There is little doubt that the nation’s attention has been drawn to the crisis taking place on university campuses. Student protests over the Israel-Hamas war have popped up on an increasing number of ...

In May 1969 a National Guard helicopter hung over the campus of UC Berkeley, spraying protesters with what The Times then described as “heavy clouds of tear gas.” It was the sixth consecutive day of ...

The year was 1966, and Ronald Reagan was running for governor of California. A major part of his platform was to “clean up the mess at Berkeley” and other college campuses throughout the state that ...

I never did much care for Ronald Reagan, who, when he was governor, tear-gassed the Berkeley campus so poison was everywhere in the air, so that my wife, when she was just trying to walk to class, got ...