UC Berkeley Police Chief Victoria Harrison lays a large one for all to see and smell. The following is an e-mail sent to all students of UC Berkeley regarding the tree-sitting protests that are occurring on campus. Indeed, the UC Police are fully in-line with its “long-standing tradition”, namely, fear-mongering and otherwise not making much sense.
If people in a tree pose a “threat” to the student populace, I suggest that the Chief take a stroll down Telegraph Ave. (a street adjacent to the Berkeley campus) and “protect” us from far more dangerous threats to our security.
Needless to say, as a graduate student of the Ethnic Studies department here at Berkeley, I find it absolutely hilarious that the Chief implies that “just because people take over a lab doesn’t mean we change the curriculum”. The fact is, if Harrison and the UC Berkeley Police were truly aware of the “long-standing traditions” of this campus, Harrison would have known that around 1969 and 1999, Ethnic Studies students and members of the Third World Liberation Front (twLF) protested, and indeed, did change the curriculum and university policy, thank you very much.
I suggest that Ms. Harrison take a few lectures in Ethnic Studies. It may just teach her something she doesn’t know.
- Jason Kim
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