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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/profiles/reyhan-harmanci/\" rel=\"author\">Reyhan Harmanci\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/kusf-1/story/kusf-still-waiting-decision-sale/\">The Bay Citizen\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January 2011, local radio listeners were shocked when the University of San Francisco’s radio station, KUSF, abruptly went off the air, midday, in the middle of a show. It had just been sold to a Southern California radio network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_42809\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 216px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/10/kusflogo.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-42809\" title=\"kusflogo\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/10/kusflogo.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"216\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">KUSF's old logo\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the time, it was widely assumed that even though college radio lovers around the country howled, the Federal Communications Commission would approve the sale. The federal agency rarely blocks such transfers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But 16 months after KUSF was sold, the FCC still has not signed off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s extremely unusual,” said Michael Couzens, an Oakland-based communications lawyer and former FCC staffer. “The mentality of the staff is shaped by the fact that commercial entities lose their financing if they dink and dunk around for months and years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FCC declined to comment, besides acknowledging that the case was still under review. There is no deadline for issuing a ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The radio network KUSC, based at the University of Southern California, bought KUSF for $3.75 million and replaced it with a San Francisco classical music station. Besides the sale itself, the FCC might be weighing some larger issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last summer, in response to a petition filed by \u003ca href=\"http://fokusf.org/\">Friends of KUSF\u003c/a>, a group that has raised money to fight the sale, the FCC wrote a letter to USC and University of San Francisco officials asking pointed questions about many details of the sale\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>– particularly, the operating agreement that governed how the station works while waiting on FCC approval. University officials responded with hundreds of pages of e-mails and other correspondence related to the sale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FCC has not commented on the documents it received in response to its letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kusf.org/\">Listen to KUSF\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://savekusf.org/\">Listen to 'KUSF in Exile'\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The FCC’s silence has bolstered Friends of KUSF, which hopes the commission calls for hearings to debate current regulation regarding noncommercial radio. The sale of KUSF is only one of many college radio station\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>sales over the past few years, as cash-strapped colleges now see a revenue opportunity by selling their licenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To those working to halt the sale of KUSF, the sale of community radio stations to classical or religious networks (the primary buyers) presents a grave threat to the radio ecosystem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No news is still good news,” said Kenya Lewis, a volunteer for Save KUSF, another group working to keep the station alive. “It speaks to the complexity of the issues raised.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the San Francisco classical station KDFC – which was facing closure as a commercial property – the fact that USF wanted to sell its license was a positive thing. In almost every big commercial radio market, classical stations have either shifted to a nonprofit fundraising model or have died all together, leaving local classical fans, as well as institutions like the symphony and opera, without a powerful outlet.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">While the deal remains unconsummated, federal rules prohibit KDFC from conducting on-air pledge drives – a huge loss as it attempts to remake itself as a nonprofit.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But while the deal remains unconsummated, federal rules prohibit KDFC from conducting on-air pledge drives – a huge loss as it attempts to remake itself as a nonprofit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The KUSF delay has definitely impacted us, and we hope the FCC will come to a decision soon,” said Brenda Barnes, president of KUSC, which owns most of the San Francisco classical station. “The primary impact is that we have not been able to fundraise on the station.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, fans of both KUSF and KDFC can only watch and wait. However, Couzens said the “train wreck” of bad publicity and legal arguments engendered by the shuttering of KUSF already represents a win for those seeking to stave off further college radio station sales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m optimistic that the KUSF brouhaha will make some other university licensees think long and hard before going down this path,” he said. “Even if the transfer is finally approved, they’ve done a great thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced by The Bay Citizen, a project of the Center for Investigative Reporting. Learn more at www.baycitizen.org.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FCC declined to comment, besides acknowledging that the case was still under review. There is no deadline for issuing a ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The radio network KUSC, based at the University of Southern California, bought KUSF for $3.75 million and replaced it with a San Francisco classical music station. Besides the sale itself, the FCC might be weighing some larger issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last summer, in response to a petition filed by \u003ca href=\"http://fokusf.org/\">Friends of KUSF\u003c/a>, a group that has raised money to fight the sale, the FCC wrote a letter to USC and University of San Francisco officials asking pointed questions about many details of the sale\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>– particularly, the operating agreement that governed how the station works while waiting on FCC approval. University officials responded with hundreds of pages of e-mails and other correspondence related to the sale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FCC has not commented on the documents it received in response to its letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kusf.org/\">Listen to KUSF\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://savekusf.org/\">Listen to 'KUSF in Exile'\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The FCC’s silence has bolstered Friends of KUSF, which hopes the commission calls for hearings to debate current regulation regarding noncommercial radio. The sale of KUSF is only one of many college radio station\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>sales over the past few years, as cash-strapped colleges now see a revenue opportunity by selling their licenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To those working to halt the sale of KUSF, the sale of community radio stations to classical or religious networks (the primary buyers) presents a grave threat to the radio ecosystem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No news is still good news,” said Kenya Lewis, a volunteer for Save KUSF, another group working to keep the station alive. “It speaks to the complexity of the issues raised.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the San Francisco classical station KDFC – which was facing closure as a commercial property – the fact that USF wanted to sell its license was a positive thing. In almost every big commercial radio market, classical stations have either shifted to a nonprofit fundraising model or have died all together, leaving local classical fans, as well as institutions like the symphony and opera, without a powerful outlet.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">While the deal remains unconsummated, federal rules prohibit KDFC from conducting on-air pledge drives – a huge loss as it attempts to remake itself as a nonprofit.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But while the deal remains unconsummated, federal rules prohibit KDFC from conducting on-air pledge drives – a huge loss as it attempts to remake itself as a nonprofit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The KUSF delay has definitely impacted us, and we hope the FCC will come to a decision soon,” said Brenda Barnes, president of KUSC, which owns most of the San Francisco classical station. “The primary impact is that we have not been able to fundraise on the station.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, fans of both KUSF and KDFC can only watch and wait. However, Couzens said the “train wreck” of bad publicity and legal arguments engendered by the shuttering of KUSF already represents a win for those seeking to stave off further college radio station sales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m optimistic that the KUSF brouhaha will make some other university licensees think long and hard before going down this path,” he said. “Even if the transfer is finally approved, they’ve done a great thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced by The Bay Citizen, a project of the Center for Investigative Reporting. Learn more at www.baycitizen.org.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>by Erica Perez, \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/csu-spends-2m-presidential-home-renovations-16322\">California Watch\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California State University campuses have in the last 10 years spent more than $2 million renovating eight university-owned presidential residences – rehabbing kitchens, expanding garages and even hiring interior designers, according to figures provided by the university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_66578\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/El-Dorado-Ranch-Before-015.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-66578\" title=\"El Dorado Ranch Before 015\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/El-Dorado-Ranch-Before-015-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The old kitchen at CSU Fullerton's El Dorado Ranch had deteriorating cabinetry and 1951 appliances. (CSU Fullerton)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At least half of the spending came from state funding sources, and the figure does not include annual maintenance and repairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CSU Fullerton took heat earlier this month for providing incoming President Mildred Garcia with a \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/csu-fullerton-spends-300000-remodel-presidents-house-15952\" target=\"_blank\">$300,000 remodel\u003c/a> to the historic El Dorado Ranch, which is the president's residence, while CSU Northridge received criticism for spending \u003ca href=\"http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2012/05/15/renovations-to-csun-presidents-home-and-office-cost-over-350k/\" target=\"_blank\">$115,000\u003c/a> to rehab the home of newly named President Dianne Harrison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Garcia and Harrison are among five campus leaders in the past 10 years whose appointment as a CSU president came with a six-figure renovation to their university-owned residences. Presidential homes often double as the location of official university functions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Poly Pomona spent $167,000 in state funds to replace the plumbing, renovate the kitchen and install new windows at the Manor House in 2004, the year after inaugurating President J. Michael Ortiz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2011, the year President Elliot Hirshman was appointed, San Diego State University spent $257,000 on kitchen upgrades, new windows, pool replastering and other projects to spruce up University House – about $100,000 more than was \u003ca href=\"http://www.10news.com/news/28628822/detail.html\" target=\"_blank\">previously reported\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Cal Poly San Luis Obispo shelled out $230,000 in 2011 on lighting replacements, kitchen upgrades, new wood flooring and more for its University House when the campus welcomed President Jeffrey Armstrong. That came on top of $200,000 in renovations the university had completed in 2010 – including repairs to the event tent, termite tenting and a new roof for the family room. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The $430,000 spent over two years was also about $100,000 more than \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2011/05/05/1590323/move-in-day-for-cal-poly-president.html\" target=\"_blank\">previously reported\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I didn't realize it was that much money,\" said Glen Thorncroft, a mechanical engineering professor at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and president of the campus faculty union chapter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thorncroft said that when faculty heard initial figures on how much was spent to renovate the house, the reaction was mixed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There were some people who felt like maybe it costs that much to refurbish,\" Thorncroft said. \"The problem is, it's just so disjointed from the budget realities that it's hard to fathom that we're spending these kinds of monies on things that aren't paying for classes for our students or going to hire faculty to teach the classes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, the Central Coast campus has spent more money on renovations for its on-campus presidential residence than any other campus with CSU-owned properties in the past decade. Projects performed since 2004 have cost Cal Poly San Luis Obispo $831,000, and 99 percent of that came from state funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Poly San Luis Obispo's former President Warren J. Baker moved out of the presidential residence in 2004, when he opted for a $60,000 annual housing allowance afforded by CSU.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While 11 university presidents and the system chancellor live in university-owned residences, leaders at 12 campuses receive the $60,000 annual housing allowance instead, including San Francisco State University and CSU East Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Baker moved out, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo repurposed University House as an event center and spent $384,000 from 2004 to 2008 on renovation projects. More than half of that spending went toward making the space compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act, while the rest went to patio resurfacing, a new stucco wall, deck repairs, plumbing and heating repairs, and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the 2010 upgrades, the university turned the house back into a residence for Armstrong. The university used about $6,200 in foundation funds to pay an interior designer. \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357386-kriste-judd-interior-design-photo-gallery-shell.html\" target=\"_blank\">Photographs\u003c/a> on the designer's website show new maple and cherry flooring and a remodeled kitchen with granite countertops and maple cabinetry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thorncroft said some faculty members credited Armstrong for not taking the annual stipend that Baker had received.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One could make the argument that the money at least stayed in house,\" Thorncroft said. \"It's just still – $400,000 seems excessive.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six-figure renovations are not standard for every new CSU president, however. California Maritime Academy President William Eisenhardt saw no major remodeling projects when he arrived at his new home, a three-bedroom, two-bathroom house on the Vallejo campus. The same went for Dianne Harrison when she started at CSU Monterey Bay in 2006 and for Mohammad Qayoumi when he began work at San Jose State University in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After President F. King Alexander landed at CSU Long Beach, the university spent $68,000 to add a bedroom and expand the one-car garage to fit two vehicles. Alexander has since donated $43,500 to the Miller House Fund, officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CSU Dominguez Hills spent about $32,000 installing hardwood floors and painting its three-bedroom Carson house when Mildred Garcia took the reins there in 2007.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And not all presidential residence renovations are created equal. Cal Poly Pomona spent about $26,000 to renovate the kitchen, including new appliances, at the Manor House, a historical four-bedroom home on campus that was built in 1926. At CSU Fullerton's El Dorado Ranch, the kitchen rehab cost $147,000 and included the repositioning of drains and supply lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The list below provides details on all of the university-owned homes where presidents reside. It does not include the universities that provide only a housing allowance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>CSU-owned presidential houses:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1.\u003ca href=\"http://maps.google.com/maps?q=275+GRANADA+AVE+LONG+BEACH,+CA+90803-5521&hl=en&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=54.137829,121.376953&t=h&hnear=275+Granada+Ave,+Long+Beach,+California+90803&z=17\" target=\"_blank\"> CSU System Office\u003c/a>: \u003c/strong>CSU Chancellor Charles Reed lives in the State University House in the Belmont Shore neighborhood of Long Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Square feet:\u003c/strong> 6,000\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bedrooms\u003c/strong>: 4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bathrooms:\u003c/strong> 7\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Built:\u003c/strong> 1930\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Assessed value:\u003c/strong> $642,573 (in 2008)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Renovations:\u003c/strong> No major renovations over the past decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. \u003ca href=\"http://maps.google.com/maps?q=17622+Acacia+Drive+Carson,+CA&hl=en&sll=33.766067,-118.134255&sspn=0.0052,0.010257&t=h&hnear=17622+Acacia+Dr,+Carson,+California+90746&z=16\" target=\"_blank\">CSU Dominguez Hills:\u003c/a> \u003c/strong>Until she moves to CSU Fullerton in a few weeks, President Mildred Garcia lives in the university-owned house in Carson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Square feet:\u003c/strong> 2,296\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bedrooms:\u003c/strong> 3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bathrooms:\u003c/strong> 3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Built:\u003c/strong> 1999\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sales price:\u003c/strong> $392,500 (in 2000)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Renovations: \u003c/strong>The year Garcia arrived in 2007, CSU spent $32,155 on renovations using foundation funding. Garcia also paid for several upgrades to the home herself, including stainless steel appliances, new baseboards and window coverings, officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3. \u003ca href=\"https://maps.google.com/maps?q=4411+N+Van+Ness+Blvd,+Fresno,+California+93704&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hnear=4411+N+Van+Ness+Blvd,+Fresno,+California+93704&gl=us&t=m&geocode=FVF9MQIdge_b-A&z=16\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>CSU Fresno:\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> University House is on Christmas Tree Lane in the Old Fig Garden neighborhood of Fresno. John D. Welty has been president of CSU Fresno since 1991.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Square feet\u003c/strong>: 7,300\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bedrooms\u003c/strong>: 6\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bathrooms\u003c/strong>: 7\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Built\u003c/strong>: 1941\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Renovations\u003c/strong>: In the last decade, the university has spent $76,010 on renovations using state funding. The biggest chunk of that spending occurred in 2004, when CSU spent $24,000 on landscaping, including new trees, lamps, posts and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>4. \u003ca href=\"http://maps.google.com/maps?q=225+Union+Street,+fullerton+ca&hl=en&sll=37.801345,-122.402759&sspn=0.006672,0.014817&t=h&gl=us&hnear=225+W+Union+Ave,+Fullerton,+California+92832&z=17\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>CSU Fullerton:\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> The presidential residence, El Dorado Ranch, is a few miles from campus. After renovations are complete, newly appointed President Mildred Garcia will move in this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Square feet:\u003c/strong> 6,991\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bedrooms\u003c/strong>: 5\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bathrooms\u003c/strong>: 7\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Built\u003c/strong>: 1919\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Renovations:\u003c/strong> The university is spending $300,000 in surplus revenue from its auxiliary organizations to renovate the property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>5. \u003ca href=\"http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1430+el+mirador,+long+beach+ca&hl=en&ll=33.785443,-118.126116&spn=0.010397,0.020514&sll=33.785479,-118.126116&sspn=0.010397,0.020514&gl=us&hnear=1430+El+Mirador+Ave,+Long+Beach,+California+90815&t=m&z=16\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>CSU Long Beach:\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> The Miller House, in Long Beach's Park Estates, is home to President F. King Alexander.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Square feet\u003c/strong>: 5,150\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bedrooms\u003c/strong>: 3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bathrooms\u003c/strong>: 4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Built\u003c/strong>: 1964\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Renovations:\u003c/strong> In 2007, the year after Alexander came to CSU Long Beach, the university spent $68,000 to add a bedroom and study area to the house and expand the garage from one- to two-car capacity. The university did not provide information as to whether the funding came from state or non-state sources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>6. \u003ca href=\"http://maps.google.com/maps?q=2+faculty+drive,+vallejo+ca&hl=en&sll=38.072008,-122.231659&sspn=0.009848,0.020514&gl=us&hnear=Faculty+Dr,+Vallejo,+Solano,+California+94590&t=m&z=16\" target=\"_blank\">California Maritime Academy\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> The on-campus house is home to President William Eisenhardt, who is stepping down this summer. A presidential search is under way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Square feet\u003c/strong>: 2,111\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bedrooms\u003c/strong>: 3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bathrooms\u003c/strong>: 2\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Built\u003c/strong>: 1945\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Renovations:\u003c/strong> None in the last decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>7. \u003cstrong>CSU Monterey Bay: \u003c/strong>The on-campus house is a converted duplex consisting of a separate private residence and an adjoining public space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Square feet\u003c/strong>: 3,848, including 2,825 for the private residence side\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bedrooms\u003c/strong>: 4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bathrooms\u003c/strong>: 3.5\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Built\u003c/strong>: 1990\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Renovations\u003c/strong>: None in the last decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>8. \u003ca href=\"http://maps.google.com/maps?q=18946+TUBA+ST+NORTHRIDGE,+CA&hl=en&sll=34.249725,-118.537005&sspn=0.026641,0.059266&t=h&gl=us&hnear=18946+Tuba+St,+Northridge,+California+91324&z=17\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>CSU Northridge\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>: The presidential residence is about two miles from campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Square feet\u003c/strong>: 3,400\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bedrooms\u003c/strong>: 4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bathrooms\u003c/strong>: 3.5\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Built\u003c/strong>: 1966\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Renovations:\u003c/strong> The University Corporation is paying $115,000 this year for renovations aimed at improving guest services and accommodations, including rehabbing the kitchen and upgrading a bathroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>9. \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.csupomona.edu/maps/static/index.php?structureID=Bg-111\" target=\"_blank\">Cal Poly Pomona:\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> The Manor House, a historical Mediterranean home on campus, was constructed by W.K. Kellogg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Square feet\u003c/strong>: 4,000\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bedrooms\u003c/strong>: 4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bathrooms\u003c/strong>: 5\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Built\u003c/strong>: 1926\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Renovations\u003c/strong>: The university has spent $360,112 in state funds in the last decade renovating Manor House. Improvements included replacing plumbing and electrical, remodeling the kitchen, replacing windows, extending the garage, and adding an accessible restroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>10. \u003ca href=\"http://maps.google.com/maps?q=4545+YERBA+SANTA+DR+san+diego+ca&hl=en&ll=32.77701,-117.096598&spn=0.003719,0.005128&sll=38.072008,-122.231659&sspn=0.009848,0.020514&gl=us&hnear=4545+Yerba+Santa+Dr,+San+Diego,+California+92115&t=h&z=18\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>San Diego State University\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>: President Elliot Hirshman lives in University House in Alvarado Estates, not far from campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Square feet\u003c/strong>: 5,216\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bedrooms\u003c/strong>: 4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bathrooms\u003c/strong>: 4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Built\u003c/strong>: 1962\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sales price\u003c/strong>: $1.2 million (in 2000)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Renovations\u003c/strong>: The university spent $257,000 using a combination of donor funds, lease revenue and catering revenue to renovate University House, including interior and exterior painting, replacement of large windows, a kitchen renovation, new carpet, pool replastering, a catering kitchen and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>11. \u003ca href=\"http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1690+university+ave+san+jose+ca&hl=en&ll=37.332256,-121.93069&spn=0.009947,0.020514&sll=32.77701,-117.096598&sspn=0.003719,0.005128&t=m&gl=us&hnear=1690+University+Ave,+San+Jose,+California+95126&z=16\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>San Jose State University:\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> President Mohammad Qayoumi lives in this house near the San Jose Municipal Rose Garden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Square feet\u003c/strong>: 4,500\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bedrooms\u003c/strong>: 5\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bathrooms\u003c/strong>: 5\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Built\u003c/strong>: 1926\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Renovations\u003c/strong>: There have been no renovations since the house was acquired by the university in 2005.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>12. \u003ca href=\"http://maps.google.com/maps?q=University+House,+San+Luis+Obispo,+CA&hl=en&sll=37.332256,-121.93069&sspn=0.009947,0.020514&oq=university+house+san+luis&gl=us&hnear=University+House,+San+Luis+Obispo,+California+93405&t=m&z=16\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>Cal Poly San Luis Obispo:\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> President Jeffrey Armstrong moved into the on-campus University House in 2011. For seven years before that, the building had served as an event space only.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Square feet\u003c/strong>: 5,089\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bedrooms\u003c/strong>: 4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bathrooms\u003c/strong>: 3.5\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Built\u003c/strong>: 1928\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Renovations\u003c/strong>: The university has spent $831,000 on \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/359909-cal-poly-slo-university-house-info-5-20121.html\" target=\"_blank\">renovations\u003c/a> in the past decade, largely using state funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Erica Perez is an investigative journalist at \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/\">California Watch\u003c/a>\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>by Erica Perez, \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/csu-spends-2m-presidential-home-renovations-16322\">California Watch\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California State University campuses have in the last 10 years spent more than $2 million renovating eight university-owned presidential residences – rehabbing kitchens, expanding garages and even hiring interior designers, according to figures provided by the university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_66578\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/El-Dorado-Ranch-Before-015.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-66578\" title=\"El Dorado Ranch Before 015\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/El-Dorado-Ranch-Before-015-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The old kitchen at CSU Fullerton's El Dorado Ranch had deteriorating cabinetry and 1951 appliances. (CSU Fullerton)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At least half of the spending came from state funding sources, and the figure does not include annual maintenance and repairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CSU Fullerton took heat earlier this month for providing incoming President Mildred Garcia with a \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/csu-fullerton-spends-300000-remodel-presidents-house-15952\" target=\"_blank\">$300,000 remodel\u003c/a> to the historic El Dorado Ranch, which is the president's residence, while CSU Northridge received criticism for spending \u003ca href=\"http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2012/05/15/renovations-to-csun-presidents-home-and-office-cost-over-350k/\" target=\"_blank\">$115,000\u003c/a> to rehab the home of newly named President Dianne Harrison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Garcia and Harrison are among five campus leaders in the past 10 years whose appointment as a CSU president came with a six-figure renovation to their university-owned residences. Presidential homes often double as the location of official university functions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Poly Pomona spent $167,000 in state funds to replace the plumbing, renovate the kitchen and install new windows at the Manor House in 2004, the year after inaugurating President J. Michael Ortiz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2011, the year President Elliot Hirshman was appointed, San Diego State University spent $257,000 on kitchen upgrades, new windows, pool replastering and other projects to spruce up University House – about $100,000 more than was \u003ca href=\"http://www.10news.com/news/28628822/detail.html\" target=\"_blank\">previously reported\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Cal Poly San Luis Obispo shelled out $230,000 in 2011 on lighting replacements, kitchen upgrades, new wood flooring and more for its University House when the campus welcomed President Jeffrey Armstrong. That came on top of $200,000 in renovations the university had completed in 2010 – including repairs to the event tent, termite tenting and a new roof for the family room. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The $430,000 spent over two years was also about $100,000 more than \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2011/05/05/1590323/move-in-day-for-cal-poly-president.html\" target=\"_blank\">previously reported\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I didn't realize it was that much money,\" said Glen Thorncroft, a mechanical engineering professor at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and president of the campus faculty union chapter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thorncroft said that when faculty heard initial figures on how much was spent to renovate the house, the reaction was mixed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There were some people who felt like maybe it costs that much to refurbish,\" Thorncroft said. \"The problem is, it's just so disjointed from the budget realities that it's hard to fathom that we're spending these kinds of monies on things that aren't paying for classes for our students or going to hire faculty to teach the classes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, the Central Coast campus has spent more money on renovations for its on-campus presidential residence than any other campus with CSU-owned properties in the past decade. Projects performed since 2004 have cost Cal Poly San Luis Obispo $831,000, and 99 percent of that came from state funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Poly San Luis Obispo's former President Warren J. Baker moved out of the presidential residence in 2004, when he opted for a $60,000 annual housing allowance afforded by CSU.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While 11 university presidents and the system chancellor live in university-owned residences, leaders at 12 campuses receive the $60,000 annual housing allowance instead, including San Francisco State University and CSU East Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Baker moved out, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo repurposed University House as an event center and spent $384,000 from 2004 to 2008 on renovation projects. More than half of that spending went toward making the space compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act, while the rest went to patio resurfacing, a new stucco wall, deck repairs, plumbing and heating repairs, and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the 2010 upgrades, the university turned the house back into a residence for Armstrong. The university used about $6,200 in foundation funds to pay an interior designer. \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357386-kriste-judd-interior-design-photo-gallery-shell.html\" target=\"_blank\">Photographs\u003c/a> on the designer's website show new maple and cherry flooring and a remodeled kitchen with granite countertops and maple cabinetry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thorncroft said some faculty members credited Armstrong for not taking the annual stipend that Baker had received.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One could make the argument that the money at least stayed in house,\" Thorncroft said. \"It's just still – $400,000 seems excessive.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six-figure renovations are not standard for every new CSU president, however. California Maritime Academy President William Eisenhardt saw no major remodeling projects when he arrived at his new home, a three-bedroom, two-bathroom house on the Vallejo campus. The same went for Dianne Harrison when she started at CSU Monterey Bay in 2006 and for Mohammad Qayoumi when he began work at San Jose State University in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After President F. King Alexander landed at CSU Long Beach, the university spent $68,000 to add a bedroom and expand the one-car garage to fit two vehicles. Alexander has since donated $43,500 to the Miller House Fund, officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CSU Dominguez Hills spent about $32,000 installing hardwood floors and painting its three-bedroom Carson house when Mildred Garcia took the reins there in 2007.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And not all presidential residence renovations are created equal. Cal Poly Pomona spent about $26,000 to renovate the kitchen, including new appliances, at the Manor House, a historical four-bedroom home on campus that was built in 1926. At CSU Fullerton's El Dorado Ranch, the kitchen rehab cost $147,000 and included the repositioning of drains and supply lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The list below provides details on all of the university-owned homes where presidents reside. It does not include the universities that provide only a housing allowance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>CSU-owned presidential houses:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1.\u003ca href=\"http://maps.google.com/maps?q=275+GRANADA+AVE+LONG+BEACH,+CA+90803-5521&hl=en&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=54.137829,121.376953&t=h&hnear=275+Granada+Ave,+Long+Beach,+California+90803&z=17\" target=\"_blank\"> CSU System Office\u003c/a>: \u003c/strong>CSU Chancellor Charles Reed lives in the State University House in the Belmont Shore neighborhood of Long Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Square feet:\u003c/strong> 6,000\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bedrooms\u003c/strong>: 4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bathrooms:\u003c/strong> 7\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Built:\u003c/strong> 1930\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Assessed value:\u003c/strong> $642,573 (in 2008)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Renovations:\u003c/strong> No major renovations over the past decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. \u003ca href=\"http://maps.google.com/maps?q=17622+Acacia+Drive+Carson,+CA&hl=en&sll=33.766067,-118.134255&sspn=0.0052,0.010257&t=h&hnear=17622+Acacia+Dr,+Carson,+California+90746&z=16\" target=\"_blank\">CSU Dominguez Hills:\u003c/a> \u003c/strong>Until she moves to CSU Fullerton in a few weeks, President Mildred Garcia lives in the university-owned house in Carson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Square feet:\u003c/strong> 2,296\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bedrooms:\u003c/strong> 3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bathrooms:\u003c/strong> 3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Built:\u003c/strong> 1999\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sales price:\u003c/strong> $392,500 (in 2000)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Renovations: \u003c/strong>The year Garcia arrived in 2007, CSU spent $32,155 on renovations using foundation funding. Garcia also paid for several upgrades to the home herself, including stainless steel appliances, new baseboards and window coverings, officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3. \u003ca href=\"https://maps.google.com/maps?q=4411+N+Van+Ness+Blvd,+Fresno,+California+93704&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hnear=4411+N+Van+Ness+Blvd,+Fresno,+California+93704&gl=us&t=m&geocode=FVF9MQIdge_b-A&z=16\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>CSU Fresno:\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> University House is on Christmas Tree Lane in the Old Fig Garden neighborhood of Fresno. John D. Welty has been president of CSU Fresno since 1991.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Square feet\u003c/strong>: 7,300\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bedrooms\u003c/strong>: 6\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bathrooms\u003c/strong>: 7\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Built\u003c/strong>: 1941\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Renovations\u003c/strong>: In the last decade, the university has spent $76,010 on renovations using state funding. The biggest chunk of that spending occurred in 2004, when CSU spent $24,000 on landscaping, including new trees, lamps, posts and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>4. \u003ca href=\"http://maps.google.com/maps?q=225+Union+Street,+fullerton+ca&hl=en&sll=37.801345,-122.402759&sspn=0.006672,0.014817&t=h&gl=us&hnear=225+W+Union+Ave,+Fullerton,+California+92832&z=17\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>CSU Fullerton:\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> The presidential residence, El Dorado Ranch, is a few miles from campus. 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Kellogg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Square feet\u003c/strong>: 4,000\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bedrooms\u003c/strong>: 4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bathrooms\u003c/strong>: 5\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Built\u003c/strong>: 1926\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Renovations\u003c/strong>: The university has spent $360,112 in state funds in the last decade renovating Manor House. Improvements included replacing plumbing and electrical, remodeling the kitchen, replacing windows, extending the garage, and adding an accessible restroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>10. \u003ca href=\"http://maps.google.com/maps?q=4545+YERBA+SANTA+DR+san+diego+ca&hl=en&ll=32.77701,-117.096598&spn=0.003719,0.005128&sll=38.072008,-122.231659&sspn=0.009848,0.020514&gl=us&hnear=4545+Yerba+Santa+Dr,+San+Diego,+California+92115&t=h&z=18\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>San Diego State University\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>: President Elliot Hirshman lives in University House in Alvarado Estates, not far from campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Square feet\u003c/strong>: 5,216\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bedrooms\u003c/strong>: 4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bathrooms\u003c/strong>: 4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Built\u003c/strong>: 1962\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sales price\u003c/strong>: $1.2 million (in 2000)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Renovations\u003c/strong>: The university spent $257,000 using a combination of donor funds, lease revenue and catering revenue to renovate University House, including interior and exterior painting, replacement of large windows, a kitchen renovation, new carpet, pool replastering, a catering kitchen and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>11. \u003ca href=\"http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1690+university+ave+san+jose+ca&hl=en&ll=37.332256,-121.93069&spn=0.009947,0.020514&sll=32.77701,-117.096598&sspn=0.003719,0.005128&t=m&gl=us&hnear=1690+University+Ave,+San+Jose,+California+95126&z=16\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>San Jose State University:\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> President Mohammad Qayoumi lives in this house near the San Jose Municipal Rose Garden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Square feet\u003c/strong>: 4,500\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bedrooms\u003c/strong>: 5\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bathrooms\u003c/strong>: 5\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Built\u003c/strong>: 1926\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Renovations\u003c/strong>: There have been no renovations since the house was acquired by the university in 2005.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>12. \u003ca href=\"http://maps.google.com/maps?q=University+House,+San+Luis+Obispo,+CA&hl=en&sll=37.332256,-121.93069&sspn=0.009947,0.020514&oq=university+house+san+luis&gl=us&hnear=University+House,+San+Luis+Obispo,+California+93405&t=m&z=16\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>Cal Poly San Luis Obispo:\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> President Jeffrey Armstrong moved into the on-campus University House in 2011. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Joanna Lin, \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/education/story/oakland-schools-chronic-absence-derail/\">The Bay Citizen\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>High rates of chronic absence, suspension and poor academic performance signal that more than half of African-American male students in the Oakland Unified School District are at risk of dropping out, according to new research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/school.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/school.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"school\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-64778\">\u003c/a>The Urban Strategies Council, an Oakland-based community advocacy organization, found significant disparities between African-American boys and their peers: Fifty-five percent of black boys in the 2010-11 school year were falling off course from graduation or were at risk of doing so, compared with 37.5 percent of students overall in the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From kindergarten through 12th grade, researchers found that black boys struggled with regular attendance and suspensions and scoring proficiently on standardized tests or maintaining grades above a C average – warning signs that they might drop out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among African-American males who were not on track to graduate, 73 percent in elementary school were chronically absent, missing 10 percent or more of school days for any reason, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.urbanstrategies.org/aamai/\" target=\"_blank\">findings\u003c/a> released this week. In middle school, the same percentage had been suspended at least once. Nearly two-thirds of high schoolers were chronically absent and had less than a C average; 41 percent had been suspended at least once.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need to understand what's going on if we're going to effectively intervene and improve outcomes and graduation and success of African-American males,\" said Junious Williams, chief executive officer of the council. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council's reports on dropout indicators are part of Oakland Unified's African-American Male Achievement Initiative, an effort launched in 2010 to improve academic and social equity for black boys. The findings provide \"a sense of urgency\" for the district, said Chris Chatmon, executive director of the district's Office of African-American Male Achievement.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/story/2012/05/24/95054/oakland_unified_considers_worrisome_absenteeism_suspensions?source=oakland+local&category=bay+area\">Oakland Unified Considers Absenteeism, Suspensions Stats for African-American Males\u003c/a> (Oakland Local)\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Chatmon, who plans to hold a community meeting next month to discuss the council's findings, said improving attendance among black boys requires working with other agencies and the community and presents different challenges in different age groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In kindergarten and first grade, African-American boys in the district were more than four times as likely as their white peers to be chronically absent, the council found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Five-year-olds don't miss school without an adult knowing at home,\" said Hedy Chang, director of Attendance Works, an initiative that seeks to improve student success by reducing chronic absence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Families might face hurdles, such as transportation or health problems, in getting their young children to school, or they might not understand the importance of kindergarten, said Chang, who has worked with Oakland Unified to address chronic absenteeism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Once you miss a month or more of school, and you miss a month or more in kindergarten and first, you're not on track for reading in third grade,\" she said. \"We've got to make sure kids have a chance to start on the right track.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One way the district has tried to target chronic absenteeism among young black students is by working with the Oakland Housing Authority. Forty percent of students at four West Oakland schools live in public housing; 30 percent of those students were chronically absent in 2010-11. Chatmon said the district saw an uptick in school registration by reaching out to West Oakland families living in public housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time black boys reach middle and high school, different factors begin to undermine attendance, Chatmon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Street culture becomes more attractive than learning and school culture,\" he said. \"How do we define school culture? What is it? What would get our students getting up at 5 in the morning, running to school? … You get school culture right, then you will produce African-American boys that produce high academic outcomes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cultural clashes and misunderstandings also factor into high rates of suspension among black boys, Chatmon and Williams said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We still have a teaching and administrative body that doesn't … understand the cultural context of where our students come from,\" Chatmon said. \"We have to do a lot of work with our adults to authentically engage with our boys, with our families, to understand our community context.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>African-American boys made up 17 percent of Oakland Unified students in 2010-11, yet they represented 42 percent of students suspended. Disruption or defiance of authority was the most common reason for discipline, accounting for 38 percent of their suspensions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Subjective standards for disruption and defiance – the reason behind \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/07/defiance-seen-as-cause-of_n_1409982.html?ref=topbar&ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009\" target=\"_blank\">more than 40 percent of suspensions\u003c/a> in California and the recent target of criticism and \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/bills-reform-school-suspensions-advance-15763\" target=\"_blank\">legislative action\u003c/a> – could be contributing to high suspension rates among black boys, Williams said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council recommended that Oakland Unified carefully monitor such offenses and clearly define what constitutes impermissible behavior. The district also needs strategies for prevention and intervention so students are not suspended for single incidents, Williams said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many ways, Chatmon said, that work already has started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a 'we' problem,\" he said. \"We are taking this on with the frame of full-service community schools that call out everybody, humbly. We can't do it in isolation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced by The Bay Citizen, a project of the Center for Investigative Reporting. Learn more at www.baycitizen.org\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 2:00 p.m. \u003c/strong> From AP:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>ALBANY, Calif. University of California police raided a four-week Occupy encampment at a college-owned farm used for agriculture research early Monday, arresting nine people after protesters ignored yet another weekend deadline to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 100 officers clad in riot gear arrived shortly after 6 a.m. at the camp known as Occupy the Farm, but there was no violence, university spokesman Dan Mogulof said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers moved in after issuing a dispersal order to about 10 protesters sleeping at the Gill Tract in Albany, a 10-acre plot used primarily by UC-Berkeley’s College of Natural Resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two protesters, both women, were arrested on trespassing charges while the other occupiers left voluntarily. Seven protesters were also arrested for unlawful assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monday’s raid now allows UC faculty and students to begin planting their research crops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We simply could not wait any longer,” Mogulof said, adding, “If our faculty and students couldn’t get in this week to begin planting research crops, we would’ve lost a full year of work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protest organizers did not immediately return calls seeking comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Demonstrators moved onto the tract on Earth Day, April 22, and began planting their own crops to encourage urban agriculture and protest planned commercial housing development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>University official said they tried negotiating, and allowed protesters to join them at a meeting to discuss the tract’s future if they agreed to pack up and disperse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, the university filed a lawsuit against 14 unnamed protesters, claiming they conspired to cut locks, trespass and establish an illegal encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, university officials said it would drop the lawsuit if protesters left the encampment peacefully and did not attempt to re-occupy the land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mogulof said UC intends to preserve as much of the crops planted by the protesters as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also added that there’s a slight possibility university officials would still be willing to talk to the protesters about using the land, but only on the UC’s terms.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Original post\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nPolice have moved in on Occupy the Farm. \u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2012/05/14/arrests-made-as-police-break-up-occupy-the-farm-encampment/\">KCBS\u003c/a> says two have been arrested; \u003ca href=\"http://www.ktvu.com/news/news/crime-law/riot-geared-police-arrest-occupy-farm-protesters/nN5Xj/\">KTVU\u003c/a> says “several.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Saturday, the protesters failed to meet a UC-Berkeley-imposed deadline to leave the five-acre Gill Tract, which they have occupied since Apr 22. The group wants to prevent development of the tract and use it for urban farming and education, instead of the basic research that’s done there now. The land is owned by the university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Daily Cal’s Chris Yee is on the scene and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/#!/ChrisMYee\">\u003cstrong>tweeting\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>. Click on the play button to activate the feed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http://www.coveritlive.com/index2.php/option=com_altcaster/task=viewaltcast/altcast_code=dfa0fdf2e5/height=550/width=470\" scrolling=\"no\" height=\"550px\" width=\"470px\" frameborder=\"0\">la href=”http://www.coveritlive.com/mobile.php?option=com_mobile&task=viewaltcast&altcast_code=dfa0fdf2e5″ >iPhone on staging\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c!--more-->\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\nAt 1 a.m. last night, Occupy the Farm \u003ca href=\"http://www.takebackthetract.com/index.php/17-general-content/67-only-uc-s-barricades-and-police-stand-in-way-of-gill-tract-scientists-research\">posted a statement\u003c/a>, saying they had “made the collective decision to move off the plot of Class I soil where the [UC Berkeley] researchers need to plant their corn so that we may coexist with them.” The statement continued…\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>We hope our collective decision and action will be seen as measure of good faith toward the scientists. We ask UC administrators to allow us until 10am on Monday, May 14, before moving in with their tractors to till the land for the scientists. We need some time to wake up, stretch our legs, get our blood flowing (it’s cold at night!), and do a final run-through to make sure the plot is clean and tidy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the encampment, we never considered it permanent nor central to our long-term objective. An encampment on the Class I soil is not required to grow food in an ecologically-sound and socially-just way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having said that, in no way should our actions be interpreted as an abandonment of our resolve and effort toward building and maintaining an urban agriculture farm on this land. On the contrary. We had a great three week anniversary and Mother’s Day celebration this weekend. We have been humbled and energized by the local, national, and international support for agroecology, food sovereignty, and Occupy the Farm. Until the gates are open to the public from sunup to sundown seven days a week, we plan to maintain a constant presence outside the gates of the Gill Tract to ensure our crops are safe and healthy and so that we may continue facilitating open dialogue about the future of the Gill Tract.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apparently, UC wasn’t buying any of that. At 6:16 a.m., university spokesperson Dan Mogulof sent out this statement, signed by two university officials: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Early this morning officers from the UCPD, along with personnel from other UC police departments, began taking the steps necessary for UC Berkeley to regain full control and supervision of our property in and around the Gill Tract. After weeks of patient dialogue, engagement and rejected offers of compromise, we deeply regret that the occupiers’ actions and continued insistence on free and unfettered access to what is an open air laboratory left us no choice but to take this step. As the occupiers said in their statement rejecting our invitation to participate in efforts to sustain urban agriculture, “We’re not ceding control or supervision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is no cause for celebration that the involvement of law enforcement is required to secure our fundamental property rights and protect a core value that is an indivisible part of who we are: academic freedom; the ability of our faculty and students to pursue their scientific interests without interference. We have said from the beginning that we would honor our commitment to protect the university’s rights and values.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UCPD has been asked to secure the property and, if need be, arrest and detain those who continue to trespass and/or violate other laws of the state. The purpose of today’s action is to ensure our faculty and students can conduct the research projects to which they have devoted much of their academic and professional lives. Over the course of the last three weeks we have consistently stated that the field must be prepared for research crops by the middle of May, and we simply cannot wait any longer lest our faculty and students lose a full year of work. As the dean of our College of Natural Resources, Keith Gilless, has made clear, you simply can’t engage in meticulous plant research with dozens of uninvited, untrained and unsupervised “guests” roaming around what is an open-air laboratory, doing what ever they please.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We did not come to this decision lightly. Despite growing concern and demands for action emanating from our faculty and neighbors, we have patiently tried to engage the occupiers in discourse that could have led to a very different outcome. Dean Gillless has been down to the tract on numerous occasions to speak with the occupiers, we met with their representatives and attorney, and continued to present ideas that would have allowed for a peaceful resolution. We also offered a proposal that would have addressed the shared interests of the campus, the surrounding community and at least those members of the occupation group who claimed that their actions were solely about the establishment of urban agriculture on the tract. Early on we made it very clear that there was room for both research and urban agriculture, and asked only that the occupiers vacate our land and return full control and supervision of the property to the campus. We also promised to cease efforts to pursue criminal charges and/or civil litigation if they would only leave and refrain from unauthorized entry onto our land. This gradual approach reflected a genuine effort on our behalf to reach a peaceful conclusion that would allow our research to re-start while establishing a dialogue with all interested parties concerning how the unused portion of the land could be repurposed. At every step of the way our efforts were either rejected or ignored, and sadly we have now run out of time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Saturday morning Dean Gilless organized a meeting to begin discussions about models for a community partnership that would support and sustain urban agriculture on the Gill Tract. Representatives of the occupation were invited to attend if they would simply meet our minimal conditions that would have allowed research to commence this week. They refused, offering a variety of excuses, including the claim that they wouldn’t participate in a “super secret” meeting attended by members of the Albany and University Village communities, along with representatives of non-profits involved in urban agriculture, the City of Albany, the Albany schools, the USDA, the UC Cooperative Extension, as well as faculty members and a journalist. We remain mystified and disappointed that the occupiers just could not take “yes” for an answer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> Saturday’s meeting was but a preliminary step. As Dean Gilless stated in an open letter issued after the meeting, “I am committed to facilitating an effective partnership between my College and the community around how urban agriculture and research can go beyond mere co-existence.” Going forward, we are committed to the broadest possible participation in the discussions about, and implementation of that partnership. In so far as the short- and long-term future of the land is concerned, we will continue the collaboration that has characterized our relationship with the Albany community in all matters related to future use of this property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately, there have been some acts of vandalism to fences and signs at the Gill Tract, and we will need to ascertain if there has been any serious damage to ongoing projects, or cleanup that will further delay research operations. In the days ahead we will be assessing that damage and the required repairs, even as we work to preserve the crops planted by the occupiers where there is no conflict with our research needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This statement, like every previous message, is the result of a careful, broad-based decision-making process that includes senior administration leaders, the chair of our Academic Senate and other members of faculty, the deans of the College of Natural Resources and the Graduate Division, UCPD, Student Affairs and Community Relations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>George Breslauer\u003cbr>\nExecutive Vice Chancellor and Provost\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> John Wilton\u003cbr>\nVice Chancellor, Administration and Finance\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apparently, UC wasn’t buying any of that. At 6:16 a.m., university spokesperson Dan Mogulof sent out this statement, signed by two university officials: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Early this morning officers from the UCPD, along with personnel from other UC police departments, began taking the steps necessary for UC Berkeley to regain full control and supervision of our property in and around the Gill Tract. After weeks of patient dialogue, engagement and rejected offers of compromise, we deeply regret that the occupiers’ actions and continued insistence on free and unfettered access to what is an open air laboratory left us no choice but to take this step. As the occupiers said in their statement rejecting our invitation to participate in efforts to sustain urban agriculture, “We’re not ceding control or supervision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is no cause for celebration that the involvement of law enforcement is required to secure our fundamental property rights and protect a core value that is an indivisible part of who we are: academic freedom; the ability of our faculty and students to pursue their scientific interests without interference. We have said from the beginning that we would honor our commitment to protect the university’s rights and values.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UCPD has been asked to secure the property and, if need be, arrest and detain those who continue to trespass and/or violate other laws of the state. The purpose of today’s action is to ensure our faculty and students can conduct the research projects to which they have devoted much of their academic and professional lives. Over the course of the last three weeks we have consistently stated that the field must be prepared for research crops by the middle of May, and we simply cannot wait any longer lest our faculty and students lose a full year of work. As the dean of our College of Natural Resources, Keith Gilless, has made clear, you simply can’t engage in meticulous plant research with dozens of uninvited, untrained and unsupervised “guests” roaming around what is an open-air laboratory, doing what ever they please.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We did not come to this decision lightly. Despite growing concern and demands for action emanating from our faculty and neighbors, we have patiently tried to engage the occupiers in discourse that could have led to a very different outcome. Dean Gillless has been down to the tract on numerous occasions to speak with the occupiers, we met with their representatives and attorney, and continued to present ideas that would have allowed for a peaceful resolution. We also offered a proposal that would have addressed the shared interests of the campus, the surrounding community and at least those members of the occupation group who claimed that their actions were solely about the establishment of urban agriculture on the tract. Early on we made it very clear that there was room for both research and urban agriculture, and asked only that the occupiers vacate our land and return full control and supervision of the property to the campus. We also promised to cease efforts to pursue criminal charges and/or civil litigation if they would only leave and refrain from unauthorized entry onto our land. This gradual approach reflected a genuine effort on our behalf to reach a peaceful conclusion that would allow our research to re-start while establishing a dialogue with all interested parties concerning how the unused portion of the land could be repurposed. At every step of the way our efforts were either rejected or ignored, and sadly we have now run out of time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Saturday morning Dean Gilless organized a meeting to begin discussions about models for a community partnership that would support and sustain urban agriculture on the Gill Tract. Representatives of the occupation were invited to attend if they would simply meet our minimal conditions that would have allowed research to commence this week. They refused, offering a variety of excuses, including the claim that they wouldn’t participate in a “super secret” meeting attended by members of the Albany and University Village communities, along with representatives of non-profits involved in urban agriculture, the City of Albany, the Albany schools, the USDA, the UC Cooperative Extension, as well as faculty members and a journalist. We remain mystified and disappointed that the occupiers just could not take “yes” for an answer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> Saturday’s meeting was but a preliminary step. As Dean Gilless stated in an open letter issued after the meeting, “I am committed to facilitating an effective partnership between my College and the community around how urban agriculture and research can go beyond mere co-existence.” Going forward, we are committed to the broadest possible participation in the discussions about, and implementation of that partnership. In so far as the short- and long-term future of the land is concerned, we will continue the collaboration that has characterized our relationship with the Albany community in all matters related to future use of this property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately, there have been some acts of vandalism to fences and signs at the Gill Tract, and we will need to ascertain if there has been any serious damage to ongoing projects, or cleanup that will further delay research operations. In the days ahead we will be assessing that damage and the required repairs, even as we work to preserve the crops planted by the occupiers where there is no conflict with our research needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This statement, like every previous message, is the result of a careful, broad-based decision-making process that includes senior administration leaders, the chair of our Academic Senate and other members of faculty, the deans of the College of Natural Resources and the Graduate Division, UCPD, Student Affairs and Community Relations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>George Breslauer\u003cbr>\nExecutive Vice Chancellor and Provost\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> John Wilton\u003cbr>\nVice Chancellor, Administration and Finance\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_65145\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 233px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/05/08/occupy-the-farm-gill-tract/#slide\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-65145\" title=\"occupyfarmmatthewwilliams\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/occupyfarmmatthewwilliams-300x182.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"233\" height=\"142\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters work the land at the Gill Tract. Click for audio slideshow (Matthew Williams/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since Apr 22, dozens of activists have been \"occupying the farm\" in Albany -- the \"farm\" being the Gill Tract, a five-acre parcel of land owned by UC Berkeley that it used for agricultural research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite early negotiations, the group is currently in a standoff with the university, though the administration has slowly tightened the noose by cutting off water, blocking entrances and filing a lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So...why did Occupy come to the farm in the first place? The group explains in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.takebackthetract.com/index.php/the-farm\">Why This Farm\u003c/a> section on its web site:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>We are reclaiming this land to grow healthy food to meet the needs of local communities. We envision a future of food sovereignty, in which our East Bay communities make use of available land - occupying it where necessary - for sustainable agriculture to meet local needs. This particular plot of land is very special:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>These are the last acres of Class One soil left in the urbanized East Bay. Ninety percent of the original land has been paved over and developed, irreverisibly contaminating the land.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Students, professors, and community have fought for decades to save this amazing land from development and use it for sustainable agriculture.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>UCB capital projects currently administors this land and has slated it for rezoning and redevelopment in 2013 (i.e. supermarkets, parking lots, and apartments).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The University uses the land to research corn genetics. This research can be conducted anywhere as opposed to this unique site.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">More views of Occupy the Farm...\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.thenation.com/blog/167822/occupy-farm-highlights-issue-food-sovereignty\">Occupy the Farm Highlights Issue of Food Sovereignty\u003c/a> (The Nation)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/05/11/BA7A1OGFRK.DTL&tsp=1\">Occupy's farm goal pales against research effort\u003c/a> (Chip Johnson, SF Chronicle)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-holt-gimenez/occupy-the-farm-democracy_1_b_1494968.html\">Occupy the Farm: Democracy for Land Grant Universities?\u003c/a> (Eric Holt Gimenez, Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://oaklandlocal.com/posts/2012/04/my-visit-occupy-farm-gill-tract-albany-community-voices\">My visit to Occupy the Farm\u003c/a> (Oakland Local)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://albany.patch.com/articles/column-to-occupy-the-farm-please-make-good-on-your-intentions\">To the Occupiers—Please Make Good on your Intentions\u003c/a> (Guest column, Albany Patch)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“For us the single most important thing is the preservation of the farm for sustainable urban agriculture for the greater East Bay,\" Occupy the Farm activist Gopal Dayaneni told KQED's Mina Kim this week. \"[It's important] that the kids who have been coming here every single day after school have access, that the families that have been coming here on the weekend will have access.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC \u003ca href=\"http://ourenvironment.berkeley.edu/people_profiles/miguel-altieri/\">Professor Miguel Altieri\u003c/a>, whose research group uses Gill Tract to study sustainable agriculture, has been highly supportive of the group that has taken over the land. In an \u003ca href=\"http://albany.patch.com/articles/one-gill-tract-researcher-on-why-he-supports-occupy-the-farm\">interview with Albany Patch\u003c/a>, he said \"I support this action as a private citizen” and said many of the Occupiers are his former students. In an \u003ca href=\"http://www.dailycal.org/2012/05/01/gill-tract-occupations-mission-mirrors-state-public-policy-goals/\">\u003cstrong>op-ed in The Daily Cal\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, written with colleague \u003ca href=\"http://ourenvironment.berkeley.edu/people_profiles/claudia-j-carr/\">Claudia Carr\u003c/a>, he also defended the group's goal of preventing further development of the land, which at one time was 104 acres and is now down to five.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>[The group's] goal is to prevent development of this five-acre piece of land that represents one the few remaining agricultural spaces with the best (“class-one”) soil in the East Bay. This effort would allow the community to be engaged with the land, arguing that preserving it as a productive farm is consistent with public policy and the public interest. Such preservation would also honor the history of the Gill Tract, which has housed researchers who, since the 1940s, conducted research on biological pest control, protecting California agriculture from exotic pests without the use of chemical pesticides.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->But there are three other researchers who utilize the Gill Tract, and they have \u003ca href=\"http://albany.patch.com/articles/gill-tract-scientists-speak-out\">spoken out against the occupation\u003c/a>. In his interview with Albany Patch, Altieri seemed to brush off their concerns:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Altieri said [the other researchers] could always “go to Davis” to do their work. When told that the corn researchers said the commute to Davis for their five-month field season would be problematic—time-consuming, polluting and prohibitive to student assistants without cars—and that the move would come too late for this year, Altieri dismissed the concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have big money,” he said. “Federal and corporate.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://pmb.berkeley.edu/profile/dlisch\">Damon Lisch\u003c/a>, who is affiliated with the university's Department of Plant & Microbial Biology, is one of the researchers who is scheduled to set up on the Gill Tract in May. Lisch does genetic research on corn, studying pieces of DNA called \u003ca href=\"http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/T/Transposons.html\">transposons\u003c/a> that can impact evolution and cause mutations. In an interview on Wednesday, he said \"the basic research done on Gill Tract has been extraordinarily productive\" in the last few years, \"leading to important insights published in journals like Nature Genetics, Nature and Science.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lisch told me he, like the other Gill researchers, receives government funding but no corporate money. All of his funding, he says, \"depends on results I get from my field work.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lisch said he did receive corporate funding when he came to the university, in a controversial and some would say notorious deal with the biotechnology company Novartis. From a 2004 article in the Sacramento Bee titled \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/static/live/news/projects/biotech/archive/080104.html\">Report: Five-year deal with Novartis hurt UC Berkeley\u003c/a>\"...\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The contract, which expired in November, gave a select group of Berkeley biologists $25 million for research along with access to trade secrets, principally in genetics. In return, Novartis got first dibs on potentially lucrative discoveries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal provoked vigorous and often angry debate on campus and inspired numerous articles in the popular press, including one in Atlantic Monthly magazine titled \"The Kept University.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, the collaboration didn't turn out as anyone expected. The company didn't try to strong-arm the scientists to pursue only commercially valuable research, as some had predicted.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Lisch said there's been an \"infuriating misconception about that process,\" and that the company \"never said word one about what I was supposed to do....I discovered with their money that one of my transposons had actually moved from one species to another, which is the last thing you want to hear if you're doing GMO (genetically modified organism) research. That's what they got for their horrible, corrupting funding.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's an edited transcript of the rest of the interview, in which we discussed Occupy the Farm:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: Would it be impossible for you to do your research with the protesters there?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>UC RESEARCHER DAMON LISCH\u003c/strong>: There are a couple of issues. One is the protesters took a big amount of space. They didn’t ask us, and they planted a whole bunch of the field. We could probably work with that because there might be enough space for us, though it may not be the space we would have picked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other issue: this is our laboratory. If somebody said to you well you wouldn't mind if I just be in your office and work on your computer sometimes and I can help you with that writing you do, you'd object to that, especially if you knew they didn’t like what you write very much.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cp>It's very clear to me that many of the protesters are profoundly suspicious of corn, and it's almost become a totemic kind of thing, where corn is bad...\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>I personally hand plant 3-4,000 seeds. They all have to be catalogued, they all have to be in order, they have to be numbered, and we have to collect samples from them, and once the plants are big enough, we have to cross them and make a note of what we cross to what. So you can imagine how one curious person running through pulling bags off or knocking down a few corn plants could cause a huge amount of trouble for us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other issue I really have is it's very clear to me that many of the protesters are profoundly suspicious of corn, and it's almost become a totemic kind of thing, where corn is bad, it makes us fat, it's corporate. No matter what I say, many of them are convinced I'm funded by corporations to make bad corn. And we've had our corn chopped down in the past by activists. So I'm really not comfortable with a lot of activists sharing my field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the public's mind, corn research is connected to \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?q=gmo+corn\">GMO corn\u003c/a>. And if you work on corn, it has to be corporate. But corn's been a model organism for genetic analysis for 100 years, so that's why we use it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now the anti-GMO sentiment is so vociferous, if you work on corn you kind of have a target on your back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: What about criticism that the land is underused?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>LISCH\u003c/strong>: Well if you go out to any farm in the winter, there's not much growing there. So we often use most of that part of the field. It's not under-utilized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think that the protesters have a vision of how this land should be used, having to do with sustainable agriculture. I would rather have it used for basic research. So we have just a fundamental disagreement. And I think the only difference is there's this very moralistic tone that's added to their preference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: How do you feel about your colleague, Miguel Altieri, so firmly supporting the protesters?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>LISCH\u003c/strong>: I think he shares their vision so it's an attractive idea to him that the land is used for the purpose they want. I’m disappointed, I wish he would have stuck up for us, but he can make his own decisions about what he thinks is important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I would have been happy if we had some long-term arrangement, maybe with a fence, for both scientific research and professor Altieri's work -- and urban farming and perhaps space for farming education. And maybe they could look at our plants as well and we could tell them about our research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So I have no problem in theory with any of that. But I do have an enormous problem with people unilaterally making decisions about what's done right now with that space. I didn’t vote for them, and when they talk about speaking for the community, as far as I can tell that just means people who agree with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you ask a lot of residents in Albany, they've been fighting about this for years, with city council meetings and back and forth and arguments, and that's just been completely trumped. I object to that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: What do you think will happen?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>LISCH\u003c/strong>: I think it's likely the protesters will leave one way or another. I think it would be a terrible precedent if they were allowed to stay. Because it's just profoundly anti-democratic. What if a right-wing group decided that the political department is doing bad things and they'll occupy that? It's a terrible way to go about things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What I hope will happen is that it will be resolved peacefully and people who advocate for urban farming will be allowed a seat at the table and express their opinion and the university takes it seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I've met a number of the protesters and they're not bad people. I went down there, and they were all sitting in a circle, and I spoke up and told them what I told you. The first part of their message was, consistently, that you could go somewhere else. I tried to explain how impractical and difficult that was, but they were not rude or confrontational at all.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Today, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/05/11/gill-tract-occupy-the-farm/\">UC Berkeley issued a statement\u003c/a> giving Occupy the Farm a deadline of Saturday at 10:00am to dismantle their camp. If not, the university said, it will take \"unilateral steps necessary to protect the academic freedom of our faculty to pursue their interests without interference.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the statement also offered the protesters a grudging compliment:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp> As much as we abhor the tactics embraced by the occupiers, we acknowledge that their actions helped to raise the public profile of urban agriculture and generate constructive conversation about its value. Our College of Natural Resources was, prior to the occupation, already in an advanced stage of planning for an expanded urban agriculture program and the discussion has sharpened the college’s focus on getting the program underway. So, we urge the occupiers to take ”yes” for an answer, leave our property, allow the research to commence and have a seat at the table. We are moving on and can only hope they will quickly decide to choose collaboration over confrontation.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n",
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Click for audio slideshow (Matthew Williams/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since Apr 22, dozens of activists have been \"occupying the farm\" in Albany -- the \"farm\" being the Gill Tract, a five-acre parcel of land owned by UC Berkeley that it used for agricultural research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite early negotiations, the group is currently in a standoff with the university, though the administration has slowly tightened the noose by cutting off water, blocking entrances and filing a lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So...why did Occupy come to the farm in the first place? The group explains in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.takebackthetract.com/index.php/the-farm\">Why This Farm\u003c/a> section on its web site:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>We are reclaiming this land to grow healthy food to meet the needs of local communities. We envision a future of food sovereignty, in which our East Bay communities make use of available land - occupying it where necessary - for sustainable agriculture to meet local needs. This particular plot of land is very special:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>These are the last acres of Class One soil left in the urbanized East Bay. Ninety percent of the original land has been paved over and developed, irreverisibly contaminating the land.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Students, professors, and community have fought for decades to save this amazing land from development and use it for sustainable agriculture.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>UCB capital projects currently administors this land and has slated it for rezoning and redevelopment in 2013 (i.e. supermarkets, parking lots, and apartments).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The University uses the land to research corn genetics. This research can be conducted anywhere as opposed to this unique site.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">More views of Occupy the Farm...\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.thenation.com/blog/167822/occupy-farm-highlights-issue-food-sovereignty\">Occupy the Farm Highlights Issue of Food Sovereignty\u003c/a> (The Nation)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/05/11/BA7A1OGFRK.DTL&tsp=1\">Occupy's farm goal pales against research effort\u003c/a> (Chip Johnson, SF Chronicle)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-holt-gimenez/occupy-the-farm-democracy_1_b_1494968.html\">Occupy the Farm: Democracy for Land Grant Universities?\u003c/a> (Eric Holt Gimenez, Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://oaklandlocal.com/posts/2012/04/my-visit-occupy-farm-gill-tract-albany-community-voices\">My visit to Occupy the Farm\u003c/a> (Oakland Local)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://albany.patch.com/articles/column-to-occupy-the-farm-please-make-good-on-your-intentions\">To the Occupiers—Please Make Good on your Intentions\u003c/a> (Guest column, Albany Patch)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“For us the single most important thing is the preservation of the farm for sustainable urban agriculture for the greater East Bay,\" Occupy the Farm activist Gopal Dayaneni told KQED's Mina Kim this week. \"[It's important] that the kids who have been coming here every single day after school have access, that the families that have been coming here on the weekend will have access.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC \u003ca href=\"http://ourenvironment.berkeley.edu/people_profiles/miguel-altieri/\">Professor Miguel Altieri\u003c/a>, whose research group uses Gill Tract to study sustainable agriculture, has been highly supportive of the group that has taken over the land. In an \u003ca href=\"http://albany.patch.com/articles/one-gill-tract-researcher-on-why-he-supports-occupy-the-farm\">interview with Albany Patch\u003c/a>, he said \"I support this action as a private citizen” and said many of the Occupiers are his former students. In an \u003ca href=\"http://www.dailycal.org/2012/05/01/gill-tract-occupations-mission-mirrors-state-public-policy-goals/\">\u003cstrong>op-ed in The Daily Cal\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, written with colleague \u003ca href=\"http://ourenvironment.berkeley.edu/people_profiles/claudia-j-carr/\">Claudia Carr\u003c/a>, he also defended the group's goal of preventing further development of the land, which at one time was 104 acres and is now down to five.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>[The group's] goal is to prevent development of this five-acre piece of land that represents one the few remaining agricultural spaces with the best (“class-one”) soil in the East Bay. This effort would allow the community to be engaged with the land, arguing that preserving it as a productive farm is consistent with public policy and the public interest. Such preservation would also honor the history of the Gill Tract, which has housed researchers who, since the 1940s, conducted research on biological pest control, protecting California agriculture from exotic pests without the use of chemical pesticides.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->But there are three other researchers who utilize the Gill Tract, and they have \u003ca href=\"http://albany.patch.com/articles/gill-tract-scientists-speak-out\">spoken out against the occupation\u003c/a>. In his interview with Albany Patch, Altieri seemed to brush off their concerns:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Altieri said [the other researchers] could always “go to Davis” to do their work. When told that the corn researchers said the commute to Davis for their five-month field season would be problematic—time-consuming, polluting and prohibitive to student assistants without cars—and that the move would come too late for this year, Altieri dismissed the concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have big money,” he said. “Federal and corporate.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://pmb.berkeley.edu/profile/dlisch\">Damon Lisch\u003c/a>, who is affiliated with the university's Department of Plant & Microbial Biology, is one of the researchers who is scheduled to set up on the Gill Tract in May. Lisch does genetic research on corn, studying pieces of DNA called \u003ca href=\"http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/T/Transposons.html\">transposons\u003c/a> that can impact evolution and cause mutations. 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In return, Novartis got first dibs on potentially lucrative discoveries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal provoked vigorous and often angry debate on campus and inspired numerous articles in the popular press, including one in Atlantic Monthly magazine titled \"The Kept University.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, the collaboration didn't turn out as anyone expected. The company didn't try to strong-arm the scientists to pursue only commercially valuable research, as some had predicted.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Lisch said there's been an \"infuriating misconception about that process,\" and that the company \"never said word one about what I was supposed to do....I discovered with their money that one of my transposons had actually moved from one species to another, which is the last thing you want to hear if you're doing GMO (genetically modified organism) research. That's what they got for their horrible, corrupting funding.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's an edited transcript of the rest of the interview, in which we discussed Occupy the Farm:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: Would it be impossible for you to do your research with the protesters there?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>UC RESEARCHER DAMON LISCH\u003c/strong>: There are a couple of issues. One is the protesters took a big amount of space. They didn’t ask us, and they planted a whole bunch of the field. We could probably work with that because there might be enough space for us, though it may not be the space we would have picked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other issue: this is our laboratory. If somebody said to you well you wouldn't mind if I just be in your office and work on your computer sometimes and I can help you with that writing you do, you'd object to that, especially if you knew they didn’t like what you write very much.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cp>It's very clear to me that many of the protesters are profoundly suspicious of corn, and it's almost become a totemic kind of thing, where corn is bad...\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>I personally hand plant 3-4,000 seeds. They all have to be catalogued, they all have to be in order, they have to be numbered, and we have to collect samples from them, and once the plants are big enough, we have to cross them and make a note of what we cross to what. So you can imagine how one curious person running through pulling bags off or knocking down a few corn plants could cause a huge amount of trouble for us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other issue I really have is it's very clear to me that many of the protesters are profoundly suspicious of corn, and it's almost become a totemic kind of thing, where corn is bad, it makes us fat, it's corporate. No matter what I say, many of them are convinced I'm funded by corporations to make bad corn. And we've had our corn chopped down in the past by activists. So I'm really not comfortable with a lot of activists sharing my field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the public's mind, corn research is connected to \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?q=gmo+corn\">GMO corn\u003c/a>. And if you work on corn, it has to be corporate. But corn's been a model organism for genetic analysis for 100 years, so that's why we use it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now the anti-GMO sentiment is so vociferous, if you work on corn you kind of have a target on your back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: What about criticism that the land is underused?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>LISCH\u003c/strong>: Well if you go out to any farm in the winter, there's not much growing there. So we often use most of that part of the field. It's not under-utilized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think that the protesters have a vision of how this land should be used, having to do with sustainable agriculture. I would rather have it used for basic research. So we have just a fundamental disagreement. 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But I do have an enormous problem with people unilaterally making decisions about what's done right now with that space. I didn’t vote for them, and when they talk about speaking for the community, as far as I can tell that just means people who agree with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you ask a lot of residents in Albany, they've been fighting about this for years, with city council meetings and back and forth and arguments, and that's just been completely trumped. I object to that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: What do you think will happen?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>LISCH\u003c/strong>: I think it's likely the protesters will leave one way or another. I think it would be a terrible precedent if they were allowed to stay. Because it's just profoundly anti-democratic. What if a right-wing group decided that the political department is doing bad things and they'll occupy that? 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