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OAKLAND, Calif. - Police announced the arrest of the alleged driver behind the wheel in the hit-and-run crash that killed beloved UC Berkeley professor emeritus Michael Burawoy earlier this month ...

A UC Berkeley professor emeritus was killed in a deadly hit-and-run crash in Oakland on Monday. The coroner has identified the victim as 77-year-old Michael Burawoy. He taught sociology at Cal.

On Tuesday, the Alameda County Sheriff’s Coroner Bureau identified the deceased victim as 77-year-old Michael Burawoy. Burawoy was a professor of sociology at UC Berkeley for nearly half a century.

What distinguished Michael Burawoy from other socialists was that he did not sidestep or ignore conservative criticisms of ...