UC sees record-breaking applications after standardized testing requirements dropped
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UC Berkeley is seeing record applications after standardized testing requirements were dropped.Gabrielle Lurie / The Chronicle 2020Show MoreShow Less
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A woman sits on the roof of the student union at UC Berkeley during a racial justice demonstration in June.Paul Chinn / The Chronicle 2020Show MoreShow Less
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Sister Zylah Arevalo (left) and mother Leslie Arevalo help Sebastian Arevalo, 17, move into his dorm at UC Berkeley in August.Liz Hafalia / The Chronicle 2020Show MoreShow Less
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More students applied to the University of California this year than at any time in its history, despite uncertainty during a pandemic that has led to nearly a year of remote instruction
UC Merced probes into professor s anti-Semitic tweets
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UC Merced School of Engineering Professor Abbas Ghassemi is accused of posting anti-Semitic tweets and images.Courtesy of UC Merced
UC Merced is launching an investigation into whether a professor who maintained a Twitter account rife with anti-Semitic remarks and images broke any of the school rules, and what, if any, consequences the university ought to impose.
Abbas Ghassemi, a teaching professor in the UC Merced School of Engineering, tweeted anti-Semitic posts and posted images found on anti-Semitic conspiracy websites from the now-deactivated account @ProfessorGhass1.
Chancellor Juan Sánchez Muñoz confirmed the account was associated with a university faculty member in an email to the campus community on Tuesday. He said the Twitter account was brought to the university’s attention by the news media.
american people. i will say it. so we will see. bill: seven past the hour. want to get to the teenager who stabbed four people on college campus in california. apparently he wanted revenge. authorities finding a manifesto written by 18-year-old faisal mohammad, getting back at people who kicked him out of a study group. wednesday he attacked another student inside of a classroom at uc merced. a construction worker heard commotion, to stop what he thought was just a fight at time. i went to open the door to break it up to see if everybody was okay and they all screamed run as i opened door. i kind of kicked at him. bill: claudia cowan back on campus in merced this morning. when did authorities figure this out, claudia? reporter: bill, the stunning revelation about the motive came during the autopsy of assailant yesterday afternoon. medical examiner s found a two-page handwritten manifesto in his pocket, detailing in
aneveal his criminal acts. nbc chicago cites a source close to the investigatind reports the officer s wife and son are now under investigation. as of this morning, they have not been charged with any crimes. about a quarter of a million dollars in taxpayer money was spent searching for gliniewicz in just the first day after he radioed in for help as part of the elaborate cover-up, officials say that gliniewicz left his pepper spray, baton and glasses strewn on a trail before shooting himself twice in a remote area of fox lake. and a tight-knit college community in northern california is on edge this morning. a male student armed with a large hunting knife stabbed four people before being shot and killed by campus police at uc-merced yesterday. officials say the violence unfolded at the start of the school day when the suspect whose name has not been released yet walked into a classroom and appantly stabbed a fellow student. a construction worker in the
that actually goes over this active shooting situation. kate? all right. joe fryer watching that for us, thanks so much. also in california, police are still on the scene of a stabbing on a college campus. five people were stabbed in front of a classroom at uc merced. this morning according to the university. two of them were transported by medical helicopters. officials say the suspect was killed by officers at the scene. nbc news s jacob rascon with the latest. jacob? reporter: the school saying grief counselors are on campus to comfort anybody that needs it and witnesses saying it started as a fight. they heard screaming, saw it happen outside a school building and in the end as you said five students, the school says, were injured. stabbed. but all conscious and expected to survive. witnesses then said they saw the suspect, the person with the knife, laying on the ground over a bridge. this is just nearby the building where the stabbings happened.