The always entertaining duo Matier & Ross came across the letter that UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau sent to alums, right at the height of the tree-sitter standoff that lasted two years, claiming that the tree-sit protest was steeped in racism. The part of the letter in question, which was sent to former students Janice and Thomas Boyce, says this:

I am surprised by the fact that you advocate for criminal trespassers who use their own feces and urine to harass our staff while, at the same time, ignoring the racism against our underrepresented minority student athletes that underlies much of the opposition to our proposed student high-performance athletic center.

Dumpster Muffin, a racist?!?

Anyway, M&R go on to point out that the letter, initially reported in the Daily Cal, "didn't provoke a single letter to the editor or reaction on the school newspaper's Web site." Or even a comment on online version. We're not sure what they're getting at, but...there you go.

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