A human skeleton has been found in an unused building at the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/university-of-california-berkeley">University of California, Berkeley</a>, police said last week.
In <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/15/us/berkeley-university-human-remains-found-trnd/index.html">a statement</a> to CNN, police said that “skeletonized” human remains had been discovered “in a building which has not been occupied for many years” on the school’s Clark Kerr Campus, which is a mile away from the main campus. The unused building is a residential hall complex and event space in an area <a href="https://housing.berkeley.edu/explore-housing-options/residence-halls/clark-kerr-unit-5/">described</a> by the university as “a mini-neighborhood with Spanish mission-style architecture, tree-lined courtyards and access to nature and hiking trails.”
“It is not clear how many years they have been there,” police said in the statement to reporters. “There are no outstanding cases of missing individuals from the campus community.”
Police also said the Alameda County Coroner’s Office has opened its own investigation into the remains and that no cause of death has been determined yet.
“We understand that there are many questions and we anticipate that the coroner’s report will provide additional information,” police said in their statement, according to CNN. “We do not anticipate this investigation will disrupt resident activities at the Clark Kerr Campus.”
UC Berkeley currently enrolls 32,143 undergraduate students as of the fall of 2021, <a href="https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/university-of-california-berkeley-1312">according to U.S. News &amp; World Report</a>, and another 13,292 graduate students.

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Daily Wire Host and best selling author <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/author/matt-walsh" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Matt Walsh</a> addressed a crowd of about 400 people at the University of California, Berkeley after airing his acclaimed documentary “<a href="https://get.dailywire.com/wiaw/subscribe?utm_campaign=wiaw&amp;utm_medium=paid&amp;utm_source=googlesearch&amp;utm_content=na_subscriptions&amp;mid=g&amp;cid=wiaw&amp;xid=0&amp;utm_term=what%20is%20a%20woman&amp;utm_campaign=dw_conversions_subscriptions_wiaw_na&amp;utm_source=adwords&amp;utm_medium=ppc&amp;hsa_acc=6411461344&amp;hsa_cam=16641304732&amp;hsa_grp=135685453885&amp;hsa_ad=601327250290&amp;hsa_src=g&amp;hsa_tgt=kwd-316948161071&amp;hsa_kw=what%20is%20a%20woman&amp;hsa_mt=e&amp;hsa_net=adwords&amp;hsa_ver=3&amp;gclid=Cj0KCQiA1NebBhDDARIsAANiDD39cplSLZbeLdguuP36tgyKaBnPXyaoyQlFu2Xp70kewezr08ko60waAvDREALw_wcB" target="_blank" rel="noopener">What is a Woman?</a>”
UC Berkeley is well known for the left-wing tilt of its campus culture and its history as the <a href="https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-berkeley-protest-shapiro-20170914-htmlstory.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">birthplace of the free speech</a> movement — although in more recent years, it has become a well known battleground in the culture war, as students and local agitators have repeatedly attempted to prevent conservative speakers, with protests that have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-female-student-assaulted-harassed-robbed-by-mob-at-coulter-speech-get-the-f-out-of-here-b" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sometimes</a> escalated to violence. Roughly 100 protesters gathered outside the event, but no serious incidents occurred.
Before the event began, Young America&#8217;s Foundation, a conservative student organization that sponsored Walsh&#8217;s speaking tour, interviewed several students about their thoughts on Walsh&#8217;s appearance.
&#8220;There&#8217;s a difference between free speech and hate speech,&#8221; one young woman said. &#8220;If it is free and it is, like, what you believe, then that&#8217;s great. But if it&#8217;s against, like, the safety and health of other people, then it&#8217;s not right.&#8221; Hate speech does not exist in the United States as a legal concept, and what is often considered “hate speech” in other countries is protected in America by the First Amendment.
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We toured around UC Berkeley to ask students how they felt about <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@mattwalshblog</a> speaking tonight. It did not disappoint. Here&#39;s what they said: <a href="https://t.co/cXYl006tGs">pic.twitter.com/cXYl006tGs</a>
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At the start of Walsh&#8217;s lecture, he quipped about the city&#8217;s issues with drug abuse and sanitation. “The thing I really loved about this area is that you can always find your way downtown, even if you don&#8217;t have a map or GPS, because you can just follow the stench of weed and fecal matter &#8230; this is public speaking 101, to start by insulting the host city.&#8221;
Walsh also noted that it was “providential” that he came to San Francisco to discuss the subject of gender ideology, as earlier this week, the city announced its “Guaranteed Income For Trans People&#8221; or GIFT, program, which will offer a select group of transgender individuals $1,200 a month because members of the trans community are &#8220;disproportionately impacted by poverty.&#8221;
&#8220;We already know that trans people are disproportionately affected by everything, really. &#8230; If there was an apocalyptic asteroid strike, the very last news report filed for CNN would have the headline, &#8216;Asteroid Apocalypse At Hand: Trans &amp; BIPOC Most Affected.’”
Walsh also noted that gender confused individuals tend to have higher rates of mental illness and substance abuse, which he argues is a better explanation for their higher levels of poverty than alleged discrimination, given that the disparity exists in a place like San Francisco where the social attitudes toward such people are exceptionally welcoming.
Walsh also noted that the official government application form for the GIFT program includes 15 sets of gender pronouns such as ve/ver/vis and a sexual orientation of “f*****” (a slur for homosexuals who would seemingly be covered under the also listed “gay” orientation). Walsh noted other seeming redundancies in the list of 97 gender identities, such as “trans woman” and “woman of transgender experience.”
&#8220;What are these pronouns, what do they signify, what does it mean to be a ve/ver/vis? No one can really explain that.&#8221; Walsh said.
Walsh structured the bulk of his lecture around four common rebuttals to his perspective fielded by advocates of gender theory.
1. Sex and Gender are not the same
Walsh holds that the conceptual difference between the two categories has been deliberately obfuscated by such phrases as “trans women are women,” and that gender was first extracted from sex and then elevated above it in a rhetorical sleight of hand, and that “gender” was, in his mind, a useless concept outside of the study of language and the “gender” of certain words. Walsh also argued that the natural variation in human behavior in personality and self perception is better encapsulated by personality.
2. You say that “women” can get pregnant; what about women who can&#8217;t get pregnant?
Walsh noted that while some biological females, due to age or illness, cannot become pregnant, “women” are still “of the nature to get pregnant,” in the same way that it is “in the nature” of human beings to walk on two legs. Counterexamples also exist as the result of age or infirmity, but &#8220;does the existence of amputees and infants call into question the notion that human beings have two legs?&#8221;
3. The gender binary is a western construct and other cultures have more diverse beliefs about gender
Walsh spoke about his own experience outside the western bubble during his visit with the Maasai people in Kenya, noting that the idea of men getting pregnant was utterly foreign to them. Walsh also argued that while some cultures do have situations where a member of one sex “acts out” the role of the other sex in various ways, no other society has made the claim that those individuals literally are the opposite sex, making that idea a uniquely western concept, which can be traced back to a relative handful of academics in the middle of the 20th century.
4. Why do you care?
Walsh argued that this was an intellectual cop out, as the advocates of gender theory care deeply for their beliefs and want him and others to care as well, they just want him to come to more favorable conclusions. Furthermore, Walsh argued for the preeminent value of truth and stated that he was so deeply opposed to gender theory because it is simultaneously pervasive and wrong.
From there, Walsh fielded questions from the audience on a variety of topics, such as the role of theology in understanding and addressing gender-related issues, raising children in a culture largely hostile to traditional values, his controversial opinions on anime, and the “rule heavy” nature of western society as opposed to the more “duty” or “relational” based societies in other parts of the world.
A series of noteworthy exchanges surrounded the issue of publicly expressing the beliefs Walsh shared in variety of settings, including the classroom (both as an instructor and student), and interpersonal relationships with friends and family. Walsh advised that while it was unnecessary to actively antagonize people who disagree with you at work or in life, people should never run from the truth or espouse ideas that they didn&#8217;t agree with.
Most notably, Walsh had a prolonged exchange with a young man over the reliability of “around 30” recent medical studies that supported the use of “gender affirming care” as a treatment for gender dysphoria. Walsh contended that many of the studies were unreliable, due to the bias of the authors and researchers, as well issues with the methodology and sample sizes.
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&#8220;Why, in your movies and your discussions, do you selectively ignore and misrepresent the recent, burgeoning medical and behavioral literature that demonstrates that gender affirming care and similar medical interventions demonstrate consistent improvements to mental health, suicidality, and general well-being?&#8221; the young man asked.
&#8220;How do you think they would have large scale, long-term studies on the effects of these drugs and these surgeries on children when we only started doing it to children at a large scale a few years ago?&#8221; Walsh responded.
The questioner pushed back, encouraging listeners to search out and read the various studies, while defending their merits and the objectivity of their authors, dismissing Walsh&#8217;s claims of bias as a “conspiracy.”
“I think you can know some things without asking for permission, sometimes from professors, to say that you know them.&#8221; Walsh responded. &#8220;And one of those things that you can know is it’s never okay to castrate a child.&#8221;

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‘It’s Never Okay To Castrate A Child’: Walsh Talks ‘What Is A Woman?’ At Berkeley

‘It's Never Okay To Castrate A Child’: Walsh Talks 'What is A Woman?' At Berkeley

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What Is A Woman

A young Hispanic woman who is pursuing her math studies at San Francisco State University, the home of the first College of Ethnic Studies in the nation, defied the prevailing ethos on college campuses, condemning the school for forcing “social justice” on its students.
The young woman was interviewed by philosopher Peter Boghossian, who in the past was part of a group including James A. Lindsay and Helen Pluckrose that exposed the leftist slant in several academic fields by submitting bogus papers to academic journals for acceptance, some of which were published. The trio referred to the “Grievance Studies” organized around victim groups; one paper was <a href="https://twitter.com/Yascha_Mounk/status/1047336927488348160">hilariously titled</a>, “Human reactions to rape culture and queer performativity at urban dog parks in Portland, Oregon.”
“I’m a math major so I’m a STEM major,” the young Hispanic woman stated to Boghossian. “So in my school they’re starting to bring in social justice. I’ve talked to the school and my department and I’m like, “Why are you doing this? Why are you bringing in something, something that has to do with social justice that has nothing to do with STEM?”
“And the excuse that they want, that they bring to me, is because of ‘minorities,’ she said, snapping, “Poor minorities. I’m a minority; I’m a Hispanic. And I’m a woman.”
She recalled her response to the effort to paint her as a victim: “And I’m like, ‘I’m not a victim; I don’t need you to feel sorry for me. We don’t need social justice.’ And they keep saying, ‘Oh, yes we do, because we’re a social justice school; that is what we do. And if you don’t want to be here you don’t have to be here; you can leave.’”
Gesturing with her finger for emphasis, she continued, “And — and — and— my concentration is in teaching. An advisor told me this: I told her, ‘I’m not a bad person; I actually care about the education system and making sure minority students actually get into STEM.’ That’s my mission and my purpose. And I’m like not a bad person.”
“You know what she told me?” she asked rhetorically. “She told me this: ‘Oh, we don’t know that yet.’ She told me this not once: two times. Two times in different locations.”
She concluded, “You know something? We don’t need social justice. At all.”
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Student discusses how Social Justice crept into her STEM degree:
&quot;I&#39;m a minority. I&#39;m Hispanic and I am a woman. I&#39;m not a victim and I don&#39;t need you to feel sorry for me.&quot;
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&mdash; Peter Boghossian (@peterboghossian) <a href="https://twitter.com/peterboghossian/status/1570133899308847104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 14, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The University of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/california">California</a> admitted a record number of California residents this year, while slashing admissions to out-of-state and international would-be students in an effort to open more of the schooling system up to in-state students.
According to preliminary information <a href="https://ucop.edu/institutional-research-academic-planning/_files/factsheets/2022/admission-table-1-1.pdf">released</a> Wednesday, 85,268 California freshman students were admitted in 2022 across the university, up from 84,223 in 2021 and 79,953 the year prior. The Los Angeles Times <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-08-10/uc-admits-record-number-of-california-first-year-students-narrows-entry-to-nonresidents">reported</a> this was a 1.2% increase in California freshman applicants admitted from last year.
The number of admitted out-of-state residents was 28,157 in 2021, but declined to 22,798 students in 2022 — a 19% drop. The 2022 amount, however, is still higher than 2020’s number of 20,063 students.
For international students, there was also a dip from the past year, with only 17,531 admitted in 2022, down from 19,973 in 2021 and 19,038 in 2020. From 2021 to 2022, the amount of international students admitted to the schools dropped 12.2%.
Overall admission also declined this year from 2021, with 125,597 California, out-of-state, and international students admitted this year, down from 132,353 in 2021.
All campuses, except for Merced and Riverside saw a decrease in students admitted this year from last year. The Times noted that five of the nine campuses brought in fewer California freshman applicants this year than they did last year in the initial admissions round, mostly due to fears of enrolling too many people.
The campus system has been pressured to prioritize California residents in recent years after members of the public spoke out against the increasing amount of UC nonresident students. In 2016, a state audit was conducted which reportedly <a href="https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-uc-audit-admissions-20160328-story.html">discovered</a> that the admissions policies were disadvantaging California students. The university had been trying to bring in nonresident students in order to charge more money for tuition after their funding was cut by a third during the 2008 recession.
The university system disagreed with the audit’s findings, but then state funds for higher education once again resurged, and elected officials pushed UC to bring in more in-state students.
Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom and the California Legislature gave $82.5 million this year to admit 5,632 more in-state students this year and next. The funding involves $31 million to replace almost 1,000 out-of-state students with in-state students at UCLA, UC San Diego, and UC Berkeley. That money will be renewed each year over the course of at least four additional years.
The university has shifted its admissions qualifications in recent years. As The Los Angeles Times <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-02-24/uc-breaks-fall-2022-college-admission-application-records">reported</a> in February, UC broke records for freshman fall applications this year for the second year in a row. The school system got <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-11-18/uc-slams-door-on-sat-and-all-standardized-admissions-tests">rid</a> of any required standardized testing for admissions last year after temporarily throwing out the SAT and ACT the year prior over alleged biased outcomes.
“UC will continue to practice test-free admissions now and into the future,” UC Provost Michael Brown said during a conversation about a potential replacement for the SAT and ACT exams.

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University Of California Admits Record In-State Students, Cuts Back On International And Out-Of-State Admissions

University Of California Admits Record Number Of In-State Students, Cuts Down On Admitting International And Out-Of-State Students To University System

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For the first time in the 2021-2022 college football season, a game has been postponed due to a COVID-19 outbreak. 
On Saturday, the Cal Golden Bears lost to the Arizona Wildcats after being forced to play with less than 50 scholarship players due to 24 players and five coaches being held out for COVID-19 protocols.  
On Tuesday, the university announced the postponement of Cal’s upcoming game against USC due to additional football players testing positive for COVID-19.
&#8220;It was a difficult decision to postpone this Saturday&#8217;s game against USC,&#8221; Cal Director of Athletics Jim Knowlton <a href="https://calbears.com/news/2021/11/9/football-saturdays-cal-usc-game-postponed.aspx">said</a>. &#8220;We know how important every one of our games is to our student-athletes, especially our seniors who have been incredible representatives of the program, but it was the right thing to do. Due to additional impact on specific position groups, we have decided to postpone Saturday&#8217;s game. We have had multiple COVID-19 positives within our program, and we are taking every step we can to mitigate the spread and protect the greater community.&#8221;
Even though the university has stated that the football program is 99% vaccinated, at least 44 people have tested positive for COVID-19 over the past week, according to Berkeley’s Department of Public Health. 
&#8220;Berkeley Public Health continues to work closely with University Health Services to help contain and respond to a major COVID-19 outbreak involving the coaches, students, and staff in the Cal Football program,&#8221; the statement says. &#8220;All of these 44 lab-confirmed cases involve people infected with highly contagious COVID-19, which spreads easily unless public health safeguards are used.&#8221;
On Monday, Cal quarterback Chase Garbers — who missed the Arizona game due to COVID-19 protocols — posted a statement of frustration on social media regarding testing by the University Health Services.  
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“We have worked too hard to have someone take this all away from us,” Garbers wrote.“It is wrong. We deserve answers and transparent communication.”
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Cal linebacker Luc Bequette also weighed in regarding testing, claiming that University Health Services threatened to arrest vaccinated players who refused to test. 
“UHS told us we could be arrested for refusing to test as vaccinated individuals with no symptoms,” Bequette posted to Twitter. “If I understand correctly, I can go to San Francisco, steal a bunch of items in a Walgreens, and not be arrested. However, if I refuse a test in Berkeley, I can be… “
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UHS told us we could be arrested for refusing to test as vaccinated individuals with no symptoms. If I understand correctly, I can go to San Francisco, steal a bunch of items in a Walgreens, and not be arrested. However, if I refuse a test in Berkeley, I can be… <a href="https://t.co/dfCiELikMi">https://t.co/dfCiELikMi</a>
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Tuesday night, a spokesperson for Berkeley&#8217;s Department of Public Health blamed the program for the outbreak in an email to The San Francisco Chronicle. 
&#8220;Cases emerged in an environment of ongoing failure to abide by public health measures,” the statement <a href="https://www.sfgate.com/collegesports/article/cal-football-covid-outbreak-44-cases-berkeley-16608097.php">reads</a>. “People in the program did not: Get tested when sick, stay home when sick, [or wear] masks indoors.”
 &#8220;These simple measures keep people safe,&#8221; the statement continues. &#8220;Failing to do so results not only in individual infections, sickness, and worse, but also threatens the safety of all around them – especially those with compromised immune systems.&#8221;
The game has been rescheduled for December 4, a day after the PAC-12 Championship Game, which both USC and Cal have been eliminated from. 
Joe Morgan is the Sports Reporter for The Daily Wire. Most recently, Morgan covered the Clippers, Lakers, and the NBA for Sporting News. Send your sports questions to sports@dailywire.com.

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One of the University of California, Berkeley’s top scientists will resign from a directorship after the group refused to invite a geophysics professor who doesn’t ascribe to left-wing politics.
David Romps, director of the Berkeley Atmospheric Sciences Center (BASC), announced Monday that he was resigning after the BASC faculty denied his request to invite Dorian Abbot, associate professor of geophysics at the University of Chicago, to speak. Abbot was previously scheduled to speak at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) but had his lecture canceled because of his political views. Abbot was scheduled to speak about science, not politics.
“The associate geophysics professor, Dorian Abbot, said activists and MIT academics were outraged by comments he made in an August Newsweek opinion piece, wherein he criticized current diversity, equity, and inclusion standards in higher education,” Fox News reported. “In <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/diversity-problem-campus-opinion-1618419">the piece,</a> Abbot proposed an alternative framework called ‘Merit, Fairness, and Equality,’ whereby university applicants are ‘treated as individuals’ and ‘evaluated through rigorous and unbiased’ processes based on merit and qualifications.”
For this, MIT canceled his lecture.
In a Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/romps/status/1450139374125862913">thread</a>, Romps said that he asked the BASC faculty if they could invite Abbot to give the “science talk” he was scheduled to give at MIT. Romp said he wanted to invite Abbot to “reaffirm that BASC is a purely scientific organization, not a political one.”
“In the ensuing discussion among the BASC faculty, it became unclear to me whether we could invite that scientist ever again, let alone now,” Romps wrote. “I was hoping we could agree that BASC does not consider an individual&#8217;s political or social opinions when selecting speakers for its events, except for cases in which the opinions give a reasonable expectation that members of our community would be treated with disrespect.”
“Unfortunately, it is unclear when or if we might reach agreement on this point,” he added.
Romps reiterated that the mission of BASC is to serve as “the hub for UC Berkeley&#8217;s research on the science of the atmosphere, its interactions with Earth systems, and the future of Earth&#8217;s climate.&#8221; To that end, he noted that the center shouldn’t limit scientists based on their political and social views.
“More broadly, such exclusion signals that some opinions &#8212; even well-intentioned ones &#8212; are forbidden, thereby increasing self-censorship, degrading public discourse, and contributing to our nation&#8217;s political balkanization,” he wrote.
As The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cancel-culture-failure-prof-booted-from-mit-lecture-draws-thousands-for-alternative-online-speech">reported</a>, MIT’s cancelation of Abbot’s lecture backfired, with “thousands” signing up for an online alternative lecture from the professor. From The Daily Wire:
<blockquote>It appears, though, that Abbot may have the final word. In response to the controversy, Princeton decided to host Abbot for a Zoom lecture in place of his MIT lecture, and “thousands” have now signed up to hear Abbot speak.
“Now, Princeton has opted to take the reins and host Abbot’s lecture remotely on October 21, the very same day it was scheduled to take place at MIT,” Fox News noted. “A Princeton professor, Robert P. George, said in a Sunday <a href="https://twitter.com/McCormickProf/status/1447207382484930563">tweet</a> that the ‘Zoom quota’ for the lecture had already been expanded to accommodate more attendees after the web conference limit was reached.”</blockquote>

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Berkeley Scientist Resigning Directorship Over Faculty Refusal To Invite Leading Geophysicist Over Political Opinions

Cancel Culture

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

The University of California-Berkeley, which costs upwards of $40,000 a year for those living on-campus, spends $25 million a year just on its employees in charge of promoting “diversity and inclusion.”
The College Fix <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/uc-berkeley-spends-25m-a-year-pays-400-employees-to-advance-equity-and-inclusion/">reported</a> that the school “employs 150 professionals and 250 additional students dedicated to addressing ‘systemic inequities,’” according to a document the outlet obtained. These employees work for the school’s Division of Equity and Inclusion, which spends $25 million a year on its workers and programs.
These programs, according to the document, include “staff diversity formal collaborations with People &amp; Culture, the Othering &amp; Belonging Institute, the American Cultures Engaged Community teaching program, the Basic Needs Center, and other programs serving a broad array of constituencies.”
The document obtained by the Fix was an eight-page job description for the position of Vice Chancellor for Equity and Inclusion. The document also notes that 58% of the $25 million for the department comes from taxpayers and tuition, which they refer to as “campus and state funds.” Another 31% comes from federal and state public service grants, with the final 11% provided by philanthropy and private grants.
Dan Mogulof, a spokesman for the university, told the Fix that the money spent on the diversity and inclusion department represents less than 1% of the school’s total budget, adding the school has “no plans” to increase the division’s budget. Mogulof said the school was “uncertain why anyone would oppose efforts to ensure that every student on an extraordinarily diverse campus feels a [sic] equal sense of belonging to the campus’s community.”
More from the Fix:
<blockquote>By comparison, the University of Michigan’s diversity budget is nearly $7 million per year. In 2018, a state economics professor <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/university-of-michigan-pours-almost-7-million-per-year-into-diversity-payroll-benefits/">caused a stir</a> when he reported that Michigan paid roughly 50 diversity employees.
According to the <a href="https://hbr.org/2016/07/why-diversity-programs-fail">Harvard Business Review</a>, thousands of studies have been conducted over the past several decades to determine whether diversity programs work, and few have shown any benefit.
“It shouldn’t be surprising that most diversity programs aren’t increasing diversity,” the authors found. “Despite a few new bells and whistles, courtesy of big data, companies are basically doubling down on the same approaches they’ve used since the 1960s—which often make things worse, not better.”</blockquote>
The authors of the study found that “force-feeding” diversity can actually “activate bias rather than stamp it out,” a consequence that works to the benefit of those demanding more money for diversity and inclusion departments.
As reported by the Fix, the job notice for UC-Berkeley’s new vice chancellor position contains numerous current “buzzwords” surrounding diversity. The job notice states that the new hire will “advance Berkeley’s public mission and goals of becoming a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) and an anti-racist campus by boldly establishing new paradigms and implementing strategies and tactics that further embed diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, and justice practices into the fiber of the Berkeley campus.”
The Fix pointed out that despite the massive budget, just 3.7% of Berkeley’s undergraduate students in the 2020-2021 school year are African-American. Another 18% are Hispanic. Left out of the job notice is the fact that 39% of the student population is Asian.

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UC Berkeley Spends $25 Million A Year On ‘Diversity And Inclusion’

The University of California, Berkeley extended a self-sequester mandate on Monday in order to contain the surge of the virus on campus, although cases have been declining in the city of Berkeley.
First reported by <a href="https://www.dailycal.org/2021/02/08/self-sequester-period-extended-for-all-uc-berkeley-residence-halls/">The Daily Californian</a>, UC Berkeley student affairs sent an email to students explaining its current COVID-19 restrictions. The mandate applies to all students living in the residence halls and will remain in effect until at least February 15. The self-sequester guidelines do not apply to students who live in university-owned apartments or who are living in off-campus housing.
According to <a href="https://www.dailycal.org/2021/02/08/self-sequester-period-extended-for-all-uc-berkeley-residence-halls/">The Daily Californian</a>, students who reside in the dormitories must stay inside their rooms and may only exit &#8220;in case of emergency or to obtain medical care, comply with testing requirements or receive food from the Cal Dining kiosks,&#8221; where food is offered for pick-up at certain times during the day. <a href="https://www.sfgate.com/education/article/Police-dorms-outdoor-exercise-UC-Berkeley-lockdown-15937294.php?fbclid=IwAR1EKz3NI3I8XNL3sni2WftEq_sTjc72bWWCzZ_mK4oF--ACXAWHTXWcy0E">SF Gate</a> reports that medical care includes mental health care, as well.
Contrary to former self-sequestering directions, students are not allowed to participate in &#8220;solo outdoor exercise.&#8221; According to <a href="https://www.sfgate.com/education/article/Police-dorms-outdoor-exercise-UC-Berkeley-lockdown-15937294.php?fbclid=IwAR1EKz3NI3I8XNL3sni2WftEq_sTjc72bWWCzZ_mK4oF--ACXAWHTXWcy0E">SF Gate</a>, the university released a memo detailing the current situation regarding outdoor activity.
<blockquote>&#8220;We are working with the city of Berkeley to determine whether outdoor exercise may be permitted, and we will provide more information on this in the near future.&#8221;</blockquote>
The email warned students of repercussions if they did not comply with the rules, including potential removal from housing or suspension from the university. Students were also told to notify their resident assistants if they witness any violations of the mandate by their peers.
“Right now it is critical that you avoid gatherings — large or small — even with your residential household grouping, whether indoors or outdoors, and even if your most recent COVID test is negative,” the email <a href="https://www.dailycal.org/2021/02/08/self-sequester-period-extended-for-all-uc-berkeley-residence-halls/">reads</a>.
SF Gate <a href="https://www.sfgate.com/education/article/Police-dorms-outdoor-exercise-UC-Berkeley-lockdown-15937294.php?fbclid=IwAR1EKz3NI3I8XNL3sni2WftEq_sTjc72bWWCzZ_mK4oF--ACXAWHTXWcy0E">reports</a> that &#8220;students have allegedly reported external violations of COVID-19 guidelines&#8221; that have taken place off-campus at fraternities or other sites that are not under the self-sequester mandate.
One student reportedly told The Daily Californian:
<blockquote>&#8220;I’m just mad at the individuals who are getting together in large, unsafe groups, then bringing back [COVID] to their living spaces.&#8221;</blockquote>
According to <a href="https://coronavirus.berkeley.edu/dashboard/">UC Berkeley&#8217;s coronavirus tracking information</a>, the university has held a lower positivity test rate than the City of Berkeley for the past several months. The beginning of this week saw a shift in those numbers, as UC Berkeley (all populations) started with a positivity rate of 1.6% and the City of Berkeley had a .6% positivity rate.
The university&#8217;s email noted that &#8220;due to the 14 day incubation period of this virus, it is too early to be sure we have contained this current surge.&#8221; Meanwhile, students can expect an increased security presence of UCPD officers, along with staff checking &#8220;testing badges and Cal 1 Cards more frequently.&#8221;
The school&#8217;s email also added, &#8220;we strongly recommend against returning to your family/home, where you could risk spreading infection to others&#8221; and included information regarding the availability of counseling and psychological services for virtual counseling and assistance.

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UC Berkeley Extends Dorm Lockdown; Bans Solitary Outdoor Exercise For Students

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The University of California, Berkeley, the nation’s most prestigious public school, has moved forward with de-naming two more buildings on its campus because the persons the buildings were named after held racist or colonialist beliefs.
LeConte Hall and Barrows Hall were deemed problematic after campus community members submitted them for review by the Building Name Review Committee in July.
According to the university, Joseph LeConte served in the confederacy and “used scientific language to promote racist ideas.” The building was named after him and his brother, John LeConte, a former UC president who was an officer in the confederacy.
The other building was named after David Prescott Barrows, a former UC president and decades-long faculty member at UC Berkeley. Barrows served as a school superintendent in the Philippines prior to arriving as a professor at Berkeley in 1910. He believed Europeans were “superior” to other races, and Filipinos were incapable of “self-governance.”
Raka Ray, dean of UC Berkeley’s Division of Social Sciences, has <a href="https://news.berkeley.edu/2020/11/18/uc-berkeleys-leconte-and-barrows-halls-lose-their-names/">argued</a> that removing the names of historical figures on buildings isn’t actually the same as scrubbing history.
“Unnaming is not an erasure of history, but a profound acknowledgment of history,” she said, “a reckoning of the present with the past. The unnaming of Barrows represents this acknowledgement and pledges commitment to a future that Berkeley stands for.”
The decision to de-name the building comes as progressive activists have looked toward renaming buildings as an opportunity for confronting “racism.”
Over in San Francisco, a committee for the public school system recently identified nearly 50 schools with problematic names, including schools named after George Washington, Paul Revere, and Democratic California Senator Dianne Feinstein.
Earlier this year, UC put the name of its entire law school on the chopping block due to its association with a man who was racist toward Chinese people in the 1800s.
According to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/30/us/berkeley-boalt-hall-name-change.html">The New York Times</a>, John Baolt, after whom the law school was named, made a speech titled “<a href="https://chancellor.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/the_chinese_question-_a_paper_read_by_john_boalt_before_the_berkeley_club.pdf">The Chinese Question</a>,” which is broken down into subsections including physical peculiarities, intellectual differences, and differences of temperament, and “hatred, engendered by conquest, or by clashing of national or race interests.”
Paul Fine, a professor and renaming committee co-chair, suggested that scrapping names was a way of challenging “the history of white supremacy in our institutions.”
UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ has vowed to take additional steps to “eliminate racism” at the university.
“A building name is more than a symbol. Those who we choose to honor reflect who we are and what we believe in,” said Christ in a <a href="https://news.berkeley.edu/2020/11/18/chancellor-christ-on-the-unnaming-of-leconte-and-barrows-halls/">statement</a>. “I have committed my administration to doing everything in its power to identify and eliminate racism wherever it may be found on our campus and in our community.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/uc-berkeley-law-school-de-names-itself-to-confront-racist-symbols">UC Berkeley Law School De-Names Itself ‘To Confront Racist Symbols’</a>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-dianne-feinstein-elementary-on-list-of-inappropriate-school-names-may-be-changed">Report: Dianne Feinstein Elementary On List Of ‘Inappropriate’ School Names, May Be Changed</a>

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UC Berkeley De-Names Two More Buildings, Dean Argues It’s ‘Not An Erasure Of History’

On Saturday, the day after Target announced that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/target-reverses-course-will-sell-book-critical-of-transgender-movement">it would reverse its decision</a> to remove the book “Irreversible Damage” by Abigail Shrier, which is critical of the transgender movement, from its online store, an <a href="https://english.berkeley.edu/profiles/386">English professor at UC Berkeley</a> urged her followers to steal the book and burn it.
Grace Lavery tweeted, “Since some ppl have misunderstood my tone, and censorship is an important matter and as a public educator I have a duty to be precise, let me clarify: I do NOT advocate defacing library books. I DO encourage followers to steal Abigail Shrier’s book and burn it on a pyre.”
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Since some ppl have misunderstood my tone, and censorship is an important matter and as a public educator I have a duty to be precise, let me clarify:
🚫 I do NOT advocate defacing library books.
✅ I DO encourage followers to steal Abigail Shrier’s book and burn it on a pyre.
&mdash; Grace Lavery 🐬 (@graceelavery) <a href="https://twitter.com/graceelavery/status/1327743400553172997?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 14, 2020</a></blockquote>
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“Plz make sure you use a safe pyre, and that you have an extinguisher to hand,” she continued. “Be safe, when you are burning books. Remember: all you’re doing is removing a commodity from circulation—much as one might destroy a contaminated crop, or take action if a distributor failed to do so.”
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Plz make sure you use a safe pyre, and that you have an extinguisher to hand. Be safe, when you are burning books. 
Remember: all you’re doing is removing a commodity from circulation—much as one might destroy a contaminated crop, or take action if a distributor failed to do so.
&mdash; Grace Lavery 🐬 (@graceelavery) <a href="https://twitter.com/graceelavery/status/1327746546851524608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 14, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Lavery quickly added that she was “joking,&#8221; writing, “well, I’m joking. BUT i do think the sort of moral panic that book burning elicits, despite never happening, is weird. i don’t think books are a special type of commodity … for example: the idea of burning a laptop doesn’t seem to elicit the same moral horror. but it’s the same principle—disposing of a copy, not the original. The horror seems to derive from the idea that a book represents unalienated labor—but of course, it doesn’t.”
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for example: the idea of burning a laptop doesn’t seem to elicit the same moral horror. but it’s the same principle—disposing of a copy, not the original. The horror seems to derive from the idea that a book represents unalienated labor—but of course, it doesn’t.
&mdash; Grace Lavery 🐬 (@graceelavery) <a href="https://twitter.com/graceelavery/status/1327751604947316738?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 14, 2020</a></blockquote>
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As The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/target-removes-book-critical-of-trans-agenda-after-customer-complains-online-book-shoots-to-top-100-on-amazon">reported</a>, Target initially removed the book after someone tweeted that it was transphobic. The Amazon description of the book includes the phrase “Until just a few years ago, gender dysphoria—severe discomfort in one’s biological sex—”
The Daily Wire noted that the temporary censorship ironically led to a spike in the purchasing of the book on other platforms.
Shrier <a href="https://quillette.com/2020/11/07/gender-activists-are-trying-to-cancel-my-book-why-is-silicon-valley-helping-them/">wrote</a> at Quillette:
<blockquote>I wrote specifically about the sudden, severe spike in transgender identification among adolescent girls. I fully support medical transition for mature adults. And I have no desire to be a provocateur. … Nor do I have any prurient interest in others’ social lives. What I aim to do, as a journalist, is to investigate cultural phenomena, and here was one worth investigating: Between 2016 and 2017, the number of females seeking gender surgery <a href="https://www.plasticsurgery.org/documents/News/Statistics/2017/body-contouring-gender-confirmation-2017.pdf">quadrupled</a> in the United States.
Thousands of teen girls across the Western world are not only self-diagnosing with a real dysphoric condition they likely do not have; in many cases, they are obtaining hormones and surgeries following the most cursory diagnostic processes. Schoolteachers, therapists, doctors, surgeons, and medical-accreditation organizations are all rubber-stamping these transitions, often out of fear that doing otherwise will be reported as a sign of ‘transphobia’ —despite growing evidence that most young people who present as trans will eventually desist, and so these interventions will do more harm than good.”</blockquote>
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People who haven’t read <a href="https://twitter.com/AbigailShrier?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AbigailShrier</a>’s book are eager to have it banned, to ensure other people don’t read it either. Practices like that belong in a totalitarian state. There is not a syllable of hate in the book.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/StopTheWitchHunt?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#StopTheWitchHunt</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ReadFahrenheit451?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ReadFahrenheit451</a> <a href="https://t.co/5x2gvNDXAe">https://t.co/5x2gvNDXAe</a>
&mdash; LGB Alliance (@ALLIANCELGB) <a href="https://twitter.com/ALLIANCELGB/status/1328066648415277056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 15, 2020</a></blockquote>
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UC Berkeley Prof Calls For Stealing, Burning Book Critical Of Trans Agenda

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Richard Blum, a regent of the University of California system and husband to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/dianne-feinstein">U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein</a> (D-CA), has found himself entangled in a college admissions scandal after a <a href="https://www.auditor.ca.gov/reports/2019-113/sections.html#section1">state audit</a> revealed that he wrote an “inappropriate letter of support” for a student the audit found was unlikely to be admitted based on merit alone.
While the state audit did not directly name him, a spokesperson for the auditor’s office confirmed his identity to <a href="https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/09/24/uc-regent-who-helped-unqualified-student-get-into-cal-identified-as-richard-blum-husband-of-sen-dianne-feinstein/">Mercury News</a> on Thursday morning, and Blum has since admitted to writing such letters “a bunch of times” for family members and friends.
“My cousin’s brother wanted to get into Davis,” Blum, who has been a UC regent since 2002, told the <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/education/article/UC-Regent-Richard-Blum-named-in-admissions-15594754.php">San Francisco Chronicle</a>. “They’d send me a letter and tell me why it’s a good kid, and I’ll send it on to the chancellor. Been doing it forever.”
&#8220;I’m not convinced I’ve done anything wrong. It all sounds kinda boring to me,&#8221; he said.
The UC Board of Regents Policy 2201 says that “members of the Board of Regents should not seek to influence inappropriately the outcome of admissions decisions beyond sending letters of recommendation, where appropriate, through the regular admissions process and officers.” In a statement to the Chronicle, UC Regents Chair John Pérez said that these matters are taken seriously, and &#8220;any violations will be promptly and appropriately addressed.”
According to the audit, UC Berkeley staff admitted 42 students between the 2013-2014 academic school year and the 2018-2019 academic school year despite admissions reader ratings “that made it unlikely they would receive an offer of admission.&#8221;
Of the 42 applicants, 17 had connections to donors or potential donors to the university, of which five received “the lowest possible rating from both of UC Berkeley’s application readers.” Another 11 applicants were reportedly admitted based on connections to university staff members, or even acquaintances to staff members.
Yet another 14 applicants — one of them the student Blum recommended outside the normal admissions channels — were admitted off the waitlist even though they received “uncompetitive scores from readers that gave them poor chances of being admitted.”
“This applicant had only about a 26 percent chance of being admitted to UC Berkeley on their own based on the ratings that readers had assigned their application,” reads the audit of the specific applicant recommended by Blum. “The email records we reviewed indicate that staff in the admissions office consulted with the development office about who should be admitted from the waitlist. The admissions office also prioritized the admission of applicants on the waitlist whom staff had recommended, as well as applicants on a list that the former admissions director created. It is therefore likely that the applicant whom the Regent recommended would have been on a list that received priority admission from the waitlist. Given the low likelihood of this applicant’s admission and the prominent and influential role that Regents have within the university, we conclude that the decision to admit this applicant was likely influenced by the Regent’s advocacy.”
Of the total 42 applicants admitted to UC Berkeley with the alleged help of their connections, the audit notes that over two-thirds of them had a less than 10% chance of admission, and 13 of them had “virtually no chance of admission” under typical circumstances.

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Dianne Feinstein’s Husband Involved In UC Berkeley Admissions Scandal

Dianne Feinstein

On Thursday, the editor of the website <a href="https://uncoverdc.com/2020/06/12/uc-berkeley-history-professors-open-letter-against-blm-police-brutality-and-cultural-orthodoxy/">uncoverdc.com</a> decided to post an anonymous letter from a purported professor at that bastion of leftism, the University of California, Berkeley, that challenged the &#8220;BLM (Black Lives Matter) narrative.&#8221; The editor, Tracy Beanz, wrote:
<blockquote>I was sent this and felt the need to share it to a wider audience on Twitter. I shared a link to the original post in the tweet. Then, the post was removed, and I made the decision that this is an important perspective not given an equal share in the marketplace of ideas. It is for this reason that UncoverDC now publishes it, not only because it is newsworthy, but because it is a critical piece of history. Wilfred Reilly, mentioned in the letter alongside Thomas Sowell, retweeted my original tweet confirming that he personally received the email, thus verifying its credibility.</blockquote>
Internationally famed economist Thomas Sowell was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President George W. Bush for prolific scholarship combining history, economics, and political science; he was awarded the Bradley Prize for intellectual achievement. Wilfred Reilly, an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Kentucky State University, is the author of &#8220;Hate Crime Hoax: How the Left is Selling a Fake Race War&#8221; and has openly challenged and debated members of the alt-right.
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I can confirm that the letter in the thread below was sent to me and Tom Sowell. It&#39;s really worth reading, in a time of widespread panic. <a href="https://t.co/bknCdO39c3">https://t.co/bknCdO39c3</a>
&mdash; Wilfred Reilly (@wil_da_beast630) <a href="https://twitter.com/wil_da_beast630/status/1271301272491171840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 12, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The letter, a whopping 2,411 words long and addressed to professors “X, Y, Z,”  takes issue harshly with the narrative that “problems in the black community are caused by whites,” noting prominent black voices such as Reilly’s or famed economist Thomas Sowell’s have also objected to the narrative: “They are intelligent scholars who reject a narrative that strips black people of agency and systematically externalizes the problems of the black community onto outsiders. Their view is entirely absent from the departmental and UCB-wide communiques.”
The writer notes, “If we claim that the criminal justice system is white-supremacist, why is it that Asian Americans, Indian Americans, and Nigerian Americans are incarcerated at vastly lower rates than white Americans? This is a funny sort of white supremacy.”
The writer continues:
<blockquote>None of this is addressed in your literature. None of this is explained, beyond hand-waving and ad hominems. “Those are racist dogwhistles”. “The model minority myth is white supremacist”. “Only fascists talk about black-on-black crime”, ad nauseam. These types of statements do not amount to counterarguments: they are simply arbitrary offensive classifications, intended to silence and oppress discourse. Any serious historian will recognize these for the silencing orthodoxy tactics they are, common to suppressive regimes, doctrines, and religions throughout time and space. They are intended to crush real diversity and permanently exile the culture of robust criticism from our department. Increasingly, we are being called upon to comply and subscribe to BLM’s problematic view of history, and the department is being presented as unified on the matter.</blockquote>
The writer expresses their fear of stating their opinions publicly:
<blockquote>I personally don’t dare speak out against the BLM narrative, and with this barrage of alleged unity being mass-produced by the administration, tenured professoriat, the UC administration, corporate America, and the media, the punishment for dissent is a clear danger at a time of widespread economic vulnerability. I am certain that if my name were attached to this email, I would lose my job and all future jobs, even though I believe in and can justify every word I type.</blockquote>
Then, this: “The vast majority of violence visited on the black community is committed by black people. There are virtually no marches for these invisible victims, no public silences, no heartfelt letters from the UC regents, deans, and departmental heads. The message is clear: Black lives only matter when whites take them. Black violence is expected and insoluble, while white violence requires explanation and demands solution.”
Continuing: “Please look into your hearts and see how monstrously bigoted this formulation truly is. No discussion is permitted for non-black victims of black violence, who proportionally outnumber black victims of non-black violence.”
More: “The claim that black interracial violence is the product of redlining, slavery, and other injustices is a largely historical claim. It is for historians, therefore, to explain why Japanese internment or the massacre of European Jewry hasn’t led to equivalent rates of dysfunction and low SES performance among Japanese and Jewish Americans respectively. Arab Americans have been viciously demonized since 9/11, as have Chinese Americans more recently. However, both groups outperform white Americans on nearly all SES indices – as do Nigerian Americans, who incidentally have black skin.”
Discussing politics: “The patronizing and condescending attitudes of Democrat leaders towards the black community, exemplified by nearly every Biden statement on the black race, all but guarantee a perpetual state of misery, resentment, poverty, and the attendant grievance politics which are simultaneously annihilating American political discourse and black lives. And yet, donating to BLM is bankrolling the election campaigns of men like Mayor Frey, who saw their cities devolve into violence. This is a grotesque capture of a good-faith movement for necessary police reform, and of our department, by a political party. Even worse, there are virtually no avenues for dissent in academic circles. I refuse to serve the Party, and so should you.”
Invoking Dr. Martin Luther King: “MLK would likely be called an Uncle Tom if he spoke on our campus today. We are training leaders who intend, explicitly, to destroy one of the only truly successful ethnically diverse societies in modern history.”
An acknowledgement: &#8220;It shouldn’t affect the strength of my argument above, but for the record, I write as a person of color.&#8221;
And this: “I hope you appreciate the frustration behind this message. I do not support BLM. I do not support the Democrat grievance agenda and the Party’s uncontested capture of our department. I do not support the Party co-opting my race, as Biden recently did in his disturbing interview, claiming that voting Democrat and being black are isomorphic.”
The complete letter is <a href="https://uncoverdc.com/2020/06/12/uc-berkeley-history-professors-open-letter-against-blm-police-brutality-and-cultural-orthodoxy/">here</a>.
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Anonymous Letter From Purported UC Berkeley Professor Harshly Challenges ‘Black Lives Matter Narrative’

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