INITIAL ALERTEmail
Approximate reconstructionBerkeley Law Dean's Message on Freedom of Speech — official school statement564 chars
Dear Members of the Berkeley Law Community: I write today about an incident last night at my home, where my wife and I were hosting third-year students at a dinner. As the meal was beginning, a small group of students attempted to deliver a speech with a microphone. I asked them to leave because the dinner was at our private residence. They eventually did. There is no First Amendment right to come to a faculty member's home to protest. I remain deeply committed to the protection of free speech at Berkeley Law, both on campus and within the bounds of the law.
This text has been reconstructed from news coverage and may not reflect the exact original wording.
Reconstructed from Berkeley Law's official statement and Dean Chemerinsky's contemporaneous remarks; the Dean's Message is paraphrased in news coverage rather than quoted verbatim
No WarnMe (UCB's Rave-based emergency system) was issued because the incident occurred at a private residence in the Berkeley Hills, outside Berkeley Law's Clery geography
This is the rare case in the archive where a 'campus alert' was actually a dean-issued community email — a useful contrast with formal emergency notifications