The Post Millennial
By Nick Monroe – October 18, 2021
David Romps was the director of the Berkeley Atmospheric Sciences Center (BASC) until today. Romps took to social media to explain his departure as having to do with the political climate at the university
In a Twitter thread on Monday, Romps announced his resignation because he brought up extending an invite to Professor Dorian Abbot in light of last week’s story about how a cancelled MIT lecture found a new home at Princeton.
It didn’t go as planned. David’s thread summarizes how he was testing the political waters of Berkeley by giving Abbot a platform. It was within Berkeley’s limits because Abbot had previously been invited to the BASC in 2014.