Strong words, I can see you have a vision. I hope you have more gas in your tank. Your fight is not only for today, I wish you succeess.
--Jose De Guzman

I have heard of discrimination in the academics, but never have I seen it this clearly. Several questions run in my mind regarding the absurdity of the University’s decisions. It does not make any sense for Iris Tommelein to say she did not know a student she claimed to have advised is not a PhD student. Maybe one should ask if it is permissible to excuse her failure to properly test this student without reinstating the same student back to graduate standing. It makes sense therefore to assume she conduct the examination to the exclusion of this student just to be able to dismiss him. I wonder why she failed to revise the dismissal when she finally realized her gaffe. Did any of the professors ever thought of this student as an individual who bore similar human characteristics as them? Berkeley can win all the cases how many times they want, that will not erase the wrongdoings. It will not expunge the fact that they milked this student of his tuition while to failed to live up to their duties.
--Mash

I am not surprised at all; UCB get sued a lot for their sloppiness and ineptitude. As a process server I have personally served the Regents of UC more than 60 different suits in 2008 alone. This is just not the best way to spend the tax payers’ money