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Friday, April 7

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With the nationally recognized Arcadia track meet scheduled for this weekend, Berkeley High head coach Darrell Hampton considered Thursday’s league meet with Granada as more of a pre-race warmup lap than a competitive event. -more-

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The Zaytuna Institute is sponsoring a conference today and Saturday entitled “The Forgotten Roots,” which will examine the historical past of various ethnic groups in the Americas. -more-

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Thursday, April 6

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Berkeley High boys golf coach Matt Bremer has been predicting a sub-215 score for his team for weeks, but the remarkable 205 the Berkeley High boys golf team shot at Tilden Park Golf Course on Wednesday surprised even the optimistic coach. -more-

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The Downtown Berkeley YMCA will open its doors to the public for a free event celebrating Healthy Kids Day. -more-

The man who coined the phrase “Don’t trust anyone over 30” turned 60 years old Tuesday. -more-

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Wednesday, April 5

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Entertainment will take on a distinctively international flavor on the UC Berkeley campus this week, and appropriately enough, the International House will be the host for the festivities. -more-

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Being a varsity swimmer at St. Mary’s High is a bit like being a surfer in Nebraska. Head swimming coach Erin Heister is the first to admit that the school’s lack of an on-campus aquatic facility makes the sport of swimming a less appealing alternative than the more easily accommodated spring sports, like baseball, softball, volleyball and track. -more-

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The Berkeley High boys volleyball took its second straight league match into five games against Granada on Tuesday evening. Unlike last Thursday’s loss to Monte Vista, however, the ’Jackets kept their cool down the stretch, coming from a 7-10 deficit in the fifth game to win,15-11. -more-

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Tuesday, April 4

In regards to proposals for development of the City’s Oxford Street surface parking lot in downtown (Berkeley Daily Planet, April 1-2), it should be noted that the City Council voted in October to designate the Oxford lot as an “Opportunity Site for as much low income housing and multipurpose multicultural space as possible.” -more-

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Berkeley High boys tennis coach Dan Seguin didn’t mean it as a knock on his opponents when he announced that he would field several junior varsity players against league rival Granada today. In fact, with Berkeley’s depth, facing the JV ’Jackets may not be such a different experience from facing any other school’s varsity. -more-

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A lot of spectators at last weekend’s high school-collegiate San Diego Crew Classic may have thought the defending national champion Cal Golden Bears were the only Berkeley squad to show up. And as far as Berkeley High boys crew coach Eric Christiani is concerned, they were right. -more-

Tonight’s City Council meeting will begin after a brief Housing Authority meeting at 7 p.m. -more-

The Berkeley High boys volleyball team thinks it has what it takes to post its first East Bay Athletic League win against Granada at home tonight. But after falling to league rival Monte Vista – another expected win – last Tuesday, the ’Jackets aren’t leaving anything to chance. -more-

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Monday, April 3

It is sad that it seems that the ASUC (Associated Students of the University of California) now wants to follow in the not-so-proud recent tradition of statewide ballot initiatives. With the upcoming People’s Park referendum, the ASUC, or at least some faction within it, is manipulating simple words with supposed good intentions to dupe voters into supporting a sinister motive (a la Proposition 209, 21, 22, etc.). -more-

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Cal Disabled Students’ Union will hold its inaugural Disability Awareness Day this Wednesday on the university campus. -more-

A small fire occurred just before the end of classes Friday at Cragmont Elementary School on Regal Road. -more-

The city-owned parking lot at Oxford and Addison streets is not yet available for development, but that hasn’t stopped Berkeley’s most prolific – and perhaps most controversial – developer from spreading the word about his plans to develop housing and provide theatre space for the Shotgun Players at the site. -more-

Saturday, April 1

Barge into the Kala Institute, bark out the old cliché “stop the presses!” and you very well may trigger a major shutdown. That’s because the 25-year-old art institute’s 8,500-square-foot main studio is inundated with more varieties of presses than you can shake a lithograph at. There are giant presses and baby-sized presses, venerable old presses and shiny new presses, presses used for one form of printing or another, presses used to meld one form of printing with another and even a press sporting an eye-catching, 6-foot-wide crank wheel that, over the past quarter-century, at least one artist has probably stood behind and suddenly felt compelled to lapse into his or her Long John Silver impersonation. -more-

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The Yellowjackets began their second league match of the season as an underdog on Friday, hosting rival Amador Valley at San Pablo Park in Berkeley. The ’Jackets, who missed out on a month of preseason practice due to the rain, managed to plough over this obstacle with a 12-2 victory over the Dons. The game was halted in the bottom of the fifth by the umpires, due to a 10-run “mercy rule.” -more-

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Any coach will tell you that, in team sports, you’re only as strong as your weakest link. The San Ramon boys tennis team learned that lesson on Friday afternoon at the Berkeley High tennis courts, winning the top two singles spots, but still falling to the notoriously deep Yellowjackets, 7-2. -more-

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The Berkeley High girls lacrosse team gets its second shot of the season at league rival St. Ignatius, in an 11 a.m. matchup this morning at the BHS football field. -more-

The X-Plicit Players, perhaps best known for performing nude, are holding auditions and open rehearsals for new members. -more-

University of California police have arrested two juveniles in connection with the burglary, and arson of three vehicles in university parking structures on the evening of Feb. 26. -more-

ALBANY – Southern Company Energy Marketing and Albany-based Utility.com announced a partnership last week to provide Southern Company Energy Marketing’s wholesale electricity to Utility.com’s customers via the Internet. -more-