Just to refresh your memory, Dr. Ignacio Chapela is the U. C. Berkeley
professor who was denied tenure essentially for questioning the University's role in
promoting biotechnology.

Dr. Chapela then moved his office outdoors as a form of protest.

Paul Goettlich gives permission to forward this.

Tom
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  Date:   03-07-20 10:55:30 EDT
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  Dear Tom,

  I spent some time with him in his "office" without walls in protest. I kept
  hoping that someone from the administration would show up with the good
news
  that he had been granted tenure. One night in his "office" without walls,
there
  was a slide show on California Hall, the place of the regents I believe.
The
  show was a history of the military-industrial connection and the beginnings
of
  UC Berkeley. Iain Boal spoke also. He told me that he's nearly done with a
new
  book he's writing on Luddites. I am sure that even though UC thinks it is
rid
  of Dr. Chapela, they haven't heard the last of him. This action on the part
  of UC only fuels his determination.... and mine as well.

  I've put together an index of articles and papers about and by Ignacio
  Chapela at:
  http://www.mindfully.org/GE/2003/Ignacio-Chapela30jun03.htm

    1.. Berkeley Professor Moves Office to Lawn  - Alameda Times-Star 1jul03
    2.. Biologist Protests his Lack of Tenure  - AP 27jun03
    3.. Professor Camps Out in Front of California Hall in Protest - The
Daily
  Californian 27jun03
    4.. Open Letter from Ignacio Chapela Regarding His Tenure at the
University
  of California, Berkeley 26jun03
    5.. Text of Dr. Ignacio Chapela Speaking at Biotech: Farmers' Rights, and
  the University-Industrial Partnership 14oct02
    6.. Letter published in Nature that caused quite a stir around the world:
    Transgenic DNA introgressed into traditional maize landraces in Oaxaca,
  Mexico - Nature 29nov01
    7.. Nature accused over GM article - James Meek  / The Guardian 8jun02
    Transgenic Corn Found Growing in Mexico by Dr. Chapela - Nature Vol. 413,
  27sep01
    8.. Novartis Revisited - Pro: Bob Buchanan / Con: Dr. Ignacio Chapela -
  California Monthly v.112, n.4, Feb02
    9.. GM: And yet it moves - I.H. Chapela / Letters /The Guardian 24may02
    10.. Dream of Utopias: Ignacio Chapela at "Apocalypse Now?"
    The Political and Cultural Economy of Agriculture Biotechnology and the
  Life Science Industries.
    A workshop at UC Berkeley 4-5 May 2001.
    11.. Sowing Disaster? Capulalpan, Mexico - Mark Shapiro / The Nation
v.275,
  n.14, 28oct02
  Best regards,
  Paul

  Paul Goettlich
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  www.mindfully.org

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