The New York Times, July 25, 2009 by Peter Baker and Helene Cooper
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/25/us/politics/25gates.html?_r=1
Christopher Edley Jr., a former adviser to President Bill Clinton on race issues and now law school dean at the University of California, Berkeley, said the episode dispelled the “rosy hopefulness” stemming from Mr. Obama’s election “in case anybody needed more evidence that we’re not beyond race.”
The Media Institute, July 24, 2009 by Peter S. Menell
http://www.mediainstitute.org/new_site/IPI/072409_ChilledInnovations.php
Digital innovation and commercialization that could potentially contribute to copyright infringement has been far from retreat. Each month brings new digital technologies—iPod, image search engines, MySpace, YouTube, Facebook, Google’s Book Search, BitTorrent, iPhone, Twitter, Kindle 2.0—many of which could be (and have been) portrayed as facilitating copyright infringement. The development and commercialization of these technologies suggest that the cloud of liability has not throttled the digital innovation pipeline.
The National Law Journal, July 24, 2009 by Amanda Bronstad
http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202432528463&Pay_cuts_coming_at_the_University_of_Californias_law_schools_&slreturn=1
“I wanted to do everything possible to avoid, or at the least minimize, repercussions for our [law] community once details would eventually materialize,” said Berkeley Dean Christopher Edley Jr. in a memo on July 24 to faculty and staff. Edley serves on the newly formed Commission on the Future of UC, which is recommending changes to the university system in light of the budget reductions. “With the support and creative thinking of managers and staff from every quarter of the law school, I believe we have been pretty successful in this effort,” he said.
KGO-TV, July 23, 2009 by Cecilia Vega
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/state&id=6930588
UC Berkeley law professor and criminologist Jonathan Simon says the fears are unfounded, just the phrase “early release” has become a political lightening rod. “Release is getting to be one of those words, sort of like taxes, where you have to invent new words to describe what you’re doing because they’ve become so politicized,” said Simon.
-The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 22, 2009 by Marc Beja
http://chronicle.com/article/Online-Campus-Could-Solve-Many/47432/
My primary passions are in the racial-justice arena, and it’s perfectly predictable that underrepresented minorities will increasingly be left behind unless we find new strategies … Many transfer-ready students in the community-college system were opting to go to the University of Phoenix rather than go to UC. Even more surprising, this phenomenon was disproportionately true for blacks and Latinos. My hypothesis is that it is because of the convenience—the ability to do part-time, anytime course work, the ability to work part time, stay at home, et cetera.
– KPCC, Southern California Public Radio, July 23, 2009 by Patt Morrison
http://www.scpr.org/news/2009/07/23/online-education-extends-public-high-school-and-po/
“We want to pull together classes that have enough coherence so that you’d be able to take majors and graduate fully with online courses, rather than a course here and a course there to augment what is basically an on-campus experience. It’s got to be more complete and more strategically assembled.”
Los Angeles Times, July 22, 2009 by Kristin Luker
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/opinionla/la-oew-luker22-2009jul22,0,7035500.story
The “staff” lurking in the background of the Cooter and Edlin Op-Ed article are disproportionately women and people of color, and they work for wages even further below the prevailing market because they lack the bargaining power of professors and the ability to pull up stakes to move to better options. More important, many of them work at UC because they have a moral commitment to what the university system represents at its best: a chance for a better future for individuals and for communities. Yet their contributions are often invisible precisely because of who they are.
The Christian Science Monitor, July 21, 2009 by Warren Richey
http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2009/07/21/will-guantanamo-close-on-time/
Talks with allies in Europe suffered a setback when Congress barred the administration from bringing detainees to the US other than for prosecution. The move undercut US credibility in asking its allies to help close Guantánamo when the US itself is unwilling to accept detainees. “It is not just that Congress has acted. This is a policy statement from the legislature that is directly at odds with the president’s policy for [Guantánamo’s] closure,” says Laurel Fletcher.
NPR.org, July 21, 2009 by NPR staff and wire services
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106850202
These latest cuts come on top of billions already trimmed from the California budget earlier this year. “It’s a bit of a shell game,” said Alan Auerbach, a University of California, Berkeley economics professor. “Clearly, they are using some shifting of the timing of revenues” to make up some of the shortfall, “but there are some real, significant cuts here.”
The Dallas Morning News, July 19, 2009 by Diane Jennings
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/DN-familyexperts_19met.ART.State.Edition1.4b90e00.html
Zimring says the laws allowing juvenile registration are an accidental byproduct of adult policies. “Nobody is making policy for 12-year-olds in American legislatures,” the professor says. “What they’re doing is they’re making crime policy and then almost by accident extending those policies to 12-year-olds—with poisonous consequences.” Zimring thinks it’s inappropriate to register anyone adjudicated as a juvenile…. “We have a cure for youth crime,” he says. “It’s growing up.”
San Francisco Chronicle, July 17, 2009 by Mike Stobbe
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/07/17/national/a161229D59.DTL&type=printable
“The government paid out quite a bit of money,” said Stephen Sugarman, a law professor who specializes in product liability at the University of California at Berkeley. Vaccines aren’t as profitable as other drugs for manufacturers, and without protection against lawsuits “they’re saying, ‘Do we need this?'” Sugarman said.