If you’re a student at UC-Berkeley and you thought the DREAM Act wasn’t such a hot idea, then you probably contributed to “the same mean-spirited xenophobia” that led to the Tucson shootings. At least that’s what your chancellor, Robert J. Birgeneau, seems to think.

Oh, and by the way, he also thinks that “a climate in which demonization of others goes unchallenged” can lead to tragedy.