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Shellmound preservation effort strong

Josh Parr
Thursday September 07, 2000

Paved over, built on, and even sold for fertilizer and tennis court bedding, the West Berkeley shellmound is now completely covered by the cityscape.  

Monday evening, the Landmarks Preservation Commission convened to discuss procedures to preserve the remnants of Native American culture that lie beneath the blacktop. 

Though the commission did not endorse a proposed amendment to the existing Landmark Ordinance written by Vivian Khan, acting deputy director of the city’s Planning Department, it did unanimously decide to set such guidelines at a later meeting. 

Included in Kahn’s proposal were expansions of the Shellmound District boundaries, permit approval requirements, environmental review requirements, and exemptions for emergency repairs. 

At stake is the Landmarks Commission’s ability to review all permits for development, whether repairs, construction, or infrastructure work, that take place in the Shellmound Cultural Resource District - a swath of land extending beneath I-80 to what is now the Nature Company parking lot at the corner of Hearst Avenue and Fifth Street. 

“Basically,” says Khan, “the intent of the proposal was to preserve the resource. It would set guidelines for reviewing proposed building permits in the area so that any decisions made around development or repair would be based in fact – so you’re not flying blind and destroying a historical resource.” 

Several bones of contention were exhumed in last night’s deliberations. 

“We’ve never had to protect a resource that we can’t see,” Kahn said. “How to balance protection with the needs of developers is extremely delicate.” 

The proposals to extend the LPC’s jurisdiction to city streets was unprecedented, according to Rene Cardinaux, director of public works. 

“It’s the first time they’ve landmarked blocks and streets,” says Cardinaux, “and it could affect the ability to maintain utilities.” Cardinaux attended last night’s meeting to find a way to fast track public works’ projects in the shellmound area. 

“The protection proposals create a separate zone with its own rules, and I want to be able to maintain utilities and streets without having to get permission from the landmarks committee. What happens if there’s an emergency one morning, and the committee isn’t meeting for a month? 

“I don’t want somebody standing over me saying, ‘Hey wait a minute, you might be disturbing some shells,” says Cardinaux. 

Also affected will be the competing telecommunication firms trying to make inroads into Berkeley. Because West Berkeley is a growing area for dot-com businesses, competing telecommunication firms are attempting to access the “undeveloped” Oceanview neighborhood with cable and telecommunication technology. Building terminal boxes across the city, the telecom companies only need a city permit issued by the Public Works Department to begin construction. Because all permits to dig would fall under the supervision of the Landmark’s Commission, it could cause delays for “customers who want DSL lines.” 

If the shellmound district expands, as proposed, the zone would extend to include the Frontage Road and the Hearst Avenue right of way, an area covering Spenger’s Parking lot, Truitt and White Lumber Company and myriad smaller residences and dot-com “lofts.” If such a designation is given to this chunk of cityscape, argues Cardinaux, it would create a zone where something as simple as digging a hole in the ground would require an archaeologist and a Native American observer to get accomplished. 

So the public works head wants to map out the area, “to show where all the pipes and previous excavations were. This allows us to show that we’d be taking out soil that had already been imported, and didn’t have any historical resource in it. That will allow us to go ahead with the work that we need to get done, the work would be pre-approved,” says Cardinaux. 

“What I’m doing is getting control back on the streets.” 

Essentially, Cardinaux would be able to green light telecom digs through the Shellmound district, something that Leslie Emmington Jones, a member of the commission opposes. 

“We should have Pac Bell come before us,” she says. “If it falls under preservation, that’s what this commission is for.” 

Activists from the Berkeley Architectural Heritage Association say that such practices will not only undermine commission authority, but will chip away at an irreplaceable resource. Even if maps show where the imported soils are, “crews often miss by a foot or so, and even that would destroy historical resources that we don’t even know exist,” says John Dore, principal of Archaeological Mapping Specialists. 

“City workers would have the ability to designate what a cultural deposit is or isn’t. I often have to call in a geomorphologist to determine what’s an artifact and what’s not,” says Dore. 

Furthermore, public works excavation techniques don’t lend themselves to finding or preserving such artifacts, says Stephanie Manning, a member of BAHA. “There are piles of rubble from past digs sitting by the railroad tracks, and I’m certain that artifacts can be found inside them.” 

Richard Schwartz, a local contractor and author of “Berkeley 1900,” a compendium of old Berkeley Gazette stories, says that such a loophole provides carte blanche access for development and places a historical resource in the hands of people whose primary interests are at odds with preservation. 

“In construction, everybody’s job depends on construction. If you think that anyone in the field has an interest in reporting archaeological finds, think again,” said Schwartz. 

He also remembers what happened to the Emeryville shellmound. “There were all kinds of promises about what would happen there, but because protecting the site was not a priority, the shellmound is now gone. 

“The only way to preserve the shellmound is to decide to protect it. Trying to find a balance between development and preservation only means that preservation is being compromised,” says Schwartz.


Thursday September 07, 2000

Wednesday, Sept. 6 

Alzheimer’s and dementia  

support group 

1:30 p.m. 

North Berkeley Senior Center 

1901 Hearst Ave. 

644-6107 

 

Martial arts demonstration 

noon-1 p.m. 

Sproul Hall steps, Sproul Plaza, UC Berkeley  

UC Berkeley Martial Arts Program will put on a demonstration to show what martial arts styles are offered at the university. 

Contact Patrick at beatty@haas.berkeley.edu. 

 

Thursday, Sept. 7 

Housing Advisory  

Commission 

Regular meeting 7:30 p.m. 

South Berkeley Senior Center 

2939 Ellis St. 

Agenda includes discussion and action on project-based Section 8 proposal and program to inspect vacant units and monitor for fire alarms. 

 

Growing wise  

with Betty Goren 

10:30 a.m. 

North Berkeley Senior Center 

1901 Hearst Ave. 

644-6107 

 

“Discipline & Citizenship” conference 

6:30 p.m. - 8 p.m. 

Graduate Theological Union 

Bade Museum, Pacific School of Religion 

1798 Scenic Ave. 

 

Conversation between actor  

Paul Newman and Laura  

D'Andrea Tyson 

5 p.m. 

UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business, Arthur Andersen Auditorium 

Gayley Road between Hearst Avenue and Bancroft Way 

The event inaugurates the business school's annual lecture series Forum on Philanthropy in Business. 

 

Rent Stabilization Board 

7 p.m. 

2134 Martin Luther King Jr. Way 

Among the issues the board will hear is a tenant’s appeal of a hearing examiner’s decision. The tenant in a building at 2472 Virginia St. will argue that the rent reductions granted for habitabilitiy problems were too small. 

 

Friday, Sept. 8 

Computer, software help 

Vista College, Room 303, 7 p.m. 

Topic will center on Quicklink Pen, a small hand scanner 

For more information call (510) 527-2177 or meldancing@aol.com 

 

“Discipline & Citizenship” 

conference 

9 a.m.-4 p.m. 

Graduate Theological Union 

Bade Museum, Pacific School of Religion 

1798 Scenic Ave. 

895-4542 

 

Conversational Yiddish 

1 p.m. 

North Berkeley Senior Center 

1901 Hearst Ave. 

644-6107 

 

Berkeley Critical Mass 

5:30 p.m. gather, 6 p.m. ride 

Downtown Berkeley BART plaza 

Join scores of happy cyclists and even some rollers and 

joggers in this monthly celebration and street reclamation. 

Kids welcome! After the ride there will be a free party. 

273-9288 www.bclu.org 

 

Saturday, Sept. 9 

Open house 

Julia Morgan center for the Arts 

Meet new leaders and artist and learn about future plans for the facility. RSVPs encouraged 

2640 College Ave. Berkeley 

4- 7 p.m. 

845-8542 

 

Sunday, Sept. 10 

“Doors to Madame Marie” 

11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. 

Berkeley Richmond Jewish Community Center 

1414 Walnut St.  

As part of the Jewish Learning Center’s Authors Series in the Library, Odette Meyers will be available for discussion and booksigning. 

848-0237 

 

“Next Stop, Greenwich  

Village” 

2-4:30 p.m.  

Berkeley Richmond Jewish Community Center Cinema 

1414 Walnut St.  

Based on filmmaker Paul Mazursky’s own passage from Brooklyn to Greenwich Village, the film is about the dynamics of leaving home and trying to leave home behind. There will be a peer led discussion following the movie. 

$2 suggested donation.  

848-0237 

 

Sunday, Sept. 10  

Solano Avenue Stroll 

10 a.m. 

The Local Legacies on Parade kicks off with Grand Marshal Wavy Gravy. The mile-long block party is filled with over 75 entertainers including RhythMix - a women's percussion group, Frog Legs - a Cajun band, and Mal  

Sharpe & Big Money in Dixieland. There's a giant slide, a bicycle ramp-jumping show, ethnic foods, game booths, a hang gliding simulator, pony rides, castle bounces, a silent auction, dunk tanks, art projects, palm readings and more. Admission is free. 

Monday, Sept. 11 

“12th annual Berkeley YMCA  

Golf Tournament” 

Tilden Park Golf Course 

Shotgun Start at 11:00 a.m. 

Entry fee includes cart, lunch on the course and dinner. Proceeds benefit Albany-Berkeley YMCA  

$125 Entry Fee 

549-4525 

 

Voter workshop 

1 p.m. 

Learn about voting absentee and working a local polling places. North Berkeley Senior Center 

1901 Hearst Ave. 

644-6107 

 

Tuesday, Sept. 12 

Tai Chi Chuan 

11 a.m. 

North Berkeley Senior Center 

1901 Hearst Ave. 

644-6107 

 

Wednesday, Sept. 13 

Mid-Autumn Festival 

North Berkeley Senior Center 

1901 Hearst Ave. 

644-6107 

Last town hall meeting on the  

Berkeley Housing Authority  

Plan 

6-8 p.m. 

West Berkeley Senior Center 

1900 Sixth St. 

For information on the plan, call Wanda Remmers 548-8776 

Thursday, Sept. 14 

Eugene O’Neil House,  

Mt. Diablo State Park Trip  

9 a.m. - 5 p.m. 

North Berkeley Senior Center 

1901 Hearst and MLK Jr. Way 

$21 per person 

644-6107 

Environmental Sampling Project Task Force 

6:30 p.m. 

First Congregational Church of Berkeley, 2345 Channing Way 

Agenda items include public comment time and sampling reviews 

486-4387 

 

Pre-business workshop 

Small-business Development Center 

519 17th St. Suite 200, Oakland 

8 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. 

$35  

273-6611, www.eastbayscore.org, eastbayscore@yahoo.com 

 

Yoga class 

2 p.m. 

North Berkeley Senior Center 

1901 Hearst Ave. 

644-6107 

 

What next for Haiti? 

7:30 p.m. 

La Pena Cultural Center 

3105 Shattuck Avenue, 

What is the true story behind the recent elections in Haiti? What’s the real impact of the global economy on Haiti? 

483-7481  

please call to reserve childcare 

$5-10 

Friday, Sept. 15 

“The Barber of Seville” 

1 p.m. 

North Berkeley Senior Center 

1901 Hearst Ave. 

644-6107 

 

“Lift the Sanctions from Iraq” 

Interfaith Brunch & Community Gathering. Talk by Denis Halliday, Former U.N. Assistant Secretary-General 

10:30 a.m. -noon 

Berkeley Friends Church, 1600 Sacramento 

527-8370 

Saturday, Sept. 16 

 

Shoreline clean-up walk 

10 a.m. 

Seabreeze Market, on Frontage Road just west of University Avenue 

Friends of Five Creeks leads a walk, talking about  

history, wildlife, and restoration possibilities from Strawberry to Codornices Creeks, as part of Coastal Cleanup 2000.  

848-9358  

 

 

 

Sunday, September 17 

Berkeley Citizen’s Action Endorsement Meeting 

2-5 p.m. 

North Berkeley Senior Center 

1901 Hearst Ave. 

To include local and state endorsements. 

Please place this upcoming event in your listings. 

Contact: BCA Co-chair Linda Olivenbaum at (510) 652-1206 

Call 549-0816 

 

Thursday, Sept. 21 

Hearing to terminate the  

Conditional Order for  

Abatement for Pacific Steel  

Casting Co. 

9:30 a.m. 

Bay Area Air Quality management District 

939 Ellis St. 7th Floor Board Room 

San Francisco 

415-749-4965 

 

Friday, September 22  

Point Reyes Nature Center, Earthquake Trail Trip 

9 a.m. - 5 p.m. 

North Berkeley Senior Center 

1901 Hearst and MLK Jr. Way 

$18 per person 

644-6107 

 

Saturday, Sept. 23 

From Capitalism to Equality 

2 p.m. 

Niebyl-Proctor Library 

6501 Telegraph Ave. at Alcatraz 

Why have the conditions of work become more difficult and the 

rewards more unequal since 1973? Join author Charles Andrews to 

discuss these issues and solutions for them. 

$5 admission includes $10 discount coupon the book, “From Capitalism to Equality” 

535-2476 

 

Sunday, Sept. 24  

“First Steps in Finding your Family History” 

Brunch 10:30 a.m., lecture 11 a.m. 

Berkeley Richmond Jewish Community Center 

1414 Walnut St. 

Using both story-telling and generational techniques, Dr. Lois Silverstein will offer beginning steps to rediscovering family heritage and traditions.  

$4 for BRJCC members and $5 for all others 

848-0237 

 

5th anniversary party and film festival 

Bicycle Friendly Berkeley Fifth Birthday 

6-8 p.m. party 

film: 8:30-10:30 p.m. 

Pyramid Alehouse Outdoor Movie Theater 

1901 Gilman St. 

The event is to honor five years of BFB bike advocacy. Films will include: “Pedalphiles and Dinosaurs Against Fossil Fuels” 

Bring something to sit on. 

Free to members; $10-$20 sliding scale to non members.  

549-7433 

 

“How Berkeley Can You Be?” 

11 a.m. on University Avenue and California Street, culminating at Civic Center outside Berkeley High School 

Festival in the park starts at 12:30 p.m. 

849-4688, www.howberkeleycanyoube.com 

 

Monday, Sept. 25 

Open forum on affordable housing 

5:30 p.m. 

North Berkeley Senior Center 

1901 Hearst Ave. 

Sean Heron of the East Bay Housing Organizations will talk about building a campaign for affordable housing. Sponsored by the Affordable Housing Advocacy Project. 

1-800-773-2110 

 

Wednesday, Sept. 27 

“Improving your bottom line” 

2-5 p.m. 

Berkeley Yacht Club 

1 Seawall Dr. 

Speakers include, Mayor Shirley Dean, Dr. Drian Nattrass and Mary Altomare Natrass, authors of “The Natural Step for Business” and two of the world’s leading authorities on providing a strategic business framework promoting sustainabiliity and profitability. 

 

Saturday, Sept. 30 

Jim Hightower: “Election 2000: a Space Odyssey” 

8 p.m. 

King Middle School 

1781 Rose St. 

Sponsored by KPFA and Global Exchange 

“I am an agitator,” Hightower says. “The agitator is the centerpost in a washing machine that gets the dirt out.” 

$10 in advance/$12 at the door 

848-6767 x609 

 

 

Monday, October 2 

“2nd annual Berkeley City Championship” 

Tilden Park Golf Course 

Entries accepted August 1. Entry Fee includes gift, cart and Awards Dinner. Proceeds benefit local organizations and projects. This event determines Berkeley City Champion and Seven other Flight Winners. 

$115 Entry Fee 

841-0972 

“Clean Lies Dirty War” 

7:30 p.m. Unitarian Fellowship, 1924 Cedar 

Event is part of a national campaign to end sanctions on Iraq.  

(510) 528-5403 

 

Thursday, October 5 

3rd annual Berkeley Black Police Officers’ Association Golf Tournament 

Tilden Park Golf Course 

Shotgun Start at 7:30 a.m. Entry Fee includes cart range balls and Award Luncheon. Proceeds benefit Berkeley Black Police Officers’ Scholarship Fund. 

$99 Entry Fee 

644-6554 

 

ONGOING EVENTS 

 

Sundays 

Green Party Consensus Building Meeting 

6 p.m. 

2022 Blake St. 

This is part of an ongoing series of discussions for the Green Party of Alameda County, leading up to endorsements on measures and candidates on the November ballot. This week’s focus will be the countywide new Measure B transportation sales tax. The meeting is open to all, regardless of party affiliation. 

415-789-8418 

 

 

 

Tuesdays 

Easy Tilden Trails 

9:30 a.m. 

Tilden Regional Park, in the parking lot that dead ends at the Little Farm 

Join a few seniors, the Tuesday Tilden Walkers, for a stroll around Jewel Lake and the Little Farm Area. Enjoy the beauty of the wildflowers, turtles, and warblers, and waterfowl. 

215-7672; members.home.com/teachme99/tilden/index.html 

 

Berkeley Farmers’ Market 

2-7 p.m. 

Derby Street between Martin Luther King Jr. Way and Milvia Street 

548-3333 

 

Berkeley Camera Club 

7:30 p.m. 

Northbrae Community Church, 941 The Alameda 

Share your slides and prints with other photographers. Critiques by qualified judges. Monthly field trips. 

531-8664 

 

Computer literacy course 

6-8 p.m. 

James Kenney Recreation Center, 1720 Eighth St. 

This free course will cover topics such as running Windows, File Management, connecting to and surfing the web, using Email, creating Web pages, JavaScript and a simple overview of programming. The course is oriented for adults. 

644-8511 

 

 

 

Saturdays 

Berkeley Farmers’ Market 

10 a.m.-3 p.m. 

Center Street between Martin Luther King Jr. Way and Milvia Street 

548-3333 

Poets Juan Sequeira and Wanna Thibideux Wright 

 

 

Thursdays 

The Disability Mural 

4-7 p.m. through September 

Integrated Arts 

933 Parker 

Drop-in Mural Studios will be held for community gatherings and tile-making sessions. This mural will be installed at Ed Roberts campus. 

841-1466 

 

Fridays 

Ralph Nader for President 

7 p.m.  

Video showings to continue until November. Campaign donations are requested. Admission is free.  

Contact Jack for directions at 524-1784. 

 

2nd and 4th Sunday 

Rhyme and Reason Open Mike Series 

2:30 p.m. 

UC Berkeley Art Museum, 2621 Durant Ave. 

The public and students are invited. Sign-ups for the open mike begin at 2 p.m. 

234-0727;642-5168 

 

Tuesday and Thursday 

Free computer class for seniors 

9:30-11:30 a.m. 

South Berkeley Senior Center, 2939 Ellis St. 

This free course offers basic instruction in keyboarding, Microsoft Word, Windows 95, Excel and Internet access. Space is limited; the class is offered Tuesday and Thursday afternoons. Call ahead for a reservation. 

644-6109


Indian-American community supports mom charged with children's attempted murder

Viji Sundaram (Pacific News Service)
Thursday September 07, 2000

LOS ANGELES – On the morning of Aug. 27, when Nina Sloan saw Narinder Virk on her regular weekly visit to the Ventura County Jail, Virk asked, teary-eyed, “Can nothing be done? Can no one come up with the money and get me out of here?”  

That did it. “I decided that this girl should be bailed out without any further delay,” said Sloan, 66, a retired county employee who, like Virk, was born and raised in India's Punjab province. 

That very afternoon, Sloan offered to put up all her personal property – two rental houses, her bank certificates of deposit and jewelry – as collateral toward Virk's $500,000 bail. 

“I did it because I know what a battered woman goes through,” Sloan says, “I know how she must feel because I went through two terrible marriages myself.” 

Sloan is one of dozens of sympathizers – in the Indian-American community and outside it – rallying behind the 39-year-old Virk who was arrested in January for allegedly trying to drown her son, age 9 and daughter, 6, and herself in Channel Islands Harbor. 

A harbor resident and former lifeguard awakened by cries for help from the little boy rescued the three. At the time of the rescue, mother and daughter were unconscious. 

Virk is facing two counts of attempted murder, a charge that could keep her in prison for life. Her attorney, Ventura County Deputy Public Defender Christina Briles, said the trial will probably begin early next year. 

Virk's supporters say her action was a result of years of abuse at the hands of her husband, Santokh, a liquor store owner in Port Hueneme, CA. 

When called for his comments, an angry-sounding Santokh told this reporter, “I don't want my side of the story in the paper. I don't want my name or my children's names in your paper. You can put my wife's name, but not mine.” 

The case has brought rare unanimity to the diverse and somewhat fractured Indian-American community. At every one of her court hearings, community members – among them Sikhs, Hindus, Christians, Parsis and Muslims – have packed the courtroom in a strong show of support. 

At one hearing, supporters handed over a petition to prosecutors with 1,000 signatures on it, urging leniency. 

Indian-Americans “have a more sophisticated analysis of domestic violence” than they once did, notes Firoza Dabby, executive director of Narika, a nine-year-old support group for South Asian victims of domestic violence based in Berkeley. Dabby said that formerly South Asians living in the U.S. would have either denied that the problem existed or explained it away as culturally acceptable. 

Briles argues that Virk was suffering from depression when she attempted the murder-suicide because of the years of harsh abuse she had endured from her husband. 

She was trapped in a loveless marriage, kept isolated in their home, Briles said. Virk snapped when her husband left for India telling her he was going to file for divorce there. 

Virk came to the U.S. in 1991 from a small farming village in Punjab, sponsored by her husband. Poverty and prejudice kept her from receiving any formal education. Virk neither reads nor writes Punjabi, and does not know any English. 

This did not trouble her would-be husband or his family when they entered into negotiations for the marriage in 1978 when she was barely 18 and he 21. All Santokh wanted was someone who could cook, keep house and produce children – a role acceptable to Virk as a young woman reared in India's village culture where female subservience is the norm. 

Virk, speaking through an interpreter in a jailhouse interview, said that the first 14 years of her marriage were trouble free. In 1984, Santokh left for the U.S. and found himself a job in Northridge, while she stayed in India with relatives. He would visit them every couple of years. 

Virk joined her husband in the U.S. in 1991 and soon became pregnant. She assumed her husband would provide for her, as he had always done. She in turn, would be a dutiful housewife, as she had always been. 

But within a couple of years after their son was born, Virk saw her marriage turn into a sinister game. Her husband kept her isolated, blocking long-distance phone calls and restricting her every movement. 

“I was unable to speak to my parents or write to them,” she says. “I had no relatives to talk to and the only loved ones I had were my children.” 

Santokh began drinking. Then the physical abuse began. “He never abused the children,” Virk said, through tears. “When he got drunk, though, he would beat me in front of the children.” 

In 1997, he took her and the children to India and dumped them there, says Virk. “I tried to call him, but he wouldn't take my calls.” She and the children flew back to Los Angeles using their round trip tickets when a friend warned that her green card would lapse if she stayed away from the U.S. for too long. 

The next year her husband took off for India for six months, leaving her and the children with no money for food. For two years she poured out her grief to a tape recorder. Four tapes were recovered by investigators from the Virk home after she was arrested. In one outpouring she recounts that “I have two small children, I don't have any right to live, but still he threatens me that I will be killed.” 

Virk said hunger and fear drove her to the local Sikh temple where she told the priest of her situation. But for the kindness of her neighbor, Elisa Quezada, and friends from the Sikh community, she and her children would have gone without food many a day. 

Quezada, a mother of four, and Virk communicated and bonded, crossing language barriers. “She was afraid they would go hungry,” Quezada says in halting English. “(Every time) he left her and went away, she didn't know when he would come back.” 

When Virk's case goes to trial, jury members are sure to wonder why she never called the police or walked out. Briles will have to convince them that Virk grew up in a country where the police are not always viewed as helpful and sympathetic, in a culture where women are told that marriage is forever, that if it fails, the wife – not her husband – didn't do enough to make it work. 

 

Viji Sundaram is a staff reporter for India West, a weekly journal based in San Leandro. A longer version of this story appears in the


Berkeley playwright will be at Fringe Festival

John Angell Grant
Thursday September 07, 2000

Timothy Erenta, former playwright-in-residence at Berkeley’s Lawrence Hall of Science, will present his solo performance piece "Happy Endings are Overrated" as part of the ninth annual San Francisco Fringe Festival that opens Thursday. 

Over the course of the festival’s 11-day run, 52 local, national and international theater companies and artists will present 250 performances of traditional plays, solo performance, dance and physical theater, sketch comedy, and multi-media happenings, in what has become a yearly ritual of avant garde Bay Area theater madness. 

The San Francisco Fringe Theater Festival, masterminded by Christina Augello and Richard Livingston of San Francisco’s Exit Theater, is part of a "family" of fringe festivals from around the world, some as old at 50 years.  

All these festivals follow the Fringe tradition of showcasing uncensored, non-traditional, not-yet-famous actors, puppeteers, mimes, dancers, and musicians. The result is controlled chaos, and a chance for the public to experience live performances at bargain prices. 

Each performance runs under 60 minutes, each event has a maximum ticket price of $8, and one hundred percent of the ticket revenue goes to the performers. 

Show starting times are staggered at 90 minute intervals, so that theater addicts can walk from performance to performance at key downtown venues near San Francisco’s Union Square. 

Erenta’s “Happy Endings Are Overrated” tells the behind-the-scenes story of the Prince character from the Snow White, Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella stories.  

Erenta is an actor, playwright and storyteller who specializes in ancient myth, folk and fairy tales, and family stories. 

His plays have been seen by more than 50,000 elementary school students in Northern California. He serves on the board of directors of the Storytelling Association of Alta California. 

Other highlights from the 52 Fringe shows include the return of Bay Arean Byron Yee, whose “Paper Son” broke out of the San Francisco Fringe in 1998 to enjoy sold-out runs across the United States and Canada, and at the Edinburgh (Scotland) Fringe,. Yee will be back with a new work titled “Opium.” 

Antonio Sacre of Los Angeles also returns with “My Penis– In and Out of Trouble,” which won the New York “Best of the Fringe Festival Award” for solo performance in 1999. 

From Orlando, Florida, comes "”Trailer Trash Tabloid!: The Mobile Homo [sic] Sex Scandals, Murders & Other Unnatural Disasters of 1964,” in which two actors take the audience on a madcap, plot-twisting, roller-coaster ride playing all the residents of a South Georgia trailer park. 

This high-camp comedy, featuring rapid-fire dialogue and quick costume changes, was the outright hit of this year’s Orlando International Fringe Festival, turning away hundreds at every performance. 

Bay Arean Trevor Allen’s play “Chain Reactions,” presented by Black Box Theater Company, invites audiences to Golden Gate Park’s Morrison Planetarium to explore the connections among Einstein, a pregnant physicist, and a bachelor with an empty fishbowl. 

Other than the Golden Gate Park shows, most Fringe Festival performance locations are within walking distance of San Francisco’s downtown Union Square. These locations include Exit Theater, EXIT Stage Left, the Phoenix II, the Lorraine Hansberry Theater and Il Teatro 450.  

Shows begin from 7 to 10 p.m. Monday through Friday, and from 1 to 10 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, from September 7-17. 

For more information about the Fringe, or a full schedule of events, call 415/673-3847, or visit the website (www.sffringe.org). Tickets for downtown venues are available only at the time of performance.


2000 is a make-or-break season for Bears, Holmoe

Thursday September 07, 2000

By Jared Green 

Daily Planet Staff 

 

For a man with a year left on his current contract and an extension just waiting for his signature, Tom Holmoe doesn’t seem too secure. He has repeatedly stated that he considers this season his last chance to show some improvement in the standings, and his minimum goal is to reach a bowl game. This would be a surprise to most, as most prognosticators have the Bears finishing no higher than eighth in the Pac-10, which has six bowl spots. 

If the Bears are to exceed expectations and reach a bowl game, they will have to lean heavily on two sophomores, quarterback Kyle Boller and tailback Joe Igber. Boller is coming off of a difficult freshman year, during which he completed 38.6 percent of his passes and was ended prematurely by a separated shoulder in his eighth start. If he can make a leap similar to that of former UCLA quarterback Cade McNown, who struggled as a true freshman but became a great quarterback and leader, the Bears will definitely improve. 

Igber had a productive freshman year with 694 rushing yards, but was also hampered by injury, playing with a bum shoulder during the final five games. But his slippery moves and instincts for hitting the hole make him a dangerous back if he can stay healthy.  

The receiving corps is a mess, as newcomers battle the two remaining lettermen for playing time. Boller desperately needs one or two of them to step up and become reliable pass-catchers. 

Injuries have made what should have been a veteran offensive line into a question mark going into the season opener against Utah. The top two right guards, Scott Tercero and David Hays, are both out with injuries, and veteran center Reed Diehl is struggling with an injured snapping hand. 

The defense lost several veteran starters, including three linebackers to the NFL, but should again be the strength of the team. The defensive line has the potential to be the most dominant in the conference, with seniors Andre Carter and Jacob Waasdorp teaming up for a fourth year. The six new starters behind the line will struggle early, but should come together as a unit in time for conference play. 

The kicking game is a mystery except for pre-season All-American punter Nick Harris. Mark-Christian Jensen has looked great in practice, but he had little success last year. The return game looks solid, but Iwuoma has to prove he can be a game-breaker returning punts and kickoffs. 

It all comes back to Boller and the receivers. If they can connect and make opponents respect the passing game, Igber should have more room to run. Boller has the talent, but can he find the magic that great quarterbacks have? Holmoe is anxiously awaiting the answer.


Recycling in city expands

William Inman
Thursday September 07, 2000

Dave Williamson couldn’t repeat the two words enough – “manufacturers’ responsibility.” 

That’s why the operations manager for the Ecology Center said that the center, on contract with the city to pick up curbside recyclables, didn’t want to collect plastics in the early ’90s. 

“The reason why this material wasn’t picked up was a pragmatic one,” Williamson said. “The plastics industry has not done its part to make revisions and buy it back and recycle it.” 

In February, the City Council ordered the Ecology Center to begin collecting No. 1 PET and No. 2 HDPE plastics curbside, and Sept. 1 the center began picking up plastic bottles and jugs. 

Now, anything with a neck smaller than its base and is labeled by a No.1 or a No. 2 surrounded by the chasing arrows, can be tossed into the recycling bin with aluminum and glass. 

The Ecology Center has been picking up recyclables for 25 years in Berkeley. It conducted a curbside plastics program in 1996 in two sections of the city to test the waters.  

“It worked out,” he said. “We found we could do it in a cost-effective manner.” 

But after the Plastics Task Force formed in 1995 – a group of Berkelyeans who worked in conjunction with the Ecology Center – they found that much of the plastic collected by cities ends up in landfills all over the world anyway. So the City Council voted in 1996 not to move ahead with a plastics pick-up program. 

When the notion came back to the council in February, the old arguments resurfaced. Councilmember Kriss Worthington said that it’s sort of misleading to tell the public that plastic is, in reality, being recycled. 

“We need to put more pressure on the plastic industry to increase the capacity for using these products,” said Worthington, who in February voted to amend the agenda item to include council pressure on the plastic industry to come up with technology that would actually turn plastic bottles back into plastic bottles. 

The plastics that Berkeley recycles will not be converted to containers again, but will be made into secondary products such as grocery bags, carpets and plastic lumber. 

Better than going into the landfill, yes, but most of these secondary materials are non-recyclable, Williamson said. 

The problem is standardization.  

“Despite the numbers on the bottles, there is a chemical variance,” he said. “You can’t mix the two together.” 

He added that it’s very difficult to get recycled plastic back into a bottle, and most U.S. manufacturers have resisted pressure to use anything other than virgin plastics. 

“The only thing that will solve it is legislation,” he said. 

He said that the Ecology Center is wholeheartedly supporting SB1110, a bill working its way through the Senate that requires manufacturers to include 35 percent of recycled content in its plastic packaging. 

He added that the Food and Drug Administration has approved around 55 different processes that would recycle plastics back into food containers, but “It’s a matter of price,” he said. 

Williamson said that the No. 1 plastic that the city collects is being sold to a company that will make it into rugs, and the No. 2 plastics are being sold to a company that makes garbage bags. 

Some of the No. 2 plastics is being sold to a company that sells it directly back to the Proctor and Gamble Co. for reuse. 

The Ecology Center has added two new trucks with additional capacity for the 130 annual tons of plastic they anticipate. Williamson said the city recycles 7,000 tons of material a year. 

He also said that the state has initiated redemption fees for some No.1 and No. 2 plastics, and the city should be able reap some of the benefits.  

The Ecology Center asks that residents step on the containers to reduce the space they use. 

For more information, call the Ecology Center at 527-5555.


Pac-10 2000 Preview

Jared Green
Thursday September 07, 2000

1. UCLA Bruins 

(4-7 last season, 2-6 in the Pac-10) 

The Bruins certainly looked like the class of the conference with their opening win over Alabama, and there’s no arguing with the talent they have on both sides of the ball. 

The quarterback situation is up in the air, with sophomores Corey Paus and Ryan McCann battling for playing time. Paus won the job out of camp, but suffered a separated shoulder on the season’s opening drive. McCann came in and led the Bruins down the field several times against Alabama’s vaunted defense, showing that he can do the job. Even if Paus returns at full strength, look for a the battle to continue all season. Head coach Bob Toledo could end up rotating the pair to keep them both happy.  

Starting wideouts Brian Poli-Dixon and Freddie Mitchell are the best duo in the conference, and huge tight end Gabe Crecion serves as an outlet in the passing game along with as creating holes for tailback DeShaun Foster, the most talented back in the conference. If he can stay healthy after dealing with ankle and knee injuries the past two years, the junior should have a breakout year running behind a monsterous line and catch the attention of NFL scouts. 

As with most of the Pac-10 contenders, the Bruins’ real questions are on defense. Senior end Kenyon Coleman is the most proven of the line candidates, but a dominating defensive end has to get more than the 3.5 sacks he recorded last season. Junior linebackers Ryan Nece and Robert Thomas are both Butkus Award candidates, and Thomas was all over the field against Alabama. 

If UCLA can survive another huge non-conference game with Michigan with no key injuries, they are capable of running the Pac-10 table. The schedule is a killer, as the Bruins miss only basement-dweller Washington State in conference play. But with Washington dealing with injuries and suspensions and UCLA getting USC at home, the Bruins could be in for a big year. 

 

2. USC Trojans  

(6-6, 3-5 Pac-10) 

Coach Paul Hackett can rest a little easier after the Trojans routed Penn State 29-5 in the Kickoff Classic. Hackett’s job may still be in jeopardy, however, if USC doesn’t translate speed and talent into results this season. Hackett has recruited unprecedented speed to “Tailback U,” but track stars don’t always make for football stars. But with four players who run the 100-meter dash in under 10.5 seconds, Hackett had better hope they get a chance to show their speed with a football in their hands. 

One of those speedsters, tailback Sultan McCullough, had a breakout game against Penn State, rushing for a career-high 128 yards, most of them tough yards between the tackles. If he can show the same toughness week in and week out, he could be the latest in the storied line of great USC running backs. 

Also returning from injury is junior quarterback Carson Palmer. Palmer looked outstanding before breaking his collarbone in week three last season, and is expected to be one of the top signal-callers in the nation this year. He looked hesitant against Penn State, but will come around as he gets back into the flow of the offense. He certainly has a wealth of receivers to throw to, with sophomore Kareem Kelly looking like a future star after catching 54 passes for 902 yards as a true freshman last year. 

Summer wasn’t kind to the USC defense, as the team’s best cover cornerback, Antuan Simmons, is probably out for the year after having surgery in May to remove a benign growth in his abdomen. The Trojans still return nine starters, however, and have several standout players. Linebackers Zeke Moreno and Markus Steele are among the nation’s elite at their positions, and tackles Ennis Davis and Ryan Nielsen team with them to form a solid heart of the defense. 

The Trojans are another team capable of winning the conference. It may come down to the final weekend’s rivalry game with UCLA to determine the Pac-10 Rose Bowl entry. 

 

3. Washington Huskies  

(7-4, 6-2 Pac-10) 

The team that entered fall camp as many experts’ pick to win the Pac-10, the Huskies have several problems looming over their heads as the season begins. Marques Tuiasosopo is clearly a special talent at quarterback, but who will he throw the ball to? The team’s best receiver, Chris Juergens, is out with a knee injury, and potential star tight end Jerramy Stevens is facing legal problems following a July arrest in a rape investigation. Also, the Huskies only proven cornerback, Tony Vontoure, was suspended for breaking team rules. The Huskies don’t have the overwhelming talent of the southern California schools, and the loss of three key players would be too much to ask Tuiasosopo to compensate for. 

With little talent at receiver, coach Rick Neuheisel will turn to tailback Paul Arnold to carry the offense along with Tuiasosopo. Arnold, who averaged 6.3 yards per carry last year, put some extra muscle onto his small frame this summer and should be a breakout star this year. Huge lineman Chad Ward (6’5”, 335) will move from guard to tackle this year, and along with three other returning starters, should provide room for Arnold and Tuiasosopo to run. 

The defensive line returns only one starter, and the talent is thin at best. After recording just 13 sacks last year, the Husky defense doesn’t scare anyone. 

 

4. Oregon Ducks  

(9-3, 6-2 Pac-10) 

The Ducks were the Pac-10’s second-biggest surprise last year, finishing just behind the Rose Bowl-bound Stanford. Coach Mike Bellotti’s offense averaged more than 35 points per game. All-Pac-10 tailback Reuben Droughns is the biggest loss, with junior college transfer Maurice Morris the leading candidate to take over the position. The lack of experience at the position, combined with the three-deep tight end position, may lead to more one-back sets this year. 

The talented duo of junior Joey Harrington and senior A.J. Feeley will battle for time at the quarterback spot, with Harrington named the starter.  

The defense returns only three starters. The defensive line will be led by senior end Saul Patu, who had 7 sacks last season. He will be joined by fellow seniors Quinn Dorsey and Jed Boice. Senior inside linebacker Matt Smith was third on the team in tackles last season, and should step up to a leadership role this year. 

The secondary should be the strongest area of the defense, as CB Brian Johnson is joined by Rashad Bauman, who missed last season with a knee injury. Bauman, a junior, joined the starting lineup as a true freshman in 1997 and earned honorable mention all-conference honors his sophomore year. Assuming he’s fully recovered, the Ducks should be one of the top pass-defense teams in the conference. 

 

5. Stanford Cardinal  

(8-3, 7-1 Pac-10) 

Stanford’s unlikely run to the Rose Bowl last year was powered by the conference’s best offense, as the Cardinal had the worst defense in the Pac-10. They parlayed their success into on of the nation’s top recruiting classes, so the future looks bright for the program. But this season will be filled with transition and growing pains. 

The offense returns seven starters, which should provide a solid base. But all four of the departed starters were first-team All-Pac-10 performers last year, and the projected starter at quarterback, Joe Borchard, was stolen away by baseball’s Chicago White Sox. The starter will be Randy Fasani, who played mostly on special teams and at linebacker last season. He looked good against Washington State in the opener, but consistency is a question. 

Junior Brian Allen and sophomore Kerry Carter were both impressive at tailback last year; Allen averaged 5.3 yards per carry, and Carter led the team with six rushing touchdowns. If the passing game looks weak early in the season, coach Tyrone Willingham may be forced to scrap tradition and concentrate on the ground game. The line blocking for the tandem returns three starters, but must deal with the loss of center Mike McLaughlin and left tackle Jeff Cronshagen. Both were All-Pac-10 players last season, and McLaughlin made all the line calls. 

The defense is led by senior tackle Willie Howard, who was awarded the Morris Trophy as the Pac-10’s best defensive lineman, and played in the Rose Bowl despite suffering considerable damage to his knee in the last regular season game. Howard founded the “Trench Dogs,” the tightly-knit group of linemen that return five of the top six players this year. Combine the line with senior outside linebacker Riall Johnson, who tied for the conference lead in sacks with 13, opposing quarterbacks should feel the heat this year. The Cardinal certainly hope so, as the secondary is unproven. 

 

6. California Bears  

(4-7, 3-5 Pac-10) 

See breakdown on page 16 

 

7. Arizona Wildcats  

(6-6, 3-5 Pac-10) 

The Wildcats were possibly the biggest disappointment in the nation last year, starting with the humiliating 41-7 loss to open the season against Penn St. Picked to finish in the top 5 in nearly every poll, they didn’t even make a bowl game. QB Ortege Jenkins will be given the keys to the offense full-time this year, after splitting time with the departed Keith Smith for the past three seasons. Jenkins has the athleticism and arm to be a star, but his judgement hasn’t always been the best. If he can step up and find two-way star Bobby Wade (WR/CB) and TE Brandon Manumaleuna for some big gains, the running game should open up for the tailback tandem of Leo Mills and Larry Croom The offensive line returns four starters, so holes should open up for the runners on a regular basis. 

After dominating defensively with head coach Dick Tomey’s “Flex Eagle” defense in the early and mid-90s, the Wildcats have struggled to stop the opposition for the past two seasons. But with the defensive line returning players like Joe Tafoya, Idris Haroon and Keoni Fraser, the Wildcats should get back to their attacking ways, smothering running backs and harassing quarterbacks. The secondary is shaky, led by converted receiver Brandon Nash at strong safety, and will have to prove it can stop the big play that plagued the defense last season. 

 

8. Oregon State (7-5, 4-4 Pac-10) 

Well-traveled coach Dennis Erickson took over the program at Oregon State last year, and the move paid immediate dividends as the Beavers had their first winning season since 1970 and made their first bowl game appearance since 1964. Fourteen returning starters would seem to assure the program of staying in the middle of the pack. But this team has never dealt with any expectations before, and the pressure may show. 

The Beavers got an ugly start to the year when five players, including top receiver Robert Prescott, were suspended indefinitely for connection to the beating of a fellow student. His loss leaves QB Jonathan Smith without a go-to receiver. Smith is a good leader, but he only completed 49 percent of his passes last season. The offense really depends on tailback Ken Simonton, who gained 1,329 yards last season. He should continue to plow through defenses during his junior year. But if the Beavers can’t get the passing game going, it’ll be a long season. 

The secondary returns intact and should be the best of the Pac-10. Assuming CB Dennis Weathersby can beat his off-field legal problems, the sophomore should be one of the conference’s best. Strong safety Terrence Carroll is a hard hitter who plays the run and pass equally well. 

The defensive questions come in the interior of the line and linebackers. Both tackles are letter-winners who have experience, but neither has shown themselves to be an outstanding talent. The starting ends, seniors DeLawrence Grant and LaDairis Jackson, combined for 11 sacks last year and should be solid. 

 

9. Arizona State Sun Devils (6-6, 5-3 Pac-10) 

What should have been a strong offensive season for the Sun Devils went down the drain during the summer. Senior QB Ryan Kealy, plagued by injury the past two seasons, was healthy and ready to lead the offense. But Kealy was suspended by Coach Bruce Snyder for “breaking unspecified rules.” If he isn’t reinstated, the job goes to redshirt freshman Jeff Krohn, which would doom the Sun Devils to the second division. 

The other offensive mainstay was supposed to be senior tailback Delvon Flowers, who ran for 512 yards last season while backing up the departed J.R. Redmond. But Flowers’ year came to a premature end when he injured his knee during a pre-season scrimmage. With Flowers out for the year, the tailback duties fall to untested junior Davaren Hightower. 

The only proven weapon left for Arizona State is junior tight end Todd Heap, who led the team in receptions last season and has been picked for several pre-season All-America teams. But in the high-scoring Pac-10, having a tight end as the main offensive threat leaves a team at the bottom looking up. 

The defense will be led by a talented linebacking corps, including first-team All-Pac-10 performer Adam Archuleta, who led the conference in tackles-for-loss last season, and freshman All-America Solomon Bates, who is coming off a knee injury. Both cornerbacks are new as well, but with several experienced safeties to choose from, the secondary should come together. 

 

10. Washington State (3-9, 1-7 Pac-10) 

Three straight three-win seasons have put longtime head coach Mike Price’s job in jeopardy. Just 11 starters return, so Price will be counting on a bunch of newcomers to contribute right away. Unfortunately, Pullman isn’t exactly a magnet for high-profile recruits, and it doesn’t look like the losing will stop this year. 

Price has had success with big, pocket-passer quarterbacks like Drew Bledsoe and Ryan Leaf. So it is curious that he chose sophomore Jason Gesser, a mobile athlete, over freshman Matt Kegel, a 6’5”, 226 pounder with a rocket arm, to start the season. Look for Kegel to take over at some point this year, as he fits the offense better than Gesser. 

The receivers are solid but not spectacular, depending on the spread offense to provide room to run after the catch. Huge senior Marcus Williams (6’5”, 231), caught 28 passes and four touchdowns last year. This may be the first time in Cougar history that the running game looks more reliable than the air attack. Deon Burnett was the top freshman rusher in the conference last year, gaining 974 yards. He is an ideal back for the spread offense, able to hit draws up the middle and step up to pass-block for the quarterback. 

The defensive backfield should be a strength, with senior Lamont Thompson moving from cornerback back to free safety, where he looked like a future star as a true freshman on the 1997 Rose Bowl team. Sophomore cornerback Marcus Trufant looked like a player last year; he needs to turn some of his 13 pass deflections into picks.


Parking lot protester trial delayed

Michael Coffino
Thursday September 07, 2000

 

The trial of a 34-year-old Berkeley law student scheduled to begin Wednesday in Oakland Superior Court was reset after the judge held a lengthy closed meeting with prosecution and defense lawyers to discuss whether the case would be decided by a judge or jury.  

Rick Young, a third-year law student from Pennsylvania, is facing three counts of disorderly conduct in connection with his 21-day protest in May against a planned parking structure south of the UC Berkeley campus. On April 30, Young installed himself at the Underhill parking lot at College Avenue and Channing Way, later fortifying his encampment with couches and a television set. 

He was arrested three times by campus police in May for “unlawful lodging,” but returned to the protest site each time.  

If found guilty, Young could be sentenced to as much as a year and a half in jail. 

“We have the right to request a jury trial,” Young said Wednesday. “We may try to go in front of the judge that has been hearing it all along since he is familiar with the case.” 

That appeared to be the outcome yesterday after Young’s lawyer, Oakland public defender Mike Sobel, and Assistant District Attorney David Lim met privately with Superior Court judge Marshall Whitley in chambers. The judge transferred the case to Judge Thomas Reardon and rescheduled the trial for October 20 at 9 am.  

The trial had been expected to start yesterday. Five campus police officers were among the witnesses waiting to testify in the criminal case. Dressed in dark suits, they sat side by side in the front row of the courtroom.  

Assistant D.A. Lim will likely call the officers to testify against Young, who staged his three-week demonstration to protest the university’s plan to construct a multi-story parking garage in the Underhill area.  

Young believes student housing should be constructed there instead of additional parking spaces. 

“I just think it’s socially and environmentally irresponsible to build a giant parking structure given the environmental impact and the need for more housing in Berkeley,” he said yesterday. Young is no longer living in the Underhill lot, where he studied by flashlight for his law exams last spring. He nevertheless appeared fatigued yesterday. 

Attired in a blue dress shirt and slacks, Young slept in his seat in the back of the courtroom as the morning session dragged on, his head resting against the wood-paneled wall. Young said he will argue that his protest was a form of free speech protected by the First Amendment. He denied it was an act of civil disobedience. 

“Civil disobedience means you’re breaking the law,” he said, “and I don’t think I broke the law.” Earlier this year the District Attorney’s office proposed a plea bargain in which Young would have agreed to plead guilty to one count of disorderly conduct.  

“They wanted me to plead guilty to one count and then I’d get probation,” said Young, who plans to practice law when he graduates. But Young refused to accept the plea offer. Prosecutor Lim could not be reached for comment yesterday. 

Young attended college at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania before enrolling at Boalt Hall as a law student in 1998.  

He said the protest was motivated in part because he had trouble finding housing when he first moved to Berkeley.  

The area slated for development forms a square city block bordered by College Avenue, Channing Way, Bowditch and Haste.  

In April, the university announced a plan to construct a 1,000-space multi-level parking garage topped by a playing field, along with housing for 900 students.  

The Underhill area previously held a multi-level parking garage with an astroturf field on top. But in 1993 the University demolished the garage after engineers determined it was seismically unsafe. The current lot can accommodate a total of 425 cars.


BHS volleyball kicks off league play with a win

Thursday September 07, 2000

By Tukka Hess 

Daily Planet Correspondent 

 

Berkeley High responded to the first challenge of their volleyball league season last night, handily beating Piedmont three games to one at the Berkeley High gym last night.  

After sharing third place in the San Ramon tournament, and enduring a tough scrimmage last weekend, the Yellow Jackets’ home opener was supposed to have the feel of a grudge match against a tough opponent. Instead, Berkeley took charge of games that were in doubt, and won 15-12, 15-13, 9-15, and 15-11.  

Berkeley began the match on the offensive, jumping out to a 10-5 lead in the first game. In what was to become the motif of the evening, Piedmont roared back to tie the game 10-10. The Jackets responded with precision passing, pelting the Highlanders with an impressively distributed attack to rally to a 15-12 victory. 

Piedmont quickly rebounded, taking a 10-6 lead in the second game. Berkeley focused on placing the ball in the hands of junior Desiree Gilliard-Young and sophomore Vanessa Williams. Pounding the Highlanders with an impressive aerial attack, Williams forced a Piedmont side-out with a vicious spike, and Gilliard-Young answered on the ensuing Piedmont serve-return with one her own, bringing Berkeley to within one point, 11-10. Senior OH Lezzi Akana followed their lead and tied the game at 12 with one of her team-high 11 kills. A Williams block shut the door on Piedmont, winning the game 15-13. 

Commenting on the effort of his team, Berkeley coach Justin Carraway said, "After the tournament, I thought we needed to do some better work with ball control. We certainly have to pass better so that we can take advantage of the hitters that we have. I thought the first two games we did a pretty good job of that." 

The match was marred by early difficulty at the scorer’s table. During the third game, with the scoreboard ostensibly showing a Berkeley 6-5 lead, one Piedmont fan was ejected from the stands after voicing with displeasure with the scoreboard reversals.  

Down 9-7 and struggling to keep within range of the Yellow Jackets, Piedmont called a timeout to collect themselves. The effort evidently worked, as the Highlanders rattled off 8 unanswered points to take their only game by a score of 15-9.  

Embarrassed by their collapse, Berkeley savaged Piedmont in the fourth game, bursting out to a 13-1 lead. With defeat imminent, slowly battled to within two points of the Yellow Jackets, 13-11.  

Reflecting on their fourth game, Berkley junior DS Ferron Salniker noted, "In the fourth game we’re up 13-2, and then lose our mental focus. We kind of got tentative and weren’t prepared to finish them off. Something that we really need to work on is closing teams out." 

Her teammate Williams did just that, snapping the Yellow Jackets out of their doldrums with yet another vicious spike to force a Piedmont sideout. On the subsequent play she drove home her tenth kill of the evening, bringing the score to 14-11.  

After the match Carraway remarked, "Vanessa got some key kills when we needed them. She got the side-out at 13 to get us where we could serve, that was huge for us. She is only a sophomore, so I expect big things to come later on."  

Gilliard-Young finished the Highlander off with her match-leading tenth block, giving the Yellow Jackets a 15-11 fourth game victory.  

Reflecting on the match, Carraway struck a note of surprise, commenting that "We scrimmaged them on Friday, and they looked much more solid than we did. I knew we would have to work really hard on terminating the ball and try to keep the pressure on them on service." 

Williams, wasn’t quite as shocked, saying: "I think we all expected the game to go pretty well. We played Piedmont before in a scrimmage and we although we didn’t do too hot; we had a couple of practices where everything seemed to be going well. We knew we were going to come out and win." 

Berkeley improved its overall record to 2-1. The Yellow Jackets will host Clayton Valley tonight at 6 p.m.  

The freshman team plays at 3:45 and the junior varsity squares off at 5 p.m.


Bike station promoter earns clean air award

Julian Foley
Thursday September 07, 2000

Amanda Jones was the force behind the downtown Berkeley BART station’s bike station, which opened last year. 

Wednesday, Jones received one of two 2000 Clean Air Champions Awards given by the Bay Area Air Quality Management District. 

The bike station, run by the Bicycle Friendly Berkeley Coalition, provides free, supervised bicycle parking for between 65 and 80 commuters a day, according to bike station employee Van Taylor.  

Space constraints prevented the bike station’s expansion, said Joe Carroll, a member of BART’s Bicycle Task Force. 

Having opened in October 1999, the station, funded by the BAAQMD, is still in its 18-month trial period . 

As commute coordinator for Palo Alto, Jones was also the driving force behind the bike station that opened in April at the Palo Alto CalTrans station, the first of its kind in the Bay Area. In addition to a full time security attendant, local businesses in Palo Alto offer concessions, bike repair, parts sales and rentals.  

“It’s great because people can leave their bikes all day and not have to worry about whether they will be there when they get back,” said Jones. The additional services help pay for the free parking. At the Palo Alto bike station, commuters can even leave their bikes there overnight. 

Bike station plans are under way in San Francisco and at the Fruitvale BART station, as they are nationwide.  

The Bikestation Coalition offers guidance and technical expertise to local organizations setting up their own bike stations. 

Jones was selected for the Clean Air Champion Award by a committee which included the American Lung Association, Rides for Bay Area Commuters, KCBS, the Environmental Protection Agency, and BAAQMD.  

The award, now in its ninth year, is part of the Spare the Air Campaign, a program spearheaded by BAAQMD that issues ozone alerts to the public, and encourages them to leave their cars at home on days when the ozone levels exceed federal standards.  

The Clean Air Award is given in part to draw media attention to that effort, said Karen Licavoli of the American Lung Association.  

In the past, the yearly award has been presented to a seventh grade class that built an electrical car, a girl scout troupe, and even a tap dancer. “We look for people who have done something unique and beyond their job,” said Licavoli. “Regular people who have done something exemplary.” 

John Ruzek of Walnut Creek was also named Clean Air Champion this year. A former senior electrical engineer at the Lawrence Berkeley Lab in Berkeley and BART engineer, Ruzek is devoted to improving bicycle and pedestrian safety “on the other side of the hills” through overpasses, bike lanes, and wider streets.  

Nominated by the East Bay Bicycle Coalition, he is an activist in the community who successfully lobbies city councils and transportation agencies like CalTrans to make transportation more accessible.  

“CalTrans is more than a department of highways,” said Ruzek, “and sometimes they need help focusing on that.”


First Golden Bear Classic brings teams in from east Daily Planet Correspondent Berkeley High responded to the first challenge o

Thursday September 07, 2000

Daily Planet Wire Services 

 

The Cal women’s volleyball team will host the inaugural Golden Bear Volleyball Classic Sept. 8 and 9 at the Recreational Sports Facility on the Cal campus. 

The opening game of the tournament will be George Washington against Florida Friday at 5 p.m. Cal will host McNeese State in the following game at 7 p.m. Friday’s losers will face off in the consolation game Saturday at 5 p.m., and the championship game is scheduled to being at 7 p.m. 

Cal meets McNeese State for the first time this weekend. The Cowgirls went 2-1 last weekend at the Marquette Challenge and host Louisiana-Lafayette Sept. 5. they are led by senior outside hitter Anissa Parker, who was the MVP of the Marquette Challenge with 61 kills in three matches.  

The Bears have a 1-2 all-time record against Florida and a 0-1 all-time record against George Washington. No. 12 ranked Florida is currently 3-2 and is led by 6’1” junior middle blocker Nicole McCray (71 kills, .397 hitting percentage). George Washington is 4-0 (travels to Maryland-Baltimore County Sept. 5), has won 12 straight games and is led by senior outside hitter Tracee Brown (36 kills, .456 hitting percentage).  

The Bears returned last weekend from the Silver Legacy/Ray Wersching Invitational in Reno, NV with a second place finish. Cal defeated host Nevada, 3-1 (7-15, 15-10, 15-11, 15-8) Sept. 1, fell to No. 11 ranked Minnesota, 3-0 (15-6, 15-6, 15-5) Sept. 2 and defeated Kent State, 3-0 (15-3, 15-11, 15-5) Sept. 2.  

The top player last weekend for the Bears was 5-10 freshman outside hitter Gabrielle Abernathy. In Abernathy’s college debut versus Nevada, she had a team-leading17 kills and 13 digs. She went on to tally 34 kills, a team-high 23 digs and eight total blocks during the tournament’s three matches. Abernathy was a member of the all-tournament team along with 5-9 senior outside hitter/setter Alicia Perry, who had a team-high 37 kills during the weekend and recorded 21 digs. She had an impressive .481 hitting percentage (15 kills, two errors, 27 attempts) in the Bears 3-0 victory over Kent State.  

In the victory at Nevada, the Bears started two true freshmen in Abernathy and 6’0” middle blocker Jessica Zatica. Besides Abernathy’s 17 kills, Perry, sophomore outside hitter Leah Young and junior setter/outside hitter Candace McNamee had 14, 12 and 11 kills respectively. McNamee also recorded her second career triple double with 11 digs and 37 assists.  

Sophomore middle blocker Reena Pardiwala, who sat out the entire 1999 season with a ruptured disk in her lower back, led Cal with four block solos. Pardiwala currently leads the Bear starters with a .333 hitting percentage (16 kills, four errors, 36 attempts), has 21 digs and a team-high five solo blocks and 16 total blocks.  

McNamee is doing a solid job as both an outside hitter and a setter with 30 kills and 73 assists in the first three matches. She is currently third on the Cal all-time assist list with 1992 career assists. The other Bear who is a member of the Bears all-time career Top 10 list is Perry, who is eighth on the career kill list with 937 and ninth with 2584 kill attempts.


Measure banned race-, gender-based preferences

The Associated Press
Thursday September 07, 2000

SAN FRANCISCO — In one of the most important California civil rights cases in years, a state Supreme Court majority indicated Wednesday that the voter-approved ban on affirmative action abolished race- and gender-based preferences in government contracts. 

The high court was hearing arguments in a challenge to a San Jose ordinance that required government contractors to solicit bids from companies owned by women and minorities. 

Although a decision is not expected for three months, four of the seven Supreme Court justices spoke out against the ordinance, saying it appears to be prohibited by Proposition 209, which passed in 1996. 

“In plain language, the provision prohibits any preference,” Justice Joyce L. Kennard said. 

Attorney General Bill Lockyer, who personally argued in defense of the San Jose ordinance, said the case could gut scores of so-called outreach programs run by local governments statewide. 

Proposition 209, approved by 54 percent of voters, prohibited preferences for women and minorities in state and local contracting, employment and education.  

It did not define “preferences,” but its sponsors focused their campaign attacks on quotas, set-asides and other measures that gave groups advantages in selection. 

San Jose officials argued that the city’s practices were not covered under Proposition 209. 

The ordinance requires city construction contractors, on contracts over $50,000, to contact at least four firms owned by women or minorities, negotiate with them and accept their bids or state legitimate reasons for rejection. 

The measure was challenged by Hi-Voltage Works, a Rancho Cordova company that submitted a low bid of $197,000 on a circuit-switcher for a San Jose sewage treatment plant in 1997.  

It was rejected because the company did not reach out to minority or female contractors to help with the project. 

The city, which found minorities underrepresented in subcontracting in a 1990 study, says it is merely giving previously excluded groups a chance to compete equally.  

Hundreds of state and local programs to inform, recruit, train or tutor women and minorities use the same rationale, San Jose attorney Joan R. Gallo argued. 

“The federal Constitution demands that we just can’t sit by discrimination and say, ‘oh well,”’ Gallo said. 

Chief Justice Ronald M. George suggested that governments could affirmatively reach out to all contractors so long as they did not base it on race or gender. 

Justice Janice R. Brown agreed: “It is permissible to set up an outreach program that encompasses the entire universe of people so long as it doesn’t target one race or one sex.” 

And Justice Kathryn Mickle Werdegar said that in the description of Proposition 209 in the ballot guide, “The legislative analyst said it would eliminate affirmative action programs.” 

In his first appearance before the high court, Lockyer pleaded to the justices to uphold the ordinance.  

He likened San Jose’s program to a race “where we make every reasonable attempt to get people to the starting gate.” 

The U.S. Justice Department, Lockyer and nine cities and counties filed briefs in support of San Jose’s measure, while a host of groups, including the American Civil Rights Institute, Pacific Legal Foundation and former Gov. Pete Wilson filed opposition papers.  


Incumbent still has many goals

By Judith Scherr Daily Planet Staff
Wednesday September 06, 2000

Councilmember Betty Olds, 79, has served the community for more than two decades.  

Even before she won a seat on the rent board, on which she served for eight years before winning her council seat in 1992, she was a commissioner on the Zoning Adjustments Board. 

Olds’ council aide, Susan Wengraf, heads her campaign. The incumbent expects to spend about $15,000 on the race. 

A staunch member of the council’s moderate faction, made up of Mayor Shirley Dean, Councilmember Polly Armstrong and, sometimes, Councilmember Diane Woolley, Olds is a fiscal conservative, relative to the more progressive council faction.  

While she supported resolutions to put some tax and bond issues on the ballot, such as taxes for parks and the library, Olds opposed putting a new lighting tax before the voters. The $3 million that the council majority allocated to other projects, should have been directed to lighting, she said. 

Olds describes herself as an environmentalist and takes credit for blocking a new hotel proposed for the city’s waterfront.  

Probably the issue Olds has worked hardest on in the recent past is building a new fire house in District 6.  

Some close neighbors to the proposed site at Shasta and Park Gate roads have said they don’t want the station on their street. 

“I just want a new firehouse,” Olds said. An Environmental Impact Report is being prepared to look at impacts of siting the fire station there and Olds says that should give the neighbors the information they need. “We need the best possible response time,” she said. 

District 6 has special public works needs. Roads in the hills are in bad shape, she said.  

“It costs twice as much to resurface streets in the hills,” which have problems with water run-off. Undergrounding utilities is also a priority for Olds. 

Another problem unique to the district is land instability. 

“Houses are sliding,” Olds said. 

One of the things that the councilmember prides herself on, is working as a go-between to activate city bureaucrats on residents’ behalf.  

Olds pointed to the case of two senior citizens almost evicted by a landlord who said he wanted to move into their apartment. “I went to the owner and saw that they stopped the eviction,” Olds said. 

Olds said she is working for more citizen participation in council meetings by promoting civility among council members. “It starts with us as a council,” she said. 

She also wants streamlined meetings. “We should do something about people monopolizing the council,” she said. Meetings should end by 11 p.m.  

“If necessary, we should start at 6 p.m.,” Olds said. Meetings now begin at 7 p.m. 

She blames the progressive majority for the number of agenda items carried without action from meeting to meeting. “If the majority does not want to take up an item, they don’t bring it up,” Olds said. 

“Anything not (disposed of) within two meetings should be dropped,” she contended. 

When asked about the health disparity study, which showed that African Americans in the flatlands have much poorer health than the white hills dwellers, Olds said this is a concern. 

“There’s not a simple solution,” she said, noting that people can go to the doctor in Berkeley, but sometimes do not. Habits such as drinking and smoking need to be addressed, she said. 

“The main thing is doing a lot of outreach,” she said. “Education is the solution.” This will take time, she said. 

As for Berkeley’s housing crisis, Olds said the city needs more apartments, both market rate and affordable.  

But Olds said the fundamental question has not been addressed.  

“How many more people can we handle without becoming (another) San Francisco?” 

Instead of building more housing, one solution would be to work with the existing housing stock, with people renting out parts of their homes, for example. 

Olds has concerns about Measure Y, the ballot measure that stops landlords from moving into apartments they own. Had the measure simply addressed seniors and disabled people, she said she would have supported it.  

However, because it also targets people who have lived in homes for five years and mandates moving costs when a low-income renter is displaced, Olds said she can’t support it.  

Measure Y will cause landlords to rent only to students who they know will vacate the apartments every few years, she said. 

As for traffic, Olds said it’s up to the police to address the problem through enforcement. The city was supposed to get three new traffic officers, but got only two, she said.


Calendar of Events & Activities

Wednesday September 06, 2000


Wednesday, Sept. 6

 

Alzheimer’s and dementia  

support group 

1:30 p.m. 

North Berkeley Senior Center 

1901 Hearst Ave. 

644-6107 

 

Martial arts demonstration 

noon-1 p.m. 

Sproul Hall steps, Sproul Plaza, UC Berkeley  

UC Berkeley Martial Arts Program will put on a demonstration to show what martial arts styles are offered at the university. 

Contact Patrick at beatty@haas.berkeley.edu. 

 


Thursday, Sept. 7

 

Growing wise with Betty Goren 

10:30 a.m. 

North Berkeley Senior Center 

1901 Hearst Ave. 

644-6107 

 

“Discipline & Citizenship” conference 

6:30 p.m. - 8 p.m. 

Graduate Theological Union 

Bade Museum, Pacific School of Religion 

1798 Scenic Ave. 

 

 

Conversation between actor  

Paul Newman and Laura  

D'Andrea Tyson 

5 p.m. 

UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business, Arthur Andersen Auditorium 

Gayley Road between Hearst Avenue and Bancroft Way 

The eventinaugurates the business school's annual lecture series Forum on Philanthropy in Business. 

 

Rent Stabilization Board 

7 p.m. 

2134 Martin Luther King Jr. Way 

Among the issues the board will hear is a tenant’s appeal of a hearing examiner’s decision. The tenant in a building at 2472 Virginia St. will argue that the rent reductions granted for habitabilitiy problems were too small. 

 


Friday, Sept. 8

 

“Discipline & Citizenship” 

conference 

9 a.m.-4 p.m. 

Graduate Theological Union 

Bade Museum, Pacific School of Religion 

1798 Scenic Ave. 

895-4542 

 

Conversational Yiddish 

1 p.m. 

North Berkeley Senior Center 

1901 Hearst Ave. 

644-6107 

 


Saturday, Sept. 9

 

Open house 

Julia Morgan center for the Arts 

Meet new leaders and artist and learn about future plans for the facility. RSVPs encouraged 

2640 College Ave. Berkeley 

4- 7 p.m. 

845-8542 

 


Sunday, Sept. 10

 

“Doors to Madame Marie” 

11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. 

Berkeley Richmond Jewish Community Center 

1414 Walnut St.  

As part of the Jewish Learning Center’s Authors Series in the Library, Odette Meyers will be available for discussion and booksigning. 

848-0237 

 

“Next Stop, Greenwich  

Village” 

2-4:30 p.m.  

Berkeley Richmond Jewish Community Center Cinema 

1414 Walnut St.  

Based on filmmaker Paul Mazursky’s own passage from Brooklyn to Greenwich Village, the film is about the dynamics of leaving home and trying to leave home behind. There will be a peer led discussion following the movie. 

$2 suggested donation.  

848-0237 

 


Monday, Sept. 11

 

“12th annual Berkeley YMCA  

Golf Tournament” 

Tilden Park Golf Course 

Shotgun Start at 11:00 a.m. 

Entry fee includes cart, lunch on the course and dinner. Proceeds benefit Albany-Berkeley YMCA  

$125 Entry Fee 

549-4525 

 

Voter workshop 

1 p.m. 

Learn about voting absentee and working at local polling places. North Berkeley Senior Center 

1901 Hearst Ave. 

644-6107 

 


Tuesday, Sept. 12

 

Tai Chi Chuan 

11 a.m. 

North Berkeley Senior Center 

1901 Hearst Ave. 

644-6107 

 


Wednesday, Sept. 13

 

Mid-Autumn Festival 

North Berkeley Senior Center 

1901 Hearst Ave. 

644-6107 

 

Last townholl meeting on the  

Berkeley Housing Authority  

Plan 

6-8 p.m. 

West Berkeley Senior Center 

1900 Sixth St. 

For information on the plan, call Wanda Remmers 548-8776 

Thursday, Sept. 14 

Eugene O’Neil House, Mt.  

Diablo State Park Trip  

9 a.m. - 5 p.m. 

North Berkeley Senior Center 

1901 Hearst and MLK Jr. Way 

$21 per person 

644-6107 

 

Pre-business workshop 

Small-business Development Center 

519 17th St. Suite 200, Oakland 

8 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. 

$35  

273-6611, www.eastbayscore.org, eastbayscore@yahoo.com 

 

Yoga class 

2 p.m. 

North Berkeley Senior Center 

1901 Hearst Ave. 

644-6107 

Friday, Sept. 15 

“The Barber of Seville” 

1 p.m. 

North Berkeley Senior Center 

1901 Hearst Ave. 

644-6107 

Saturday, Sept. 16 

Shoreline clean-up walk 

10 a.m. 

Seabreeze Market, on Frontage Road just west of University Avenue 

Friends of Five Creeks leads a walk, talking about  

history, wildlife, and restoration possibilities from Strawberry to Codornices Creeks, as part of Coastal Cleanup 2000.  

Call: 848-9358  

 


Sunday, Sept. 17

 

Berkeley Citizen’s Action Endorsement Meeting 

2-5 p.m. 

North Berkeley Senior Center 

1901 Hearst Ave. 

Contact: BCA Co-chair Linda Olivenbaum at (510) 652-1206 

Call 549-0816 

 

 

 

 


Thursday, Sept. 21

 

Hearing to terminate the  

Conditional Order for  

Abatement for Pacific Steel  

Casting Co. 

9:30 a.m. 

Bay Area Air Quality management District 

939 Ellis St. 7th Floor Board Room 

San Francisco 

415-749-4965 

 

 

 


Friday, September 22

 

Point Reyes Nature Center, Earthquake Trail Trip 

9 a.m. - 5 p.m. 

North Berkeley Senior Center 

1901 Hearst and MLK Jr. Way 

$18 per person 

644-6107 

 


Sunday, Sept. 24

 

“First Steps in Finding your Family History” 

Brunch 10:30 a.m., lecture 11 a.m. 

Berkeley Richmond Jewish Community Center 

1414 Walnut St. 

Using both story-telling and generational techniques, Dr. Lois Silverstein will offer beginning steps to rediscovering family heritage and traditions.  

$4 for BRJCC members and $5 for all others 

848-0237 

 

Bicycle Friendly Berkeley Fifth Birthday 

6-8 p.m. party 

film: 8:30-10:30 p.m. 

Pyramid Alehouse Outdoor Movie Theater 

1901 Gilman St. 

The event is to honor five years of BFB bike advocacy. Films will include: “Pedalphiles and Dinosaurs Against Fossil Fuels” 

Bring something to sit on. 

Free to members; $10-$20 sliding scale to non members.  

549-7433 

 


Monday, Sept. 25

 

Open forum on affordable housing 

5:30 p.m. 

North Berkeley Senior Center 

1901 Hearst Ave. 

Sean Heron of the East Bay Housing Organizations will talk about building a campaign for affordable housing. Sponsored by the Affordable Housing Advocacy Project. 

1-800-773-2110 

 


Wednesday, Sept. 27

 

“Improving your bottom line” 

2-5 p.m. 

Berkeley Yacht Club 

1 Seawall Dr. 

Speakers include, Mayor Shirley Dean, Dr. Drian Nattrass and Mary Altomare Natrass, authors of “The Natural Step for Busines” and two of the world’s leading authorities on providing a strategic business framework romoting sustainabiliity and profitability. 

 


Saturday, Sept. 30

 

Jim Hightower: “Election 2000: a Space Odyssey” 

8 p.m. 

King Middle School 

1781 Rose St. 

Sponsored by KPFA and Global Exchange 

“I am an agitator,” Hightower says. “The agitator is the centerpost in a washing mchine that gets the dirt out.” 

$10 in advance/$12 at the door 

848-6767 x609 

 

 


Monday, October 2

 

“2nd Annual Berkeley City Championship” 

Tilden Park Golf Course 

Entries accepted August 1. Entry Fee includes gift, cart and Awards Dinner. Proceeds benefit local organizations and projects. This event determines Berkeley City Champion and Seven other Flight Winners. 

$115 Entry Fee 

841-0972 

 


Thursday, October 5

 

“3rd annual Berkeley Black Police Officers’ Association Golf Tournament” 

Tilden Park Golf Course 

Shotgun Start at 7:30 a.m. Entry Fee includes cart range balls and Award Luncheon. Proceeds benefit Berkeley Black Police Officers’ Scholarship Fund. 

$99 Entry Fee 

644-6554 

 

ONGOING EVENTS 

 

Sundays 

Green Party Consensus Building Meeting 

6 p.m. 

2022 Blake St. 

This is part of an ongoing series of discussions for the Green Party of Alameda County, leading up to endorsements on measures and candidates on the November ballot. This week’s focus will be the countywide new Measure B transportation sales tax. The meeting is open to all, regardless of party affiliation. 

415-789-8418 

 

 

 

Tuesdays 

Easy Tilden Trails 

9:30 a.m. 

Tilden Regional Park, in the parking lot that dead ends at the Little Farm 

Join a few seniors, the Tuesday Tilden Walkers, for a stroll around Jewel Lake and the Little Farm Area. Enjoy the beauty of the wildflowers, turtles, and warblers, and waterfowl. 

215-7672; members.home.com/teachme99/tilden/index.html 

 

Berkeley Farmers’ Market 

2-7 p.m. 

Derby Street between Martin Luther King Jr. Way and Milvia Street 

548-3333 

 

Berkeley Camera Club 

7:30 p.m. 

Northbrae Community Church, 941 The Alameda 

Share your slides and prints with other photographers. Critiques by qualified judges. Monthly field trips. 

531-8664 

 

Computer literacy course 

6-8 p.m. 

James Kenney Recreation Center, 1720 Eighth St. 

This free course will cover topics such as running Windows, File Management, connecting to and surfing the web, using Email, creating Web pages, JavaScript and a simple overview of programming. The course is oriented for adults. 

644-8511 

 

 

 

Saturdays 

Berkeley Farmers’ Market 

10 a.m.-3 p.m. 

Center Street between Martin Luther King Jr. Way and Milvia Street 

548-3333 

Poets Juan Sequeira and Wanna Thibideux Wright 

 

 

Thursdays 

The Disability Mural 

4-7 p.m. through September 

Integrated Arts 

933 Parker 

Drop-in Mural Studios will be held for community gatherings and tile-making sessions. This mural will be installed at Ed Roberts campus. 

841-1466 

 

Fridays 

Ralph Nader for President 

7 p.m.  

Video showings to continue until November. Campaign donations are requested. Admission is free.  

Contact Jack for directions at 524-1784. 

 

2nd and 4th Sunday 

Rhyme and Reason Open Mike Series 

2:30 p.m. 

UC Berkeley Art Museum, 2621 Durant Ave. 

The public and students are invited. Sign-ups for the open mike begin at 2 p.m. 

234-0727;642-5168 

 

Tuesay and Thursday 

Free computer class for seniors 

9:30-11:30 a.m. 

South Berkeley Senior Center, 2939 Ellis St. 

This free course offers basic instruction in keyboarding, Microsoft Word, Windows 95, Excel and Internet access. Space is limited; the class is offered Tuesday and Thursday afternoons. Call ahead for a reservation. 

644-6109 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Letters to the Editor

Wednesday September 06, 2000

Father: Jeffrey is a caring human being 

 

Editor: 

 

There have been allegations that my son Jeffrey Schilling went to the Abu Sayyaf camp to negotiate about weapons. I just want to make it clear to Abu Sayyaf and the world that he is not now nor has he ever been involved in arms dealing. My son is not a CIA agent. These allegations are groundless. 

Before he went to the Philippines, Jeffrey had worked with friends in several small business ventures: contract painting, landscaping and goat herding. He had also had part-time jobs as a fitness instructor and a hotel desk clerk while going to school at UC Berkeley. I encouraged him to consider more conventional jobs so that he could have a steady income. 

Jeffrey wanted to start his own businesses instead. My son is a hard worker. He worked many hours a day last summer tending goats as part of a fire prevention business in the East Bay. 

Friends and family know Jeffrey as a man with a good and caring heart.  

He has a very generous spirit. He was concerned over the plight of the Filipino Muslim people. So he would send money, food and clothing to the Philippine Muslim community. 

He converted to Islam six years ago in the fall of 1994. Jeffrey married a Filipina Muslim this past April. Jeffrey went to the Philippines in search of a deepening of his Islamic faith. Now the Abu Sayyaf is holding him.  

I call on Abu Sabaya, as a Muslim and as a human being, to release my son unharmed. 

 

George Schilling 

Oakland 

 

Great city employees; treat them right! 

 

Editor: 

 

On Friday night there was a medical emergency at my house. We called 911. 

Minutes later we heard reassuring sounds: the sirens of the approaching emergency vehicles. 

The personnel were first rate. They were polite and friendly, swift and thorough with their questions, professional in their assessment of the situation, and adept at putting people at ease. 

To quote the victim, they were “just beautiful” in their handling of what was to us an extremely unsettling and confusing situation. Within minutes we were on our way to the hospital. 

During the ride I learned that the union of these stellar city workers is currently engaged in contract negotiations with the city on their behalf. 

I understand that these negotiations are beginning to drag on. 

The City should not permit these labor negotiations to continue much longer. These people work extremely hard, their job is difficult, and they are indispensable.  

Berkeley's Emergency Medical paramedics are a treasure, and they should be treated as such. We never know when we may need them. 

Grateful to the team and glad all is well again, 

 

Doris Willingham 

Berkeley 

 

 

Homophobia in Falun Gong needs exposure  

Editor: 

 

In his Op-ed piece, Professor Franz Schurman provides an interesting historical perspective concerning the Falun Gong cult. I hope that in the near future I will see a follow-upon their cultist preachings, one of which is virulent homophobism.  

I often visit China and have several personal friends there. The rights of Chinese gays has never been greater and is gradually increasing since Deng Xiao Peng overthrew maoism and under the greater liberalism of President Zhiang Zemin. 

It would be tragic to see Falun Gong spread its bigotry and superstition into Chinese society much the same way as the fanatic elements within the US evangelical community. 

Only the International Herald-Tribune has exposed this fanatic cult's anti-human rights position on this issue. Every one else ignores this issue, especially anti-Chinese politicians seeking votes like Nancy Pelosi. 

 

Armand Boulay 

Berkeley  

 

 

Libertarian says get rid of sales and income tax 

Editor: 

 

Fred Foldvary, Libertarian Party candidate in the 9th District (Berkeley-Oakland area), declared on Labor Day that he would be the best friend in Congress that labor could possibly have. 

“Libertarians would repeal all taxes on labor,” said Foldvary, “including not just taxes on wage income but also sales and excise taxes. Workers would be totally tax free.”  

Untaxing the American worker would effectively double the typical wage, enabling workingfamilies to afford housing, health care, and better education.  

“Taxing wages is unjust,” said Foldvary, “because the labor belongs to the worker, and so does the wage.” 

Since the Democratic incumbent is the likely winner, voters in the 9th District will not really be voting on who will represent them, but on what policy they favor. 

Voting for Foldvary will show that workers want to raise wages by shifting taxes out of wages. 

Foldvary says that the federal government should not tax workers or consumers directly, but instead obtain public revenues from the State governments.  

These federal revenues can be supplemented by federal rental charges for pollution and for the use of natural resources such as oil, forests, grazing, and other land values.  

Foldvary calls on labor unions and all groups working to improve the condition of labor to join him in advocating an end to the taxation of labor. 

Foldvary challenges the other candidates for Congress to state their position on taxing labor. 

 

Fred Foldvary 

Libertarian Party candidate for House of Representatives, 9th District


Residents’ needs top priority

By Judith Scherr Daily Planet Staff
Wednesday September 06, 2000

 

Eleanor Pepples, 35, is running in District 6 as an independent, unaligned with either the “liberal/progressive” or “moderate” factions of the City Council. 

Rather than working with one of the competing factions, Pepples said her strength would be in “working collectively.” 

That means finding out what her constituents want. 

“I would work tirelessly to listen to different opinions,” she said. 

Pepples has already begun what she calls a “listening tour,” going door to door, asking residents about their concerns. 

Turning listening into action is not new for Pepples. She has developed these skills as a Strategic Development Analyst in banking and health care. 

“On a daily basis, I listen to people’s needs,” she said. 

Each of the areas in the city has its own priorities, she said. “I want to ensure that the hills have an equally strong representation on the council.” 

Pepples did not hesitate before taking a shot at the incumbent. “I feel strongly that Betty Olds has not fully participated. She’s abstained fifty times on various issues.” For example, in February, 1996, Olds abstained on the Bay Trail Design.  

“The role of the councilmember is to vote one way or another,” Pepples said, underscoring that she would listen effectively, review the proposals and come to the best conclusion that she could. She would not abstain. 

One of Pepples’ contributions to city government would be making services more efficient. “Road repairs should be concurrent with sewer (replacement) and undergrounding (of utilities),” she said. “There is a cost savings.” 

Pepples points to the roads in her district. “I encounter more potholes (there) than in other sections of the city,” she said. 

Addressing fire danger is important to Pepples. One way of addressing the situation is to fully staff the department. 

For example, there are currently three firefighters on duty per engine. There should be four or five firefighters for each, Pepples said.  

How you pay for the added personnel – what kinds of expenditures would be eliminated – is a question she would ask her constituents. 

Planning is important to Pepples. “I’m an advocate of livable planning,” she said, arguing that downtown shouldn’t be “replete with skyscrapers.” 

Eight stories is as tall as buildings should go, she said. Apartments should be built with a range of incomes in mind, from affordable rents to market rate, she said. 

Pepples said she is opposing Measure Y, the ballot measure that restricts owners from moving into occupied apartment units. Although its “goals are laudable,” Pepples says, the measure is “overreaching,” because it will cause landlords not to rent to those over 60 and the disabled, the classes it seeks to protect.  

The measure says that landlords cannot move into units of people 60 and over, disabled people or, for those living in the buildings belonging to landlords with a lot of property, those who have lived in their apartments for five years or longer. 

Pepples said that when the health disparity study came out, showing the poor health of African Americans in the flatlands, she was surprised. “It’s the type of study the city should work with,” she said, adding that the goal would be to provide the best possible health care available.  

Although Pepples has not participated directly in city government, the ability for citizen participation is important to her. 

Berkeley is “a mecca for opportunities in public participation in city government” because of the more-than-40 commissions which advise the City Council, she said. 

Despite these opportunities, “citizens are not feeling heard or understood,” she said. She would help bridge that gap. 

Pepples said she hasn’t decided if she will continue her full-time job if she gets elected to the council. That is something she says she’ll decide when the time is right. 

And she hasn’t put a dollar amount on how much money she will spend on her campaign. “It’s a grass roots campaign,” she said. “I’ll raise enough money to win.”


Bottom line is Smith’s big concern

By Judith Scherr Daily Planet Staff
Wednesday September 06, 2000

Challenger Norine Smith, 58, is running for the District 6 seat as an independent. 

Her campaign will be run by herself and her supporters. “No one is officially running it,” she said. Olds spent $30,000 in 1992 to defeat independent Alan Goldfarb, she said, asserting “I will spend whatever it takes.” 

The mostly-retired software consultant says she never wanted to go into politics, but her concern for the original draft of the General Plan tugged her in that direction. 

In the first iteration of the plan, build ings could have been skyscrapers, Smith said. Now planners have the buildings down to 10-12 stories. “I want it down to five stories downtown and four stories along other commercial corridors.” 

There are still some empty lots, Smith said. They should be “contextually sensitive attractive infill,” she said. 

The city’s growth needs to be addressed. “How many more people should we be expected to absorb?” There is still room for growth in Hayward and Castro Valley, she said. 

Smith criticizes the city’s bond-fund expenditures.  

“No one dreamed that Measure S meant building bulb-outs and clear cutting trees,” she said of the measure that is paying for downtown improvements, which includes cutting down replacing trees and building sidewalk bulges at the corners.  

Bicyclists say these bulb-outs are dangerous to them. 

Overruns on capital projects anger Smith. She says the Civic Center Building retrofit that was to have cost $15 million, has shot up to more than $38 million. 

“Someone needs to watch the cost of capital outlays,” Smith said, pointing to another bond – Measure G. $2 million of its funds were spend on “the ill-conceived notion of a saltwater distribution system,” Smith said. The city finally turned down the idea “after wasting seven years.” 

Smith said she supports building a new fire station or retrofitting the current one, but she said she wants to poll the people in her district to see where they want a new one placed. 

And she said she wants to know the real costs of building a new station. “They say it will only cost $5-6 million,” she said. “With capital overruns, it could cost $12 million.” 

Public participation is important to Smith. “We can’t only listen to the most vocal people,” she said.  

“They do no represent the majority who do not have the time (to participate).” Polling people in her district would give Smith a good sense of their priorities. 

Smith said there’s a simple solution to getting the council’s work finished: it’s increasing the number of meetings. 

The council should meet four times each month, instead of three times and it should meet for 46 weeks a year instead of 33. 

She’d reorder the agenda so that items such as rent control and the budget are discussed early in the evening and “fences and chimneys at the end.” 

Meetings would be more efficient if the city installed a system of lap-top computers at the council desks. “The motions would be spelled out,” she said. 

Smith said part of the problem at council meetings is the sniping between the two council factions.  

As an independent, Smith said she would not be engaged in the dual. Her independent decisions would be “based on facts.” 

Rent control is the law, she said.  

“It needs to be administered fairly. It’s not fair to make one element of society bear the burden for equality.” 

The solution is providing more low-cost housing and housing for the disabled. 

But the funding for low-cost housing should be well spent, Smith said.  

Smith said she supports Measure Y, the restrictions against owner move-in evictions. “We can’t be kicking out the old and disabled,” she said. 

As for the health disparities between the hills and the flats and African Americans and whites, “We have to enhance the public health facilities at Sixth (Street) and University (Avenue),” Smith said, underscoring that abortions should be performed there. 

As for traffic problems, much of the problem is UC Berkeley commuters, Smith said.  

A solution would be satellite parking at Golden Gate Field and at the California Shakespeare lot situated in Orinda near the Caldecott Tunnel. 

Smith also wants the 25-mile-per-hour speed limit enforced and for the city to replace its worn vehicles with electric ones. 

Education is important, Smith said. Drivers should learn to yield to cyclists and pedestrians and bicyclists should learn to yield to pedestrians. 

“I will come to meetings informed and ready to listen,” Smith said.


Berkeley may get DNA database

Jared Saylor Special to the Daily Planet
Wednesday September 06, 2000

Attorney General Bill Lockyer and State Senator Jackie Speier detailed plans Tuesday for an addition to the statewide DNA databank that would aid in the identification of missing children and adults. 

Under legislation approved last week the new databank will be housed at the California Department of Justice DNA Testing Lab at 626 Bancroft Way in west Berkeley. Approved with widespread bipartisan support, it is sitting on Governor Gray Davis’ desk awaiting his signature. 

The missing persons databank, which would remain separate from the convicted felon and registered sex offender databank currently kept in Berkeley, would involve voluntarily collecting DNA information from the maternal parent or relative of the missing person. 

“This program provides comfort to the relatives of missing persons. The smart thing about using new DNA technology is to convict the guilty and free the innocent,” Lockyer told parents and lab officials at a press conference at the laboratory. 

To demonstrate the procedure for obtaining DNA information, parents shared their own DNA samples by thoroughly swabbing the insides of their cheeks. Scientists will be able to compare information obtained from these cotton swabs with information from over 2,000 unidentified human remains currently kept in county coroners’ offices statewide, 150 of which are believed to belong to children. 

According to Jan Bashinski, Chief of the Bureau of Forensic Services, use of maternal DNA is preferred as it is more sensitive to testing techniques and therefore is more likely to give positive results from old bones or blood samples. 

Kim Swartz, mother of Amber Swartz-Garcia, a missing child abducted from her Pinole home in 1988, was a driving force in developing the legislation authorizing the new DNA missing person databank. 

Although her daughter has been missing for over 12 years, Swartz is hopeful that the new DNA identification procedure will bring closure to her family’s ordeal. 

“I am very optimistic that we will someday find an answer and know what happened to Amber,” Swartz said. “The hardest cases to solve are the ones where there are no witnesses. These cases cause a ripple effect throughout the community. They’re devastating. This project could be a big answer for many people still wondering.” 

The cost for performing tests on each case, estimated at about $3,000, would be covered by a $2 increase in the cost of state death certificates. The price increase would take effect on January 1, 2001 and provide funding for the DNA laboratory by July 2001. The legislature specifically requires that DNA testing and case analysis begin by January, 2002. The California Department of Justice DNA Testing Lab in Berkeley is the most advanced and well-known facility of its kind, involved in such high profile criminal cases as the O.J. Simpson murder trial and the trial of accused mass murderer Charles Ng. It is currently involved in eliminating the backlog of convicted felon DNA profiles which in California alone number over 200,000. It is also the first facility to use robots for DNA analysis ensuring a lower rate of human error and is also developing new and more precise techniques and methods of DNA testing. 

Lab officials took advantage of the press conference to encourage parents to perform simple tests on their children at home. They provided test kits which included sterilized cotton swabs, an identification envelope and plastic bags for storage. 

Dr. Jon Tonkyn, Assistant Laboratory Director, demonstrated the procedure on Swartz and described what parents need to do. “Just swab the inside of both cheeks thoroughly and let the swab air dry. Keep the swab in the envelopes and store it in two plastic bags in your kitchen freezer.” 

Speier remarked, “I have two children of my own and as soon as I get home tonight I am going to be doing this with them.” 

Other items that can also be used for DNA profiling are hairs pulled out with the roots intact, clipped finger and toe nails, or dried blood from a bandage or swab. These items should also be air dried to prevent the formation of bacteria and stored in the freezer. Information from these samples could be used in a child abduction cases to identify evidence. 

 


Man arrested after not disclosing disability

By William Inman Daily Planet Staff
Wednesday September 06, 2000

Michael Minasian says that he and King, his 80 pound German Shepherd service dog, went into the Jupiter Cafe at 2181 Shattuck Ave. Sunday afternoon for a Caesar salad. 

Instead, the 47-year-old Berkeley Waterfront Commissioner spent 17 hours in the Santa Rita jail for trespassing after he refused to divulge his disability and credentials for the dog to Berkeley police and to Joe Bisbiglia, the restaurant manager. 

Minasian claims that his right to medical privacy, and his legal right to have the dog – covered by Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act – were violated when Bisbiglia refused to serve him because of the dog, and then those rights were stomped on when he was arrested. 

Title III of the ADA makes it a federal offense for a restaurant or similar public establishment to deny service to an individual with an ADA compliant disability who is accompanied by a service animal. 

According to Erica Jones, director of the Pacific Disability and Business Technical Center, it’s illegal under the act to ask what a person’s disability is. Police responded to calls by both Bisbiglia and Minasian to the cafe after Bisbiglia refused to serve Minasian and asked him to leave. 

Minasian said that he called the police for a reading of the Americans with Disabilities Act. 

On the other hand, Bisbiglia called because he wanted Minasian and his dog removed. 

Minasian said he was stunned when police asked him the very same question Bisbiglia did, and demanded credentials for the tagless dog. 

Minasian, who – according to the police report – doesn’t appear disabled, continued to refuse to answer questions about the nature of his disability and was subsequently arrested when Bisbiglia signed a citizen’s arrest. Minasian is adamant that the law is the issue, not his disability and declined to reveal his disability to the Daily Planet Tuesday. He did say that he has a letter from a physician saying that his illness is ADA compliant and that the dog is certified under the ADA. 

The ADA states that dogs are not required to be specially marked or tagged. 

Lt. Russell Lopes, of the Berkeley police, said all dogs in Berkeley are required to be tagged, and that the city provides free licensing for service dogs. 

Minasian claims that two arresting officers were “rude” and “sarcastic.” Lopes said, on the other hand, that the police report stated that Minasian became “belligerent” at the cafe. 

Minasian also said in a written statement that a third officer attempted to convince the two officers that they and the cafe were both in violation of federal law, but the two other officers disagreed and he was taken to the station. 

Lopes said that since Minasian would not tell police at the station about his condition, or any medical requirements he may need, he was transferred to the Santa Rita jail where there is a medical staff. At 10:30 a.m. Monday, his attorney posted $2,500 bail after 17 hours in custody. King, the dog, had also been taken into custody and spent the night at the animal shelter. 

John Martin, owner of Jupiter Cafe said that his employee was in a difficult situation and called police to mediate the situation. 

Martin said that the health department does not allow pet dogs in restaurants, and since there were no indicators that Minasian needed the dog, nor was the dog marked, Bisbiglia simply asked him why. According to the federal act, the ADA trumps the health department, and Minasian says that the restaurant and the police should know that. 

He says he plans on taking this as far as he can.  

“There’s every reason that there will be a recurrence,” he said. “This is simply intolerable.” 

He said he’s filed a complaint with the U.S. Dept. of Justice, and is awaiting the results. 

The Department may file lawsuits in Federal court to enforce the ADA and may obtain court orders including compensatory damages to remedy discrimination. Under Title III the department may also obtain civil penalties of up to $50,000 for the first violation and $100,000 for subsequent violations.


Medical cannabis delivery to continue in Berkeley

By Josh Parr Daily Planet Staff
Saturday September 02, 2000

A U.S. Supreme Court ruling barred the Oakland Cannabis Buyer’s Cooperative from distributing marijuana for medical use on Tuesday, voting 7-1 to endorse an emergency request from the Clinton Administration. The ruling, aimed narrowly at the Oakland clinic, however, does not overturn the legality Proposition 215, nor does it effectively end the distribution of marijuana to patients throughout the state, according to Dale Gierenger, California coordinator for NORMAL – the National Organization for Reform of Marijuana Laws.  

The central question of Proposition 215’s legality remains before a federal appeals court.  

“This law is being misconstrued by the media. It does not have anything to do with the legality of Proposition 215,” Gierenger says. One Berkeley activist at the Berkeley Patient Group, a Berkeley-based medical marijuana club, who declined to give her name, characterized the decision as “not really as big a deal as everyone thinks it is. Everything is actually OK.”  

The decision provoked more questions than answers. 

“We’re still cultivating an opinion” said E. Xeno Rasmusson, health consultant for the First Hemp Bank, a Berkeley-based privately held membership group of patients and care givers dedicated to safe, legal medical marijuana use. “But it seems to be part of the intricate dance between local, state, and federal decision making processes. ” 

While the decision does not necessarily shake the current status quo, it does set an uncomfortable legal precedent for those who support the medical use of marijuana. The case will eventually return to the Supreme Court, which will determine whether cannabis can be used medicinally. 

Many call it a test of representative democracy. At issue is whether the state-approved Compassionate Use Act, allowing marijuana to be distributed to patients with a prescription, will eclipse the federal Controlled Substance Act, which currently lists marijuana as an illegal substance.  

The Oakland Club is being used as a test case which will probably dictate policy for all similar cannabis clubs in California.  

The decisions will also have a long-term effect on cannabis clubs in Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, Alaska and Maine, all of which have approved the use of medical marijuana. 

Locally, however, the Supreme Court decision throws some confusion into how Berkeley police should pursue criminal cases involving medical marijuana. 

Several calls to the Berkeley Police Department for comment were not returned. 

Buzzy Linhart, a local musician who jammed with Jimi Hendrix in the late 60s, recently had his marijuana plants confiscated and seized by the Berkeley police, despite the fact that he was carrying a card showing his right to have medical marijuana. 

Todd Mikuriya, a doctor who often prescribes cannabis for medical use, remembers a “chronic paranoid schizophrenic street person” who “lit up” on the UC Berkeley campus. 

“He was set upon by the UC campus guard. When he showed the guard medical documentation, the cop did not attempt to legitimate its authenticity. The patient was cited and pulled into municipal court.” 

Highly charged situations like this, says Mikuriya, “come from a disgraceful, systematic lack of compliance to the law on the part of police.” 

Don Duncan, director of the Berkeley Patient’s Group agrees. “There is no leadership coming from the top. So the police don’t know how to proceed. We need to at least implement Proposition 215 on a local level here in Berkeley.” 

“You’d think” continues Duncan, “that Berkeley would support this law, and there are a few people, particularly Worthington, Maio, and Spring who do, but the rest of the city has refused to take any leadership on the issue.” 

Polly Armstrong, however, disagrees. 

“The city of Berkeley voted 85 percent in favor of Proposition 215. I’m one hundred percent in favor of medical marijuana. It should be legalized throughout the nation. We just didn’t want to become a magnet for other city’s medical needs. Berkeley doesn’t have to become the Amsterdam of the United States” says Armstrong. 

And despite claims that everything is all right, “Fear is high in the community. We don’t know if the police will use this case and begin to act upon their own volition concerning medical marijuana use,” says Mikuriya. 

The decision ads to the controversy of whose jurisdiction the medical marijuana issue falls under. California voters approved the use of marijuana as a medicine in 1996, passing Proposition 215. When it was challenged in the 9th U.S. Circuit of Appeals, the court ruled that “medical necessity” is a “legally cognizable defense” to a charge of drug distribution under the Substance Act. Federal lawyers have argued that this decision sets a dangerous precedent and provides a justification for illegal drug trafficking.  

Furthermore, the Berkeley City Council has a policy mandating police to make marijuana-related arrests a low-level priority. 

Such dictates put the Berkeley Police force squarely in the center of confusing legal conundrum. Will clubs similar to the OCBC, of which there are three in Berkeley, be forced to stop distributing marijuana for medicinal purposes as well? 

City Councilmember Kriss Worthington does not think so. 

“If Berkeley police have information that a person is using marijuana for medical purposes, they are instructed to not arrest that person.” 

“If the police use this decision as an excuse to penalize anyone for medical use of marijuana, we will ask that to stop,” continues Worthington. 

For now, what seems to be at stake is the ability for the Oakland club to remain open. 

Jeff Jones, executive director of the OCBC, believes that discussing the Supreme Court’s decision is giving it too much importance. 

“It’s just a small fork in the road in the two and one-half year battle to legalize medical marijuana. The timing just has to do with the election cycle. Can the government allow someone to be exempt from the federal laws? No. Think about it. The government is all about control, and that’s what this decision is about,” says Jeff Jones, executive director of the Oakland Cannabis Buyer’s Cooperative. 

Worthington, however, warns that if the timing is tied to November’s national elections, it’s a poor decision that will backfire on the presidential candidates.  

“If it’s being done for political purposes, it’s sort of dumb. The average voter in California voted for 215 overwhelmingly. It’s not just a Berkeley issue,” says Worthington. 

“Once people have had a taste of freedom,” adds Mikuriya, “they won’t want to turn back. There is such a high demand for the medicine by patients, that clubs have been having difficulty keeping up.” 

It will be the patients who suffer if the Supreme Court shuts down the clubs, says Rasmusson. 

“The War on Drugs has been a long-bungled attempt to stem so called illegal drug use. If this draconian impulse continues, and the clubs are shut down, the patients will just have to go back to illegal dealers, where there is no insurance that what they receive will be high quality. This is a drug war against the sick. Closing the clubs won’t do anything to stem actual drug use,” says Rasmusson. 

Says Duncan, “We will continue dispensing medicine to our patients until we are forced to stop.”


Calendar of Events & Activities

Saturday September 02, 2000


Saturday, Sept. 2

 

Acupuncture for head and  

neck pain 

1-2 p.m. 

Meiji College of Oriental Medicine 

2550 Shattuck Ave. 

This is an opportunity to find out about what acupuncture and Oriental herbal medicine is and how it works. Free. 

666-8248 

 

Exercise to Music 

10 a.m. 

North Berkeley Senior Center 

1901 Hearst Ave. 

644-6107 

 


Tuesday, Sept. 5

 

Landmarks Preservaton  

Commission 

7-9 p.m. 

2nd Floor Conference Room, Permit Service Center 

2120 Milvia Street 

The commission will discuss the City Council direction relevant to the management of the west Berkeley Shellmound.  

 


Wednesday, Sept. 6

 

Alzheimer’s and dementia  

support group 

1:30 p.m. 

North Berkeley Senior Center 

1901 Hearst Ave. 

644-6107 

 

Martial arts demonstration 

noon-1 p.m. 

Sproul Hall steps, Sproul Plaza, UC Berkeley  

UC Berkeley Martial Arts Program will put on a demonstration to show what martial arts styles are offered at the university. 

beatty@haas.berkeley.edu. 

 


Thursday, Sept. 7

 

Growing wise with Betty Goren 

10:30 a.m. 

North Berkeley Senior Center 

1901 Hearst Ave. 

644-6107 

 

“Discipline & Citizenship” conference 

6:30 p.m. - 8 p.m. 

Graduate Theological Union 

Bade Museum, Pacific School of Religion 

1798 Scenic Ave. 

 

 

Conversation between actor  

Paul Newman and Laura  

D'Andrea Tyson 

5 p.m. 

UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business, Arthur Andersen Auditorium 

Gayley Road between Hearst Avenue and Bancroft Way 

The eventinaugurates the business school's annual lecture series Forum on Philanthropy in Business. 

 


Friday, Sept. 8

 

“Discipline & Citizenship” 

conference 

9 a.m.-4 p.m. 

Graduate Theological Union 

Bade Museum, Pacific School of Religion 

1798 Scenic Ave. 

895-4542 

 

Conversational Yiddish 

1 p.m. 

North Berkeley Senior Center 

1901 Hearst Ave. 

644-6107 

 


Saturday, Sept. 9

 

Open house 

Julia Morgan center for the Arts 

Meet new leaders and artist and learn about future plans for the facility. RSVPs encouraged 

2640 College Ave. Berkeley 

4- 7 p.m. 

845-8542 

 


Sunday, Sept. 10

 

“Doors to Madame Marie” 

11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. 

Berkeley Richmond Jewish Community Center 

1414 Walnut St.  

As part of the Jewish Learning Center’s Authors Series in the Library, Odette Meyers will be available for discussion and booksigning. 

848-0237 

“Next Stop, Greenwich  

Village” 

2-4:30 p.m.  

Berkeley Richmond Jewish Community Center Cinema 

1414 Walnut St.  

Based on filmmaker Paul Mazursky’s own passage from Brooklyn to Greenwich Village, the film is about the dynamics of leaving home and trying to leave home behind. There will be a peer led discussion following the movie. 

848-0237 

 


Monday, Sept. 11

 

“12th annual Berkeley YMCA  

Golf Tournament” 

Tilden Park Golf Course 

Shotgun Start at 11:00 a.m. 

Entry fee includes cart, lunch on the course and dinner. Proceeds benefit Albany-Berkeley YMCA  

$125 Entry Fee 

549-4525 

 

Voter workshop 

1 p.m. 

Learn about voting absentee and working a local polling places. North Berkeley Senior Center 

1901 Hearst Ave. 

644-6107 

 


Tuesday, Sept. 12

 

Tai Chi Chuan 

11 a.m. 

North Berkeley Senior Center 

1901 Hearst Ave. 

644-6107 

 


Wednesday, Sept. 13

 

Mid-Autumn Festival 

North Berkeley Senior Center 

1901 Hearst Ave. 

644-6107 

 

Last townhall meeting on the  

Berkeley Housing Authority  

Plan 

6-8 p.m. 

West Berkeley Senior Center 

1900 Sixth St. 

For information on the plan, call Wanda Remmers. 

548-8776


Friends of the feathered

By Jennifer Dix Special to the Daily Planet
Saturday September 02, 2000

If there’s one thing Coleen Doucette has seen enough of, it’s wild birds that have swallowed fishhooks or fish line.  

The San Francisco Bay is right on the Pacific Flyway, a major stopover for migrating waterfowl. Through this corridor pass thousands of ducks, grebes, gulls, geese, egrets, and much more.  

Because it’s a popular habitat for humans, too, conflicts inevitably arise.  

“We have seven pelicans brought in this week who swallowed fish line,” says Doucette, the rehabilitation manager at the International Bird Rescue and Research Center, located at Aquatic Park. “If people would just pick up their fish lines … we’d probably go out of business!”  

Actually, the nonprofit IBRRC does much more than tend to Bay Area water birds. It was founded in 1971 in response to a horrific oil spill, when two tankers collided under the Golden Gate Bridge, pouring 800,000 gallons of oil onto the waters in a slick that extended 50 miles along the coastline. There are hundreds of bird rescue centers in the U.S. today, but the Berkeley-based IBRRC is one of only two such organizations (the other is in Delaware) with an international oil spill response team. IBRRC director Jay Holcomb has spent the past two months in South Africa heading an international project to rescue penguins from a huge oil spill off Capetown. 

The Berkeley rehabilitation program was actually a spin-off of the IBRRC’s larger international mission. But it’s become a sizeable program – the center may see up to 80 birds a week during the summer, and Doucette estimates that 1,000 sick or injured birds come through in a year. 

This fall, IBRRC is moving to new quarters. The state has provided funds to build two new bird rescue facilities, one in Los Angeles, the other in Cordelia. Both will have the capacity to hold up to 1,000 birds at a time in case of a major environmental disaster. While the main office will relocate to Cordelia, staff hope they can find enough volunteers to keep the Berkeley facility open and continuing its important work. 

Some bird rescue centers specialize in songbirds; IBRRC is the place for aquatic fowl. The staff is in touch with other rescue centers around the state, exchanging ideas and sometimes trading birds. Coleen is concerned today about an abandoned baby grebe, just a couple of weeks old, which arrived last week. She places a call to a facility in San Rafael. 

“Hi,” she says. “You don’t have any grebes, do you? No? Well, I’d like it, if you get any Westerns or Clarks, if you’d send them down here. We’ve got a baby and he needs to grow up with some of his own kind.” 

She goes out to check on the progress of the grebe chick. This is his first day in the cold-water pool, which he shares with a group of recuperating murres.  

“He’s waterproofing up well!” Doucette says, peering at the downy chick. 

When a bird first arrives at the Rescue Center, it has usually lost its waterproofing, either through trauma or contamination. Preening, or grooming their plumage so the feathers are aligned and watertight, is how waterfowl stay waterproof (not, as is commonly thought, by oiling the feathers). A sick or traumatized bird will not preen; the feathers become disheveled, and that leaves the creature vulnerable to penetration by the cold water. Soon, the bird can die of hypothermia. To prevent that, rehabilitators put the bird first in a warm water pool while it regains its equilibrium. 

The grebe, who has recently graduated to the cold-water pool, is a darling of the staff. This is a bird so ugly that he’s cute. He could star as the Ugly Duckling in Hans Christian Andersen’s tale. Two beady black eyes are set in a round head covered with spiky grey down. He churns the water furiously with little black legs and webbed feet that are set far back on a nearly tailless body, giving him the look of a mutating tadpole. He looks as soft as a kitten, and the temptation to pick him up is strong. 

But that’s not allowed. “They’ll imprint really easily,” Doucette explains. And the whole point is for the grebe to grow up thinking he’s a grebe, not a person. 

A bird’s stay at the IBRRC can range from a few days to a few months. Juvenile birds remain at the rescue facility until they reach maturity. Older birds are released as soon as they are strong enough to fly or swim again.  

Today, two gulls and two murres are ready for release. Doucette and Lois Yuen, a volunteer, load the birds into cardboard carriers and drive to Point Emery. It’s a beautiful day – the sun sparkles on the water and a light breeze lifts the spirits.  

The gulls are first to be released. With a great flapping of wings, they escape into the air and head toward San Francisco. They know where the food is. 

The murres are released into the water. Doucette and Yuen grin in satisfaction as they watch the birds bob out onto the waves, then orient themselves toward the Golden Gate Bridge. These are deep sea birds that will soon be heading north.  

“It always amazes me that they know exactly where to go,” Doucette comments.  

The idyllic moment is soon over. Back at the rescue center, there’s already another casualty. Animal control officer Leslie Tisdale is here with a large pelican.  

It’s tangled in fishline. 

Contact the center at 841-9086.


Gentle and kind first days at school

By William Inman Daily Planet Staff
Saturday September 02, 2000

Kindergartners at Malcolm X Elementary aren’t puzzled when they’re put into classes called yellow, green or blue on the first day of school.  

But some parents may scratch their heads when they receive a colored piece of paper in the mail a few days before school starts telling them that their child will be in the green class for three days. 

“It’s the way we build kindergarten classes here,” said teacher Louise Rosencrantz, who ran with the idea called Gentle Beginnings five years ago when Malcolm X was re-configured as a Kindergarten through fifth-grade school. 

“It’s the best way to get to know all the kids,” she said. 

It works like this: before school starts, the kids are assigned a color group and for three days the three kindergarten teachers each see a different group. This enables the teachers to look at each child’s academic strengths, social strengths and friendship needs, Rosencrantz said. 

And afterward, they build three balanced classes for each teacher for the rest of the year.  

“It’s artistry,” Rosencrantz said of building the diverse classes. “It’s wonderful fun, but it’s very hard. You realize how individual each child is. To build a great class, you need diversity, and not just diverse in demographics only.” 

“We think it’s really important that classes are ethnically, temperamentally and academically diverse,” said teacher Cynthia Allman. 

Moreover, the teachers will begin home visits this month to talk to the families and discuss what the teacher and the parents say are the specific needs of the student. 

It gives parents a chance to talk to the teachers about their kids in their home setting. Later, teachers will be having school-based parent-teacher conferences, talking to parents about the how the child is performing in the school setting. 

“It’s extra work for teachers and parents, but we’re convinced it works,” said Allman. 

Allman, Rosencrantz and Dyantha McDougal also hosted a potluck at the school for the kindergartners and their families before school started to introduce themselves and the program to parents who haven’t experienced it, and to talk about health requirements and other things the students may need. 

Rosencrantz said that Gentle Beginnings lets the kids, the families and the teachers get to know each other, and said she sees it as a way to better meet goals. 

The parents also seem to like it.  

Felicity Bensch, an English teacher at Pinole Valley High School in Pinole whose child went through the program, said she wishes something like this could take off at the high school level.  

“Equity goes on,” she said. “It’s very impressive that they work together as a team so classes are balanced. I get the feeling that the teachers give immediate individual attention.” 

“It’s hard being a kindergartner,” said parent Laurie Senauke. “For the first month, they’re acclimating. This gives everyone a chance to form a real partnership with each other.”


BHS food court in the works

By William Inman Daily Planet Staff
Saturday September 02, 2000

When school opened Wednesday, Berkeley High School students who did not bring their lunch, still had to head for downtown – just as they have for the last decade. 

There was no “food court” on campus to keep the some 3,400 teens on campus. 

Merchants have complained for years about their onslaught, though they appreciate the revenue they bring. Last year the complaints rose to a roar. 

So the school district, working with city government and the Downtown Merchants Association, decided that if merchants provided food on campus, they would not lose the students’ revenue, but would keep the numbers of teens downtown to a minimum. 

The proposed food court could be up and running as soon as next week, Superintendent Jack McLaughlin said. 

He hopes to set the food distribution up in the gallery area of the Berkeley Community Theater. 

Students would then have the option of eating inside at tables the school would provide or taking their lunch outside on the school grounds or at Martin Luther King, Jr. Park.  

McLaughlin said the students would still have the option of leaving campus if they wished. 

The superintendent plans to ask the school board to allocate $5,000 for an implementation plan at Wednesday’s school board meeting. 

He said that they may sell the food provided by downtown Berkeley merchants out of the snack shack on campus if the gallery isn’t available.  

The space to serve the food is just one of the details yet to be worked out, he said. 

The district is working with merchants to price food carts that would be used to deliver food from the Good Food Cafe – a culinary arts program and kitchen classroom on the campus.  

McLaughlin said that he hopes to use the Good Food Cafe as a commissary because it is already meets health department guidelines. 

There is also a question of personnel. McLaughlin said it also falls under health department guidelines that district personnel serve the food, and additional servers may have to be hired. 

McLaughlin said the district is negotiating prices with the merchants. 

“The food cannot be more expensive than the food they would buy at the restaurant,” he said. “So we know there are going to be losses in the beginning, but we’re going to try to make it work by the end of September.” 

McLaughlin and Elsie Szeto, the manager of child nutrition services for the district, say that they have made recommendations that the vendors provide students with as many healthy food choices as possible. 

“But recommendations are quite different from requirements,” Szeto said. “And we will view those with healthy choices more favorably.” 

Caleb Dardick of the Downtown Berkeley Association said that he’s talked with some 15 merchants who are interested in participating in the program, but said that they have not worked out which, or how many, vendors will provide food. 

Dardick said that some of the merchants being considered were: La Cascada Taqueria, EZ Stop Deli, Round Table Pizza, KFC, Cancun Taqueria and Mel’s Diner. 

McLaughlin said he’s been perusing the local eateries to get ideas for an ambiance at the food court.  

“We’ll be meeting with students to find out what they want and what suits their needs,” he said. 

The DBA and the school district began talking about a food court months ago after several downtown merchants complained about groups of students disrupting business during their lunch hour. 

The school has been without a cafeteria since the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake caused structural damage to the cafeteria. It was demolished two years later.  

Construction will begin this winter for a new student union and administration building, which will probably house a cafeteria.


Train station will get face lift

By Josh ParrDaily Planet Staff
Friday September 01, 2000

Though West Berkeley residents have known for years that trains run through Berkeley – late night blasts that bring to mind Coltrane in his least lucid moments – very few know that it stopped here. 

Hidden beneath the University Avenue I-80 overpass, where concrete pillars cast a cistern-like shadow over the blacktop below, are a few benches where passengers congregate for the morning train to Santa Clara, or the line to Sacramento. 

To raise awareness and increase use, the Redevelopment Agency has plans to upgrade the area, both immediate and long term. For now the city and Amtrak have $40,000 to add more benches, trash cans, lighting and for general maintenance.  

Long term, however, is a revamp of the entire area. A federal Transportation Improvement Program grant for $641,000, and a pending state grant that could amount to $300,000 will be used to revitalize the area. Concrete plans are yet to be made. 

Amalia Lorentz, Associate Planner for


Calendar of Events & Activities

Friday September 01, 2000


Friday, Sept. 1

 

Bridge 

1 p.m. 

Live Oak Community Center 

1301 Shattuck Ave. 

The games are open to all players 

For partnership and other informa- 

tion, please call Vi Kimoto at (510) 223-6539 

 

“Daughter of the Regiment” 

1 p.m. 

North Berkeley Senior Center 

1901 Hearst Ave. 

644-6107 

 

Lunar Cycle:  

All-women critical mass ride 

Gather 6:30 p.m., ride at 7 p.m. 

Mama Bear's book store and cafe 

6536 Telegraph Ave. (near Alcatraz) 

All-women ride around town. All ages and abilities welcome.  

 


Saturday, Sept. 2

 

Lakeside Park on Lake Merritt, Oakland 

9 a.m. - 5 p.m. 

Internationally Vietnamese Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh will lead meditation exercises and lectures focusing on ‘mindful living.’ 

(510) 433-9928 

 

Acupuncture for head  

and neck pain 

1-2 p.m. 

Meiji College of Oriental Medicine 

2550 Shattuck Ave. 

This is an opportunity to find out about what acupuncture and Oriental herbal medicine is and how it works. Free. 

666-8248 

 

Exercise to Music 

10 a.m. 

North Berkeley Senior Center 

1901 Hearst Ave. 

644-6107 

Tuesday, Sept. 5 

Landmarks Preservation  

Commission 

7-9 p.m. 

2nd Floor Conference Room, Permit Service Center 

2120 Milvia Street 

The commission will discuss the City Council direction relevant to the management of the west Berkeley Shellmound.  

 


Wednesday, Sept. 6

 

Alzheimer’s and dementia  

support group 

1:30 p.m. 

North Berkeley Senior Center 

1901 Hearst Ave. 

644-6107 

 

Martial arts demonstration 

noon-1 p.m. 

Sproul Hall steps, Sproul Plaza, UC Berkeley  

UC Berkeley Martial Arts Program will put on a demonstration to show what martial arts styles are offered at the university. 

Contact Patrick at beatty@haas.berkeley.edu. 

 


Thursday, Sept. 7

 

Growing wise with Betty Goren 

10:30 a.m. 

North Berkeley Senior Center 

1901 Hearst Ave. 

644-6107 

 

“Discipline & Citizenship”  

conference 

Graduate Theological Union 

Bade Museum, Pacific School of Religion 

1798 Scenic Ave. 

6:30 p.m. -8 p.m. 

 


Friday, Sept. 8

 

“Discipline & Citizenship”  

conference 

Graduate Theological Union 

Bade Museum, Pacific School of Religion 

1798 Scenic Ave. 

9 a.m.-4 p.m. 

895-4542 

 

Conversational Yiddish 

1 p.m. 

North Berkeley Senior Center 

1901 Hearst Ave. 

644-6107 

 


Saturday, Sept. 9

 

Open house 

Julia Morgan center for the Arts 

Meet new leaders and artist and learn about future plans for the facility. RSVPs encouraged 

2640 College Ave. Berkeley 

4- 7 p.m. 

845-8542 

 


Sunday, Sept. 10

 

“Doors to Madame Marie” 

11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. 

Berkeley Richmond Jewish Community Center 

1414 Walnut St.  

As part of the Jewish Learning Center’s Authors Series in the Library, Odette Meyers will be available for discussion and booksigning. 

848-0237 

 

“Next Stop, Greenwich Village” 

2-4:30 p.m.  

Berkeley Richmond Jewish Community Center Cinema 

1414 Walnut St.  

Based on filmmaker Paul Mazursky’s own passage from Brooklyn to Greenwich Village, the film is about the dynamics of leaving home and trying to leave home behind. There will be a peer led discussion following the movie. 

$2 suggested donation.  

848-0237 

 


Monday, Sept. 11

 

“12th annual Berkeley YMCA Golf Tournament” 

Tilden Park Golf Course 

Shotgun Start at 11:00 a.m. 

Entry fee includes cart, lunch on the course and dinner. Proceeds benefit Albany-Berkeley YMCA  

$125 Entry Fee 

549-4525 

 

Voter workshop 

Learn about voting absentee and working a local polling places. 

1 p.m. 

North Berkeley Senior Center 

1901 Hearst Ave. 

644-6107 

 


Tuesday, Sept. 12

 

Tai Chi Chuan 

11 a.m. 

North Berkeley Senior Center 

1901 Hearst Ave. 

644-6107 

 


Wednesday, Sept. 13

 

Last town hall meeting on the Berkeley Housing Authority Plan 

6-8 p.m. 

West Berkeley Senior Center 

1900 Sixth St. 

For information on the plan, call Wanda Remmers 548-8776 

 

Mid-Autumn Festival 

North Berkeley Senior Center 

1901 Hearst Ave. 

644-6107 

 


Thursday, Sept. 14

 

Eugene O’Neil House, Mt.  

Diablo State Park Trip  

9 a.m. - 5 p.m. 

North Berkeley Senior Center 

1901 Hearst and MLK Jr. Way 

$21 per person 

644-6107 

 

Pre-business workshop 

Small-business Development Center 

519 17th St. Suite 200, Oakland 

8 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. 

$35  

273-6611, www.eastbayscore.org, eastbayscore@yahoo.com 

 

Yoga class 

2 p.m. 

North Berkeley Senior Center 

1901 Hearst Ave. 

644-6107 

 

 


Friday September 01, 2000

 

Ebony Museum of Arts 

The museum specializes in the art and history of Africa.  

Tuesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Sunday, noon to 6 p.m.  

30 Jack London Village, Suite 209. (510) 763-0745. 

 

Habitot Children’s Museum 

Kittredge Street and Shattuck Avenue 

“Back to the Farm.”  

Ongoing 

An interactive exhibit gives children the chance to wiggle through tunnels like an earthworm, look into a mirrored fish pond, don farm animal costumes, ride on a John Deere tractor and more.  

Cost: $4 adults; $6 children age 7 and under; $3 for each additional child age 7 and under.  

Monday and Wednesday, 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.; Tuesday and Friday, 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Thursday, 9:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.  

647-1111 or www.habitot.org 

 

Judah L. Magnes Museum 

2911 Russell St.  

549-6950 

Free 

Sunday through Thursday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. 

“Telling Time: To Everything There Is A Season” 

Through May 2002.  

An exhibit structured around the seasons of the year and the seasons of life with objects ranging from the sacred and the secular, to the provocative and the whimsical. Highlights include treasures from Jewish ceremonial and folk art, rare books and manuscripts, contemporary and traditional fine art, video, photography and cultural kitsch. 

“Spring and Summer.”  

Through Nov. 4. 

“Chagall: Master Prints and Posters, Selections from the Magnes Museum Collection.”  

Through Sept. 28. 

 

UC Berkeley Art Museum 

2626 Bancroft Way, Berkeley 

“Mandala: The Architecture of Enlightenment,” through Sept. 17.  

An exhibit of rare and exquisite works featuring more than forty mandalas and related objects including sculptures and models of sacred spaces. 

“Doug Aitken/MATRIX 185: Into the Sun,” through Sept. 3.  

An exhibit of works primarily in video and film, using the interplay of art and media to evoke deserted landscapes. 

“Autour de Rodin: Auguste Rodin and His Contemporaries,” through August.  

An exhibit of 11 bronze maquettes on loan from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation in Los Angeles. The bronzes range in style from the artist’s classically inspired “Torso of a Woman” to the anguish of “The Martyr.” Some of the maquettes were cast during Rodin’s lifetime, others have been cast fairly recently under the aegis of the Musee Rodin which alone is authorized to cast his sculptures posthumously.  

“Hans Hoffmann,” open-ended.  

An exhibit of paintings by Hoffmann which emphasizes two experimental methods the artist employed: the introduction of slabs or rectangles of highly saturated colors and the use of large areas of black paint juxtaposed with intense oranges, greens and yellows.  

The Asian Galleries  

“Art of the Sung: Court and Monastery,” open-ended.  

A display of early Chinese works from the permanent collection.  

“Chinese Ceramics and Bronzes: The First 3,000 Years,” open-ended. 

“Works on Extended Loan from Warren King,” open-ended. 

“Three Towers of Han,” ongoing.$6 general; $4 seniors and students age 12 to 18; free children age 12 and under; free Thursday, 11 a.m. to noon and 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesday, Friday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Thursday, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. 

642-0808. 

 

UC Berkeley Museum  

of Paleontology 

Lobby, Valley Life Sciences Building, UC Berkeley 

“Tyrannosaurus Rex,” ongoing.  

A 20-foot tall, 40-foot long replica of the fearsome dinosaur. The replica is made from casts of bones of the most complete T. Rex skeleton yet excavated. When unearthed in Montana, the bones were all lying in place with only a small piece of the tailbone missing. 

“Pteranodon,” ongoing.  

A suspended skeleton of a flying reptile with a wingspan of 22 to 23 feet. The Pteranodon lived at the same time as the dinosaurs. 

California Fossils Exhibit, ongoing. An exhibit of some of the fossils which have been excavated in California. 

Free. Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. 

642-1821. 

 

UC Berkeley Phoebe Hearst  

Museum of Anthropology 

Kroeber Hall, Bancroft Way and College  

Avenue, Berkeley 

“Modern Treasures from Ancient Iran,” through Oct. 29.  

This exhibit explores nomadic and town life in ancient and modern Iran as illustrated in bronze and pottery vessels, and textiles.  

“Approaching a Century of Anthropology: The Phoebe Hearst Museum,” open-ended.  

This new permanent installation will introduce visitors to major topics in the museum’s history, including the role of Phoebe Apperson Hearst as the museum’s patron, as well as the relationship of anthropologists Alfred Kroeber and Robert Lowie to the museum. 

“Ishi and the Invention of Yahi Culture,” ongoing. 

This exhibit documents the culture of the Yahi Indians of California as described and demonstrated from 1911 to 1916 by Ishi, the last surviving member of the tribe. 

$2 general; $1 seniors; $.50 children age 17 and under; free on Thursdays. Wednesday, Friday through Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; Thursday, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. 

643-7648 

 

Mills College Art Museum 

5000 MacArthur Blvd., Oakland 

“The 100 Languages of Children,” through October.  

An exhibit of art by children from Reggio Emilia, Italy. At Carnegie Building Bender Room. 

Free. Tuesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Sunday, noon to 4 p.m. 430-2164 

 

 

 

Lawrence Hall of Science 

“Experiment Gallery”  

Closing Sept. 10. Step inside a giant laboratory and experiment with concepts surrounding sound, light, mechanics, electricity, and weather. 

“Math Rules!” Ongoing. A math exhibit of hands-on problem-solving stations, each with a different mathematical challenge. Make mathematical ice-cream cones, use blocks to build three dimensional structures, make dodecagon pies from a variety of mathematical shapes and stretch mathematical thinking. 

“Within the Human Brain” Ongoing. Visitors test their cranial nerves, play skeeball, master mazes, match musical tones and construct stories inside a simulated “rat cage” of learning  

experiments. 

 

Holt Planitarium  

Programs are recommended for age 8 and up; children under age 6 will not be admitted. $2 in addition to regular museum admission. 

“How Big Is the Universe,” through Sept. 3. Learn about various  

ways to determine distances. Through Sept. 3: Saturday and Sunday, 1 p.m. 

“Moons of the Solar System,” through Dec. 10. Take a tour of the  

fascinating worlds that orbit Earth and other planets out to the edge  

of the Solar System. Through Sept. 3, Saturday and Sunday, 2:15 p.m.;  

Sept. 9 through Oct. 29, 1 p.m. to 2:15 p.m.; Nov. 4 through Dec. 10;  

2;15 p.m. 

“Constellations Tonight” Ongoing. Using a simple star map, learn  

to identify the most prominent constellations for the season in the  

planetarium sky. Daily, 3:30 p.m. $7 general; $5 seniors, students, disabled, and youths age 7 to 18;  

$3 children age 3 to 5 ; free children age 2 and younger. Daily 10 a.m.  

to 5 p.m.; Centennial Drive, University of California,  

Berkeley. (510) 642-5132 or www.lhs.berkeley.edu 

 

 

The Oakland Museum of  

California 

1000 Oak St., Oakland 

“Helen Nestor: Personal and Political” Through Oct. 15.  

An exhibit of images documenting the Free Speech Movement, the 60s civil rights marches, and women’s issues. 

“California Classic: Realist Paintings by Robert Bechtle” through Oct. 1.  

An exhibit of 18 paintings and drawings by the Bay Area artist dating from 1965 to 1997. 

Special Exhibit – “Meadowsweet Dairy: Wood Sculpture,” through Sept. 15.  

An exhibit of 12 sculptures made with materials found and salvaged to reveal the beauty of the natural object. At the Sculpture Court, City Center, 1111 Broadway. Monday through Saturday, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. 

$6 general; $4 seniors and students; free children age 5 and under; second Sundays are free to all. Wednesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday, noon to 5 p.m.; first Friday of the month, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. 

(888) OAK-MUSE or www.museumca.org. 

 

 

 

Music 

Ashkenaz 

1317 San Pablo Ave.  

525-5099 

For all ages 

www.ashkenaz.com 

Today, 9:30 p.m. CD release party with Strictly Roots 

Sept. 3, 9 p.m. Don Carlos & Reggaie Angels 

Sept. 5, 9 p.m. A night of Big Mountain Awareness with Blackfire 

Sept. 6, 8 p.m. lesson and 9 p.m. show Poullard-Thompson Band (Cajun) 

Sept. 8 Fantcha 

Sept. 27, 8 p.m., dance session, 9 p.m., music 

Kate Brislin, Jody Stecher, Heath Curtis, Bluegrass intentions 

Old time, Appalachian music 

525-5099 

 

924 Gilman St. 

924 Gilman Street is an all-ages, member-run no alcohol, drugs, and violence club. Most shows are $5. Memberships for the year are $2. Shows start at 8 p.m. unless otherwise noted.  

Call 525-9926.  

 

The Albatross Pub 

1822 San Pablo Ave. 

843-2473 

All shows begin at 9 p.m. 

Larry Stefl Jazz Quartet, Sept. 2. 

 

Dunsmuir Historic Estate 

2960 Peralta Oaks Court, Oakland 

End of summer concert: “Caribbean Rhythms” 

Sunday, Sept. 3, noon- 3 p.m. 

$5 adults, $4 seniors; $1 for children under 13 

615-5555, www.dunsmuir.org 

 

Starry Plough 

3101 Shattuck Ave. 

Noche de Flamenco, 8:30 p.m., Sept. 6 

Featured artists include Cristo Cortes, Monica Bermudez  

and Carola Zertuche, with special guest El Pollito 

$10 

841-2082 

The Greek Theatre 

Ben Harper and The Innocent Criminals, Maceo Parker, Sept. 8, 7 p.m. $30.  

Hearst Avenue and Gayley Road, Berkeley. (510) 444-TIXS 

 

Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center 

Daniela Mercury, Sept. 8, 8 p.m. $35. 

10 10th St., Oakland. (510) 534-6348, (510) 762-BASS 

 

Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra 

Nicholas McGegan conducting, Sept. 9 and Sept. 10.  

A performance of Handel's opera-oratorio “Semele.”  

$32 to $46. Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, 7 p.m. First  

Congregational Church, Dana Street and Durant Avenue, Berkeley.  

(415) 392-4400 or www.philharmonia.org 

 

The Jazzschool 

2375 Shattuck Ave. 

Dick Hindman Trio 

4:30 p.m., Sept. 17 

$12; $10 students/seniors; $6 for Jazzschool students and children under 13 

 

Classical Concert 

Friday, Sept. 29  

First Lutheran Church at Homer and Webster streets, Palo Alto 

8 p.m. 

(415) 378-4863 

 

 

 

Films 

University of California, Berkeley Art Museum 

Pacific Film Archive 

2575 Bancroft Way 

642-1412 

“Treasures from the George Eastman House” 

Various programs and a 16-film salute to little-known actresses. 

Sept. 1 -Oct. 8 

“MadCat Women’s International Film Festival”  

Sept. 8,9 

Festival showcases women filmmakers from around the world. 

“Paper Tiger Television” 

A look at TV used to promote grassroots political action. PTTV members will appear for discussion with the audiences at screenings. 

Sept. 12,15 

$7 for one film; $8.50 for double bills. UC Berkeley students are $4/$5.50. Seniors and children are $4.50/6.00  

 

Paramount Movie Classics Summer 2000 Series  

The evening includes a classic movie, walk-in music from the Wurlitzer  

organ, a newsreel, cartoon, movie previews and the Paramount's prize  

give-away game “Dec-O-Win.” 

Sept. 8: The French Connection. 

Sept. 22: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. 

$5. Shows at 8 p.m. 2025 Broadway, Oakland. (510) 465-6400. 

 

Theater 

“The Green Bird” by Carlo  

Gozzi 

Berkeley Repertory Theatre 

2025 Addison St. 

Adapted by Theatre de la Jeune Lune and directed by Dominique Serrand.  

“The Green Bird” runs from September 8 - October 27. For tickets contact the box office at 845-4700 

 

“The Philanderer”  

by George Bernard Shaw 

Berkeley City Club 

2315 Durant Ave. 

Performed by the Aurora Theatre company, “The Philanderer” takes on the challenging and often humorous exploration of gender roles and the separations that exist between the sexes. 

Preview dates are September 8-10 and 13, tickets for preview showings are sold at $26. Opening night is September 14, admission is $35. Showtimes run Wednesday through Saturday through October 15 at 8 p.m. and Sunday matinees show at 2 p.m., plus selected Sunday evenings at 7 p.m. Admission for regular performances is $30. Student discounts are available. For tickets and information call 843-4822 or visit www.auroratheatre.org. 

 

“Endgame” 

Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, through Sept. 2 at La Val’s Subterranean 1834 Euclid Ave. Berkeley. 

Directed by George Charbak.  

524-9327. 

 

“MIMZABIM!” 

Climate Theatre & Subterranean Shakespeare 

La Vals Subterraniean 1834 Euclid, Berkeley 

Sept.7 -Oct. 14 

Thursday - Saturday 8:00 p.m. 

$12, Students $8 

 

Exhibits 

The Artistry of Rae Louise  

Hayward 

The Women’s Cancer Resource Center Gallery 

3023 Shattuck Ave. 

548-9286, ext. 307 

Through Sept. 27 

Rae Louise Hayward, one of the founders of The Art of Living Black, Bay Area Black Artist Annual Exhibition and Open Studios Tour. 

Haywards’ art celebrates the beauty of African culture from its people to its music.  

Regular gallery hours are Tuesday through Thursday 1-7 p.m., Saturday 12-4 p.m. and by appointment.  

 

Traywick Gallery 

1316 Tenth St.  

527-1214 

Charles LaBelle 

Sept. 9 - Oct. 15 

LaBelle’s new series of large-scale color photographs highlight nighttime nature in Hollywood. He recreates trees at night using a hand-held spotlight and playing on the beam across the leaves and branches. The opening reception will be held on September 12 from 6 to 8 p.m.  

Blue Vinyl by Connie Walsh  

Sept. 9 - Oct. 15 

This multimedia project combines video, sound and printmaking to explore concepts of intimacy and its relation to private space. The opening reception is on September 12 from 6-8 p.m. 

Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday 11-6 p.m. and Sundays 12-5 p.m. 

 

A.C.C.I. Gallery  

“Paperworks,” Sept. 1 through Oct. 7.  

A group exhibit of works by Carol Brighton, Vannie Keightley, Jean Hearst. 

Opening Reception, Sept. 1, 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Free. Tuesday through Thursday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Friday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. 1652 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley. (510) 843-2527 

 

Berkeley Art Center 

“Ethnic Notions: Black Images in the White Mind,''  

Sept. 10 through Nov. 12. An exhibit by Janette Faulkner exploring racial stereotypes in commercial imagery. Free. Wednesday through Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. Live Oak Park, 1275 Walnut St., Berkeley. (510) 644-6893 

 

California College of Arts and Crafts  

“Add/Drop/Add: CCAC Fine Arts Faculty Exhibitions”  

Sept. 5 through Sept. 16. 

Free. Monday, Tuesday and Thursday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Wednesday, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Oliver Art Center, 5212 Broadway, Oakland. 594-3712 

 

Chi Gallery  

“Alegres Cantos en Mi Ser (Songs of Joy in My Being)” through Sept. 30.  

An exhibit of paintings depicting scenes of Afro-cuban music, by Susan Mathews. Reception, Sept. 9, 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Free. Tuesday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. 912-A Clay St., Oakland. (510) 832-4244. 

 

Creative Growth 

“Indelible Ink” closing Sept. 1. Selections from the Creative Growth Permanent Collection and new works. 

Free. Monday through Friday, noon to 5:30 p.m. 355 24th St., Oakland. (510) 836-2340 

Kala Institute  

“Layerings: New Work by Four Kala Fellows” through Sept. 28. The 2000 Kala Art Institute Fellowship Awards Exhibitions, Part II of works by Margaret M. Kessler, Barbara Milman, Michele Muennig, and  

David Politzer. Free. Tuesday through Friday, noon to 5 p.m. Workshop Media Center  

Gallery, 1060 Heinz Ave., Berkeley. (510) 549-2977  

 

Readings 

 

Rhyme & Reason Poetry Series 

Berkeley Art Museum, 2621 Durant 

Second and fourth Sundays of each month. For open reading following featured readers, sign up at 2 p.m., readings begin at 2:30 p.m. 

Sept. 10. Q.R. Hand, Tennessee Reed 

 

Readings at Cody’s 

2454 Telegraph Ave.  

Sept. 5, 7:30 p.m. Terry Burnham and Jay Phelan discuss their book “Mean Genes – From Sex to Money to Food: Taming Our Primal Instincts.” 

Sept. 7, 7 p.m. Andrea Siegel, “Open and Clothed: For the Passionate Clothes Lover.” At 1730 Fourth St. 

Sept. 7, 7:30 p.m. Diana Spaulding and David Dodd, “The Grateful Dead Reader” 

Sept. 8, 7:30 p.m. Glenn Dickey, “Glenn Dickey's 49ers – the Rise, the Fall and the Future of  

Football's Greatest Dynasty.” 

Sept. 10, 7:30 p.m. Julia Cameron and her book “The Artist's Way.”  

 

Nyingma Institute 

1815 Highland Place  

843-6812 

Free 

Sept. 3, 3 to 5 p.m. Open House 

Free introduction to Tibetan Buddhist Culture 

6-7 p.m. “Life of the Buddha” 

Instructor Eva Casey relates the lessons of Buddha to the practitioner’s experience.  

Sept. 10, 6-7p.m. “Overcoming Obstacles to Meditation” 

Instructor Abbe Blum talks about meditation troubles and how they can be viewed to unlock the mind’s secrets. 

Sept. 17, 6-7 p.m. “Knowledge of Freedom” 

Buddhist teacher June Rosenberg will demonstrate how “Knowledge of Freedom” teachings can be applied in daily life. 

 

UC Berkeley’s Poem Reading Series Kickoff Event 

Sept. 7, 12:10 p.m. Robert Hass introduces Berkeley campus figures reading their favorite poems. Free. Morrison Room, Doe Library, Bancroft Way at College Avenue,  

Berkeley. (510) 642-0137 

Tours 

Golden Gate Live Steamers 

Small locomotives, meticulously scaled to size, run along a half mile of track in Tilden Regional Park. The small trains are owned and maintained by a non-profit group of railroad buffs who offer rides.  

Free. Trains run Sunday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Rides: Sunday, noon to 3 p.m., weather permitting. Grizzly Peak Boulevard and Lomas Cantadas Drive at the south end of Tilden Regional Park, Berkeley.  

486-0623  

 

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 

Scientists and engineers guide visitors through the research areas of the laboratory, demonstrating emerging technology and discussing the research’s current and potential applications. A Berkeley lab tour usually lasts two hours and includes visits to several research areas. Popular tour sites include the Advanced Light Source, The National Center for Electron Microscopy, the 88-Inch Cyclotron, The Advanced Lighting Laboratory, and The Human Genome Laboratory. Reservations required at least two weeks in advance of tour. 

Free. University of California, Berkeley. 

486-4387 

 

Berkeley City Club Tours 

Guided tours through Berkeley’s City Club, a landmark building designed by architect Julia Morgan, designer of Hearst Castle. 

$2. The fourth Sunday of every month except December, between noon to 4 p.m.  

2315 Durant Ave., Berkeley. 

848-7800 

 

Dance 

Yoshi’s 

Mark Isham's In A Silent Way Project Sept. 4, $18. 

Ray Brown Trio with Kevin Mahogany, Sept. 5 through Sept. 10. $20 to $24 general; Sunday matinee: $5 children; $10 adult with one child. 

Unless otherwise noted, music at 8 p.m. and 10 p.m.; Sunday 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. 510 Embarcadero West, Oakland. (510) 238-9200 or  

(510) 762-BASS 

 

Luna Kids Dance 

Creative dance for children 

Parent-child class 

Sept. 9, 9-10 a.m. 

Redwood Day School, 3245 Sheffield Ave, Oakland 

Sept. 12, open house 

Ashkenas, 1317 San Pablo, 4:30-5:30 p.m. 

530-4113 

 

Mark Morris Dance Group 

“Four Saints in Three Acts” and “Dido & Aeneas” 

Sept. 21-24 Zellerbach Hall 

Music by the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra and American Bach Soloists 

Tickets: $34 - $52 

643-6714 

 

Lawrence Hall of Science 

“Experiment Gallery”  

Closing Sept. 10. Step inside a giant laboratory and experiment with concepts surrounding sound, light, mechanics, electricity, and weather. 

“Math Rules!” Ongoing. A math exhibit of hands-on problem-solving stations, each with a different mathematical challenge. Make mathematical ice-cream cones, use blocks to build three dimensional structures, make dodecagon pies from a variety of mathematical shapes and stretch mathematical thinking. 

“Within the Human Brain” Ongoing. Visitors test their cranial nerves, play skeeball, master mazes, match musical tones and construct stories inside a simulated “rat cage” of learning  

experiments. 

 

Holt Planitarium  

Programs are recommended for age 8 and up; children under age 6 will not be admitted. $2 in addition to regular museum admission. 

“How Big Is the Universe,” through Sept. 3. Learn about various  

ways to determine distances. Through Sept. 3: Saturday and Sunday, 1 p.m. 

“Moons of the Solar System,” through Dec. 10. Take a tour of the  

fascinating worlds that orbit Earth and other planets out to the edge  

of the Solar System. Through Sept. 3, Saturday and Sunday, 2:15 p.m.;  

Sept. 9 through Oct. 29, 1 p.m. to 2:15 p.m.; Nov. 4 through Dec. 10; 2:15 p.m. 

“Constellations Tonight” Ongoing. Using a simple star map, learn  

to identify the most prominent constellations for the season in the  

planetarium sky. Daily, 3:30 p.m. $7 general; $5 seniors, students, disabled, and youths age 7 to 18;  

$3 children age 3 to 5 ; free children age 2 and younger. Daily 10 a.m.  

to 5 p.m.; Centennial Drive, University of California,  

Berkeley. (510) 642-5132 or www.lhs.berkeley.edu 

 

The Oakland Museum  

of California 

1000 Oak St., Oakland 

“Helen Nestor: Personal and Political” Through Oct. 15.  

An exhibit of images documenting the Free Speech Movement, the 60s civil rights marches, and women’s issues. 

“California Classic: Realist Paintings by Robert Bechtle” through Oct. 1.  

An exhibit of 18 paintings and drawings by the Bay Area artist dating from 1965 to 1997. 

Special Exhibit – “Meadowsweet Dairy: Wood Sculpture,” through Sept. 15.  

An exhibit of 12 sculptures made with materials found and salvaged to reveal the beauty of the natural object. At the Sculpture Court, City Center, 1111 Broadway. Monday through Saturday, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. 

$6 general; $4 seniors and students; free children age 5 and under; second Sundays are free to all. Wednesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday, noon to 5 p.m.; first Friday of the month, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. 

(888) OAK-MUSE or www.museumca.org. 

 

Ashkenaz 

1317 San Pablo Ave.  

525-5099 

For all ages 

www.ashkenaz.com 

Today, 9:30 p.m. CD release party with Strictly Roots 

Sept. 3, 9 p.m. Don Carlos & Reggaie Angels 

Sept. 5, 9 p.m. A night of Big Mountain Awareness with Blackfire 

Sept. 6, 8 p.m. lesson and 9 p.m. show Poullard-Thompson Band (Cajun) 

Sept. 8 Fantcha 

Sept. 27, 8 p.m., dance session, 9 p.m., music 

Kate Brislin, Jody Stecher, Heath Curtis, Bluegrass intentions 

Old time, Appalachian music 

525-5099 

 

924 Gilman St. 

924 Gilman Street is an all-ages, member-run no alcohol, drugs, and violence club. Most shows are $5. Memberships for the year are $2. Shows start at 8 p.m. unless otherwise noted.  

Call 525-9926.  

 

The Albatross Pub 

1822 San Pablo Ave. 

843-2473 

All shows begin at 9 p.m. 

Larry Stefl Jazz Quartet, Sept. 2. 

 

Dunsmuir Historic Estate 

2960 Peralta Oaks Court, Oakland 

End of summer concert: “Caribbean Rhythms” 

Sunday, Sept. 3, noon- 3 p.m. 

$5 adults, $4 seniors; $1 for children under 13 

615-5555, www.dunsmuir.org 

 

Starry Plough 

3101 Shattuck Ave. 

Noche de Flamenco, 8:30 p.m., Sept. 6 

Featured artists include Cristo Cortes, Monica Bermudez  

and Carola Zertuche, with special guest El Pollito 

$10 841-2082 

 

The Greek Theatre 

Ben Harper and The Innocent Criminals, Maceo Parker, Sept. 8, 7 p.m. $30.  

Hearst Avenue and Gayley Road, Berkeley. (510) 444-TIXS 

 

Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center 

Daniela Mercury, Sept. 8, 8 p.m. $35. 

10 10th St., Oakland. (510) 534-6348, (510) 762-BASS 

 

Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra 

Nicholas McGegan conducting, Sept. 9 and Sept. 10.  

A performance of Handel's opera-oratorio “Semele.”  

$32 to $46. Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, 7 p.m. First  

Congregational Church, Dana Street and Durant Avenue, Berkeley.  

(415) 392-4400 or www.philharmonia.org 

 

The Jazzschool 

2375 Shattuck Ave. 

Dick Hindman Trio 

4:30 p.m., Sept. 17 

$12; $10 students/seniors; $6 for Jazzschool students and children under 13 

 

Classical Concert 

Friday, Sept. 29  

First Lutheran Church at Homer and Webster streets, Palo Alto 

8 p.m. 

(415) 378-4863 

 

 

 

Films 

University of California, Berkeley Art Museum 

Pacific Film Archive 

2575 Bancroft Way 

642-1412 

“Treasures from the George Eastman House” 

Various programs and a 16-film salute to little-known actresses. 

Sept. 1 -Oct. 8 

“MadCat Women’s International Film Festival”  

Sept. 8,9 

Festival showcases women filmmakers from around the world. 

“Paper Tiger Television” 

A look at TV used to promote grassroots political action. PTTV members will appear for discussion with the audiences at screenings. 

Sept. 12,15 

$7 for one film; $8.50 for double bills. UC Berkeley students are $4/$5.50. Seniors and children are $4.50/6.00  

 

Paramount Movie Classics Summer 2000 Series  

The evening includes a classic movie, walk-in music from the Wurlitzer  

organ, a newsreel, cartoon, movie previews and the Paramount's prize  

give-away game “Dec-O-Win.” 

Sept. 8: The French Connection. 

Sept. 22: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. 

$5. Shows at 8 p.m. 2025 Broadway, Oakland. (510) 465-6400. 

 

Theater 

“The Green Bird” by Carlo  

Gozzi 

Berkeley Repertory Theatre 

2025 Addison St. 

Adapted by Theatre de la Jeune Lune and directed by Dominique Serrand.  

“The Green Bird” runs from September 8 - October 27. For tickets contact the box office at 845-4700 

 

“The Philanderer”  

by George Bernard Shaw 

Berkeley City Club 

2315 Durant Ave. 

Performed by the Aurora Theatre company, “The Philanderer” takes on the challenging and often humorous exploration of gender roles and the separations that exist between the sexes. 

Preview dates are September 8-10 and 13, tickets for preview showings are sold at $26. Opening night is September 14, admission is $35. Showtimes run Wednesday through Saturday through October 15 at 8 p.m. and Sunday matinees show at 2 p.m., plus selected Sunday evenings at 7 p.m. Admission for regular performances is $30. Student discounts are available. For tickets and information call 843-4822 or visit www.auroratheatre.org. 

 

“Endgame” 

Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, through Sept. 2 at La Val’s Subterranean 1834 Euclid Ave. Berkeley. 

Directed by George Charbak.  

524-9327. 

 

“MIMZABIM!” 

Climate Theatre & Subterranean Shakespeare 

La Vals Subterraniean 1834 Euclid, Berkeley 

Sept.7 -Oct. 14 

Thursday - Saturday 8:00 p.m. 

$12, Students $8 

 

Exhibits 

The Artistry of Rae Louise  

Hayward 

The Women’s Cancer Resource Center Gallery 

3023 Shattuck Ave. 

548-9286, ext. 307 

Through Sept. 27 

Rae Louise Hayward, one of the founders of The Art of Living Black, Bay Area Black Artist Annual Exhibition and Open Studios Tour. 

Haywards’ art celebrates the beauty of African culture from its people to its music.  

Regular gallery hours are Tuesday through Thursday 1-7 p.m., Saturday 12-4 p.m. and by appointment.  

 

Traywick Gallery 

1316 Tenth St.  

527-1214 

Charles LaBelle 

Sept. 9 - Oct. 15 

LaBelle’s new series of large-scale color photographs highlight nighttime nature in Hollywood. He recreates trees at night using a hand-held spotlight and playing on the beam across the leaves and branches. The opening reception will be held on September 12 from 6 to 8 p.m.  

Blue Vinyl by Connie Walsh  

Sept. 9 - Oct. 15 

This multimedia project combines video, sound and printmaking to explore concepts of intimacy and its relation to private space. The opening reception is on September 12 from 6-8 p.m. 

Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday 11-6 p.m. and Sundays 12-5 p.m. 

 

A.C.C.I. Gallery  

“Paperworks,” Sept. 1 through Oct. 7.  

A group exhibit of works by Carol Brighton, Vannie Keightley, Jean Hearst. 

Opening Reception, Sept. 1, 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Free. Tuesday through Thursday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Friday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. 1652 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley. (510) 843-2527 

 

Berkeley Art Center 

“Ethnic Notions: Black Images in the White Mind,''  

Sept. 10 through Nov. 12. An exhibit by Janette Faulkner exploring racial stereotypes in commercial imagery. Free. Wednesday through Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. Live Oak Park, 1275 Walnut St., Berkeley. (510) 644-6893 

 

California College of Arts and Crafts  

“Add/Drop/Add: CCAC Fine Arts Faculty Exhibitions”  

Sept. 5 through Sept. 16. 

Free. Monday, Tuesday and Thursday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Wednesday, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Oliver Art Center, 5212 Broadway, Oakland. 594-3712 

 

Chi Gallery  

“Alegres Cantos en Mi Ser (Songs of Joy in My Being)” through Sept. 30.  

An exhibit of paintings depicting scenes of Afro-cuban music, by Susan Mathews. Reception, Sept. 9, 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Free. Tuesday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. 912-A Clay St., Oakland. (510) 832-4244. 

 

Creative Growth 

“Indelible Ink” closing Sept. 1. Selections from the Creative Growth Permanent Collection and new works. 

Free. Monday through Friday, noon to 5:30 p.m. 355 24th St., Oakland. (510) 836-2340 

Kala Institute  

“Layerings: New Work by Four Kala Fellows” through Sept. 28. The 2000 Kala Art Institute Fellowship Awards Exhibitions, Part II of works by Margaret M. Kessler, Barbara Milman, Michele Muennig, and  

David Politzer. Free. Tuesday through Friday, noon to 5 p.m. Workshop Media Center  

Gallery, 1060 Heinz Ave., Berkeley. (510) 549-2977  

 

Readings 

 

Rhyme & Reason Poetry Series 

Berkeley Art Museum, 2621 Durant 

Second and fourth Sundays of each month. For open reading following featured readers, sign up at 2 p.m., readings begin at 2:30 p.m. 

Sept. 10. Q.R. Hand, Tennessee Reed 

 

Readings at Cody’s 

2454 Telegraph Ave.  

Sept. 5, 7:30 p.m. Terry Burnham and Jay Phelan discuss their book “Mean Genes – From Sex to Money to Food: Taming Our Primal Instincts.” 

Sept. 7, 7 p.m. Andrea Siegel, “Open and Clothed: For the Passionate Clothes Lover.” At 1730 Fourth St. 

Sept. 7, 7:30 p.m. Diana Spaulding and David Dodd, “The Grateful Dead Reader” 

Sept. 8, 7:30 p.m. Glenn Dickey, “Glenn Dickey's 49ers – the Rise, the Fall and the Future of  

Football's Greatest Dynasty.” 

Sept. 10, 7:30 p.m. Julia Cameron and her book “The Artist's Way.”  

 

Nyingma Institute 

1815 Highland Place  

843-6812 

Free 

Sept. 3, 3 to 5 p.m. Open House 

Free introduction to Tibetan Buddhist Culture 

6-7 p.m. “Life of the Buddha” 

Instructor Eva Casey relates the lessons of Buddha to the practitioner’s experience.  

Sept. 10, 6-7p.m. “Overcoming Obstacles to Meditation” 

Instructor Abbe Blum talks about meditation troubles and how they can be viewed to unlock the mind’s secrets. 

Sept. 17, 6-7 p.m. “Knowledge of Freedom” 

Buddhist teacher June Rosenberg will demonstrate how “Knowledge of Freedom” teachings can be applied in daily life. 

 

UC Berkeley’s Poem Reading Series Kickoff Event 

Sept. 7, 12:10 p.m. Robert Hass introduces Berkeley campus figures reading their favorite poems. Free. Morrison Room, Doe Library, Bancroft Way at College Avenue,  

Berkeley. (510) 642-0137 

Tours 

Golden Gate Live Steamers 

Small locomotives, meticulously scaled to size, run along a half mile of track in Tilden Regional Park. The small trains are owned and maintained by a non-profit group of railroad buffs who offer rides.  

Free. Trains run Sunday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Rides: Sunday, noon to 3 p.m., weather permitting. Grizzly Peak Boulevard and Lomas Cantadas Drive at the south end of Tilden Regional Park, Berkeley.  

486-0623  

 

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 

Scientists and engineers guide visitors through the research areas of the laboratory, demonstrating emerging technology and discussing the research’s current and potential applications. A Berkeley lab tour usually lasts two hours and includes visits to several research areas. Popular tour sites include the Advanced Light Source, The National Center for Electron Microscopy, the 88-Inch Cyclotron, The Advanced Lighting Laboratory, and The Human Genome Laboratory. Reservations required at least two weeks in advance of tour. 

Free. University of California, Berkeley. 

486-4387 

 

Berkeley City Club Tours 

Guided tours through Berkeley’s City Club, a landmark building designed by architect Julia Morgan, designer of Hearst Castle. 

$2. The fourth Sunday of every month except December, between noon to 4 p.m.  

2315 Durant Ave., Berkeley. 

848-7800 

 

Dance 

Yoshi’s 

Mark Isham's In A Silent Way Project Sept. 4, $18. 

Ray Brown Trio with Kevin Mahogany, Sept. 5 through Sept. 10. $20 to $24 general; Sunday matinee: $5 children; $10 adult with one child. 

Unless otherwise noted, music at 8 p.m. and 10 p.m.; Sunday 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. 510 Embarcadero West, Oakland. (510) 238-9200 or  

(510) 762-BASS 

 

Luna Kids Dance 

Creative dance for children 

Parent-child class 

Sept. 9, 9-10 a.m. 

Redwood Day School, 3245 Sheffield Ave, Oakland 

Sept. 12, open house 

Ashkenas, 1317 San Pablo, 4:30-5:30 p.m. 

530-4113 

 

Mark Morris Dance Group 

“Four Saints in Three Acts” and “Dido & Aeneas” 

Sept. 21-24 Zellerbach Hall 

Music by the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra and American Bach Soloists 

Tickets: $34 - $52 

643-6714 

 

 

University of  

California, Berkeley 

Pacific Film Archive 

2575 Bancroft Way 

642-1412 

“Treasures from the George Eastman House” 

Various programs and a 16-film salute to little-known actresses. 

Sept. 1 -Oct. 8 

“MadCat Women’s International Film Festival”  

Sept. 8,9 

Festival showcases women filmmakers from around the world. 

“Paper Tiger Television” 

A look at TV used to promote grassroots political action. PTTV members will appear for discussion with the audiences at screenings. 

Sept. 12,15 

$7 for one film; $8.50 for double bills. UC Berkeley students are $4/$5.50. Seniors and children are $4.50/6.00  

 

Paramount Movie Classics  

Summer 2000 Series  

The evening includes a classic movie, walk-in music from the Wurlitzer  

organ, a newsreel, cartoon, movie previews and the Paramount's prize  

give-away game “Dec-O-Win.” 

Sept. 8: The French Connection. 

Sept. 22: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. 

$5. Shows at 8 p.m. 2025 Broadway, Oakland. (510) 465-6400. 

 

 

“The Green Bird”  

by Carlo Gozzi 

Berkeley Repertory Theatre 

2025 Addison St. 

Adapted by Theatre de la Jeune Lune and directed by Dominique Serrand.  

“The Green Bird” runs from September 8 - October 27. For tickets contact the box office at 845-4700 

 

“The Philanderer”  

by George Bernard Shaw 

Berkeley City Club 

2315 Durant Ave. 

Performed by the Aurora Theatre company, “The Philanderer” takes on the challenging and often humorous exploration of gender roles and the separations that exist between the sexes. 

Preview dates are September 8-10 and 13, tickets for preview showings are sold at $26. Opening night is September 14, admission is $35. Showtimes run Wednesday through Saturday through October 15 at 8 p.m. and Sunday matinees show at 2 p.m., plus selected Sunday evenings at 7 p.m. Admission for regular performances is $30. Student discounts are available. For tickets and information call 843-4822 or visit www.auroratheatre.org. 

 

“Endgame” 

Fridays, and Saturdays, through Sept. 2 at La Val’s Subterranean 1834 Euclid Ave. Berkeley. 

Directed by George Charbak.  

524-9327. 

 

“MIMZABIM!” 

Climate Theatre & Subterranean Shakespeare 

La Vals Subterraniean 1834 Euclid, Berkeley 

Sept.7 -Oct. 14 

Thursday - Saturday 8:00 p.m. 

$12, Students $8 

 

 

The Artistry of Rae Louise  

Hayward 

The Women’s Cancer Resource Center Gallery 

3023 Shattuck Ave. 

548-9286, ext. 307 

Through Sept. 27 

Rae Louise Hayward, one of the founders of The Art of Living Black, Bay Area Black Artist Annual Exhibition and Open Studios Tour. 

Haywards’ art celebrates the beauty of African culture from its people to its music.  

Regular gallery hours are Tuesday through Thursday 1-7 p.m., Saturday 12-4 p.m. and by appointment.  

 

Traywick Gallery 

1316 Tenth St.  

527-1214 

Charles LaBelle 

Sept. 9 - Oct. 15 

LaBelle’s new series of large-scale color photographs highlight nighttime nature in Hollywood. He recreates trees at night using a hand-held spotlight and playing on the beam across the leaves and branches. The opening reception will be held on September 12 from 6 to 8 p.m.  

Blue Vinyl by Connie Walsh  

Sept. 9 - Oct. 15 

This multimedia project combines video, sound and printmaking to explore concepts of intimacy and its relation to private space. The opening reception is on September 12 from 6-8 p.m. 

Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday 11-6 p.m. and Sundays 12-5 p.m. 

 

A.C.C.I. Gallery  

“Paperworks,” Sept. 1 through Oct. 7.  

A group exhibit of works by Carol Brighton, Vannie Keightley, Jean Hearst. 

Opening Reception, Sept. 1, 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Free. Tuesday through Thursday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Friday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. 1652 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley. (510) 843-2527 

 

Berkeley Art Center 

“Ethnic Notions: Black Images in the White Mind,''  

Sept. 10 through Nov. 12. An exhibit by Janette Faulkner exploring racial stereotypes in commercial imagery. Free. Wednesday through Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. Live Oak Park, 1275 Walnut St., Berkeley. (510) 644-6893 

 

California College of Arts  

and Crafts  

“Add/Drop/Add: CCAC Fine Arts Faculty Exhibitions”  

Sept. 5 through Sept. 16. 

Free. Monday, Tuesday and Thursday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Wednesday, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Oliver Art Center, 5212 Broadway, Oakland. 594-3712 

 

Chi Gallery  

“Alegres Cantos en Mi Ser (Songs of Joy in My Being)” through Sept. 30.  

An exhibit of paintings depicting scenes of Afro-cuban music, by Susan Mathews. Reception, Sept. 9, 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Free. Tuesday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. 912-A Clay St., Oakland. (510) 832-4244. 

 

Creative Growth 

“Indelible Ink” closing Sept. 1. Selections from the Creative Growth Permanent Collection and new works. 

Free. Monday through Friday, noon to 5:30 p.m. 355 24th St., Oakland. (510) 836-2340 

Kala Institute  

“Layerings: New Work by Four Kala Fellows” through Sept. 28. The 2000 Kala Art Institute Fellowship Awards Exhibitions, Part II of works by Margaret M. Kessler, Barbara Milman, Michele Muennig, and  

David Politzer. Free. Tuesday through Friday, noon to 5 p.m. Workshop Media Center  

Gallery, 1060 Heinz Ave., Berkeley. (510) 549-2977  

 

Readings 

 

Rhyme & Reason Poetry Series 

Berkeley Art Museum, 2621 Durant 

Second and fourth Sundays of each month. For open reading following featured readers, sign up at 2 p.m., readings begin at 2:30 p.m. 

Sept. 10. Q.R. Hand, Tennessee Reed 

 

Readings at Cody’s 

2454 Telegraph Ave.  

Sept. 5, 7:30 p.m. Terry Burnham and Jay Phelan discuss their book “Mean Genes – From Sex to Money to Food: Taming Our Primal Instincts.” 

Sept. 7, 7 p.m. Andrea Siegel, “Open and Clothed: For the Passionate Clothes Lover.” At 1730 Fourth St. 

Sept. 7, 7:30 p.m. Diana Spaulding and David Dodd, “The Grateful Dead Reader” 

Sept. 8, 7:30 p.m. Glenn Dickey, “Glenn Dickey's 49ers – the Rise, the Fall and the Future of  

Football's Greatest Dynasty.” 

Sept. 10, 7:30 p.m. Julia Cameron and her book “The Artist's Way.”  

 

Nyingma Institute 

1815 Highland Place  

843-6812 

Free 

Sept. 3, 3 to 5 p.m. Open House 

Free introduction to Tibetan Buddhist Culture 

6-7 p.m. “Life of the Buddha” 

Instructor Eva Casey relates the lessons of Buddha to the practitioner’s experience.  

Sept. 10, 6-7p.m. “Overcoming Obstacles to Meditation” 

Instructor Abbe Blum talks about meditation troubles and how they can be viewed to unlock the mind’s secrets. 

Sept. 17, 6-7 p.m. “Knowledge of Freedom” 

Buddhist teacher June Rosenberg will demonstrate how “Knowledge of Freedom” teachings can be applied in daily life. 

 

UC Berkeley’s Poem Reading Series Kickoff Event 

Sept. 7, 12:10 p.m. Robert Hass introduces Berkeley campus figures reading their favorite poems. Free. Morrison Room, Doe Library, Bancroft Way at College Avenue,  

Berkeley. (510) 642-0137 

Tours 

Golden Gate Live Steamers 

Small locomotives, meticulously scaled to size, run along a half mile of track in Tilden Regional Park. The small trains are owned and maintained by a non-profit group of railroad buffs who offer rides.  

Free. Trains run Sunday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Rides: Sunday, noon to 3 p.m., weather permitting. Grizzly Peak Boulevard and Lomas Cantadas Drive at the south end of Tilden Regional Park, Berkeley.  

486-0623  

 

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 

Scientists and engineers guide visitors through the research areas of the laboratory, demonstrating emerging technology and discussing the research’s current and potential applications. A Berkeley lab tour usually lasts two hours and includes visits to several research areas. Popular tour sites include the Advanced Light Source, The National Center for Electron Microscopy, the 88-Inch Cyclotron, The Advanced Lighting Laboratory, and The Human Genome Laboratory. Reservations required at least two weeks in advance of tour. 

Free. University of California, Berkeley. 

486-4387 

 

Berkeley City Club Tours 

Guided tours through Berkeley’s City Club, a landmark building designed by architect Julia Morgan, designer of Hearst Castle. 

$2. The fourth Sunday of every month except December, between noon to 4 p.m.  

2315 Durant Ave., Berkeley. 

848-7800 

 

Dance 

Yoshi’s 

Mark Isham's In A Silent Way Project Sept. 4, $18. 

Ray Brown Trio with Kevin Mahogany, Sept. 5 through Sept. 10. $20 to $24 general; Sunday matinee: $5 children; $10 adult with one child. 

Unless otherwise noted, music at 8 p.m. and 10 p.m.; Sunday 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. 510 Embarcadero West, Oakland. (510) 238-9200 or  

(510) 762-BASS 

 

Luna Kids Dance 

Creative dance for children 

Parent-child class 

Sept. 9, 9-10 a.m. 

Redwood Day School, 3245 Sheffield Ave, Oakland 

Sept. 12, open house 

Ashkenas, 1317 San Pablo, 4:30-5:30 p.m. 

530-4113 

 

Mark Morris Dance Group 

“Four Saints in Three Acts” and “Dido & Aeneas” 

Sept. 21-24 Zellerbach Hall 

Music by the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra and American Bach Soloists 

Tickets: $34 - $52 

643-6714 


Stepping out of the shadows, into the spotlight

By Jared Green Daily Planet Staff
Friday September 01, 2000

Mention the name Deltha O’Neal to just about any football fan and you’ll get a response. 1999 All-American, Pac-10 Defensive Player of the Year, first-round NFL pick. O’Neal regularly made highlight films last season, picking off passes for touchdowns, returning kicks for touchdowns, and generally being spectacular on Saturdays. 

Now mention Chidi Iwuoma. Unless you’re talking to a die-hard Cal fan, you’ll likely get a blank stare. Playing across the field from O’Neal, there wasn’t a lot of fanfare for the tiny cornerback with Nigerian roots. He didn’t return either of his interceptions for touchdowns, and his three punt returns didn’t get him into the end zone either. 

But ask Cal head coach Tom Holmoe, and he’ll tell you a different story. 

“He actually graded out better, game by game, than Deltha last year,” Holmoe said. “Deltha was our big-play guy, but Chidi did his job very well last year.” 

Iwouma will fill many roles this year. He is the lone returning starter in the defensive backfield, and will be the Bears’ primary kick and punt return man, entrusted with providing the offense with good field position to start their drives. 

But perhaps his most important role will be as one of the experienced players whom the younger guys look up to. 

“This year, I am playing the role as a leader and inspiration for the younger players, not just for the secondary, but for the whole team,” said Iwuoma. “The coaches want me to step up and be more vocal, and I’m ready to do that. I’m ready in my senior season to do that, not just on the field, but any way possible.” 

Iwuoma’s new partner at cornerback will be sophmore LaShaun Ward, who played in all 11 games last year and has the potential to become an outstanding player. But there is no question that Iwuoma must become an impact player if the Bears are to dominate defensively like last season, when they led the Pac-10 in both scoring and total defense. 

“I’ll get the chance to get the ball in my hands, so hopefully I’ll get to make some plays there,” Iwuoma says. 

Iwuoma says he was sometimes hesitant to go for the big play last year. 

“A lot of times I’d be right there on a pick and I’d secure the tackle. I think this year I’ll work on looking for the ball a little better. I worked on those skills all summer. I’m still going to do my job — I’m not going to be a wild man out there — but I think I’ll have a better sense of where the ball is at.” 

Iwuoma has set high goals for both himself and the team. 

“I want to go to a major bowl game,” he said. “We know that we have to work for it, so a lot of guys are a lot more focused on working towards that goal and that was apparent during spring ball and during the summer... the guys are really more goal oriented towards getting to that bowl game.” 

The fact that most pre-season predictions have the Bears near the bottom of the conference gives him even more motivation. 

“Those ratings just set my goals even higher,” he says. “I pretty much just laugh at those ratings because I know that we are going to do much better, and as long as we play the way we can, we’ll finish much higher in the Pac-10.”


Book store closes doors

By William InmanDaily Planet Staff
Friday September 01, 2000

A few obscure cassette tapes and compact discs by easily forgotten artists like “Katrina and the Waves” and “Poco,” along with a handful of old books and magazines – some circa 1979 – dotted the dusty bookshelves at Half Price Books at 2525 Telegraph Ave. about 5 p.m. Thursday afternoon. 

They were the leftovers of a 95 percent markdown. A moving out sale to get rid of all its stuff to avoid warehousing.  

After 16 years at the location along the strip of Telegraph known for its bevy of bookstores, the book and music dealer is closing its doors. 

“It’s sad, we’ll miss Telegraph,” said manager Ellen Foster, who has worked at the store for 13 years. 

“This store is just too small for us,” she said. “It’s the smallest of the 60 some (Half Price Book) stores. It’s just not as profitable as some of the larger stores.” 

No, the store isn’t a victim of a hellish rent increase, nor were they bought out by Starbucks. said. “We just need to be bigger,” she said. 

None of their employees will be forced to panhandle across the street, either. 

“Most of our employees have gone back to school, and some are being transferred to our Solano store,” she said.  

Half Price has another Berkeley location at 1849 Solano Ave. 

And Foster is also staying with the company, too, she said. 

Foster said the 25-year-old chain purchased a larger space for the re-sale books and music chain in Concord. She said they’re set to open in January. 

“I’ll miss them,” said Andy Ross, owner of nearby Cody’s Books. “It’s where I met my wife.” 

Ross said that there isn’t much competition between the handful of bookstores that inhabit the two or three blocks of Telegraph, and said he didn’t think that it would affect his business at all. 

Foster agreed.  

“The more bookstores the better,” she said.  

She added that the landlord asked her to leave the shelves in the store because he’s anticipating another bookstore.


Therapist in quandary over moving practice

By Judith Scherr Daily Planet Staff
Friday September 01, 2000

After practicing psychotherapy in the historic building at 1942 University Ave. for more than a dozen years, Karen Rose will be out on the street. 

She was given notice Aug. 15 that she had to be out of her office by Sept. 15. 

And that’s not an easy thing for the blind woman, who insists on wheelchair-accessible space for her clients. 

Rose’s landlord is Reddy Realty, whose owner Lakireddy Bali Reddy made headlines for his alleged role in bringing teenagers from abroad for sex and bringing others to work in his businesses under false pretenses. Reddy’s now confined to his brother’s home in Modesto, out of jail on $10 million bail. 

Sid Lakireddy, Reddy’s nephew, is managing a remodeling project at the building, one of more-than $70 million in properties Reddy owns. 

A fire in December damaged the roof, which he is replacing. He’s also repainting the front of the building and doing some other interior work, he said.  

Lakireddy told the Daily Planet that he expects the work will take about three months and that Rose will be able to move back in if she wants to. 

He added that if she were unable to find a new place for her practice by the Sept. 15 date, he would hold up the work for another two weeks to allow her more time. And he’s trying to find her a suitable place for her practice. 

Moreover, he said if Rose could tolerate the construction noises and danger, she could stay during the work. “If she wants to stay on, she can,” he said. 

Much of this is news to Rose. 

“I was told that I could move back after one year or 18 months,” she said.  

And she said no one told her she could stay.  

“If they’d let me stay through the construction, I would stay,” she said. 

Rose, who is on the faculty of San Francisco State University, said that ever since she got the notice to move, she’s been searching for a place to hold her therapy sessions. 

She said she’s contacted 14 commercial realtors, the Chamber of Commerce, the University Avenue Merchants Association and others.  

All she’s found is space she could use exclusively in the evening – she sees clients during the day, in the evening and on weekends – and a building that is closed evenings and on weekends. 

She’d be willing to see clients in her small Berkeley home, but she’d have to get approval from the Zoning Adjustments Board.  

“They said there are 140 hearings before me,” she said. Approval would take months. 

Rose said a therapist can’t just tell a client, the week before, that she will no longer be seeing clients.  

Preparation for terminating a therapist-client relationship takes some time. 

She said her eviction appears legal, since she has a month-to-month lease.  

Rose, who is a member of the Commission on Disability, said she is proud of her accomplishments in life.  

After earning an undergraduate and graduate degree, she received her license to practice as a Marriage and Family Therapist in 1984.  

She was forced, early on, to go into solo practice, because agencies refused to hire a blind therapist, she said, citing Department of Labor statistics which say that 70 percent of blind adults are unemployed. 

Rose said she’s determined to continue her work and is offering a reward to anyone who can help her find a new office. She can be reached at 486-1188.


Opinion

Editorials

Diverse coalition opposing Proposition 38

The Associated Press
Thursday September 07, 2000

SACRAMENTO — As kids played kickball in the background, Rosamunda Guillen and Jocelyn Graves described Wednesday how the school voucher initiative on the November ballot would harm their Hispanic and black communities. 

Guillen of the United Farm Workers said the union voted unanimously to oppose Proposition 38 because “they know this proposition will take away even more resources” from strapped rural schools. 

“Proposition 38 will not help my kids,” said Graves, a black parent from Sacramento. 

Opponents of the voucher initiative held press conferences Wednesday in four California cities that were called “back-to-school” events to kick off their campaign. 

However, both sides have already run summer television advertisements in what is expected to be a very expensive campaign, exceeding $40 million. 

And Wednesday’s events were more an opportunity for black and Latino leaders to stress opposition to the initiative. 

Tim Draper, a millionaire venture capitalist from Redwood City who is backing Proposition 38, has been trying to appeal to minority voters whose children attend poor-performing inner-city schools. One of his first rallies in July was at a black church in Los Angeles that runs a private school that could receive children with vouchers. 

In the four cities, speakers included black leaders such as San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown and Aminah Jahi of the San Jose chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and Hispanic leaders such as San Jose Mayor Ron Gonzales and Bert Corona-Hermandad of Mexicana Nacional. 

In Sacramento, the press conference was held in a playground next to an elementary school a few blocks from the Capitol. 

Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante, who has already appeared in Spanish-language ads opposing Proposition 38, said the initiative would undermine several recent years of reforms that are just starting to produce increases in student scores. 

“Everybody is always looking for the silver bullet, just like Proposition 38, some kind of a magical silver bullet,” he said.  

Alice Huffman, executive director of the California branch of the NAACP, was critical of Draper’s overtures to the black community, calling him a “wolf” and a “phony.” 

“There are not enough private schools, let alone voucher schools, that will take our children. So who’s going to have the choice? It will allow the voucher schools to choose,” she said. 

Proposition 38 spokesman Chris Bertelli said Wednesday that the black and Latino leaders are not representative of parents who will vote. 

“These leaders do a disservice to their communities that they purport to represent. They are beholden to the teachers’ unions and the status quo that is failing miserably for their communities,” Bertelli said. 

The pro-38 campaign, however, is trying a unique method to build up a mailing, phone and e-mail list of interested people. Its Web page says anyone who registers on the page will be eligible for three drawings for a computer to be given to the school of the winner’s choice. 

Read the initiative at the secretary of state’s page: www.ss.ca.gov  

The two sides: 

www.SchoolVouchers2000.com,  

www.NoVouchers2000.com.


Camera usage on school board agenda

By William Inman Daily Planet Staff
Wednesday September 06, 2000

At its first meeting since school was back in session, the school board will again try to approve a policy on the use and installation of cameras at Berkeley High School. 

The policy has been mulled over the past two meetings, and approval has been delayed. 

In addition, Superintendent Jack McLaughlin said he plans to ask the board to approve a $5,000 implementation policy for a possible food court at Berkeley High. 

The board will recess to closed session at 6 p.m., and the regular meeting is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. The board will also discuss:  

• Acceptance of a $1,000 contribution to the English Department at Berkeley High School for dictionaries for the English Department classrooms. 

• Approval of an agreement with Pleasanton Unified District for data processing services 

• Approval of Berkeley High School Health Center domestic violence prevention program. 

• Discuss a plan for 4th grade transition at two-way English-Spanish immersion sites. 

The meeting is in the Board Chambers at 2134 Martin Luther King Jr. Way. It is televised on TV-