Author: Sander Timmer

PhD student in computational genetics at Cambridge University and EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute
Interesting blog post about the student demonstrations at Berkeley

Interesting blog post about the student demonstrations at Berkeley

Interesting blog post about the student demonstrations at Berkeley

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2 UC chancellors, 2 police assaults, no coincidence
I teach at UC Berkeley and my brother teaches at UC Davis, so I’ve been a bit preoccupied trying to figure out why our two campuses have all of a sudden become ground zero in the institutional repression of student speech. Is it some kind of accident that both Berkeley’s Chancellor Birgeneau and Davis’s Chancellor Katehi decided to insist on a zero tolerance policy against students putting up tents and give police carte blanche to enforce it? I don’t think so.
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