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UC Berkeley Chancellor Was Aware of Baton Use

February 22, 2012 | Comments (1) | Post a comment

BERKELEY, Calif. — E-mails revealing that UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau was informed batons were being used to forcibly remove student Occupy protestors have recently surfaced. The use of force has since been called excessive by students, faculty and others.

A campus Police Review Board is investigating the Nov. 9 protest to determine who authorized the use of batons by police, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. Birgeneau told faculty that he had explicitly prohibited police from using tear gas or pepper spray, but did not admit to knowing that police used batons in two open letters to the campus community.

The E-mails prompted the Faculty Senate to pass four resolutions disapproving of Birgeneau's handling of the protest at its November meeting.

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Chancellor Birgeneau’s campus police deployed violent baton jabs on Cal. students protesting Birgeneau’s tuition increases. The sky will not fall when Birgeneau and his $450,000 salary are ousted. Opinions make a difference; email UC Board of Regents marsha.kelman@ucop.edu UC Berkeley (UCB) pulls back access and affordability to instate Californians. Chancellor Robert J Birgeneau displaces Californians qualified for public Cal. with a $50,600 payment from born abroad foreign and out of state affluent students. And, foreign and out of state tuition is subsidized in the guise of diversity while instate tuition/fees are doubled. UCB is not increasing enrollment. Birgeneau accepts $50,600 foreign students and displaces qualified instate Californians (When depreciation of Calif. funded assets are included (as they should be), out of state and foreign tuition is more than $100,000 + and does NOT subsidize instate tuition). Like Coaches, Chancellors Who Do Not Measure-Up Must Go.

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