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But by Monday, the sign was no longer affixed to the gate, and the noise issue had been resolved, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, the university also maintains a policy to prioritize avoiding conflict in the course of nonviolent civil disobedience rather than emphasizing enforcement of campus rules, which arose following student protests in 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is the policy and practice that we follow with every group that engages with nonviolent protest,” Mogulof said. “We have been making efforts to end those aspects of the nonviolent protest at Sather Gate that violate those restrictions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11978963\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11978963\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240311-JEWISHPROTEST-JY-13-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people stand near each other in front of an ornate gateway.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240311-JEWISHPROTEST-JY-13-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240311-JEWISHPROTEST-JY-13-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240311-JEWISHPROTEST-JY-13-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240311-JEWISHPROTEST-JY-13-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240311-JEWISHPROTEST-JY-13-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240311-JEWISHPROTEST-JY-13-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jewish UC Berkeley students, faculty and community members stand in lines in front of Sather Gate on Monday. The group attempted to block foot traffic to protest what they said were ongoing blockages by pro-Palestinian protesters, stating that the university had not been enforcing its policy of keeping the path clear. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Monday, Ethan Katz, director of the UC-Berkeley Center for Jewish Studies, addressed the crowd after a bagel brunch in front of Zellerbach Playhouse before protesters started the silent march at noon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“UC-Berkeley Jewish students and our allies insist that this campus be a safe and harassment-free environment for all of us,” Hannah Schlachter, a student at the Haas School of Business who organized the march, said in an email after the event ended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over at Sather Gate, pro-Palestinian students held a banner that read, “Today is the first day of Ramadan. Israel and the U.S. are starving 2.2. million. Gazans have nothing to break their fast with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Banan Abdelrahman, a graduate student at UC Berkeley, was holding the sign with fellow supporters on Monday. She said the group’s goal is to draw attention to ongoing violence against Palestinians and to put pressure on campus officials to divest from companies like BlackRock, which invests in weapons producers like Lockheed Martin and Boeing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Both sides of the gate are freely open. A full blockade is what’s in Gaza, where you don’t let anything in. This is not a blockade,” Abdelrahman told KQED. “We make sure the sides are open to make sure our community is able to pass through and walk freely and is ADA compliant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11978960\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11978960\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240311-JEWISHPROTEST-JY-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A sign blocks passage through an ornate gateway.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240311-JEWISHPROTEST-JY-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240311-JEWISHPROTEST-JY-05-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240311-JEWISHPROTEST-JY-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240311-JEWISHPROTEST-JY-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240311-JEWISHPROTEST-JY-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240311-JEWISHPROTEST-JY-05-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A large pro-Palestine banner held by students blocks the central entrance to Sather Gate on the Berkeley campus on Monday. The banner reads, ‘Today is the first day of Ramadan. Israel and the U.S. are starving 2.2. million. Gazans have nothing to break their fast with.’ Walkways through the gate on either side of the banner remain open. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Things escalated on Feb. 26 when a group of pro-Palestinian students protested a talk by Israeli attorney and former Israeli Defense Forces member Ran Bar-Yoshafat. Students opposing the speaking event criticized Bar-Yoshafat for promoting violence against Palestinians and for spreading “propaganda,” the student newspaper \u003cem>The Daily Californian\u003c/em> reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='gaza']But the event was shut down before Bar-Yoshafat spoke. Nearly 200 protesters crowded the entrances of Zellerbach Playhouse, where the talk was set to take place after being moved at the last minute from Wheeler Hall. The university sent out a WarnMe notification to the entire campus community about the protest activity. It has subsequently opened up a criminal investigation into the protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This university has a long history of commitment to and support for nonviolent political protest that respects the First Amendment rights of others,” UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ wrote to the campus community on March 4. “That is not what occurred on Feb. 26. It was not peaceful civil disobedience. We condemn it in the strongest possible terms.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The message didn’t appease some students, regardless of whether they were protesting or supporting the event on Feb. 26.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Repeatedly, she said she was concerned and dismayed, but nothing has happened,” Cohen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mogulof said the campus administration is “aware and is concerned about rising tensions on campus.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11978967\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11978967\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240311-JEWISHPROTEST-JY-22-KQED.jpg\" alt='A person stands in an outdoor setting in front of a large group of people holding a sign that reads \"Jews Against Genocide in Palestine\".' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240311-JEWISHPROTEST-JY-22-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240311-JEWISHPROTEST-JY-22-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240311-JEWISHPROTEST-JY-22-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240311-JEWISHPROTEST-JY-22-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240311-JEWISHPROTEST-JY-22-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240311-JEWISHPROTEST-JY-22-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Berkeley resident Laurie Winestock holds a sign stating her support for Palestine as Jewish UC Berkeley students, faculty and community members rally on campus on Monday. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pro-Palestinian student groups were invited to speak with Chancellor Christ on Monday. Students declined the opportunity because they said they are seeking a commitment around divestment, which the Chancellor has yet to signal any openness to. In 2018, all 10 UC chancellors signed on to a letter opposing an academic boycott of Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unless she is willing to take tangible steps toward divestment, there is nothing we can tell her that she hasn’t heard before,” Abdelrahman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the U.S. Department of Education has opened up a separate inquiry into possible discrimination based on ancestry on UC Berkeley’s campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We recognize and are responding to the unavoidable challenges that arise when groups with strongly held and conflicting views exercise their First Amendment rights,” Mogulof said, “rights that we are compelled to uphold.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Sara Hossaini contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"About 180 Jewish community members and students at UC Berkeley marched on Monday to protest what they said were university failures to adhere to campus policies as well as the handling of recent claims of discrimination and harassment on campus.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1710204998,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":27,"wordCount":1217},"headData":{"title":"UC Berkeley Jewish Community Members March on Campus Amid Rising Tensions | KQED","description":"About 180 Jewish community members and students at UC Berkeley marched on Monday to protest what they said were university failures to adhere to campus policies as well as the handling of recent claims of discrimination and harassment on campus.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11978998/uc-berkeley-jewish-community-members-march-on-campus-amid-rising-tensions","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Approximately 180 Jewish community members and students at UC Berkeley gathered on campus Monday to protest what they said were university failures to adhere to its campus access policies as well as the handling of recent claims of discrimination and harassment on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mostly mellow march follows months of high tensions between students following Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel and Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza. It also comes on top of “dozens” of claims of discrimination from people identifying as Jewish or Muslim in the campus community made since Oct. 7, according to campus officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Jewish students have had to avoid harassment, have had to walk in a creek, avoid classes out of fear of going through [Sather] Gate,” said Noah Cohen, a third-year law student at UC Berkeley who helped lead the march on Monday. He and other students are seeking for the university to enforce policies around blocking the gate, a landmark on the university’s south side that spans Strawberry Creek and connects Sproul Plaza to the rest of campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For nearly four weeks, members of Graduate Students for Justice in Palestine have placed caution tape and erected a sign at the gate calling attention to the more than 29,000 Palestinians who have been killed by Israeli air strikes and other violence since Oct. 7, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sign covers the central opening of the gate, but two side walkways remain open. University officials confirmed to KQED that the group never fully blocked the thoroughfare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In no way are we against free speech or protests, but we are against the university permitting violating those policies when it comes at the expense of Jewish students,” Cohen said, arguing that the group violated policies against blocking the gate and playing loud noise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The demonstration did previously violate university protest rules against affixing a sign directly to the gate and amplifying sound, according to UC Berkeley spokesman Dan Mogulof. But by Monday, the sign was no longer affixed to the gate, and the noise issue had been resolved, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, the university also maintains a policy to prioritize avoiding conflict in the course of nonviolent civil disobedience rather than emphasizing enforcement of campus rules, which arose following student protests in 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is the policy and practice that we follow with every group that engages with nonviolent protest,” Mogulof said. “We have been making efforts to end those aspects of the nonviolent protest at Sather Gate that violate those restrictions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11978963\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11978963\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240311-JEWISHPROTEST-JY-13-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people stand near each other in front of an ornate gateway.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240311-JEWISHPROTEST-JY-13-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240311-JEWISHPROTEST-JY-13-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240311-JEWISHPROTEST-JY-13-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240311-JEWISHPROTEST-JY-13-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240311-JEWISHPROTEST-JY-13-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240311-JEWISHPROTEST-JY-13-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jewish UC Berkeley students, faculty and community members stand in lines in front of Sather Gate on Monday. The group attempted to block foot traffic to protest what they said were ongoing blockages by pro-Palestinian protesters, stating that the university had not been enforcing its policy of keeping the path clear. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Monday, Ethan Katz, director of the UC-Berkeley Center for Jewish Studies, addressed the crowd after a bagel brunch in front of Zellerbach Playhouse before protesters started the silent march at noon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“UC-Berkeley Jewish students and our allies insist that this campus be a safe and harassment-free environment for all of us,” Hannah Schlachter, a student at the Haas School of Business who organized the march, said in an email after the event ended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over at Sather Gate, pro-Palestinian students held a banner that read, “Today is the first day of Ramadan. Israel and the U.S. are starving 2.2. million. Gazans have nothing to break their fast with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Banan Abdelrahman, a graduate student at UC Berkeley, was holding the sign with fellow supporters on Monday. She said the group’s goal is to draw attention to ongoing violence against Palestinians and to put pressure on campus officials to divest from companies like BlackRock, which invests in weapons producers like Lockheed Martin and Boeing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Both sides of the gate are freely open. A full blockade is what’s in Gaza, where you don’t let anything in. This is not a blockade,” Abdelrahman told KQED. “We make sure the sides are open to make sure our community is able to pass through and walk freely and is ADA compliant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11978960\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11978960\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240311-JEWISHPROTEST-JY-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A sign blocks passage through an ornate gateway.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240311-JEWISHPROTEST-JY-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240311-JEWISHPROTEST-JY-05-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240311-JEWISHPROTEST-JY-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240311-JEWISHPROTEST-JY-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240311-JEWISHPROTEST-JY-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240311-JEWISHPROTEST-JY-05-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A large pro-Palestine banner held by students blocks the central entrance to Sather Gate on the Berkeley campus on Monday. The banner reads, ‘Today is the first day of Ramadan. Israel and the U.S. are starving 2.2. million. Gazans have nothing to break their fast with.’ Walkways through the gate on either side of the banner remain open. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Things escalated on Feb. 26 when a group of pro-Palestinian students protested a talk by Israeli attorney and former Israeli Defense Forces member Ran Bar-Yoshafat. Students opposing the speaking event criticized Bar-Yoshafat for promoting violence against Palestinians and for spreading “propaganda,” the student newspaper \u003cem>The Daily Californian\u003c/em> reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Coverage ","tag":"gaza"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But the event was shut down before Bar-Yoshafat spoke. Nearly 200 protesters crowded the entrances of Zellerbach Playhouse, where the talk was set to take place after being moved at the last minute from Wheeler Hall. The university sent out a WarnMe notification to the entire campus community about the protest activity. It has subsequently opened up a criminal investigation into the protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This university has a long history of commitment to and support for nonviolent political protest that respects the First Amendment rights of others,” UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ wrote to the campus community on March 4. “That is not what occurred on Feb. 26. It was not peaceful civil disobedience. We condemn it in the strongest possible terms.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The message didn’t appease some students, regardless of whether they were protesting or supporting the event on Feb. 26.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Repeatedly, she said she was concerned and dismayed, but nothing has happened,” Cohen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mogulof said the campus administration is “aware and is concerned about rising tensions on campus.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11978967\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11978967\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240311-JEWISHPROTEST-JY-22-KQED.jpg\" alt='A person stands in an outdoor setting in front of a large group of people holding a sign that reads \"Jews Against Genocide in Palestine\".' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240311-JEWISHPROTEST-JY-22-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240311-JEWISHPROTEST-JY-22-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240311-JEWISHPROTEST-JY-22-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240311-JEWISHPROTEST-JY-22-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240311-JEWISHPROTEST-JY-22-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240311-JEWISHPROTEST-JY-22-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Berkeley resident Laurie Winestock holds a sign stating her support for Palestine as Jewish UC Berkeley students, faculty and community members rally on campus on Monday. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pro-Palestinian student groups were invited to speak with Chancellor Christ on Monday. Students declined the opportunity because they said they are seeking a commitment around divestment, which the Chancellor has yet to signal any openness to. In 2018, all 10 UC chancellors signed on to a letter opposing an academic boycott of Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unless she is willing to take tangible steps toward divestment, there is nothing we can tell her that she hasn’t heard before,” Abdelrahman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the U.S. Department of Education has opened up a separate inquiry into possible discrimination based on ancestry on UC Berkeley’s campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We recognize and are responding to the unavoidable challenges that arise when groups with strongly held and conflicting views exercise their First Amendment rights,” Mogulof said, “rights that we are compelled to uphold.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Sara Hossaini contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11978998/uc-berkeley-jewish-community-members-march-on-campus-amid-rising-tensions","authors":["11840"],"categories":["news_18540","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_20013","news_27626","news_6631","news_17597"],"featImg":"news_11978968","label":"news"},"news_11977500":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11977500","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11977500","score":null,"sort":[1709168728000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"uc-berkeley-officials-denounce-protest-that-forced-police-evacuation-at-jewish-student-event","title":"UC Berkeley Officials Denounce Protest That Forced Police to Evacuate Students at Jewish Event on Campus","publishDate":1709168728,"format":"standard","headTitle":"UC Berkeley Officials Denounce Protest That Forced Police to Evacuate Students at Jewish Event on Campus | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated, 11 a.m. Thursday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leaders of the UC Berkeley have denounced a protest against an event organized by Jewish students that forced police to evacuate attendees and a speaker from Israel for their safety after demonstrators broke through doors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A criminal investigation has begun, the university announced Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incident Monday night “violated not only our rules but also some of our most fundamental values,” Chancellor Carol Christ and Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Benjamin Hermalin said in a \u003ca href=\"https://news.berkeley.edu/2024/02/27/upholding-our-values\">statement\u003c/a> to the university community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minutes before the event was to start, a crowd of about 200 protesters began to surround the building, Zellerbach Playhouse, Christ and Hermalin said in their statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"UC Berkeley statement\"]‘Doors were broken open and the protesters gained unauthorized entry to the building. The event was canceled, and the building was evacuated to protect the speaker and members of the audience.’[/pullquote]“Doors were broken open and the protesters gained unauthorized entry to the building,” they said. “The event was canceled, and the building was evacuated to protect the speaker and members of the audience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>University campuses have been a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinian-hamas-college-protest-tulane-29dca6e670639b73f5bfe7bfcf6befee\">hotbed of protest activity\u003c/a> surrounding the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/hub/israel-hamas-war\">Israel-Hamas war\u003c/a>, which began following Hamas’ \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-gaza-hamas-rockets-airstrikes-tel-aviv-11fb98655c256d54ecb5329284fc37d2\">deadly Oct. 7 attack\u003c/a> on Israel. Israel’s \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-news-02-19-2024-81c2d362340b611a98e4b929b4b5d0a4\">responding assault on Gaza\u003c/a> has killed 29,000 Palestinians, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley’s student newspaper, \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailycal.org/news/campus/student-life/protests-shut-down-event-with-israeli-attorney-ran-bar-yoshafat/article_3107e976-d52e-11ee-bec1-1f866f1b32b7.html\">\u003cem>The Daily Californian\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, reported that the event was a lecture by Ran Bar-Yoshafat, an Israeli attorney and former member of the Israeli Defense Forces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The newspaper reported that protesters chanted “Long live the intifada,” “Hey hey, ho ho, the occupation has got to go,” and “Killers on campus.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The campus group Bears for Palestine had posted on social media about the event, urging students to “shut it down.” Bears is a reference to Golden Bears, the name of the university’s sports teams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Student group Bears for Israel’s Vice President Sharon Knafelman told KQED on Wednesday the university should suspend Bears for Palestine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We didn’t expect two of our girls to get assaulted,” Knafelman said. “I didn’t expect my friend to get yelled at ‘Jew, you dirty Jew,’ and being spat at. And we didn’t expect them to be so angry and so vicious that they banged on the glass doors of Zellerbach playhouse to the point that they shattered.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The event had been moved to Zellerbach because it was believed to be more secure than the original location, and a team of university police had been sent there. But it wasn’t possible to ensure student safety and that the event could go forward “given the size of the crowd and the threat of violence,” the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bears for Palestine, in a subsequent statement, said it was “unfortunate” that a window had been broken during the protest, but described it as an isolated incident out of step with the group’s “intent on prioritizing community safety and explicit instructions of non-violent protest.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group said that when the university was notified of plans for the protest, it “preemptively heavily militarized the event location with at least 20 armed UCPD officers, who used excessive force to barricade the building and barre pro-Palestinian entry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bears for Palestine called Yoshafat “a dangerous war criminal” and accused the university of protecting him “at the cost of student safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was “an exemplary act of UC Berkeley upholding their values of deeply systemic anti-Palestinian racism that permeates within this institution,” the group said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley spokesperson Dan Mogulof said Wednesday that the university has opened a formal criminal investigation and has initiated its student code-of-conduct process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11969165,news_11972999,news_11972100\"]“We’ve had four formal reports made to our police department,” Mogulof said. “We’ve opened that criminal investigation because we believe there should be consequences for the kind of behavior that we saw on Monday night.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An allegation of battery along with antisemitic slurs is being investigated as a hate crime, Mogulof said. A second report alleges a victim was spit at and kicked. A third alleges battery, and the fourth alleges the victim was injured in a scuffle while attempting to hold a door closed. The injuries were described as minor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of the alleged assailants have been identified, Mogulof said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s what the investigation is about,” he said. “All of the video will be reviewed. Social media posts will be reviewed. Unfortunately, most of the protesters were masked.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were not sufficient police resources to make arrests at the scene, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christ and Hermalin said they respect the right to protest “as intrinsic to the values of democracy and an institution of higher education” but cannot ignore protests that interfere with the rights of others to hear and express their own perspectives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Alex Emslie contributed reporting to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The incident Monday 'violated not only our rules but also some of our most fundamental values,' said Chancellor Carol Christ and Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Benjamin Hermalin in a statement.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1709234568,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":27,"wordCount":889},"headData":{"title":"UC Berkeley Officials Denounce Protest That Forced Police to Evacuate Students at Jewish Event on Campus | KQED","description":"The incident Monday 'violated not only our rules but also some of our most fundamental values,' said Chancellor Carol Christ and Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Benjamin Hermalin in a statement.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"sticky":false,"nprByline":"The Associated Press","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11977500/uc-berkeley-officials-denounce-protest-that-forced-police-evacuation-at-jewish-student-event","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated, 11 a.m. Thursday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leaders of the UC Berkeley have denounced a protest against an event organized by Jewish students that forced police to evacuate attendees and a speaker from Israel for their safety after demonstrators broke through doors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A criminal investigation has begun, the university announced Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incident Monday night “violated not only our rules but also some of our most fundamental values,” Chancellor Carol Christ and Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Benjamin Hermalin said in a \u003ca href=\"https://news.berkeley.edu/2024/02/27/upholding-our-values\">statement\u003c/a> to the university community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minutes before the event was to start, a crowd of about 200 protesters began to surround the building, Zellerbach Playhouse, Christ and Hermalin said in their statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘Doors were broken open and the protesters gained unauthorized entry to the building. The event was canceled, and the building was evacuated to protect the speaker and members of the audience.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"UC Berkeley statement","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Doors were broken open and the protesters gained unauthorized entry to the building,” they said. “The event was canceled, and the building was evacuated to protect the speaker and members of the audience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>University campuses have been a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinian-hamas-college-protest-tulane-29dca6e670639b73f5bfe7bfcf6befee\">hotbed of protest activity\u003c/a> surrounding the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/hub/israel-hamas-war\">Israel-Hamas war\u003c/a>, which began following Hamas’ \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-gaza-hamas-rockets-airstrikes-tel-aviv-11fb98655c256d54ecb5329284fc37d2\">deadly Oct. 7 attack\u003c/a> on Israel. Israel’s \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-news-02-19-2024-81c2d362340b611a98e4b929b4b5d0a4\">responding assault on Gaza\u003c/a> has killed 29,000 Palestinians, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley’s student newspaper, \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailycal.org/news/campus/student-life/protests-shut-down-event-with-israeli-attorney-ran-bar-yoshafat/article_3107e976-d52e-11ee-bec1-1f866f1b32b7.html\">\u003cem>The Daily Californian\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, reported that the event was a lecture by Ran Bar-Yoshafat, an Israeli attorney and former member of the Israeli Defense Forces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The newspaper reported that protesters chanted “Long live the intifada,” “Hey hey, ho ho, the occupation has got to go,” and “Killers on campus.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The campus group Bears for Palestine had posted on social media about the event, urging students to “shut it down.” Bears is a reference to Golden Bears, the name of the university’s sports teams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Student group Bears for Israel’s Vice President Sharon Knafelman told KQED on Wednesday the university should suspend Bears for Palestine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We didn’t expect two of our girls to get assaulted,” Knafelman said. “I didn’t expect my friend to get yelled at ‘Jew, you dirty Jew,’ and being spat at. And we didn’t expect them to be so angry and so vicious that they banged on the glass doors of Zellerbach playhouse to the point that they shattered.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The event had been moved to Zellerbach because it was believed to be more secure than the original location, and a team of university police had been sent there. But it wasn’t possible to ensure student safety and that the event could go forward “given the size of the crowd and the threat of violence,” the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bears for Palestine, in a subsequent statement, said it was “unfortunate” that a window had been broken during the protest, but described it as an isolated incident out of step with the group’s “intent on prioritizing community safety and explicit instructions of non-violent protest.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group said that when the university was notified of plans for the protest, it “preemptively heavily militarized the event location with at least 20 armed UCPD officers, who used excessive force to barricade the building and barre pro-Palestinian entry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bears for Palestine called Yoshafat “a dangerous war criminal” and accused the university of protecting him “at the cost of student safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was “an exemplary act of UC Berkeley upholding their values of deeply systemic anti-Palestinian racism that permeates within this institution,” the group said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley spokesperson Dan Mogulof said Wednesday that the university has opened a formal criminal investigation and has initiated its student code-of-conduct process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Stories ","postid":"news_11969165,news_11972999,news_11972100"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“We’ve had four formal reports made to our police department,” Mogulof said. “We’ve opened that criminal investigation because we believe there should be consequences for the kind of behavior that we saw on Monday night.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An allegation of battery along with antisemitic slurs is being investigated as a hate crime, Mogulof said. A second report alleges a victim was spit at and kicked. A third alleges battery, and the fourth alleges the victim was injured in a scuffle while attempting to hold a door closed. The injuries were described as minor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of the alleged assailants have been identified, Mogulof said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s what the investigation is about,” he said. “All of the video will be reviewed. Social media posts will be reviewed. Unfortunately, most of the protesters were masked.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were not sufficient police resources to make arrests at the scene, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christ and Hermalin said they respect the right to protest “as intrinsic to the values of democracy and an institution of higher education” but cannot ignore protests that interfere with the rights of others to hear and express their own perspectives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Alex Emslie contributed reporting to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11977500/uc-berkeley-officials-denounce-protest-that-forced-police-evacuation-at-jewish-student-event","authors":["byline_news_11977500"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_33333","news_33867","news_20310","news_33338","news_33647","news_17597"],"featImg":"news_11977517","label":"news"},"news_11972108":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11972108","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11972108","score":null,"sort":[1704900655000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"uc-berkeleys-housing-project-in-peoples-park-still-needs-a-developer","title":"UC Berkeley's Promised Supportive Housing in People's Park Still Doesn't Have a Developer","publishDate":1704900655,"format":"standard","headTitle":"UC Berkeley’s Promised Supportive Housing in People’s Park Still Doesn’t Have a Developer | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>As part of its plans to redevelop People’s Park, UC Berkeley has long vowed to build about 100 units of housing for low-income and unhoused people alongside a thousand units for students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The developer for the low-income housing, however, exited the project last spring, and the university has not selected a new one to take its place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Resources for Community Development (RCD) left the project just months after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11941907/appeals-court-sends-uc-berkeley-back-to-the-drawing-board-on-peoples-park-development\">an appellate court\u003c/a> ruled UC Berkeley couldn’t move forward with construction until it evaluated other possible development sites and assessed potential noise impacts to students and other neighbors as part of its environmental review. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Dan Mogulof, assistant vice chancellor, UC Berkeley\"]‘As soon as the legal issues are settled, we’ll work to find a developer.’[/pullquote]In a statement, RCD spokesperson Lauren Lyon said the company reallocated its “limited resources to other developments,” citing delays caused by the appellate court decision. She added that the ruling “sets a dangerous precedent for housing development, especially for the creation of new affordable housing which is so desperately needed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s clear that the legal issues have to be addressed, then the developers don’t have to worry about delays,” said Dan Mogulof, the assistant vice chancellor of the university. “As soon as the legal issues are settled, we’ll work to find a developer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The appellate court decision stems from a 2021 lawsuit filed by neighbors and activists who were concerned the students and residents in the new housing developments would negatively impact the neighborhood. The university has appealed the case to the state supreme court and is still awaiting a hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision could be affected by legislation signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom in September. AB 1307, written specifically to help UC Berkeley in its quest to build at People’s Park, states that noise generated by a building’s future residents doesn’t qualify as a significant environmental impact and eliminates the need for public universities to consider alternative sites for certain projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley is steadfast in its plan to build the 1,100-unit student housing and 125-unit supportive housing project. The university plans to develop the student housing itself. As for the supportive housing, it plans to offer the land, worth millions of dollars, to a third-party developer at no cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The project is not just about student housing,” Mogulof said. “Supportive housing is an inseparable part of the project. We can find a developer to handle that part of the project.” [aside label='More on People’s Park' tag='peoples-park']UC Berkeley currently provides housing to only 22% of its more than 40,000 undergraduate and graduate students, the smallest percentage out of all schools in the UC system. In 2017, the university launched a Student Housing Initiative aiming to add 9,000 student beds. The project on People’s Park is part of that plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan to build housing at People’s Park has support from local city leaders. In December 2021, the City of Berkeley allocated $14 million for the project as part of a package of $67 million that included six other affordable housing developments across the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The proposed student housing is urgently needed to alleviate our housing crisis and the permanent supportive housing at People’s Park will be the most significant homeless services and affordable housing project in the history of the neighborhood,” said former councilmember and mayoral candidate Rigel Robinson, who represents the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, Robinson resigned from his seat on the city council and quit the mayoral race after facing harassment, stalking and threats — often from those opposing his position on the park’s development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11971863\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11971863\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240104-PEOPLES-PARK-MD-17-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Several people hold signs outdoors.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240104-PEOPLES-PARK-MD-17-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240104-PEOPLES-PARK-MD-17-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240104-PEOPLES-PARK-MD-17-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240104-PEOPLES-PARK-MD-17-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240104-PEOPLES-PARK-MD-17-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People demonstrate outside of People’s Park as law enforcement prevent them from entering the premises in Berkeley on Jan. 4, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Generally, I have accepted this as simply being part of the job,” he said in an \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2024/01/09/opinion-why-i-am-stepping-down-from-the-berkeley-city-council\">op-ed published in Berkeleyside\u003c/a>. “But when these behaviors affect my loved ones, I have to draw the line. It’s time for me to prioritize my well-being and my family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley offered housing, transportation and social services to unhoused residents of the park, according to Mogulof. Still, the decision to clear People’s Park before the court decided on the case seemed sinister to activists seeking to protect the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lisa Teague, an organizer with the People’s Park Committee said they felt the university was trying to “fake it until they make it” by removing encampments and makeshift tree houses and hoping the state’s supreme court rules in their favor. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Lisa Teague, organizer, People’s Park Committee\"]‘[The university’s] desire to build on People’s Park is stronger than their desire to actually put up student housing. Any other site would have [been built] with relatively little controversy.’[/pullquote]“[The university’s] desire to build on People’s Park is stronger than their desire to actually put up student housing,” Teague said. “Any other site would have [been built] with relatively little controversy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now part of the National Register of Historic Places, People’s Park was the site of anti-war and environmental justice demonstrations in the 1960s and 1970s and has long been a place for homeless residents to camp and find services. Some Berkeley residents worry that history will be erased, despite the university’s promise to create permanent commemorations onsite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harvey Smith, the president of the People’s Park Historic District Advocacy Group, said the site is an international destination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Our group is] not privileged NIMBY neighbors, we’re people all over Berkeley and California that support People’s Park,” he said. “The issues that the park represents, whether it’s environmental, antiwar or free speech — so much of that is relevant right now to what we’re dealing with today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the university and those hoping to protect the park wait for the court’s decision, the large shipping containers surrounding the site will remain in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They will stay there until construction is finished,” said Mogulof, which could continue for the next several years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Despite throngs of protesters and activists who want to protect People’s Park, UC Berkeley is steadfast in its plan to build thousands of housing units for students and those exiting homelessness. One of those projects still needs a developer. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705469631,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":21,"wordCount":1106},"headData":{"title":"UC Berkeley's Promised Supportive Housing in People's Park Still Doesn't Have a Developer | KQED","description":"Despite throngs of protesters and activists who want to protect People’s Park, UC Berkeley is steadfast in its plan to build thousands of housing units for students and those exiting homelessness. One of those projects still needs a developer. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11972108/uc-berkeleys-housing-project-in-peoples-park-still-needs-a-developer","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>As part of its plans to redevelop People’s Park, UC Berkeley has long vowed to build about 100 units of housing for low-income and unhoused people alongside a thousand units for students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The developer for the low-income housing, however, exited the project last spring, and the university has not selected a new one to take its place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Resources for Community Development (RCD) left the project just months after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11941907/appeals-court-sends-uc-berkeley-back-to-the-drawing-board-on-peoples-park-development\">an appellate court\u003c/a> ruled UC Berkeley couldn’t move forward with construction until it evaluated other possible development sites and assessed potential noise impacts to students and other neighbors as part of its environmental review. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘As soon as the legal issues are settled, we’ll work to find a developer.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Dan Mogulof, assistant vice chancellor, UC Berkeley","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In a statement, RCD spokesperson Lauren Lyon said the company reallocated its “limited resources to other developments,” citing delays caused by the appellate court decision. She added that the ruling “sets a dangerous precedent for housing development, especially for the creation of new affordable housing which is so desperately needed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s clear that the legal issues have to be addressed, then the developers don’t have to worry about delays,” said Dan Mogulof, the assistant vice chancellor of the university. “As soon as the legal issues are settled, we’ll work to find a developer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The appellate court decision stems from a 2021 lawsuit filed by neighbors and activists who were concerned the students and residents in the new housing developments would negatively impact the neighborhood. The university has appealed the case to the state supreme court and is still awaiting a hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision could be affected by legislation signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom in September. AB 1307, written specifically to help UC Berkeley in its quest to build at People’s Park, states that noise generated by a building’s future residents doesn’t qualify as a significant environmental impact and eliminates the need for public universities to consider alternative sites for certain projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley is steadfast in its plan to build the 1,100-unit student housing and 125-unit supportive housing project. The university plans to develop the student housing itself. As for the supportive housing, it plans to offer the land, worth millions of dollars, to a third-party developer at no cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The project is not just about student housing,” Mogulof said. “Supportive housing is an inseparable part of the project. We can find a developer to handle that part of the project.” \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More on Peoples Park ","tag":"peoples-park"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>UC Berkeley currently provides housing to only 22% of its more than 40,000 undergraduate and graduate students, the smallest percentage out of all schools in the UC system. In 2017, the university launched a Student Housing Initiative aiming to add 9,000 student beds. The project on People’s Park is part of that plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan to build housing at People’s Park has support from local city leaders. In December 2021, the City of Berkeley allocated $14 million for the project as part of a package of $67 million that included six other affordable housing developments across the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The proposed student housing is urgently needed to alleviate our housing crisis and the permanent supportive housing at People’s Park will be the most significant homeless services and affordable housing project in the history of the neighborhood,” said former councilmember and mayoral candidate Rigel Robinson, who represents the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, Robinson resigned from his seat on the city council and quit the mayoral race after facing harassment, stalking and threats — often from those opposing his position on the park’s development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11971863\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11971863\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240104-PEOPLES-PARK-MD-17-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Several people hold signs outdoors.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240104-PEOPLES-PARK-MD-17-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240104-PEOPLES-PARK-MD-17-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240104-PEOPLES-PARK-MD-17-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240104-PEOPLES-PARK-MD-17-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240104-PEOPLES-PARK-MD-17-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People demonstrate outside of People’s Park as law enforcement prevent them from entering the premises in Berkeley on Jan. 4, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Generally, I have accepted this as simply being part of the job,” he said in an \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2024/01/09/opinion-why-i-am-stepping-down-from-the-berkeley-city-council\">op-ed published in Berkeleyside\u003c/a>. “But when these behaviors affect my loved ones, I have to draw the line. It’s time for me to prioritize my well-being and my family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley offered housing, transportation and social services to unhoused residents of the park, according to Mogulof. Still, the decision to clear People’s Park before the court decided on the case seemed sinister to activists seeking to protect the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lisa Teague, an organizer with the People’s Park Committee said they felt the university was trying to “fake it until they make it” by removing encampments and makeshift tree houses and hoping the state’s supreme court rules in their favor. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘[The university’s] desire to build on People’s Park is stronger than their desire to actually put up student housing. Any other site would have [been built] with relatively little controversy.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Lisa Teague, organizer, People’s Park Committee","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“[The university’s] desire to build on People’s Park is stronger than their desire to actually put up student housing,” Teague said. “Any other site would have [been built] with relatively little controversy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now part of the National Register of Historic Places, People’s Park was the site of anti-war and environmental justice demonstrations in the 1960s and 1970s and has long been a place for homeless residents to camp and find services. Some Berkeley residents worry that history will be erased, despite the university’s promise to create permanent commemorations onsite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harvey Smith, the president of the People’s Park Historic District Advocacy Group, said the site is an international destination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Our group is] not privileged NIMBY neighbors, we’re people all over Berkeley and California that support People’s Park,” he said. “The issues that the park represents, whether it’s environmental, antiwar or free speech — so much of that is relevant right now to what we’re dealing with today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the university and those hoping to protect the park wait for the court’s decision, the large shipping containers surrounding the site will remain in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They will stay there until construction is finished,” said Mogulof, which could continue for the next several years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11972108/uc-berkeleys-housing-project-in-peoples-park-still-needs-a-developer","authors":["11672"],"categories":["news_6266","news_8"],"tags":["news_3921","news_129","news_27626","news_1775","news_29198","news_17597"],"featImg":"news_11971733","label":"news"},"news_11972091":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11972091","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11972091","score":null,"sort":[1704884443000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"will-uc-berkeley-finally-win-the-battle-over-peoples-park","title":"Will UC Berkeley Finally Win the Battle Over People’s Park?","publishDate":1704884443,"format":"audio","headTitle":"Will UC Berkeley Finally Win the Battle Over People’s Park? | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">View the full episode transcript.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since its founding in 1969, People’s Park has been a symbol of Berkeley’s radical history of protest, resistance and mutual aid. But after years of efforts by UC Berkeley to build on the land, the university is getting closer and closer to taking back control. KQED’s Vanessa Rancaño breaks it down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC3961822451\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Links:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13917145/a-brief-history-battle-peoples-park-berkeley-protests\">A Brief History of the Never-Ending Battle for People’s Park\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11971858/berkeley-locals-lament-the-closure-of-peoples-park-as-shipping-container-barricades-go-up\">Berkeley Locals Lament the Closure of People’s Park as Shipping Container Barricades Go Up\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra and welcome to the Bay. Local news to keep you rooted. People’s Park looks much different than how locals might remember it. This once public green space and symbol of Berkeley’s history of protest, resistance and mutual aid is now surrounded on all sides by shipping containers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cem>[protest audio] \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>But not before protests by defenders of the park who came face to face with police in riot gear in an attempt to stop UC Berkeley from closing off the area in order to build student housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Enrique Marisol: \u003c/strong>They’ve mutilated what it was, but, like, give me the park, how it was 4 or 5 years ago. Like that was beautiful. I don’t know why we can’t work toward restoring that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Since its founding in 1969, People’s Park has always been a contested space. UC Berkeley has tried to take back control of the land for years, but this time around, the university is closer than it’s ever been to doing what it wants with the land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kyle Gibson: \u003c/strong>We’re looking at taking more than just 1100 students with this project alone out of the private Berkeley rental market. So that not only helps our students, but helps raise up over a thousand units of housing for the broader Berkeley community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Today, the latest battle over People’s Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño: \u003c/strong>This is the university’s latest attempt to prepare the land for development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Vanessa Rancaño is a housing reporter for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño: \u003c/strong>It was pretty wild to see what the park looked like after law enforcement had cleared it early that Thursday morning. There was a ton of law enforcement like at one point, this failing of officers was like 20 or 30 or in riot gear. They had helmets, face shields, these padded vests, pads strapped to their arms and legs. They were carrying batons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño: \u003c/strong>Meanwhile, these enormous shipping containers are getting stacked, uh, along the edge of the park and inside at the park itself had largely been raised. There were these huge piles of debris. Trees that had been cut down were piled up, heavy machinery in their tire tracks all over the place. And you could see some remnants of the people who’d spent time there, like I saw a crumpled Palestinian flag on the ground. And it was weirdly quiet, kind of eerily quiet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[protest audio]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño: \u003c/strong>And then around 11 a.m., more protesters started showing up outside the barricade on Telegraph. You know, around 100 people chanting and passion speeches and the 100ft or so behind these barricades, there was just a line of officers in riot gear facing the protesters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Who’d you talk to while you were at the park, Vanessa?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño: \u003c/strong>One of the people I talked to was Enrique Marisol, they’re 23 years old and just graduated from Cal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Enrique Marisol: \u003c/strong>I live two blocks down. I mean, I’ve slept in the park a lot. I’ve been homeless for sporadic periods myself, but, um, I currently have an apartment. Yeah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño: \u003c/strong>The night before I met Enrique, they were in the park, in the building that functioned as the kitchen with a few other people. When they got a call that law enforcement was on the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Enrique Marisol: \u003c/strong>And then I heard a bunch of screaming and yelling from outside. And before I could even, like, climb back up to get out of the kitchen, there was two more people climbing in and slamming the door behind them. And like we locked in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño: \u003c/strong>They said they were surrounded by law enforcement. Officials started using a chainsaw to try to get into this building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Enrique Marisol: \u003c/strong>They they were hitting screws and stuff, so it was causing sparks and smoke and flames and like we had a fire extinguisher in there because obviously it’s a kitchen. We need to be prepared. Um, so I picked up the fire extinguisher and I was holding it like pointing it out where they were cutting, because that’s where the flames were coming from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño: \u003c/strong>One of the law enforcement officials and pointed a gun, a rifle. I think they said at them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Enrique Marisol: \u003c/strong>They had cut a hole like a little window where they could look through. And when I was holding up the extinguisher, one of the police pointed his rifle like in my face and told me to drop the extinguisher and put my hands up. So we were just like standing there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño: \u003c/strong>It was very scary for them and they did end up getting arrested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Especially if you’re in Berkeley, you’re probably very familiar with People’s Park and the role it’s played in Berkeley’s radical history. But just remind us, why is what’s happening to this plot of land in Berkeley so contentious in this city specifically?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño: \u003c/strong>This space has been contested since its creation. The university bought this plot of land back in 1967. Initially, they intended to build some kind of playing field on it. They didn’t get very far before they ran out of money, and then this lot just sat empty and became sort of a dumping ground. And then a couple years later, in 1969, this group of locals, young people, hippies, artists, they planted trees and flowers and made it into a park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m Chief Beale of the Berkeley Police Department. At five minutes of nine, we declared this to be an unlawful assembly. There is no permit for this meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño: \u003c/strong>The university tried to take it back. And there were these major protests that have gone down in history. There was a lot of tear gas. Someone ended up getting killed. Governor Ronald Reagan at the time called in the National Guard. And really, ever since then, the fight over the future of this park has existed in some form. The university has made other attempts to build, and the park, meanwhile, has acted as this site of protest and community organizing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[protest audio]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño: \u003c/strong>The fight for the park has often been tied to bigger fights against what I think people see as abuses of state power, like anti-Vietnam protests, freedom in South Africa. And out there today you hear people talking about Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Okay, so it has that history. And that’s sort of roots in Berkeley’s radical history. But the university, as you were just saying, has always wanted to use this land for something else. What does the university plan to build on this land, exactly?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño: \u003c/strong>UC Berkeley is planning to build a housing complex that would include apartments for about 1100 students, plus some permanent supportive housing for very low income and formerly unhoused people. This particular effort goes back to around 2018, and the plan does call for leaving about two thirds of the space as a park, but a much more developed park that includes, like cement walkways and some kind of tribute to the park’s history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And what does the university say about why it wants to build on this land?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño: \u003c/strong>Now, they say this is primarily about the fact that there’s a dire housing shortage in California and a student housing shortage. UC Berkeley has the lowest percentage of beds for students of any campus in the UC system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kyle Gibson: \u003c/strong>At this point, we’ve had a very successful morning. We are closing the park, and our goal is to close the park and not pause this operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño: \u003c/strong>Kyle Gibson is the communications director for the university. And yeah, he talks about the need for student housing. He says they are building on other available sites, but that they really have to move on every piece of land that they have the potential to build on because the situation is so serious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kyle Gibson: \u003c/strong>The housing we looking at building here, including at People’s Park, is where the students who are already here. And I would emphasize part of the reason that we’re doing that is not for enrollment growth, but we’re looking at taking more than just 1100 students with this project alone out of the private Berkeley rental market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño: \u003c/strong>That’s the main thing. But they also argue that this is about safety. They point to this increase in criminal activity in People’s Park in the last few years or so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kyle Gibson: \u003c/strong>We need to close the site for public safety when construction begins. And the best time to do that is at a moment when there is as few people around as possible. So we can basically control the streets like we are currently doing. These are large vehicles, large pieces of equipment, and doing this a time when our students and a lot of the City of Berkeley population not around is a good thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño: \u003c/strong>There have been unhoused folks on this land for a long time, but during the pandemic, there was a real change, um, an encampment of the kind that we had not seen previously on this park developed. And there were complaints. You know, the way that we see complaints about encampments all over the state, and this has become part of their argument for why the project is necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Coming up, why UC Berkeley might be closer than it’s ever been to building housing on People’s Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, I mean, Vanessa, if you’re a student in the Bay area, I feel like you know very well the need for housing, how difficult it can be to find housing. And I know that the university tried to break ground on this development before, including back in August of 2022. Can you remind us briefly what happened then and how this moment compares?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño: \u003c/strong>There were big protests back then. People tore down the fencing around the park that the university have had put up. They vandalized construction equipment in there. A handful of people were arrested, and ultimately a court order was issued that temporarily halted construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Why does it seem like the university is actually getting closer to actually starting development on this land this time around?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño: \u003c/strong>This project has been mired in legal challenges for years, and it now looks like the university may have gotten a break. Um, there’s this case moving through the state Supreme Court that stems back to a 2021 lawsuit arguing that the university should have considered alternative sites for this project. An appeals court sided with them and said that student noise in this housing complex could violate the state’s environmental law. What’s happened since then is that Assembly member Buffy Wicks introduced a piece of legislation that Governor Newsom signed this past fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño: \u003c/strong>That seems like it could clear the way for this housing to go forward. And a lot of people think that it undermines the appeals court’s ruling. So we still got to wait for a decision. Um, the university can’t start building until we have one, but it looks like they’re in a better position than they have been in years. I think you can see from the pretty major action that they’re taking here that they are really, uh, setting themselves up to be able to move as soon as they get a decision, which they, uh, seem to expect is going to go in their favor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, Vanessa, I can’t imagine that the folks who have been defending People’s Park for decades are very happy. Who are the people protesting this project now? And who are the what are the objections that you’re hearing from from those protesters?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño: \u003c/strong>It’s a mix of Berkeley ites who know and love the park from growing up with it. Folks who have come to Berkeley from all corners and found community in this park, and young people, students, former students, and Marisol was one of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Enrique Marisol: \u003c/strong>It’s horrible to see what they’ve done to the park in just the last three years with I mean, I don’t even know how many trees they cut down last night because we haven’t been able to go in and do it count. But they cut down 47 last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño: \u003c/strong>They told me something that I heard from a lot of people out there, which is that they they feel like the university has really neglected the park, failed to manage it. They talked about all the trees that have been cut down over the years, a lack of maintenance. And they see this as like a deliberate effort to undermine the park, to make a stronger case, uh, for, for developing the land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Enrique Marisol: \u003c/strong>Like the vast majority of the problems in the park are caused by either larger social problems that occur everywhere, or specific actions by the university to undermine the health of the community here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, I know you also spoke with someone in student government who has concerns about the university’s plan for People’s Park. Can you tell me about Nick Grosh?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño: \u003c/strong>Nick Grosh is a third year student at Cal, and he chairs the student government’s housing commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nick Grosh \u003c/strong>I I’m, I like I was saying, in support of new housing, I’m not necessarily in support of the housing that’s going on in People’s Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño: \u003c/strong>He says the university should have moved on every other possible site available to them first. Um, he talked about feeling like there wasn’t enough of an effort to get community input in and buy in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nick Grosh: \u003c/strong>Students aren’t the only group that’s invested in that area. He said, there’s a there’s a history to it. There are people living on it, and I don’t think they were taking their consideration, the opinions of those people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño: \u003c/strong>And he expressed doubts that the housing will actually end up being affordable for students. One of the other things that he and other folks have expressed concerns about is the fact that the nonprofit developer that was partnered with the university to build the permanent supportive housing for low income and unhoused folks has pulled out of the project, and the university has yet to select another developer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I mean, Vanessa, this has been an ongoing fight on this land since the 1960s and since the creation of People’s Park. And in many ways, what we’re seeing now seems to be kind of the same fight. But do you think it’s safe to say that the university is closer than it’s ever been to finally building housing on People’s Park?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño: \u003c/strong>It does feel that way, and we’ll see what the court decides. We’ll see what activists throw at this. But the university is making a stronger stand than we’ve seen. It looks like they are closer to taking back control of this land than they have been for many decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>What do you think is, uh, at the heart of this conflict?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño: \u003c/strong>I think the park is really meaningful for some people, both symbolically and practically. People talk about finding meaning there in the community that it draws. They see it as a place where outsiders belong. And one of the last remaining vestiges of a radical Berkeley that has largely faded away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[protest audio]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño: \u003c/strong>So I went by Monday night to see where things stand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[protest audio]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño: \u003c/strong>And there was a guy in front of one of the barricades performing music, and he was talking about what it had meant for him to be able to come to the park as a young person and get free meals and to be able to perform on the stage in the park. So I think for some people, that’s the crux of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[protest audio]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Vanessa, thank you so much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño: \u003c/strong>Thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>That was Vanessa Rancaño, a housing reporter for KQED. This 40 minute conversation with Vanessa was cut down and edited by producer Maria Esquinca. Alan Montecillo is our senior editor. He scored this episode and added all the tape music courtesy of First Calm Music and Blue Dot sessions. If you’re new to the Bay, welcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Maybe it is a goal of yours in the New Year to be more informed about what’s happening in the Bay area on everything from local politics to schools to climate change. The biggest stories, really, of our region. I’m here to tell you, you have come to the right place, my friend. If you haven’t already, make sure you hit that subscribe button so you never miss a beat. The Bay is a production of member supported KQED Public Media in San Francisco. I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra. Thank you for listening. Talk to you next time.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"UC Berkeley has gotten closer than it ever has in recent days to taking back control of People's Park","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1704929572,"stats":{"hasAudio":true,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":75,"wordCount":3212},"headData":{"title":"Will UC Berkeley Finally Win the Battle Over People’s Park? | KQED","description":"UC Berkeley has gotten closer than it ever has in recent days to taking back control of People's Park","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"source":"The Bay","sourceUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/thebay","audioUrl":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/chrt.fm/track/G6C7C3/traffic.megaphone.fm/KQINC3961822451.mp3?updated=1704835624","sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11972091/will-uc-berkeley-finally-win-the-battle-over-peoples-park","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">View the full episode transcript.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since its founding in 1969, People’s Park has been a symbol of Berkeley’s radical history of protest, resistance and mutual aid. But after years of efforts by UC Berkeley to build on the land, the university is getting closer and closer to taking back control. 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While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra and welcome to the Bay. Local news to keep you rooted. People’s Park looks much different than how locals might remember it. This once public green space and symbol of Berkeley’s history of protest, resistance and mutual aid is now surrounded on all sides by shipping containers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cem>[protest audio] \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>But not before protests by defenders of the park who came face to face with police in riot gear in an attempt to stop UC Berkeley from closing off the area in order to build student housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Enrique Marisol: \u003c/strong>They’ve mutilated what it was, but, like, give me the park, how it was 4 or 5 years ago. Like that was beautiful. I don’t know why we can’t work toward restoring that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Since its founding in 1969, People’s Park has always been a contested space. UC Berkeley has tried to take back control of the land for years, but this time around, the university is closer than it’s ever been to doing what it wants with the land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kyle Gibson: \u003c/strong>We’re looking at taking more than just 1100 students with this project alone out of the private Berkeley rental market. So that not only helps our students, but helps raise up over a thousand units of housing for the broader Berkeley community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Today, the latest battle over People’s Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño: \u003c/strong>This is the university’s latest attempt to prepare the land for development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Vanessa Rancaño is a housing reporter for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño: \u003c/strong>It was pretty wild to see what the park looked like after law enforcement had cleared it early that Thursday morning. There was a ton of law enforcement like at one point, this failing of officers was like 20 or 30 or in riot gear. They had helmets, face shields, these padded vests, pads strapped to their arms and legs. They were carrying batons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño: \u003c/strong>Meanwhile, these enormous shipping containers are getting stacked, uh, along the edge of the park and inside at the park itself had largely been raised. There were these huge piles of debris. Trees that had been cut down were piled up, heavy machinery in their tire tracks all over the place. And you could see some remnants of the people who’d spent time there, like I saw a crumpled Palestinian flag on the ground. And it was weirdly quiet, kind of eerily quiet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[protest audio]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño: \u003c/strong>And then around 11 a.m., more protesters started showing up outside the barricade on Telegraph. You know, around 100 people chanting and passion speeches and the 100ft or so behind these barricades, there was just a line of officers in riot gear facing the protesters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Who’d you talk to while you were at the park, Vanessa?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño: \u003c/strong>One of the people I talked to was Enrique Marisol, they’re 23 years old and just graduated from Cal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Enrique Marisol: \u003c/strong>I live two blocks down. I mean, I’ve slept in the park a lot. I’ve been homeless for sporadic periods myself, but, um, I currently have an apartment. Yeah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño: \u003c/strong>The night before I met Enrique, they were in the park, in the building that functioned as the kitchen with a few other people. When they got a call that law enforcement was on the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Enrique Marisol: \u003c/strong>And then I heard a bunch of screaming and yelling from outside. And before I could even, like, climb back up to get out of the kitchen, there was two more people climbing in and slamming the door behind them. And like we locked in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño: \u003c/strong>They said they were surrounded by law enforcement. Officials started using a chainsaw to try to get into this building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Enrique Marisol: \u003c/strong>They they were hitting screws and stuff, so it was causing sparks and smoke and flames and like we had a fire extinguisher in there because obviously it’s a kitchen. We need to be prepared. Um, so I picked up the fire extinguisher and I was holding it like pointing it out where they were cutting, because that’s where the flames were coming from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño: \u003c/strong>One of the law enforcement officials and pointed a gun, a rifle. I think they said at them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Enrique Marisol: \u003c/strong>They had cut a hole like a little window where they could look through. And when I was holding up the extinguisher, one of the police pointed his rifle like in my face and told me to drop the extinguisher and put my hands up. So we were just like standing there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño: \u003c/strong>It was very scary for them and they did end up getting arrested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Especially if you’re in Berkeley, you’re probably very familiar with People’s Park and the role it’s played in Berkeley’s radical history. But just remind us, why is what’s happening to this plot of land in Berkeley so contentious in this city specifically?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño: \u003c/strong>This space has been contested since its creation. The university bought this plot of land back in 1967. Initially, they intended to build some kind of playing field on it. They didn’t get very far before they ran out of money, and then this lot just sat empty and became sort of a dumping ground. And then a couple years later, in 1969, this group of locals, young people, hippies, artists, they planted trees and flowers and made it into a park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m Chief Beale of the Berkeley Police Department. At five minutes of nine, we declared this to be an unlawful assembly. There is no permit for this meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño: \u003c/strong>The university tried to take it back. And there were these major protests that have gone down in history. There was a lot of tear gas. Someone ended up getting killed. Governor Ronald Reagan at the time called in the National Guard. And really, ever since then, the fight over the future of this park has existed in some form. The university has made other attempts to build, and the park, meanwhile, has acted as this site of protest and community organizing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[protest audio]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño: \u003c/strong>The fight for the park has often been tied to bigger fights against what I think people see as abuses of state power, like anti-Vietnam protests, freedom in South Africa. And out there today you hear people talking about Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Okay, so it has that history. And that’s sort of roots in Berkeley’s radical history. But the university, as you were just saying, has always wanted to use this land for something else. What does the university plan to build on this land, exactly?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño: \u003c/strong>UC Berkeley is planning to build a housing complex that would include apartments for about 1100 students, plus some permanent supportive housing for very low income and formerly unhoused people. This particular effort goes back to around 2018, and the plan does call for leaving about two thirds of the space as a park, but a much more developed park that includes, like cement walkways and some kind of tribute to the park’s history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And what does the university say about why it wants to build on this land?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño: \u003c/strong>Now, they say this is primarily about the fact that there’s a dire housing shortage in California and a student housing shortage. UC Berkeley has the lowest percentage of beds for students of any campus in the UC system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kyle Gibson: \u003c/strong>At this point, we’ve had a very successful morning. We are closing the park, and our goal is to close the park and not pause this operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño: \u003c/strong>Kyle Gibson is the communications director for the university. And yeah, he talks about the need for student housing. He says they are building on other available sites, but that they really have to move on every piece of land that they have the potential to build on because the situation is so serious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kyle Gibson: \u003c/strong>The housing we looking at building here, including at People’s Park, is where the students who are already here. And I would emphasize part of the reason that we’re doing that is not for enrollment growth, but we’re looking at taking more than just 1100 students with this project alone out of the private Berkeley rental market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño: \u003c/strong>That’s the main thing. But they also argue that this is about safety. They point to this increase in criminal activity in People’s Park in the last few years or so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kyle Gibson: \u003c/strong>We need to close the site for public safety when construction begins. And the best time to do that is at a moment when there is as few people around as possible. So we can basically control the streets like we are currently doing. These are large vehicles, large pieces of equipment, and doing this a time when our students and a lot of the City of Berkeley population not around is a good thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño: \u003c/strong>There have been unhoused folks on this land for a long time, but during the pandemic, there was a real change, um, an encampment of the kind that we had not seen previously on this park developed. And there were complaints. You know, the way that we see complaints about encampments all over the state, and this has become part of their argument for why the project is necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Coming up, why UC Berkeley might be closer than it’s ever been to building housing on People’s Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, I mean, Vanessa, if you’re a student in the Bay area, I feel like you know very well the need for housing, how difficult it can be to find housing. And I know that the university tried to break ground on this development before, including back in August of 2022. Can you remind us briefly what happened then and how this moment compares?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño: \u003c/strong>There were big protests back then. People tore down the fencing around the park that the university have had put up. They vandalized construction equipment in there. A handful of people were arrested, and ultimately a court order was issued that temporarily halted construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Why does it seem like the university is actually getting closer to actually starting development on this land this time around?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño: \u003c/strong>This project has been mired in legal challenges for years, and it now looks like the university may have gotten a break. Um, there’s this case moving through the state Supreme Court that stems back to a 2021 lawsuit arguing that the university should have considered alternative sites for this project. An appeals court sided with them and said that student noise in this housing complex could violate the state’s environmental law. What’s happened since then is that Assembly member Buffy Wicks introduced a piece of legislation that Governor Newsom signed this past fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño: \u003c/strong>That seems like it could clear the way for this housing to go forward. And a lot of people think that it undermines the appeals court’s ruling. So we still got to wait for a decision. Um, the university can’t start building until we have one, but it looks like they’re in a better position than they have been in years. I think you can see from the pretty major action that they’re taking here that they are really, uh, setting themselves up to be able to move as soon as they get a decision, which they, uh, seem to expect is going to go in their favor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, Vanessa, I can’t imagine that the folks who have been defending People’s Park for decades are very happy. Who are the people protesting this project now? And who are the what are the objections that you’re hearing from from those protesters?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño: \u003c/strong>It’s a mix of Berkeley ites who know and love the park from growing up with it. Folks who have come to Berkeley from all corners and found community in this park, and young people, students, former students, and Marisol was one of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Enrique Marisol: \u003c/strong>It’s horrible to see what they’ve done to the park in just the last three years with I mean, I don’t even know how many trees they cut down last night because we haven’t been able to go in and do it count. But they cut down 47 last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño: \u003c/strong>They told me something that I heard from a lot of people out there, which is that they they feel like the university has really neglected the park, failed to manage it. They talked about all the trees that have been cut down over the years, a lack of maintenance. And they see this as like a deliberate effort to undermine the park, to make a stronger case, uh, for, for developing the land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Enrique Marisol: \u003c/strong>Like the vast majority of the problems in the park are caused by either larger social problems that occur everywhere, or specific actions by the university to undermine the health of the community here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, I know you also spoke with someone in student government who has concerns about the university’s plan for People’s Park. Can you tell me about Nick Grosh?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño: \u003c/strong>Nick Grosh is a third year student at Cal, and he chairs the student government’s housing commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nick Grosh \u003c/strong>I I’m, I like I was saying, in support of new housing, I’m not necessarily in support of the housing that’s going on in People’s Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño: \u003c/strong>He says the university should have moved on every other possible site available to them first. Um, he talked about feeling like there wasn’t enough of an effort to get community input in and buy in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nick Grosh: \u003c/strong>Students aren’t the only group that’s invested in that area. He said, there’s a there’s a history to it. There are people living on it, and I don’t think they were taking their consideration, the opinions of those people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño: \u003c/strong>And he expressed doubts that the housing will actually end up being affordable for students. One of the other things that he and other folks have expressed concerns about is the fact that the nonprofit developer that was partnered with the university to build the permanent supportive housing for low income and unhoused folks has pulled out of the project, and the university has yet to select another developer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I mean, Vanessa, this has been an ongoing fight on this land since the 1960s and since the creation of People’s Park. And in many ways, what we’re seeing now seems to be kind of the same fight. But do you think it’s safe to say that the university is closer than it’s ever been to finally building housing on People’s Park?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño: \u003c/strong>It does feel that way, and we’ll see what the court decides. We’ll see what activists throw at this. But the university is making a stronger stand than we’ve seen. It looks like they are closer to taking back control of this land than they have been for many decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>What do you think is, uh, at the heart of this conflict?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño: \u003c/strong>I think the park is really meaningful for some people, both symbolically and practically. People talk about finding meaning there in the community that it draws. They see it as a place where outsiders belong. And one of the last remaining vestiges of a radical Berkeley that has largely faded away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[protest audio]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño: \u003c/strong>So I went by Monday night to see where things stand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[protest audio]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño: \u003c/strong>And there was a guy in front of one of the barricades performing music, and he was talking about what it had meant for him to be able to come to the park as a young person and get free meals and to be able to perform on the stage in the park. So I think for some people, that’s the crux of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[protest audio]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Vanessa, thank you so much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño: \u003c/strong>Thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>That was Vanessa Rancaño, a housing reporter for KQED. This 40 minute conversation with Vanessa was cut down and edited by producer Maria Esquinca. Alan Montecillo is our senior editor. He scored this episode and added all the tape music courtesy of First Calm Music and Blue Dot sessions. If you’re new to the Bay, welcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Maybe it is a goal of yours in the New Year to be more informed about what’s happening in the Bay area on everything from local politics to schools to climate change. The biggest stories, really, of our region. I’m here to tell you, you have come to the right place, my friend. If you haven’t already, make sure you hit that subscribe button so you never miss a beat. The Bay is a production of member supported KQED Public Media in San Francisco. I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra. Thank you for listening. Talk to you next time.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11972091/will-uc-berkeley-finally-win-the-battle-over-peoples-park","authors":["8654","11276","11802","11649"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_3921","news_29198","news_22598","news_17597"],"featImg":"news_11971737","label":"source_news_11972091"},"news_11971915":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11971915","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11971915","score":null,"sort":[1704801622000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"peoples-park-fight-pits-housing-against-history","title":"People's Park Fight Pits Housing Against History","publishDate":1704801622,"format":"standard","headTitle":"People’s Park Fight Pits Housing Against History | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>When protesters gathered last week at People’s Park, facing law enforcement officials in riot gear, Lev Marcus’s voice was one of the loudest in the crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a Berkeley kid, Marcus grew up with People’s Park as part of his cultural identity. “People’s Park is definitely a special place,” the 28-year-old said.\u003cbr>\n[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Nick Grosh, UC Berkeley student and chair of the student government’s Housing Commission\"] ‘I think that there is a future where there could be housing on People’s Park if it’s done right. But the way the university is going about it is, I think it’s the wrong way to do it.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly a dozen activists protesting a yearslong effort to build new student housing there were arrested last week as law enforcement cleared the site and crews walled it off with a barricade of shipping containers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s only the latest flashpoint for a historic park that has been the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13917145/a-brief-history-battle-peoples-park-berkeley-protests\">site of controversy for over 50 years\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The University of California \u003ca href=\"https://guides.lib.berkeley.edu/peoplespark/home\">bought the lot\u003c/a> where the park now sits in the late ’60s, knocked down a few buildings, then ran out of money for development. The land became a dump, full of trash and abandoned cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11972289\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11972289 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240110-PEOPLES-PARK-ARCHIVAL-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"People's Park in Berkeley on July 28, 1972.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1303\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240110-PEOPLES-PARK-ARCHIVAL-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240110-PEOPLES-PARK-ARCHIVAL-01-KQED-800x521.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240110-PEOPLES-PARK-ARCHIVAL-01-KQED-1020x665.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240110-PEOPLES-PARK-ARCHIVAL-01-KQED-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240110-PEOPLES-PARK-ARCHIVAL-01-KQED-1536x1001.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240110-PEOPLES-PARK-ARCHIVAL-01-KQED-1920x1251.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People’s Park in Berkeley on July 28, 1972. \u003ccite>(Jim Edelen/Bay Area News Group/Bay Area News via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 1969, residents turned it into a park. They planted trees, made artwork and held anti-war protests. Marcus’s parents were among them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a place I heard about growing up. It was where my parents’ generation did a lot of their protesting,” he said.[aside postID=arts_13917145]When the University fought to reclaim the land, a confrontation between protestors and law enforcement broke out that came to be known as Bloody Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheriff’s deputies killed one man, another was blinded. Then-Gov. Ronald Reagan declared a state of emergency in Berkeley and sent in 2,000 National Guard troops, who stayed more than two weeks. A curfew was imposed and tear gas filled the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11971937\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11971937\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/GettyImages-514677964-800x538-1.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white photo of several people running on a street with smoke behind them.\" width=\"800\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/GettyImages-514677964-800x538-1.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/GettyImages-514677964-800x538-1-160x108.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">1969: Demonstrators running from tear gas deployed by police during a protest over People’s Park. \u003ccite>(Bettmann/Getty Images Contributor)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the decades since tensions over control of the park have continued. The park has recently been home to a community garden and kitchen. Unhoused people have long camped in the park, and it’s been a hub for homeless services. University officials say there’s been an \u003ca href=\"https://peoplesparkhousing.berkeley.edu/safety#:~:text=Criminal%20activity%20at%20the%20park,been%20charged%20with%20attempted%20murder.\">increase in criminal activity\u003c/a>. Still, it’s remained an important gathering place for Berkeleyites like Lev Marcus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a place where I’ve met a lot of really cool, interesting people that I wouldn’t have been able to otherwise,” he said. It’s where he started playing chess during the pandemic, a hobby he keeps up. “The park has always been a place for outsiders,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/reel/C1vWqNPrRyl/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People’s Park is now \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/subjects/nationalregister/database-research.htm\">on the National Register of Historic Places\u003c/a>. But California has a dire housing shortage, and students aren’t immune.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.csac.ca.gov/food-and-housing-survey\">recent survey\u003c/a> from the California Student Aid Commission found over half of college students who applied for financial aid don’t have secure housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley’s response to the crisis calls for adding more than 9,000 new beds for students, said Kyle Gibson, director of communications for the university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of that effort, the university has been trying to build a student housing complex on People’s Park \u003ca href=\"https://guides.lib.berkeley.edu/peoplespark/history_aftermath\">since 2018\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re looking at taking more than just 1,100 students with this project alone out of the private Berkeley rental market,” Gibson said. “So that not only helps our students but helps free up over a thousand units of housing for the broader Berkeley community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There will also be permanent supportive housing for about \u003ca href=\"https://peoplesparkhousing.berkeley.edu/\">100 unhoused people\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley third-year Nick Grosh thinks a lot about his classmates’ housing needs as chair of the student government’s \u003ca href=\"https://housingcomm.berkeley.edu/about/\">Housing Commission\u003c/a>. But he has reservations about this project.[aside tag=\"berkeley, housing\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]“Just because I’m in support of student housing…it doesn’t mean that all student housing, no matter the context, is good,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grosh says he would have liked to see the university do more to include community input in the process. And he’s concerned that the new student housing might not wind up being affordable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that there is a future where there could be housing on People’s Park if it’s done right,” he said. “But the way the university is going about it is, I think it’s the wrong way to do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university’s Gibson counters that extensive community outreach informed the final shape of the housing project and said all school housing is below market rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They plan to keep two-thirds of the site as a public park. But objectors say it won’t be the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the university prepares the lot for development, it’s blocked from beginning construction by an ongoing lawsuit in the state Supreme Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"While the university is preparing the lot for development, it’s blocked from beginning construction by an ongoing lawsuit in the state Supreme Court.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705107831,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":24,"wordCount":927},"headData":{"title":"People's Park Fight Pits Housing Against History | KQED","description":"While the university is preparing the lot for development, it’s blocked from beginning construction by an ongoing lawsuit in the state Supreme Court.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-4[…]f-aaef00f5a073/2708721c-cf1c-45ad-8fa9-b0f20150f893/audio.mp3","sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11971915/peoples-park-fight-pits-housing-against-history","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When protesters gathered last week at People’s Park, facing law enforcement officials in riot gear, Lev Marcus’s voice was one of the loudest in the crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a Berkeley kid, Marcus grew up with People’s Park as part of his cultural identity. “People’s Park is definitely a special place,” the 28-year-old said.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":" ‘I think that there is a future where there could be housing on People’s Park if it’s done right. But the way the university is going about it is, I think it’s the wrong way to do it.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Nick Grosh, UC Berkeley student and chair of the student government’s Housing Commission","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly a dozen activists protesting a yearslong effort to build new student housing there were arrested last week as law enforcement cleared the site and crews walled it off with a barricade of shipping containers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s only the latest flashpoint for a historic park that has been the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13917145/a-brief-history-battle-peoples-park-berkeley-protests\">site of controversy for over 50 years\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The University of California \u003ca href=\"https://guides.lib.berkeley.edu/peoplespark/home\">bought the lot\u003c/a> where the park now sits in the late ’60s, knocked down a few buildings, then ran out of money for development. The land became a dump, full of trash and abandoned cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11972289\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11972289 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240110-PEOPLES-PARK-ARCHIVAL-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"People's Park in Berkeley on July 28, 1972.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1303\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240110-PEOPLES-PARK-ARCHIVAL-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240110-PEOPLES-PARK-ARCHIVAL-01-KQED-800x521.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240110-PEOPLES-PARK-ARCHIVAL-01-KQED-1020x665.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240110-PEOPLES-PARK-ARCHIVAL-01-KQED-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240110-PEOPLES-PARK-ARCHIVAL-01-KQED-1536x1001.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240110-PEOPLES-PARK-ARCHIVAL-01-KQED-1920x1251.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People’s Park in Berkeley on July 28, 1972. \u003ccite>(Jim Edelen/Bay Area News Group/Bay Area News via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 1969, residents turned it into a park. They planted trees, made artwork and held anti-war protests. Marcus’s parents were among them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a place I heard about growing up. It was where my parents’ generation did a lot of their protesting,” he said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13917145","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>When the University fought to reclaim the land, a confrontation between protestors and law enforcement broke out that came to be known as Bloody Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheriff’s deputies killed one man, another was blinded. Then-Gov. Ronald Reagan declared a state of emergency in Berkeley and sent in 2,000 National Guard troops, who stayed more than two weeks. A curfew was imposed and tear gas filled the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11971937\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11971937\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/GettyImages-514677964-800x538-1.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white photo of several people running on a street with smoke behind them.\" width=\"800\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/GettyImages-514677964-800x538-1.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/GettyImages-514677964-800x538-1-160x108.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">1969: Demonstrators running from tear gas deployed by police during a protest over People’s Park. \u003ccite>(Bettmann/Getty Images Contributor)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the decades since tensions over control of the park have continued. The park has recently been home to a community garden and kitchen. Unhoused people have long camped in the park, and it’s been a hub for homeless services. University officials say there’s been an \u003ca href=\"https://peoplesparkhousing.berkeley.edu/safety#:~:text=Criminal%20activity%20at%20the%20park,been%20charged%20with%20attempted%20murder.\">increase in criminal activity\u003c/a>. Still, it’s remained an important gathering place for Berkeleyites like Lev Marcus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a place where I’ve met a lot of really cool, interesting people that I wouldn’t have been able to otherwise,” he said. It’s where he started playing chess during the pandemic, a hobby he keeps up. “The park has always been a place for outsiders,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/reel/C1vWqNPrRyl/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People’s Park is now \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/subjects/nationalregister/database-research.htm\">on the National Register of Historic Places\u003c/a>. But California has a dire housing shortage, and students aren’t immune.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.csac.ca.gov/food-and-housing-survey\">recent survey\u003c/a> from the California Student Aid Commission found over half of college students who applied for financial aid don’t have secure housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley’s response to the crisis calls for adding more than 9,000 new beds for students, said Kyle Gibson, director of communications for the university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of that effort, the university has been trying to build a student housing complex on People’s Park \u003ca href=\"https://guides.lib.berkeley.edu/peoplespark/history_aftermath\">since 2018\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re looking at taking more than just 1,100 students with this project alone out of the private Berkeley rental market,” Gibson said. “So that not only helps our students but helps free up over a thousand units of housing for the broader Berkeley community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There will also be permanent supportive housing for about \u003ca href=\"https://peoplesparkhousing.berkeley.edu/\">100 unhoused people\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley third-year Nick Grosh thinks a lot about his classmates’ housing needs as chair of the student government’s \u003ca href=\"https://housingcomm.berkeley.edu/about/\">Housing Commission\u003c/a>. But he has reservations about this project.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"berkeley, housing","label":"More Related Stories "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Just because I’m in support of student housing…it doesn’t mean that all student housing, no matter the context, is good,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grosh says he would have liked to see the university do more to include community input in the process. And he’s concerned that the new student housing might not wind up being affordable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that there is a future where there could be housing on People’s Park if it’s done right,” he said. “But the way the university is going about it is, I think it’s the wrong way to do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university’s Gibson counters that extensive community outreach informed the final shape of the housing project and said all school housing is below market rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They plan to keep two-thirds of the site as a public park. But objectors say it won’t be the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the university prepares the lot for development, it’s blocked from beginning construction by an ongoing lawsuit in the state Supreme Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11971915/peoples-park-fight-pits-housing-against-history","authors":["11276"],"categories":["news_6266","news_28250","news_8"],"tags":["news_3921","news_129","news_27626","news_1775","news_29198","news_17597"],"featImg":"news_11971982","label":"news"},"news_11969801":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11969801","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11969801","score":null,"sort":[1702663214000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"this-california-facility-is-fully-devoted-to-the-search-for-alien-life","title":"This California Facility Is Fully Devoted to the Search for Alien Life","publishDate":1702663214,"format":"standard","headTitle":"This California Facility Is Fully Devoted to the Search for Alien Life | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":26731,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>An hour-and-a-half east of Redding, out past the cow pastures, is the tiny town of Hat Creek — population 266. It’s the perfect place to listen for transmissions from space. The mountains surrounding it block interference from human sources, which there aren’t many of out here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are constantly searching the skies in order to find evidence of other life in the universe,” said Dr. Vishal Gajjar, a staff astronomer with \u003ca href=\"https://www.seti.org/\">the SETI Institute\u003c/a>. “This is actually the only site in the world which is dedicated 24/7 to do this research.”\u003cbr>\n[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Dr. Vishal Gajjar, staff astronomer, SETI Institute\"]‘If you want to communicate across large interstellar distances, radio waves are the best possible way to do that.’[/pullquote]Forty-two giant white radio \u003ca href=\"https://www.seti.org/ata-technical-overview\">telescopes\u003c/a> are positioned across a field. Each one is the size of a three-story building. They’re not like the cylindrical telescopes often used for stargazing. These look more like giant satellite dishes. They rotate together to face new sources in the sky. And when they do, they look almost like meerkats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11969858\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/IMG_1921-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11969858\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/IMG_1921-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"An machine that resembles a Christmas tree encased in glass in a room.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/IMG_1921-scaled.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/IMG_1921-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/IMG_1921-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/IMG_1921-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/IMG_1921-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/IMG_1921-1536x2048.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">There is a log periodic antenna like this one inside each telescope. It converts radio waves into electrical signals. \u003ccite>(Katherine Monahan/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hidden inside the telescopes are specialized antennas that look like golden Christmas trees. Technically, they’re called log periodic antennas, which work to convert radio waves into electrical signals. Each of their golden branches is the length of the wavelength it is designed to receive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you want to communicate across large interstellar distances, radio waves are the best possible way to do that,” Gajjar said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Radio waves have longer wavelengths than visible light, so they don’t get absorbed as easily and can travel farther through space. They’re also observable both day and night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"science_992707,science_1983602\" label=\"Related Stories\"]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","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The Allen Telescope Array, located outside Redding, is the only site in the world entirely devoted to the continuous pursuit of listening for extraterrestrial life.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1702666436,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":19,"wordCount":704},"headData":{"title":"This California Facility Is Fully Devoted to the Search for Alien Life | KQED","description":"The Allen Telescope Array, located outside Redding, is the only site in the world entirely devoted to the continuous pursuit of listening for extraterrestrial life.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/08d5947a-e05b-4d62-8330-b0d90133f768/audio.mp3","sticky":false,"nprByline":"Katherine Monahan","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11969801/this-california-facility-is-fully-devoted-to-the-search-for-alien-life","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>An hour-and-a-half east of Redding, out past the cow pastures, is the tiny town of Hat Creek — population 266. It’s the perfect place to listen for transmissions from space. The mountains surrounding it block interference from human sources, which there aren’t many of out here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are constantly searching the skies in order to find evidence of other life in the universe,” said Dr. Vishal Gajjar, a staff astronomer with \u003ca href=\"https://www.seti.org/\">the SETI Institute\u003c/a>. “This is actually the only site in the world which is dedicated 24/7 to do this research.”\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘If you want to communicate across large interstellar distances, radio waves are the best possible way to do that.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Dr. Vishal Gajjar, staff astronomer, SETI Institute","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Forty-two giant white radio \u003ca href=\"https://www.seti.org/ata-technical-overview\">telescopes\u003c/a> are positioned across a field. Each one is the size of a three-story building. They’re not like the cylindrical telescopes often used for stargazing. These look more like giant satellite dishes. They rotate together to face new sources in the sky. And when they do, they look almost like meerkats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11969858\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/IMG_1921-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11969858\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/IMG_1921-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"An machine that resembles a Christmas tree encased in glass in a room.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/IMG_1921-scaled.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/IMG_1921-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/IMG_1921-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/IMG_1921-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/IMG_1921-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/IMG_1921-1536x2048.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">There is a log periodic antenna like this one inside each telescope. It converts radio waves into electrical signals. \u003ccite>(Katherine Monahan/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hidden inside the telescopes are specialized antennas that look like golden Christmas trees. Technically, they’re called log periodic antennas, which work to convert radio waves into electrical signals. Each of their golden branches is the length of the wavelength it is designed to receive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you want to communicate across large interstellar distances, radio waves are the best possible way to do that,” Gajjar said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Radio waves have longer wavelengths than visible light, so they don’t get absorbed as easily and can travel farther through space. They’re also observable both day and night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"science_992707,science_1983602","label":"Related Stories "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","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>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11969801/this-california-facility-is-fully-devoted-to-the-search-for-alien-life","authors":["byline_news_11969801"],"programs":["news_26731"],"categories":["news_31795","news_8","news_356"],"tags":["news_29555","news_1312","news_33643","news_27626","news_3187","news_1299","news_17597","news_33645"],"featImg":"news_11969860","label":"news_26731"},"news_11969165":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11969165","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11969165","score":null,"sort":[1701963045000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"lawsuit-intensifies-spotlight-on-free-speech-controversies-at-uc-berkeley","title":"UC Berkeley Faces Discrimination Lawsuit Over Free Speech","publishDate":1701963045,"format":"standard","headTitle":"UC Berkeley Faces Discrimination Lawsuit Over Free Speech | KQED","labelTerm":{},"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","blocks":[],"excerpt":"UC Berkeley finds itself at the center of a fractious debate about First Amendment protections and religious intolerance amid the unfolding tragedy in the Middle East.\r\n","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1702085448,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":41,"wordCount":2218},"headData":{"title":"UC Berkeley Faces Discrimination Lawsuit Over Free Speech | KQED","description":"UC Berkeley finds itself at the center of a fractious debate about First Amendment protections and religious intolerance amid the unfolding tragedy in the Middle East.\r\n","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"source":"EdSource","sourceUrl":"https://edsource.org/","sticky":false,"nprByline":"Karen D'Souza","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11969165/lawsuit-intensifies-spotlight-on-free-speech-controversies-at-uc-berkeley","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","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>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘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.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Will Creeley, legal director, Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","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. 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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11969165/lawsuit-intensifies-spotlight-on-free-speech-controversies-at-uc-berkeley","authors":["byline_news_11969165"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_27626","news_23960","news_18797","news_17597"],"featImg":"news_11969172","label":"source_news_11969165"},"news_11965822":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11965822","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11965822","score":null,"sort":[1698490848000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"uc-berkeley-students-threaten-hunger-strike-to-reinstate-professor-suspended-for-stalking","title":"UC Berkeley Students Threaten Hunger Strike to Reinstate Professor Suspended for Stalking","publishDate":1698490848,"format":"standard","headTitle":"UC Berkeley Students Threaten Hunger Strike to Reinstate Professor Suspended for Stalking | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"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. After publication of this story, a university spokesperson clarified that in sexual harassment cases, the standard of evidence is a preponderance of evidence. The story has been updated to clarify this.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Following multiple investigations by the university, UC Berkeley professor Ivonne del Valle was suspended for harassment, retaliatory behavior and violating no-contact orders regarding a UC Davis professor.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1698687668,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":58,"wordCount":2629},"headData":{"title":"UC Berkeley Students Threaten Hunger Strike to Reinstate Professor Suspended for Stalking | KQED","description":"Following multiple investigations by the university, UC Berkeley professor Ivonne del Valle was suspended for harassment, retaliatory behavior and violating no-contact orders regarding a UC Davis professor.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11965822/uc-berkeley-students-threaten-hunger-strike-to-reinstate-professor-suspended-for-stalking","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘We want Ivonne back. We’re not going to be silent anymore.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Christián González Reyes, Ph.D. student","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘The evidence additionally demonstrates that Respondent monitored, followed, observed, and threatened Complainant, both electronically and in person, and interfered with his property.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"UC Berkeley's 2019 investigative report into professor del Valle's behavior","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘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.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"UC Berkeley Professor Ivonne del Valle","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘Our department is missing an entire field of study, so we have no one that is an expert on colonial studies.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Alejandra Decker, Ph.D. student","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>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. After publication of this story, a university spokesperson clarified that in sexual harassment cases, the standard of evidence is a preponderance of evidence. The story has been updated to clarify this.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11965822/uc-berkeley-students-threaten-hunger-strike-to-reinstate-professor-suspended-for-stalking","authors":["11635"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_21892","news_17597"],"featImg":"news_11965710","label":"news"},"news_11962779":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11962779","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11962779","score":null,"sort":[1696158013000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"a-school-by-any-other-name-branding-committee-recommends-cal-sports-add-berkeley-to-its-sports-logo","title":"A School By Any Other Name: Branding Committee Recommends Cal Sports Add 'Berkeley' to Its Sports Logo","publishDate":1696158013,"format":"standard","headTitle":"A School By Any Other Name: Branding Committee Recommends Cal Sports Add ‘Berkeley’ to Its Sports Logo | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Cal? UC Berkeley? Cal-Berkeley? Or the official-sounding, University of California, Berkeley?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, we’ve grown accustomed to hearing that giant university in the city of Berkeley go by a few different names. But, outside the Bay, the school’s multiple personalities may be causing more than a little confusion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re all pretty used to calling it Cal or Berkeley interchangeably,” said Sam Littrell, a senior in computer science. “But I do notice that a lot of people that aren’t from Berkeley don’t always know it is Cal. So if we say Cal, people are like: ‘I don’t really know what that is?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Littrell has a point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last September, the university convened \u003ca href=\"https://chancellor.berkeley.edu/berkeleycal-identity-task-force\">a Cal/Berkeley Identity Task Force\u003c/a> to help create one unified identity for the school. 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. Nor, for that matter, he added, “did any of the Nobel Prize winners refer to it as ‘Cal.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why does that matter?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Bill Drummond, journalism professor, UC Berkeley\"]‘They want to homogenize it. That flies in the face of what this whole thing is about. … It’s not the kind of community where you can regiment them. That’s its strength.’[/pullquote]“Having two distinct identities for one entity is highly problematic from a branding perspective,” \u003ca href=\"https://chancellor.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/identity_task_force_charge_letter.pdf\">wrote Chancellor Carol Christ to the task force last fall (PDF)\u003c/a>. 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. The other recommendation from the task force is to use “Berkeley” as the principal campus brand and to let Cal and Golden Bears be used in conjunction for community building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11959989 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/GettyImages-1443354055-1020x701.jpg']This was another issue Chancellor Christ called out \u003ca href=\"https://chancellor.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/identity_task_force_charge_letter.pdf\">in her letter (PDF)\u003c/a>: The term “bears” or bear imagery actually cannot currently be used, per brand guidelines, with the word “Berkeley,” and the word “Cal” is only allowed in reference to sports. “Some students, such as student-athletes, feel excluded from the UC Berkeley identity because they’re only allowed to use Cal in athletics contexts. 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. At least not yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That directive, it turns out, was a remnant of a previous round of discussion about 30 years ago, said Drummond, when people associated with the sports teams started calling it “Cal-Berkeley.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This isn’t the first time someone has aimed to tame the unruly campus community and create order. “Better people have tried,” he joked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The task force’s recommendations, the report said, were based on the history of the UC system. Whereas other state school systems typically have a known flagship that’s referred to by the state (e.g., “Michigan” refers to the main school in Ann Arbor), the University of California’s schools all have developed distinct identities (e.g., UCLA, UC Davis, UCSF).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The task force also noted, “concerns were raised about George Berkeley’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/uc-berkeley-name-change-18086129.php\">legacy of white supremacy\u003c/a>. The vice chancellor for equity and inclusion has been asked to help lead the university’s examination of these issues. These concerns are being considered as part of implementing these recommendations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"UC Berkeley’s branding task force is attempting to reconcile the 'Cal' and 'Berkeley' identities into one.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1696523171,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":25,"wordCount":1078},"headData":{"title":"A School By Any Other Name: Branding Committee Recommends Cal Sports Add 'Berkeley' to Its Sports Logo | KQED","description":"UC Berkeley’s branding task force is attempting to reconcile the 'Cal' and 'Berkeley' identities into one.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/2583a0f1-7b9d-4ab9-a76b-b08b0101d868/audio.mp3","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11962779/a-school-by-any-other-name-branding-committee-recommends-cal-sports-add-berkeley-to-its-sports-logo","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Cal? UC Berkeley? Cal-Berkeley? Or the official-sounding, University of California, Berkeley?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, we’ve grown accustomed to hearing that giant university in the city of Berkeley go by a few different names. But, outside the Bay, the school’s multiple personalities may be causing more than a little confusion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re all pretty used to calling it Cal or Berkeley interchangeably,” said Sam Littrell, a senior in computer science. “But I do notice that a lot of people that aren’t from Berkeley don’t always know it is Cal. So if we say Cal, people are like: ‘I don’t really know what that is?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Littrell has a point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last September, the university convened \u003ca href=\"https://chancellor.berkeley.edu/berkeleycal-identity-task-force\">a Cal/Berkeley Identity Task Force\u003c/a> to help create one unified identity for the school. 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. Nor, for that matter, he added, “did any of the Nobel Prize winners refer to it as ‘Cal.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why does that matter?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘They want to homogenize it. That flies in the face of what this whole thing is about. … It’s not the kind of community where you can regiment them. That’s its strength.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Bill Drummond, journalism professor, UC Berkeley","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Having two distinct identities for one entity is highly problematic from a branding perspective,” \u003ca href=\"https://chancellor.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/identity_task_force_charge_letter.pdf\">wrote Chancellor Carol Christ to the task force last fall (PDF)\u003c/a>. 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. The other recommendation from the task force is to use “Berkeley” as the principal campus brand and to let Cal and Golden Bears be used in conjunction for community building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11959989","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/GettyImages-1443354055-1020x701.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>This was another issue Chancellor Christ called out \u003ca href=\"https://chancellor.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/identity_task_force_charge_letter.pdf\">in her letter (PDF)\u003c/a>: The term “bears” or bear imagery actually cannot currently be used, per brand guidelines, with the word “Berkeley,” and the word “Cal” is only allowed in reference to sports. “Some students, such as student-athletes, feel excluded from the UC Berkeley identity because they’re only allowed to use Cal in athletics contexts. 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. At least not yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That directive, it turns out, was a remnant of a previous round of discussion about 30 years ago, said Drummond, when people associated with the sports teams started calling it “Cal-Berkeley.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This isn’t the first time someone has aimed to tame the unruly campus community and create order. “Better people have tried,” he joked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The task force’s recommendations, the report said, were based on the history of the UC system. Whereas other state school systems typically have a known flagship that’s referred to by the state (e.g., “Michigan” refers to the main school in Ann Arbor), the University of California’s schools all have developed distinct identities (e.g., UCLA, UC Davis, UCSF).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The task force also noted, “concerns were raised about George Berkeley’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/uc-berkeley-name-change-18086129.php\">legacy of white supremacy\u003c/a>. 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