‘It’s a Capitulation’: Berkeley Grieves as Its University Bends to Trump
Eric He, Will McCarthy | 20 September 2025 | Politico
BERKELEY, California — Amid the foot traffic this week at Berkeley’s Sproul Plaza — for decades the beating heart of student unrest — the only hint of resistance to Donald Trump’s campus investigation were the scattered copies of the university’s student newspaper, its front page decrying Berkeley’s “capitulation” to the White House.
What was more revealing was how many people at this point — even here — were unsurprised that the University of California, Berkeley, folded to the Trump administration after it turned its attention from East Coast schools to the West….