UC Berkeley finds exciting new way to comply in advance

FAM, is it good when a school returns a list of alleged dissidents to a repressive regime? Because it is apparently the stadium of fascism in which we are currently.

A spokesperson for the California University campus in Berkeley confirmed that the school gave the administration A list of 160 student names, teachers and staff who have a “potential link with alleged anti -Semitism reports”.

A “potential connection” with an “presumed” event. It’s vague! And bad! And could collect a lot of people!

People on the list learned about it via a generic letter that the school did not even bother to personalize, with letters addressed to “dear member of the Berkeley community”. Wouldn’t you have been able to do a merger of mail at least? The best – the worst – Partly? Berkeley did not tell people on the list they had given their information to the government until Two weeks later.

According to the school, they had no choice but to do so in the context of “the investigation” on the “anti -Semitic harassment” reports led by the Office of Civil Rights of the Ministry of Education. These probes are simulations that do not look like real surveys. Indeed, it does not seem possible to locate the results of the so-called survey, although OCR ensured make What schools were targeted.

Real OCR reports – even those who released during the first term of President Donald Trump – Look like thatAn investigation into the non-compliance of Berkeley to respond appropriately to allegations of sexual harassment. He details a two -year investigation which involved nine visits to the OCR campus. Investigators examined for four years of student complaints and provided details on each. They organized students’ discussion groups. They made detailed results for each complaint and included all the applicable laws and regulations.

On the other hand, we have very little information on what the OCR found exactly with regard to anti -Semitism in Berkeley. University officials clearly have information, which can agree to throw 160 members of the Berkeley community under the bus. But no one else has the most vague idea what’s going on, including people on the list. No one knows the inclusion criteria on the list, and no one has been informed of what they participated. Even more disclosure names may be necessary. Tremendous.

It is not a mystery what the Trump administration plans to do with a list of people he claims to be anti -Semitic. The State Department has already revoked The international visas of nearly two dozen students from the school, and the school seems to have thrown more people in the gaping and vicious mouth of the administration.

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Berkeley seems to go down the way from Columbia University forged. This school is “settlement“With the administration involved accepting a”Resolution monitor“To assess Columbia’s compliance with the agreement. This resolution monitor is authorized to access all documents and unavied data that it “judges reasonably necessary” to determine compliance. The agreement also gives the government access to “all Columbia staff, employees, installations, documents and data relating to the agreement, to the non -unreasonable measure” unless the legal privilege.

Thus, basically, Columbia agreed to directly monitor the government.

Even schools that cannot be characterized as awakened bastions, such as the George Mason University, found themselves in the administration’s reticle. In this case, the administration asked the Virginia school turnover Recordings on how students have been disciplined, which is essentially like a fishing expedition.

Berkeley partially justifies its actions by saying that the administration currently retains $ 500 million in federal research grants from the UCLA, and the UC system “negotiates” with the administration on this subject because it now wants $ 1 billion school… to recover $ 500 million.

The administration uses its power to extort universities and force them to compromise the safety and autonomy of students, teachers and staff, and it is quite depressing that Berkeley seems so eager to help with the latter.