Protesters delay start of Cal-USC football game in Berkeley

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Source: SF Gate

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Protesters delay start of Cal-USC football game in Berkeley

By Gabe Lehman
Oct 28, 2023



Protesters take the field, delaying the start of the football game between Cal and USC in Berkeley, Calif. on Saturday, October 28, 2023.
Grant Marek/SFGATE

The start of the Cal vs. USC football game in Berkeley was delayed on Saturday, Oct. 28, due to protestors who took to midfield and refused to move. … At first, law enforcement appeared unsure how to extract the protesters from the field.

Video posted by Fox College Football showed USC quarterback Caleb Williams and Cal quarterback Fernando Mendoza waiting on the sidelines as the protests occupied the area near the 50-yard line.

The USC vs Cal game is delayed due to a protest at the 50-yard line pic.twitter.com/2XQ8IQlVXB
— FOX College Football (@CFBONFOX) October 28, 2023

Eventually, the protesters were led off in handcuffs, according to photos posted on social media by Scanner Berkeley. … SFGATE Editor in Chief Grant Marek, who was in attendance at the game as a spectator, said the contest was able to begin after about an eight-minute delay.

While it was not immediately clear what the protest was over, Luca Evans of the Orange County Register wrote on social media that a policeman told him the protests were over the suspension of UC Berkeley professor Ivonne del Valle, who is accused of stalking and harassing another professor.

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Read more: https://www.sfgate.com/collegesports/article/usc-cal-football-protesters-delay-18454518.php

[Igel]

1. This crazy.

Cultish, even.

KQED is not a bastion of Nazi/RW thought, in my limited experience.

Yet the link leads to a link: https://www.kqed.org/news/11965822/uc-berkeley-students-threaten-hunger-strike-to-reinstate-professor-suspended-for-stalking

Nothing so bloody as a faculty battle over something that's really small.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

4. I am not a doctor, but my diagnosis is that she is a crazed looney tune.

Berkeley sounds like a walking Cal/OSHA violation.

Under Cal/OSHA regulations, Berkeley is required to provide the professor who is being stalked with a safe workplace. He clearly does not have that.

[brush]

2. Not a protest againt the Gaza war?

[paleotn]

3. Berkeley. General protest against...."fill in the blank"

[MyMission]

5. Are they protesting against American football now?!?

It is a dangerous sport.
But the story suggests it was a protest about a professor being suspended for supposedly stalking and harassing another professor.
Very strange motivations...
Would have made more sense if they were protesting college football. Lol

[aggiesal]

7. Why? n/t

[usonian]

6. That's a new one. Protestors without signs.

Anyway, it looks like the protestors put up more defense than the football players.
USC won 50-49.

8 minute delay? How many commercials is that?

[aggiesal]

8. Anywhere between 8 & 32 n/t