 Good afternoon UC Berkeley, this is Lindsay Longman, and this is Chris from CalTV News. We're currently standing outside of California Hall where a protest is taking place. This protest is a student campaign advocating for the ring statement of Dr. Yvonne Delvalle. Dr. Delvalle is an associate professor of colonial studies in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UC Berkeley. According to the justice for Yvonne, Instagram, Dr. Delvalle began being stalked and harassed in 2018 by another UC professor. In 2019, she acted in self-defense against her harasser, which in turn led to the university opening up numerous investigations against her, preventing her from going on campus and suspending her pay. Now, the removal of her tenure has been proposed. One column commented on the situation, pointing out the university's hypocrisy when it comes to serving Latinx students. We have this institution, UC Berkeley, trying to be like a Hispanic serving institution, and you have to meet requirements for that, but what is happening to Professor Yvonne Delvalle goes to show that they aren't really doing that because she is a Latinx professor, she is an immigrant, and she is alone. And if that's what they're doing to a esteemed professor, what does that show to the students on this campus when they reach out for support? I mean, I think the answer is clear, you know? She was the only person who supported me. And now I'm here to support her through this and all of these students are testament to that. All these people are testament to her character, to her persona and the fact that she's an amazing professor that should be here and should not have been taken away this whole time. Current students at the protests noted that this is another example of the university failing the Latinx communities they claim to serve. I do not believe that the school has done its best to protect its people of color. They want us here so bad to get the data, to get the statistics, to get the name as a Hispanic serving institution. But time and time again, they fail us. They are failing us by taking away our money. They are failing us by removing our so only support systems from the places they deserve to be and the amount of time it took to get to this place. We are all here for justice and we want it now. Alejandra Dekker, who had Dr. Delvalle as her dissertation chair, added that this cause sees extreme value in making this issue known to the broader campus community. Our next steps are first making this a much more public and campus-wide issue before it was really just something that affected our department almost in secret and graduate students who are working with Yvonne were not able to work with her and their careers were completely disrupted. But it wasn't something that left went beyond the department walls. And now we're trying to bring this to the campus to say that this is what's happening on our campus. This is happening to a Latina tenured faculty who represent so many of us and hopefully with more of this knowledge people will start to come out and support us in our future rallies. To learn more about the case and how to get involved, go to atjusticeforyvonne on Instagram. Reporting for KALTV News, we are Lindsay Monkman and Chris Avila.