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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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.”
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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
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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>
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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.

Mohawk Indian

Berkeley Prof Sorry After Native American Lineage Exposed As Lie

Berkeley Professor Issues Letter Of 'Accountability' For Falsely Claiming To Be Native American

Academia

Native Americans

Social Issues

Wokeness

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.

University Of California Proposes COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement Policy

Human Skeleton Found In Unused Building At University Of California-Berkeley

Crime

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;

‘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

Politics

Transgender

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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&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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UC Berkeley Halts Construction At People’s Park After Protests

‘I’m Not A Victim’: Hispanic College Student Condemns University Forcing ‘Social Justice’ On Her

Hispanics

Social Justice

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

Gavin Newsom

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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College Football

University of Southern California

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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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’

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