An Open Letter to Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau, University of California Berkeley
Dear Chancellor Birgeneau,
We write this letter in response to your email sent out on Friday, November 20, 2009, at 10:49pm (posted here), regarding Berkeley’s campus-wide protest of UC fee hikes, lay-offs and other cuts that have decreased the accessibility and quality of public education across the University of California’s campuses. We feel that this email misrepresented Friday’s protests and is a disservice to the democratic debate that continues over the UC regents’ actions. …
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