UCB Chancellor Birgeneau resigns

If you are so inclined, put on your bullshit-detecting helmets and head over to the link. :D

One sentence I have some contention with: “We also have continuously invested in improving the undergraduate academic experience by updating classroom facilities with technology and adding Reading and Composition classes, gateway courses in the physical sciences, and foreign language courses.”

It would seem basic chair-and-table technology is BEYOND the scope of this, seeing as most classrooms I’m in don’t have enough chairs for the number of students enrolled in the class and most of the lab tables in leconte are seriously wobbly. But hey, man, THERE ARE TELEVISIONS IN GBC! AND THEY SHOW THE MENU! WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT THE OLD MENUS DID! ONLY NOW THEY’RE SHINY AND EXPENSIVE! </rant>

So yeah. You know Occupy will totally be taking at least some credit for this, even though the protests aren’t explicitly mentioned in the campus-wide email. 

Also, I want to state for the record, I don’t think Birgeneau is a bad guy (despite my bull-shit detecting comment). 

Anyways. Relevant. 

Struggling to Keep the Promise of Berkeley

Not Occupy per se, but definitely worth the read. 

dabbling:

sigh.

written by Nancy Scheper-Hughes, anthropology professor

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