Jocelyn GeckerStudentsBerkeley Braces for Visit by Right-wing Speaker Ben ShapiroBERKELEY, Calif. — The University of California, Berkeley will seal off large parts of its campus like a fortress with a closed perimeter and a “very large” visible police presence Thursday, when the birthplace of America’s free speech movement faces its next potential clashes. City and campus authorities anticipate demonstrations at a speech by conservative […]September 13, 2017StudentsBerkeley Campus Chaos Spurs Questions at Free-speech BastionBERKELEY, Calif. —Chaos that erupted at the University of California, Berkeley, to oppose right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos was shocking not just for the images of protesters setting fires, smashing windows and hurling explosives at police, but because of where it took place. UC Berkeley is the birthplace of the free-speech movement and has been known […]February 5, 2017Page 1 of 1