Contra Costa Times, April 4, 2009 by Christopher Edley Jr.
http://www.contracostatimes.com/opinion/ci_12065994
Berkeley administrators have spoken publicly and repeatedly about the importance of Professor Yoo’s academic freedom and First Amendment rights. During an interview with your reporter, I made it very clear that premature disciplinary procedures would raise a ‘McCarthy-era problem’…. Short of criminal conviction, the rules are somewhat vague, but the importance of academic freedom is not. Like others at Berkeley, I will watch developments regarding Professor Yoo carefully, even as we guard academic freedom zealously.