Why This Berkeley Professor Is Sleeping in His Office
University of California Berkeley professor of political science Ron Hassner meeting with students and supporters in his office in Berkeley, CA, March 11, 2024. (Jason Henry for The Free Press)
Ron Hassner says he isn’t leaving until his school agrees to take antisemitism and free speech seriously. We met him at hour 93. . .
BERKELEY, CA — Ron Hassner’s UC Berkeley office, on the seventh floor of the Social Sciences Building on the south side of campus, is slightly bigger than a one-car garage. It’s generous by administrative standards—Hassner has been a political science professor at Berkeley for twenty years—but it’s not a domicile.
When I got there at three p.m. on Monda…
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