Students call for resignation of top UC Berkeley officials

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Students call for resignation of top UC Berkeley officials

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UC Berkeley Vice Chancellor Harry Le Grande speaks to the protesters on Sproul Plaza.

By Soumya Karlamangla | Senior Staff
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Sunday, November 13, 2011 at 1:40 pm
Updated Sunday, November 13, 2011 at 2:17 pm

A group of UC Berkeley students has launched a petition demanding the resignation of four top UC Berkeley officials, including Chancellor Robert Birgeneau, for what it calls “their betrayal of the people’s trust” during the Nov. 9 Day of Action and Occupy Cal demonstrations.

 

The petition, which has 54 signatures as of the time this post was written, calls on Birgeneau, Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Harry Le Grande, UCPD Chief Mitch Celaya and Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost George Breslauer to step down immediately, condemning  “the gross violations of Constitutional protections and basic principles of human decency that they sanctioned on Wednesday.”

 

Read the petition here:

 

Resign, effective immediately.

The U.C. Berkeley Faculty Caucus has begun gathering signatures for a petition decrying the use of violence against peaceful protesters on campus on November 9th, 2011, and calling for a statement of no confidence in Chancellor Birgeneau and his administration. We — a coalition of graduate and undergraduate students of the University of California and allies of public education more broadly — wish to go further.

We are calling on U.C. Berkeley Chancellor Birgeneau, U.C. Berkeley Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Breslauer, U.C. Berkeley Vice Chancellor LeGrande and U.C. Berkeley Chief of Police Celaya to resign, effective immediately.

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It is a fascinating juxtaposition: This versus what is happening in Pennsyulvania. There, students rioted to protest the firing of a pedophile-protecting president. I wonder if any of the rioters ever heard of the Franklin scandal? I wonder if they will ever understand that they were rioting to protect a pedophile ring that runs to the very highest places in the government? I wonder if any of them look at what is going on at UC and think "Man, we riot over bullshit while other students are getting beaten for exercising their Constitutionally defined rights? They appear to care more about winning a football game than protecting children from pedophiles. If they were all I knew, I would say "This is generation fucked up." But there are those students at UC, proving that our youth is not lost, and there are many of them standing tall and offering a promise of a better future.