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Hours after Gov. Jerry Brown issued a spirited attack on politicians who doubt the significance of climate change, Brown's predecessor -- former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger -- praised Brown but urged a spirit of inclusiveness. "To me, it made no difference if a Democrat had a great idea or a Republican had a great idea, or if someone from the outside had a great idea, or if someone from within the office had a great idea," Schwarzenegger said this afternoon at Brown's conference on climate change at the California Academy of Science in San Francisco. "The more inclusive you are about...

BERKELEY, Calif. (KGO) -- A man was shot by UC police officers inside the Haas School of Business on the UC Berkeley campus Tuesday afternoon. UC police responded to a report of a man with a gun inside the Haas School of Business. Police responded and shot and wounded one suspect, who is now in custody. There are unconfirmed reports that the suspect was a white male in his 30s.

University of California (UC) picks the pockets of Californians, foreign, out-of-state students clean. UC shouldn’t come to the Governor or public for support. (The author has 35 years’ consulting experience, has taught at UC Berkeley (Cal) where he observed the culture & way senior management work) University of California Berkeley Chancellor Birgeneau ($500,000 salary) has forgotten that he is a public servant, steward of the public money, not overseer of his own fiefdom. These are not isolated examples: recruits (uses California tax $) out of state $50,600 tuition students that displace qualified Californians from Cal. public university education; spends $7,000,000...

California reinstated three teams Friday that were slated to be eliminated in a cost-cutting move after an aggressive fundraising campaign to keep the programs, while going ahead with plans to get rid of the baseball and men's gymnastics teams. Chancellor Robert Birgeneau partially reversed a decision announced in September when he said that enough money has been raised to keep the men's rugby, women's lacrosse and women's gymnastics teams. The two women's teams had been slated for elimination, while men's rugby was going to be reclassified as a "varsity club sport." "We're three-fifths of the way there and we're not...

They did it again. The Penn State women's volleyball team won an NCAA-record fourth consecutive national championship, sweeping Cal 3-0 (25-20, 27-25, 25-20) Saturday night at the Sprint Center in Kansas City, Mo. The fourth-seeded Nittany Lions made comebacks in the second and third sets. In the second set, they fought off two Cal set points before eventually winning the second game. Penn State senior opposite hitter Blair Brown led all players with 18 kills, while freshman outside hitter Deja McClendon chipped in 16 and senior middle hitter Arielle Wilson recorded 12. Setter Kristin Carpenter tallied 46 assists. Check back...

UC Berkeley is adding something a little different this year in its welcome package -- cotton swabs for a DNA sample. In the past, incoming freshman and transfer students have received a rather typical welcome book from the College of Letters and Science's "On the Same Page" program, but this year the students will be asked for more. The students will be asked to voluntarily submit a DNA sample. The cotton swabs will come with two bar code labels. One label will be put on the DNA sample and the other is kept for the students own records. The confidential...

Preface: Lake Placidena is a fictional place where women run the entire city sub rosa (clandestinely) through the non-profit PEF and Historical and Cultural Preservation Commission, men play all year at staging a national parade, all the children in public schools are designated in poverty, but all the schools must be above average. The permanent state of drought in Placidena is a local joke because groundwater comes from underneath "Laughing Waters (Ha-ha-monga) Park," The actual Lake Placidena was fittingly created by impounding waters behind Devil's Gate Dam and is known for its strange green color due to perchlorate contamination which...

Rush Limbaugh and others talk about old friend Cal Thomas, holding the conservative line for a quarter century.

Comcast shows that the program on at 12 MST on Fox News is titled "Presidential Character - Obama" Hope they mention everyone... Ayers, Odinga

Probably one of the most amazing finishes in the history of high school football. Plano East High School (North Dallas suburb), down 41 - 17 to John Tyler with 2 minutes and 42 seconds left in the game, starts an amazing comeback to with a TD and three straight successful onside kicks. With 24 seconds remaining the unthinkable happens. You have to see it for yourself. You WILL NOT believe it! VIDEO -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHkABO0VwCg Just AMAZING! You will notice that the game was played at Texas Stadium in Irving, home of the Dallas Cowboys. --- This reminds me of our (Princeton...

Today many groups got out and protested HR 4437. At least that is what I though they were doing. In fact it was a combination of people demanding no consequences against illegal immigrants who broke the law and Palestinians yelling about Israel. Apparently the two were linked. I found it ironic that the protestors denounced walls and stopping the flow of people while blocking most of Sather Gate. They also blocked the signs of those in the crowd who disagreed with them. Members of the Conservative Activist League(CAL) and the Berkeley College Republicans, who were not disrupting the speakers, found...

Drexell Johnson and his Young Black Contractors of South Central Inc. are hungry for work — and when polite requests for an opportunity are rebuffed, they're not afraid to raise a ruckus. After Johnson was cut out of a contract when Staples Center was being built, he drove to the construction site, spinning 360-degree rolls and kicking up doughnuts of dust until, he said, a bulldozer nearly ran him down. In Torrance, his group staged a mock hanging in front of an automaker's office. And earlier this month, they hauled a makeshift "slave ship" to an Inglewood mall development to...

This report comed to you live from The Rose Bowl in Pasadena,CA. Old Ben is cheering for the fiesty Bruins. Who at half time trail by amere six points to number ten ranked Cal. Sent via hanheld wireless. GO BRUINS!

Top 7 Stories of 2005 These are the stories that really mattered to the life of our nation and our world. If you're wondering where the Valerie Plame scandal is ranked on here, its not. Here, they are in order of least importance: 7. The rise of the Minuteman: Jim Gilchrist and his minutemen forced the issue onto the national agenda. Gilchrist, himself lost a bid as an Independent Candidate for Congress, but his strong showing sent a message to Washington, and they'll ignore it at their peril.

Linked to the ESPN College Football Scoreboard. Should be a great day today for football! There is a nip in the air, the leaves have turned colors (mine are on the ground), and the sun is out and bright!!

NOTE: The Source URL goes to the ESPN scoreboard. Should be a fun day today. VT-Miami FSU-NCT Cal-Oregon in the rain (Oregon's QB is out for today) USC-Stanford

A 19-year-old Dartmouth College student shot and killed near UC Berkeley had been arguing with members of Cal's nationally ranked football team, and one of the players was grazed on the wrist by a bullet in the incident, sources familiar with the case told the Chronicle on Monday. Police believe the woman slain on July 17, Meleia Willis-Starbuck, called a close friend on a cell phone during the argument to ask for help. That friend, 22-year-old Christopher Hollis, allegedly arrived with a gun and opened fire from a half-block away - inadvertently striking Willis-Starbuck in the chest. Hollis was arrested...

HUNT VALLEY, Md. -- Calling steroid use "cheating" and a "black cloud" hanging over Major League Baseball, former Baltimore Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken said he was dismayed Rafael Palmeiro tested positive for a performance-enhancing substance and was suspended. Speaking Tuesday at a media event for next month's Constellation Energy Classic, the Champions Tour golf event for which he is honorary chairman, Ripken said he was "shocked, surprised, just like everyone else. I hope there's a reason or an explanation." Ripken, who played with Palmeiro from 1994 to 1998, said he was in the Bahamas when he learned his former teammate...

The argument over what's to be done to break up the filibuster barricade in the Senate continues to heat up, with rallies and counter-charges. Two groups were working in Washington, D.C., on Thursday to try to end the Democratic filibusters which have blocked several of the president's top judicial picks from even receiving up-or-down Senate votes. The Coalition for a Fair Judiciary (CFJ) took to Capitol Hill to lobby for an end to filibusters, while the Judeo-Christian Council for Constitutional Restoration convened a conference to call for an end to what they see as a judicial assault on faith. The...

Ward Churchill, the University of Colorado professor who provoked a national tempest by referring to victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks as "little Eichmanns," has been invited to speak at UC Berkeley on Monday. Churchill will be featured speaker at a noon public forum on academic freedom and the furor ignited by his views. "I am pleased to invite Professor Churchill to the birthplace of the Free Speech Movement in higher education," said panel organizer Ling-chi Wang, an associate professor of ethnic studies at Cal. "He will present his case for the first time to the Berkeley community." Churchill,...

har har. the Cal crybabies sure are showing how they got "shafted" by not being picked for the Rose Bowl. chumps

Texas Coach Mack Brown, arguably the biggest choke artist in organized sports, got his team into the Rose Bowl by publicly begging to be put in the game and lobbying his friends in the coaches' poll. For the third time in 4 years, the NCAA has burned the PAC-10 in favor of the BIG-12. Last year, USC was ranked #1 in BOTH polls, yet did not play in the national championship game. Two years before that, #2 Oregon did not go to the national chamionship game when NEBRASKA was picked to go despite that fact that Nebraska didn't even QUALIFY...

just heard a preview that John Thune would be on Cal Thomas 's show tonite.

BOSTONThe Democratic National Convention tried to steal Ronald Reagan's optimism. Behind the party's smiling masks, though, was the traditional Democratic cynicism that says people can't do much for themselves without the help of government.The "no Bush bashing" and the ban on talk about "gay marriage" messages went out early and are being (almost) enforced. There are references to President Bush's "dishonesty" and laments about the federal deficit, which never seemed to bother big-spending Democrats when they controlled the checkbook.But these are not your "San Francisco Democrats" now served up for the TV audience from this East Coast liberal city. These...

Bill may let UC consider race By Richard Clough DAILY BRUIN REPORTER rclough@media.ucla.edu In a move likely to re-ignite a recurring debate, the state Assembly passed a bill Wednesday which would allow public universities in California to consider race in their admissions processes. Assembly Bill 2387, which will be sent to the state Senate Education Committee by June 9, would allow the University of California and California State University to consider factors such as race and gender in undergraduate and graduate admissions as long as no preference is given based on those factors. The bill passed the state Assembly by...

TAOYUAN, Taiwan (Reuters) - A probe into last year's crash of a China Airlines jet, which plunged into the sea killing all 225 people aboard, found metal fatigue cracks that penetrated the skin of the aircraft, Taiwan investigators said Tuesday. The cracks -- as well as signs of metal corrosion -- had been covered by a patch called a "repair doubler," which was added as reinforcement to the plane after its tail struck a runway over 20 years earlier. The Boeing 747-200 disintegrated in mid-flight near Taiwan's Penghu islands while on its way to Hong Kong on May 25 last...

Friday, May 10, 2002 UC Berkeley administrators are reviewing how an English course focusing on the plight of Palestinians received approval for next fall even though it discourages conservative students from enrolling. The English R1A reading and comprehension course, titled "The Politics and Poetics of Palestinian Resistance," states in its course description that "conservative thinkers are encouraged to seek other sections"—a violation of the university's Faculty Code of Conduct. According to the course description, the class "takes as its starting point the right of Palestinians to fight for their own self-determination." "The brutal Israeli military occupation of Palestine, an occupation...