Flash: U.C. Berkeley Faculty Senate Registers 10-1 Vote Condemning Administration...

Berkeley Daily Planet ^ | 11/28/11

[SmithL]

Flash: U.C. Berkeley Faculty Senate Registers 10-1 Vote Condemning Administration Response to Occupy Berkeley Protesters

The Berkeley Division of the University of California Faculty Senate endorsed, by a 10-1 margin (336-34), a group of four resolutions expressing, with varying degrees of specificity, their lack of confidence in the way Berkeley administrators have handled student protests.

Three U.C. Berkeley executives, Chancellor Robert Birgenau and two of his subordinates, attempted an explanation of their actions on November 9, when students and faculty were clubbed by police. They were greeted with stony silence by the faculty members in the front of the International House auditorium where the meeting was held, and with audible snickers from the students in the back of the room.

Professor Judith Butler, one of the sponsors of the original no-confidence resolution, moved the acceptance of her motion plus three more which had been submitted by other faculty members.

[freedumb2003]

The only thing more useless/meaningless than any Academic Senate is the UC Berkeley Academic Senate.

[Bosco]

Isn’t that kinda like Stalinists calling Leninists bad Communists?

[Tzimisce]

It wasn't a crime against humanity, it was pepper spray.

They spray cops in the face with the stuff as a part of police training.

I'm sure the cops asked these people nicely to move. I'm guessing why these people laid down and locked arms.

No - I've never been pepper sprayed. See when cops ask me to do something I do it.

[dynachrome]

Kampus by James Gunn

Dated, but some of it is set in Beserkley.

http://www.amazon.com/Kampus-James-Gunn/dp/0553026933/ref=tag_dpp_lp_edpp_ttl_in

“He depicts a future United States in which revolution has become a way of life on campus. The students rule the roost, at least in theory, and carry on meaningless “revolutionary” activities, while living a life of drug-addled self indulgence. Learning is chemically administered, and professors hawk their classes like barkers at a carnival.”

[FlingWingFlyer]

Aren’t these faculty goons the morons who trained the “occupy” monkeys to “occupy” in the first place?

[SaraJohnson]

This is the part where the Marxists all eat each other.

The well paid and under worked professors who are shaking down the students every day will quickly turn into union members leading the students against the big bad school administration lefties.

Pitiful.

[Volunteer]

Is Professor Butler part of the “Women’s Studies” program by any chance?

[Mike Darancette]

I’d suspend classes for the rest of the term, and the kids can camp out and play revolutionary all they want. Everyone gets an incomplete and they can argue for a loan refund or tell mom and dad to pay for taking the courses they missed over.

[VeniVidiVici]

Is Professor Butler part of the “Women’s Studies” program by any chance?

LOL! We'll let you draw your own conclusions.

[brent13a]

Excuse me, young man!?

That looks like a 16 year old bag-boy at the local grocery store.

[VeniVidiVici]

Definitely a “womyn”, eh?