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...next Radcliffe Dean’s Lecture will feature University of California at Berkeley Professor of Computer Science Susan L. Graham...
...hardly good timing for a city with more than 3,000 mom-and-pop outfits, most of which make at least half their sales between Halloween and New Year's. The city's lumber suppliers are seeing orders rescinded by angry customers. The general manager of the Radisson Hotel Berkeley Marina said a local ROTC group canceled a dinner for 250. And some people in nearby San Francisco have decided against buying Berkeley properties...
Campus protesters shrug off the boycott threats as unfocused. "It's not as if people aren't shopping on Telegraph Avenue," the city's main artery, says Snehal Shingavi, one of the leaders of Berkeley's Stop the War coalition. "I think it was quite heroic what the council did." Berkeley's version of heroism dates back to the Free Speech Movement of 1964, when students first used civil disobedience to overturn a ban on campus activism. Four decades later, that activism may be less dramatic, but it is at least more colorful. Marches these days include the visually arresting...
...this conflict is no Vietnam, and Shingavi admits he's having trouble wooing a significant number of students off the sidelines. More troubling for old-time Berkeleyites, he has competition from a pro-war group. Berkeley USA, established in the wake of Sept. 11, has handed out more than 1,500 U.S. flags since the bombing began. Co-founder Sean Wycliffe is a fast-talking freshman who wants to be a stock trader. He says he's "sickened" by the council's resolution. "It's not their place to do any of this. They should be fixing roads and stuff...
Wycliffe and his cohort may soon get their wish. Berkeley is gentrifying fast. Its median house price is four times the national average, thanks to an influx of yuppie couples and dot-commers who have spent the past decade bidding up the prices of two-bedroom bungalows. And because California banned affirmative action in 1996, U.C. Berkeley is becoming less diverse, with the number of "underrepresented minorities" on the decline. The probusiness mayor got 60% of the vote in the last election. And an assemblywoman is planning to run against Barbara Lee--the member of Congress for Berkeley and Oakland...