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..

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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-



Features

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

Friday December 09, 2005

Forget blue states and red states. At the Berkeley City Council Tuesday, it was green signs versus orange signs. -more-


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

Friday December 09, 2005

The School Board meeting on Wednesday night marked the end of the presidency of Nancy Riddle. The board passed a unanimous resolution honoring Nancy Riddle for her work. Riddle was described as a strong leader who ran meetings smoothly and calmly. -more-


Age Affects Attendance, Study Says By Yolanda Huang

Friday December 09, 2005

Student attendance declines as students grow older, the Berkeley School Board learned last week. -more-


Scuffle at BHS Leads to Arrests By RICHARD BRENNEMAN

Friday December 09, 2005

Berkeley police arrested five Berkeley High School students last Friday after a fight between two youths escalated into a large scale fracas. -more-


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

Friday December 09, 2005

The Alameda County district attorney’s office Thursday refused to press murder charges against a 42-year-old former Berkeley man accused of killing his parents and sister. -more-


Editorial Cartoon By JUSTIN DEFREITAS

Friday December 09, 2005

To view Justin DeFreitas’ latest editorial cartoon, please visit -more-


Letters to the Editor

Friday December 09, 2005

OAKLAND -more-


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

Friday December 09, 2005

There is a moment in Jeffery Goldberg’s New Yorker profile of Brent Scowcroft, George Bush Senior’s former national security advisor, when the current administration’s combination of arrogance and cluelessness crystallize. Over dinner, Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice tells Scowcroft that the “good news” from the Middle East is that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is pulling out of Gaza, the first step toward resolving the issue of a Palestinian state. -more-


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

Friday December 09, 2005

Abraham Lincoln being my favorite U.S. president, I often follow his advice on unconstructive criticism: “If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.” But two types of criticisms get my immediate attention. One is if someone accuses me of a factual error—my opinions are my opinions, but they ought to be based on the correct facts. The second is if I get called out of my name, which I do not appreciate. -more-


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

Staff
Friday December 09, 2005

A review of the art exhibit, “Justice Matters”, sponsored by the Middle East Children’s Alliance was recently published in the Berkeley Daily Planet (Friday Dec. 2). The writer, Peter Selz, a man with a stellar reputation as an art historian, is an expert in German expressionism as well as many other areas. Unfortunately, in this case, he has stumbled into another world, one that depends not on truth but on propaganda, a world in which art is being misused to serve as a tool to spread hatred and justify violence. -more-


Commentary: And Then There Was Tookie By MARC SAPIR

Friday December 09, 2005

A small but vocal minority twists logic into a pretzel in its clamor for the death of Tookie Williams on Dec. 12. In contrast, the opposition to the execution stands upon a hierarchy of values and logic that digs deep into the positive side of America and repudiates the murderous side of our history. At the abolitionist base are folks, many of them religious, who believe that taking life, except in self-defense, is egregiously abhorrent. Because this view underpins the declared moral principles of civilization, when a cop kills someone who turns out to not have a weapon, the police plea is often that the officer thought the suspect was armed. That becomes the only acceptable public justification. -more-


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

Friday December 09, 2005

The Christmas Revels celebrates the Winter Solstice—and its 20th anniversary—with songs, dances and stories of medieval England for 10 weekend matinee and evening shows, Dec. 9-18, at Oakland’s Scottish Rite Theater by Lake Merritt. -more-


Arts Calendar

Friday December 09, 2005

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Election Section

Berkeley This Week

Friday December 09, 2005

FRIDAY, DEC. 9 -more-


About the House: Those Awful Aluminum Windows By MATT CANTOR

Friday December 09, 2005

Although I have a pretty strong stomach, there is nothing that will sour it as quickly as a beautiful old home that’s had all its wooden windows replaced with those awful aluminum jobs. This is called getting ferclampeted, which, in Yiddish, means “to find oil on your land and find yourself living in upscale digs you ought never to have occupied.” -more-


About the House: Ask Matt

Friday December 09, 2005

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

Friday December 09, 2005

If you have a child on your gift list this year, and he or she looks susceptible, it’s time to pass on that benign garden bug. It doesn’t need to be missionary work to infect the kids around you (and you don’t get a toaster); just let them play in the mud with the right tools like the rest of us. -more-


Editorial

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-


Back Stories

Opinion

Editorials

Editorial: Doing Business in Greater Berkeley By BECKY O 12-09-2005

Editorial: Closer to One-Party Government By Becky O'Malley 12-06-2005

News

UC Berkeley Plans to Send Hurricane Katrina Students Back to New Orleans Schools By ZACHARY SLOBIG Special to The Planet 12-09-2005

Downtown Museum and Film Archive Architect Sought By RICHARD BRENNEMAN 12-09-2005

Confrontations Between Student and Administrator Lead to Accusations of Racism By J. DOUGLAS ALLEN-TAYLOR 12-09-2005

Landmarks Panel Tackles Bevatron, Stadium Plans, West Berkeley Project By RICHARD BRENNEMAN 12-09-2005

North Oakland Bids Fond Farewell to Lt. Green By J. DOUGLAS ALLEN-TAYLOR 12-09-2005

Fans, Foes of Derby Street Ballfield Pack Council Meeting By RICHARD BRENNEMAN 12-09-2005

Riddle Ends Tenure as School Board President By RIO BAUCE Special to the Planet 12-09-2005

Age Affects Attendance, Study Says By Yolanda Huang 12-09-2005

Scuffle at BHS Leads to Arrests By RICHARD BRENNEMAN 12-09-2005

Police Arrest Suspect in 1980 Murders, DA Orders Release By RICHARD BRENNEMAN 12-09-2005

Editorial Cartoon By JUSTIN DEFREITAS 12-09-2005

Letters to the Editor 12-09-2005

Column: Dispatches From the Edge: Dinner With Condi and the Fate of Gaza By Conn Hallinan 12-09-2005

Column: Undercurrents: More Thought and Civility Needed in Public Debate By J. DOUGLAS ALLEN-TAYLOR 12-09-2005

Commentary: Justice Matters, But Whose Justice, and Whose Brutality? By LAWRENCE WHITE Staff 12-09-2005

Commentary: And Then There Was Tookie By MARC SAPIR 12-09-2005

Arts: ‘The Revels’ Lends Medieval Touch to Holiday Season By KEN BULLOCKSpecial to the Planet 12-09-2005

Arts Calendar 12-09-2005

Berkeley This Week 12-09-2005

About the House: Those Awful Aluminum Windows By MATT CANTOR 12-09-2005

About the House: Ask Matt 12-09-2005

Garden Variety: Small-Size Garden Gifts for Budding Gardeners By RON SULLIVAN 12-09-2005

Liquor Store Fights to Stay Open Despite Neighbors’ Opposition By Pauline Bartolone Special to the Planet 12-06-2005

Touring DowntownWith DAPAC By RICHARD BRENNEMAN 12-06-2005

Drayage Building Struggle Ends With Sale By RICHARD BRENNEMAN 12-06-2005

You Write the Daily Planet 12-06-2005

First Woman G.I. Resists Deployment to Middle East PAUL ROCKWELL Special to the Planet 12-06-2005

Correction 12-06-2005

City Council to Consider Naming Old City Hall for Maudelle Shirek By RICHARD BRENNEMAN 12-06-2005

A Minority Journalist Covers ‘War in the Suburbs’ By BRAHMANI HOUSTON Pacific News Service 12-06-2005

Editorial Cartoon By Justin Defreitas 12-06-2005

Letters to the Editor 12-06-2005

Police Blotter By RICHARD BRENNEMAN 12-06-2005

Column: The Public Eye: The University of California and the Wal-Mart Effect By Zelda Bronstein 12-06-2005

Column: The Case of Color Blindness at Our House by Susan Parker 12-06-2005

Commentary: Closed-Derby Street Plan is Anti-Youth, Anti-Community By RIO BAUCE 12-06-2005

Commentary: Parent Wants Regulation Ball Field at Derby Street Site By Jahlee Arakaki 12-06-2005

Commentary: Farmers’ Market Will Suffer if Derby is Closed By LINDA GRAHAM 12-06-2005

Commentary: Ecology Center Response 12-06-2005

Arts: Clowning Around at The Marsh Berkeley By KEN BULLOCK Special to the Planet 12-06-2005

Arts Calendar 12-06-2005

Everything You Know About Lizards Could Be Wrong By JOE EATON Special to the Planet 12-06-2005

Berkeley This Week 12-06-2005