Boalt Hall student Rick Young uses a borrowed cell

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Hospital merger upheld

Daily Planet Staff & Wire Reports

Wednesday May 03, 2000

A federal appeals court in San Francisco has upheld a lower court ruling that allowed the merger of Alta Bates and Summit medical centers. -more-

Council excels at ‘petty backbiting’

Bonnie Hughes, Berkeley

Wednesday May 03, 2000

I want to thank you for your excellent coverage of the Berkeley Arts Festival and to respond to Polly Armstrong’s May 1 Perspective piece. I, too, question the attack on the manager’s report. It is the report that should be scrutinized not the kind of paper it is printed on. -more-

Exhibit offers a picture of China

David H. Wright

Wednesday May 03, 2000

The big new traveling exhibition now at UC’s Berkeley Art Museum, “China: Fifty Years inside the People’s Republic,” is in the first place a sweeping range of documentation, and is co-sponsored by the School of Journalism, where the dean is Orville Schell, a China specialist. But it is displayed in an art museum and the photographs are mostly grouped by the individual photographers, so we are invited to consider them as works of art, as visual expressions that go beyond normal reportage. -more-

THEATER

Wednesday May 03, 2000

ACTORS ENSEMBLE OF BERKELEY -more-

BHS softball falls short vs. Amador

James Wiseman

Wednesday May 03, 2000

You could say that the Berkeley High softball team got a “victry” against Amador Valley on Tuesday afternoon. That is, the ’Jackets may well have scored a victory, if they hadn’t been missing an “o.” -more-

May 3-5

Wednesday May 03, 2000

Wednesday, May 3 -more-

Claremont Hotel eyes expansion, stirs opposition

Marilyn Claessens

Wednesday May 03, 2000

Plans by the historic Claremont Hotel to add 90 additional guest rooms have ignited a reaction from neighborhood groups concerned about increased traffic. -more-

Affordable housing benefits community

Jeremy Shaw, Berkeley

Wednesday May 03, 2000

I was disheartened to read Monday’s opinion article, “Affordable Housing Projects Threatening to Metastasize.” Mr. Walter Wood’s misrepresentation of affordable housing development is based on uninformed assumptions. -more-

MUSIC VENUES

Wednesday May 03, 2000

ASHKENAZ -more-

Panther pair qualifies for North Coast event

Daily Planet Staff

Wednesday May 03, 2000

Alameda-Contra Costa Athletic League golf powerhouse Alameda already had the league’s lone North Coast Section team berth secured going into Monday’s ACCAL championship tournament at the Chuck Corica Golf Complex. But with three at-large individual berths up for grabs, the afternoon was hardly meaningless for the second-place St. Mary’s boys golf team. -more-

Student protests UC’s plans for Underhill lot

Joe Eskenazi

Wednesday May 03, 2000

Rick Young has been doing some long-term parking – without the benefit of an automobile. -more-

Prep Athlete of the Week: Kamaiya Warren • St. Mary’s track & field

Daily Planet Staff

Wednesday May 03, 2000

Sometimes the “field” part of track and field can be overlooked in favor of the more glamorous sprint and hurdles events. But without star thrower Kamaiya Warren, who virtually guarantees the Panthers two first-place finishes in every dual meet, St. Mary’s High’s ultra-successful girls track team would not be the same high-scoring threat to the NCS title it figures to be later this month. -more-

Playing fields on agenda

Rob Cunningham

Wednesday May 03, 2000

The Berkeley Unified School District should examine an alternative option for the East Campus playing fields project. -more-

Shorebird Center to construct unique energy-saving structure

Daily Planet Staff

Wednesday May 03, 2000

Representatives from the city, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the Shorebird Nature Center broke ground Saturday on an energy-efficient, straw-bale, 860-square-foot building. -more-

Editorial

Men robbed at park

Staff

Saturday April 29, 2000

In two separate incidents Thursday, two men were victims of armed robbery in Aquatic Park: one at Bay Street and Potter around 3 a.m. and the other at 11 p.m. on Bolivar Drive north of Bay Street. -more-