Rob Morse of the Chronicle visited campus, trying to do a humor piece on Willie Brown possibly starting a politics institute. He fails miserably, and is reduced to making jokes about the differences in dress code. Fortunately, witty Cal students are there with snappy one-liners to pull him out of the abyss.

If the Haas School of Business didn't work out, there's Sproul Plaza, where Brown would feel right at home. He would bring new and wilder meaning to free speech.

Tommaso Sciortino was busy passing out a magazine called the Heuristic Squelch when he was asked where Brown's institute should be. "I'm the editor of the campus humor magazine, so I have to come up with something," he said. "Let's see, the best place to put Willie Brown on the Berkeley campus is San Francisco."

Not bad. Funnier than "heuristic."

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