Good Daily Planet today. Also a very 'Berkeley-esque' issue. We have the goofy thing, the thing about Berkeley High, the Shirley Dean thing, and the Editorial Page.

This article on Shirley Dean and Hate Crimes is odd. Anyone following this issue knows that the story has been between Dean and Worthington over who gets to control the Hate Crime issue. The complete absence of Kriss from this article either signifies Dean's victory or the Planet's boredom with the drama. I don't know which.


The phrase 'recommended by the Peace and Justice Commission' usually means all hell is about to or already has broken loose, but this time they had a good idea. Anything that breaks the embargo is great as far as I'm concerned. The one thing that confuses me:

Much like Berkeley, Palma Soriana is notable for its diversity, music and medical research.

Diversity, sure. Although I bet that has a different context in Cuba. I'm even willing to grant Music, although you can do a lot better than Berkeley just in the Bay Area. But Medical Research? Berkeley has no medical research. It's kind of unusual that we don't; most large institutions of learning have a Med School. Berkeley has just about everything but one, which makes its absence kind've glaring.

Heck, this is a town that didn't want to add extra parking to their hospitals. Email This Post!