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UC Berkeley Plans to Send Hurricane Katrina Students Back to New Orleans Schools By ZACHARY SLOBIG Special to The Planet

Friday December 09, 2005
Dante Green and his girlfriend Krystina Brown, both undergrads at Xavier University in New Orleans, evacuated to Atlanta just before Hurricane Katrina hit and jumped at the offer to come study at UC Berkeley when the waters rose around their campus. -more-

Downtown Museum and Film Archive Architect Sought By RICHARD BRENNEMAN

Friday December 09, 2005
Plans for a downtown UC Berkeley museum complex moved to the forefront Tuesday when the university issued a call for a project design architect. -more-

Confrontations Between Student and Administrator Lead to Accusations of Racism By J. DOUGLAS ALLEN-TAYLOR

Friday December 09, 2005
An off-campus incident between a student and a UC Berkeley undergraduate advisor that led to explosive allegations of racist and sexist epithets against the student has a local activist organization calling for the firing of the employee and the UC officials conducting a review of the university’s initial response. -more-

Landmarks Panel Tackles Bevatron, Stadium Plans, West Berkeley Project By RICHARD BRENNEMAN

Friday December 09, 2005
Members of the Berkeley Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) Monday tackled everything from a nuclear accelerator building to UC Berkeley expansion plans. -more-

North Oakland Bids Fond Farewell to Lt. Green By J. DOUGLAS ALLEN-TAYLOR

Friday December 09, 2005
The popular and sometimes controversial watch commander of North Oakland’s PSA-2 beat is leaving his post for the department’s central office, leaving regretful North Oakland citizens behind. -more-

Fans, Foes of Derby Street Ballfield Pack Council Meeting By RICHARD BRENNEMAN

Friday December 09, 2005

Riddle Ends Tenure as School Board President By RIO BAUCE Special to the Planet

Friday December 09, 2005

Age Affects Attendance, Study Says By Yolanda Huang

Friday December 09, 2005

Scuffle at BHS Leads to Arrests By RICHARD BRENNEMAN

Friday December 09, 2005

Police Arrest Suspect in 1980 Murders, DA Orders Release By RICHARD BRENNEMAN

Friday December 09, 2005

Editorial Cartoon By JUSTIN DEFREITAS

Friday December 09, 2005

Letters to the Editor

Friday December 09, 2005

Column: Dispatches From the Edge: Dinner With Condi and the Fate of Gaza By Conn Hallinan

Friday December 09, 2005

Column: Undercurrents: More Thought and Civility Needed in Public Debate By J. DOUGLAS ALLEN-TAYLOR

Friday December 09, 2005

Commentary: Justice Matters, But Whose Justice, and Whose Brutality? By LAWRENCE WHITE

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Friday December 09, 2005

Commentary: And Then There Was Tookie By MARC SAPIR

Friday December 09, 2005

Arts: ‘The Revels’ Lends Medieval Touch to Holiday Season By KEN BULLOCKSpecial to the Planet

Friday December 09, 2005

Arts Calendar

Friday December 09, 2005

Berkeley This Week

Friday December 09, 2005

About the House: Those Awful Aluminum Windows By MATT CANTOR

Friday December 09, 2005

About the House: Ask Matt

Friday December 09, 2005

Garden Variety: Small-Size Garden Gifts for Budding Gardeners By RON SULLIVAN

Friday December 09, 2005

Jakob Schiller: UC Berkeley is ending visiting student status for students like Danté Green and his girlfriend Krystina Brown, both 20, students at Xavier University in New Orleans who came to Berkeley after Hurricane Katrina closed their school..
Jakob Schiller: UC Berkeley is ending visiting student status for students like Danté Green and his girlfriend Krystina Brown, both 20, students at Xavier University in New Orleans who came to Berkeley after Hurricane Katrina closed their school..

Editorials

Editorial: Doing Business in Greater Berkeley By BECKY O

Friday December 09, 2005
On Monday it will have been three years since the O’Malley family paid a few thousand dollars for the name and distribution boxes of the original version of the Berkeley Daily Planet. A few old Macs and some horrendous metal desks were thrown in gratis. -more-

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