A rally at the UC Berkeley campus to show support for America’s proposed war against terrorism quickly turned into an emotional confrontation between those who called themselves “pro-America” and anti-war demonstrators on Monday. 

The “Rally for America” at Sproul Plaza was organized in part as a response to the anti-war protests in the community and on campus last week. Organizers said that they also wanted to make a stand against the racism – including, they said, racism directed against Jews – that has surfaced on campus after Sept. 11. 

Around 400 students and members of the community attended to support the rally, with about half that many there to protest it.  

“Let the nation know that thousands of Berkeley students stand behind the country,” said event organizer Randy Barnes.  

The demonstration was organized by a number of campus groups – including the College Republicans, the Cal Democrats, the Delta Upsilon fraternity and the Israel Action Committee – but speakers emphasized that they were not speaking on behalf of their organizations, but as individual students and Americans. 

“Part of the rally today is to verbalize our rage at the backlash against the U.S.,” said Barnes, who works with the IAC. “We felt that this needs to be voiced – there are students who oppose terrorism, and equally stand against racism.” 

A few minutes before the rally began, anti-war activists mixed with the demonstrators and exchanged views. Their conversations were mostly civil, but both sides were clearly frustrated. 

“People are saying they’re against terrorism – I’m just saying that this won’t stop terrorism,” said Hoku Jeffrey of the Stop the War Coalition. “How can you say you are against racism and then do something that will exacerbate it?” 

Rob McFadden, president of the College Republicans said that the sentiments expressed at last Thursday’s anti-war rally were not supported by most students. 

“Like the country, most of the campus stands together in this cause – Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians,” said McFadden. “It’s just that there’s a very vocal minority in opposition.” 

Speaking from the podium, Barnes recalled the words of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain after the Munich conference in 1938: “I believe it is peace for our time. Go home and get a nice quiet sleep.” Barnes went on to say that appeasement, in this case, should not be an option. 

Barnes said that acts of hatred directed at Muslim students were unacceptable, but that anti-Semitism was also in evidence over the past two weeks. 

In particular, he said, several anti-Semitic messages were found on the posterboards on which students wrote their thoughts Sept. 11. 

Among the messages, Barnes said, were “It’s the Jews, stupid,” “Jews control the media” and “Jews are happy because this makes Israel look good.” 

Ajay Kshatriya, a chemical engineering senior, said that the United States was the only country in which kids from middle-class families could get a first-class education. He said that while the country has clearly made foreign policy mistakes in the past, he was tired of hearing it run down. 

“No country in existence has been as respectful and tolerant of other countries as the U.S.A.,” he said. 

Shortly after Kshatriya’s speech, a verbal confrontation between a group of people attending the rally and a group of anti-war demonstrators broke out on the west side of Sproul Plaza. Mike Vallarelli, a student who lost friends in the World Trade Center and the father of a friend on one of the hijacked airlines, argued with the anti-war activists. He lunged for a sign, held by one of the anti-war people, that read “The USA is still the world’s greatest terrorist.” 

“They’re just misinformed,” said Vallarelli. “They think it’s noble to be a pacifist. They have a lot of noble ideals. But this thing didn’t affect them.” 

At one point, separated only by a line of camera-toting journalists, each side erupted in warring chants: 

“U.S.A.! U.S.A.!” 

“One, two, three, four – We don’t want your racist war! 

The shouting was temporarily interrupted when the sound of a air horn came over the loudspeaker, and the silence held while “Taps” played. After Barnes thanked everyone for coming, impromptu groups formed again to express their mutual rage. 

Near the end of the rally, a man walking his dog through the campus joined a circle of people arguing. He said that 20 years ago, he was a UC Berkeley student involved in the anti-war movement; now, he said, he lived near Yosemite and was in town to work on an environmental lawsuit. 

“Personally, I see a lack of honesty among the people protesting the war here,” said the man, who did not wish to be identified. “First, a lack of honesty about what’s just happened and second, a lack of historical honesty about America’s role in the world.” 

The man said he thought that the left should play a serious role during the crisis, especially in the upcoming debate over the restriction of civil liberties, but that what he heard from anti-war protesters Monday did not impress him. 

“What I’ve been hearing is that this was the U.S.’s fault, that the people that did this were fighting for freedom,” he said. “Well, sorry, that doesn’t work.”

Tuesday, Sept. 25

Berkeley Housing Authority Monthly Meeting 

6:30 p.m. 

City Council Chambers  

2134 MLK Jr. Way, 549-2970  

Berkeley Camera Club  

7:30 p.m. 

Northbrae Community Church  

941 The Alameda  

Share your slides and learn what other photographers are doing. Monthly field trips. 525-3565 

Redistricting of Berkeley City Council Districts 

7 p.m. 

2134 Martin Luther King Jr. Way 

Public hearing to consider proposals to amend Council District boundaries based on the 2000 census figures. Members of the public are invited to comment on all proposals. 981-7000 www.ci.berkeley.ca.us 

Berkeley Farmers’ Market 

2-7 p.m. 

Derby Street between Martin Luther King Jr. Way and Milvia Street, 548-3333 

Free Early Music Group 

10 - 11:30 a.m. 

North Berkeley Senior Center 

1901 Hearst Ave. 

Small group sings madrigals and other voice harmony every Tuesday. 655-8863 

New Student Reception 

5 - 7 p.m. 

UC Berkeley- Institute of  

Government Services 

109 Moses Hall 2370 

Welcome new Cal students and share in food and drinks. 

Annual PTA Reception 

6 - 8 p.m. 

Rosa Parks Environmental  

Science Magnet School 

920 Allston Way 

Multi-Purpose Room 

Reception for the 2001 - 2002 PTA Officers. 644-8764  

Daily Prayer and Meditation 

11 a.m. - 1 p.m. 

First Congregational Church 

Dana at Durant 

Chapel open for prayer and meditation. 

Wednesday, Sept. 26

New Dates for PRC Meeting 

The meetings of the Police Review Commission scheduled for Sept. 26, Oct. 10 have been cancelled. A special PRC meeting will be held Oct 3 at South Berkeley Senior Center. Regular PRC meetings will resume on Oct. 24 

A Taste of the World: Cultural Understanding Through Food 

6 - 9 p.m. 

Berkeley Richmond Jewish  

Community Center 

1414 Walnut St. 

Enhance your cooking skills and experience the cuisines of Spain, Portugal, Italy, Morocco and Israel with chef Daniel Herskovic. All classes are “hands on.” Class includes meal and cooking lesson. $25. Every Wednesday through Nov. 1. 655-8487 

Socratic Circle Discussions 

5 - 6 p.m. 

1309 Solano Ave. 

Cafe Eclectica 

Does your brain need a workout? All ages welcome. 527-2344 

"Nels Nelson: The Early Days of Berkeley Archaeology"  

noon 

ARF, 2547 Channing, Room 101 

Brown Bag Lunch Lecture 

After Kent's talk, we'll go to the 2 p.m. court hearing before Judge Richman, Alameda Co. Superior Court to watch Berkeley Asst. City Attorney Zack Cowen defend the landmark designation of the West Berkeley Shellmound. The hearing is at the Post Office Building, 201-13th St., Department 31, Second floor, Oakland. The Shellmound is being challenged by the propertyowners who filed suit against the City's designation of the mound site. 841-8562 sfbayshellmounds@yahoo.com 

Lion’s Center for the Blind 

1 p.m. 

North Berkeley Senior Center 

1901 Hearst Ave. 

A representative of this organization will discuss its services. 644-6107 

Prose Writers’ Workshop 

7 - 9 p.m. 

Berkeley/Richmond Jewish Community Center Library 

1414 Walnut St.  

From Op-ed to fiction, memoir to the feature article - a community 

writers' group to support and encourage a community of  

interests. Workshop format. Free.  

524-3034 

Jose Bove 

7:30 p.m. 

Berkeley Adult School 

1222 University Ave. 

Jose Bove and fellow farmer Francois Dufour will assure us “The world is not for sale.” For them, food is more than fuel; it is sacred relationship, family, love, tradition and well-being. $12. (415) 255-7296 Ext. 200 

Daily Prayer and Meditation 

11 a.m. - 1 p.m. 

First Congregational Church 

Dana at Durant 

Chapel open for prayer and meditation. 

Thursday, Sept. 27

Exploring Chile 

7 p.m. 

Recreational Equipment 

1338 San Pablo Ave. 

Wayne Bernhardson will present slides and provide information about this increasingly popular adventure destination. Free. 527-4140 

Even Stronger Women 

1:15 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. 

North Berkeley Senior Center 

1901 Hearst Ave. 

Free weekly cultural discussion class. This week: feminist influence on children. Discussion of Judy Blume’s books for girls. 549-1879 

Café Literario 

7 p.m. 

Public Library West Branch 

1125 University Ave.  

A bilingual reading and discussion series. The book, “Odyssey to the North” by Mario Bencastro, will be discussed. 644-6870 

Daily Prayer and Meditation 

11 a.m. - 1 p.m. 

First Congregational Church 

Dana at Durant 

Chapel open for prayer and meditation. 

Friday, Sept. 28

Redwood Sequoia Congress 

1606 Bonita Ave. 

Human rights and environmental activists will gather in an annual examination of the human condition and the status of the planet. 841-1182 

Third Annual BFD Blood Drive 

8:30 a.m. - 2 :30 p.m. 

Fire Station #2 

2029 Berkeley Way 

In conjunction with the Red Cross, the Berkeley Fire Department is having it’s annual blood drive. Drop in or make an appointment. 981-5599 Ext. 4408 

City Commons Club 

12:30 p.m. 

Berkeley City Club 

2315 Durant Ave. 

“Inside North Korea” with Timothy Savage, Senior Planner, East Asian Security, Nautilus Institute. 848-3533 

Editor: 

Congressional Representative Barbara Lee has been heavily criticized for her lone vote against the War Powers Resolution, being called anti-patriotic and divisive to our united front. With the rest of the House and Senate unanimously supporting the measure, our government and nation’s resolve to respond to the horrendous terrorist acts is unquestionable. Knowing the measure would be enthusiastically passed, Lee took a symbolic stand reminding America that peace is still an option and that there are many who support it. During these past tumultuous weeks much of the country has been whipped into a pro-vengeance, pro-war fervor. Lee’s vote does not undermine justice for the victims and their families, rather she is asserting that Congress should retain its right to check Bush’s power and maintain limits on the military’s actions. In the tense times preceding potential war, when civil rights are tightened and national ethics are softened, Barbara Lee is the voice for the basic American Ideals we must not lose sight of Freedom and Democracy.  

Stephanie Don 

Berkeley 

MUSIC 

924 Gilman Street Sept. 28: Erase Errata, The Intima, Ibobuki, (+tba); Sept. 29: DS-13, Beware, Blown To Bits, (+tba); Oct 5: Subincision, Gary’s Agenda, Eugene (+ tba); Oct 6: Tight Brothers from Way Back When, Smash Your Face, Cherry Valence, Bare Bones; Most shows are $5 and start at 8 p.m. unless otherwise noted. 

Albatross Pub Sept. 25: Mad and Eddie Duran; Sept. 27: Kenji “El Lebrijano” Flamenco Guitar; Oct 3: Wesley Brothers; Oct 4: Keni “El Lebrijano” Flemenco Guitar; All free shows begin at 9 p.m. 1822 San Pablo Ave. 843-2473 albatrosspub@mindspring.com  

Anna’s Sept. 25: Tangria; Sept. 26: Bob Schoen Jazz Quintet, Cheryl McBride; Sept. 27: David Jeffrey Fourtet, Brendan Milstein; Sept. 28: Anna sings jazz standards, 10 p.m. Bluesman Hideo Date; Sept. 29: Robin Gregory, Bliss Rodriguez, 10 p.m. The Distones Jazz Sextet, Donald Duck Bailey; Sept. 30: Acoustic Soul; All shows begin at 8 p.m. 1801 University Ave. 849-ANNA www.annasbistro.com 

Café de la Paz Poetry Nitro, performance showcase with open mike. Sept. 24: Jim Watson-Gove; All shows free, 7 - 10 p.m. 

Cal Performances Sept. 30: 7 p.m. Kronos Quartet, David Barron, $30; Oct. 12 - 14: Fri. and Sat., 8 p.m., Sun. 3 p.m. Ballet Nacional De Cuba, $24 - $46; Oct. 17 and 18: 8 p.m. Cesaria Evora, $24 - $36; Oct. 19: 8 p.m. Karnak, $18 - $30. Zellerbach Hall, UC Berkeley Campus, Bancroft Way at Telegraph, 642-0212, tickets@calperfs.berkeley.edu 

Eli’s Mile High Club Every Friday, 10 p.m. Funky Fridays Conscious Dance Party with KPFA DJs Splif Skankin and Funky Man. $10; Sept. 3: 2 - 8 p.m. Big West Coast Harmonica Bash, afternoon benefit for Red Archibald. $10 donation; Doors open at 8 p.m. unless noted. 3629 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Oakland. 655-6661 

Freight & Salvage Sept. 26: Clive Gregson, $16.50; Sept. 27: Dick Gaughan, $18.50; Sept 28: Jenna Mammina, $16.50; Sept. 29: The Nigerian Brothers, $16.50; Sept. 30: Vasen, $17.50; Oct 2: Budowitz; Oct 3: The Robin Nolan Trio; Oct 4: Darol Anger & Mike Marshall; Oct 5: Golden Bough; Oct 6: The Limeliters; Oct 7: Eddie From Ohio; Oct 8: All Nation Singers, Walter Ogi Johnson, Thunder; All shows start at 8 p.m. 1111 Addison St. 548-1761 www.freightandsalvage.com 

Jack’s Bistro Sept. 28: 9 p.m. Tomas Michaud’s New World Flamenco Quartet, Jack London Square. 444-7171  

www.starland-music.com 

Jazzschool/La Note Sept. 30: 4 p.m., John Santos and the Machete Ensemble. $15. 2377 Shattuck Ave. 845-5376 

Jupiter Sept. 25: Craig Graham Trio; Sept. 26: Starvin Like Marvin; Sept. 28 Anton Schwartz Quartet; Sept 29:  

moderngypsies.net; All music starts at 8 p.m. 2181 Shattuck Ave. 843-7625 www.jupiterbeer.com  

La Peña Cultural Center Sept. 27: 7:30 p.m. The local Friends of the MST will host a screening of the new documentary "Raiz Forte" or "Strong Roots" to present our community with a vision of their work and struggle. A discussion will follow. $5-$10; In the Cafe, 3105 Shattuck Ave. 849-2568 www.lapena.org 

Music Sources Sept. 30: 5 p.m. Ole Scarlatta! Portuguese and French keyboards and fortepiano joined by Jason McGuire on flamenco guitar, $18 General, $15 members, seniors, students. 1000 The Alameda 528-1685 

Sedge Thomson’s West Coast Live Radio Show Sept. 29: Nancy Miford, The Nigerian Brothers, Caroline Dahl. The Freight and Salvage, 1111 Addison St. All shows 10 a.m. - noon. 252-9214 www.wcl.org 

Benifit Concert for the Native  

American Health Center Sept. 28: 8 p.m. Buffy Sainte-Marie, Ulali, Lorrie Church, The Mankillers. Paramount Theater, 2025 Broadway, Oakland. 625-8497  

“The Complete Shostakovich String Quartets--Part One” Sept. 29: 10 a.m. Quartets III & IV; Oct. 20: 10 a.m. Quartets V & VI. Performed by the prize-winning Alexander String Quartet with Robert Greenberg. $ 30, $84 for the Trio of concerts. Julia Morgan Center for the Arts 2640 College Ave. 845-8542 www.juliamorgan.org. 

Magnificat Sept. 29: 8 p.m. First Congregational Church. The San Francisco early music ensemble of voices and period instruments present their tenth anniversary season with music of 17th century composers. Tickets $12-$45 (415) 979-4500 

The Mike Yax Jazz Orchestra Sept. 30: 2 p.m., Longfellow School of the Arts, 1500 Derby St. 420-4560 

THEATER 

“Le Cirque des Animaux” Sept. 29: 8 p.m. Hausmusik presents a wacky baroque musical cabaret on the subject of animals. Parish Hall of St. Alban’s Espiscopal Church, 1501 Washington St. (not wheelchair accessible). $18 general admission, $15 seniors, students and SFEMS members) 527-9029 

“Murder Dressed in Satin” by Victor Lawhorn, ongoing. A mystery-comedy dinner show at The Madison about a murder at the home of Satin Moray, a club owner and self-proclaimed socialite with a scarlet past. Dinner is included in the price of the theater ticket. $47.50 Lake Merritt Hotel, 1800 Madison St., Oakland. 239-2252 www.acteva.com/go/havefun 

“Twelfth Night” Sept. 25 - 30, Oct. 2 - 7, Tue. - Thurs. 7:30 p.m., Fri. & Sat. 8 p.m., Sun. 4 p.m., Student Matinees: Sept. 18, 20, 25, Oct. 2, @ 1 p.m. California Shakespeare Festival presents William Shakespeare’s comic tale of romance, loneliness, love and glory. Directed by Jonathan Moscone. $12 - $41. Bruns Memorial Amphitheater, Highway 24, Gateway Exit, one mile east of the Caldecott Tunnel. 548-9666 www.calshakes.org 

“Swanwhite” through Oct. 21: Thur. - Sat., 8 p.m., Sun. 7 p.m. A new translation of the Swedish Play that asks the question what good is romantic love, directed by Tom Clyde. $20, Sundays are “Pay What You Can.” Transparent Theater, 1901 Ashby Ave. 883-0305, www.virtuous.com 

“36 Views” through Oct. 28: Tues. 8 p.m., Wed. 7 p.m., Thu. 8 p.m. w/ 2 p.m. matinee every other Thu., Fri. 8 p.m., Sat. 8 p.m. w/ 2 p.m. matinee every other Sat., Sun. 2 p.m., 8 p.m. Written by Naomi Lizuka, Directed by Mark Wing-Davey. $10 - $54. Berkeley Repertory’s Roda Theatre, 2015 Addison St. 647-2949 www.berkeleyrep.org 

FILMS 

Pacific Film Archive Sept. 25: 7:30 p.m. Alternative Requirements 2001, Artists in Person; Sept. 26: 7:30 p.m. Touch Tones; Sept. 28: 7 p.m. Ugetsu, 8:55 p.m. Sansho the Bailiff; Sept. 29: 7 p.m. Dr. Mabuse the Gambler, Part I, Joel Adlen on piano; Sept. 30: Dr. Mabuse the Gambler, Part II, Joel Adlen on piano; general admission $7, The New PFA Theatre 2575 Bancroft Way 642-1412 

EXHIBITS 

Nexus Gallery Sept. 26-30: noon - 6 p.m. Jan Eldridge- Large charcoal drawings and acrylic collages; Tricia Grame- visual and textural autobiography of her spiritual evolution; Tanya Wilkinson- A sensuous exploration of the possibilities inherent in the medium of handmade paper. 

Women’s Cancer Resource Gallery “Catastrophe, Crisis, and Other Family Traditions,” the photography of Jessamyn Lovell, through Sept. 26; “The Arthur Wright and Gerald Parker,” through Sept. 26; Tues. - Thurs. 1 - 7 p.m., Sat. 12 - 4 p.m. 3023 Shattuck Ave. 548-9286 Ext. 307 www.wcrc.org 

Bahman Navaee is exhibiting his paintings, through Sept. 29: Persian Center, 2029 Durant Ave. 848-0264 

“Debbie Moore’s Autobiographical Paintings” through Sept. 30 at Good Vibrations. Portraits of the artist’s sensual explorations spanning 25 years and reflecting changing ways of intimacy and body play. 2504 San Pablo Ave. 848-1985 

“Three Visions” Sept. 26 through Sept. 30: 12 - 6 p.m., An Exhibition of Mixed Media. Nexus Gallery, 2707 8th St. (707) 554-2520 

“The Decade of Change: 1900 - 1910” through September. Chronicles the transformation of the city of Berkeley in this 10-year period. Thursday through Saturday, 1 – 4 p.m. Berkeley History Center, Veterans Memorial Building, 1931 Center St. Wheelchair accessible. 848-0181. Free.  

“Squared Triangle” through Oct. 5: noon - 6 p.m. A minimalist art exhibit featuring three Bay Area artists working in different mediums while achieving the same elegant simplicity. The Crucible, 1036 Ashby Ave. 843-5511 www.thecrucible.com 

“Inside Editions” through Oct. 12: Nine printmakers exhibit their work. 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Tue. - Fri. Free. Kala Art Insitute, 1060 Heinz Ave. 549-2977 kala@kala.org 

“Census 2000: Asian Pacific Islander Americans” through Oct. 13; Wed. - Sat. 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.; Asian Pacific Islander American artists in roughly the demographic proportions indicated by the recent census. Free. Pro Arts, 461 Ninth St., Oakland 763-9470  

“MWP Perspectives” Jon Orvik: One artist’s journey. Through Oct. 27, Tues. - Fri. 12 - 5 p.m., Sat. & Sun. 12 - 4 p.m. Solo artist exhibiting his journey through metal, wood and paint. Adapt Gallery and Design, 2834 College Ave. 649-8501 www.adaptgallery.com  

“50 Years of Photography in Japan 1951 - 2001” through Nov. 5: An exhibition from The Yomiuri Shimbun, the world’s largest daily newspaper with a national morning circulation of 10,300,000. Photographs of work, love, community, culture and disasters of Japan as seen by Japanese news photographers. Opening Reception Sept. 5: 6 - 8 p.m. open to the public; Mon. - Fri. 8 a.m. - 6 p.m. U.C. Berkeley, Graduate School of Journalism, North Gate Hall, Hearst and Euclid. Free. 642-3383 

“Changing the World, Building New Lives: 1970s photographs of Lesbians, Feminists, Union Women, Disability Activists and their Supporters” through Nov. 17: An exhibit of black and white photographs by Oakland photographer Cathy Cade, who captured the interrelationships of the different struggles for justice and social change. Opening reception Sept. 15, 5 - 8 p.m. Gallery Hours, Mon. - Fri. 8:30 a.m. - 6:30 p.m., Sat. 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. Photolab Gallery, 2235 Fifth St. Free. 644-1400 cathycade@mindspring.com 

“The Whole World’s Watching: Peace and Social Justice Movements of the 1960s and 1970s” through Dec. 16: A documentary photo exhibition which examines the rich history of the social movements of the 1960’s and 1970’s. Wed. - Sun., noon - 5 p.m. Berkeley Art Center, 1275 Walnut St., Live Oak Park. Free. 644-6893 

“Musee des Hommages” Masterworks by Guy Colwell. Faithful copies of several artists from the pasts, including Titian’s “The Venus of Urbino,” Cezanne’s “Still Life,” Picasso’s “Woman at a Mirror,” and Botticelli’s “Primavera” Ongoing. Call ahead for hours. Atelier 9 2028 Ninth St. (at Addison) 841-4210 or visit  

www.atelier9.com 

READINGS 

Boadecia’s Books Sept 28: The Return of Gaymes Night; Sept 29: Ellen Samuels and other contributors to “Out of the Ordinary: Essays on Growing Up with Gay, Lesbian & Transgender Parents;” Mark Pritchard reads from “How I Adore You;” Oct 6: Terry Ryan reads from “The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 words or Less;” All events start at 7:30 p.m. unless noted otherwise. All events are free. 398 Colusa Ave. 559-9184 www.bookpride.com 

Cody’s on Fourth Street Sept. 25: 7 p.m. Nancy London has been cancelled; Oct 5: 7 p.m. Glen Davis Gold reads from “Carter Beats the Devil;” Oct 12: Cody’s For Kids- Rosemary Wells and Bunny Party; 1730 Fourth St. 559-9500 

Cody’s on Telegraph Ave. Sept. 25: Ken Croswell discusses “The Universe At Midnight: New Discoveries Illuminate the Hidden Cosmos” with a slide show presentation; Sept. 27: Bill Ayers talks about “Fugitive Days”; Oct 1: Urdsula K. Le guin reads from “The Other Wind”; Oct 2: Jonathan Franzen reads from “The Corrections”; Oct 4: Eric Seaborg looks at “Adventures in the Atomic Age: From Watts to Washington”; Oct 5: Victor Villasenor reads from “Thirteen Senses”; All shows at 7:30 p.m. 2454 Telegraph Ave. 845-7852 

Cody’s Other Venues - Sept. 20: 7:30 p.m. Cody’s presents an evening with Margaret Atwood in conversation with professor Robert Alter. $12. First Congregational Church 2345 Channing Way; Sept. 28: 7:30 p.m. Cody’s presents a Community Forum on Race and the Achievement Gap at Berkeley High School. Little Theater, Berkeley High School; Oct 7: 7 p.m. Coleman Barks- The Soul of Rumi First Congregational Church of Berkeley 2345 Dana 

Coffee Mill Poetry Series Sept. 18: Ben Brose and Jen Iby followed by open mike reading. 3363 Grand Ave., Oakland 465-3935 ksdgk@earthlink.net 

Eastwind Books of Berkeley Sept. 29: 7 p.m. Kip Fulbeck reads from his first novel, “Paper Bullets.” 2066 University Ave. 548-2350 

Easy Going Travel Shop & Bookstore Sept. 20: 7:30 p.m. Antarctica & The Nature of Penguins, An evening with Jonathan Chester; Oct 2: 7:30 p.m. “Dancing with the Witchdoctor: One Woman’s Adventure in Africa” by Kelly James. 1385 Shattuck Ave. 843-3533 

Lunch Poems reading Series Oct 4: 12:10 p.m. Ishmael Reed; Morrison Libary in Doe Library at UC Berkeley. Free 642-0137 http://www.berkeley.edu/calendar/events/poems/ 

Spasso Sept. 10: Sharron Jones-Reid, Fruit of the Spirit poets, acoustic musicians, comedians, rappers, performance artists, writers. All welcome. 6021 College Ave. Free admission. 

Tours 

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Fridays 9:30 - 11:45 a.m. or by appointment. Call ahead to make reservations. Free. University of California, Berkeley. 486-4387 

Golden Gate Live Steamers Grizzly Peak Boulevard and Lomas Cantadas Drive at the south end of Tilden Regional Park Small locomotives, meticulously scaled to size. Trains run Sunday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Rides: Sunday, noon to 3 p.m., weather permitting. 486-0623  

Museums 

Habitot Children’s Museum “Back to the Farm” An interactive exhibit gives children the chance to wiggle through tunnels, look into a mirrored fish pond, don farm animal costumes, ride on a John Deere tractor and more. “Recycling Center” Lets the kids crank the conveyor belt to sort cans, plastic bottles and newspaper bundles into dumpster bins. $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. (closed Sundays, Memorial Day through Labor Day) Kittredge Street and Shattuck Avenue 647-1111 or www.habitot.org  

UC Berkeley Museum of Paleontology Lobby, Valley Life Sciences Building, UC Berkeley “Tyrannosaurus Rex,” ongoing. A 20 foot by 40 foot replica of the fearsome dinosaur 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” A suspended skeleton of a flying reptile with a wingspan of 22-23 feet. The pteranodon lived at the same time as the dinosaurs. 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 will close its exhibition galleries for renovation. It will reopen in early 2002. On View until Oct. 1 : “Ishi and the Invention of Yahi Culture.” “Sites Along the Nile: Rescuing Ancient Egypt.” “The Art of Research: Nelson Graburn and the Aesthetics of Inuit Sculpture.” “Tzintzuntzan, Mexico: Photographs by George Foster.” $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. Kroeber Hall, Bancroft Way and College Avenue. 643-7648 or www.qal.berkeley.edu/~hearst/ 

University of California Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive has reopened after its summer-long seismic retrofit. “Martin Puryear: Sculpture of the 1990s” through Jan. 13; “The Dream of the Audience: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1951 - 1982)” through Dec. 16; “Face of Buddha: Sculpture from India, China, Japan, and Southeast Asia” ongoing rotation through 2003; “Matrix 194: Jessica Bronson, Heaps, layers, and curls” Sept. 16 through Nov. 11; “Matrix 192: Ceal Floyer 37’4”” Sept. 16 through Nov. 11; Wed., Fri., Sat., Sun. 11 a.m. - 5 p.m., Thur. 11 a.m. - 9 p.m., PFA Theater, 2575 Bancroft Way; Museum Galleries 2626 Bancroft Way; 642-0808 www.bampfa.berkeley.edu 

Lawrence Hall of Science “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. “Saturday Night Stargazing,” First and third Saturdays each month. 8 - 10 p.m., LHS plaza. Space Weather Exhibit now - Sept. 2; now - Sept. 9 Science in Toyland; Saturdays 12:30 - 3:30 p.m. $7 for adults; $5 for children 5-18; $3 for children 3-4. 642-5132 

Holt Planetarium Programs are recommended for age 8 and up; children under age 6 will not be admitted. $2 in addition to regular museum admission. “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, UC Berkeley 642-5132 or www.lhs.berkeley.edu  

Oakland Museum of California “Half Past Autumn: The Art of Gordon Parks,” through Sept. 23; Wednesday - Saturday, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., Sunday, noon - 5 p.m., Closed Monday and Tuesday. $6 general; $4 youths (6-17), seniors and students with ID. Free for museum members and children 5 and under. Free admission the second Sunday of the month. 10th & Oak streets, Oakland. 238-2200 www.museum.org 

Send arts events two weeks in advance to Calendar@berkeleydailyplanet.net, 2076 University, Berkeley 94704 or fax to 841-5694.

Students took the helm at dozens of classes at Berkeley High School Monday in a blitz of consciousness-raising seminars on tolerance, scapegoating, and the meaning of terrorism.  

“It’s an incredible direction for them to be taking at the beginning of a school year,” said Susan Werd, a ninth-grade counselor. 

Amid nationwide harassment of people of Middle East origins, Muslims and even Sikhs, in the wake of the East Coast terrorist attacks, two campus groups teamed up to educate the school community and the public that Berkeley has not been immune to racist intimidation and scapegoating. 

Some 20 members of Culture and Unity, a campus group founded by students of mostly South Asian descent, and Youth Together, which acts on issues important to students of color, spent their lunch periods Monday comparing notes on the morning’s classes and finalizing teaching schedules. 

“I had such a great morning!” said junior Maliyah Coye, capturing the electric energy in the room. “We reached them, but we entertained them at the same time.” 

Sarena Chandler, a senior and the school’s representative on the school board, and junior Deborah Ortiz took over David Bye’s 12th grade advanced placement English class shortly before lunchtime. They hung posters on the chalkboard with various definitions of terrorism and scapegoating written in magic marker. 

“After Sept. 11 a large community of people including Afghans, Pakistanis and Indians have been tremendously harassed,” Chandler told the class. School girls had been followed home, she added; people had gone through the Yellow Pages to call up and “cuss out” proprietors with Arabic-sounding names. 

“Students and even teachers are being incredibly unjust,” she said. 

In an exercise, Chandler asked a student a question and then cut her off in mid-sentence to illustrate how commonly people indulge “this whole little twist about putting their own side into it.” 

“When is the last time anyone actually listened to you?” she said. 

Students were then paired off with one required strictly to listen while the other talked for two full minutes about the forms discrimination took, in their own lives or in others’. Afterwards, Emil Reyes volunteered to leave the classroom and come back in with a sign on his back that said something unknown to him. Chandler told the rest of the class to start calling Reyes names based on their associations with the word on the sign: terrorist. 

“Watch his psyche and how he physically turns around,” she said. 

Reyes entered the room and the calls began with “Arab!” This was followed by “Guy with a beard,” “7-11 owner,” “Murderer,” “Camel jockey” and others. A female student said “male!” and David Bye, the class’s usual teacher, said “CIA trainee.” 

“This is really degrading,” Reyes said. 

“He’s not a terrorist,” Chandler said, “but because we’ve put this label on him, it’s easy to dehumanize him.” 

Students then shared their stories from the discussion time. Adam Akullian said he flew on Saturday and when four Middle Eastern-appearing passengers boarded, some passengers could be heard hoping aloud that they weren’t Arabs. Immanuel Foster blamed the media for dwelling on the race of the hijackers, and said, “They should just be talking about ‘those people who went over the edge.’” 

“We all have to appeal to the better side of our natures, otherwise it’s just going to lead to hate crimes that are unfounded,” said Sarah Goodin. 

In a wide-ranging discussion of the varying sects of Islam, the origins of the term “jihad,” and the State Department definition of terrorism posted on the chalk board, Bye encouraged the class to ask if the acts of Sept. 11 might be rooted in economics. To the terrorists, he said, “Those World Trade Centers could represent American greed and how America has taken so much of the world’s wealth for itself.” 

Chandler ended the class by urging the students to “analyze” the media’s representations. “And when you see other people who you don’t think have as conscious a view as you do, educate them,” she said. 

About 45 such teach-ins, four or five per class period all day, were scheduled for Monday and Tuesday. Chandler said she had thought up the teaching devices with help from family members over the weekend. 

Some classes went more smoothly than others, Bye said.  

“They’re quiet at first,” he said. “I think people are really hesitant to talk about it.” 

Later, Madeleine Tajima’s tenth grade world literature class was much less talkative. Yasmeen Drummond, one of the teach-in leaders, tried to spark a class-wide discussion about the current wave of discrimination. 

“Did anybody see it on the news?” she asked. 

“Yeah,” said two or three students. 

“Did anybody know it was taking place?” 

“Yeah.” 

Gradually, when the class leaders turned the discussion from discrimination to the bombings and the U.S. response, some students spoke up. 

“A lot of the times we go and bomb other countries and they don’t tell us about it,” said Brandis Monroe. “That’s the reason why so many people are like, you know, finally America got what it deserved.” 

Others voiced the opinion that anyone who would bomb America was “really, really stupid” and should expect retaliation. 

Students in both classes attended by the Daily Planet said they felt that fear, stereotyping, and discrimination were simply a part of human nature that had to be struggled against but also accepted. 

“Don’t listen to those people who put you down,” LaToya Dowell told the student teachers in the tenth grade class – Drummond, Amelia Maffin, Manjinder Kaur, and Umair Khan. “They don’t know what they’re saying.” 

Watching coverage of the two recent family massacres in Sacramento, Dowell admitted, “I thought white people were crazy.” 

“I don’t hate you guys,” she added. 

Friday, Sept. 28 

Anti-War Art Making  

Pro Arts 

461 Ninth Street, Oakland (2 blocks from 12th BART Station, near Broadway)  

6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Pro Arts is providing this opportunity for artists to make their anti-war expressions visible, playable, audible and readable. We are gathering donations of art materials for people to use. Musicians, please come with instruments. Posters and other artworks can be used in the Rally the next day at Dolores Park in San Francisco or for any other event the artist wishes. At this moment, works will be for immediate use and are not intended for use in an exhibition at Pro Arts. 763-4361 

Sunday, Sept. 30 

Peace walks  

Lake Merritt Neighbors Organized for Peace leads weekly peace walks around Lake Merritt in Oakland every Sunday at 3 p.m. 

People meet at the columns, between Grand and Lakeshore avenues.  

763-8712, lmno4p@yahoo.com

Editor: 

Imagine that! The first amendment guarantees the right to freedom of speech. The courts have interpreted that as meaning displaying symbols as well, including our flag. As a police officer in Southern California I find it appalling that the Berkeley Fire Department ordered its firefighters to remove U.S. flags from its trucks prior to a UC Berkeley anti-war demonstration. It is obvious that the Berkeley Firefighters have no rights, especially first amendment rights. How narrow-minded are you folks anyway?  

Imagine what would happen if the Berkeley Police Department was directed to stop all vehicles with U.S. flags and have them removed ... think there would be a few problems?  

It is interesting to note that the residents, students etc. have the right to protest under the first amendment, but others are denied that same right. A true double standard that only Berkeley, California could be accused of.  

Nick Zingo 

Los Angeles 

Editor’s note: city officials have apologized and the flags are flying on the trucks. 

In the wake of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s surprise announcement that it will close its controversial Tritium Labeling Facility, the City Council will consider a resolution tonight asking the lab to thoroughly clean up the site and to allow public monitoring of the cleanup. 

“Since there has been some denial from the lab about problems related to the facility, we want to make sure that attitude doesn’t prevail in the effort to remove radioactive materials and equipment from the site,” said Councilmember Kriss Worthington, who, along with Councilmember Dona Spring, put the item on tonight’s City Council agenda. 

The agenda item also seeks to thank the lab and the National Institutes of Health for closing the tritium facility and asking that the decommissioning and decontamination of the facility be open for public review.  

The National Tritium Labeling Facility attaches radioactive tritium to pharmaceuticals and other medical compounds, in a process known as labeling, so they can be accurately traced by medical researchers as they course through living organisms. 

The lab announced on Sept. 14 that, after 19 years of operation, it will close the facility in December. A lab spokesperson said the closure was the result of the National Institutes of Health withdrawal of funding for the facility.  

But Worthington and Spring both speculate that the scheduled closure is related to public pressure put on the lab by the Committee to Minimize Toxic Waste, a group that has criticized the facility since 1996. 

Largely through CMTW efforts, the City Council unanimously approved resolutions calling for the closure of the facility in 1996 and again in 1998.  

CMTW member Gene Bernardi said she was glad the LBNL decided to close down the facility. But she is also concerned the lab thoroughly cleans up the facility and surrounding area.  

“There’s a big job to be done there and it has to be complete,” Bernardi said. “The clean up should conform to the California Environmental Quality Act and the National Environmental Protection Act.” 

Last year the council commissioned a study of the tritium facility by the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, in Heidelberg, Germany. The $33,000, 53-page report, evaluated the level of public exposure to tritium and assessed potential health risks. The final version of the report was released on Aug. 23. 

Dr. Bernd Franke, who prepared the report, concluded that data, provided by the facility, showed tritium emissions were lower than the Environmental Protection Agency’s recommended exposure levels. But Franke was also critical of the agency for not deploying a sufficient number of air monitoring devices in the area surrounding the tritium facility. 

Franke also challenged an LBNL report that claimed the labeling facility posed no, or very little, risk in the event of a fire, earthquake or other disaster. 

According to LBNL spokesperson Ron Kolb, after the lab closes, there will be a two-phase clean up process. The first phase will take six months and include the removal of all remaining tritium stock. The second phase will take an estimated 12 months and include the dismantling of the four-room facility and decontamination of any equipment or materials that may have traces of radioactivity. 

“We are confident the site will be completely cleaned up,” Kolb said. “We certainly will follow all regulations that govern decommission and decontamination.” 

Kolb added that operations at the facility have begun to wind down in anticipation of the December closing and that the four people employed at the tritium facility have been given notices of termination. 

Worthington and Spring are also asking that members of the CMTW be given 10 minutes to express their appreciation to the council and the community for their support to close the facility.

Editor: 

When I look at the anti-war protesters I am reminded of a spoiled child who closes its eyes and makes its demands known by screaming at the tops of its lungs. The protesters have decided to close their eyes to the fact that over 6,000 innocent American lives were lost in New York City, taken by the worst fascist-tyrant the world has seen in generations. After seeing images of innocent human beings plummeting from the World Trade Center, how can these protesters rationalize the position they have taken? Let’s not kid ourselves about what is going on, bin Laden is practicing genocide upon Americans of all color. The destruction at the WTC did not discriminate against its victims.  

We can modify our foreign policy as much as we like, it will not stop the attacks on innocent Americans lives. Bin Laden needs an outside enemy to keep his terrorists united, without an outside enemy they would soon turn to fighting amongst themselves. As a freedom-loving people, we must use every means at our disposal to rid the world of this evil that we do not want to face. If we chose to ignore the problem, our grandchildren will curse us for having placed the yoke of slavery about their necks. 

Eric Watkinson 

Newark 

When the Berkeley City Council tackles citywide redistricting at tonight’s public hearing, it will be stuck with a population count from the 2000 census that, by most accounts, missed thousands of Berkeley residents. 

The council must redraw district boundaries every 10 years in order to keep the population of each district roughly equal. The City Charter requires the council to base the whole process on numbers from the most recent census.  

So now the city must rework its district map using numbers it is nearly certain are way off.  

“My best estimate is that the census undercounted about 6,000 people,” said Patrick DeTemple, a senior systems analyst for the city who has been working with the Census Bureau. “At least three-fourths of them were in the area south of campus, so the vast majority were students.” 

The presumed undercount disproportionately affected a swath that runs across the northern portions of districts 7 and 8, containing many of the university’s large dormitories and student apartment housing.  

“This issue is generally what is fueling the entire redistricting process,” said Kriss Worthington, council member from District 7. “If students had not been undercounted, there would be incremental changes here and there, but there would not be the dramatic shifts in districts 7 and 8.” 

And while redistricting may make the populations in each district equal according to the census numbers, an undercount would mean districts 7 and 8 will have several thousand more people than the other districts.  

“The fluke of the student undercount means that districts 7 and 8 will actually have more residents that any other district in the city,” Worthington said. “So in those two districts, each individual person’s vote is worth a tiny bit less.” 

The presumed undercount also means that any federal money doled out to cities on a per-resident basis would short Berkeley by 3-5 percent, depending on the actual size of the undercount. 

University officials who worked closely with the Census Bureau in the months leading up to the count said the problems began when the bureau was supposed to put surveys in the students’ mailboxes.  

“The census folks didn’t have the right numbers of envelopes,” said Je Nell Padilla of the university’s residential and family living/new student services department. “In some cases they had envelopes with no surveys in them. They missed whole chunks of people; they’d miss a building or whatever.”  

There was supposed to be a second round of counting, Padilla said, when census workers would return to catch the students they had missed. But it never materialized. 

“I went back and asked what they were doing with round two,” said Padilla. “And they said they didn’t have the staff to do it – even though it was part of the plan we had cooked up together. It was just crazy and disorganized.” 

The city first suspected a massive undercount just days after the Census Bureau released its initial figures in May. According to the 2000 census, Berkeley has a population of 102,743. Its population in 1990 was 102,724.  

“We saw that it was virtually the same as 10 years ago, even though we’ve had a big increase in housing,” said DeTemple. “Then we did a block-by-block comparison between 1990 and 2000. Specific blocks that contained dorms revealed radical drop-offs, when we knew that the dorms were still there and still inhabited.” 

One block, said DeTemple, dropped from 1,070 residents in 1990 to exactly one resident in 2000.  

“That was when we knew there was a very specific and serious problem.” 

The city alerted the Census Bureau of the problem within weeks. Soon after, a report from California’s department of finance confirmed the city’s findings, estimating that 6,000-7,000 Berkeley residents were missing from the census tallies.  

It is the bureau’s policy not to recount. The bureau is moving the city’s complaint through its count question resolution program, which can adjust the totals if residents were counted but missed in the final tally because of processing errors.  

Still, according to the program guidelines, any Berkeley residents who were never counted to begin with cannot be added at this point. Moreover, even if the bureau adjusts its official numbers at all, it will likely be too late to affect redistricting.  

That leaves the city few options to correct the problem.  

“We haven’t found a way,” said Worthington. “There is a possibility that after we get new numbers we could redistrict again and get people all bent out of shape again. But I don’t know if people will want to go through it all again.” 

Editor: 

On the morning of Sept. 13, 2000, a Modesto SWAT team burst into the home of the Sepulveda family on the premise of apprehending drug pushers.The SWAT team ordered family members to lay on the floor. Eleven year old Alberto Sepulveda did as he was told,without any type of struggle. Minutes later the 11 year old was dead, shot in the back by a shotgun wielding SWAT member. The officer said the shotgun discharged on its own,though he is the only witness. No drugs or paraphernalia were found. The officer, SWAT team, city and county so far have been cleared of any wrong doing. They have pledged to upgrade their training. This is no small comfort to the Sepulveda family. I would like to thank this newspaper for being the only Bay Area paper to print (the Associated Press’) detailed article at the time. None of the main television stations or main newspapers covered this tragedy and miscarriage of justice as they should have.This is a newspaper worth reading.  

Robert Torres  

Oakland 

Praising Rep. Barbara Lee 

The City Council is expected to approve a commendation for Rep. Barbara Lee’s “wise and courageous vote in opposition to authorizing President Bush to wage war against terrorism.” 

On Sept. 14, Lee was the only member of Congress to vote against giving President Bush absolute authority to make decisions about using military force against terrorism. Lee’s lone stance has drawn both harsh criticism and high praise from around the country. 

The commendation, submitted by Councilmember Miriam Hawley and Vice Mayor Maudelle Shirek, applauds Lee for recommending justice over retribution. Hawley and Shirek also wrote in the commendation that “Lee’s leadership will be a rallying point for citizens seeking a reasoned and measured response to the atrocities of September 11.” 

ECO Pass 

The council is expected to approve a contract with AC Transit that will provide all city employees with a trial transit pass for AC Transit routes including Transbay lines. The ECO Pass program will go into service on Nov. 1 and expire on Dec. 31, 2002. 

The cost of the program is estimated to be $100,000 and will cover the city’s 1,600 full-time employees. The cost per employee is about $60 for the entire year. Employee ridership will be monitored by AC Transit and a monthly report will be provided to the city. If the program is successful it will become permanent. 

The council asked the city manager on June 12 to look into expanding the program to cover Berkeley Unified School District employees and also negotiating with BART for a similar program. Both of those proposals are still being considered. 

Law enforcement block grant 

The council will hold a public hearing prior to authorizing the city manager to accept a $250,000 federal grant, which would be used to hire two patrol officers for approximately 24 months. 

The money would come from the federal Local Law Enforcement Block Grant. The council has supported the use of LLEBG grant money to hire patrol officers since 1997. The grant amount is based on a formula that includes population and rates of various types of crimes. 

In past years the city has been able to fund three officers with the two-year grant. Because of increased salaries and a reduction of available grant money, only two officers will be funded for the next two-year cycle.  

According to a police department staff report the grant will help the city reach its goal of 204 sworn officers. Currently there 194 sworn officers.  

Redistricting 

The council will hold the first of two public hearings on five proposals to redraw the boundary lines of the city’s eight council districts. The city collected four plans from Berkeley residents and another was submitted by city staff.  

After the public hearing, the council will select one redistricting plan and hold another public hearing on Oct. 2, after which the council is expected to approve the selected plan possibly contingent on some minor changes.  

One controversial plan was submitted by the Associated Students of the University of California. The plan drastically redesigned districts 7 and 8 to create a student-dominated district. ASUC members have said their goal is to elect a student to the City Council who will represent student interests such as housing and safety.  

The city attorney described the student plan as non-conforming because it was in conflict with the City Charter, which requires only small adjustments to existing districts.  

The council will also discuss: 

• Signing a contract with the Berkeley Alliance for $80,000 for administrative support to the school district. 

• The purchase of 96 energy efficient refrigerators for low-income households at a total amount of up to $53,000. 

• Reestablishing food-cart licenses 

• Supporting the efforts of local organizations to eliminate racism and discrimination against people of Arabic descent and Muslim faith through education and media campaigns and establish Berkeley as a Hate Free Zone. 

• Funding for sign-language interpretation at the city’s Free Folk Festival. 

Other related meetings: 

Closed session 

The City Council will hold an executive session meeting at 4 p.m. at 2180 Milvia St. on the sixth floor to hold a a conference with the Berkeley Police Association, the department’s union, which is in the process of negotiating a new contract.  

Housing Authority 

The Berkeley Housing Authority will hold a meeting at 5 p.m. in the City Council Chambers at 2134 Martin Luther King, Jr. Way, to discuss several issues including a plan to reorganize the BHA and review an information report about reopening section enrollment for 8 applications. Section 8 enrollment began on Sept. 7 and will end Oct. 5. 

Editor: 

Patrick Kennedy's proposal for a new building housing a new Fine Arts Theater seems to me to be an admirable one, especially in alleviating the structural drawbacks of the current theater and building, but I have a couple of suggestions: I would hope that this new theater, in addition to its art-deco exterior, have an art-deco (or similarly grand) interior as well (and perhaps Kennedy is already considering this), particularly in the auditorium.  

One need look no further than the Shattuck (at least the original ones) or the Grand Lake's two small screens for examples of what can be done. Make the Fine Arts a real “Fine Art.” 

I would also suggest that Kennedy make every single effort he can to help the Fine Arts operation continue to progress and prosper in the interim. It is a wonderful asset to Bay Area filmgoers, and it would be a shame if it befell a similar fate to Gaia Bookstore. While I do not necessarily blame Kennedy for that, losing two venerated institutions on his watch would not help his already fairly controversial reputation. 

Garrett Murphy 

Oakland

SACRAMENTO (AP) — Gov. Gray Davis vetoed a bill Monday that called for a state study of the amount of weight California pupils are carrying in their backpacks. 

The measure, by Assemblyman Rod Pacheco, R-Riverside, sought to determine if a shortage of locker space exists and whether increasingly heavy backpacks are hurting children’s spines. 

But Davis said the $140,000 to conduct the study was not included in the 2001-02 budget. 

He also said in a statement that the weight of backpacks and the length of time students carry them “varies widely among districts and solutions need to be developed at the local level.” 

The state education and health departments would have conducted the study, which was to include the weight of hardcover textbooks, the lack of lockers on many campuses and possible alternatives to students carrying heavy backpacks. 

Lawmakers wrapped up their 2001 session on Sept. 14 and Davis has until Oct. 14 to sign hundreds of bills approved at the last minute. 

BELLE GLADE, Fla. — The government grounded thousands of crop-dusters across the country for a second straight day Monday amid fears the planes could be used in an airborne chemical or biological attack. 

The move came after it was learned that one of the suspected hijackers in the attack on the World Trade Center, Mohamad Atta, had shown interest in crop-dusters and that another person now in federal custody had downloaded information about the planes, Attorney General John Ashcroft said. 

The “intelligence community came to us and encouraged us to shut down the crop-dusters,” Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Scott Brenner said. The FAA said the ban was in effect through 12:05 a.m. Tuesday local time. 

Ashcroft told lawmakers on Capitol Hill that the FBI had gathered information raising fears that the small farm planes could be used in a biological or chemical attack. But he said there was “no clear indication of the time or place of these attacks.” 

It was the second time the planes have been grounded since the FAA cleared the way for most flights to resume Sept. 14, three days after terrorists slammed planes into the twin towers and the Pentagon. 

James Callan, executive director of the National Agricultural Aviation Association, said the ban covered about 3,500 agricultural aviators. 

The association posted a message from the FBI on its Web site, urging members to “continue to be vigilant to any suspicious activity relative to the use, training in or acquisition of dangerous chemicals or airborne application” of the chemicals. 

The FBI is believed to be investigating a group of Middle Eastern men — including Atta — who repeatedly visited a Florida fertilizer company before the Sept. 11 attacks. 

J.D. “Will” Lee, general manager of South Florida Crop Care in Belle Glade, said Monday he told FBI agents that the men, in groups of two or three, visited nearly every weekend for six or eight weeks before the attacks. The visits included the weekend before the assaults. 

Co-worker James Lester told the FBI that one of the men was Atta, who is believed to be one of the suicide hijackers aboard the first airliner to hit the trade center. He said Atta was persistent with questions about a crop-duster during a visit in February. 

“I recognized him because he stayed on my feet all the time. I just about had to push him away from me,” Lester said. 

Lee said the men pestered employees with “odd questions” about his 502 Air Tractor crop-duster. He said they asked about the range of the airplane, how much it could haul in chemicals, how difficult it was to fly and how much fuel it could carry. 

During one visit, they followed Lester around, asking questions while he was working on one of the planes. Another time, they carried video equipment and asked to photograph the inside of the cockpit. 

Lee said he declined their repeated requests. 

“I wouldn’t spend any time talking to them or telling them anything because I didn’t think it was any of their business,” Lee said. 

In Belle Glade, a small community in the Florida Everglades surrounded by sugar cane fields, police closed one entrance to the airport where Lee’s business is based and allowed only employees to enter the second entrance. The airport is about an hour’s drive from the beachfront communities where some of the suspected hijackers stayed before the attacks. 

The Washington Post has also reported that investigators found a crop-duster manual among the possessions of Zacarias Moussaoui, who was detained after he sought flight training in Minnesota and the school grew suspicious. 

Ray Dyson, chief pilot of Southeastern Aerial Crop Service in Fort Pierce, said crop-dusting aircraft — typically carrying 200 gallons of fuel and 500 to 600 gallons of fertilizer and liquid spray — require extensive training and are extremely difficult for a novice pilot to fly. “When they’re heavily loaded they take a very deft hand to fly,” Dyson said. “One false move and you fall out of the sky and crash.” 

Florida officials have checked with all registered aerial applicators about their security measures, said Terence McElroy, spokesman for the state Agriculture Department. 

When flights resume, pilots will be required to notify state officials of their flight times and aircraft tail numbers, McElroy said. 

“It’s damn sure going to ruin our industry and us, but it’s a small price to pay for the security of our nation,” said Jerry White, an aerial applicator based in Orlando. 

The ban affected the state’s spraying for mosquitoes as part of its effort to battle the West Nile and Eastern equine encephalitis viruses. 

In New Jersey, helicopters used for spraying against mosquitoes have been grounded indefinitely because of the attacks. In Georgia, the ban will affect cotton growers who need to defoliate plants before harvest. 

Kelly Wingate, owner of Wingate Flying Service of Camilla, Ga., said the groundings were inconvenient but pilots and growers understood the need. 

“The aerial applicators and the farmers — you won’t find bigger patriots,” he said. “We know what this country is going through and we’re in 100 percent support of what they’re doing.” 

CINCINNATI — A white police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black man, sparking rioting, acted carelessly and lied to investigators to save to his job, a prosecutor argued Monday. 

Officer Stephen Roach had his finger on the trigger of his revolver and rashly fired in a dark alley rather than use other means to stop the fleeing suspect, prosecutor Stephen McIntosh said in closing arguments. 

Other officers chasing Timothy Thomas, 19, on April 7 testified they had not drawn their weapons, he said. 

“At some point, Officer Roach is moving down the alley with his finger on the trigger, discharging the weapon into the darkness,” McIntosh said. “Tim was essentially cornered. There was no place to go.” 

Judge Ralph E. Winkler, who heard the case without a jury, said he will announce his verdict Wednesday. 

The shooting sparked three days of rioting, the city’s worst racial unrest since the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination in 1968. A dawn-to-dusk curfew was ordered, dozens of people were injured and more than 800 were arrested. 

Roach, 27, could face nine months in jail if convicted of negligent homicide and obstructing official business. 

Defense lawyer Merlyn Shiverdecker said the officer’s fear caused him to involuntarily fire his weapon. He also said the dim light in the alley affected the officer’s sight and hearing. 

The prosecution failed to counter scientific testimony on either point, and police homicide investigator Charles Beaver failed to investigate those things at the scene, he said. 

“He was precipitous and premature,” Shiverdecker said of Beaver. “His logic was faulty and flawed.” 

Roach, a city officer since 1997, did not testify at the trial. He declined comment in the courtroom after sitting quietly through the closing arguments. 

McIntosh said Roach told homicide investigators differing versions of what happened to save his job. 

The officer initially told investigators that Thomas made a threatening move toward him, and he thought Thomas had a gun. Investigators said they interviewed Roach again after finding discrepancies between their evidence and his statement. 

Three days later, Roach told investigators that Thomas stepped around a corner in the alley and startled him, and that the officer accidentally shot him. 

Police later found that Thomas — who was wanted on 14 charges, including traffic offenses and fleeing from police to avoid arrest — had no weapon. 

OAKLAND (AP) — With increased responsibilities and fewer recruits, the Oakland Police Department is moving its recruiting office downtown. 

The office will open in its new location Friday. 

The department currently has 40 vacancies. Another 44 officers are off, injured or sick. 

The department is being stretched further as it takes over security for Oakland’s public schools and beefs up patrols at the airport. 

Police hope the office’s new location will attract more potential officers and will speed up the hiring process.

SAN JOSE — The dangers of Internet worms and viruses are well known, but security experts are warning of a more pernicious and potentially more damaging kind of attack — the manipulation of content on trusted Web sites. 

Last week, Yahoo was alerted by security intelligence company SecurityFocus.com that a hacker had rather easily entered Yahoo’s news pages and inserted phony quotes and wrong information on stories. 

The hacker, 20-year-old Adrian Lamo of San Francisco, says he wanted to show Yahoo! Inc. that it needed to fix what he considers a basic mistake in its network setup. 

Yahoo said it has taken steps to solve the problem. Nevertheless, the incident highlights how vulnerable the Internet could be as a tool for quickly spreading misinformation. 

That premise could be dangerous, considering the sensitivity of the news surrounding the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and their aftermath. 

Yahoo, which claims to have 200 million registered users, is one of the Internet’s most popular sources of information. The company aggregates information from several news providers, including The Associated Press. 

“A lot of attention has been given to the fact that data is stolen, but not necessarily that the integrity has been altered,” said Elias Ladopoulos, a former hacker who is launching a wireless security company in New York called Digital Frameworks. 

“Any hacker, given enough skill, can change the content to produce whatever they like,” Ladopoulos said. “Once content gets out on the Internet, it’s pretty hard to retract that.” 

Bruce Schneier, chief technology officer at Counterpane Internet Security in Cupertino, said he expects a new wave of such incidents. He calls them “semantic attacks,” or assaults on meaning, rather than on computer networks themselves. 

With network administrators improving their detection of viruses, worms and other threats, Schneier said some hackers will resort to subtle tactics that play off people’s tendency to believe everything they read. 

News organizations’ sites have been defaced by boastful hackers before, but the changing of their content is a more damaging assault on their credibility. 

Last year, someone broke into the Orange County Register’s Web site and replaced the name of an arrested hacker with that of Microsoft Corp. chairman Bill Gates. 

Last Wednesday, someone put a false story on the site of the Daily Californian, the student newspaper at the University of California, Berkeley. The bogus piece said the paper’s editors had apologized for a controversial political cartoon. 

Lamo said he was troubled by how easily he got access to Yahoo’s news pages. He exploited a flaw that let its corporate network be tricked into thinking it was communicating with an internal computer. 

He also said he believes other parts of Yahoo’s site and other Internet content providers are vulnerable in similar ways, with video archives and stock prices subject to being manipulated. 

In particular, Lamo tinkered with an Aug. 23 story by the Reuters news agency about Dmitry Sklyarov, the Russian computer programmer charged with circumventing copyrights on Adobe Systems Inc. software. 

The converted piece said Sklyarov could face the death penalty if convicted (the real maximum is five years in prison), and included a fake quote from Attorney General John Ashcroft. 

Lamo said he had doctored quotes in other Reuters articles that eventually expired from Yahoo’s news pages, though he kept images of how those stories appeared. Yahoo said it could not confirm Lamo had altered more than one story. 

Lamo alerted Yahoo to what he had done by telling SecurityFocus.com. Lamo said he did not inform Yahoo directly because “hackers contacting companies personally have a dismal success rate.” 

“I’d be gratified to see it bring about sweeping changes in network security,” he told the AP. 

Yahoo released a statement saying it had taken “appropriate steps to block unauthorized access to help ensure that we maintain a secure environment.” A spokesman would not elaborate, nor would he say whether the company would complain to federal authorities. 

The FBI said Monday it did not appear that a complaint has been filed, however. 

Reuters spokeswoman Nancy Bobrowitz said Yahoo has given the agency “strong assurances” that its news pages could not be hacked again. 

“They have taken it very seriously,” she said. “Our priority is to make sure subscribers are protecting the integrity of the news which we take such great care to produce. ... We are not aware of any other incidents where our content has been hacked.” 

Some security experts say the integrity of online information could be assured with more certainty if more companies would use digital signatures, which are based on a technology that makes a signature invalid if content is changed after it is sent. 

But the technology is not being widely implemented because it increases networks’ cost and complexity. 

And Schneier thinks digital signatures would only make the problem worse — he believes they are not as foolproof as advertised. He suggests companies use monitoring software that alerts network administrators when Web pages have been changed. 

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On the Net: 

http://www.yahoo.com 

http://www.counterpane.com 

PULLMAN, Wash. — The dormitories of this college town are 2,200 miles from the East Coast, but Arab students are feeling the reverberations of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. 

Some 47 students from the United Arab Emirates have dropped out of Washington State University, called back home by parents fearful of war and anti-Arab sentiments in the United States. 

Other Arab students are leaving colleges across the country, although the numbers do not appear to be large. 

“There are some students who feel anxiety,” said Shafeeq Ghabra, spokesman for the embassy of Kuwait in Washington, D.C. “Their parents back home in Kuwait are more anxious than they are. Some would like to be together with their children.” 

Kuwait and Saudi Arabia are providing financial and other assistance to any students from their countries who want to return home. 

About 570,000 foreign students are in the United States, about 40,000 of them from Arab countries, according to the American Council on Education. 

While it’s unclear how many are leaving, one of the biggest exoduses appears to be from Washington State, a land-grant institution with 18,000 students in the Palouse wheat country in the southeast corner of the state. 

About 47 students from the UAE, mostly junior college transfers who arrived on the Pullman campus a few weeks ago for the start of school, are leaving the country, officials said. 

“For the most part it’s because their parents want them back,” said Ranna Daud, 20, head of the Muslim Student Association at WSU. 

Daud, an Arab-American raised in Pullman, said there has been no overt discrimination against the students, although some have received verbal harassment. 

Efforts to contact some of the departing students were not successful. 

The vast majority of Arab students seem to be staying. 

At Montana State University in Bozeman, all the Arab students appear to be staying, said Abdullah Bahazig, head of the university’s Muslim Student Association. 

“I think Bozeman is one of the safest places in the U.S. for an international student,” Bahazig said. 

The worst terrorist attack on American soil took place two weeks ago, when hijacked jetliners were flown into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. A fourth plane crashed in the Pennsylvania countryside after doomed passengers apparently struggled with the hijackers. More than 6,000 people are dead or missing. 

The Saudi Arabian government is providing free airfare to students who wish to go home. Those who choose to do so will not lose their scholarships. 

Kuwait has more than 3,000 students in the United States, Ghabra said. 

“We have encouraged students to stay,” he said. 

Those who are fearful are getting Kuwaiti government assistance to come home, but are being asked to return to the United States in three months, Ghabra said. 

“I am assuming we’ll end up with several hundred doing that,” Ghabra said. “Then we ask them to come back and be there for spring semester.” 

Ghabra has a daughter who is a junior at American University in Washington, D.C. 

“There were some difficult times for her in the first days, but she is over it,” he said. “My daughter is staying on and her friends are staying on.” 

However, more than 30 Arab students have left American University. 

There were scattered reports of Arab students leaving other colleges. 

—About two dozen Arab students have left both the University of Missouri and the University of Colorado at Denver. 

— Up to 30 students from Arab countries have left California State University, Long Beach. 

—Four Middle Eastern students have left the University of Arizona. 

—At Boston University, five Arab students have left. 

—Three students from the United Arab Emirates have withdrawn from Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma. 

In light of recent events, a planned conference of activists calling for divestment from Israel will not take place in October. 

Students for Justice in Palestine, a UC Berkeley campus group that has led the divestment movement nationally, has decided to postpone the conference until at least next semester. 

The organization also said the scope of its “Intifada Week,” a series of demonstrations which began Monday, has been altered.  

“In light of Israel’s escalation of its siege on the Palestinian people, SJP has decided to proceed with the week of events,” the organization said in a prepared statement. “The calendar has been scaled down and modified for several reasons.” 

Some events, including a “mock trial” of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, have been canceled. 

Events will include: a discussion on International Law and and the Intifada at 12:30 p.m. today at 140 Boalt Hall on the UC Berkeley Campus. Wednesday at 7 p.m. there will be a talk on the backlash after Sept. 11 against Middle-Eastern and South Asian people at 2040 Valley Life Sciences Building.  

SAN JOSE — Edging closer to legitimacy, Napster Inc. on Monday tentatively settled a suit filed by music publishers and struck a deal that could lead to legal and fee-based song distribution online. 

Under the proposed settlement with the National Music Publishers’ Association, Napster will pay $26 million for past unauthorized use of music and $10 million down payment on future royalties. 

The deal also sets up terms under which songwriters and music publishers can license music to Napster’s upcoming fee-based service, which is now expected to be launched by the end of the year. 

“This will enable Napster to move forward with the launch of its new service, knowing that a growing range of content will be available to consumers,” said Napster chief executive Konrad Hilbers. 

But Napster, which has been shut down since early July, still has big hurdles to overcome, including the resolution of suits filed by the major labels that own the performance rights. 

Both the performance and publishing copyright issues must be resolved before a song can be legally distributed on Napster or anywhere else. Monday’s deal covers only the publishing rights of up to 700,000 songs. 

Officials were hopeful that the agreement could serve as a framework for future settlements. 

Under the agreement, a portion of the revenue collected for each song would be reserved for royalty payments. Of that amount, one-third would be paid to the publishers and songwriters, officials said. 

The remaining two-thirds would be reserved for holders of the performance rights. Specific terms, such as the size of the overall royalties chunk, were not disclosed. 

However, officials said the fractions reserved for songwriters and publishers is significantly larger than what is now paid out. 

“We’re very pleased we were able to assist each other in breaking new ground in new areas of delivering more product and at a much better rate to our songwriters and creators of American music,” said Ed Murphy, NMPA’s chief executive. 

The settlement must be approved by a judge, the board of directors of the NMPA and individual publishers. 

The Recording Industry Association of America, which represents the major music labels, declined to comment on the NMDA’s settlement. Hilbers, however, said some progress is being made in talks. 

The association led efforts to have Napster’s free service turned off earlier this year for allowing copyright infringement. And its members are now developing their own fee-based services for distributing music online. 

Napster has been shut down since late summer, when it tried to better comply with a federal judge’s order and strengthen the filtering of copyright music turned into extended downtime. 

Napster’s paid service had been expected to launch this summer. On Monday, Hilbers said it will launch before the end of the year. 

The Redwood City, Calif.-based pioneer could be re-entering a crowded field. One competitor, pressplay, is a collaboration between Sony and Universal Music Group. 

Napster previously announced it has signed a distribution deal with another potential competitor, MusicNet, which was founded by RealNetworks, AOL Time Warner, Bertelsmann and EMI. 

A lot has changed since Napster’s heyday, when it boasted of millions of people freely swapping billions of songs. 

As Napster’s legal woes increased, alternative song-swapping services started to take off. Though not as easy to use as Napster, they offer the same tunes plus other digital content such as software and movies. 

There also are questions about how useful Napster’s service will be and whether consumers will be able to transfer music to portable players or onto compact discs. 

”(Monday’s agreement) will matter only when the service comes up and we can see what it looks like,” said P.J. McNeally, an analyst at Gartner Dataquest. “From a consumers’ standpoint, this means nothing.” 

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The bankrupt Industry Standard sold the subscriber lists and other assets of its once-thriving technology magazine for $1.4 million in a court-supervised auction Monday. 

Media giant AOL Time Warner, which publishes the rival technology magazine Business 2.0, bought the Standard’s paid subscriber list and liabilities for unfulfilled subscriptions for $500,000. 

The Standard’s majority owner, the International Data Group, will pay $900,000 for the lists of readers who received free copies of the magazine or electronic newsletters through e-mail. 

In an internal memo to its employees, IDG disclosed that it has no plans to revive the Industry Standard in the United States. After abruptly closing last month, the Standard held out hope that it might return to newsstands under another owner. 

Before the past year’s high-tech slump dried up the magazine’s advertising support, the Industry Standard cashed in on the dot-com boom in the Silicon Valley. The San Francisco-based magazine and its operations generated $140 million in revenue last year, but suffered a 70 percent drop-off in business this year. 

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On The Net: 

http://www.industrystandard.com 

BERKELEY — Sen. John McCain gave a tearful eulogy Saturday for one of the heroic victims of United Airlines Flight 93, calling passenger Mark Bingham’s political support “one of the greatest honors of his life.” 

McCain once met Bingham, a longtime admirer of the Republican from Arizona. The senator is one of 15 senators co-sponsoring a bill that would award the 44 passengers and crew members with the Congressional Gold Medal, Congress’ highest civilian honor. 

It would recognize Bingham and three other passengers who investigators believe helped thwart terrorist highjackers from crashing Flight 93 into its intended target, possibly a Washington landmark. 

“I very well may owe my life to Mark,” McCain told mourners. “He supported me, and his support now ranks among one of the greatest honors of my life.” 

Monday, Sept. 24

Free Legal Workshop 

6 - 8 p.m. 

Women’s Cancer Resource Center 

3023 Shattuck Ave. 

Find out about the Family Medical Leave Act, Americans with Disability Act, and the California Fair Employment and Housing Act. Laws protect you from termination during an experience with cancer or other serious medical condition. 601-4040 x302 

Eastshore State Park Regional Workshop #2 

7 p.m. 

Hs Lordship’s Restaurant 

2nd Floor Georgian Ballroom 

199 Seawall Drive, Berkeley Marina 

The public is being asked for their input and suggestions on the long-term master plan for the development of the new Eastshore State Park (ESP), stretching along the shoreline from the touchdown of the Bay Bridge to Marina Bay in Richmond. www.eastshorestatepark.org 

NOW Meeting 

6:30 - 8 p.m.  

Mama Bears Bookstore & Coffee House  

6536 Telegraph Ave. 

Monthly meeting of the Oakland East Bay Chapter of the National Organization for Women. Nonmembers welcome.  

Free. 549-2970 

Psychology Discussion 

1 p.m. 

North Berkeley Senior Center 

1901 Hearst Ave. 

Psychologist Betty Goren will lead a discussion titled “Does Talking Help Get Rid of the Blues.” 644-6107 

Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults Inquiry Program 

7:30 p.m. 

St. Mary Magdalen Parish 

2005 Berryman St. 

A program to learn everything you wanted to know about the Catholic Church but never had the chance to ask. 526-4811 

Affordable Housing Advocacy Project Open Forum 

5:30 - 7 p.m. 

South Branch Public Library 

1901 Russell St. 

Maintain and increase landlords and property management firms participation in the section 8 program, while building a better rapport with all those concerned. 548-8776 

Daily Prayer and Meditation 

11 a.m. - 1 p.m. 

First Congregational Church 

Dana at Durant 

Chapel open for prayer and meditation. 

Tuesday, Sept. 25:

Berkeley Housing Authority Monthly Meeting 

6:30 P.M. 

City Council Chambers, 2134 MLK Jr. Way  

549-2970.  

Berkeley Camera Club  

7:30 p.m. 

Northbrae Community Church  

941 The Alameda  

Share your slides and learn what other photographers are doing. Monthly field trips. 525-3565 

Redistricting of Berkeley City Council Districts 

7 p.m. 

2134 Martin Luther King Jr. Way 

Public hearing to consider proposals to amend Council District boundaries based on the 2000 census figures. Members of the public are invited to comment on all proposals. 981-7000 www.ci.berkeley.ca.us 

Berkeley Farmers’ Market 

2-7 p.m. 

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

548-3333 

Free Early Music Group 

10 - 11:30 a.m. 

North Berkeley Senior Center 

1901 Hearst Ave. 

Small group sings madrigals and other voice harmony every Tuesday.  

655-8863 

Annual PTA Reception 

6 - 8 p.m. 

Rosa Parks Environmental Science Magnet School 

920 Allston Way 

Multi-Purpose Room 

Reception for the 2001 - 2002 PTA Officers. 644-8764  

Daily Prayer and Meditation 

11 a.m. - 1 p.m. 

First Congregational Church 

Dana at Durant 

Chapel open for prayer and meditation. 

Wednesday, Sept. 26

A Taste of the World: Cultural Understanding Through Food 

6 - 9 p.m. 

Berkeley Richmond Jewish Community Center 

1414 Walnut St. 

Enhance your cooking skills and experience the cuisines of Spain, Portugal, Italy, Morocco and Israel with Chef Daniel Herskovic. All classes are “hands on.” Class includes meal and cooking lesson. $25. Every Wednesday through Nov. 1. 655-8487 

Socratic Circle Discussions 

5 - 6 p.m. 

1309 Solano Ave. 

Cafe Eclectica 

Does your brain need a workout? All ages welcome. 527-2344 

"Nels Nelson: The Early Days of Berkeley Archaeology"  

noon 

ARF, 2547 Channing, Room 101 

Brown Bag Lunch Lecture 

After Kent's talk, we'll go to the 2 p.m. court hearing before Judge Richman, Alameda Co. Superior Court to watch Berkeley Asst. City Attorney Zack Cowen defend the landmark designation of the West Berkeley 

Shellmound. The hearing is at the Post Office Building, 201-13th Street, Department 31, 2nd floor, Oakland. The shellmound is being challenged by the propertyowners who filed suit against the City's designation of the mound site. 841-8562 sfbayshellmounds@yahoo.com 

Editor: 

Representative Barbara Lee, the only member of Congress to vote against using force against the so called terrorists, is the only sane voice in Washington. 

If the United States sincerely wants to destroy terrorists, they should start in their own backyard with the KKK and other white supremacist hate groups. These groups have been allowed to terrorize americans of color, especially blacks for decades. 

They have bombed black churches and killed innocent children. Where were all the flags and tears then? 

When Timothy McVeigh bombed the federal building in Oklahoma City, why weren’t other whites attacking every white male in sight? 

As long as the United States was bombing and killing black and brown babies all over the world and supporting terrorists for its own capitalistic gains, there was no national outcry. 

I support representative Barbara Lee. She has more balls then all those white males in Congress and Colin Powell put together. 

Nicole Williams 

Richmon

924 Gilman Street Sept. 28: Erase Errata, The Intima, Ibobuki, (+tba); Sept. 29: DS-13, Beware, Blown To Bits, (+tba); Oct 5: Subincision, Gary’s Agenda, Eugene (+ tba); Oct 6: Tight Brothers from Way Back When, Smash Your Face, Cherry Valence, Bare Bones; Most shows are $5 and start at 8 p.m. unless otherwise noted. 

Albatross Pub Sept. 25: Mad and Eddie Duran; Sept. 27: Kenji “El Lebrijano” Flamenco Guitar; Oct 3: Wesley Brothers; Oct 4:Keni “El Lebrijano” Flemenco Guitar; All free shows begin at 9 p.m. 1822 San Pablo Ave. 843-2473 albatrosspub@mindspring.com  

Anna’sSept. 24: The Renegade Sidemen, Calvin Keyes, Dave Rokeach and Pals; Sept. 25: Tangria; Sept. 26: Bob Schoen Jazz Quintet, Cheryl McBride; Sept. 27: David Jeffrey Fourtet, Brendan Milstein; Sept. 28: Anna sings jazz standards, 10 p.m. Bluesman Hideo Date; Sept. 29: Robin Gregory, Bliss Rodriguez, 10 p.m. The Distones Jazz Sextet, Donald Duck Bailey; Sept. 30: Acoustic Soul; All shows begin at 8 p.m. 1801 University Ave. 849-ANNA www.annasbistro.com 

Café de la Paz Poetry Nitro, performance showcase with open mike. Sept. 24: Jim Watson-Gove; All shows free, 7 - 10 p.m. 

Cal Performances Sept. 30: 7 p.m. Kronos Quartet, David Barron, $30; Oct. 12 - 14: Fri. and Sat., 8:00 p.m., Sun. 3 p.m. Ballet Nacional De Cuba, $24 - $46; Oct. 17 and 18: 8 p.m. Cesaria Evora, $24 - $36; Oct. 19: 8 p.m. Karnak, $18 - $30. Zellerbach Hall, UC Berkeley Campus, Bancroft Way at Telegraph, 642-0212, tickets@calperfs.berkeley.edu 

Eli’s Mile High Club Every Friday, 10 p.m. Funky Fridays Conscious Dance Party with KPFA DJs Splif Skankin and Funky Man. $10; Sept. 3: 2 - 8 p.m. Big West Coast Harmonica Bash, afternoon benefit for Red Archibald. $10 donation; Doors open at 8 p.m. unless noted. 3629 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Oakland. 655-6661 

Freight & Salvage Sept. 24: April Verch, $16.50; Sept. 26: Clive Gregson, $16.50; Sept. 27: Dick Gaughan, $18.50; Sept 28: Jenna Mammina, $16.50; Sept. 29: The Nigerian Brothers, $16.50; Sept. 30: Vasen, $17.50; Oct 2: Budowitz; Oct 3: The Robin Nolan Trio; Oct 4: Darol Anger & Mike Marshall; Oct 5: Golden Bough; Oct 6: The Limeliters; Oct 7: Eddie From Ohio; Oct 8: All Nation Singers, Walter Ogi Johnson, Thunder; All shows start at 8 p.m. 1111 Addison St. 548-1761 www.freightandsalvage.com 

Jack’s Bistro Sept. 28: 9 p.m. Tomas Michaud’s New World Flamenco Quartet, Jack London Square. 444-7171 www.starland-music.com 

Jazzschool/La Note Sept. 30: 4 p.m., John Santos and the Machete Ensemble. $15. 2377 Shattuck Ave. 510-845-5376 

Jupiter Sept. 25: Craig Graham Trio; Sept. 26: Starvin Like Marvin; Sept. 28 Anton Schwartz Quartet; Sept 29: moderngypsies.net; All music starts at 8:00 p.m. 2181 Shattuck Ave. 843-7625 www.jupiterbeer.com  

La Peña Cultural Center Sept. 27: 7:30 p.m. The local Friends of the MST will host a screening of the new documentary "Raiz Forte" or "Strong Roots" to present our community with a vision of their work and struggle. A discussion will follow. $5-$10; In the Cafe, 3105 Shattuck Ave. 849-2568 www.lapena.org 

Music Sources Sept. 30: 5 p.m. Ole Scarlatta! Portuguese and French keyboards and fortepiano joined by Jason McGuire on flamenco guitar, $18 General, $15 members, seniors, students. 1000 The Alameda 528-1685 

Sedge Thomson’s West Coast Live Radio Show Sept. 29: Nancy Miford, The Nigerian Brothers, Caroline Dahl. The Freight and Salvage, 1111 Addison St. All shows 10 a.m. - noon. 252-9214 www.wcl.org 

Benifit Concert for the Native American Health Center  

Sept. 28: 8 p.m. Buffy Sainte-Marie, Ulali, Lorrie Church, The Mankillers. Paramount Theater, 2025 Broadway, Oakland. 625-8497  

“The Complete Shostakovich String Quartets--Part One” Sept. 29: 10 a.m. Quartets III & IV; Oct. 20: 10 a.m. Quartets V & VI. Performed by the prize-winning Alexander String Quartet with Robert Greenberg. $ 30, $84 for the Trio of concerts. Julia Morgan Center for the Arts 2640 College Ave. 845-8542 www.juliamorgan.org. 

Magnificat Sept. 29: 8 p.m. First Congregational Church. The San Francisco early music ensemble of voices and period instruments present their thenth anniversary season with music of seventeenth century composers. Tickets $12-$45 (415) 979-4500 

The Mike Yax Jazz Orchestra Sept. 30: 2 p.m., Longfellow School of the Arts, 1500 Derby St. 420-4560 

“Le Cirque des Animaux” Sept. 29: 8 p.m. Hausmusik presents a wacky baroque musical cabaret on the subject of animals. Parish Hall of St. Alban’s Espiscopal Church, 1501 Washington St. (not wheelchair accessible). $18 general admission, $15 seniors, students and SFEMS members) 527-9029 

“Murder Dressed in Satin” by Victor Lawhorn, ongoing. A mystery-comedy dinner show at The Madison about a murder at the home of Satin Moray, a club owner and self-proclaimed socialite with a scarlet past. Dinner is included in the price of the theater ticket. $47.50 Lake Merritt Hotel, 1800 Madison St., Oakland. 239-2252 www.acteva.com/go/havefun 

“Twelfth Night” Sept. 25 - 30, Oct. 2 - 7, Tue. - Thurs. 7:30 p.m., Fri. & Sat. 8 p.m., Sun. 4 p.m., Student Matinees: Sept. 18, 20, 25, Oct. 2, @ 1 p.m. California Shakespeare Festival presents William Shakespeare’s comic tale of romance, loneliness, love and glory. Directed by Jonathan Moscone. $12 - $41. Bruns Memorial Amphitheater, Highway 24, Gateway Exit, one mile east of the Caldecott Tunnel. 548-9666 www.calshakes.org 

Cultural Center, 3105 Shattuck, 849-2568, www.lapena.org  

“Swanwhite” Through Oct. 21: Thur. - Sat., 8 p.m., Sun. 7 p.m. A new translation of the Swedish Play that asks the question what good is romantic love, directed by Tom Clyde. $20, Sundays are “Pay What You Can”. Transparent Theater, 1901 Ashby Ave. 883-0305, www.virtuous.com 

“36 Views” Through Oct. 28: Tues. 8 p.m., Wed. 7 p.m., Thu. 8 p.m. w/ 2 p.m. matinee every other Thu., Fri. 8 p.m., Sat. 8 p.m. w/ 2 p.m. matinee every other Sat., Sun. 2 p.m., 8 p.m. Written by Naomi Lizuka, Directed by Mark Wing-Davey. $10 - $54. Berkeley Repertory’s Roda Theatre, 2015 Addison St. 647-2949 www.berkeleyrep.org 

Cal Performances Sept. 19 - 20: 8 p.m. American Ballet, “Bruch Violin Concerto,” “Jabula,” “Gong,” and “Black Tuesday.”; Sept. 21: 8 p.m., Sept. 22: 2 p.m. & 8 p.m., Sept. 23: 3 p.m. American Ballet, the full-length 19th Century “Giselle” $36 - $64; Zellerbach Hall, UC Berkeley Campus, Bancroft Way at Telegraph, 642-0212, tickets@calperfs.berkeley.edu 

Pacific Film Archive Sept. 24: 7 p.m. Chile, Obstinate Memory and For These Eyes; Sept. 25: 7:30 p.m. Alternative Requirements 2001, Artists in Person; Sept. 26: 7:30 p.m. Touch Tones; Sept. 28: 7 p.m. Ugetsu, 8:55 Sansho the Bailiff; Sept. 29: 7 p.m. Dr. Mabuse the Gambler, Part I, Joel Adlen on piano; Sept. 30: Dr. Mabuse the Gambler, Part II, Joel Adlen on piano; general admission $7, The New PFA Theatre 2575 Bancroft Way 642-1412 

Nexus Gallery Sept. 26-30: noon - 6 p.m. Jan Eldridge- Large charcoal drawings and acrylic collages; Tricia Grame- visual and textural autobiography of her spiritual evolution; Tanya Wilkinson- A sensuous exploration of the possibilities inherent in the medium of handmade paper. 

Women’s Cancer Resource Gallery “Catastrophe, Crisis, and Other Family Traditions” The photography of Jessamyn Lovell. Through Sept. 26; “The Arthur Wright and Gerald Parker” Through Sept. 26; Tues. - Thurs. 1 - 7 p.m., Sat. 12 - 4 p.m. 3023 Shattuck Ave. 548-9286 x307 www.wcrc.org 

Bahman Navaee is exhibiting his paintings. Through Sept. 29: Persian Center, 2029 Durant Ave. 848-0264 

“Debbie Moore’s Autobiographical Paintings” Through Sept. 30 at Good Vibrations. Portraits of the artist’s sensual explorations spanning 25 years and reflecting changing ways of intimacy and body play. 2504 San Pablo Avenue 848-1985 

“Three Visions” Sept. 26 through Sept. 30: 12 - 6 p.m., An Exhibition of Mixed Media. Nexus Gallery, 2707 8th Street 707-554-2520

Dons score 21 in 2nd half 

Using a relentless style and a horde of running backs, the De Anza Dons outscored St. Mary’s 21-0 in the second half on Friday to claim a 28-14 victory. 

Running back Tyke Moore led the Dons (2-1) with 92 yards and scored one touchdown, while teammate Marcus Russell ran for two second-half scores. In all, De Anza used six different running backs in the game, gaining 218 yards on the ground, including 188 in the second half. 

“It pretty much came down to line play today,” St. Mary’s head coach Jay Lawson said. “My guys just started getting tired.” 

The Dons tied the game 14-14 on a Russell 14-yard run at the end of the third quarter, then broke the Panthers with a six-minute, 12-play, 53-yard drive culminating with a Moore nine-yard touchdown run. 

It’s hard to blame the Panthers (1-2) for their second-half letdown, as they suited up just 22 players for Friday’s game. Among the players in street clothes on the St. Mary’s sideline were starting offensive linemen Rodny Acda and Jonathon Tarranto, and they were joined before halftime by fellow linemen Jarrell Booker and Nick Osborne. Although Booker and Osborne played in the second half, they were clearly less than 100 percent. 

“Our numbers were already light, and they just started wearing our line down,” Lawson said. “There were times we wanted to send in a substitute, but we didn’t have anyone on the sideline who could play.” 

The depleted roster also contributed to the Panthers’ offensive woes. St. Mary’s has yet to score a second-half offensive touchdown, and tailback Trestin George was forced to play nearly every down on defense on Friday. After a 75-yard touchdown run in the first quarter to open the scoring, George had just 65 yards in the final three quarters, finishing with 165 yards on 21 carries. 

While the St. Mary’s defense sagged late in the game, the De Anza defenders seemed to get stronger as the game went on, especially linebacker George Morris. After forcing a fumble from St. Mary’s quarterback Steve Murphy on a blindside hit to open the game, Morris disappeared until the end of the game. But when the Panthers made a late defensive stop and got the ball back at their own 30 down 21-14, Morris came to life. On third down, he combined with Russell to sack Murphy on the 15, then finished the Panthers’ hopes with another sack on fourth down. Morris came unblocked on both plays, as the makeshift St. Mary’s offensive line struggled with their assignments. 

“We just kept pounding on them, beating up their line,” De Anza head coach George Pye said. “I know what it’s like to have players going both ways, and I know fatigue will kick in eventually.” 

Two plays later, Russell scored from a yard out to cap the scoring. 

The Panthers had a 14-6 halftime lead, thanks to the long run by George and a 2-yard touchdown dive by Murphy with just one second left on the clock. But the Dons dominated the second half and could have scored more points. Their opening drive was impressive as they used eight runs to go 43 yards down to the St. Mary’s 25. But when they tried to go to the air, St. Mary’s defensive back Ryan Coogler made a leaping interception of Gary Davenport’s pass to temporarily save his team’s lead. Davenport completed just one pass in the game, but it was a big one, a 50-yard bomb that set up Russell’s tying touchdown.

The City Council will hold a public hearing tomorrow on five redistricting plans that some are saying could alter the balance of power on the city’s governing board.  

The City Charter requires the city’s eight districts be re-drawn every 10 years according to population shifts reported by the United States census. The charter also requires the council to approved the new district boundaries by Dec. 31. 

According to the census, Berkeley’s population is 102,743, which requires the city to redraw district lines so that as close to 12,843 people are in each district. 

The council will consider five redistricting plans, four submitted by citizens and one submitted by the office of city manager Weldon Rucker. According to the city’s July 2 Redistricting 2001 Information Packet, redistricting plans were to meet three legal requirements, districts should be as close to equal in population as possible, districts should be preserved as much as possible according to how they were originally established in 1986 and compliance with the Federal Voting Rights Act.  

According to the packet, redistricting plans could also consider other criteria such as communities of interest, topography and geography.  

After tomorrow’s public hearing, the council will choose one of the five plans. The council will hold another public hearing on the chosen plan at a special meeting on Oct. 2. After the second public hearing, the council may make some final adjustments to the plan before adopting it as a city ordinance on Oct. 9. 

Redrawing the 2001 district lines was made especially difficult because of alleged census

Editor: 

As your article implied, the central debate over funding seismic retrofit of state-owned Bay Area toll bridges concerned how much subsidy the rest of California should contribute. Bay Area legislators ensured that nobody be dissuaded from driving by something so crass as higher tolls. If you thought Bay Bridge congestion was already bad, think again. 

Legislators showed remarkable indifference about what the$2.6-$3 billion designated for the east span of the Bay Bridge buys. As local readers know, the California Department of Transportation and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission jointly chose a design to which added capacity in the form of passenger trains cannot readily be added. The new span is to have five traffic lanes in each direction, same as the existing one.  

There is more that Caltrans and MTC choose not to discuss. The design is an invitation to calamity. Competent, well credentialled engineers warn that the (self-anchored) single tower suspension design is uniquely vulnerable to terrorist attack.  

The roadbed serves as an integral part of the suspension structure. Tension in the cables that support the roadbed is maintained by compression of the roadbed itself. Failure of the roadbed would cause the entire structure to collapse. Experts say that explosives delivered in a pick-up truck could do the job. The same bomb set off on a conventional structure would just leave a hole that could be repaired. A tanker truck accident like the one in the Caldecott Tunnel could do equivalent damage. 

The suspension section was adopted simply as an adornment to make the bridge look pretty. It adds about $1 billion to construction cost but serves no transportation function. As a symbolic gateway and as vital infrastructure, it will make a tempting target.  

Legislation (AB 1171), awaiting the governor’s signature, mandates the risky, self-anchored suspension design. Deleting this requirement would allow engineers to re-evaluate safety from a terrorism standpoint. They could then adopt a design that is simpler and safer. Such a bridge might be built quicker and cheaper.  

Robert R. Piper 

Berkeley

PULLMAN, Wash. – Setting a record is sweet, but it’s even sweeter when it comes with an impressive win. 

Jason Gesser threw for a career-high 432 yards and four touchdowns as Washington State adjusted to California’s blitzes and put the Bears away 51-20 Saturday in the Pacific-10 Conference opener for both teams. 

“It’s always fun getting a record, especially in addition to getting a win,” Gesser said after the Cougars (3-0, 1-0 Pac-10) started the season with three wins for the first time since 1998. The Cougars had 513 total passing yards, surpassing the school record of 492 set in the 1992 Copper Bowl. 

“The important thing is that we won,” Gesser said. “The record is just a pleasure on top of that.” 

The Bears (0-3, 0-1) lost 118 yards on 12 penalties, lost two fumbles and Cal quarterbacks were intercepted twice. 

“We are struggling to wrap up a game. Today on offense, we dropped a lot of balls,” Cal coach Tom Holmoe said. “Their offense is better than our defense. We had a good pass rush today, but Gesser is better out of the pocket than he is in the pocket.” 

Defensively, “we missed a lot of tackles, and that’s frustrating,” Holmoe said. “You can’t win without attacking. Breakdowns cost us the game.” 

With California blitzing and pressuring Gesser, Washington State trailed for much of the first half, but outscored the Golden Bears 35-7 in the second half. 

“We were just a bit jittery in the first half from all the blitzing, but we just calmed down and I just started seeing everything in slow motion,” Gesser said. “We just came out and adjusted in the second half. We did a good job getting ahead before halftime and in the second half, we just put them away.” 

Washington State coach Mike Price credited his defense with keeping the team in the game in the first half, and his coaches for making adjustments to handle Cal’s defensive schemes. 

“We said all along that we needed a challenge. I was interested to see how this team would play through adversity,” he said. “Sure enough, they came out and we fought through it. Our players competed really hard and we finished them off in the second half.” 

Gesser’s favorite target was Nakoa McElrath, who caught nine passes for 163 yards and two touchdowns. 

Two other Cougars receivers caught passes for more than 100 yards. It was the first time in school history that three receivers had over 100 yards in a single game. Mike Bush caught five for 144 yards and a touchdown and Jerome Riley had 124 yards and a touchdown on three catches. 

Gesser completed 19 of 43 passes and was intercepted once. Washington State had 605 yards of total offense, compared to Cal’s 367 yards. 

Dave Minnich scored on a 2-yard run and Allen Thompson ran 6 yards for another score. 

Drew Dunning hit field goals of 38, 23 and 37 yards as Washington State took a 16-13 halftime lead. 

Charon Arnold hauled in a 45 yard pass from Kyle Boller to put Cal up 7-3 early. 

Terrell Williams, starting in place of injured Cal running back Joe Igber, carried 17 times for 63 yards and caught a 15-yard scoring pass from Boller. 

Eric Holtfreter took over for Cal starter Boller early in the second period, but Boller returned in the fourth quarter. Boller finished with 10 of 22 pass attempts for 135 yards and two touchdowns. Holtfreter was 10-of-27 for 161 yards. 

Mark Jensen hit field goals of 45 and 20 yards for Cal. 

Gesser’s performance surpassed his previous best game total of 348 last year against Arizona.

The Berkeley Unified School District Board offered cautious praise at last Wednesday’s meeting to Critical Pathways, a new Berkeley High School program intended to give a boost to ninth graders in danger of failing. 

“I’m very pleased with what I’ve heard, and I’m very hard to please,” said Board Vice President Shirley Issel. The program, she said, “required a tremendous amount of coordinating and commitment.” 

“I thought it went really well,” Berkeley High School Principal Frank Lynch said after the meeting, “Only because we have our

Editor: 

Regarding your 9/21 story entitled “Youth soccer field air tests shows cause for concern,” your story left out a couple of things. While I am heartened that it showed concern for the welfare of a soccer playing child who spends probably two hours a week at the site (at most six), what about the homeless people who live at the site seven days a week? The story didn't even have a word for them.  

I also think it would be a nice touch if the reporter would do a little research to help inform rather than inflame readers. For example, it is mentioned that on one day (Sept. 8), the PM10 was three times the state's 24-hour standard. What does this mean for a child who spends two hours (out of 24) on the field? Do they have an exposure that is 75 percent below the state’s standard? Also, the story neglected to tell readers that the readings referred to are only for a two-hour period, not the entire day. Are we entering the world of irresponsible journalism here? 

Doesn’t the Planet have the resources to put out well researched, well thought out think pieces on the issue of air quality rather than these shallow sound bites? There are lots of good questions that need to be answered. For example, what is the relationship between the state’s 24-hour standard and a person who is exercising for two hours in this environment? Are there health issues at the homeless shelter that might be related to air quality? If the transfer station is a source of air pollution is there anything that could be done to reduce its emissions? There are lots of really good and interesting stories here — give us these.  

Doug Fielding 

Berkeley 

Chairperson, Association of Sports Field User

California (3-3-0) collected its second shutout win of the season as the Bears took out Cal Poly (1-1-1), 4-0, Saturday afternoon at Edwards Stadium.  

It may have been the long layoff or just a superior Cal team, but the Mustangs definitely had no answer for the Bears' attack. Cal freshman Mike Munoz, further established himself as a playmaker after assisting on three goals and netting one of his own.  

Pat Fisher scored off a corner kick set up by Munoz in the third minute to open the scoring for the Bears. 16 minutes later, Fisher returned the favor sending a long through-ball that Munoz converted for his first career goal.  

In the second stanza, forward Austin Ripmaster put home his fourth goal of the season in the 61st minute chipping a shot over an aggressive Greg Blevin, who came 15 yards out of the goal in an attempt to make the save.  

Freshman Alex Martinez wrapped up the scoring in the 76th minute as he dribbled into the box uncontested for his first goal as a collegian.  

The Bears out shot Cal Poly 15-11 for the game. Junior keeper Josh Saunders made seven saves to preserve the shutout.

At a windswept lot on the San Francisco Bay, hundreds of thousands of worms are happily munching on yesterday’s pizza crusts, leftover meals, and apple cores — the stuff that even Berkeley’s starving students won’t touch. 

Berkeley Worms, or the Associated Students of the University of California Composting Project, is a student-run collective that gathers food waste from dorm cafeterias, campus restaurants, sororities, and other shared housing units and turns it over to a resident colony of red wriggler worms. Red wrigglers are voracious eaters with a real fondness for food waste. Collective members harvest the castings (what worm lovers call poop) as a high-end fertilizer, which sells for $300 a cubic yard or $12.50 a cubic foot. 

Berkeley Worms was founded in 1994. Its mission was simple:

Editor: 

Their tactics of the Students for Justice for Palestine are unfortunate. The implications of their activities serves to convince the public that the Palestinians will settle for nothing less than the complete destruction of Israel and that negotiations with the Palestinians for anything less is impossible. 

Instead I suggest that these students meet with the Jewish student groups on campus which are more in favor of a just and lasting peace with the Palestinians that the present Sharon government. Let the two groups draw up the parameters for a Palestinian state existing side by side with a Jewish state. Then both groups can work together to push their solution which would, I’m sure, be received favorably by a large number of American Jews and Israelis. 

Leo Breiman 

Berkeley

No. 7 Oregon 24, USC 22 

EUGENE, Ore. – Jared Siegel kicked a 32-yard field goal with 12 seconds left as the Ducks pulled off yet another breathtaking victory over USC, 24-22 Saturday night. It was Oregon’s unprecedented fourth straight over the Trojans. 

No. 12 UCLA 13, No. 21 Ohio State 6 

PASADENA – UCLA stymied Ohio State throughout Saturday’s only matchup of Top 25 teams in beating the Buckeyes 13-6 before an enthusiastic crowd of 73,723 at the Rose Bowl. 

No. 13 Washington 53, Idaho 3 

SEATTLE – The Huskies had another spectacular day on defense and special teams and the offense finally managed to get untracked in a 53-3 victory over Idaho on Saturday. 

Arizona 38, UNLV 21 

TUCSON, Ariz. – The quality of the opposition may not have been impressive, but it’s still three up and three down for new Arizona coach John Mackovic. 

Jason Johnson threw for three touchdowns, two to Bobby Wade, and Tremaine Cox scored on an 80-yard run Saturday night as the Wildcats beat winless UNLV 38-21. 

Stanford 51, Arizona State 28 

STANFORD – Randy Fasani led Stanford’s offense to 548 total yards and a blowout victory that embarrassed Arizona State. 

Fasani threw for 295 yards and four scores, and seven Stanford players scored touchdowns in a 51-28 victory over the Sun Devils on Saturday night.

Disruptions caused by attacks may steer customers back to using agents’ services 

For the past several years, major airlines have been attempting to shift ticket sales to the Internet to eliminate the need for travel agents, but the confusion in air travel ensuing from last week’s terrorist attacks has once again put travel agents in demand. 

“Airlines were telling people to call their travel agents,” said travel agent Janine Stagg of Ocean View Travel on Delaware Street. “We did whatever we could to help.” 

Ocean View and other Berkeley agencies were inundated by the flood of travelers’ problems and invested the majority of their manpower in refunding and rescheduling. 

“People could not get through to the airlines last week; they were stranded all over the world,” said Stagg. “We were here every day to see if we could get them out.” 

One morning last week, David Shepherd, manager at Northside Travel on Euclid Avenue, was busy at his desk canceling a Eurail Pass, one of many recent cancellations handled by his office.  

“Last week was primarily a scramble to assist distressed passengers,” Shepherd said, referring to customers caught in the middle of trips or about the take one. 

Most cancellations have been made by travelers unable to make it to planned meetings or conferences because their flight had been canceled or postponed.  

Some, however, were due to fear.  

“There’s a lot of shock and confusion right now,” said Shepherd.  

For customers who needed to postpone their trips, Shepherd and his agents created alternative travel plans. A when these fell through, they created more alternatives, a situation Shepherd described as “a lot of churn.”  

Northside, like most of the other travel agencies, has not been charging for these travel changes. 

“This rescheduling has made us very busy with work that had already been completed,” said Cheryl Bickley, agent and part-owner of Great Escapes travel agency on The Alameda. “Here we’ve had a few cancellations but most people going on their trips are still going to go.”  

In addition to being buried with unbillable work, business at these travel agencies has taken a hit as a result of the number of canceled travel plans.  

“We refunded more tickets last week than we sold,” said Shepherd. “That’s a first in this office.”  

Shepherd, however, was confident that the volume of air travel will return to normal within a few months, and added that sales have already increased in the current week. “We are doing new bookings, people are gong forth with their travel plans,” he said. 

“Rather than selling we have been giving back money,” said Stagg. “Business has been significantly slower, but this week we have seen the business travelers come back. … We’re hoping for the best.”  

She expressed concern about how the downturn in the airline industry will affect small travel agencies like Ocean View, which have already been hit hard by the airlines’ recent commission cuts.  

Travelers who bought their tickets on the Internet are finding themselves caught in a bind, said Shepherd.  

“Every day we’ve had numerous people call and come by who bought their tickets on the Internet,” he said. 

Agents can only offer advice to these people, as they have no capability to change tickets booked on the Internet.  

Most travelers who purchase tickets on the Web do so for reasons of convenience or to avoid commission fees. In addition to the commission, Northside charges an extra $20 for every ticket booked, but Shepherd believes that that is a small price to pay for the security offered by a travel agency.  

“Our customers really got something for their money,” he said. 

Stagg said that while travelers may feel like they are saving money by purchasing tickets on the Internet, many are beginning to realize that it is not worth the potential problems.  

“People are coming back to travel agents,” she said. 

Travel agencies expressed hope that airlines will reconsider their attempts to eliminate the need for travel agents in light of recent events. Bickley believes transferring all ticket sale transactions to the Internet would be a mistake.  

“This past week’s crisis has shown that you cannot have an information system that does not include a human being to give information,” she said.

A public workshop for input on the masterplan for development of the new Eastshore State Park is scheduled for today. The park stretches along the shoreline from the Bay Bridge to Marina Bay in Richmond.  

The ESP will become an 8.5-mile ribbon of park land, seamlessly connecting recreational and habitat areas of Oakland, Emeryville, Berkeley, Albany and Richmond.  

The workshop is to assist in the creation and preparation of the park plan.  

The workshop is 7 p.m. at H’s Lordship’s Restaurant, 2nd Floor, Georgian Ballroom, 199 Seawall Drive. For more information visit www.eastshorestatepark.org.  

– Guy Poole 

SAN JOSE – When insurance agent Yolanda Barba went shopping for a new home computer, she sought a faster system that could run more programs than her old PC. 

A salesman told her the speed of the processor – measured in megahertz or gigahertz – is the best measure of performance. She bought the pitch and an 800 megahertz PC. 

Now, Barba isn’t so sure she made the right decision. 

“It’s slower than the ones I use at work. I should have researched it a little bit more,” the Patterson, Calif., resident said. “In the end, you get what you pay for.” 

For years, clock speed has been a reliable yardstick to compare the performance of processors, the “brains” of a computer. Now, analysts say, faster chips do not necessarily perform better. 

“It has become an increasingly poor predictor of performance over the years because there are so many things that affect system performance,” said Nathan Brookwood, with the research firm Insight 64. 

Clock speed defines time within the microprocessor, in cycles per second. It’s the rate – in millions or billions of ticks per second – at which the processor performs its most basic functions. 

But like the revolutions per minute of a car engine, the raw power can be harnessed in different ways. That’s the role of the chip’s architecture. 

Starkly different designs have never been directly comparable. Apple Computer Inc., which uses PowerPC chips in its Macintosh computers, has long claimed its processors perform better than those designed with the dominant Intel architecture, even though PowerPC chips run at a lower speed. 

For years, however, competing chips from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Intel Corp. shared similar architectures. A megahertz war erupted, with each company trying to top the other’s highest frequency. 

“Because the AMD chip and the Intel chip had similar designs, it still was reasonable to compare the two processors based on megahertz ratings,” Brookwood said. “Even though it was not an ideal metric, it didn’t give you the wrong answer.” 

All that changed late last year when Intel introduced a new architecture along with its Pentium 4. 

Early versions of the Pentium 4 carried a faster clock speed yet underperformed AMD’s lower-megahertz Athlon processors in tests involving some common business applications. 

At the same time, the Pentium 4 outperformed the AMD in tasks involving multimedia, such as video editing. Intel also points out that overall performance will improve as more software is optimized for the new design. 

“In the beginning of any architectural shift, you create the hardware and put it into the marketplace, and you work with software community to take full advantage of it,” said Louis Burns, vice president and general manager of Intel’s Desktop Platforms Group. 

Though AMD was the first to reach the 1 GHz threshold with its Athlon series last year, it has since fallen behind in sheer numbers. The Athlon now tops out at 1.4 GHz, while Intel recently introduced a 2 GHz Pentium 4. 

Not surprisingly, AMD is now downplaying megahertz, joining Apple in the dismissal of what has become known as the “megahertz myth.” 

Executives say what matters is the number of instructions performed per cycle, as set by the chip’s architecture. And, AMD claims, the Athlon executes more instructions per cycle than the Pentium 4. 

“Performance used to equal frequency. Now, it’s a combination of instructions per clock cycle times frequency,” said Pat Moorhead, AMD’s vice president of desktop and mobile marketing. “It’s really a new paradigm.” 

Both Intel and AMD plan to keep pushing the megahertz envelope, and Intel maintains that the frequency remains a valid guide for consumers in addition to reviews and benchmark tests.  

But analysts say it’s now more important than ever to look at other factors – including a PC’s total memory, hard drive, graphics card and software – that play critical roles in determining overall performance.

As American war planes and ground troops speed toward the Middle East and President Bush intensifies war rhetoric directed at the Taliban, 40 Afghan Americans held a press conference at UC Berkeley Friday to remind their neighbors that they are not the enemy. 

Citing a backlash of hate crimes against Afghan Americans, including name calling, hate mail and isolated incidents of violence, organizers said the press conference was called to reach out to the Bay Area communities in which an estimated 40,000 Afghan Americans live, work and study. 

“We must distinguish between the terrorists and innocent people,” said Rona Popal, the executive director of the Afghan Coalition. “If we cannot, we become like the terrorists.” 

Louna Amin, 24, a member of the Society of Afghan Professionals, said the tires of her father’s car were slashed Saturday night outside of the family’s home in Tracy. Assuming the incident was a random act of vandalism, Amin said her father did not report the incident to police. But the following night, the tires of her car were slashed.  

“It was very shocking for us to realize that it could have been any of our neighbors,” said Amin, whose family has lived in the United States for 17 years. “It was also shocking to learn that no matter how much I believe in the constitution, no matter how much I believe in this country, my neighbors did not see me that way.” 

Popal said her organization has been advising Afghan Americans not to get into verbal arguments over the terrorist attacks and to stay home as much as possible. 

The Afghan Coalition joined 10 other organizations, including the Associated Students of the University of California, the UC Berkeley Afghan Student Association and the Society of Afghan Professionals to denounce the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington D.C. and to call for Bay Area communities to embrace innocent Afghan-Americans.  

“History will judge us by how we treat each other during this crisis,” said ASUC President Wally Adeyemo. “I hope we can treat our Afghan brothers and sisters with dignity.” 

UC Professor Wali Ahmadi said Afghanis have been through two decades of war and that most of them do not support the Taliban. He said 1.5 million Afghans lost their lives during the war with Russia which lasted from 1979 to 1989, then after a Russian-installed Communist government failed in 1992 , four years of factional fighting followed. 

“Then in 1996 the Taliban emerged and misery became more misery for the average Afghani,” Ahmadi said.  

Each of the speakers expressed sadness and empathy for the victims of the terrorist attacks.  

Hadi Azimi, a member of the Society of Afghan Professionals, said Afghan Americans regard the United States as their second home and are very distressed about the terrorist attacks and also full of dread about the impact of American retaliation on innocent Afghan citizens. 

“Regular Afghanis have suffered tremendously over the last two decades,” Azimi said. “We know very well the pain victims of the attacks are going through and we share their pain as Americans now.” 

Saturday, Sept. 22

1st Annual Guinness & Oyster Festival 

11 a.m. - 6 p.m.  

MLK Jr. Civic Center Park 

Cake, Mingus Amungus, Ponticello, Stolen Bibles, Alamo 66 w/ Destani Wolf, The Culann’s Hounds. Free.  

Free Emergency Preparedness Class 

9 a.m. - noon 

997 Cedar St. 

Disaster mental health class. Free to anyone 18 or older who lives or works in Berkeley. 644-8736 www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/fire.oes.html 

What You Need to Know Before You Build or Remodel 

10 a.m. - noon 

Building Education Center 

812 Page St.  

Preview of the Homeowner’s Essential Course – learn to solder pipe and more. By Glen Kitzenberger. Free.  

525-7610 

Choosing to Add On: The Pros and Cons of Building an  

Addition 

noon - 2 p.m. 

Building Education Center 

812 Page St.  

By author and instructor Skip Wenz. Free. 525-7610 

Julia Morgan Center for the Arts Open House 

1 -4 p.m. 

Julia Morgan Center for the Arts 

2640 College Ave. 

Free family friendly Open House and community celebration. Entertainment by Shotgun Players, Berkeley Ballet and Berkeley Opera. Newcomers are encouraged to drop by and get to know the JMCA. 845-8542 www.juliamorgan.org 

Life from a Spiritual Perspective  

5 p.m. 

St. John’s Presbyterian Church 

2727 College Avenue 

Free talk by Dr. Richard Seader, vegetarian reception to follow, childcare, free parking under church. (707) 226-7703 sfsos@aol.com. 

Disaster Mental Health 

9 a.m. - noon 

Office of Emergency Services 

997 Cedar St. 

Free classes in Community Emergency Response Training (CERT). 981-5605 

Sunday, Sept. 23

West Berkeley Market 

11 a.m. - 5 p.m. 

University Avenue, between Third and Fourth streets  

Family-oriented weekly market. Crafts, music, produce and specialty foods.  

654-6346 

Tibetan Nyingma Institute Open House 

3 - 5 p.m. 

Tibetan Nyingma Institute 

1815 Highland Place 

Free introduction to Tibetan Buddhist Culture.  

843-6812 

Tibetan Buddhism 

6 p.m. 

Tibetan Nyingma Institute 

1815 Highland Place 

Sylvia Gretchen on “Bringing the Tibetan Wisdom Tradition into our Lives Today.” Free.  

843-6812 

Hands-On Bicycle Repair Clinics  

11 a.m. - noon  

Recreational Equipment Inc.  

1338 San Pablo Ave.  

Learn how to adjust your brakes from one of REI’s bike technicians. All you need to bring is your bike, tools are provided. Free. 527-4140 

Monday, Sept. 24 

Free Legal Workshop 

6 - 8 p.m. 

Women’s Cancer Resource Center 

3023 Shattuck Ave. 

Find out about the Family Medical Leave Act, Americans with Disabilities Act, and the California Fair Employment and Housing Act. Laws protect you from termination during an experience with cancer or other serious medical condition. 601-4040 Ext. 302 

Eastshore State Park Regional Workshop #2 

7 p.m. 

Hs Lordship’s Restaurant 

Second Floor Georgian Ballroom 

199 Seawall Drive, Berkeley Marina 

The public is being asked for their input and suggestions on the long-term master plan for the development of the new Eastshore State Park (ESP), stretching along the shoreline from the touchdown of the Bay Bridge to Marina Bay in Richmond.  

www.eastshorestatepark.org 

NOW Meeting 

6:30 - 8 p.m.  

Mama Bears Bookstore & Coffee House  

6536 Telegraph Ave. 

Monthly meeting of the Oakland East Bay Chapter of the National Organization for Women. Nonmembers welcome.  

Free. 549-2970 

Psychology Discussion 

1 p.m. 

North Berkeley Senior Center 

1901 Hearst Ave. 

Psychologist Betty Goren will lead a discussion titled “Does Talking Help Get Rid of the Blues.”  

644-6107 

Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults Inquiry Program 

7:30 p.m. 

St. Mary Magdalen Parish 

2005 Berryman St. 

A program to learn everything you wanted to know about the Catholic Church but never had the chance to ask.  

526-4811 

Affordable Housing Advocacy Project Open Forum 

5:30 - 7 p.m. 

South Branch Public Library 

1901 Russell St. 

Maintain and increase landlords and property management firms participation in the section 8 program, while building a better rapport with all those concerned.  

548-8776 

Daily Prayer and Meditation 

11 a.m. - 1 p.m. 

First Congregational Church 

Dana at Durant 

Chapel open for prayer and  

meditation. 

Tuesday, Sept. 25

Berkeley Housing Authority Monthly Meeting 

6:30 p.m. 

City Council Chambers, 2134 Martin Luther King Jr. Way  

549-2970.  

Berkeley Camera Club  

7:30 p.m. 

Northbrae Community Church  

941 The Alameda  

Share your slides and learn what other photographers are doing. Monthly field trips. 525-3565 

Redistricting of Berkeley City Council Districts 

7 p.m. 

2134 Martin Luther King Jr. Way 

Public hearing to consider proposals to amend Council District boundaries based on the 2000 census figures. Members of the public are invited to comment on all proposals. 981-7000 www.ci.berkeley.ca.us 

Berkeley Farmers’ Market 

2-7 p.m. 

Derby Street between Martin Luther King Jr. Way and Milvia Street. 548-3333 

Free Early Music Group 

10 - 11:30 a.m. 

North Berkeley Senior Center 

1901 Hearst Ave. 

Small group sings madrigals and other voice harmony every Tuesday.  

655-8863 

Annual PTA Reception 

6 - 8 p.m. 

Rosa Parks Environmental  

Science Magnet School 

920 Allston Way 

Multi-Purpose Room 

Reception for the 2001 - 2002 PTA Officers. 644-8764  

The Campanile is Berkeley's most prominent landmark and is the most important visual symbol of UC Berkeley. It can be seen from the hills of San Francisco, most parts of Berkeley, North Oakland, Albany, El Cerrito, and on a clear day, from as far away as the Golden Gate Bridge. 

The Campanile was constructed in 1914 and designed by campus architect John Galen Howard. It is a version of its namesake in the Piazza San Marco in Venice. The square granite shaft has an inset central section with seven small narrow windows. The clock at the top can be seen from any place on the campus.  

Above the shaft is an observation loggia with a classically detailed balustrade and three open arches. A Classic entablature supports another balustrade with four corner posts that have pyramidal obelisks capped with bronze urns. Above is a small tower element which terminates in a spiked bronze lantern. The chimes, cast in England, were first played on Nov. 2, 1917. 

The Campanile is set on a raised podium that contains an esplanade extending north from the entrance to the tower. In the center of the esplanade is a drinking fountain and four benches. At the entrance to the tower is a granite square inscribed in honor of the architect John Galen Howard. The Campanile/Sather Tower and its bells were a gift from Mrs. Jane K. Sather as a memorial to herself.  

The University of California was founded in 1868, but its origins date back to 1860 when the College of California, a small, private institution then located in Oakland, purchased thirty acres of land for the “benefits of a country location.” In 1866 the California legislature, established the College of Agriculture, Mining, and Mechanical Arts. Two years later, with the passage of the Charter Act by the legislature the new state college joined with the College of California, and the University of California was formed. The Berkeley campus opened in 1873.  

Susan Cerny writes “Berkeley Observed” in conjunction with the Berkeley Architectural Heritage Association. 

Editor: 

I'm scared. Each day as I read the paper I read more and more letters from people who have no ability to conceive of a solution to problems without resorting to violence. In Thursday’s march on the U.C. campus, out of the 2,500 people of diverse races, classes, women, men, children and elderly, there were a small number of people enthusiastically supporting the use of violence towards the Middle Eastern nations (they seemed to not care which one. To be Arabic was enough for them). They were almost exclusively white men. As they chanted “U.S.A” they may as well have been chanting “White Male Privilege!” It would have been more accurate. 

The domestic and foreign policy of this nation has never been for the benefit of women and people of color. It worries me as I watch the violence in people calling for war. I can't help thinking of their families. As a society in which the politicians and mass media glorify might and think compassion a sign of weakness, I see why there is such a need for domestic abuse shelters and self defense classes for women. I see why we imprison so many of our citizens for nonviolent crimes. I see why our children are at risk of never learning to resolve problems without resorting to violence themselves. 

There is another way. 

Thomas Wandall 

Oakland

A sumo wrestler, a ground splitting earthquake, the Beatles, and the funeral of an emperor share the halls of history at the UC Berkeley Center for Photography’s current exhibit, “50 Years of Photography in Japan 1951-2001.” 

Japan’s The Yomiuri Shimbun is the world’s largest daily morning newspaper with a circulation of nearly 10,300,000 and the source of the five decades of photojournalism on display. 

The idea for the exhibit came from Masahiko Sasajima, reporter for The Yomiuri Shimbun, while he was a visiting fellow at U. C. Berkeley last spring. Sasajima said his paper would love to do a news photo exhibit at the School of Journalism. 

“We thought it was a fab idea,” said Ken Light, curator of the Photojournalism Center at the school. “It was a challenge for them and us.” 

Culling through 50 years of newspaper photos sent from The Yomiuri Shimbun took Light and Carolyn Wakeman, head of the Asian reporting center, several days to make their selection. 

With the history of a country in photographs that reflect a half-century of daily life, culture, politics, and natural disasters, the predominant number of photos was sports and local events. This helped narrow the selection to those few that were major historical events or kitsch culture, according to Light. 

After choosing the images, some of which date back to the 1940’s, Light requested the negatives from The Yomiuri Shimbun. They found all of the negatives in their archives, made the prints and shipped them to the Center for Photography. 

The variety of subject matter includes events that dramatically mark each decade they represent. The photos are strikingly mounted along the wood paneled halls of the journalism department overlooking a quiet courtyard. 

The 50 black and white, 16-by-20 inch photos are on display through Nov. 5. 

The exhibit was co-sponsored by the Graduate School of Journalism, The Japan Society and The Yomiuri Simbun in co-operation with the U.S.-Japan Twenty-first Century Project to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the San Francisco Peace Treaty. 

Growing team still looking for first win 

The Berkeley High girls’ field hockey team was unable to find the goal against University High (San Francisco) on Friday, losing 1-0. The loss dropped the ’Jackets to 0-1-1 on the season. 

University put their lone point on the board late in the first half. Berkeley didn’t display much offense until the final minutes of the game, but put a lot of pressure on the Red Devils until the final whistle. 

Field hockey is an emerging sport at Berkeley High, with 38 girls on the varsity and junior varsity levels, a new high for the team. Berkeley Athletic Director Robert Traum said he has tried to help the sport come to an even level with football as a fall sport. 

“In the past, football has dominated the fall,” Traum said. “We want to encourage the other sports to step up.” 

In the past, field hockey has had second-class citizenship when it came to getting practice time on the Berkeley High field. But that changed this season, according to head coach Amy Meehan. 

“We sat down with the football coaches in the spring to work out the schedule, and it’s been perfect so far,” Meehan said. 

With very few schools in Northern California fielding teams, it has been hard in the past for Berkeley to find enough games to fill the schedule. The ’Jackets will face just four different teams this season, but next season will be a different story as they join the Blossom Valley Athletic League, based in San Jose. 

Another obstacle for Meehan, who played at University of Pennsylvania, and her assistants is the fact that no Bay Area middle schools have field hockey teams. That means every player Meehan gets is a novice at the sport and must be taught the rules as well as learning to play the game. 

This is Meehan’s second season coaching at Berkeley, so she does have a few players back with whom she is familiar. Last year, she didn’t start coaching until mid-season, which presented some problems with scheduling and practices, as Meehan was playing catch-up in addition to teaching the game to new players. 

“It’s much more organized this year, so that offsets having more girls to coach,” she said. 

The ’Jackets next face Los Altos on Tuesday. The varsity game will be at 5:30 p.m. on the Berkeley High field.

OAKLAND – Advocates of better access to health care for people with disabilities gathered Friday to share ideas for reform amidst grim stories of illness aggravated by bureaucracy. 

State Assemblymember Dion Aroner, D-Berkeley, who presided over the forum at the Elihu Harris State Building, said in opening comments that the events of Sept. 11 “make us all sit back and think a bit about what kind of services we provide for people who are vulnerable.” 

Several participants presented case studies on people with disabilities who have endured needless and health-threatening delays and denials of service far worse than non-disabled patients confront. As reasons for this disparity, they cited poor understanding of disability issues by health-care providers and a lack of communication among multiple layers of government and health-care agencies. 

Participant Rosalee Schubert told of a financially well-off female wheelchair user who did not have a pap smear until she was 48 years old because doctors disregarded her body below her waistline. She died, Schubert said, of uterine cancer. 

“The attitude of health-care providers – not seeing them in their wholeness rather than as just a disability – is a critical problem,” said Rocio Smith, executive director of the Area 5 (Alameda County) Developmental Disabilities Council. 

In another example of disabled people falling between the cracks, Schubert offered a case study of a young man with a terrifying case of schizophrenia who was released to his solitary apartment on Tuesday, Sept. 11 – right after his second suicide attempt, with footage from the east coast attacks spilling from the television. Those with mental health disabilities, she said, sometimes suffer because mental health professionals “view developmentally disabled people as having a rich service system and not being truly needy.”  

Steve Zolno, who said he ran nine facilities housing people with developmental disabilities – chronic conditions that arise early in life and severely inhibit independence – told of a patient who needed anesthesia to undergo even minor dental work. The dental insurer refused coverage for anesthesia, Medi-Cal refused to fund the dental work, and painful months elapsed before the work took place. 

Snafus like these over dental work, Zolno and others said, were so common that care facilities had huge incentives to simply pull all their patients’ teeth, and regularly did so. 

“The stories are all the same,” said Aroner. “You don’t even have to be on Medi-Cal; you can be in an HMO and they say, ‘You have a bad tooth, let’s just pull it.’” It needs to be highlighted, and we need to deal with it.” 

Stories of bureaucratic snafus abounded. Roswitha Robinson, a parent and head of the Health Care Task Force of the Alameda County Developmental Disabilities Council, which convened the forum, said months of out-of-pocket expenses resulted from the loss of her developmentally disabled daughter’s membership card in a health maintenance organization contracting to Medicare. Robinson said she found herself bounced among the Social Security Administration, the HMO, and the county social service department for months. 

“When you call these offices,” she said, “people are very accommodating, but you get the answers with such finality: ‘Sorry, you’re not eligible.’” 

Melissa Rodgers, a staff attorney with the Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County, offered advice on how and why to start a community watchdog agency for health care. She said she had dealt with disabled patients’ lack of access to prostheses and to specialists, unfair denials of service, improper billing by providers and pharmacies, and other problems. 

“Our priority is to resolve the issues at the lowest level of conflict and adversarialness possible,” she said. Independent advocates were more likely to be effective than ones based in the health plans, governments, or public health agencies themselves, she said. 

Sherri Novick, chief of staff to Aroner, noted that the federal government had set up a pilot program of county-based health consumer advocacy organizations several years ago, but some had voiced concerns about confining that function to government. 

In an overview of the crisis, Barbara Garcia, a disabled patients’ advocate, reported that people with disabilities logged twice as many customer service complaints as people without, and three times as many service denials. 

The forum’s suggestions to improve the situation ranged from the creation of advocacy offices and changes in existing agency procedures to wholesale reform of the health-care system on civil-rights grounds. 

“For me,” said Vanessa White, who spoke from the audience, “the issue of access is a civil rights issue and it affects everyone.” 

On the bureaucracy front, participants recommended creating an early-payment system for people with disabilities to smooth out potentially devastating delays and using the Internet for patient information among the various agencies. Aroner welcomed a suggestion that case managers be appointed to supervise individuals’ care across disconnected agencies. 

“We have state agencies that haven’t talked to each other for 25 years and have no intention of doing so,” she said, “so how can they provide leadership on the local level?” 

To increase understanding of the special needs of those with disabilities, speakers advocated outreach to nurses and doctors in their workplaces and education for caseworkers on conservators’ rights in order to keep important decisions in the hands of developmentally disabled people’s loved ones. Rodgers drew applause with the recommendation that the state legislate “to give people enforceable rights and the means to enforce them.” 

The forum organizers will compile their results and present them at another gathering scheduled for Feb. 6 at the same place. Aroner said she would draw from the results of both to recommend legislation in Sacramento.

The Daily Planet received this letter addressed to Rep. Barbara Lee: 

Thank you for your vote against our ongoing war against terrorists. There are other ways to combat these attacks on our people, (boycotts, embargoes, etc.) but I fear we are going to bomb Afghanistan “for Jesus,” just like we did in Vietnam. 

To those of you who forget (or were not around) at the time, please remember that as bombs were being rolled out and hoisted into our planes, Roman Catholic priests sprinkled holy water on the bombs and “blessed” them. 

That is why we in Berkeley raised the slogan “We are bombing for Jesus.” 

Expect more of the same. 

George and Aileen Kauffman 

Berkeley

924 Gilman Street Sept. 23: 5 p.m. Subtonix, Running Ragged, (+t.b.a.); Sept. 28: Erase Errata, The Intima, Ibobuki, (+t.b.a.); Sept. 29: DS-13, Beware, Blown To Bits, (+t.b.a.); Most shows are $5 and start at 8 p.m. unless otherwise noted. 

Albatross Pub Sept. 22: Larry Stefl Jazz Quartet; Sept. 25: Mad and Eddie Duran; Sept. 27: Kenji “El Lebrijano” Flamenco Guitar; Free. All shows begin at 9 p.m. 1822 San Pablo Ave. 843-2473  

albatrosspub@mindspring.com  

Anna’s Sept. 22: Vicki Burns and Felice York, Ellen Hoffman Trio, 10 p.m. The Distones Jazz Sextet, Donald Duck Bailey on piano; Sept. 23: Ed Reed, Alex Markel’ Group; Sept. 24: The Renegade Sidemen, Calvin Keyes, Dave Rokeach and Pals; Sept. 25: Tangria; Sept. 26: Bob Schoen Jazz Quintet, Cheryl McBride; Sept. 27: David Jeffrey Fourtet, Brendan Milstein; Sept. 28: Anna sings jazz standards, 10 p.m. Bluesman Hideo Date; Sept. 29: Robin Gregory, Bliss Rodriguez, 10 p.m. The Distones Jazz Sextet, Donald Duck Bailey; Sept. 30: Acoustic Soul; All shows begin at 8 p.m. 1801 University Ave.  

849-ANNA www.annasbistro.com 

Ashkenaz Music & Dance Community Center Sept. 22: 9:30 p.m. Don Carlos and Reggae Angels, $15; Sept. 23: 8 p.m. Funky Nixons, Mokai, Green & Root’s Womyn’s Music and more, $8 - $15.  

1317 San Pablo Ave. 525-5054  

www.ashkenaz.com  

Café de la Paz Poetry Nitro, performance showcase with open mike. Sept. 24: Jim Watson-Gove; All shows free, 7 - 10 p.m. 

Cal Performances Sept. 30: 7 p.m. Kronos Quartet, David Barron, $30; Oct. 12 - 14: Fri. and Sat., 8 p.m., Sun. 3 p.m. Ballet Nacional De Cuba, $24 - $46; Oct. 17 and 18: 8 p.m. Cesaria Evora, $24 - $36; Oct. 19: 8 p.m. Karnak, $18 - $30. Zellerbach Hall, UC Berkeley Campus, Bancroft Way at Telegraph, 642-0212, tickets@calperfs.berkeley.edu 

Crowden School Sept. 23: 4 p.m. “Sundays at Four Concert” Jeremy Cohen’s jazz violin. Admission $10 (free if under 18) 1475 Rose 559-6910 

Eli’s Mile High Club Every Friday, 10 p.m. Funky Fridays Conscious Dance Party with KPFA DJs Splif Skankin and Funky Man. $10. Doors open at 8 p.m. unless noted. 3629 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Oakland. 655-6661 

Freight & Salvage Sept. 22: The Bluerass Intentions, $17.50; Sept. 23 Tony Marcus & Patrice Haan, $16.50; Sept. 24: April Verch, $16.50; Sept. 26: Clive Gregson, $16.50; Sept. 27: Dick Gaughan, $18.50; Sept 28: Jenna Mammina, $16.50; Sept. 29: The Nigerian Brothers, $16.50; Sept. 30: Vasen, $17.50; All shows start at 8 p.m. 1111 Addison St. 548-1761 www.freightandsalvage.com 

Jack’s Bistro Sept. 22 and 28: 9 p.m. Tomas Michaud’s New World Flamenco Quartet, Jack London Square. 444-7171 www.starland-music.com 

Jazzschool/La Note Sept. 23: 4:30 p.m. Dick Hindman Trio, $6 - $12; Sept. 30: 4 p.m., John Santos and the Machete Ensemble. $15. 2377 Shattuck Ave. 845-5376 

Jupiter Sept. 22: New Garde Philosophers; Sept. 25: Craig Graham Trio; Sept. 26: Starvin Like Marvin; Sept. 28 Anton Schwartz Quartet; Sept 29: moderngypsies.net; All music starts at 8:00 p.m. 2181 Shattuck Ave. 843-7625 www.jupiterbeer.com  

La Peña Cultural Center Sept. 27: 7:30 p.m. The local Friends of the MST will host a screening of the new documentary "Raiz Forte" or "Strong Roots" to present our community with a vision of their work and struggle. A discussion will follow. $5-$10; In the Cafe, 3105 Shattuck Ave. 849-2568 www.lapena.org 

Music Sources Sept. 30: 5 p.m. Ole Scarlatta! Portuguese and French keyboards and fortepiano joined by Jason McGuire on flamenco guitar, $18 General, $15 members, seniors, students. 1000 The Alameda 528-1685 

Sedge Thomson’s West Coast Live Radio Show Sept. 22: Garrison Keillor, Paula West, Douglas Coupland. Julia Morgan Theatre, 2640 College Ave.; Sept. 29: Nancy Miford, The Nigerian Brothers, Caroline Dahl. The Freight and Salvage, 1111 Addison St. All shows 10 a.m. - noon.  

252-9214 www.wcl.org 

The 1st Annual Guinness & Oyster Festival 2001 Sept. 22: 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. Free. Cake, Mingus Amungus, Ponticello, Stolen Bibles, Alamo 66 w/ Destani Wolf, The Culann’s Hounds. MLK Jr. Civic Center Park 

13th Annual Blues ‘n Jazz Festival Sept. 23: noon - 6 p.m. Jeffrey Osborne Jazz Crusaders with Ronnie Laws, Ricardo Scales, Sonata Pi (and more). $35, Lawn $25, Child $6 (6-12 years, lawn only). Dunsmuir House & Gardens Historic Estate, 2960 Peralta Oaks Court, Oakland. 583-1160 

Benifit Concert for the Native  

American Health Center Sept. 28: 8 p.m. Buffy Sainte-Marie, Ulali, Lorrie Church, The Mankillers. Paramount Theater, 2025 Broadway, Oakland.  

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Ball’s diatribe offends coaches as Cal tries for first Washington win since 1979 

When the Cal football team takes the field in Pullman, Wash., today to face the Washington State Cougars, the Bears will have two big factors going against them: momentum and history. 

Cal is coming off of two crushing defeats, having been outscored 88-33 so far this season, while the Cougars are 2-0 and have scored 77 points in their victories. For the two worst Pac-10 teams of the past decade, the conference opener could set the tone for the rest of the season. 

Add in the fact that the Bears haven’t won a game in Washington since 1979, and the Cougars have to be feeling confident. 

“We’re running on all eight cylinders right now,” Washington State head coach Mike Price said this week. “We feel good about ourselves right now, we’re very confident. I can see us getting better.” 

Price’s usual air-it-out attack is working well so far this season, as starting quarterback Jason Gesser is the eighth-ranked passer in the country, while wideout Nakoa McElrath was leading the nation in receiving yards heading into this week’s games. Throw in running back Dave Minnich averaging 102 yards per game on the ground, and it could be another long day for the Cal defense. 

While the Cougars try to keep their hot start going, Cal will be trying for a new start. Head coach Tom Holmoe said his players have to put their mistakes behind them. 

“It’s a new start, even though it’s slightly artificial,” Holmoe said of the Pac-10 opener. “We can’t run away from the issues we have, but we do have a clean slate.” 

Considering Holmoe probably needs to reach a bowl game to save his job, his team had better use that clean slate to their advantage. Turnovers have killed several promising drives for the offense, which has averaged 396 yards per game but scored just 33 points. Holmoe said offensive coordinator Al Borges expects quarterback Kyle Boller to continue his improvement all year. 

“Al sees the mistakes (Boller) is making, and they’re mostly bad reads,” Holmoe said. “Al sees that and tells me, ‘he won’t do that again.’” 

Some fans have called for Boller to be benched in favor of backup Eric Holtfreter, who has played in relief in both games and looked solid. But Holmoe said while Borges has confidence in Holtfreter, the move isn’t called for just yet. 

“We have no problem switching if it’s needed, but we don’t need a quarterback controversy right now,” he said. 

The Bears are enmeshed in a different kind of controversy right now. Linebacker Chris Ball upset the coaches with his comments earlier this week, saying some of his teammates are “soft,” and that the coaches had “silenced” some players from trash-talking. 

“I think there are guys here who are playing football because it’s fun and they can,” Ball said. “‘Hey, I’ve got a degree in engineering, I don’t need football.’ I question the heart of this entire team.” 

Holmoe later questioned Ball’s reasoning, and said some players were also upset by the quotes. 

“Some guys came to me and said (Ball’s comments) were ridiculous and some guys were really mad,” said Holmoe. 

Ball may have just been trying to fire up his defensive mates with his comments, and it’s hard to blame him. The Bears haven’t forced a turnover or recorded a sack yet this season, and the secondary has been a vast disappointment, allowing five touchdown passes and nearly 300 yards per game.

Residents living near Delaware Street and San Pablo Avenue woke up Wednesday morning to find fresh fliers on their windshields warning, “Neighborhood Alert!!” Popeyes, a chicken and biscuits fast-food chain restaurant would be coming to their neighborhood, moving into the unoccupied space where Rich’s Bulky Burger once operated. 

“San Pablo becomes the dumping ground for undesired businesses in Berkeley,” said Mark Woo, analyst for the California Budget Project who lives nearby. 

This new business would not be subject to a ban against so-called quick-service restaurants on San Pablo that the Planning Commission is proposing to the City Council. It is exempt because Popeyes purchased Rich’s use permit, but whether the business will open in the end is unclear. 

The project went before the Design Review Committee last week. Committee members asked the restaurant to make changes in its proposed plan, so that it would fit better into the neighborhood. At least 10 neighbors spoke against the project. Project manager Allen Hui postponed the Zoning Adjustments Board’s hearing and will propose a new design in another Design Review meeting in two weeks. Ultimately, the Zoning Adjustments Board will have to approve the plan for it to be able to operate.  

Until the city’s final determination, the locals have vowed to fight. At its annual neighborhood barbecue last week, 50 people signed up to join the battle. 

“We are trying to have a residential identity, and a national franchise restaurant doesn’t fit this plan,” said Cynthia Wooten-Cohen who held the barbecue. “We need a cafe in the neighborhood or a more pedestrian-oriented restaurant for families to come over to eat, rather than trash food.” 

“Popeyes will bring more traffic on Delaware street and less parking for the residents,” said Deborah Brown, who lives next to the site. The residents are also concerned about litter and noise.  

“We are fearful about the odors of the deep fryers coming into our houses and yards,” said Mark Woo. 

Not so, said Kevin Stong, Popeyes’ architect. “There won’t be any smells or noises coming from that establishment. It’s the city conditions for getting the use permit, but we already designed the place with a good filtering system.” 

Project manager Hui said the neighborhood can be convinced. “I hope they can understand that we are a business, but we are also over there for them as much as they are for us.” 

Hui said a Popeyes would mean jobs. “We will be hiring workers from the neighborhood,” she said adding that they would target teen-agers involved in work study programs and mothers who want part-time work. She said the chain would also mount charity drives at Christmas for the community.  

Residents aren’t impressed. The new business will have only four employees, they said. 

It’s not that the neighborhood is completely opposed to restaurants or insistent on one that serves good food. The main objection seems to be to be the genre known as fast-food. 

Rich’s Bulky Burger closed last year and John McBride, an art books salesman and resident of the area described it as a quiet place. “They served breakfast and lunch; mediocre food for a small clientele of workers and seniors.” 

McBride was unclear why it closed, but he doesn’t want Popeye’s to replace it.  

“I don’t want to smell fried chicken for the rest of my life,” he said. “One of my pleasures is to read a book with open windows to get the breeze. I don’t want this to be changed.” 

But Hui argued that the restaurant might be the best they could get. “If it isn’t Popeyes, it will be a different restaurant. Because we are a chain we have higher standards than others.”  

Editor: 

I have just suffered a two-pronged attack of common sense:  

Prevention is at least as important as retribution. Kudos to Rep. Barbara Lee for that, and; 

They can’t do it if they’re not here. 

Now what? 

Peter B. Jansen 

Berkeley

As East Bay residents turn to their faith for support, leaders of different religious congregations are dealing with questions of how a just God could permit last week’s terrorist acts in New York and Washington, D.C. and whether war is the correct response.  

Father Gary Kyraicou, of the Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Ascension in Oakland, said he tries to communicate the notion of free will to his parishioners. God, he said, is not to blame because God has granted each human the ability to choose right from wrong.  

“Unfortunately, some have chosen to do evil,” Kyraicou said.  

Kyraicou also said free will motivates him to argue against war. He tells his congregation of 1,700 families that Americans must understand why people are angry with the United States. “In reflecting on it,” he asks, “how much good could we do if we poured billions of dollars into a peace plan? Let’s return a good for an evil.” 

To answer what to do next, Debbie Whaley, Associate Pastor for Congressional Care of the First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley, said her essential message is to use caution and restraint. When considering whether to engage in war, she tells members of her 2,000-person congregation to think hard.  

“We believe that life is sacred and that there are no throw-away people,” she said. “Let’s be cautious. We don’t always see things clearly.”  

Though justice is important, she said, our leaders must act with caution. U.S. citizens and leaders must consider the country’s role in engendering hate, and use “sober reflection to see these events from a global perspective.”  

She said she also asks the church members for a “call to prayer for leaders to exert wisdom and restraint.” 

On the other hand, Rabbi Yehuda Ferris of Chabad House in Berkeley, said that war is justified now. “There is a concept of war in the bible,” Ferris said. “This would be a war of defense.” 

Rabbi Stuart Kelman of Netivot Shalom, a 350-family synagogue in Berkeley, said he was not yet thinking about the larger question because he was still recovering from the trauma of ensuring that his own family was safe. One member escaped from the World Trade Center.  

Although some wars have been justified, he said, right now his focus is trying to support his congregation. 

“My task is to provide comfort to people who are deeply hurting,” Kelman said. 

To those people, he offers a similar message as Kyraicou’s: God did not let the bombings happen; people did. “God gave us a phenomenal gift,” Kelman said, “the gift of choice.”  

The question of how a benevolent God could allow for absurd, evil things, he said, “it’s a question asked for thousands of years.” 

Editor: 

The controversial dismissal of Karen Craig from the city’s Commission on Disability has diverted a great deal of attention from significant issues of disabled access and rights. Ms. Craig is to be commended for her service on the Commission on Disability, but under the present Berkeley City leadership, she can do more good away from the Commission. 

Having read through a City of Berkeley Commissioner’s Manual I learned that the role of a Commissioner is primarily as an advisor to the City Council and City Manager. The Manual states that Commission Reports presented to the Council “should reflect all opposing viewpoints.” This leads one to wonder why Ms. Craig’s “fundamental differences” with Council member Maio’s viewpoint should lead to her dismissal. Nevertheless, all Berkeley City Commissioner’s serve at the pleasure of the Council ember who appointed them and Karen Craig has been asked to leave the Commission. I believe that the disability community in Berkeley will benefit from Ms. Craig’s leadership away from the Commission because she will no longer be constrained by political requirements, such as bowing to the opinion of the City Council. 

Any City-operated Commission is political. I would like to see some strong, non-political advocacy for the disabled, the unsheltered and other under-represented minorities throughout Berkeley. Such advocacy should rest with members of the community unconstrained by the Mayor and Council. Karen Craig is one of the few leaders in the disability community with the courage to speak out, even when her voice is being muffled by Berkeley’s political leadership. If the Daily Planet wants to write long articles on Karen Craig’s story, they should follow her to the controversial sites such as lack of physical access at public events, fairs and forums; public transportation venues; sidewalks rendered impassible by sandwich board signs; and the problematic and often failing emergency attendant care by EDI, inc. I for one think it is a waste of time to protest Karen’s dismissal from the Commission. We, the disabled of Berkeley, would benefit more from meeting with Karen and supporting her efforts outside the commission, not just while it is the stuff of headlines, but for the long haul. 

E. Campos 

Berkeley

Mandated chemical dependency treatment vouchers to treat problems caused by powerful opiates and other similar drugs would be more apropos and effective at responding to medical and criminal justice problems than by hiring cops.  

Industry would set up assigned risk pool for funding it.  

The perverse and fragmented forces of marketplace and health consequences are nowhere more apparent than with oxycontin. This powerful opiate has significant physical dependence producing properties. This has been known for hundreds, if not thousands of years. Somehow this basic pharmacological fact has been forgotten by the company as it sought to increase its sales.  

Time to remember.  

But no. Infinitely made more complex by the enforcement corrections involvement from incidents in diversion and illicit trafficking. Worsened by FDA and other health regulatory agency passivity and pharmaceutical industry power, Purdue Pharma continues maneuvering and perigrinations to cope with the situation. A better and more appropriate solution would be treatment vouchers for chemical dependency treatment programs and a fund for compensation for criminal justice agencies involved in problematic uses of Oxycontin. This appropriate and responsible move would motivate development of effective sales and security policies and initiate a connection between adverse effects of the drug and policy.  

Tod Mikuriya, M.D. 

Berkeley

OAKLAND – A week after four commercial flights were hijacked and crashed in terrorist attacks, Oakland International Airport officials said that up to 85 percent of its flights are operating again, but with far fewer passengers. Terminal Two, used by Southwest Airlines, was packed while Terminal One, used by other airlines, was nearly empty Thursday. 

“We are used to having between 200 and 300 customers in the morning peak hours, but today we had only 40,” said Dora Ortega, a cashier at the Hertz car rental counter in Terminal One. 

Sheila Johnson, Ortega’s colleague at Hertz, said business was down 75 percent. 

“Usually there are long lines, the parking lots are full, but not today,” said James More, a shuttle driver. “I think in two weeks everything should be back to normal.” 

But normal will look different. New security measures required by the Federal Aviation Administration have ended curbside check-in, and cars parked curbside are immediately towed away. Drivers are still allowed to drop off and pick up passengers at the curb. 

The new rules are putting skycaps out of work. “It’s horrible,” said one, who said she was not allowed to talk to the press. “We aren’t allowed to do check-in any more so we don’t get any (tips).” 

Nevertheless, she and other skycaps stood outside Thursday to help travelers move their bags inside. “We used to earn between $100 to $200 from tips and now we have nothing,” said another skycap. “We aren’t the terrorists; why don’t they let us do it?” he said. 

The new measures require every passenger to check in at the ticket counter. Although airline employees declined to explain how they make their decisions, some passengers must have their bags checked by hand. All passengers proceed from the ticket counter to another desk where they once again show their tickets and identification. Before going on to the gates, they pass through the metal detector and X-ray machine. Before last Tuesday’s attack, passengers without luggage to check could go straight to the metal detector and on to the gate. 

Blake Suttle, a 26-year-old graduate student from the integrative biology department at UC Berkeley, arrived Thursday at the airport two hours before his flight to Chile. Suttle wasn’t scared. “I’ve been in a plane crash before and survived, so I don’t think it can happen to a person twice,” he said. 

Suttle was lucky again. The lines for his American Airlines flight were short, and after less than 30 minutes he was on his way to the next security point. 

Ben Halay and Tom Medlock from Ohio were not as fortunate. Their luggage was hand checked and the process took more than an hour. “It’s probably because we have tool boxes,” they said. “Everything we had was taken out. They emptied all of it on the table. Don’t take things that you don’t won’t people to see.” 

Arriving passengers spoke about their fears during the flight. “I think I prayed half the way,” said Jennifer Lockney, an 18-year-old student from UC Irvine. “I found myself profiling people. You start noticing things which you didn’t before.” 

She was relieved when the plane landed, but said it was weird to arrive to an empty gate. “You are so used to people waiting for you in the gate and now they can’t get there anymore,” she said. 

At Terminal Two, passengers were lined up outside the terminal, waiting patiently to be checked. It took John Henry from Oakland two-and-a-half hours just to pass the first counter and his bags were not even hand-checked. Waiting to pass through the metal detector, Henry was calm. He had considered canceling his flight, but said he “decided not to be a terror victim.” 

Southwest doesn’t give out boarding cards until passengers reach the gates. This allows passengers without luggage to skip check-in, a must in Terminal One. 

Oakland airport officials suggested that passengers call their airlines in advance to be ready for their different check-in procedures. 

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At 12:17 a.m. Friday morning Vivianne Scott kneeled on the ground and began lighting 70 candles spread out in the shape a of a peace sign. 

“It's what we stand for,” said the UC Berkeley sophomore. 

She’s one of about 35 students and community members from the Stop The War Coalition who spent Thursday night on Lower Sproul Plaza in front of Eshleman Hall on the UC Berkeley campus to protest a controversial cartoon published in Tuesday's Daily Californian. The group was demanding an apology for the “racist” cartoon depicting mid-eastern-looking men in hell, celebrating the attack on the World Trade Center. 

Daily Cal editor Janny Hu, however, has been adamant in her refusal to issue an apology. The opinion page, where the cartoon was published, provides a space for diverse ideas and does not represent the paper, she said. Not allowing the cartoon would be taking away the author’s freedom of speech, she argued. 

On Tuesday about 150 students protested at the paper’s offices and a group among them was arrested early Wednesday morning. 

The demand for an apology continued Thursday. An anti-war rally and march ended directly beneath the Daily Cal’s windows.  

About 60 students set up there for an all-night encampment, but they couldn’t sleep. Under article three of the Berkeley Campus Code of Student Conduct, camping or lodging on university property other than in authorized facilities is a violation. 

“If it's a vigil and they're not sleeping they will be fine,” said Assistant Chancellor John Cummins. “But they'll get in trouble if they fall asleep or set up tents and sleeping bags.” 

Some students went home and others decided to take turns sleeping or resting at a nearby all-night study lounge. 

In the end, the protesters decided their strategy wasn’t working. 

“I don't think that they’re going to apologize,” said Scott as she looked up at the windows of the Daily Cal’s offices. 

At about 6 a.m. the sleep-deprived students left, having decided that they would change their tactics and try to get advertisers to boycott the paper and to educate their fellow students on the reasons for protesting the cartoon. 

DIAMOND BAR, Calif. — More than 400 Los Angeles-area dry cleaners showed their opposition to plans that would make them the first in the country forced to give up their industry’s most commonly used chemical. 

Perchloroethylene — or perc — has been identified as a likely human carcinogen and linked to chronic kidney, liver and gastrointestinal problems. But dry cleaners said at a South Coast Air Quality Management District meeting Thursday that they have greatly reduced their use of the chemical, and insisted their operations are safe. 

“I have not heard one instance where one of our colleagues has passed away due to perc-related cancer,” Young Lin, a member of the Korean Dry Cleaners Association of Southern California, said through an interpreter. 

After imposing rules that reduced perc use in new operations by about 90 percent, air district officials now propose banning dry cleaners from using the chemical by 2011. 

A few dozen cleaning operations in the district have turned to of one of three suggested alternatives to perc: petroleum-based solvents, computer-controlled “wet cleaning” and liquid carbon dioxide. 

Some dry cleaners complained that carbon dioxide operations are too expensive; some of the solvents may have their own toxic problems; and that wet-cleaning is time-consuming and potentially damaging to clothes. 

“I cannot put an Armani suit or a Versace dress in a wet-cleaning solvent,” said Robert Smerling, a Brentwood dry cleaner. 

Joe Whang, owner of Cypress Plaza Cleaners in Cypress, said he converted to wet cleaning more than three years ago and cleans everything he did as a dry cleaner without problems. 

Whang, who made the switch to combat a thyroid problem, said that not only has his health improved, but so has his business. 

“In order to start up new, it takes courage,” Whang said. “Fear is the No. 1 handicap.” 

Peter Sinsheimer, director of the Pollution Prevention Education and Research Center at Occidental College, said his research has found wet-cleaning equipment to be “less expensive to buy and less expensive to operate” than dry cleaning equipment. His center is in the process of awarding eight grants to set up Southern California wet-cleaning facilities, which are rare in the United States but are more numerous in Europe. 

Dry cleaners said they shouldn’t be forced to spend thousands on new equipment, especially because many of them own small businesses that already have made investments aimed at curbing their perc use. 

The state classifies perc as a toxic air contaminant, and just over half of perc emissions come from dry cleaners. 

Dry cleaners, however, claim the district overstates the cancer risk and point out that new equipment has allowed them to reduce their perc use by as much as 90 percent. 

PASADENA — NASA’s Deep Space 1 spacecraft will swoop within 1,240 miles of a comet on Saturday in an attempt to image for only the second time ever the dark nucleus of one of the frozen balls of dust and ice. 

The robotic probe will make its closest approach to the comet Borrelly at 3:30 p.m. PDT Saturday. If the flyby is successful — and the odds are slim — the battered probe’s camera will snap up to 32 black-and-white images of the comet’s heart. 

Confirmation of whether the attempt succeeded will take 12 minutes to reach Earth. Mission members hope to receive the first image of the comet’s nucleus within three hours of the encounter. 

The probe will also attempt to learn more about Borrelly’s surface, measure and identify the gases it gives off and study the interaction of the solar wind with the comet. That process creates the comet’s distinctive tail. 

The risky flyby may be the swan song for Deep Space 1, which wrapped up its main mission to test a dozen new technologies two years ago. 

Engineers at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory fear that dust and debris kicked off by the comet will knock the probe off kilter and possibly destroy it. Even if the probe survives the battering by minute particles traveling at 36,900 mph, its $164 million mission will end in November as its supply of fuel dwindles to nothing. 

At the time of flyby, the comet and spacecraft will be approximately 137 million miles from Earth. 

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE — A rocket carrying a pair of NASA and commercial satellites and cremated remains of 50 people failed during launch and apparently fell into the Indian Ocean on Friday. 

The Taurus rocket veered from its intended flight path around the time of first-stage separation, then appeared to right itself and continue south over the Pacific. 

A investigation board was being established by the rocket maker, Orbital Sciences Corp., to determine the cause of the failure, said NASA spokesman Ed Campion, spokesman for Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. 

NASA lost its ozone-monitoring QuikTOMS satellite at a cost of $50 million, including $11 million for its share of the launch. Orbital Imaging Corp. lost its OrbView-4 satellite. 

Flight managers believe the problem was associated with the staging process and that they received enough data from the rocket to pinpoint the cause, Campion said. 

Although the failure came in the aftermath of the terrorist attack on the United States, sabotage was not under consideration. 

“There really is no reason to suspect any kind of sabotage,” Campion said. 

“Absolutely not,” added Orbital Sciences spokesman Barron Beneski. 

The Taurus reached an orbit 266 miles high and could have placed the satellites there but lacked the proper velocity, causing the satellites to re-enter the atmosphere, he said. 

OrbView-4 was to have been placed in orbit about 11 1/2 minutes after launch, followed within three minutes by NASA’s QuikTOMS. 

Instead, they apparently hit the water northeast of Madagascar, Campion said. 

“They were essentially low and slow,” he said 

It was the first failure of Orbital Sciences’ four-stage Taurus in six launches since 1994. 

Celestis Corp., a Houston company that launches small capsules of human remains into space for $5,300 apiece, had portions of ashes of 50 people riding on the rocket. 

Shortly after launch, chief executive Charles Chafer declared a success for Celestis, then learned that things had gone wrong and that the ashes were likely scattered at sea. 

“We like everything else, appear to have gone into the ocean,” he said. 

Families of the deceased are repeatedly made aware of the risk and are asked to provide a second sample of cremated remains for a second attempt free of charge should a launch fail, Chafer said. 

Orbital Imaging Corp.’s OrbView-4 satellite was designed to snap high-resolution images of the Earth for sale. Its view was sharp enough to see things a yard wide. 

Although cash-strapped, the Dulles, Va., company claims a $400 million backlog of orders. 

The company has two other satellites, but neither provides imagery as sharp as that designed into the OrbView-4. 

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s QuikTOMS satellite was the fifth in a series of NASA instruments designed to keep tabs on ozone levels in the upper atmosphere since 1978. 

The TOMS — “total ozone mapping spectrometer” — instruments are best known for their monitoring of the ozone hole that opens up over Antarctica each spring. 

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On the Net: 

http://quiktoms.gsfc.nasa.gov/ 

http://www.orbimage.com/ 

http://www.celestis.com/ 

http://www.orbital.com/ 

Dear Tom and Ray: 

I've got a 1990 Buick with a new set of tires. The sidewall says 45 psi, and the mechanic put in 40 psi because of the rating on the sidewall. On the driver's- side door, it says to put 30 psi in the tires. The mechanic says that only applies to the original tires. Who's right? The door or the mechanic? - Doug 

RAY: Well, isn't this a tough one? Which is smarter, a mechanic or a doorjamb? Can I get back to you on that? 

TOM: Well, let's start by giving the mechanic partial credit. He's right that the rating on the doorjamb is for the original tires. And if you replace your original tires with a different type of tire, the optimal pressure might be different, too. 

RAY: But overall, I think we're going to have to give the nod to the door. If you checked with Buick and asked what size replacement tires are acceptable for this car, Buick would probably recommend the original size, or something very close to it. Whatever Buick recommended would NOT be so different as to increase the optimal tire pressure from 30 to 40 - which is a huge increase. 

TOM: So it's possible your mechanic got the tire size right, but he's confusing "maximum pressure" with "recommended pressure." The rating on the sidewall of the tire is maximum allowable pressure. That's the pressure after which the tire can explode. That doesn't mean you should use that much pressure, it just means "don't EVER use any more than that." It's also the pressure above which the tire wear increases dramatically, and handling can become dangerous. 

RAY: Maximum pressure is like elevator capacity. Just because an elevator has a maximum capacity of 15 people doesn't mean you should ALWAYS have 15 people in there. 

TOM: Especially if my brother's one of them, and he's just coming back from Nunzio's Sub Shop. 

RAY: The other reason I doubt that 40 psi is correct is because you're driving a Buick. Buicks are known for their soft rides. And if you're driving on 40 psi, you've probably got swollen lumps on your head from hitting the roof every time you go over a bump. And that can't be what Buick intended. 

TOM: Here's what I'd do, Doug. First call Buick Customer Service at (800) 521-7300 and ask for the acceptable sizes of replacement tires for your car. And ask if any of them have different recommended pressures. My guess is that all of them will call for 30 psi. 

RAY: If your new tires are correctly sized, then go down to your local gas station and set all the pressures to 30 psi. 

TOM: If your tires are not among the recommended sizes, go back to your tire dealer and ask him to give you a set that's appropriate for your car. Bring the information from Buick to show him, in case he hems and haws. And then have him set your pressure at 30 all around. 

RAY: Then you'll be driving safely, Doug. And those lumps on your head will heal in a couple of weeks. Good luck.  

Dear Tom and Ray: 

I recently bought a used '98 3.0-liter Ford Taurus with no cruise control. It has about 10,000 miles on it. When driving at speeds above 40 mph, I've noticed that when I take my foot off of the accelerator to allow the car to slow down on its own, it seems to maintain its speed for up to 4/10 of a mile -- and then it finally starts to slow down very gradually. While cars ahead of me are able to slow down by coasting, I find my car rapidly closing in on them, forcing me to constantly brake hard just to keep from running into their back bumpers. Do you have any thoughts as to what might be causing this? -- Frank 

TOM: Well, now you know why the previous owner sold it with only 10,000 miles on it, Frank! 

RAY: Actually, it's not clear to me that there's anything wrong. I haven't driven a '98 Taurus recently, but some cars are just better "coasters" than others. 

TOM: My brother's a particularly good coaster. He coasted through all three of his years in eighth grade. 

RAY: Actually, I was thinking of the most recent Buicks we've driven, which were particularly good coasters. That said, 4/10 of a mile is a long way to coast without any sign of slowing down. 

TOM: You need to do an experiment, Frank. You probably have a tachometer in your car (if not, ask your dealer to hook up a temporary one for you). The tachometer measures your engine speed. What you want to do is take the car out on a level road and get it up to 40 or 50 mph. Then take your foot off the gas. When your foot comes off the gas, you ought to see an immediate drop in the engine speed. It won't drop all the way down to idle speed, but it should drop down to between 1,000 and 1,500 rpm. 

RAY: If it DOES drop, then I'd say nothing is wrong, and your car is just a particularly accomplished coaster. But if the engine speed doesn't drop -- and I suspect that's going to be the case -- then something is causing your throttle to stay open, and that's what's causing you to coast for so long. 

TOM: Armed with that information, your dealer should be much better able to help you, Frank. Good luck.  

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SAN FRANCISCO — With the Golden Gate Bridge temporarily closed to bike and pedestrian traffic for security reasons, tourists eager for a close-up look at the landmark are gazing at it from afar. 

That’s only one of the disappointments facing tourists in San Francisco, which usually enjoys a heavy influx of sightseers in September and October. Fleet Week has been canceled, Pier 39 is cutting hours and tour buses are altering routes. 

That all has translated into less business for the city’s $6.5 billion tourism industry, with cancellations everywhere from hotels to tour buses. About 16 million tourists visit San Francisco each year, and 82,000 jobs in the city are supported by the tourism industry. 

“Business is terrible,” said Jack Abof, general manager of Adventure USA, a local tour bus company. “We’ve lost between $35,000 and $45,000. And there have been several canceled charter tours.” 

For the tourists already in San Francisco, there are some advantages. 

A line that usually curls around itself at the Powell Street cable car station was short enough Friday for riders to hop on with each approaching cable car. An operator said ridership was extremely low for one of San Francisco’s most popular tourist attractions. 

The Golden Gate Bridge’s walkways and bike lanes will remain closed until at least Friday, when officials will decide whether to extend the closure. Bridge spokeswoman Mary Currie said there have been no direct threats to the bridge. 

Elizabeth Murphy, who was visiting from Ireland, said she didn’t realize the bridge was closed for security reasons. 

“I did not have a clue,” she said. “I thought maybe it was a special day, and it was closed for painting.” 

The bridge has been closed to pedestrian and bike traffic since Sept. 11, the day of the terrorist attacks on the East Coast. Officials are operating a shuttle service that takes bikers and their bicycles across the bridge, and visitors still can cross in cars or buses, Currie said. 

A visitors’ center and scenic spots around the bridge, such as the popular Vista Point, all are closed as well. 

“Business is very slow, because no tourist buses can park here, no tourist cars can park,” said May Mui, 34, who has worked at the Bridge Cafe for four years. 

Volker Hirsch and his wife, Birgitt, from Bremen, Germany, said it was the first time they had found something closed in San Francisco. 

“There is nothing to see, it’s closed,” Hirsch said, adding he was unaware of the closure before arriving there. 

Local tour companies are altering their routes, since they no longer can drop off visitors at the bridge. Grayline’s city tour buses are driving across the bridge, but not stopping. 

Abof said his buses aren’t taking people to the bridge, and are limiting the three-hour tour to the Palace of Fine Arts and other city landmarks. 

Kelly Chamberlain, a spokeswoman for the San Francisco Visitors and Convention Bureau, said this is usually a peak time for tourism in the city. But she said the cancellation of Fleet Week, scheduled for Oct. 5-7, will have a big impact on the city. 

The California Dental Association canceled its convention in San Francisco the weekend after the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, but Chamberlain said so far most other conventions are still on. 

“We’re seeing a decline in the business and leisure traveler,” she said. “But this time is also a huge convention time, and we don’t have cancellations for those yet. That should pump hotels back up.” 

Ron Vinson, deputy press secretary for Mayor Willie Brown, said the city is focusing on encouraging residents to resume normal activities. 

“We don’t want people to live in fear,” Vinson said. “We’re telling everyone to do what they normally do — to go see a movie or go out to dinner or go to the zoo.” 

But, in a city that counts on spending by tourists, the decline in visitors will hit hard. Pier 39, a waterfront tourist attraction, will shift to winter hours on weekdays starting Monday — at least a month earlier than normal — because of the loss in customers. The winter schedule, which shaves one to two hours from the peak season schedule, normally doesn’t go into effect until November. 

Pier 39 spokeswoman Alicia Vargas said 82 percent of all San Francisco hotel guests visit the pier, but hotel vacancies are way up. She said some shops along the pier are mulling layoffs. 

“The past week has been like the business in January or February, when we know things are going to be slow anyway,” said Claudia Valentine, manager of The Pier Market, a seafood restaurant. 

Heather Hovey, a spokeswoman for the Argent Hotel, said hotels suffered when the dentists’ convention was canceled, and that “September won’t be what we thought it was going to be.” 

Taxi companies also are feeling the brunt of the tourism decline. The downturn may lead to some vans being taken out of service temporarily, and to shorter shifts for drivers. 

“Usually, each driver transports 30 to 50 passengers a day,” said Thadius Vinson, a dispatcher at American Taxi Cab. “Now they’re transporting maybe 12, some as low as six, a day.” 

NEW YORK — Wall Street, consumed by political and economy uncertainty, sold stocks sharply lower for the fourth time in five sessions Friday, giving the Dow Jones industrials their biggest one-week point decline ever. 

The stock market’s best-known indicator fell more than 140 points for the day and 1,369.70 for the week, by far eclipsing the previous one-week record drop of 821.21 set March 16. 

Clearly, Americans were in no mood to take chances in the first week of trading after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The market was closed for four days after the attacks, and so this week’s trading, which sent stocks to their lowest levels in almost three years, represented Wall Street’s reaction to the assaults. 

Friday’s trading was volatile amid worries about how the United States will retailiate for last week’s terrorist attacks and how much the economy will suffer in the months ahead. Technical factors that can make prices fluctuate in the best of times also affected the activity. 

The Dow had several big swings — falling 313 points in the opening minutes of trading, surging to a gain of more than 50 points an hour later and then falling back again. 

“This is an extraordinarily emotion-filled stock market environment,” said Hugh Johnson, chief investment officer at First Albany. “Investors are scrambling to defend their nest eggs.” 

The Dow fell 140.40 to 8,235.81, a loss of 1.7 percent, according to preliminary calculations. The Dow’s drop for the week amounted to 14.26 percent; that is the fifth-largest percentage decline and the biggest since May 1940, when the Dow traded at 122, less than the decline alone on Friday. 

The Nasdaq composite index was down 47.74 or 3.3 percent at 1,423.19, while the broader Standard & Poor’s 500 index fell 18.74 or 1.9 percent to 965.80. 

Three stocks fell for every one that rose on the New York Stock Exchange — an improvement over the 10-to-1 ratio in early trading. NYSE volume was extremely heavy at more than 2 billion shares, ahead of the 1.93 billion traded Thursday. 

Another sign of the heavy selling: One of out of every four stocks that traded on the NYSE posted a new 52-week low. 

While the market historically falls in the first few weeks or months following catastrophes and other conflicts, such as the Persian Gulf war in 1991, and then heads higher over the long term, Johnson said that’s no comfort to investors right now. 

“They are saying, ‘Just get me out at all costs. I can’t stand anymore,”’ Johnson said. “I try to give them perspective by looking at other crises. But even when you give them perspective, they dismiss it, because they are so scared.” 

Friday’s volatility was also due to what’s known as a triple witching session, the quarterly expiration of index futures and index and stock options. Many of the expirations occurred at the opening of trading and investors chose to sell rather than roll the contracts forward amid the political and economic uncertainty. 

Analysts also said there was a great deal of mutual fund redemptions and margin calls by large institutions — a demand that investors repay money borrowed to buy stocks earlier. 

“It’s monolithic. Everyone is on one side of the market,” said Ronald J. Hill, investment strategist at Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. 

Analysts said it was unclear why the Dow briefly flirted with positive territory Friday. The most likely factor, they said, was a positive outlook by General Electric, which said in late morning it is on track to deliver double-digit earnings growth in 2001 and 2002. GE rose 93 cents at $31.30. 

Analysts expected the market to continue to swing throughout the session, particularly as another round of expirations was to come at the close of trading. 

“There is another storm to weather at the close,” Hill said. 

Stocks also fell overseas amid uneasiness about U.S. plans to retaliate against last week’s terrorist attacks. Japan’s Nikkei stock average finished the day down 2.4 percent. Britain’s FT-SE index closed with a loss of 2.7 percent, France’s CAC-40 fell 2.3 percent, Germany’s DAX index declined 0.6 percent. 

The fact that the Dow industrials — America’s most stalwart companies — have fallen so sharply proves how afraid investors are. Investors see no choice but to sell amid uncertainty following the terrorist attacks. 

Until the market gets some answers about what the future holds for the economy and the overall country, analysts expect investors to continue to sell stocks across market sectors. 

The economic repercussions from the attacks have already appeared as companies have announced thousands of layoffs and plans to reduce operations. 

All major U.S. airlines have announced layoffs. Insurance companies have said they will suffer monumental payouts from the country’s worst-ever crisis. Retailers, bankers, hotel chains and travel agents say skittish consumers are further clamping their spending. 

Among Friday’s losers were Northwest Airlines, falling 56 cents to $10.45 after announcing 10,000 layoffs. 

And, insurer MetLife declined $1.23 to $25.20, retailer Best Buy fell $2.20 to $43.26, banker J.P. Morgan Chase stumbled 74 cents to $30.82 and online travel agent Expedia slipped 93 cents to $21.75. 

Data storage company EMC, which said it is cutting about 2,400 jobs and will likely post a third-quarter loss, tumbled $1.47 to $11.15. 

Volume was extremely heavy at more than 2 billion shares, ahead of the 1.93 million shares traded Thursday. 

The Russell 2000 index, which tracks smaller company stocks, was down 8.76 at 378.89. 

SAN FRANCISCO — The Golden Gate Bridge, the Transamerica Pyramid and the San Francisco Bay area’s water supply are three potential terrorist targets, according to experts. 

Since the Sept. 11 attacks, officials here have increased security at several sites and are reviewing plans to take additional steps to make San Francisco’s landmarks harder to hit. 

“The question then is ’What do we do?’ You do your level best to take care of the bigger areas — the Hetch Hetchy water system, airport security, the Golden Gate Bridge, the Bay Bridge, the California Water Project,” Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif, told the San Francisco Chronicle. 

Tourists also are not permitted to enter the lobby of the 48-story Transamerica Pyramid. Golden Gate Bridge sidewalks are closed to the public through the weekend and the California Highway Patrol is helping beef up security on all bridges. 

State water suppliers and Pacific Gas and Electric said they’ve increased security since last week’s attacks. 

The California State Water Project provides water to about 23 million people while the federal Central Valley Project delivers water to about 3 million people. PG&E has electrical transmission lines covering 18,500 miles going through some of the state’s most rural areas. 

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CORONA — Families of World Trade Center victims will soon have $6,250 in cash and 41 hand-woven quilts with matching pillows, thanks to inmates at the California Institution for Women. 

The money, to be turned over to the Catholic Charities of San Diego, was raised from contributions from nearly all the prison’s 1,875 inmates, said spokesman Lt. Robert Sebald. 

“I have worked at the California Institution for Women for 29 years and I have never seen such a rally of inmates,” Sebald said. 

Those with skills at the sewing machine also made quilts and pillows. 

The prison, where inmates include murderers, drug abusers and other violent felons, is one of 10 penal facilities around the state raising money for the families of terrorism victims, said state Department of Corrections spokesman Russ Heimerich. 

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COACHELLA — Despite last week’s terrorist attacks, officials at Coachella Valley High School plan to keep the nickname that dates back before World War II — the Arabs. 

The school, which opened in 1910, draws its nickname from the Middle-Eastern influence that began emerging in the area in the late 1800s. 

Law enforcement agencies across the nation have reported a backlash against Arab Americans in recent days but teachers and students said they haven’t had any problems. The school will host the rival Indio Rajahs and school officials said both teams may hold hands in a moment of silence before the game. 

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LOMA LINDA — Two Loma Linda University faculty members are canceling a humanitarian trip to Afghanistan. 

The teachers were planning to visit the University of Kabul to provide supplies for its library and medical school. Dr. Gordon Hadley, a retired Loma Linda University faculty member, worked with Kabul officials to create its medical school in the 1960s. 

There were no immediate plans to reschedule the trip. 

“We’re not really clear on when conditions will allow them to go,” said Augustus Cheatham, Loma Linda’s vice president for public affairs and marketing. 

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LOS ANGELES — New York natives transplanted to Southern California are having a tough time being away from their native city after the terrorist attacks. They fear the Big Apple will change without them. 

“From now on, one of the things that identifies New Yorkers will be the experience of having been there in this crisis,” said Greg Heyman, a Manhattan native. “And I don’t have it.” 

Many New Yorkers who live in the Southland say they have called their friends to get firsthand accounts of the tragedy. Some transplants want to return to New York City to lend a helping hand or see the devastation themselves. 

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IRVINE — The largest English-language Pakistani weekly in the nation is devoting pages usually reserved for home country news to last week’s terrorist attacks. 

The Pakistan Link, which has offices in Irvine, features stories about Pakistan’s supportive pledge to help the U.S. fight terrorism and President Bush’s meeting with the Islamic community. The paper eliminated its entertainment section and increased its circulation from 25,000 to 27,000. 

There are approximately 170,000 Muslims in Orange County according to the Council on Islamic Relations in Anaheim. 

“American Muslims feel accused (because of) the tremendous amount of misunderstanding,” said reader Mahboob Akhter of Mission Viejo. “Pakistan Link promotes understanding of different faiths.” 

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SAN JOSE — The Bay Area has a new anti-terrorism czar who will work with investigators nationwide in tracking and thwarting potential future attacks. 

Assistant U.S. Attorney Leslie Caldwell will head a regional task force and work with federal agencies and other anti-terrorism officials across the country. She is the former head of the criminal division for the U.S. attorney’s office in San Francisco, which is responsible for prosecuting federal offenses from Monterey to the Oregon border. 

Caldwell, 44, was selected after Attorney General John Ashcroft ordered all U.S. attorneys to create anti-terrorism task forces. 

Caldwell has a history of prosecuting mobsters, Asian gangs and executives accused of fraud. She came to San Francisco two years ago and she became the head of the securities fraud unit that has emphasized fraud investigations in Silicon Valley and San Francisco. 

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PETALUMA — Military fighter jets were scrambled to the city’s airport Thursday night in search of a small plane that slipped off Federal Aviation Administration radar screens, police said. 

At the FAA’s request, Petaluma police officers met the plane at Petaluma Municipal Airport, said Lt. Mike Cook. Authorities relayed the pilot’s name, information and plane identification number to the FAA. 

The plane landed before the jets arrived and was not forced down, Cook said. The pilot was not detained or arrested. Police and the FAA on Friday would not release the pilot’s name, the type of plane or the type of military fighter jet that responded. 

Current FAA protocol calls for dispatching military aircraft as a precaution for any planes that fail to follow current regulations. 

Dozens of startled residents called 911 around 7:30 p.m. to report the low-flying fighters, which roared overhead shortly after President George W. Bush concluded a televised address to Congress about the nation’s war on terrorism. 

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HESPERIA — The fourth annual High Desert Balloon Festival won’t lift off this month. 

The Sept. 28-30 event was canceled because of airspace restrictions following last week’s terrorist attacks. The Federal Aviation Administration has enforced tight restrictions on flights, including hot-air balloons. 

“I realize there are going to be disappointed people, but it’s out of our hands,” said festival coordinator Charlotte Kroepil. 

The FAA restrictions were the final blow to the festival, which was already in jeopardy because organizers got a late start on planning. 

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LOS ANGELES — An emerging anti-war movement held a Thursday evening vigil that lured up to 400 people to downtown’s Pershing Square. 

Protesters played flutes, held up rainbow flags with peace symbols and signs that read, “An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind — Gandhi” and “The death of more innocents will not make us safe.” 

Men in Aztec dress pounded on drums and women in colorful headdresses danced as protesters hoisted the signs in front of passing motorists, eliciting both horn honking and jeers. 

“We are forming it to counterbalance the retaliatory and militaristic attitudes in the country, and we are trying to resolve this in a peaceful way,” said Sally Marr, an organizer for the new Coalition for World Peace. “It’s the beginning of an anti-war movement.” 

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A jury found in favor of Cher on Friday, dismissing a lawsuit by an accountant who said he lost his job and was harassed for noting labor violations during construction of the entertainer’s Malibu mansion 

Salvatore Sampino had accused Cher of wrongful termination, retaliation, sexual harassment, defamation, unfair competition, negligence and unpaid wages. He was seeking $100,000 in lost wages and $150,000 in emotional distress. 

He said he was forced to quit his job in May 2000 because of harassment after he brought attention to the labor violations. Sampino, who is homosexual, said his co-workers made offensive comments about his sexual orientation and that it got worse after he complained about it. 

He also said in his lawsuit that undocumented day laborers were hired to work on Cher’s home and were paid in cash, with no workers’ compensation benefits or overtime. 

Cher insisted that Sampino never actually worked for her but for a subcontractor, Artemis Design and Consulting, and that she had nothing to do with his leaving his job. 

“I’m really happy with the verdict,” the 55-year-old entertainer, who signed autographs for jurors after the trial, said outside court. “The only thing I can tell you for sure was that (Sampino) never worked for me.” 

Sampino, 40, complained that jurors, who deliberated for one day, didn’t consider all the facts of what he indicated was a complicated case. 

“There were a lot of facts, a lot of testimony. I think what the jury said is, ‘Well, we don’t believe any of this.”’ 

A week after the terrorist attacks on the United States, a Berkeley High football player has been suspended for tonight’s game at Dos Palos for putting an “anti-American” quote on the team Web site. 

Joshua Sabbah, a senior, put “F*** USA” on his player profile for the varsity team’s Web site. When Berkeley head coach Matt Bissell found out about the quote on Monday, he ordered it removed and suspended Sabbeh for this week’s game. 

“I think it was a case of a kid saying something without thinking about it,” Bissell said. “I just want him to sit and reflect on what he said and how it represents the team and the school.” 

Bissell said he probably would have reacted the same way if last week’s attacks hadn’t occurred. 

“It’s not so much what he said. He has First Amendment rights,” Bissell said. “But he did it in a medium that wasn’t appropriate. It represents me, the football team, and Berkeley High. It was just compounded by last Tuesday.” 

Sabbeh’s quote had been on the site for nearly two weeks before Berkeley High officials found out about it. The quote was found by a Dos Palos assistant coach, Steve Hobbs, on Monday. Hobbs told the Dos Palos athletic director, Bill Van Orth, who called Berkeley High officials. 

“We were concerned that with everything going on in the nation, we should take a closer look,” Van Orth said. “We always talk to the other school about game issues, and I said maybe you should check out your Web site, especially (Sabbeh).” 

Nick Schooler, a Berkeley High player who helped put together the Web site, said he didn’t think much of the quote when he put it on the site two weeks ago, prior to the attacks on New York and Washington, D.C. The only change he made was to insert the asterisks to mask the profanity. 

According to Bissell, a Berkeley High teacher was supposed to go through everything on the Web site for content, but Schooler said the teacher only looked at “two or three of them.” 

“It was my understanding that a teacher would look through everything and filter stuff out,” Bissell said. “It’s just an unfortunate situation at an unfortunate time.” 

Sabbeh, who transferred to Berkeley High from St. Mary’s High this year, was absent from Thursday’s practice and unavailable for comment. 

Berkeley High Principal Frank Lynch supported Bissell’s reaction. 

“I made the recommendation that the the student did something inappropriate and that it’s up to the coach to make that decision,” Lynch said. 

Sabbeh’s teammates, on the other hand, seemed less sure about the suspension. 

“It’s nothing,” one player said. “The form just asked for a quote. It didn’t say anything about what we could put on there.” 

Several Berkeley players said they heard the Dos Palos officials were concerned with Sabbeh’s safety if he attended the game, but both Van Orth and Berkeley High officials denied that was ever discussed. 

“My feeling is that the school handled it and took care of it,” Van Orth said. “If the kid came to the game we would support that.”

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924 Gilman Street Sept. 21: Slow Gherkin, 78 RPMS, Enemy You, Wisecracker; Sept. 23: 5 p.m. Subtonix, Running Ragged, (+t.b.a.); Sept. 28: Erase Errata, The Intima, Ibobuki, (+t.b.a.); Sept. 29: DS-13, Beware, Blown To Bits, (+t.b.a.); Most shows are $5 and start at 8 p.m. unless otherwise noted. 

Albatross Pub Sept. 22: Larry Stefl Jazz Quartet; Sept. 25: Mad and Eddie Duran; Sept. 27: Kenji “El Lebrijano” Flamenco Guitar; Free. All shows begin at 9 p.m. 1822 San Pablo Ave. 843-2473  

albatrosspub@mindspring.com  

Anna’s Sept. 21: Anna sings jazz and blues, Fred Harris on piano, 10 p.m. Bluesman Hideo Date; Sept. 22: Vicki Burns and Felice York, Ellen Hoffman Trio, 10 p.m. The Distones Jazz Sextet, Donald Duck Bailey on piano; Sept. 23: Ed Reed, Alex Markel’ Group; Sept. 24: The Renegade Sidemen, Calvin Keyes, Dave Rokeach and Pals; Sept. 25: Tangria; Sept. 26: Bob Schoen Jazz Quintet, Cheryl McBride; Sept. 27: David Jeffrey Fourtet, Brendan Milstein; Sept. 28: Anna sings jazz standards, 10 p.m. Bluesman Hideo Date; Sept. 29: Robin Gregory, Bliss Rodriguez, 10 p.m. The Distones Jazz Sextet, Donald Duck Bailey; Sept. 30: Acoustic Soul; All shows begin at 8 p.m. 1801 University Ave. 849-ANNA www.annasbistro.com 

Ashkenaz Music & Dance Community Center Sept. 21: 9:30 p.m. Hip Hop Party: Emphatics, Self Jupitor, Professor Whaley, Bas 1, DJ Riddim and DJ Malik. $10; Sept. 22: 9:30 p.m. Don Carlos and Reggae Angels, $15; Sept. 23: 8 p.m. Funky Nixons, Mokai, Green & Root’s Womyn’s Music and more, $8 - $15. 1317 San Pablo Ave. 525-5054 www.ashkenaz.com  

Café de la Paz Poetry Nitro, performance showcase with open mike. Sept. 24: Jim Watson-Gove; All shows free, 7 - 10 p.m. 

Cal Performances Sept. 30: 7 p.m. Kronos Quartet, David Barron, $30; Oct. 12 - 14: Fri. and Sat., 8 p.m., Sun. 3 p.m. Ballet Nacional De Cuba, $24 - $46; Oct. 17 and 18: 8 p.m. Cesaria Evora, $24 - $36; Oct. 19: 8 p.m. Karnak, $18 - $30. Zellerbach Hall, UC Berkeley Campus, Bancroft Way at Telegraph, 642-0212, tickets@calperfs.berkeley.edu 

Crowden School Sept. 23: 4 p.m. “Sundays at Four Concert” Jeremy Cohen’s jazz violin. Admission $10 (free if under 18) 1475 Rose 559-6910 

Eli’s Mile High Club Every Friday, 10 p.m. Funky Fridays Conscious Dance Party with KPFA DJs Splif Skankin and Funky Man. $10; Sept. 3: 2 - 8 p.m. Big West Coast Harmonica Bash, afternoon benefit for Red Archibald. $10 donation; Doors open at 8 p.m. unless noted. 3629 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Oakland. 655-6661 

Freight & Salvage Sept. 21: The Waybacks, $17.50; Sept. 22: The Bluerass Intentions, $17.50; Sept. 23 Tony Marcus & Patrice Haan, $16.50; Sept. 24: April Verch, $16.50; Sept. 26: Clive Gregson, $16.50; Sept. 27: Dick Gaughan, $18.50; Sept 28: Jenna Mammina, $16.50; Sept. 29: The Nigerian Brothers, $16.50; Sept. 30: Vasen, $17.50; All shows start at 8 p.m. 1111 Addison St. 548-1761 www.freightandsalvage.com 

Jack’s Bistro Sept. 22 & Sept. 28: 9 p.m. Tomas Michaud’s New World Flamenco Quartet, Jack London Square. 444-7171 www.starland-music.com 

Jazzschool/La Note Sept. 23: 4:30 p.m. Dick Hindman Trio, $6 - $12; Sept. 30: 4 p.m., John Santos and the Machete Ensemble. $15. 2377 Shattuck Ave. 845-5376 

Jupiter Sept. 21: Netwerk: Electric; Sept. 22: New Garde Philosophers; Sept. 25: Craig Graham Trio; Sept. 26: Starvin Like Marvin; Sept. 28 Anton Schwartz Quartet; Sept 29: moderngypsies.net; All music starts at 8:00 p.m. 2181 Shattuck Ave.  

843-7625 www.jupiterbeer.com 

La Peña Cultural Center Sept. 27: 7:30 p.m. The local Friends of the MST will host a screening of the new documentary "Raiz Forte" or "Strong Roots" to present our community with a vision of their work and struggle. A discussion will follow. $5-$10; In the Cafe, 3105 Shattuck Ave. 849-2568 www.lapena.org 

Music Sources Sept. 30: 5 p.m. Ole Scarlatta! Portuguese and French keyboards and fortepiano joined by Jason McGuire on flamenco guitar, $18 General, $15 members, seniors, students. 1000 The Alameda 528-1685 

Sedge Thomson’s West Coast Live Radio Show Sept. 22: Garrison Keillor, Paula West, Douglas Coupland. Julia Morgan Theatre, 2640 College Ave.; Sept. 29: Nancy Miford, The Nigerian Brothers, Caroline Dahl. The Freight and Salvage, 1111 Addison St. All shows 10 a.m. - noon.  

252-9214 www.wcl.org 

The 1st Annual Guinness & Oyster Festival 2001 Sept. 22: 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. Free. Cake, Mingus Amungus, Ponticello, Stolen Bibles, Alamo 66 w/ Destani Wolf, The Culann’s Hounds. MLK Jr. Civic Center Park 

13th Annual Blues ‘n Jazz Festival Sept. 23: noon - 6 p.m. Jeffrey Osborne Jazz Crusaders with Ronnie Laws, Ricardo Scales, Sonata Pi (and more). $35, Lawn $25, Child $6 (6-12 years, lawn only). Dunsmuir House & Gardens Historic Estate, 2960 Peralta Oaks Court, Oakland. 583-1160 

Benifit Concert for the Native  

American Health Center Sept. 28: 8 p.m. Buffy Sainte-Marie, Ulali, Lorrie Church, The Mankillers. Paramount Theater, 2025 Broadway, Oakland. 625-8497  

“The Complete Shostakovich String Quartets--Part One” Sept. 29: 10 a.m. Quartets III & IV; Oct. 20: 10 a.m. Quartets V & VI. Performed by the prize-winning Alexander String Quartet with Robert Greenberg. $ 30, $84 for the Trio of concerts. Julia Morgan Center for the Arts 2640 College Ave. 845-8542 www.juliamorgan.org. 

Magnificat Sept. 29: 8 p.m. First Congregational Church. The San Francisco early music ensemble of voices and period instruments present their tenth anniversary season with music of seventeenth century composers. Tickets $12-$45 (415) 979-4500 

The Mike Yax Jazz Orchestra Sept. 30: 2 p.m., Longfellow School of the Arts, 1500 Derby St. 420-4560 

American Ballet Theatre Sept. 21, 22, 8 p.m., Sept 22, 2 p.m., Sept 23, 3 p.m.: David Briskin conducts Berkeley Symphony Orchestra. Zellerbach Hall Tickets $36, $48 and $64. 

“Hecho En Califas Chicano-Latino Teatro Festival” Sept. 21, 22, at 8 p.m. Sept. 23 matinee. The Alameda Civic Light Opera’s fifth summer season ends with the musical of Frances Hodson Burnett’s classic story of life, death, purpose and hope. Adults $22, Students 18 and under $14. Kofman Auditorium, 2200 Central Ave., Alameda. www.aclo.com 

“Le Cirque des Animaux” Sept. 29: 8 p.m. Hausmusik presents a wacky baroque musical cabaret on the subject of animals. Parish Hall of St. Alban’s Espiscopal Church, 1501 Washington St. (not wheelchair accessible). $18 general admission, $15 seniors, students and SFEMS members) 527-9029 

“Murder Dressed in Satin” by Victor Lawhorn, ongoing. A mystery-comedy dinner show at The Madison about a murder at the home of Satin Moray, a club owner and self-proclaimed socialite with a scarlet past. Dinner is included in the price of the theater ticket. $47.50 Lake Merritt Hotel, 1800 Madison St., Oakland. 239-2252 www.acteva.com/go/havefun 

“Twelfth Night” Sept. 18 - 23, 25 - 30, Oct. 2 - 7, Tue. - Thurs. 7:30 p.m., Fri. & Sat. 8 p.m., Sun. 4 p.m., Student Matinees: Sept. 18, 20, 25, Oct. 2, @ 1 p.m. California Shakespeare Festival presents William Shakespeare’s comic tale of romance, loneliness, love and glory. Directed by Jonathan Moscone. $12 - $41. Bruns Memorial Amphitheater, Highway 24, Gateway Exit, one mile east of the Caldecott Tunnel. 548-9666 www.calshakes.org 

“Swanwhite” Sept. 22 through Oct. 21: Thur. - Sat., 8 p.m., Sun. 7 p.m. A new translation of the Swedish Play that asks the question what good is romantic love, directed by Tom Clyde. $20, Sundays are “Pay What You Can”. Transparent Theater, 1901 Ashby Ave. 883-0305,  

www.virtuous.com 

Readings 

Boadecia’s Books Sept. 21: Deborah Kesten, “The Healing Secrets of Food;” Sept. 22: A special All Poetry Dyke Open Myke, to participate call 655-1015 or feroniawolf@yahoo.com; Sept 28: The Return of Gaymes Night; Sept 29: Ellen Samuels and other contributors to “Out of the Ordinary: Essays on Growing Up with Gay, Lesbian & Transgender Parents. All events start at 7:30 p.m. unless noted otherwise. All events are free. 398 Colusa Ave. 559-9184 www.bookpride.com 

Cody’s on 4th Street Sept. 20: 7 p.m. Jamie Oliver, The Naked Chef, “The Naked Chef Takes Off”; Sept. 22: 10:30 a.m. Cody’s for Kids, Walter the Giant Storyteller; Sept. 25: 7 p.m. Nancy London has been cancelled; 1730 Fourth St. 559-9500 

Cody’s on Telegraph Ave. Sept. 17: Aldo Alvarez describes “Interesting Monsters”; Sept. 18: Clarence Walker discusses “We Can’t Go Home Again: An Argument About Afrocentrism; Sept. 19: Douglas Coupland reads “All Families Are Psychotic”; Sept. 24: Theodore Roszak discusses “Longevity Revolution: As Boomers Become Elders”; Sept. 25: Ken Croswell discusses “The Universe At Midnight: New Discoveries Illuminate the Hidden Cosmos” with a slide show presentation; Sept. 27: Bill Ayers talks about “Fugitive Days”; Oct 1: Urdsula K. Le guin reads from “The Other Wind”; All shows at 7:30 p.m. 2454 Telegraph Ave. 845-7852 

Cody’s Other Venues - Sept. 20: 7:30 p.m. Cody’s presents an evening with Margaret Atwood in conversation with professor Robert Alter. $12. First Congregational Church 2345 Channing Way; Sept. 28: 7:30 p.m. Cody’s presents a Community Forum on Race and the Achievement Gap at Berkeley High School. Little Theater, Berkeley High School.  

Coffee Mill Poetry Series Sept. 18: Ben Brose and Jen Iby followed by open mike reading. 3363 Grand Ave., Oakland 465-3935 ksdgk@earthlink.net 

Eastwind Books of Berkeley Sept. 29: 7 p.m. Kip Fulbeck reads from his first novel, “Paper Bullets.” 2066 University Ave. 548-2350 

Easy Going Travel Shop & Bookstore Sept. 20: 7:30 p.m. Antarctica & The Nature of Penguins, An evening with Jonathan Chester. 1385 Shattuck Ave. 843-3533 

Spasso Sept. 10: Sharron Jones-Reid, Fruit of the Spirit poets, acoustic musicians, comedians, rappers, performance artists, writers. All welcome. 6021 College Ave. Free admission. 

Tours 

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Fridays 9:30 - 11:45 a.m. or by appointment. Call ahead to make reservations. Free. University of California, Berkeley. 486-4387 

Golden Gate Live Steamers Grizzly Peak Boulevard and Lomas Cantadas Drive at the south end of Tilden Regional Park Small locomotives, meticulously scaled to size. Trains run Sunday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Rides: Sunday, noon to 3 p.m., weather permitting. 486-0623  

Museums 

Habitot Children’s Museum “Back to the Farm” An interactive exhibit gives children the chance to wiggle through tunnels, look into a mirrored fish pond, don farm animal costumes, ride on a John Deere tractor and more. “Recycling Center” Lets the kids crank the conveyor belt to sort cans, plastic bottles and newspaper bundles into dumpster bins. $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. (closed Sundays, Memorial Day through Labor Day) Kittredge Street and Shattuck Avenue 647-1111 or www.habitot.org  

UC Berkeley Museum of Paleontology Lobby, Valley Life Sciences Building, UC Berkeley “Tyrannosaurus Rex,” ongoing. A 20 foot by 40 foot replica of the fearsome dinosaur 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” A suspended skeleton of a flying reptile with a wingspan of 22-23 feet. The pteranodon lived at the same time as the dinosaurs. 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 will close its exhibition galleries for renovation. It will reopen in early 2002. On View until Oct. 1 : “Ishi and the Invention of Yahi Culture.” “Sites Along the Nile: Rescuing Ancient Egypt.” “The Art of Research: Nelson Graburn and the Aesthetics of Inuit Sculpture.” “Tzintzuntzan, Mexico: Photographs by George Foster.” $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. Kroeber Hall, Bancroft Way and College Avenue. 643-7648 or www.qal.berkeley.edu/~hearst/ 

University of California Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive has reopened after its summer-long seismic retrofit. “Martin Puryear: Sculpture of the 1990s” through Jan. 13; “The Dream of the Audience: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1951 - 1982)” through Dec. 16; “Face of Buddha: Sculpture from India, China, Japan, and Southeast Asia” ongoing rotation through 2003; “Matrix 194: Jessica Bronson, Heaps, layers, and curls” Sept. 16 through Nov. 11; “Matrix 192: Ceal Floyer 37’4”” Sept. 16 through Nov. 11; Wed., Fri., Sat., Sun. 11 a.m. - 5 p.m., Thur. 11 a.m. - 9 p.m., PFA Theater, 2575 Bancroft Way; Museum Galleries 2626 Bancroft Way; 642-0808 www.bampfa.berkeley.edu 

Lawrence Hall of Science “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. “Saturday Night Stargazing,” First and third Saturdays each month. 8 - 10 p.m., LHS plaza. Space Weather Exhibit now - Sept. 2; now - Sept. 9 Science in Toyland; Saturdays 12:30 - 3:30 p.m. $7 for adults; $5 for children 5-18; $3 for children 3-4. 642-5132 

Holt Planetarium Programs are recommended for age 8 and up; children under age 6 will not be admitted. $2 in addition to regular museum admission. “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, UC Berkeley 642-5132 or www.lhs.berkeley.edu  

Oakland Museum of California “Half Past Autumn: The Art of Gordon Parks,” through Sept. 23; Wednesday - Saturday, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., Sunday, noon - 5 p.m., Closed Monday and Tuesday. $6 general; $4 youths (6-17), seniors and students with ID. Free for museum members and children 5 and under. Free admission the second Sunday of the month. 10th & Oak streets, Oakland. 238-2200 www.museum.org 

Send arts events two weeks in advance to Calendar@berkeleydailyplanet.net, 2076 University, Berkeley 94704 or fax to 841-5694.

Save Florida – please 

Editor, 

“Make no mistake,” the president delivered these tough words pledging to hunt down and punish the terrorists and those who harbor them. But now that the FBI has determined that 15 of the 19 terrorists were living in Florida and learned to fly passenger jets in Florida schools, I can only hope that Mr. Bush will show some restraint. Sure, retaliation is necessary to show the world that they can’t mess with the United States. But Bush must remember that not all Floridians supported the perpetrators. If the Florida Governor and Secretary of State give themselves up peacefully, perhaps further bloodshed can be avoided. The good people of Disneyworld, and there are many, must not suffer the responsibility of those who govern them. 

Bruce Joffe 

Oakland

Friday, Sept. 21

Dancing The Dark 

8 p.m. 

First Congregational Church 

2345 Channing Way 

An evening of spirtual-political strategy to celebrate the autumnal equinox. $15. 848-6767 x609 www.kpfa.org 

Center of Elders Independence 

11:30 a.m. 

North Berkeley Senior Center 

1901 Hearst Ave. 

A representative of this organization will discuss its services. 644-6107 

Reading Ulysses 

1 p.m. 

North Berkeley Senior Center 

1901 Hearst Ave. 

A discussion of James Joyce’s Ulysses, including the presentation of taped portions of the novel. 644-6107 

Berkeley Adult Literacy  

Program Orientation  

for New Volunteer Tutors 

6 - 8 p.m. 

West Branch Library 

1125 University Ave. 

Join adult literacy learners and the Berkeley Reads Staff to find out how you can become a volunteer literacy tutor. 644-8595 

City Commons Club 

12:30 p.m. 

Berkeley City Club 

2315 Durant Ave. 

“The Promises and Problems of Stem Cell Research” with Grange Coffin, M.D., retired Physician. 848-3533 

Even Stronger Women 

1:15 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. 

North Berkeley Senior Center 

1901 Hearst Ave. 

Free weekly cultural discussion class. This week: movie, “Beloved,” followed by discussion of author Toni Morrison. 549-1879 

Nuclear Secrecy, Human Rights, and Mordechai Vanunu: Voices of Witness from the Bay Area and Israel/Palestine 

6:30 p.m. 

Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists 

1924 Cedar St. 

Speakers will be Maurice Campbell of the Hunters Point Community First Coalition, Robert Lipton of A Jewish Voice for Peace, and Jeanie Shaterian of the Campaign to Free Vanunu. Supper will be served. 548-3048 

3rd Annual Family Festival of the Arts 

7 - 9 p.m. 

Downtown YMCA 

2001 Allston Way 

A family event open to the public. Activities include arts and crafts, music, dance, face painting, sports, swimming, and Kindergym times. Opportunities for families to spend an evening together and meet other families in the community. $1. 549-4524 

Daily Prayer and Meditation 

11 a.m. - 1 p.m. 

First Congregational Church 

Dana at Durant 

Chapel open for prayer and  

meditation. 

Saturday, Sept. 22

1st Annual Guinness & Oyster Festival 

11 a.m. - 6 p.m.  

MLK Jr. Civic Center Park 

Cake, Mingus Amungus, Ponticello, Stolen Bibles, Alamo 66 with Destani Wolf, The Culann’s Hounds. Free.  

Free Emergency Preparedness Class 

9 a.m. - noon 

997 Cedar St. 

Disaster mental health class. Free to anyone 18 or older who lives or works in Berkeley. 644-8736 www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/fire.oes.html 

What You Need to Know Before You Build or Remodel 

10 a.m. - noon 

Building Education Center 

812 Page St.  

Preview of the Homeowner’s Essential Course – learn to solder pipe and more. By Glen Kitzenberger. Free. 525-7610 

–compiled by Guy Poole 

Choosing to Add On: The Pros and Cons of Building an Addition 

noon - 2 p.m. 

Building Education Center 

812 Page St.  

By author and instructor Skip Wenz. Free. 525-7610 

Julia Morgan Center for the Arts Open House 

1 -4 p.m. 

Julia Morgan Center for the Arts 

2640 College Ave. 

Free family friendly Open House and community celebration. Entertainment by Shotgun Players, Berkeley Ballet, and Berkeley Opera. Newcomers are encouraged to drop by and get to know the JMCA. 845-8542 www.juliamorgan.org 

Life from a Spiritual Perspective  

5 p.m. 

St. John’s Presbyterian Church 

2727 College Avenue 

Free talk by Dr. Richard Seader, vegetarian reception to follow, childcare, free parking under church. 707-226-7703 sfsos@aol.com. 

Disaster Mental Health 

9 a.m. - noon 

Office of Emergency Services 

997 Cedar St. 

Free classes in Community Emergency Response Training (CERT). 981-5605 

Sunday, Sept. 23

West Berkeley Market 

11 a.m. - 5 p.m. 

University Ave., between 3rd and 4th streets  

Family-oriented weekly market. Crafts, music, produce and specialty foods. 

654-6346 

Tibetan Nyingma Institute Open House 

3 - 5 p.m. 

Tibetan Nyingma Institute 

1815 Highland Place 

Free introduction to Tibetan Buddhist Culture. Free. 843-6812 

Tibetan Buddhism 

6 p.m. 

Tibetan Nyingma Institute 

1815 Highland Place 

Sylvia Gretchen on “Bringing the Tibetan Wisdom Tradition into our Lives Today.” Free. 843-6812 

Hands-On Bicycle Repair Clinics  

11 a.m. - noon  

Recreational Equipment Inc.  

1338 San Pablo Ave.  

Learn how to adjust your brakes from one of REI’s bike technicians. All you need to bring is your bike, tools are provided. Free. 527-4140 

Monday, Sept. 24

Free Legal Workshop 

6 - 8 p.m. 

Women’s Cancer Resource Center 

3023 Shattuck Ave. 

Find out about the Family Medical Leave Act, Americans with Disability Act, and the California Fair Employment and Housing Act. Laws protect you from termination during an experience with cancer or other serious medical condition. 601-4040 x302 

Eastshore State Park Regional Workshop #2 

7 p.m. 

Hs Lordship’s Restaurant 

2nd Floor Georgian Ballroom 

199 Seawall Drive, Berkeley Marina 

The public is being asked for their input and suggestions on the long-term master plan for the development of the new Eastshore State Park (ESP), stretching along the shoreline from the touchdown of the Bay Bridge to Marina Bay in Richmond. www.eastshorestatepark.org 

NOW Meeting 

6:30 - 8 p.m.  

Mama Bears Bookstore & Coffee House  

6536 Telegraph Ave. 

Monthly meeting of the Oakland East Bay Chapter of the National Organization for Women. Nonmembers welcome.  

Free. 549-2970 

Psychology Discussion 

1 p.m. 

North Berkeley Senior Center 

1901 Hearst Ave. 

Psychologist Betty Goren will lead a discussion titled “Does Talking Help Get Rid of the Blues.” 644-6107 

Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults Inquiry Program 

7:30 p.m. 

St. Mary Magdalen Parish 

2005 Berryman St. 

A program to learn everything you wanted to know about the Catholic Church but never had the chance to ask. 526-4811 

Affordable Housing Advocacy Project Open Forum 

5:30 - 7 p.m. 

South Branch Public Library 

1901 Russell St. 

Maintain and increase landlords and property management firms participation in the section 8 program, while building a better rapport with all those concerned. 548-8776 

Daily Prayer and Meditation 

11 a.m. - 1 p.m. 

First Congregational Church 

Dana at Durant 

Chapel open for prayer and meditation. 

Tuesday, Sept. 25

Berkeley Housing Authority Monthly Meeting 

6:30 P.M. 

City Council Chambers, 2134 MLK Jr. Way  

549-2970.  

Berkeley Camera Club  

7:30 p.m. 

Northbrae Community Church  

941 The Alameda  

Share your slides and learn what other photographers are doing. Monthly field trips. 525-3565 

Redistricting of Berkeley City Council Districts 

7 p.m. 

2134 Martin Luther King Jr. Way 

Public hearing to consider proposals to amend Council District boundaries based on the 2000 census figures. Members of the public are invited to comment on all proposals. 981-7000 www.ci.berkeley.ca.us 

Berkeley Farmers’ Market 

2-7 p.m. 

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

548-3333 

Free Early Music Group 

10 - 11:30 a.m. 

North Berkeley Senior Center 

1901 Hearst Ave. 

Small group sings madrigals and other voice harmony every Tuesday.  

655-8863 

Annual PTA Reception 

6 - 8 p.m. 

Rosa Parks Environmental Science Magnet School 

920 Allston Way 

Multi-Purpose Room 

Reception for the 2001 - 2002 PTA Officers. 644-8764  

Daily Prayer and Meditation 

11 a.m. - 1 p.m. 

First Congregational Church 

Dana at Durant 

Chapel open for prayer and meditation. 

Wednesday, Sept. 26 

A Taste of the World: Cultural Understanding Through Food 

6 - 9 p.m. 

Berkeley Richmond Jewish Community Center 

1414 Walnut St. 

Enhance your cooking skills and experience the cuisines of Spain, Portugal, Italy, Morocco and Israel with Chef Daniel Herskovic. All classes are “hands on.” Class includes meal and cooking lesson. $25. Every Wednesday through Nov. 1. 655-8487 

Socratic Circle Discussions 

5 - 6 p.m. 

1309 Solano Ave. 

Cafe Eclectica 

Does your brain need a workout? All ages welcome. 527-2344 

"Nels Nelson: The Early Days of 

Berkeley Archaeology"  

noon 

ARF, 2547 Channing, Room 101 

Brown Bag Lunch Lecture 

After Kent's talk, we'll go to the 2 p.m. court hearing before Judge Richman, Alameda Co. Superior Court to watch Berkeley Asst. City Attorney Zack Cowen defend the landmark designation of the West Berkeley 

Shellmound. The hearing is at the Post Office Building, 201-13th Street, Department 31, 2nd floor, Oakland. The shellmound is being challenged by the propertyowners who filed suit against the City's designation of the mound site. 841-8562 sfbayshellmounds@yahoo.com 

Lions Center for the Blind 

1 p.m. 

North Berkeley Senior Center 

1901 Hearst Ave. 

A representative of this organization will discuss its services. 644-6107 

Prose Writers’ Workshop 

7 - 9 p.m. 

Berkeley/Richmond Jewish Community Center Library 

1414 Walnut St.  

From Op-ed to fiction, memoir to the feature article - a community 

writers' group to support and encourage a community of interests. Workshop format. Free. 524-3034 

Josà Bovà

7:30 p.m. 

Berkeley Adult School 

1222 University Ave. 

Josà Bovà and fellow farmer Francois Dufour will assure us “The world is not for sale.” For them, food is more than fuel; it is sacred relationship, family, love, tradition and well-being. $12. 415-255-7296 x200 

Daily Prayer and Meditation 

11 a.m. - 1 p.m. 

First Congregational Church 

Dana at Durant 

Chapel open for prayer and meditation. 

Thursday, Sept. 27 

Exploring Chile 

7 p.m. 

Recreational Equipment 

1338 San Pablo Ave. 

Wayne Bernhardson will present slides and provide information about this increasingly popular adventure destination. Free. 527-4140 

Even Stronger Women 

1:15 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. 

North Berkeley Senior Center 

1901 Hearst Ave. 

Free weekly cultural discussion class. This week: feminist influence on children. Discussion of Judy Blume’s books for girls. 549-1879 

Café Literario 

7 p.m. 

Public Library West Branch 

1125 University Ave.  

A bilingual reading and discussion series. The book, “Odyssey to the North” by Mario Bencastro, will be discussed. 644-6870 

Daily Prayer and Meditation 

11 a.m. - 1 p.m. 

First Congregational Church 

Dana at Durant 

Chapel open for prayer and meditation. 

Friday, Sept. 28 

Redwood Sequoia Congress 

1606 Bonita Avenue 

Human rights and environmental activists will gather in an annual examination of the human condition and the status of the planet.  

841-1182 

3rd Annual BFD Blood Drive 

8:30 a.m. - 2 :30 p.m. 

Fire Station #2 

2029 Berkeley Way 

In conjunction with the Red Cross, the Berkeley Fire Department is having it’s annual blood drive. Drop in or make an appointment. 981-5599 x4408 

City Commons Club 

12:30 p.m. 

Berkeley City Club 

2315 Durant Ave. 

“Inside North Korea” with Timothy Savage, Senior Planner, East Asian Security, Nautilus Institute. 848-3533 

Autumn Moon Festival 

1:15 p.m. 

North Berkeley Senior Center 

1901 Hearst Ave. 

Presented by the North Berkeley Senior Center’s Chinese Club. Refreshments will include moon cakes. Free. 644-6107  

Daily Prayer and Meditation 

11 a.m. - 1 p.m. 

First Congregational Church 

Dana at Durant 

Chapel open for prayer and meditation. 

Saturday, Sept. 29 

Disaster First Aid 

9 a.m. - noon 

Office of Emergency Services 

997 Cedar St. 

Free classes in Community Emergency Response Training (CERT). 981-5605 www.ci.berkeley.ca.us 

Redwood Sequoia Congress 

1606 Bonita Avenue 

Human rights and environmental activists will gather in an annual examination of the human condition and the status of the planet.  

841-1182 

Get Published Workshop 

noon - 3 p.m. 

Albany Library 

1247 Marin Ave., Edith Stone Room 

Led by writing coach Jill Nagle and will cover query letters, book proposals, finding an agent and more. Preregistration strongly recommended. 415-431-7491 jill@jillnagle.com 

Berkeley Historical Society Walking Tour 

10 a.m. - noon 

Trish Hawthorne knows the Thousands Oaks neighborhood like no one else. Tours are restricted to 30 participants and require pre-paid reservations, $10. 848-0181 www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/histsoc/  

Idealist.org Nonprofit Career Fair 

1 p.m. 

Preservation Park 

MLK Jr. Way and 13th St. 

For individuals interested in employment or internship positions in the nonprofit sector. 212-843-3973 www.idealist.org 

The Crucible’s Open House and Fix-A-Thon Fundraiser 

noon - 6 p.m. 

The Crucible 

1036 Ashby Ave. 

Parking and entrance on Murray St.  

Featuring the faculty performing hands-on demonstrations of the skills and techniques they teach. Try blacksmithing, welding, stone carving, glass enameling, and other stuff. Bring your broken or cracked metal objects and low-tech electric devices in need of repair: furniture, lamps, castings, dull knives, cracked bike frames, etc. The staff will assess the damages and if the items are repairable, they will fix them for a reasonable fee. Free event. 843-5511 www.thecrucible.org 

One day after President George W. Bush ordered aircraft carriers fixed with more than 100 bombers to move within striking distance of Afghanistan, thousands of students converged on the steps of Sproul Hall at UC Berkeley to protest any U.S. military action in response to last week’s terrorist attacks.  

Maryam Gharavi, a third-year English major, greeted the crowd as if at a rock concert asking, “How are you feeling Berkeley?”  

While many in the crowd responded with enthusiastic whoops, at least one student, reacting to the unimaginable tragedy that inspired the rally, yelled “terrible.”  

Eight speakers – students, professors and activists – addressed the crowd. 

Hatem Baziah, a UC Berkeley lecturer, stressed that denouncing terrorism without calling for retaliation isn’t a cowardly act. “Being a patriot doesn’t mean you have to believe in war,” he said to the day’s loudest applause. 

He also denounced recent hate crimes committed in the wake of the attacks. “As Muslims in America, we are not being treated as equal citizens.” 

There were more than 100 counter-protesters who waved American flags, chanted and held signs that read “Remember the WTC,” “Fight Terrorism,” and “Pacifism Breeds Violence.” 

The small but vocal counter-protest group, a mix of College Republicans and College Democrats, showed rare unity in their support for President Bush, and whatever actions he may choose to take. 

Jereme Albin, a senior math student, holding a sign reading, “Barbara Lee doesn’t represent me. Support the U.S.A.” said the protesters were missing the point, that a response to the attacks is the only route to take. 

“The protesters almost give validity in some ways to the countries that have done this. If bombs were falling on Berkeley, they would still be protesting.” 

The most moving speech came from the first speaker, Yes Duffy, a 22 year-old senior. Before he could speak, Duffy was interrupted by the counter protesters who began chanting “U.S.A., U.S.A.” Anti-protesters drowned them out with yells of “Stop the War.” 

When one of the organizers asked for a moment of silence to remember those who lost their lives, the counter protesters became muted. It became apparent that Duffy was speaking because he had a personal connection to the tragedy. 

“I lost my aunt to terrorism,” Duffy told the crowd, all of whom listened in silence as he told how his father’s sister, Renee Newell, had been a flight attendant on the first plane to slam into the World Trade Center. 

“If she were alive today, she would be standing right here with us.” 

After speaking to the crowd, Duffy told reporters it was the first time he had spoken of his aunt since her death, and that he was still experiencing conflicting emotions. 

“I’m not really sure how to deal with all of this.” 

City Councilmember Kriss Worthington, after addressing the crowd, said he chose to appear at the rally to show his support for the victims of the attacks and to call for the prosecution of the perpetrators in an international court of law. 

“Calling them acts of war is giving the criminals more credit than they deserve. They were horrid, wretched criminal acts.” 

Berkeley city police, and campus police officials said no arrests were made and no problems were reported at the rally or march through the city that ensued. It was one of more than 130 protests occurring at universities across the country Thursday as a part of a “National Day of Student Action.” 

The group organizing the protest, the Stop the War Coalition, came into existence only last Tuesday. Rally organizer Hoang Phan, an English graduate student, said the coalition consists of about 300 students from a wide spectrum of groups who came together quickly. At the first meeting last Friday, they decided to organize a response to what Phan calls, “the racist backlash against Arab-Americans, and war hysteria” which followed last week’s attacks.  

After much debate, coalition members agreed on a platform for Thursday’s rally. They would oppose America’s “new” war on terrorism, racist incidents against Arab Americans and other minorities, and the scaling back of any civil liberties that may occur in the wake of last week’s attacks. 

Although protesters disagreed about an appropriate response to last Tuesday’s attack, everyone agreed that the United States should use restraint.  

“We should try and understand what may have motivated” the attacks, Phan said. 

Among the crowd were veterans of several other anti-war movements, including 60’s iconoclast Wavy Gravy, who said the large turnout bodes well for a new anti-war movement. 

“I am nostalgic for the future with these kids.” 

When it became clear that Trestin George was a full contact player playing a non-contact sport, he fled the baseball diamond and found refuge on the gridiron. It took exactly one tackle at age eight for George to realize his passion for football. 

It was while playing a Pop Warner game for the Berkeley Cougars that George first hit an opposing player without suffering the consequences of illegally taking out a middle infielder. 

“When I was younger I played baseball,” George said. “I would run around the bases and push every guy out of the way until I made it home.” 

That’s when his mom thought her son might be better suited for football. 

“One day we lined up to hit and I hit this guy and didn’t get in trouble for it,” George said of his early days in a helmet and pads. “I’ve been in love with football ever since.” 

Now a senior tailback at St. Mary’s, George is a four-year starter for one of the Bay Shore Athletic League’s top teams. Most recently against El Cerrito, George showcased his quickness and power as he carried the ball 23 times for 161 yards and scored three touchdowns to help the Panthers upend the Gauchos 28-27. 

And that could be considered a below-average game for George, who ran for more than 1,300 yards and scored 27 touchdowns in seven outings last season.  

“He’s been a huge part of our program ever since he got here,” St. Mary’s head coach Jay Lawson said. “It’s even more so this year and not just by how he carries the ball, but also by being more of a leader.”  

As a secondary coach during George’s freshman year, Lawson took a chance on the young player, starting him at cornerback on the varsity team midway through the season. 

The gamble paid of in his first game against Richmond, as George intercepted a pass. After playing just five games, the freshman finished the season tied for the team lead with four interceptions. 

During George’s sophomore year, St. Mary’s running back Eddie Smith got knocked out of the lineup with an injury and George stepped in to lead the team’s ground-dominated offense, running for at least 200 yards in five of the last seven games. 

But it’s not just his ability on the field that separates George from other high school running backs. It’s also George’s work ethic and spirited demeanor that gains him the respect of teammates and coaches, Lawson said. Training to be the best is something that the 5-foot-9, 187-pounder takes seriously. 

“If I’m not working out, that guy in Florida is working out and he’s competing for the same scholarship I’m working for,” George said. “I may be watching TV and that guy’s in the weight room.” 

As his mother says, “If you do things people won’t do, you’ll end up doing things people can’t.” 

George began working out regularly with a personal trainer last summer, often escaping to the family’s garage for some late-night exercise. His mother learned to live with weights clanking at midnight and the shower running at 2:30 in the morning. 

“She’s my critic as well as my manager,” George said of his mother. “When I have a bad game she’ll say I need to hit the hole lower. She’s been learning the game the way I have.”  

Recruiters from schools such as the University of Washington and USC, as well as the rest of the Pac-10 Conference, have taken notice of George’s stringent training regimen and impressive on-field performance. George, who was born in Pasadena and moved to Berkeley when he was 5 years old, said he’s leaning toward Washington but his mother’s pushing for USC. “Whatever I decide, she said she’d support me,” he said. 

Between friendly sessions of Playstation, an athlete from a local Pac-10 program attempted to lure George to his school. Cal freshman Lorenzo Alexander, formerly a star lineman for the Panthers, has tried to convince his former teammate to play for the Golden Bears.  

“I tell him I’ll look into it,” George said with a smile.  

Despite George’s dedication to football, the well-rounded student-athlete still manages to save time for his interests off the field. 

“I like to write poems and short stories,” he said. “I like to expand my imagination.” 

When considering which college to attend, George said he’s looking for a program that will let him train for a career in business, possibly marketing or management.  

“Football will take care of itself once I get into college,” he added. 

In addition to anchoring the St. Mary’s football running game, George also competes on the school’s track team and was ranked as high as 10th in the state in the triple jump during his sophomore and junior years, Lawson said. 

But it’s on the football field that George really demonstrates his talent.  

“He runs hard, is extremely explosive and never gives up,” Lawson said. “That kind of attitude carries over to everyone else.”

Fire department should fly flag as sign of unity 

Editor: 

I was born in Berkeley, raised nearby, schooled at Cal and I usually rejoice in showing out of town visitors the wonders, diversity and weirdness of Berkeley. 

I for one, will not shop or dine in Berkeley for a very long time in protest of the Fire Department’s decision to drop the U.S. flag from it’s trucks. This one, little unifying emblem, at a time of horrific violence should be proudly shown by us all. From all political perspectives, period. 

John French 

Albany, CA

Friday, Sept. 21 

Don’t turn tragedy into war 

7 p.m. 

Fellowship of Humanity 

390 27th St., Oakland 

Supporters include the Ecumenical Peace Institute, the American-Arab Anti-discrimination Committee, Global Exchange, the Middle East Children’s Alliance.  

Preaching and pastoral care in a time of terror 

A workshop for clergy of all faith traditions  

9:30 a.m. - 12 noon 

Pacific School of Religion 

Chapel of the Great Commission 

1798 Scenic Ave. 

In a time that presents enormous challenges for those who minister to churches, congregations, synagogues, mosques, parishes and all communities of faith, the faculty of the member schools of the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley invite clergy to attend a workshop focused on providing reflection and resources for the work of ministry in times of trial and terror.  

Sunday, Sept. 23 

Peace Walks  

Lake Merritt Neighbors Organized for Peace leads weekly peace walks around Lake Merritt in Oakland every Sunday at 3 p.m. 

People meet at the columns, between Grand and Lakeshore avenues.  

763-8712, lmno4p@yahoo.com

Berkeley High School has turned down a student group’s request to hold a rally next Wednesday in favor of tolerance toward South Asian, Muslim, and Arabic students. 

Principal Frank Lynch said that under equal-access laws, the school might have to approve a rally expressing the opposite viewpoint. 

“If we had a rally which would be a peaceful demonstration along the lines of acceptance and anti-war, we would then be putting ourselves in a position where, if somebody wanted to come in and do a rally about pro-war, then we’d have to let those people onto campus,” he said. “We think in the long run it would create more headaches.” 

Lynch said no pro-war groups had asked to hold a rally. However, he added, “I’m using ‘yet’ as the operative word.” 

Josh Parr, an outreach coordinator at the school’s Student Learning Center who advises the student groups leading an effort to educate Berkeley High students on South Asian, Arabic, and Muslim cultures, criticized the decision, saying the campus had hosted “hundreds” of peace rallies in the past. 

“I don’t think (the decision) was well-thought through,” he said. “When you consider that they let the army come and recruit on campus last year, but then they won’t let the students have a peace rally, it seems there’s a large contradiction.” 

Organizers had somewhat different descriptions of what sort of event they envisioned. Parr termed it a “peace rally and press conference” to coincide with an anticipated City Council proclamation of a “no-hate zone” in Berkeley, while a student active in the effort spoke of Pakistani food, dances, poetry, and a speaker. After hearing of the school administration’s decision, Sarena Chandler, the student director on the school board, said, “We’re not making a political statement against anything, just trying to provide people with information.” 

To that end, Culture and Unity and Youth Together, two student leadership groups formed by students of color, will send small teams about the school Monday and Tuesday to teach tolerance, media savvy, the history of scapegoating in America, and South Asian, Muslim and Arab cultures. 

“This is just a beginning,” said junior Maliyah Coye, a member of one of the groups helping organize the teach-in, Thursday. “I don’t see (these) workshops being ‘it’ on people’s education against ignorance.” 

Lynch called the teach-ins “absolutely wonderful.” 

At Wednesday’s School Board meeting, eight Berkeley High students of South Asian extraction gathered at a small table and, passing around a microphone, described how they and others had been intimidated on and off campus since last week’s terrorist attacks. One told of a female student who had been followed and jeered on her way to school for wearing her hijab, or traditional head scarf. She went home, took it off, and had her father accompany her back to school. The students asked for students who intimidate Muslims to be suspended and for the school to check IDs at the campus entrances.  

Michele Lawrence, the district superintendent, told the students to report any incidents to their counselors. 

“You should not be feeling this alone, and we will be stepping up our vigilance in ID checking,” she said. 

Sarmed Anwar, an 11th grader, said after the meeting that when he broke ahead of the team during cross-country practice one afternoon this week, a man outside the school grounds made a disparaging comment. 

“People from outside who are not even in the school are like, yelling over the fences,” he said. 

The students said they were also concerned by reports and rumors of abuse filtering in from elsewhere in California and around the country. 

“We are scared because of what we have heard from other schools,” said Hira Qureshi, a senior. 

“This shouldn’t happen,” said Deborah Ortiz, a member of the group, “because we’re human beings and we should have the sense to know that those kids need to be left alone.” 

Barbara Lubin, director of the Middle East Children’s Alliance, a Berkeley-based nonprofit organization, said it was common right now for parents to forbid their children from wearing their hejabs. 

“It’s absolutely despicable that young people, Muslim people, have to hide their beliefs and hide what’s really important to them,” she said. “It’s an important part of their belief to cover their heads.” 

Principal Lynch said the school had dealt with “a couple of situations that have occurred to individuals,” which would be handled “as a case-by-case situation.”  

“If kids are taunting, or there’s an assault or something, we’re putting the tag of a hate crime on it,” he said.

Not time for rallies 

Editor: 

One would think the political opportunism could wait (”Protesters rally,” Daily Planet, 9-19-01) until we bury our dead. 

Carol Denney 

Berkeley

Twenty-five current and former employees of Skates by the Bay filed a complaint with the city manager’s office Thursday, charging that their employer has not paid them the salaries due to them under the city’s living wage ordinance. 

The complaint said that Skates, a bayfront restaurant on the Berkeley Marina, has not paid them a living wage, has not provided medical benefits and has not given them paid vacations, as the living wage ordinance requires. 

The action followed a press conference, arranged by the East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy, on the steps of City Hall.  

Constance Slider, a cocktail server, and Edwin Gonzaga, Skates’ lead night cook, spoke on behalf of their colleagues, whom they said wished to remain anonymous for fear that Skates’ management would retaliate against them. 

Gonzaga said that while he does earn $15 per hour – above the city’s mandated $9.75 – he was not given paid vacation time. More importantly, he said, most of his crew was earning well under the living wage, and they were too afraid for their jobs to speak out. 

“I’m not doing this because of money,” he said. “I’m here today on behalf of my crewmembers and staff.” 

Slider, who is paid the minimum wage of $6.25 per hour, said that while she, too, worried about her job security, she would not allow her concerns to prevent her from signing the complaint.  

“I’ve never been a person to allow someone to treat me unjustly and not speak up about it,” she said.  

The city’s living wage ordinance was passed in June 2000, and covered most businesses that contract with the city. In September of that year, it was extended to cover companies that leased city-owned land at the Berkeley Marina. 

Skates, which is a subsidiary of Restaurants Unlimited, a Seattle-based chain, protested the so-called Marina Amendment. When the council passed it anyway, Restaurants Unlimited claimed it was unconstitutional and filed suit against the city in federal court. 

The company claims that the Marina Amendment impairs the terms of its lease with the city, because it was introduced after the lease was signed. It also claims that the amendment creates two different “business zones” in the city, and that companies located at the Marina are unfairly penalized. 

“Skates on the Bay has tried every means at their disposal to deny workers a living wage,” said Martha Benitez, an EBASE organizer. 

In their suit against the city, Restaurants Unlimited said that the company was holding the difference between its employees’ actual wage and the living wage in a separate fund until a decision was reached in the case. 

Benitez called the action “illegal.” 

“They’ve received no permission from the city or any judge to do this,” she said. “They’ve just taken upon themselves to be above the law.” 

“They’ve told their employees they’ve got the money in a bank account – but that’s not what the law tells them to do. The law tells them to pay that money to their employees.” 

Zachary Wasserman, Restaurants Unlimited’s attorney, confirmed that the company has not asked the judge hearing the case to suspend Skates’ obligation to pay the living wage while the lawsuit is pending. 

At the press conference, Councilmember Kriss Worthington praised the courage of the Skates’ employees, and said that their action renewed the vitality of the city’s law. 

“The living wage ordinance cannot be a piece of paper sitting in a drawer somewhere,” he said. “The living wage ordinance must have life.” 

Councilmember Linda Maio told the workers that “the City Council is behind (them).” 

After handing the written complaint to Yolanda Lopez of the city manager’s office, a delegation including Benitez, Berkeley Labor Commissioner Wendy Alfsen and Father Bill O’Donnell of St. Joseph the Worker Church, went to Skates and presented the complaint to Mark Turner, Skates’ general manager. 

Benitez said that Turner promised not to retaliate against the workers who filed the complaint, but she said that EBASE would continue to monitor their situation. 

“We are being vigilant to make sure that workers are not harassed,” she said. 

Turner said he could not talk about the workers’ complaint while the lawsuit against the city was pending. Restaurants Unlimited could not be reached for comment. 

Thanks for courageous vote 

The Daily Planet received a copy of this e-mail sent to Rep. Barbara Lee: 

I greatly admire your personal fortitude in voting, as one out of over 400 Representatives, against last week’s resolution invoking the War Powers Resolution of 1973, in response to the abominable and disastrous terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. 

While such resolutions have no force of law as to what the President or Congress may do, any resistance within our federal representation – to a retaliatory response to terrorism that gives indication of perpetrating widespread, indiscriminate extinction of innocent lives or withdrawing basic sustenance to same, in any part of the world, in defiance of justice and in pursuit of vindictiveness – is highly appreciated. The task of stamping out terrorism not directly brandished by sovereign states is one of precise excision based on well-studied information and skillful craft, not one of broad military campaigns. We labeled our national campaign against illicit drugs a “war,” even without a similar resolution. It has not been a success, now after several decades. 

Though nearly all the world wants to wipe out terrorism, hastily formed alliances will soon fall apart under demands of this country to exceed standards of forceful behavior that threaten to evolve to appear nearly as loose as those that would condone the very terrorism under siege. 

Thank you very much for your negative vote on this matter. 

Raymond A. Chamberlin 

Berkeley 

It’s hard to be lite, in these trying and tragic times, but the Berkeley political rumor mill stops for nothing – so let me tell you, in case you’re one of the few who’s missed it, what most everyone in town’s whispering. 

Loni Hancock’s running for Dion Aroner’s Assembly seat.  

At this point, of course, it’s just a rumor, but one almost a dozen local politicos seem to be quite sure of. 

“I understand Loni Hancock is in. I heard it was announced by (Assemblymember) Dion Aroner,” said Mayor Shirley Dean, who’s once again thinking about plunging into the race. (She told this column, some months back, that she wasn’t running.)  

Could it be that Dean doesn’t want to face former assemlymember Tom Bates - Loni’s husband – who’s rumored to be running for mayor? (To be truthful, we heard that rumor from only one source – Jane Brunner, vice mayor of Oakland who’s running for the assembly.) 

The possibility that Loni will run doesn’t faze Oakland attorney and candidate Charles Ramsey, who seems to be well on his way to picking up funds and endorsements for the March primary. To date, he says he’s raised $125,000 and has been endorsed by several pages-worth of folk, including five Richmond City Councilmembers, the entire San Pablo City Council, and three former Berkeley council members. He says he’s a progressive, considered a moderate by many who cling to labels and is the only African American in the race. 

Jane Brunner said she’d heard Hancock was in the running. 

“I welcome Loni to run,” she said. “She will be a serious opponent. We’ll have a good debate.” Asked what issues she felt she could best Hancock on, Brunner, who’s amassed a campaign war chest of $80,000, said the specifics would have to wait for the race to heat up some. 

Brunner, who’s about to move into the district she was redistricted out of, said she thought she’d do well in Lamorinda, having worked as a labor lawyer in Walnut Creek for 10 years. 

Others - not Hancock, who did not return messages – said the former mayor knew Lamorinda well, since the district of her hubby, assemblymember for 18 years, used to include that part of Contra Costa County. 

But Brunner said Lamorindans would see Hancock running in their district as “the old guard coming back.” 

Dean said she’s not married to running a race for the Assembly. She gets calls asking her to run again for mayor. The Assembly race “crosses my mind once every 24 hours,” she said, adding that she has to make up her mind soon. 

She said she would not be afraid to run against the former mayor, who left office in 1994 to take a post in Clinton’s Department of Education. 

“I believe the last time Loni ran for mayor, she won by 85 votes,” Dean said. “I don’t know how short or long the electorate’s memory is.” 

And so, what does this do to the candidacies of Councilmember Kriss Worthington, who announced he was running months ago, and former councilmember Nancy Skinner, who had been mulling over the race. 

Skinner said she’d decided against running for personal reasons, one of them being that she loves her job working internationally against global warming. But she said that, though she had originally opposed term limits, the turnover means there will be a chance for her to run down the line. (A promise, perhaps?) 

Does she support Hancock? “Yes, I suppport Loni,” she said. Comparing her to Brunner, she said Hancock has “far more experience,” having served as city councilmember, mayor and having worked with the Department of Education. 

And Worthington won’t be in the race. He said he’d promised that if the progressives came up with a “concensus” candidate – particularly if it was a woman or a person of color – he would not run. “I am a man of my word,” he said, noting that he was afraid he would disappoint the 1,900 people who had signed on as his supporters. Worthington declined to say who he’d support until the “concensus” candidate formally announces. 

Apparently, the folks that come together to make the consensus are such luminaries as U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee, Aroner, Supervisor Keith Carson and, do you think? Tom Bates. They may be crossing t’s and such as you read your Daily Planet today. 

While Carson would not say he endorses Hancock, he said “her entry into the race brings some excitement.”  

How will she play in Lamorinda?  

Given her experience (and I assume her husband’s) “she won’t have to go through a learning curve,” Carson said. “She probably knows the issues that affect people in that part of the district.” 

Will she have a hard time catching up, given that Ramsey and Brunner are already campaigning heavily? “People know her,” Carson said. “There’s already a level of support.” 

Gratitude for courageous vote 

The Daily Planet received a copy of this letter to Rep. Barbara Lee: 

I am writing to express my deepest and most sincere gratitude to you for your courageous and principled vote concerning the course of action that our country should take in the wake of the tragedy our nation suffered on September 11, 2001.  

Your vote may have been the only one registered against ceding the authority of Congress to influence the country’s course of actions and keep in check the activity of the president in regards to his apparent march toward war. But I know that many, many citizens agree with your vote, and would have voted with you, given the chance.  

I am the mother of a five-month-old son, and the events of last Tuesday will forever be seared into my memory. I sat on my living room floor holding my son and crying as I watched with sheer horror the World Trade Centers and Pentagon being engulfed in flames. I looked at my son and said, “I wish you had been born into a world where things like this never happened.” I know I’ll have to explain to him eventually the things that happened that day. I fervently hope that I don’t have to explain how our President chose to ignore the cries and pleading of so many people from his own country and others around the world to avoid starting a war that can only harm more civilians, even though they may not be American. I thought of all the children born on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. Each year that they celebrate a birthday the world will remember the day the world changed in some fundamental way. I think of the children that will be born on the day that President Bush starts a war. The anniversary of that day will be even harder to explain; “This was the day that retribution was sought, that peace was overlooked.” 

Please know that you have the support of so many people in voting your conscience. My husband and I are not California natives, but we are thankful that we lived in a district where our representative voted with her heart and represented all those who chose peace. I also encourage you to pursue the course of action that will bring those responsible for this tragedy to justice in the eyes of the world, according to international law. I will be writing to President Bush to encourage him to do the same.  

I thank you again for your courage on behalf of myself and especially my son.  

Laura Bartels Goldsborough 

Albany

As a youth soccer league kicks off its fall season, the city received more preliminary information that a highly used west Berkeley soccer field has excessive levels of airborne particulate matter that may pose a health risk. 

The city commissioned a $40,000 air study to determine the levels of Particulate Matter 10 at Harrison Field, located at Fifth and Harrison streets. The most recently released test results show particulate matter exceeded state standards seven times from Aug. 1 to Sept. 15. During July, the PM10 levels exceeded state standards nine times. 

The city commissioned the air study because of Harrison Field’s location in the midst of Interstate 80, a waste disposal transfer station and the site of several industrial manufacturing facilities. The field opened in 1999. 

The test results also show particulate matter levels were the highest between 8:30 a.m. and 3 p.m., the same times the Alameda-Contra Costa Soccer League will be holding soccer matches during its fall season. According to a league Web site, 137 games are scheduled at the soccer field between Sept. 8 and Nov. 10, when the season ends. 

The air study results for the early afternoon of Sept. 8, while four soccer games were taking place, showed particulate matter levels were above 150 micrograms per cubic meter or three times the state’s 24-hour standard for PM10. 

The air study, which began in July, is being conducted by Applied Measurement Science. AMS will continue to collect air samples from Harrison Field for nine months so air quality can be measured during a variety of climates and weather conditions. Hazardous Materials Supervisor Nabil Al-Hadithy cautioned it would be unwise to draw conclusions about health risks until the study is completed and the data is analyzed, some time next summer. 

The city’s air study contract with AMS also included measurements of particulate matter 2.5 but equipment problems have delayed the collection of that data for another one to three weeks, according to AMS president Eric Winegar. 

The Bay Area Air Quality Control Management District considers PM2.5 to be a greater health risk than PM10 because the PM2.5 is smaller and capable of embedding deeper in the lung’s membrane. Though the PM2.5 information is not available, Al-Hadithy said it is reasonable to assume high levels of PM10 mean high levels of PM2.5. 

Melanie Marty, chief of Air Toxicology and Epidemiology Section of the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, said there is a growing body of information that shows particulate matter is related to respiratory problems in children, seniors and people who suffer from respiratory illnesses. Marty, who did not see the Harrison Field air study results, said generally high levels of particulate matter is worthy of concern.  

“There are a number of studies that show particulate matter exacerbates asthma and kids have worse asthma symptoms because their air passages are smaller,” she said. “It sounds like the study results is reason for concern, but not panic.” 

Parks and Waterfront Director Lisa Caronna said she had not had a chance to review the recently released study results and said she was not willing to jump to any conclusions until the study has been completed and the data is analyzed.  

“We need to find out what the scope of this thing is,” she said. “We want to see what time of day the levels are the highest and what’s causing it.” 

Caronna said if the numbers are consistently high, the city might “implement warning information, as needed.” 

Alan Fong, Manager of the Albany Berkeley Soccer Club, said the league will be watching the study closely and monitoring children who have respiratory problems. 

Community Environmental Advisory Commissioner L.A. Wood suggested the city require that parents sign a waiver if their children are scheduled to play soccer at Harrison Field. He added that he is anxious to find out the PM2.5 results. 

“If the PM2.5 levels are running as high as the PM10, it becomes a much more serious situation,” he said. “If parents are required to sign a health waiver it will be an excellent device to make sure parents know there may be a risk at the field.” 

For to-date test data from the Harrison Field air study go to www.airmeasurement.com/berkeley.html and for more information about particulate matter 10 go to www.baaqmd.gov/pie/pm10bacm.htm. 

A noontime anti-war rally and march from Sproul Plaza ended at the north side of Eshleman Hall Thursday, where protesters, upset over an editorial cartoon planned to spend the night.  

About 30 people, mostly students, prepared to sleep below the windows of the Daily Californian’s sixth floor offices to protest the printing Tuesday of a cartoon the protesters called “blatantly racist.” 

The protest marks the second time this week the newspaper’s offices have been ground zero for demonstrators. Approximately 150 people occupied the sixth floor Tuesday to demand an apology for the cartoon; 17 were arrested early Wednesday after they refused to leave.  

The cartoon, by syndicated cartoonist and UC Berkeley alumnus Darrin Bell, depicted two middle-eastern men standing in the palm of a large hand in hell, apparently rejoicing at their good fortune for having achieved a massive terrorist attack on the United States. 

About 2,500 people attended Thursday’s “National Student Day of Action” rally on Sproul Plaza. 

The rally was followed by a march that ended at Eshleman Hall, where roughly 500 people remained to show support for the newspapers’ protesters. By evening approximately 30 protesters were preparing to spend the night to keep pressure on the newspaper. 

“Our demands have not changed,” said mechanical engineering graduate student Abdul Zahzah. “Right now they’re merely allowing letters to the editor” in the newspaper. “That’s not enough.” 

Daily Californian Editor in Chief Janny Hu stuck to her earlier refusal to issue an apology. The cartoon was one person’s commentary, she said, and did not constitute an endorsement of racism or hatred. “It goes down to freedom of speech,” she said. “Obviously freedom of speech comes with responsibilities, but we feel (publishing) the cartoon is within that responsibility.” 

Zahzah argued, however, that “Freedom of speech has boundaries. It’s not (about) saying everything you want. The cartoon doesn’t fall into freedom of speech because it incites violence, harassment and hate crimes.” 

The Daily Californian’s website was hacked into Wednesday night, when someone posted a fake apology. 

Police as yet have no suspects. Film and English major Maryam Gharavi, a Stop the War Coalition member, said protesters had nothing to do with the hacking. “This is definitely not endorsed by the coalition,” she said. 

SAN FRANCISCO — Gov. Gray Davis illegally seized an estimated $200 million in energy contracts from Southern California Edison Co. and Pacific Gas & Electric Co., a divided federal appeals court ruled Thursday. 

Invoking constitutionally vested powers, the governor seized the energy contracts in January and February to keep the California Power Exchange from liquidating them. 

The now-defunct exchange, which was the state’s middleman for the buying and selling of electricity, wanted to sell the contracts so it could recoup hundreds of millions the two utilities owed it for previous power buys. 

Now the state is the middleman for the buying and selling of power. The state uses the contracts in question to buy electricity at a set price, and can avoid the high prices it has to pay for power in a fluctuating market. Therefore, the value of the contracts changes with the volatile price of electricity. 

North Carolina-based Duke Energy sued the governor, alleging that Davis illegally took control of the long-term contracts that required the company to deliver energy at a generally cheaper price than the going market rate. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed, ruling 2-1 that Davis did not have the authority to take the contracts because Congress has not granted the states such rights in energy matters. 

“This is great news,” Duke spokesman Tom Williams said Thursday. 

Attorney General Bill Lockyer’s office, which defends the governor in suits, said it was reviewing whether to ask the circuit to reconsider its decision, spokeswoman Sandra Michioku said. 

Among other things, Duke claimed the Power Exchange should have been able to liquidate the contracts so it could repay Duke and other energy concerns the millions in outstanding debt the exchange accumulated as the state’s power buyer. Duke also said it should have been able to sell those contracts to other utilities for perhaps even a greater profit than when they were originally sold to the exchange. 

The Power Exchange’s debt began accumulating when wholesale energy prices started skyrocketing. That is because California law did not allow its utilities to increase consumer rates to keep up, which caused the utilities to default on their payments to the exchange. 

PG&E has since filed for bankruptcy protection, and Edison has said power companies to which it owns billions could force it to do the same. 

The case is Duke v. Davis, 01-55770. 

CINCINNATI — A judge Thursday refused to throw out charges against a white police officer whose fatal shooting of an unarmed black man sparked the city’s April riots. 

Hamilton County Municipal Court Judge Ralph E. Winkler ordered that the trial of Officer Stephen Roach continue. 

Defense lawyer Merlyn Shiverdecker argued that the state failed during three days of testimony to prove that Roach was guilty of negligent homicide and obstructing official business. 

But Prosecutor Steve McIntosh argued that the trial should go on. 

“We cannot conclude that the state failed to meet its burden just because the defendant is a creative storyteller,” he said. 

McIntosh said evidence showed that Roach’s actions in the April 7 shooting of Timothy Thomas, 19, amounted to criminal neglect, and that the state demonstrated that Roach hindered the police investigation by telling different stories to officers. 

The rioting, which lasted three nights, was the city’s worst racial violence since the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination in 1968. A citywide curfew was ordered, dozens of people were injured and more than 800 were arrested. 

The judge is hearing the case without a jury. With his ruling Thursday, the trial shifted to defense testimony. Shiverdecker has declined to say if Roach will be called as a witness. If convicted of both charges, Roach faces up to nine months in jail. 

Roach shot Thomas after chasing him down a dark alley with other police officers. Thomas was wanted on 14 charges, including traffic offenses and fleeing from police to avoid arrest. 

Thursday afternoon, William Lewinski, who has studied the stresses on police involved in shootings, testified that many officers report distorted vision or hearing. Others say time seemed to slow down or speed up. 

Officers often react instinctively, Lewinski testified, which could explain Roach’s initial statement to other officers, within minutes of the shooting, that his police revolver “just went off.” 

“The decision to shoot is a reactive decision,” Lewinski said. “What happened to officer Roach is, he made the most serious mistake of his life and he doesn’t know why he did it.” 

Homicide investigators testified Wednesday that they doubted Roach’s initial explanation of the shooting and called him back for a second interview. 

Investigator Charles Beaver testified that evidence found at the scene and on a police cruiser videotape contradicted statements Roach made about five hours after the shooting. 

“Our conclusion was that he realized that he had made a mistake and was trying to justify his actions,” Beaver told Winkler. 

Prosecutors contend that Roach violated several police procedures and should have tried other means of stopping Thomas before shooting him. Roach said his gun discharged accidentally. 

Roach, 27, has been suspended without pay. 

MONTEBELLO — For Balbir Singh Sahni, Thursday was a bittersweet day, one in which the native of India became a U.S. citizen and had to go shopping for new tires to replace the ones vandals had slashed. 

“It’s been a little frustrating,” the Sikh businessman, wearing a beige turban and matching suit, said minutes after he and 903 others took the oath of citizenship. “Unfortunately my son’s car at school had all four of its tires slashed, and I’m going to have to take care of that later today.” 

His 17-year-old son likely fell victim to misplaced retaliation for the terrorism that struck the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon last week, Sahni said. 

His wife, Loveleen, called on the U.S. media to tell the world that Sikhs are not connected to the attackers, who are believed to be Islamic fundamentalists. 

“They are a peaceful, religious sect originally from India,” she said of Sikhs, whose male members wear turbans and flowing beards that look similar to those of Muslim clerics. 

She and her husband were among an estimated 2,710 people from 100 countries who crowded onto the Montebello Municipal Golf course in this suburb just east of Los Angeles to be sworn in as citizens during three separate ceremonies. 

The events filled the golf course’s cavernous Quiet Cannon Banquet Facility to capacity, with proud relatives lining the walls to cheer and hand flowers to the newly initiated, who waved small American flags. 

Whoops of joy went up as U.S. District Judge Jennifer Lum told one group: “Ladies and gentlemen, congratulations, you have taken the oath and you are now American citizens.” 

The judge made just one reference to the attacks. 

“After the tragic events of last week it is clear that the importance of these liberties and these opportunities cannot be doubted and cannot be taken for granted,” she said. “We must do everything we can to uphold, defend and respect these freedoms.” 

Among those in the crowd were some touched personally by the tragedy. 

“I have a cousin in New York City who is missing,” said Arif Ullarthan, who came to the United States from Pakistan in 1985. 

“He was in the World Trade Center for a job interview and now he’s missing. He’s missing, that’s all we know,” added the Muslim businessman who runs an International House of Pancakes restaurant in Inglewood. 

“This is not what our people believe in, this is an act of war,” he said. 

Still, the somber events couldn’t completely subdue the joy of many who had waited 10 years or more for this moment. 

“I’m very grateful,” said an exuberant Jagdeep Singh, who arrived from India in 1987. 

“I came for freedom. For freedom of religion, for a better standard of living, for a better life for my kids,” added the 33-year-old father of two who was sworn in wearing his red turban and blue-and-white USA T-shirt. 

“America’s the best,” he shouted afterward. “You better believe it.” 

Six steel columns in the lobby and atrium and cross-braced skylights look more like a new installation piece at the Berkeley Art Museum than the result of the initial phase of the museum’s ongoing retrofit project. 

The museum celebrated its reopening to the public by opening four new exhibitions in one week. 

The first of the fall shows features a 10-piece exhibition by sculptor Martin Puryear who was recently profiled in Time Magazine’s series, “America’s Best.” In addition to four wire-mesh and tar pieces there are a selection of sculptures that incorporate weaving, wrapping, tying and laminating wood into abstract shapes that are elegant, dramatic and thought provoking.  

One of the most striking pieces, “Ladder for Booker T. Washington” made from two ash trees, climbs skyward 36 feet, with a width of two feet at the base, narrowing to two inches at the top.  

Sharing the inauguration of the fall season is the first retrospective exhibition by conceptual artist and Berkeley alumna Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1951-1982). In the show, “The Dream of the Audience,” themes of language, memory and cultural heritage are explored. 

Primarily a performance artist, Cha’s body of work includes film, video, ‘mail art’ and books. The viewer is invited to page through her books online at a computer placed in a corner of one of the two galleries displaying her works. 

“Exilee,” Cha’s 1980 installation described as a “poetic fusion of film and video evoking memory and language” will be shown monthly at the Pacific Film Archive Theater in conjunction with the exhibit.  

The third and fourth exhibits are part of the museum’s program for new and experimental art. Ceal Floyer’s MATRIX 192 / 37’4” and Jessica Bronson’s MATRIX 194 / “heaps, layers and curls,” are site-specific works created for the fall reopening. 

Bronson’s video installation was commissioned for the MATRIX program. Her three-screened work projects the image of digitally altered clouds backed with a sound track. The large screens, set at angles to each other, create an environmental experience for the viewer who is surrounded and dwarfed by the shapes and images of the clouds on the textured screens.  

Ceal Foyer’s installation, MATRIX 192 / 37’4” is her first solo museum exhibit in North America. According to the museum her work has been described as “good old-fashioned Conceptual Art with a late-90’s attitude.”  

In addition to these four exhibits, three smaller shows round out the initial fall premiere: “Hans Hofmann - Real/Life,” “Figure Painting in the Qing Dynasty” and “Fast Forward - Our Growing Collection.”  

Many of the exhibits have speakers’ series, featuring talks with the artists and the curator of the exhibit. Also, patrons may request a special appointment to study the works of an individual artist.  

By the end of the year the retrofitting will be complete and the museum will have added two more exhibits and opened the entire building to the public, including the garden café. Outdoors, the steel braces that are being planted in the garden area and fixed to the exterior of the building will be integrated into the environment. 

Working closely with the structural engineers on the project, deputy director of publicity and marketing for the museum, Dr. Rod Macneil, said they were very accommodating to the daily operations of the museum. As an educational facility, maximum access to the collection of over 13,000 objects during the renovation was a major consideration. To keep the works onsite, Gallery 6 was converted to a storage area relieving concerns about security, climate and dust control. 

The retrofit project is scheduled for completion by January 2002 when the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive plan to host a grand reopening celebration. 

What colors make you happy? Which ones help you relax after a busy day? The colors you choose to decorate with really do influence your emotions. 

To stimulate conversation when guests visit, for example, choose active colors such as red, yellow and orange, which inspire camaraderie and an upbeat attitude. 

Colors play off your mood in three basic ways — active, passive and neutral. These are important factors when choosing colors for various rooms and how you plan to use those rooms in your home. 

Accents of red can greet guests in an entry or add a cozy touch to a den. Yellows, good for home offices and kitchens, can inspire creativity. 

Need a room to rejuvenate your soul? Passive colors, such as blue, green and purple, help pacify and restore. They work well in bedrooms or restful sitting rooms. If, however, your home is in a cold climate, the cool colors might be too “chilly,” so you might want to add some visual warmth with sunny accents to spark your spirit. 

Neutral colors, such as beige, gray, white and taupe, help bridge other colors and rooms. Dark neutrals tone down other colors, while crisp white intensifies them. 

What power do various colors have in home decorating? Their strength might surprise you. Some clues: 

—Pink: soothes; promotes affability and affection. 

—Yellow: expands the space, cheers your spirit; increases energy. 

—Black: disciplines, authorizes, strengthens what’s around it; encourages independence. 

—White: purifies, energizes, unifies; in combination, makes all other colors stronger. 

—Orange: cheers, commands; stimulates appetites and conversation. 

—Red: empowers, stimulates, dramatizes; symbolizes passion. 

—Green: balances, normalizes, refreshes; encourages emotional growth. 

—Purple: comforts, spiritualizes; creates mystery and draws out intuition. 

—Blue: relaxes, refreshes, cools; produces tranquil feelings and peaceful moods. 

Don’t be shy about playing with color. Choosing compatible colors is as easy as taking a look at the color wheel. It’s a cinch when you choose similar or analogous colors, those located side-by-side on the color wheel. Simply choose a favorite color as your main one, then look on either side of it for accent colors. 

For choosing high-energy schemes, consider complementary colors, hues opposite each other on the color wheel. Red and green, blue and orange, and yellow and purple are examples. In these schemes, warm and cool hues play off each other for interesting results. 

SAN FRANCISCO — California regulators fined local phone service giant Pacific Bell nearly $25.6 million Thursday for allegedly marketing products to customers in a deceptive manner. 

In a 3-2 vote at the Public Utilities Commission’s meeting Thursday, the PUC ordered the company to first help customers with their service requests before trying to sell them new services and products. 

While commissioners praised workers for their “excellent customer service,” they did not hold back criticizing the company’s marketing strategies. 

“Pacific Bell turned customer service representatives into sales agents,” said PUC Commissioner Carl Wood. 

Pac Bell spokesman John Britton said the company followed commission rules, and plans to challenge the PUC’s decision. 

“We will fight on every front to overturn this unjust decision,” Britton said. “It’s a ruling that’s anti-consumer, anti-labor and anti-business.” 

Britton said the order restricts customer service workers from earning more than 5 percent commission for sales they make, which violates Pac Bell’s collective bargaining agreement with its employees. 

“You have to ask yourself whether this harms California’s economy,” Britton said. “You have to think twice about growing and investing in such an arbitrary regulatory environment. We followed every rule.” 

Though commissioners disagreed on the size of the fine, all said Pac Bell needed to change how it interacts with its more than 10 million customers. 

When describing service options to customers, Pac Bell now must begin with the least-expensive choice, rather than offering the most-expensive choice first. 

Pac Bell also must tell tenants that landlords are responsible for indoor wire maintenance. The phone company had marketed a wire maintenance package to tenants, even though landlords are required by state law to maintain internal infrastructure. Britton said Pac Bell discontinued such practices years ago. 

“Clearly, millions of customers were affected by these practices and do not have the option of switching to another provider,” Wood said. 

Alisha DaVault, a Pac Bell business services representative, said the company only was trying to show customers all of the service options. 

“I think a lot of the things (PUC commissioners) have said have been blown out of proportion,” DaVault said. 

Pacific Bell is a unit of San Antonio-based SBC Communications. SBC operates in 13 states and is the nation’s second-largest local phone company. 

It was supposed to be a shot at revenge. Instead, it just became an extension of a painful losing streak. 

No player on the Berkeley High girls’ volleyball team knows what it feels like to beat cross-town rival Bishop O’Dowd, after Berkeley’s 16-14, 15-9, 15-2 loss on Tuesday marked the fifth straight year that the Dragons have defeated the ’Jackets. 

Last season, Berkeley (6-2) dominated its league opponents and won the Alameda Contra Costa Athletic League title without dropping a match. O’Dowd (2-1), however, sent the ’Jackets packing in the first round of the playoffs. 

It’s not as if O’Dowd’s powerful offense caught the ’Jackets by surprise. In fact the Dragons’ star hitter, Nikki Esposito, played on an off-season club team coached by Berkeley head coach Justin Caraway. 

“We spent all week preparing to block her and we did a terrible job of it,” Caraway said. “She hit the ball crosscourt every time and not once did we close the block and take that away from her.” 

Berkeley’s familiarity with O’Dowd’s top weapon mattered little after poor passing handcuffed ’Jackets’ hitters. 

“I knew exactly what they had and we just didn’t execute in terms of blocking,” Caraway said. “We didn’t execute at all in terms of passing, particularly toward the end of the second and all of the third game.” 

Caraway said sloppy sets led to the ineffectiveness of Berkeley’s Desiree Young. The towering senior, who played for a youth national team this summer, had just three kills in the entire match.  

“If we can’t pass the ball and take advantage of a 6-foot-5 middle, then we deserve to lose,” he said. 

Young, who took just two swings in the second game and one in the third, notched only a single kill in the final two sets. Junior Vanessa Williams attempted three swings in the second and five in the third, resulting in two kills. 

“That is not going to get it done on a team that’s designed around the middles,” Caraway said. “If we can’t pass, the middles aren’t going to swing and my outsides aren’t strong enough to carry the offensive load when they need to.” 

Berkeley led by as many as four points early in the opening game, but Caraway said that mental mistakes and passing errors let the Dragons escape with a 16-14 win. The ’Jackets weren’t able to recover after falling behind early in the second as O’Dowd scored the final five points of the game en route to a 15-9 victory. 

The ’Jackets unraveled in the final game and quickly fell behind 7-0. Caraway benched two of his outside hitters, Ilana Baar and Gina Colombatto, and watched his team lose 15-2 in just 14 minutes. 

“They had one big hitter (Esposito) and we just couldn’t get the block closed and she just wore us down the whole time,” said Berkeley Williams, who finished the match with seven kills.  

“I thought my outside hitters did a terrible job hitting,” Caraway said. “They passed pretty well, they defended fairly well, but errors abound on the outside.” 

Caraway plans to concentrate on passing this week as the team prepares to open ACCAL competition against Richmond on Sept. 25.  

“I do not expect league play to be very difficult for us, except Encinal and even then I don’t think it will be too tough,” Caraway said. “I think we demonstrated last year, going undefeated, that we were the class of the league in terms of talent. 

“But,” he added, “if we can’t pass, on any given day anyone can beat us.”

924 Gilman Street Sept. 21: Slow Gherkin, 78 RPMS, Enemy You, Wisecracker; Sept. 23: 5 p.m. Subtonix, Running Ragged, (+t.b.a.); Sept. 28: Erase Errata, The Intima, Ibobuki, (+t.b.a.); Sept. 29: DS-13, Beware, Blown To Bits, (+t.b.a.); Most shows are $5 and start at 8 p.m. unless otherwise noted. 

Albatross Pub Sept. 20: Kenji “El Lebrijano” Flamenco Guitar; Sept. 22: Larry Stefl Jazz Quartet; Sept. 25: Mad and Eddie Duran; Sept. 27: Kenji “El Lebrijano” Flamenco Guitar; Free. All shows begin at 9 p.m. 1822 San Pablo Ave. 843-2473  

albatrosspub@mindspring.com  

Anna’s Sept. 20: Jazz Singer’s Collective; Sept. 21: Anna sings jazz and blues, Fred Harris on piano, 10 p.m. Bluesman Hideo Date; Sept. 22: Vicki Burns and Felice York, Ellen Hoffman Trio, 10 p.m. The Distones Jazz Sextet, Donald Duck Bailey on piano; Sept. 23: Ed Reed, Alex Markel’ Group; Sept. 24: The Renegade Sidemen, Calvin Keyes, Dave Rokeach and Pals; Sept. 25: Tangria; Sept. 26: Bob Schoen Jazz Quintet, Cheryl McBride; Sept. 27: David Jeffrey Fourtet, Brendan Milstein; Sept. 28: Anna sings jazz standards, 10 p.m. Bluesman Hideo Date; Sept. 29: Robin Gregory, Bliss Rodriguez, 10 p.m. The Distones Jazz Sextet, Donald Duck Bailey; Sept. 30: Acoustic Soul; All shows begin at 8 p.m. 1801 University Ave. 849-ANNA www.annasbistro.com 

Ashkenaz Music & Dance Community Center Sept. 20: 10 p.m. Grateful Dead DJ Nite, $5; Sept. 21: 9:30 p.m. Hip Hop Party: Emphatics, Self Jupitor, Professor Whaley, Bas 1, DJ Riddim and DJ Malik. $10; Sept. 22: 9:30 p.m. Don Carlos and Reggae Angels, $15; Sept. 23: 8 p.m. Funky Nixons, Mokai, Green & Root’s Womyn’s Music and more, $8 - $15. 1317 San Pablo Ave. 525-5054 www.ashkenaz.com  

Café de la Paz Poetry Nitro, performance showcase with open mike. Sept. 24: Jim Watson-Gove; All shows free, 7 - 10 p.m. 

Cal Performances Sept. 30: 7 p.m. Kronos Quartet, David Barron, $30; Oct. 12 - 14: Fri. and Sat., 8 p.m., Sun. 3 p.m. Ballet Nacional De Cuba, $24 - $46; Oct. 17 and 18: 8 p.m. Cesaria Evora, $24 - $36; Oct. 19: 8 p.m. Karnak, $18 - $30. Zellerbach Hall, UC Berkeley Campus, Bancroft Way at Telegraph, 642-0212, tickets@calperfs.berkeley.edu 

Crowden School Sept. 23: 4 p.m. “Sundays at Four Concert” Jeremy Cohen’s jazz violin. Admission $10 (free if under 18) 1475 Rose 559-6910 

Eli’s Mile High Club every Friday, 10 p.m. Funky Fridays Conscious Dance Party with KPFA DJs Splif Skankin and Funky Man. $10; Doors open at 8 p.m. unless noted. 3629 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Oakland. 655-6661 

Freight & Salvage Sept. 20: Steve Tilston & Danny Carnahan, $16.50; Sept. 21: The Waybacks, $17.50; Sept. 22: The Bluerass Intentions, $17.50; Sept. 23 Tony Marcus & Patrice Haan, $16.50; Sept. 24: April Verch, $16.50; Sept. 26: Clive Gregson, $16.50; Sept. 27: Dick Gaughan, $18.50; Sept 28: Jenna Mammina, $16.50; Sept. 29: The Nigerian Brothers, $16.50; Sept. 30: Vasen, $17.50; All shows start at 8 p.m. 1111 Addison St. 548-1761 www.freightandsalvage.com 

Jack’s Bistro Sept. 22 & Sept. 28: 9 p.m. Tomas Michaud’s New World Flamenco Quartet, Jack London Square. 444-7171 www.starland-music.com 

Jazzschool/La Note Sept. 30: 4 p.m., John Santos and the Machete Ensemble. $15. 2377 Shattuck Ave. 510-845-5376 

Jupiter Sept. 20: Beatdown w/ DJs Delon, Yamu, and Add1; Sept. 21: Netwerk: Electric; Sept. 22: New Garde Philosophers; Sept. 25: Craig Graham Trio; Sept. 26: Starvin Like Marvin; Sept. 28 Anton Schwartz Quartet; Sept 29: moderngypsies.net; All music starts at 8 p.m. 2181 Shattuck Ave. 843-7625 www.jupiterbeer.com  

La Peña Cultural Center Sept. 20: 8 p.m. Correo Aereo, $10; Sept. 27: 7:30 p.m. The local Friends of the MST will host a screening of the new documentary "Raiz Forte" or "Strong Roots" to present our community with a vision of their work and struggle. A discussion will follow. $5-$10; In the Cafe, 3105 Shattuck Ave. 849-2568 www.lapena.org 

Music Sources Sept. 30: 5 p.m. Ole Scarlatta! Portuguese and French keyboards and fortepiano joined by Jason McGuire on flamenco guitar, $18 General, $15 members, seniors, students. 1000 The Alameda 528-1685 

Sedge Thomson’s West Coast Live Radio Show Julia Morgan Theatre, 2640 College Ave.; Sept. 29: Nancy Miford, author of “Savage Beauty.” West African folk music with The Nigerian Brothers. Blues roots piano by Caroline Dahl. The Freight and Salvage, 1111 Addison St. All shows 10 a.m. - noon. 252-9214 www.wcl.org 

The 1st Annual Guinness & Oyster Festival 2001 Sept. 22: 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. Free. Cake, Mingus Amungus, Ponticello, Stolen Bibles, Alamo 66 w/ Destani Wolf, The Culann’s Hounds. MLK Jr. Civic Center Park 

13th Annual Blues ‘n Jazz Festival Sept. 23: noon - 6 p.m. Jeffrey Osborne Jazz Crusaders with Ronnie Laws, Ricardo Scales, Sonata Pi (and more). $35, Lawn $25, Child $6 (6-12 years, lawn only). Dunsmuir House & Gardens Historic Estate, 2960 Peralta Oaks Court, Oakland. 583-1160 

Benifit Concert for the Native American Health Center Sept. 28: 8 p.m. Buffy Sainte-Marie, Ulali, Lorrie Church, The Mankillers. Paramount Theater, 2025 Broadway, Oakland. 625-8497  

“The Complete Shostakovich String Quartets--Part One” Sept. 29: 10 a.m. Quartets III & IV; Oct. 20: 10 a.m. Quartets V & VI. Performed by the prize-winning Alexander String Quartet with Robert Greenberg. $ 30, $84 for the Trio of concerts. Julia Morgan Center for the Arts 2640 College Ave. 845-8542 www.juliamorgan.org. 

Magnificat Sept. 29: 8 p.m. First Congregational Church. The San Francisco early music ensemble of voices and period instruments present their tenth anniversary season with music of 17th century composers. Tickets $12-$45 (415) 979-4500 

The Mike Yax Jazz Orchestra Sept. 30: 2 p.m., Longfellow School of the Arts, 1500 Derby St. 420-4560 

American Ballet Theatre Sept. 20: 8 p.m.: Mark Morris, Paul Taylor and Natalie Weir; Sept. 21, 22: 8 p.m., Sept 22: 2 p.m., Sept 23: 3 p.m. David Briskin conducts Berkeley Symphony Orchestra. Zellerbach Hall Tickets $36, $48 and $64. 

“Hecho En Califas Chicano-Latino Teatro Festival” Sept. 21, 22, at 8 p.m. Sept. 16 & 23 matinees. The Alameda Civic Light Opera’s fifth summer season ends with the musical of Frances Hodson Burnett’s classic story of life, death, purpose and hope. Adults $22, Students 18 and under $14. Kofman Auditorium, 2200 Central Ave., Alameda. www.aclo.com 

“Le Cirque des Animaux” Sept. 29: 8 p.m. Hausmusik presents a wacky baroque musical cabaret on the subject of animals. Parish Hall of St. Alban’s Espiscopal Church, 1501 Washington St. (not wheelchair accessible). $18 general admission, $15 seniors, students and SFEMS members) 527-9029 

“Murder Dressed in Satin” by Victor Lawhorn, ongoing. A mystery-comedy dinner show at The Madison about a murder at the home of Satin Moray, a club owner and self-proclaimed socialite with a scarlet past. Dinner is included in the price of the theater ticket. $47.50 Lake Merritt Hotel, 1800 Madison St., Oakland. 239-2252 www.acteva.com/go/havefun 

“Twelfth Night” Sept. 18 - 23, 25 - 30, Oct. 2 - 7, Tue. - Thurs. 7:30 p.m., Fri. & Sat. 8 p.m., Sun. 4 p.m., Student Matinees: Sept. 18, 20, 25, Oct. 2, @ 1 p.m. California Shakespeare Festival presents William Shakespeare’s comic tale of romance, loneliness, love and glory. Directed by Jonathan Moscone. $12 - $41. Bruns Memorial Amphitheater, Highway 24, Gateway Exit, one mile east of the Caldecott Tunnel. 548-9666 www.calshakes.org Cultural Center, 3105 Shattuck Ave., 849-2568  

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“Swanwhite” Sept. 22 through Oct. 21: Thur. - Sat., 8 p.m., Sun. 7 p.m. A new translation of the Swedish Play that asks the question what good is romantic love, directed by Tom Clyde. $20, Sundays are “Pay What You Can.” Transparent Theater, 1901 Ashby Ave. 883-0305, www.virtuous.com 

“36 Views” through Oct. 28: Tues. 8 p.m., Wed. 7 p.m., Thu. 8 p.m. w/ 2 p.m. matinee every other Thu., Fri. 8 p.m., Sat. 8 p.m. w/ 2 p.m. matinee every other Sat., Sun. 2 p.m., 8 p.m. Written by Naomi Lizuka, Directed by Mark Wing-Davey. $10 - $54. Berkeley Repertory’s Roda Theatre, 2015 Addison St. 647-2949 www.berkeleyrep.org 

Cal Performances Sept. 20: 8 p.m. American Ballet, “Bruch Violin Concerto,” “Jabula,” “Gong,” and “Black Tuesday.”; Sept. 21: 8 p.m., Sept. 22: 2 p.m. & 8 p.m., Sept. 23: 3 p.m. American Ballet, the full-length 19th Century “Giselle” $36 - $64; Zellerbach Hall, UC Berkeley Campus, Bancroft Way at Telegraph, 642-0212,  

tickets@calperfs.berkeley.edu 

Pacific Film Archive Sept. 20: 7, 8:30 p.m. “Exilée”; Sept. 21: 7 p.m. Films of Fritz Lang: Tom Gunning Lecture, 8 p.m. Metropolis, Joel Adlen on piano; Sept. 22: 2:30 p.m. Donald Richie Reading and Booksigning, 4 p.m. An Actor’s Revenge, 7 p.m. Bad Company, 9:05 p.m. Unchain; Sept. 23: 5:30 p.m. Last Year at Marienbad; Sept. 24: 7 p.m. Chile, Obstinate Memory and For These Eyes; Sept. 25: 7:30 p.m. Alternative Requirements 2001, Artists in Person; Sept. 26: 7:30 p.m. Touch Tones; Sept. 28: 7 p.m. Ugetsu, 8:55 Sansho the Bailiff; Sept. 29: 7 p.m. Dr. Mabuse the Gambler, Part I, Joel Adlen on piano; Sept. 30: Dr. Mabuse the Gambler, Part II, Joel Adlen on piano; general admission $7, The New PFA Theatre 2575 Bancroft Way 642-1412 

The Pyramid Alehouse Outdoor Cinema Sept. 22: “Airplane”; The Outdoor Cinema features cult classics projected on a large screen in the open-air brewery parking lot. $5 donation. Movies start at 7 p.m. 901 Gilman St. 206-682-8322 x237 www.pyramidbrew.com 

Nexus Gallery Sept. 26-30: noon - 6 p.m. Jan Eldridge- Large charcoal drawings and acrylic collages; Tricia Grame- visual and textural autobiography of her spiritual evolution; Tanya Wilkinson- A sensuous exploration of the possibilities inherent in the medium of handmade paper. 

“The Political Art of: Diego Marcial Rios” Through Sept. 20, Addison Street Window Gallery, 2018 Addison St. hdrios@msn.com 

Women’s Cancer Resource Gallery “Catastrophe, Crisis, and Other Family Traditions” the photography of Jessamyn Lovell. Through Sept. 26; “The Arthur Wright and Gerald Parker” through Sept. 26; Tues. - Thurs. 1 - 7 p.m., Sat. 12 - 4 p.m. 3023 Shattuck Ave. 548-9286 x307 www.wcrc.org 

Bahman Navaee is exhibiting his paintings through Sept. 29: Persian Center, 2029 Durant Ave. 848-0264 

“Debbie Moore’s Autobiographical Paintings” through Sept. 30 at Good Vibrations. Portraits of the artist’s sensual explorations spanning 25 years and reflecting changing ways of intimacy and body play. 2504 San Pablo Ave. 848-1985 

“Three Visions” Sept. 26 through Sept. 30: 12 - 6 p.m., An Exhibition of Mixed Media. Nexus Gallery, 2707 Eighth Street (707) 554-2520 

Send arts events two weeks in advance to Calendar@berkeleydailyplanet.net, 2076 University Ave., Berkeley 94704 or fax to 841-5694. 

“The Decade of Change: 1900 - 1910” chronicles the transformation of the city of Berkeley in this 10-year period. Thursday through Saturday, 1 – 4 p.m. Through September. Berkeley History Center, Veterans Memorial Building, 1931 Center St. Wheelchair accessible. 848-0181. Free.  

“Squared Triangle” Through Oct. 5: noon - 6 p.m. A minimalist art exhibit featuring three Bay Area artists working in different mediums while achieving the same elegant simplicity. The Crucible, 1036 Ashby Ave. 843-5511 www.thecrucible.com 

“Inside Editions” through Oct. 12: Nine printmakers exhibit their work. 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Tue. - Fri. Free. Kala Art Insitute, 1060 Heinz Ave. 549-2977 kala@kala.org 

“Census 2000: Asian Pacific Islander Americans” through Oct. 13; Wed. - Sat. 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.; Asian Pacific Islander American artists in roughly the demographic proportions indicated by the recent census. Free. Pro Arts, 461 Ninth St., Oakland 763-9470  

“MWP Perspectives” Jon Orvik: One artist’s journey. Through Oct. 27 Tues. - Fri. 12 - 5 p.m., Sat. & Sun. 12 - 4 p.m. Solo artist exhibiting his journey through metal, wood and paint. Adapt Gallery and Design, 2834 College Ave. 649-8501 www.adaptgallery.com  

“50 Years of Photography in Japan 1951 - 2001” Through Nov. 5: An exhibition from The Yomiuri Shimbun, the world’s largest daily newspaper with a national morning circulation of 10,300,000. Photographs of work, love, community, culture and disasters of Japan as seen by Japanese news photographers. Opening Reception Sept. 5: 6 - 8 p.m. open to the public; Mon. - Fri. 8 a.m. - 6 p.m. U.C. Berkeley, Graduate School of Journalism, North Gate Hall, Hearst and Euclid. Free. 642-3383 

“Changing the World, Building New Lives: 1970s photographs of Lesbians, Feminists, Union Women, Disability Activists and their Supporters” Sept. 15 through Nov. 17: An exhibit of black and white photographs by Oakland photographer Cathy Cade, who captured the interrelationships of the different struggles for justice and social change. Opening reception Sept. 15, 5 - 8 p.m. Gallery Hours, Mon. - Fri. 8:30 a.m. - 6:30 p.m., Sat. 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. Photolab Gallery, 2235 Fifth St. Free. 644-1400 cathycade@mindspring.com 

“The Whole World’s Watching: Peace and Social Justice Movements of the 1960s and 1970s” Sept. 16 through Dec. 16: A documentary photo exhibition which examines the rich history of the social movements of the 1960’s and 1970’s. Wed. - Sun., noon - 5 p.m. Berkeley Art Center, 1275 Walnut St., Live Oak Park. Free. 644-6893 

“Musee des Hommages” Masterworks by Guy Colwell Faithful copies of several artists from the pasts, including Titian’s “The Venus of Urbino,” Cezanne’s “Still Life,” Picasso’s “Woman at a Mirror,” and Botticelli’s “Primavera” Ongoing. Call ahead for hours. Atelier 9 2028 Ninth St. (at Addison) 841-4210 or visit www.atelier9.com 

Readings 

Boadecia’s Books Sept. 21: Deborah Kesten, “The Healing Secrets of Food;” Sept. 22: A special All Poetry Dyke Open Myke, to participate call 655-1015 or feroniawolf@yahoo.com; Sept 28: The Return of Gaymes Night; Sept 29: Ellen Samuels and other contributors to “Out of the Ordinary: Essays on Growing Up with Gay, Lesbian & Transgender Parents. All events start at 7:30 p.m. unless noted otherwise. All events are free. 398 Colusa Ave. 559-9184 www.bookpride.com 

Cody’s on 4th Street Sept. 20: 7 p.m. Jamie Oliver, The Naked Chef, “The Naked Chef Takes Off”; Sept. 22: 10:30 a.m. Cody’s for Kids, Walter the Giant Storyteller; Sept. 25: 7 p.m. Nancy London has been cancelled; 1730 Fourth St. 559-9500 

Cody’s on Telegraph Ave. Sept. 17: Aldo Alvarez describes “Interesting Monsters”; Sept. 18: Clarence Walker discusses “We Can’t Go Home Again: An Argument About Afrocentrism; Sept. 19: Douglas Coupland reads “All Families Are Psychotic”; Sept. 24: Theodore Roszak discusses “Longevity Revolution: As Boomers Become Elders”; Sept. 25: Ken Croswell discusses “The Universe At Midnight: New Discoveries Illuminate the Hidden Cosmos” with a slide show presentation; Sept. 27: Bill Ayers talks about “Fugitive Days”; Oct 1: Urdsula K. Le guin reads from “The Other Wind”; All shows at 7:30 p.m. 2454 Telegraph Ave. 845-7852 

Cody’s Other Venues - Sept. 20: 7:30 p.m. Cody’s presents an evening with Margaret Atwood in conversation with professor Robert Alter. $12. First Congregational Church 2345 Channing Way; Sept. 28: 7:30 p.m. Cody’s presents a Community Forum on Race and the Achievement Gap at Berkeley High School. Little Theater, Berkeley High School.  

Coffee Mill Poetry Series Sept. 18: Ben Brose and Jen Iby followed by open mike reading. 3363 Grand Ave., Oakland 465-3935 ksdgk@earthlink.net 

Easy Going Travel Shop & Bookstore Sept. 20: 7:30 p.m. Antarctica & The Nature of Penguins, An evening with Jonathan Chester. 1385 Shattuck Ave. 843-3533 

Spasso Sept. 10: Sharron Jones-Reid, Fruit of the Spirit poets, acoustic musicians, comedians, rappers, performance artists, writers. All welcome. 6021 College Ave. Free admission. 

Tours 

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Fridays 9:30 - 11:45 a.m. or by appointment. Call ahead to make reservations. Free. University of California, Berkeley. 486-4387 

Golden Gate Live Steamers Grizzly Peak Boulevard and Lomas Cantadas Drive at the south end of Tilden Regional Park Small locomotives, meticulously scaled to size. Trains run Sunday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Rides: Sunday, noon to 3 p.m., weather permitting. 486-0623  

Museums 

Habitot Children’s Museum “Back to the Farm” An interactive exhibit gives children the chance to wiggle through tunnels, look into a mirrored fish pond, don farm animal costumes, ride on a John Deere tractor and more. “Recycling Center” Lets the kids crank the conveyor belt to sort cans, plastic bottles and newspaper bundles into dumpster bins. $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. (closed Sundays, Memorial Day through Labor Day) Kittredge Street and Shattuck Avenue 647-1111 or www.habitot.org  

UC Berkeley Museum of Paleontology Lobby, Valley Life Sciences Building, UC Berkeley “Tyrannosaurus Rex,” ongoing. A 20 foot by 40 foot replica of the fearsome dinosaur 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” A suspended skeleton of a flying reptile with a wingspan of 22-23 feet. The pteranodon lived at the same time as the dinosaurs. 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 will close its exhibition galleries for renovation. It will reopen in early 2002. On View until Oct. 1 : “Ishi and the Invention of Yahi Culture.” “Sites Along the Nile: Rescuing Ancient Egypt.” “The Art of Research: Nelson Graburn and the Aesthetics of Inuit Sculpture.” “Tzintzuntzan, Mexico: Photographs by George Foster.” $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. Kroeber Hall, Bancroft Way and College Avenue. 643-7648 or www.qal.berkeley.edu/~hearst/ 

University of California Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive has reopened after its summer-long seismic retrofit. “Martin Puryear: Sculpture of the 1990s” through Jan. 13; “The Dream of the Audience: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1951 - 1982)” through Dec. 16; “Face of Buddha: Sculpture from India, China, Japan, and Southeast Asia” ongoing rotation through 2003; “Matrix 194: Jessica Bronson, Heaps, layers, and curls” Sept. 16 through Nov. 11; “Matrix 192: Ceal Floyer 37’4”” Sept. 16 through Nov. 11; Wed., Fri., Sat., Sun. 11 a.m. - 5 p.m., Thur. 11 a.m. - 9 p.m., PFA Theater, 2575 Bancroft Way; Museum Galleries 2626 Bancroft Way; 642-0808 www.bampfa.berkeley.edu 

Lawrence Hall of Science “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. “Saturday Night Stargazing,” First and third Saturdays each month. 8 - 10 p.m., LHS plaza. Space Weather Exhibit now - Sept. 2; now - Sept. 9 Science in Toyland; Saturdays 12:30 - 3:30 p.m. $7 for adults; $5 for children 5-18; $3 for children 3-4. 642-5132 

Holt Planetarium Programs are recommended for age 8 and up; children under age 6 will not be admitted. $2 in addition to regular museum admission. “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, UC Berkeley 642-5132 or www.lhs.berkeley.edu  

Oakland Museum of California “Half Past Autumn: The Art of Gordon Parks,” through Sept. 23; Wednesday - Saturday, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., Sunday, noon - 5 p.m., Closed Monday and Tuesday. $6 general; $4 youths (6-17), seniors and students with ID. Free for museum members and children 5 and under. Free admission the second Sunday of the month. 10th & Oak streets, Oakland. 238-2200 www.museum.org 

Send arts events two weeks in advance to Calendar@berkeleydailyplanet.net, 2076 University, Berkeley 94704 or fax to 841-5694.

Editor: 

Last year, Planning Department staff misled both the City Council and the citizens of Berkeley. They repeatedly claimed that the city could not regulate cell phone and other wireless transmitting antennae except for “aesthetics.” Citizens who protested that they did not want industrial-level transmitting antennae operating right next to their homes and schools were either ignored or treated with contempt. Wednesday the Planning Commission tackled the issue of how these transmitting antennae should be regulated.  

Here’s some background: a year ago a group of citizens from throughout the city joined together to investigate the mindless approval by city staff of every antennae installation in the city. We researched FCC regulations and the law, and quickly found that city employees were completely wrong in contending that the city could not regulate the antennae. In fact, the city has broad powers to regulate transmitting antenna. After numerous presentations by citizens, the City Council finally voted to declare a moratorium on additional antennae installations until the city developed its own ordinance. 

A city employee (with the assistance of lawyers from Nextel) has now developed an “ordinance” that provides no protection at all to those of us who live in Berkeley. It would allow antennae anywhere in Berkeley, based entirely on the “needs” of the industry. The proposal is vague, full of loopholes, and calls for decisions to be made solely on the basis of “data” provided by the industry, with no way for citizens to refute this “data.” 

Even more amazing, the proposal treats residents in the city differently, depending on where they live. It’s no surprise that those of us who live in the Berkeley flatlands near commercial and industrial areas have much less protection than those who live in the more wealthy areas of Berkeley like the Hills. This proposal would concentrate antennae in neighborhoods in the flatlands, and for all practical purposes exclude them from the hills.  

In contrast, our citizens group has developed an ordinance that would forbid these antennae unless they are at least 200 feet from our homes, schools, and parks.  

The city’s proposal is so industry-friendly that it even has an incredible clause that would allow industry and city staff to approve installations based on “proprietary” information from the carrier that will not be public record and will not be available to neighbors. Then after city staff has approved the installation, all this “proprietary” information will be returned to the carrier so that there will not even be any remaining documentation showing the basis for approval. This is completely unacceptable. 

The city employee’s proposal also exempts all antennae located in the public right-of-way. This means that the industry would be able to install transmitting antennae on telephone poles next to homes and schools throughout the city, without any notification to those who live next to them. This is an obvious attempt to secretly place these antennae anywhere in the city that the industry wants them, and our city staff is actually facilitating this effort. 

It’s important to note that we already have thorough coverage throughout the city for cell phones. The industry wants to build new installations in order to increase their capacity for other uses like wireless stock trading, wireless commercial and credit card transactions, and everything else that’s already covered by existing cable and phone systems. In other words, they want to subject the residents of Berkeley to industrial antennae installations right next to their homes and schools simply so they can compete against existing cable and phone lines. Our citizens group agrees that more antennae may be needed, but we firmly believe that the city must listen to the legitimate concerns of the citizens.  

The Planning Commission now has the opportunity to stand up for the citizens of Berkeley and support the ordinance developed by their own neighbors.  

Constance and Kevin Sutton 

Berkeley 

After two years of construction, Hobart Hall, the historic centerpiece of the American Baptist Seminary of the West’s complex on Dwight Way, has been renovated and rejuvenated for the 21st century.  

“Previously it was a rather dark and dreary building that also had earthquake damage from the ’89 quake,” said seminary president Dr. Keith A. Russell. “Now it’s a beautifully bright building with wonderful natural light and good modern lighting. Every floor has its own kind of pattern and its special feel to it. It’s like a wonderfully restored building where people like to come to work.” 

The four-story brick Tudor Revival building was designed by Julia Morgan and dedicated in 1921. Morgan, one of California’s most famous architects, also designed Hearst Castle in San Simeon as well as many residences and public buildings throughout the Bay Area. 

The Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989 only caused a few cracks and dislodged bricks, Russell said, and the renovation was undertaken primarily to modernize and brighten an aging building that lacked light, space, and modern wiring. With a $3 million budget, about half from a capital campaign and half from the sale of a nearby seminary-owned property, work began in January, 1999. 

Engineers quickly realized that the building was not unreinforced masonry, as a previous engineer had surmised, but had a concealed concrete frame.  

“The seismic retrofit was voluntary,” said R. Gary Black, an associate professor of architecture at UC Berkeley. Black heads Integral Structures, the firm that carried out the renovation, designed the St. Seraphim of Sarov Orthodox Church in Santa Rosa, and was half the team that submitted the “sail” design for the Bay Bridge’s eastern span in 1997. 

One of the biggest challenges was to install an elevator, as mandated by the Americans with Disabilities Act, Black said. Because the building is a city of Berkeley historical landmark, the builders could not tear down or even modify exterior walls. Rather than take up office and classroom space, they placed the elevator shaft outside the building in a shaft of ornamental cast concrete. The elevator itself has a glass-paneled backside that allows a view of the inner courtyard, and the archway that extends from the shaft to an adjacent building gained a second-story covered walkway and lounge. 

The most daunting task was to bring more light into classrooms and gathering spaces. 

“The amount of lighting that was considered okay in 1919 was like 20 candle power,” Black said. “And today, 80 is the code requirement, and most people expect 100. So you’ve got a fivefold increase in our expectations of light inside a building.” 

The old interior paneling was of fumed oak, a dark wood stained even darker with ammonia. Renovators painted the panels in a variety of pronounced colors, from auburns to bright blues with maroon and green highlights, installed bright halogen lights, and put stained-glass panes in tilting upper windows to soften the inside light.  

“We’re trying to recreate daylight inside these buildings,” Black said. With halogen light reflecting off multicolored hand-painted friezes, he said, “we’re getting this highly colored reflected light bouncing around inside these rooms.” 

Major changes were made to the fourth floor, originally a maze of ten small, dark rooms that housed students until the early 1960s. 

“We got rid of that, cut through the ceiling, put a skylight through the roof, and put a stained glass vaulted ceiling through that space,” said Black. “(Julia Morgan) might have done the same thing herself if she didn’t have to put dormitories up there.” 

The hall, with room for 150 people, will be dedicated to Dr. J. Alfred Smith, a professor of preaching at the seminary and pastor of the Allen Temple Baptist Church in Oakland, one of the largest African-American congregations in the Bay Area. The seminary, at 2606 Dwight Way, will open its doors on Oct. 6 from 2 to 5 p.m. for a dedication ceremony and public tours. 

One room on the second floor in front was rarely used because its north-facing windows let in scant light and too much street noise. The architects installed new window painted faceted, bright acrylic friezes intended to maximize the limited sunlight. The room will be named for Billie Poole, a staff member of 25 years. 

The new Drexler Student Commons, a first-floor room previously used as a chapel, is named for Dr. Frederic Drexler, the first president of the California Baptist Seminary, which merged with the Berkeley Baptist Divinity School in 1968 to form the American Baptist Seminary of the West. The faculty commons will be named after Dr. Eldon Ernst, a faculty member for 30 years who is now retired.  

“We’re trying to honor people who are committed to us and who reflect the multi-racial, multicultural nature of our training,” Russell said, noting that half the seminary’s students are African-American and half are women. 

Cal women avenge last year’s playoff loss to Broncos 

SANTA CLARA – Revenge has never tasted so sweet for the Cal women’s soccer team.  

After an emotional week without any soccer games, All-American forward Laura Schott lifted No. 12 Cal (4-1) to a 2-1 victory over No. 3 Santa Clara on Monday night at Buck Shaw Stadium. The win avenged last year’s 2-0 loss to the Broncos (4-1) in the second round of the NCAA Tournament in Berkeley.  

“We’ve been playing this team tight since I’ve been here,” said Cal head coach Kevin Boyd. “We were due. It was a matter of time before we edged them out. The good thing is that they’re a very good team. We feel we’re a very good team, and if anyone wanted to watch a great soccer game, tonight, it was on.  

“We’ve got a great rivalry going, and it brings a lot of fans for both teams. Both of us want to keep that going.”  

Schott tallied what held up as the game-winner in the 83rd minute when she scored inside the box for her fourth goal of the season. Forward Kassie Doubrava and midfielder Kim Yokers were credited with assists. It was Yokers’ second assist of the game.  

“I think [Laura] had something to prove tonight,” said Boyd. “She got taken out early last year [in the playoff game], like probably 10 minutes into the game. She had her ankle done and tried to play through it the whole game, but it slowed her down. This year, I think she wanted to show what she had.”  

Senior forward Kyla Sabo scored on a corner kick from Yokers in the 19th minute of the game to give the Bears a 1-0 lead. Sabo, who leads Cal with five goals and 11 points, left the game late in the second half with a leg injury and didn’t return.  

In the 38th minute, Santa Clara tied the game at 1-1 when Leslie Osborne deposited Aly Wagner’s corner kick into the back of the net.  

Cal’s freshman goalkeeper Mallory Moser played a strong game, allowing one goal and making six saves.  

The Bears conclude a five-game road stretch this weekend at UNLV on Friday and San Diego State on Sunday.

Fellowship takes stand 

The Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists, meeting as a committee of the whole on Sunday, Sept. 16, after the suicidal attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, make a renewed commitment: 

• To seek the spiritual strength to live and work for peace, justice, and equality for all. 

• To oppose all acts of terrorism committed by individuals and by groups and by governments. 

• To work for social justice by communicating with our elected officials to urge them to uphold the principles of peace, the United States Constitution, and the U.N. Charter. 

• To search inside ourselves for the prejudices we all feel against “the others” and to work to overcome these feelings that can only lead to acts of intolerance and violence. 

• To reach out to people in the Arab American and Muslim communities who are being mindlessly attacked. 

• To offer information on conscientious objector status and solace to young men and women who joined the Armed Forces in order to live constructive lives and who now find that they are unwilling to continue in the Services, having discovered that they really cannot commit acts of violence against other human beings. 

• To join with other organizations that support these points. 

• To agree, within our community, to continue to agree and disagree on many spiritual and social justice questions, as we join together as a spiritual and social justice community to do our part for peace within ourselves, toward each other, and toward our neighbors and fellow creatures on this planet. 

Ann Ginger, Berkeley 

Richard Challacombe 

for the fellowship 

A protest of a “blatantly racist” cartoon appearing in the Daily Californian on Tuesday ended Wednesday morning with the arrest of 18 demonstrators who had refused to leave the campus paper’s offices. 

A group of some 150 protesters filled the sixth floor of Eshleman Hall on the UC Berkeley campus where the Daily Cal is located and demanded a written apology for printing the controversial cartoon. The cartoon, drawn by syndicated cartoonist Darrin Bell, is a satire of the terrorists who carried out the suicide attacks last week. The terrorists are depicted with long, large noses, beards, turbans and robes. While burning in hell, they say that now that they had made it to paradise, they would “meet Allah, and be fed grapes, and be serviced by 70 virgin women.”  

“It’s blatantly racist,” said Roberto Hernandez, member of MEChA de UC Berkeley, a Mexican-American student organization. “It classifies Arabs, Muslims and Sikhs as the same people and all with a sense of responsibility for what happened last week. That only increases the scapegoating and harassment of what those communities are going through. It’s complete irresponsibility to publish such nonsense.” 

In an interview Wednesday afternoon, Janny Hu, editor of the Daily Cal, defended her decision, arguing that the cartoon was no different than those running in papers across the country. “It’s meant to be satiric, a characterization, an exaggeration,” she said. 

“I don’t know what he was trying to say,” Hu said, contending that the cartoon’s interpretation is up to the viewer. “It isn’t a statement of fact.” 

Hu further argued that her decision not to apologize to the Muslim and Arab communities was an expression of what the United States stands for – freedom of speech and freedom of the press. 

Muslims, Arabs and Sikhs all over the United States have been verbally and physically abused, some even killed after last week’s attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Sit-in participants were members of the Muslim Student Association, the Arab Student Union, Students for Justice in Palestine, MEChA, the Sikh Student Association, the Afghani Student Association, Stop the War Coalition and the Black Student Union.  

Protesters recalled an incident when the Daily Californian published a full-page ad last February that said slave reparations should not be paid to blacks. African Americans, in fact, had profited like other Americans from slavery, the ad said. Conservative David Horowitz paid for the ad. After a group of black students protested, the paper printed an apology for running the ad. 

“There’s precedence for this,” said Maryam Gharavi, a film and English junior at UC Berkeley, referring to the earlier incident. “We’re not happy and we demand an apology.” 

Tuesday’s protest began when two students showed up at the newspaper office at 2 p.m. to voice concern over the cartoon. Through word of mouth the two students grew to about 150 by 10:30 p.m. Students took turns leading the group in chants. 

“What do we want?” a student with a megaphone asked the crowd. “An apology!” they answered in unison.  

The building closed around midnight and protesters could neither get in or out. Friends and supporters brought food to the protesters, but campus police refused to let them enter the building. 

Using material from symbolic green arm bands used by the protesters, a rope was created and a bag was tied at the end of it. The rope was lowered from a balcony in the sixth floor to the ground level and used to bring up peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and water. 

“The people here are showing an incredible sense of solidarity,” said David McClure, a junior who is a member of the Stop the War Coalition.  

It was past 1 a.m. The students had food but no response from the paper.  

“If they really wanted to apologize you wouldn’t have to interview me at 1 a.m.,” said Abdul Zahzah, a graduate in mechanical engineering. “The demands were handed to them at 4 p.m.” 

At 1:33 a.m. a newspaper staff member handed a written statement to one of the protest leaders. The room fell silent as he read: 

“The Daily Californian will not issue an apology for the publication of Darrin Bell’s work. The cartoon solely represents the perspective of one individual… Cartoons are usually exaggerated, sometimes satire and are almost always meant to spark a discussion.”  

Because its demands had not been met, the group refused to leave. At 1:40 a.m. protesters begun discussing the possibility of arrest. At 3 a.m. the Muslim Student Association decided that Muslim, Arab, and Sikh students could not risk arrest. Other students also left. The crowd of protesters that remained agreed to be passive, non-violent and cooperate with police. 

“We need to remain calm,” said Snehal. “Don’t panic. Does everybody understand the plan?” 

The group of 18 held hands in solidarity. Most had never met so they began introducing themselves.  

“We have nothing to be afraid of,” said Mark Lipman. “We’re in the right. The truth is on our side.” 

Lipman, 33, lives in Paris, France, but was visiting Berkeley as part of a book tour when the terrorist attacks occurred last week. The poet and writer said he has not been able to leave the country since. He said he will be part of the movement to prevent war until he is able to fly back to Paris.  

At 3:10 a.m. police gave protesters the option to leave the building. They did not. At 3:24 a.m. police began reading the penal code violation. 

“This is the proudest moment of my life,” said Lipman as police made the first arrest. “To be here doing this with you guys.” 

The last member of group was taken away and cited at 3:59 a.m. 

Wally Adeyemo, Associated Students’ president, said both the protesters and police handled themselves well.  

“Considering the fact that we were arresting people it’s going as well as it could possibly go,” said campus Police Chief Victoria L. Harrison. “We prefer not to arrest anyone, but we appreciate that they’re being cooperative and following the instructions of the officers.”  

After their arrest, the students were cited and freed. 

Judith Scherr, of the Daily Planet staff, contributed to this story. 

Seek justice, not revenge 

The Daily Planet received the following letter addressed to President Bush: 

Oh the grief! Oh the sadness! Oh the anger! Oh the tragedy, the pain! Oh the hatred! Oh the injustice! 

We stand on the brink of a dark, dark time of human history. We feel the extremeness of the darkest human emotions. We could not do otherwise. How human to feel these things. How justified! How justified to feel this is the time for anger, for violence, for retaliation. These are the words we hear, the words we speak, the emotions we feel. And how rightfully so!  

Mr. President, we stand at the brink of justified retribution, supported by most of the world. We have the means, supported by the outrage of the horror of the shock. You have the terrible, terrible weight of the decisions. All of this focuses on you and you feel us standing by you and you by us. No one in human history has been in this position.  

Mr. President, this place in which you stand, this time at which you live, calls for action, screams for revenge…requires strength. It is easy to wield the power and take the steps that could yield the deaths of those responsible and those that shield them. But, Mr. President, think how hollow that will feel. It will not bring back the thousands. It will not be done without causing thousands more to perish. I cannot think of a more difficult time in which to lead this country and affect this world. It is a time that calls for extraordinary strength and judgment. I urge you seek justice. But please, Mr. President. I urge you to seek justice, not revenge. I urge you to seek counsel of the Dali Lama, of Thich Nhat Hanh, of the Pope, of the goodness of man before you act, before you commit us, the world, into a downspin of violence, death, and continued terror. There are many paths, many alternatives; none of them easy. Please consider alternatives tempered by the sagacity that these men and men like them might offer.  

There is no easy path; but there is an easy reaction at this place in time. I urge you, Mr. President, to resist the easy reaction and search for the measured response. It is easy to react with violence and righteous vehemence. It is hard to act with compassionate justice. Please, Mr. President, look for actions that are as extraordinary as the time and place in which you find yourself. I do not know what this action is. But I know that it does not bring the world into a violent escalation. I urge you to take the harder, higher road. We know that revenge is not sweet. Our enemies expect a violent response. I urge you to take actions that will lead to justice and peace. 

Bill Haskell  

Berkeley 

OAKLAND – East Bay lawmakers and members of a union of hospital workers rallied Wednesday outside Summit Medical Center, promising to put all their resources into stopping the consolidation of services between Summit and Alta Bates medical centers. 

The two hospitals, which merged in 1999, announced last week that they planned to consolidate maternity services, cancer treatment, mental health and other services at just one of the two facilities. 

The announcement breaks promises made to Alameda County officials and residents at the time of the merger, those attending the rally said. In a brochure mailed to the community before the Summit-Alta Bates hospital merger, the CEOs of both hospitals pledged that the facilities “would continue to operate as full-service community hospitals.” 

Representatives of the Service Workers International Union Local 250, which represents janitorial, housekeeping, and nursing services workers at Alta Bates Summit, fear that the consolidation plan will lead to layoffs of employees and loss of services. 

Alta Bates Summit is an affiliate of Sutter Health, a Sacramento-based hospital network accused by many of Wednesday’s speakers as being the force behind the consolidation plan. 

In a letter to employees, Alta Bates Summit CEO Warren Kirk said the cuts were necessary to stem large financial losses incurred over the last year. 

State Sen. Don Perata set the tone for the rally when he addressed Sutter Health CEO Van Johnson directly. 

“We are either going to go down this road as allies or as adversaries,” he said. “The choice, Mr. Johnson, is yours.” 

Assemblymember Dion Aroner, D-Berkeley, said that the consolidation plan showed that Sutter Health was more concerned with making money than with serving the community.  

“That’s what we feared when the merger came about – decisions were going to be based on the bottom line,” she said. 

Aroner and Assemblymember Wilma Chan, D-Alameda, struck back at Sutter Health last week by introducing language that would revoke Sutter’s non-profit status in a pending assembly bill. 

Though Sutter Health is a non-profit organization, it made $111 million in profit last year, they said. 

Perata described a meeting he had organized between many of the lawmakers present at the rally and Sutter Health management in late August. The meeting, he said, was called to address concerns that arose from the abrupt departure earlier in the month of former Alta Bates Summit CEO Irwin Hansen. 

Perata said that he and many of his colleagues asked if the change in management meant that consolidation, long feared by critics of the Alta Bates/Summit merger, was in the works. Johnson denied that it was. 

“They fully agreed to uphold their agreement with the community,” Perata said. 

When Perata and his colleagues asked to be consulted if Sutter management did plan any cuts in service, he said, Johnson and new Alta Bates Summit CEO Warren Kirk agreed. At Wednesday’s rally, he called their response “disingenuous.” 

“They nodded to us as if we were some chumps just coming in out of the rain,” he said. “It appears we were being played for fools.” 

Supervisor Keith Carson, who was also at the meeting, said that Perata was “far too generous” in his characterization of the Sutter management. 

“They lied,” he said. “They are liars.” 

Carson said that after emerging from the meeting, he received a voice mail message telling him from a “very credible” source detailing the consolidation plan that was announced last week. 

The announcement proved that Carson’s source was correct, he said, and that Sutter management had withheld information from him at the meeting. 

“Even if you agree to disagree with someone, you want to have the feeling that the people you’re working with are honest,” he said. “At this point in time, from my point of view, Sutter – and Van Johnson in particular – has no credibility.” 

Aroner said that the consolidation, particularly the plan to put all maternity services at Alta Bates, will strain the resources of each hospital. 

Noting that the Summit maternity ward delivered 3,300 babies last year, she said “You can’t have 3,000 more births at Alta Bates. Where are you going to put them?” 

Aroner also feared that Alta Bates Summit would close its psychiatric services ward at Herrick Health Care in Berkeley if it did not start to make money. 

“As a person who has a family member with a mental illness, I say ‘God forbid Herrick closes.’” 

Berkeley mayor Shirley Dean echoed the sentiments of many of the other speakers when she swore to do everything in her power to fight the consolidation. 

“I’m not known for lying down in the middle of the street, but I will do it for this cause,” she said. 

“If we do not become allies, this place hasn’t seen anything yet. They don’t know the trouble that’s coming down the road.” 

Melinda Paras, executive director of Health Access, a statewide non-profit advocacy group, also promised to fight  

“They will lie to get what they want, and what they want is money,” she said. 

“Health care is not about the manufacture of widgets – it’s about service to the community, it’s about people’s lives.” 

In a telephone interview, Sutter spokesperson Bill Gleeson said that the decision to consolidate was made by the Alta Bates Summit board of directors and not by Sutter. He did say, though, that the consolidation process – what Sutter refers to as “the creation of ‘centers of excellence’” – would ultimately benefit health care consumers. 

“There was a desire, early in the affiliation process, to maintain those services, and this does represent a departure from our intent,” he said. “At the same time, it represents an incredible opportunity.” 

“The East Bay community will benefit incredibly as these ‘centers of excellence’ blossom.”  

Perata disagreed: “When they needed the community, they courted us. When they no longer needed us, they threw us away,” he said.  

“Maybe this is the way Sutter Health does business in other parts of the state, but they’re not going to do it in Oakland and Berkeley.”

We may know what drove them 

Editor:  

What could it be? What could drive twelve angry men to kill themselves and their fellow air travelers by dive-bombing into one of the symbols and centers of American capitalism, the World Trade Center towers in New York City, and the symbol and center of American defense, the Pentagon in Washington, D.C.? 

Could it be the fact that America has only 5 percent of the world's population and yet consumes 25 percent of the world's non-renewable resources each year? Could it be the fact that we bombed a pharmaceutical factory in Sudan, thinking mistakenly that it was an asset of the terrorist gang of Bin-Laden. Oops, wrong, so sorry. 

Could it be that we have a vicious society that demeans and mocks honest labor and pays corporate CEOs 100 times the wages of ordinary workers?  

Could it be that our corporations (and ourselves) are destroying the natural planet in our endless search for more wealth? 

Could it be the fact that we are the only industrialized nation that lacks universal health insurance and universal health care? 

Could it be our better paid citizens that demand ever-larger monster houses and monster SUVs?  

Could it be the corporate coup engineered last December by the Supreme Court which gave the presidency to a person beholden to corporate interests? 

Could it be the arrogance of the new administration in how it deals with other countries and how it threatens to break solemn treaties about anti ballistic missiles and nuclear test bans? 

What could it be? 

James K. Sayre 

Oakland

About 45 people, including concerned parents, principals and representatives of five different city departments, attended a Safe Routes to Schools meeting Tuesday to kick off the program’s second year with a resolution that inspired one principal to break into song. 

On Sept. 12, the California State Senate approved a bill that will provide $70 million for communities statewide that want to create safer routes to schools and educate students, parents and teachers about the benefits of walking or riding a bike to school. The bill is currently being considered by Gov. Gray Davis for approval. 

SRTS organizers said they were encouraged to see such broad interest in the program from school and city officials.  

Councilmember Kriss Worthington, who attended the meeting, said it’s important for students to learn how to be independent of cars at an early age. 

“If you can encourage students to walk or ride their bicycles to school and then teach them how to do it safely, they will continue the habit as they get older,” Worthington said. “Tonight’s meeting was a profound affirmation by teachers, principals and parents who will work together to support Safe Routes to School programs.” 

The meeting was also attended by representatives from the city’s Planning and Development Department, Police Department, Health and Human Services and the Department of Public Works. There were also two members of the Transportation Commission and two School Board members in attendance. 

“I was very inspired with the statements of support by the city’s five departments,” said Safe Routes to Schools’ Project Manager Sarah Syed. “It was nice to see school board members inspired by the project as well.” 

The Berkeley SRTS organizers say the number of kids who walk or ride their bikes to school has dropped from 60 percent in the 1960s to only 13 percent today. The result, organizers say, is unhealthy kids, heavier traffic and a more polluted environment. 

The SRTS program, which is organized by the Bicycle Friendly Berkeley Coalition, gained momentum in March 2000, with the release of the Bicycle and Pedestrian Safety Task Force Report. The report showed that Berkeley has the highest rates of pedestrian and bicycle injuries compared to 44 other California cities of similar size. 

SRTS works with individual schools to identify unsafe conditions and then contracts with California Department of Transportation to modify the dangerous conditions. Last year the program received $450,000 to make the routes to Willard Middle School and Le Conte Elementary safer.  

The traffic modifications, which have not yet been implemented, include the installation of traffic signals on Telegraph Avenue at Stuart Street and at Russell Street, “bulb outs” and pedestrian islands along heavy traffic routes near both schools, and fluorescent school signs. Both schools will also construct bike cages so bicycles are less likely to be stolen. 

“We will be applying for another half million (dollars) in May so we can start working on other Berkeley schools,” Syed said.  

Syed added the city’s 12 elementary and three middle schools will be served by the program according to need and how well organized parent and teacher groups are. 

Syed said that Malcolm X Elementary and Longfellow Middle School were likely candidates because they are on busy streets and Rosa Parks Elementary was also on the list because the parents and school staff are highly organized, which make implementing the SRTS program easier. 

Principals and teachers all said there is a clear need for the program. 

Julie Guilfoy, a teacher at Willard School, said the environment for students walking or riding to school is not friendly. “I ride my bike to work every day and I see kids struggling with traffic and driver road rage on a regular basis,” she said. 

Washington Elementary Principal Rita Kimball said it’s important for the community to make traveling to school safer. “We have so many kids at our school and cars travel at very high speeds on nearby streets,” she said. “The situation is not safe.” 

Kimball said other problems are created by parents dropping off and picking up their kids in front of the school. “Because of our location there is no good place for parents to drop off,” she said. “There are only four or five spaces on Martin Luther King, Jr. Way, and that causes traffic problems and upsets the neighbors.” 

Kimball said another issue is providing a safe place for bicycles once the student arrives at school. She added that at least three bicycles were stolen from school grounds last year. “People used heavy-duty bolt cutters to cut through bike locks and chains,” she said. “We need bike cages so the students feel safe bringing their bikes to school.” 

Syed said all of the problems Kimball mention can be addressed by SRTS committees, which would be organized at each school. The committees would consist of school staff, parents, healthcare workers and school neighbors. 

At the end of the meeting Syed asked each of the four principals at the meeting to read aloud a portion of a resolution declaring their interests in making school routes safer. Kimball was so inspired by the meeting that she broke into song while reading her portion of the resolution. 

For more information about the Berkeley Safe Routes to School program call 548-7433.

The mood was somber at a late-afternoon rally Wednesday in front of the KPFA studios on Martin Luther King Jr. Way. 

The horrific events of the destruction in the east reinforced the need for a strong nation-wide network of radio stations that act as an alternative to CNN and the other TV networks, radio host Larry Bensky told the crowd of about 75 people, adding, as he asked them to join hands, that he was originally from Brooklyn and personally felt the loss of the people in the World Trade Center. 

But the rally wasn’t called to talk about the terrorist hits or about the government reaction to them. People had come to talk about the state of the radio station. 

Earlier on Wednesday the Pacifica board had held a telephone meeting during which they had chosen five new board members. They include Marion Barry, former Washington, D.C. mayor, actor Dick Gregory and three other lesser-known people. 

The Pacifica Foundation holds the license to KPFA and four other stations around the country. Local station employees and supporters, and groups of Pacifica listeners around the country, have been at odds with the board for more than 18 months, claiming that it does not operate democratically, that it has squandered the listeners’ donations - the station is listener-funded – and that it has not opened its books even to its governing board to show how it spends its money. 

The new members were chosen by the board consisting of five “dissident” members – those questioning board policy – and six other members.  

Standing in the crowd outside the station, KPFA programmer Robbie Osman said that the board did not allow the “dissidents” time to submit names, but Michael Powell of Westhill Partners, the board’s public relations firm, said, in a phone interview Wednesday, that the nomination period was made clear to board members. 

“There was a 30-day notice for nominations to be filed,” he said. The board received “just those five.” 

“There was no process at all,” countered programmer Mary Berg, a speaker at the rally and a Local Advisory Board member. Normally, candidates’ names must come through the governing board or are submitted from a Local Advisory Board, but that did not happen in this case. 

Moreover, “There was no information on the candidates” at the time the board voted, Berg said. 

With the new governing board of 16 members, seven are from the Washington, D.C. area and two are from the KPFA listening area. 

“Two people from the Bay Area are not enough,” said KPFA Station Manager Jim Bennett. 

The board tries to “reach out and get geographical representation,” Westhill Partners’ Powell said, noting that, like KPFA, the KPFT station in Houston has only two representatives. 

Defending the board majority’s actions, Powell said that “the opposition is hell-bent on knocking people off the board.” There have been demonstrations at various board members’ places of work and their homes, as well as e-mail campaigns. Powell claimed that some board members had received death threats. 

“The new directors replace four previous board members who had resigned in recent months as the result of an organized campaign of threats, intimidation and harassment by a vocal minority of Pacifica opponents,” said a press release sent out by Westhill Partners. 

Supporters of the opposition to the board went to court in Oakland Tuesday to try to stop the election of the new members, but failed in their attempt. (The court heard the arguments as part of pre-trial motions for several lawsuits that listeners and programmers have filed against the board.) 

“We’re trying as hard as we know how to do what this organization was founded to do,” Larry Bensky told the crowd, noting, however, that Pacifica had not been paying the station’s bills, even though KPFA raised the amount required by Pacifica at every fundraising period. 

Bensky railed against New York station WBAI for not airing the morning magazine show, “Democracy Now!” which has been producing its shows at a community television studio, due to alleged threats against programmer Amy Goodman when she was doing the show at the station. The show, which airs currently on KPFA from 9-11 a.m., is especially important at this juncture, when people are trying to understand the destruction in the east and its aftermath, Bensky said. 

Lawyers for Goodman and for the station are talking, trying to mediate the situation, Powell said, noting that Goodman’s show “is one of the most popular shows on Pacifica.” When asked, he explained the firings of other WBAI staff as “more due to (poor) ratings.”  

There may be an emergency board meeting in two weeks to try to resolve the issues around “Democracy Now!” said Station Manager Bennett. “The board needs to get ‘Democracy Now!’ back on right now.” 

“We are the last voice there is,” programmer Mary Berg told the receptive crowd.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The government plans new pollution controls on heavy machinery, yachts, snowmobiles, off-road motorcycles and all-terrain vehicles. 

The goal is to reduce air pollutants and the smog that drifts from cities toward national parks, Environmental Protection Agency officials said Wednesday. The plan would add to manufacturers’ costs, but the agency is considering ways to help lessen the impact. 

“If left unregulated, pollution from these sources will continue to increase, becoming a larger part of the overall mobile source pollution,” EPA Administrator Christie Whitman said. 

The proposal, covering several types of nonroad engines, would help limit the release of hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxides into the atmosphere. 

Public hearings on the proposal are set for Oct. 24 in Washington and Oct. 30 in Denver. 

Messages left Wednesday for representatives from snowmobile, ATV and yacht manufacturers were not immediately returned. 

The engines involved account for about 13 percent of the hydrocarbons, 6 percent of the carbon monoxide and 3 percent of the nitrogen oxides emitted from all mobile sources, the EPA said. 

Left unregulated would be the large diesel engines in bulldozers, tractors and other construction equipment whose emissions are sources of smog and soot, said Frank O’Donnell, executive director of Clean Air Trust, an environmental watchdog group. 

The EPA said it would regulate: 

—Spark-ignition nonroad engines rated over 25 horsepower. These usually are car engines used in heavy machinery such as forklifts, airport baggage transport vehicles and farm and industrial equipment. The government would adopt standards set by California in 1998 and make them effective nationwide in 2004. They would become even stricter after 2007. 

—Recreational diesel marine engines used in yachts and other pleasure craft. The government wants to use standards similar to those in place for commercial diesel marine engines, but give manufacturers two years to adapt emissions control technology. 

—Snowmobiles. The EPA proposes a standard to cut hydrocarbon and carbon monoxide emissions by 30 percent in 2006 and by 50 percent in 2010. The agency said it believes that can be done by adapting technology from other engine types. 

—Off-road motorcycles and all-terrain vehicles. The government hopes to encourage engine changes starting in 2006. In 2009, these vehicles would have to meet more stringent standards. Vehicles intended for use in competition would be exempt. 

Already regulated and not included in this proposal are the types of engines used in lawnmowers, garden power equipment and some farm, construction and utility machines. 

LOS ANGELES — FedEx and Sears pulled out as “Politically Incorrect” sponsors after host Bill Maher called past U.S. military actions “cowardly.” 

Maher said Wednesday his comments were aimed at political leaders, not soldiers, and he defended his right to offer criticism in difficult times. 

“I should have been more specific,” Maher said. “I never meant to imply nor have I ever thought that our actual servicemen are cowardly. ... It’s our government, it’s our politicians, who have been cowardly in not letting the military do their job.” 

“If we don’t face our problems realistically, we won’t overcome them,” the TV talk show host added in a phone interview. 

FedEx reviewed the ABC show’s Monday edition after receiving complaints, spokeswoman Carla Richards said. The company’s 30-second spot for its FedEx delivery service, which aired during the show, has been pulled indefinitely. 

Retailer Sears, Roebuck and Co. also said Wednesday it canceled its advertising on the show after customer complaints prompted it to review the program. 

“Customers voiced a concern for bashing our leaders, our military and the country,” said Sears spokeswoman Lee Antonio. “Sears is very entrenched in the communities where we do business ... and very sensitive to where we place our advertising.” 

The company recognizes that freedom of speech is critical to America and that “Bill and his guests can say whatever they want to,” Antonio added. 

On the show’s first broadcast since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, guest Dinesh D’Souza took exception to descriptions of the terrorist hijackers as cowards. 

“These are warriors, and we have to realize that the principles of our way of life are in conflict with people in the world,” said D’Souza, an author. 

Maher concurred, saying: “We have been the cowards, lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That’s cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it’s not cowardly.” 

In Houston, KSEV talk show host Dan Patrick said he was “appalled” by the comments on the show and told listeners to urge their ABC station to drop “Politically Incorrect,” the Houston Chronicle reported Wednesday. 

“When you call our men in the (armed forces) cowards and our military policy cowardly, and when you call these hijackers ‘warriors,’ that should not be tolerated,” said Patrick, the station’s general manager. 

Maher, in turn, took issue with his critics, whom he said were willfully misrepresenting his remarks. 

“I understand people have a lot of anger and hate. They should direct it toward the terrorists and not me,” he said. “It’s amazing that I should have to point out I find that (the attacks) despicably evil.” 

During the show a chair was left empty in honor of frequent guest Barbara Olson, a commentator who was aboard the hijacked plane that crashed into the Pentagon. 

ABC issued a statement of support for Maher’s program. 

“While we remain sensitive to the current climate following last week’s tragedy, and continue to do our part to help viewers cope with unfolding events, there needs to remain a forum for the expression of our nation’s diverse opinions,” the network said. 

A seismologist trying to predict earthquakes by focusing on fault areas that have been quiet for centuries suggests that the northern Hayward fault on the east side of San Francisco Bay may be ripe for a significant temblor. 

Max Wyss of the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, contends that locked northern areas of the fault are capable of producing a magnitude 6.5 earthquake. That’s just shy of what seismologists call a major quake, one of magnitude 6.7 or greater. 

Wyss’ findings were published in the Sept. 15 issue of the journal Geophysical Research Letters. 

The Hayward fault runs northwest along the East Bay, from San Jose through Oakland and Berkeley to San Pablo Bay. The course of the fault runs through the University of California, Berkeley — down the middle of Memorial Stadium. 

A statewide team of seismologists in 1999 said the chances are roughly one in three that the Hayward fault will see a major earthquake in the next 30 years. 

Last year, a team led by UC Berkeley geophysicist Roland Burgmann concluded that the risk lies in the central and southern reaches of the fault, and that ground motion data collected by satellite shows that pressure is not building up along the northern end. 

Wyss theorizes that areas with a history of seismic activity that have been quiet for centuries are more likely to see big earthquakes than areas where small earthquakes are common. He said last week that the seismic history of other areas he has studied — including Alaska and Mexico — backs up that theory, but he has yet to predict an earthquake using the theory. 

The northern Hayward fault has seen relatively little seismic activity and no major quakes in recorded history, but scientists estimate a major earthquake hit there between 1640 and 1776. A major quake last hit the southern half of the fault in 1868. 

Wyss said the northern part of the fault appears to be locked, setting the stage for a great release of energy, but did not offer an estimate of when a quake might hit. 

Burgmann said that although he believes his team’s research remains valid, Wyss’ approach to earthquake prediction “has promise. ... The underlying assumptions do make sense.” 

Research using Wyss’ approach will need to be applied in more places for seismologists to better evaluate it, Burgmann said. 

The field is continually improving, Burgmann said, adding that he’s confident that scientists eventually will be able to “feel the pulse of the fault.” 

SACRAMENTO — When California’s Public Utilities Commission votes Thursday, it could strip away most of the state’s deregulated energy market created in 1996. 

Replacing it most likely will be a system dominated by the governor, a new public power authority and three troubled utility companies. Other states once contemplating deregulation are backing away from the experiment that was supposed to revolutionize the energy industry. 

The PUC vote Thursday could wipe out the last vestige of deregulation — direct access, the ability of consumers to choose their electricity provider. 

Without direct access, customers will lose their ability to bypass their utility and buy power from retailers, such as Green Mountain Energy or Enron Corp. About 200,000 customers had switched utilities by September. 

Touted at its creation as a way to stimulate competition and lower electric rates, deregulation foundered after a year of price spikes, a utility bankruptcy and energy shortages that led to rolling blackouts. 

Today, California’s government is deeper into the power business than ever before and electricity deregulation is dead, said Public Utilities Commissioner Carl Wood. 

“There’s no way in the world deregulation would ever get an affirmative vote from the people or its representatives,” Wood said. 

If it acts as expected, the PUC vote will continue a trend that started in January, when the California Department of Water Resources started buying a third of the power needed by customers of the state’s three largest private utilities — Southern California Edison, Pacific Gas and Electric Co., and San Diego Gas & Electric Co. 

All three companies faced bankruptcy because the deregulation law wouldn’t allow them to pass on higher wholesale energy costs to customers. 

From there, the state’s foray into the power business deepened, including: 

— Spending almost $9 billion in state money on power and signing at least $43 billion worth of long-term contracts that last until 2021. 

— Committing $850 million for conservation programs and $30 million in incentives for speeding power plant production. 

— Creating the state’s first public power authority, the California Consumer Power and Conservation Financing Authority, which can float $5 billion to build, buy or lease power plants. 

By creating the Power Authority, consumer advocates said, the state has traded its deregulated system for a government-run network that encourages renewable energy and stable rates. It, unlike investor-owned utilities, also doesn’t have to answer to Wall Street. 

Instead of bringing the benefits of the free market, consumer activist Harvey Rosenfield said, deregulation “brought us higher prices and the creation of a government agency to protect the people.” 

The state’s move toward long-term contracts included an order that the PUC restrict direct access so the state wouldn’t be stuck with a shrinking pool of people to pay for the energy it ordered. 

By restricting direct access, the PUC may also discourage energy retailers from ever returning to the California market, said Rick Counihan, Green Mountain Energy’s general manager. Instead, Green Mountain will “relocate to other states that are more friendly.” 

While the state has a larger role in the energy market, government’s role is tapering off, said S. David Freeman, director of the new Power Authority. 

Just because the authority can build or buy power plants doesn’t mean the state is more involved, Freeman said. “The U.S. government has a petroleum reserve, but no one says they’re in the oil business.” 

PUC Commissioner Richard Bilas disagreed, saying the authority is “even more extreme than what we had before restructuring began.” 

The authority and other parts of the state’s role comes from lawmakers reacting piecemeal to a series of crises, said Assemblyman Bill Leonard, a Republican involved in creating the 1996 plan. 

“It’s hard to know which way it’s going,” Leonard said. “The governor isn’t giving us a vision that he wants the Power Authority to be around forever. The Power Authority could take off and David Freeman would have an empire as big as the Tennessee Valley.” 

Freeman disagreed, saying the Power Authority will give “private enterprise another shot at doing the job in a way that’s fair to the customer.” 

Other states considering deregulation, Freeman said, have looked at California’s experience and reconsidered. “Some states might decide they’re OK the way they are.” 

Nevada and Oklahoma lawmakers delayed plans to deregulate their states’ electricity market, citing California’s troubles. Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin have slowed their deregulation plans. 

DAVIS — Winemaker Robert Mondavi is giving $35 million to University of California, Davis, for a new wine science institute and a new performing arts building. 

Announced Wednesday at a news conference on the campus, the donation is the largest private contribution to the university and one of the largest single individual gifts to the entire UC system. 

The university will use $25 million to establish a new Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science. The institute will include the current departments of viticulture, enology and food science and technology. The money will mainly build new classrooms, food-processing and winery buildings to replace buildings that are 50 years old. 

The other $10 million will go toward a new theater complex that is already under construction and slated to open in October 2002. It will be named the Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts. 

UC President Richard Atkinson said the gift will make the new institute “the best wine and food center in the world.” 

UC Davis’s wine program is already the world’s largest and wineries in other countries, including France, send people there to study, says UC Davis spokeswoman Lisa Lapin. 

Gov. Gray Davis, who attended the announcement, said the gift will “unleash the creative skills of UC Davis students for generations to come.” 

Mondavi said UC Davis has played an important role in his winemaking life. He received early advice from UC Davis professors and many of the company’s winemakers, including son Tim Mondavi, graduated from the wine program. 

He said convincing Americans of the important connections among food, wine and the arts “to enhance the quality of life is the passion my wife and I have had.” 

The Robert Mondavi Winery, based in Oakville in the Napa Valley, is the fifth-largest wine producer in the United States. 

A week after the terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C., that killed over 5,000 people and left U.S. leaders promising retaliation, some Berkeley residents shifted their focus from grief to political action. 

Around 500 activists gathered at the downtown Berkeley BART station Tuesday evening for an “emergency response to the drum-beats of war” and a show of solidarity for Muslims, people of Arab descent and Sikhs.  

A series of speakers rebuked the recent statements and the apparent policies of the U.S. government. Gloria LaRiva of the International Action Center called “Cheney, Powell, Bush – all those criminal politicians.” 

LaRiva said that everywhere she has traveled – including Iraq, North Korea and Palestine – people have told her that while they love American people, they hate the American government. 

“It’s time for us to show that we hate our government as well,” she said. 

Medea Benjamin, of the human rights group Global Exchange, showed the crowd a newspaper photo of Pakistani demonstrators with a sign that read, “Americans, think why you are hated all over the world.” 

“This is a very profound picture,” Benjamin said. “Probably millions of people have seen this photo, and let’s hope it does make them think.” 

Jakada Imani of Standing to Organize Revolutionary Movement issued a call to solidarity, asking the crowd to repeat the word three times. 

“There’s not enough cops, guns or bombs to get us when we all stand together,” he said. 

Imani said the United States government brought the attack on its own citizens through what he characterized as its racist policies overseas. 

“Now those people over there are fighting for their freedom, and I’m not safe here in my own home,” he said. 

Speakers also deplored the violence committed against Muslim and Sikh Americans. 

A number of local Muslims, including two Berkeley High School students, said that they have recently been the victims of verbal harassment. They all reaffirmed their opposition to terrorism. 

“Arabs and Muslims are among the strongest opponents of violence and barbarity, if only because we are so often the target of it,” said Osama Qasam, of the San Francisco chapter of the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. 

“It’s hard for me, on a personal level, to try to prove to people that I am innocent, that I am just a human being,” said Abdul Rahman Zahzah of Students for Justice in Palestine. 

“Forty people do not represent 200 million Arabs, or even more Muslims.” 

Hira and Neelam Qureshi, sisters who are students at Berkeley High, said that they and their family have been in constant fear since the bombing, and so have many of their peers. 

Hira Qureshi said that last Tuesday night, her younger brother received an anonymous phone call asking him if he knew who was responsible for the hijackings. When his mother picked up the phone, the voice on the other end said “I hate Pakistanis.” Fearing for their safety, the Qureshis until recently sent their younger children to stay at a friend’s house. 

“It’s so hard for us to walk on the streets,” said Hira. “We can’t let our little brother and sister play outside.” 

“God bless America, God bless Pakistan,” said Neelam. “We are helping America combat terrorism.” 

Two Sikh students at Berkeley High also reported having been harassed at school.  

Vice Mayor Maudelle Shirek and Councilmember Linda Maio were also among the speakers. “The current terrorism is the result of frustration at the disparities of wealth and living conditions between the haves and the have nots,” Shirek said. 

Talking with reporters before her speech, Benjamin said that the government should handle the attack as a criminal matter rather than a cause for war.  

“We can’t commit ground troops because we will be decimated, as the Soviets were before,” she said. “We can’t use missiles, because we will kill innocent people. To me, in this case, justice means bringing the people responsible before an international criminal court.” 

“With the intelligence services of the United States and countries around the world, it’s very hard for me to imagine that we could not catch the people who committed this crime.” 

Penny Rosenwasser of the Coalition of Jews for Justice agreed. 

“If we can get people out into space, surely we can come up with creative ways to track down whoever’s responsible and bring them to justice,” she said. “It’ll take time, but we have to be patient.” 

“I think that’s the rational, sane response in a democracy that’s committed to human rights.” 

After the speeches, activists took their demonstration on a wide tour around the streets of Berkeley. They marched down University Avenue to Sacramento Street, headed south to Dwight Way and back up to Shattuck Avenue. 

“Off the sidewalk, into the street – overthrow the corporate elite,” they chanted. Drivers in cars passing by honked their horns and gave the demonstrators the thumbs-up sign. 

During the march, a volunteer of the International Action Center handed out fliers for an upcoming event in San Francisco.  

The IAC volunteer, a Berkeley resident who wished to remain nameless, said she started thinking of the crisis in political terms “the day it happened.”  

“The political implications were overwhelming,” she said. 

After returning to the downtown BART station, marchers held hands and formed a large circle. Some played musical instruments while others danced.  

Wednesday, Sept. 19

Free Prostate Cancer Screening 

9 a.m. - 3 p.m. 

Alta Bates Medical Center 

Markstein Cancer Education & Prevention Center 

At-risk men may obtain a free prostate cancer screening by appointment. 869-8833  

Fire Hill Station Neighborhood Meeting 

7 p.m. 

Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Building 

2180 Milvia St.  

6th Floor Conference Room 

Hill Fire Station meeting to review plans. 981-6341 

Berkeley Communicator  

Toastmasters Club 

7:15 a.m. 

Vault Cafe 

3250 Adeline 

Learn to speak with confidence. Ongoing first and third Wednesdays each month. 527-2337 

Baby Bounce and Toddler Tales 

7 p.m. 

Berkeley Central Library 

2090 Kittredge St. 

This participatory program for families with children up to age 3 presents multicultural stories, songs and fingerplays as entertainment. 644-6095 

Support Group for Family/Friends  

Caring for Older Adults 

4 - 5:30 p.m. - third Wednesday of each month 

Alta Bates Medical Center  

Herrick Campus 

2001 Dwight Way 

Third floor, Room 3369B (elevator B) 

The group will focus on the needs of the older adult with serious medical problems, psychiatric illnesses, substance abuse, and their caregivers. Free. 802-1725 

Commission on Aging 

1:30 p.m. 

South Berkeley Senior Center 

2939 Ellis St. 

Open to the public. 644-6050 

Human Welfare & Community Action Commission Meeting 

7 - 10 p.m. 

South Berkeley Senior Center 

2939 Ellis St. 

Open to the public. 665-3419 

Gay/Bi Men’s Book Group 

7:30 p.m. 

Boadecia’s Books 

398 Colusa Ave. 

Will discuss “Bastard Out of Carolina” by Dorothy Allison. 559-9184 www.bookpride.com 

Socratic Circle Discussions 

5 - 6 p.m. 

1309 Solano Ave. 

Cafe Eclectica 

Does your brain need a workout? All ages welcome. 527-2344 

What You Need to Know Before You Build or Remodel 

7 - 10 p.m. 

Building Education Center 

812 Page St.  

Preview of the Homeowner’s Essential Course – learn to solder pipe and more. By Glen Kitzenberger. Free. 525-7610 

A Taste of the World: Cultural Understanding Through Food 

6 - 9 p.m. 

Berkeley Richmond Jewish Community Center 

1414 Walnut St. 

Enhance your cooking skills and experience the cuisines of Spain, Portugal, Italy, Morocco and Israel with chef Daniel Herskovic. All classes are “hands on.” Class includes meal and cooking lesson. $25. Every Wednesday through Nov. 1. 655-8487 

Graduate Theological Union Fall Convocation 

3:30 p.m. 

Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary Chapel 

2770 Marin Ave. 

Annual GTU gathering which celebrates the beginning of the academic year. This year’s speaker is William M. Sullivan, Senior Scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. 649-2464 

Natural History of East Bay Hill Paths 

7 - 9 p.m. 

Hillside Club 

2286 Cedar St. 

Panelists will be Malcom Margolin, publisher of Heyday Books; Richard Schwartz, author of Berkeley 1900, a portrait of the city drawn from Century-old newspaper stories; Steve Edwards, director of the East Bay Regional Parks Botanic Garden. 524-4715 www.internettime.com/bpwa 

–compiled by Guy Poole 

Prose Writers’ Workshop 

7 - 9 p.m. 

Berkeley/Richmond Jewish Community Center Library 

1414 Walnut St.  

From Op-ed to fiction, memoir to the feature article - a community 

writers' group to support and encourage a community of interests. Workshop format. Free. 524-3034 

Remembering Church 

7 p.m. 

St. Mary Magdalen Rectory 

2005 Berryman St. 

An informal group to explore returning to the Catholic Church. 526-4811 

Special events planned in response to terror attacks 

Wednesday, Sept. 19

Teach-in 

6:30 p.m. 

2050 Valley Life Sciences 

UC Berkeley  

Speakers include: Norman Solomon, media activist, Hatem Bazian, UC Berkeley lecturer and director of the Al-Aalam Institute 

Thursday, Sept. 20

National Student Day of Action 

noon 

Sproul Plaza, UC Berkeley 

343-2139 x5412 

Rally to stop the war; defend civil liberties; stop racist scapegoating; defend the Arab-American, Muslim and Mid-eastern communities. 

593-7489 

Friday, Sept. 21

Don’t Turn Tragedy into War 

7 p.m. 

Fellowship of Humanity 

390 27th St. 

Oakland 

Supporters include the Ecumenical Peace Institute, the American-Arab Anti-discrimination Committee, Global Exchange, the Middle East Children’s Alliance  

Preaching and Pastoral Care in a Time of Terror 

A workshop for clergy of all faith traditions  

9:30 a.m. - 12 noon 

Pacific School of Religion 

Chapel of the Great Commission 

1798 Scenic Ave. 

In a time that presents enormous challenges for those who minister to churches, congregations, synagogues, mosques, parishes and all communities of faith, the faculty of the member schools of the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley invite clergy to attend a workshop focused on providing reflection and resources for the work of ministry in times of trial and terror.  

Sunday, Sept. 23

Peace Walks  

Lake Merritt Neighbors Organized for Peace leads weekly peace walks around Lake Merritt in Oakland every Sunday at 3 p.m. 

People meet at the columns, between Grand and Lakeshore avenues. 763-8712, lmno4p@yahoo.com

My everlasting thanks goes to you for taking such a courageous position on the House vote (H J RES 64) authorizing the use of United States Armed Forces against those responsible for the recent attacks launched against the United States. 

It is my firm belief that we must respond to this terrible event in a manner that considers the conditions from which it arose and does not lead us into a downward spiral of retribution and revenge. 

You will probably not hear from everyone who supports you on this issue, but know that there are many of us. 

Tom Kelly 

Berkeley

924 Gilman Street Sept. 21: Slow Gherkin, 78 RPMS, Enemy You, Wisecracker; Sept. 23: 5 p.m. Subtonix, Running Ragged, (+t.b.a.); Sept. 28: Erase Errata, The Intima, Ibobuki, (+t.b.a.); Sept. 29: DS-13, Beware, Blown To Bits, (+t.b.a.); Most shows are $5 and start at 8 p.m. unless otherwise noted. 

Albatross Pub Sept. 19: Whiskey Brothers; Sept. 20: Kenji “El Lebrijano” Flamenco Guitar; Sept. 22: Larry Stefl Jazz Quartet; Sept. 25: Mad and Eddie Duran; Sept. 27: Kenji “El Lebrijano” Flamenco Guitar; Free. All shows begin at 9 p.m. 1822 San Pablo Ave. 843-2473 albatrosspub@mindspring.com  

Anna’s Sept. 19: Bob Schoen Jazz Quintet, Cheryl McBride; Sept. 20: Jazz Singer’s Collective; Sept. 21: Anna sings jazz and blues, Fred Harris on piano, 10 p.m. Bluesman Hideo Date; Sept. 22: Vicki Burns and Felice York, Ellen Hoffman Trio, 10 p.m. The Distones Jazz Sextet, Donald Duck Bailey on piano; Sept. 23: Ed Reed, Alex Markel’ Group; Sept. 24: The Renegade Sidemen, Calvin Keyes, Dave Rokeach and Pals; Sept. 25: Tangria; Sept. 26: Bob Schoen Jazz Quintet, Cheryl McBride; Sept. 27: David Jeffrey Fourtet, Brendan Milstein; Sept. 28: Anna sings jazz standards, 10 p.m. Bluesman Hideo Date; Sept. 29: Robin Gregory, Bliss Rodriguez, 10 p.m. The Distones Jazz Sextet, Donald Duck Bailey; Sept. 30: Acoustic Soul; All shows begin at 8 p.m. 1801 University Ave. 849-ANNA www.annasbistro.com 

Ashkenaz Music & Dance Community Center Sept. 19: 9 p.m. Andrew Carrier and Cajun Classics, $8; Sept. 20: 10 p.m. Grateful Dead DJ Nite, $5; Sept. 21: 9:30 p.m. Hip Hop Party: Emphatics, Self Jupitor, Professor Whaley, Bas 1, DJ Riddim and DJ Malik. $10; Sept. 22: 9:30 p.m. Don Carlos and Reggae Angels, $15; Sept. 23: 8 p.m. Funky Nixons, Mokai, Green & Root’s Womyn’s Music and more, $8 - $15. 1317 San Pablo Ave. 525-5054 www.ashkenaz.com  

Café de la Paz Poetry Nitro, performance showcase with open mike. Sept. 24: Jim Watson-Gove; All shows free, 7 - 10 p.m. 

Cal Performances Sept. 30: 7 p.m. Kronos Quartet, David Barron, $30; Oct. 12 - 14: Fri. and Sat., 8:00 p.m., Sun. 3 p.m. Ballet Nacional De Cuba, $24 - $46; Oct. 17 and 18: 8 p.m. Cesaria Evora, $24 - $36; Oct. 19: 8 p.m. Karnak, $18 - $30. Zellerbach Hall, UC Berkeley Campus, Bancroft Way at Telegraph, 642-0212, tickets@calperfs.berkeley.edu 

Crowden School Sept. 23: 4 p.m. “Sundays at Four Concert” Jeremy Cohen’s jazz violin. Admission $10 (free if under 18) 1475 Rose St. 559-6910 

Eli’s Mile High Club Every Friday, 10 p.m. Funky Fridays Conscious Dance Party with KPFA DJs Splif Skankin and Funky Man. $10; Doors open at 8 p.m. unless noted. 3629 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Oakland. 655-6661 

Freight & Salvage Sept. 19: David Tanenbaum & Peppino D’Agostino, $16.50, Sept. 20: Steve Tilston & Danny Carnahan, $16.50; Sept. 21: The Waybacks, $17.50; Sept. 22: The Bluerass Intentions, $17.50; Sept. 23 Tony Marcus & Patrice Haan, $16.50; Sept. 24: April Verch, $16.50; Sept. 26: Clive Gregson, $16.50; Sept. 27: Dick Gaughan, $18.50; Sept 28: Jenna Mammina, $16.50; Sept. 29: The Nigerian Brothers, $16.50; Sept. 30: Vasen, $17.50; All shows start at 8 p.m. 1111 Addison St. 548-1761 www.freightandsalvage.com 

Jack’s Bistro Sept. 22 & Sept. 28: 9 p.m. Tomas Michaud’s New World Flamenco Quartet, Jack London Square. 444-7171 www.starland-music.com 

Jazzschool/La Note Sept. 30: 4 p.m., John Santos and the Machete Ensemble. $15. 2377 Shattuck Ave. 845-5376 

Jupiter Sept. 19: New Monsoon; Sept. 20: Beatdown w/ DJs Delon, Yamu, and Add1; Sept. 21: Netwerk: Electric; Sept. 22: New Garde Philosophers; Sept. 25: Craig Graham Trio; Sept. 26: Starvin Like Marvin; Sept. 28 Anton Schwartz Quartet; Sept 29: Modern Gypsies; All music starts at 8:00 p.m. 2181 Shattuck Ave. 843-7625 www.jupiterbeer.com  

La Peña Cultural Center Sept. 19: 7:30 p.m. “Music From Venezuela” Student Recital, $8; Sept. 27: 7:30 p.m. The local Friends of the MST will host a screening of the new documentary "Raiz Forte" or "Strong Roots" to present our community with a vision of their work and struggle. A discussion will follow. $5-$10; In the Cafe, 3105 Shattuck Ave. 849-2568 www.lapena.org 

Music Sources Sept. 30: 5 p.m. Ole Scarlatta! Portuguese and French keyboards and fortepiano joined by Jason McGuire on flamenco guitar, $18 General, $15 members, seniors, students. 1000 The Alameda 528-1685 

Sedge Thomson’s West Coast Live Radio Show Julia Morgan Theatre, 2640 College Ave.; Sept. 29: Nancy Miford, author of “Savage Beauty.” West African folk music with The Nigerian Brothers. Blues roots piano by Caroline Dahl. The Freight and Salvage, 1111 Addison St. All shows 10 a.m. - noon. 252-9214 www.wcl.org 

"A Benefit Concert for Devi-ja" Sept. 16: 4 p.m. Proceeds of this concert will help Violinist Devi-ja Delgado Croll and her family. Performers will include: Ali Jihad Racy, Zakir Hussain, Vince Delgado, Mimi Spencer, Shirley Muramoto, Matt Eakle, Dahlena, Carnaval Spirit and others. $20 Donation. St. John's Presbyterian Church 2727 College Ave. 415-457-8427 vince@vincedelgado.com 

The 1st Annual Guinness & Oyster Festival 2001 Sept. 22: 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. Free. Cake, Mingus Amungus, Ponticello, Stolen Bibles, Alamo 66 w/ Destani Wolf, The Culann’s Hounds. MLK Jr. Civic Center Park 

13th Annual Blues ‘n Jazz Festival Sept. 23: noon - 6 p.m. Jeffrey Osborne Jazz Crusaders with Ronnie Laws, Ricardo Scales, Sonata Pi (and more). $35, Lawn $25, Child $6 (6-12 years, lawn only). Dunsmuir House & Gardens Historic Estate, 2960 Peralta Oaks Court, Oakland. 583-1160 

“The Complete Shostakovich String Quartets--Part One” Sept. 29: 10 a.m. Quartets III & IV; Oct. 20: 10 a.m. Quartets V & VI. Performed by the prize-winning Alexander String Quartet with Robert Greenberg. $ 30, $84 for the Trio of concerts. Julia Morgan Center for the Arts 2640 College Ave. 845-8542 www.juliamorgan.org. 

Magnificat Sept. 29: 8 p.m. First Congregational Church. The San Francisco early music ensemble of voices and period instruments present their thenth anniversary season with music of 17th century composers. Tickets $12-$45 (415) 979-4500 

The Mike Yax Jazz Orchestra Sept. 30: 2 p.m., Longfellow School of the Arts, 1500 Derby St. 420-4560 

American Ballet Theatre Sept. 19, 20: 8 p.m.: Mark Morris, Paul Taylor and Natalie Weir; Sept. 21, 22 8 p.m., Sept 22, 2 p.m., Sept 23, 3 p.m.: David Briskin conducts Berkeley Symphony Orchestra. Zellerbach Hall Tickets $36, $48 and $64. 

“Hecho En Califas Chicano-Latino Teatro Festival” Sept. 21, 22, at 8 p.m. Sept. 16 & 23 matinees. The Alameda Civic Light Opera’s fifth summer season ends with the musical of Frances Hodson Burnett’s classic story of life, death, purpose and hope. Adults $22, Students 18 and under $14. Kofman Auditorium, 2200 Central Ave., Alameda. www.aclo.com 

“Le Cirque des Animaux” Sept. 29: 8 p.m. Hausmusik presents a wacky baroque musical cabaret on the subject of animals. Parish Hall of St. Alban’s Espiscopal Church, 1501 Washington St. (not wheelchair accessible). $18 general admission, $15 seniors, students and SFEMS members) 527-9029 

“Murder Dressed in Satin” by Victor Lawhorn, ongoing. A mystery-comedy dinner show at The Madison about a murder at the home of Satin Moray, a club owner and self-proclaimed socialite with a scarlet past. Dinner is included in the price of the theater ticket. $47.50 Lake Merritt Hotel, 1800 Madison St., Oakland. 239-2252 www.acteva.com/go/havefun 

“Twelfth Night” Sept. 18 - 23, 25 - 30, Oct. 2 - 7, Tue. - Thurs. 7:30 p.m., Fri. & Sat. 8 p.m., Sun. 4 p.m., Student Matinees: Sept. 18, 20, 25, Oct. 2, @ 1 p.m. California Shakespeare Festival presents William Shakespeare’s comic tale of romance, loneliness, love and glory. Directed by Jonathan Moscone. $12 - $41. Bruns Memorial Amphitheater, Highway 24, Gateway Exit, one mile east of the Caldecott Tunnel. 548-9666 www.calshakes.org Cultural Center, 3105 Shattuck Ave.,  

849-2568, www.lapena.org  

“Swanwhite” Sept. 22 through Oct. 21: Thur. - Sat., 8 p.m., Sun. 7 p.m. A new translation of the Swedish Play that asks the question what good is romantic love, directed by Tom Clyde. $20, Sundays are “Pay What You Can.” Transparent Theater, 1901 Ashby Ave. 883-0305, www.virtuous.com 

“36 Views” through Oct. 28: Tues. 8 p.m., Wed. 7 p.m., Thu. 8 p.m. w/ 2 p.m. matinee every other Thu., Fri. 8 p.m., Sat. 8 p.m. w/ 2 p.m. matinee every other Sat., Sun. 2 p.m., 8 p.m. Written by Naomi Lizuka, Directed by Mark Wing-Davey. $10 - $54. Berkeley Repertory’s Roda Theatre, 2015 Addison St. 647-2949 www.berkeleyrep.org 

Cal Performances Sept. 19 - 20: 8 p.m. American Ballet, “Bruch Violin Concerto,” “Jabula,” “Gong,” and “Black Tuesday.”; Sept. 21: 8 p.m., Sept. 22: 2 p.m. & 8 p.m., Sept. 23: 3 p.m. American Ballet, the full-length 19th Century “Giselle” $36 - $64; Zellerbach Hall, UC Berkeley Campus, Bancroft Way at Telegraph, 642-0212, 

tickets@calperfs.berkeley.edu 

Pacific Film Archive Sept. 19: 7:30 p.m. “What About Me: The Rise of the Nihilist Spasm Band”; Sept. 20: 7, 8:30 p.m. “Exilée; Sept. 21: 7 p.m. Films of Fritz Lang: Tom Gunning Lecture, 8 p.m. Metropolis, Joel Adlen on piano; Sept. 22: 2:30 p.m. Donald Richie Reading and Booksigning, 4 p.m. An Actor’s Revenge, 7 p.m. Bad Company, 9:05 p.m. Unchain; Sept. 23: 5:30 p.m. Last Year at Marienbad; Sept. 24: 7 p.m. Chile, Obstinate Memory and For These Eyes; Sept. 25: 7:30 p.m. Alternative Requirements 2001, Artists in Person; Sept. 26: 7:30 p.m. Touch Tones; Sept. 28: 7 p.m. Ugetsu, 8:55 Sansho the Bailiff; Sept. 29: 7 p.m. Dr. Mabuse the Gambler, Part I, Joel Adlen on piano; Sept. 30: Dr. Mabuse the Gambler, Part II, Joel Adlen on piano; general admission $7, The New PFA Theatre 2575, Bancroft Way 642-1412 

The Pyramid Alehouse Outdoor Cinema Sept. 22: “Airplane”; The Outdoor Cinema features cult classics projected on a large screen in the open-air brewery parking lot. $5 donation. Movies start at 7 p.m. 901 Gilman St. 206-682-8322 x237 www.pyramidbrew.com 

Nexus Gallery Sept. 26-30: noon - 6 p.m. Jan Eldridge- Large charcoal drawings and acrylic collages; Tricia Grame- visual and textural autobiography of her spiritual evolution; Tanya Wilkinson- A sensuous exploration of the possibilities inherent in the medium of handmade paper. 

“The Political Art of: Diego Marcial Rios” Through Sept. 20, Addison Street Window Gallery, 2018 Addison St. hdrios@msn.com 

Women’s Cancer Resource Gallery “Catastrophe, Crisis, and Other Family Traditions” The photography of Jessamyn Lovell. Through Sept. 26; “The Arthur Wright and Gerald Parker” Through Sept. 26; Tues. - Thurs. 1 - 7 p.m., Sat. 12 - 4 p.m. 3023 Shattuck Ave. 548-9286 x307 www.wcrc.org 

Bahman Navaee is exhibiting his paintings. Through Sept. 29: Persian Center, 2029 Durant Ave. 848-0264 

“Debbie Moore’s Autobiographical Paintings” Through Sept. 30 at Good Vibrations. Portraits of the artist’s sensual explorations spanning 25 years and reflecting changing ways of intimacy and body play. 2504 San Pablo Avenue 848-1985 

“Three Visions” Sept. 26 through Sept. 30: 12 - 6 p.m., An Exhibition of Mixed Media. Nexus Gallery, 2707 8th Street 707-554-2520 

“The Decade of Change: 1900 - 1910” chronicles the transformation of the city of Berkeley in this 10-year period. Thursday through Saturday, 1 – 4 p.m. Through September. Berkeley History Center, Veterans Memorial Building, 1931 Center St. Wheelchair accessible. 848-0181. Free.  

“Squared Triangle” Through Oct. 5: noon - 6 p.m. A minimalist art exhibit featuring three Bay Area artists working in different mediums while achieving the same elegant simplicity. The Crucible, 1036 Ashby Ave. 843-5511 www.thecrucible.com 

“Inside Editions” through Oct. 12: Nine printmakers exhibit their work. 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Tue. - Fri. Free. Kala Art Insitute, 1060 Heinz Ave. 549-2977 kala@kala.org 

“Census 2000: Asian Pacific Islander Americans” through Oct. 13; Wed. - Sat. 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.; Asian Pacific Islander American artists in roughly the demographic proportions indicated by the recent census. Free. Pro Arts, 461 Ninth St., Oakland 763-9470  

“MWP Perspectives” Jon Orvik: One artist’s journey. Through Oct. 27 Tues. - Fri. 12 - 5 p.m., Sat. & Sun. 12 - 4 p.m. Solo artist exhibiting his journey through metal, wood and paint. Adapt Gallery and Design, 2834 College Ave. 649-8501 www.adaptgallery.com  

“50 Years of Photography in Japan 1951 - 2001” Through Nov. 5: An exhibition from The Yomiuri Shimbun, the world’s largest daily newspaper with a national morning circulation of 10,300,000. Photographs of work, love, community, culture and disasters of Japan as seen by Japanese news photographers. Opening Reception Sept. 5: 6 - 8 p.m. open to the public; Mon. - Fri. 8 a.m. - 6 p.m. U.C. Berkeley, Graduate School of Journalism, North Gate Hall, Hearst and Euclid. Free. 642-3383 

“Changing the World, Building New Lives: 1970s photographs of Lesbians, Feminists, Union Women, Disability Activists and their Supporters” Sept. 15 through Nov. 17: An exhibit of black and white photographs by Oakland photographer Cathy Cade, who captured the interrelationships of the different struggles for justice and social change. Opening reception Sept. 15, 5 - 8 p.m. Gallery Hours, Mon. - Fri. 8:30 a.m. - 6:30 p.m., Sat. 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. Photolab Gallery, 2235 Fifth St. Free. 644-1400 cathycade@mindspring.com 

“The Whole World’s Watching: Peace and Social Justice Movements of the 1960s and 1970s” Sept. 16 through Dec. 16: A documentary photo exhibition which examines the rich history of the social movements of the 1960’s and 1970’s. Wed. - Sun., noon - 5 p.m. Berkeley Art Center, 1275 Walnut St., Live Oak Park. Free. 644-6893 

“Musee des Hommages” Masterworks by Guy Colwell Faithful copies of several artists from the pasts, including Titian’s “The Venus of Urbino,” Cezanne’s “Still Life,” Picasso’s “Woman at a Mirror,” and Botticelli’s “Primavera” Ongoing. Call ahead for hours. Atelier 9 2028 Ninth St. (at Addison) 841-4210 or visit www.atelier9.com 

Readings 

Boadecia’s Books Sept. 21: Deborah Kesten, “The Healing Secrets of Food;” Sept. 22: A special All Poetry Dyke Open Myke, to participate call 655-1015 or feroniawolf@yahoo.com; Sept 28: The Return of Gaymes Night; Sept 29: Ellen Samuels and other contributors to “Out of the Ordinary: Essays on Growing Up with Gay, Lesbian & Transgender Parents. All events start at 7:30 p.m. unless noted otherwise. All events are free. 398 Colusa Ave. 559-9184 www.bookpride.com 

Cody’s on 4th Street Sept. 20: 7 p.m. Jamie Oliver, The Naked Chef, “The Naked Chef Takes Off”; Sept. 22: 10:30 a.m. Cody’s for Kids, Walter the Giant Storyteller; Sept. 25: 7 p.m. Nancy London looks at “Hot Flashes, Warm Bottles: First-Time Mothers Over Forty”; 1730 Fourth St. 559-9500 

Cody’s on Telegraph Ave. Sept. 17: Aldo Alvarez describes “Interesting Monsters”; Sept. 18: Clarence Walker discusses “We Can’t Go Home Again: An Argument About Afrocentrism; Sept. 19: Douglas Coupland reads “All Families Are Psychotic”; Sept. 24: Theodore Roszak discusses “Longevity Revolution: As Boomers Become Elders”; Sept. 25: Ken Croswell discusses “The Universe At Midnight: New Discoveries Illuminate the Hidden Cosmos” with a slide show presentation; Sept. 27: Bill Ayers talks about “Fugitive Days”; Oct 1: Urdsula K. Le guin reads from “The Other Wind”; All shows at 7:30 p.m. 2454 Telegraph Ave. 845-7852 

Cody’s Other Venues - Sept. 20: 7:30 p.m. Cody’s presents an evening with Margaret Atwood in conversation with professor Robert Alter. $12. First Congregational Church 2345 Channing Way; Sept. 28: 7:30 p.m. Cody’s presents a Community Forum on Race and the Achievement Gap at Berkeley High School. Little Theater, Berkeley High School.  

Coffee Mill Poetry Series Sept. 18: Ben Brose and Jen Iby followed by open mike reading. 3363 Grand Ave., Oakland 465-3935 ksdgk@earthlink.net 

Easy Going Travel Shop & Bookstore Sept. 20: 7:30 p.m. Antarctica & The Nature of Penguins, An evening with Jonathan Chester. 1385 Shattuck Ave. 843-3533 

Spasso Sept. 10: Sharron Jones-Reid, Fruit of the Spirit poets, acoustic musicians, comedians, rappers, performance artists, writers. All welcome. 6021 College Ave. Free admission. 

Tours 

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Fridays 9:30 - 11:45 a.m. or by appointment. Call ahead to make reservations. Free. University of California, Berkeley. 486-4387 

Golden Gate Live Steamers Grizzly Peak Boulevard and Lomas Cantadas Drive at the south end of Tilden Regional Park Small locomotives, meticulously scaled to size. Trains run Sunday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Rides: Sunday, noon to 3 p.m., weather permitting. 486-0623  

Museums 

Habitot Children’s Museum “Back to the Farm” An interactive exhibit gives children the chance to wiggle through tunnels, look into a mirrored fish pond, don farm animal costumes, ride on a John Deere tractor and more. “Recycling Center” Lets the kids crank the conveyor belt to sort cans, plastic bottles and newspaper bundles into dumpster bins. $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. (closed Sundays, Memorial Day through Labor Day) Kittredge Street and Shattuck Avenue 647-1111 or www.habitot.org  

UC Berkeley Museum of Paleontology Lobby, Valley Life Sciences Building, UC Berkeley “Tyrannosaurus Rex,” ongoing. A 20 foot by 40 foot replica of the fearsome dinosaur 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” A suspended skeleton of a flying reptile with a wingspan of 22-23 feet. The pteranodon lived at the same time as the dinosaurs. 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 will close its exhibition galleries for renovation. It will reopen in early 2002. On View until Oct. 1 : “Ishi and the Invention of Yahi Culture.” “Sites Along the Nile: Rescuing Ancient Egypt.” “The Art of Research: Nelson Graburn and the Aesthetics of Inuit Sculpture.” “Tzintzuntzan, Mexico: Photographs by George Foster.” $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. Kroeber Hall, Bancroft Way and College Avenue. 643-7648 or www.qal.berkeley.edu/~hearst/ 

University of California Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive has reopened after its summer-long seismic retrofit. “Martin Puryear: Sculpture of the 1990s” through Jan. 13; “The Dream of the Audience: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1951 - 1982)” through Dec. 16; “Face of Buddha: Sculpture from India, China, Japan, and Southeast Asia” ongoing rotation through 2003; “Matrix 194: Jessica Bronson, Heaps, layers, and curls” Sept. 16 through Nov. 11; “Matrix 192: Ceal Floyer 37’4”” Sept. 16 through Nov. 11; Wed., Fri., Sat., Sun. 11 a.m. - 5 p.m., Thur. 11 a.m. - 9 p.m., PFA Theater, 2575 Bancroft Way; Museum Galleries 2626 Bancroft Way; 642-0808 www.bampfa.berkeley.edu 

Lawrence Hall of Science “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. “Saturday Night Stargazing,” First and third Saturdays each month. 8 - 10 p.m., LHS plaza. Space Weather Exhibit now - Sept. 2; now - Sept. 9 Science in Toyland; Saturdays 12:30 - 3:30 p.m. $7 for adults; $5 for children 5-18; $3 for children 3-4. 642-5132 

Holt Planetarium Programs are recommended for age 8 and up; children under age 6 will not be admitted. $2 in addition to regular museum admission. “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, UC Berkeley 642-5132 or www.lhs.berkeley.edu  

Oakland Museum of California “Half Past Autumn: The Art of Gordon Parks,” through Sept. 23; Wednesday - Saturday, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., Sunday, noon - 5 p.m., Closed Monday and Tuesday. $6 general; $4 youths (6-17), seniors and students with ID. Free for museum members and children 5 and under. Free admission the second Sunday of the month. 10th & Oak streets, Oakland. 238-2200 www.museum.org 

Send arts events two weeks in advance to Calendar@berkeleydailyplanet.net, 2076 University, Berkeley 94704 or fax to 841-5694.

Berkeley High’s ID card program, created to keep out potential troublemakers, is proving slow to catch on among the school’s famously cheeky student body. 

Almost nobody in the lunchtime campus exodus Tuesday wore the tags, which came with thin metallic bead chains, nor did anybody appear to show them to a security monitor on the way back in. Amidst the hundreds of students heading toward Shattuck Avenue, only 12 were observed wearing their tags visibly – and some of those had them swinging at knee level, the chains strung from belt loops. 

In Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park, the consensus among a congregated group of juniors was that the tags were being largely ignored by the student body. 

“I just sneak into school every day,” said Brett Morris, who added that he only began school this week and didn’t yet have a tag.  

“I’ve never been asked for one,” said Kot Hordynski. “The fact that there were ID tags is something I learned about in your newspaper.”  

The ID tags program was launched this fall as part of an effort to enhance security. 

“There’s been a lot of violence on campus, and this is a simple way to kind of keep people out of there who are coming on (campus) to cause trouble,” said School Board Director Shirley Issel. 

Board President Terry Doran agreed, noting that there is statistical data to back up the claim. “People recognized that it’s not possible to keep strangers off the campus because of the nature of how it’s built, and that’s what concerns people more than anything else,” Doran said. 

Doran said he envisioned the cards eventually allowing students to check out textbooks, purchase food at the dining facilities and gain entry to student productions and athletic events. 

“They’re for their safety above everything else, not to set up a police state,” Doran said. 

In the wake of the terrorist attacks last week, Principal Frank Lynch sent an e-mail to parents and the school community on Monday that touched on security issues. 

“Please remind your student to wear his/her identification,” it read. “It is very important for us to know each and every individual who is on campus.” 

Lynch and other administrators did not return phone calls by press time. 

Issel said she fully expected the ID program to be carried out. 

“Our responsibility is to follow through, otherwise it is just an empty gesture,” she said. “Kids test parents all the time to see if there’s any consequences.” 

Issel said she wanted it to become “a routine and unremarkable matter” for students and staff to wear IDs and for security personnel to wear identifying shirts, “so that the people who don’t belong are easily identifiable by the absence of their visitor pass or an ID tag.” 

At the intersection of Milvia Street and Allston Way near the school Tuesday, a large cloud of marijuana smoke drifted out the passenger-side window of a passing pickup truck, and a sunburned man walked by, muttering darkly while he fingered a piece of aluminum foil and a rolled-up dollar bill. As hundreds of kids streamed back toward the narrow campus entrance between the Berkeley Community Theater and the fenced-off acreage under construction, only one monitor was on hand to check anyone’s ID. 

“The reason a lot of students don’t like it is because it’s one step closer to wearing a school uniform,” said junior Andrew Gruen, who produced an ID tag from his pocket with a photo that bore an expression of exaggerated, cartoon-like surprise. 

Devin Miller, a freshman, said the tags were “annoying.” 

“I can see why they make us wear them, so people don’t come in and wander around, but I still don’t like it very much,” she said. “So I take it off.” 

“I feel like it’s kind of like Apartheid or something,” said Hordynski, the junior, referring to pass books South African blacks once had to carry. “If they don’t have the support of the student body, they’ll never be able to do this.”

I do not now, nor will I ever support a United States retaliatory response to the tragic events of this past Tuesday. 

On my behalf, Congresswoman Barbara Lee has spoken loud and clear in denouncing U.S. war cries. Her courageous, dissenting vote this past Friday is a shining example of one congressional representative carrying out her duty and exercising the will of her constituents. Ms. Lee’s eloquent statement before the House of Representatives and her vote to oppose the current administration’s hostile march toward war will forever prove that there are, indeed, patriotic American citizens who do not support all of their country’s actions. 

I urge you to bring the criminals to trial in a peaceful, diplomatic manner. I urge you to work with the leaders of the world to combat terrorism while preserving our civil liberties. I urge you to take a moment to reflect on the lives that will be lost as a result of a full-scale military retaliation by the United States. 

To Congresswoman Lee, for her bold stance against the horrors of war, I pledge my full support. To you President Bush, for your dismissal of any attempt at diplomatic and peaceful resolution and for your acceptance of the decision to lead the United States into war, I pledge only opposition. 

Mitch Triplett 

Albany

The City Council put a damper on the Guinness & Oyster Festival by voting down a request to waive $2,600 in event fees because the festival has a corporate alcohol sponsor. 

After some snapping between moderate and progressive council factions, progressives stuck together to vote down Mayor Shirley Dean’s recommendation. The final vote was 4-3-1, with Dean and councilmembers Polly Armstrong and Betty Olds voting to waive the event fees. Councilmember Miriam Hawley abstained.  

The festival, which is being held in Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park on Sept. 22, is being promoted by the Downtown Berkeley Association as a cultural event, whose primary purpose is to promote downtown businesses, according to a Sept. 13 DBA letter that was submitted to council. The event, which is being sponsored and organized by the DBA, will present food and beer vendors and a variety of bands, including a well known band that is currently on the MTV play list. Beckett’s Irish Pub, a new business on Shattuck Avenue, is also one of the main sponsors of the event. The fees the DBA wanted waived included $2,000 for 15 portable toilets and $450 for dumpsters and trash cans. 

The request to waive city fees ran afoul of council progressives because one of the event sponsors is Guinness Beer, an international brewing corporation. A policy, approved by the council in 1995, apparently precludes the city from sponsoring events that serve alcohol unless the alcohol vendor has a brewery based in Berkeley. 

Progressives argued waiving fees for the first Guinness & Oyster Festival would be a violation of city policy and unfair to other events like the Juneteenth and Cinco de Mayo festivals which only have fees waived if there is no corporate alcohol sponsors. 

Moderates argued the festival will be good for downtown businesses and the city should support the event. Armstrong said that not waiving the fees was an attempt by some of the councilmembers to impose their morals on people who enjoy drinking beer.  

“I freely admit that I like to drink beer and listen to good music,” Armstrong said. “I’m 56 years old and this is America and it’s just not a crime.” 

Dean agreed there was more to the progressives’ opposition than simply city policy. She said there are city policies that are in place to assure responsible drinking at public events. “Nobody wants a big drunken party for crying out loud,” she said adding that “Beckett’s is a wonderful addition to the downtown and I plan to attend the festival to show my support.” 

The progressives, led by Councilmember Dona Spring, cited the city’s 1995 alcohol policy as the basis for her opposition to waiving the event fees. “My main concern is Berkeley has a policy that it will not sponsor public events, including waiving fees, if that event features alcohol products unless it is a locally-owned brewery,” Spring said. 

Prior to adopting the policy in 1995, there was a 1990 policy that precluded sponsoring any event that sold alcohol, according to Spring. “That policy was adopted because there were police problems at the Juneteenth and Cinco de Mayo festivals,” Spring said.  

In 1995 the wording of the policy was modified to allow sponsorship of events featuring locally brewed beers. 

Councilmember Linda Maio added that waiving the fees would send a mixed message to other event organizers. She said the council refused to waive fees for a Juneteenth Festival a few years ago because a large beer company was prominently displaying ads promoting beer. “It seems to me it would be selective if we waived fees for this event,” Maio said. “We have to be consistent in the application of this policy.” 

Armstrong said on Tuesday that Maio made a good point, but contended there are clauses in the city’s policy that allow fee waivers if the event promotes local businesses. “Linda’s point was fair and well taken but we have to admit there are businesses downtown and we should help them.” 

Spring said serving alcohol so close to Berkeley High School and to the Multi-agency Services Center, a homeless day center where counselors attempt to help clients with substance abuse, was unwise. Both the high school and center are right across the street from the park.  

“Allowing alcohol in the park creates a schizophrenic standard for the surrounding community and police to attempt to address,” Spring wrote in a memorandum to council. “While people are told on a regular basis in the park and surrounding area that it is illegal to drink in public, certain favored groups, are given special permission from the City Council.” 

DBA Executive Director Deborah Bahdia said while organizing the event she followed city policy very closely and made sure there were no scheduled events at Berkeley High School. 

“The park is the only place near the downtown for an event like this,” Bahdia said. “It’s close to BART and the downtown parking garages.” 

Editor: 

East Bay Congressional Representative Barbara Lee should be applauded, not chastised or threatened, for her courageous vote against the bill granting the president powers to wage war around the world. In this moment of crisis, when so many are beating the drum for war and vengeance, Lee had the wisdom to recognize that handing the president broad powers to engage us in an ill-defined and potentially long and bloody war will achieve little in the way of real justice. And she had the hindsight of history to recognize a host of possible unintended consequences in such a war – including the loss of many more innocent American and foreign lives. Please remember that only two members of Congress – including Lee’s predecessor Ron Dellums – had the courage to stand up against the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution in 1964. With that courage, they planted the seed for a mass movement against another bloody and misguided war – that in Vietnam. For raising the voice of calm and reason in this most emotional period, Lee has done this country a great service. 

Eric Romann 

Oakland 

Hamilton Billy Greene was not a man who made enemies, according to those who knew him. As Greene’s friends and family began planning his memorial service, which was Sunday, they said they couldn’t imagine why anyone – even a robber – would want to murder him at his doorstep.  

Greene, a 33-year-old award-winning animator and filmmaker, was found dead early Monday morning outside his Emeryville apartment entrance. He died of a single gunshot wound to the head, police said.  

“He was just a good and gentle person. He was very remarkable in that way,” said his father, San Francisco-based poet and photographer Tinker Greene. 

“(Officers) asked if he had any gambling debts or drug involvement. But Billy wasn’t involved in anything like that.” 

On the night of Sept. 9, Billy Greene had gone to see the movie “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” with several friends, including a couple who also had apartments in the Adeline Street complex, Dylan Nolfi and Ariana Makau. 

They drove separate cars, and Greene was the last to return from the theater. Nolfi said Greene had already gone into his apartment when he heard something that sounded like gunshots.  

“What’s disturbing about it is how often we’ve actually been hearing gunshots, if those were gunshots,” Nolfi said while sitting on the apartment building’s back porch last Thursday evening. He looked exhausted, and said he hadn’t slept much since the shooting. 

Nolfi said he went to the window after hearing shots, saw nothing suspicious, and assumed the noise had been something else. Someone else flagged down a police car to report the shooting, according to Detective Dante Diotalevi of the Emeryville Police Department. He said officers arrived at 12:30 a.m. 

“I can’t go into whether that citizen heard the shots or found the body,” Diotalevi said. “But we are working on possible leads.” 

Greene’s murder is the city’s second killing this year, according to police, who say Emeryville averages at most one homicide each year. Diotalevi said police have no reason to suspect the shooting was gang or drug related, and that they are investigating the murder as a possible robbery attempt. Greene’s wallet had been handled but not taken, according to police. Friends and family don’t describe Greene as the type who would fight an armed robber. “He was artistic, quiet, and sensitive,” Nolfi said. “The kind of kid that got picked on in public school.” 

Nolfi said he was building a pinata in the shape of the handgun for the memorial service, so Greene’s friends could “destroy it.” Greene grew up in Burlington, Vermont, with Nolfi and got involved in filmmaking when he was a kid. After graduating from Hampshire College, Greene began working in “stop motion” film animation, which uses puppets photographed with incremental changes to imitate lifelike movement. Greene’s work has been featured in numerous film festivals, including the 2001 Sundance Film Festival in Utah. His film “Thought Bubble” was scheduled to play this weekend at the postponed New York Film Festival.  

Greene began his career in New York and Portland, Oregon. He moved to Emeryville five weeks ago to begin animating for “Phantom Investigators,” a new production for Warner Brothers television. Octopus Ink, the San Francisco-based production company he founded with two friends, produced a successful short film and a children’s music video for Bob McGrath of Sesame Street. Greene also played drums in numerous bands, including the San Francisco-based Poltroon. Several of Greene’s neighbors said that the murder was a mystery to them, too.  

“I’ve been living here for 30 years, and I was shocked when I read about it. We didn’t even hear anything that night,” neighbor Sylvia Chavez said. “Why would anybody do that unless it was somebody who was after him, somebody who knew him? That just doesn’t happen around here.” 

But the Web site recently set up by his friends and family (http://blackvan.net/billy) hardly portrays him as a man with enemies. In one photograph Greene sits shyly smiling as he overlooks a pair of his puppets. 

Numerous friends have compiled a list of emails on the “Billy Bulletin Board.”  

One posting by former co-worker BobD reads, “I love you Billy and I know you’re sitting quietly somewhere bringing life to puppets.” 

Police urge anyone with information about the shooting to contact them at 596-3774. 

Editor: 

This is why I love Berkeley! Barbara Lee has made me proud again to live as a free citizen of Berkeley. In the heat of the nation’s knee-jerk reaction to last Tuesday’s events, I have been told repeatedly by the news media that “America is United” in its response to “terrorism.” We may be united in sympathy with the victims; but we stand proudly in dissent against violent unthinking vigilantism, locally or internationally. In a diverse community like ours, we have lived for years side by side with muslims of all description, with Iraqis during their most difficult years of oppression (first at the hands of their own government and then, at the hands of ours), with people from the the widest array of racial, cultural, religious, linguistic, and other backgrounds. Hopefully, as an intellectually-based community, we can seek first to understand the causes of terrorist acts, and to demand more loudly than ever before that our national leaders give more than lipservice to the interests of “justice” and “freedom”. While we condemn terrorism by Islamic mujahideen, let us also condemn US-supported terrorism, and demand peace, justice and human rights for our brothers and sisters in Palestine and around the world! 

John M. Hartenstein, Esq. 

Berkeley 

Editor: 

Congresswoman Lee’s stance against War earned her one more vote today. 

Mayor Dean’s militaristic call for an unobtainable “justice” just lost her one. 

Cynthia Gong 

Berkeley  

FRESNO — Two Saudi Arabian men who attend the International English Institute were detained and questioned for a few hours before being cleared of any connection to the terrorist attacks on the East Coast last week. 

The men were stopped Sunday evening at Shaver Lake after a resident reported two suspicious men taking pictures of the dam. They were questioned by sheriff’s deputies, then turned over to the FBI and Immigration and Naturalization Service agents for additional questioning. 

The men told deputies they were at the dam taking pictures and sightseeing. Deputies searched the rental car they were driving and found only a digital camera and a small black camera bag. 

The men were taken to Fresno County Jail and questioned by federal authorities because they were not carrying the proper documents. 

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SANTA MARIA (AP) — The 12th annual Warbird Roundup, a gathering of vintage warplanes, has been canceled this weekend at the Santa Maria airport. 

Uncertainty surrounding new regulations for general aviation and concerns about how many pilots would bring their planes led the board of directors of the Santa Maria Museum of Flight to make that decision, president Dick Weber said. 

“Everybody’s mood is really just sour right now,” Weber said. “We just figured the best thing to do is to cancel it and save it all for next year.” 

More than three dozen warbirds, ranging from P-51 Mustangs to a BT-13 trainer, had signed up to attend the event, which helps support the all-volunteer museum throughout the year. 

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Airlines serving the Bay Area indefinitely will cut about 500 flights a day, mostly ones to the East Coast and shuttles to Southern California and other areas on the West Coast, in response to last week’s terrorist attacks. 

At airports in San Francisco, San Jose and Oakland, flight schedules have returned to about 80 percent to 90 percent of the level before the attacks. Some additional flights may resume, but most airlines say they have reached “normal” levels they will use for the rest of the year. 

American Airlines and United Airlines control more than half of all flights in and out of Northern California. 

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VAN NUYS, Calif. (AP) — Eager to honor the victims of last week’s terrorist attacks, a philatelist organization says it is launching a petition for a commemorative stamp and coin. 

The International Stamp Collectors Society, based in Van Nuys, will begin a petition-signing campaign Friday at a stamp and coin show in the Glendale Civic Auditorium. 

“I think the more ways we can express ourselves, as a nation and a people, will help to pull us together during this tragedy,” said Israel Bick, executive director of the society. 

U.S. Postal Service spokesman David Mazer said the agency already has received requests to issue a stamp in honor of victims of the attacks. U.S. Treasury officials said they require a congressional order before they can issue a commemorative coin. 

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OAKLAND (AP) — Federal officials have told Oakland International Airport to heighten security. 

The Oakland Police Department brought in seven officers last week to allow the airport to reopen, but the Federal Aviation Administration and the FBI told airport officials on Friday that they still had concerns about security. 

Port of Oakland officials told police they would pay for extra temporary officers, and that they plan to seek a permanent increase in manpower. 

The Oakland Tribune said an FAA report last spring criticized the airport’s security. Neither the FAA nor the Port of Oakland would confirm the existence of such a report. 

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SANTA BARBARA (AP) — Several business meetings and conferences in Santa Barbara have been canceled by companies following last week’s terrorist attacks, hurting many local hotels and catering companies. 

Innkeepers said they understand the extraordinary circumstances, and many waived normal cancellation fees. Others provided stranded guests with free rooms for an extra night. 

Hotels said they continue to do strong business with tourists, and many general managers said businesses that canceled meetings were willing to reschedule. Caterers are counting on weddings and parties to make up for lost convention income. 

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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Dell Computer Corp. is postponing conferences in New York and San Francisco so that it can concentrate on helping customers affected by the terrorist attacks. 

The company’s annual DirectConnect conferences were scheduled for Thursday in San Francisco and Sept. 28 in New York. New dates were not announced. 

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SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) — A show of 500 classic cars near the Santa Cruz beach boardwalk next month will become a benefit for New York police. 

Hot Rods on the Beach traditionally is a fundraiser for Santa Cruz police officers. In light of last week’s destruction of the World Trade Center, Santa Cruz police decided to donate the proceeds from this year’s event to families of New York police officers who were killed in the terrorist attacks. 

This year’s Hot Rods on the Beach is scheduled for Oct. 13 and 14. 

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Concerned about the potential for future terrorist attacks, Los Angeles officials have recommended spending an additional $3.3 million during the next two years to solidify Civic Center security. 

“This has to be our top priority,” Mayor James Hahn said. “One of my top concerns after the attacks was how well the city was able to protect the public and our workers — from the Department of Water and Power reservoirs to the airport, and in our city buildings.” 

Councilman Mark Ridley-Thomas, who heads the committee that recommended the new security plans, said the safety of city workers and visitors in public facilities is one of the highest priorities of government. 

“At this point in history, public safety has to be paramount,” he said. 

Editor: 

Last Fourth of July, when I was walking around the town I live in, I didn’t see a single American flag flying from a citizen’s house. For the first time in years I had a feeling of sadness; I missed the so-called “good old days” of celebration, when I was a kid 60-plus years ago. Today, Monday, Sept. 17, I was attracted to the New York Times front page article: U.S. Binds Wounds in Red, White and Blue, and I read how stores in America were running out of American flags. They were flying from houses, from public buildings, from car antennas. I decided to drive around the town I live in, population 100,000-plus, and count flags.  

I counted 12 flags: three at half staff at municipal buildings, including one on a fire house; two small ones on trucks; seven on houses widely separated from each other. 

This time I’m not only sad (I was born and raised in Manhattan) but furious. In my town, flying the flag may be perceived as endorsing George W. Bush – and I and the majority of my fellow residents didn’t do that in the November election. But, to me, the flag means much more. My feeling for it is encompassed in a brief bumper sticker, prevalent around my town: “I love my country; I fear my government.” And my feeling about my town is this: dammit, fly that flag! Did I mention that I live in Berkeley, California? 

Heidi Seney 

Berkeley

SANTA ANA (AP) — More than half the prospective jurors in the case of an Egyptian man accused of molesting and murdering a boy were dismissed by a judge Monday for prejudice against Middle Easterners. 

Defense lawyers also persuaded Orange County Superior Court Judge Richard Weatherspoon to delay the start of the trial of John Ghobrial until Sept. 28. 

Nearly half of the 163 prospective jurors were disqualified for strong anti- or pro-death penalty views, and the rest “appeared to be biased against Middle Easterners because of the World Trade Center” attacks, district attorney’s spokeswoman Tori Richards said. 

Ghobrial, 31, is accused of the 1998 slaying of Juan Delgado, 12. Prosecutors allege Ghobrial — a butcher by trade — molested and killed the boy, then used a meat cleaver to carve up his body before encasing it in concrete. 

Last week, deputy public defender Denise Gragg requested a delay in Ghobrial’s trial after reports of rising hate crimes against Arab-Americans. The judge denied the request on grounds there wasn’t enough evidence then to show Ghobrial could not get a fair trial. 

Ghobrial, a Coptic Christian, was granted asylum after telling the Immigration and Naturalization Service he fled Egypt to escape religious persecution. At his 1996 asylum hearing, Ghobrial said several people pushed him under a train, severing one arm. 

Prosecutors have since learned that Ghobrial did not disclose his criminal background to INS officials. Three years before he was granted asylum, Ghobrial had been arrested on suspicion of molesting and stabbing an 8-year-old cousin. The boy, who was stabbed repeatedly in the stomach and chest, survived. 

Prosecutors said they will produce evidence of the alleged 1993 attack to support their case that Ghobrial should receive the death penalty. 

Ghobrial was living in a shed he rented from a La Habra resident at the time Delgado was killed. Ghobrial has pleaded innocent to the charges. 

Editor: 

Osama Bin Laden has certainly earned our wrath, whether guilty or not of last week’s attacks. While his 1998 “fatwah” urging Muslims to kill US civilians might be viewed as merely inflammatory, his admitted involvement (training attackers) in the 1993 killing of eighteen US servicemen in Somalia would already demand his being stopped. 

Poverty stricken Afghanis could hardly resist the charismatic millionaire who offered humanitarian and logistical support in exchange for residency - and why should they? The notion of forgoing food and shelter for idealism is a conceit held by those who lack neither, and adopting the ideals of one’s benefactor is, historically, a seeming law of nature. 

Let’s say we find definitive proof that Bin Laden coordinated these latest attacks on America. And that he is hunted down and killed. Surely the death of one man won’t quell our agony, nor quench our thirst for revenge, so, we kill hundreds or even thousands of Afghan citizens, since the president’s decree condemns those who harbor him. Will we then feel avenged? How many of those guilty-by-nationality or religion must die before we’ll feel “OK”?  

Chris Rasmussen 

Berkeley

SACRAMENTO — Nine California counties, including the state’s two largest, will not be able to use punch-card voting systems beginning in 2006 and possibly 2004, says California’s top elections official. 

Some of the counties are already looking at new systems and hope voters approve a possible $200 million bond in March to give them some money to buy modern equipment. 

Secretary of State Bill Jones said Tuesday he is decertifying the Votomatic and Pollstar punch-card voting systems because they can cause problems such as occurred last year in Florida in the presidential election. 

Punch-card systems, with their hard-to-interpret hanging chads, “caused the world to wait for the results of the 2000 presidential election,” Jones told a news conference. 

The American Civil Liberties Union and other groups have sued Jones in federal court in Los Angeles, demanding that punch-card systems be replaced for the 2002 elections. A trial is scheduled for Jan. 14. 

The lawsuit claims the machines are not only outdated, but also discriminatory, since black and Hispanic voters are more likely to live in the nine counties using the error-prone punch-card machines. 

Attorneys for the groups are evaluating the effect of Jones’ announcement on the lawsuit, said Jim Knox of Common Cause, one of the parties. 

“We’re pleased that the secretary of state recognizes that these antiquated and inaccurate systems have got to go,” Knox said. “The question is whether we want to go through another presidential election relying on these machines.” 

Jones said the machines must be replaced by Jan. 1, 2006. He will hold public hearings over the next several months to ask county election officials and companies that make machines if it’s possible to replace the systems before the 2004 presidential election. 

The counties using the two systems are Alameda, Los Angeles, Mendocino, Sacramento, San Bernardino, San Diego, Santa Clara, Shasta and Solano. They have a total of 8.6 million registered voters. 

The cost of replacing the systems will depend on what new systems the counties choose, he said. He did not have an estimate. 

The Legislature last week voted to put a $200 million bond on the March ballot to provide counties with money to update voting systems. 

However, Gov. Gray Davis has not yet decided whether to sign it, spokesman Roger Salazar said Tuesday. 

Los Angeles County Registrar Conny McCormack estimates it will cost the state’s largest county $100 million to replace its system. It has 4.1 million registered voters. 

San Diego County, second largest with 1.3 million voters, expects to spend $40 million to $50 million, says Sally McPherson, acting registrar of voters. 

Even if voters approve the bond, the county will have to come up with $10 million to $15 million, she said. 

“The good news is we’ve got four years to figure out our best options,” she said. 

In Shasta County, with 83,156 voters, officials have not made any cost estimates or decisions, awaiting the outcome of the lawsuit. 

“Our county has been successful with Votomatic. We didn’t think there was a problem with it,” said Sally Mayr, assistant county clerk. 

Riverside County is the only one in the state using a touch-screen computer system. Twenty-four counties use an optical scan system. Twenty-four others use Datavote, a hole-punch system that Jones says does not create chads on the back of ballot cards. 

Berkeley High School is at risk of losing its accreditation. Should this happen, the consequences for our community would be disastrous. Accreditation insures that when a student transfers to another high school, or applies for college admission, credit will be given for work completed. Without accreditation, our community and other schools and colleges will have no basis for confidence in a student's grades or learning. 

Who accredits our schools? The Western Association of Schools and Colleges is one of six regional associations that employ common standards of quality to evaluate and accredit public and private schools, colleges, and universities in the United States. Berkeley High School was the first California high school to get WASC accreditation.  

How does WASC work? The WASC accreditation process is on going and begins at the site with a self-study. A WASC team comprised of teachers and administrators from other schools evaluates the school based on the self-study report and their own intensive observations over four days. The commission reviews the visiting team's report and issues an accreditation term.  

What brought us to this point? The last time the commission awarded us a full six-year term of accreditation was 1990. The 1996 visiting team found serious problems, including: "the absence of an orderly decision-making process and a clearly articulated vision . . . major maintenance problems and graffiti . . . a lack of trust, cooperation and collaboration.” We received a three-year term. 

In May, 1999, the returning team found "little progress." They spelled out 11 "critical areas" to be addressed and took the "extraordinary step" of naming a team to help us. We received a two-year term. The first year of that term was consumed with fires and the next began with a newly appointed principal. Frustrated by a decade of stagnation and failed reforms, some groups lost patience with the WASC process and proposed their own solutions which further divided the staff and failed to address the "critical areas." In March 2001 we earned a one-year extension. This represents WASC's "most severe warning:" we stand to lose our accreditation.  

Why doesn't student achievement count? The outstanding performance of some students is of limited interest to WASC if the school as a whole hasn't addressed the achievement of all students. Also, WASC looks carefully at an organization's capacity to generate "continuous improvement." This capacity rests on reliable administrative systems and procedures that staff can employ to measure progress, identify problems and take corrective action. 

Doesn't the High School need fundamental reform? As I see it, developing the capacity to generate improvement is fundamental. To construe the WASC process as tangential or irrelevant is to misjudge both the seriousness of our situation and the significance of their recommendations. It's important to understand that these recommendations reflect not only WASC's views, but also a broad national consensus on what practices are best and necessary if schools are to deliver educational equity and excellence. 

What's next? Committees have been formed to address critical areas. They must: State their mission clearly, measure progress toward those goals, align curriculum and instruction with state standards, and focus professional development and student support toward academic proficiency; use standardized tests to refine curriculum. 

Articulate a governance process and use it; construct a communications system and employ it; set behavioral standards and enforce them; provide a clean, safe campus.  

To participate or learn more about this important process, please contact Vice Principal Mary Ann Valles at 644-4566.  

Additional information is also available from the WASC page on the BHS web site: http://www.bhs.berkeley.k12.ca.us/WASC/index.html 

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LOS ANGELES — Defense companies with facilities in California may get a boost from a military action against terrorism, but the state’s economy is not likely to see a long-term benefit, experts say. 

“That’s wishful thinking,” said Stephen Levy, director of the Center for Continuing Study of the California Economy. 

“If there is a substantial increase in defense spending, that would presume we continued to be in the middle of a fairly high pressure crisis and I guarantee you the falloff in commercial tech purchases would outweigh any modest increases in defense,” Levy said. 

Analysts have upgraded the stocks of various defense companies with operations in the state, most notably Raytheon and Lockheed Martin. 

JSA Research analyst Paul Nisbet put Raytheon and Lockheed on his “buy” list after last week’s terrorist attacks in New York and Washington and the thwarted crash in Pennsylvania. 

“The outlook is for much greater growth than what had appeared last Tuesday,” Nisbet said. 

Nisbet said the defense budget should rise to $350 billion in the next fiscal year and $400 billion in fiscal 2003. 

“That will be pretty evenly spread,” he said. “Some will obviously go for shipbuilding. But most of the defense electronics and space items are in California.” 

But companies such as Boeing, which would presumably benefit from spending on defense electronics, would also suffer from a slump in commercial aviation, analysts said. Many California companies are subcontractors both for Boeing’s aircraft operations and for Airbus, another commercial aircraft maker. 

Another factor that makes economic benefits for California uncertain is the nature of the war that will be fought against terrorism. 

Unlike previous conflicts, such as the Gulf War in 1991, the fight against Osama Bin Laden and others would likely not involve as many tanks, bombers and other labor-intensive weapons systems. 

“This is an evolving situation and you have to see how they determine the best way to fight it,” said Jack Kyser, chief economist at the Los Angeles Economic Development Corp. “You’re not going to have these huge assembly lines cranking out aircraft like sausage.” 

Shares of cruise missile maker Raytheon, of Lexington, Mass., jumped 27 percent, or $6.65, Monday to $31.50 Monday, while defense giant Lockheed Martin, based in Bethesda, Md., rose $5.63, or 15 percent, to $43.95. 

Los Angeles-based Northrop Grumman rose $12.86, or 16 percent, to $94.80, while Falls Church, Va.-based General Dynamics rose $6.93, or 9 percent, to $82.90. 

If the country embarks on a long war with an uncertain outcome, the result could cripple the non-defense portions of the economy, economists said. 

“Everybody will stop ordering,” Levy said. “The best hope for the economy is a quick and successful end to any conflict.” 

The purpose of high school, I believe, is to prepare students for a meaningful life in the 21st century; to be a good citizen, economically self-sufficient and respectful of themselves and others. There are many paths to self-fulfillment and a productive, meaningful life. Acquiring a college diploma is only one of these. I also believe high school must inculcate honor and respect for all avenues to success, and that it is important not to denigrate any of them in the eyes of our students. Students should be encouraged to aspire towards any of the myriad of paths leading to a meaningful life that they find personally satisfying.  

The Berkeley School system is again going through the important task of rethinking the goals of a high school education, the main purpose of the accreditation process now taking place at the school. The whole school system is involved, as well as the School Board. 

At our last board meeting we were presented with the beginning elements of this process, the airing and ratification of the “Expected Schoolwide Learning Results.” According to BHS Vice Principal Mary Ann Valles, these ESLRs describe what a well-rounded person should look like and know when she or he exits high school. We were also presented, at the same time, with the first reading of the revised list of courses required for graduation from BHS, which should support the new ESLRs. 

The Daily Planet, on Sept. 7, gave a fine report on the issues and discussions that took place at our meeting, but I think, I may not have stated my position as concisely, or coherently as I would have liked. I was quoted saying, “There’s not one thing in these ESLRs about sending students to college.” I did say these words, not during the discussion about ESLRs, as reported, but rather during the discussion about courses required for graduation. The point I was attempting to make was that I do not believe that graduation requirements for ALL students should be the same as those required to qualify for admission to a four-year college. I think the ESLRs we just adopted did not say this either. The new ESLRs presume that the purpose of high school is to prepare students for successful lives after high school. That preparation may include readiness for going to a four-year college or university, but not only going to college. I believe that the ESLRs we adopted reflect this broader, more inclusive view of high school achievement, but the proposed high school graduation requirements may not, and in fact might be interpreted as contradicting the ESLRs. 

Many of my most successful students at BHS did not take all the courses necessary to go immediately to a four-year college. They were not required to take those courses to graduate and chose not to take them. Some of them went into the dot-com industry, some became workers for AC Transit, BART, the U.S. Post Office, professional photographers and skilled tradespersons. My own father I consider to have had a very successful life. He was a journeyman electrician, artist, union activist, and devoted family man. If he had been forced to take all the classes required to go to college when in high school, he would never have graduated and possibly would have never considered himself a success in life. 

Our "Expected Schoolwide Learning Results" should be reflected in our graduation requirements. What I was trying to say, at the last school board meeting, is that these requirements should not be designed to elevate one possible post high school path over any others. I believe this sets up elitist attitudes among our faculty and students, and unnecessarily dooms some students to a feeling of failure when we should be celebrating all the alternative paths to success. 

SACRAMENTO — Consumer groups and the Senate’s top Democrat said Monday there’s no need for an extra legislative attempt to save beleaguered Southern California Edison from bankruptcy. 

Although the Assembly voted to let Edison sell $2.9 billion in bonds to pay off part of its $3.9 billion debt, Senate Leader John Burton said he didn’t bring it up for a vote in his house as the Legislature prepared to adjourn because not enough senators would vote for it. 

Gov. Gray Davis promptly announced he would call the year’s third extraordinary legislative session so the Legislature could again attempt to craft a rescue plan for Edison. 

“There’s no reason to come back and stay through a third, fourth, fifth or sixth special session unless there’s a deal,” Burton said Monday. “People aren’t going to vote for something that they think is morally wrong and politically dangerous for them.” 

Several senators tried to write a less-generous version of the Assembly plan, but Edison officials said that wouldn’t help them, said Burton, a San Francisco Democrat. “Members felt that they didn’t want to vote for a bill that helped Edison that Edison didn’t want.” 

The utility amassed $3.9 billion in debt from high wholesale prices last year. Without a state-backed rescue, the company says it will have no choice but to follow Pacific Gas and Electric Co. into bankruptcy. Davis announced in April that he had negotiated a plan with Edison to buy the utility’s transmission lines and let the company issue revenue bonds, backed by consumers, to pay its debts. 

Lawmakers worked on several incarnations of the deal since then, but couldn’t reconcile the different versions that passed each house. 

The third legislative session would deal exclusively with Edison, said Davis spokesman Steve Maviglio. Assembly and Senate leaders would set the date for the session to start. 

An Edison-only session, Maviglio said, will force the Senate to focus on only that issue. “The bottom line is that it has to be legislation that gets the state out of the power business and gets Edison solvent.” 

Because the Assembly didn’t adjourn the second extraordinary session on energy, the governor would have to call a third session to compel lawmakers to return to the capital. 

If the governor does that, Burton says he’ll immediately adjourn it. 

“I don’t know what the Legislature can do. Whatever we want to do, the Edison people say it isn’t enough. It isn’t enough. They want a flat bailout,” Burton said. 

The Assembly approved a drastically changed version of the Senate bill, adding $400 million to the utility’s bonding limit and including provisions to encourage renewable energy and limit cash transfers from the utility to the parent company. 

“We sent a bill to the Senate, one to accomplish one of the objectives of the legislation, which is to put the utility back on its feet,” said Paul Hefner, spokesman for Assembly Speaker Bob Hertzberg, D-Van Nuys. “I don’t know what more there is for us to do at this point.” 

Edison officials declined to comment Monday. The company had opposed the Senate’s plan to let Edison sell $2.5 billion in bonds, saying that wouldn’t keep them from bankruptcy. 

Consumer advocate Harvey Rosenfield said Edison has “cried wolf” to lawmakers five times since January, setting deadlines by which it said it would file for bankruptcy 

“Now, of course, they said that they can wait until Oct. 15. I don’t think Edison has much credibility with the legislators at this point,” said Rosenfield, executive director of the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights. 

His organization has promised a ballot measure to overturn any legislation that helps the utility. 

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California’s attorney general filed a $179.4 million claim Monday in the bankruptcy of Pacific Gas and Electric Co., for power the state bought for PG&E customers. 

Other state claims estimated to top $230 million for items such as unpaid taxes and pollution cleanup will be filed by the Oct. 3 deadline, said Attorney General Bill Lockyer. 

Lockyer had earlier advised state agencies not to file any claims in the bankruptcy because it could jeopardize the state’s sovereign immunity, the state’s right not to be sued in federal court. But since the judge had set a deadline for claims, the state had to file or risk not being included in the bankruptcy settlement. 

“In seeking to recover money owed by PG&E, the state of California is limiting its waiver of sovereign immunity as to these claims only,” Lockyer said. 

Lockyer said his office was examining PG&E’s reorganization plan “because of serious concerns that the utility is seeking to evade further scrutiny” from state regulators. 

The first state claim covers electricity purchased by the Department of Water Resources from April 6 to May 31 for PG&E customers. 

The state has been buying power on behalf of PG&E, Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric Co., since January when generators, alarmed that the utilities had amassed billions in debts, refused to sell electricity to the companies. 

PG&E filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in April. State lawmakers and Gov. Gray Davis have been trying to craft a deal for Edison that would prevent that utility from following PG&E into bankruptcy. 

The Daily Planet received this letter addressed to Pres. Atkinson of the University of California and Chancellor Berdahl of UC Berkeley: 

Worsening recruitment and retention problems!!!! Our Librarian's office just reported a 37 percent turnover in library staff last year.  

Offering library assistants an atrociously small insulting 0.9 percent and no merits will cause EVEN MORE serious consequences and losses. UC knows staff salaries and merits have become a TOP priority, but do UC bargaining team??!  

Norah Foster 

Berkeley

It was neither a malevolent plot of one who hates the IRS nor some communist conspiracy. 

Standing beneath an American flag affixed to a blazing red engine Friday afternoon, City Manager Weldon Rucker, Fire Chief Reg Garcia and Berkeley Firefighters Association President Rick Guzman, issued a public apology for the confusion over the removal of the stars and stripes from the city’s fire trucks. 

The reason top brass in the department called for the couple-of-hour removal of the flags from the vehicles Thursday was for the firefighters’ own safety, they said, explaining that critical information hadn’t been passed on to the rank and file who had mounted the flags in memory of comrades lost in the aftermath of the World Trade Center. 

Firefighters called the press anonymously when the flags were removed. The incident was blown out of proportion, speakers said. 

City Manager Rucker was anxious for the Bay Area press, assembled in front of Fire House No. 2 on Berkeley Way, to understand that the removal was not a political statement: “We believe we were one of the first to lower our flags” after the tragedy on Sept. 11, he said. 

“The Berkeley Fire Department has been proudly flying the American flag on all our vehicles since the tragedy,” Garcia added. “We have a profound sense of loss and grief for all of those killed in the tragedy.” 

Top brass hadn’t told firefighters clearly that the stars and stripes were to be removed only during the duration of a demonstration at UC Berkeley on Thursday, for fear that the protesters would try to destroy the Union Jack. 

There was a flag burned during a demonstration the previous week, Guzman said, explaining that the flag burned belonged to the protester. In previous years, however, “we have had rocks and bottles thrown at the engines,” Guzman said. The conclusion was that the flags might become an attractive target for angry demonstrators. 

“We try to avoid confrontations,” Guzman said. 

“It was never our intent to infringe on anyone’s First Amendment rights,” Garcia said. 

“It was blown way out of proportion,” Guzman said emphatically.

We ought not become terrorists ourselves  

Editor: 

I have been in a state of shock since the acts of terrorism in NYC and DC. Unable to work, I have spent my time trying to collect my thoughts.  

Naturally, we must first protect our country against future attacks, and find the people responsible for this atrocity. In doing so, we must guard against becoming terrorists ourselves by indiscriminately bombing innocent people. The rest of the world would see this act of aggression as an unjustified immoral crime against humanity. This great nation’s basic principals of freedom must be protected as well. 

Turning the other cheek is not an option. But I am asking that everyone step back and think before proceeding. Think about exactly who is to blame, why this has happened, when it started, and what could be done to end it peacefully.  

In 500 B.C., the Chinese sage Sun Tzu wrote “there is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare.” He also wrote that the supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy “without any fighting.” Revenge will never bring back the dead or reassemble the buildings. It would only harm us, and environment. 

There are reasons for the actions of the two worlds; us and those we’ve labeled as terrorists. We each see our stance as justified by the actions of the other. Since a multitude of historic events clearly illustrate that violence solves nothing, we need a new way of dealing with this conflict.  

If we could see the view of the others, to view the world from the perspective of those that we now view as the enemy, we would be doing a very big thing. We would be making an investment in a true and lasting peace, and steering humanity in the right direction for a change. 

While understanding may seem to be more difficult than dropping millions of tons of bombs on whoever is responsible. In the long run, a war would create a horrible legacy for many future generations to deal with, as we have had to deal with those of the past.  

One such recent example is the largescale destruction of Vietnam’s forests with Agent Orange, which did not accomplish its intended goal of stopping the enemy. Quite the contrary, it poisoned millions of people and acres of both sides of the conflict with dioxin, an extremely long-lasting and toxic chemical. Its cancers, genetic damage, and suffering have been and will be passed on to the future generations of all affected, without regard to which side they were on. 

Without understanding, there can be no peace and many lives will be lost on both sides. Many would be of people that just want peace. We who want peace through understanding must be louder than the drums of war.  

The most vocal are the warmongers, making orders and pushing buttons from secure military bases. But why would they make such bold statements? Could it be they will profit immensely on investments in oil and implements of destruction? Could it be for political reasons? Historically, these have been among the key reasons for wars. 

There is no amount bombing that will accomplish what is intended by terrorists or those seeking revenge. There is too much at stake to ignore the power of peace and understanding.  

Paul Goettlich 

Berkeley 

Editor: 

The government wants to bail out the airlines with the taxes of travel agents whom the airlines are putting out of business. This just after a crisis where travel agents were the only ones helping stranded passengers all over the world. 

Terrence M Regan, CTC 

President Northside Travel 

Berkeley 

Despite the uproar over the Berkeley Fire Department’s decision to remove U.S. flags from its trucks prior to a UC Berkeley anti-war demonstration Thursday, the protest was peaceful and rigs were not deployed to the campus. Officials who had been concerned that peace demonstrators might take down or destroy the flags said miscommunication to the press had overblown the issue.  

Assistant Fire Chief David Orth said the problem was the size of the flags in question. Large flagpole-sized flags, attached to the trucks after last week’s terrorist attacks, “presented a hazard,” he said. Orth confirmed the department is looking for smaller flags of a “reasonable size” for the trucks.  

Mayor Shirley Dean expressed her opposition to the decision to remove the flags in a statement released Thursday. “Our country, its citizens, and its constitution have been attacked. This is a time when our firefighters need to be able to express their respect for the firefighters who gave their lives in New York,” it read. 

City Councilmember Kriss Worthington was also outraged about the department’s decision. “It’s sending the wrong message for people mourning and in a state of grief,” he said. “The possibility of protesters destroying the flag, he said, “is no reason for them not to display the sympathy for thousands of people who have died.” 

Worthington wore a stars-and-stripes necktie to the UC protest. Earlier in the day, he and Councilmember Linda Maio – both known as progressives – sent a request to the city manager asking him to override the department’s decision.  

“We had some experience during the Gulf War where people hopped up on the rigs to take the big flags down, and that puts firefighters at a disadvantage,” said Stephanie Lopez, spokesperson in the city manager’s office. “We’re looking for a smaller flag that could go on the rigs.” 

Barbara Wittstock, a resident of North Berkeley, marched into the city manager’s office to complain. “If 300 firemen and police officers have given their lives to rescue people, there’s no reason why they can’t exhibit any size flag under any circumstances,” she told the receptionist. “They ought to be wearing two flags, not one.” 

Wittstock said she was frustrated with “radical fanatics” in Berkeley, and suggested jailing those who would attack the flag on a fire truck. 

Orth said that an unidentified employee of the fire department had called the press anonymously Wednesday to complain about the decision to remove the flags. The employee was probably upset, Orth said, “because of stress and the patriotic fever we all feel.” But now, he said, the firefighters understand the decision was designed to ensure they could do their job safely rather than having to “protect the flag while doing a rescue.” 

At past demonstrations, the Berkeley Fire Department has put out fires set by demonstrators or intervened in medical emergencies. The department readied four extra companies for Thursday’s protest, said Assistant Chief Michael Migliore. But no rigs were dispatched. 

Anti-war protesters at Thursday’s rally, said they didn’t think anyone would attack the flag, even if the rigs were present. “It’s not a likely scenario,” said Shoshana Weiner, a health educator who lives in Berkeley. “Most people who are here are here because they believe that peaceful democratic action is more effective and meaningful than violence.” 

“Even though personally I object to the flag as a symbol of the U.S. empire, I doubt there is danger that people would rip down flags,” said Aaron Aarons, a retired Berkeley resident. 

But Kelly Nordli of the Berkeley College Republicans had another view. 

“Of course it’s likely,” he said, describing himself as a “counter-protester.” No one attacked the numerous U.S. flags his group was carrying. 

OAKLAND (AP) — BART workers approved a new contract Tuesday night — one which will give employees a 22 percent pay raise over six years. 

Members of Service Employees International Union Local 790 voted overwhelmingly, 816 to 161, to approve the new contract, while Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1555 saw a closer approval number, 310 to 212. The contract agreement was reached between BART and the unions two weeks ago. 

“This is certainly good news for the riders,” said BART spokesman Mike Healy. “It means that service will continue uninterrupted.” 

BART’s largest workers’ unions had issued a strike notice on Sept. 1 — meaning roughly 2,800 workers could have walked off their jobs within days. 

BART, which transports more than 300,000 commuters a day, had its last strike in 1997. It lasted six days. 

ATU 1555 President Robert Smith said BART workers are committed “to keep BART running as the safest public transit system in America.” 

BART’s Board of Directors will meet Wednesday at 9 a.m. to vote on whether to ratify the labor agreement, Healy said. 

Editor, 

My wife and I commend Congresswoman Barbara Lee on her stance and recent vote against granting President Bush authority to declare “war” on terrorism.  

Like the rest of the nation, we were stunned by the horrific events of September 11. We have struggled to come to grips with the overwhelming loss of over 5,000 lives.  

We have also strived to understand the political, cultural, and religious issues that might have led anyone to commit such an act.  

Beneath all this lies a tremendous anxiety about the response of our nation – what will the United States do in response? Will more innocent lives be lost? Our fear has grown as the rhetoric of war rises each passing day.  

In a recent article, Lee was quoted as saying, “Violence begets violence, and we don’t want that to happen. That kills people.”  

Thirteen words, so simply and wisely stated. Later, the article cited Congresswoman Lee’s belief that the United States should “capture and try those who conspired in the attacks, step up security across the country and improve intelligence operations.”  

All of these measures strike us as the wisest course of action our nation can take.  

It takes a person of tremendous integrity, courage, and vision to do what Congresswoman Lee has done – to stand alone as a voice of moderation, humanity, and peace when so many voices call for rage and revenge.  

It is truly heartening to know that in the midst of all this confusion and whirling rhetoric, Congresswoman Lee has the vision to hope for – and vote for – justice and peace. 

Patrick Lohier  

Sree Devi Nallamothu 

Chicago, IL  

WASHINGTON — The FBI has meticulously pieced together a broad terrorist plot, securing evidence the hijackers trained for months or years without raising suspicions in the United States, received financial and logistical support from others and identified additional targets for destruction. 

Law enforcement and other officials familiar with the evidence said the FBI is investigating whether the terrorist network behind Tuesday’s attacks targeted more flights for hijacking beyond the four that crashed. 

Authorities have grown increasingly certain — from intelligence intercepts, witness interviews and evidence gathered in hijackers’ cars and homes — that a second wave of violence was planned by collaborators. They said Sept. 22 has emerged as an important date in the evidence, but declined to be more specific. 

Tuesday’s attacks were “part of a larger plan with other terrorism acts, not necessarily hijacking of airplanes. Those acts were going to occur in the United States and elsewhere in the world,” said Sen. Bob Graham, D-Fla., chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. 

The investigation, the largest in American history, has engulfed the full resources of the FBI, Justice Department, Customs Service, Treasury Department agencies that track assets and the Central Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency and other spy agencies. 

Officials from several of those agencies described developments in the investigation to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. Most of the evidence remains sealed by court orders. A federal grand jury in White Plains, N.Y., was convened last week to weigh evidence and issue subpoenas. 

U.S. officials have made no secret they believe exiled Saudi millionaire Osama bin Laden masterminded the plot from Afghanistan and organized his and other terrorist groups to carry it out. In President Bush’s words, bin Laden is wanted “dead or alive.” 

The FBI has hinted at the magnitude of the collaboration, sending airlines, local police and border patrol agencies a list of about 200 people it believes may have information or assisted the attacks. The government has detained 75 people for questioning and on immigration charges, from California to Germany. 

At least four people on the list have been arrested as material witnesses, law enforcement officials said Tuesday. That means they are believed to have critical information about the plot and are at risk to flee. 

Several detainees have been flown to New York, where the grand jury is working and where prosecutors have significant anti-terrorism experience from earlier cases involving bin Laden. 

These detainees include Ayub Ali Khan, 51, and Mohammed Jaweed Azmath, 47, two men who left the Newark, N.J., airport aboard a flight headed for Texas about the same time as the hijackings. The men were grounded in St. Louis and then took a train toward Texas, where they were taken into custody. They had $5,000 cash and box cutters like those used by the hijackers, immediately drawing the attention of law enforcement. 

Authorities also have flown to New York a French-Algerian man who was detained last month after he sought flight training in Minnesota. The school where he offered to pay for the training was suspicious, and called authorities. The government has held Zacarias Moussaoui on immigration charges since Aug. 17. 

Two weeks before Tuesday attacks, agents had already gathered evidence tracing Moussaoui to an effort to get flight training as early as fall 2000 in Norman, Okla., officials said. 

Similarly, the FBI has traced the steps of the 19 known hijackers to flight schools across the country, from Maryland to Florida. 

The FBI is seeking as many as a dozen others who fit this profile: Middle Eastern men who came to the United States, got pilot licenses or sought flight training, like the men who flew jetliners into the World Trade Center and Pentagon. 

“We want to know whether there were other pilots, other teams who were supposed to take down airliners or strike Americans in other ways,” one law enforcement official said. 

Agents are investigating whether some associates of the 19 hijackers planned or did board other planes, possibly with similar plans for suicide hijackings that weren’t carried out. 

Vice President Dick Cheney hinted at such additional hijackings during a TV appearance Sunday when he said U.S. authorities believed six planes were targeted by the hijackers last week. 

Law enforcement has gathered evidence suggesting the plot was patiently hatched over many months and years, and that the terrorists spent significant time training for it and grooming supporters. 

Many of the hijackers trained or sought training in flight schools as early as 1999, and most entered the United States with legal visas. Some of the hijackers met with supporters overseas, in places like Germany and Malaysia, before returning to carry out their plan, officials said. 

“One of the keys to understanding this is the length of time these hijackers spent here. These weren’t people coming over the border just to attack quickly. ... They cultivated friends, and blended into American society to further their ability to strike,” one investigator said. 

Authorities said the fact that some of the men claimed to have connections to Middle Eastern countries friendly to the United States — Saudi Arabia, Egypt and United Arab Emirates — may have lessened suspicion. 

Some of the pilots carried identification suggesting they were connected with Saudi Arabia’s national airline. 

The FBI has pressed for evidence across the globe as to who may have assisted the hijackers, seizing bank and computer records and studying credit cards used to pay for plane tickets, rental cars and the like. 

A doctor in San Antonio, where the two Newark, N.J., passengers were heading, has been detained, as has a man in California who has been linked through financial transactions to hijackers Khalid al-Midhar and Nawaf Alhamzi, authorities said. 

Al-Midhar and Alhamzi were placed on a watch list this summer after U.S. intelligence received information they might have been meeting with suspected terrorists. By the time they were added to the watch list, they’d already entered the United States, officials said. 

On the financial trail, the Securities and Exchange Commission has received information from other U.S. regulators about possibly suspicious trading ahead of the attacks. European regulators are looking to see if bin Laden’s network sought to profit off investments related to the attacks. 

The potential collaborators are also being linked by communication intercepts — some of which have occurred since the attacks, authorities told AP. 

Those familiar with the investigation say the collaborators have communicated by cell phones that were frequently rotated and by e-mail. They also made calls on traditional phones but may have used a special telephone company code involving the pound sign to make it harder to follow their tracks, officials said. 

The complexity of the communications led Attorney General John Ashcroft to plead with Congress to pass expanded investigative authority this week.