WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump&#8217;s Education Department is investigating the University of California at Berkeley for allegedly failing to properly report hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign funding, The Daily Wire has learned.
The Education Department sent a notice of investigation and records requests to UC Berkeley on Friday, senior Education Department officials shared Friday morning. The notification came amid widespread media reports that Berkeley has received a substantial amount of money from foreign governments, the official said, specifically China.
These substantial amounts of money have not been reported to the department as required by law under Section 117&#8217;s Foreign Funding Disclosure Requirements for Universities, one official shared. The department is concerned about the university&#8217;s deep involvements with Chinese entities, particularly how it has shared the development and transfer of important technologies with China.
“They’ll have 30 days to respond with the records that we requested,&#8221; an Education Department official said, &#8220;and so we hope to have quite a volume of records and we’ll be able to verify the degree to which UC Berkeley is or is not compliant after our examination of those records.&#8221;
<div id="attachment_912241" style="width: 874px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/education-department-investigating-uc-berkeley-for-improper-reporting-on-china-ties/sather-gate" rel="attachment wp-att-912241"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-912241" class="wp-image-912241 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/04/GettyImages-1053601948-864x576.jpg" alt="" width="864" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/04/GettyImages-1053601948-864x576.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/04/GettyImages-1053601948-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/04/GettyImages-1053601948-768x512.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/04/GettyImages-1053601948.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px" /></a>Close-up of metalwork on Sather Gate, the iconic entrance gate to the campus of UC Berkeley in downtown Berkeley, California, October 9, 2018. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)</div>
“Over the course of the last two years, UC Berkeley has been cooperating with federal inquiries regarding 117 reporting issues, and will continue to do so,&#8221; a spokesman for UC Berkeley said on Friday. The univeristy declined to comment further.

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Education Department Investigating UC Berkeley For Improper Reporting On China Ties

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University of California Berkeley

A California university known for promoting leftist ideology removed racially-based eligibility requirements for its “environmentalist of color” scholarship program after facing legal questions over the discriminatory program. 
On Wednesday, the University of California, Berkeley, told The Daily Wire that it was investigating the program and was prepared to adjust it to comply with the law. Ahead of the investigation, it says that it has already renamed the program to the “Rooted in Joy” scholarship and taken away requirements that recipients “identify as a POC.&#8221;
“UC Berkeley is committed to complying with all state and federal laws regarding discrimination and related matters. We are looking into the matter regarding this particular program and if it is out of compliance, we will correct it promptly,” a spokesman for the university said. 
The rebrand comes after Defending Education filed a complaint with the Education Department, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watchdog-challenges-environmentalist-of-color-scholarship-at-notoriously-liberal-university?author=Leif+Le+Mahieu&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=2&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Notoriously+Liberal+University’s+‘Environmentalist+Of+Color’+Scholarship+Is+Illegal%2C+Watchdog+Claims" target="_blank" rel="noopener">first reported</a> on by The Daily Wire, saying that the scholarship violated the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment and the Civil Rights Act.
READ MORE: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watchdog-challenges-environmentalist-of-color-scholarship-at-notoriously-liberal-university?author=Leif+Le+Mahieu&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=2&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Notoriously+Liberal+University%E2%80%99s+%E2%80%98Environmentalist+Of+Color%E2%80%99+Scholarship+Is+Illegal%2C+Watchdog+Claims">Notoriously Liberal University’s ‘Environmentalist Of Color’ Scholarship Is Illegal, Watchdog Claims</a>
The scholarship program, which offers five students $2,000 per year, is administered by the Student Environmental Resource Center and administered by the Green Initiative Fund. 
The university later said that it had “updated the program website as a first step.”
These updates included removing from the website requirements that a recipient “identify as BIPOC” and completely renaming the program. 
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The university also adjusted the goals of the program, changing its language from bridging “institutional gaps in resources and funding” for “students of color” to “students.” Another goal changed from financially supporting “passionate students of color” to “passionate students.” 
The goals of the scholarship still include a racial angle as the award remains designated for students working at the “intersection of communities of color and the environmental field at UC Berkeley.”
The organizational rebrand also included removing a question from its FAQ on what it meant to be a &#8220;person of color.&#8221; In the previous iteration, the university said that being a &#8220;POC&#8221; can go beyond skin color.
“While navigating the complexities and nuances of this question, SERC recognizes that being a ‘person of color’ goes beyond just skin color, and can include an intersectional expanse of racial, ethnic, and cultural experiences and identities. If you identify as a ‘person of color,’ we encourage you to apply,” the Student Environmental Resource Center said.
Also gone from the program were discussions of how &#8220;BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, Persons-of-Color) are frequently asked to exclusively call upon their experiences with racial trauma and violence&#8221; to now just asking students to &#8220;consider their identities from the lens of radical healing, joy, and growth.&#8221;
The rebranding comes as UC Berkeley is under <a href="https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/office-civil-rights-initiates-title-vi-investigations-institutions-of-higher-education-0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">investigation</a> by the Trump administration over potentially racially exclusionary practices in its graduate programs. The Education Department has warned all universities across the country to abide by the Supreme Court&#8217;s decision to strike down affirmative action or face penalties.

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Berkeley Tries To Rebrand ‘Environmentalist Of Color’ Scholarship After Legal Complaints

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One of the most notoriously liberal universities in the country maintains an “environmentalist of color” scholarship program, prompting a formal complaint from an education watchdog group. 
Defending Education on Wednesday filed a complaint with the Education Department alleging that University of California, Berkeley&#8217;s scholarship program violates the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, which prevents federal funding from going toward institutions that discriminate on the basis of race.
Defending Education Vice President Sarah Parshall Perry told The Daily Wire that the scholarship was “an express federal financial benefit granted unapologetically to students on the basis of race” in violation of federal law. 
“Eliminating race discrimination means eliminating all of it, as the Supreme Court has noted,” she said. “We look forward to the office for civil rights’s investigation of race discrimination in federally funded programs at UC Berkeley.”
The <a href="https://defendinged.org/complaints/ocr-complaint-university-of-california-berkeley/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">complaint</a> urges the Education Department&#8217;s Office of Civil Rights to open an investigation into the university over the program. UC Berkeley is already under <a href="https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/office-civil-rights-initiates-title-vi-investigations-institutions-of-higher-education-0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">investigation</a> by the Trump administration for potentially racially exclusionary practices in its graduate programs. 
The yearly scholarship criticized in Defending Education&#8217;s complaint — <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20250408145224/https://serc.berkeley.edu/resources/funding/sister-scholarships/environmentalists-color-scholarship" target="_blank" rel="noopener">administered</a> by the Student Environmental Resource Center and funded by the university’s Green Initiative Fund — gives five students who identify as a “person of color” $2,000. 
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/berkeley-tries-to-rebrand-environmentalist-of-color-scholarship-after-legal-complaints" target="_blank" rel="noopener">UPDATE: Berkeley Tries To Rebrand ‘Environmentalist Of Color’ Scholarship After Legal Complaints</a>
Program goals include bridging “institutional gaps in resources and funding for students of color to increase retention, and build radically inclusive social and environmental justice spaces on campus,” financially supporting “passionate students of color working in the environmental field at UC Berkeley,” and “eliminating barriers to entry and focusing on healing, joy, and growth rather than trauma.”
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To qualify for the scholarship, a student must “identify as a POC” and be “passionate about environmentalism,” according to the university. 
The university said that the definition of “person of color” goes beyond skin color, though it is unclear what this means. The university did not respond to requests for comment on whether a white person could be eligible for the award. 
“While navigating the complexities and nuances of this question, SERC recognizes that being a &#8216;person of color&#8217; goes beyond just skin color, and can include an intersectional expanse of racial, ethnic, and cultural experiences and identities. If you identify as a &#8216;person of color,&#8217; we encourage you to apply,&#8221; the Student Environmental Resource Center said. 
The university encourages students to focus on “joy” in their applications for the scholarship. 
“We recognize that BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, Persons-of-Color) are frequently asked to exclusively call upon their experiences with racial trauma and violence in applications,” the university says. “We aim to resist that tokenization by making space for applicants to consider their identities from the lens of radical healing, joy, and growth.”
The Student Environmental Resource Center offers a similar scholarship, called the Brian Gialketsis SERQueer Scholarship, for students who &#8220;identify as queer.” The university specifies that applicants can be “undocumented” or “formerly incarcerated.&#8221;
The goal of the scholarship is to “financially support queer-identifying students working in and passionate about the environmental field at UC Berkeley.”
After the complaint was submitted by Defending Education, the university said that it was looking into the program and would adjust as necessary.
“UC Berkeley is committed to complying with all state and federal laws regarding discrimination and related matters. We are looking into the matter regarding this particular program and if it is out of compliance, we will correct it promptly,” a spokesman for the university said.
President Donald Trump&#8217;s Education Department has warned universities across the country to comply with federal discrimination law and the Supreme Court&#8217;s decision to strike down race-based affirmative action programs. Already, 45 graduate universities are facing probes over racially focused programs.

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Notoriously Liberal University’s ‘Environmentalist Of Color’ Scholarship Is Illegal, Watchdog Claims

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One Mayflower Cigars-loving student at the University of California, Berkeley, got his beautiful Mayflower sampler box signed by the one and only Michael Knowles on Monday. 
Knowles, after taking questions from students on campus and shutting down leftists, was thanked by a young man who brought his Mayflower Cigars box to the event for Knowles to sign. The Daily Wire host was only a little disappointed that the box was lacking Mayflower Cigars.
“Oh, that was your box!” Knowles said. “I signed it up there, and I was hoping there would be stogies in there that I could pilfer and smoke, but it was totally empty other than a magic marker.” 
“Yeah, I figured I’d get in trouble because there are signs everywhere saying like, ‘No tobacco on campus,’” the student said. 
“Forget about that. There are barely any Berkeley admins here,” Knowles replied. 
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STUDENT: I figured I&#39;d get in trouble because there&#39;s signs all over saying like, no tobacco on campus…<a href="https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@michaeljknowles</a>: Forget about that!
Even at a YAF speech, you’ve got to have your Mayflower Cigars. <a href="https://t.co/jrbWuWDiJQ">pic.twitter.com/jrbWuWDiJQ</a>
&mdash; Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1843500378505261438?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 8, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The Mayflower Dawn is a medium-bodied cigar made with Nicaraguan long fillers and Cameroon binder and finished with the finest Ecuadorian Connecticut wrapper. The flavor contains subtle notes of wood, coffee, and cream.
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Knowles Signs Mayflower Box For Cal Berkeley Student: ‘I Was Hoping There Would Be Stogies In There’

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Daily Wire host Michael Knowles stumped a leftist at the University of California, Berkeley, who disagreed with Knowles’ past criticisms of modern science, especially relating to transgenderism and climate change.
Knowles, who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/michael-knowles-reveals-the-lefts-ignorance-about-hamas-october-7-attack-in-speech-at-uc-berkeley" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spoke</a> at the liberal university on the anniversary of Hamas’ brutal attack on Israel, took questions from the crowd and was asked by a student about his past statements.
“In your show, I see you often say that science is mostly fake in regards to transgenderism, climate change, cigars that might give you cancer,” the student said.
Knowles replied, saying, “Science is mostly good. Natural philosophy is good, but the notion that a little boy is actually a girl, which we call ‘science’ today … that is fake.”
The student shot back, arguing that “the most educated researchers” he has talked to “all seem to disagree” with Knowles’ view on modern science.
“So, how do you pursue evidence-based policy if you ignore so much of the evidence, or do you flip the script like your co-worker says and put your feelings over facts?” he asked.
“Which studies do you mean?” Knowles pressed.
“The fake ones, I guess,” the student responded.
“Can you cite the studies you’re talking about? … Could you name even one of them off the top of your head?” Knowles asked.
“No, you know, I just threw them all out. They’re all fake, right?” the student quipped.
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“You&#8217;re being sarcastic because it&#8217;s the last refuge of someone who has no answer,” Knowles shot back.
The Daily Wire host then blasted leftists who cite studies they haven’t read to back up their political ideology.
“That’s my complaint with modern science is that it is fake,” Knowles said. “And you’re proving to me that it’s fake. You’re not even relying on it. You’re relying on a kind of gut intuition, which is really just a half-baked religious sense that a boy can be a girl and the sun god is going to kill us all in 12 years or whatever AOC said 15 years ago. And, unfortunately, it’s not grounded in any serious philosophy or theology or, certainly, anthropology, but it’s also not even grounded in modern science.”
WATCH:
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“You&#39;re being sarcastic, because it&#39;s the last refuge of someone who has no answer.”<a href="https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@michaeljknowles</a> shuts down leftist who argues that transgenderism and climate change are part of &quot;modern science,&quot; but can&#39;t cite a single source to prove it. <a href="https://t.co/v62K2lYjWh">pic.twitter.com/v62K2lYjWh</a>
&mdash; Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1843512101412975007?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 8, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Knowles Shuts Down Leftist Who Claims Transgenderism Is Backed By Science

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Daily Wire host Michael Knowles eviscerated the Left’s misinterpretation of the history and motivations behind Hamas’ October 7 attack in a speech on Monday night.
Knowles <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UCa-8jKddw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spoke</a> at the University of California, Berkeley, which marked the anniversary of the terrorist group&#8217;s attack against Israel. In his speech, he called out the Left for claiming that Israel is occupying Palestinian land and missing the religious motivations behind Hamas’ attack.
Knowles said that leftist student protesters chanting, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” are ignorant of the history of the Holy Land.
“There has never been a nation-state known as Palestine, even if there had been, Palestinian Arabs would not be the indigenous heirs to the Levant, which was Byzantine before Muslim Arabs invaded and conquered the land in the 7th century,” Knowles said.
“Jews had lived as a nation in the Levant, eventually becoming incorporated into the Roman Empire until the Jewish-Roman wars of the first and second centuries,” he added. “That is a deeper historical tie than the Muslim Arabs can claim.”
The Daily Wire host argued that “all indigenous arguments” for the right to certain areas “fall flat,” saying that pointing to “historical occupation” is not sufficient to claim the Holy Land “as a nation-state for the Arabs, or the Byzantines or the Romans or the Jews or the Caananites or the Hittites for that matter.”
“None of whom, by the way, even conceived of the modern nation-state before it appeared in the 17th century as a way to restore political order to Europe, which had been embroiled in more than a century of war following the Protestant revolution,” Knowles said.
“The more sophisticated campus protesters make arguments that go deeper than the land and the sea,” he added. “They will argue that Palestinian Muslims must have a nation-state in order to protect some vague notion of human rights.”
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But even this argument from leftists relies on Western tradition and Christianity.
“What is ironic about leftist protesters’ babble about human rights with regard to Arab nationalism in Palestine is that the Muslims entirely reject the supposed rights that the leftists exalt,” Knowles said. “If a queer for Palestine ever actually traveled to Gaza, he would be thrown off of a rooftop.”
“The campus babble about human rights is silly, but it is more sophisticated than the argument about the river and the sea because it at least approaches the real key to the October 7 attack, which is religion,” he added.
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&quot;The Muslims entirely reject the supposed rights that the leftists exalt. If a queer for Palestine ever actually traveled to Gaza, he would be thrown off of a rooftop.&quot;<a href="https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@michaeljknowles</a> on the irony of discussing human rights with regard to Arab nationalism in Palestine. <a href="https://t.co/pikEHTCWub">pic.twitter.com/pikEHTCWub</a>
&mdash; Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1843488356602417489?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 8, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Michael Knowles Reveals The Left’s Ignorance About Hamas’ October 7 Attack In Speech At UC Berkeley

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Jewish students at University of California-Berkeley were forced to evacuate to a secret location after hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters stormed an event featuring an Israeli Defense Forces reservist on Monday night. 
The “Israel at War: Combat the Lies” event was supposed to feature Ran Bar-Yoshafat, who served for several weeks within Gaza in an IDF special forces unit. Before the event was able to begin, the mob of protesters stormed the building, forcing the attendees of the event to sneak out the back to a secret location.
“I don’t think this about the IDF, Jews or even Israel, this is them lacking Western values like freedom of speech,” Bar-Yoshafat told The Daily Wire. “For them I am guilty until proven innocent.”
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WATCH: UC Berkeley Jewish Students Forced To Evacuate Building After Mob Storms Event With IDF Soldier
&#39;Berkeley is on the wrong side of history and it&#39;s not a safe place for Jews anymore&#39; <a href="https://t.co/vJ1E05giNC">pic.twitter.com/vJ1E05giNC</a>
&mdash; Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1762499923227136155?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Bar-Yoshafat said he was asked to arrive on campus in a hat to help mask his identity, and was reassured there was enough security to prevent protesters from shutting down the event. He added that the event had been moved several times leading up to Monday because of security concerns.
When he arrived at the room to begin the event, he said about 40 student protesters — many of which were masked with keffiyehs — entered with hundreds more outside the building.
Videos provided to The Daily Wire show students banging on doors and windows, breaking glass, chanting &#8220;intifada, intifada&#8221; and accusing Bar-Yoshafat of genocide in chants. Witnesses told The Daily Wire that they believe around 200 to 500 students were part of the protest. 
In one of the videos, a Jewish student says he was spat on by someone shouting, “You Jew.” 
“I just felt really bad for these kids because they were scared,” Bar-Yoshafat said. “Girls were crying from being attacked and I think the kid that was spat on was just so shocked. I don’t think the students anticipated so many people being violent, they thought they would just chant outside.”
Bar-Yoshafat, who was invited by various Jewish student groups, said he wanted to go on speaking despite the disrupters but he was asked to leave by school officials. 
“Instead of giving more security to us, they gave a prize to those who were violent,” he said. “They basically said those banging on doors and spitting on Jews are allowed to continue but I had to leave even though I was just peacefully speaking.”
Bar-Yoshafat and the students were escorted away with many protesters following him. Once they made it off campus, they quickly scrambled to find a new secret location to continue the event.
“Berkeley is on the wrong side of history and it&#8217;s not a safe place for Jews anymore,” he added.
Berkely’s anti-Israel student group, “Bears for Palestine,” announced its plan to shut down the event on their <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C3ytamHJyIg/?img_index=1">Instagram</a> on Sunday.
“Shut it down: Genocidal murderers out of Berkeley,” the graphic read, along with a photo of Bar-Yoshafat with photoshopped red eyes. 
“In October of 2023, Ran Bar-Yoshafat was serving in the IOF partaking in the obliteration of Gaza and extermination of Palestinians,” the caption read, referring to the IDF as the Israeli Occupation Forces. “This individual is dangerous.”
“Ran Bar-Yoshafat has Palestinian blood on his hands,” it continued. “He has committed crimes against humanity, is a genocide denier, and we will not allow for this event to go on.”
Videos show the students chanting “Yoshafat you can’t hide, we charge you with genocide.”
<div id="attachment_702251" style="width: 310px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-702251" class="size-medium wp-image-702251" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/02/F8P94ZyWwAAGcy0-300x284.jpeg" alt="Ran Bar-Yoshafat" width="300" height="284" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/02/F8P94ZyWwAAGcy0-300x284.jpeg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/02/F8P94ZyWwAAGcy0-609x576.jpeg 609w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/02/F8P94ZyWwAAGcy0-768x727.jpeg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/02/F8P94ZyWwAAGcy0.jpeg 1192w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" />Ran Bar-Yoshafat left duty at the beginning of the Israel-Hamas war to get married before returning to combat. (Photo: Courtesy)</div>
Bar-Yoshafat went to fight in southern Israel on October 7th when Hamas massacred Israeli civilians and served several weeks in Gaza. On the fourth day of the war, he took a short break to get married before returning to duty.
“On October 7, while terrorists were still massacring civilians, including my friends, I was already on my way to base to help protect Jews,” he said. “The people who were committing a genocide — and openly live streaming it — is Hamas. I was preventing terrorists from chopping off heads and burning people alive and raping women.”
“What they are really protesting is that Hamas is losing,” he added.
UC Berkeley did not respond to a request for comment.

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The other day, I briefly talked about a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/boston-mayor-faces-backlash-over-christmas-party-excluding-white-officials" target="_blank" rel="noopener">racially segregated holiday party</a> that was just thrown by the mayor of Boston, Michelle Wu. In case you missed it, the mayor&#8217;s office only wanted to invite the non-white members of the Boston city council to the event. They wanted to exclude all the white people.
To that end, the mayor&#8217;s staff sent out a bunch of emails addressed to &#8220;electeds of color,&#8221; which is yet another example of the fact that Leftists are simply incapable of speaking English. They&#8217;re well on their way to creating their own language at this point.
But there was a problem with this party. By mistake, the mayor&#8217;s office sent out invitations to all of Boston&#8217;s city council members, including the white devils. It wasn&#8217;t just &#8220;Electeds of Color&#8221; who got an invite, seven white people got one, too. In an administration that cared about the Constitution, or basic morality, this would be a highly embarrassing episode. The mayor would apologize for discriminating on the basis of race and resign. But that&#8217;s not what happened in this case.
Instead, Wu apologized — not for the discrimination, but for accidentally sending the invitation to white people. She says that was the only error she made. Watch:
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The mayor also clarified that this &#8220;Electeds of Color&#8221; party has been going on for several years, and it&#8217;s only now been discovered because of the mistake that her staff made. So rest easy, the racial discrimination is nothing new. That&#8217;s the position of the mayor&#8217;s office.
Whatever you make of that, there are a few legal experts who have suggested it might violate Massachusetts law, which doesn&#8217;t allow government officials to use city resources to enforce racial segregation. The Massachusetts Public Accommodations Act bars officials from, &#8220;making any distinction, discrimination, or restriction in admission to or treatment in a place of public accommodation based on race.&#8221; This event was held at the Parkman House, which is owned by the city, although it&#8217;s not open to the public.
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Maybe that&#8217;s the &#8220;out&#8221; here. Maybe the mayor can say that it&#8217;s legal to discriminate on the basis of race, as long as it&#8217;s in a city building that isn&#8217;t a &#8220;public accommodation.&#8221; That still doesn&#8217;t address the question of why Wu was so intent on keeping white people away from this event. 
It&#8217;s especially strange given that Wu has a white husband. You might be tempted to think that Wu just wanted to attend a holiday party without her husband around. Maybe that&#8217;s what&#8217;s going on here. She also has two half-white children — are they allowed to be at the party for half the time? Is that how that works?
But this is not a completely satisfying explanation, mainly because it does seem that the mayor has a deep-seated disdain for white people, at least in general. 
For one thing, just a year ago, Wu cracked a joke about how many &#8220;white&#8221; problems she&#8217;s had to deal with in the city. Watch:
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“I’m getting used to dealing w problems that are expensive, disruptive &amp; White”. -Boston Mayor Michelle Wu
 <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Boston?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Boston</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/MayorWu?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MayorWu</a> has finally shown her true colors. 
This isn’t funny. This is disgusting. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ShameOnWu?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ShameOnWu</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/CotterReporter?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CotterReporter</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TuckerCarlson</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/HowieCarrShow?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@HowieCarrShow</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/DoctorTurtleboy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DoctorTurtleboy</a> <a href="https://t.co/eFTWomIH3O">pic.twitter.com/eFTWomIH3O</a>
&mdash; Boston First Responders United (BFRU) (@BostonFRU) <a href="https://twitter.com/BostonFRU/status/1505676783475122182?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 20, 2022</a></blockquote>
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This is the point where you have to wonder how someone like Michelle Wu became the mayor of a city like Boston, given that she clearly hates most of the city&#8217;s residents based on their skin color. In fact, even though the white population in Boston is declining, it’s still one of the whitest major cities in the country. And yet it has, arguably, the most anti-white mayor in the country.
How does that happen? Well, not a lot of people are asking that question right now, even in Boston. As I mentioned yesterday, even white members of the city council — the very people that Wu excluded from the holiday party because of their skin color — are mostly shrugging this whole episode off. They&#8217;re suggesting it&#8217;s an isolated incident, as if that would somehow make racial segregation acceptable.
But it&#8217;s not an isolated incident, not even close. You don&#8217;t hear a lot about it, but explicit anti-white discrimination is no longer unusual in this country. I&#8217;m not talking about racial bias, or affirmative action admissions, or racial preferences in hiring and promotions. Everyone knows that&#8217;s been going on. I&#8217;m talking about policies — in government, universities, and school systems — that overtly ban white people from participating.
This is a real problem. It&#8217;s not just happening at the mayor&#8217;s holiday party in Boston. Racial segregation has made a comeback in this country in a big way. You just don’t hear very much about it.
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Right now, for example, a school district in Illinois is <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/12/04/news/illinois-schools-segregated-classes-blasted-as-unconstitutional/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">segregating</a> its English and math classes by race. At Evanston Township High School, black and Latino students go into one classroom when it&#8217;s time to learn English, calculus, and algebra. Whites and Asians go into a different room. This is the kind of program that legal experts say is clearly unconstitutional. If anyone sued, it would be struck down immediately. But people aren&#8217;t interested in suing, at least not yet. So the program will continue. They even have a name for this whole system of racial discrimination. The school board calls it &#8220;AXLE&#8221; — for &#8220;Advancing Excellence, Lifting Everyone.&#8221;
As shocking as this sounds, it&#8217;s nothing new for Chicago. A couple of years ago, Chicago&#8217;s mayor at the time, Lori Lightfoot, announced that for one day, she wouldn&#8217;t talk to white reporters. She just straight-up said that she didn&#8217;t want to deal with them. Again, there was mostly a collective shrug from reporters in the city. Watch:
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Lightfoot never apologized for that. And why would she? She understands that in Chicago — the third biggest city in the United States — open anti-white race hate isn&#8217;t just tolerated, it&#8217;s popular.
Again there are many more examples. In the wake of George Floyd&#8217;s overdose, Rice University students <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/rice-university-black-house-statue-demolition-demands" target="_blank" rel="noopener">demanded</a> the construction of a literal &#8220;Black House&#8221; on campus, along with segregated housing. And last year, the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/08/19/off-campus-uc-berkeley-housing-bans-white-people-from-common-areas/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that an off-campus housing co-op at U.C. Berkeley had banned white people from the common areas. This is a five-story building called the &#8220;Person of Color Theme House.&#8221;
Here&#8217;s an excerpt from the house rules: 
<blockquote>Many POC moved here to be able to avoid white violence and presence, so respect their decision of avoidance if you bring white guests. &#8230; White guests are not allowed in common spaces.</blockquote>
In fact, some white guests weren&#8217;t allowed at all. As one student reported, &#8220;‘[I] was not allowed to let my dad enter the house because he’s white.&#8221;
If you&#8217;re wondering where Berkeley&#8217;s administration stood on all of this, the answer is that they support it. Anti-white hatred is endemic at the university. Three years ago, in the summer of George Floyd, a third-year student named Seth Smith was shot in the back of the head, execution-style, while he was out for a walk. Smith&#8217;s killer was a black career criminal who mocked Smith for being white when he was arrested.
How did Berkeley administrators respond to this incident? The chancellor released this statement: &#8220;Many of you may have had a close relationship with Seth and are feeling a sense of loss and disbelief. Others, like many of us, are experiencing stress, grief and anxiety related to the coronavirus pandemic and the recent murders of George Floyd, Riah Milton, and other Black Americans.&#8221;
In other words, sorry about the white kid who just got murdered. But isn&#8217;t the death of George Floyd — a felon with no connection whatsoever to Berkeley — also really upsetting? That&#8217;s what they said. Imagine being one of Seth Smith&#8217;s friends or family members and seeing that email. You&#8217;d understand the message immediately, which is that white people don&#8217;t matter.
This is a message that Berkeley has communicated a lot recently, in various ways. For example, the university recently held a blacks-only graduation ceremony. They&#8217;ve been doing this every year for a while now, but earlier this year one clip went viral. Watch:
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This is state-funded segregation. And there are many more examples of it, outside of the Bay Area. As of 2019, more than 75 universities in this country <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/red-alert-politics/more-than-75-colleges-host-blacks-only-graduation-ceremonies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">offer</a> black-only graduation ceremonies. The actual number by now is probably much higher. Harvard still hosts &#8220;affinity celebrations&#8221; for graduates, which are subdivided by skin color. White people, of course, are the only racial group that doesn&#8217;t get one.
What&#8217;s important to keep in mind is that none of these incidents were national scandals, although they obviously should have been. In many cases, the people being discriminated against don&#8217;t seem to mind that much. Those impacted by these policies could file lawsuits and, even in our court system, easily win them. A lot of this stuff just isn’t remotely legal. But nobody challenges it. Nobody sues. Nobody even objects, most of the time. And because of that ambivalence, &#8220;racial equity&#8221; is rapidly becoming what it was always going to become, which is the return of racial segregation.

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Students at UC Berkeley stormed the football game on Saturday between USC and Cal Berkeley and are threatening a hunger strike if a female professor is not reinstated after being suspended amid allegations of sexual harassment and stalking.
The students are angered that professor Ivonne del Valle, the only first-generation Mexican female professor at Berkeley, was suspended for allegedly harassing, stalking, and then retaliating against UC Davis professor Joshua Clover, The Post Millennial <a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/uc-berkeley-students-storm-field-during-football-game-to-protest-firing-of-professor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Del Valle allegedly began stalking and harassing Clover in 2018 and continued her campaign against him until 2022, claiming without evidence that he had hacked her phone and computer, according to KQED.
“Professor del Valle isn’t just any faculty member, she’s the top expert in colonial studies,” Berkeley sophomore Emily Chamale said during a protest last month against del Valle’s suspension, <a href="https://www.kqed.org/news/11965822/uc-berkeley-students-threaten-hunger-strike-to-reinstate-professor-suspended-for-stalking" target="_blank" rel="noopener">KQED reported</a>. “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?”
Christián González Reyes, a Ph.D. student, was quoted as saying: “We want Ivonne back. We’re not going to be silent anymore.”
What led to del Valle’s suspension was a series of investigations by Berkeley and del Valle’s own admission that she had keyed Clover’s car, scrawled messages outside his apartment, called his friends and mother, and called his office phone line at least 10 times within an hour and a half. Del Valle claimed her actions were due to being hacked, but the evidence she provided to KQED did not support her claims and did not point to Clover as a culprit.
“I did write outside his door, ‘Here lives a pervert.’ I did that. And again, I’m not proud,” del Valle told the outlet. “If I had the opportunity to do things differently, I would do them differently.”
She also acknowledged going to Clover’s mother’s home, but claimed the message she left was not a threat. She also denied that her behavior was sexual harassment. Del Valle also admitted to posting an image of Clover’s partner online.
UC Berkeley spokesperson Janet Gilmore declined to comment on the specifics of the case to KQED.
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Three investigations were conducted into del Valle’s behavior between 2019 and 2022, but the first complaint came in May 2018, after del Valle began sending Clover Twitter messages telling him that someone was bothering her and calling her names. Del Valle had met Clover after he spoke at Berkeley.
The first investigation found that del Valle, who has taught at Berkeley since 2009 and has tenure, had violated the university’s policies against stalking and sexual harassment.
“The evidence additionally demonstrates that Respondent monitored, followed, observed, and threatened Complainant, both electronically and in person, and interfered with his property,” the report said, according to KQED.
Del Valle claimed her actions against Clover were an attempt to defend herself after university officials and police didn’t take her concerns about hacking seriously. She provided the news outlet with documentation regarding an analysis of her laptop and cellphone. Her cellphone had been compromised, but the computer was not hacked, according to the analysis. The analysis does not point to Clover, or anyone else, hacking her devices.
Berkeley found “insufficient evidence” to support claims that Clover “engaged in any hacking of Respondent’s electronic devices and is harassing or stalking her online.”
Del Valle also claimed that after she would sent messages to friends or family on her phone or computer, Clover would tweet about similar topics. The evidence she provided to the news outlet, however, did not show any sort of eavesdropping.
Del Valle sent KQED the 261 pages of documentation she sent to Berkeley regarding the alleged hacking. A Berkeley investigator wrote that substantiating her claims were outside their scope but that it did not negate the fact that del Valle’s conduct “would cause a reasonable person to fear for their safety or suffer substantial emotional distress.”
At one point in the report, del Valle admitted to knocking on Clover’s apartment door and saying she “was not leaving until he opened the door and explained what he was doing by hacking her.” She then slid a note under his door that said: “If you make me leave, it’ll be worse.”
Del Valle later left Clover a voicemail claiming: “I can do whatever the f*** I want piece of s***” and “You need to still call me and apologize or you’ll see what I’m going to do.”
Del Valle would go on to key Clover’s car and vandalize his apartment, leading to Clover moving in large part due to a “persistent sense of and considerable lack of safety,” according to a report.
In a 2020 settlement agreement, del Valle was required not to contact Clover or his friends, family, or students. One year later, she violated that no-contact order by leaving messages near Clover’s mother’s home, as well as other violations, according to an investigation. This was determined in Berkeley’s second investigation into her contact, which resulted in a nine-month suspension.
In 2022, Berkeley conducted a third investigation which found that del Valle violated the no-contact order. This time, she asked police for help using social media, and posted a photo of Clover’s partner online.
Del Valle told KQED that she has been living out of suitcases since her suspension, and that she could lose her tenure and be fired if she doesn’t accept an 18-month suspension Berkeley has offered.
“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.”
For his part, Clover in 2014 tweeted that he was thankful that all living police officers “would one day be dead” and has advocated for killing cops, suggesting shooting them in the back.
While UC Berkeley students are currently protesting to stop a professor from being punished for sexual harassment and stalking, students in the recent past have advocated for harsher punishments for just such accusations.
In 2016, students <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/apr/11/uc-berkeley-sexual-harassment-scandal-protests" target="_blank" rel="noopener">protested</a> in order to get assistant professor Blake Wentworth punished after the university found him responsible for making offensive sexual remarks toward two graduate students, Kathleen Gutierrez and Erin Bennett. In that instance, students protested the school’s lack of action, even holding a press conference. At the time, Wentworth was the latest in a line of male Berkeley employees to be accused of sexual offenses that were not punished adequately, according to students.

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A University of California, Berkeley professor is warning law firms not to hire some of his students, who he says are &#8220;anti-Semitic.&#8221;
Steven Davidoff Solomon, who teaches corporate law at the University of California, Berkeley, made the accusation against his students in a Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/dont-hire-my-anti-semitic-law-students-protests-colleges-universities-jews-palestine-6ad86ad5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">op-ed</a> titled, &#8220;Don’t Hire My Anti-Semitic Law Students.&#8221;
“My students are largely engaged and well-prepared, and I regularly recommend them to legal employers,” Solomon wrote. “But if you don’t want to hire people who advocate hate and practice discrimination, don’t hire some of my students.&#8221;
Solomon&#8217;s op-ed comes after the terrorist group Hamas launched deadly attacks on Israel earlier this month that killed more than 1,400 people, including children. Israel is now waging a massive counteroffensive, <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-hamas-war-gaza-palestinians-death-toll-ground-offensive-expected/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">launching</a> airstrikes in Hamas-controlled territory and preparing for a ground offensive.
Last year, nine UC Berkeley student groups adopted a rule banning pro-Israel speakers from events, <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/09/30/uc-berkeley-blasted-for-creating-jewish-free-zones-with-pro-israel-speaker-ban/">according</a> to the New York Post. The bylaw was written by the Berkeley Law Students for Justice in Palestine and states that the groups &#8220;will not invite speakers that have expressed interest and continue to hold views, host, sponsor or promote events in support of Zionism, the apartheid state of Israel and the occupation of Palestine.”
The Students for Justice in Palestine <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/10/16/uc-berkeley-law-professor-urges-firms-to-not-hire-his-antisemitic-students/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> the rule is aimed at protecting “the safety and welfare of Palestinian students.”
Solomon accused the student groups of failing to include Jewish law students in the conversation when they circulated the rule.
“It was rightly criticized for creating ‘Jew-free’ zones,” Solomon wrote.
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“The student conduct at Berkeley is part of the broader attitude against Jews on university campuses that made last week’s massacre possible,” the law professor wrote. “It is shameful and has been tolerated for too long.”
Solomon called on law firms who are considering hiring his students to “treat these law students like the adults they are” during the hiring process.
“If a student endorses hate, dehumanization or anti-Semitism, don’t hire him. When students face consequences for their actions, they straighten up,” he wrote.
Students at other schools who expressed anti-Israel sentiments have been criticized by potential employers as well. At least 10 CEOs and other executives <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/major-ceos-back-call-not-to-hire-pro-hamas-harvard-students" target="_blank" rel="noopener">backed</a> a call last week not to hire Harvard University students who signed on to a letter blaming Israel for Hamas&#8217; deadly attacks.
Also last week, a law firm <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/11/us/nyu-law-harvard-hamas-israel.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rescinded</a> its job offer to a New York University law student who made what the firms said were “inflammatory comments” about Hamas’ attack.

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Elizabeth Hoover, an environmental science <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/colleges" target="_blank" rel="noopener">professor</a> at the University of California, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/university-of-california-berkeley" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Berkeley</a>, apologized on Monday after she was accused of falsely claiming to have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/native-americans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Native American</a> heritage.
The academic released a lengthy “letter of apology and accountability” on her personal <a href="https://www.profelizabethmhoover.com/identity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a> expressing regret for the “hurt, harm, and broken trust” she caused by asserting that she has Mohawk and Mi’kmaq ancestry. She admitted that she had benefited from programs and funding opportunities which were “identity-related or geared towards under-represented people.”
“I hurt Native people who have been my friends, colleagues, students, and family, both directly through fractured trust and through activating historical harms,” Hoover wrote, adding, “I have negatively impacted people emotionally and culturally. For this hurt I have caused, I am deeply sorry.”
Hoover had already released an <a href="https://www.profelizabethmhoover.com/identity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">apology</a> in October rescinding her claims to Native American identity, explaining she had been told by her parents that she had associations with the two tribes but noting that census records do not substantiate the claims. Students at Berkeley drafted a collective <a href="https://dailycal.org/2022/12/07/nothing-was-being-done-community-demands-elizabeth-hoovers-resignation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> one month later asking for her resignation, garnering more than 350 signatures from faculty members, organizations, and prior associates of Hoover.
“Growing up I did not question who I was told I was, or how I identified. But as an adult, as an academic, I should have done my due diligence to confirm that my ancestors were who I was told they were,” Hoover continued. “In my twenties and thirties, I lived in different Native communities, where I knew I did not have the breadth and depth of connection that these folks had to Native family, history, and culture. At the time I wrongly felt that my distant connection was enough for me to claim a Native identity alongside them.”
Hoover promised that she would make donations to Native American “farm, food sovereignty, and educational programs,” as well as put away her “dance regalia, ribbons skirts, moccasins, and Native jewelry.” She also vowed to direct future research toward “supporting people and communities with whom I have an authentic relationship and will accept spaces where communities ask me to step back” as part of her “restorative justice” efforts.
Many white academics have incorrectly asserted that they have minority heritage in recent years. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat from Massachusetts and a former Harvard Law School professor, infamously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/not-kidding-warren-speaks-at-native-american-caucus-meeting-for-dnc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> she was a Cherokee for nearly four decades but apologized to the nation in 2019 after a genetic test confirmed that she was as little as 0.1% Native American. Jessica Krug, a former history professor at George Washington University, resigned three years ago after she falsely <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/professor-of-african-history-admits-masquerading-as-black-woman-for-years" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed</a> for years to be African American, and Kelly Sharp, a former professor at Furman University, resigned months later after she incorrectly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/another-white-professor-resigns-after-claiming-to-be-person-of-color" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed</a> to be Chicana.
Adrienne Keene, an ethnic studies professor at Brown University and a member of the Cherokee nation who previously worked with Hoover, published a <a href="https://nativeappropriations.com/2023/05/a-letter-to-elizabeth-hoover.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> on Tuesday containing extensive research she had conducted into the Hoover family in an unsuccessful attempt to verify their Native American associations.
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“I found no Indigenous ties on the lines that she had claimed, tracing back to her great-great-great grandparents,” Keene remarked. “Her story fell apart very quickly, within a few clicks, but the subsequent months were spent trying every avenue to find something that would explain her claims, triangulating and triple checking, looking in new databases, finding more and new documents, or going back another generation.”
Hoover appeared on an “Alleged Pretendian List,” a spreadsheet created by an activist to expose white people who falsely claimed Native American ethnicity, more than two years ago. Keene had initially started the research in order to exonerate Hoover.

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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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