[courtesy of California Progress Report]

By John M. Simpson
the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights (FTCR)

Meeting in a special session, UC Berkeley’s faculty senate struggled with parliamentary procedures to reject resolutions that would have asked Chancellor Robert Birgeneau to delay signing a $500 million deal with oil giant BP to create an alternate energy research institute.

With the faculty's failure to stand up, the UC Board of Regents needs to prevent Cal Berkeley from becoming Big Oil U.'s next campus, UCBP.

An article by Richard Paddock in the Los Angeles Times lays out what's at stake. He writes: