joining us is reporter sarah hosseini. thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having me. >>what has been the response on campus to the way university officials handled the latest cases? >> i think at this point you'd be hard pressed to find anyone who wouldn't call it lacking. and that comes from top down. from uc president janet napolitano to uc berkeley officials, faculty, and students. they all seem to agree that the punishment so far has been rather light. >> how hard is it to fire a professor? >> it's tough. first you have to go through the first obstacle which is just to substantiate the claims. which involves investigation, that both sides present evidence, it can take up to a year. at that point, punishments can be doled out. anything from suspensions to pay cuts which we've seen some of. but in order to go far enough to get someone's tenure revoked you have to go to the academic senate and ultimately all the way up to the regents. and it's a tricky process because there is a statute of limitations of three years. we really haven't seen that so far. >> we've seen