He didn't talk or lecture, he just let me take it in, and it was awesome.

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Alto said some of the big lecture room doors don't have locks and others open out to the hallway on the Berkeley campus, something he thinks leaves students on campus vulnerable to an attack.

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The Sunday Times quotes him as saying in a lecture: "I don't mean that in a hostile way, it's just a fact".

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"It's a chance for people to go and experience the history in a way you can't from just reading a book or listening to a lecture, " he said.

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"Free market forces aren't going to do this, " he said in a lecture earlier this year.

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Delivering the Orwell Lecture last week, he said most journalists didn't want the courts, the state, Europe or MPs to regulate the press.

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Indeed, I learned something I didn't know when I attended the standing-room-only Bierstadt lecture, delivered by Annette Blaugrund, a former director of the National Academy Museum.

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We seem to have mislaid our copy, and we couldn't find it online, but we did track down a 1990 Backgrounder and a 1991 lecture by Butler that outline the plan.

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So he started off his lecture by saying: there is no way of avoiding this, we can't avoid talking about what happened yesterday and the whole class apparently - I wasn't there, he was there - was just utterly silent from the start.

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