Editorials

Kids come to school on  

foot, bus, scooter Friday 

The Safe Routes to School Program is organizing an Eco-Motion Event in which seven local schools will participate on Friday in celebration of Earth Day. Elementary and middle school students will receive free breakfast and small prizes if they arrive at school on foot, bicycle, scooter, bus, in a carpool or another environmentally friendly mode of transportation. Rosa Parks, Malcom X, Berkeley Arts Magnet, Le Conte and Washington elementary schools along with Willard and King middle schools are participating.  

UC Berkeley to open  

business journalism center 

The University of California, Berkeley’s journalism school will begin offering a business writing and editing program next fall. 

The business journalism center springs from a $585,000 grant by Bloomberg L.P., which runs a news wire, television networks and a radio station, the university said in announcing the three-year grant. 

Students will take general courses in finance and markets, as well as specialized classes on reporting personal finance, technology and international business. 

— staff, wire reports 

“It will help us give future generations of journalists the tools to make sense of the topsy-turvy world of the marketplace today,” said journalism school dean Orville Schell.