UC Berkeley: The Tents Are Up

In perusing this week’s edition of the Daily Californian, arguably the worst college newspaper in the nation (and that’s saying something), I see an article devoted to the encampment set up in front of Sproul Hall on the UC Berkeley campus, protesting the killing of Hamas terrorists by Israel. I see they have quoted none other than Malak Afaneh, a law student at Erwin Chemerinsky’s UCB Law School. She’s the one who crashed Chemo’s garden party a couple of weeks ago.

In the DC reader comment space, I expressed the thought that UCB should dismantle the encampment, but what’s the use since the inmates are running the institution at Berkeley, as they are running every university with a couple of exceptions. No doubt out-going chancellor Carol Christ (Rich Lyons will be the new caretaker effective July 1) is hiding under her desk. I could remind her that her office does have an escape tunnel built in. We only learned of that a few years ago when former chancellor Nicolas Dirks was pretending to run the university and the inmates were destroying property and setting fires.