None…

CalServe, Student Action, etc. etc., you are all the same. Worthless.

This campus is completely out of touch of what all students care about and Calserve will continue to push their huge message of change. The only change I see is the wrong type of change that will be implemented by Roxanne Winston.
Thanks all UC Berkeley students who voted for her. Now we get a year of a leader who represents the minority on campus at the expense of all students!

the students are getting tired and annoyed with mike/Fresh. his little negative 1 star hotel takes up a popular place to gather/talk to other students on campus, the chanting disrupts nearby classes, he’s wasting money, we’re tired of being harassed by flyering oak-affiliated people, the crossed out BP graffiti makes us angry (did you see the one at Memorial Pool? MEMORIAL POOL!?! They fuckin’ marked it up in spray paint!!!), and there’s nothing left for Fresh to say that’s significant to his cause other than a stubborn I’m-not-getting-out-of-this-tree-until-people-listen-to-me-even-though-they-already-are thing.

no wonder a good 512 students joined a facebook group, created not even 4 days ago, tired of tree-sit protests.

people are getting angry at his unreasonable stay at the beloved tree. he was given a reasonable offer to come down, but decided to be a hypocrite and waste university money.

fresh has choices, he’s not entirely innocent. i’d say he’s more at guilt for the situation than the police. he IS trespassing on campus property and damaging property too (tree branches).

Thanks to fresh and tree-sit people, I’ve noticed recently that a lot of large trees with limbs close to the ground are having these limbs sawed off- my guess is to prevent future chances of these giant trees being inhabited by amateur climbers. thanks a lot fresh, and people who do tree-sits like you, for forcing the university to make the campus trees look a lot more ugly.

You and the ASUC can support Fresh if you want. But know you are doing so against the will of students like me.

You think the police are violating the “UN Declaration on Human Rights.” That’s absurd. By the same logic someone who holds people hostage at gunpoint and is refused food and water by police is being denied his human rights.

There is a fundamental difference between those who support the tree sitter and those who think this is ridiculous. Your statement makes that clear:

“The choice to make a crime scene out of the protest is purely the police’s.”

You’re wrong. The tree sitter created the crime scene by YOU GUESSED IT committing multiple crimes. The police have the authority to go after criminals. Have they made many mistakes in doing so? Sure. Are they stupid? Yes. Does that mean this whole debacle is their fault? Of course not. Fresh is responsible. And it can end if he comes down.

I just want to note what Beetle says about the bill:

“It’s basically a big list of “give him whatever the hell he wants, including a Special Order in the Senate” statements.”

Actually, the bill does not support tree-sitting. To the contrary, it supports finding an end to the protest that is amenable to the concerns of the University, the student body, as well as the protester involved.

If UCPD had not immediately descended upon the tree with officers stationed there 24 hours a day, it is likely that the protester would have left by now. Continued police action and a super-dramatic police line around the tree only serve to encourage such actions because protesters are almost guaranteed a spotlight.

The truth is, the protester is not obstructing anybody’s way or putting anybody in danger. The choice to make a crime scene out of the protest is purely the police’s, and it is not a necessary one at that.

Because this decision is artificial at best, and based in abstractions that appear to be blinding you to the pragmatic solution here, neither the University nor the protester have anything to lose by bringing this protest to an end. Since the University has already shown its incompetence in handling this situation, it is up to students to try their hand at ending the crisis.

Rather than correct each of your distortions, I would encourage people to read the bill for themselves by viewing the Agenda Packet for Week 8 by clicking here. I will say this however: while you may view the audience with the ASUC as a reward, the reality is that this clause encourages students to utilize the ASUC as a viable institution through which they can channel their calls for reform of the University. There, the protester will have an opportunity to make his case to student leaders–something which his current actions do not have the potential of doing.

Finally, your post is so seething with hatred that it brings to question what exactly your prejudices are against this senator. The fact that you have opted to make a smear campaign out of this bill–directed to only one of the Senators who supports it–comes at the cost of finding a solution to the problem.

The solution in this bill is the most reasonable option at this point for anybody who is interested in actually moving past this episode. Within one day, Senators Shams, Du’ong, Jackson, Kuo, and Winston have agreed to become co-sponsors because they recognize this fact. I think students would actually support this bill because unlike anything anybody else, including yourself, has suggested, it actually provides a way out and forward.

The Office of the Executive Vice President has also been working very hard to raise awareness on how we need a new, more extensive Multicultural Center. Please join the Facebook Group “Cal Needs a Multicultural Center!” for more information on how to get involved with this process.

As for Ronald Reagan… maybe the world would be a much better place if he actually was asleep at all those meetings ;-)