wanted to shut down Breitbart Tech Editor Milo Yiannopoulos’ event.

The University of California at Berkeley is back in the news, along with its familiar appellation, “The Home of Free Speech.”

Amid the violent protests that prompted the cancellation on Wednesday of Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos’s speech at the University of California at Berkeley, it may be instrumental to recall that UC President Janet Napolitano – former secretary of Homeland Security under President Obama – has been a key player in providing sanctuary to illegal aliens.

Chancellor Dirks and the UC Berkeley administration deserve to be held accountable for the violence that violated Milo’s rights — and the rights of those who wanted to hear him — as well as for the betrayal of the university’s free speech legacy.

University of California, Berkeley is demanding up to a staggering $10,000 in security fees from the Berkeley College Republicans (BCR) in order to host MILO in February, according to a report from the school’s student newspaper.

“I would love to see the Clinton administration come and make college free for students coming from families earning less than $125,000,” Cal Professor Nicholas Dirks says. “But I don’t think it’s going to happen.”

On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “OutFront,” National Correspondent Kyung Lah reported on Republicans who are supporting GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump at the University of California, Berkeley. Lah said that at UC-Berkeley, a school that “symbolized free political speech on

The University of California-Berkeley student senate demands that free abortion be available on campus so that female students can “continue their education with little disruption.”

Late at night on February 18, a UC Berkeley astronomy research scientist looking for extraterrestrial life finished his work only to find two burglars walking through the new $80 million Campbell Hall at the Berkeley SETI Research Center.

The University of California Berkeley’s Black Student Union (BSU), pressuring the administration to make the campus more hospitable for blacks, has included an outrageous demand among the list of issues it wants addressed: renaming a building on campus after Assata Shakur, who killed New Jersey state trooper Werner Foerster in 1973 and is wanted by the FBI as a terrorist.