San Francisco Examiner, October 26, 2009 by Tamara Barak Aparton and Mike Aldax
http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/Security-cameras-failed-at-bad-time-65962007.html
“The video doesn’t give all the answers, but you’d rather have it than not,” Sklansky said.
California Energy Circuit, October 16, 2009 by Elizabeth McCarthy
http://www.californiaenergycircuit.net (requires registration; go to G:\Law School in the News\News Clips for article)
“Some executive orders are largely ceremonial and without legal clout, and this may be one of them,” said Steven Weismann, University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall lecturer and Associate Director for the Center for Law, Energy, and the Environment.
NPR, All Things Considered, October 26, 2009 by Martin Kaste
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=114163862
“As there’s been growing awareness of how commercial data brokers operate, they’ve become more secretive,” Hoofnagle says…. “If consumers knew the extent to which this data was being collected and repackaged, there would be riots in streets.”
CNET News, October 22, 2009 by Erica Ogg
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31021_3-10381354-260.html
“There are companies that are patent trolls, that don’t participate in the creation of technology, or they secretly acquire them. Nokia’s not one of these companies…. They’re probably not trying to put Apple out of business … but force Apple to play the same game that every other phone company has to play.”
-The Wall Street Journal, October 22, 2009 by Kelly Evans
http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2009/10/22/is-obamas-health-care-push-jeopardizing-education-reform/
Christopher Edley Jr., dean of the University of California-Berkeley’s School of Law, said the President’s transition team—of which he was a member—had a difficult time whittling down its priorities. “We tried to make a list of just two or three things and couldn’t do it,” he said.
-October 22, 2009 Moderator Alan Murray
http://online.wsj.com/video/the-barriers-to-education-reform/7C6D7249-D62B-461A-A10C-7F27D8233D7B.html
“You have to appreciate that overwhelming advice, non-stop for the last year and a half, has been ‘Forget about education; do that later.’ And he keeps putting it up there; he keeps pushing it to the front burner so I think there’s no issue there about the fact that the President understands it, he understands the importance of it with respect to the economy. The question is whether or not he’s going to pick the right strategy to advance the program.”
-October 26, 2009 Moderator Alan Murray
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052748704754804574491180197671224.html
If this really is a national priority, both with respect to opportunity and with respect to competitiveness, you have to ask yourself whether a 19th century model for financing and governing K-12 is going to work in this century, and I profoundly believe the answer is no.
-NBC Today, October 20, 2009 Hosts Al Roker and Natalie Morales
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33247001/
“Parents feel like this is their own private struggle and it’s so frustrating for them. They’re afraid to go to their employer and say, ‘Listen, I need some flexibility, or I need to know when I’m going to work.’ We’re the only industrialized country that doesn’t have paid maternity leave and we’re one of just a handful that doesn’t have paid parental leave for fathers.”
-KCRW, Which Way, L.A.? October 21, 2009 Host Warren Olney
http://www.kcrw.com/news/programs/ww/ww091021afghanistans_run-off
“One of the things that has changed so much is not only that women are half the workforce, but also mothers are breadwinners in two-thirds of families, meaning they’re making as much or more than their husbands, but they’re doing it on their own, or they’re contributing significantly to the family income. So, as you suggested, it changes everything about how we structure our daily lives and how we structure our work places.”
-The Montel Williams Show, October 22, 2009 Host Montel Williams
http://airamerica.com/ondemand/10-22-2009/montel-10-22-2009-09-04-01/
“Even though women are half the work force, they still are largely concentrated in jobs that are lower-paying. They are in the health care fields, and they are in the education fields, and our teachers and our health aids are just not paid the same respect that we should be giving them. So it’s a start, but we have a lot of work to do to ensure that women get paid what they should be for these jobs.”
The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 21, 2009 by Mary Ann Mason
http://chronicle.com/article/Why-So-Few-Doctoral-Student/48872/
Why do so few people use the graduate-school years to start a family? After all, it’s a period when students have more flexible schedules and the possibility of a community with which to share the experience of parenting. These years offer many benefits for young parents.
PBS, The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer, October 20, 2009 by Spencer Michels
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/education/july-dec09/tenure_10-20.html
Christopher Edley, dean, U.C. Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law: While many students and faculty are critical of the Bush administration policies and even of some of John’s actions, they think that academic freedom means that his right to be here and to teach has to be protected, until or unless there’s some sort of a conviction.
Christopher Kutz, president, U.C. Berkeley Academic Senate: You need something more than simply incompetence to revoke a professor’s tenure, especially somebody who’s been hired, promoted, published in the top journals. John is one of the most prolific scholars on the Boalt faculty.
Jesse Choper, law professor: He gave them an approach that was wholly consistent with virtually everything he did as a scholar beforehand.
The Oakland Tribune, October 19, 2009 by Paul T. Rosynsky
http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/localnews/ci_13597069
“If there is ever a case you would expect a change of venue, it would be a case like this,” said David Sklansky, a professor at UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law. “I don’t think it was a shock.”
NPR, Weekend Edition, October 17, 2009 by Cyrus Farivar
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113883274
“Oh, I plan to receive a copy of that parking permit and put it to good use,” said Williamson, who’s the eighth Nobel laureate on Berkeley’s current faculty. “I think it ought to be automated, but apply if I must, apply I will,” he said.