Quote:After more than a year of litigation, the University of California, Berkeley, has settled a lawsuit with the Young Americas Foundation and the UC Berkeley College Republicans.

Campus conservatives accused the university of bias in the process of bringing high-profile speakers to campus. The original lawsuit revolved around the cancellation of an event with Ann Coulter. An amended version of the lawsuit included road blocks initiated by the university for an event with Ben Shapiro.

The Department of Justice filed a statement of interest backing the campus conservatives. The crux of their argument revolved around two campus policies that they claim violate students’ First and 14th Amendment rights: an unspoken “High-Profile Speaker Policy” and an on-the-books “ Major Events Policy.”

“This Department of Justice will not stand by idly while public universities violate students’ constitutional rights,” Associate Attorney General Rachel Brand said at the time.

In the settlement, UC Berkeley agreed to the following terms set by YAF:

Pay YAF $70,000.
Rescind the unconstitutional “High-Profile Speaker Policy.”
Rescind the viewpoint-discriminatory security fee policy.
Abolish its heckler’s veto — protesters will no longer be able to shut down conservative expression.

Under these terms, UC Berkeley will no longer be allowed to place a 3 p.m. curfew on conservative events or relegate conservative speakers to remote or inconvenient lecture halls on campus while giving left-leaning speakers access to preferred parts of campus.

YAF and UC Berkeley also agreed to a “fee schedule” that treats all students, student groups, and speakers equally. Unless students are handling money or serving alcohol at an event, there will not be a need for security fees.

“The policy that allowed Berkeley administrators to charge conservative students $20,000 for security to host Ben Shapiro — an amount three times greater than the fee charged to leftist students to host liberal Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor — is gone,” says a press release from YAF.

"This settlement is a huge win for the Berkeley College Republicans and really all student groups on campus," Matt Ronnau, President of the Berkeley College Republicans, told the Washington Examiner. "This is a huge win for the 1st Amendment, and I am proud of the work that the men and women of the Berkeley College Republicans have put in to achieve this victory."

Link

Great news!

Take that, UC-Bezerkely!

Victory for free speech.

Defeat for the unhinged, authoritarian alt-left that aims to silence their political opponents, because they simply CANNOT COMPETE.

The way that the Berkeley newspaper reports this is hilarious.

“We are gratified that our Major Event Policy has been validated,” said campus spokesperson Dan Mogulof. “During the spring semester and the current semester, it has been that very policy that has enabled the campus to work effectively with the Berkeley College Republicans as they hosted numerous events featuring prominent conservative speakers without incident or interruption.”

As part of the settlement, UC Berkeley has agreed to to consider making a few non-substantive changes to its Major Events Policy. The campus has also agreed to pay $70,000 to reimburse the plaintiffs for their attorney’s fees. That amount is a fraction of the attorney’s fees that plaintiffs incur in a lawsuit of this sort, and an even smaller fraction of the legal expenses the university would have been forced to incur in order to pursue its objectives in court."

Fake News

This was a litigation were the conditions of the settlement were more important than the money.

(12-05-2018 10:09 AM)ECUGrad07 Wrote:  The way that the Berkeley newspaper reports this is hilarious.

“We are gratified that our Major Event Policy has been validated,” said campus spokesperson Dan Mogulof. “During the spring semester and the current semester, it has been that very policy that has enabled the campus to work effectively with the Berkeley College Republicans as they hosted numerous events featuring prominent conservative speakers without incident or interruption.”

As part of the settlement, UC Berkeley has agreed to to consider making a few non-substantive changes to its Major Events Policy. The campus has also agreed to pay $70,000 to reimburse the plaintiffs for their attorney’s fees. That amount is a fraction of the attorney’s fees that plaintiffs incur in a lawsuit of this sort, and an even smaller fraction of the legal expenses the university would have been forced to incur in order to pursue its objectives in court."

Fake News

Damn, that's creepy. It's as if they are on a completely different planet.

(12-05-2018 01:22 PM)Kronke Wrote:  

(12-05-2018 10:09 AM)ECUGrad07 Wrote:  The way that the Berkeley newspaper reports this is hilarious.

“We are gratified that our Major Event Policy has been validated,” said campus spokesperson Dan Mogulof. “During the spring semester and the current semester, it has been that very policy that has enabled the campus to work effectively with the Berkeley College Republicans as they hosted numerous events featuring prominent conservative speakers without incident or interruption.”

As part of the settlement, UC Berkeley has agreed to to consider making a few non-substantive changes to its Major Events Policy. The campus has also agreed to pay $70,000 to reimburse the plaintiffs for their attorney’s fees. That amount is a fraction of the attorney’s fees that plaintiffs incur in a lawsuit of this sort, and an even smaller fraction of the legal expenses the university would have been forced to incur in order to pursue its objectives in court."

Fake News

Damn, that's creepy. It's as if they are on a completely different planet.

Wait, you mean because they engage in typical liberal spin?

(12-05-2018 01:24 PM)umbluegray Wrote:  

(12-05-2018 01:22 PM)Kronke Wrote:  

(12-05-2018 10:09 AM)ECUGrad07 Wrote:  The way that the Berkeley newspaper reports this is hilarious.

“We are gratified that our Major Event Policy has been validated,” said campus spokesperson Dan Mogulof. “During the spring semester and the current semester, it has been that very policy that has enabled the campus to work effectively with the Berkeley College Republicans as they hosted numerous events featuring prominent conservative speakers without incident or interruption.”

As part of the settlement, UC Berkeley has agreed to to consider making a few non-substantive changes to its Major Events Policy. The campus has also agreed to pay $70,000 to reimburse the plaintiffs for their attorney’s fees. That amount is a fraction of the attorney’s fees that plaintiffs incur in a lawsuit of this sort, and an even smaller fraction of the legal expenses the university would have been forced to incur in order to pursue its objectives in court."

Fake News

Damn, that's creepy. It's as if they are on a completely different planet.

Wait, you mean because they engage in typical liberal spin?

That's worse than spin, it's utterly delusional, and it's not like it's an opinion piece from slate or vox, it's the official press release straight from berkeley.edu. UH would never send out something like that.

It tells me that the people in charge at berkeley have legitimate contempt for a certain segment of their students.

(12-05-2018 01:32 PM)Kronke Wrote:  

(12-05-2018 01:24 PM)umbluegray Wrote:  

(12-05-2018 01:22 PM)Kronke Wrote:  

(12-05-2018 10:09 AM)ECUGrad07 Wrote:  The way that the Berkeley newspaper reports this is hilarious.

“We are gratified that our Major Event Policy has been validated,” said campus spokesperson Dan Mogulof. “During the spring semester and the current semester, it has been that very policy that has enabled the campus to work effectively with the Berkeley College Republicans as they hosted numerous events featuring prominent conservative speakers without incident or interruption.”

As part of the settlement, UC Berkeley has agreed to to consider making a few non-substantive changes to its Major Events Policy. The campus has also agreed to pay $70,000 to reimburse the plaintiffs for their attorney’s fees. That amount is a fraction of the attorney’s fees that plaintiffs incur in a lawsuit of this sort, and an even smaller fraction of the legal expenses the university would have been forced to incur in order to pursue its objectives in court."

Fake News

Damn, that's creepy. It's as if they are on a completely different planet.

Wait, you mean because they engage in typical liberal spin?

That's worse than spin, it's utterly delusional, and it's not like it's an opinion piece from slate or vox, it's the official press release straight from berkeley.edu. UH would never send out something like that.

It tells me that the people in charge at berkeley have legitimate contempt for a certain segment of their students.

I agree. And I believe they actually do hold that high-level contempt for conservatives.

But that isn't shocking to me. I think that contempt has long been demonstrated by most everyone on the radleft.