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UC Berkeley OOS Fees Among Highest In Nation, Public or Private � Student Activism

UC Berkeley OOS Fees Among Highest In Nation, Public or Private � Student Activism

UC Berkeley OOS Fees Among Highest In Nation, Public or Private

Tuition, room, and board for out-of-state students at the University of California at Berkeley topped $50,000 this year, the first time that any public university’s costs have broken that barrier.

But Berkeley, which charges out of state students who live on campus a total of $50,649 in fees, isn’t just the most expensive public university in the country — its rates top those of all but 87 of the nation’s more than a thousand private colleges and universities.

Michigan Assistant AG Andrew Shirvell Fired for Harassing Gay Student Leader

Andrew Shirvell, the Michigan Assistant Attorney General who waged an ongoing campaign of homophobic slander against an openly gay student government leader, has been fired.

Shirvell was a political ally of Attorney General Mike Cox, and had even served as Cox’s campaign manager in a past election. But today Cox said in a statement that Shirvell had “repeatedly violated office policies, engaged in borderline stalking behavior, and inappropriately used state resources” in his harassment of Michigan State