Nearly 1,300 people have signed a petition calling for both the rehiring of Justin Yokota, a UC Berkeley lecturer, and the reopening of CS 168, “Introduction to the Internet” for the fall 2025 semester. Yokota, a lecturer in the electrical engineering and computer sciences department, learned April 23 that he would not be reappointed. Since joining campus faculty in 2022, he has co-taught CS 61A, 61B and 61C — three of campus’s main lower-division computer science courses. Yokota said he was told by the department his contract was not being renewed because an Academic Senate faculty member was taking his position. “I do trust that the chairs were put in an impossible situation and determined that the appropriate response here is a nonrenewal of contract,” Yokota said. The petition also addresses the canceling of CS 168, “Introduction to the Internet.” The course, which was listed as a fall 2025 offering until April 21, was canceled on April 25. Read more through the link in bio. ✍...