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Education Department launches foreign funding probe into UC Berkeley

The Department of Education said Friday it would launch an investigation into the University of California (UC), Berkeley, over improper foreign funding disclosures.

The department said the school may have violated Section 117 of the Higher Education Act of 1965, alleging that documents submitted to the department on the school’s behalf were “incomplete or inaccurate,” according to a Friday release...

Victim robbed in downtown Berkeley after suspect pointed gun at 2-year-old child: police

(KRON) — Two people committed a robbery in Berkeley on May 1 after pointing a gun at the victim’s 2-year-old child, the Berkeley Police Department said. Three suspects were arrested in connection with the robbery. The robbery happened at about 1:45 p.m. in the area of Bancroft Way and Shattuck Avenue, right in downtown Berkeley. The suspects had already fled the scene by the time police arrived. Officers learned that two suspects approached the victims, pointed a handgun at the adult victim’s head and demanded their property. The suspect then...

In Berkeley Public Schools, a War Gives Rise to Unusual Tensions

On Oct. 18, hundreds of Berkeley High School students, with the blessing of some of their teachers, left their classrooms in the middle of the day and gathered at a nearby park. “From the river to the sea!” One of their teachers, Becky Villagran, thanked the crowd of roughly 150, telling them not to forget that the toll of the victims of the war in Gaza was more than a number. Just as on the nearby campus of the University of California — famed since the 1960s for its marches,...

SC Treasurer to be blamed for $1.8B account, avoid removal recommendation

A state Senate panel investigating how the state had $1.8 billion sitting in an account without knowing who it belongs to will lay the responsibility at Treasurer Curtis Loftis. However, unlike last year when Comptroller General Richard Eckstrom resigned, the committee will not recommend Loftis be removed from office at the request of the governor’s office, said state Sen. Larry Grooms, R-Berkeley. Grooms plans to present his subcommittee’s report Tuesday on the Senate floor. The report will come after Loftis, who was reelected in 2022 and has said this will...

Pro-Palestinian Berkeley law student argues she had right to crash Jewish dean’s backyard party

Legal experts pushed back this week on a pro-Palestinian student’s assertion she was exercising her First Amendment rights when she interrupted a private dinner party at the home of the University of California at Berkeley law dean. The incident Tuesday involved UC Berkeley law student Malak Afaneh, Dean Erwin Chemerinsky and his wife, law Professor Catherine Fisk, during the first of three celebratory dinners at their home for third-year law students, the LA Times reports. At one point during the meal, Afaneh stood up and began giving a speech recognizing...

America’s most prestigious law schools are rejecting the 30-year-old ranking system that lists them at the top

The 2023 US News & World Report law school ranking puts Yale in the first spot and Harvard fourth. But the two institutions are no longer interested in the list, and have denounced the system.

Yale Law School, which has bagged the top spot every year since the for-profit magazine US News & World Report started ranking law schools in 1990, does not use the position as “a lodestar to chart our course,” its dean Heather K. Gerken wrote in a statement yesterday (Nov. 16).

Government Is Flailing, in Part Because Liberals Hobbled It

There’s a strange story unfolding in Berkeley, Calif., right now. That may present as a tautology, but bear with me. This one provides a window into a problem that endangers us all.

An organization called Save Berkeley’s Neighborhoods, led by a former investment banker, sued the University of California, Berkeley for adding too many students, too quickly, without careful enough consideration of how bad students are for the environment.

UC Berkeley Forced To Withhold 5,000 Acceptance Letters Following State Supreme Court Decision

The University of California, Berkeley must withhold at least 5,100 acceptance letters for the fall 2022 semester after the state’s Supreme Court upheld a lower court decision Thursday that forces the university to freeze its enrollment at 2020-21 levels, the San Francisco Chronicle reported, following a suit filed by the school’s neighbors who argue the campus’ overpopulation “may negatively affect the surrounding environment.”

Berkeley students planning fraudulent course to circumvent ICE rules, avoid deportations

Hundreds of students at the University of California, Berkeley are discussing a plan to create an in-person course solely to circumvent new U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) regulations that could result in the deportations of international students on F-1 visas -- and they say at least one faculty member is on board, Fox News has learned.

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