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Public Interest

Mar. 11, 2011

Shades of Free Speech Visit UC Berkeley

UC Berkeley, ground zero for the free speech movement of the 1960s, is dealing with a new crop of campus protesters. Law students have stepped into the center of the conflict, bringing the same zeal as the protest pioneers of the 1960s.

By Laura Ernde

Daily Journal Staff Writer

BERKELEY - Thomas Frampton, a second-year student at UC Berkeley School of Law, was huddled with his client, a UC Berkeley undergraduate facing a university disciplinary hearing for his role in a raucous campus protest in 2009.

Minutes later, Frampton launched into a litany of complaints directed at the eight-member hearing panel's ground rules.

Frampton condemned the 14-month delay in holding a he...

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