5/20/2005: This evening in the midst of commencement on the UCB campus, Chapela, Iain Boal, Gray Brechin, and Dan Siegel spoke to a crowd of supporters, and slide projections shed some light on the hulking, new Bioengineering edifice which is under construction, and slated to serve as a world center for corporate biotech research—in the proud tradition of UC's uranium cyclotron, nanotech lab, and nuclear weapons laboratories.

This week, the Dean of the College of Natural Resources at Berkeley communicated to Ignacio Chapela the intention of the new Chancellor of the University of California to grant tenure to Chapela's position at Berkeley. Profesor Chapela says, "This decision is a clear message of vindication not only of myself, but also of the innumerable individual and collective efforts put into this process by all of you. You have generously added your voices to the many questions raised around my tenure review and demanded a process free of conflict of interest or undue influence, and for this I am thankful."

Chapela continues, "Tenure should not stop our questioning - yours and mine - any more than rain has stopped our circulation of meaning around and about the bioengineering edifice this week. Please come to any of the remaining cycling events, or to the gathering on Friday evening, to celebrate." Read more of Chapela's statement

Each day during the week of May 16th–May 20th, Chapela supporters and biotech foes bicycled around the Bioengineering Building, 7–8 a.m. and 8–9 p.m., and at 9 p.m., congregating in the grassy amphitheatre across the street. On Friday evening May 20th, 9–10:30 p.m., this week’s Dreams of Reason protests culminated in a gathering outside the building, featuring projections and speeches by Chapela and his attorney. From 8 p.m. to 10 p.m., Enemy Combatant Radio webcast the events on campus.