Talk:Robert J. Birgeneau

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Article is poorly sourced (though seemingly accurate); there are a lot of Higher Ed publications that discuss B's role / mission, esp. WRT sciences at Berkeley and the gender/hiring issues in Physics at MIT, Berkeley & other institutions Birgeneua has been associated with. —Preceding unsigned comment added by KenThomas (talk • contribs) 02:25, 25 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Can't we get a non-blurry picture of Birgeneau? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.161.45.143 (talk) 20:45, 16 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

scrubbing??[edit]

please do not attempt to scrub this article, there are several stories that should be part of his bio, yet they have been deleted. Otherwise, the neutrality of the article will be flagged as disputed. --4rousseau (talk) 22:57, 14 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

UC Photos are public owned?[edit]

I believe UC photos are paid for by tax payer dollars - so they should be available for use by the public - so, why do we have this blurry photo posted?--4rousseau (talk) 01:29, 15 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure that's true. Public institutions claim property rights on lots of things that are paid for by the public. In the case of the UC's in particular, a lot of the rights seem to be held by the UC Regents. Yunesj (talk) 20:39, 22 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Petition count includes others besides staff[edit]

"A further 2,363 faculty and staff stated" - if you look at the petition, it's clear that many (most?) of the signatures are not actually from faculty and staff. Can someone make this correction? Yunesj (talk) 20:42, 22 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Birgeneau's follow up letter[edit]

He sent a follow-up letter saying that he had just seen the video, was shocked, and they're looking into it. Anyone want to make add this info? Otherwise, it's a biased article. Yunesj (talk) 20:42, 22 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Occupy Cal[edit]

I removed this, it is important to some students and activists but it is not worth 3 quarters of this notable persons life story here in his article. I tried to concise it but found nothing of long term life story value, so I just removed it - the main article is still there and I neutrally rewrote the lede and added a link to the Occupy Cal article - Govindaharihari (talk) 07:58, 3 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

BIAS ALERT! Praising police for brutally beating students for the crime of "linking arms?" Birgeneau ended his job at UCB in the fallout, why isn't this mentioned?This was much worse than the UC Davis pepper spray incident, yet the UCB mafia has managed to scrub this story from the news media and even from Wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 221.188.105.211 (talk) 23:39, 21 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

It seems strange that, at this point, there is not even a link to the Occupy Cal article here. It is understandable that it would not be appropriate to take up most of the page for this article, but to entirely removed reference to the events altogether is highly suspicious and really looks like bias when the section about his tenure at UC Berkeley is mostly composed of various political accomplishments and actions that would reflect positively on his reputation. There is not even a note that he faced any substantial criticism or pushback during his time at UC Berkeley. It seems disingenuous to suggest that Occupy Cal does not have a significant impact on this person's life story when he left UCB before the outcome of the lawsuit he was involved in was determined. McNael (talk) 19:07, 19 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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