http://journalism.berkeley.edu/projects/sanpablo/ The East Bay's Most Historic Route en-us 2004-10-01T12:52:41-08:00 BERKELEY -- If former Colorado Senator Gary Hart had his way, this year’s presidential campaign would look a lot different. The noted author of 13 books was on the UC Berkeley campus this week to promote his latest book, The Fourth Power: A Grand Strategy for the United States, and to issue a foreign policy challenge to all candidates vying for president in the upcoming November elections: “sit down for half a day and come... http://journalism.berkeley.edu/projects/sanpablo/stories/003189.html Berkeley Leonie Sherman 2004-10-01T12:52:41-08:00 BERKELEY -- An undercover police officer, dressed in a black sweatshirt, baseball cap and jeans, approached a UC Berkeley undergraduate last night and asked for his ID at Kip's Restaurant on Durant Avenue. Leaning against the wall, suddenly looking pale and terrified, the youth handed over three IDs, one of which turned out to be a phony. The officer cited him for minor possession of alcohol and possession of fake ID.... http://journalism.berkeley.edu/projects/sanpablo/stories/002922.html Berkeley Joy Jia 2004-09-05T14:04:24-08:00 BERKELEY -- Professor Ignacio Chapela insists that he's "not going anywhere," even though he has been denied tenure and his contract with UC Berkeley is set to expire December 31 of this year. "I'm not looking for other jobs, " he explained, from his spare office on the third floor of Hilgard Hall. " I feel wanted, needed and accepted here, and I am being kicked out illegitimately."... http://journalism.berkeley.edu/projects/sanpablo/stories/002919.html Berkeley Leonie Sherman 2004-09-05T10:51:52-08:00 BERKELEY -- One man came from as far away as Canada's Manitoba province to spend Labor Day weekend in West Oakland. Another flew in from a small town in West Virginia. They joined nine Bay Area residents for a four-day workshop in a form of media for which a small East Bay organization has acquired an international reputation: Community radio.... http://journalism.berkeley.edu/projects/sanpablo/stories/002924.html Berkeley Emilie Raguso 2004-09-05T10:26:18-08:00 BERKELEY -- The number of students with psychiatric or psychological disabilities who enrolled in the Disabled Students Program at the University of California, Berkeley, has grown steadily over the past eight years, statistics show. For a program that pioneered the equal rights movement for disabled students and provides a wide range of services to them, the influx marks another chapter in a history of innovation.... http://journalism.berkeley.edu/projects/sanpablo/stories/002925.html Berkeley Ryan Lillis 2004-09-05T09:49:49-08:00 OAKLAND -- The small gray tombstone over the hill on the far side of the Evergreen Cemetery near Mills College in Oakland looks just like the hundreds of other stones crowded into the lot. But underneath this granite marker, almost half of the victims of cult leader Jim Jones rest anonymously, 409 former members of the People's Temple buried together in a single grave that lists no names.... http://journalism.berkeley.edu/projects/sanpablo/stories/000376.html Oakland Joe Rogers 2002-12-11T11:19:37-08:00 SAN FRANCISCO -- Protesters shouted antiwar chants outside a tightly-guarded downtown hotel here this evening while Deputy U.S. Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz gave a speech outlining the Bush Administration's Middle East policies, including its increasingly bitter relations with Iraq.... http://journalism.berkeley.edu/projects/sanpablo/stories/000371.html San Francisco Michael Kai Louie 2002-12-07T14:06:25-08:00 SAN FRANCISCO --- Declaring that California's schoolchildren should not be made to bear the brunt of the state's multibillion dollar budget deficit, administrators, teachers and parents from numerous state unified school districts rallied here today against cuts in education.... http://journalism.berkeley.edu/projects/sanpablo/stories/000368.html San Francisco Nick Wilson 2002-12-05T09:34:28-08:00 SAN FRANCISCO -- HIV infection rates are up for the fifth year in a row and reported cases of syphilis have risen from just 20 two years ago to 249 this year, San Francisco public health officials announced today. Officials estimate that more than 1,000 San Franciscans will contract HIV this year, joining nearly 9,000 residents living with the virus.... http://journalism.berkeley.edu/projects/sanpablo/stories/000359.html San Francisco Lisa White 2002-12-04T21:46:16-08:00 MEMO from OAKLAND -- Barry Donelan looks down from his six foot height, places his hand on his hip right above his Oakland Police Department handgun, and explains in a thick Irish brogue how he found himself one day trying to keep the peace on the streets of an American city so far from his Dublin home: "I'm just a blue collar lad that needed a blue collar job to support his family," he says.... http://journalism.berkeley.edu/projects/sanpablo/stories/000378.html Oakland Rachel Barron 2002-12-04T15:25:13-08:00 BERKELEY -- Berkeley alumnus Rex Walheim, the astronaut who marked his first venture into space last spring by unfurling an enormous Cal flag outside the Atlantis space shuttle, urged graduating seniors today to persist against odds at the December Graduates Convocation.... http://journalism.berkeley.edu/projects/sanpablo/stories/000370.html Berkeley Christin Ayers 2002-12-04T13:31:26-08:00 RICHMOND -- A new safety evaluation of the General Chemical Works facility here released tonight by an independent consultant reports that workers may have under-reported "near-misses," or hazardous incidents that could have resulted in catastrophe over the past year. The county-funded evaluation also criticizes the plant for following lax safety procedures.... http://journalism.berkeley.edu/projects/sanpablo/stories/000356.html Richmond Simon Kinsella 2002-12-03T22:08:19-08:00 OAKLAND -- A 32 year-old Oakland man was arraigned on six counts of murder and attempted murder today in Alameda County Superior Court in connection with the Nov. 21 armed robbery of a Wells Fargo Bank branch in Berkeley in which a Brink's armored car guard was slain. Prosecutors said the charges fall under special circumstances clauses and could carry the death penalty if the suspect is convicted.... http://journalism.berkeley.edu/projects/sanpablo/stories/000351.html Oakland Lauren Gard 2002-12-02T21:40:39-08:00 SAN FRANCISCO -- Jewish demonstrators protested outside the doors of the Egyptian consulate here this evening to demand an end to a controversial Arab television series airing in that country.... http://journalism.berkeley.edu/projects/sanpablo/stories/000352.html San Francisco Roya Aziz 2002-12-02T20:01:28-08:00 RICHMOND -- When the City of Richmond overwhelmingly approved an ordinance last winter making it illegal to camp in public, Terry Messman was hardly surprised. Messman, the editor of Street Spirit, a homeless rights newspaper, has seen anti-camping legislation emerge in several cities in the Bay Area. Gentrification, he said, fuels the need to displace the homeless.... http://journalism.berkeley.edu/projects/sanpablo/stories/000318.html Richmond Simon Kinsella 2002-11-28T12:49:29-08:00