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UC Berkeley Releases New SARS Plan, No Enrollment Bans Mentioned By Aron Ballard Contributing Writer Friday, August 22, 2003 Hoping to avoid the firestorm that erupted last spring over UC Berkeley's ban on students from SARS-affected regions, university officials released what they hope will be a more palatable plan in the event of another outbreak of SARS. The new guidelines, made public this week, are a clear break from UC Berkeley's controversial decision in May to limit summer enrollment of students from those regions. The plan calls for a swift response to any possible SARS cases in the area—actions...

Sunday, May 18, 2003 By Claudia Cowan SAN FRANCISCO — Like thousands of other conservative-minded college students across the country, some at U.C.-Berkeley (search) are waging war against what they call rampant liberalism on campuses. Their weapon: a right-leaning monthly newspaper called The California Patriot (search). “We like to be watchdogs,” said Seth Norman, the managing editor of the Patriot. In fact, more students than ever are taking their minority opinions into the public domain to balance out the messages their peers are getting in the classroom at school. From the Patriot and The Stanford Review to The Yale Free...

Date 5/2/2003 Sender Robert M. Berdahl, Chancellor To Academic Senate Faculty, All Academic Titles, Emeriti, Staff, Other Me Subject SARS Policy - Read Carefully Message To Members of the Berkeley Campus Community: The SARS task force has continued to meet and advise me on SARS related matters affecting the campus. As a result, I am now issuing updated policies and procedures. Please read this carefully and share it broadly. SARS CDC Definition Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) is an acute respiratory infection that has recently been reported in Asia, North America, and Europe. Signs and symptoms include: ** fever...

<p>The war in Iraq was initially billed as a cakewalk, the aftermath a triumphal celebration, but the Bush administration badly underestimated the difficulties of both war and peace. From Baghdad to Basra, in the past week Iraq's cities have less resembled Paris in 1944 than mayhem, "Lord of the Flies" style.</p>

<p>Captain Bill Cooper of the UC Berkeley police said today that 119 protesters have been arrested at a sit-in this afternoon in the lobby of Sproul Hall.</p> <p>Cooper said none of the protesters were charged with resisting arrest and were cited and released.</p>

Sodom and Gomorrah University Thank goodness for conservative college student journalists. They bravely blow the whistle on the cultural rot plaguing the nation's institutions of higher learning. And they alert the public to the ugly truth about campus hedonism, which is downplayed by clueless administrators, admissions flacks and faculty enablers. Just how dangerously out of control has the campus social environment become? A recent report by student journalists Seth R. Norman and Ashley Rudmann of the California Patriot (www.calpatriot.org), the conservative journal at the University of California-Berkeley, provides some hair-raising answers. According to Norman and Rudmann, anonymous gay sex seekers...

The "Star Spangled Banner" is too patriotic, divisive and political, so organizers of UC Berkeley's day-long tribute to the victims and heroes of 9-11 are excluding it. "God Bless America" is doubly excluded. Not only is it patriotic, but it also mentions God, something else that is taboo next Wednesday. The Sept. 11 Day of Remembrance, sponsored by the Chancellor's office, the student body government and the Graduate Assembly, will also feature student leaders distributing white ribbons, instead of the red, white and blue ones they had originally planned. "We thought that may be just too political, too patriotic," said...

School-sponsored 9-11 Remembrance Day to exclude patriotic symbols and religious references By Steve Sexton The "Star Spangled Banner" is too patriotic, divisive and political, so organizers of UC Berkeley's day-long tribute to the victims and heroes of 9-11 are excluding it. "God Bless America" is doubly excluded. Not only is it patriotic, but it also mentions God, something else that is taboo next Wednesday. The Sept. 11 Day of Remembrance, sponsored by the Chancellor's office, the student body government and the Graduate Assembly, will also feature student leaders distributing white ribbons, instead of the red, white and blue ones they...

Conservatives need not apply In our March issue, we reported in this space on some for-credit courses on offer at the University of California at Berkeley. There was a course in Blackjack, for students who hadn’t yet learned how to handle cards, and “Copwatch,” an important scholarly offering that, according to one description, advises students “how to safely and effectively assert their rights when interacting with the police.” The pièce de résistance, however, was a women’s studies course in male sexuality in which students visited strip clubs, wrote papers about their sexual fantasies, and watched an instructor having sex. Well,...

<p>America’s campuses are supposed to be places where ideas can be discussed openly and freely.</p> <p>Most Americans by now realize that the key word in the previous sentence is "supposed." But a recent event at San Francisco State University — and the way the university responds to it — may be pivotal in determining whether it will remain possible to take the academic claim to foster a diversity of ideas seriously any more.</p>

UC Berkeley administrators are reviewing how an English course focusing on the plight of Palestinians received approval for next fall even though it discourages conservative students from enrolling. The English R1A reading and comprehension course, titled "The Politics and Poetics of Palestinian Resistance," states in its course description that "conservative thinkers are encouraged to seek other sections"—a violation of the university's Faculty Code of Conduct. According to the course description, the class "takes as its starting point the right of Palestinians to fight for their own self-determination." "The brutal Israeli military occupation of Palestine, an occupation that has been ongoing...