The Latest Breaking News from UC Berkeley

UC Berkeley cancels debate between senate candidates due to safety concerns amid campus protests.

While semesters at other schools speed toward a violent close, several universities have sought a more amicable solution

The university has said it won’t give in to students’ demands – but it has budged before

Spiraling pro-Palestinian protests that are rocking universities across the United States spread to more campuses Wednesday, triggering suggestions from House Speaker Mike Johnson that the National Guard could be brought in. More than 20 people have been detained.

The Wall Street Journal had an editorial this morning called "Defining Free Speech Down on Campus"; I agree that disruptive protests are unprotected by the First Amendment, but I think the editorial erred in its emphasis. The editorial begins by arguing that no First Amendment rights to protest on privately…

From NBC, what strikes me as a misleading characterization of Professor Catherine Fisk's confronting a student who pulled out a microphone to orate at a dinner organized at the professor's (and Dean Erwin Chemerinsky's) house.

House Education Committee investigates UC Berkeley's response to antisemitism on campus and its impact on Jewish students.

Johnson studied with Ansel Adams in the 1940s and became known as one of the foremost photographers of San Francisco's Black urban culture.

UC Berkeley condemns protest disrupting Jewish student event, launches criminal investigation into safety concerns.

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Police officers in riot gear have removed activists from Berkeley’s People’s Park and crews began placing double-stacked shipping containers to wall off the historic park overnight Thursday