Subject: University of California-Berkeley

• Out at School

  September 2, 1999

• Beating around the Bush, or not, in Irvine

  Good news for those of us who have never seen the power of a monarchy in action, and the servility it demands of its subjects. President Bush is extending his weekend trip to California, and will be visiting scenic Irvine on Monday. According to the Register, "Bush will speak to the Orange County Business Council between 8 and 9 a.m. at the Hyatt Regency Irvine". He'll be talking about immigration reform. So, if you want to get a look at the president... well, unless you're one of the preselect

  April 21, 2006

• Totally Stokked

  Beautiful Orange County high school student athlete gets inappropriate attention from voyeuristic losers all over the Internet. Beautiful Orange County high school student athlete's father is understandably upset about it. Beautiful Orange County high school student athlete's father makes his living defending Irvine cops who ejaculate on women during traffic stops. Where to start? Al Stokke's daughter, Allison, 18, is an extraordinary athlete, to say the least. She won a California stat

  June 5, 2007

• Sunday's Headlines & Surprises: OC Inspired Space Travel?

  California's Police State: Imagine you are a suspect and the police take your entire statement out of context by secretly recording only snippets that seem to incriminate you in a crime. Can’t happen? Think again. California police officers have won the right to selectively tape you. It’s the Rush Limbaugh method of police work and by any fair measure it’s disgraceful. Today, Register opinion writer Steven Greenhut slams Orange County state representative Todd Spitzer (R-Brea) for his att

  September 30, 2007

• David Horowitz at UCI last night

  David Horowitz descended on UCI last night as part of his nationwide tour condemning a national student group called Muslim Student Association—a group with more than 150 chapters in colleges all over the country. Horowitz, a famous right-wing nut jobber, is known for taking out provocative full-page ads in campus newspapers that say things like "black people don't deserve reparations for slavery," in advance of his speaking engagements during Black History Month, which would then cause all

  May 14, 2008

• HERE ALREADY

  January 6, 2000

• Wildfires Just a Sneak Preview?

  Ted Soqui shot this in Yorba Linda the weekend past. See his amazing slideshow here. Now that the fires have been contained, heroes have been identified, firefighting techniques have been blasted, causes have been zeroed in on, and our Last Action Hero Governor has likened the disaster to one of the crappiest action movies ever (Armageddon, which he didn’t even star in), some sobering news: Worse wildfires are likely a-comin’. So says a report released last week by UC Berkeley researchers

  November 19, 2008

• Sign From God? Rick Warren Shouted Down at MLK Service

  The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that protesters interrupted pastor Rick Warren's speech to a packed house for the annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day service at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta today--one day before the leader of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest is to deliver a controversy-seeped invocation at Barack Obama's inauguration in D.C.Several dozen gay activists critical of Warren's opposition to same-sex marriage had gathered outside Ebenezer before the service. Some hoisted

  January 19, 2009

• Torture Memo Author Finds Friends and Foes at Chapman U

  Perhaps some of you have a conservative uncle who says stupid things. You know, like the U.S. is not in debt to China, or that Barack Obama is a socialist or that George W. Bush won his presidential elections. Mine recently repeated the Bill O'Reilly/Rush Limbaugh/Attila the Hun yarn about all the students and professors at UC Berkeley being flaming liberals. I tried to politely bring up the stuntmeisters known as the Berkeley College Republicans, who in 2003 famously held an Affirmative Action

  February 16, 2009

• Nightlife Mogul Anton Posniak Had Plans for the OC Scene, But Now Has More Lawsuits Than Restaurants

  November 20, 2008

• The Weekly's Head Count of the 48 New Faces Who Want to Be Your Next Sheriff

  May 15, 2008

• Sister Knows Best

  If the nuns in charge of the St. Joseph Health System are so pro-labor,why are some of their employees determined to unionize?

  November 29, 2007

• "Only in New Jersey!"

  And other important "local" stories on Daybreak OC

  October 4, 2007

• Spain, Chapman University Debaters Are Out to Get John Yoo

  So the big question when John Yoo speaks at Chapman University next week about presidential power is: Will he be shackled? Probably not, seeing as how this is not Spain, but were Orange within the Iberian Peninsula nation and NATO ally, he'd be under criminal indictment for sanctioning torture at Guantánamo. The Fletcher Jones Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law's presence at Chapman certainly has sparked debate, and not just the one he's participating in Tuesday morning.The National Lawyer

  April 15, 2009

• Film

  March 24, 2005

• More Join Chapman U's Debate on John Yoo Torture Memos

  Clockwork informed you yesterday about controversial law professor John Yoo being at the center of two upcoming Chapman University School of Law debates, one he is participating in and another that he is not participating in. When it comes to Saturday's "Forum on National Security, Rule of Law & Torture: The Torture Memos of John Yoo," which the National Lawyers Guild hosts from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Kennedy Hall, Rooms 237 A&B, we'd noted the speakers Include Larry Everest, author of Oil

  April 16, 2009

• Hip! Hop! Shop!

  May 4, 2000

• 'Indians Scattered On Dawn's Highway Bleeding'

  Naw, just a bunch of white kids watching the Doors

  November 16, 2006

• Aural Reports

  February 16, 2006

• Diary of a Mad County

  Feb. 1 - Feb. 7

  February 9, 2006

• Stay Off My Lawn!

  July 28, 2005

• The Asian Persuasion

  July 14, 2005

• No Moore!

  December 9, 2004

• Hung Out to Dry

  April 15, 2004

• Of Time and the River

  March 11, 2004

• Bake-Off!

  October 23, 2003

• Letters

  September 18, 2003

• Poor, Drunk, Talented

  July 3, 2003

• As the World Burns

  April 10, 2003

• We Must Be Butter Cause Were on a Roll

  March 13, 2003

• Lost Year

  January 2, 2003

• Letters

  November 28, 2002

• It's the Economy, Stupid

  August 8, 2002

• A Very PhilDickian Existence

  July 4, 2002

• Going Deep

  August 16, 2001

• Nude! Nude! Nude!

  June 29, 2000

• Coming Out!

  August 19, 1999

• Pomp & Circumstances

  July 8, 1999

• A Gray Area

  June 3, 1999

• The Big Chill

  March 18, 1999

• Those Picket Signs?

  February 11, 1999

• Smile, You're on Candid Camera

  September 10, 1998

• Yoo in Clear or Not So Fast?

  World events are moving so fast and furious, one wonders how participants in the Saturday and Tuesday Chapman University School of Law debates featuring visiting professor and Bush White House torture enabler John Yoo at the center of each are keeping up with their talking points.CBSNews.com Legal Analyst Andrew Cohen: What a remarkably good day it has been for Alberto Gonzales, John Yoo, and Jay Bybee (who is now, inexplicably, a federal judge). In the span of just a few hours, those ignominiou

  April 17, 2009

• The Heat is Back on John Yoo

  Photo by Christopher VictorioYoo before his Chapman debate.The April 21 morning "terror memo" lawyer John Yoo appeared at the Chapman University debate, President Barack Obama said it would be up to his attorney general whether to prosecute former Bush administration advisors like Yoo. Since that day in Memorial Hall, the heat has turned up on AG Eric Holder to push the case forward, the U.S. Senate is leaning toward its own probe and, as many believed would happen, Spain's top investigative jud

  May 1, 2009

• More Controversy Dogs Yoo Amid Gig at "Teensy Joke of a College"

  Photo by Christopher VictorioYoo moves from "teensy joke" to Philly writing gig.Greg Sargent's The Plum Line blog on WhoRunsGov.com, a Washington Post site that runs online biographies of D.C. "players and personalities," has an interesting post on Bush White House torture memo writer John Yoo, the UC Berkeley law professor finishing up his spring semester visiting professor gig at Chapman University in Orange. In addition to those jobs, Yoo has been contracted since 2008 to write a monthly

  May 12, 2009

• John Yoo Stars in a Most Civilized Debate on Torture

  Photo by Christopher VictorioAs John Yoo makes his case, John C. Eastman is hard at think.Two days after Barack Obama's chief of staff said the administration was not inclined to back prosecutions against Bush lawyers who signed off on torture, the president backed off that statement today, saying he would leave that up to his attorney general. If this reversal bunched John Yoo's BVDs, he sure wasn't showing it inside Chapman University's Memorial Hall, where the controversial UC Berkeley law pr

  April 21, 2009

• Orange's Barrio Cypress Residents Fought the DA's Gang Injunction—and Won (Sort Of)

  May 28, 2009

• Padilla vs. Yoo: First of Many Such Cases to Come?

  Nick Schou blogged last week about a San Francisco federal judge having ruled that John Yoo, the UC Berkeley law professor who just finished a stint as a visiting professor at Chapman Law School, can "be held personally responsible for the indefinite military detention and alleged torture of an American citizen who was suspected of involvement with Al Qaeda." The U.S. citizen in question, Jose Padilla, is the alleged "Dirty Bomber" who was arrested in Chicago on May 8, 2002 and charged with plot

  June 22, 2009

• Irvine Spared in Professor's Plan to Close UC Campuses

  UCI.orgAll's quiet in the center of campus at "second-tier" UC Irvine.​Capitol Weekly reports about a radical proposal to spare the UC system major financial pain amid massive budget cuts: close three campuses.Don't worry: UC Irvine makes the cut. Barely.

  August 5, 2009

• UC Irvine's Day One Dance Trumps Walkouts

  Ho-hum, another first day of classes for the UC system, another student/faculty/staff walkout over budget cuts, tuition hikes and work furloughs. The photo roll above from UC Irvine is not only less inspiring than the ones from bastions of rabble-rousing UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz, but even bass ackwards UC Riverside's. UC RIVERSIDE!!!But UCI still managed to trump the other nine UC campuses on Day One when it came to the Forbidden Dance of Dissent . . .

  September 25, 2009