Barbara Bryant

After Sofie Karasek filed a sexual assault complaint with the UC Berkeley Title IX office in 2012, she didn’t hear back for eight months.

After Chancellor Nicholas Dirks resigned amid controversy yesterday, the students and faculty of UC Berkeley have expressed their sentiments regarding his tumultuous tenure.

On Friday, Chancellor Nicholas Dirks and UC President Janet Napolitano defended the executive vice chancellor and provost’s appointment to the UC Berkeley School of Law faculty, in light of questions regarding a possible conflict of interest.

When Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Claude Steele told Tyann Sorrell in October 2015 that the UC Berkeley School of Law's dean’s salary would be cut by 10 percent for one year after he violated university sexual harassment policies against her, Sorrell was speechless.

Fewer than two days after news of a lawsuit filed against the dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law reached the public sphere, hundreds of newly admitted Berkeley Law students arrived on campus Thursday afternoon to scope out the campus’s law program.