ALBANY – Community gardeners and a local architect are staging a last ditch effort to save a plot of Albany farm land from being toppled by a development. 

Officials at UC Berkeley are preparing to replace seven acres of agriculture land known as the Gill  

Tract with two little league baseball fields and a community center. The plan is part of a larger effort to redevelop the adjacent 77-acre University Village, a community for UC students with children, along San Pablo Avenue, between Monroe and Buchanan streets.  

But opponents of the university’s plan who support urban agriculture say the university’s goal can be met while preserving the historic farm land, which has been cultivated continuously since the 19th century. 

Carla Hyman, a designer with DSA Architects of Berkeley, said she has devised a way to provide playing fields without surrendering any farm land. This week, Hyman submitted her plan to the two development companies competing to build the project for UC Berkeley. 

UC planner Jeff Bond, who had not yet seen Hyman’s proposal, said he was open to ideas that will save the farm land, but was skeptical that it could be done. “If they can incorporate all of the issues that would be great,” Bond said. 

While the university’s proposal calls for playing fields on the Gill Tract, Hyman’s plan would put them south of the tract where unused greenhouses stand.  

University officials, though, said parking and traffic concerns make this land unsuitable for playing fields. The current plan here calls for “creative” uses to be determined by the developer. 

Agriculture supporters say the university is underplaying the importance of farming at the site. 

“The Gill Tract is just as much an asset to the community as baseball fields, housing or retail space,” Hyman argued. 

Urban Roots, a group formed to support urban agriculture, maintains that the Gill Tract, which is currently home to an experimental corn-growing project and a small community garden, is too valuable to plow over. 

“There is nothing else like the Gill Tract anywhere in urban California,” said Josh Miner, a graduate student at the college of natural resources, which operates the tract. “This is the only resource that could be used to study how to better grow and distribute food in urban areas.” 

But UC planners say urban agriculture is not a top concern. 

“The university is most interested in developing reasonably priced housing for students,” said Bond.  

The university’s plan calls for the construction of more than 330 new housing units to bring the total number of units at University Village to 722. An undetermined number of shops and restaurants are also part of the plan. 

Albany officials support the university’s plan. “The community wants to see the site preserved for open space and they see baseball fields as a way to preserve that,” said David Dowswell, Albany’s planning manager.

To the Editor: 

I have agreed to co-sponsor with Councilmember Miriam Hawley an item on the Berkeley City Council agenda for next Tuesday night asking our government to pursue a United Nations solution to the Iraq weapons issue. For eight years I have stood firmly against our City Council weighing in on international/foreign policy issues. It has always seemed to me that we had plenty of local problems to deal with and that my constituents did not elect me to represent them on international questions. 

Today the situation appears to me to be different. Our country is struggling with how to deal with a rogue country that may be a threat to us and to the world. There are those who urge immediate confrontation because we are the strongest country in the world and so we can and should act. As I travel about my district and the city I hear only people who are hoping for a different way of proceeding. Every voice I hear urges working through the UN, with other countries, to pressure Iraq to open its doors and its soul to weapons reduction and a move toward peace. Everyone to whom I speak eventually says, “What's the hurry?” We need to urge our government to slow down its push to war. Because we are the strongest country it is incumbent upon us also to be the most responsible ... setting an example of the civil and humane way for countries to behave. 

I believe that the people of Berkeley love America and that they are patriots to the core. They take seriously the role they play as the city that questions authority. Usually I disagree with the style and rhetoric that is used. Often we are reactive rather than thoughtful and I am embarrassed by what seems a childish approach. Nonetheless, I am always aware of how valuable it is for there to be a city that questions. I fear that we may have lost much of our gravitas in our rush to be the first and most outrageous voice on world issues in the last decades, but today I think our country needs our voice more than ever. I think it needs our voice and the voices of cities all across America to say slow down, walk softly. Let us explore every means possible to avoid war. The UN is our best hope for a measured outcome to this crisis. We must use it with patience. 

There is plenty of time for war and hopefully plenty of time for peace. 

Polly Armstrong 

Berkeley City Council 

By Brian Kluepfel 

Special to the Daily Planet 

While most Berkeley residents march to the beat of modern athletics – the pulse of a basketball in summer, the smack of shoulder pads on an autumn afternoon and the crack of a baseball bat in the spring – a corner of Acton Street maintains one of the world’s oldest sporting traditions, brought to America by English colonists in the 1600s and revived by 19th century Scottish immigrants. 

On a gentle patch of grass, ladies and gentleman of leisure participate in lawn bowling. The Berkeley Lawn Bowling Club was founded here in 1929. 

Lawn bowling, also known as lawn bowls, dates to at least 1299 in England, and has its variants in Italy's bocce and French Provencal's petanque. Historians feel the sport originated with a game Roman soldiers played, tossing large stones at a smaller stone during their leisure time. 

In lawn bowling, points are scored by the player whose bowl is closest to the “jack,” a small, white ball which is rolled first. 

To bolster membership and promote the game, the Berkeley’s club recently hosted an open house. 

Club members, dressed in competition whites, demonstrated the intricacies of rolling a bowl – not a ball, because it’s not round – down a meticulously manicured green. The rules and etiquette of a game that was codified in 19th-century Scotland were laid out for guests, along with plates of vegetable dips and cookies. 

Although it once boasted more than 100 members, the club now numbers 55. One reason for lower membership club spokesperson Ted Crum gave is the high cost of joining. 

It’s an expensive proposition to maintain a bowling green, members say. The imported Australian grass-cutting machine costs $5,500. Further expenses include re-seeding the special Astoria.  

Bent grass each year, a biannual aerating of the green which means pulling out more than a million plugs of grass and back-filling with eight tons of sand and a specialized sprinkler system.  

The economics of bowling have always been an issue: King Henry VIII of England, himself a bowler, banned the sport among the lower classes in 1511. He also taxed private bowling greens 100 pounds, ensuring that only the well-to-do would play, and the rest of the kingdom would continue to produce bows and arrows.  

Another reason membership at the Berkeley club is dwindling, members say, is because the younger generation hasn’t taken up the game in any significant way. The most junior bowler in the Berkeley club is eight years old, but the majority of its members are well into their retirement years. 

Alameda County Supervisor Keith Carson attended the open house and said some outreach programs would be a step in the right direction. “If you get high school and junior high kids down here, they’ll get hooked like they do on any other game. It’s fun,” said Carson.  

Carson, who grew up in the neighborhood and often passed the green on his way to play in Strawberry Creek, had never been to the club before. “As a kid in south Berkeley, this place was always mysterious. Now I know what’s going on here,” he said. He enjoyed his first lesson and game, although he refused to divulge his score.  

One thing Carson and the new bowlers picked up is a bit of the subculture’s jargon. If you “get good grass” at the West Berkeley Lawn Bowling Club, it only means one thing – you read the lawn and rolled your bowl well. And if you’re too “thin” or too “wide,” no one is commenting on your physique, only your most recent bowl. And when one speaks of “bias,” they are talking about the way a bowl is irregularly shaped, so that it curves back toward the center as it traverses the rink.  

One bias that seems to have been corrected in recent times is women’s participation. In America, lawn bowling has not always been a female sport. The American Women’s Lawn Bowls Association was not founded until 1969, and only two years ago merged with the men’s organization to form the United States Lawn Bowls Association. The USLBA comprises more than 130 clubs, including ones in Richmond, Oakland, San Francisco and Palo Alto.  

Although only a couple of younger generation folks showed up for the open house, the event did prove one old adage true: Only mad dogs and Englishman brave the midday sun. On one of Berkeley’s most scorching summer days, many players were from the British Isles.  

Frank Sugden is a semi-retired domestic from Essex, England, who now resides in Piedmont. He never took up the game back home, but now plays regularly. Why? “It’s just like any game,” he says. “You get a sense of satisfaction – especially when you win.” 

He notes that many of the clubs in England have a waiting list to join – a problem that certainly the Berkeley Lawn Bowling Club wishes it had.

Thursday, Oct. 3 

Nutrition Career Open House - Institution of Educational Therapy 

7 to 8:30 p.m. 

706 Gilman St.  

558-1711 

Free. 

Tibetan Buddhist Meditation Master 

Berekley Shambhala Center 

7 p,m. 

2288 Fulton St.  

(415)887-2820 for more info. 

Investing in the Future 

7:30 p.m. 

St. Mary Magdalen Church 

2005 Berryman St. 

Learn how to invest to meet more than your financial needs. 

Call to reserve space: (925) 417-6654 

Free. 

How to Defeat CommitmentPhobia:  

In Yourself or the One You Love 

7:30 to 9:30 p.m. 

Berkeley Richmond Jewish  

Community Center, 1414 Walnut St.  

Learn a variety of strategies for those who are ambivalent about commitment. Taught by Susan Page.  

848-0237 Ext. 127 

$10 public. $8 BRJCC members. 

Friday, Oct. 4 

Peace Corp. Volunteer Returns 

Triple Rock Brewery “Happy Hour” 

5 p.m.  

1920 Shattuck Ave. 

(800)424-8580 

Free. 

International Day of No Prostitution 

6 to 8 p.m. 

Boalt Hall, Booth Auditorium,  

UC Berkeley 

Bay Area rally and march  

against prostitution.  

358-2725 

Resist Oil & Mining 

6 to 10 p.m. 

The roof, 1916A Martin Luther King Jr. Way, at Berkeley Way 

Project Underground’s sixth birthday party and annual prize drawing.  

Entertainment, music, drinks, childcare. Wheelchair accessible. 

705-8981 or maistella@moles.org 

$15 suggested donation. 

Saturday, Oct. 5 

Berkeley National Lab Open House 

10a.m. to 4 p.m. 

1 Cyclotron Rd. 

Live music, food, lectures, job fair, etc. 

495-2222 

Free. 

Leading Edge Technology Conferece 

9 a.m. to 7 p.m. 

Haas School of Business, Arthur Andersen Auditorium, 2200 Piedmont Ave. 

594-748 for more info. 

East Bay Solar Home Tour 

10 a.m. to 4 p.m. 

Cedar Rose Park (first stop) 

Attendees collect a map to guide them  

on the self-guided tour—eight homes in Albany, Berkeley and Oakland in all. 

531-1184 

$15 per car. 

Sunday, Oct. 6 

Eckanka Worship Service 

10:30 to 11:30 a.m. 

East Bay ECK Center, 3052 Telegraph, near Whole Foods 

“How to Survive Spiritually in Our Times” 

549-2807 

War Tax Resistance Information  

and Support Gathering 

4 to 6:30 p.m. 

1305 Hopkins St., near Peralta. 

Join others who refuse to pay taxes for U.S. militarism at this monthly  

potluck supper. 

843-9877 

Free: bring food or drink to share. 

Thursday, Oct. 3 

Pete & Joan Wernick featuring Dr. Banjo  

8 p.m. 

Freight & Salvage, 1111 Addison St. 

548-1761 www.freightandsalvage.com 

$15.50 in advance. $16.50 at door. 

Figa Productions DJ Night 

9:30 p.m. 

The Starry Plough, 3101 Shattuck Ave. 

$7. $10 after 11 p.m. 21 and over. 

Saturday, Oct. 5 

Leon Bates 

7:30 p.m. 

Calvin Simmons Theatre, 10 10th St. 

Pianist Leon Bates offers works by Mozart, Brahms and Chopin. 

451-0775. www.fourseasonsconcerts.com 

$25-$35. 

All Bets Off, Benumb and Uphill Battle 

8 p.m. 

924 Gilman St. 

525-9926 

$5. 

House Jacks  

8 p.m. 

Freight & Salvage, 1111 Addison St. 

548-1761 or www.freightandsalvage.com 

$16.50 in advance. $17.50 at door. 

Sunday, Oct. 6 

Jimmie Dale Gilmore  

8 p.m. 

Freight & Salvage, 1111 Addison St. 

548-1761 www.freightandsalvage.com 

$17.50 in advance. $18.50 at door. 

Ledisi and the Braxton Brothers 

4:30 p.m. 

Jazzschool, 2087 Addison St. 

845-5373 

$10-15. 

Yaphet Kotto, The Fleshies  

and Lesser of Two 

8 p.m. 

924 Gilman St. 

525-9926 

$5. 

"Balancing Acts" 

Through Oct. 10 

Gallery 555, 555 12th St., 

Oakland City Center 

Oakland's 'Third Thursday' art night  

features Ann Weber's works  

made of cardboard. 

http://www.oaklandcitycenter.com.  

Free. 

“Hunger: What will you do about it?”  

Through Oct. 30  

Mon.-Fri., 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

The Civic Center Building 

2180 Milvia St., 5th floor 

Featuring 40 photographs  

by Berkeley artist David Bacon. 

834-3663, Ext. 338,  

uchanse@secondharvest.org 

Richard Misrach, Berkeley Work 

Though Oct. 13 

UC Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, 2626 Bancroft Way 

On view in Gallery 2, presents two photographic series by this internationally recognized Berkeley-based artist.  

642-0808, www.bampfa.berkeley.edu 

$7. $5 BAM/PFA members.  

$4 UC Berkeley students. 

“Recent Acquisitions” 

Oct. 13 through Dec. 14 

Thurs., Fri., and Sat., 1 to 4 p.m. 

Berkeley Historical Society, Veterans Memorial Building, 1931 Center St. 

848-0181 

Free. 

Misch Kohn - Celebrating  

60 Years of Printmaking 

Through Oct. 16. Tues.-Fri., Noon to 5:30 p.m.; Sat., noon to 4:30 p.m. 

Kala Arts Institute, 1060 Heinz Ave. 

549-2977, kala@kala.org 

Nancy Salz 

Through Oct. 23, Tues.-Fri.,  

10 a.m.-5:30 p.m.; Sat 10 a.m.-4 p.m. 

Barbara Anderson Gallery, 2243 Fifth St. 

848-3822 

Timoteo Ikoshy Montoya 

Through Nov. 1  

Reception Sept. 20, 6 to 8 p.m. 

Gathering Tribes Gallery  

1573 Solano Ave.  

Acrylic/air brush paintings  

by this Native American artist.  

528-9038 

Threads: Five artists who  

use stitching to convey ideas 

Oct. 6 through Dec. 15, Wed.-Sun., noon to 5 p.m. 

Berkeley Art Center 

Live Oak Park, 1275 Walnut St. 

Information: www.berkeleyartcenter.org, 644-6893 

Free. 

Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar 

Through Oct. 12 

Thurs. through Sat. 8 p.m. 

LaVal’s Subterranean Theatre  

1834 Euclid Ave. 

234-6046 

$10. 

The House of Blue Leaves 

Through Oct. 20 

Berkeley Rep's Roda Theater  

2015 Addison St.  

647-2949 or 888-4BRTTIX 

$10-$54. 

The Shape of Things 

Through Oct. 20 

Aurora Theatre Company  

2081 Addison St. 

Play by writer/director Neil LaBute's spins a morality tale of a young art student, his art major girlfriend, and the Pygmalion-like changes that bring into question how far one should go for love. 

843-4822, www.auroratheater.org for reservations 

$26-$35. 

Ceramics - Opening Reception 

Through Nov. 17 

3 to 5 p.m. 

A New Leaf Gallery, 1286 Gilman St. 

525-7621 

Free. 

Thursday, Oct. 3 

Brenda Hillman 

12:10 p.m. 

Morrison Library in Doe Library, UCB 

UC Berkeley’s Lunch Poems Reading Series. Author’s six books include “Loose Sugar” and “Cascadia”. 

http://www.berkeley.edu/calendar/events 

Free. 

Nathaniel Mackay and Trane Devore 

6 p.m. 

Maud Fife Room,  

315 Wheeler Hall, UC Berkeley 

Part of Holloway Poetry Series for Fall 2002. 

jscape@socrates.berkeley.edu 

Free. 

Friday, Oct. 4 

Katherine Forrest 

7:30 p.m. 

Boadecia’s Books, 398 Colusa Ave. at Colusa Circle 

Reading from “Daughters of the Amber Moon” 

559-9184 

Free. 

Saturday, Oct. 5 

“Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay & Bisexual African American Fiction” 

7:30 p.m. 

Boadecia’s Books, 398 Colusa Ave. at Colusa Circle 

Led by co-editors Devon W. Carbado and Donald Wiese, and several of the book’s writers. 

559-9184 

Free. 

Sunday, October 6 

Ledisi and The Braxton Brothers 

4:30 p.m. 

Berkeley Jazz School, 2087 Addison St.  

845-5373 

$15. $12 students & seniors.  

$10 Jazz school students. 

Tuesday, Oct. 8 

Daniel Wilkinson 

7:30 p.m. 

Cody’s Books, 2454 Telegraph Ave. 

Author Wilkinon and panelists from Global Exchange and Equal Exchange will discuss Guatemala, globalization, and book “Silence on the Mountain.” 

(617) 351-3243 

Thursday, Oct. 10 

Daniel Wilkinson 

7:30 p.m. 

Easy Going Travel Shop & Bookstore, 1385 Shattuck Ave. 

Wilkinson, author of “Silence on the Mountain” will present slide show. 

843-3533 

Free. 

Friday, Oct. 11 

Beth Glick-Rieman 

7:30 p.m. 

Boadacia’s Books, 398 Colusa Ave.  

at Colusa Circle 

Glick-Rieman shares her findings on the status of women around the world, reading from her book, “Peace Train to Beijing and Beyond”. 

559-9184 

Free. 

Friday, Oct. 18 

Storyteller Nancy Schimmel 

Poets, singers, musicians and storytellers are invted. 

7:30 to 10 p.m. 

Fellowship Cafe, 1924 Cedar St. 

540-0898 

$5 to 10 donation. 

Sunday, Oct. 6 

Cinemath Films 

Pacific Film Archive Theater 

5:30 p.m. 

2575 Bancroft Way 

642-1412 

$7 for one film. $ 8.50 for double bills.

Twenty-six years. That’s how long it’s been since the Cal football team beat the Washington Huskies. 

Twenty-two years. That’s how long it’s been since the Cal football team won in the state of Washington. 

Seventeen games. That’s how many games Washington has won at Husky Stadium since last losing at home. 

To say history is against the Golden Bears heading into Saturday’s game against No. 12 Washington at Husky Stadium would be a bit of an understatement. 

But ask any of the participants, and they’ll say this year is different. Washington coach Rick Neuheisel sounded positively frightened of the rejuvenated Bears in a conference call on Tuesday. 

“Every game with Cal has been a dogfight,” he said. “We know we’re going to have to play a great football game to win.” 

That’s not all bluster from Neuheisel, who is in his fourth year in Seattle. The Huskies have extended their winning streak against the Bears with three straight come-from-behind wins, including last season’s game that Cal led 21-10 at halftime before falling 31-28. The year before that, Washington scored 23 points in just six minutes of the fourth quarter to post a 36-24 win in Seattle, a collapse that devastated the Bears and sent them into a 2-13 tailspin to end the woeful Tom Holmoe era. 

So to be honest, the Huskies just might have some higher power looking out for them when they face Cal. Or maybe they’ve just been a better team, not an unfair assessment considering the decade-long slump from which the Bears are trying to break free under Jeff Tedford. 

Tedford wasn’t aware of the Washington winning streak over his new team until Monday and said he wouldn’t be mentioning it to his players. Neuheisel pointed out that none of his players were even born when the streak started, and the Bears have just three players who were alive on Nov. 6, 1976 when their predecessors won 7-0 in Seattle. 

“We just have to prepare to win this year’s game,” Tedford said. “The streak really doesn’t have anything to do with anything.” 

Saturday could be the biggest game of the season for the Bears, and not just because of the history involved. A win would put the Bears at 4-2 with winnable games against conference foes Arizona, Arizona State and Stanford left on the schedule, meaning a winning record wouldn’t be out of the question. A loss would leave them with three straight defeats, not exactly the kind of pick-me-up players like midway through the season, especially players who have known little but losing in their college careers. 

Neuheisel certainly doesn’t want his team to have to make up a deficit this season. Although the Bears have allowed their last two opponents to come back in the second half, the Washington coach wants his team to be the first to get a fast start against Cal. 

“It’s important for us to give our fans something to get excited about early in the game,” Neuheisel said. “The way Cal’s been getting out of the gate, we don’t want them to do the same to us.” 

At least the Bears are no strangers to upsetting a ranked team on the road. Their win at Michigan State three weeks ago was the high point of the season thusfar, so a packed Husky Stadium shouldn’t be overly daunting. 

Cal wide receiver LaShaun Ward, who missed the 2000 trip to Seattle due to injury, said the Bears believe they can defeat the Washington hex. 

“We just have to go in confident,” Ward said. “I know we can go into their house, with all their hype and national ranking, and beat them.” 

Notes: Cal offensive guard Jon Geisel is questionable for Saturday’s game, as is linebacker Matt Nixon. Nixon sat out the Washington State game after spraining his knee in practice last week, while Geisel was forced to leave the game in the first half with a knee injury and did not return... Tedford said freshman wide receiver David Gray, who caught a 71-yard touchdown pass from tailback Terrell Williams on the Bears’ first play from scrimmage this season, will likely be a medical redshirt due to a shoulder injury. Tedford said linebacker Ryan Estes will also redshirt, although he is working on the scout team.

California does a poor job of preparing students for college but provides young people with an affordable higher education, according to a national study released Wednesday. 

“California is probably the top state [in the country] in terms of providing low-cost education,” said Mikyung Ryu, policy analyst for the San Jose-based National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, which published the report. “[Students] should be better prepared when they enter [college].” 

The center, in its “Measuring Up 2002” study, graded all 50 states on higher education in five separate categories: preparation, participation, affordability, completion and benefits. 

California received a C- in preparing pupils for higher education and an A in affordability, matching grades from the first “Measuring Up” study in 2000. 

California held steady on its participation grade – which measured, among other things, the number of 18- to 24-year-olds enrolled in college – at a B+.  

Its completion grade, which included factors like the number of full-time college students graduating within six years of enrollment, jumped from a C to a C+. 

The benefits score, which measured voting patterns and income jumps for college graduates, moved from a B+ to an A-. 

The group based its preparation grade on 12 separate measures. California made progress in a few cases – the number of eighth-graders taking algebra, for instance, jumped from 21 percent in 2000 to 33 percent in 2002. But the state held steady or dropped in most other categories. 

The number of high school students taking at least one upper-level math course, for example, dipped from 36 percent in 2000 to 34 percent in 2002. 

“This is kind of an alarming result, because many other states are making progress on this measure,” said Ryu. 

Figures for Berkeley High School, in particular, were not available at press time. 

Ryu said the low cost of community college contributed heavily to California’s A for affordability. According to the center’s report, community college tuition in California amounts to only 3 percent of a low-income family’s average income, the lowest percentage in the nation. 

“A student can get a very, very good education, and fulfill all the requirements to go to any university, at extremely low prices,” said Terry Tricomi, spokesperson for Vista Community College in Berkeley. 

California residents can attend a community college full-time for roughly $300 per year under state regulations that govern every community college in California. 

The figures are not as strong when it comes to public, four-year colleges or universities. The average California family must devote 28 percent of its income to pay tuition, room and board for a public, four-year institution.  

Utah, by contrast, leads the way at 16 percent. 

But University of California spokesman Hanan Eisenman said residents get bang for their buck. 

“For the quality of UC’s education, there isn’t a better-priced education in the state,” he said. 

This year, the average fee for the nine-campus UC system, including tuition, is $3,859.  

Eisenman said the figure was $2,005 less than the average fees at four comparable universities – the University of Illinois, Michigan University, the University of Virginia and the State University of New York.

To the Editor: 

The president of Harvard University, Lawrence Summers, recently made public his views on a petition signed by professors at Harvard and MIT calling upon their universities to divest from corporations that do significant business with Israel. Lamenting that anti-Israeli views are increasingly finding support in progressive intellectual communities, Mr. Summers stated that such views have been “anti-Semitic in their effect if not their intent.”  

We, the undersigned, professors and lecturers at the University of California have signed a similar petition urging our institution to divest from Israel. But we reject the allegation that our opposition to state violence by the state of Israel in any way constitutes anti-Semitism, which, like all forms of racism, we unequivocally reject. 

Mr. Summers’ judgments, in their effect if not their intent, obscure the following fact. The State of Israel continues to violate the human rights of three million Palestinians in the occupied territories. Labeling gentiles as anti-Semitic for calling attention to this injustice is like accusing opponents of South African apartheid of being anti-Dutch. We among this list of signatories who are Jews feel an added responsibility to speak out against Mr. Summers' brand of slander, just as we feel responsible to denounce the daily atrocities committed by the Israeli government in the name of Jews. 

Mr. Summers enjoys support among those who claim that petitions such as ours are anti-Semitic because they single out Israel in a sea of many other countries also guilty of human rights abuses. To these, the ideological soul mates of Mr. Summers, we offer one final fact. Unlike most of these other countries, Israel receives billions of dollars each year from the United States. Israel, in fact, receives more U.S. aid than does any other nation. 

This is why our call for economic divestment from Israel is entirely appropriate. This is why the comments by Lawrence Summers and others of his stripe are shameful deceptions ... in their effect if not their intent.  

Rutie Adler, Hamid Algar,  

Daniel Boyarin, Julian Boyd, Michael Burawoy, Judith Butler, Michael Cassidy,  

Paula Chakravartty,  

Vasudha Dalmia,  

Susan Ervin-Tripp, Nancy Krusoe, Samer Madanat, Alaa Mansour, Glen Mimura, Michael Nagler, Joe Neilands, Lisa Rofel,  

Nancy Stoller, Dell Upton,  

Ling-Chi Wang, Linda Williams

Poet Brenda Hillman is scheduled to speak today at UC Berkeley’s Morrison Library. The author of six books, including “Loose Sugar” and “Cascadia,” Morrison uses language to explore the edges of consciousness, and examines the fine line between the sensual and the spiritual. 

Hillman teaches at St. Mary’s College in Moraga, and has received two Pushcart Prizes, a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, and the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award for poetry. 

Hillman appears as part of Lunch Poems: A Noontime Poetry Reading Series, organized by professor Robert Hass of UC Berkeley. 

The readings are scheduled 12:10 to 12:50 p.m. the first Thursday of each month, at Doe Library, UC Berkeley. Free. 

Other poets to be featured this year will be Li-Young Lee on Nov. 7 and Mary Ruefle on Dec. 5.

OAKLAND – Mark Mulder didn’t see panic in his teammates’ eyes after the Oakland Athletics’ playoff run got off to a rough start. 

He saw a quiet maturity from three years of postseason experience – and a pride that wouldn’t allow the A’s to fall off the pace in the division series. 

David Justice’s bases-loaded triple highlighted Oakland’s 14-hit barrage, and Mulder pitched six strong innings as the A’s beat the Minnesota Twins 9-1 Wednesday to even the series at one game apiece. 

Eric Chavez had a three-run homer, and rookie Mark Ellis got three hits as Oakland emphatically replied to the Twins’ 7-5 comeback victory in Game 1 with a tremendous offensive game against Joe Mays (0-1) and the Twins’ bullpen. 

“Just looking at the guys in the locker room, you could tell everybody knew how important this game was,” said Mulder, who allowed five hits. 

Each of the first seven hitters in Oakland’s lineup got an extra-base hit as the A’s jumped to an 8-0 lead after four innings. Justice, the most prolific run-producer in playoff history, added three more RBIs to his record total during Oakland’s five-run fourth. 

“With our offense, we just look for certain guys to check in from time to time,” Chavez said. “Everybody knows our team is built on pitching. We’ve just got to ride their coattails as far as they’ll take us. Today, we were able to make it easier.” 

The Twins were on an emotional high after winning in their first playoff appearance in 11 years, but they were brought back to reality by the A’s dominant victory. Minnesota got just seven hits, scoring its only run on Cristian Guzman’s homer in the sixth. 

Minnesota manager Ron Gardenhire said he was embarrassed by his team’s effort, and his players agreed. 

“That wasn’t emotionally draining,” Doug Mientkiewicz said with a grimace. “That was, ’Please hurry up before they score 40 runs against us.”’ 

Mulder (1-0) – who went 19-7 and finished the season on a six-game winning streak – wasn’t overpowering, but he mostly stayed out of trouble while striking out three. He didn’t allow a runner to reach third base in the first five innings.

Both Mayor Shirley Dean and her chief rival in the November election former state Assemblyman Tom Bates declared support for putting cameras on traffic lights to catch speeders and red light runners. 

Their statements, made at a candidates debate Tuesday evening, come a week after city transportation head Peter Hillier announced his intention of bringing the camera idea before City Council next summer.  

Tuesday’s debate, sponsored by the Ecology Center and other environmental advocacy groups, focused primarily on land use and ecology issues.  

The candidates offered similar visions of a more environmentally-friendly Berkeley – liberated from its dependence on cars and with better public transportation, cleaner air, solar powered buildings and safer streets for pedestrians and cyclists. 

Bates went on to advocate for tougher measures regulating traffic flow. 

Calling cars “the biggest single [safety and environmental] problem we have in our town,” Bates said the city should build more street diversions to slow traffic. For some roads, Bates said he favored traffic circles and narrower streets as well. 

Dean disagreed with Bates’ diversion idea. She noted that Arlington Avenue has several twists, but many drivers continue to speed, “enjoying the turns and the screech of the wheel.” Dean hopes to fight fast traffic with four new traffic officers, and said they would pay for themselves with fines collected. 

The candidates also clashed about air pollution in west Berkeley. 

Bates said pollution near the Berkeley Transfer Station is so bad that he wonders whether it is safe for children to play at the nearby Harrison Park soccer fields. 

Recent city air monitoring tests have detected high and potentially dangerous levels of particulate matter near the fields. 

While Dean has called the construction of the fields one of her top achievements as mayor, Bates said the city should consider closing down the fields if the air quality worsens, and using new fields scheduled to be built at the Albany Plateau. 

Bates also criticized Mayor Dean for her response to health disparities reported among Berkeley neighborhoods. Noting a study taken several years ago that found west Berkeley residents, on average, die 20 years before residents of other neighborhoods, Bates said Dean has failed to provide the leadership or funds to address the disparity.  

Dean defended her record on dealing with the issue. She said the city has given a community action team $200,000 a year to formulate a plan to identify and solve the problem. The team is looking into a range of possibilities, from pollution to health care access. 

To aid in the improvement of air quality in west Berkeley, both candidates advocated switching the city’s sanitation trucks to cleaner bio-diesel fuel, and promoted environmentally-friendly fuels in other government vehicles. 

UC Berkeley also figured prominently into Tuesday’s debate. 

Bates criticized Dean for letting the university get away without paying its fair share of costs for city services. He said he would use his contacts in the state Legislature, including his wife Loni Hancock who is an Assemblywoman elect, to give the city stronger leverage in dealing with the university. 

Dean said she had not dropped any issues with the university and that the state Legislature would compel the university to pay it’s fair share no matter who is elected mayor. 

On many issues, the candidates laid out similar ideas with minor variations.  

Both Bates and Dean called for improved recycling programs, with Dean wanting the city to focus on reducing food waste, while Bates called for renewed efforts to improve recycling at small businesses. 

Both candidates advocated extending the city’s eco-pass, a free bus pass, to large private employers. Bates also proposed setting up a Web site for UC Berkeley employees to coordinate car pools. 

On parking, Bates said he would study the need for more downtown parking, while Dean called for rebuilding the earthquake-prone Center Street garage with robotic parking to create more parking spaces.

To the Editor: 

Whatever the merits are for moving or not moving Memorial Stadium on the UC campus, it might be interesting to hear the facts about the stadium and when it was built. 

Construction on Memorial Stadium was completed late in 1923 in time for the first football game held there on Nov. 24, 1923 – the Big Game between Cal and Stanford. It was the 29th Big Game and was won by Cal 9-0. The year 1923 was a rebuilding one for Cal after the graduation in 1922 of several members of coach Andy Smith's original Wonder Team of 1920-’22. 

Cal's record for the year of 1923 was 9-0-1. Not too bad for a rebuilding year. Cal's win in the 1923 Big Game evened the series at 12-12-5. Andy Smith coached at Cal through the 1925 season and died suddenly of pneumonia on Jan. 9, 1926, while vacationing in Philadelphia. He was 43. 

T. Brillhart 

Berkeley

NEW YORK — Is CNN Headline News down with it? 

The cable network is trying, judging from an effort emanating from its executive suite to think young. 

CNN Headline News general manager Rolando Santos told the San Francisco Chronicle this week that he’s looking to mix “the lingo of our people” — words like “whack” and “ill” — into newscasts to attract young people. 

And the New York Daily News on Wednesday quoted from an e-mail sent by a network manager to his headline writers, sending them a copy of a slang dictionary so they can be “as cutting edge” as possible. 

“Please use this guide to help all you homeys and honeys add a new flava to your tickers and dekkos,” the message said, referring to graphics on the Headline News screen. The list of phrases included “fly,” meaning sexually attractive.

Bay Area Rapid Transit was the way to go for the Twins. Most of the players and coaches opted for public transportation Tuesday, and it was a good thing.  

While most of them arrived plenty early to the Coliseum, club executives and other officials were running late because the team bus was held up in horrible traffic trying to cross San Francisco Bay. 

But a few players, including starting pitcher Brad Radke, weren’t so fortunate getting to the stadium – they got on the wrong BART train and ended up in Berkeley, about 10 miles to the north. But all the players made it to the Coliseum in time for the game.

For years day laborers like Victor Guevara have stood on the corner of Fourth and Hearst streets in west Berkeley hoping to get a days work in exchange for a day’s wages. But as the economy flattened and their numbers increased, so did complaints about their presence. 

Next month, Berkeley will become one of more than 10 cities in California that will address rather than ignore its unregulated labor market. 

“Pretending invisibility on this type of reality in our cities doesn’t solve anything,” said Father Rigoberto Caloca-Rivas, executive director of the Berkeley-based Multicultural Institute. 

Caloca-Rivas will work with city officials to relocate the workers to a pick up area west of Fourth Street on Hearst. The designation of the area, which will be equipped with toilets, is the first phase in the collaborative effort to help day laborers as well as satisfy loitering concerns of local businesses and residents. 

Also part of the first phase, Caloca-Rivas wants to create a plan to ensure that laborers are not financially abused by contractors. 

In the second phase, the institute will open a storefront labor center at an undetermined location where workers can wait for work. In preparation for this phase, the institute will offer English language classes, GED classes, job training and life skills courses. Finding and setting up a location will probably take six to nine months, Caloca-Rivas said. 

The program is funded by the city, donations and grants. 

Caloca-Rivas, who also runs a mentoring and tutoring program and a program that works to improve communication between parents and children, hopes to eventually organize workers in an independent “grassroots union model.”  

“The goal of our efforts,” he said “is self-organizing and sustainability on its own.”  

Day laborers have been organized in other cities, including neighboring Oakland as well as Los Angeles. While some of these programs have been organized with city support, others have been created after tough battles against city ordinances. 

Caloca-Rivas’ plan is one of the first to introduce an educational component into the labor program. 

The collaboration between Caloca-Rivas and the city of Berkeley began more than a year ago after a series of neighborhood complaints. The Berkeley Office of Economic Development and Health and Human Services responded by commissioning a study to learn more about the issue. 

A consultant reported back this summer, showing that the number of workers who come to Berkeley from Richmond, Oakland and other Bay Area cities has grown exponentially in recent years. 

The Federation for American Immigration Reform estimates that there are three to four million undocumented immigrants in California. Berkeley officials say that many of the 80 to 200 men that gather on Hearst are undocumented. 

The city’s study also looked at day laborer programs in other cities. In Concord, a trailer with computers serves as a labor center. Laborers pay $1 per day in dues and organize themselves. In Glendale, solicitation is limited to the labor center, and day laborers pass out flyers to inform prospective employers of their services. 

Caloca-Rivas brought his proposal to the city last spring. 

“[The Multicultural Institute has] an excellent level of trust within the community, especially the Spanish speaking community,” said Delfina Geiken, Berkeley Worksource Employment Programs Administrator who is working on the project for the city “And that’s what we need … an agency that the laborers feel comfortable with.” 

In Berkeley, it was also crucial to find an agency that could engage merchants frustrated by the presence of the laborers. 

Warren White, President of Truitt and White Lumber Company said that laborers disrupt business and create sanitary and safety problems.  

“I’m not pointing fingers at the entire group,” said White. “I know it’s just a small number, but unfortunately that creates problems for the whole group.” 

Mary Sawatzki, an assistant manager at the Discovery Store at the corner of Fourth and Hearst, is concerned for her safety, but is also frustrated with the contractors. 

“[The contractors] are extraordinarily rude,” she said. “They think they have a right to block your driveway, take your parking spaces. They have no respect. They just want to get their cheap labor without benefits. To me it’s totally immoral.”  

For Victor Guervara, the pattern is work. 

“It is necessary,” says Guevara, who left his wife and three children two months ago. “I think everyone who comes here comes because it is necessary.”

To the Editor: 

I object to the City Council lending support to the formation of a Joint Powers Authority with Berkeley as a member since this type of written support implies a future commitment to the JPA, and there has been none of tbe public input required before formation. A Joint Powers Association is not “a mechanism for multiple agencies to jointly manage and operate a regional facility,” but a Marks-Roos bond pooling instrument which allows a group of municipalities to issue bonds without citizen input for the benefit of one or more of the members, and each member is then liable for the repayment of the full amount of the bond. Marks-Roos Community Facilities Districts (including JPAs) are formed for finance only and no provisions are made for the co-management or operation of these facilities. 

By sending this letter to the city of Albany, the council will be committing its support, not only financially but as a matter of policy, to the creation and financing of playing fields in the new Eastshore Park without the input of those who will be most affected: the citizens and tax(bond)payers of Berkeley. 

Rhiannon, Berkeley

With all due respect to Anthony Hopkins, the world did not need to see him play Hannibal Lecter a third time. 

The supposed allure of “Red Dragon” lies in seeing Hopkins star in all three movies as the cannibalistic criminal expert, with his impeccable manners and his propensity for serving up victims with “fava beans and a nice Chianti.” 

But right there — the fact that a snippet of dialogue from “The Silence of the Lambs” is so instantly recognizable more than a decade after the movie’s release — proves my point. 

Since that 1991 movie — Hopkins’ first as Lecter, which earned him a best-actor Oscar — the character has been mimicked and parodied so many times, he’s practically become a beloved comic figure. 

Then in 2001, amid massive anticipation, Hopkins reprised the role in “Hannibal,” Ridley Scott’s beautiful but blood-soaked adaptation of the third book in Thomas Harris’ series. 

Now, Hopkins has returned for the screen version of the first book, “Red Dragon.” But it’s hard to take him seriously as he stands in his cell and snarls at FBI investigator Will Graham, “You stink of fear under that cheap lotion.” 

We’ve seen him run this mind game on Clarice Starling. It’s too comfortable to cause chills. 

The world also didn’t need “Red Dragon” because it already existed; it came out in 1986 and was called “Manhunter.” 

Brian Cox played Lecter before the character became ingrained in the cultural consciousness, and his take on the role was fascinatingly different — charismatic like Hopkins, but with a more intense edge. His screen time was way too short — you wanted to see more of him. 

The thoroughly underappreciated “Manhunter” still holds up well today, even if writer-director Michael Mann’s “Miami Vice” aesthetic is a bit dated. As Will Graham, William Petersen (now of the hit TV show “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation”) wears Crockett and Tubbs’ hand-me-downs, as a heavy synthesizer score drones with his every move. 

The substance of “Red Dragon” is the same as “Manhunter,” if the structure’s a bit different: Will (Edward Norton) is dragged from the sanctity of his Florida retirement to help look for a serial killer known as The Tooth Fairy, who has brutally slain two families in the South. 

Will reluctantly must return to Lecter, the former ally he helped put away for murder, for insight in understanding the killer’s mind. 

While “Hannibal” was gratuitously gory, “Red Dragon” strays too far in the opposite direction. It’s surprisingly tepid, considering that Brett Ratner of the “Rush Hour” movies is the director. And its villain (Ralph Fiennes) snivels and shrieks so much, he’s more funny than frightening. 

(We’re supposed to believe that years of abuse for a physical deformity made The Tooth Fairy homicidal, but even with a cleft lip, Fiennes is still a gorgeous man. Tom Noonan, who played the role in “Manhunter,” was truly creepy, in a silent, unforced way.) 

The rest of it feels simply familiar; “Silence of the Lambs” screenwriter Ted Tally is back, with several lines from Mann’s “Manhunter” script. (One of Lecter’s more memorable zingers: “You ever see blood in the moonlight? It appears quite black.”) 

Cinematographer Dante Spinotti returns from “Manhunter,” though he’s replaced Mann’s striking whites and pastels with such a bleak shade of gray, the whole movie may as well take place at FBI headquarters. 

Even Anthony Heald is back from “Lambs” as the uptight, scheming Dr. Chilton. Other members of the superb cast — including Emily Watson, Harvey Keitel and Mary-Louise Parker — seem to be going through the motions, and have proven themselves capable of far more. 

Philip Seymour Hoffman stands out, though, as a slimy tabloid reporter who’s hounded Will for years. 

And there is, undeniably, a chemistry to the sparring between Hopkins and Norton — with so much talent between them, how could there not be? 

“Just like old times, eh, Will?” Lecter asks from behind bars. 

It does — and hopefully, it’s for the last time. 

“Red Dragon,” a Universal Pictures release, is rated R for violence, grisly images, language, some nudity and sexuality. Running time: 126 minutes. Two stars out of four.

TRENTON, N.J. – Giving hope to Democrats scrambling to retain control of the Senate, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled unanimously Wednesday that the party can replace Sen. Robert Torricelli on the November ballot.  

Whether the decision will allow Democrats to replace Torricelli with former Sen. Frank Lautenberg remained to be seen. 

Republican officials have promised to take the case to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary. There was no immediate response to the ruling from the GOP.  

The court cited previous rulings that said election law should be broadly interpreted to allow parties to put their candidates on the ballot, and most importantly, “to allow the voters a choice.” 

Allowing the Democrats to replace Torricelli, the justices said, was a move “in favor of a full and fair ballot choice for the voters of New Jersey.” 

The court fight over who will appear on the ballot is key: Democrats hold a single-seat majority in the Senate. 

The dispute erupted after Torricelli dropped out of the race Monday, saying his campaign had been overwhelmed by ethics questions. He was admonished over the summer by a Senate committee for allegedly taking lavish campaign gifts from a contributor to his 1996 campaign.  

Late Tuesday, top state Democrats settled on the 78-year-old Lautenberg as their substitute candidate. 

Republicans argued it is too close to Election Day to replace Torricelli and that Democrats shouldn't be allowed to dump a candidate who was trailing GOP nominee Douglas Forrester in the polls. 

Republican officials did say they planned to file a motion in federal court Thursday to block any move that would alter ballots already sent to military personnel and civilians overseas.  

The GOP also wants a federal judge to compel the state to immediately mail out any remaining absentee ballots, which have been held up under a state court order. 

The state's highest court said the state Democratic Party must pay for ballots to be reprinted. State election officials estimate it will cost about $800,000 to do that.  

For nearly three hours Wednesday, the seven justices — four Democrats, two Republicans and one independent — peppered lawyers, state election officials and even some third-party candidates with detailed questions.  

They questioned whether it was possible this late in the game to print and pay for new ballots, and whether it was fair to bend the rules to accommodate the Democrats' request.  

“Here we have a candidate, he's capable, he's able, he's just changed his mind about running,” Associate Justice Jaynee LaVecchia said.  

John Carbone, an attorney representing the county clerks, said time was critical.  

"If we go beyond Wednesday of next week, Tuesday of next week, it's not going to be doable no matter how deep the pockets,” Carbone said.  

Democratic lawyer Angelo J. Genova told the court that Torricelli is no longer the party's choice, and voters should not be forced to check his name and hope a replacement would be selected later.  

“I think he has effectively created a vacancy by his withdrawal. He's not a candidate. He's not a candidate for public office,” Genova said.  

Republicans pointed to state law, which says replacement candidates must be named 51 days before an election; Torricelli withdrew 36 days before Election Day.  

“I believe the statute should be enforced as it presently reads. We don't believe there are any extraordinary circumstances,” said Peter Sheridan, the lawyer Forrester.  

While Democrats waited for the court to act, they planned Lautenberg's campaign and negotiated the transfer of funds and operations from Torricelli's operation. A kickoff party was scheduled for Wednesday evening.  

Still, there are concerns that New Jersey's election would be decided in federal court, as Florida's was during the 2000 presidential race.

First-grader Tanyonika Scott and third-grader Andrea Smith of Malcolm X School were among brigades of students, parents, teachers and a few local politicians who set out on foot and bike from several meeting points in town to take part in the city’s second annual Walk to School Day Wednesday.  

Upon arriving at school they waved signs and filled the air with chatter while given yellow stickers that said “I walked.”  

The event is international but wasn’t adopted in the Bay Area until last year, to celebrate health, air quality improvements and the benefits of pedestrian safety.  

All Berkeley district schools were told of the event but the heaviest participation was in the elementary schools, especially Malcolm X and Washington.  

Pam Webster, coordinator of the event, said that it is important to get kids in the habit of walking. She hopes to make Walk to School Day a monthly event in Berkeley. 

“This is supposed to be a model today, not a one-time event,” Webster said. “In order for it to be part of the culture of our students, we need to reinforce it.” 

The state’s Department of Health Services sponsored the day to encourage better health, air quality improvements and less traffic.

A proposed fire station in the Berkeley hills won the support of the East Bay Regional Park District Tuesday. 

Although Berkeley City Council has already approved the station, the city is required to win support of the park district and the East Bay Municipal Utility District before it can move the project forward. 

East Bay MUD, which owns the land at 3000 Shasta Rd., where the new fire station is planned, is expected to approve sale of the land to the city on Nov. 12. 

Although Berkeley will run the new fire station, the park district will help staff the station during high fire hazard days.

FRESNO — A county judge gave the University of California approval Tuesday to begin construction on its new Merced campus, rejecting a suit by environmental groups. 

Judge William Ivey ruled in Merced County Superior Court that plans for the campus met state environmental requirements, clearing the way for construction to start on 100 acres later this month, said Patti Istas, a university spokeswoman. 

Environmental groups claimed university officials did not adequately evaluate the campus’ impact on air pollution, water quality and surrounding areas. 

“We don’t have the map or any type of understanding of what they want to put where,” said Lydia Miller of the San Joaquin Raptor Rescue Center. “They are basically saying, ’Just trust us and we’ll take care of it later.”’ 

Attorney Patience Milrod, who represented the center and two other environmental groups, said she would ask the 5th District Court of Appeal in Fresno on Wednesday to halt construction pending an appeal. 

Last month, Ivey allowed the university to demolish three Merced Hills Golf Club buildings to clear the way for building. 

Construction beyond the golf course depends on a permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The agency is considering whether to allow the campus on wetlands where vernal pools are home to endangered fairy shrimp and serve as feeding grounds for migratory birds. 

While the controversy over the tiny shrimp has gained wide attention, Milrod said the university is ignoring the larger problem of showing there’s an ample water supply for a campus that will ultimately have 25,000 students. 

She said the university has not studied how it will deliver water to the campus and what impact it will have on a depleted aquifer or other environmental concerns, such as endangered species. 

“This is the most powerful research institution in the country, maybe in the world, and they can’t figure this out,” Milrod said. “I think it’s an insult to the people of this valley.” 

The first phase of the campus includes classrooms, libraries an office building and housing to be opened by Sept. 2004. About 1,000 students are projected to attend.

n Pedestrian safety sting 

Police said that 11 motorists were given citations for failing to yield to a pedestrian at a crosswalk during a sting at the intersection of Martin Luther King Jr. Way and Oregon Street Wednesday morning. The traffic operation was the eighth since July, police said. The operations have resulted in approximately 200 citations for failure to yield to a pedestrian. 

n Peeping tom 

A woman reported seeing the silhouette of a man outside her bedroom window on the 1500 block of Spruce Street at 10:50 p.m. Friday. According to police, the man ran from the window after the woman yelled. Immediately after the incident the woman saw an unfamiliar man sitting in an automobile outside her house. The vehicle is described as a dark blue Ford Bronco with a white top.

LOS ANGELES — Former New York City police commissioner William Bratton has been selected as the new chief of the Los Angeles Police Department, city officials said Wednesday. 

The announcement is expected Thursday, said City Council member Jack Weiss, who called it “a positive step forward for the city of Los Angeles.” 

Bratton beat out Oxnard chief Art Lopez and former Philadelphia chief John Timoney to lead a 9,000-officer force struggling with low morale and the aftermath of a corruption scandal. Crime is also rising in the city. 

Erwin Chemerinsky, a law professor at the University of Southern California who has been active in police reform movements, praised Bratton’s selection. 

“What the mayor has done is pick somebody who has a track record of success in turning around departments, in lowering crime rates and boosting morale of the troops,” Chemerinsky said. “If somebody can do it, this is the right person for the job.” 

Bratton, 54, was police commissioner in New York from 1994-1996 before resigning under pressure from then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani. 

Bratton was recognized for advocating community policing and reorganizing the New York department. The city’s crime rate declined sharply under his watch: Serious felonies dropped 33 percent and the murder rate was cut in half. Crime declined in other major cities, but not as much as in New York. 

Bratton also led the Boston Police Department and New York’s transit police. 

The search for a new chief started after the Police Commission voted 4-1 in April against giving Chief Bernard Parks a second five-year term. Parks, who failed to get Mayor James Hahn’s support, is now running for a seat on the City Council. 

Bratton’s selection is expected to be announced Thursday by Hahn in the San Fernando Valley, where a secession movement on the November ballot has been partly driven by concerns over rising crime. Hahn’s choice must be confirmed by the City Council. 

Parks suffered in the fallout of the scandal at the department’s Rampart division, where officers allegedly planted evidence, lied and in some cases shot innocent people. Charges against about 100 inmates were dropped as a result. 

Since November 2000, the LAPD has operated under a federal consent decree implemented after Justice Department lawyers found what they described as a pattern of civil rights violations dating back decades. 

The most notorious was the 1991 beating of black motorist Rodney King which led to devastating riots when the four white officers involved were acquitted of most charges. Parks was the second of two chiefs hired to salvage the department’s reputation. 

The last outsider to run the Los Angeles police was former Philadelphia police commissioner Willie Williams, who took over in 1992 and lasted for one five-year term that was widely viewed as a failure.

High fire danger prompts  

East Bay park closures 

A high fire danger warning issued by the National Weather Service Tuesday has prompted a number of East Bay Regional Park closures. 

Parks impacted by the warning include Tilden Park, Wildcat Canyon, Claremont Canyon, Sobrante Ridge, Sibley, Huckleberry, Temescal West Slope and trails and Briones.  

Citing strong winds and dry conditions, the Red Flag Warning, declared for much of Northern California, was expected to run through last night. 

For further information concerning closures contact the East Bay Regional Park Police at 881-1833. 

Labor study challenges  

Bay Area liberal image 

A new labor survey challenges the conventional wisdom that the Bay Area is more liberal than Southern California. 

When it comes to issues of economic inequality, Los Angeles-area residents surveyed for the State of California Labor 2002 report were more likely to support government-led solutions than Bay Area respondents to the poll. 

University of California at Berkeley sociologist and political scientist Margaret Weir, who contributed to the report, said those political leanings might be due to the large growth of low-wage jobs in the Los Angeles area during the 1990s. 

"We can speculate in two ways. One is in Southern California, the more pro-government stance ... is result of the higher proportion of low-income workers. Their presence is really beginning to change the political profile of Southern California,'' Weir said. "The other piece is the rise of Silicon Valley really helped promote more faith in market solutions.'' 

The political differences between California's two main urban centers "really surprised me when we first uncovered it,'' said Ruth Milkman, a UCLA sociology professor who also contributed to the report. 

Lawyer for tree-squatters  

has new plan to let them stay 

BRISBANE — A lawyer for the couple that San Mateo County officials want to remove from their home at the base of a 300-year-old tree says he has a new plan to allow them to stay. 

Burlingame lawyer Bill Johnston said Besh Serdahely and Thelma Caballero should be allowed to remain in their San Bruno Mountain County Park home where they’ve lived for 12 years and become permanent caretakers of the park in exchange for permission to continue living there. 

The county gave the couple an eviction notice after a review of property lines showed the hideaway county rather than state land. 

To allow the couple to stay, Johnston proposed in a letter to county officials that the county implement a program similar to that of the state park system’s Campground Host program.

SAN FRANCISCO — The economic impact of the work stoppage along the West Coast ports is accelerating, and could cost the economy $2 billion a day if it continues after Thursday, said Robert Parry, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. 

“If this gets resolved immediately, then I think the impact on the national economy is pretty minimal. But if shipments in and out of ports here are interrupted much longer, the drag on the economy would be more significant,” Parry told a gathering of security analysts on Wednesday. 

California’s high-tech industry has been spared somewhat, because “a lot of it is handled by airplane — that helps a little bit,” said Parry, who arrived at the $2 billion figure after consulting with research firms and other economists. 

Parry focused his speech on broader economic developments, predicting that growth will be uneven coming months, and that current interest rates should support an expansion in economic activity. 

“We’re now in the midst of an expansion that’s both modest and uneven” as growth lurches from growth to weakness on a quarterly basis, Parry said. 

“It’s likely that the economy’s growth rate will continue to bounce around in the last half of the year,” with a strong third quarter and slower advance in the fourth, Parry said. 

Parry is a nonvoting member of the Federal Open Market Committee, which sets interest rates. In a meeting last week, the central bank left its overnight interest rate target steady at 1.75% and warned of the possibility of future economic weakness.

Port shutdown,  

by the numbers: 

n 29 ports affected in California, Washington and Oregon. 

n Employers estimate cost to the economy at $1 billion a day. 

(President of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Robert Parry estimates $2 million if no resolution by Thursday.) 

n 10,500 union members 

n Full-time longshoremen earn an average $80,000 a year; the most experienced foremen average $167,000. 

The issues: 

n PMA wants to introduce new computers, sensors and scanners that would help track and move containers through the ports more quickly.  

The upgrades would eliminate some positions, although the PMA said no current employees would lose their jobs. 

The ILWU wants all jobs created by the new technology to be unionized; the PMA wants the right to control any new jobs result from new technology. 

n The ILWU wants to maintain 100 percent health coverage. The PMA initially sought to cut back benefits, saying costs had risen too quickly.  

It later agreed to maintain full coverage but tied the concessions to an agreement on technology.

Government accused Sega  

of workplace discrimination 

SAN FRANCISCO — The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sued Sega of America Inc. on Wednesday, alleging it fired a dozen video game testers because they were Filipino. 

The commission, in a suit filed in San Francisco federal court, also said another four workers were dismissed because of their friendship with an employee who complained about discrimination. 

Gamemaker Sega, based in San Francisco, denied the charges. 

“We are an equal opportunity employer,” company spokeswoman Gwen Marker said. 

She said Sega would vigorously defend itself. 

The commission said it tried to settle the suit before it was filed but could not reach an agreement with Sega. 

“It is not often we see such a clear case of national-origin discrimination,” said Susan L. McDuffie, the commission’s San Francisco director. 

Legislators continue attacks  

on Proposition 51 

SACRAMENTO — California legislators continued their attacks Wednesday on Proposition 51, a groundbreaking ballot initiative targeting nearly $1 billion a year from the state budget for traffic relief projects, including many that benefit contributors to the initiative campaign. 

Repeating themes of three previous legislative hearings, Senate Budget Committee Chairman Steve Peace, D-El Cajon, labeled the initiative a threat to state finances and an affront to the democratic process. 

“Over time it perpetuates the practice of making tax and spend decisions through the initiative process,” he said. 

Representatives of the League of Women Voters of California and California Tax Reform Association also testified against the measure. State financial analysts said it will raise this year’s deficit by $420 million — and $1 billion a year afterward unless legislators raise taxes. 

The initiative, proposed by a 10,000-member California environmental coalition, the Planning and Conservation League, is on the Nov. 5 ballot. 

Ebay trying to sell  

collector-car unit Kruse 

SAN FRANCISCO — EBay Inc., in a further step to divest itself of non-Internet businesses, Wednesday said it is seeking a buyer for Kruse International, an eBay subsidiary that runs a series of collector car auctions across the country. 

The step follows San Jose-based eBay’s recent sale of its Butterfields auction house to English auctioneer Bonhams for an undisclosed price. 

Kevin Pursglove, an eBay spokesman, said Kruse management notified the group’s employees in Auburn, Ind., that eBay would look for a buyer for the subsidiary. Pursglove said Kruse helped eBay with the launch of its eBay Motors automobile auctions on the Internet, but the company wasn’t focused on expanding Kruse’s off-line auction events, more than 30 of which occur around the U.S. every year. 

“I think we eventually came to the conclusion that for Kruse to continue to grow, it’s best to have an owner that is dedicated solely to building that off-line business,” Pursglove said. 

EBay acquired Kruse in a stock deal in May 1999. At the time, eBay said the value of the Kruse acquisition and the acquisition of Billpoint Inc., an online payment processing company, were worth $275 million combined.

On Oct. 1, 1964, former student and Congress of Racial Equality worker Jack Weinberg was passing out flyers at Sproul Plaza after the college had forbidden the distribution of literature for non-university causes. Police arrived and put Weinberg in a squad car. But they couldn’t take him away. A group of students had surrounded it, and they held the car captive until the college agreed to lift the distribution ban. 

“The students won,” said Matt Murray of the student ACLU Tuesday to about 50 people celebrating the 38th anniversary of the Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley. 

In today’s climate, Murray said, under the Patriot Act and other legislation, freedom to speak is not a given. “Today we need to protect our freedom of speech,” he said. 

To underscore the value of the free speech that was won in 1964, the campus ACLU brought together a dynamic range of people with strong, opposing views to participate in a series of quick debates on the steps of Sproul Plaza. 

The Israel Action Committee and Students for Justice in Palestine were among groups that squared off with words. “I’m an Israeli,” said student Oren Lazar, arguing that Israel is the “only place in the Middle East where free speech is truly celebrated.” He attacked the Palestinians for walking away from the 2000 Camp David peace talks and into guerrilla war. The solution now, he said, is helping Palestinians find another leader. 

But Chris Cantor countered that arguments put forward for the IAC speaker did not go to the heart of the issue. “What is the problem we’re solving?” he asked, then answered: “Occupation.” You don’t resolve the question of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands by building settlements, he said. 

Other debaters included the anti-abortion Berkeley Students for Life who argued that abortion supporters “fail to extend liberties to the weakest among us.” The National Organization for Women was there, reminding listeners that illegal abortions caused death and injury to countless women, and warning that President George W. Bush was poised to appoint pro-life judges. An atheist from Students for a Nonreligious Ethos called for religion to get out of government and the schools, while a speaker from Victory Christian Ministries said that god exists and that it is 99.99 percent certain that the New Testament is an authentic document. 

The Berkeley College Republicans and the Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action By Any Means Necessary were given a few extra minutes to respond to one another’s arguments for and against affirmative action.  

Republican Paul LaFata argued that affirmative action based on race is illogical because as people of different races intermarry and have children, the question of what race a person is becomes moot. “Races are constantly changing,” he said. Further, he argued, people of all races have endured discrimination, so how does one go about deciding which group gets affirmative action. 

Arguing for affirmative action, Yvette Felarca pointed to a dramatic drop in the number of Latinos and blacks at the university since the end of affirmative action. Responding to LaFata’s arguments, Felarca contended that “If you look black, you’re treated like you’re black. You’re racially profiled.”  

Affirmative action is critical, she said. “You can’t pull someone up by his bootstraps on an unequal playing field.” 

To the Editor: 

Recently I circulated a petition at the meeting of my neighborhood association and among other interested Berkeley residents requesting that meetings of the Zoning Adjustments Board (ZAB) be broadcast on B-TV, Channel 78. A representative at B-TV informed me that the cost would be $240 each meeting and must be approved by the Berkeley City Council.  

Development in Berkeley is greatly influenced by the ZAB since most important building projects in Berkeley are reviewed by them. It has been my experience that many citizens in Berkeley are unaware of important development issues and events affecting them, and broadcasting the ZAB meetings would greatly improve the dissemination of information. Rent stabilization board meetings affect primarily renters and landlords, and school board meetings affect primarily families with school-age children, yet both are currently broadcast. Readers who agree that it is logical to also broadcast ZAB meetings should consider writing to the mayor and city council requesting the addition of ZAB to the schedule of governmental broadcasts. 

Honor Thompson 

Berkeley

Wednesday, Oct. 2 

North Berkeley Senior Center 

Advisory Council Meeting 

10 a.m. 

1901 Hearst St. 

981-5190 

Does Anyone Really  

Understand Berkeley? 

7 p.m. 

Berkeley Central Library  

2090 Kitteredge St. 

Berkeley History Classes, runs every Wednesday through Nov. 13 

981-6147 

South and west Berkeley Community Action Team Advisory Group 

7 p.m. 

Over 60’s Center, 2031 Sacramento, at Alcatraz 

Refreshments provided 

981-5362 

Walk to School Day 

Join around 200 other Berkeley students in the city’s second annual Walk to School Day. 

www.walktoschool.org 

848-0305 

Humanistic Judaism 101 

7:30 to 9 p.m. 

Berkeley Richmond Jewish Community Center, 1414 Walnut St.  

Marcia Grossman of Kol Hadash facilitates this workshop dealing with humanistic alternatives to conventional judaism.  

848-0237 Ext. 127 

$5 public/ free for members of BRJCC and Kol Hadash 

Thursday, Oct. 3 

Nutrition Career Open House - Institution of Educational Therapy 

7 to 8:30 p.m. 

706 Gilman St.  

558-1711 

Free. 

Tibetan Buddhist Meditation Master 

Berekley Shambhala Center 

7 p,m. 

2288 Fulton St.  

(415)887-2820 for more info. 

Investing in the Future 

7:30 p.m. 

St. Mary Magdalen Church 

2005 Berryman St. 

Learn how to invest to meet more than your financial needs. 

Call to reserve space: (925) 417-6654 

Free. 

How to Defeat Commitment Phobia:  

In Yourself or the One You Love 

7:30 to 9:30 p.m. 

Berkeley Richmond Jewish  

Community Center, 1414 Walnut St.  

Learn a variety of strategies for those who are ambivalent about commitment. Taught by Susan Page.  

848-0237 Ext. 127 

$10 public. $8 BRJCC members. 

Wednesday, Oct. 2 

Hookslide 

8 p.m. 

Freight & Salvage, 1111 Addison St. 

548-1761 www.freightandsalvage.com 

$15.50 in advance. $16.50 at door. 

Divit/The Locals/B9/Tragedy Andy 9:30 p.m. 

Blakes on Telegraph, 2367 Telegraph Ave.  

848-0886 

$6. 

Thursday, Oct. 3 

Pete & Joan Wernick featuring Dr. Banjo  

8 p.m. 

Freight & Salvage, 1111 Addison St. 

548-1761 www.freightandsalvage.com 

$15.50 in advance. $16.50 at door. 

Figa Productions DJ Night 

9:30 p.m. 

The Starry Plough, 3101 Shattuck Ave. 

$7. $10 after 11 p.m. 21 and over. 

Saturday, Oct. 5 

Leon Bates 

7:30 p.m. 

Calvin Simmons Theatre, 10 10th St. 

Pianist Leon Bates offers works by Mozart, Brahms and Chopin. 

451-0775 or www.fourseasonsconcerts.com 

$25-$35. 

All Bets Off, Benumb and Uphill Battle 

8 p.m. 

924 Gilman St. 

525-9926 

$5. 

House Jacks  

8 p.m. 

Freight & Salvage, 1111 Addison St. 

548-1761 or www.freightandsalvage.com 

$16.50 in advance. $17.50 at door. 

Sunday, Oct. 6 

Jimmie Dale Gilmore  

8 p.m. 

Freight & Salvage, 1111 Addison St. 

548-1761 www.freightandsalvage.com 

$17.50 in advance. $18.50 at door. 

Ledisi and the Braxton Brothers 

4:30 p.m. 

Jazzschool, 2087 Addison St. 

845-5373 

$10-15. 

Yaphet Kotto, The Fleshies  

and Lesser of Two 

8 p.m. 

924 Gilman St. 

525-9926 

$5. 

Monday, Oct. 7 

Holly Gwinn Graham, Joel Landy and Lynda Williams 

7:30 p.m. 

Freight & Salvage Coffee House  

1111 Addison St. 

Benefit concert for the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space.  

548-1761 

$15.50 in advance. $16.50 at the door. 

Sunday, Oct. 13 

Jenna Mammina and Andre Bush 

4:30 p.m. 

Jazzschool, 2087 Addison St. 

Jazz standards, obscure cover tunes and original compositions. 

845-5373 

$10-$15. 

Sunday, Oct. 20 

Madeline Eastman with  

the Matt Clark Trio 

4:30 p.m. 

Jazzschool, 2087 Addison St. 

845-5373 

$10-$15. 

Wednesday, Oct. 23 

$18, $14 for members - need to reserve tickets. 

"Balancing Acts" 

Through Oct. 10 

Gallery 555, 555 12th St., 

Oakland City Center 

Oakland's 'Third Thursday' art night  

features Ann Weber's works  

made of cardboard. 

http://www.oaklandcitycenter.com.  

Free. 

“Hunger: What will you do about it?”  

Through Oct. 30  

Mon.-Fri., 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

The Civic Center Building 

2180 Milvia St., 5th floor 

Featuring 40 photographs  

by Berkeley artist David Bacon. 

834-3663, Ext. 338,  

uchanse@secondharvest.org 

Richard Misrach, Berkeley Work 

Though Oct. 13 

UC Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, 2626 Bancroft Way 

On view in Gallery 2, presents two photographic series by this internationally recognized Berkeley-based artist.  

642-0808, www.bampfa.berkeley.edu 

$7. $5 BAM/PFA members.  

$4 UC Berkeley students. 

“Recent Acquisitions” 

Oct. 13 through Dec. 14 

Thurs., Fri., and Sat., 1 to 4 p.m. 

Berkeley Historical Society, Veterans Memorial Building, 1931 Center St. 

848-0181 

Free. 

Misch Kohn - Celebrating  

60 Years of Printmaking 

Through Oct. 16. Tues.-Fri., Noon to 5:30 p.m.; Sat., noon to 4:30 p.m. 

Kala Arts Institute, 1060 Heinz Ave. 

549-2977, kala@kala.org 

Nancy Salz 

Through Oct. 23, Tues.-Fri.,  

10 a.m.-5:30 p.m.; Sat 10 a.m.-4 p.m. 

Barbara Anderson Gallery, 2243 Fifth St. 

848-3822 

Timoteo Ikoshy Montoya 

Through Nov. 1  

Reception Sept. 20, 6 to 8 p.m. 

Gathering Tribes Gallery  

1573 Solano Ave.  

Acrylic/air brush paintings  

by this Native American artist.  

528-9038 

Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar 

Through Oct. 12 

Thurs. through Sat. 8 p.m. 

LaVal’s Subterranean Theatre  

1834 Euclid Ave. 

234-6046 

$10. 

The House of Blue Leaves 

Through Oct. 20 

Berkeley Rep's Roda Theater  

2015 Addison St.  

647-2949 or 888-4BRTTIX 

$10-$54. 

The Shape of Things 

Through Oct. 20 

Aurora Theatre Company  

2081 Addison St. 

Play by writer/director Neil LaBute's spins a morality tale of a young art student, his art major girlfriend, and the Pygmalion-like changes that bring into question how far one should go for love. 

843-4822, www.auroratheater.org for reservations 

$26-$35. 

Wednesday, Oct. 2 

Poetry Slam 

8:30 p.m. 

The Starry Plough, 3101 Shattuck Ave. 

Nazelah Jamison and Karen Ladson host this slam. $90 cash prizes. 

841-2082 

$7/ $5 with student ID. 21 and over. 

Thursday, Oct. 3 

Brenda Hillman 

12:10 p.m. 

Morrison Library in Doe Library, UCB 

UC Berkeley’s Lunch Poems Reading Series. Author’s six books include “Loose Sugar” and “Cascadia”. 

http://www.berkeley.edu/calendar/events 

Free. 

Nathaniel Mackay and Trane Devore 

6 p.m. 

Maud Fife Room,  

315 Wheeler Hall, UC Berkeley 

Part of Holloway Poetry Series for Fall 2002. 

jscape@socrates.berkeley.edu 

Free. 

Friday, Oct. 4 

Katherine Forrest 

7:30 p.m. 

Boadecia’s Books, 398 Colusa Ave. at Colusa Circle 

Reading from “Daughters of the Amber Moon” 

559-9184 

Free. 

Saturday, Oct. 5 

“Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay & Bisexual African American Fiction” 

7:30 p.m. 

Boadecia’s Books, 398 Colusa Ave. at Colusa Circle 

Led by co-editors Devon W. Carbado and Donald Wiese, and several of the book’s writers. 

559-9184 

Free. 

Sunday, October 6 

Ledisi and The Braxton Brothers 

4:30 p.m. 

Berkeley Jazz School, 2087 Addison St.  

845-5373 

$15. $12 students & seniors.  

$10 Jazz school students. 

Tuesday, Oct. 8 

Daniel Wilkinson 

7:30 p.m. 

Cody’s Books, 2454 Telegraph Ave. 

Author Wilkinon and panelists from Global Exchange and Equal Exchange will discuss Guatemala, globalization, and book “Silence on the Mountain.” 

(617) 351-3243 

Thursday, Oct. 10 

Daniel Wilkinson 

7:30 p.m. 

Easy Going Travel Shop & Bookstore, 1385 Shattuck Ave. 

Wilkinson, author of “Silence on the Mountain” will present slide show. 

843-3533 

Free. 

Friday, Oct. 11 

Beth Glick-Rieman 

7:30 p.m. 

Boadacia’s Books, 398 Colusa Ave.  

at Colusa Circle 

Glick-Rieman shares her findings on the status of women around the world, reading from her book, “Peace Train to Beijing and Beyond”. 

559-9184 

Free. 

Friday, Oct. 18 

Storyteller Nancy Schimmel 

Poets, singers, musicians and storytellers are invted. 

7:30 to 10 p.m. 

Fellowship Cafe, 1924 Cedar St. 

540-0898 

$5 to 10 donation. 

Saturday Nov. 9, 16 

Alice Walker and Dorothy Allison appear in support of Boadecia’s Books 

8 p.m. 

Northbrae Community Church  

941 The Alameda at Solano 

559-9184 

$25, sliding scale. 

Film 

Sunday, Oct. 6 

Cinemath Films 

Pacific Film Archive Theater 

5:30 p.m. 

2575 Bancroft Way 

642-1412 

$7 for one film. $ 8.50 for double bills. 

Tuesday, Oct. 8 

Saturday, Oct. 12 

“Antarctica and the Breath of Seals” 

7:30 p.m. 

Boadacia’s Books, 398 Colusa Ave.  

at Colusa Circle 

Lucy Jane Bledsoe presents a slide show based on travels in Antarctica. 

559-9184 

Free. 

Friday, Oct. 18 

Working for the Mouse 

Fantasy about playing at Disneyland. 

8 p.m. Fri. and Sat., 7 p.m. Sun. 

La Val’s Subterranean Theater  

1834 Euclid 

464-4468 

$12 general, $7 students. 

Sunday, Nov. 3 

“Focus” 

2 to 4:30 p.m. 

Berkeley Richmond Jewish Community Center, 1414 Walnut St.  

William H. Macy stars in this early 1940’s period piece. 

848-0237 

$2 donation. 

Sunday, Dec. 8 

“Annie Hall”, by Woody Allen 

2 to 4:30 p.m. 

An autobiographical love story. 

Berkeley Richmond Jewish Center  

1414 Walnut St.  

848-0237 

$2 donation.

Wednesday, Oct. 2 

North Berkeley Senior Center 

Advisory Council Meeting 

10 a.m. 

1901 Hearst St. 

981-5190 

Does Anyone Really  

Understand Berkeley? 

7 p.m. 

Berkeley Central Library  

2090 Kitteredge St. 

Berkeley History Classes, runs every Wednesday through Nov. 13 

981-6147 

South and west Berkeley Community Action Team Advisory Group 

7 p.m. 

Over 60’s Center, 2031 Sacramento, at Alcatraz 

Refreshments provided 

981-5362 

Walk to School Day 

Join around 200 other Berkeley students in the city’s second annual Walk to School Day. 

www.walktoschool.org 

848-0305 

Humanistic Judaism 101 

7:30 to 9 p.m. 

Berkeley Richmond Jewish Community Center, 1414 Walnut St.  

Marcia Grossman of Kol Hadash facilitates this workshop dealing with humanistic alternatives to conventional judaism.  

848-0237 Ext. 127 

$5 public/ free for members of BRJCC and Kol Hadash 

Thursday, Oct. 3 

Nutrition Career Open House - Institution of Educational Therapy 

7 to 8:30 p.m. 

706 Gilman St.  

558-1711 

Free. 

Tibetan Buddhist Meditation Master 

Berekley Shambhala Center 

7 p,m. 

2288 Fulton St.  

(415)887-2820 for more info. 

Investing in the Future 

7:30 p.m. 

St. Mary Magdalen Church 

2005 Berryman St. 

Learn how to invest to meet more than your financial needs. 

Call to reserve space: (925) 417-6654 

Free. 

How to Defeat Commitment Phobia:  

In Yourself or the One You Love 

7:30 to 9:30 p.m. 

Berkeley Richmond Jewish  

Community Center, 1414 Walnut St.  

Learn a variety of strategies for those who are ambivalent about commitment. Taught by Susan Page.  

848-0237 Ext. 127 

$10 public. $8 BRJCC members. 

Wednesday, Oct. 2 

Hookslide 

8 p.m. 

Freight & Salvage, 1111 Addison St. 

548-1761 www.freightandsalvage.com 

$15.50 in advance. $16.50 at door. 

Divit/The Locals/B9/Tragedy Andy 9:30 p.m. 

Blakes on Telegraph, 2367 Telegraph Ave.  

848-0886 

$6. 

Thursday, Oct. 3 

Pete & Joan Wernick featuring Dr. Banjo  

8 p.m. 

Freight & Salvage, 1111 Addison St. 

548-1761 www.freightandsalvage.com 

$15.50 in advance. $16.50 at door. 

Figa Productions DJ Night 

9:30 p.m. 

The Starry Plough, 3101 Shattuck Ave. 

$7. $10 after 11 p.m. 21 and over. 

Saturday, Oct. 5 

Leon Bates 

7:30 p.m. 

Calvin Simmons Theatre, 10 10th St. 

Pianist Leon Bates offers works by Mozart, Brahms and Chopin. 

451-0775 or www.fourseasonsconcerts.com 

$25-$35. 

All Bets Off, Benumb and Uphill Battle 

8 p.m. 

924 Gilman St. 

525-9926 

$5. 

House Jacks  

8 p.m. 

Freight & Salvage, 1111 Addison St. 

548-1761 or www.freightandsalvage.com 

$16.50 in advance. $17.50 at door. 

Sunday, Oct. 6 

Jimmie Dale Gilmore  

8 p.m. 

Freight & Salvage, 1111 Addison St. 

548-1761 www.freightandsalvage.com 

$17.50 in advance. $18.50 at door. 

Ledisi and the Braxton Brothers 

4:30 p.m. 

Jazzschool, 2087 Addison St. 

845-5373 

$10-15. 

Yaphet Kotto, The Fleshies  

and Lesser of Two 

8 p.m. 

924 Gilman St. 

525-9926 

$5. 

Monday, Oct. 7 

Holly Gwinn Graham, Joel Landy and Lynda Williams 

7:30 p.m. 

Freight & Salvage Coffee House  

1111 Addison St. 

Benefit concert for the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space.  

548-1761 

$15.50 in advance. $16.50 at the door. 

Sunday, Oct. 13 

Jenna Mammina and Andre Bush 

4:30 p.m. 

Jazzschool, 2087 Addison St. 

Jazz standards, obscure cover tunes and original compositions. 

845-5373 

$10-$15. 

Sunday, Oct. 20 

Madeline Eastman with  

the Matt Clark Trio 

4:30 p.m. 

Jazzschool, 2087 Addison St. 

845-5373 

$10-$15. 

Wednesday, Oct. 23 

$18, $14 for members - need to reserve tickets. 

"Balancing Acts" 

Through Oct. 10 

Gallery 555, 555 12th St., 

Oakland City Center 

Oakland's 'Third Thursday' art night  

features Ann Weber's works  

made of cardboard. 

http://www.oaklandcitycenter.com.  

Free. 

“Hunger: What will you do about it?”  

Through Oct. 30  

Mon.-Fri., 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

The Civic Center Building 

2180 Milvia St., 5th floor 

Featuring 40 photographs  

by Berkeley artist David Bacon. 

834-3663, Ext. 338,  

uchanse@secondharvest.org 

Richard Misrach, Berkeley Work 

Though Oct. 13 

UC Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, 2626 Bancroft Way 

On view in Gallery 2, presents two photographic series by this internationally recognized Berkeley-based artist.  

642-0808, www.bampfa.berkeley.edu 

$7. $5 BAM/PFA members.  

$4 UC Berkeley students. 

“Recent Acquisitions” 

Oct. 13 through Dec. 14 

Thurs., Fri., and Sat., 1 to 4 p.m. 

Berkeley Historical Society, Veterans Memorial Building, 1931 Center St. 

848-0181 

Free. 

Misch Kohn - Celebrating  

60 Years of Printmaking 

Through Oct. 16. Tues.-Fri., Noon to 5:30 p.m.; Sat., noon to 4:30 p.m. 

Kala Arts Institute, 1060 Heinz Ave. 

549-2977, kala@kala.org 

Nancy Salz 

Through Oct. 23, Tues.-Fri.,  

10 a.m.-5:30 p.m.; Sat 10 a.m.-4 p.m. 

Barbara Anderson Gallery, 2243 Fifth St. 

848-3822 

Timoteo Ikoshy Montoya 

Through Nov. 1  

Reception Sept. 20, 6 to 8 p.m. 

Gathering Tribes Gallery  

1573 Solano Ave.  

Acrylic/air brush paintings  

by this Native American artist.  

528-9038 

Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar 

Through Oct. 12 

Thurs. through Sat. 8 p.m. 

LaVal’s Subterranean Theatre  

1834 Euclid Ave. 

234-6046 

$10. 

The House of Blue Leaves 

Through Oct. 20 

Berkeley Rep's Roda Theater  

2015 Addison St.  

647-2949 or 888-4BRTTIX 

$10-$54. 

The Shape of Things 

Through Oct. 20 

Aurora Theatre Company  

2081 Addison St. 

Play by writer/director Neil LaBute's spins a morality tale of a young art student, his art major girlfriend, and the Pygmalion-like changes that bring into question how far one should go for love. 

843-4822, www.auroratheater.org for reservations 

$26-$35. 

Wednesday, Oct. 2 

Poetry Slam 

8:30 p.m. 

The Starry Plough, 3101 Shattuck Ave. 

Nazelah Jamison and Karen Ladson host this slam. $90 cash prizes. 

841-2082 

$7/ $5 with student ID. 21 and over. 

Thursday, Oct. 3 

Brenda Hillman 

12:10 p.m. 

Morrison Library in Doe Library, UCB 

UC Berkeley’s Lunch Poems Reading Series. Author’s six books include “Loose Sugar” and “Cascadia”. 

http://www.berkeley.edu/calendar/events 

Free. 

Nathaniel Mackay and Trane Devore 

6 p.m. 

Maud Fife Room,  

315 Wheeler Hall, UC Berkeley 

Part of Holloway Poetry Series for Fall 2002. 

jscape@socrates.berkeley.edu 

Free. 

Friday, Oct. 4 

Katherine Forrest 

7:30 p.m. 

Boadecia’s Books, 398 Colusa Ave. at Colusa Circle 

Reading from “Daughters of the Amber Moon” 

559-9184 

Free. 

Saturday, Oct. 5 

“Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay & Bisexual African American Fiction” 

7:30 p.m. 

Boadecia’s Books, 398 Colusa Ave. at Colusa Circle 

Led by co-editors Devon W. Carbado and Donald Wiese, and several of the book’s writers. 

559-9184 

Free. 

Sunday, October 6 

Ledisi and The Braxton Brothers 

4:30 p.m. 

Berkeley Jazz School, 2087 Addison St.  

845-5373 

$15. $12 students & seniors.  

$10 Jazz school students. 

Tuesday, Oct. 8 

Daniel Wilkinson 

7:30 p.m. 

Cody’s Books, 2454 Telegraph Ave. 

Author Wilkinon and panelists from Global Exchange and Equal Exchange will discuss Guatemala, globalization, and book “Silence on the Mountain.” 

(617) 351-3243 

Thursday, Oct. 10 

Daniel Wilkinson 

7:30 p.m. 

Easy Going Travel Shop & Bookstore, 1385 Shattuck Ave. 

Wilkinson, author of “Silence on the Mountain” will present slide show. 

843-3533 

Free. 

Friday, Oct. 11 

Beth Glick-Rieman 

7:30 p.m. 

Boadacia’s Books, 398 Colusa Ave.  

at Colusa Circle 

Glick-Rieman shares her findings on the status of women around the world, reading from her book, “Peace Train to Beijing and Beyond”. 

559-9184 

Free. 

Friday, Oct. 18 

Storyteller Nancy Schimmel 

Poets, singers, musicians and storytellers are invted. 

7:30 to 10 p.m. 

Fellowship Cafe, 1924 Cedar St. 

540-0898 

$5 to 10 donation. 

Saturday Nov. 9, 16 

Alice Walker and Dorothy Allison appear in support of Boadecia’s Books 

8 p.m. 

Northbrae Community Church  

941 The Alameda at Solano 

559-9184 

$25, sliding scale. 

Film 

Sunday, Oct. 6 

Cinemath Films 

Pacific Film Archive Theater 

5:30 p.m. 

2575 Bancroft Way 

642-1412 

$7 for one film. $ 8.50 for double bills. 

Tuesday, Oct. 8 

Saturday, Oct. 12 

“Antarctica and the Breath of Seals” 

7:30 p.m. 

Boadacia’s Books, 398 Colusa Ave.  

at Colusa Circle 

Lucy Jane Bledsoe presents a slide show based on travels in Antarctica. 

559-9184 

Free. 

Friday, Oct. 18 

Working for the Mouse 

Fantasy about playing at Disneyland. 

8 p.m. Fri. and Sat., 7 p.m. Sun. 

La Val’s Subterranean Theater  

1834 Euclid 

464-4468 

$12 general, $7 students. 

Sunday, Nov. 3 

“Focus” 

2 to 4:30 p.m. 

Berkeley Richmond Jewish Community Center, 1414 Walnut St.  

William H. Macy stars in this early 1940’s period piece. 

848-0237 

$2 donation. 

Sunday, Dec. 8 

“Annie Hall”, by Woody Allen 

2 to 4:30 p.m. 

An autobiographical love story. 

Berkeley Richmond Jewish Center  

1414 Walnut St.  

848-0237 

$2 donation.

Wednesday, Oct. 2 

North Berkeley Senior Center 

Advisory Council Meeting 

10 a.m. 

1901 Hearst St. 

981-5190 

Does Anyone Really  

Understand Berkeley? 

7 p.m. 

Berkeley Central Library  

2090 Kitteredge St. 

Berkeley History Classes, runs every Wednesday through Nov. 13 

981-6147 

South and west Berkeley Community Action Team Advisory Group 

7 p.m. 

Over 60’s Center, 2031 Sacramento, at Alcatraz 

Refreshments provided 

981-5362 

Walk to School Day 

Join around 200 other Berkeley students in the city’s second annual Walk to School Day. 

www.walktoschool.org 

848-0305 

Humanistic Judaism 101 

7:30 to 9 p.m. 

Berkeley Richmond Jewish Community Center, 1414 Walnut St.  

Marcia Grossman of Kol Hadash facilitates this workshop dealing with humanistic alternatives to conventional judaism.  

848-0237 Ext. 127 

$5 public/ free for members of BRJCC and Kol Hadash 

Thursday, Oct. 3 

Nutrition Career Open House - Institution of Educational Therapy 

7 to 8:30 p.m. 

706 Gilman St.  

558-1711 

Free. 

Tibetan Buddhist Meditation Master 

Berekley Shambhala Center 

7 p,m. 

2288 Fulton St.  

(415)887-2820 for more info. 

Investing in the Future 

7:30 p.m. 

St. Mary Magdalen Church 

2005 Berryman St. 

Learn how to invest to meet more than your financial needs. 

Call to reserve space: (925) 417-6654 

Free. 

How to Defeat Commitment Phobia:  

In Yourself or the One You Love 

7:30 to 9:30 p.m. 

Berkeley Richmond Jewish  

Community Center, 1414 Walnut St.  

Learn a variety of strategies for those who are ambivalent about commitment. Taught by Susan Page.  

848-0237 Ext. 127 

$10 public. $8 BRJCC members. 

Wednesday, Oct. 2 

Hookslide 

8 p.m. 

Freight & Salvage, 1111 Addison St. 

548-1761 www.freightandsalvage.com 

$15.50 in advance. $16.50 at door. 

Divit/The Locals/B9/Tragedy Andy 9:30 p.m. 

Blakes on Telegraph, 2367 Telegraph Ave.  

848-0886 

$6. 

Thursday, Oct. 3 

Pete & Joan Wernick featuring Dr. Banjo  

8 p.m. 

Freight & Salvage, 1111 Addison St. 

548-1761 www.freightandsalvage.com 

$15.50 in advance. $16.50 at door. 

Figa Productions DJ Night 

9:30 p.m. 

The Starry Plough, 3101 Shattuck Ave. 

$7. $10 after 11 p.m. 21 and over. 

Saturday, Oct. 5 

Leon Bates 

7:30 p.m. 

Calvin Simmons Theatre, 10 10th St. 

Pianist Leon Bates offers works by Mozart, Brahms and Chopin. 

451-0775 or www.fourseasonsconcerts.com 

$25-$35. 

All Bets Off, Benumb and Uphill Battle 

8 p.m. 

924 Gilman St. 

525-9926 

$5. 

House Jacks  

8 p.m. 

Freight & Salvage, 1111 Addison St. 

548-1761 or www.freightandsalvage.com 

$16.50 in advance. $17.50 at door. 

Sunday, Oct. 6 

Jimmie Dale Gilmore  

8 p.m. 

Freight & Salvage, 1111 Addison St. 

548-1761 www.freightandsalvage.com 

$17.50 in advance. $18.50 at door. 

Ledisi and the Braxton Brothers 

4:30 p.m. 

Jazzschool, 2087 Addison St. 

845-5373 

$10-15. 

Yaphet Kotto, The Fleshies  

and Lesser of Two 

8 p.m. 

924 Gilman St. 

525-9926 

$5. 

Monday, Oct. 7 

Holly Gwinn Graham, Joel Landy and Lynda Williams 

7:30 p.m. 

Freight & Salvage Coffee House  

1111 Addison St. 

Benefit concert for the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space.  

548-1761 

$15.50 in advance. $16.50 at the door. 

Sunday, Oct. 13 

Jenna Mammina and Andre Bush 

4:30 p.m. 

Jazzschool, 2087 Addison St. 

Jazz standards, obscure cover tunes and original compositions. 

845-5373 

$10-$15. 

Sunday, Oct. 20 

Madeline Eastman with  

the Matt Clark Trio 

4:30 p.m. 

Jazzschool, 2087 Addison St. 

845-5373 

$10-$15. 

Wednesday, Oct. 23 

$18, $14 for members - need to reserve tickets. 

"Balancing Acts" 

Through Oct. 10 

Gallery 555, 555 12th St., 

Oakland City Center 

Oakland's 'Third Thursday' art night  

features Ann Weber's works  

made of cardboard. 

http://www.oaklandcitycenter.com.  

Free. 

“Hunger: What will you do about it?”  

Through Oct. 30  

Mon.-Fri., 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

The Civic Center Building 

2180 Milvia St., 5th floor 

Featuring 40 photographs  

by Berkeley artist David Bacon. 

834-3663, Ext. 338,  

uchanse@secondharvest.org 

Richard Misrach, Berkeley Work 

Though Oct. 13 

UC Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, 2626 Bancroft Way 

On view in Gallery 2, presents two photographic series by this internationally recognized Berkeley-based artist.  

642-0808, www.bampfa.berkeley.edu 

$7. $5 BAM/PFA members.  

$4 UC Berkeley students. 

“Recent Acquisitions” 

Oct. 13 through Dec. 14 

Thurs., Fri., and Sat., 1 to 4 p.m. 

Berkeley Historical Society, Veterans Memorial Building, 1931 Center St. 

848-0181 

Free. 

Misch Kohn - Celebrating  

60 Years of Printmaking 

Through Oct. 16. Tues.-Fri., Noon to 5:30 p.m.; Sat., noon to 4:30 p.m. 

Kala Arts Institute, 1060 Heinz Ave. 

549-2977, kala@kala.org 

Nancy Salz 

Through Oct. 23, Tues.-Fri.,  

10 a.m.-5:30 p.m.; Sat 10 a.m.-4 p.m. 

Barbara Anderson Gallery, 2243 Fifth St. 

848-3822 

Timoteo Ikoshy Montoya 

Through Nov. 1  

Reception Sept. 20, 6 to 8 p.m. 

Gathering Tribes Gallery  

1573 Solano Ave.  

Acrylic/air brush paintings  

by this Native American artist.  

528-9038 

Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar 

Through Oct. 12 

Thurs. through Sat. 8 p.m. 

LaVal’s Subterranean Theatre  

1834 Euclid Ave. 

234-6046 

$10. 

The House of Blue Leaves 

Through Oct. 20 

Berkeley Rep's Roda Theater  

2015 Addison St.  

647-2949 or 888-4BRTTIX 

$10-$54. 

The Shape of Things 

Through Oct. 20 

Aurora Theatre Company  

2081 Addison St. 

Play by writer/director Neil LaBute's spins a morality tale of a young art student, his art major girlfriend, and the Pygmalion-like changes that bring into question how far one should go for love. 

843-4822, www.auroratheater.org for reservations 

$26-$35. 

Wednesday, Oct. 2 

Poetry Slam 

8:30 p.m. 

The Starry Plough, 3101 Shattuck Ave. 

Nazelah Jamison and Karen Ladson host this slam. $90 cash prizes. 

841-2082 

$7/ $5 with student ID. 21 and over. 

Thursday, Oct. 3 

Brenda Hillman 

12:10 p.m. 

Morrison Library in Doe Library, UCB 

UC Berkeley’s Lunch Poems Reading Series. Author’s six books include “Loose Sugar” and “Cascadia”. 

http://www.berkeley.edu/calendar/events 

Free. 

Nathaniel Mackay and Trane Devore 

6 p.m. 

Maud Fife Room,  

315 Wheeler Hall, UC Berkeley 

Part of Holloway Poetry Series for Fall 2002. 

jscape@socrates.berkeley.edu 

Free. 

Friday, Oct. 4 

Katherine Forrest 

7:30 p.m. 

Boadecia’s Books, 398 Colusa Ave. at Colusa Circle 

Reading from “Daughters of the Amber Moon” 

559-9184 

Free. 

Saturday, Oct. 5 

“Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay & Bisexual African American Fiction” 

7:30 p.m. 

Boadecia’s Books, 398 Colusa Ave. at Colusa Circle 

Led by co-editors Devon W. Carbado and Donald Wiese, and several of the book’s writers. 

559-9184 

Free. 

Sunday, October 6 

Ledisi and The Braxton Brothers 

4:30 p.m. 

Berkeley Jazz School, 2087 Addison St.  

845-5373 

$15. $12 students & seniors.  

$10 Jazz school students. 

Tuesday, Oct. 8 

Daniel Wilkinson 

7:30 p.m. 

Cody’s Books, 2454 Telegraph Ave. 

Author Wilkinon and panelists from Global Exchange and Equal Exchange will discuss Guatemala, globalization, and book “Silence on the Mountain.” 

(617) 351-3243 

Thursday, Oct. 10 

Daniel Wilkinson 

7:30 p.m. 

Easy Going Travel Shop & Bookstore, 1385 Shattuck Ave. 

Wilkinson, author of “Silence on the Mountain” will present slide show. 

843-3533 

Free. 

Friday, Oct. 11 

Beth Glick-Rieman 

7:30 p.m. 

Boadacia’s Books, 398 Colusa Ave.  

at Colusa Circle 

Glick-Rieman shares her findings on the status of women around the world, reading from her book, “Peace Train to Beijing and Beyond”. 

559-9184 

Free. 

Friday, Oct. 18 

Storyteller Nancy Schimmel 

Poets, singers, musicians and storytellers are invted. 

7:30 to 10 p.m. 

Fellowship Cafe, 1924 Cedar St. 

540-0898 

$5 to 10 donation. 

Saturday Nov. 9, 16 

Alice Walker and Dorothy Allison appear in support of Boadecia’s Books 

8 p.m. 

Northbrae Community Church  

941 The Alameda at Solano 

559-9184 

$25, sliding scale. 

Film 

Sunday, Oct. 6 

Cinemath Films 

Pacific Film Archive Theater 

5:30 p.m. 

2575 Bancroft Way 

642-1412 

$7 for one film. $ 8.50 for double bills. 

Tuesday, Oct. 8 

Saturday, Oct. 12 

“Antarctica and the Breath of Seals” 

7:30 p.m. 

Boadacia’s Books, 398 Colusa Ave.  

at Colusa Circle 

Lucy Jane Bledsoe presents a slide show based on travels in Antarctica. 

559-9184 

Free. 

Friday, Oct. 18 

Working for the Mouse 

Fantasy about playing at Disneyland. 

8 p.m. Fri. and Sat., 7 p.m. Sun. 

La Val’s Subterranean Theater  

1834 Euclid 

464-4468 

$12 general, $7 students. 

Sunday, Nov. 3 

“Focus” 

2 to 4:30 p.m. 

Berkeley Richmond Jewish Community Center, 1414 Walnut St.  

William H. Macy stars in this early 1940’s period piece. 

848-0237 

$2 donation. 

Sunday, Dec. 8 

“Annie Hall”, by Woody Allen 

2 to 4:30 p.m. 

An autobiographical love story. 

Berkeley Richmond Jewish Center  

1414 Walnut St.  

848-0237 

$2 donation.

Wednesday, Oct. 2 

North Berkeley Senior Center 

Advisory Council Meeting 

10 a.m. 

1901 Hearst St. 

981-5190 

Does Anyone Really  

Understand Berkeley? 

7 p.m. 

Berkeley Central Library  

2090 Kitteredge St. 

Berkeley History Classes, runs every Wednesday through Nov. 13 

981-6147 

South and west Berkeley Community Action Team Advisory Group 

7 p.m. 

Over 60’s Center, 2031 Sacramento, at Alcatraz 

Refreshments provided 

981-5362 

Walk to School Day 

Join around 200 other Berkeley students in the city’s second annual Walk to School Day. 

www.walktoschool.org 

848-0305 

Humanistic Judaism 101 

7:30 to 9 p.m. 

Berkeley Richmond Jewish Community Center, 1414 Walnut St.  

Marcia Grossman of Kol Hadash facilitates this workshop dealing with humanistic alternatives to conventional judaism.  

848-0237 Ext. 127 

$5 public/ free for members of BRJCC and Kol Hadash 

Thursday, Oct. 3 

Nutrition Career Open House - Institution of Educational Therapy 

7 to 8:30 p.m. 

706 Gilman St.  

558-1711 

Free. 

Tibetan Buddhist Meditation Master 

Berekley Shambhala Center 

7 p,m. 

2288 Fulton St.  

(415)887-2820 for more info. 

Investing in the Future 

7:30 p.m. 

St. Mary Magdalen Church 

2005 Berryman St. 

Learn how to invest to meet more than your financial needs. 

Call to reserve space: (925) 417-6654 

Free. 

How to Defeat Commitment Phobia:  

In Yourself or the One You Love 

7:30 to 9:30 p.m. 

Berkeley Richmond Jewish  

Community Center, 1414 Walnut St.  

Learn a variety of strategies for those who are ambivalent about commitment. Taught by Susan Page.  

848-0237 Ext. 127 

$10 public. $8 BRJCC members. 

Wednesday, Oct. 2 

Hookslide 

8 p.m. 

Freight & Salvage, 1111 Addison St. 

548-1761 www.freightandsalvage.com 

$15.50 in advance. $16.50 at door. 

Divit/The Locals/B9/Tragedy Andy 9:30 p.m. 

Blakes on Telegraph, 2367 Telegraph Ave.  

848-0886 

$6. 

Thursday, Oct. 3 

Pete & Joan Wernick featuring Dr. Banjo  

8 p.m. 

Freight & Salvage, 1111 Addison St. 

548-1761 www.freightandsalvage.com 

$15.50 in advance. $16.50 at door. 

Figa Productions DJ Night 

9:30 p.m. 

The Starry Plough, 3101 Shattuck Ave. 

$7. $10 after 11 p.m. 21 and over. 

Saturday, Oct. 5 

Leon Bates 

7:30 p.m. 

Calvin Simmons Theatre, 10 10th St. 

Pianist Leon Bates offers works by Mozart, Brahms and Chopin. 

451-0775 or www.fourseasonsconcerts.com 

$25-$35. 

All Bets Off, Benumb and Uphill Battle 

8 p.m. 

924 Gilman St. 

525-9926 

$5. 

House Jacks  

8 p.m. 

Freight & Salvage, 1111 Addison St. 

548-1761 or www.freightandsalvage.com 

$16.50 in advance. $17.50 at door. 

Sunday, Oct. 6 

Jimmie Dale Gilmore  

8 p.m. 

Freight & Salvage, 1111 Addison St. 

548-1761 www.freightandsalvage.com 

$17.50 in advance. $18.50 at door. 

Ledisi and the Braxton Brothers 

4:30 p.m. 

Jazzschool, 2087 Addison St. 

845-5373 

$10-15. 

Yaphet Kotto, The Fleshies  

and Lesser of Two 

8 p.m. 

924 Gilman St. 

525-9926 

$5. 

Monday, Oct. 7 

Holly Gwinn Graham, Joel Landy and Lynda Williams 

7:30 p.m. 

Freight & Salvage Coffee House  

1111 Addison St. 

Benefit concert for the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space.  

548-1761 

$15.50 in advance. $16.50 at the door. 

Sunday, Oct. 13 

Jenna Mammina and Andre Bush 

4:30 p.m. 

Jazzschool, 2087 Addison St. 

Jazz standards, obscure cover tunes and original compositions. 

845-5373 

$10-$15. 

Sunday, Oct. 20 

Madeline Eastman with  

the Matt Clark Trio 

4:30 p.m. 

Jazzschool, 2087 Addison St. 

845-5373 

$10-$15. 

Wednesday, Oct. 23 

$18, $14 for members - need to reserve tickets. 

"Balancing Acts" 

Through Oct. 10 

Gallery 555, 555 12th St., 

Oakland City Center 

Oakland's 'Third Thursday' art night  

features Ann Weber's works  

made of cardboard. 

http://www.oaklandcitycenter.com.  

Free. 

“Hunger: What will you do about it?”  

Through Oct. 30  

Mon.-Fri., 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

The Civic Center Building 

2180 Milvia St., 5th floor 

Featuring 40 photographs  

by Berkeley artist David Bacon. 

834-3663, Ext. 338,  

uchanse@secondharvest.org 

Richard Misrach, Berkeley Work 

Though Oct. 13 

UC Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, 2626 Bancroft Way 

On view in Gallery 2, presents two photographic series by this internationally recognized Berkeley-based artist.  

642-0808, www.bampfa.berkeley.edu 

$7. $5 BAM/PFA members.  

$4 UC Berkeley students. 

“Recent Acquisitions” 

Oct. 13 through Dec. 14 

Thurs., Fri., and Sat., 1 to 4 p.m. 

Berkeley Historical Society, Veterans Memorial Building, 1931 Center St. 

848-0181 

Free. 

Misch Kohn - Celebrating  

60 Years of Printmaking 

Through Oct. 16. Tues.-Fri., Noon to 5:30 p.m.; Sat., noon to 4:30 p.m. 

Kala Arts Institute, 1060 Heinz Ave. 

549-2977, kala@kala.org 

Nancy Salz 

Through Oct. 23, Tues.-Fri.,  

10 a.m.-5:30 p.m.; Sat 10 a.m.-4 p.m. 

Barbara Anderson Gallery, 2243 Fifth St. 

848-3822 

Timoteo Ikoshy Montoya 

Through Nov. 1  

Reception Sept. 20, 6 to 8 p.m. 

Gathering Tribes Gallery  

1573 Solano Ave.  

Acrylic/air brush paintings  

by this Native American artist.  

528-9038 

Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar 

Through Oct. 12 

Thurs. through Sat. 8 p.m. 

LaVal’s Subterranean Theatre  

1834 Euclid Ave. 

234-6046 

$10. 

The House of Blue Leaves 

Through Oct. 20 

Berkeley Rep's Roda Theater  

2015 Addison St.  

647-2949 or 888-4BRTTIX 

$10-$54. 

The Shape of Things 

Through Oct. 20 

Aurora Theatre Company  

2081 Addison St. 

Play by writer/director Neil LaBute's spins a morality tale of a young art student, his art major girlfriend, and the Pygmalion-like changes that bring into question how far one should go for love. 

843-4822, www.auroratheater.org for reservations 

$26-$35. 

Wednesday, Oct. 2 

Poetry Slam 

8:30 p.m. 

The Starry Plough, 3101 Shattuck Ave. 

Nazelah Jamison and Karen Ladson host this slam. $90 cash prizes. 

841-2082 

$7/ $5 with student ID. 21 and over. 

Thursday, Oct. 3 

Brenda Hillman 

12:10 p.m. 

Morrison Library in Doe Library, UCB 

UC Berkeley’s Lunch Poems Reading Series. Author’s six books include “Loose Sugar” and “Cascadia”. 

http://www.berkeley.edu/calendar/events 

Free. 

Nathaniel Mackay and Trane Devore 

6 p.m. 

Maud Fife Room,  

315 Wheeler Hall, UC Berkeley 

Part of Holloway Poetry Series for Fall 2002. 

jscape@socrates.berkeley.edu 

Free. 

Friday, Oct. 4 

Katherine Forrest 

7:30 p.m. 

Boadecia’s Books, 398 Colusa Ave. at Colusa Circle 

Reading from “Daughters of the Amber Moon” 

559-9184 

Free. 

Saturday, Oct. 5 

“Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay & Bisexual African American Fiction” 

7:30 p.m. 

Boadecia’s Books, 398 Colusa Ave. at Colusa Circle 

Led by co-editors Devon W. Carbado and Donald Wiese, and several of the book’s writers. 

559-9184 

Free. 

Sunday, October 6 

Ledisi and The Braxton Brothers 

4:30 p.m. 

Berkeley Jazz School, 2087 Addison St.  

845-5373 

$15. $12 students & seniors.  

$10 Jazz school students. 

Tuesday, Oct. 8 

Daniel Wilkinson 

7:30 p.m. 

Cody’s Books, 2454 Telegraph Ave. 

Author Wilkinon and panelists from Global Exchange and Equal Exchange will discuss Guatemala, globalization, and book “Silence on the Mountain.” 

(617) 351-3243 

Thursday, Oct. 10 

Daniel Wilkinson 

7:30 p.m. 

Easy Going Travel Shop & Bookstore, 1385 Shattuck Ave. 

Wilkinson, author of “Silence on the Mountain” will present slide show. 

843-3533 

Free. 

Friday, Oct. 11 

Beth Glick-Rieman 

7:30 p.m. 

Boadacia’s Books, 398 Colusa Ave.  

at Colusa Circle 

Glick-Rieman shares her findings on the status of women around the world, reading from her book, “Peace Train to Beijing and Beyond”. 

559-9184 

Free. 

Friday, Oct. 18 

Storyteller Nancy Schimmel 

Poets, singers, musicians and storytellers are invted. 

7:30 to 10 p.m. 

Fellowship Cafe, 1924 Cedar St. 

540-0898 

$5 to 10 donation. 

Saturday Nov. 9, 16 

Alice Walker and Dorothy Allison appear in support of Boadecia’s Books 

8 p.m. 

Northbrae Community Church  

941 The Alameda at Solano 

559-9184 

$25, sliding scale. 

Film 

Sunday, Oct. 6 

Cinemath Films 

Pacific Film Archive Theater 

5:30 p.m. 

2575 Bancroft Way 

642-1412 

$7 for one film. $ 8.50 for double bills. 

Tuesday, Oct. 8 

Saturday, Oct. 12 

“Antarctica and the Breath of Seals” 

7:30 p.m. 

Boadacia’s Books, 398 Colusa Ave.  

at Colusa Circle 

Lucy Jane Bledsoe presents a slide show based on travels in Antarctica. 

559-9184 

Free. 

Friday, Oct. 18 

Working for the Mouse 

Fantasy about playing at Disneyland. 

8 p.m. Fri. and Sat., 7 p.m. Sun. 

La Val’s Subterranean Theater  

1834 Euclid 

464-4468 

$12 general, $7 students. 

Sunday, Nov. 3 

“Focus” 

2 to 4:30 p.m. 

Berkeley Richmond Jewish Community Center, 1414 Walnut St.  

William H. Macy stars in this early 1940’s period piece. 

848-0237 

$2 donation. 

Sunday, Dec. 8 

“Annie Hall”, by Woody Allen 

2 to 4:30 p.m. 

An autobiographical love story. 

Berkeley Richmond Jewish Center  

1414 Walnut St.  

848-0237 

$2 donation.

OAKLAND— In the first two postseason innings of their lives, the young Minnesota Twins made three errors, allowed four unearned runs and reached their boiling point. 

It wasn’t the way October was supposed to be for the Twins, particularly the ones who’ve been dreaming of the playoffs since their days together in the low minors. There was an emotional dugout scene — and the jitters evaporated, replaced by hard-nosed play and growing confidence. 

A.J. Pierzynski had four hits, and Corey Koskie homered and drove in three runs as the Twins overcame an early deficit and a series of fielding blunders to beat the Oakland Athletics 7-5 Tuesday in the first game of the AL division series. 

It wasn’t a happy time when the Twins came back to the dugout down 5-1 in the second inning of the franchise’s first postseason game since winning the 1991 World Series — largely thanks to their own mistakes, including an infield popup that four Twins allowed to drop untouched. 

Starting pitcher Brad Radke slammed his glove into the dugout bench. Pierzynski, their volatile All-Star catcher, fumed and shouted. Several players yelled angrily at each other — until one of them said something that made sense. 

“Torii (Hunter) came in screaming,” Doug Mientkiewicz said. “He was saying, ’We’ve waited our whole lives for this! Let’s get our heads out and get it done! We’ve still got seven innings!”’ 

But the Twins, who defied baseball’s conventional wisdom about small-market teams to win the AL Central, steadily rallied back with offense from nearly every player — eight Twins got a hit — and more of the steady bullpen work that’s been one of their strongest assets. 

Eddie Guardado capped four innings of scoreless relief with the save, getting pinch-hitter Adam Piatt on a fly to right with two runners on to end it. 

The Twins were the best defensive team in the majors this season, making just 74 errors. They tied the division series record for errors in a game, yet still came back to win. 

“We don’t make three errors. We just don’t do that,” manager Ron Gardenhire said. “At one point in the game, it was comical. ... The game was getting a little crazy on us. I’d have a hard time this year finding three innings we played like that. I think it was just nerves. We got some stuff out of our system today.” 

Game 2 in the best-of-five series is Wednesday, with Mark Mulder pitching for Oakland against Joe Mays. 

Eric Chavez drove in two runs for the A’s, who tied the Yankees for the major league lead with 103 victories in the regular season. But Oakland didn’t get the standout pitching that’s been its trademark in three straight playoff campaigns. 

Tim Hudson, the longest-tenured member of Oakland’s Big Three starters, never got comfortable in 5 1-3 shaky innings. He allowed eight hits and four runs. 

“The bottom line is we just didn’t pitch today,” Hudson said. “They gave us some breaks early in the game, (but) they settled down. Obviously we would’ve liked to have won, but there’s a lot of baseball left to be played.” 

Mientkiewicz homered for the Twins, who took the lead with a three-run sixth inning. Koskie put Minnesota up 6-5 with a bases-loaded groundout against Ted Lilly (0-1), who relieved Hudson moments earlier. 

Brad Radke (1-0), who stopped Oakland’s AL-record 20-game winning streak last month with a six-hit shutout in Minneapolis, allowed eight hits and five runs — although just one was earned — in five innings. 

Once Radke left, Minnesota’s outstanding bullpen came through again. Johan Santana, J.C. Romero and Guardado shut out the A’s. 

Miguel Tejada, Oakland’s top run-producer and MVP candidate, struck out twice in the late innings, stranding three runners. 

The Coliseum crowd of 34,853 was enthusiastic for its AL West champions, but thousands of empty seats remained in the upper deck. 

“Last year (against the Yankees), we won the first game and ended up losing,” Oakland manager Art Howe said. “The year before, we won the first game and ended up losing. What we’ve been through the last couple of years should show us this isn’t the end of the road.” 

Oakland scored three runs in the first inning with a rally that started when shortstop Cristian Guzman’s throw to second base pulled Luis Rivas off the bag. One batter later, Chavez singled to right, scoring one run — and Pierzynski let Michael Cuddyer’s throw get past him into the A’s dugout, scoring another run. 

The Twins got a run in the second on Cuddyer’s RBI double, but Oakland got two more in the bottom half with a two-out rally sparked by the Twins’ impression of a Little League team. 

Ray Durham was on second when Scott Hatteberg popped up to the infield. Radke, Pierzynski, Mientkiewicz and Koskie all converged — but nobody even made a grab at the ball as it plopped on the infield grass halfway up first base and Durham sped home. 

“I should have taken charge,” Radke said. 

“I should have taken charge,” Mientkiewicz said. 

“That’s my play,” Pierzynski said. 

Moments later, Koskie made a bad throw to first to keep the rally alive again, and Chavez got another RBI single to give Oakland a 5-1 lead. 

Koskie hit his two-run homer in the third, and Howe pulled Hudson shortly after Mientkiewicz’s solo homer in the sixth. But Lilly gave up three straight hits, including Jacque Jones’ game-tying RBI double, and Koskie’s bases-loaded groundout drove in the go-ahead run. 

Pierzynski added a run-scoring triple in the seventh against Cory Lidle. 

Notes: Pierzynski had his fourth career four-hit game. ... David Justice, making his 10th postseason appearance, drove home Chavez in the first for his major league-record 60th postseason RBI. 

UC Berkeley pro-Palestinian protester Roberto Hernandez and his legal team didn’t show up on the second day of the activist’s student conduct hearing Tuesday, drawing the ire of the university panel hearing the case, now postponed until Friday. 

But Hernandez attorney Dan Siegel said university officials left the defense team Monday with the impression that logistical problems would prevent the hearing from continuing the next day. 

Siegel said that the university told the defense late in the day Tuesday that the hearing would go forward, but that didn’t provide time to gather witnesses and notify Hernandez. 

“I just think the university’s totally at fault here,” Siegel said. 

Hernandez is one of 32 student protesters who participated in the April 9 takeover of UC Berkeley’s Wheeler Hall and now face student conduct charges ranging from disturbing the peace to, in Hernandez’s case, physical assault on a university police officer. 

The students, who called on the nine-campus University of California system to divest from Israel, face penalties ranging up to expulsion, although the Office of Student Life has recommended nothing harsher than suspension. 

The Hernandez hearing, the first of 32, began Monday but did not finish by the end of the day, as expected. Both sides agreed to reconvene Tuesday at 2:30 p.m. if university officials could find a room and make security arrangements. 

Siegel, a partner at the Oakland law firm of Siegel & Yee, which is representing students at no charge, said UC Berkeley’s Director of Student Judicial Affairs Neil Rajmaira told defense attorneys after the hearing that getting a room Tuesday was unlikely. 

But Rajmaira, who is prosecuting the case, said defense attorney Anne Weills, who is married to Siegel, provided him with a phone number Monday night and asked him to call Tuesday morning with an update. 

Rajmaira said he called Tuesday morning, only to get an answering machine. 

Siegel said Weills did not pick up the message, left on the couple’s home answering service, until after noon. She then called Rajmaira and Professor David Zusman, who is chairing the hearing committee, and said two hours notice was not enough to gather witnesses. 

Zusman pushed back the hearing until 3:30 p.m., but Siegel said his office could not reach Hernandez or defense witnesses by that time. Siegel acknowledged that Hernandez did not contact his lawyers either. 

Members of the hearing committee were incredulous. 

“I’m really appalled that he didn’t contact his lawyers today,” said Zusman, referring to Hernandez. “I find that, frankly, incredible. ... I’m a little suspicious about how sincere their efforts are.” 

Rajmaira made a motion to finish the Hernandez hearing Tuesday without the defense present, but the committee decided to reschedule until Friday. 

“I have a feeling that if we don’t reschedule, there will be trouble,” said Professor Paul Volta, one of three members on the hearing committee, perhaps referring to the tense political atmosphere surrounding the case. 

The undergraduate member of the committee, whose name is being withheld for privacy reasons, said he had made a good faith effort to get to the hearing and expressed his displeasure with the defense for failing to appear. He said the committee would not be “jerked around” in the future. 

Rajmaira accepted the committee’s decision to reschedule and emphasized Hernandez’s right to a fair hearing, but said the defense had wasted state resources by failing to appear. 

“I would like to say on the record that an enormous, enormous, enormous amount of university and therefore state resources have been expended this afternoon,” he said. 

Rajmaira said security costs, room rental and other expenses factored into the equation. He could not provide a full estimate, but a half-day room rental at Clark Err campus costs $175 according to the university’s web site. 

Hernandez did not immediately return calls for comment. 

To the Editor: 

Students for Justice in Palestine activist Hoang Phan in a letter (Daily Planet Forum, Sept. 25), ridicules the UC Regents for not agreeing to their demands to divest from Israel. Phan refers the regents to the divestment website (www.ucdivest.org) in order to learn “the basic history of the conflict.” 

The website is indeed instructive, though not for its heavily biased, historically inaccurate account of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Rather, by visiting the site one will quickly notice that little more than 1,000 people have signed their petition – far fewer than the bloated figure of 6,000 cited in David Scharfenberg's recent story “Students Push Israeli Divestment” (Daily Planet, Sept. 19). 

Given that over 4,000 UC students, faculty and staff have actually signed the anti-divestment petition (http://www.ucjustice.org) it seems that an overwhelming majority of people recognize the divestment drive for the prejudiced, one-sided smear campaign that it is. 

Benjamin Klafter 

UC Berkeley Alumnus 

African-American and Latino students at Berkeley High School failed the 2002 California High School Exit Exam in large numbers, mirroring statewide trends and renewing local concerns about the “achievement gap” separating white and Asian students from African-Americans and Latinos. 

“That’s pretty distressing,” said Michael Miller, a member of Berkeley-based Parents of Children of African Descent. 

The High School Exit exam, designed to ensure that students graduate with basic skills in place, is divided into two parts, English and math, and the clearest evidence of the achievement gap came in the math section.  

Eight-two percent of white Berkeley High students passed the math portion of the test, compared to 30 percent of African-Americans and 26 percent of Latinos. 

Members of the Class of 2004 are the first students who must pass both portions of the test in order to graduate, although the state Board of Education may vote this summer to postpone the graduation requirement. 

If the exit exam remains a requirement, students who fail either section of the test will have seven chances to take it again before graduation. 

Students are not required to take the test until they are sophomores, but many members of the Class of 2004 volunteered to take the test in 2001 as freshmen.  

Those who passed as freshmen did not have to retake the exam last year.  

Hundreds of Berkeley High freshmen took one or both portions of the exam in 2001 and scored well above the state average. Sixty-four percent passed the math portion, compared to 44 percent statewide, and 76 percent passed English, versus 64 percent across the state. 

Latinos, in line with the overall trend, scored well above the statewide Latino average in 2001. Fifty-five percent passed the math section versus 25 percent statewide.  

But a substantial achievement gap still separated whites and Asians from African-Americans and Latinos. 

Parent activists said the lingering gap is of concern, and some argued the district is not doing enough to address the issue. 

“The question becomes what is the district trying to do except dismantle the programs supporting these kids,” said Miller, making reference to a planned consolidation of Berkeley High’s African-American Studies Department that the district reversed last week. 

Superintendent Michele Lawrence and members of the Board of Education have argued that they were unaware of the planned consolidation, a cost-cutting measure included in an agreement with the Berkeley Federation of Teachers this summer, and moved as quickly as possible to restore the department when they learned about the agreement. 

Miller said the district should begin implementing programs like Rebound, an intense mentoring and tutoring effort pushed by black parents in the Spring of 2001, to address the achievement gap. 

“I have no problem with Rebound-type programs,” said school board member John Selawsky. “My question is how do we fund them for the number of students who need them.” 

The Berkeley Unified School District currently faces a $3.9 million budget shortfall. 

Berkeley High special education students failed the exit exams in huge numbers, as did special education pupils statewide.  

Eighty-two percent of Berkeley High special education students failed math and 74 percent failed English. 

Oakland-based Disability Rights Advocates have filed suit against the state, claiming that the exit exam is unfair for special education students. 

One part of the suit challenges a provision in state law that invalidates special education students’ scores if they use a calculator, a spell checker or an aide to read aloud parts of the English exam or write for them. 

Braille, extra test-taking time, extended breaks and other accommodations are allowed if they are included in a student’s individual education plan. 

Staff attorney Melissa Kasnitz of Disability Rights Advocates said special education students use the forbidden accommodations for every other test they take in school. 

“Suddenly, on the most important standardized test of their educational career, they’re being told that if you use an accommodation you’ve always used, you can’t pass,” she said. 

Kasnitz said once a special education student passes the exam with one of the forbidden accommodations, a school district may apply for a waiver, allowing the student to graduate without a valid test score. 

Some community activists questioned the worth of the exit exam altogether, arguing that one test should not determine whether a student can graduate. 

“High stakes testing really is not going to help our educational process,” said school board candidate Derick Miller. 

“My hope is that we’ll be able to convince the folks up in Sacramento that punishing kids for adults’ mistakes is not the way to do it,” added school board candidate Nancy Riddle. 

While separate figures are available for the number of Berkeley High students who have passed the math portion and English portions of the test, in 2001 and 2002, there are no figures available for the number of students who have passed both. 

Students must pass both sections in order to graduate. 

To the Editor, 

It has come to my attention that the city of Berkeley subsidizes its 1,800 employees not to use the city pools. All city employees are offered a special membership package to the Berkeley YMCA which includes use of the YMCA pools. Under this benefit the city pays 75 percent of the monthly fees, leaving 25 percent to be paid by the employee. City employees, including the city and recreation department leaders, tell us they swim at the YMCA, then complain that the city pools are underused. Discount membership to the YMCA is a great employee perk, but where does this leave the community swimmer? The YMCA has no senior rate, no pool-use-only rate and no noncommunity-member day use rate.  

If King pool becomes the only open year-round, community pool, then the recreation and aquatics departments have an obligation to provide daytime use for the community. If King pool is already heated and then not available for use, it is a big waste. If the school district policy is one of not allowing the community on the school grounds during school hours, even though the pool is not used by the students during the day in the winter, perhaps the policy needs review. Taxpayers should have the right to use what they pay for. 

Jean Johnsen 

Berkeley 

VIENNA, Austria — Iraq agreed Tuesday to a plan for the return of U.N. weapons inspectors for the first time in nearly four years, but the deal ignores U.S. demands for access to Saddam Hussein’s palaces and other contested sites. 

Chief U.N. inspector Hans Blix said an advance team of inspectors could be in Iraq in two weeks if it gets the go-ahead from the U.N. Security Council. 

But U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, clashing with Blix, said hours later that the search for hidden arsenals in Iraq should be held up until the Security Council adopts tough new rules. 

Powell said in Washington that sending inspectors back to Iraq now after a lapse of nearly four years would risk further deception by Saddam. 

Blix said the agreement on logistics, hammered out in two days of talks in Vienna, called for “immediate, unconditional and unrestricted access” to most suspect sites. 

But, he said, eight presidential sites — 12 square miles of territory — would remain off-limits to surprise inspections unless the U.N. Security Council bends to U.S. demands that all sites be subject to unannounced visits. Besides the palaces, also declared off-limits were several government ministries, including defense and interior, as well as the headquarters of Saddam’s elite Republican Guard. 

Under a 1998 deal worked out between U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Baghdad, the inspectors are not allowed to visit the presidential sites unannounced and must be accompanied by a team of international diplomats when they do. 

The chief Iraqi negotiator, Gen. Amir al-Sadi, sought to deflect attention from the presidential sites. 

“Quite honestly, I don’t understand why it is so critical,” al-Sadi said, adding that on the whole, Baghdad was “happy with this agreement.” He and Blix agreed that the issue of presidential sites had not been on the Vienna agenda. 

“We have come to a very practical arrangement and we anticipate every inspection to go to a sensitive site,” al-Sadi said. 

The United States, meanwhile, moved negotiations on its tough new proposal for Iraq to the United Nations on Tuesday, meeting with permanent members of the Security Council opposed to authorizing force against Saddam before testing his willingness to cooperate. 

At the meeting, ambassadors from the United States, Britain, Russia, France and China discussed the resolution’s so-called “or else” clause which warns Saddam to cooperate or face military action from member states. 

The draft resolution would also give member states the right to give military support to inspections. 

France and Russia vehemently oppose the U.S. position, with Paris floating its own proposal for a two-phased approach which would only authorize force if Iraq failed to cooperate with inspectors. 

But a senior U.S. official in Washington told The Associated Press that all five veto-holding members agreed that a new system of inspections — after a four year absence — must be worked out to open Saddam’s palaces. 

The United States and Britian have drafted a new plan that would give Iraq seven days after adoption of the resolution to declare whether it would comply, and then 23 days to list all sites where weapons are stored, said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity. 

Also, the resolution contains a provision giving inspectors the authority to declare “no-fly” and “no-drive” zones that would keep out Iraqi officials while the inspections proceed. 

The State Department said any inspections should be deferred until a U.N. resolution is approved. However, spokesman Richard Boucher said the Bush administration had no objection to inspectors making arrangements in advance. 

“We continue to work with other members of the council to come up with a resolution that makes clear the need for thorough and unfettered inspections and the need for consequences if Iraq refuses to cooperate,” Boucher said. “They really don’t understand quite yet that they have to disarm, they have to cooperate.” 

Blix, who was to brief the Security Council on Thursday, said the talks focused on practical aspects of the renewed inspections, such as where the inspectors would fly and their security on the ground. The Iraqis were unable to guarantee the safety of inspector aircraft that might cross “no-fly” zones in parts of Iraq, he said. 

The Iraqis handed over four CDs containing a backlog of monitoring reports for suspect sites and items, spanning June 1998 to July 2002, Blix said. Although that information was not yet analyzed, it will provide important clues about Iraqi weapons activity, he said. 

“It was promised to us in New York, and I’m glad it came here,” Blix said. 

He said the Iraqis were serious about allowing the return of his team despite the continuing standoff on the presidential sites. “There is a willingness to accept inspections that has not existed before.” 

Britain welcomed the agreement but said it did not replace the need for a tough new Security Council resolution. 

“I welcome the work of Hans Blix and his colleagues and look forward to his report to the Security Council,” British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said. 

“However, this work is not an alternative to the high priority we place on a new and tougher resolution in the Security Council.” 

To the Editor, 

Among the reports of the employment dispute at UC Berkeley, both in the Daily Planet and in other media, the observation has been made that lecturers are paid less than “local grade school teachers” (Daily Planet, Aug. 29). I have no independent knowledge of the issues at UC and am not an educator, but allow me to suggest that using this disparity to argue for a pay raise contains a false premise that should not go unchallenged. Elementary school teachers should be paid more than university lecturers. Quite frankly, I think their jobs are more important. In fact, after parents, I believe elementary teachers are the most critical actors in our educational scheme, charged with the primary care and intellectual feeding of our youngest children as they begin to learn to take on their roles and responsibilities in society. Lecturers may well be underpaid, but to suggest that they should get a raise because they are paid less than elementary school teachers misplaces our priorities and misstates our society’s educational needs.  

Robert Firchock 

Oakland 

As the heat of fire season approaches, UC Berkeley police is warning people not to dump wood chips, which provide dangerous fuel to wildfires, on campus wildlands. 

The cost of bringing debris to waste centers and fears about the Sudden Oak Death tree disease are enticing many tree service companies to dump wood chips in the nearest open space, police say. 

This summer, police forced at least one company to remove chips it dumped illegally near the intersection of Grizzly Peak Boulevard and Fish Ranch Road. University police would not say the name of the company. 

Wood chip dumping is on the rise, police say, and presents an increasing danger to residents of the Berkeley and Oakland hills. 

When a large pile of wood chips catches fire, the chips smolder and the fire becomes more difficult to extinguish, said Cheryl Miller of the Hills Emergency Forum, a team of local cities and fire safety organizations formed to prevent a repeat of the 1991 Oakland hills fire. 

The hills fire spanned more than 5 miles. It killed 25 residents, destroyed 3,000 homes and caused roughly $2 billion in property damage. 

“As we saw in 1991 fires can move very quickly,” said Tom Klatt of the UC Berkeley Police Department. Local wildfires are fanned by “Diablo winds,” a strong low-humidity current that can throw smoldering wood chips a mile or more, Klatt said. 

Hills communities are especially vulnerable to wildfires in late summer and early fall when high temperatures and hot, dry winds whip over the flammable brush. Last month, two wildfires broke out in the Oakland Hills, causing minor damage. Neither fire was caused by wood chips. 

The increase in wood chip dumping this fire season is due in part to the local infestation of the Sudden Oak Death tree disease, Miller said. The pathogen, which has been found in all Bay Area counties except San Francisco, attacks 16 species of California trees including redwood, douglas fir and two types of oak.  

Since the pathogen spread to Alameda County, in September 2001, the state Department of Food and Agriculture has prohibited the transfer of living plant matter outside county boundaries.  

Though wood chips from infected trees are dead, many tree companies do not make the distinction, Miller said. The result, said Miller, is that tree companies from outside the county mistakenly think they are not allowed to transfer wood chips from stricken trees to waste centers in their home counties. 

Consequently, the companies often choose to dump the chips on a vacant parcel of land. 

Klatt noted that some tree companies choose to dump in open spaces to save money. The Berkeley Transfer Station charges $6.25 per 320 pounds of tree materials. Because trucks often carry as much as 2,000 pounds of wood chips, some companies prefer to dump for free, Klatt said. 

Santa Clara judge sentences man for planned massacre 

SANTA CLARA — A man convicted of plotting a Columbine-style rampage at his community college was sentenced to seven years in state prison Tuesday. 

Superior Court Judge Robert Ahern ruled that more than 100 of the counts against Al DeGuzman, 20, had to be dismissed because of two appellate court rulings that applied to his case. 

After Ahern dismissed the felony counts, he gave DeGuzman the maximum sentence for the remaining charges. Ahern said he saw DeGuzman as a danger to the public. 

The judge cited two cases in which a California Court of Appeal said the state Legislature did not adequately specify that criminals found with multiple weapons could be charged with multiple counts. 

DeGuzman could be released on parole after about two years, said prosecutor Tom Farris. 

DeGuzman was scheduled to be sentenced in July on 108 counts of amassing an arsenal of guns and bombs in his bedroom and planning a massacre at De Anza College in Cupertino. 

The charges carried up to 95 years in prison, and a probation report recommended that he get 61 years. But Ahern postponed sentencing and raised the possibility that DeGuzman could get between three and seven years. 

When he postponed the sentencing Ahern said California law is ambiguous on whether DeGuzman should have been charged separately for each weapon found in his bedroom or whether he should have faced just two all-encompassing counts. 

DeGuzman was arrested in January 2001 the day before the planned attacks on his community college. Authorities say the rampage was averted when a photo-developing clerk saw a picture of DeGuzman posing with his arsenal and called police. 

Red Cross continues to aid  

victims of Croy fire 

MORGAN HILL – While the Croy Fire in the Santa Cruz Mountains west of Morgan Hill has been fully contained, the Santa Clara Valley Chapter of the American Red Cross has not halted its efforts to reach out to the victims still affected by the disaster. 

The fire that began on Monday, Sept. 23 scorched more than 3,200 acres of land, destroyed 32 homes and forced hundreds of residents to evacuate. Most have since been allowed to return after firefighters brought the blaze totally under control over the weekend. 

Federal screeners arrive at Mineta San Jose airport 

SAN JOSE – Mineta San Jose International Airport this morning became the first of the three major Bay Area airports to undergo the transformation from private to federal security screeners. 

Acting Federal Security Director Mark Pooler made the announcement of the transfer from private to federal security today during a news conference at the airport. 

Checkpoints in the airport's Terminal C were taken over by Transportation Security Administration-trained screeners when the airport opened at 5 a.m. Federal screeners have not yet been deployed in Terminal A.

SACRAMENTO — California’s tough education standards are a bragging point for many state officials, but the nation’s new education law could force the state to lower the bar or risk falling short of federal requirements. 

President Bush’s No Child Left Behind act requires that all students be proficient in math and English in 12 years — a goal that top education officials in California say they won’t be able to meet. 

That’s because California has set its sights much higher than most of the nation, requiring students to master advanced math and language skills. 

The federal law lets each state set up its own education standards and decide what it means to be “proficient.” States with lower standards will have an easier time reaching the target. 

“The problem is our standards are very high and we don’t anticipate we could ever be 100 percent proficient,” said California Secretary of Education Kerry Mazzoni. 

Results from the state’s standards-based test show that California still has a long way to go to hitting the 100 percent mark. Only about 10 percent of 11th graders, for example, are proficient in algebra and geometry based on California standards, 30 percent are proficient in U.S. history and 16 percent are proficient in earth sciences. 

California and other states that set up tough standards before the federal law was enacted could be forced to lower the standards or risk missing the target, which could ultimately jeopardize federal education funding. 

“It’s very unfair to states with high standards,” said T.J. Bucholz, spokesman for the Michigan Department of Education. 

Earlier this year, the federal government identified more than 8,000 schools across the country as low performing based on their own state’s education standards. Only Michigan had more schools on that list than California. 

“When you see the numbers on the surface, you might think that California and Michigan schools are doing very poorly. They aren’t. We just have incredibly high standards,” Bucholz said. 

However, Eugene Hickok, undersecretary in the U.S. Department of Education, said high standards shouldn’t be an excuse for not meeting federal requirements. 

“Those who argue that having such high expectations is unrealistic are doing a serious disservice not just to the kids, but to this nation,” Hickok said. 

Mapping and reading J. Craig Venter’s genome took 15 years, $5 billion and some of the most sophisticated computers available. 

Now, Venter hopes to burn individual genomes, a human’s entire DNA sequence, onto shiny compact discs that can be read within a week for about $500,000 a piece. 

Venter hopes ultimately to mass-produce gene CDs like so many Bruce Springsteen CDs that will stock the shelves of every general practitioner’s office and be covered by insurance. He said he has lined up a number of rich donors to kick off his nonprofit individual genome project. 

“We are trying to push genomics to the $1,000 genome,” Venter said. 

But Venter has his work cut out. Not only does he have to surmount ethical, financial and scientific hurdles, there’s the issue of fitting and analyzing the three billion DNA base pairs that make up the genome on CD — that’s three gigabytes of computer storage. It would take 200 volumes, each the size of a Manhattan telephone book, to compile the human genome in written form. 

The idea is that doctors will be able to prevent and treat diseases better when they are able to read and interpret individuals genomes. Already, genetic tests can determine if some women are more prone to breast cancer than others. Armed with that knowledge, women can alter their diets and exercise regimen to lower their cancer chances. 

Venter led the for-profit team in the dramatic race against government scientists to decipher the human genome. Both teams simultaneously announced the successful sequencing of five human genomes, including Venter’s, in competing scientific papers last year. Venter, former chief of genomics pioneer Celera before being forced out when the company changed business directions, now runs three nonprofit ventures he founded. 

Those three ventures are pouring $30 million to build a new gene-sequencing center in Rockville, Md., which Venter expects to open by year’s end. It’s there that Venter and other scientists will work on putting individual genomes on CDs by next year. 

Venter said the only way to mass produce genes cheaply on CD is just to do it. He estimates the first CDs will cost about $500,000 each. So he said he’s lined up several wealthy individuals, whom he has declined to identify, who will pay to have their genomes mapped.

SAN JOSE — The U.S. Commerce Department accused Sun Microsystems Inc. of violating export rules in sales it made to Egypt and, through a reseller, to China. 

The hardware sales took place in 1997 and 1998, according to a letter the company received in February from the Commerce Department’s bureau of industry and security. The letter was disclosed Monday by Sun in a regulatory filing. 

Sun said it is in settlement talks. The agency has given the high-powered computer and software maker until Nov. 1 to respond to the accusations. 

“We expect to reach a resolution on this, and it will not have a materially adverse effect on Sun,” company spokesman Andy Lark said Tuesday. 

If Santa Clara-based Sun is found to have violated the regulations, it could face financial penalties or the loss of its export privileges, according the filing. 

SACRAMENTO — The fallout from Gov. Gray Davis’ decision to sign or veto hundreds of bills in the last week continued to settle Tuesday, as some groups celebrated and others prepared for lawsuits or new legislation. 

Among those praising the governor’s actions were California farmworkers, who cheered as Davis staffers announced his decision Monday to sign a bill that will offer mediation in labor disputes between agricultural employers and unions. 

Meanwhile, farm groups are planning legal action against the new law, which they called unconstitutional and legally questionable. 

“I think there’s a good probability that we will take this fight to the courts, but there’s a lot of options in there that we need to look at and study,” said Mike Webb, government affairs counsel for the Western Growers Association, which opposed the bill. 

Fierce lobbying on both sides led up to Davis’ decision, which proved be one of the more difficult of his political career. The governor has often prided himself on drawing the Central Valley vote, which is largely Republican. 

“I’m sure it just killed him — absolutely killed him — to sign that bill,” said Bruce Cain, a political science professor at the University of California, Berkeley. “But he had to choose between the core Democratic constituents and the swing Republican agribusiness vote.” 

Immigrant groups also expressed outrage at Davis’ veto of a bill, by Assemblyman Gil Cedillo, D-Los Angeles, that would have granted driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants. Bill supporters pushed the controversial measure, saying it would have made California’s highways safer to have them to take the driver’s test and purchase auto insurance. 

But Davis sided with the bill’s opponents, who worried about the increased security risks from licensing non-citizens after last year’s terrorist attacks. 

Cedillo said he would reintroduce another version of the bill next year and would reevaluate it to better address the security concerns. He will also seek the help of the AFL-CIO, the powerful group of labor unions he hopes will help drum up popular support and ultimately the governor’s. 

Despite the prominence of corporate accountability as a political issue after the Enron and WorldCom bankruptcies, Davis vetoed a bill that many said would have been the toughest in the nation. 

The bill, by Sen. Martha Escutia, D-Commerce, would have required corporate executives to report financial fraud in their company or face up to $100,000 in fines. 

“There is too much public frustration with the state of corporate America to let this go, and Gov. Davis can be assured that he will see strong corporate reform legislation again,” said Doug Heller, spokesman for The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights. 

Conservative groups, including the Campaign for California Families celebrated over “a tremendous victory for children and families,” as Davis also vetoed a bill, by Assemblywoman Judy Chu, D-Monterey Park, that would have encouraged counties to offer sensitivity training to foster parents of lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender youth. 

But Geoff Kors, executive director of the California Alliance for Pride and Equality, which sponsored the bill, said it is “very likely” the bill will show up again next year. 

“Being a foster youth is difficult enough; being lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender adds a whole new dimension,” Kors said. “This was a simple bill to put that protection into law.” 

CAPE suffered another legislative defeat Monday, when Davis vetoed a bill, by Sen. John Vasconcellos, D-Santa Clara, that would have authorized pharmacies to sell hypodermic needles to adults without a doctor’s prescription.

SACRAMENTO — Half of the state’s 18 million patients in health maintenance organizations can’t leave their HMO because their employers only offer one insurance plan, but they may be able to find a better medical group within that HMO. 

On Tuesday, Davis administration officials released the 2002 HMO Quality Report Card, designed to give consumers more information about HMOs and medical groups so they can find a doctor who will best serve them. 

The report card rates 10 of the largest HMOs in California, representing approximately 95 percent of the state’s HMO enrollees. 

This year, the report focused on 80 of the state’s largest medical groups in 11 regions, rating overall services, specialty care, patient relationships and timely care. 

The report by the state’s Office of the Patient Advocate found that patients tend to be happy with the relationships with their doctor, but are less satisfied with the medical groups’ ability to offer timely care. 

Martin Gallegos, director of the Office of the Patient Advocate, called the report an “anxiety-relieving remedy.” 

“When people are aware of their health care options, they are able to get the best care available,” Gallegos said, adding that the report card makes it easier for HMO enrollees to compare different health care groups in their area. 

It’s based on a survey of more than 35,000 HMO patients in the state. 

“This is not a movie rating,” said Daniel Zingale, director of the Department of Managed Health Care. “A missing star can mean a missing surgeon, or a missing service.” 

FRESNO — Passengers on a Greyhound bus were dozing off after a food stop when a man armed with scissors charged the bus driver and slashed his throat. 

Two passengers were killed and dozens were injured as the bus swerved into a cotton field, flipped on its side and tossed bodies on top of each other and out the windshield. 

The suspect, Arturo Martinez, 27, was held Tuesday in the Fresno County Jail on two counts of murder and one count of attempted murder. Authorities said they did not know of any motive. 

Witnesses said Martinez appeared out of nowhere Monday night as the San Francisco-bound coach sped north on Interstate 5 along the desolate west side of the state’s farm belt. 

“The people in the front, when they saw, they tried to stop the guy, but he already had the driver,” said Alfredo Saravia, who was dozing when the assailant hustled past. “Everything happened in seconds.” 

Screams filled the air as the bus swerved off the road and overturned. When it came to a rest, screams turned to moans in the chaotic wreckage. 

“People were falling onto people,” said Shanna, a 21-year-old college student from Washington, D.C., who refused to give her last name because she was skipping classes. “You had to walk over people to get out.” 

Many of the injured were unconscious. Some of those who could get to safety helped others. Saravia, who had a bruised forehead and injuries to his left side, said a female passenger next to him was dead, but he hauled another woman out through the shattered windshield. 

As survivors gathered in the dark field, there was a sense of panic that the assailant was loose. 

Police later found him hiding among the cotton.

SACRAMENTO — Gov. Gray Davis vetoed a bill Monday that would have allowed pharmacies to sell hypodermic needles to adults without a doctor’s prescription. 

The bill, by Sen. John Vasconcellos, D-San Jose, would have also allowed people over the age of 18 to possess up to 30 hypodermic needles or syringes. 

Bill supporters said the measure was intended to reduce the number of cases of HIV and other diseases caused by the sharing of needles among drug addicts. They said needle sharing is linked to 19 percent of all AIDS and half of all Hepatitis C cases. 3/8 

But opponents of the measure said it would encourage drug use. 

In a statement released Monday, Davis said he could not sign the measure because it did not require a one-on-one needle exchange, which has been the basis of needle distribution programs already authorized throughout the state. “This bill could potentially increase the amount of contaminated needles and syringes in parks, beaches and other public areas.”

LOS ANGELES — Moviemakers will be reimbursed for hiring local law enforcement to guard film productions on public property under a bill signed into law Tuesday by California Gov. Gray Davis. 

Filmmakers can receive up to $750 a day for monitoring costs associated with local law enforcement, according to the governor’s office. The maximum reimbursement cap for use of local police is $3,000 per movie or television episode. 

The initiative is part of the state’s “Film California First” program, designed to keep film and television productions from moving to Canada or Australia, where production costs are frequently cheaper. 

California already rebates expenses for filming on public property, including fire safety, transportation and other monitoring tasks by public employees. 

LOS ANGELES — The dock shutdown on the West Coast tightened the squeeze on businesses across the country Tuesday, holding up Christmas toys and worrying automakers that rely on just-in-time delivery of parts. 

The lockout of dockworkers at all 29 West Coast ports is also hurting freight railroads and trucking companies that haul cargo to and from the coast. Some businesses are considering sending goods by air, a more expensive option. 

If the labor dispute is not settled quickly, business leaders said, shoppers could see higher prices and less selection this holiday season. 

“This is the two-minute warning for the Christmas season. We got hit at the most vulnerable moment,” said Charlie Woo, founder and chief executive of Megatoys in Los Angeles, which has $750,000 worth of toys in transit. “The customer wants my stuff, but it’s on the water.” 

The Pacific Maritime Association, which represents shipping companies and terminal operators, has locked out about 10,500 members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union since Sunday. 

On Tuesday, a federal mediation session fell apart before it began. Union representatives stormed out, saying their employers showed up with “gun-toting security guards.” 

Jim Spinosa, the union’s president and chief negotiator, accused the Pacific Maritime Association of sabotaging the session. “PMA’s lockout is holding a gun to the head of the American economy and now they move to aim real guns at us,” Spinosa said. 

A spokesman for the association said the guards were there to ensure the safety of the association’s president and chief negotiator. 

“They have been deployed in a very discreet manner, and we would hope the union would understand these circumstances,” spokesman Steve Sugerman said. 

The port shutdown came at the most critical time for all kinds of retailers, from sellers of toys to electronics stores. 

If the situation drags on, “things are not going to be arriving on shelves when they are supposed to be,” said Erik Autor, vice president and international trade counsel at the National Retail Federation. 

Many merchants have protected themselves by shipping some holiday goods in advance by aircraft. But air shipping is expensive and stores could pass the costs along to customers. 

The auto industry relies almost exclusively on container ships because most parts are large. 

“A day’s worth of disruption is not enough to create enormous concern, but if it extends, yes, there will be some difficulties,” said Xavier Dominicis, a spokesman for Toyota Motor Sales USA in Torrance. 

Sony’s electronics unit is considering bringing more goods in by air. Although a lot of the Japanese company’s manufacturing takes place within the United States, virtually all of its products use components from Asia. 

Sunkist Growers, a marketing cooperative of 6,000 California and Arizona farmers, expects to lose about $2 million in exports to Asia each week the disruption continues. Air freight is not a competitive option because standard 40-pound fruit cartons are too expensive to send by air, Sunkist spokesman Mike Wootton said. 

Railroads and trucking companies that link ports and the rest of the country are losing business. 

Yellow Corp., a trucking company in Overland Park, Kan., has seen a drop of 10 percent to 15 percent in its West Coast business, said chief executive William Zollars said. And Burlington Northern Santa Fe stopped westbound shipments from Chicago to avoid having them stack up on the West Coast. 

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK — A 66-year-old Arizona man has been missing from the park for the past 11 days, and rangers are asking for help in finding him. 

Walter H. Reinhard, of Oro Valley, Ariz., apparently started a hike from the White Wolf area on Sept. 20. His car was found at the trailhead Monday. 

Park Ranger Debbie Schweizer said he checked into an area hotel on Sept. 19, and was apparently going for a day hike. 

“We have credit card transactions that are from Sept. 19. Whatever might have gone wrong might have happened on the 20th. That’s why we’re asking for help from those who may have seen him. We want to keep every option open,” she said. 

Reinhard is an avid hiker, but not a frequent Yosemite visitor, Schweizer said. He was in California after returning from a hiking trip in Oregon. His family reported him missing on Sept. 29 after he did not return home, Schweizer said. 

Rangers are asking park visitors to call if they have seen Reinhard since Sept. 19. He is described as 5 feet 6 inches tall, weighing 145 pounds. He has blue eyes and graying brown hair. He may have been wearing a gray felt alpine hat with a narrow brim and leather hiking boots and a large fanny pack. 

Dozens of protesters shook police barricades and chanted “drop the charges” outside UC Berkeley’s Krutch Auditorium Monday as student conduct hearings began for 32 pro-Palestinian activists who took over a campus building in April. 

Inside, university officials launched their case against graduate student Roberto Hernandez, who faces five charges ranging from disturbing the peace to assaulting a university police officer. 

The hearing was scheduled to end 5 p.m. Monday but ran until 6:30 p.m. and is still incomplete. The proceeding will reconvene as early as today and the student conduct committee hearing the case is expected to recommend a ruling about a week after the hearing ends. 

Assistant Vice Chancellor for Residential and Student Service Programs Harry Le Grande will consider the committee’s recommendation and make a final decision on punishment. 

Hernandez and the other 31 students who will take part in the hearings face sanctions ranging up to expulsion. 

The 32 activists, who will participate in hearings through the end of October, are among 79 protesters who took over UC Berkeley’s Wheeler Hall April 9, demanding that the nine-campus University of California divest from Israel. 

In June, the Alameda County District Attorney dropped criminal charges against the protesters, but the university pursued student conduct charges against the 41 students who took part. Nine accepted an “informal resolution,” agreeing to a one-semester probation, leaving 32 to face formal hearings. 

Last week, student activists raised concerns about a decision by professor David Zusman, committee chairman, to close the Hernandez hearing to the public and press and move it away from the center of campus to Krutch Auditorium in the university’s Clark Kerr facility. 

Zusman blocked public access to the hearing Monday, citing concerns about student privacy, but allowed a handful of reporters into the room on the condition that they omit in press accounts the names of student witnesses other than Hernandez. 

Student activists criticized the decision to exclude members of the public. 

“The public also has a right to be there,” said Hoang Phan of Students for Justice in Palestine, an activist group which spearheaded the Wheeler Hall takeover. 

Phan said protesters outside Krutch Auditorium on Monday pushed police barricades to the ground several times as a symbolic protest against the closed hearing. 

Activists also raised concerns, last week, about the composition of the hearing committee.  

University officials informed student lawyers Thursday that the panel would be made up of three professors. Protesters said at least one student should serve on the panel. 

The final committee included two professors and an undergraduate student. 

After lengthy wrangling about the composition of the committee and the legality of the evidence at the start of the hearing, UC Berkeley Director of Student Judicial Affairs Neil Rajmaira called Dean of Students Karen Kenney as the first witness. 

Kenney testified that the university caught wind of the planned takeover before April 9 and warned student activists in advance that they would face punishment if they disrupted academic activity. 

She also disputed activists’ claims that the university has cracked down on pro-Palestinian students because of their political beliefs. 

Rajmaira drove home the point, arguing that the case “would have been conducted in the same manner if Mr. Hernandez were part of the Cal Rugby team.” 

An undergraduate student testified for the university that the protesters disrupted her class in Wheeler Hall. English professor Ian Duncan, who was running a seminar on the third floor of the building April 9, countered that the disruption was minimal. 

A pair of university officers allegedly assaulted by Hernandez will take the stand when the hearing resumes, and then the defense will present the remainder of its case. 

Hernandez said the first day of hearings was “a tad bit more fair” than he expected and that he looks forward to presenting his case.

To the Editor: 

So the current mayor of Berkeley, Shirley Dean, wants to consider relocating and rebuilding the UC Memorial Stadium. 

This is a truly lunatic notion for several reasons. 

First, UC Memorial Stadium is the property and responsibility of UC, not the city of Berkeley.  

Second, the present location of the stadium is fine and dandy. It is on the campus. It is built on bedrock (not mudflats) and it is accessible to students on foot.  

The UC Memorial Stadium was built back in 1928, some 74 years ago. Any local neighborhood bitches about congestion and traffic on fall football Saturdays from anyone younger than 95 years of age are ridiculous. Football, foot traffic and automobile traffic were there long before any of the current residents were even born, let alone old enough to want to complain about it. If area residents don't want to live near UC, they can just move a few miles north to Albany or El Cerrito.  

The stadium is in a fine bedrock location to withstand future seismic events. For those Golden Bear home games, the stands are rarely even one-third full. The students can always flee the stands and occupy the field if there is an emergency. Wildfires are highly unlikely in the lower Strawberry Canyon area: It is filled with tennis courts and swimming pools.  

Perhaps the mayor of Berkeley should devote her energies to some of the real and continuing problems of the city: crime, traffic, the school system and keeping the public park toilets supplied with toilet paper.  

Go Bears.  

James K. Sayre 

Oakland

OAKLAND — Oakland Athletics bench coach Ken Macha, one of the most sought-after managerial candidates in the major leagues, has been contacted by the Detroit Tigers and Chicago Cubs for their open managerial jobs. 

The A’s, working out Monday in preparation for the AL division series against the Minnesota Twins, said the organization granted permission to both franchises to meet with Macha, but that it would be sometime after the team’s best-of-five series. 

“At this point, the schedule is kind of crowded,” Macha said. “Perhaps I’ll get a chance to talk with them after this series.” 

Macha is second in command behind Oakland manager Art Howe, and the two were big league teammates for the Pittsburgh Pirates in the mid-1970s. Macha also played in the majors for Montreal and Toronto. 

Late in spring training, he was approached by the Boston Red Sox after they fired manager Joe Kerrigan, but the A’s denied Macha permission to speak to Boston. 

“He gets the young guys going and stays on them to play,” Howe said. “I’m glad we didn’t lose him this year. He makes the Energizer Bunny look slow.” 

Macha was Pittsburgh’s second choice after Lloyd McClendon two years ago. Macha has interviewed for five managerial jobs in all — Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Toronto and twice with Anaheim. 

“I’ve talked to a lot of people before and nothing worked out,” he said. “Hopefully this is the year that something works out.” 

Macha has connections to Detroit. He is close with team president and general manager Dave Dombrowski. They worked together in the Expos’ organization. 

“He’s a guy mentioned that is mentioned with almost every opening that becomes available,” Dombrowski said. 

The 52-year-old Macha is under contract with the A’s until through the end of the World Series. He was named bench coach Oct. 30, 1998, and this is his 13th season on a major league coaching staff. That includes stints with Montreal and California. 

The Tigers fired manager Luis Pujols on Monday and the Cubs fired interim manager Bruce Kimm on Sunday, before the final game of the season but he managed anyway. 

The first two calls A’s president and general manager Billy Beane received Monday were from the Cubs and Tigers. 

“My gut feeling is that the interest in Kenny is peaking right now,” Beane said. “His demand is at the top of everybody’s list. He would have been very difficult to replace (in the spring). We told them that we’d like to reserve this week so we can play the Twins, but the next week or 10 days we can work something out. 

“We’re trying to be fair to both Ken and the teams. I expect from any of the managerial openings this year, we’ll get a request for Ken.” 

Macha is a Pittsburgh native. He had a career major league batting average of .258 with 98 hits, one home run and 35 RBIs. 

“He’ll be missed,” said A’s equipment manager Steve Vucinich, who first got to know Macha as a player when Vucinich was visiting clubhouse manager. “He’s a good baseball man.”

Tuesday, Oct. 1 

Setting Limits: A Mini Crash Course for Busy Parents of Preschool & School-Age Children 

7 to 9 p.m. 

Berkeley Richmond Jewish Community Center, 1414 Walnut St. 

Jill Shugart, MFT, teaches this course on how to set appropriate boundaries and feel more in charge, while still responding to your children’s needs. 

848-0237 Ext. 127 

Discounted Book Sale 

9 a.m. to 3 p.m. 

UC Press headquarters  

2120 Berkeley Way 

Paperbacks for $3, hardcovers for $7. Over 300 titles to choose from. 

642-4247 

“A Biblical Perspective of War, Peace and Justice” 

12:45 to 1:45 p.m. 

Pacific School of Religion, Mudd 103, 1798 Scenic Ave. 

Brown bag discussion. 

849-8229 

UC Berkeley’s Week of Service 

Hours vary (through October 5) 

Cal Corps Public Service Center, Eshleman Hall, UC Berkeley 

Make new friends while making a differece at local non-profits. 

http://students.berkeley.edu/calcorps/cad.html or 643-0326 

Wednesday, Oct. 2 

Does Anyone Really  

Understand Berkeley? 

7 p.m. 

Berkeley Central Library  

2090 Kitteredge St. 

Berkeley History Classes, runs every Wednesday through Nov. 13 

981-6147 

South and west Berkeley Community Action Team Advisory Group 

7 p.m. 

Over 60’s Center, 2031 Sacramento, at Alcatraz 

Refreshments provided 

981-5362 

Walk to School Day 

Join around 200 other Berkeley students in the city’s second annual Walk to School Day. 

www.walktoschool.org 

848-0305 

Humanistic Judaism 101 

7:30 to 9 p.m. 

Berkeley Richmond Jewish Community Center, 1414 Walnut St.  

Marcia Grossman of Kol Hadash facilitates this workshop dealing with humanistic alternatives to conventional judaism.  

848-0237 Ext. 127 

$5 public/ free for members of BRJCC and Kol Hadash 

Thursday, Oct. 3 

Investing in the Future 

7:30 p.m. 

St. Mary Magdalen Church 

2005 Berryman St. 

Learn how to invest to meet more than your financial needs. 

Call to reserve space: (925) 417-6654 

Free. 

How to Defeat Commitment Phobia:  

In Yourself or the One You Love 

7:30 to 9:30 p.m. 

Berkeley Richmond Jewish  

Community Center, 1414 Walnut St.  

Learn a variety of strategies for those who are ambivalent about commitment. Taught by Susan Page.  

848-0237 Ext. 127 

$10 public. $8 BRJCC members. 

Friday, Oct. 4 

International Day of No Prostitution 

6 to 8 p.m. 

Boalt Hall, Booth Auditorium,  

UC Berkeley 

Bay Area rally and march  

against prostitution.  

358-2725 

Resist Oil & Mining 

6 to 10 p.m. 

The roof, 1916A Martin Luther King Jr. Way, at Berkeley Way 

Project Underground’s sixth birthday party and annual prize drawing.  

Entertainment, music, drinks, childcare. Wheelchair accessible. 

705-8981 or maistella@moles.org 

$15 suggested donation. 

Tuesday, Oct. 1 

Toshi Reagon 

8 p.m. 

Freight & Salvage, 1111 Addison St. 

548-1761 www.freightandsalvage.com 

$15.50 in advance. $16.50 at door. 

Open Mic 

7:30 p.m. 

The Starry Plough, 3101 Shattuck Ave. 

841-2082 

Free. 21 and over. 

Cracked Normans 

9:30 p.m. 

Blakes on Telegraph  

2367 Telegraph Ave. 

Jazz-funk jam. 

848-0886 

$3. 

Wednesday, Oct. 2 

Hookslide 

8 p.m. 

Freight & Salvage, 1111 Addison St. 

548-1761 www.freightandsalvage.com 

$15.50 in advance. $16.50 at door. 

Poetry Slam 

8:30 p.m. 

The Starry Plough, 3101 Shattuck Ave. 

Nazelah Jamison and Karen Ladson host this slam. $90 cash prizes. 

841-2082 

$7/ $5 with student ID. 21 and over. 

Divit/The Locals/B9/Tragedy Andy 9:30 p.m. 

Blakes on Telegraph, 2367 Telegraph Ave.  

848-0886 

$6. 

Thursday, Oct. 3 

Pete & Joan Wernick featuring Dr. Banjo  

8 p.m. 

Freight & Salvage, 1111 Addison St. 

548-1761 www.freightandsalvage.com 

$15.50 in advance. $16.50 at door. 

Figa Productions DJ Night 

9:30 p.m. 

The Starry Plough, 3101 Shattuck Ave. 

$7/ $10 after 11 p.m. 21 and over. 

"Balancing Acts" 

Through Oct. 10 

Gallery 555, 555 12th St., 

Oakland City Center 

Oakland's 'Third Thursday' art night features Ann Weber's works made of cardboard. 

http://www.oaklandcitycenter.com.  

Free. 

“Hunger: What will you do about it?”  

Through Oct. 30  

Mon.-Fri., 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

The Civic Center Building 

2180 Milvia St., 5th floor 

Featuring 40 photographs  

by Berkeley artist David Bacon. 

834-3663, Ext. 338,  

uchanse@secondharvest.org 

Richard Misrach, Berkeley Work 

Though Oct. 13 

UC Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, 2626 Bancroft Way 

On view in Gallery 2, presents two photographic series by this internationally recognized Berkeley-based artist.  

642-0808, www.bampfa.berkeley.edu 

$7. $5 BAM/PFA members.  

$4 UC Berkeley students. 

“Recent Acquisitions” 

Oct. 13 through Dec. 14 

Thurs., Fri., and Sat., 1 to 4 p.m. 

Berkeley Historical Society, Veterans Memorial Building, 1931 Center St. 

848-0181 

Free. 

Misch Kohn - Celebrating  

60 Years of Printmaking 

Through Oct. 16. Tues.-Fri., Noon to 5:30 p.m.; Sat., noon to 4:30 p.m. 

Kala Arts Institute, 1060 Heinz Ave. 

549-2977, kala@kala.org 

Nancy Salz 

Through Oct. 23, Tues.-Fri.,  

10 a.m.-5:30 p.m.; Sat 10 a.m.-4 p.m. 

Barbara Anderson Gallery, 2243 Fifth St. 

848-3822 

Timoteo Ikoshy Montoya 

Through Nov. 1  

Reception Sept. 20, 6 to 8 p.m. 

Gathering Tribes Gallery  

1573 Solano Ave.  

Acrylic/air brush paintings  

by this Native American artist.  

528-9038 

Threads: Five artists who  

use stitching to convey ideas 

Oct. 6 through Dec. 15, Wed.-Sun., noon to 5 p.m. 

Berkeley Art Center 

Live Oak Park, 1275 Walnut St. 

Information: www.berkeleyartcenter.org, 644-6893 

Free. 

Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar 

Through Oct. 12 

Thurs. through Sat. 8 p.m. 

LaVal’s Subterranean Theatre  

1834 Euclid Ave. 

234-6046 

$10. 

The House of Blue Leaves 

Through Oct. 20 

Berkeley Rep's Roda Theater  

2015 Addison St.  

647-2949 or 888-4BRTTIX 

$10-$54. 

The Shape of Things 

Through Oct. 20 

Aurora Theatre Company  

2081 Addison St. 

Play by writer/director Neil LaBute's spins a morality tale of a young art student, his art major girlfriend, and the Pygmalion-like changes that bring into question how far one should go for love. 

843-4822, www.auroratheater.org for reservations 

$26-$35. 

Thursday, Oct. 3 

Brenda Hillman 

12:10 p.m. 

Morrison Library in Doe Library, UCB 

UC Berkeley’s Lunch Poems Reading Series. Author’s six books include “Loose Sugar” and “Cascadia”. 

http://www.berkeley.edu/calendar/events 

Free. 

Nathaniel Mackay and Trane Devore 

6 p.m. 

Maud Fife Room,  

315 Wheeler Hall, UC Berkeley 

Part of Holloway Poetry Series for Fall 2002. 

jscape@socrates.berkeley.edu 

Free. 

Friday, Oct. 4 

Katherine Forrest 

7:30 p.m. 

Boadecia’s Books, 398 Colusa Ave. at Colusa Circle 

Reading from “Daughters of the Amber Moon” 

559-9184 

Free. 

Saturday, Oct. 5 

“Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay & Bisexual African American Fiction” 

7:30 p.m. 

Boadecia’s Books, 398 Colusa Ave. at Colusa Circle 

Led by co-editors Devon W. Carbado and Donald Wiese, and several of the book’s writers. 

559-9184 

Free.

At least 139 Berkeley High School juniors will have to retake a state exam if they hope to earn a diploma next year, according to administrators of the California High School Exit Exam.  

The exact number of students who failed at least one portion of the test is not yet known. But administrators said that 59 percent of Berkeley students failed the math portion of the state exam while 43 percent failed the English section.  

The scores were released Monday, and are part of a two-year-old exam that attempts to hold high school students accountable for basic math and language skills. 

The test was first given to ninth- and 10th-graders in 2000. To the 10th-graders the test was a trial run as the scores had no consequence. But for the ninth-graders, the Class of 2004, those who passed didn’t have to take the test again. Students in the Class of 2004 will be the first who must pass the test to graduate.  

Despite many failing scores, Berkeley students exceeded the state average and were consistent with other students in Alameda County.  

Sixty-eight percent statewide and 62 percent countywide failed math. On the English section, 54 percent statewide and 58 percent countywide passed. 

Students must pass both English and math sections to graduate, and students who fail either section are given seven opportunities to retake the test during their junior and senior years. 

Local school officials gave differing perspectives of the test scores. 

Berkeley superintendent Michele Lawrence is concerned that high stakes tests, such as the state exit exam, fail to improve student performance and instead will burden local school districts. 

“Will the state now allow and pay for fifth-year seniors? Do we just pass them out the door without a diploma?” Lawrence asked. 

She found some consolation in the fact that the city’s 10th-graders beat out the statewide average. “I’m marginally pleased in relation to the state results,” she said. 

In 2000, 50 percent of county students passed the math portion, while 67 percent passed the English section. Berkeley students scored even better: 64 percent passed math, while 76 percent passed English. 

Although students scored higher in 2000 the statistics are deceiving. Ninth-graders who passed the test in 2000 did not have to retake it. Thus, the 10th-graders who took last year’s tests had either never taken the test or had failed it the year before. 

According to statewide results released by the Department of Education: 

n Nearly 460,000 students took the test in March 2001 and last May.  

Overall, 10th-graders performed better on the language arts portion of the test than in math. Sixty-four percent of the students who took the test in both years passed the English-language arts section, while only 52 percent passed the math portion. Forty-eight percent of the students passed both sections. 

n Less than 20 percent of 10th-graders who speak little or no English — more than 63,000 kids — passed the test. 

n Eighty-seven percent of special education students didn’t pass the test. 

The exam was created in 1999 as part of Gov. Gray Davis’ plan for raising standards and accountability.  

– The Associated Press contributed to this story

To the Editor: 

The split in the Sierra Club over Measure P, proposed new building height restrictions, should be understood in context. The Sierra Club has a complex, democratic structure. The split occurred in one, subregional committee, which came within one vote of opposing Measure P. The Sierra Club, nationally and statewide, and the San Francisco Bay Chapter, have long-standing, policies of opposition to sprawl and pollution. The Club supports: 

n Public Transportation. 

n Pedestrian- and bicycle-friendly communities. 

n Compact, mixed use centers whose residents can reach many activities on foot and can conveniently travel to other centers by transit, thus reducing automobile use. 

n Preservation of open space. 

n Social justice. 

n A range of housing and transportation options. 

Measure P conflicts with these policies. It would reduce the heights currently permitted along major streets with frequent AC Transit service. The reduction would be so much that rehabilitating deteriorated properties along streets like San Pablo and University might become financially not feasible. These are the very locations where we might see construction of the small but affordable units that low -income citizens seek. Low income is not limited to those at the poverty level. It includes retirees wanting to sell a house but remain in Berkeley, and starting wage earners who have not yet put aside a down payment for a larger home. The heaviest burden would fall on those parts of the city where minority residents live and small businesses struggle. 

Measure P would not alter at all the heights permitted in existing, residential neighborhoods. What it would do is add delay and cost to owners seeking to increase height over 28 feet. We and many other long-time Sierra Club members believe that Measure P is bad from both environmental and social justice standpoints. There is a world of difference between resisting change in an urbanized area and preserving scenic wilderness. 

Helen Burke, 

Robert R. Piper 

Berkeley

SAN FRANCISCO— The San Francisco 49ers returned Monday from their bye week a bit wary of the winless opponent they will meet next. 

The St. Louis Rams can have that effect on a team and the 49ers say they’re not fooled by the surprising 0-4 record the Rams will bring to San Francisco on Sunday. 

“Certainly, it’s a different record than we anticipated them being when you look at your schedule prior to the season,” 49ers coach Steve Mariucci said Monday. “But they’re a good team and they’re going to come out swinging. Until somebody knocks them off, they’re the defending (conference) champion.” 

The Rams won their second NFC championship in three years last season and have became an obstacle the 49ers couldn’t overcome in the NFC West on their climb back to playoff competition. 

San Francisco tried to do something about it during the offseason. The 49ers added speed and bolstered their defense through the draft and free agency. 

St. Louis has beaten the 49ers six consecutive times, and San Francisco has been pointing toward ending that streak this week at home since losing to the Rams in St. Louis last December. 

But instead of being the significant hurdle to San Francisco’s progress, the reeling Rams have stumbled into the NFC West basement. The 49ers (2-1) have an opportunity to bury them there this week, but they still respect their West Coast foes. 

“The Rams have beaten us six straight times,” tackle Derrick Deese said. “You can’t take them lightly. The Rams are the Rams and you kind of got to go by what they’ve done to you, and they’ve beaten us.” 

The Niners, after a week off to heal several injuries, would seem to be catching the Rams at a good time. St. Louis quarterback Kurt Warner, last year’s NFL MVP, was lost Sunday with a fractured finger and the Rams also will be without Pro Bowl tackle Orlando Pace this week. 

But Niners defensive coordinator Jim Mora said that’s no reason to think the Rams can’t regain their offensive explosiveness at any time. “It would be ludicrous for anyone to think you’d count the St. Louis Rams out,” Mora said. “Those guys are winners and they’ve got great pride. I mean, they’re scary. They can still get you in a lot of different ways.” 

The Niners received some good news Monday when offensive lineman Matt Willig returned to practice after missing two games following arthroscopic surgery on his right knee. 

San Francisco appears to be leaning toward rookie Eric Heitmann as their new starter at left guard to replace Dave Fiore. Willig, however, gives the team valuable depth as the top reserve along the line and a viable alternative if Heitmann struggles. 

Fiore was placed on injured reserve last week after tearing knee ligaments in San Francisco’s 20-10 victory over the Washington Redskins on Sept. 22 that left the 49ers in first place entering their bye week. 

They can take a major step toward remaining there Sunday against the Rams. 

“We have to find a way to win back the division,” Mariucci said. “So, that’s the first thing we’re trying to accomplish. (The Rams) have too many veterans, and too many Pro Bowlers and too many prideful guys to just let this season slip away. We have to play well to beat these guys, believe me.”

As expected, Gov. Gray Davis signed legislation Sunday forgiving a $1.16 million fine the Berkeley Unified School District owed the state for filing late paperwork in 1999. 

The legislation, sponsored by state Assemblywoman Dion Aroner, D-Berkeley, pours the money into consulting services and reform efforts within the district. 

The law ships $700,000 of the $1.16 million to the Fiscal Crisis & Management Assistance team, a state-sponsored fiscal adviser that has been working with Berkeley Unified for almost a year. 

FCMAT must use the money to develop a five-year district improvement plan by July 2003 covering several areas: instruction, financial management, facilities management, personnel management and community relations. 

The district must use the remaining $460,000 to implement reforms, with FCMAT providing a report on implementation by June 2005. 

The late paperwork was a staff development form. District officials have acknowledged negligence in failing to meet an October 1999 deadline to file the document, but have argued that the $1.16 million fine was draconian.

To the Editor: 

I chuckled over the predictably hysterical letter against Measure P from “Berkeley Design Advocates” (Sept. 25 Daily Planet Forum). This group has no credibility. By my recollection, it has endorsed every blockbusting, out-of-scale development proposal made in Berkeley in recent years. 

Having never met a high-rise it didn't like, BDA has helped foster the pro-developer climate in which Measure P became necessary. The group apparently exists solely to promote job security – or retirement security – for architects who can't win commissions for the contextually appropriate projects that Measure P will promote. 

But more importantly: The governor last week signed AB 2292, a vaguely written bill that was strongly opposed by California cities. When it becomes law next year, AB 2292 will make it significantly harder for cities to ever again downzone any parcel of land. 

If Berkeley residents want to maintain control over our neighborhoods' density and livability, our most prudent course would be to pass Measure P on Nov. 5 – while we still can. We can always choose to later revise density upwards; but we will soon lose the option to revise it downwards. 

Tom Brown 

Berkeley

ALAMEDA — Almost everything has gone right for the Oakland Raiders, yet coach Bill Callahan is aggravated with one aspect — all the senseless penalties. 

“I think we’re a long ways yet (from perfection),” Callahan said Monday, a day after the Raiders (3-0) routed the Tennessee Titans 52-25. “There are areas we need to shore up, the penalty situation for one.” 

The Raiders had four major penalties Sunday. 

Longtime center Barret Robbins was called for two personal fouls, including one in the second quarter in which he appeared to be poked in the eye, then reacted by throwing a punch at Titans defensive tackle Albert Haynesworth. 

The drive resulted in a field goal, not a touchdown. 

Then, in the third quarter, Robbins was whistled for unnecessary roughness, and offensive tackle Lincoln Kennedy picked up a personal foul. By then with such a lead, the drives were meaningless, but the mental mistakes still have Callahan fuming. 

“It was completely and totally uncalled for, for us to lose our poise and discipline,” Callahan said. “It’s intolerable to put us behind as a team when we have an opportunity to score. It was aggravating. That was addressed and will be addressed.” 

Speaking of Robbins’ reaction to Haynesworth, Callahan added, “The retaliation foul is totally uncalled for.” 

Robbins, an eight-year NFL veteran, claims Haynesworth had his hand in Robbins’ face mask and scratched his lip and hit him in the nose. Robbins hopes he won’t be fined for throwing the punch.

Consistent with Berkeley City Council’s practice of international politicking and with anti-war discussions nearby cities, council is considering asking the President to go through the United Nations to resolve Iraq’s military threat. 

The resolution, which is being written by councilmembers Linda Maio and Maudelle Shirek, would put city support behind by U.S. Congresswoman Barbara Lee, D-Oakland, and her effort to prevent a U.S. first strike.  

Lee’s push, formalized as House Concurrent Resolution 473, requests that President George W. Bush go through the United Nations, and advocates a “peaceful” solution. 

Maio said most Berkeley voters identify with Lee’s sentiment. 

“Many people have tremendous concerns about rushing into war,” Maio said. “Our resolution supporting Barbara Lee furthers the dialogue.” 

The Berkeley resolution, which Maio said is still being drafted and would be ready for council consideration next week, is merely symbolic and carries no action. 

Last week, the city of Santa Cruz started the latest round of community-based anti-war protest when its City Council unanimously passed a resolution denouncing a United States-led attack of Iraq. Tonight, Oakland’s City Council is slated to consider support for Lee’s anti-war resolution. 

“We want to set an example for young people not to kill each other in the streets,” said Oakland Councilmember Nancy Nadel, sponsor of Oakland’s peace resolution. Nadel also said war with Iraq could have negative impacts on the already slumping U.S. economy. 

Berkeley’s proposed resolution continues a series of city objections to U.S. policy since Sept. 11, 2001. 

Last month, City Council passed a resolution criticizing the federal Patriot Act as an infringement of civil rights. Last October, council passed a resolution calling for a quick end to bombing in Afghanistan. 

Maio said she expects the latest resolution to win the support of her colleagues at the Oct. 8 City Council meeting.

To the Editor: 

I read the front page article in the Sept. 24 Daily Planet with concern, as I began to realize that the grandparents of the young girl were attempting to blame the police officer for the accident. 

Please believe me when I say I have no particular ax to grind in favor of the Berkeley police, or any other police department. In fact, I would be inclined to believe the worst of the police, in general, given my own experiences as a pedestrian and bicyclist (as well as occasional motorist) in Berkeley. 

The fact that this 7 year old was out riding her bike, without a helmet, in a city, totally disregarding the most elemental rules of safety (look both ways before you cross a street, use the crosswalks and intersections, cars are fast and may not always see you, etc.) does not speak well for her temporary guardians. The child has paid for her ignorance with an extremely hard lesson. I just hope she does not also learn that when something bad happens to you, blame someone else.  

I was not there, so I cannot say for sure that the officer was driving within the speed limits. But the fact that she is alive is a good indication that he was. In addition to thanking god, perhaps the grandparents might also thank the police officer for his quick reflexes. 

Joanne Orengo 

Richmond

To the Editor: 

I read the front page article in the Sept. 24 Daily Planet with concern, as I began to realize that the grandparents of the young girl were attempting to blame the police officer for the accident. 

Please believe me when I say I have no particular ax to grind in favor of the Berkeley police, or any other police department. In fact, I would be inclined to believe the worst of the police, in general, given my own experiences as a pedestrian and bicyclist (as well as occasional motorist) in Berkeley. 

The fact that this 7 year old was out riding her bike, without a helmet, in a city, totally disregarding the most elemental rules of safety (look both ways before you cross a street, use the crosswalks and intersections, cars are fast and may not always see you, etc.) does not speak well for her temporary guardians. The child has paid for her ignorance with an extremely hard lesson. I just hope she does not also learn that when something bad happens to you, blame someone else.  

I was not there, so I cannot say for sure that the officer was driving within the speed limits. But the fact that she is alive is a good indication that he was. In addition to thanking god, perhaps the grandparents might also thank the police officer for his quick reflexes. 

Joanne Orengo 

Richmond

The Web site that received national attention for its controversial monitoring of Middle East sentiments on college campuses has decided to stop posting personal profiles of university activists. 

Daniel Pipes, president of Philadelphia-based Middle East Forum – which runs www.campus-watch.com – said Monday that the posting of dossiers that included a profile of a Palestinian sympathizer from UC Berkeley “distracted from the underlying issues we wish to raise.” 

The organization seeks to promote fair and open debate on events in the Middle East but recently drew criticism as a heavy-handed approach to Palestinian supporters. 

Two weeks ago, the group began listing universities where the forum found sentiments could be biased against the United States and Israel. UC Berkeley, San Francisco State University and Stanford University were among those listed. 

Also noted on the list were the names of eight academics, including Snehal Shingavi, a UC Berkeley graduate student who teaches a literature class that examines the Palestinian uprising. 

The class became controversial earlier this year when the course description came out reading “conservative thinkers are encouraged to seek other sections.” 

Shingavi and other national scholars on the site’s watchdog list could not be reached for comment. 

The Middle East Forum lists were still posted on the Internet Monday, and Pipe gave no indication of when the lists would be removed. 

But Pipe said the decision will not affect the group’s efforts to monitor college campuses for fair exchange about U.S. Middle East policy.

VIENNA, Austria – U.N. weapons inspectors demanded the right to roam freely around Saddam Hussein's palaces and other suspect sites when they opened talks with the Iraqis Monday on the logistics of a possible return to Baghdad.  

Chief inspector Hans Blix, leading the closed-door meetings with an Iraqi delegation, said the inspectors were operating under the assumption they would be able to go anywhere, anytime if they return to Iraq for a fresh assessment of the country's nuclear, biological and chemical programs.  

The dispute came to a head after the Bush administration repeatedly accused Iraq of blatantly violating U.N. resolutions requiring Baghdad to disarm. Washington threatened to unilaterally remove Saddam from power because more than a decade of international pressure had failed to win Iraqi compliance.  

When President Bush made an impassioned plea for tougher U.N. action at the General Assembly last month, Saddam switched course and pledged unconditional access to sites across Iraq. But in recent days Baghdad has rejected any new U.N. resolutions to broaden and toughen the inspection regime. Iraqi resistance has thrown into question whether the eight sprawling presidential palaces — up to now off-limits to surprise visits — would be open to renewed inspections.  

“We're telling the Iraqis we don't want any limitations on our access,” a senior diplomat close to the talks said on condition of anonymity.  

The issue of palace inspections and some other contentious matters would require amending the most recent U.N.-Iraq agreement on inspections. While the Vienna meetings have addressed those topics, a decision on changing the sanctions regime would have to be made by the U.N. Security Council once Blix reports back on Thursday.  

Under a deal U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan cut with Baghdad in early 1998, the inspectors' access to eight so-called presidential sites encompassing a total of 12 square miles was restricted. The deal prevented inspectors from carrying out surprise visits to the sites, which include Saddam's palaces. The deal also created a team of international diplomats to accompany inspectors when they did enter.

Police are investigating two “suspicious” fires that caused $50,000 in structural damage this weekend, fire officials said. 

The first fire broke out early Friday at a home on the 1600 block of 63rd Street, firefighters said. One room was burned with an estimated $25,000 of damage.  

A second fire took place Sunday at 10:30 p.m. at a modular office in a car lot on the 2800 block of San Pablo Avenue. About $25,000 of damage occurred, said fire officials. 

“It’s too early to draw any conclusions,” said assistant fire Chief David Orth. 

Berkeley Police Department is investigating the cause of both fires.

OAKLAND – Oakland police are investigating a drive-by shooting in which a homeless man was wounded outside St. Francis Bakery early Monday. 

Officer Downum says the victim and another man scaled a security fence at 1125 67th St. and were searching for pastries in the bakery's trash bin when a car drove past and open fired. 

One of the men suffered several gunshot wounds to the leg. Police say he is currently in stable condition in an area hospital. 

Neither of the men could provide information about the suspects, police say. 

Though there were no other eyewitnesses, the gunshots were heard by local residents, who called police at 1:53 a.m. 

Downum said there is no known motive for shooting and that the suspects are still outstanding at this time.

n Student Fall 

An 18-year-old UC Berkeley student fell from the roof of his three-story apartment building on the 2400 block of Haste Street at 10:24 a.m. Saturday morning. According to police an employee of a nearby restaurant heard a thud and found the victim laying on the pavement beside the building. The victim is currently at Eden Hospital. Police did not have an update on his condition. There were no signs of foul play or drug use, police said. 

n Drug Bust 

Narcotics officers found 5 grams of rock cocaine and packaging for cocaine sales at a home on the 1200 block of Hearst Street Friday. Gary Lee Gordon, 28, was arrested for possession of cocaine with intent to sell.  

n Gunshots Fired 

Gunshots were fired on the 1200 block of Haskell Street at 2:25 p.m. Saturday. According to police, neighborhood witnesses saw a group of people quickly disperse after they heard several shots fired. Police investigators found 9 millimeter casings on the block as well as bullet holes in a nearby tree.

An ambitious experiment by the University of California at Berkeley is making it possible for Internet users to explore any museum in the state for free. 

The Museums and the Online Archive of California, MOAC, provides access to historic and cultural materials at 11 public and private museums in the state. 

The current archive contains 150,000 historic and contemporary images of artifacts, installation art, paintings, manuscripts, photographs and architectural blueprints. 

University officials say the experiment will eliminate costly and time-consuming travel by researchers. 

Richard Rinehart, MOAC project manager, said online access to museum collections has been limited and subscription-based in the past. 

“Most material in museums is all locked away in vaults. It has been hidden from us by the very institutions we hire to preserve and protect it for us. Our ultimate goal is to open it up and make it available to the public,” Rinehart said. 

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is among the museums available online and more museums are expected to join the ranks, Rinehart said. There are more than 2,000 museums in the state. 

MOAC offers high resolution, thumbnail images of collector's items, descriptions about the collections and information about artists and objects. A central server enables researchers to search across all collections at once. 

The two-year experiment is financed with a $500,000 grant from the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services.

Coast Guard says Luckenback oil-removal work completed 

SAN FRANCISCO – U.S. Coast Guard officials announced they have completed months of work offshore by divers and engineers to recover some 85,000 gallons of oil from an old wrecked ship before wintry weather sets in. 

Standing on a San Francisco pier beside the hired marine salvage barge that served as a floating island and support for teams of divers entering the SS Jacob Luckenbach, Lt. Michael Lebsack estimated that 500 people altogether worked to trace the oil that for a decade had been mysteriously killing birds along the coast.  

It turned out to be from a ship that sank 17 miles west of the city nearly a half-century ago. 

Work that began in late May was done on Sept. 26, he explained, months after the initial plan had indicated. “We thought, heck, we'll be done in 30 or 40 days,” he recalled. 

But difficult and dangerous conditions in the frigid water 175 feet below the surface, along with a bout of rough seas early on, kept stretching the schedule further and further toward fall. The thick oil had to be warmed for underwater pumping teams to do their work. 

Ed Ueber, who heads the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary, thanked all the state and federal agencies involved in the unprecedented effort, but particularly the six divers.  

“They really risked their lives to go down there,” he said. 

Ueber estimated that between 40,000 and 50,000 seabirds died over the years in a region that ranks among the nation's most precious for bird and mammal diversity.  

“It is a place of beauty, and it is a place of wonder,” Ueber said. 

Coast Guard officials estimated about 30,000 gallons are still inside the wreck, but are sealed off and “unlikely” to leak out again. 

Bay Area officials present  

Olympic transportation plan 

SAN JOSE –Bay Area transportation officials today presented their plan for transporting the athletes and spectators around the region if San Francisco is chosen to host the 2012 Summer Olympics. 

The U.S. Olympic Committee is scheduled to choose either San Francisco or New York City as the U.S. candidate city for the 2012 games in early November. 

“We're just four weeks away from the U.S. candidate city election in Colorado Springs,” Bay Area Sports Organizing Committee President Anne Cribbs said at a briefing in San Jose this morning.  

Cribbs said that traffic impact is a prime concern of local residents. 

“The number one question I always get asked about the 2012 Olympics and the bid is what about the traffic,” according to Cribbs. 

The Bay Area is actually in better shape that several cities that have recently hosted the games when it comes to available mass transit. 

“We, right now, have more rail capacity than many of the recent Olympic cities: Barcelona, Atlanta, Sydney,” Metropolitan Transportation Commission Executive Director Steve Heminger said. 

The transportation plan for the Olympics includes using existing and planned mass transit systems such as CalTrain and BART and dedicating the Bay Area's carpool lanes for transporting Olympic athletes and officials.  

Atlanta transported its athletes and officials in a similar fashion. 

“We didn't need to worry about one more thing, jumping on a subway and getting to our competition and our practices on time,” 1996 synchronized swimming gold medallist Nathalie Bartleson said. 

Spectators will be transported to the Olympic events almost exclusively on public transportation under the BASOC plan. 

“The spectators will arrive on public transportation for the simple reason that we're not going to give them any parking. We're going to use the Pacific Ball Park model,” Heminger said. 

After the U.S. Olympic Committee chooses the U.S. candidate city, the International Olympic Committee will select the host city in 2005.

FRESNO — At least two people died and dozens of bus passengers were injured Monday night after a Greyhound driver’s throat was slashed and his bus overturned while traveling 70 miles-per-hour on Interstate 5 near western Fresno. 

“This was not an accident,” Lt. Johnson said. Authorities said one man, possibly aided by another, rose from their seats and attacked the driver with a knife. 

There were at least two people confirmed dead, one of them the driver, and several others injured, authorities said. Emergency crews are being flown to the scene of the crash. 

The attack and crash left the bus rolled over on its side in a field about 50 feet off the side of I-5 at about 8:35 p.m. The bus overturned near Coalinga, a town about 30 miles west of Fresno, as it traveled from Los Angeles to San Francisco. 

The man who allegedly attacked the bus driver had been arrested, Lt. Johnson said. There was no word late Monday on the motive might have been for the attack. 

The freeway was closed to northbound traffic by 10 p.m. at the spot of the accident along the heavily traveled route. 

The Fresno Sheriff’s Department was leading the investigation late Monday. 

As emergency crews arrived, they quickly found two dead, 10 people critically injured, and dozens other with various levels of minor injuries from the crash. 

The bus came to rest in a remote portion on Interstate 5 near western Fresno. There was no immediate word if other vehicles were involved as the bus crashed. 

The California Highway patrol was busy at the scene, directing traffic away from the crash site. A CHP spokesman confirmed that one man had been arrested in connection with the attack, and there was some concern the alleged attacker may have had an accomplice. 

“That’s also under investigation as to whether there were more than one,” said CHP spokesman Tom Marshall. 

Gov. Gray Davis was busy signing bills in Sacramento and was in contact with emergency officials regarding the crash. He asked state officials to work with local investigators in looking into the attack and crash, said Steve Mavigilo, Davis’ spokesman.

SAN FRANCISCO — Cargo ships laden with Christmas presents lay at anchor offshore, waiting to be unloaded, and trucks with fresh produce lined up outside West Coast ports Monday after dockworkers were locked out in a dispute that could cost the U.S. economy $1 billion a day. 

West Coast shipping lines said they will keep the ports closed until the longshoremen agree to extend their expired contract. But the 10,500-member dockworkers union said it will not budge until the lockout ends. 

With both sides hardening their positions Monday, it appeared only some kind of face-saving outside intervention would let cargo flow across the waterfront again. 

“If there was ever any doubt that mediation is necessary, that question has now been answered by the events of the last week,” said Tom Edwards, a spokesman for the shipping lines. 

The Bush administration said that it is concerned about the effect on the struggling U.S. economy but that it has no immediate plans to break the impasse by declaring a national emergency. 

The head federal mediator has invited both sides to Washington, D.C., for a Thursday session. Shipping lines have accepted. The International Longshore and Warehouse Union said it was leaning against such a move. 

The bulk of the nation’s imports from China and Japan come through the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles, the nation’s busiest. The labor crisis comes as importers scramble to bring in merchandise for the Christmas shopping season. 

Representatives of the shipping lines and dockworkers planned to meet Monday afternoon. 

A frail labor peace between the shipping lines and the longshoremen collapsed Sunday when the dockworkers were ordered off their jobs indefinitely at all 29 of the nation’s major West Coast ports. 

The two sides are at odds over pensions and other benefits, as well as cargo-handling technology that the union fears would wipe out jobs. 

West Coast ports handled more than $300 billion in cargo over the past year. 

Over the weekend, about 30 ships waiting to be unloaded dropped anchor outside the ports of Los Angeles, Oakland, Seattle and Tacoma, Wash., according to the Pacific Maritime Association said. Seventy other vessels already in port waited to loaded or unloaded. 

Economists warned that a drawn-out work stoppage will ripple through the U.S. economy. Stores will not have the merchandise they need. Produce could rot on the docks. Assembly lines may come to a halt for lack of parts. 

Hawaii relies on shipping for about 90 percent of its goods. 

For truckers such as Salvador Nunez, the effect was more immediate. He drove to the Port of Los Angeles from a small town near the Mexican border with a load of alfalfa sprouts and hay. Unable to unload, he waited several hours before turning around for the six-hour ride home. 

Nunez was out $125 in transportation costs and could not collect his usual $400 for the load. If the work stoppage goes on for more than a week, “it will be too long,” said Nunez, who supports a wife and two children. “I’ll be out of money.” 

Pacific Maritime Association president Joseph Miniace, representing shipping lines and sea terminal operators, ordered the lockout Sunday and accused the union of disrupting work by understaffing operations and dispatching workers not skilled for specific jobs. The union said it was strictly following safety codes. 

Jim Spinosa, president and chief negotiator for the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, responded: “The ILWU will not be intimidated. We will not extend the contract.” 

The last time an economic emergency was declared and the U.S. government intervened in a work stoppage under the Taft-Hartley Act was 1978, when President Carter unsuccessfully tried to end a national coal strike. No such action is planned yet by the Bush administration. 

“If it goes on for even a short period of time, it’s a problem for the economy,” White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said. “We’re monitoring it closely.” 

The Bush administration is working to get both sides to the bargaining table with federal mediators. But Spinosa said: “We don’t need outside people to come in.” 

Under the last contract, a full-time longshoreman makes an average of $80,000 a year, while the most experienced foremen average $167,000. 

The talks began deteriorating during the summer, and over Labor Day weekend the union stopped approving rolling extensions of the contract, which officially ended July 1.

SAN JOSE – On a typically sultry summer afternoon in the nation’s capital, eBay attorney Andrew Kumamoto walked into a conference room to talk patents with a Virginia inventor. 

That discussion, held to gauge eBay’s interest in acquiring patents held by Tom Woolston and his company, MercExchange, has led to a David-and-Goliath confrontation that some consider nothing more than an attempt to pick eBay’s pocket. 

But if Woolston wins in court, the inventor just might change how the online auctioneer does business. 

Woolston believes the patents cover nearly every aspect of eBay’s operations, including the very procedure millions of people use to buy and sell everything from stuffed bears to aircraft. The technology has quickly made eBay, on paper at least, one of the Internet’s great success stories. 

EBay believes Woolston revised his initial claim after seeing eBay’s success, so that his patent would cover what eBay was doing. 

Woolston denies any such manipulation. An electrical engineer with years of experience in the military and the CIA, he says he came up with his online auction concept while a law student, long before Pierre Omidyar, eBay’s founder, began seriously thinking about auctions and community. 

“I was there with the technical know-how and ability to see it first,” he says bluntly. “We won’t be bullied.” 

The legal drama may ultimately play out before a federal jury in Virginia, but the pretrial script already includes bitter arguments over intellectual property law, with millions of dollars at risk for eBay. 

The growth of online commerce has spawned dozens of lawsuits over intellectual property. One highly publicized case involved online bookseller amazon.com, which was granted a patent for the process that allows customers to complete purchases with a single mouse-click.

REDWOOD CITY — Internet music software maker Liquid Audio Inc. said Monday it has agreed to sell its patents rights to Microsoft Corp. for $7 million in cash. 

Liquid Audio, based in Redwood City, makes software that allows consumers to listen to, download and buy music off the Internet. 

In contrast to the MP3 format, Liquid Audio’s secure format is more to the liking of record labels that want to sell copyright-protected music over the Web. 

The assets to be sold to Microsoft include patents on digital-rights management technology, and technology for secure content transfer to portable devices. 

Liquid Audio said the sale is part of a shift in strategy in advance of its merger with Alliance Entertainment Corp.

Berkeley’s biggest, bawdiest and barest festival went off without a hitch Sunday. 

The seventh annual “How Berkeley Can You Be?” parade once again showed that Berkeley’s penchant for the absurd is matched only by its outlandish sense of humor. 

Parade revelers – many in elaborate costumes, others wearing no clothes at all – pranced up University Avenue to Civic Center Park before a thick crowd of admirers. 

“This is great,” said D.R. Faust, who came with this wife all the way from Fresno to see the parade. “It’s a great testament to Berkeley that it can celebrate itself in such a fun, unpretentious way.” 

Many of the floats mocked the city’s reputation for political activism. 

The biggest crowd reaction was for a band of students posing as Starbuck’s Community Relations Department. Decked out in the company’s green uniforms, the revelers promised new outlets throughout Berkeley, while spectators hissed and jeered. 

A group calling itself Christian Ladies Converting Dykes sang a musical number espousing the virtue of sleeping with men. 

Not all Berkeleyans were in on the jokes, however.  

A new entry this year, People Eatin’ Them Animals - a satire on an animal rights organization - decorated a float with what appeared to be the carcass of a German Shepherd. While some spectators looked on in horror, “PETA” members handed out unusual looking pieces of lean meat still attached to bone that they insisted was either Shepherd or Pekinese. 

“A few people threatened us with physical violence along the way,” said “PETA” organizer Ian Curtis. 

Life didn’t get any easier for the canine connoisseurs after the parade ended. When they tried to resume serving meat from their float now parked at Civic Center Park, Berkeley Animal Control Services, working on a tip from a concerned citizen, threatened to shut them down.  

“We explained everything to them and now they’re eating it too,” said Curtis, who refused to reveal the actual source of the meat. 

When Berkeleyans weren’t making fun of themselves, their usual target was the potential war with Iraq. 

Different marchers urged President George W. Bush to consider alternatives to battle. 

A local brewer shouted out, “Make beer not war,” while a nudist held a sign, “Tits Not Targets.” 

The parade formed to celebrate Berkeley has grown into one of the best exhibits of art cars in the country. More than 80 decorated cars sputtered through Berkeley during the festivities, said art car organizer Harrod Blank. He noted that the parade is poised next year to surpass the Houston Art Car Parade as the biggest art car gathering in the United States. 

Daniel Macchiarini, a San Francisco artist who drove one of art cars, said the beauty of the parade extended far beyond the decorated vehicles.  

“This is the spirit of Berkeley - to be able to invent yourself anyway you want,” he said.

To the Editor: 

As author of the Berkeley coffee initiative, I must respond to some comments in the Daily Planet regarding the initiative. First, Dorothee Mitrani-Bell, who charges $1.75 for a cup of coffee at her Berkeley restaurant, La Note, claims she would have to charge 75 cents more for a cup of certified coffee. If she brewed 12 cups from a pound of certified coffee (and that’s very strong coffee), and charged an extra 75 cents per cup, she would recoup an extra $9.00 per pound. Certified coffees, however, are very price-competitive with high quality non-certified coffees. A pound of organic coffee generally costs only about 50 cents per pound more wholesale. I ask Ms. Mitrani-Bell to explain why she would need to charge an extra 75 cents per cup. 

Second, Krystell Guzman, director of coffee programs for Jeremiah’s Pick Coffee, claims that certification is costly for farmers. Fair Trade certification, however, is free. And it’s so easy that there is a huge supply of Fair Trade coffee. The problem is that there aren’t enough buyers. The key is increasing demand for certified coffee, which is exactly what this initiative would do. Does Ms. Guzman prefer the status quo: the environment suffers and small farmers struggle for survival while coffee companies enjoy record profits? 

Finally, Fred Foldvary suggests that we should simply rely on education to improve the status quo. Would he prefer to scrap all environmental and labor laws and simply rely on education and the good intentions of corporations? We know how well voluntary methods work now: not that many cafes in Berkeley brew certified coffees. It would be nice if we could rely simply on education, but that is just not the way society functions in reality. We use laws to protect everything we value, such as clean air, clean water, endangered species, human rights, and fair labor practices. This initiative is no different. For example, we as a society did not ask gas stations to sell unleaded gas. Rather, we banned leaded gas and required unleaded. Why allow a damaging product at all when a better alternative is available? 

Rick Young 

Berkeley

Jason Gesser wasn’t going to miss this game. No sir. But the Golden Bears sure wish he had.  

Wearing a flak jacket over injured ribs, Gesser threw for 431 yards and four touchdowns to lead Washington State past Cal, 48-38, on Saturday at Memorial Stadium. The Cougars (4-1 overall, 1-0 Pac-10) scored 29 points in the third quarter to take the lead, then scored the game’s last 10 points after the Bears tied the score in the fourth quarter.  

“Ever since I knew I was hurt, I knew that I would play this game,” said Gesser, who was injured during a win over Montana State two weeks ago. “I played with a cracked rib last year and I knew I could play with it this year. I had no question that I was going to play today.”  

Gesser played the entire game despite taking several big hits from Cal defenders, including a Tully Banta-Cain blindside shot just after releasing a 41-yard pass to Jerome Riley that set up Washington State’s last touchdown. Gesser hit Devard Darling on a six-yard slant on the next play for a 45-38 lead, then the Cougars converted a Jason David interception into a 48-yard field goal to put the game away with two minutes left.  

Gesser completed 28-of-44 passes and led the Cougars to scores on seven of their final nine drives. His outstanding day overshadowed Cal quarterback Kyle Boller’s personal-best 371-yard, three touchdown passing performance. Boller set a career high with 29 completions but also threw two interceptions, both coming when he was hit as he threw. 

“Stats mean absolutely nothing when you don’t win the game,” Boller said.  

The Bears (3-2, 0-1) took advantage of two Washington State miscues to get tie the game in the fourth quarter. With a 38-28 lead, the Cougars couldn’t pick up a single yard in two tries, turning the ball over on downs at the Cal 27. Cal wideout Jonathon Makonnen proceeded to score an 11-yard touchdown on a quick pass when tackle Chris Murphy knocked down the only defender in the way.  

The ensuing kickoff went Cal’s way when true freshman Wale Forrester stripped the ball clean from Washington State’s Devard Darling and took it down to the 9-yard line. The Bears had three shots to take the lead, but Cougar defensive tackle Jeremey Williams stuffed Boller on a draw on third down and Cal settled for a 38-38 tie on a 20-yard Mark Jensen field goal. 

The Bears looked strong early in the game, but Gesser eventually got the Washington State offense going and started to strafe the Cal secondary. 

With Cal leading 14-0 late in the second quarter, Gesser and the Cougars finally came to life and scored their only touchdown of the first half, an 11-yard pass to wideout Scott Lundy. Cal defensive tackle Lorenzo Alexander blocked the extra point attempt.  

But Cal answered right back with a five-play touchdown drive, with Boller completing three passes for 57 yards including a 21-yard touchdown pass to tight end Tom Swoboda with 33 seconds left on the clock. Even when Gesser took just three plays to bring the Cougars within field goal range and Drew Dunning nailed a 42-yarder to cut the halftime deficit to 21-9, it looked as if the Bears were on track for a win in the Pac-10 opener.  

Gesser kept his rhythm in the second half, however, and led the Cougars to 29 points in the third quarter to take a 38-28 lead. It was the most points Cal has surrendered in one quarter since 1973, while all the Bears could muster was a 3-yard touchdown lateral from Boller to left tackle Mark Wilson on a trick play.  

The Bears simply couldn’t handle Washington State’s collection of offensive talent. Cal was forced to play several inexperienced defensive backs, including redshirt freshman Harrison Smith and true freshman Donnie McClesky.  

“We knew going in that we were thin in the secondary,” Cal defensive coordinator Bob Gregory said. “Anytime you get spread out by four and five receivers, you know you’re going to have some matchup problems.”  

While the new players did fairly well, with McClesky deflecting two passes early in the game, Washington State had three wide receivers with more than 100 yards in receptions. Riley led the way with seven catches for 139 yards, with Darling and Mike Bush also breaking the century mark.  

“Unfortunately, [Washington State’s receivers] made plays on the ball when they had to and I didn‘t,” said Cal cornerback James Bethea, who was victimized on a touchdown pass to Bush. “I can’t just slip and fall down and let him make the catch. That’s crap.” 

Cal got some outstanding performances from its own wide receivers as well. Makonnen had seven catches for 136 yards and a touchdown, and senior LaShaun Ward atoned for numerous drops last week with an outstanding one-handed catch for the Bears’ first touchdown on the game’s first drive. 

Notes: With his extra point after Cal’s first touchdown, Jensen moved to No. 7 on the Bears' career scoring list with 194 total points... Washington State’s second-quarter touchdown was the first score the Bears have given up in that period this season... The Bears have outscored their opponents 122-21 in the first half this season... Cal guard Jon Geisel left the game with a knee injury in the first half and did not return. Tedford said he would be re-evaluated today... The two teams combined for 1050 total yards, them most in a game involving Cal since the 1996 Aloha Bowl against Navy.

Tuesday, Oct. 1 

Setting Limits: A Mini Crash Course for Busy Parents of Preschool & School-Age Children 

7 to 9 p.m. 

Berkeley Richmond Jewish Community Center, 1414 Walnut St. 

Jill Shugart, MFT, teaches this course on how to set appropriate boundaries and feel more in charge, while still responding to your children’s needs. 

848-0237 Ext. 127 

UC Berkeley’s Week of Service 

Hours vary (through October 5) 

Cal Corps Public Service Center, Eshleman Hall, UC Berkeley 

Make new friends while making a differece at local non-profits. 

http://students.berkeley.edu/calcorps/cad.html or 643-0326 

Wednesday, Oct. 2 

Does Anyone Really  

Understand Berkeley? 

7 p.m. 

Berkeley Central Library  

2090 Kitteredge St. 

Berkeley History Classes, runs every Wednesday through Nov. 13 

981-6147 

Humanistic Judaism 101 

7:30 to 9 p.m. 

Berkeley Richmond Jewish Community Center, 1414 Walnut St.  

Marcia Grossman of Kol Hadash facilitates this workshop dealing with humanistic alternatives to conventional judaism.  

848-0237 Ext. 127 

$5 public/ free for members of BRJCC and Kol Hadash 

Thursday, Oct. 3 

How to Defeat CommitmentPhobia: In Yourself or the One You Love 

7:30 to 9:30 p.m. 

Berkeley Richmond Jewish Community Center, 1414 Walnut St.  

Learn a variety of strategies for those who are ambivalent about commitment. Taught by Susan Page.  

848-0237 Ext. 127 

$10 public/ $8 BRJCC members 

Friday, Oct. 4 

International Day of No Prostitution 

6 to 8 p.m. 

Boalt Hall, Booth Auditorium, UC Berkeley 

Bay Area rally and march against prostitution.  

358-2725 

Resist Oil & Mining 

6 to 10 p.m. 

The roof, 1916A Martin Luther King Jr. Way, at Berkeley Way 

Project Underground’s sixth birthday party and annual prize drawing.  

Entertainment, music, drinks, childcare. Wheelchair accessible. 

705-8981 or maistella@moles.org 

$15 suggested donation. 

Saturday, Oct. 5 

East Bay Solar Home Tour 

10 a.m. to 4 p.m. 

Cedar Rose Park (first stop) 

Attendees collect a map to guide them on the self-guided tour—eight homes in Albany, Berkeley and Oakland in all. 

531-1184 

$15 per car 

Sunday, Oct. 6 

Eckanka Worship Service 

10:30 to 11:30 a.m. 

East Bay ECK Center, 3052 Telegraph, near Whole Foods 

“How to Survive Spiritually in Our Times” 

549-2807 

War Tax Resistance Information and Support Gathering 

4 to 6:30 p.m. 

1305 Hopkins St., near Peralta in North Berkeley 

Join others who refuse to pay taxes for U.S. militarism at this monthly potluck supper. 

843-9877 

Free: bring food or drink to share 

Tuesday, Oct. 1 

Toshi Reagon 

8 p.m. 

Freight & Salvage, 1111 Addison St. 

548-1761 www.freightandsalvage.com 

$15.50 in advance. $16.50 at door. 

Wednesday, Oct. 2 

Hookslide 

8 p.m. 

Freight & Salvage, 1111 Addison St. 

548-1761 www.freightandsalvage.com 

$15.50 in advance. $16.50 at door. 

Thursday, Oct. 3 

Pete & Joan Wernick featuring Dr. Banjo  

8 p.m. 

Freight & Salvage, 1111 Addison St. 

548-1761 www.freightandsalvage.com 

$15.50 in advance. $16.50 at door. 

Saturday, Oct. 5 

Leon Bates 

7:30 p.m. 

Calvin Simmons Theatre, 10 Tenth St. 

Pianist Leon Bates offers works by Mozart, Brahms and Chopin. 

451-0775 or www.fourseasonsconcerts.com 

$25-$35. 

All Bets Off, Benumb and Uphill Battle 

8 p.m. 

924 Gilman St. 

525-9926 

$5. 

House Jacks  

8 p.m. 

Freight & Salvage, 1111 Addison St. 

548-1761 or www.freightandsalvage.com 

$16.50 in advance. $17.50 at door. 

Sunday, Oct. 6 

Jimmie Dale Gilmore  

8 p.m. 

Freight & Salvage, 1111 Addison St. 

548-1761 www.freightandsalvage.com 

$17.50 in advance. $18.50 at door. 

Ledisi and the Braxton Brothers 

4:30 p.m. 

Jazzschool, 2087 Addison St. 

845-5373 

$10-15. 

Yaphet Kotto, The Fleshies  

and Lesser of Two 

8 p.m. 

924 Gilman St. 

525-9926 

$5. 

Monday, Oct. 7 

Holly Gwinn Graham, Joel Landy and Lynda Williams 

7:30 p.m. 

Freight & Salvage Coffee House, 1111 Addison St. 

Benefit concert for the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space.  

548-1761 

$15.50 in advance. $16.50 at the door. 

Sunday, Oct. 13 

Jenna Mammina and Andre Bush 

4:30 p.m. 

Jazzschool, 2087 Addison St. 

Jazz standards, obscure cover tunes and original compositions. 

845-5373 

$10-$15. 

"Balancing Acts" 

Through Oct. 10 

Gallery 555, 555 12th St., 

Oakland City Center 

Oakland's 'Third Thursday' art night features Ann Weber's works made of cardboard. 

http://www.oaklandcitycenter.com.  

Free. 

“Hunger: What will you do about it?”  

Through Oct. 30, Mon.-Fri.,  

9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

The Civic Center Building 

2180 Milvia St., 5th floor 

Featuring 40 photographs  

by Berkeley artist David Bacon. 

834-3663, Ext. 338, uchanse@secondharvest.org 

Richard Misrach, Berkeley Work 

Though Oct. 13 

UC Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, 2626 Bancroft Way 

On view in Gallery 2, presents two photographic series by this internationally recognized Berkeley-based artist.  

642-0808, www.bampfa.berkeley.edu 

$7. $5 BAM/PFA members.  

$4 UC Berkeley students. 

“Recent Acquisitions” 

Oct. 13 through Dec. 14 

Thurs., Fri., and Sat., 1 to 4 p.m. 

Berkeley Historical Society, Veterans Memorial Building, 1931 Center St. 

848-0181 

Free. 

Misch Kohn - Celebrating Sixty Years of Printmaking 

Through Oct. 16. Tues.-Fri., Noon to 5:30 p.m.; Sat., noon to 4:30 p.m. 

Kala Arts Institute, 1060 Heinz Ave. 

549-2977, kala@kala.org 

Nancy Salz 

Through Oct. 23, Tues.-Fri. 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Sat 10 a.m.-4 p.m. 

Barbara Anderson Gallery, 2243 5th St. 

848-3822 

Timoteo Ikoshy Montoya 

Through Nov. 1  

Reception Sept. 20, 6 to 8 p.m. 

Gathering Tribes Gallery  

1573 Solano Ave.  

Acrylic/air brush paintings  

by this Native American artist.  

528-9038 

Threads: Five artists who  

use stitching to convey ideas 

Oct. 6 through Dec. 15, Wed.-Sun., noon to 5 p.m. 

Berkeley Art Center 

Live Oak Park, 1275 Walnut St. 

Information: www.berkeleyartcenter.org, 644-6893 

Free. 

Alarms and Excursions 

Nov. 15 through Dec. 22 

Aurora Theatre Company,  

2081 Addison St. 

Michael Frayn's comedy about  

the irony of modern technology. 

843-4822, www.auroratheater.org for reservations 

$26 to $35. 

A Thousand and One Arabian Nights 

Through Sept. 28, Fri.-Sun. 8 p.m.; Sun. 4 p.m. 

Forest Meadows Outdoor Amphitheater, Grand Avenue at the Dominican University, San Raphael 

Marin Shakespeare Company’s  

presents this classic story with  

original Arabic music. 

415-499-4488 for tickets 

$12 for youth. $20 for seniors.  

$22 general. 

Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar 

Through Oct. 12 

Thurs. through Sat. 8 p.m. 

LaVal’s Subterranean Theatre  

1834 Euclid Ave. 

234-6046 

$10. 

The House of Blue Leaves 

Through Oct. 20 

Berkeley Rep's Roda Theater  

2015 Addison St.  

647-2949 or 888-4BRTTIX 

$10-$54. 

The Shape of Things 

Through Oct. 20 

Aurora Theatre Company  

2081 Addison St. 

Play by writer/director Neil LaBute's spins a morality tale of a young art student, his art major girlfriend, and the Pygmalion-like changes that bring into question how far one should go for love. 

843-4822, www.auroratheater.org for reservations 

$26-$35. 

Ceramics - Opening Reception 

Through Nov. 17 

3 to 5 p.m. 

A New Leaf Gallery, 1286 Gilman St. 

525-7621 

Free. 

Thursday, Oct. 3 

Brenda Hillman 

12:10 p.m. 

Morrison Library in Doe Library, UCB 

UC Berkeley’s Lunch Poems Reading Series. Author’s six books include “Loose Sugar” and “Cascadia”. 

http://www.berkeley.edu/calendar/events 

Free. 

Nathaniel Mackay and Trane Devore 

6 p.m. 

Maud Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall, UC Berkeley 

Part of Holloway Poetry Series for Fall 2002. 

jscape@socrates.berkeley.edu 

Free. 

Friday, Oct. 4 

Katherine Forrest 

7:30 p.m. 

Boadecia’s Books, 398 Colusa Ave. at Colusa Circle 

Reading from “Daughters of the Amber Moon” 

559-9184 

Free. 

Saturday, Oct. 5 

“Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay & Bisexual African American Fiction” 

7:30 p.m. 

Boadecia’s Books, 398 Colusa Ave. at Colusa Circle 

Led by co-editors Devon W. Carbado and Donald Wiese, and several of the book’s writers. 

559-9184 

Free. 

Sunday, October 6 

Ledisi and The Braxton Brothers 

4:30 p.m. 

Berkeley Jazz School, 2087 Addison St.  

845-5373 

$15. $12 students & seniors.  

Tuesday, Oct. 8 

Daniel Wilkinson 

7:30 p.m. 

Cody’s Books, 2454 Telegraph Ave. 

Author Wilkinon and panelists from Global Exchange and Equal Exchange will discuss Guatemala, globalization, and book “Silence on the Mountain.” 

(617) 351-3243 

Thursday, Oct. 10 

Daniel Wilkinson 

7:30 p.m. 

Cody’s Books, 2454 Telegraph Ave. 

Wilkinson will read from his book “Silence on the Mountain” 

(617) 351-3243 

Friday, Oct. 11 

Beth Glick-Rieman 

7:30 p.m. 

Boadacia’s Books, 398 Colusa Ave.  

at Colusa Circle 

Glick-Rieman shares her findings on the status of women around the world, reading from her book, “Peace Train to Beijing and Beyond”. 

559-9184 

Free. 

Saturday, Oct. 12 

“Antarctica and the Breath of Seals” 

7:30 p.m. 

Boadacia’s Books, 398 Colusa Ave.  

at Colusa Circle 

Lucy Jane Bledsoe presents a slide show based on travels in Antarctica. 

559-9184 

Free. 

Sunday, Nov. 3 

“Focus” 

2 to 4:30 p.m. 

Berkeley Richmond Jewish Community Center, 1414 Walnut St.  

William H. Macy stars in this early 1940’s period piece. 

848-0237 

$2 donation.

Berkeley Unified’s Board of Education decided last week to leave an anti-discrimination policy in place that may conflict with federal law. 

The 1992 school board policy, designed in part to cut off Boy Scouts’ access to public schools, prohibits any group that discriminates on the basis of race, sex, sexual orientation or a whole host of other factors to use school facilities for meetings. 

The Boy Scouts of America forbid homosexuals to hold leadership positions, disqualifying the organization from use of school property.  

The board’s policy appears to conflict with the federal “No Child Left Behind” law signed by President George W. Bush in January which, among other things, requires school districts to provide the Boy Scouts with access to facilities. 

Failure to comply, the law reads, will result in the termination of federal education funds, which flow to Berkeley Unified to the tune of $6 million to $8 million a year. 

District officials contend that the 1992 board policy includes just enough wiggle room to ensure that Berkeley Unified is in compliance with the “No Child Left Behind” law. 

The wiggle room is found in the details of the board policy. 

The policy prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, religion, sexual orientation, “or any other basis made unlawful by federal, state or local laws.” School officials, in an interpretive twist, argue that the “any other basis” phrase could extend protection to the Boy Scouts. 

But Board of Education member Ted Schultz acknowledged that the board did not originally intend the “any other basis” phrase to protect a group it sought to exclude. 

“It certainly was not the intent,” he said. 

UC Berkeley law professor Malcolm Feeley said the Boy Scouts provision of No Child Left Behind is one in a long line of largely symbolic measures added to federal law. Feeley said he does not expect the district to lose federal funding if it keeps the 1992 policy in place. 

“My prediction is it will be conveniently forgotten so that everyone can walk away and do what they want,” he said. 

U.S. Department of Education spokesman Jim Bradshaw offered no immediate opinion on whether the board’s 1992 policy would conform with the No Child Left Behind law. 

“We would have to take a look at that and review that language,” he said. “But we would hope and expect that organizations would follow the intent and spirit of the law.” 

Superintendent Michele Lawrence said the district may revise the policy in January, when it plans to overhaul its entire policy book, if compliance issues linger.  

Board member John Selawsky said he would not be troubled by letting Berkeley Boy Scout troops onto district property since most of the local scout leaders have denounced discrimination against gays. 

“They have publicly disavowed the national Boy Scouts’ homophobic policy,” he said. 

But local scout leaders, who were forced to leave the schools after the board passed its 1992 policy, said they do not intend to push for renewed access anytime soon. 

“We’re not pushing that because we understand its a sensitive political issue,” said Alan Houser, scoutmaster for Berkeley Boy Scout Troop 24. 

Houser said the district has allowed Boy Scouts to drop off posters at schools this year, but he is unsure if anyone is actually hanging them up. 

Houser said he would like the opportunity to add a Boy Scouts handout to the “fistful of flyers” that students receive in September, but that the district has denied the request. 

Lawrence said she has forbidden the practice not because of the Boy Scouts’ stance on homosexuality, but because she wants to cut down on the overall number of flyers students receive. 

“We just are bombarded,” she said, adding that she has denied several groups in addition to the Boy Scouts. 

Houser said the flyers would help reverse a significant drop in the number of public school students joining the Boy Scouts since 1992, when Berkeley’s troops were forced to leave the public schools. 

Contact reporter at scharfenberg@  

berkeleydailyplanet.net

To the Editor: 

School Board Director John Selawsky is asking parents to join him in seeking more funding from Sacramento for the Berkeley Unified School District. But what is BUSD spending our money on now? With a $100 million budget and 9,100 students, that comes to approximatley $10,000 per pupil, not including the hundreds of millions in construction bonds taxpayers have voted for.  

The current budget passed by the school board has been disapproved by the county. This is after the Board hired a consulting firm for 5-6 months ($15-$20,000 per month, more?), permanently hired a consultant at $110,000 per year and spent $700,000 on new software, all of which was supposed to fix the problem. The district's errant finances are a chronic, recurring problem. One current board member ran eight years ago on the grounds that as an economist he understood budgets, and would work to prevent school closures. The situation doesn't seem to have changed much in eight years. Before the School Board asks citizens to work for more funding for BUSD, shouldn't BUSD get its finances and its financial systems in order?  

Dan Peven 

Berkeley

OAKLAND – It took fewer than four minutes for rookie Phillip Buchanon to show he’s ready to be an NFL starter – perhaps at three positions. 

Buchanon had an interception on the first play of the game that was overturned by an instant replay challenge. But he scored on a punt return and handed off on another punt returned for a touchdown as the Oakland Raiders routed the Tennessee Titans 52-25 Sunday. 

Buchanon, a cornerback by trade, got an interception that counted in the fourth quarter, leading to the Raiders’ final score. He also finished with seven solo tackles. 

Oakland (3-0) has looked versatile, too. Its first win of the season came behind the running game, the second on a superb passing performance by Rich Gannon, and this one was highlighted by stellar special teams. 

Rod Woodson had three interceptions, including one he returned 82 yards for a touchdown, making him the NFL’s career leader in interception return yardage with 1,339. 

Gannon was 29-of-39 for 381 yards and four touchdowns, and Jerry Rice had seven catches for 144 yards and a touchdown. Rice became the NFL’s career leader in yards from scrimmage, passing Walter Payton. 

The Raiders, coming off their bye week, beat Tennessee (1-3) for the first time since the Raiders were in Los Angeles and the Titans were the Houston Oilers, in 1994. 

Titans quarterback Steve McNair finished 33-for-47 for a career-high 398 yards and two touchdowns, but threw four interceptions. He completed a 49-yard TD pass to Justin McCareins with 11:39 remaining that the Raiders challenged, arguing the ball hit the ground, but the TD stood. 

Buchanon, the team’s top draft pick out of national champion Miami, was promoted to starter at left cornerback Wednesday to replace Pro Bowler Charles Woodson, who has a broken right shoulder. 

He had some college friends in the Coliseum stands for his debut on defense – and he had a big day, just as he did when filling in for an injured starter as a sophomore for the Hurricanes. In that game, he made 10 solo tackles and four pass deflections against Florida State. 

Buchanon with the Titans going right at him early, picked off McNair’s pass on the first play, but officials reversed the call, saying he did not have possession. The Titans got the ball back, and after a false start penalty, Woodson intercepted and scrambled 18 yards to the Titans 17. Gannon then hit Charlie Garner on a 17-yard TD pass with only 21 seconds elapsed. 

Gannon was impressive again, two weeks after throwing 64 passes and finishing with 403 yards in a win at Pittsburgh. 

Buchanon returned a Tennessee punt 83 yards for a 14-0 lead later in the period. When Tennessee punted again, Buchanon caught the ball and handed it to Terry Kirby, who ran 79 yards to the end zone. 

Titans star Eddie George, who’s been playing with a tender left foot, missed most of Tennessee’s first scoring drive, but came back in to score on a 1-yard run. He finished with just 26 yards on 11 carries. 

George has had two of the best games of his career against Oakland, but this wasn’t one of them. The Raiders’ revamped defense, featuring 10 new starters now that Charles Woodson is out, kept pressure on McNair most of the day.

Vijay Lakireddy, 32, remains free on $500,000 bond after a federal judge postponed his sentencing in connection with a family sex smuggling ring. 

The son of convicted felon and Berkeley real estate magnate Lakireddy Bali Reddy, Vijay Lakireddy was scheduled to be sentenced today on one charge of immigration fraud. U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken postponed sentencing until Nov. 18 but did not give an explanation for the delay. 

Lakireddy will be the fourth member of his family incarcerated in connection with an immigration scheme to import Indian girls for sex and cheap labor at family businesses. 

Reddy, the alleged ringleader, was sentenced to eight years in jail, while his brother and sister-in-law were each given lighter punishments for aiding the scheme. 

Last June, Lakireddy agreed to a plea bargain with prosecutors. He admitted to falsifying a visa for an Indian man, Venkateswara Vemireddy, who posed as the father of two Indian girls living illegally in the United States. In return, prosecutors dropped more serious charges that Lakireddy helped import the girls for sexual purposes.  

The conviction calls for a maximum penalty of five years, but attorneys for both sides have asked Judge Wilken to accept a two-year sentence and $2 million fine. 

However, the judge retains discretion to adjust the punishment. In the case of Lakireddy’s father, Judge Saundra Brown Armstrong tacked on an additional two years to a six-year deal struck by prosecutors and defense attorneys. 

Diana Russell of Women Against Sexual Slavery hopes that Judge Wilken will ignore the terms of this plea bargain as well. “Two years seems preposterous to me,” said Russell. “They have all gotten away with very light punishments.” 

Police began investigating the family in November of 1999 after a 17-year-old Indian girl died of carbon monoxide poisoning in a downtown apartment owned by Reddy. 

The girl’s 15-year-old sister survived the gas poisoning, caused by a blocked heating vent, and told federal authorities that she and her sister were flown to the United States and forced to have sex. 

Currently Reddy’s brother Jayprakash Lakireddy is serving a one-year sentence at a halfway house for immigration fraud, while his sister-in-law, Annapuma Lakireddy is completing the last month of a six-month home detention sentence for the same crime. 

In January, Parsad Lakireddy, the brother of Vijay Lakireddy, is scheduled to go to trial on charges ranging from immigration fraud to intent to engage in sex with a juvenile.

To the Editor: 

Students for Justice in Palestine organizer Hoang Phan wrote a Sept. 25 letter to the editor questioning Regent David Lee’s qualifications to be a UC Regent because of his lack of knowledge on the Israel-Palestine conflict. To Mr. Phan, of course, being knowledgable means agreeing with everything on his group’s propoganda site, while being ignorant means agreeing with anyone else. Regardless of whether Lee is knowledgable or not, I fail to see why such knowledge is relevant to the role of UC Regent. Perhaps Mr. Phan was confused. UC stands for University of California. To be a Regent for the University of California, one needs to be knowledgable about the goings-on in such places as UC Berkeley, UCLA, and UCSF, but not such places as UC-Israeli Checkpoint or UC-Suicide Bus Bombing. 

Justin Azadivar 

Berkeley

OAKLAND – Oakland Raiders receiver Jerry Rice caught an 11-yard fourth-quarter pass from Rich Gannon on Sunday against Tennessee, making Rice the NFL’s career leader in yards from scrimmage. 

Rice finished with 151 yards in the Raiders’ 52-25 win to give him 21,281 for his career, 17 more than Walter Payton’s previous record. He has 20,649 receiving and 632 rushing in his 18-year career. 

“It’s an honor to break a record like Walter’s,” Rice said. “I had a chance to meet him over the years, and he was a terrific individual.”

Construction of playing fields in the bayfront Eastshore State Park appears more likely after a City Council vote last week put the Council’s support behind a regional drive for park fields. 

Berkeley’s decision to suppport a new joint powers board, which is lead by the city of Albany, had been in doubt. For environmental reasons, council had opposed the state plan which calls for three to five fields on the Albany Plateau. Council instead wanted to leave the plateau as natural habitat, but has since eased up. And without Berkeley’s support, the state would have been less willing to include fields in any section of the park. 

Ballfields are rarely found in state parks. In order for the state to make an exception, cities must form a partnership to oversee construction and maintenance, said Don Neuwrith, state park principal planner. 

“Nothing happens unless a joint powers authority happens,” he said. 

El Cerrito, Richmond and Emeryville are now considering joining the partnership. 

The planned 8.1-mile state park that stretches from Emeryville to Richmond has created a rift between environmentalists and playing field advocates. Environmentalists say the park, and especially the Albany coastline, should be preserved as natural habitat, while field users say the park is the region’s best chance to deal with a field shortage that keeps hundreds of Berkeley kids from playing organized sports. 

Although the fields are planned for Albany, Berkeley council members still hope to persuade the state to consider Berkeley sites.. 

“You could build up to six fields in the North Basin Strip,” said Councilmember Kriss Worthington, who added that the site, located west of Gilman Street, would allow for more playing fields and would have less environmental impact than at the Albany Plateau. 

Neuwirth, though, said the Albany site was chosen after careful consideration. “The access to the North Basin Strip is terrible,” she said. 

Because the land is directly on the water, the area is more suitable for aquatic recreation, Neuwirth said. Plans for the strip call for unearthing underground Schoolhouse Creek then constructing a boat launch, a youth hostel and a shoreline promenade. 

The final park plan is scheduled to be submitted to the state in November.

To the Editor: 

Contrary to Tom Bates’ cynical response, I can only applaud Mayor Shirley Dean’s suggestion that UC take a real look at stadium alternatives before sinking untold millions into retrofitting decrepit Memorial Stadium. Considering the alternatives, the university ought to seriously consider an adaptive use of Golden Gate Fields, a place with substantial existing facilities, great freeway access, lots of parking and a 10 minute shuttle bus ride from campus. The horse track’s owners would certainly entertain an inventive business partnership with UC athletics and the net gain to both parties could prove substantial. 

Robert Breuer 

Berkeley

Hartford upsets Cal women’s soccer 

WEST HARTFORD, Conn. - No. 4 Cal women’s soccer team saw a five-game unbeaten streak come to an end with a 3-1 loss to Hartford Sunday afternoon at Al Marzook Field. The Golden Bears’ record dropped to 6-2-1, while the Hawks improved to 4-4.  

Hartford struck first at the 7:42 mark with a goal from Sandra Kayulu on an assist from Tini Lyng.  

Less than a minute later, Cal freshman forward Tracy Hamm dribbled through a crowd and tallied her seventh goal of the season to even the game at 1-1.  

The two teams stayed knotted at one until Hartford’s Erin Mucha broke the deadlock in the 50th minute. Katharina Lindner provided an insurance goal for the Hawks in the 64th minute.  

Field hockey drops second straight 

COLLEGE PARK, Md. – The Cal field hockey squad suffered its second straight loss Sunday afternoon against top-ranked Maryland, 3-1. The Golden Bears fell to 6-3 for the season as the Terrapins boosted their record to 10-1. Junior Nora Feddersen scored the lone goal for the Bears in the 58th minute to prevent the shutout.  

Maryland’s Jackie Ciconte’s first career goal proved to be the game-winner in the second half as Cal was outshot by the Terrapins, 31 to the Bears’ two.  

Ciconte’s goal in the 49th minute gave Maryland the 2-0 edge. The Terps followed two minutes later as Colleen Barbieri fed Carissa Messimer at the left post to get one by Knapp.  

Bears scratch out sweep of Oregon schools 

CORVALLIS, Ore. - Freshman Alicia Powers’ scrambling kill in the fifth game enabled the University of Cal women’s volleyball team to upend Oregon State, 3-2, (21-30, 30-28, 30-25, 28-30, 24-22) Saturday night at Gill Coliseum. It was the Bears’ (11-1 overall, 2-1 Pac-10) second five-game match in a row after defeating Oregon, 3-2, Friday night. The win over OSU (5-7, 0-4) also broke Cal’s four match losing streak to the Beavers and it was the first time the Bears have defeated both Oregon and Oregon State on the road since 1999.  

Duffy leads Cal women at Stanford 

STANFORD - The Cal men’s cross country team finished eighth among the 30 teams with 249 points at the Stanford Invitational Saturday afternoon at the Stanford Golf Course. The Cal women placed 14th among the 33 teams with 412 points. 

Freshman Bridget Duffy led the way for the Cal women, grabbing 42nd in 22:22. Sophomore Lindsey Maclise had the Bears next best result, finishing 70th.  

Junior Carlos Carballo led the way for the Cal men, finishing 20th in 24:22. Senior Martin Conrad was the Bears’ next fastest runner, taking 53rd in 24:59.

ORANGE – Little Christopher Ibarra’s mother wants her son disconnected from the machine keeping him alive so he can rest in peace. His father, who authorities say violently shook him into a coma, is holding out for a miracle recovery. 

At stake is more than 1-year-old Christopher’s existence. The boy’s father could be charged with murder if his son dies. 

Orange County Superior Court Judge Richard Behn is to hear the parents’ requests on Monday. He has taken away the right of both to decide Christopher’s fate and appointed an attorney to represent the boy’s legal rights. 

“Both have something to gain. They both have something to lose,” Patricia Egan, a professor of psychology and social work at the University of California, Riverside, said of the parents. 

“The question is where is the best interest of the child.” 

Orange County district attorney spokeswoman Susan Kang Schroeder would not say whether a decision has been made to seek murder charges against Moises Vasquez Ibarra if the baby dies. 

There have been few cases similar to Christopher’s. 

One, in 1996, involved a New York man’s effort to keep a hospital from ending life support for the infant daughter he was accused of shaking. Although a judge granted the hospital’s request, the girl was instead moved to a Catholic hospital where she later died. The father was later convicted of manslaughter. 

“I think it will hold the attention of everybody what the judge decides in this case. ...It will set a precedent for that final decision: When to let go,” said Egan, a former social worker. 

Ibarra, 24, has pleaded innocent to one count of child abuse and one count of corporal injury to a child stemming from the Dec. 17, 2001, incident that left the boy in a coma. 

Few involved in Christopher’s plight will discuss the case. Most of the court records have been sealed or labeled confidential because of the boy’s age. Numerous telephone calls by The Associated Press to the attorney for Christopher’s mother have not been returned. One attorney for the father would not comment, the other did not return a call. 

The couple’s roommate told police he heard Ibarra arguing with Christopher’s mother, Tamara Sepulveda, followed by a loud thud coming from their bedroom. 

According to a police report, Ibarra then came out of the bedroom carrying a limp Christopher and asked the roommate to call 911. 

At first the couple told police the baby was crying, then began to have trouble breathing. Later, Sepulveda told police Ibarra shook Christopher and threw him into his crib. 

The father was arrested three days later, after doctors told investigators Christopher had suffered shaken baby syndrome. 

A Social Service Agency report, quoted by the Los Angeles Times, said the baby was “neurologically devastated,” unable to breathe on his own or respond to pain. The report quoted a doctor as saying, “The only thing he is doing is gasping, otherwise we would have pronounced him brain dead.” 

Sepulveda told the judge in May she wanted to end life support for Christopher and allow him “to go to heaven.” Ibarra objected, saying through an attorney the only reason he’s refusing to cut off like support is his love for his son. 

“I am holding out hope for a miracle, as is my client,” Assistant Public Defender David Dworakowski told the Times.

To the Editor: 

As a recent immigrant, I wonder why so many Americans insist on mispronouncing the names of two Middle Eastern countries. Since they certainly do not say “Eyes-rael”, why do they say “Eye-raq” and “Eye-ran” when this is so wrong? 

In a town that’s supposed to be a center of learning and one with a large multiracial content, it’s unforgivable to find such carelessness. After all, this isn’t a community of hicks who go around declaring themselves “genuWINE” Americans, so why the awful mispronunciation?  

Is this because too many Americans are such overgrown adolescents that they like doing things their own way – regardless of the feelings of other nationalities? When they go abroad, surely they find it amusing (or possibly insulting?) to find people mispronouncing any Americanisms. 

Another case of cultural ignorance I recently heard about was with an English instructor at the Adult School. After asking the foreign students to identify their home countries, she looked nonplussed and had no clue as to where Moldovia is. This from someone married to an academic! 

Beatriz Batungbakal 

Berkeley

Cross Country – St. Mary’s sophomore Gabriela Rios-Sotelo won the high school girls’ race at the Stanford Invitational on Saturday. Tino Rodriguez finished 30th in the boys’ race for the Panthers. 

Girls Volleyball - Ukaih def. Berkeley 5-15, 15-4, 16-14 

Berkeley High loses in the first round of championship play after defeating Maria Carillo High and Elsie Allen High in pool play. The Yellowjackets (5-6) go up 14-10 in the final game against Ukiah High but can’t polish off the win.

n Drug Arrest 

Police arrested two men for drug possession at the corner of Telegraph and Alcatraz avenues at 6 p.m. Wednesday, police said. An officer observed two men smelling an item in their hands. They admitted they were handling a small amount of marijuana, and one was caught trying to hide a crack pipe in his left hand. Thomas Eldriage, 55, and Donald Devereaux, 43, were arrested for drug possession. 

n Suspected DUI 

A 21-year-old female drove her vehicle into three parked cars in the area of Hearst and Euclid streets at 9:35 p.m. Wednesday, police said. The driver, Naomi Brandes, was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving when she failed to perform a field sobriety test at the scene of the accident.

No. 13 Washington 41, Idaho 27 

SEATTLE – Cody Pickett threw for 438 yards – the second-most in school history – and three touchdowns as the 13th-ranked Huskies defeated Idaho in Seattle. 

No. 22 USC 22, No. 24 Oregon St. 0 

LOS ANGELES – Southern California opened Pac-10 play with a 22-0 victory over previously unbeaten Oregon State. 

UCLA 43, San Diego St. 7 

LOS ANGELES – The UCLA Bruins were impressive in bouncing back from a disappointing loss. 

Cory Paus threw two touchdown passes and San Diego State mistakes led to the first 23 points as the Bruins routed the Aztecs 43-7 Saturday. 

Arizona St. 65, Stanford 24 

PHOENIX, Ariz. – Andrew Walter passed for 414 yards and five touchdowns in his first start this season, leading the Sun Devils past Stanford 65-24 Saturday. 

Arizona 14, N. Texas 9 

TUCSON, Ariz. – Mike Bell ran 14 yards for a touchdown and Gary Love returned a blocked field goal 65 yards for another TD - all in the final 2 minutes of the first half - and Arizona held off surprising North Texas 14-9 Saturday night.

SAN FRANCISCO – As the drumbeat for war grows louder, demonstrators from across the state and beyond turned out in the thousands Saturday to make their own music, protesting possible U.S. military action in Iraq. 

While President Bush, in Texas Saturday, said he expects Congress to authorize force against Iraq soon, more than 3,000 protesters filled the city streets in a march and rally for peace in the Middle East. 

“We’re against war in Iraq,” said David Browne, 67, of San Francisco, who marched alongside his wife, Caryl, 61. “We see a lack of debate on all these issues.” 

One protester carried a banner reading “Drop Bush not Bombs.” Another sign said “Terrorists wear pinstriped suits,” while a person dressed as Wonder Woman carried a hand-lettered sign with one simple word: “Peace.” 

“If this war goes through, it will turn the whole Arab world into a cauldron of anti-Americanism,” said Eyad Kishawi, one of the protest’s organizers and a member of the Free Palestine Alliance. 

Another participant marched on stilts dressed as the Statue of Liberty with a gag in her mouth and her hands tied behind her back. She was led by a fellow stilt-walker who was dressed as Uncle Sam. 

“Liberty has been gagged and taken hostage,” explained Erin McMahon, 41, who wore a President Bush mask. McMahon said the three are members of a performance group called Danger Ha-Ha. 

Police estimated the crowd to be about 3,000 strong, while organizers placed the number around 7,000. Those estimates surpassed the 2,000 people police said participated in the International Monetary Fund and World Bank protests in Washington D.C Saturday. 

Busloads of protesters came from Seattle, Southern California and around the Bay Area, organizers said. More than 30 groups from the Justice in Palestine Coalition and the International Act Now to Stop War and End Racism Coalition planned the protest. 

“We’re here to send three messages: To tell Palestinians and Iraqis there are people who care, to tell Bush we are against war, and to send a message to the U.S. public that they are the only ones who can say no to war,” said Michel Shehaden, 45, of Los Angeles. 

San Francisco police said they were not aware that any arrests had been made.

SAN FRANCISCO – Now that San Francisco is close recycling 50 percent of its waste, environmentalists say they are hoping the Board of Supervisors will raise the official goal on Monday to 75 percent. 

The San Francisco Health Commission has already backed meeting the higher standard by 2010, according to Mark Westlund of the city's Environment Department. If the supervisors agree as expected, he said San Francisco is likely to keep moving ahead to become the first city in the nation to create a timeline to get to zero waste as soon as possible. 

Westlund said San Francisco's recycling program has been among the most successful around, currently reaching the 46-percent mark for recycling with a predicted arrival at 50 percent or better by the end of the year. That is the state-mandated level currently. 

But Jared Blumenfield, who heads the Environment Department, points out that even with 50 percent recycling the amount of garbage that goes into landfill each year is about 800,000 tons – the equivalent weight of the Golden Gate Bridge.

Oakland cops arrested for soliciting on duty 

OAKLAND – Two police officers have been arrested for allegedly soliciting prostitutes while on duty. 

Oakland Officers Eric Richholt, 35, and Mark Neely Jr., 29, were arrested by San Leandro officers Thursday at a beauty salon that was believed to be a front for prostitution. They were cited for misdemeanors and released. 

Oakland Police Chief Richard Word said the department will move swiftly. 

“How can we expect to police the community if we can’t even police ourselves?” Word said. 

The two officers have been placed on paid administrative leave pending an internal affairs probe. 

San Jose airport to increase security, decrease noise 

SAN JOSE – Mineta San Jose International Airport will receive $15 million in from the Federal Aviation Administration to increase security and reduce noise pollution. 

About half of the funding announced Friday will repay the airport for insulating 300 homes in San Jose and Santa Clara meant to protect neighborhoods from airport noise and improve airport security. 

The rest will pay for security enhancements and to reimburse the city for improvements completed since September 2001. 

Locals worried over NASA building construction 

MOUNTAIN VIEW – A plan to build housing, office and research space for thousands of people on 500 acres of land at Moffett Field has nearby cities worried about increased traffic congestion and decreased air quality. 

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, which has a 1,000-acre air field there, is about to approve an environmental study that would clear the way to start design and construction on the project, which is expected to be finished around 2017. 

The project would include 1,930 new housing units, 7,100 new jobs, 3,000 students, and nearly 15,000 additional trips on the three nearby freeways. 

Those are the numbers that came after NASA got rid of 100 jobs and added 75 percent more housing, after Sunnyvale and Mountain View demanded that the agency modify its plans. 

Studies show that the increased traffic will contribute not just to gridlock, but also to increased levels of nitrogen oxide and carbon monoxide. 

Opponents also criticize NASA’s plan to fill in 22 acres of flood plain near wetlands, but NASA points out that it is not building on the wetlands. The agency will also add 81 acres of burrowing owl preserve, use reclaimed water to irrigate and certify its buildings as sustainably designed.

SAN FRANCISCO – West Coast ports will remain shut indefinitely, the association representing shipping lines announced Sunday evening. 

The Pacific Maritime Association said it would not order any new workers to the docks until the longshoremen’s union agrees to sign and extend a lapsed contract they have been negotiating. 

The labor crisis will ripple through the U.S. economy as ports that handle about $1 billion daily worth of cargo shut down. 

“They’re just doing whatever they’re doing,” said Steve Stallone, a spokesman for the International Longshore and Warehouse Union. 

Association president Joseph Miniace called the decision a “defensive shut down” that came less than 12 hours after longshoremen returned to the docks at 29 major Pacific ports as shipping lines lifted a Friday lockout imposed immediately after contract negotiations with their union fell apart. 

The association, which represents shipping lines and terminal operators, accused the union of deliberately disrupting work by understaffing operations and dispatching unskilled workers. 

The association said productivity had “fallen off the cliff” Sunday, because of what some association managers said was the way the union was dispatching workers. 

“It’s like a plumber showing up to roof your house,” said Bill Niland, a manager for the association’s San Francisco area. 

“I will not pay workers to strike,” Miniace added. 

West Coast ports handled more than $300 billion in cargo over the past year. In the 36 hours the docks were closed, about 30 ships had to moor outside berths at ports in Los Angeles, Oakland and Seattle and Tacoma, Wash. 

That meant hundreds of millions of dollars worth of Pacific Rim trade wasn’t entering the U.S. distribution chain — a blow to importers who are scrambling to secure goods for the holiday season. At the same time, exporters feared a prolonged disruption would see their goods rot on the docks. 

Miniace appealed for a mediator. 

A message left Sunday evening with the U.S. Labor Department was not immediately returned. 

The union has accused the Bush administration of meddling in talks, which began in May and showed some signs of progress before deteriorating in the late summer. 

Talks finally crumbled last week over the question of how to implement new technology on the waterfront. 

Longshoremen said they can accept short-term job losses from increased efficiency, but the union wanted guarantees that positions created by computer tracking systems would be union-covered. 

Shipping lines counter that increases in trade will more than offset job losses, but the union shouldn’t have jurisdiction over every new job that new technology produces. 

The San Francisco union chapter, historically one of the most militant on the coast, told workers who normally report to the same shipping terminal each day to instead begin Sunday at the dispatch hall for random assignment. Experienced crane operators, for example, chose other jobs and left their less experienced co-workers to operate the cranes, according to Richard Mead, local union president. 

At the terminal run by Maersk, no operators took jobs on three cranes to load the last few containers on a ship that was otherwise ready to steam out. 

“They wanted us to come back like we were going to be good little puppy dogs,” Mead said. “It doesn’t work like that on the waterfront.”

SUNNYVALE – For much of its 33-year history, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. prospered by making cheaper, sometimes faster versions of microprocessors pioneered by Intel Corp. 

Now, AMD is planning its biggest launch ever – and it’s no Intel knockoff. The new processors share some of the same elements found in powerful servers but will also target personal computers. 

It’s a big financial and technological gamble for the world’s No. 2 microprocessor maker. 

So far, AMD has failed to make much headway in the server market and has been struggling more than usual lately getting into personal computers because of stiff competition and weak demand. 

If it succeeds with the new chips, developed not coincidentally under the code name “Hammer,” AMD could become the microprocessor industry’s powerhouse, setting the pace for computing for years to come. 

But if AMD stumbles, Hammer will join a growing list of powerful chips nobody wants. 

“We’ve established something that still needs to prove itself by getting into the market and succeeding,” said Fred Weber, chief technology officer of AMD’s Computation Products Group. 

An Athlon-branded desktop version is scheduled for release early next year, several months late because of production delays. Chips for servers, branded Opteron, will follow later in 2003. 

Hammer chips process data in 64-bit chunks rather than 32-bit chunks as is the case with today’s Intel Pentium or AMD Athlon chips. Currently, only high-end servers and workstations use 64-bit processors. 

The increase in the number of bits is similar to widening a freeway, allowing a higher volume of data “traffic” inside the processor and to memory. 

Still, a computer’s operating system and other programs must be optimized to take advantage of a 64-bit processor. 

But unlike today’s 64-bit chips, the Hammer chips speak the same language – the x86 instruction set – as today’s 32-bit chips as well as yesterday’s 16-bit and 8-bit chips. 

“People want to be able to run their existing code,” Weber said. “There are a lot of applications that don’t need to move to 64 bits ever.” 

Intel’s 64-bit offering, Itanium, abandoned the x86 instruction set in favor of Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing. Intel says it was designed for high-end computing needs. Though Itanium can run 32-bit code, it loses performance. 

AMD maintains that its Hammer technology will give users more options, particularly businesses that want to run 64-bit programs alongside existing 32-bit software without side effects. 

But while big businesses have shown a need for such powerful chips with resource-intensive simulation and database programs, it’s not so clear ordinary consumers need them. 

“If you look at the types of work people do, if you look at the data sizes in which they operate, 32 bits is where the desktop’s at,” said Louis Burns, general manager of Intel’s Desktop Platform Group. 

AMD concedes as much. 

After all, it took a decade to switch from 16-bit to 32-bit computing. By the end, the PC world moved from text-only interfaces of MS-DOS to the graphics of Windows 95. 

Initially, Hammer won’t have a native, 64-bit Windows operating system. Until Microsoft Corp. develops one, as promised, users will have to run the 32-bit version. 

AMD maintains the Hammer chips will still have a performance advantage, even running only 32-bit code, because they incorporate some functions typically performed by chips outside the processor. 

The result is a 10 percent to 15 percent improvement in speed over comparable 32-bit processors, said John Crank, AMD’s senior branding manager. 

AMD has yet to release key details, including clock speeds and their true performance compared with existing, 32-bit chips. Nor has it released exact pricing, though it is expected to be in line with computers running Intel’s top chips. 

Intel, which normally is relatively quiet about its competition, has been uncharacteristically vocal about Hammer, saying it isn’t much more than a warmed-over version of the existing Athlon, or K7, processor. 

“If you look hard at where the Hammer product is, it’s a K7 core,” Burns said. “They bolted a memory controller to it, and they added six instructions from what I can tell and a couple address lines. It’s not true innovation.” 

Intel is reportedly working on its own version of a 64-bit desktop chip – code-named Yamhill, or Plan B – just in case AMD’s approach strikes gold. However, Burns denied those reports, and analysts say it’s unlikely Intel would quickly switch horses in midstream. 

“Intel has a 64-bit strategy. It’s called Itanium,” said Nathan Brookwood, an analyst at the research firm Insight 64. “If they were to do anything to try and add 64-bit features to their x86, it would detract from their Itanium strategy.” 

Nonetheless, AMD could create the perception that it is offering something that Intel is not – even if the programs that can use 64 bits are years away. 

“This is a classic AMD strategy of trying to find the transition point between product introductions for Intel ... and introduce products that fit right into those holes,” said Eric Ross, an analyst at Investec Inc. 

Consumers, after all, might be swayed. 

“If AMD is at all successful at their marketing and positioning,” Brookwood said, “they will be able to convince a lot of people that 64 is at least as good as 32.”

SANTA CLARA – California Attorney General Bill Lockyer filed suit against Internet marketer PW Marketing LLC, accusing the company of illegally spamming millions of Californians. 

The suit, filed Thursday in Santa Clara County Superior Court, alleges the company’s owners, Paul Willis of Northridge and Claudia Griffin of Canyon Country, violated various California consumer protection statutes that prohibit unsolicited commercial e-mails, known as spam. 

The suit also alleges the company violated statutes against using false addresses in advertising, failing to disclose required information, engaging in untrue or deceptive advertising and engaging in unfair business competition. 

“Spamming is the scourge of the Information Age,” Lockyer said Thursday evening in a written release. “In filing this action, we are sounding a warning that we will track down and prosecute those who send illegal spam.” 

An afterhours call to the Canyon Country-based company Thursday was not immediately returned. Several Internet advertisements for P.W. Marketing offer lists of e-mail addresses for sale, including a list of 4.5 million California residents and businesses. 

“Statistically, California residents are the most responsive consumers to e-mail advertisers who offer various products and services,” the PW Marketing advertisement said.

SACRAMENTO – With just two days to clear the dozens of bills still sitting on his desk, Gov. Gray Davis Sunday signed legislation that would give Mexican farm workers brought to the United States during World War II more time to file legal action for payment. 

The governor also signed an array of education bills that would increase the powers of school districts that issue charters for charter schools and provide aid to high schools. 

Davis has until midnight Monday to sign or veto the bills that passed the Legislature, which ended its session Aug. 31. 

Still awaiting action are bills that would allow undocumented immigrants to obtain California driver’s licenses, give farm workers the right to third-party mediation during contract negotiations and let Indian tribes have greater influence over areas they consider sacred sites. 

Those bills are considered among the most politically difficult for Davis, who’s facing Republican financier Bill Simon in his race for a second term. For example, signing the farm worker bill would earn Davis the enmity of farmers in the Central Valley who are some of his largest campaign contributors, while a veto could alienate Hispanic voters who are some of Democrat Davis’ most loyal supporters. 

Davis backed one cause dear to Hispanic leaders Sunday by signing AB2913 by Assemblyman Marco Firebaugh, D-Los Angeles, which will extend the statute of limitations for payment claims for braceros. They are the more than 300,000 Mexican farm workers contracted by the U.S. government to relieve the labor shortage during World War II. 

“It’s an outrage that many braceros who worked in California during a national time of need have never been paid for their labor,” Davis said in a statement released Sunday. “This bill will help pay a long-overdue debt.” 

The labor agreement between the U.S. and Mexican governments required a portion of the braceros’ wages to be withheld as a savings fund, to be paid upon their return to Mexico. 

Many never received the money, often because they neither knew it was owed to them nor could navigate the bureaucracy when they did try to claim it. Experts have estimated the 10 percent of wages withheld between 1942 and 1950 could now total up to $1 billion, including interest. 

Davis also signed a bill Sunday, clarifying the state’s position on worker rights in relation to immigration status. 

In education, Davis addressed what legislators had identified as a weakness in the state’s decade-old charter school program by signing the bill by Assemblywoman Sarah Reyes, D-Fresno, that limits where the publicly funded schools can operate. 

Charter schools are public schools run by nonprofit or private organizations, such as parent and teacher groups and in some cases, for-profit companies. The schools, which are monitored by individual school districts that grant the charter, are allowed to bypass much of the red tape that bogs down regular public schools in exchange for increased accountability. 

Reyes said the bill will make it easier for local communities to oversee charter schools. 

“The governor agreed with the Legislature in that the charter schools need more oversight and accountability,” Reyes said. “You’ll see more parents involved. You’ll see more accountability.” 

Along with the education and labor bills, Davis signed a package of legislation aimed at helping the state control sprawl and accommodate the housing needs of its 35 million residents. 

The trio of bills all focus efforts on promoting development within already developed areas, also called infill, and reducing urban sprawl in a state that’s losing 50,000 acres of farmland per year.

The plain, boxy appearance of Fantasy Building on 10th Street conceals the glamorous work that goes on inside. Most recently, the building’s studios have contributed to this month’s release of three films on DVD.  

The Saul Zaentz Film Center, in the Fantasy Building, did post-production work on DVD versions of “The Unbearable Lightness of Being,” “Amadeus” and “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest.” The films, all originally produced by Saul Zaentz, will hit stores this week with newly restored picture and soundtracks. 

Sound is the Saul Zaentz Film Center’s ace in the hole. Hollywood recognizes the center’s facilities and skilled staff as a coveted place to mix movie sound, which the new DVDs highlight. 

Film center staffer and sound mixer Mark Berger won an Academy Award in 1985 for his work on “Amadeus” (along with cohorts Thomas Scott, Todd Boekelheide, and Christopher Newman), one of the six Oscars the film collected. 

The film of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart begged for a good sound mix. And to give a realistic sense of a live Mozart performance in 18th century Vienna, Berger and his team recorded audiences of all sizes – including silent-movie viewers at the Pacific Film Archive – to get sounds of people shuffling in their seats. 

Berger dusted off the original sound to prepare the rerelease with more sophisticated sound technology than he had in 1984. To his surprise, he didn’t need to touch the music mix at all. “In spite of the technology, we got it right the first time.” 

“One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest” needed a bit more work. The negative was brought out for cleaning and restoration, but Berger said even the original production was raw at the time. 

The film based on Ken Kesey’s novel about a convict who cons his way into cushy time at the psyche ward and tries in vain to beat the system won five Oscars in 1975, but was plagued with unavoidable sound distortion on the dialogue track – faint traces of tape hiss with camera noise and mono mixed in. 

With 27 years of technological improvements and skills, Berger went back to the tapes to clean them up and create a stereo mix. No sound was added to the rerelease version, said Berger. “The philosophy was, the film was particular and it should stay that way. It should reflect the time it was made in,” he explained. 

All sound manipulation took place in the mixing, not the editing. Nothing was added or subtracted, keeping true to the film’s original intentions. 

Director Milos Foreman’s original idea was to make a strong distinction between the environment inside the hospital and the outside world, said Berger. When Randle McMurphy (Jack Nicholson) coaxes his disoriented inmates out of the insular, claustrophobic hospital halls to play some basketball in the sun, Berger placed the outside sounds in an expansive stereo field. 

Although the subtleties of the sound mix might be impressive heard through a movie theater’s speaker system, they could get lost on many people’s televisions at home. Even with the surround sound of new home entertainment setups, dynamics are the first to go. The loud isn’t too loud, and the quiet bits get lost. Berger’s digital re-mixes reflect the sound quality of high-end DVD players, while narrowing the dynamic range to fit their limitations. 

Sound is usually the least popular aspect of movies, the one most easily forgotten outside the theater. These DVD releases are a testament that the renowned mixing stages and their captains in the Fantasy Building are the invisible hands guiding a filmmaker’s fictional tapestry.

To the Editor: 

Is it politics or just common sense to “consider” relocating the stadium? Might the university's biggest revenue-generator benefit from a more user-friendly location that is less constrained by proximate residences? Would natural resources in Strawberry Canyon and historic resources in surrounding neighborhoods be better protected by a different campus use at the mouth of the canyon? Might an infusion of faculty housing improve traffic for everyone while reducing parking demand and enhancing quality of life for faculty? Might the old stadium be fit enough to meet another demand, i.e. for intramural and recreational purposes?  

Instead of a communitywide discussion to this effect, university administrators have stated their intentions to retrofit the 72-year-old stadium with the assumption the concrete structure will carry the Cal Bears into the 22nd century. Meanwhile, housing density in adjacent areas increases, and will continue to increase, during the stadium's lifetime.  

Also, there are numerous hazards with the current location, all of which interact dynamically to potentiate existing dangers. Among these are the following: 

n The Hayward Fault bisecting the stadium lengthwise.  

n The location of the stadium at a virtual dead-end with no eastern egress except for Centennial Drive. 

n The possible evacuation of 75,000 spectators which would interfere with emergency response to the area. 

n The proximity of a state-designated critical fire zone.  

Although the Panoramic Hill Association has not taken a position as to relocating the stadium, there are many good reasons to have a communitywide discussion about just that. It is neither “preposterous” nor “pie in the sky” to do so. One could easily lob back that it would be preposterous to not do so.  

Janice Thomas 

PHA president 

Berkeley

Saturday, Sept. 28 

Free Legal Workshop:  

“Crossroads: Health and the Law.” 

10 a.m. to 3 p.m. 

514 58th St. at Telegraph Avenue 

Navigate your way through legal issues when living with cancer or any serious illness. Panel presentation on employment, insurance and public benefits and one-on-one sessions with attorneys. Please, pre-register. 

601-4040, Ext. 102 for information  

or Ext. 103 to register 

Free  

Garage Sale/ Car Wash  

Belize/ Berkeley Scouts 

10 to 2 p.m. 

Epworth UMC, 1953 Hopkins St. 

International exchange fundraising effort for scouts. 

525-6058 

From Monument to Masses, Victory at Sea & Yesterday’s Kids 

8 p.m. 

924 Gilman St. 

525-9926 

$5 

A Forum on the Arts with the Berkeley Mayoral Candidates 

11 a.m. to 1 p.m. 

Aurora Theater, 2081 Addison St. 

558-1381 

Free 

Sunday, Sept. 29 

How Berkeley Can You Be?  

11 a.m. parade and 12:30 p.m. festival 

Parade starts at University Avenue  

and California Street. Ends at  

Civic Center Park, where the  

festival takes place. 

849-4688. 

www.howberkeleycanyoube.com 

Tibetan Buddhism  

“Healing Mind” 

6 p.m. 

Tibetan Nyingma Institute  

1815 Highland Place 

Sylvia Gretchen discusses how the teachings cultivate the mind and redefine what healing means. 

843-6812 

Free 

“Iron Chef” Style Cook-Off  

3 to 4 p.m. 

(followed by reception, 4 to 6 p.m.) 

Spenger’s Fresh Fish Grotto 

1919 Fourth St.  

In this “Crabby Chef” Competition 2002, top East Bay chefs vie for this year’s title by creating the tastiest crab dish. Master of Ceremonies will be KGO-AM’s Gene Burns. 

845-7777 or 845-7771 

Free 

City of Berkeley  

2002 Public Art Competition 

1 to 3 p.m. 

Berkeley Central Public Library  

2090 Kittredge St.  

A public art informational workshop will be open to all artists regarding public art site proposals. 

981-6100 

Free 

Saturday, Sept. 28 

Barry & Alic Oliver 

8 p.m. 

Freight & Salvage, 1111 Addison St. 

548-1761 www.freightandsalvage.com 

$16.50 in advance. $17.50 at door. 

San Francisco Improv. 

8 p.m. 

Cafe Eclectica, 1309 Solano Ave., Albany 

527-2344 

Donations welcome 

From Monument to Masses,  

Victory at Sea and Yesterday’s Kids 

8 p.m. 

924 Gilman St. 

525-9926 

$5. 

Sunday, Sept. 29 

Si Kahn  

8 p.m. 

Freight & Salvage, 1111 Addison St. 

548-1761 www.freightandsalvage.com 

$15.50 in advance. $16.50 at door. 

Cellist Gianna Abondolo 

4 p.m. 

Crowden Music Center, 1475 Rose St. 

Classical favorites and original  

compositions for cello. 

559-6910 

$10 general. 18 and under free. 

Weber Iago and Harvey Wainaple 

4:30 p.m. 

Jazzschool, 2087 Addison St. 

845-5373 

$10-$15. 

David Friesen and Uwe Kropinski 

8 p.m. 

Jazzschool, 2087 Addison St. 

845-5373 

$10-$15. 

Blowing Zen: A Performance of Shakuhachi 

7:30 p.m. 

St. John’s Presbyterian Church  

2626 College Ave. 

528-2027 

$12 at door. Children $5. Seniors $10. 

Chamber Music 

4 to 5:15 p.m. 

Crowden Music Center 1475 Rose St. 

Gianna Abondolo & Friends  

celebrate the release of their  

classical and jazz CD. 

559-6910 

$10. 18 and under free. 

Tuesday, Oct. 1 

Toshi Reagon 

8 p.m. 

Freight & Salvage, 1111 Addison St. 

548-1761 www.freightandsalvage.com 

$15.50 in advance. $16.50 at door. 

Wednesday, Oct. 2 

Hookslide 8 p.m. 

Freight & Salvage, 1111 Addison St. 

548-1761 www.freightandsalvage.com 

$15.50 in advance. $16.50 at door. 

Thursday, Oct. 3 

Pete & Joan Wernick featuring Dr. Banjo  

8 p.m. 

Freight & Salvage, 1111 Addison St. 

548-1761 www.freightandsalvage.com 

$15.50 in advance. $16.50 at door. 

Saturday, Oct. 5 

Leon Bates 

7:30 p.m. 

Calvin Simmons Theatre, 10 Tenth St. 

Pianist Leon Bates offers works by Mozart, Brahms and Chopin. 

451-0775 or www.fourseasonsconcerts.com 

$25-$35. 

All Bets Off, Benumb and Uphill Battle 

8 p.m. 

924 Gilman St. 

525-9926 

$5. 

House Jacks  

8 p.m. 

Freight & Salvage, 1111 Addison St. 

548-1761 or www.freightandsalvage.com 

$16.50 in advance. $17.50 at door. 

"Balancing Acts" 

Through Oct. 10 

Gallery 555, 555 12th St., 

Oakland City Center 

Oakland's 'Third Thursday' art night features Ann Weber's works made of cardboard. 

http://www.oaklandcitycenter.com.  

Free. 

“Hunger: What will you do about it?”  

Through Oct. 30, Mon.-Fri.,  

9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

The Civic Center Building 

2180 Milvia St., 5th floor 

Featuring 40 photographs  

by Berkeley artist David Bacon. 

834-3663, Ext. 338, uchanse@secondharvest.org 

Richard Misrach, Berkeley Work 

Though Oct. 13 

UC Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, 2626 Bancroft Way 

On view in Gallery 2, presents two photographic series by this internationally recognized Berkeley-based artist.  

642-0808, www.bampfa.berkeley.edu 

$7. $5 BAM/PFA members.  

$4 UC Berkeley students. 

Misch Kohn - Celebrating Sixty Years of Printmaking 

Through Oct. 16. Tues.-Fri., Noon to 5:30 p.m.; Sat., noon to 4:30 p.m. 

Kala Arts Institute, 1060 Heinz Ave. 

549-2977, kala@kala.org 

Nancy Salz 

Through Oct. 23, Tues.-Fri. 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Sat 10 a.m.-4 p.m. 

Barbara Anderson Gallery, 2243 5th St. 

848-3822 

Timoteo Ikoshy Montoya 

Through Nov. 1  

Reception Sept. 20, 6 to 8 p.m. 

Gathering Tribes Gallery  

1573 Solano Ave.  

Acrylic/air brush paintings  

by this Native American artist.  

528-9038 

A Thousand and One Arabian Nights 

Through Sept. 28, Fri.-Sun. 8 p.m.; Sun. 4 p.m. 

Forest Meadows Outdoor Amphitheater, Grand Avenue at the Dominican University, San Raphael 

Marin Shakespeare Company’s  

presents this classic story with  

original Arabic music. 

415-499-4488 for tickets 

$12 for youth. $20 for seniors.  

$22 general. 

Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar 

Through Oct. 12 

Thurs. through Sat. 8 p.m. 

LaVal’s Subterranean Theatre  

1834 Euclid Ave. 

234-6046 

$10. 

The House of Blue Leaves 

Through Oct. 27 

Berkeley Rep's Roda Theater  

2015 Addison St.  

647-2917 or 888-4BRTTIX 

$10-$54. 

The Shape of Things 

Through Oct. 20 

Aurora Theatre Company  

2081 Addison St. 

Play by writer/director Neil LaBute's spins a morality tale of a young art student, his art major girlfriend, and the Pygmalion-like changes that bring into question how far one should go for love. 

843-4822, www.auroratheater.org for reservations 

$26-$35. 

Ceramics - Opening Reception 

Through Nov. 17 

3 to 5 p.m. 

A New Leaf Gallery, 1286 Gilman St. 

525-7621 

Free. 

Sunday, Sept. 29 

Margaret Kaufman & Robert Funge 

7:30 p.m. 

Cody’s Books, 2454 Telegraph Ave. 

845-7852, www.poetryflash.org 

$2 donation.

A stir of excitement sparked Oakland Ballet’s season opener this month. While the East Bay’s other major dance company, Diablo Ballet, struggles on life support because of recent economic times, the Oakland troupe is thriving. Its success is due largely to artistic director Karen Brown’s energetic leadership and a dedicated board of directors. 

Whatever the reason, dance lovers benefit. And from the look and sound of opening night, Oakland Ballet has come into its own as one of the East Bay’s most vibrant cultural purveyors. 

The first pleasure of the evening was the Paramount Theater. If you’ve never set foot in its stunning art deco expanse, you owe yourself a visit. An audacious gem, it’s one of the few theaters that truly takes your breath away. It was so packed Friday night, you might have thought you were at San Francisco Ballet. 

Good news for Oakland. 

Karen Brown introduced the program, nodding to supporter Mayor Jerry Brown, who took a bow. A welcome aspect of the company’s overall upgrade is its commitment to live music, demonstrated by the Turtle Island String Quartet. The band jump-started the evening with a jazz version of “On Green Dolphin Street” that sounded deliciously like Stephane Grappelli crossed with Ali Akbar Khan. 

Then came the first piece, “A Night in Tunisia,” choreographed by Charles Anderson to Turtle Island’s version of a Dizzy Gillespie score. A native San Franciscan, Anderson is on the faculty of several local companies. In “A Night in Tunisia,” he’s created a work that’s sunny with barely a whiff of North Africa, but no matter.  

What counts is what he’s set to Turtle Island’s syncopated line, and though the result is lightweight, it’s cheerful and crowd-pleasing, full of jazzy lopes, finger snaps and gleefully snaking arms. Featuring an insouciant trio – Ilana Goldman, Chih-Ting Shih, and Katherine Wells – and Peter Strand and Chih-Ting Shih in an agile duet, "Tunisia" concludes with a big finish for 16 dancers, who lack SF Ballet’s precision but move with winning verve. 

Who knows what will come when their talents get fine-tuned? 

Next on the bill was a revival of Lew Christensen’s 1942 “Jinx” with Christensen’s son leading the East Bay Symphony. A story ballet, it’s one of those circus-metaphor works of 20th century art, from “Petrushka” to “Freaks.” Here a brooding jester pines for a pert high-wire walker while spurning the bearded lady who loves him. Blamed by the troupe for a series of accidents, the jester comes back to haunt them after death. The work has a dated, ’40s air, but it’s fascinating nonetheless, and with an eerie poignancy. A taut Mario Alonzo danced the doomed jester. The colorful circus costumes were by Russell Hartley. 

The evening concluded with “Bamboo,” a reprise of Michael Lowe’s hit from last year. Set to music of Melody of China, it unfolds in five scenes to create a world of precise and pleasing harmony, beginning with a dozen entwined dancers who unfold like the petals of a lotus. “Bamboo” features elegant posturings, tai-chi moments, percussive athletic bursts, girls wafting expressive red streamers. 

The enthusiastic audience clearly liked these opening steps of Oakland Ballet’s third season under Karen Brown. Upcoming programs feature works by Agnes de Mille, Lew Christensen and the troupe’s own Mario Alonzo, followed by the annual staging of Ron Guidi’s “Nutcracker” in December.

A 43-7 win is usually a cause for celebration. But the Berkeley High coaches tore into their players after winning by that score over Kennedy High on Friday, citing a lackluster performance and poor discipline. 

Berkeley scored 21 points in the game’s first eight minutes, and it looked as if the Yellowjackets would have an insurmountable lead by halftime. But Berkeley took its foot off the gas, allowing the overmatched Eagles to hang around until the fourth quarter. 

The game was also marred by numerous personal fouls, one of which wiped out a 35-yard touchdown run by Berkeley fullback Aaron Boatwright, who scored three touchdowns despite the setback. 

“You have to hold your composure against a team like that,” Berkeley head coach Matt Bissell said. “Just beat them between the whistles. You can’t let the other team dictate your attitude and get caught up in all that extracurricular stuff.” 

Senior linebacker Owen Goldstrom had an outstanding game, racking up three sacks and 12 tackles. But as the leader of the defense, Goldstrom was upset that Kennedy scored a touchdown late in the game. 

“We should have had a shutout,” Goldstrom said. “[Kennedy] should have had negative yardage. Pittsburg held them to negative yards, and we have a better defense than Pittsburg.” 

Indeed, the 0-3 Eagles have failed to gain 100 yards in any of their first three games this season. Against such a lightweight opponent, Berkeley lacked a killer instinct. 

Boatwright scored two touchdowns in the opening quarter, a 7-yarder and a 10-yarder that were sandwiched around a Craig Hollis 21-yard score for a 21-0 Berkeley lead. But the Jackets wouldn’t score again for nearly 24 minutes of action, shooting themselves in the foot with a Jeff Spellman interception and a load of penalties. In all, Berkeley was flagged for 95 yards in penalties, more than twice as many yards as the Eagles managed to put up on offense. 

Boatwright scored again near the end of the third quarter on a sweep from the one-yard line. Backup quarterback Dessalines Gant threw a 20-yard touchdown to wideout Sean Young on Gant’s first play of the game, which won’t quiet the quarterback controversy after Spellman’s 5-for-10 passing day for just 54 yards. Sophomore Antoine Cokes finished the Berkeley scoring with a 14-yard touchdown run following a 76-yard kickoff return by Chris Watson. 

But the Eagles managed to get on the scoreboard as well in the fourth quarter, thanks mostly to their special teams. Eugene Clapps came unblocked on a punt and smothered it, then recovered the ball and rumbled down to the Berkeley two-yard line. Two plays later Jamahl Mackey blasted through the line for a touchdown.

Student conduct hearings for 32 pro-Palestinian protesters who participated in the April takeover of UC Berkeley’s Wheeler Hall start Monday amid controversy over the public’s right to observe them. 

UC Berkeley officials are defending a decision to close the first hearing and move it away from the center of campus, arguing that the privacy measures are necessary to ensure order. 

Students activists, meanwhile, say the university is simply attempting to block the public from viewing the process. 

“They’re trying to move it away from the eyes of the campus community,” said Hoang Phan of Students for Justice in Palestine, which led the Wheeler Hall takeover last Spring. 

A total of 79 protesters, including 41 students, were involved in the April 9 protest, calling on the nine-campus University of California system to divest from Israel.  

The Alameda County District Attorney dropped criminal charges against the “Wheeler 79” in June, but the university has pursued student conduct charges. 

Nine of the 41 students have agreed to an “informal resolution” of the charges, accepting a semester-long probation, while 32 have chosen to move forward with full hearings, opening themselves up to penalties as stiff as expulsion. 

All students face charges of unauthorized entry to or use of university property, obstruction or disruption of teaching or other university activity, disturbing the peace and failure to comply with the directions of a university official. 

Graduate student Roberto Hernandez, the subject of the first hearing Monday, faces an additional charge of physical or verbal abuse for allegedly biting a UC Berkeley police officer April 9. 

Hernandez, who said he is innocent of all charges, condemned UC Berkeley professor David Zusman, chair of the student conduct hearing committee, for his decision to close the proceedings. Hernandez said his supporters would not have disrupted the hearing. 

But university spokesperson Janet Gilmore said activists have made statements at student meetings about “rushing” the hearings. 

Closing the proceedings, she said, is “an effort to ensure that the hearing will be fair and orderly.”  

“That’s outrageous,” said Phan, of Students for Justice in Palestine, arguing that no statements about “rushing” the hearings were made. “I don’t know what they’re referring to.” 

Students have also raised concerns about the composition of the committee that will run the student conduct hearing Monday.  

Campus regulations call for a five-member committee composed of two faculty, two students and one staff member. If availability is a problem, the rules allow for alternates to fill in for regular committee members and for the panel to shrink to three members. 

The university informed the students’ lawyers Thursday afternoon that the Hernandez committee would be composed of three faculty members, one of them a replacement for a student who could not serve. 

Hernandez said the proposed panel was unacceptable, arguing that at least one student was necessary. 

“The committee needs to be representative of this campus,” he said. 

Gilmore said Friday that the university expected to have a three-member committee, with two faculty and one student, in place by Monday. 

“This is part of a pattern of a lot of late changes,” said Phan, noting that the university did not inform students until Thursday that it was moving the hearing from Sproul Hall at the center of campus to the Clark Kerr facility, seven blocks south of the main campus on Warring Street. 

“They’re trying to complicate things for us,” he said. “We have to scramble and call all of our witnesses and get them to another location.” 

“It was just another effort to ensure that the hearing is fair and orderly,” Gilmore replied, discussing the shift to Clark Kerr.  

Gilmore said students had circulated a flyer calling for a rally in Sproul Plaza outside the original hearing location.

To the Editor: 

The energetic and articulate African-American students of Berkeley High are to be congratulated for their presentations at the school board meeting on Sept. 25. I wish I could say the same for the superintendent and board President Issel. As an Afro-American parent, I am very disturbed that the superintendent and school board President Issel were unable to answer the basic questions of “who and why” did this attempted elimination of the Afro-American studies department occur? How is it possible that the two top officials for educational policy in Berkeley United School District did not know of a decision this important? If they didn't know, they should have. 

Something is seriously wrong with our school district. When I read Mayor Dean's article in the Daily Planet about performance audits, I had to agree that performance audits is the way to go. The buck passing and finger pointing that took place at the board meeting on Sept. 25 is a good example of why someone needs to start asking the hard question and getting some straight answers. Collectively, the five members of the school board have been on the board for 24 years, and the system still doesn't work. And yet these five board members, with 24 years of experience, want us to re-elect them to continue mismanaging BUSD. So I say get a performance audit and get it quickly. 

Lee Berry 

Berkeley

It took a couple of crooked numbers on the scoreboard for St. Mary’s High to get rid of a round number on its record. 

Steve Murphy led the Panthers (1-2) to their highest scoring output of the season, throwing for a touchdown, catching a touchdown pass and returning a kick for a touchdown in St. Mary’s first win of the season, 29-18 over De Anza (1-2). 

Up 21-18 with 11:32 left in the game, Murphy took the kickoff, which the Panthers chose to rekick after the initial kick went out of bounds, and took it back 80 yards for a touchdown. 

“I fielded the ball in the middle, then I cut back and waited for the crease to open. I saw the hole and I hit it hard. Everybody stayed on their blocks,” said Murphy, who started the game at quarterback and also played running back, wide receiver and defensive back. 

Murphy’s run squashed the momentum of the Dons, who on the previous play had narrowed the St. Mary’s lead to three on quarterback Gregg Parker’s touchdown run on fourth-and-goal from the one-yard line. 

In the second quarter St. Mary’s head coach Jay Lawson put in sophomore quarterback Scott Tully and rotated the speedier Murphy to running back and wide receiver. 

“We are doing anything we can to get Steve the ball... and Scott throws a great ball and he’s tall,” said Lawson, who added that having the 6-foot-3 Tully on the field at quarterback allowed him to rest Murphy at times. 

Tully hooked up with Murphy on the Panthers’ first drive of the second quarter when he lobbed up a 54-yard post pass that Murphy caught well behind the defender. 

“I just ate up his cushion,” said Murphy, who agreed with Tully that the two have good chemistry on the field from both having played quarterback and playing together for a some time. 

“It kind of gives a variety to our offense. [Murphy] is really athletic and that brings out the full potential of our offense.” said Tully, who on the touchdown pass said he noticed the Dons had “eight men in the box and I saw Steve had man to man coverage, so I just threw it up.” 

Linebacker Nick Osborn was another versatile player for St. Mary’s, anchoring a defense that had constant pressure on the Dons’ quarterbacks and was able to stuff their misdirection running game. 

“Our outside backers made plays. We just had to stay in our lanes and wait for them to come to us,” said Osborn who caught a 15-yard touchdown pass as a tight end from Murphy in the first quarter to give the Panthers a 7-0 lead. 

“We had a bunch of warriors out there tonight,” Lawson said.

For more than a quarter century native American Rosemary Cambra has provided a voice for her people. This week, Cambra, chairwoman for the Bay Area's Muwekma Ohlone Tribe, brought her message to Berkeley, where she urged the city to preserve and protect local burial grounds under University Avenue at the train tracks near Fourth Street. 

“I am here to present the legal, cultural and spiritual concerns over this sacred site,” said Cambra at a West Berkeley Project Area Commission (WBPAC) meeting Thursday. “If we are not mindful of our culture and our language and our history, [the United States] government can eliminate [our culture].” 

WBPAC members hope the meeting will establish a partnership between Berkeley and the Ohlone Tribe in which Cambra will serve as a consultant and protect the tribe’s interests – mainly respecting the dead – during a city development project near the 500-year-old Ohlone burial site. 

The city is looking to build a transit hub at the west Berkeley rail stop, linking bus, ferry, train and taxi services. The purchase and restoration of the defunct Southern Pacific Rail Station would be part of the project. 

While improvements are being made to the area, however, including leveling and paving surrounding roads, burial tombs would need to be protected, according to planners and archeologists. 

A “treatment plan,” designed to preserve the burial grounds during construction, is being put together by city engineers and an archeologist selected by the Ohlone tribe, said Iris Starr, senior city planner.To protect the sacred remains, much of the initial paving and leveling “will be done by hand, not by machines,” said Starr. 

With the guidance of Cambra and Alan Leventhal, an ethnohistorian the Ohlone Tribe picked to consult with the city, planners hope paving and preservation will begin by December.  

“This is where the rubber meets the road,” Starr said. 

The burial remains will remain undisturbed beneath the new transit hub after it is built. 

In addition to protecting the Ohlone burial site, planners hope to celebrate the tribe’s history and culture by including Ohlone art displays at the new transit hub.  

One such display could consist of a large mural reflecting tribal life or a series of displays located inside a restored train station.  

While she is pleased with the plans for commemorating the tribe, Cambra warns that preservation efforts should not to be taken lightly. Instead, she says, city and tribal leaders must work closely to establish a true partnership. 

“I have a lot of concerns. I don't want to be a part of a lack of understanding when it comes to preservation,” Cambra stated, citing failed efforts in Emeryville to preserve and protect a submerged burial site. “If you don't have integrity, understanding and honesty, we don't want to be a part of it.” 

As the representative of the Muwekma Ohlone, Cambra is all too familiar with disappointment. Having gone 100 years without recognition from the United States government as being an official native tribe, the Muwekma have taken matters into their own hands. 

They have established both a strong legal team and a group of knowledgeable cultural historians to preserve the rights and heritage of the tribe.  

Since 1989, the Muwekma have incurred more than $10 million in legal debt in their fight to gain status as a federally-recognized group. Though a ruling on Sept. 6 by the Bureau of Indian Affairs denied their latest request, the tribe continues to seek acknowledgment. 

“One needs to defend our bloodline and take on any government when they try to terminate our culture, our history and our existence. We are the symbol and the example of what the U.S. government can do to a group if you let them,” Cambra said.

To the Editor: 

We have such a stunning opportunity now in Berkeley to revive our activity in support of free expression and against Bush’s wars.  

Let’s speak up for peace and keep earning our reputation. 

Pat Mullan 

Berkeley

PHILADELPHIA - No. 4 Cal twice came back from one-goal deficits to defeat Pennsylvania, 4-2, Friday afternoon at Rhodes Field. The Bears improved to 6-1-1, while the Quakers dropped to 5-3-0.  

Penn jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the 41st minute with an unassisted goal from Robin Watson.  

Six minutes after the halftime break, Cal senior Brittany Kirk tied the game at 1-1 with her third goal of the season. Freshman Dania Cabello was credited with the assist.  

Penn grabbed the lead for the last time in the 58th minute on Katy Cross’ 10th goal of the year.  

Cal junior midfielder Kassie Doubrava converted her first goal of the season in the 65th minute with Cabello earned her second assist of the contest.  

Senior defender Lucy Brining tallied the eventual game-winner in the 70th minute on a feed from senior Carly Fuller. Six minutes later, Fuller added some insurance for the Bears with her third penalty kick goal of the season.  

Friday’s game marked the return of Cal senior All-American Laura Schott, who had missed the previous six games with an MCL sprain and a one-game red card suspension. She came off the bench in her first minutes since the Bears’ Aug. 31 season opener.

Berkeley mayor Shirley Dean and challenger Tom Bates, a former state Assemblyman, are within a few percentage points in the race for voter support, according to a poll commissioned by the mayor’s office. 

Oakland-based pollster Lake Snell Perry and Associates found that Dean leads Bates 41 percent to 38 percent in the mayoral contest with 19 percent of the 400-person sample undecided. The survey’s margin of error was 4.9 percent. 

“I feel pretty good about the results,” said Dean. “We knew it was going to be a close race from the very beginning.” 

In addition to identifying a virtually dead-even contest, Perry and Associates found 58 percent of those polled think the city is “heading in the right direction.” Twenty-six percent believe the city is “on the wrong track,” pollsters found. 

“That’s the most important number in the whole poll,” said Dean. “People are happy with the way the city is being run and that’s what will make up their minds in the election.” 

Tom Bates’ campaign manager Larry Tramutola dismissed this week’s poll as campaign rhetoric. 

“It’s rare for a campaign to release a poll unless they’ve got problems,” Tramutola said, noting that polls are normally used internally to make strategic decisions. He suggested that the mayor is having difficulty raising money and the poll is being used to re-establish credibility for her campaign. 

The Bates’ camp has raised roughly $100,000, according to Tramutola. Dean officials say they have at least that much money. 

“We’re real excited about the pace of contributions,” said Dean’s campaign manager Brian Schwartz. 

Tramutola, who was not convinced of the accuracy of this week’s poll, said the poll was likely successful in revealing the high number of undecided voters, which he said works in favor of Bates. 

“Dean’s been in office for eight years. ... Those that are still undecided are going to vote for Bates,” he said. 

Tramutola added that he has commissioned polls as well. He would not provide specific results, but suggested that the race was close and Bates is likely slightly ahead.

To the Editor: 

I am very distressed at the decision to place a new traffic signal at the corner of Telegraph Avenue and Russell Street. A signal at this location will do nothing more than create a thruway parallel to Ashby Avenue between Telegraph and Shattuck Avenue, without in any way mitigating the traffic along Ashby itself. It’s been demonstrated time and again that more automobile lanes simply means increased use and does little to diminish the flow of cars along a given corridor. 

Russell is a residential street, a family street, a street where children live, a street with an elementary school. Why would the office of transportation believe it would be a good idea to increase automobile traffic on a street of this nature? Since Berkeley Bowl moved to 2020 Oregon, I have observed an increase in the number of young families on Russell. I have seen an improvement in the tone of the street, the overall appearance and the quality of the landscaping. Why do you want to change all that? 

I sincerely hope the office of transportation reconsiders its decision. 

Jean Bass 

Berkeley

Cal men upset Santa Clara in Stanford Invitational 

The Cal men’s soccer team won its fifth game of the season against Bay Area rival No. 22 Santa Clara Thursday night, 2-1, in Buck Shaw Stadium. Sophomore Carl Acosta led the Golden Bears to their fourth straight victory, recording both of Cal’s goals.  

Acosta’s first score came at the 27:20 mark when he took a pass flicked on from a long goalkeeper punt, beat the Santa Clara defender and slammed home his second goal of the season. He would capitalize again just five minutes later after a cross deflected off both a Cal player and a Bronco player to his waiting feet where he slid a low ball past Santa Clara netminder Steve Cronin.  

Cal field hockey gets overtime win over Georgetown 

In a steady rain on Kehoe Field the California field hockey team (6-1) took its fifth straight win in a 3-2 overtime victory against Georgetown (3-4). Regional All-American Nora Feddersen scored her second goal of the season to give the Golden Bears the edge over the Hoyas two and a half minutes into overtime.  

With only six minutes remaining in regulation time, Jessica Quinn fired another past Bear goalkeeper, Kelly Knapp, who before this game had allowed only three goals past her between the pipes, to tie the game, 2-2. Feddersen zipped the game-winning shot off of a corner.

DAKAR, Senegal — More than 760 people were believed dead Friday after an ocean ferry capsized off West Africa in a fierce gale, with 88 victims recovered and bodies of others spotted trapped inside. 

“It was horrible, because we were hearing people screaming from underneath,” said hospitalized survivor Moussa Ndong, who escaped when the ferry capsized Thursday night. He survived by clinging to the side of the vessel for two hours. 

“The boat went down so fast. It was so unbelievable — in just three minutes, the boat went down,” he said. 

Fishing boats and other vessels rescued the 32 survivors, according to Senegal Prime Minister Mame Madior Boye. 

The state-owned Joola ferry capsized off Gambia in the Atlantic Ocean about 11 p.m. en route to the Senegalese capital, Dakar, from the south of the country. Gambia is a strip-shaped country only a few miles wide and divides north and south Senegal. 

The vessel remained in one piece Friday, and still on its side, said Mamadou Diop Thioune, a coordinator of a French-funded marine center whose divers were helping in the search for victims. 

Dive teams recovered 88 bodies, Diop said. They spotted a number of corpses through the ferry windows, and believed the still unrecovered passengers and crew to be dead, with their corpses caught inside, he said. 

“Now, I’m afraid, it’s a matter of recovering bodies,” he said. 

The first corpses retrieved from the accident were being taken back to the port Friday. 

Searchers waited as night fell Friday for the arrival of military divers with equipment to cut into the ferry, he said. 

Ndong told The Associated Press by telephone from a hospital in neighboring Gambia that the storm brewed as the ferry made its way north from Senegal’s southern district of Casamance. 

As the wind built, the boat started tipping to one side, he said. Water rushed into the cabin. When the lights went out, he said, passengers started screaming. 

Senegal declared three days of national mourning at midday Friday as the search for victims continued. Boye and other state officials went to the port to be with families. 

President Abdoulaye Wade cut short a trip to France. Speaking briefly to reporters upon his return home, he pledged an investigation. 

Families and friends rushed to the port in Dakar, sobbing and pounding their heads on walls. 

“God have mercy! Pray! Pray everyone!” one woman, waiting with the rest for news of loved ones, pleaded. “Stop crying!” 

Later, hundreds of people surrounded the locked gates of navy offices, demanding information about the search and rescue and its results. Among the throng, a woman screamed and tore her hair, sobbing for word of her daughter. 

“Tell us whether she’s alive,” the woman shouted. “Can we please know whether she’s alive?” 

Ferries are the main way of transportation between north and south Senegal, in part because travel by road is slowed by border checks passing through Gambia. Merchants carrying dried fish, mangos and other goods from verdant Casamance make up many of the usual travelers aboard. 

Angry men thronging the port denounced authorities, claiming the ferry had been riding low on one side, and never should have been allowed out of port. 

Media reports said the ferry had undergone repairs, and had only recently returned to service after months in dock.

To the Editor: 

Peter Teichner's passionate attack on housing and smart growth, Sept. 17 Daily Planet Forum, is just not convincing. Teichner and other pro-height initiative folks fail to understand how critical new housing is to making Berkeley a truly livable city. One of the most common arguments used by the anti-housing, NIMBY crowd is that the initiative will preserve the wonderful character of our neighborhoods from the awful mixed-use housing developments going in downtown and along transit corridors. Teichner cites 2700 San Pablo Ave. as an example of these terrible developments he wants to stop. Indeed, Mr. Teichner doesn't want to “forfeit Berkeley's low-key urban character and our current quality of life.” 

As a resident of west Berkeley (not too far from San Pablo Avenue), I am curious what “quality of life” he is talking about exactly. Is referring to the rampant crime and prostitution that occur on a street that is all but deserted after dark? Is he referring to the quality of life on San Pablo where not a single restaurant is open in the evening for nearby residents?  

San Pablo Avenue, with its wonderful street trees and prime location, has great potential to be one of the most beautiful boulevards in the Bay Area. What San Pablo needs so badly is more mixed-use housing that brings working families and small businesses into the neighborhood. These residents then naturally provide “eyes on the street” at all times, producing a safer and more livable city that no amount of police presence could ever ensure. Proposition P supporters don't seem to understand that Berkeley residents are fed-up with crime, traffic, pollution, and over-priced housing.  

Allen Freeman 

Berkeley

A local cat owner says her kitty with 29 toes surely beats a many-toed Maine cat for a spot in the Guinness Book of Records. 

Berkeley’s very own Shanghai, a stubby-tailed Manx-Siamese mix, appears to outshine the 28-toed Mooch who recently made national headlines for possibly having the most toes. 

Owner Marca Lamore says the first thing guests say when they take a look at Shanghai is, “What’s wrong with his feet?” 

Cats like Shanghai and Mooch are born with a hereditary condition called polydacty, Latin for “many toes.” Most polydactyl cats are born with extra toes on their front paws only. But Shanghai has extra toes on all four paws. Exactly many toes the cat has on each paw is a little tough to judge. Toes on polydactyl cats like Shanghai are often fused together, or only partially developed, and thus tough to count. 

Shanghai was found as a kitten at a harbor in Crescent City, near the Oregon border. Suffering from an eye infection and respiratory illness, he soon recovered under Lamore’s care.  

“When he first came here, he fit in my hand,” she said. Now three years old, Shanghai seems well adjusted and plays amiably with Lamore’s three other cats. 

The owners of 28-toe Mooch have sent documentation about the cat’s toes to the Guinness Book and are waiting to hear back. 

“Mooch is nervous [about the decision],” said owner Becky Duval. 

DuVal said he heard on the radio about the world record for most toes on a cat, currently held by Paddles, a black cat in Ennismore, Ontario, who has 27. 

Asked whether Lamore will write Guinness, she replied “I will definitely consider it. Why not?”

n Drug bust 

A Police special enforcement unit recovered 8 grams of crack cocaine Wednesday morning from a resident on the 900 block of Delaware Street, police said. In addition to drugs, police found numerous packaging items used for the sale of crack cocaine. Police arrested Jamel Morris, 18, for possession with the intent to and for violating his parole. 

n Sexual battery 

A teenage boy was arrested for grabbing a teenage girl’s breasts and pushing her to the ground at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday on the corner of Parker Street and Shattuck Avenue. According to police, a passing motorist saw the assault and began honking her horn. The boy fled the scene on foot, but was caught by police. The victim did not know to her assailant. Their names are not being released because they are teenagers. 

n Auto burglary 

A thief smashed a car window and stole a stereo, cell phone and CDs on the 800 block of Oxford Street Wednesday, police said.

OAKLAND – A rookie Oakland police officer was in stable condition at Highland Hospital Friday after being shot in the head by a unknown man in area of city known for having problems with drugs and prostitution, police say. 

Oakland police Sgt. George Phillips said police having been looking for the shooter, but have not found him as of yet. 

Phillips said the wounded officer stopped in front of the Mosswood Hotel in 683 West Blvd. at around 2:45 a.m. upon seeing a group of people gathered in the hotel's driveway. 

When the officer approached the group, one man immediately separated himself from the rest. While attempting to contact the unknown man, the officer was fired upon without provocation, Phillips said.

In 1906 The West Berkeley Development Company, whose partners were involved with the Claremont and Northbrae subdivisions and were later part of the Mason McDuffie Company, subdivided the San Pablo Park tract in south west Berkeley. The residential subdivision begins one block east of San Pablo Avenue and is located between Russell and Ward streets.  

The tract consists of an area of about 14 blocks surrounding a 15-acre park. A map of the subdivision shows that the corners of the blocks have been rounded rather than squared. 

Oregon, Baker (now Mabel) and Mathews streets have been given a gentle curve to break the harsh grid of the ordinary street pattern.  

A brochure for the subdivision proclaimed: “LOTS-$100 DOWN-$10 PER MONTH-NO INTEREST. All street work from sewers to sidewalks done free ... water mains laid ... trees planted ... the price you pay is the WHOLE price ... every bit of street work-concrete sidewalks and gutters, curbs, macadam pavement, sewers, water pipes ... even street trees.”  

As in other residential subdivisions deed restrictions prohibited “saloons, corner grocery or neighboring shack ... just read the restrictions contained in the contract. They’re made for YOUR benefit and they WILL benefit you.” 

The brochure also had photographs of shingled bungalows that the developers would build for “$500 down and this house is yours ... a pleasant shingled, Swiss chalet-with dining room paneled in redwood ... a clinker brick fire-place, window seats ... an artistic bungalow of five rooms.” Clapboard and Craftsman bungalows were constructed and today San Pablo Park is one of Berkeley’s quiet hidden neighborhoods.  

In 1910 the park was donated to the city. This is inconsistent with the brochure which states that the “Town of Berkeley has taken an option on four blocks in the very heart of San Pablo Park. It purposes to give those four blocks to YOU and YOUR CHILDREN.”  

It may be that the developers were not as generous as the story has been told, and they had initially intended to sell the land to the city rather than to donate it. It could be speculated that the city did not exercise their option to buy the land since bond measures for parks failed many times. The developers may have donated the park to the city to keep their promise to purchasers of their lots. At any rate, by 1914 a swing, see-saw, bars, and a football and a baseball field were installed. The Frances Albrier Community Center was built in 1970. 

Susan Cerny is author of Berkeley Landmarks and writes this in conjunction with the Berkeley Architectural Heritage Association.

Man receives 15 stitches in ear after BART knifing 

SAN FRANCISCO – BART Police say they are looking for a man who pulled a knife during an argument Thursday evening and slashed a man's ear inside the 24th Street BART station in San Francisco. 

The victim received 15 stitches and has been released from the hospital, police say. 

The men, both of whom were in their early 30s, entered the station at around 6:30 p.m. Thursday and were apparently arguing over money or a ticket, police say. 

After injuring the man with a knife, the man fled the scene on foot and police are still looking for him. 

Fremont attempted homicide suspect at large 

FREMONT – Fremont police today are looking for an attempted homicide suspect who stabbed a man early Thursday morning. 

Police say officers called to 34500 Freemont Blvd. at 1:30 a.m. Thursday found the victim suffering from multiple stab wounds. He is currently in stable condition at an area hospital and is expected to survive the attack. 

Police say the victim was only able to provide limited information about his attacker, though investigators believe the stabbing was the result of a verbal altercation. 

The suspect has not yet been identified and is still outstanding. 

Richmond police  

investigating two homicides  

RICHMOND – Police in Richmond are investigating two unrelated homicides in which city residents were found dead in their doorways. 

The first victim was discovered at around 6:09 p.m. Thursday after officers patrolling southwest Richmond heard gunshots fired near South 15th Street and Florida Avenue. 

They soon found 23-year-old Terry Wayne Forks lying across the doorway of a residence in the 200 block of South 15th Street. Emergency personnel pronounced him dead at the scene. 

Police Sgt. Enos Johnson says it appears Forks was standing on a small, raised porch in front of the doorway when he was shot multiple times by a handgun-wielding suspect who fled on foot afterward. The motive for the killing is unknown. 

Police say Forks' murder appears to be unrelated to a second killing that occurred early Friday in the 500 block of 16th Street. 

Johnson says that at about 12:22 a.m., officers responding to reports of shots fired in the area arrived at the scene to find 31-year-old Shonte Leon Thompson dead and lying across an apartment doorway. 

A preliminary investigation indicates that Thompson was standing in front of the apartment when he was approached from a common driveway area by a suspect who fired multiple rounds before fleeing on foot. 

Again, police say they have no motive for the murder.

MORGAN HILL — Foggy, cooler weather helped hundreds of firefighters grapple with a 3,142-acre blaze roaring through rural neighborhoods along the Santa Cruz Mountains and threatening at least 300 homes. 

However, by midday Friday increasing winds with gusts of up to 10 mph were causing some concern on the fire lines. The most active section of the fire Friday was in the southeast section along Redwood Retreat Road. 

Fire officials call the Croy Fire, which has raced through tinder-dry brush and trees since it began Monday, one of the area’s largest wildfires in decades. 

California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection officials believe the fire originated inside a trailer home along the eastern side of the mountains. The rural area is known to law enforcement officials as a frequent dumping ground for the remains of methamphetamine labs, but Mike VanWinkle of the Bureau of Narcotics said it’s unclear if a meth lab had anything to do with the blaze. 

Agents from the Bureau of Narcotics were investigating. 

“They are very good at analyzing chemical compounds and determining whom may have been in those buildings. (At this time) it is inconclusive as to the presence of chemicals indicative of a meth lab,” he said. 

More than 2,100 personnel from around the state battled towering flames that climbed oak and redwood trees. 

It was 60 percent contained Friday and had cost $3.2 million to fight, said Ruth Ferziger, a California Department of Forestry spokeswoman. Full containment was expected by Sunday evening.

SAN FRANCISCO — The association representing shipping lines on Friday locked out longshoremen at all West Coast ports until Sunday morning as contract negotiations with the dock worker’s union deteriorated into a labor disruption that will immediately curtail the flow of Asian goods across the United States. 

The announcement of the 36-hour “cooling-off period” came after the Pacific Maritime Association accused the longshoremen’s union of slowing down the pace of work to gain leverage in increasingly acrimonious talks. 

The association’s board met Friday morning and unanimously agreed to shutter the ports from 6 p.m. PDT until 8 a.m. Sunday PDT. 

The disruption could deal an immediate blow to the U.S. economy and stanch the flow of products from the Pacific Rim just as importers are rushing to distribute goods for the holiday season. The association has said that a coastwide labor disruption could cost the economy around $1 billion per day. West Coast ports handle more than $300 billion in imports and exports each year. 

The Bush administration urged both sides to resolve the dispute, but said it would not intervene to keep the docks open. 

“At this point, we are hopeful the two parties will come back to the bargaining table in good faith,” Department of Labor spokeswoman Sue Hensley said. “We are monitoring this very closely.” 

Word of the lockout prompted the head of the Federal Mediation Conciliation Service to fly to San Francisco, where both sides have been engaged in steadily deteriorating talks. 

Association president Joseph Miniace called the lockout “a very, very tough decision,” but one that shipping lines and terminal operators had to make because of provocations from the International Longshore and Warehouse Union. 

“It’s the very last thing we wanted to do,” Miniace said. “But the union forced us into this.” 

A union spokesman said the association was acting alone and that union negotiators wanted to keep talking. The union learned of the lockout when the two sides met for talks and association negotiators launched into a tirade, union President James Spinosa said. 

“Miniace showed the same disrespect for the union he has since the beginning of these talks,” Spinosa said. “He is unilaterally taking the action of closing all ports and bears full responsibility for its effects on the American economy.” 

Every day the ports are shut takes about a week for kinks and backlogs in the supply to get worked out, according to Robin Lanier, whose West Coast Waterfront Coalition represents importers and exporters.

Treasurer announces schedule  

for $11.9 billion bond sale 

SACRAMENTO — Nearly a year after the idea surfaced, then fell victim to repeated political, financial and legal delays, California is about to issue nearly $12 billion in municipal revenue bonds to pay off massive state bills from buying electricity last year. 

California Treasurer Phil Angelides announced Friday an “anticipated schedule” for the state’s Department of Water Resources to issue the bonds to investors in October and November. 

Earlier Friday, Angelides held a 30-minute conference call with major investors across the United States regarding what his office calls the largest municipal bond offering in U.S. history. At least 10 million California utility customers with the state’s three largest electric utilities will pay off the bonds with a portion of their bills. 

State officials cautioned the payment system does not necessarily mean higher power bills in California, where costs for residential, industrial and commercial users are above the U.S. average. 

At the state Department of Finance, which is still struggling with possible worsening financial forecasts even after closing a $98.9 billion budget for the 2002-2003 fiscal year ending next June 30, spokeswoman Anita Gore said a bond issue backed by utility customer rates means one thing: cash. 

“Certainly it helps the cash flow,” Gore said. “It brings cash to the general fund so we can pay our bills and provide services.” 

State finance officials balanced the budget with assumptions they would get the bond money. They still hope to receive $9 billion more in refunds from energy sellers for alleged overcharges. 

State attorney general files spam suit against Southern California company 

SANTA CLARA — California Attorney General Bill Lockyer filed suit against Internet marketer PW Marketing LLC, accusing the company of illegally spamming millions of Californians. 

The suit, filed Thursday in Santa Clara County Superior Court, alleges the company’s owners, Paul Willis of Northridge and Claudia Griffin of Canyon Country, violated various California consumer protection statutes that prohibit unsolicited commercial e-mails, known as spam. 

The suit also alleges the company violated statutes against using false addresses in advertising, failing to disclose required information, engaging in untrue or deceptive advertising and engaging in unfair business competition. 

Trustee to manage Napster  

SAN JOSE — Napster Inc. showed signs of life Friday as the defunct song-swapping service, creditors and the U.S. Trustee’s Office agreed to appoint a trustee to oversee the company during bankruptcy reorganization. 

The agreement, reached after creditors failed to find an executive willing to take over the company, will halt efforts by the U.S. trustee to convert the bankruptcy case to Chapter 7 liquidation. 

The company has been leaderless since chief executive Konrad Hilbers — the sole director — quit earlier this month following an unsuccessful takeover by the record label Bertelsmann AG. 

Napster also has received a letter of intent from an anonymous bidder for most of the company’s assets, said Rick B. Antonoff, an attorney representing Napster’s unsecured creditors committee.

SAN FRANCISCO — Michael Newdow, the California father who convinced a federal appeals court to declare the Pledge of Allegiance an unconstitutional endorsement of religion when recited in public classrooms, urged that court Friday to let its June 26 ruling stand. 

Newdow, an atheist from Sacramento challenged the pledge on grounds that his daughter should not be subjected to the term “under God” being recited in public classrooms. Newdow’s briefs are in response to a June 27 ruling by the court in which it put its decision on hold to allow for fresh appeals. 

Had the court not placed the ruling in a legal limbo, the decision would have stopped public schoolchildren from reciting the pledge in the nine western states that the nation’s largest appeals court covers. Those states are Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon and Washington. 

The child’s mother, the Elk Grove Unified School District, the federal government and California have also filed briefs with the court, urging the judges to follow an often-used court procedure and reverse the decision with either three or 11 judges. 

There are no timelines for the court to act on the ruling that was condemned by President Bush and Congress. Legal scholars suggest a case could be made both ways on whether the ruling should stand. 

The case began as a challenge to a 1954 decision by Congress to add the words “under God” to the pledge. But the lawsuit has sidestepped into a parental rights case over a custody dispute between Newdow and his 8-year-old child’s mother, Sandra Banning of Elk Grove. 

In response to the ruling, Banning has asserted to the court that her daughter is not harmed by reciting the pledge and is not opposed to God. Banning, who now has full custody of the child, is urging the court to consider whether Newdow even had legal standing to bring the case on behalf of his daughter. 

Newdow, however, wrote to the court that his daughter told him that she hoped he won his case. 

Newdow told the court Friday he does have the right to sue on grounds he doesn’t think his daughter should be subjected to the pledge, even if he doesn’t have custody. He says he doesn’t lose his legal status as a father just because he doesn’t have custody. 

While he is also urging the court to intervene in his custody dispute, he told the appeals court Friday that if Banning likes the pledge so much she can file her own lawsuit. 

“Banning, if she feels it necessary, can certainly file her own lawsuit to have the words ’under God’ kept in the Pledge of Allegiance,” Newdow wrote. “In this action, however, she has no role to play.” 

California, the federal government and the school district where the third-grader attends glommed onto Banning’s argument after she first publicized it July 11. 

The 9th Circuit has never ruled whether Newdow had standing.

SAN FRANCISCO — The case of a Missouri man who stormed an airplane cockpit two years ago ended in a San Francisco federal courtroom. 

U.S. District Judge William Alsup signed an order Thursday dismissing all charges against construction contractor Peter Bradley of Blue Springs, Mo., after confirmation he completed a diversion program. 

Bradley was accused of breaking into the cockpit of an Alaska Airlines jet on March 16, 2000 and trying to grab the controls. But prosecutors agreed to drop the charges if Bradley completed a program of medical treatment and 200 hours of community service. They said he was suffering from a rare outbreak of encephalitis and did not know what he was doing. 

Bradley, 41, faced federal charges of endangering and intimidating flight crew members. If convicted, he could have been sentenced to 10 years.

GARDEN GROVE — Republicans gathered for the first day of their semiannual state convention Friday hoping to give their beleaguered gubernatorial nominee, Bill Simon, a push to Election Day Nov. 5. 

Some of the faithful arriving at the Hyatt Regency Orange County for the weekend event acknowledged that Simon faces a tough fight against his better-funded opponent, Democratic Gov. Gray Davis, in a state where Democrats outnumber Republicans and infighting has divided the GOP. 

But one thing seemed to give the delegates hope: Davis’ low approval ratings. 

“I mean really, you don’t talk to people coming up and defending his character or defending his ideas,” said Roberta Wright, 61, of Redding, an alternate delegate to the convention. “I don’t know anything that people would defend on his part.” 

It was a sentiment echoed by other delegates and one that’s borne out in polls in which the governor’s approval rating has hovered at or below 50 percent for more than a year. 

That has also united the fractured GOP, which at its last convention six months ago was busy fighting over who would become the nominee: Simon, Secretary of State Bill Jones or former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan, the moderate choice who at that point had a comfortable lead in polls. 

Delegates want to put that discord behind them this weekend. Riordan was nowhere to be seen and Jones, the Republicans’ only statewide officeholder, was being feted at a banquet Friday night. 

Simon was scheduled to address the hundreds of delegates at a luncheon Saturday. 

“This convention is important for our campaign because we need an excited Republican Party for us to be successful on Nov. 5,” the candidate’s chief consultant, Sal Russo, told a media briefing. 

Simon’s campaign has stumbled since the primary, but earlier this month a state judge provided a victory by throwing out a $78 million civil fraud verdict against the candidate’s investment firm. 

Now, Simon’s aides want to reintroduce the nominee to voters. 

They unveiled a new ad to begin airing Tuesday that shows Simon strolling toward the camera and asking, “Do you know me? I survived millions of dollars of Gray Davis lies and distortions. I was a federal prosecutor under Rudy Giuliani ... I’m not a politician, but I will clean up Sacramento. I’m Bill Simon.” 

The party is also trying to use the verdict reversal to collect more funds. A solicitation arrived in mailboxes in recent days labeled “Bill Simon Vindication Emergency Reply.” 

Simon has struggled for donations and has been airing ads only sporadically, while Davis’ ads have been blanketing the airwaves since early June. While refusing to give details, Russo insisted that Simon, who was eight points behind Davis in the most recent independent poll, would have enough money to run a credible media campaign through the election.

DENVER — In a scene reminiscent of anti-war protests of the 1960s, at least 2,000 people gathered Friday outside a fund-raiser featuring President Bush to rally against a possible war in Iraq. 

Chanting “No blood for oil,” “No war for votes” and “Hey hey, ho ho, this war machine has got to go,” the protesters marched from the Denver City and County Building four blocks to the hotel where Bush was speaking. 

“I’m here to protest Bush’s coming war. It’s not inevitable, but the Bush administration is determined to start one,” said Maggie Boys, 48, a Boulder woman who attended anti-Vietnam war rallies in New Jersey when she was a teenager. 

Except for a few skirmishes with police, the protests were peaceful. Denver Police spokeswoman Virginia Lopez said there were no arrests. 

Inside the hotel, Bush spoke to a packed crowd at the $1,000-a-plate fund-raiser for Bob Beauprez, who is running in the 7th Congressional District. After the event, Bush went to Arizona.

SAN FRANCISCO — The Mexican Consulate hopes to serve its visitors better from their new quarters in the South of Market starting October. 

The new building, located at 532 Folsom Street, just four blocks away from the Montgomery St. Bay Area Rapid Transit station is four times as big as the space the consulate occupies in the Flood Building on Market St., said spokesman Bernardo Mendez. The consulate will lease the new building and may eventually buy it. 

“Many former consuls wished for this move but due to budget restrictions in Mexico it was not possible,” Mendez said. “It is a historical moment since we have occupied the Flood Building for 50 years.” 

Eighty percent of the consulate’s 300 daily visitors go in search of a Mexican government-issued ID card or a passport, said Mendez. The consulate hopes that with more space, the lines formed by visitors will be minimal. Several business near the Flood Building complained that the lengthy lines were negatively affecting their sales. 

The Flood Building, located near busy Union Square, holds a total of nine foreign consulates.

LOS ANGELES — Taiwan’s first lady Wu Shu-jen has canceled three events on the last leg of her trip to the United States because of exhaustion, a spokesman said Friday. 

“Because of the long trip from Taiwan to Washington, to New York, to Los Angeles, she is a little bit exhausted,” said James Huang, her spokesman. 

The frail but outspoken Wu canceled trips to the Getty Museum and the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library but still planned to attend a banquet on Friday night, where more than 1,000 Taiwanese-Americans hoped to meet her. 

The banquet was intended to show gratitude to the region’s Taiwanese-American community, the largest in the country, which has raised $1 million to help endow a new foundation promoting Taiwan’s image in this country. 

The first lady arrived in Los Angeles on Thursday afternoon and had intended to attend a Dodgers baseball game to honor the team’s Chin-Feng Chen, the first Taiwanese player in the major leagues. 

Instead, she was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center for a checkup and then to her hotel, where she was in good condition under the care of her private doctors, Huang said. 

Wu’s 10-day visit marks the first time Taiwan’s first lady has visited the United States in nearly half a century. 

The United States broke off diplomatic relations with Taiwan in 1979 when this country established relations with the People’s Republic of China. The Chinese government considers Taiwan a renegade province. 

President Chen Shui-bian, Wu’s husband, is Taiwan’s second democratically elected leader and the first to break the Nationalist Party’s grip on the island’s presidency. 

Wu uses a wheelchair and was paralyzed from the waist down when a truck ran over her three times in 1985 during Taiwan’s repressive martial era. She has said she believes she was the victim of a botched assassination attempt by the political rivals of her husband.

The plain, boxy appearance of Fantasy Building on 10th Street conceals the glamorous work that goes on inside. Most recently, the building’s studios have contributed to this month’s release of three films on DVD.  

The Saul Zaentz Film Center, in the Fantasy Building, did post-production work on DVD versions of “The Unbearable Lightness of Being,” “Amadeus” and “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest.” The films, all originally produced by Saul Zaentz, will hit stores this week with newly restored picture and soundtracks. 

Sound is the Saul Zaentz Film Center’s ace in the hole. Hollywood recognizes the center’s facilities and skilled staff as a coveted place to mix movie sound, which the new DVDs highlight. 

Film center staffer and sound mixer Mark Berger won an Academy Award in 1985 for his work on “Amadeus” (along with cohorts Thomas Scott, Todd Boekelheide, and Christopher Newman), one of the six Oscars the film collected. 

The film of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart begged for a good sound mix. And to give a realistic sense of a live Mozart performance in 18th century Vienna, Berger and his team recorded audiences of all sizes – including silent-movie viewers at the Pacific Film Archive – to get sounds of people shuffling in their seats. 

Berger dusted off the original sound to prepare the rerelease with more sophisticated sound technology than he had in 1984. To his surprise, he didn’t need to touch the music mix at all. “In spite of the technology, we got it right the first time.” 

“One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest” needed a bit more work. The negative was brought out for cleaning and restoration, but Berger said even the original production was raw at the time. 

The film based on Ken Kesey’s novel about a convict who cons his way into cushy time at the psyche ward and tries in vain to beat the system won five Oscars in 1975, but was plagued with unavoidable sound distortion on the dialogue track – faint traces of tape hiss with camera noise and mono mixed in. 

With 27 years of technological improvements and skills, Berger went back to the tapes to clean them up and create a stereo mix. No sound was added to the rerelease version, said Berger. “The philosophy was, the film was particular and it should stay that way. It should reflect the time it was made in,” he explained. 

All sound manipulation took place in the mixing, not the editing. Nothing was added or subtracted, keeping true to the film’s original intentions. 

Director Milos Foreman’s original idea was to make a strong distinction between the environment inside the hospital and the outside world, said Berger. When Randle McMurphy (Jack Nicholson) coaxes his disoriented inmates out of the insular, claustrophobic hospital halls to play some basketball in the sun, Berger placed the outside sounds in an expansive stereo field. 

Although the subtleties of the sound mix might be impressive heard through a movie theater’s speaker system, they could get lost on many people’s televisions at home. Even with the surround sound of new home entertainment setups, dynamics are the first to go. The loud isn’t too loud, and the quiet bits get lost. Berger’s digital re-mixes reflect the sound quality of high-end DVD players, while narrowing the dynamic range to fit their limitations. 

Sound is usually the least popular aspect of movies, the one most easily forgotten outside the theater. These DVD releases are a testament that the renowned mixing stages and their captains in the Fantasy Building are the invisible hands guiding a filmmaker’s fictional tapestry. 

Student conduct hearings for 32 pro-Palestinian protesters who participated in the April takeover of UC Berkeley’s Wheeler Hall start Monday amid controversy over the public’s right to observe them. 

UC Berkeley officials are defending a decision to close the first hearing and move it away from the center of campus, arguing that the privacy measures are necessary to ensure order. 

Students activists, meanwhile, say the university is simply attempting to block the public from viewing the process. 

“They’re trying to move it away from the eyes of the campus community,” said Hoang Phan of Students for Justice in Palestine, which led the Wheeler Hall takeover last Spring. 

A total of 79 protesters, including 41 students, were involved in the April 9 protest, calling on the nine-campus University of California system to divest from Israel.  

The Alameda County District Attorney dropped criminal charges against the “Wheeler 79” in June, but the university has pursued student conduct charges. 

Nine of the 41 students have agreed to an “informal resolution” of the charges, accepting a semester-long probation, while 32 have chosen to move forward with full hearings, opening themselves up to penalties as stiff as expulsion. 

All students face charges of unauthorized entry to or use of university property, obstruction or disruption of teaching or other university activity, disturbing the peace and failure to comply with the directions of a university official. 

Graduate student Roberto Hernandez, the subject of the first hearing Monday, faces an additional charge of physical or verbal abuse for allegedly biting a UC Berkeley police officer April 9. 

Hernandez, who said he is innocent of all charges, condemned UC Berkeley professor David Zusman, chair of the student conduct hearing committee, for his decision to close the proceedings. Hernandez said his supporters would not have disrupted the hearing. 

But university spokesperson Janet Gilmore said activists have made statements at student meetings about “rushing” the hearings. 

Closing the proceedings, she said, is “an effort to ensure that the hearing will be fair and orderly.”  

“That’s outrageous,” said Phan, of Students for Justice in Palestine, arguing that no statements about “rushing” the hearings were made. “I don’t know what they’re referring to.” 

Students have also raised concerns about the composition of the committee that will run the student conduct hearing Monday.  

Campus regulations call for a five-member committee composed of two faculty, two students and one staff member. If availability is a problem, the rules allow for alternates to fill in for regular committee members and for the panel to shrink to three members. 

The university informed the students’ lawyers Thursday afternoon that the Hernandez committee would be composed of three faculty members, one of them a replacement for a student who could not serve. 

Hernandez said the proposed panel was unacceptable, arguing that at least one student was necessary. 

“The committee needs to be representative of this campus,” he said. 

Gilmore said Friday that the university expected to have a three-member committee, with two faculty and one student, in place by Monday. 

“This is part of a pattern of a lot of late changes,” said Phan, noting that the university did not inform students until Thursday that it was moving the hearing from Sproul Hall at the center of campus to the Clark Kerr facility, seven blocks south of the main campus on Warring Street. 

“They’re trying to complicate things for us,” he said. “We have to scramble and call all of our witnesses and get them to another location.” 

“It was just another effort to ensure that the hearing is fair and orderly,” Gilmore replied, discussing the shift to Clark Kerr.  

Gilmore said students had circulated a flyer calling for a rally in Sproul Plaza outside the original hearing location. 

For more than a quarter century native American Rosemary Cambra has provided a voice for her people. This week, Cambra, chairwoman for the Bay Area's Muwekma Ohlone Tribe, brought her message to Berkeley, where she urged the city to preserve and protect local burial grounds under University Avenue at the train tracks near Fourth Street. 

“I am here to present the legal, cultural and spiritual concerns over this sacred site,” said Cambra at a West Berkeley Project Area Commission (WBPAC) meeting Thursday. “If we are not mindful of our culture and our language and our history, [the United States] government can eliminate [our culture].” 

WBPAC members hope the meeting will establish a partnership between Berkeley and the Ohlone Tribe in which Cambra will serve as a consultant and protect the tribe’s interests – mainly respecting the dead – during a city development project near the 500-year-old Ohlone burial site. 

The city is looking to build a transit hub at the west Berkeley rail stop, linking bus, ferry, train and taxi services. The purchase and restoration of the defunct Southern Pacific Rail Station would be part of the project. 

While improvements are being made to the area, however, including leveling and paving surrounding roads, burial tombs would need to be protected, according to planners and archeologists. 

A “treatment plan,” designed to preserve the burial grounds during construction, is being put together by city engineers and an archeologist selected by the Ohlone tribe, said Iris Starr, senior city planner. 

To protect the sacred remains, much of the initial paving and leveling “will be done by hand, not by machines,” said Starr. 

With the guidance of Cambra and Alan Leventhal, an ethnohistorian the Ohlone Tribe picked to consult with the city, planners hope paving and preservation will begin by December.  

“This is where the rubber meets the road,” Starr said. 

The burial remains will remain undisturbed beneath the new transit hub after it is built. 

In addition to protecting the Ohlone burial site, planners hope to celebrate the tribe’s history and culture by including Ohlone art displays at the new transit hub.  

One such display could consist of a large mural reflecting tribal life or a series of displays located inside a restored train station.  

While she is pleased with the plans for commemorating the tribe, Cambra warns that preservation efforts should not to be taken lightly. Instead, she says, city and tribal leaders must work closely to establish a true partnership. 

“I have a lot of concerns. I don't want to be a part of a lack of understanding when it comes to preservation,” Cambra stated, citing failed efforts in Emeryville to preserve and protect a submerged burial site. “If you don't have integrity, understanding and honesty, we don't want to be a part of it.” 

As the representative of the Muwekma Ohlone, Cambra is all too familiar with disappointment. Having gone 100 years without recognition from the United States government as being an official native tribe, the Muwekma have taken matters into their own hands. 

They have established both a strong legal team and a group of knowledgeable cultural historians to preserve the rights and heritage of the tribe.  

Since 1989, the Muwekma have incurred more than $10 million in legal debt in their fight to gain status as a federally-recognized group. Though a ruling on Sept. 6 by the Bureau of Indian Affairs denied their latest request, the tribe continues to seek acknowledgment. 

“One needs to defend our bloodline and take on any government when they try to terminate our culture, our history and our existence. We are the symbol and the example of what the U.S. government can do to a group if you let them,” Cambra said. 

Berkeley mayor Shirley Dean and challenger Tom Bates, a former state Assemblyman, are within a few percentage points in the race for voter support, according to a poll commissioned by the mayor’s office. 

Oakland-based pollster Lake Snell Perry and Associates found that Dean leads Bates 41 percent to 38 percent in the mayoral contest with 19 percent of the 400-person sample undecided. The survey’s margin of error was 4.9 percent. 

I feel pretty good about the results,” said Dean. “We knew it was going to be a close race from the very beginning.” 

In addition to identifying a virtually dead-even contest, Perry and Associates found 58 percent of those polled think the city is “heading in the right direction.” Twenty-six percent believe the city is “on the wrong track,” pollsters found. 

“That’s the most important number in the whole poll,” said Dean. “People are happy with the way the city is being run and that’s what will make up their minds in the election.” 

Tom Bates’ campaign manager Larry Tramutola dismissed this week’s poll as campaign rhetoric. 

“It’s rare for a campaign to release a poll unless they’ve got problems,” Tramutola said, noting that polls are normally used internally to make strategic decisions. He suggested that the mayor is having difficulty raising money and the poll is being used to re-establish credibility for her campaign. 

The Bates’ camp has raised roughly $100,000, according to Tramutola. Dean officials say they have at least that much money. 

“We’re real excited about the pace of contributions,” said Dean’s campaign manager Brian Schwartz. 

Tramutola, who was not convinced of the accuracy of this week’s poll, said the poll was likely successful in revealing the high number of undecided voters, which he said works in favor of Bates. 

“Dean’s been in office for eight years. ... Those that are still undecided are going to vote for Bates,” he said. 

Tramutola added that he has commissioned polls as well. He would not provide specific results, but suggested that the race was close and Bates is likely slightly ahead. 

DAKAR, Senegal — More than 760 people were believed dead Friday after an ocean ferry capsized off West Africa in a fierce gale, with 88 victims recovered and bodies of others spotted trapped inside. 

“It was horrible, because we were hearing people screaming from underneath,” said hospitalized survivor Moussa Ndong, who escaped when the ferry capsized Thursday night. He survived by clinging to the side of the vessel for two hours. 

“The boat went down so fast. It was so unbelievable — in just three minutes, the boat went down,” he said. 

Fishing boats and other vessels rescued the 32 survivors, according to Senegal Prime Minister Mame Madior Boye. 

The state-owned Joola ferry capsized off Gambia in the Atlantic Ocean about 11 p.m. en route to the Senegalese capital, Dakar, from the south of the country. Gambia is a strip-shaped country only a few miles wide and divides north and south Senegal. 

The vessel remained in one piece Friday, and still on its side, said Mamadou Diop Thioune, a coordinator of a French-funded marine center whose divers were helping in the search for victims. 

Dive teams recovered 88 bodies, Diop said. They spotted a number of corpses through the ferry windows, and believed the still unrecovered passengers and crew to be dead, with their corpses caught inside, he said. 

“Now, I’m afraid, it’s a matter of recovering bodies,” he said. 

The first corpses retrieved from the accident were being taken back to the port Friday. 

Searchers waited as night fell Friday for the arrival of military divers with equipment to cut into the ferry, he said. 

Ndong told The Associated Press by telephone from a hospital in neighboring Gambia that the storm brewed as the ferry made its way north from Senegal’s southern district of Casamance. 

As the wind built, the boat started tipping to one side, he said. Water rushed into the cabin. When the lights went out, he said, passengers started screaming. 

Senegal declared three days of national mourning at midday Friday as the search for victims continued. Boye and other state officials went to the port to be with families. 

President Abdoulaye Wade cut short a trip to France. Speaking briefly to reporters upon his return home, he pledged an investigation. 

Families and friends rushed to the port in Dakar, sobbing and pounding their heads on walls. 

“God have mercy! Pray! Pray everyone!” one woman, waiting with the rest for news of loved ones, pleaded. “Stop crying!” 

Later, hundreds of people surrounded the locked gates of navy offices, demanding information about the search and rescue and its results. Among the throng, a woman screamed and tore her hair, sobbing for word of her daughter. 

“Tell us whether she’s alive,” the woman shouted. “Can we please know whether she’s alive?” 

Ferries are the main way of transportation between north and south Senegal, in part because travel by road is slowed by border checks passing through Gambia. Merchants carrying dried fish, mangos and other goods from verdant Casamance make up many of the usual travelers aboard. 

Angry men thronging the port denounced authorities, claiming the ferry had been riding low on one side, and never should have been allowed out of port. 

Media reports said the ferry had undergone repairs, and had only recently returned to service after months in dock. 

DAKAR, Senegal — More than 760 people were believed dead Friday after an ocean ferry capsized off West Africa in a fierce gale, with 88 victims recovered and bodies of others spotted trapped inside. 

“It was horrible, because we were hearing people screaming from underneath,” said hospitalized survivor Moussa Ndong, who escaped when the ferry capsized Thursday night. He survived by clinging to the side of the vessel for two hours. 

“The boat went down so fast. It was so unbelievable — in just three minutes, the boat went down,” he said. 

Fishing boats and other vessels rescued the 32 survivors, according to Senegal Prime Minister Mame Madior Boye. 

The state-owned Joola ferry capsized off Gambia in the Atlantic Ocean about 11 p.m. en route to the Senegalese capital, Dakar, from the south of the country. Gambia is a strip-shaped country only a few miles wide and divides north and south Senegal. 

The vessel remained in one piece Friday, and still on its side, said Mamadou Diop Thioune, a coordinator of a French-funded marine center whose divers were helping in the search for victims. 

Dive teams recovered 88 bodies, Diop said. They spotted a number of corpses through the ferry windows, and believed the still unrecovered passengers and crew to be dead, with their corpses caught inside, he said. 

“Now, I’m afraid, it’s a matter of recovering bodies,” he said. 

The first corpses retrieved from the accident were being taken back to the port Friday. 

Searchers waited as night fell Friday for the arrival of military divers with equipment to cut into the ferry, he said. 

Ndong told The Associated Press by telephone from a hospital in neighboring Gambia that the storm brewed as the ferry made its way north from Senegal’s southern district of Casamance. 

As the wind built, the boat started tipping to one side, he said. Water rushed into the cabin. When the lights went out, he said, passengers started screaming. 

Senegal declared three days of national mourning at midday Friday as the search for victims continued. Boye and other state officials went to the port to be with families. 

President Abdoulaye Wade cut short a trip to France. Speaking briefly to reporters upon his return home, he pledged an investigation. 

Families and friends rushed to the port in Dakar, sobbing and pounding their heads on walls. 

“God have mercy! Pray! Pray everyone!” one woman, waiting with the rest for news of loved ones, pleaded. “Stop crying!” 

Later, hundreds of people surrounded the locked gates of navy offices, demanding information about the search and rescue and its results. Among the throng, a woman screamed and tore her hair, sobbing for word of her daughter. 

“Tell us whether she’s alive,” the woman shouted. “Can we please know whether she’s alive?” 

Ferries are the main way of transportation between north and south Senegal, in part because travel by road is slowed by border checks passing through Gambia. Merchants carrying dried fish, mangos and other goods from verdant Casamance make up many of the usual travelers aboard. 

Angry men thronging the port denounced authorities, claiming the ferry had been riding low on one side, and never should have been allowed out of port. 

Media reports said the ferry had undergone repairs, and had only recently returned to service after months in dock. 

DAKAR, Senegal — More than 760 people were believed dead Friday after an ocean ferry capsized off West Africa in a fierce gale, with 88 victims recovered and bodies of others spotted trapped inside. 

“It was horrible, because we were hearing people screaming from underneath,” said hospitalized survivor Moussa Ndong, who escaped when the ferry capsized Thursday night. He survived by clinging to the side of the vessel for two hours. 

“The boat went down so fast. It was so unbelievable — in just three minutes, the boat went down,” he said. 

Fishing boats and other vessels rescued the 32 survivors, according to Senegal Prime Minister Mame Madior Boye. 

The state-owned Joola ferry capsized off Gambia in the Atlantic Ocean about 11 p.m. en route to the Senegalese capital, Dakar, from the south of the country. Gambia is a strip-shaped country only a few miles wide and divides north and south Senegal. 

The vessel remained in one piece Friday, and still on its side, said Mamadou Diop Thioune, a coordinator of a French-funded marine center whose divers were helping in the search for victims. 

Dive teams recovered 88 bodies, Diop said. They spotted a number of corpses through the ferry windows, and believed the still unrecovered passengers and crew to be dead, with their corpses caught inside, he said. 

“Now, I’m afraid, it’s a matter of recovering bodies,” he said. 

The first corpses retrieved from the accident were being taken back to the port Friday. 

Searchers waited as night fell Friday for the arrival of military divers with equipment to cut into the ferry, he said. 

Ndong told The Associated Press by telephone from a hospital in neighboring Gambia that the storm brewed as the ferry made its way north from Senegal’s southern district of Casamance. 

As the wind built, the boat started tipping to one side, he said. Water rushed into the cabin. When the lights went out, he said, passengers started screaming. 

Senegal declared three days of national mourning at midday Friday as the search for victims continued. Boye and other state officials went to the port to be with families. 

President Abdoulaye Wade cut short a trip to France. Speaking briefly to reporters upon his return home, he pledged an investigation. 

Families and friends rushed to the port in Dakar, sobbing and pounding their heads on walls. 

“God have mercy! Pray! Pray everyone!” one woman, waiting with the rest for news of loved ones, pleaded. “Stop crying!” 

Later, hundreds of people surrounded the locked gates of navy offices, demanding information about the search and rescue and its results. Among the throng, a woman screamed and tore her hair, sobbing for word of her daughter. 

“Tell us whether she’s alive,” the woman shouted. “Can we please know whether she’s alive?” 

Ferries are the main way of transportation between north and south Senegal, in part because travel by road is slowed by border checks passing through Gambia. Merchants carrying dried fish, mangos and other goods from verdant Casamance make up many of the usual travelers aboard. 

Angry men thronging the port denounced authorities, claiming the ferry had been riding low on one side, and never should have been allowed out of port. 

Media reports said the ferry had undergone repairs, and had only recently returned to service after months in dock. 

DAKAR, Senegal — More than 760 people were believed dead Friday after an ocean ferry capsized off West Africa in a fierce gale, with 88 victims recovered and bodies of others spotted trapped inside. 

“It was horrible, because we were hearing people screaming from underneath,” said hospitalized survivor Moussa Ndong, who escaped when the ferry capsized Thursday night. He survived by clinging to the side of the vessel for two hours. 

“The boat went down so fast. It was so unbelievable — in just three minutes, the boat went down,” he said. 

Fishing boats and other vessels rescued the 32 survivors, according to Senegal Prime Minister Mame Madior Boye. 

The state-owned Joola ferry capsized off Gambia in the Atlantic Ocean about 11 p.m. en route to the Senegalese capital, Dakar, from the south of the country. Gambia is a strip-shaped country only a few miles wide and divides north and south Senegal. 

The vessel remained in one piece Friday, and still on its side, said Mamadou Diop Thioune, a coordinator of a French-funded marine center whose divers were helping in the search for victims. 

Dive teams recovered 88 bodies, Diop said. They spotted a number of corpses through the ferry windows, and believed the still unrecovered passengers and crew to be dead, with their corpses caught inside, he said. 

“Now, I’m afraid, it’s a matter of recovering bodies,” he said. 

The first corpses retrieved from the accident were being taken back to the port Friday. 

Searchers waited as night fell Friday for the arrival of military divers with equipment to cut into the ferry, he said. 

Ndong told The Associated Press by telephone from a hospital in neighboring Gambia that the storm brewed as the ferry made its way north from Senegal’s southern district of Casamance. 

As the wind built, the boat started tipping to one side, he said. Water rushed into the cabin. When the lights went out, he said, passengers started screaming. 

Senegal declared three days of national mourning at midday Friday as the search for victims continued. Boye and other state officials went to the port to be with families. 

President Abdoulaye Wade cut short a trip to France. Speaking briefly to reporters upon his return home, he pledged an investigation. 

Families and friends rushed to the port in Dakar, sobbing and pounding their heads on walls. 

“God have mercy! Pray! Pray everyone!” one woman, waiting with the rest for news of loved ones, pleaded. “Stop crying!” 

Later, hundreds of people surrounded the locked gates of navy offices, demanding information about the search and rescue and its results. Among the throng, a woman screamed and tore her hair, sobbing for word of her daughter. 

“Tell us whether she’s alive,” the woman shouted. “Can we please know whether she’s alive?” 

Ferries are the main way of transportation between north and south Senegal, in part because travel by road is slowed by border checks passing through Gambia. Merchants carrying dried fish, mangos and other goods from verdant Casamance make up many of the usual travelers aboard. 

Angry men thronging the port denounced authorities, claiming the ferry had been riding low on one side, and never should have been allowed out of port. 

Media reports said the ferry had undergone repairs, and had only recently returned to service after months in dock.

DAKAR, Senegal — More than 760 people were believed dead Friday after an ocean ferry capsized off West Africa in a fierce gale, with 88 victims recovered and bodies of others spotted trapped inside. 

“It was horrible, because we were hearing people screaming from underneath,” said hospitalized survivor Moussa Ndong, who escaped when the ferry capsized Thursday night. He survived by clinging to the side of the vessel for two hours. 

“The boat went down so fast. It was so unbelievable — in just three minutes, the boat went down,” he said. 

Fishing boats and other vessels rescued the 32 survivors, according to Senegal Prime Minister Mame Madior Boye. 

The state-owned Joola ferry capsized off Gambia in the Atlantic Ocean about 11 p.m. en route to the Senegalese capital, Dakar, from the south of the country. Gambia is a strip-shaped country only a few miles wide and divides north and south Senegal. 

The vessel remained in one piece Friday, and still on its side, said Mamadou Diop Thioune, a coordinator of a French-funded marine center whose divers were helping in the search for victims. 

Dive teams recovered 88 bodies, Diop said. They spotted a number of corpses through the ferry windows, and believed the still unrecovered passengers and crew to be dead, with their corpses caught inside, he said. 

“Now, I’m afraid, it’s a matter of recovering bodies,” he said. 

The first corpses retrieved from the accident were being taken back to the port Friday. 

Searchers waited as night fell Friday for the arrival of military divers with equipment to cut into the ferry, he said. 

Ndong told The Associated Press by telephone from a hospital in neighboring Gambia that the storm brewed as the ferry made its way north from Senegal’s southern district of Casamance. 

As the wind built, the boat started tipping to one side, he said. Water rushed into the cabin. When the lights went out, he said, passengers started screaming. 

Senegal declared three days of national mourning at midday Friday as the search for victims continued. Boye and other state officials went to the port to be with families. 

President Abdoulaye Wade cut short a trip to France. Speaking briefly to reporters upon his return home, he pledged an investigation. 

Families and friends rushed to the port in Dakar, sobbing and pounding their heads on walls. 

“God have mercy! Pray! Pray everyone!” one woman, waiting with the rest for news of loved ones, pleaded. “Stop crying!” 

Later, hundreds of people surrounded the locked gates of navy offices, demanding information about the search and rescue and its results. Among the throng, a woman screamed and tore her hair, sobbing for word of her daughter. 

“Tell us whether she’s alive,” the woman shouted. “Can we please know whether she’s alive?” 

Ferries are the main way of transportation between north and south Senegal, in part because travel by road is slowed by border checks passing through Gambia. Merchants carrying dried fish, mangos and other goods from verdant Casamance make up many of the usual travelers aboard. 

Angry men thronging the port denounced authorities, claiming the ferry had been riding low on one side, and never should have been allowed out of port. 

Media reports said the ferry had undergone repairs, and had only recently returned to service after months in dock. 

DAKAR, Senegal — More than 760 people were believed dead Friday after an ocean ferry capsized off West Africa in a fierce gale, with 88 victims recovered and bodies of others spotted trapped inside. 

“It was horrible, because we were hearing people screaming from underneath,” said hospitalized survivor Moussa Ndong, who escaped when the ferry capsized Thursday night. He survived by clinging to the side of the vessel for two hours. 

“The boat went down so fast. It was so unbelievable — in just three minutes, the boat went down,” he said. 

Fishing boats and other vessels rescued the 32 survivors, according to Senegal Prime Minister Mame Madior Boye. 

The state-owned Joola ferry capsized off Gambia in the Atlantic Ocean about 11 p.m. en route to the Senegalese capital, Dakar, from the south of the country. Gambia is a strip-shaped country only a few miles wide and divides north and south Senegal. 

The vessel remained in one piece Friday, and still on its side, said Mamadou Diop Thioune, a coordinator of a French-funded marine center whose divers were helping in the search for victims. 

Dive teams recovered 88 bodies, Diop said. They spotted a number of corpses through the ferry windows, and believed the still unrecovered passengers and crew to be dead, with their corpses caught inside, he said. 

“Now, I’m afraid, it’s a matter of recovering bodies,” he said. 

The first corpses retrieved from the accident were being taken back to the port Friday. 

Searchers waited as night fell Friday for the arrival of military divers with equipment to cut into the ferry, he said. 

Ndong told The Associated Press by telephone from a hospital in neighboring Gambia that the storm brewed as the ferry made its way north from Senegal’s southern district of Casamance. 

As the wind built, the boat started tipping to one side, he said. Water rushed into the cabin. When the lights went out, he said, passengers started screaming. 

Senegal declared three days of national mourning at midday Friday as the search for victims continued. Boye and other state officials went to the port to be with families. 

President Abdoulaye Wade cut short a trip to France. Speaking briefly to reporters upon his return home, he pledged an investigation. 

Families and friends rushed to the port in Dakar, sobbing and pounding their heads on walls. 

“God have mercy! Pray! Pray everyone!” one woman, waiting with the rest for news of loved ones, pleaded. “Stop crying!” 

Later, hundreds of people surrounded the locked gates of navy offices, demanding information about the search and rescue and its results. Among the throng, a woman screamed and tore her hair, sobbing for word of her daughter. 

“Tell us whether she’s alive,” the woman shouted. “Can we please know whether she’s alive?” 

Ferries are the main way of transportation between north and south Senegal, in part because travel by road is slowed by border checks passing through Gambia. Merchants carrying dried fish, mangos and other goods from verdant Casamance make up many of the usual travelers aboard. 

Angry men thronging the port denounced authorities, claiming the ferry had been riding low on one side, and never should have been allowed out of port. 

Media reports said the ferry had undergone repairs, and had only recently returned to service after months in dock. 

A squad of parking meter technicians is the city’s latest response to the continuing problem of meter failure. The move comes as vandalism and coin-recognition problems continue to drain city coffers and aggravate downtown drivers. 

In addition to the repair team, police crackdowns on vandalism are up. A surveillance team arrested two more UC Berkeley students Tuesday morning for jamming meters on Bancroft Way. 

Police charged Zhang Ying Yun, 20, and Shalomda Reynolds, 19, with two misdemeanors – vandalism and tampering with a coin-operated machine. The students face a six months in jail and a $1,000 fine. 

The Berkeley Police Department has now arrested four people for jamming meters near UC Berkeley in a series of three undercover stings dating back to April. 

City officials say vandalism, which has struck an estimated 30 to 40 percent of the city’s 3,200 meters, has cost the city roughly $1 million in repairs and lost revenue per year. 

Patrick Keilch, deputy director of public works, said repeated vandalism may have contributed to another nagging meter problem – failure to read coins properly. 

Lt. Bruce Agnew of the police department’s traffic bureau said residents using faulty meters get less time than they paid for, or no time at all.“That’s obviously frustrating for people,” he said. 

Berkeley resident Marianne Robinson said she has dropped coins into meters only to see a “fail” message flash. 

“It’s one of those things that gets to be a little maddening,” she said. 

The city spent more than $1.5 million to replace all of its meters in 1998 and 1999, according to Keilch. Duncan Industries Parking Control Systems, of Harrison, Ark., supplied the vast majority of those meters. 

Keilch said the city has reached an “amicable agreement” with Duncan Industries over the coin recognition problem. The company has provided free training to city staff in fixing meters and a limited number of free new parts. 

“They want these meters to work as much as we do,” said Keilch. 

Armed with the new parts and training, a full-time staff of four repair technicians are fixing city meters on a constant basis. Four of the city’s parking enforcement officers, or “meter maids,” also received the Duncan training and are conducting repairs on a part-time basis. 

Grace Maguire, assistant to the city manager, said the undercover stings are part of a multi-pronged effort to thwart vandalism. 

In July, as part of a six-month pilot program, the city placed green canvas bags over the 240 often-vandalized meters on Durant and Bancroft streets, between Dana Street and Piedmont Avenue, south of the UC Berkeley campus. 

Officials said most of the vandalism has occurred in this area, where parking is scarce and garages are expensive.  

The police department has dedicated one parking enforcement officer to patrol the relatively small area each day and issue $23 fines for people who exceed the parking time limit – usually one hour.  

Officials hope the new system might yield more revenue than a series of meters that were rendered useless by repeated vandalism. 

“We’re going to see how it works and gauge the effectiveness,” said Maguire. 

The city has not seen a significant jump in tickets since the program went into effect in mid-July, Maguire said, but that was before the students returned to school. Maguire hopes to see improvement in the coming months. 

A recently-passed City Council ordinance allowing traffic enforcement officers to issue multiple tickets for a car that remains in the same space too long should aid the effort. 

Kathy Berger, executive director of the Telegraph Area Association, a local community development organization, said the pilot program has paid another kind of dividend.  

Tight enforcement means that cars are moving in and out of the area quickly, Berger said. As a result, shoppers have an easier time finding parking spots and patronizing local businesses. 

“It appears to be working extremely well,” she said. “It has actually helped some people’s businesses.” 

For now, police department spokesperson Officer Mary Kusmiss said it is too early to measure the success of the city’s anti-vandalism efforts. 

“But getting the information out there that there is regular enforcement and conducting these stings, hopefully will mitigate the problem,” she said. 

To the Editor: 

Sacramento's “News 10” reports that 69 percent of voters would like to see Green Party gubernatorial candidate Peter Camejo in the Oct. 7 televised debate. Camejo has deep roots in Berkeley, having been active as an anti-war activist in Berkeley in the 60s – active enough that the powers-that-be expelled him after he won the presidency for the Associated Students of the University of California. 

Camejo espouses the positive platform of the Green Party and advocates for reforming our massive prison and criminal justice system, helping to fix our economy by making corporations responsible (not just accountable), and protecting our environment by having California take a leadership role in renewable energy. 

Davis, always the politician, is aiming to smear Simon and to ignore Camejo. Davis has refused to debate Camejo. Politicians, however, should not control the media. Berkeley has always stood for free speech. To open up the debates to other views (and there is a mountain of other views between Davis and Simon), Camejo, who is the leading third party candidate, needs to be included. This is a very Berkeley issue. 

If you agree, write the Los Angeles Times at letters@latimes.com  

demanding that Peter Camejo be included in the Oct. 7 gubernatorial debate. Point out that it is not their decision, that the people of California want Peter in the debate and that they, as a media outlet serving the public, must respect the will of the electorate. 

Howard G Chong 

Berkeley Rent Board candidate

Transparent Theater strides into its second season sure-footedly with Alex Johnston’s two-person drama “Deep Space.”  

Johnston is one of the new breed of Irish playwrights. Raised in Dublin, he sets “Deep Space” in shabby digs there. Those digs, sketched in scenic artist Ann Goldschmidt’s skewed platform topped by a couple of mismatched stuffed chairs and a block-and-board bookcase, are occupied by two aimless blokes named Keith and Jaco. The Bay Area has seen quite a few of their type on the stage lately, from Charlie and Jake in “Stones in His Pockets,” to Howie and Rookie in Magic Theater’s sizzling “Howie the Rookie.” By the evidence of these works, and Johnston’s, young Irish men of the middle and lower classes are as full of blarney as they’ve always been, but their blowhard cynicism masks a lingering pathos. 

Rootless, they long for home; bewildered, they long for life to make sense; sarcastic, they long for love. 

“Deep Space” consists of a series of encounters in that Dublin flat over a period of weeks. Seemingly the more relaxed and philosophical of the roomies, lean, pale, curly-haired Keith is college educated but jobless, killing time smoking, reading the paper, watching telly and talking about seeking work. Smaller, wiry, crop-haired Jaco is a working class guy, an electrician who wriggles in his chair like a tadpole in a womb, his physical restlessness reflecting itchy longings. Crudely but touchingly articulate, he’s crazy about women, and he wants to find Miss Right. “I’m too old to do this anymore!” he cries. 

Women are a main theme of Keith and Jaco’s conversation, particularly one named Fionnula. She’s no dummy. “There’s lots of boys out there,” we’re told she observes, “but there’s not many men.” Keith knew her first, and though he claims not to be interested in her, he lies to Keith about her being a lesbian. 

Keith meets her by chance and falls into bed with her. 

He falls in love with her, too. 

Both men know she was once raped. She tells Jaco a story about a friend who was raped. That, and the play’s opening talk about “paradigm shifts” in sexual roles, lays the groundwork for dark developments. “Deep Space” is good at letting those developments sneak up. At first the play seems as cheery and aimless as its two characters, but Fionnula gradually comes between them, leading to a powerful climax of twin betrayals that’s unexpected yet convincing. 

Love doesn’t always lead to tenderness, and (though it’s politically incorrect to say so) rape may not be solely an act of violence. 

Transparent Theater gives Johnston’s spare, moving play a restrained and beautiful production. David Robertson provides mood-enhancing lighting, and Patrick Kaliski adds effective sound. Ryan Montgomery directs with a fine feeling for the nuances of the story, and the two actors are appealingly right. Drew Khalouf gives Keith’s existential torpor a tragic edge, and as Jaco Jason Frazier is both hilariously fidgety and touching. 

We never learn quite what brought this mismatched pair together, but the play, and the actors, make it clear what sunders them. Transparent Theater has converted a former church at Ashby Avenue and Martin Luther King Jr. Way into a fine and welcome addition to the East Bay’s playhouses, and “Deep Space” is a good reason to visit it. 

Saturday, Sept. 28 

Free Legal Workshop:  

“Crossroads: Health and the Law.” 

10 a.m. to 3 p.m. 

514 58th St. at Telegraph Avenue 

Navigate your way through legal issues when living with cancer or any serious illness. Panel presentation on employment, insurance and public benefits and one-on-one sessions with attorneys. Please, pre-register. 

601-4040, Ext. 102 for information  

or Ext. 103 to register 

Free  

Garage Sale/ Car Wash  

Belize/ Berkeley Scouts 

10 to 2 p.m. 

Epworth UMC, 1953 Hopkins St. 

International exchange fundraising effort for scouts. 

525-6058 

A Forum on the Arts with the Berkeley Mayoral Candidates 

11 a.m. to 1 p.m. 

Aurora Theater, 2081 Addison St. 

558-1381 

Free 

Sunday, Sept. 29 

Tibetan Buddhism  

“Healing Mind” 

6 p.m. 

Tibetan Nyingma Institute  

1815 Highland Place 

Sylvia Gretchen discusses how the teachings cultivate the mind and redefine what healing means. 

843-6812 

Free 

“Iron Chef” Style Cook-Off  

3 to 4 p.m. 

(followed by reception, 4 to 6 p.m.) 

Spenger’s Fresh Fish Grotto 

1919 Fourth St.  

In this “Crabby Chef” Competition 2002, top East Bay chefs vie for this year’s title by creating the tastiest crab dish. Master of Ceremonies will be KGO-AM’s Gene Burns. 

City of Berkeley  

2002 Public Art Competition 

1 to 3 p.m. 

Berkeley Central Public Library  

2090 Kittredge St.  

A public art informational workshop will be open to all artists regarding public art site proposals. 

981-6100 

Free 

Friday, Sept. 27 

The Cracked Normans,  

Paradigm & Soul Americana 

9:30 p.m. (21 and over) 

The Starry Plough, 3101 Shattuck Ave. 

841-1424 

$5. 

Eric Bogle 

8 p.m. 

Freight & Salvage, 1111 Addison St. 

548-1761 or www.freightandsalvage.com 

$16.50 in advance. $17.50 at door. 

Fair Weather, Liars  

Academy and Open Hand 

8 p.m. 

924 Gilman St. 

525-9926 

$5. 

Reggae Angels with Earl Zero  

and Jah Light Music 

9:30 p.m. 

Ashkenaz, 1317 San Pablo Ave. 

$15 door. 12 and under free. 

Saturday, Sept. 28 

Barry & Alic Oliver 

8 p.m. 

Freight & Salvage, 1111 Addison St. 

548-1761 www.freightandsalvage.com 

$16.50 in advance. $17.50 at door. 

From Monument to Masses,  

Victory at Sea and Yesterday’s Kids 

8 p.m. 

924 Gilman St. 

525-9926 

$5. 

Sunday, Sept. 29 

Si Kahn  

8 p.m. 

Freight & Salvage, 1111 Addison St. 

548-1761 www.freightandsalvage.com 

$15.50 in advance. $16.50 at door. 

Cellist Gianna Abondolo 

4 p.m. 

Crowden Music Center, 1475 Rose St. 

Classical favorites and original  

compositions for cello. 

559-6910 

$10 general. 18 and under free. 

Weber Iago and Harvey Wainaple 

4:30 p.m. 

Jazzschool, 2087 Addison St. 

845-5373 

$10-$15. 

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David Friesen and Uwe Kropinski 

8 p.m. 

Jazzschool, 2087 Addison St. 

845-5373 

$10-$15. 

Blowing Zen: A Performance of Shakuhachi 

7:30 p.m. 

St. John’s Presbyterian Church  

2626 College Ave. 

528-2027 

$12 at door. Children $5. Seniors $10. 

Chamber Music 

4 to 5:15 p.m. 

Crowden Music Center 1475 Rose St. 

Gianna Abondolo & Friends  

celebrate the release of their  

classical and jazz CD. 

559-6910 

$10. 18 and under free. 

Tuesday, Oct. 1 

Toshi Reagon 

8 p.m. 

Freight & Salvage, 1111 Addison St. 

548-1761 www.freightandsalvage.com 

$15.50 in advance. $16.50 at door. 

Wednesday, Oct. 2 

Hookslide 

8 p.m. 

Freight & Salvage, 1111 Addison St. 

548-1761 www.freightandsalvage.com 

$15.50 in advance. $16.50 at door. 

Thursday, Oct. 3 

Pete & Joan Wernick featuring Dr. Banjo  

8 p.m. 

Freight & Salvage, 1111 Addison St. 

548-1761 www.freightandsalvage.com 

$15.50 in advance. $16.50 at door. 

"Balancing Acts" 

Through Oct. 10 

Gallery 555, 555 12th St., 

Oakland City Center 

Oakland's 'Third Thursday' art night features Ann Weber's works made of cardboard. 

http://www.oaklandcitycenter.com.  

Free. 

“Hunger: What will you do about it?”  

Through Oct. 30, Mon.-Fri.,  

9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

The Civic Center Building 

2180 Milvia St., 5th floor 

Featuring 40 photographs  

by Berkeley artist David Bacon. 

834-3663, Ext. 338, uchanse@secondharvest.org 

Richard Misrach, Berkeley Work 

Though Oct. 13 

UC Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, 2626 Bancroft Way 

On view in Gallery 2, presents two photographic series by this internationally recognized Berkeley-based artist.  

642-0808, www.bampfa.berkeley.edu 

$7. $5 BAM/PFA members.  

$4 UC Berkeley students. 

“Recent Acquisitions” 

Oct. 13 through Dec. 14 

Thurs., Fri., and Sat., 1 to 4 p.m. 

Berkeley Historical Society, Veterans Memorial Building, 1931 Center St. 

848-0181 

Free. 

Misch Kohn - Celebrating Sixty Years of Printmaking 

Through Oct. 16. Tues.-Fri., Noon to 5:30 p.m.; Sat., noon to 4:30 p.m. 

Kala Arts Institute, 1060 Heinz Ave. 

549-2977, kala@kala.org 

Nancy Salz 

Through Oct. 23, Tues.-Fri. 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Sat 10 a.m.-4 p.m. 

Barbara Anderson Gallery, 2243 5th St. 

848-3822 

Timoteo Ikoshy Montoya 

Through Nov. 1  

Reception Sept. 20, 6 to 8 p.m. 

Gathering Tribes Gallery  

1573 Solano Ave.  

Acrylic/air brush paintings  

by this Native American artist.  

528-9038 

Threads: Five artists who  

use stitching to convey ideas 

Oct. 6 through Dec. 15, Wed.-Sun., noon to 5 p.m. 

Berkeley Art Center 

Live Oak Park, 1275 Walnut St. 

Information: www.berkeleyartcenter.org, 644-6893 

Free. 

A Thousand and One Arabian Nights 

Through Sept. 28, Fri.-Sun. 8 p.m.; Sun. 4 p.m. 

Forest Meadows Outdoor Amphitheater, Grand Avenue at the Dominican University, San Raphael 

Marin Shakespeare Company’s  

presents this classic story with  

original Arabic music. 

415-499-4488 for tickets 

$12 for youth. $20 for seniors. $22 general. 

Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar 

Through Oct. 12 

Thurs. through Sat. 8 p.m. 

LaVal’s Subterranean Theatre  

1834 Euclid Ave. 

234-6046 

$10. 

The House of Blue Leaves 

Through Oct. 27 

Berkeley Rep's Roda Theater  

2015 Addison St.  

647-2917 or 888-4BRTTIX 

$10-$54. 

The Shape of Things 

Through Oct. 20 

Aurora Theatre Company  

2081 Addison St. 

Play by writer/director Neil LaBute's spins a morality tale of a young art student, his art major girlfriend, and the Pygmalion-like changes that bring into question how far one should go for love. 

843-4822, www.auroratheater.org for reservations 

$26-$35. 

Ceramics - Opening Reception 

Through Nov. 17 

3 to 5 p.m. 

A New Leaf Gallery, 1286 Gilman St. 

525-7621 

Free. 

Sunday, Sept. 29 

Margaret Kaufman & Robert Funge 

7:30 p.m. 

Cody’s Books, 2454 Telegraph Ave. 

845-7852, www.poetryflash.org 

$2 donation. 

Thursday, Oct. 3 

Brenda Hillman 

12:10 p.m. 

Morrison Library in Doe Library, UCB 

UC Berkeley’s Lunch Poems Reading Series. Author’s six books include “Loose Sugar” and “Cascadia”. 

http://www.berkeley.edu/calendar/events 

Free. 

Nathaniel Mackay and Trane Devore 

6 p.m. 

Maud Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall, UC Berkeley 

Part of Holloway Poetry Series for Fall 2002. 

jscape@socrates.berkeley.edu 

Free. 

Friday, Oct. 4 

Katherine Forrest 

7:30 p.m. 

Boadecia’s Books, 398 Colusa Ave. at Colusa Circle 

Reading from “Daughters of the Amber Moon” 

559-9184 

Free. 

Saturday, Oct. 5 

“Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay & Bisexual African American Fiction” 

7:30 p.m. 

Boadecia’s Books, 398 Colusa Ave. at Colusa Circle 

Led by co-editors Devon W. Carbado and Donald Wiese, and several of the book’s writers. 

559-9184 

Free. 

Sunday, October 6 

Ledisi and The Braxton Brothers 

4:30 p.m. 

Berkeley Jazz School, 2087 Addison St.  

845-5373 

$15, $12 - students & seniors, $10 Jazzschool students 

Tuesday, Oct. 8 

Daniel Wilkinson 

7:30 p.m. 

Cody’s Books, 2454 Telegraph Ave. 

Author Wilkinon and panelists from Global Exchange and Equal Exchange will discuss Guatemala, globalization, and book “Silence on the Mountain” 

(617) 351-3243 

Thursday, Oct. 10 

Daniel Wilkinson 

7:30 p.m. 

Cody’s Books, 2454 Telegraph Ave. 

Wilkinson will read from his book “Silence on the Mountain” 

(617) 351-3243 

The St. Mary’s High girls’ volleyball team rode a quick start and some great serving to their first Bay Shore Athletic League victory on Thursday, beating Holy Names High, 15-9, 15-5, 15-13. 

The Panthers (3-1 overall, 1-1 BSAL) served up 19 aces in Thursday’s match, accounting for 42 percent of their points. The rest of the offense came from the trio of Natalie Bogan, Jazmin Pratt and Martha Ryan, who combined for 32 kills as St. Mary’s simply overpowered the Monarchs. 

“Today was awesome, just unbelievable,” St. Mary’s head coach Cherise Revell said. “We’ve been working a lot on our serves in practice, and it showed today.” 

Pratt blamed an earlier loss to St. Joseph High on poor serving and said the team had some extra motivation because Thursday was the Panthers’ home opener. 

“We really wanted to start off strong in our first home game,” said Pratt, who had 14 kills and seven aces. “All our work paid off today.” 

St. Mary’s got off to a scorching start, running up a 10-0 lead in the first game. Holy Names had serious trouble passing the Panthers’ serves to their setter, either missing altogether or putting the ball right at the net where Bogan was waiting for a block. Although the Monarchs managed a seven-point run of their own to pull within 11-8, they didn’t have the firepower to overcome such a big deficit. 

The Panthers started slowly in the next two games, getting behind 2-5 and 1-4, respectively. They had no problem coming back in the second game, scoring 13 straight points to take a 2-0 lead in games, but the final game was a different story. They handed Holy Names 12 points on errors and looked as if they would need a fourth game to put the Monarchs away. 

In stepped Pratt. After two kills for points to keep her team close, she fired her jump-serve for three straight aces to put the visitors back on their heels. When another point kill by Pratt made the score 13-12 in Holy Names’ favor, the Monarchs fell apart, making two hitting errors and a bad pass to finish the match. 

“[Holy Names] just got their momentum going in the last game,” Ryan said. “But we were juiced all day, and we weren’t going to lose.”

While Berkeley’s two primary mayoral candidates say they expect a tight election this November, the race for political endorsements has been a landslide. 

Progressive candidate Tom Bates, with ties and personal bonds he forged during 20 years as a state Assemblyman, has won the support of nearly every major local interest group and politician. 

Heavy hitters such as U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Oakland, state Assemblywoman Dion Aroner, D- Berkeley, are supporting bates. The Sierra Club, the National Organization for Women, Green Party of Alameda, Democratic Party of Alameda, and Alameda Council of Labor have endorsed him. All told more than 300 people and organizations back Bates. 

“I’ve got their support because of what I’ve done in the past and my history of providing good leadership,” Bates said. He says that Mayor Shirley Dean failed while in office eight years to develop the same relationships with local leaders. 

Dean, however, said Bates’ endorsements were about political ties than political record. 

“I do believe that I am up against a political machine that wants to control everything in the city,” she said. Dean represents a moderate faction in the City Council, which is the minority group by one-vote.  

Dean has won the support of state Sen. Don Perata, D-Oakland, the Berkeley Democratic Club, and more than 30 neighborhood activists. The police and fireman’s unions, as well as an offshoot of the Berkeley Chamber of Commerce, all of which supported Dean in her past two successful campaigns, have not yet made an endorsement. 

Bruce Cain, a UC Berkeley professor with the political science department said Bates’ endorsements should give him an advantage but will not guarantee him victory in November. 

“At a local level, it can matter if groups are willing to do work and throw resources into the race,” he said. “Often in a low turnout election, if interest groups get the vote out, it will make the difference.” 

Bates agreed and said his supporters are more than just names to put on campaign fliers. “Groups are making phone calls to members and walking precincts,” he said, adding that Sierra Club will make a pro-Bates mailing to its estimated 5,000 Berkeley members. 

Dean, meanwhile, said she doesn’t need the support of leading politicians and interest groups to win the election. “The neighborhood knows my record and neighborhood support is the most important type of endorsements there are,” she said.

To the Editor: 

Neighbors of UC Berkeley's Memorial Stadium should quit their whining. Just because seven days a year they have to carefully time their shopping trips, they want the university to throw away 70 years of tradition and build a whole new stadium, inconveniencing tens of thousands of students, Cal fans, and alumni. Unless these residents moved in prior to 1928, they knew exactly what they were getting into by living near a stadium. Seven days of inconvenience is not that many, especially if you're told in advance exactly when they're going to happen. 

I'm glad the university has control of the situation. The Hayward fault is a definite concern that should be taken under consideration, but my vote is to keep the stadium right where it is, if for no other reason to keep these crybabies in a tizzy. 

Kenny Byerly 

Berkeley 

Call it a home-field disadvantage. 

The Berkeley High boys’ water polo team was shut out in both the second and fourth quarters against Bishop O’Dowd on Thursday, as the Dragons were twice able to wipe out Berkeley leads for a 9-7 win at Willard Middle School in Berkeley. The pool at Willard is only 3 feet deep on one end, which happened to be the end the Yellowjackets were shooting at in both quarters they were blanked. 

“[O’Dowd’s] goalkeeper was tall, and in the shallow cage he could just jump and cover the entire goal,” Berkeley’s Andy Turner said. “Our shot selection started to be off, and we just let the pressure get to us.” 

The Jackets (3-6 overall, 1-1 ACCAL) had one-goal leads at the end of both the first and third quarters, thanks in large part to Turner and Dominic Cathey. Turner had three goals and an assist, while Cathey contributed two assists and a goal. 

But O’Dowd (4-5, 1-0) got the last laugh. Down 7-5 with just seconds left in the third quarter, it looked as if Berkeley would have the momentum heading into the final seven minutes of play. But an apparent O’Dowd shot clock violation turned into a Dragon goal as no one secured the ball as both teams headed back down to the other end. When neither referee blew the whistle to stop play, however, an O’Dowd player alertly beat Berkeley goalkeeper Sammy Hammer to the ball and scored an easy goal, cutting the deficit to one. 

The fourth quarter was all Dragons, as captain Cason Schmit returned from a third-quarter ejection to create havoc in front of the Berkeley net. Schmit’s presence opened up shots for his teammates, and Hammer couldn’t stop every shot thrown at him. 

The tying goal came from a bit of luck for the Dragons. Patrick Bobb had the ball near the side of the Berkeley goal, but it slipped out of his hand and behind him. The defender dove for the ball, but Bobb reached back blindly and came up with it instead, leaving him alone with Hammer for an easy score. 

Berkeley had a golden opportunity seconds later as O’Dowd goalkeeper Elliot Carney was ejected for an intentional foul. But the Jackets took a needlessly quick shot during the resulting three-on-one that went over the bar, releasing Carney from the sideline. 

With a minute remaining, O’Dowd’s Jim Bowerman had the ball near midfield with the shot clock winding down and lasered in a desperation shot. It skipped off the water and deflected off of Hammer’s outstretched arm for an 8-7 O’Dowd lead. The Jackets couldn’t get a shot off on the next possession, and Bobb scored a fastbreak goal to put the game away.

One day after reinstating Berkeley High School’s African-American studies department, Superintendent Michele Lawrence said Thursday that she will consider bringing back the English language learners, visual arts and performing arts departments. 

Before this week, the district was poised to fold the African-American studies and English language learners programs into other, unspecified departments and to combine the visual and performing arts programs into one department under the terms of an Aug. 20 agreement with the teacher’s union. 

The move would not have affected the African-American studies, ELL or arts classes offered at the high school, but would have eliminated department chairs and, many feared, meeting time for teachers. 

When details of the agreement surfaced Tuesday, there was a public outcry over the planned consolidation of the 34-year-old African-American studies department, leading to a reinstatement of the department at the Board of Education meeting Wednesday night. 

Lawrence said the district will have to work with the Berkeley Federation of Teachers union to hammer out the details of reinstating African-American studies and any other department. 

“I’m certain we’ll have to go back to the table,” she said. 

BFT President Barry Fike, who has signaled a willingness to renegotiate, said the union is ready to return to the bargaining table and reinstate the departments. 

“We’re very pleased that there seem to be indications from the district that they are willing to renegotiate,” he said. 

One sticking point may be job descriptions and pay for the returning department chairs. 

The Aug. 20 agreement laid out 17 different duties for department chairs, ranging from ordering books to supporting teachers, and provided stipends of $5,000, $3,750 and $2,250, depending on the size of a chair’s department. 

Smaller departments, African-American studies and ELL, were to lose their chairs. District officials pushed for this reduction in the total number of chairs, during the August negotiations, because they hoped to save several thousand dollars for a district $3.9 million in debt. 

Lawrence suggested Thursday that the district was not interested in offering costly stipends to any returning department chairs – in African-American Studies, ELL or the arts – in light of the budget problems. 

Robert McKnight, chair of the African-American studies department, said he could care less about the stipend, as long as the program remains in place. 

“I don’t have a job,” explained McKnight, who led the reinstatement charge. “I’m on a mission.”  

But Fike said he was concerned that any agreement calling on chairs of small departments to perform extra duties without adequate pay could set a dangerous precedent. 

Still, Fike said the overriding concern for the union is bringing back the consolidated departments. He does not expect the salary issue to get in the way. 

“I’m confident that it’s not a stumbling block that can’t be overcome,” he said. 

Contact reporter at scharfenberg@berkeleydailyplanet.net 

To the Editor: 

I want to express my strong support for the remarks of Sen. Tom Daschle condemning President George W. Bush's politicization of the proposed Department of Homeland Defense during his recent campaign fund-raising speech in Trenton, N.J. Mr. Bush and his allies in the House and Senate are gambling unconscionably with the world's future, while attempting to use the debate over a resolution to authorize the use of military force against Iraq for mere political gain before the November mid-term elections. Given Mr. Bush's past record of desertion from a Texas Air National Guard post, which he obtained by political influence (see awolbush.com), his willingness to put American military service members' lives in jeopardy is hypocritical and immoral. 

It is particularly appalling to note that the Bush administration has been planning for a war against Iraq since well before the events of Sept. 11, 2001 (see Sept. 22, 2002 New York Times article, “Bush's Push on Iraq at U.N.: Headway, Then New Barriers”). This makes it clear that the supposed urgency to take military action against Iraq is not rooted in any new intelligence information or threat posed by Iraq toward the United States. The administration has embarked on an extremely risky “wag the dog” foreign policy that is dominated by purely political considerations, rather than national security. 

I urge Congress to resist the Bush administration's attempt to railroad the U.S. into an unnecessary war with Iraq that would undoubtedly kill thousands of innocent civilians, as well as unforeseeable numbers of American and allied men and women of the armed services. The consequences of such a war are far from predictable and would likely be disastrous. Sen. Daschle is right to demand an apology from President Bush for his egregiously insulting and partisan comments during his recent speech in Trenton, N.J. 

Taylor Bennett 

Berkeley 

When Washington State takes the field against Cal on Saturday, there’s a chance the Cougars might be missing their Heisman-hopeful quarterback, Jason Gesser. But the Bears say they don’t really care. 

Gesser suffered separated cartilage in his ribs last week in a win over Montana State and is listed as questionable for Saturday’s game at Memorial Stadium. A second-team All-Pac-10 selection last season, Gesser is one of the nation’s top quarterbacks. 

But Gesser’s backup, junior Matt Kegel, is no slouch himself. Although he has limited game experience, there was talk before last season that Kegel might win the starting job away from Gesser. That obviously didn’t happen and Gesser established himself with an outstanding season, but Kegel likely wouldn’t be a huge step down if he were to play. 

“They run the same offense with both guys,” Cal head coach Jeff Tedford said. “Gesser’s a slippery guy, but Kegel’s athletic also. It’s not like a big switch with him in the game.” 

But Kegel is limping this week as well, as he hurt his knee against Montana State. The third-string quarterback is redshirt freshman Chris Hurd, a Deer Valley High (Antioch) graduate. Hurd finished the Cougars’ game last week and is taking the majority of the snaps in practice this week in case he has to play against the Bears. 

Washington State head coach Mike Price said Gesser will most likely start the game, although how long he can go will be up to Price himself. 

“[Gesser] is an inspiring guy, and he wants to play no matter what. Even if he’s in pain, he’s playing,” Price said. “The only way he’s not playing is if he’s going to get hurt more by playing. Then it will be my call, not his.” 

No matter which of the three quarterbacks ends up playing most of the game, the Bears know they’ll have to get pressure on him to be successful against Washington State’s explosive spread attack. 

Cal defensive tackle Daniel Nwangwu said the defensive linemen won’t be paying much attention to the number on the quarterback’s chest; they just want to make sure that jersey just gets dirty. 

“I just want to get to the quarterback no matter who he is,” defensive tackle Daniel Nwangwu said. “To concentrate on doing something different with a different quarterback in there is a waste of time.” 

Cornerback Jemeel Powell agreed with Nwangwu. 

“Who’s at quarterback doesn’t matter to me,” Powell said. “If we don’t cover correctly, any quarterback will hit the open man.” 

Those men Powell referred to will be Washington State’s impressive stable of receivers. With Mike Bush, a 6-foot-5 former basketball player, and Florida State transfer Devard Darling leading the charge, the Cougars have one of the most athletic and versatile sets of receivers in the country. They all can go over the middle for short passes or deep for big gains, and Bush excels at winning jump balls away from smaller cornerbacks. 

Tedford said he doesn’t expect to completely stop the Washington State passing game, which has been highly effective during Price’s 14 years as the school’s head coach. 

“I’m not going to sit here and say we’re going to shut down their receivers,” Tedford said. “We might be step for step with them, but they’re still going to make plays on the football.”

Red light runners and speeders beware: What the police don’t see, the camera surely will. 

Berkeley may be the next city in line to install cameras on streets or traffic signals to protect pedestrians. 

At a transportation forum at the Willard Middle School Wednesday, Berkeley transportation head Peter Hillier, said he is hoping to start discussion by next summer about bringing traffic cameras to Berkeley. 

“I think they’ve been extremely successful in reducing red light running or speeding,” he said. Similar cameras have been installed in other United States cities, including San Francisco, and are prevalent in Europe and Canada. 

Several people, however, cringed at the idea of cameras monitoring public streets. 

“Surveillance cameras ... you know that sounds too much like ‘1984,’ It’s crazy,” said Ted Chabasinski of the 2900 block of Florence Street. 

Hillier, though, maintained that the cameras would be used to punish dangerous drivers, not to spy on residents. 

If Berkeley decides to install traffic cameras it will have several options. 

The most common type of camera is attached to a traffic signal and only takes photos of cars running a red light, Hillier said. Other cameras gauge speed and are installed in the sidewalk or kept inside a police car. A new traffic signal camera that tickets for both speeding and red light running is on the market, he said. 

Hillier said that public acceptance is stronger for cameras that monitor for red light violations than it is for cameras that watch for speeders, which is a more common offense. 

If community opposition doesn’t derail cameras, cost might. 

The city would have to spend about $100,000 to install any type of camera at just a few intersections, he said. 

Despite initial suspicion by some forum attendees, Hillier asked residents to withhold judgment until the idea is hashed out. 

“What is critical is to thoroughly research the practice,” he said. “If there is strong documented evidence of a benefit then the idea may seem better to people.”  

Councilmember Kriss Worthington, who has advocated traffic safety measures for his district, said he was open to the limited use of cameras. 

“If they were surveillance cameras to turn us into a police state, that would be a problem,” he said. “But when it’s a picture of a license plate, that might be OK.” 

Contact reporter at matt@berkeleydailyplanet.net

To the Editor: 

I wonder why Snehal Shingavi and others are so paranoid (Daily Planet, Sept. 20) about their rhetoric being monitored. I would hope instructors at UC Berkeley base their class material on truth, avoiding personal slants. If so, why are they up in arms when someone wants to quote them? Should they not be willing to stand behind and support the messages they promote in the classroom? Apparently Snehal is afraid to be challenged, according to his English class’ guideline advising “conservative thinkers” to enroll in a different section. Snehal seems to be the only one silencing speech, not those who wish to reveal biases in university classrooms. 

Devora Liss 

Berkeley

Girls tennis - Salesian 4, St. Mary’s 3 

The Panthers fall in BSAL play as Salesian wins three singles matches and a doubles match. Maren Sagat wins for St. Mary’s in the top singles match. Both teams are now 1-1 in league play. 

Girls golf - St. Mary’s 329, Berkeley 330 

The Panthers take down Berkeley in a cross-town rivalry matchup at Mira Vista Country Club. Berkeley’s Cameron Wilson leads the pack with a 59, but the Panthers win by one stroke. St. Mary’s improves its record to 3-1, while Berkeley drops to 2-2. 

Girls tennis - Berkeley 4, El Cerrito 3 

The Yellowjackets improve to 4-1 in ACCAL play with a win over El Cerrito (3-2 ACCAL). Berkeley sweeps the top three singles matches and the team of Ari Anisimov and Rachel Leibman wins the third doubles match to clinch the victory. 

Girls volleyball - Berkeley def. De Anza 15-6, 15-2, 15-0 

Berkeley (3-5 overall, 2-0 ACCAL) still hasn’t lost an ACCAL match in three seasons as the Yellowjackets notch another easy victory in league play. Vanessa Williams has six kills and eight digs for Berkeley, while Nadia Qabazard pitches in with seven digs and four aces. Setter Danielle Larue nearly serves out the final game, racking up 14 straight points before a Berkeley error ends her streak.

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Israel tried to kill the mastermind of the Hamas bombing campaign Thursday, firing two missiles into a car in crowded Gaza City. Two bodyguards died and 35 bystanders were wounded in the helicopter attack, but the fate of the Palestinian militant remained uncertain. Hamas promised revenge. 

A senior Palestinian security official said the 37-year-old Mohammed Deif escaped with moderate injuries. Israeli police sources said the Israeli military told them Deif — atop Israel’s wanted list for years — was killed. The military had no public comment. 

Hamas official Abdel Aziz Rantisi said Deif was not even in the car. But he said the group would avenge the attack nevertheless. “We will hit Tel Aviv. We will hit everywhere.” 

In other violence, four Palestinians — including two gunmen, a civilian and a baby — and one Israeli were reported killed. Israel maintained its stranglehold on Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat’s headquarters in the West Bank town of Ramallah in defiance of Tuesday’s U.N. Security Council resolution to end the siege. 

Two helicopters appeared in the sky over Gaza just after 1:30 p.m., firing missiles that blew apart a green Mercedes sedan and sent a plume of white smoke over the Sheik Radwan neighborhood. 

“Suddenly we heard the sound of a big explosion,” said Mohammed Hajar, a hairdresser working in the area. “When I ran out, a second explosion took place.” 

Blood, body parts and shrapnel were strewn across a wide area and nearby windows were shattered. A large crowd, confused and angry, gathered as rescue workers led the wounded to ambulances. 

One man leapt on a car and shouted, “God is great.” 

Hamas sources identified the two dead men as members of Hamas, Abdel Rahim Hamdan, 27, and Issa Abu Ajra, 29. Rantisi said they were Deif’s bodyguards. 

More than a dozen children were wounded in the attack, the latest in a series of assaults the Israeli military calls “targeted killings” of Palestinians. 

The most controversial, a strike in Gaza that killed Hamas militant Salah Shehadeh, also killed nine children and five adult civilians. 

In the past two years, at least 78 wanted Palestinians and 52 bystanders have been killed in such attacks, which the Palestinians deride as a policy of assassination. Human rights groups have condemned the policy. 

“Today’s attack is another example that shows clearly that the Israeli army doesn’t care about the life of the innocent Palestinian victims,” said Samieh Mouhsen of the Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights. “It constitutes a policy of lawless disregard for the most fundamental human rights, the right to life.” 

Israel says the targeted killings are its best means of preventing terror attacks, and accuses Arafat’s Palestinian Authority of doing nothing against the radical groups and even encouraging them. Palestinians argue Israel’s travel restrictions and military strikes have left their security services powerless. 

Israelis accuse Deif of having a role in dozens of suicide attacks over the past six years. He survived an Israeli airstrike earlier this year. 

Earlier strikes on top Hamas figures have led to increased violence. When Israel killed Deif’s mentor Yehiyeh Ayyash in 1996, Hamas responded with four suicide bombings that killed dozens of Israelis. 

An Israeli security official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Deif had served as head of Hamas military wing after the killing of Ayyash. He surrendered the position after the more charismatic and ideological Shehadeh was released from a Palestinian jail in mid-2000. Deif took over again three days after Shehadeh’s killing, he said. 

Israel has long pressed Palestinians to seize Deif, and accused Arafat of sheltering him. Hamas, however, often as been at odds with Arafat. 

Palestinian officials arrested and held Deif for several months until December 2000. The Palestinians said he escaped. Israeli officials said his jailers set him free. 

Late Thursday, about 3,000 Hamas supporters demonstrated near the site of the attack. Organizers said the purpose was to give thanks for Deif’s safety.

BERKELEY – The University of California at Berkeley is working to be at the forefront of the battle against bioterrorism with the help of a new $2.8 million federal grant.  

The three-year grant will fund a new Center for Infectious Disease Preparedness at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health. The campus will be host to one of four new academic centers for public health preparedness. 

The others – at the University of Michigan, University of Oklahoma, and the University of South Carolina – are all a part of the $2.9 billion bioterrorism initiative launched by President George W. Bush earlier this year. 

“The weaknesses of the nation's public health infrastructure were made clear in last year's anthrax attacks,” said Arthur Reingold, head of epidemiology at UC Berkeley School of Public Health. 

“We learned that we need to improve coordination and communication throughout the public health system, from the local to the national level. These centers for public health preparedness are a major step forward in reaching that goal,” he said. 

As part of this new initiative, these centers will provide public health and law enforcement workers with training in response to bioterrorism incidents and naturally occurring infectious disease outbreaks. 

Additionally, the UC Berkeley campus will strive to improve communications with the media, by collaborating with the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. A training program targeting journalists in local and regional news organizations will be part of this new program. 

"This is a primary example of the school's commitment to moving the knowledge base from publication of research to public action,'' said Stephen Shortell, professor and dean of the School of Public Health.

Drug Arrest 

A resident of the 1800 block of Arlington Court called police shortly after midnight Wednesday morning after noticing that several lamps were missing from his carport and that a suspicious gold Cadillac was parked outside his house. The car left before police arrived, but at 5:25 a.m., a beat officer noticed a gold Cadillac on the 1900 block of El Dorado Avenue. The driver had the missing lamps as well as methamphetamine. Kevin Tugwell, 39, was arrested for drug possession and burglary. 

Suspected Arson 

An employee at American Medical Forensic Specialists on the 2600 block of Telegraph Avenue reported a fire Wednesday morning in a nearby recycling bin, police said, who arrived to find the bin filled with charred paper and water. 

Burglary 

A woman’s purse was stolen from the 2200 block of Shattuck Avenue, police said. The purse contained cash, a cell phone, keys and a checkbook. Police have no suspects. 

-Matthew Arts

OAKLAND – A leader in Oakland's Nation of Islam community appeared briefly in Alameda County Superior Court this morning but did not enter plea to a charge that he allegedly molested a 13-year-old girl 20 years ago.  

Yusef Bey, 66, entered the courtroom with his attorney, Andrew Dosa of Alameda, and an entourage of about 20 young, African-American men dressed in suits and bow ties. 

Bey, wearing a black pinstriped suit, black bowtie and fez, did not enter a plea during his three-minute appearance before Judge Allan D. Hymer in Oakland. He also waived a reading in open court of the charge against him. 

The arraignment was put off for a week, until Oct. 3. 

A complaint filed Sept. 18 charges Bey with one felony count of committing lewd act on a child under 14 in September 1981. He surrendered to police on Sept. 19 and immediately posted $50,000 bail, police said. 

According to police, a woman approached the authorities in early June to report that Bey had allegedly molested her about 20 years ago. She told police that she was 13 when she gave birth to a child allegedly fathered by Bey in June 1982. 

DNA samples confirm that Bey is the child's father, police said. 

Following the brief appearance Thursday, the same cadre of young men whisked Bey out of the courtroom and down the hallway to an elevator. The men shielded Bey from about a half-dozen television cameras attempting to film him. 

In response to a reporter's request for comment, Bey raised an index finger and said, “No comment yet.” His attorney also declined to speak to reporters. 

Deputy District Attorney Teresa Ortega has been assigned to the case.

LIVERMORE – Federal officials announced today that four Bay Area scientists have been recognized with awards for their work in atomic energy. 

U.S. Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham named seven winners of the prestigious E.O. Lawrence Award, including the four local scientists.  

They are Bruce T. Goodwin and Benjamin D. Santer of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, Keith O. Hodgson of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center at Stanford University, and Saul Pearlmutter of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley. 

Goodwin, a physicist, will receive the award in the national security category for his work on the complex dynamics of triggers of thermonuclear weapons. 

Santer, also a physicist, was recognized in the environmental science and technology category for his research into the effects of human activity on the Earth's climate. 

Hodgson, a chemist and structural biologist, won in the chemistry category for his contributions to the investigation of biological structure and function. 

Pearlmutter, an astrophysicist, will receive the award in physics for his discovery through study of supernovae that the expansion of the universe is speeding up rather than slowing down. 

The E.O. Lawrence award was established in 1959 to honor the memory of Dr. Ernest Orlando Lawrence, who invented the cyclotron particle accelerator. 

Winners each receive a gold medal, a citation, and $25,000. The prizes will be awarded during a ceremony to take place in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 28.

East Bay parks slated for  

financial infusion 

A grant infusion of more than $770,000 was set aside today for Contra Costa County parks and public access areas thanks to measures taken by the state Coastal Conservancy. 

With funds made available through Proposition 12, California's largest park bond to date, county park officials will invest in both renovation and improvement projects at the Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve in Antioch and the Martinez waterfront, according to a Coastal Conservancy spokesman. 

The spokesman said that the conservancy will provide the East Bay Regional Park District with $429,000 to improve the museum and visitor center at the Hazel-Atlas Mine, a historic landmark within the Black Diamond Mines Park. 

Additionally, the conservancy has slated $29,500 for necessary renovations to Black Diamond's historic Rose Hill Cemetery, which over the years has become an unfortunate gathering spot for vandals. 

The city of Martinez will also receive $250,000 to construct a 433-foot shoreline retaining wall necessary to protect the waterfront's planned plaza and restored marina. The marina project is expected to revitalize the recreational and commercial usage of the city's waterfront. 

Man who led police on  

U.S. 101 chase killed self 

NOVATO – Authorities say a man who led police on a chase on northbound U.S. Highway 101 in Marin County early Thursday apparently shot himself to death after driving a stolen pickup truck off the road near the state Highway 37 interchange. 

Novato Police Capt. Reginald Lyles said a shotgun or rifle was found in the white Chevrolet pickup and the man had suffered massive head wounds.  

The California Highway Patrol this afternoon identified the victim as Raymond Kobzeff, 44, of Petaluma. 

Authorities say Kobzeff apparently wanted police to shoot him because he told a U.S. Park Police officer who initially confronted him at 3:04 a.m. in the Marin Headlands, “You will have to shoot me.” 

U.S. Park Service Police Officer Michael Griffin approached Kobzeff at Conzelmann and McCullough roads when he determined that the 1990 Chevrolet pickup had been stolen in Petaluma and allegedly saw drug paraphernalia inside the truck. 

Griffin was dragged several feet when Kobzeff started driving away as the officer reached into the truck to try to shut off the engine, authorities said. 

The California Highway Patrol joined Griffin in the eight-minute, 12-mile pursuit through San Rafael. Authorities said Kobzeff drove as fast as 100 mph before slowing down to 40 mph and pulling off the highway near the state Highway 37 interchange in Novato. 

A special response team from the Novato Police Department searched the marshy, brushy area for Kobzeff, who at first was believed to have fled the truck. 

He was found dead inside the vehicle around 6:30 a.m.

Report: Changing conditions could hurt U.S. housing market 

LOS ANGELES — Millions of Americans could see the possibility of home ownership slip away if a delicate balance of interest rates, personal income and real estate prices shifts, an economic report released Thursday said. 

Home prices compared to personal incomes are near record highs, but Americans have been able to keep buying thanks to the lowest mortgage interest rates in 40 years. 

If mortgage rates rise, or housing prices grow faster than incomes, the ability to own a home will disappear for many, according to the Milken Institute, an independent Santa Monica-based think tank. 

An immediate shift is unlikely, said the authors of the study, economists Susanne Trimbath and research analyst Juan Montoya. 

“Since interest rates are not expected to rise in the near future, and income is experiencing strong growth, the demand that supports the current crisis can be expected to remain stable for the near term,” the study said. 

But interest rates will eventually rise and U.S. policy-makers will face a growing challenge as more Americans get shut out of the real estate market, the report said. 

Immigrants urge Davis to sign bill for undocumented drivers 

SAN DIEGO — Immigrants-rights advocates want Gov. Gray Davis to approve a bill that would enable some illegal immigrants to obtain California driver’s licenses though it would not affect most of them. 

Supporters say all California drivers would benefit by allowing undocumented immigrants to obtain the licenses they need to get auto insurance. Others complain it encourages illegal immigration and grants a state privilege to lawbreakers. 

But both sides agree the bill, which faces a deadline of midnight Monday to win Davis’ approval, sets criteria unattainable to most illegal immigrants. It requires them to have a federal taxpayer identification number and have started the process to obtain legal immigration status. 

“This is definitely a high hurdle to meet,” Christian Ramirez, director of American Friends Service Committee, a San Diego group which assists immigrants, said Thursday. “We’re obviously not very happy. ... But we feel this is a step forward.” 

The bill’s author, Assemblyman Gil Cedillo, D-Los Angeles, estimates as many as 1 million of the roughly 3 million undocumented immigrants in the state would be eligible to apply for licenses. But David Galaviz, Cedillo’s legislative director, acknowledged Thursday the actual number could be far lower. 

Davis signs bill to reduce  

childhood lead poisoning 

SACRAMENTO— Gov. Gray Davis signed a bill on Thursday that makes the presence of lead hazards in homes a violation of the state’s housing law. 

Lead poisoning, which is often caused by exposure to lead-based paint, can lead to serious health problems and lifelong learning disabilities. Lead hazards include deteriorating lead-based paint, lead-tainted soil or dust. 

“Today, California is taking the lead on lead,” Davis said. “Lead is a threat to the health of our children, our most vulnerable citizens.” 

The bill by Sen. Deborah Ortiz, D-Sacramento, also gives the California Department of Health Services and local health agencies the authority to gather statewide information about lead poisoning and develop strategies for prevention. 

Gov. signs bill helping  

doctors against HMOs 

SACRAMENTO — A new doctors “bill of rights” signed into law Thursday by Gov. Gray Davis will level the playing field between doctors, medical groups and HMOs in contract negotiations, supporters said. 

Assemblywoman Rebecca Cohn, D-Saratoga, said she brought the bill because “of the imbalance in the relationship between the plans and the providers.” 

Because California was the laboratory for managed care, it’s where the laws regulating the relationship between doctors and HMOs need the most fine-tuning, said Steve Thompson, vice president of the California Medical Association, which represents doctors in California. 

“No other state has the degree of HMO penetration as exists in California,” he said. 

HMOs have ordered doctors to take on additional patients, been lax in payments to physicians and changed contracts without warning, Davis said in a statement. 

“Ultimately, none of this improves patient care,” he said. “In order to provide patients with world-class care, we must ensure our doctors have world-class rights.” 

Supporters, such as the CMA, said the bill will help stem the tide of physicians leaving the state or retiring early because they’re not happy with the working conditions in California. 

Of the 82,000 licensed physicians in California, about 50,000 are practicing, and a “discouraging” number desire early retirement, Thompson said. 

The California Association of Health Plans, which represents HMOs, questioned the CMA’s survey, saying it was based on anecdotes. Walter Zelman, the association’s president, said state medical board figures don’t show a decline in the number of people taking California’s licensing exam. 

“I continue to be concerned by primarily anecdotal information that physicians put out about HMOs overpowering physicians in the marketplace,” Zelman said. He also cites a study by the Medical Group Management Association, an Englewood, Colo.-based trade organization for medical group administrators, that “shows that for the third year in a row, physician income is going up in California.” 

Zelman’s group opposed the original version of Cohn’s bill, but dropped its objections after “onerous and inappropriate” conditions were removed. 

Now, doctors will determine how many patients they can handle and won’t be required by an HMO to add new patients, Cohn said. “When they get patients dumped on them, the waiting times for patients get enormous.” 

The new law also says that any changes in the contract between an HMO and medical group or doctor must be fully disclosed to the doctor before the changes take effect. 

Previously, doctors haven’t always been told of changes in patients’ benefits, said Dr. Ron Bangasser, of Redlands, Calif. 

That’s important “so we know when we talk to a patient what’s covered, what’s not covered, and what we can do with and without prior approval,” he said. 

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On the Net: 

Read the bill, AB2907, at www.assembly.ca.gov 

SAN DIEGO — The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has rejected a request to put the U.S. Secret Service in charge of security at the upcoming Super Bowl in San Diego, saying it has full confidence in local authorities, city officials said Thursday. 

Tom Ridge, the White House homeland security chief, told city officials this week that he was not granting their request to make Super Bowl XXXVII a National Special Security Event — a designation usually reserved for national political conventions and presidential inaugurations. 

Last year’s Super Bowl in New Orleans as well as the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City were both designated National Special Security Events in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks. 

Instead, Ridge decided to put local police in charge of the Jan. 26 NFL championship game at San Diego’s 71,000-seat Qualcomm Stadium and related events throughout the city. The FBI, Secret Service, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and state authorities will provide support. 

Under a new rating system created earlier this year, Super Bowl XXXVII will be a Special Event Readiness Level Two, Ridge told Mayor Dick Murphy late Wednesday. 

“He thought that Level Two was really appropriate for San Diego because, after having evaluated the situation, he thought the San Diego Police Department was so on top of this it was better to have them in charge,” Murphy said. 

Unaware of the brand new rating system, Murphy had requested the Secret Service handle Super Bowl security as a precaution. He said he was not disappointed by the decision. 

“We are going to be well prepared,” the mayor said. 

San Diego police were in charge of security at two previous Super Bowls at Qualcomm Stadium in 1988 and 1998. 

“It tells you the confidence the Department of Homeland Security has in this region and the work we’ve done in the past,” said Assistant Police Chief Bill Mayhew, who has been involved in security preparations for the past six months. “We as a community are very prepared for major events.” 

The city has budgeted more than $1 million for Super Bowl security. 

The Associated Press 

SAN JOSE — High-tech workers who are U.S. citizens are complaining that companies are replacing them with guest foreign workers who are paid less, the San Jose Mercury News reported Thursday. 

The engineers and programmers say employers are hiring the foreign workers under the H-1B visa program, which was expanded during the height of the tech boom to address a shortfall of domestic programmers and engineers. 

“Betrayal is the word that comes to mind,” said Allan Masri, a San Jose engineer who was laid off last year from an engineering job at Netscape. 

Masri told the Mercury News he was replaced by a colleague who holds an H-1B visa. Netscape denied the claim. 

It’s not clear how many U.S. workers are reporting the problem. Complaints filed with the federal government are not made public until they are resolved. 

The Mercury News, however, reported scores of complaints at attorneys’ offices and government agencies ranging from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to the Labor Department. 

“One recruiter flatly told me they have 50 H-1Bs willing to work cheap ahead of me in line,” said James Stakelum, a database administrator who lives in Dallas. 

While Stakelum has not filed a complaint, others have. 

U.S. citizen Jenlih Hsieh claims SwitchOn Networks of Milpitas fired him after six months and replaced him with a foreign worker.  

According to his complaint with the EEOC, the H-1B worker earned $30,000 less a year. 

An attorney for the company said Hsieh’s dismissal had nothing to do with his citizenship. 

H-1B visas are used to bring skilled foreign workers into sectors that have shortages of qualified U.S. workers. They last six years. 

Program supporters say the visas help companies find qualified workers. They say U.S. schools aren’t producing enough computer engineers. 

Critics say companies are simply trying to cut costs. 

The Justice Department is investigating complaints that allege discrimination on the basis of their citizenship. 

The department is currently investigating Sun Microsystems Inc. based on a laid-off engineer’s complaint in April. 

“They’re very tough cases to prove,” an unidentified Justice Department official told the Mercury News. 

Jury orders Philip Morris to pay smoker $850,000 

LOS ANGELES — A jury found Philip Morris Inc., the world’s largest tobacco company, liable in a fraud, negligence and product liability lawsuit Thursday and awarded a woman dying of cancer $850,000 in compensatory damages. 

Jurors awarded Betty Bullock, 64, of Newport Beach, $750,000 in economic damages and $100,000 for pain and suffering. 

A second phase of the trial is scheduled to begin Oct. 1 to determine any punitive damages. 

William S. Ohlemeyer, Philip Morris’ vice president and associate general counsel, said the company had no comment on the verdict pending the completion of the trial’s second phase. 

In a shift from its strategy in earlier civil cases, Philip Morris did not try to defend its past actions. Instead, the company turned the spotlight on Bullock and her decision to smoke. 

“If she had stopped smoking .... even in the 1980s, she would not have lung cancer today,” Peter Bleakley, the attorney representing Philip Morris, told jurors at the start of the trial in August. 

Safeway’s third-quarter profit falls 9 percent  

PLEASANTON — Safeway Inc. reported a 9 percent drop in its fiscal third-quarter profit, reflecting lackluster sales growth and its continuing struggle with soft economic conditions. 

The Pleasanton-based grocery store chain said Thursday that net income came to $281.3 million, or 60 cents a share, for the quarter ended Sept. 7, compared with $309.2 million, or 60 cents a share, a year earlier. 

During a conference call in June, Safeway Chairman and Chief Executive Steven A. Burd told analysts the company expected third-quarter earnings of 60 cents to 62 cents a share. At that time, analysts had expected earnings of 75 cents a share. 

Redback shares tumble  

on third-quarter loss 

SAN JOSE — Shares of Redback Networks Inc. dropped nearly 43 percent Thursday after the maker of broadband and optical-networking equipment warned its third-quarter loss will be much wider than expected because of weak sales. 

Redback said it now expects a third-quarter loss, excluding items, of 23 cents to 25 cents a share on revenue of $15 million to $20 million. 

The estimate excludes inventory charges, restructuring expenses and other items considered part of ongoing operations under generally accepted accounting principles.

SAN FRANCISCO — Slumping retailer Gap Inc. is turning to an executive who ran Disneyland to make its turnaround dreams come true. 

Paul Pressler, who had been the head of Walt Disney Co.’s theme park and resort business since 1994, took over as Gap’s chief executive officer Thursday in a move that analysts viewed as a coup for the San Francisco-based company. 

As he leaves behind the land of Mickey Mouse, Pressler will join a business that has been dominated for the past two decades by another Mickey — the Gap’s renowned CEO Millard “Mickey” Drexler. 

Following through on plans that he disclosed in May, Drexler retired Thursday, ending a storied career in which he transformed Gap into one of the world’s best-known retailers. 

The last two years of Drexler’s reign were marred by poor fashion decisions that triggered 28 consecutive months of declining sales — something the Gap is counting on Pressler to change. 

“We are incredibly pleased with the outcome of our search and are greatly looking forward to having Paul lead the company,” said Gap Chairman Donald Fisher.

WALL, S.D.— For nearly three decades, an 80-foot hole dubbed Delta Nine played a vital role in the nation’s defense. 

The underground concrete silo on the edge of Badlands National Park held a Minuteman II missile that could deliver a nuclear weapon to a Soviet target in 30 minutes or less. 

After the Soviet Union’s demise and the signing of a 1991 arms reduction treaty with Russia, the missile program was scrapped. Now the silo, never used for war, is being used to educate. 

The Minuteman Missile National Historic Site eventually will tell the story of the Cold War and the nuclear weapons that were never used. 

“This site will be the first national park in the world whose primary purpose is to commemorate the events of the Cold War,” said Marriane Mills of Badlands National Park, which is handling the project. 

At a ceremony Friday, the U.S. Air Force will formally transfer the silo and a nearby launch control facility to the National Park Service. 

Park Service officials hope the site will be opened to the public sometime next summer, Mills said. The crew housing facility and underground control center, about 11 miles away, won’t open for two or three years because a visitors’ center and other facilities must be built. 

One of the officials expected at Friday’s ceremony will be Craig Manson, the assistant interior secretary. When Manson was in the Air Force in the late 1970s, he was a launch control officer for the missile silo. 

“In many respects, the transfer underscores that we accomplished our mission in the Cold War, protecting America from the threat of nuclear war,” Manson said. “This event will mark the transition of the Cold War from an everyday part of our lives to a chapter in our country’s history.” 

The 44th Missile Wing at Ellsworth Air Force Base near Rapid City stood watch over Delta Nine and 149 missiles in western South Dakota for nearly three decades. The wing was inactivated July 4, 1994, in compliance with a U.S.-Russian treaty. 

Minuteman I missiles became active in 1962, about the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis. President Kennedy told Soviet leader Nikita Kruschchev the Minuteman was his “ace in the hole.” 

The original missiles were replaced by Minuteman II models, which flew at 15,000 mph, had a range of 6,300 miles and weighed about 73,000 pounds. The missiles were designed to survive a first attack and then strike back.

Hail to the haggis king 

BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Hardy stomached men from around the country will scarf sheep’s entrails for a chance to be named “haggis king.” 

The haggis eating contest Friday is part of Bethlehem’s Celtic Classic Festival. The winner will be the first to finish a pound and a half of the Scottish dish, a mix of sheep’s organs, oats and spices. 

Tensions are high this year as two former champions prepare to go head to head. Steve Cunningham, of Bethlehem, and Peter Stefchak, of Anchorage, Alaska, have both won twice. 

Stefchak said his training regimen includes starving himself for 24 hours before the contest. 

Of the haggis, he said, “It sounds awful, but it actually has a light liver taste.” 

Cunningham said he is confident. His son will enter with him. 

Patrick, 14, finished the haggis first last year. But he didn’t win overall because the rules require children to eat less. Cunningham said he has a special technique for getting it down, but hasn’t told anyone except his son. 

“Blood is thicker than haggis,” he said. 

Naked gets their attention 

NORTH PLATTE, Neb. — Four years after Mayor Jim Whitaker walked his dog Naked through town to raise money for the city’s Paws-itive Partners animal shelter, the publicity stunt is still reaping rewards. 

The North Platte mayor raised a lot of eyebrows and some criticism in 1998 when he pledged to walk Naked if $5,000 was raised for the new animal shelter. 

He soon after made it known that Naked was a dog. 

Remembering the publicity stunt, a retired Bethlehem, Pa., couple has willed their personal property and any insurance to the animal shelter upon their deaths, which could add up to more than $400,000. 

“We hope to still be around awhile, but when we both go they will get everything,” said Marie Spivack. 

She and her husband, Marvin, made a donation to the animal shelter and have made several more since. The mayor ended up getting the attention of animal lovers nationwide and raised $9,000. 

What are the odds of this one 

LASALLE, Ill.— Police say a suspected bank robber wanted to get away in style. 

John Pope, 39, ordered a limousine to pick him up from his hotel in Moline after he robbed a bank Tuesday in the western Illinois community, police said. 

Unfortunately for Pope, his driver was a retired police officer. 

The driver, Don Madsen, of Moline, tipped off police that he had a suspicious passenger when he picked Pope up from the hotel. Madsen later got a call on his cell phone from one of his old colleagues, who warned that his passenger was suspected in a bank robbery. 

Madsen used cryptic language to indicate his location and state troopers found him at a LaSalle truck stop where they arrested Pope. 

SAN FRANCISCO – San Francisco city officials gathered outside City Hall Thursday to unveil a brand new electronic parking meter system that is expected to add millions to city coffers. 

The device looks more like an early model video game than the parking meter of the future, but officials say the new meters will more efficiently track time and collect money. 

Supervisor Tom Ammiano was joined by Fred Hamdun, director of the city's parking and traffic department, and Paul Carpmael, a project director from Serco Management Services, the company responsible for installing the new system, to witness the unveiling of the new system Thursday. It is expected to increase revenues to the city by an additional $5.9 million. 

"Currently an estimated $3 million is lost each year due to theft,'' Ammiano said. "The current system is outdated and unreliable. It wasn't feasible to invest money in old technology.'' 

According to Hamdun, San Francisco will replace its entire stock of 23,000 meters, many of which have been vandalized. The new machines will take multiple coin denominations and accurately track time using electronic quartz timers. 

Under the current system, 1,700 mechanical meters are either broken or missing, frustrating motorists and law enforcement officers alike.  

The housing of the new meters is shaped to resist blows from heavy objects and is enclosed by a heavily protected coating. 

The city is not only installing a new metering system, Ammiano noted, but rather an entirely new management system. The elements of this system include meter installation, coin counting and collection services, maintenance and an advanced software system that audits itself. 

"The City of San Francisco is thrilled, not only because Serco is providing a new and improved system, but also because the company is committed to helping (the department) transition to the new system and will train ... staff on how to properly use equipment,'' Ammiano said. 

For the first time in 55 years, meter replacement began in the Tenderloin, Financial District and Excelsior districts in August and is scheduled for completion in March 2003.

WASHINGTON — Democrats and Republicans in Congress began closing ranks Wednesday behind a resolution giving President Bush broad authority to use military force against Iraq. 

Bush hailed the development and suggested war with Baghdad could become “unavoidable” if Saddam Hussein does not disarm. 

Full compliance with all U.N. Security Council demands “is the only choice and the time remaining for that choice is limited,” Bush said, standing with top congressional leaders in the Rose Garden. 

Bush struck a deal on the resolution with House leaders in the morning, and momentum quickly built behind it throughout the day. Leaders of both parties predicted passage, probably next week, by large margins. 

“Mr. President, we delivered for your father. We will deliver for you,” said Sen. John Warner of Virginia, the senior Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee. In January 1991, Congress authorized the first President Bush to use force to reverse Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait.

A second suspect has been arrested in the Sept. 15 armed robbery of a Berkeley electronics store, according to Police Information Officer Mary Kusmiss. 

Ceariaco Cabrellis, 26, was arraigned Monday on two counts of armed robbery and one count of burglary, false imprisonment and felony cruelty to animals for shooting a dog during the robbery of Cambridge Sound Works on the 2300 block of Shattuck Avenue. 

Police believe that Cabrellis is also responsible for numerous armed robberies stretching from Eugene, Ore., to southern California. 

Cabrellis, who was arrested at his Sacramento home Thursday, is being held on more than $300,000 bond, Kusmiss said. 

Cabrellis is alleged to be one of three men who robbed the electronics store after tying up the owner and an employee in the bathroom. The robbery went awry when witnesses saw the men loading $75,000 in electronic equipment into a U-Hual truck. Police chased down the truck in Hayward and arrested the driver, Ricky Sanders, for robbery.  

Police say that during the robbery, Cabrellis shot the owner’s dog. 

The arrest of Cabrellis was the result of a joint effort by several law enforcement agencies including local city and county police departments as well as the FBI, Kusmiss said. 

The third suspect in the robbery remains at large. 

WASHINGTON – Iraq's bioweapons program that President Bush wants to eradicate got its start with help from Uncle Sam two decades ago, according to government records getting new scrutiny in light of the discussion of war against Iraq.  

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sent samples directly to several Iraqi sites that U.N. weapons inspectors determined were part of Saddam Hussein's biological weapons program, CDC and congressional records from the early 1990s show. Iraq had ordered the samples, claiming it needed them for legitimate medical research.  

The CDC and a biological sample company, the American Type Culture Collection, sent strains of all the germs Iraq used to make weapons, including anthrax, the bacteria that make botulinum toxin and the germs that cause gas gangrene, the records show. Iraq also got samples of other deadly pathogens, including the West Nile virus.  

The transfers came in the 1980s, when the United States supported Iraq in its war against Iran. They were detailed in a 1994 Senate Banking Committee report and a 1995 follow-up letter from the CDC to the Senate.  

The exports were legal at the time and approved under a program administered by the Commerce Department.  

“I don't think it would be accurate to say the United States government deliberately provided seed stocks to the Iraqis' biological weapons programs,” said Jonathan Tucker, a former U.N. biological weapons inspector.  

“But they did deliver samples that Iraq said had a legitimate public health purpose, which I think was naive to believe, even at the time.”  

The disclosures put the United States in the uncomfortable position of possibly having provided the key ingredients of the weapons America is considering waging war to destroy, said Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va. Byrd entered the documents into the Congressional Record this month.  

Byrd asked Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld about the germ transfers at a recent Senate Armed Services Committee hearing. Byrd noted that Rumsfeld met Saddam in 1983, when Rumsfeld was President Reagan's Middle East envoy.  

“Are we, in fact, now facing the possibility of reaping what we have sown?” Byrd asked Rumsfeld after reading parts of a Newsweek article on the transfers.  

“I have never heard anything like what you've read, I have no knowledge of it whatsoever, and I doubt it,” Rumsfeld said. He later said he would ask the Defense Department and other government agencies to search their records for evidence of the transfers.  

Invoices included in the documents read like shopping lists for biological weapons programs. One 1986 shipment from the Virginia-based American Type Culture Collection included three strains of anthrax, six strains of the bacteria that make botulinum toxin and three strains of the bacteria that cause gas gangrene. Iraq later admitted to the United Nations that it had made weapons out of all three.  

The company sent the bacteria to the University of Baghdad, which U.N. inspectors concluded had been used as a front to acquire samples for Iraq's biological weapons program.  

The CDC, meanwhile, sent shipments of germs to the Iraqi Atomic Energy Commission and other agencies involved in Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs. It sent samples in 1986 of botulinum toxin and botulinum toxoid — used to make vaccines against botulinum toxin — directly to the Iraqi chemical and biological weapons complex at al-Muthanna, the records show.

Berkeley High School students will not be getting gourmet organic lunches anymore. 

Students have gone back to fast food and pizza because, school officials said, students showed little interest in the specially delivered meals. 

Last year, Berkeley High invited local restaurateurs to sell their goods on campus. Soon, famed chef Alice Waters was serving up organic pork tacos and bike messengers brought in hormone-free chicken sandwiches. 

School officials hoped students would eat healthier and want to spend their lunch break on campus, but the idea never really caught on, and the number of meals consumed at the school’s food court dropped 33 percent. 

School officials said part of the problem was that the food court where the school served the meals was hidden away. The school cafeteria had been unusable since the Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989. And students like to get off campus during lunch. 

The school could not sell enough lunches at $3 or $4 each – the typical price of school meals – to cover the cost of the fancy foods. Plus, students said nearby fast food chains and delis have larger portions and cost less. 

But Berkeley Unified School District Superintendent Michele Lawrence is hoping to revive the program, and hopes the new cafeteria, which is expected to open next school year, will help.

ARLINGTON, Texas – The Oakland Athletics will go with a three-man starting rotation in the first round of the AL playoff series against Minnesota. 

Tim Hudson (15-9, 2.98 ERA) will start the opener of the best-of-five series at Oakland on Tuesday. 

Left-handers Mark Mulder (19-7, 3.47) and Barry Zito (22-5, 2.78) follow in Games 2 and 3. 

Cory Lidle (8-10, 3.89) will pitch out of the bullpen in the series against the Twins. 

“That’s something we didn’t do the last couple of years. We’ll change it up and see what happens,” Zito said of the three-man rotation. “We’ll have Lidle coming out of the ’pen, and he’ll be back in the rotation if we make it to the next round.” 

Last year, the Athletics lost the division series in five games against the New York Yankees after winning the first two games behind Mulder and Hudson.

Berkeley will celebrate its seventh annual “How Berkeley Can You Be?” parade and festival Sunday. 

The streets will begin bursting with Berkeley spirit at 11 a.m. when the parade begins at the corner of California Street and University Avenue. The parade route runs up University, onto Shattuck Avenue, then down Center Street, culminating at Civic Center Park, where festivities will continue until 5 p.m. 

“It’s about Berkeley being represented in all of its diversity,” said John Solomon, founder and organizer of the event. 

Outsiders often misconstrue the celebration as just an off-the-wall parade. But the event includes all of the city’s cultural, political and ethic groups. “It’s not just about wackos running around the streets naked,” Solomon said. 

One of the highlights of the parade will be more than 80 cars from ArtCar Fest. Also watch for People Eatin’ Them Animals, Welcome to the AARP with The Hot Flashes and the Synchronized Nap Team, and The Chicken Ranch on Wheels. Grand Marshall this year will be artist Michael Masley, a long-time Berkeley street performer whose motto is “conformity can be addictive, so beware.” 

The festival at Civic Center Park will include live performances of world music, food, dance, and a kids’ area. 

“How Berkeley Can You Be” will take place 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. For more information call 849-4688 or go to www.howberkeleycanyoube.com.

Following last week’s 10-acre wildfire near the Berkeley-Oakland border, crews are working to douse residents’ anxieties about the fire-prone hills by chopping down trees. 

Four acres of eucalyptus, an invasive and fast-burning tree, are being cleared from UC Berkeley-owned land at the top of Claremont Canyon, about a quarter-mile from the Sept. 20 blaze along the ridgeline.  

If a tree were to start burning, the grove stands amid a funnel of hot easterly winds that could accelerate a fire into a larger blaze, said Tom Klatt, director of emergency planning for the UC Berkeley Police Department. 

“The [current] work is a strategic change in how the forest is going to look,” said Klatt, adding that the new landscape will be less prone to fire. “The benefits will accrue next year and for decades to come.” 

Last week’s fire at Claremont Canyon started when a car caught fire in the area of Grizzly Peak Boulevard and Fish Ranch Roak in Oakland. More than 100 firefighters from seven agencies fought for three hours to contain the blaze.  

No structures were damaged. However, two firefighters suffered minor leg injuries. 

Fire officials say that fire danger remains high.  

“October starts next week. ... That’s the worst of our season,” said David Orth, assistant Berkeley fire chief. 

The Claremont Canyon eucalyptus removal coincides with stepped-up fire monitoring on campus hill property, further vegetation reduction in the Panoramic Hill area and more frequent communication between East Bay fire agencies. 

High fire season will end with the first major rainfall, typically in mid-November, fire officials said.