The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 25, 2009 by Mary Ann Mason
http://chronicle.com/jobs/news/2009/03/2009032501c.htm
Role models, particularly ones with children, can make the difference in whether a female graduate student takes the next big step along the tenure track. While undergraduates are influenced simply by seeing a female faculty member, graduate students need to see that she is able to have children as well as a career.
The New York Times, March 24, 2009 by Reed Abelson
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/25/health/policy/25medicare.html?pagewanted=print
“The Medicare program is a real success story,” said Jacob S. Hacker…. While private health insurance premiums increased an average of 7.3 percent annually from 1997 to 2006, Mr. Hacker said, Medicare spending per enrollee rose only 4.6 percent a year for the same benefits. Private insurers will be able to compete with a federal plan, he said, by offering a wider range of benefits and being more flexible in how they work with doctors and hospitals. “A lot of people are going to want to be in a private plan,” he said.
San Francisco Chronicle, March 21, 2009 by John Coté
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/21/MN0O16EVCR.DTL&type=printable
“There is a problem,” Commissioner David Onek said. “And so the question is what we should do about it.”
San Jose Mercury News, March 20, 2009 by Matt Krupnick
http://www.mercurynews.com/education/ci_11962421
Edley, who was on President Barack Obama’s transition team and who has held positions in two Democratic administrations, said he and others on campus are conflicted about how to handle Yoo…. “All of us need to work through the tension of the principles that preserve the excellence and independence of the university versus the principles that govern society.”
“A criminal conviction is not necessary,” said Christopher Kutz, a law professor and vice chairman of the UC Berkeley Academic Senate. But discipline based on anything less is “new territory, and it’s dangerous territory,” Kutz said.
The Daily Californian, March 20, 2009 by Arielle Turner
http://www.dailycal.org/printable.php?id=104964
Berring said the committee is looking for someone with a line of respected work and experience in the journalism industry. “You want a visionary that can come and make sure that the journalism school at Berkeley, which has been a leader in the field, stays a leader in the field,” Berring said. “Someone who … can help raise money to make that a reality.”
The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 20, 2009 by David Glenn
http://chronicle.com/weekly/v55/i28/28a01201.htm
Mr. Edley also says that a higher standard should apply to law professors and other instructors in professional schools. In those fields, Mr. Edley says, the university should investigate credible allegations of serious off-campus professional misconduct, even if a criminal conviction is nowhere in sight. “Law professors, after all, are charged with preparing the next generation of professionals to live their lives according to our ethical canons,” he says.
The New York Times, March 18, 2009 by Louise Story
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/19/business/19cuomo.html?pagewanted=print
Courts generally consider three factors in privacy cases: the delicacy of the data, its importance to public information and the harm that could come from releasing it, said Chris Hoofnagle, director of information privacy programs at the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology. “Courts almost never prohibit the government from getting data. The question is, can they publicly disclose it?” Mr. Hoofnagle said. “The taxpayer funding weighs in favor of disclosure, because of the public interest.”
San Jose Mercury News, March 17, 2009 by Pete Carey
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_11936205?source=most_emailed
University of California-Berkeley law and economics professor Daniel Rubinfeld said that in the current environment faced by newspapers, “the Justice Department needs to keep an open mind to the possibility of some kind of deal that makes the Bay Area’s newspapers viable.”
-San Francisco Chronicle, The Melting Pot, March 17, 2009 by Tyche Hendricks
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/nov05election/detail?entry_id=37114
“They were thinking it was going to be a hard confirmation and they didn’t want to expend the political capital,” UC Berkeley’s Maria Blanco told The Melting Pot. “If they weren’t willing to fight for him, what does it mean for immigration reform? That’s what everyone’s worried about.”
-Daily Journal, March 19, 2009 by Roberta Iafolla and Sandra Hernandez
http://www.dailyjournal.com/law/index.cfm (requires registration; go to G:\Law School in the News\News Clips for article)
The White House was particularly troubled over the controversy generated by Saenz’s successful legal challenges of local ordinances banning day laborers from city streets and of California’s Proposition 187, a 1994 voter initiative seeking to cut off services to undocumented immigrants, said Maria Blanco, executive director of UC Berkeley School of Law’s Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute.
-Daily Journal, March 30, 2009 by Roberta Iafolla
http://www.dailyjournal.com/law/index.cfm (requires registration; go to G:\Law School in the News\News Clips for article)
Saenz had been tapped to be the department’s assistant attorney general for civil rights, according to Maria Blanco, executive director of UC Berkeley School of Law’s Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Race, Ethnicity & Diversity and an adviser on the presidential transition team. But news that Saenz had been offered the position sparked harsh online criticism by conservative groups.
The New York Times, Room for Debate, March 17, 2009 by James P. Tuthill
http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/17/when-bonus-contracts-can-be-broken/#tuthill
“Payment of bonuses to employees who have wrought so much destruction and havoc on us all is simply ipso facto unconscionable, and a court should reform or invalidate the contracts…. If the employees’ acts have been so contrary to the interests of the shareholders, as is the case with A.I.G., then payment of the bonuses is unconscionable and the obligation can be voided.”