The Daily Californian, November 14, 2011 by Aaida Samad
http://www.dailycal.org/2011/11/14/uc-berkeley-group-scheduled-training-session-for-legal-observers-in-light-of-recent-protests/

The Boalt Hall Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild held a training for legal observers Monday afternoon, according to Daniela Urban, a UC Berkeley School of Law student who has served as a legal observer at past protests. “The role of the legal observer is to document police movement and police abuse,” Urban said.

NMPolitics.net, November 11, 2011 by Vivek Gopalan
http://www.nmpolitics.net/index/2011/11/obamacare-is-an-important-first-step/

With a problem as big as health care, Congress had to start somewhere. They needed to build the infrastructure whereby all future reform can happen, and make immediate changes to address the failings of our current system. And, with ObamaCare, they did just that.

-San Francisco Chronicle, October 17, 2011 by Joe Garofoli
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/10/17/MN3F1LHD2L.DTL

“The fact that we don’t have a voice has resulted in many of the issues we’re confronting.”

-Capitol Weekly, October 27, 2011 by John Howard
http://bit.ly/tj5bPF

To Gill, the area is under-represented, “neither a state or federal legislator lives there. It comprises some of the most under-represented people in America. They are bearing the brunt of the economic crises. I attribute that to the leadership vacuum.”

The Daily Californian, October 17, 2011 by Aaida Samad
http://www.dailycal.org/2011/10/17/federal-lawsuit-filed-against-uc-berkeley-officials/

“The main point is to ensure that there’s accountability when University officials violate the constitutional rights of their students and community members,” he said in an email. “It seems increasingly clear that the University will only respond to litigation. It’s disheartening, but that’s where we’re at.”

KALW-FM News, October 13, 2011 Host Holly Kernan
http://blog.sfgate.com/kalw/2011/10/13/saving-the-uc-%E2%80%93-but-at-what-cost-to-students/

“All those people who told me that they were advocates for the UC system, who then would vote for the increased pay for prison guards and then cut the UC by hundreds of millions of dollars, had fooled me a little bit. And I’m not fooled anymore.”

Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, October 11, 2011 by Jeffrey Gonzalez
http://reason.com/blog/2011/10/12/cameras-for-me-but-not-for-the

The president needs to be held accountable for his administration’s actions in losing millions of dollars by betting on a failing company with strong ties to his campaign.

San Jose Mercury News, October 5, 2011 by Matt Krupnick
http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_19040362?nclick_check=1

“I think the genie’s out of the bottle, in terms of amateurism and college sports,” he said after the event. “We need to recognize (athletes) for what they are, which is employees.”

The Washington Post, September 27, 2011 by Rachel Weiner
http://wapo.st/oapHmt

“If you were to visualize the 9th congressional district on a map, there’s not a single state or federal legislator who lives within the confines of this new district.”

Foreign Policy Journal, September 26, 2011 by Alejandro Sueldo
http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2011/09/26/the-reset-needs-a-new-angle/

But as NATO pulls out of Afghanistan, Washington’s need for Russia’s support diminishes and the urgency for filling the gap in relations created by NATO’s withdrawal grows.  However, finding common ground to close this void will be difficult, in great part because Washington’s and Moscow’s interests often diverge.

-The Daily Californian, September 23, 2011 by Thomas Frampton
http://www.dailycal.org/2011/09/23/128404/

The university explained that Mr. Desai simply failed to allege “facts which, if true, would constitute a violation of law or University policy.”  This is something one might expect from a Berkeley official in 1963 but not 2011. It’s a position that should be repugnant to everyone in the university community, regardless of their political affiliation.

-The Daily Californian, September 29, 2011 by Aaida Samad
http://bit.ly/qDk2Lo

“I think the University has all but admitted … that they’ve badly mishandled the student disciplinary process for the past several years,” Frampton said in the email. “If those concessions are to have any meaning, though, the University needs to prove itself willing to make whole those students harmed by University officials’ wrongdoing.”

The Daily Californian, September 14, 2011 by Aaida Samad
http://www.dailycal.org/2011/09/14/uc-berkeley-dismisses-parts-of-formal-grievance-filed-by-graduate-student/

“While I was hopeful that we were nearing the end of this process … what we’re seeing now strongly indicates that the unwillingness to provide students their basic rights continues, and the problems remain as bad as ever.”

The Moscow Times, August 30, 2011 by Alejandro Sueldo
http://bit.ly/rfz5FF

The real threat for Russia is China’s capabilities. Beijing’s ability to expand its nuclear arsenal is worrisome because at parity levels, Russia’s nuclear deterrent loses credibility in relation to China’s greater counterstrike potential.

The Moscow Times, August 2, 2011 by Alejandro Sueldo
http://bit.ly/qzbiS4

Russia must accept the futility of maintaining and building a sizable nuclear force and recognize that its security would be better served if more resources were allocated for military reform and developing conventional weapons that are a more credible deterrent and repellant to potential conventional aggressions.

The Moscow Times, July 19, 2011 by Alejandro Sueldo
http://bit.ly/qUecF7

As the stronger partner, the United States can afford to be more accommodating to Russian concerns, namely regarding missile defense. This is also in line with historical U.S. efforts to break the inertia of negative trends in relations, such as the current “reset” policy. Doing so would hamper Russia’s need to and rationale for holding bilateral relations hostage, and help foster greater cooperation on mutual concerns.

The Daily Californian, July 4, 2011 by Aaida Samad
http://www.dailycal.org/2011/07/04/concerns-arise-in-code-of-student-conduct-revision/

Task force member Daniela Urban, a UC Berkeley School of Law student and member of the Campus Rights Project, said that in terms of helping future protest-related student conduct cases, “regardless of what code of conduct is in effect, if the university is still viewing the protest as a disruption instead of a necessity, then they are still going to have problems with student conduct and student protests.”

The Daily Californian, June 29, 2011 by Aaida Samad
http://www.dailycal.org/2011/06/29/grievance-aaida/

“For the past two months, we’ve tried tirelessly to start a dialogue with Student Conduct and the Vice Chancellor (Harry Le Grande) about why they would use such patently false testimony … E-mail after e-mail was met with silence,” Frampton said in an email. “We’re filing this (complaint) now because we want to hold them accountable.”

Deseret News, June 17, 2011 by Jamshid Ghazi Askar
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700145109/Justices-act-differently-for-women.html

“Oral arguments are the face of the Supreme Court,” Phillips said. “Most of what the court does is behind closed doors, so the court is kind of shrouded in mystery. We really only get to see the court function publicly in oral arguments…. Personalities come out, and you get to see the living, breathing aspect of the court out on display.”

The Salt Lake Tribune, June 14, 2011 by Roxana Orellana
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/52005964-78/justices-attorneys-court-gender.html.csp

U.S. Supreme Court justices interact differently during oral arguments depending on an attorney’s gender…. Phillips added that the findings don’t mean the justices are more or less likely to vote for or against women attorneys in deciding a case. But it raises questions as to why they are treated differently, which is not something addressed in the report, he said.

Daily Journal, May 17, 2011 by Jill Redhage
http://www.dailyjournal.com (registration required; go to H:\Law School in the News\In the News 2011\News Clips for article)

Jacob’s passion for community economic development began during his undergraduate years, but was honed when he moved to India afterward…. “That’s when I understood the power of cooperatives to help people gain economic self-reliance,” Jacob said.

In These Times, May 3, 2011 by Mike Elk
http://bit.ly/iAt2UX

Yesterday, dozens of graduate student teaching assistants in Los Angeles and Berkeley began a sit-in at the Berkeley and Los Angeles offices of United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 2865, the union that represents them. They allege that union officials were engaged in irregularities while counting ballots in a union officer election. “Well, we aren’t really occupying it. We are dues-paying members,” says Larisa Mann, a University of California Berkeley law school student. “It is our office technically.”