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After months of anticipation over whether the University of California’s Board of Regents would adopt a definition of anti-Semitism in the wake of several anti-Israel and anti-Jewish incidents across its campuses, the U.C.’s governing arm rejected a “Statement of Principles…
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After months of anticipation over whether the University of California’s Board of Regents would adopt a definition of anti-Semitism in the wake of several anti-Israel and anti-Jewish incidents across its campuses, the UC’s governing arm rejected a “Statement of Principles…
read moreMembers of the University of California Board of Regents criticized the first draft of a statement of “principles against intolerance” for not specifically addressing anti-Semitism. The regents spoke about the draft Thursday at their meeting at University of California, Irvine,…
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The University of California Board of Regents announced Thursday a working group to modify the language of the Statement of Principles Against Intolerance. The group will be led by Regent Eddie Island and will include students, faculty, chancellors and regents.…
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After months of anticipation over whether the University of California’s Board of Regents would adopt a definition of anti-Semitism in the wake of several anti-Israel and anti-Jewish incidents across its campuses, the UC’s governing arm rejected a “Statement of Principles…
read moreThe University of California’s leaders made plans to revisit the issue of campus intolerance on Thursday after their first crack at a statement against it was panned for ignoring a problem that had inspired their efforts, the harassment of Jewish…
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University of California regents are going back to the drawing board to rewrite a statement about intolerance after a proposed version was heavily criticized as being meaningless. “More work needs to be done,” UC President Janet Napolitano said Thursday at…
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The first draft of a document aimed at curbing anti-Semitism on University of California campuses was rejected Thursday by UC regents, in part because it didn’t include the phrase “anti-Semitism.” Though students and others have chronicled incidents described as anti-Semitic…
read moreVIDEO: UC system leaders say statement’s purpose was to denounce recent acts of anti-Semitism on campuses The regents of the University of California system on Thursday roundly criticized a proposed “Statement of Principles Against Intolerance” brought before them for ignoring…
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The University of California’s regents voted Thursday to scrap a proposed speech code after protests from free speech groups who called it a form of censorship, as well as from Jewish groups who said it did not do enough to…
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