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UC Workers End Long Job Dispute

By DAVID SCHARFENBERG
Friday May 02, 2003
University of California clerical workers overwhelmingly have approved a new contract, ending a bitter, two-year fight with UC management over wages and workplace safety. -more-

Berkeley This Week

Friday May 02, 2003
COMMUNITY MEETINGS -more-

Stage Chameleon Finds Humanity in Many Forms

By DAVID FEAR Special to the Planet
Friday May 02, 2003
Sarah Jones has a hard time sitting still. -more-

Arts Calendar

Friday May 02, 2003
FRIDAY, MAY 2 -more-

Feeling the Heat

Friday May 02, 2003
Departing Planning Director Carol Barrett gets the Harry Truman Award for this week. Truman, you may recall, said, “If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen,” and that’s exactly what Barrett is doing. -more-

Colombian Union Head Speaks Out

By ANGELA ROWEN
Friday May 02, 2003
You wouldn’t know it from the burly 41-year-old’s sanguine demeanor, but when William Mendoza returns home next week, he will face the threat of murder, torture and kidnapping at the hands of paramilitary agents opposed to the union activism that Mendoza and other union leaders have been engaged in for the last two decades. -more-

Sunday Chamber Music Series Continues at Crowden School

By JOSHUA SABATINI Special to the Planet
Friday May 02, 2003
For four years the Crowden Music Center has brought some of the Bay Area’s finest chamber musicians to Berkeley as part of its Sundays at Four concert series. This weekend, the center is hosting the Empyrean Ensemble, a professional contemporary music ensemble in residence at the University of California, Davis. -more-

Letters to the Editor

Friday May 02, 2003
GRANDSTANDING -more-

Bates Touts City’s New Congeniality

By JOHN GELUARDI
Friday May 02, 2003
In his first state of the city address, Mayor Tom Bates touted a congenial City Council, praised new development and warned of a looming budget deficit. He also promised to enhance the city’s business environment and to improve educational services for the city’s youth. -more-

AT THE THEATER

Friday May 02, 2003
Berkeley High School Drama Department -more-

Keep Exit Exam Requirement; Scores Serve as Fair Measure Of Teacher Job Performance

By MICHAEL LARRICK
Friday May 02, 2003
The education establishment has shown itself to be an advocate of low standards, false educational theory, poor selection and training of teachers, and it is incredibly wasteful with taxpayer dollars. Today’s teachers suffer from the inability to pass on the accumulated knowledge of civilization from one generation to the next. Teachers unions operate as political organizations while masquerading as professional groups, and now they want to eliminate one of the few objective tools we have to measure their performance. -more-

Berkeley Briefs

—David Scharfenberg
Friday May 02, 2003
Local UC lab escapes federal contract review -more-

Police Blotter

By JOHN GELUARDI
Friday May 02, 2003
Bike cop spots suspect -more-

‘Partition’ Plays with History to Create Drama

By BETSY M. HUNTON Special to the Planet
Friday May 02, 2003

Marijuana Specialist Defends His Practice

By FRED GARDNER Special to the Planet
Friday May 02, 2003

Bali Bombings May Prove to Be Wake-Up Call

By PAUL JEFFREY Pacific News Service
Friday May 02, 2003

UnderCurrents OF THE EAST BAY AND BEYOND

From J. Douglas Allen-Taylor
Friday May 02, 2003

Hotel workers, above, led a caravan from the Emeryville Holiday Inn to the Claremont Hotel to protest stalled contract negotiations. They held a rally with dancing in front of the Claremont Thursday afternoon.
Hotel workers, above, led a caravan from the Emeryville Holiday Inn to the Claremont Hotel to protest stalled contract negotiations. They held a rally with dancing in front of the Claremont Thursday afternoon.

Editorials

Doyle House Fate Hangs in Balance

By ANGELA ROWEN
Friday May 02, 2003
An Alameda County Superior Court judge on Thursday ordered developers to delay demolition of the John M. Doyle House until May 19, giving preservationists a chance to appeal the court’s April 29 decision that rejected their request for a formal environmental review of the project and cleared the way for developers to go ahead with plans to replace the building with a five-story, 35-unit residential and retail complex. -more-

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