Two Takes: Was UC Berkeley right to suspend a lecturer over his pro-Palestinian advocacy?

Christopher Kutz, Erwin Chemerinsky
San Francisco Chronicle 

In December, UC Berkeley administrators handed down a six-month suspension without pay to Peyrin Kao, a 26-year-old computer science lecturer, after finding that he had violated university policy by making pro-Palestinian comments to students in a classroom after class and advertising that he was participating in a hunger strike.

We asked two UC Berkeley professors with opposing views, Christopher Kutz and Erwin Chemerinsky, to succinctly lay out their case in support, or in opposition, to the measure.

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