June 11, 2015 — Protests mounted this week over San Francisco State University’s eviction of a popular salmon-rearing and children’s educational program from the school’s Romberg Center of Environmental Studies in Tiburon, and Rep. Jared Huffman launched a full-court press to get the decision reversed.
“I’m so furious with the arrogant bureaucrats at SFSU and especially the new director” at Romberg who kicked the Tiburon Salmon Institute out of the 36-acre bayside campus off Paradise Drive, the San Rafael congressman said. “This really is a giant poke in the eye to Marin County.”
Huffman noted that Brooke Halsey, founder of the institute, has been told to pack up the project and leave by July 1 “without any good reason” except perhaps that the future of the property is uncertain in light of a realty listing advertising it earlier this year.
But Leslie Wong, president of San Francisco State, said the property never was for sale, adding that officials for a time wanted to see if anyone was interested in renting space on the campus. There were no takers.