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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Jon Brooks, Isabel Angell and Bay City News\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_147953\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/RS12064_photo.JPG-alt_147.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-147953\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/RS12064_photo.JPG-alt_147-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Drag queen Sister Roma says Facebook should change its policy that bans profiles with fake names. 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The announcement comes after several popular drag queens and transgender activists met with Facebook officials Tuesday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, hundreds of people were locked out of their profiles for using fake names-- like a drag queen stage name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Facebook spokesman said the company requires people to use their real name to promote accountability, but drag queen Sister Roma says that \u003cem>is\u003c/em> her real name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you ask anybody who I am in and out of drag, my name is Roma. So currently my profile says Michael Williams next to this gorgeous picture of me, and it doesn't make sense,\" she said. \"People don't look for Michael Williams, and it's not who I am.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Supervisor David Campos --who also went to the meeting-- said fake names can protect people who are transgender, bullied, or escaping domestic abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Original Post)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Facebook spokesman said company employees does not actively search for fake names-- they rely on other users to flag profiles. He said at the end of two weeks, people with reactivated profiles must go by their real name, or create a fan \"page\" with their fake name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook officials have agreed to meet with local drag queens at San Francisco City Hall to discuss its policy of requiring legal names on accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, San Francisco Supervisor David Campos called on the company to meet with those drag queens who reported in recent weeks they were locked out of their accounts under their stage names. The drag queens said they could regain access to their accounts only if they listed their legal names, such as one on a driver's license or credit card.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook accepted the invitation from Campos on Monday after a group of drag queens and supporters threatened to hold a protest at the company's Menlo Park headquarters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am glad that Facebook has accepted our invitation to engage in a meaningful public dialogue with the drag queens and members of the transgender community who have been affected by the profile name policy,\" Campos said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a post on her\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/roma.roma\" target=\"_blank\"> Facebook account\u003c/a>, Sister Roma of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence said the meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, when she will join other drag queens to discuss the issue with Facebook representatives. Sister Roma, who was one of many drag queens locked out of her account, now uses her legal name, \"Michael Williams,\" in accordance with the website's policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drag queen Heklina spoke about the policy with \u003ca href=\"http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/15/why-facebook-is-deleting-drag-queen-profile-pages/\" target=\"_blank\">Tech Crunch\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“I’ve had this name for 20 years now,” she says. “I walk down the street and people say ‘Hi Heklina.’ People know me by my drag name.” She says asking her to revert to her birth name is akin to not acknowledging her as a person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked just how many drag queens this may have affected, Heklina says every single drag queen she knows has been asked to revert to a name Facebook believes is more suitable. Well-known drag queens such as Sister Roma from the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Peaches Christ and Pollo Del Mar are only able to be found on their fan pages at the moment.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Heklina, Roma and other local drag queens, including BeBe Sweetbriar and Lil Miss Hot Mess, have used \"\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/MyNameIs?src=hash\" target=\"_blank\">#MyNameIs\u003c/a>\" to raise awareness of Facebook's crackdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We gave Facebook a chance to meet with us and I'm glad they took it,\" Heklina said. \"Having my profile suspended and my name questioned has been a very frustrating experience.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The drag queens have said that listing their legal names on their profiles puts them at risk of being found by family members, co-workers and others with whom they might not want to share the content of their pages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Tuesday afternoon, more than 17,000 people have signed a \u003ca href=\"//www.change.org/p/facebook-allow-performers-to-use-their-stage-names-on-their-facebook-accounts\" target=\"_blank\">Change.org petition\u003c/a> by Seattle drag queen Olivia LaGarce asking Facebook to allow performers to keep their stage names on their profiles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook specifies on one of its \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/help/112146705538576\" target=\"_blank\">help pages\u003c/a> that people must use their real names:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Facebook is a community where people use their real identities. We require everyone to provide their real names, so you always know who you're connecting with. This helps keep our community safe. ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other things to keep in mind:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul class=\"uiList _341 _3p7 _4of _4kg\">\n\u003cli>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fcb\">The name you use should be your real name as it would be listed on your credit card, driver's license or student ID\u003c/div>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fcb\">Nicknames can be used as a first or middle name if they're a variation of your real first or last name (like Bob instead of Robert)\u003c/div>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fcb\">You can also list another name on your account (ex: maiden name, nickname or professional name) by adding an \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/help/131728300237162\">alternate name\u003c/a> to your profile\u003c/div>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fcb\">Profiles are for individual use only\u003c/div>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fcb\">Pretending to be anything or anyone isn't allowed\u003c/div>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp class=\"_3p8\">If your real name isn’t listed on your account, please \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/help/173909489329079\">change it now\u003c/a>. 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Its challenge is to reassure users that they can operate in a safe online world, where their posts are seen by those they want to see them and people are who they say they are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This policy creates accountability for what someone posts, especially critical when it comes to issues like cyberbullying. And ideally, it makes conversations more civil. Could that civility and that sense of safety be at risk if the company offers users a way to use a fake name?\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Quinn said on \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em> that Facebook's prohibition on fake names has been in place since its inception. However, the rule has been enforced haphazardly, with accounts under the names of even fictional characters making it through the system. \"Anybody can sign up for Facebook using a fake name,\" she said. \"They don't really require a whole lot of information.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One way that Facebook gets tipped off to accounts with fake names is through community reporting, Quinn said, raising the question of \"why are other drag queens like Sister Roma being reported in recent weeks?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quinn called Facebook's communication with users like Sister Roma, insisting that they using their real names, \"ham-handed\" and \"insensitive.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the media, Facebook's statement has been the following:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If people want to use an alternative name on Facebook, they have several different options available to them, including providing an alias under their name on their profile, or creating a Page specifically for that alternative persona. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Jon Brooks, Isabel Angell and Bay City News\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_147953\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/RS12064_photo.JPG-alt_147.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-147953\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/RS12064_photo.JPG-alt_147-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Drag queen Sister Roma says Facebook should change its policy that bans profiles with fake names. (Isabel Angell/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/RS12064_photo.JPG-alt_147-640x480.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/RS12064_photo.JPG-alt_147-1028x771.jpg 1028w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/RS12064_photo.JPG-alt_147-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drag queen Sister Roma says Facebook should change its policy that bans profiles with fake names. (Isabel Angell/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update Wednesday 5 p.m\u003c/strong>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Facebook official says the company will temporarily reactivate hundreds of LGBT user profiles that had been deactivated for using fake names for a grace period of two weeks. The announcement comes after several popular drag queens and transgender activists met with Facebook officials Tuesday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, hundreds of people were locked out of their profiles for using fake names-- like a drag queen stage name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Facebook spokesman said the company requires people to use their real name to promote accountability, but drag queen Sister Roma says that \u003cem>is\u003c/em> her real name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you ask anybody who I am in and out of drag, my name is Roma. So currently my profile says Michael Williams next to this gorgeous picture of me, and it doesn't make sense,\" she said. \"People don't look for Michael Williams, and it's not who I am.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Supervisor David Campos --who also went to the meeting-- said fake names can protect people who are transgender, bullied, or escaping domestic abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Original Post)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Facebook spokesman said company employees does not actively search for fake names-- they rely on other users to flag profiles. He said at the end of two weeks, people with reactivated profiles must go by their real name, or create a fan \"page\" with their fake name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook officials have agreed to meet with local drag queens at San Francisco City Hall to discuss its policy of requiring legal names on accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, San Francisco Supervisor David Campos called on the company to meet with those drag queens who reported in recent weeks they were locked out of their accounts under their stage names. The drag queens said they could regain access to their accounts only if they listed their legal names, such as one on a driver's license or credit card.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook accepted the invitation from Campos on Monday after a group of drag queens and supporters threatened to hold a protest at the company's Menlo Park headquarters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am glad that Facebook has accepted our invitation to engage in a meaningful public dialogue with the drag queens and members of the transgender community who have been affected by the profile name policy,\" Campos said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a post on her\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/roma.roma\" target=\"_blank\"> Facebook account\u003c/a>, Sister Roma of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence said the meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, when she will join other drag queens to discuss the issue with Facebook representatives. Sister Roma, who was one of many drag queens locked out of her account, now uses her legal name, \"Michael Williams,\" in accordance with the website's policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drag queen Heklina spoke about the policy with \u003ca href=\"http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/15/why-facebook-is-deleting-drag-queen-profile-pages/\" target=\"_blank\">Tech Crunch\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“I’ve had this name for 20 years now,” she says. “I walk down the street and people say ‘Hi Heklina.’ People know me by my drag name.” She says asking her to revert to her birth name is akin to not acknowledging her as a person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked just how many drag queens this may have affected, Heklina says every single drag queen she knows has been asked to revert to a name Facebook believes is more suitable. Well-known drag queens such as Sister Roma from the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Peaches Christ and Pollo Del Mar are only able to be found on their fan pages at the moment.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Heklina, Roma and other local drag queens, including BeBe Sweetbriar and Lil Miss Hot Mess, have used \"\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/MyNameIs?src=hash\" target=\"_blank\">#MyNameIs\u003c/a>\" to raise awareness of Facebook's crackdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We gave Facebook a chance to meet with us and I'm glad they took it,\" Heklina said. \"Having my profile suspended and my name questioned has been a very frustrating experience.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The drag queens have said that listing their legal names on their profiles puts them at risk of being found by family members, co-workers and others with whom they might not want to share the content of their pages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Tuesday afternoon, more than 17,000 people have signed a \u003ca href=\"//www.change.org/p/facebook-allow-performers-to-use-their-stage-names-on-their-facebook-accounts\" target=\"_blank\">Change.org petition\u003c/a> by Seattle drag queen Olivia LaGarce asking Facebook to allow performers to keep their stage names on their profiles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook specifies on one of its \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/help/112146705538576\" target=\"_blank\">help pages\u003c/a> that people must use their real names:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Facebook is a community where people use their real identities. We require everyone to provide their real names, so you always know who you're connecting with. This helps keep our community safe. ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other things to keep in mind:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul class=\"uiList _341 _3p7 _4of _4kg\">\n\u003cli>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fcb\">The name you use should be your real name as it would be listed on your credit card, driver's license or student ID\u003c/div>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fcb\">Nicknames can be used as a first or middle name if they're a variation of your real first or last name (like Bob instead of Robert)\u003c/div>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fcb\">You can also list another name on your account (ex: maiden name, nickname or professional name) by adding an \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/help/131728300237162\">alternate name\u003c/a> to your profile\u003c/div>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fcb\">Profiles are for individual use only\u003c/div>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fcb\">Pretending to be anything or anyone isn't allowed\u003c/div>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp class=\"_3p8\">If your real name isn’t listed on your account, please \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/help/173909489329079\">change it now\u003c/a>. If you're unable to change it, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/help/448505685205813\">learn more\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Today on\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201409160900\" target=\"_blank\"> KQED's \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>,\u003c/em> host Michael Krasny discussed the issue with Sister Roma and Michelle Quinn, a tech columnist for the San Jose Mercury News. Quinn wrote in her \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/michelle-quinn/ci_26539679/quinn-drag-queens-challenge-facebooks-real-name-policy\" target=\"_blank\">column\u003c/a> yesterday:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>(Facebook) should tread carefully before changing its long-standing policy and allowing people to use fake names.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I worry about the perils in suddenly giving everyone on Facebook a choice about their identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With a billion users, Facebook has to contend with a huge trust issue. Its challenge is to reassure users that they can operate in a safe online world, where their posts are seen by those they want to see them and people are who they say they are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This policy creates accountability for what someone posts, especially critical when it comes to issues like cyberbullying. And ideally, it makes conversations more civil. Could that civility and that sense of safety be at risk if the company offers users a way to use a fake name?\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Quinn said on \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em> that Facebook's prohibition on fake names has been in place since its inception. However, the rule has been enforced haphazardly, with accounts under the names of even fictional characters making it through the system. \"Anybody can sign up for Facebook using a fake name,\" she said. \"They don't really require a whole lot of information.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One way that Facebook gets tipped off to accounts with fake names is through community reporting, Quinn said, raising the question of \"why are other drag queens like Sister Roma being reported in recent weeks?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quinn called Facebook's communication with users like Sister Roma, insisting that they using their real names, \"ham-handed\" and \"insensitive.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the media, Facebook's statement has been the following:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If people want to use an alternative name on Facebook, they have several different options available to them, including providing an alias under their name on their profile, or creating a Page specifically for that alternative persona. As part of our overall standards, we ask that people who use Facebook provide their real name on their profile.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sister Roma was not impressed. \"Wow, that feels like a genuine, heartfelt response, doesn't it? How's the rhetoric over there?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sister Roma said she loves Facebook and that \"the reason we're fighting for this is it's become such an important part of our lives. Nobody wants to see all of our online personalities disappear, and how boring would Facebook be without drag queens?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she's been known by that name in or out of drag for 25 years. 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Based on Musk's public statements of what he expects a winning bid would be worth, the incentive package likely will total at least $500 million. Sandoval would have to call a special session of the state Legislature to approve tax breaks, grants or other incentives of that magnitude.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevada's other advantages include low tax rates, plenty of sun and wind to generate \"green\" power, and relative proximity to Tesla's manufacturing plant in the San Francisco Bay Area. The industrial park 15 miles east of Reno also is near a deposit of lithium, an essential element to produce the battery cells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla will pay about half of the factory's cost. The other major investor is Panasonic, which will manufacture the lithium-ion battery cells and invest in equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lance Gilman, principal and director of the Reno Tahoe Industrial Center, said he had not been told of a final decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It would be the most exciting news of the century to me,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 167 square miles of high desert, the industrial park is the nation's largest — befitting of such a large factory. 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The windfall came because Stanford had equity: not only Google's intellectual property but also the company itself. This kind of direct investment in a startup was not allowed at the University of California — that is, until now. UC President Janet Napolitano made the change possible by removing guidelines for industry-academic relations. Her action is raising questions about ethics, funding and the future of basic research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley grad Rachel Haurwitz has an unusual passion: RNA — those molecules that work with DNA to, well, make life work. “I thought RNA was wacky and weird and sounded super-interesting,” Haurwitz says, “and that is what I wanted to study in school.” Now that study is starting to pay off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While researching RNA at Berkeley, she and her professor discovered a new inexpensive way to edit DNA. \u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">It involves manipulating the immune system of bacteria. (Yes, bacteria also have immune systems -- they, too, have to fight off viruses.) \u003c/span>Anyway, they realized this innovation could change the biotech industry and make bundles of cash. Haurwitz says, “This is just a fantastic example of how funding even very basic research can lead to translational work that you never would have anticipated.” After graduating, she and her professor started a company called Caribou. But that wasn't always the plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Doudna is Haurwitz's old professor and current business partner. “I was just a curious scientist investigating what I thought could be an interesting pathway in bacteria,” Doudna says. Her lab has been studying RNA for more than 20 years. She says people would have thought her crazy if she set out with the goal of creating Caribou’s technology. “Initially,” she says, “I wasn't thinking of applications at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doudna says this is how America has made big science breakthroughs for decades — not by chasing products but by curious investigation. And for decades, schools like UC Berkeley have made money through patents on the intellectual property or IP. (Well, more precisely since 1980. That is when the government passed the Bayh-Dole Act, which lets universities keep profits from patents developed through governmental funding.) Now, however, the University of California hopes to make money in a new way—from the success of the companies themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carol Mimura is from UC Berkeley's office of \u003ca href=\"http://ipira.berkeley.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Intellectual Property & Industry Research Alliances.\u003c/a> She says Napolitano's new policy will allow UC to invest directly in companies that come out of its schools. This is already done at private universities such as MIT, Stanford and Cornell, which, by the way, takes this one step further by turning postdoc pay into a form of angel investment. Company equity can yield bigger returns, such as with Google, but it’s more tied to corporate success than to intellectual innovation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/166254521&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Napolitano made direct investment possible by removing the 1989 set of industry-academia guidelines. The rescission has roiled faculty — not only because of the change but also because of the abrupt way she did it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Clare is a physics professor at Cal and chair of the University Committee on Research Policy in the Academic Senate. It’s the representative body where faculty can weigh in on issues like this. He says there was no indication of these sweeping changes and that the official statement made it sound completely benign. “They said that these are just some technical and trivial changes,” he says, “and it is not even going to be brought up to the Senate.” That was in October, after Napolitano had been president for two weeks. She declined to comment for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clare says the changes are not trivial. He is concerned they will divert resources from basic research — the kind that eventually leads to really big breakthroughs. “I am really worried at a fundamental level that the office of the president is spelling research: T-E-C-H T-R-A-N-S-F-E-R.” Tech transfer — that is, innovations that can be sold to corporations. “We are supposed to be the producers of knowledge,” Clare says, “much more than the producers of widgets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tension between intellectual and commercial pursuits in universities is nothing new. Back in 1918, Thorstein Veblen wrote about how corporate intrusion threatened academia in his \u003ca href=\"http://www.ditext.com/veblen/veblen.html\">memorandum\u003c/a> on “the Conduct of Universities By Business Men.” Today, there are tech transfer offices and startup incubators right on school campuses. Faculty members feel the pressure to develop patents, not just publish papers. According to the \u003ca href=\"http://chronicle.com/article/U-of-Maryland-to-Count/132261/\">Chronicle of Higher Education,\u003c/a> over two dozen institutions now have policies that award promotion and tenure to faculty that generate patents that sell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chris Newfield is a UC professor and author of \"Unmaking the Public University.\" College is increasingly portrayed as a place to train workers and churn out startups, he says. Public schools like the University of California are feeling pressure to keep up, especially amid huge budget cuts. The UC system lost almost a billion dollars in funding between 2008 and 2013. “The public university is becoming more dependent on private revenues,” Newfield says, and subsequently “it is becoming more interested in serving private interests.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The long-term worries over Napolitano's removal of academic-industry guidelines stem from immediate concerns about conflicts of interest — things like departmental favoritism, or the use of graduate students as labor for commercial research. Boundaries could blur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consider Professor Doudna's position. Her graduate students are working on research related to Caribou, a company she co-founded that could profit from that research. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Aaron Mendelson\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_145901\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/fremontfuture.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-145901\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/fremontfuture-640x397.jpg\" alt=\"Artist's rendering of proposed Capitol Avenue development in Fremont's downtown district. \" width=\"640\" height=\"397\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artist’s rendering of proposed Capitol Avenue development in Fremont’s downtown district.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">F\u003c/span>remont, the Bay Area’s fourth-most-populous city, has long been overshadowed by bigger neighbors. But the city hopes to make a name for itself by taking advantage of a strong economy, its location within Silicon Valley and access to transit. That effort starts with building a real downtown for Fremont — from scratch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"20\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/164929325&color=ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fremont was born when \u003ca href=\"https://www.fremont.gov/149/History\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">five different communities merged in 1956\u003c/a> for fear of being annexed by Hayward. Those five areas — Centerville, Irvington, Mission San Jose, Niles and Warm Springs — had their own centers, but the new city of Fremont never had a real heart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Mayor Bill Harrison puts it, “Being born and raised in Fremont, I know that since its incorporation in 1956, Fremont didn’t have a downtown.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fremont, now a city of 220,000, has a central area that looks classically suburban, with lots of cars, wide streets and generous amounts of parking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a groundbreaking for \u003ca href=\"https://www.fremont.gov/DocumentCenter/View/20564\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the city’s downtown initiative\u003c/a> in July, food trucks and live music were on hand to give residents a taste of the more urban feel that Fremont seeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been waiting forever for a downtown,” said Sally Morgan, a resident of 27 years who attended the event. “I just would love to live near a downtown. I mean, that’s part of the community, right?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morgan says she misses the central business district in Los Altos, where she grew up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a speech at the groundbreaking, the mayor gave thanks to the woman he called the city’s “downtown czar,” Deputy City Manager Jessica von Borck.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘I’ve been waiting forever for a downtown. … I mean, that’s part of the community, right?’\u003ccite>— Sally Morgan,\u003cbr>\nlongtime Fremont resident\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Yes, we’re suburbia right now,” von Borck says. “And it looks very much that way, but it’s riddled with opportunity because it is underdeveloped.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Von Borck says there will be denser development here, and eventually a new city hall. The entire downtown effort could cost $250 million from a mix of public and private sources. The funding for the first step being celebrated at the groundbreaking comes from a $5.8 million \u003ca href=\"http://www.onebayarea.org/funding-and-grants.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">One Bay Area Grant \u003c/a>awarded to the city in 2013. The project will extend Capitol Avenue, connecting employment and retail centers and developing, Mayor Harrison promises, a real Main Street feel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As things stand today, von Borck says, “a lot of our community needs to go outside of Fremont in order to seek out restaurant options or entertainment options.” She hopes a busier, pedestrian- and transit-friendly downtown will convince residents to stick around instead of heading to Palo Alto or Livermore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Egon Terplan, the regional planning director with \u003ca href=\"http://www.spur.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SPUR, the San Francisco-based urban planning organization\u003c/a>, says the lack of a downtown in Fremont is due in part to the fact much of the area was rural and agricultural. In fact, his grandmother grew up on a farm near the city’s planned downtown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Terplan says that a city creating a downtown needs to focus on how buildings relate to walkways and streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How close are they to the sidewalk?” Terplan says, reciting a list of key questions. “Is there a big setback with a parking lot behind it? Or is there a generous sidewalk that you can walk by? Does the ground floor of the building have active uses that are inviting, that make people want to be a pedestrian?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those are small things, but if you do them right, you can see the difference from space. In an event room at SPUR, Terplan gestures to a satellite map of the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You see a couple places where there’s a grid pattern, there’s a set of taller buildings surrounded by often a leafier residential neighborhood. And so the downtown pops in that context,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Terplan points to downtowns like San Jose, Palo Alto and San Mateo. On the satellite map, Fremont doesn’t pop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t jump out as much a traditional downtown,” Terplan says, the kind that was built before World War II.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Terplan says it will help if Fremont plans around transit. The current downtown is about half a mile from the city’s existing BART station. BART falls just outside downtown, \u003ca href=\"http://www.fremont.gov/DocumentCenter/View/18050\">as depicted on city planning documents.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next year, Fremont’s second BART station is expected to open. To be known as the South Fremont/Warm Springs stop, it will be the first step in BART’s march into Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the reasons that’s a game-changer for Fremont is that it transforms it from being the end of the line of a system, to being in the middle of the line,” says Terplan. He adds that his grandmother used to be able take the Southern Pacific from Fremont to San Jose. BART will make that trip possible again when the BART Silicon Valley line opens in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The station in the Warm Springs area is 6 miles south of downtown, and the city has big plans for the area. If downtown Fremont is about amenities and a civic heart for people in Fremont, then Warm Springs is about luring business currently outside Fremont.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Jessica von Borck puts it, “The Warm Springs innovation district is more outward-facing, and finding a place for Fremont within Silicon Valley itself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has a slick website called \u003ca href=\"http://www.thinksiliconvalley.com\">Think Silicon Valley\u003c/a>, touting its benefits to tech companies. The city is already home to Tesla Motors and \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_21734967/study-fremont-is-nations-top-city-startup-tech\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a host of tech firms\u003c/a>, and it wants more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are a sleeping dragon,” von Borck says, laughing. “We have a lot of opportunities that are really unknown to a lot of companies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fremont hopes that development around Warm Springs, already the city’s largest employment center, \u003ca href=\"http://fremont.gov/DocumentCenter/View/18691\">will add 12,000 jobs\u003c/a> over the next quarter-century. If all the planning comes together, the sleeping dragon could be about to wake up.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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I mean, that’s part of the community, right?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morgan says she misses the central business district in Los Altos, where she grew up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a speech at the groundbreaking, the mayor gave thanks to the woman he called the city’s “downtown czar,” Deputy City Manager Jessica von Borck.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘I’ve been waiting forever for a downtown. … I mean, that’s part of the community, right?’\u003ccite>— Sally Morgan,\u003cbr>\nlongtime Fremont resident\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Yes, we’re suburbia right now,” von Borck says. “And it looks very much that way, but it’s riddled with opportunity because it is underdeveloped.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Von Borck says there will be denser development here, and eventually a new city hall. The entire downtown effort could cost $250 million from a mix of public and private sources. 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The project will extend Capitol Avenue, connecting employment and retail centers and developing, Mayor Harrison promises, a real Main Street feel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As things stand today, von Borck says, “a lot of our community needs to go outside of Fremont in order to seek out restaurant options or entertainment options.” She hopes a busier, pedestrian- and transit-friendly downtown will convince residents to stick around instead of heading to Palo Alto or Livermore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Egon Terplan, the regional planning director with \u003ca href=\"http://www.spur.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SPUR, the San Francisco-based urban planning organization\u003c/a>, says the lack of a downtown in Fremont is due in part to the fact much of the area was rural and agricultural. In fact, his grandmother grew up on a farm near the city’s planned downtown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Terplan says that a city creating a downtown needs to focus on how buildings relate to walkways and streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How close are they to the sidewalk?” Terplan says, reciting a list of key questions. “Is there a big setback with a parking lot behind it? Or is there a generous sidewalk that you can walk by? Does the ground floor of the building have active uses that are inviting, that make people want to be a pedestrian?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those are small things, but if you do them right, you can see the difference from space. In an event room at SPUR, Terplan gestures to a satellite map of the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You see a couple places where there’s a grid pattern, there’s a set of taller buildings surrounded by often a leafier residential neighborhood. 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If downtown Fremont is about amenities and a civic heart for people in Fremont, then Warm Springs is about luring business currently outside Fremont.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Jessica von Borck puts it, “The Warm Springs innovation district is more outward-facing, and finding a place for Fremont within Silicon Valley itself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has a slick website called \u003ca href=\"http://www.thinksiliconvalley.com\">Think Silicon Valley\u003c/a>, touting its benefits to tech companies. 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After the 2008 campaign, he advised companies including Boeing and General Electric and gave paid speeches to groups and companies around the globe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was summoned back to the White House in 2011 to serve as Mr. Obama’s chief political adviser as the president retooled to face a divided Congress and geared up for his re-election bid. Since leaving the administration last year, Mr. Plouffe has served as a commentator on Bloomberg TV and ABC News.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In his statement, Kalanick said, \"I’ve come to realize we are in the middle of a political campaign\" against the taxi industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That campaign has surfaced in battles with regulators in many cities across the country, including San Francisco, and in California and many other states. 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