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Ever since Mario Savio climbed atop a police car and jump-started the Free Speech Movement in 1964, the University of California, Berkeley, has been synonymous with liberal causes. So the California Patriot comes as something of a surprise. On the walls of its editorial offices in a small house near the campus, campaign signs for nearly a dozen Republican candidates sit alongside a large American flag and a massive poster of George W. Bush. In its pages, articles argue against abortion and for war with Iraq. "At Berkeley's campus, you can only hear one side of any political...
Mixing an in-your-face style with right-of-center politics, the Patriot has courted controversy from the start: dubbing Berkeley Congresswoman Barbara Lee a "traitor" for casting the sole vote in the House against authorizing military force in response to the Sept. 11 attacks; calling for the bulldozing of People's Park, a local battleground of civil disobedience; describing the activities of a campus Mexican-American group as "Student Funded Bigotry and Hate." The February edition will celebrate Black History Month with an all-out assault on affirmative action. Says U.C. Berkeley political science professor Bruce Cain: "The right...
...Stocks And Glass Houses First it was Donald Rumsfeld attacking "old Europe." Now Alfred Berkeley, vice chairman of the NASDAQ stock market, says that Europeans seek "to pull us down to their own miserable levels of opportunity and performance." He cast this hostile stone in a letter last week to the U.S. Financial Accounting Standards Board, lobbying against a proposal from the International Accounting Standards Board that would count stock options as expenses. As corporate scandals mounted last year, the idea got high-profile support from investors like Warren Buffett. But Berkeley's attack - he also slams accountants, "the shareholder...
...Berkeley said he worries that removing CSX’s lines would mean an influx of unwanted freight traffic on Allston’s roads and on the nearby Turnpike, some of which would carry hazardous materials formerly transported by rail...
...professors point to their own colleagues as more likely contenders. Attracting external candidates may prove to be more difficult, they said, particularly in light of increased national competition from other universities that are also conducting law school dean searches—including New York University, University of California at Berkeley, University of Michigan, and Georgetown University...