The University of California at Berkeley has installed an "escape hatch" at the chancellor's office in case student protesters storm the building, Fox News reports. Student groups mocked the decision, arguing that embattled university Chancellor Nicholas Dirks "should open the door, not create new closed ones." The school admits that the new exit was installed because of "security concerns," but said it was "a door," not an "escape hatch."
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