One Year Later, Berkeley Protesters’ Hearings Just Getting Underway
Last Wednesday UC Berkeley Junior Laura Zelko finally got her day in court. Or “court.”
Sort of.
Zelko has been charged with five violations of the Berkeley code of conduct for her involvement in last November’s student protests. She’s the second such student to have received a hearing, and the first to choose to have her hearing conducted in public. (According to the Berkeley Daily Cal, seventeen students’ conduct cases remain unresolved.)
Zelko’s panel, composed of two professors, two students, and an assistant dean, met for eleven hours on Wednesday, but were unable to conclude their work. They will meet again sometime after November 8 to
