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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Emilie Raguso\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_121287\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-121287\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/BSDC-map-640x477.png\" alt=\"This Berkeley Student District Campaign map was approved by the Berkeley City Council on Tuesday night. (City of Berkeley)\" width=\"640\" height=\"477\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This Berkeley Student District Campaign map was approved by the Berkeley City Council on Tuesday night. (City of Berkeley)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What some described as \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/berkeley-city-council/\">a historic move\u003c/a> by the Berkeley City Council to approve\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/12/04/berkeley-redistricting-map-approved-referendum-idea-looms/\"> a new student-majority district\u003c/a> centered around Telegraph Avenue was decried by others Tuesday night as “gerrymandering” aimed at splitting the city’s progressive voice and excluding some of the most active students from the mix.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council voted 6-3, on second reading, to adopt\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/berkeley-redistricting/\"> a new redistricting map\u003c/a>, with council members \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/kriss-worthington/\">Kriss Worthington\u003c/a>, Jesse Arreguín and \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/max-anderson/\">Max Anderson\u003c/a> voting against the proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fate of Worthington’s district, District 7, has been the focus of most of the outcry about the city’s new redistricting map. Much of the discussion since July has revolved around whether the city would adopt a map that’s been\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/04/26/redistricting-plans-focus-on-student-majority-district/\"> part of the public dialogue since April\u003c/a> or one submitted in July after the submission process had officially ended. The newer map was created by \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/stefan-elgstrand/\">Stefan Elgstrand\u003c/a>, an intern in Worthington’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The earlier map, via the \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/berkeley-student-district-campaign/\">Berkeley Student District Campaign\u003c/a> (BSDC), has District 7 concentrated mostly on the south side of campus, while Elgstrand’s map, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/united-student-district-amendment/\">United Student District Amendment \u003c/a>(USDA), includes parts of Berkeley's Northside neighborhood, with fewer blocks included south of campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have no choice but to go forward with a referendum,” Elgstrand told the council during public comment Tuesday night. He said the BSDC map excludes too many students, many of whom live in Cal co-op houses, dorms and International House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_121289\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-121289\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/USDA-map-640x407.png\" alt=\"An intern in Councilman Kriss Worthington’s office created an alternate vision of a student district that adds Foothill, Bowles, Stern, I-House and 11 co-ops. (City of Berkeley)\" width=\"640\" height=\"407\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An intern in Councilman Kriss Worthington’s office created an alternate vision of a student district that adds Foothill, Bowles, Stern, I-House and 11 co-ops. (City of Berkeley)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city’s population must be split as evenly as possible among the eight council districts, which results in about 14,000 residents per district. As a result, the student-aged population, estimated at 25,000 to 30,000 people, will necessarily be divided. The ultimate question for city officials has been how to make the cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the numbers, the difference between the two maps is not significant. The BSDC map includes 87 percent student-aged voters, and the USDA map includes 90 percent. But supporters of the USDA map have said the real problem is that too many of the most progressive and diverse students — some of whom currently live in District 7 — are slated to be excluded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emotions ran high among council members discussing the maps Tuesday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilman Max Anderson said he saw the new map as “part of a continuum” of political maneuvering by the council majority aimed to concentrate power while shutting down the efforts of Arreguín and Worthington, whom Anderson described as “the two progressives” on the council. Anderson said the movement started with the\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2010/11/03/election-2010-results-the-winners/\"> 2010 election\u003c/a>, and described what he saw as an influx of hefty campaign contributions from Berkeley’s “commercial interests” and an increase in “partisan politics.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the same rodeo,” he said. “There may be different bulls and different broncos being ridden, but the direction this is moving in is in the same path.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Accusations flew in both directions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilman Gordon Wozniak claimed that Worthington had, in 2011, tried to “torpedo the whole Student District Campaign” and had previously proposed a map that did not include the co-ops, which have been the focus of so much of the discussion over the past few months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He seems to change his argument depending on what year he’s in,” Wozniak said of Worthington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Worthington bristled at Wozniak’s suggestions, saying he himself was the first member of the council to “address the issue of student districts” and that he had never tried to “torpedo” one of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a clear record in emails and a paper trail,” he said, calling Wozniak’s statements “provably false.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was actually the first person to say we should do what turned into \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/measure-r/\">Measure R\u003c/a>,” Worthington said. “Nobody else can show you a document. They weren’t even thinking about this back then.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lengthy discussion about the maps took place \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/12/04/berkeley-redistricting-map-approved-referendum-idea-looms/\">earlier this month \u003c/a>when a council majority approved the BSDC map on first reading. Tuesday night, adoption of the map was up for “second reading.” In most instances, once agenda items have gotten to this point in the legal process, there’s little debate or discussion on them. But this was not the case Tuesday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some officials and community members testified that the council should reconsider its previous vote and, instead, approve Elgstrand’s USDA map. Supporters of this map said it does a better job protecting the progressive voice and keeping neighborhood groups like Halcyon and Le Conte together. Some questioned the legitimacy of the public process surrounding the BSDC map.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has been divisive and built on lies and misinformation,” said one student, Matthew Lewis, who said he is involved with the Residence Hall Assembly, an organization representing Cal dorms. “It is not a good map. It divides students and it divides neighborhoods, and therefore it is bad for both.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/george-beier/\">George Beier\u003c/a>, president of the Willard Neighborhood Association, said, in fact, the adopted BSDC map does a better job keeping Willard neighbors together in a single district. Beier — who ran against Worthington in District 7 in 2010 — also said he believed issues south of campus — related to crime, lighting and public safety — would be able to be addressed better under the BSDC map. Though he said he thought either map would be a step forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the public speakers both Tuesday night and earlier this month told council they supported Elgstrand’s map, and some council members had expressed concern that a map meant to unify students was in fact dividing them. But Cal student \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/safeena-mecklai/\">Safeena Mecklai\u003c/a>, ASUC external affairs vice president, told the council Tuesday that, despite the public testimony, the campus is “not particularly divided.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the BSDC map passed, students were excited,” Mecklai said. “It’s a very small number of students who are supporting the referendum.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The clock begins ticking Thursday, when the city clerk ratifies the council’s vote, for those who wish to pursue a referendum. They will have 30 days to collect 5,275 signatures to challenge the council’s decision. Some have noted that the group may face an uphill battle if students are the target audience, as many may be leaving for winter break when the semester ends Dec. 20.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If they succeed, the county registrar would need to verify the signatures, which could be relatively quick — if a random sample comes back as legitimate — or longer — if there are problems with the sample, which would trigger a more thorough examination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assuming the signatures are sufficient, the referendum would automatically suspend the council’s decision on the BSDC map, which would revert council boundaries to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityofberkeley.info/Clerk/Home/Council_District_Maps.aspx\">existing districts\u003c/a>. The council would then decide whether to revoke its vote, or put the issue to the voters. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have no choice but to go forward with a referendum,” Elgstrand told the council during public comment Tuesday night. He said the BSDC map excludes too many students, many of whom live in Cal co-op houses, dorms and International House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_121289\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-121289\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/USDA-map-640x407.png\" alt=\"An intern in Councilman Kriss Worthington’s office created an alternate vision of a student district that adds Foothill, Bowles, Stern, I-House and 11 co-ops. (City of Berkeley)\" width=\"640\" height=\"407\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An intern in Councilman Kriss Worthington’s office created an alternate vision of a student district that adds Foothill, Bowles, Stern, I-House and 11 co-ops. (City of Berkeley)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city’s population must be split as evenly as possible among the eight council districts, which results in about 14,000 residents per district. As a result, the student-aged population, estimated at 25,000 to 30,000 people, will necessarily be divided. The ultimate question for city officials has been how to make the cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the numbers, the difference between the two maps is not significant. The BSDC map includes 87 percent student-aged voters, and the USDA map includes 90 percent. But supporters of the USDA map have said the real problem is that too many of the most progressive and diverse students — some of whom currently live in District 7 — are slated to be excluded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emotions ran high among council members discussing the maps Tuesday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilman Max Anderson said he saw the new map as “part of a continuum” of political maneuvering by the council majority aimed to concentrate power while shutting down the efforts of Arreguín and Worthington, whom Anderson described as “the two progressives” on the council. Anderson said the movement started with the\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2010/11/03/election-2010-results-the-winners/\"> 2010 election\u003c/a>, and described what he saw as an influx of hefty campaign contributions from Berkeley’s “commercial interests” and an increase in “partisan politics.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the same rodeo,” he said. “There may be different bulls and different broncos being ridden, but the direction this is moving in is in the same path.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Accusations flew in both directions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilman Gordon Wozniak claimed that Worthington had, in 2011, tried to “torpedo the whole Student District Campaign” and had previously proposed a map that did not include the co-ops, which have been the focus of so much of the discussion over the past few months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He seems to change his argument depending on what year he’s in,” Wozniak said of Worthington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Worthington bristled at Wozniak’s suggestions, saying he himself was the first member of the council to “address the issue of student districts” and that he had never tried to “torpedo” one of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a clear record in emails and a paper trail,” he said, calling Wozniak’s statements “provably false.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was actually the first person to say we should do what turned into \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/measure-r/\">Measure R\u003c/a>,” Worthington said. “Nobody else can show you a document. They weren’t even thinking about this back then.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lengthy discussion about the maps took place \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/12/04/berkeley-redistricting-map-approved-referendum-idea-looms/\">earlier this month \u003c/a>when a council majority approved the BSDC map on first reading. Tuesday night, adoption of the map was up for “second reading.” In most instances, once agenda items have gotten to this point in the legal process, there’s little debate or discussion on them. But this was not the case Tuesday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some officials and community members testified that the council should reconsider its previous vote and, instead, approve Elgstrand’s USDA map. Supporters of this map said it does a better job protecting the progressive voice and keeping neighborhood groups like Halcyon and Le Conte together. Some questioned the legitimacy of the public process surrounding the BSDC map.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has been divisive and built on lies and misinformation,” said one student, Matthew Lewis, who said he is involved with the Residence Hall Assembly, an organization representing Cal dorms. “It is not a good map. It divides students and it divides neighborhoods, and therefore it is bad for both.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/george-beier/\">George Beier\u003c/a>, president of the Willard Neighborhood Association, said, in fact, the adopted BSDC map does a better job keeping Willard neighbors together in a single district. Beier — who ran against Worthington in District 7 in 2010 — also said he believed issues south of campus — related to crime, lighting and public safety — would be able to be addressed better under the BSDC map. Though he said he thought either map would be a step forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the public speakers both Tuesday night and earlier this month told council they supported Elgstrand’s map, and some council members had expressed concern that a map meant to unify students was in fact dividing them. But Cal student \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/safeena-mecklai/\">Safeena Mecklai\u003c/a>, ASUC external affairs vice president, told the council Tuesday that, despite the public testimony, the campus is “not particularly divided.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the BSDC map passed, students were excited,” Mecklai said. “It’s a very small number of students who are supporting the referendum.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The clock begins ticking Thursday, when the city clerk ratifies the council’s vote, for those who wish to pursue a referendum. They will have 30 days to collect 5,275 signatures to challenge the council’s decision. Some have noted that the group may face an uphill battle if students are the target audience, as many may be leaving for winter break when the semester ends Dec. 20.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If they succeed, the county registrar would need to verify the signatures, which could be relatively quick — if a random sample comes back as legitimate — or longer — if there are problems with the sample, which would trigger a more thorough examination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assuming the signatures are sufficient, the referendum would automatically suspend the council’s decision on the BSDC map, which would revert council boundaries to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityofberkeley.info/Clerk/Home/Council_District_Maps.aspx\">existing districts\u003c/a>. The council would then decide whether to revoke its vote, or put the issue to the voters. 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But the playing field will be known starting next fall as Kabam Field under a naming-rights deal with a San Francisco videogame maker.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Give credit to the people overseeing the football program at UC Berkeley. They’re not satisfied with having one of the worst teams in the nation, a squad that won just one — one! — of its 12 games this year. They’re not content with a program whose \u003ca href=\"http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/AcademicPerformanceFacts-2013-11-18.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">past academic performance\u003c/a> makes a travesty of Cal’s reputation as one of the best public universities in the United States. They’re not even happy having embarked on \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/story/2013/02/25/116965/uc_berkeley_struggles_with_unproven_stadium_funding_model\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a shaky funding scheme\u003c/a> to finance Memorial Stadium’s $320 million renovation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Cal’s buffing up the football program’s luster by \u003ca href=\"http://www.calbears.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=30100&ATCLID=209332506\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">awarding naming rights\u003c/a> for the gridiron where the Golden Bears suffered humiliation after humiliation this year. Since there’s no money in naming the field for one of the team’s great figures of the past — \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/sports/ci_23950177/purdy-pappy-waldorf-coaching-legend-at-both-cal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pappy Waldorf\u003c/a>, who got Cal to the Rose Bowl three times, say, or \u003ca href=\"http://www.joeroth12.com/joe.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joe Roth\u003c/a>, the star quarterback cut down by cancer in the ’70s — the university is striking a deal with San Francisco-based videogame maker Kabam. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting next fall, the Bears’ home turf will be called “Kabam Field at California Memorial Stadium.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I am not much of a gamer myself, not having touched a controller since the early days of “\u003ca href=\"http://goldeneyegame.com/#/home/accolades\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Goldeneye\u003c/a>,” but I am sure Kabam’s titles are top notch. 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Not only was she the rare outsider chosen to lead UC, she did not even have a background in education.\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/tv/programs/newsroom/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-117396\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/newsroom-115x65.jpg\" alt=\"newsroom-115x65\" width=\"115\" height=\"65\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Channeling Hillary Clinton, the first thing Napolitano did when she got here was embark on a listening tour of UC’s campuses. She has not exactly been met with open arms. Student protesters, angry at her role in deportations as Homeland Security Chief, called on her to resign — before she started. And some student governments passed resolutions of “no confidence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Napolitano seems not to lack confidence in \u003cem>herself\u003c/em>. And why should she? 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And her brother lives in the East Bay, where he works at Sandia National Lab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Consider the possibilities\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, Dianne Feinstein will be 85 and may well not run for reelection (she’s currently the oldest member of the U.S. Senate, a distinction she apparently loathes). Of course others have their eyes on that seat — Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom and state Attorney General Kamala Harris. One of them will likely run for governor. How odd would it be for Napolitano, assuming she’s done a good job at UC, to run for the Senate? Or governor?\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Stranger things have happened. Like a body builder/action movie star becoming governor.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Or what about this: Jerry Brown may get to fill another seat on the California Supreme Court. How about a fellow governor? He seems to like “non-judges” and unconventional choices (see former UC Berkeley Law Professor Goodwin Liu). 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will nominate Federal Reserve vice chair Janet Yellen to succeed Ben Bernanke as chairman of the nation’s central bank, the White House said Tuesday. Yellen would be the first woman to head the powerful Fed, taking over at a pivotal time for the economy and the banking industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Yellen and Bernanke are scheduled to appear with Obama at the White House on Wednesday for a formal announcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bernanke’s term ends in January, completing a remarkable eight-year tenure in which he helped pull the U.S. economy out of the worst financial crisis and recession since the 1930’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under Bernanke’s leadership, the Fed created extraordinary programs after the financial crisis erupted in 2008. It lent money to banks after credit markets froze, cut its key short-term interest rate to near zero and bought trillions in bonds to lower long-term borrowing rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those programs are credited with helping save the U.S. banking system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yellen emerged as the leading candidate after Lawrence Summers, a former Treasury secretary whom Obama was thought to favor, withdrew from consideration last month in the face of rising opposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yellen, 67, would likely continue steering Fed policy in the same direction as Bernanke. A close ally of the chairman, she has been a key architect of the Fed’s efforts under Bernanke to keep interest rates near record lows to support the economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As vice chair since 2010, Yellen has helped manage both the Fed’s traditional tool of short-term rates and the unconventional programs it launched to help sustain the economy after the financial crisis erupted in 2008. These include the Fed’s monthly bond purchases and its guidance to investors about the likely direction of rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s an excellent choice and I believe she’ll be confirmed by a wide margin,” said Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., a member of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Obama’s choice of Yellen coincides with a key turning point for the Fed. Within the next several months, the Fed is expected to start slowing the pace of its Treasury and mortgage bond purchases if the economy strengthens. The Fed’s purchases have been intended to keep loan rates low to encourage borrowing and spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet even after the Fed scales back its bond buying, its policies will remain geared toward keeping borrowing rates low to try to accelerate growth and lower unemployment. The unemployment rate is a still-high 7.3 percent. Few expect the Fed to start raising the short-term rate it controls before 2015 at the earliest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yellen had long been considered a logical candidate for the chairmanship in part because of her expertise as an economist, her years as a top bank regulator and her experience in helping manage the Fed’s polices. Her understanding of the financial system is widely respected: Before the crisis struck, she was among a minority of top economists who had warned correctly that subprime mortgages posed a severe threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the Fed, Yellen has built a reputation as a “dove” — someone who is typically more concerned about keeping interest rates low to reduce unemployment than about raising them to avert high inflation. Her nomination could face resistance from congressional critics who argue that the Fed’s low-rate policies have raised the risk of high inflation and might be breeding dangerous bubbles in assets like stocks or real estate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Yellen has said that when the economy finally begins growing faster and rates will need to be raised to prevent high inflation, she will move in that direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the weeks leading to her selection, Yellen and Summers emerged as the two top contenders and were drawn into a highly unusual public battle. Yellen and Summers themselves kept quiet. But their warring camps waged a fight that stirred up Congress, spawned opinion columns and letters from Congress and triggered commentary from notables both inside and outside the economics profession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yellen drew outspoken support from Senate Democrats, a third of whom signed a letter this summer urging Obama to choose her. Last month, more than 350 economists signed a letter to Obama urging him to nominate Yellen. The letter argued that Yellen understands the relationship between interest-rate policy and economic growth, possesses a “nuanced understanding” of job markets and is inclined as a policymaker to consider all points of view.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If confirmed by the Senate, Yellen would be the first Democrat chosen to lead the Fed since Paul Volcker was picked by Jimmy Carter in 1979. Bernanke, who served for eight years, and his predecessor, Alan Greenspan, who did so for 18½ years, were Republicans. She would also be the first vice chair of the Fed to ascend to the chairmanship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yellen served as a Fed board member for three years in the 1990s before leaving to head the Council of Economic Advisers in the Clinton administration. She also served for six years as president of the Fed’s regional bank in San Francisco before Obama chose her in 2010 for the No. 2 spot on the Fed’s seven-member board in Washington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to helping devise the Fed’s rate policies, she has been instrumental in carrying out another top priority of Bernanke’s — making the Fed, an institution whose operations were long walled off from the public view, far more open and transparent. The Bernanke-led Fed did so through news conferences, clearer public communications and detailed guidance about the Fed’s expectations for the economy and policymaking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yellen, like Bernanke, was a distinguished college economics professor before joining the Fed. She taught at the University of California at Berkeley from 1980 until 1994 when President Bill Clinton chose her to join the Fed’s board in Washington. She served on the Fed’s board of governors until February 1997, when Clinton chose her to lead the White House Council of Economic Advisers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yellen would not only be the first woman to head the U.S. central bank; she also would be the first woman ever to head a major central bank anywhere in the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yellen was born in Brooklyn and graduated from Brown University in 1967 with highest honors in economics. She received her doctorate in economics in 1971 from Yale, where she studied under the Nobel Prize-winning economist James Tobin. In a 1997 interview with Business Week magazine, Tobin described Yellen as having “a genius for expressing complicated arguments simply and clearly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was an assistant professor at Harvard University from 1971 to 1976 and then worked as an economist at the Federal Reserve in Washington from 1977 to 1978. She met her husband, George Akerlof, in a Fed cafeteria. The two worked together for many years on the Berkeley faculty. Akerlof shared a Nobel in economics in 2001 with Joseph E. Stiglitz and A. Michael Spence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Photo: Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP/Getty Images\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At a press conference at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Goran Hansson, secretary of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine, announced James Rothman from Yale, Randy Schekman from UC Berkeley and Thomas Südhof from Stanford, as joint winners of the 2013 Nobel Prize.(Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 10:30 a.m. Monday: \u003c/strong>Two Bay Area scientists are part of a trio of researchers to win the 2013 Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology for unraveling how cells move major molecules. Sweden's Karolinska Institute announced the prize early this morning for Randy Schekman of UC Berkeley, \u003ca href=\"http://neuroscience.stanford.edu/research/laboratories/SudhofLab.html\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas Südhof \u003c/a>of Stanford and James Rothman of Yale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview this morning with KQED's Joshua Johnson, Schekman said he planned to use the award as a platform for calling attention to cuts in federal funding for basic scientific research. \"I think the biomedical enterprise in the U.S. is in considerable peril as a result of this federal paralysis,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Südhof and Schekman were informed of the award in early-morning phone calls. Before we get to that, here's what the Nobel Prize organization says about the research it's honoring today:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The 2013 Nobel Prize honours three scientists who have solved the mystery of how the cell organizes its transport system. Each cell is a factory that produces and exports molecules. For instance, insulin is manufactured and released into the blood and chemical signals called neurotransmitters are sent from one nerve cell to another. These molecules are transported around the cell in small packages called vesicles. The three Nobel Laureates have discovered the molecular principles that govern how this cargo is delivered to the right place at the right time in the cell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Randy Schekman discovered a set of genes that were required for vesicle traffic. James Rothman unravelled protein machinery that allows vesicles to fuse with their targets to permit transfer of cargo. Thomas Südhof revealed how signals instruct vesicles to release their cargo with precision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through their discoveries, Rothman, Schekman and Südhof have revealed the exquisitely precise control system for the transport and delivery of cellular cargo. Disturbances in this system have deleterious effects and contribute to conditions such as neurological diseases, diabetes, and immunological disorders.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Schekman told us he got the call from Nobel officials at 1:30 this morning. When the phone rang, he said, \"My wife called out, 'This is it! This is it!' and I picked it up, and I was kind of shaking. And — but I heard a reassuring, Swedish accent on the other side, offering me congratulations and reassuring me that this was not a hoax call.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford's \u003ca href=\"http://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2013/10/07/stanfordsthomas-sudhof-wins-2013-nobel-prize-in-medicine/\" target=\"_blank\">Scope science blog says\u003c/a> Südhof got the word while traveling overseas: \"So, where was Südhof when he got the big news? 'I got the call while I was driving [in Spain] and like a good citizen I pulled over and picked up the phone,' he told the Associated Press this morning. 'To be honest, I thought at first it was a joke. I have a lot of friends who might play these kinds of tricks.'\" Südhof, like Schekman, also \u003ca href=\"http://med.stanford.edu/ism/2013/october/nobel-sudhof.html\" target=\"_blank\">expressed surprise\u003c/a>: \"I'm absolutely surprised. Every scientist dreams of this. I didn't realize there was chance I would be awarded the prize. I am stunned and really happy. ...\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lisa Krieger of the San Jose Mercury News \u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/news/ci_24251685/nobel-prizes-this-week-5-breakthroughs-that-have\" target=\"_blank\">points out\u003c/a> that all three of today's winners have Stanford connections: \"Schekman earned his Ph.D. there, and Rothman's early research started on campus labs. Südhof is a current member of the faculty.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Südhof and Schekman are also investigators with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.hhmi.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Howard Hughes Medical Institute\u003c/a>. UC Berkeley now \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeley.edu/news/features/nobel/\" target=\"_blank\">boasts\u003c/a> 23 Nobel laureates. Stanford is home to \u003ca href=\"http://news.stanford.edu/nobel/\" target=\"_blank\">20 Nobel winners\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schekman said today that he had let his federal National Institutes of Health funding lapse since beginning work as a Hughes investigator. That means his research is not vulnerable to what he called \"the assault on the federal government and in particular the drastic cutbacks in funding at the level of the NIH.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schekman added that the United States is risking the loss of precious intellectual resources by pulling back on research funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have experience here at Berkeley, other institutions likewise, of foreign scholars who come here to set up shop, who are returning home as a result of what's going on in Washington,\" Schekman said. \"We're losing a generation of young scholars who are unwilling to fight this battle.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schekman, Südhof and Rothman will split a prize of about $1.2 million.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/radio/about/staff/joshua-johnson.jsp\" target=\"_blank\">Joshua Johnson\u003c/a> of KQED News contributed to this report. \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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But about a dozen facilities, including the main campus library and a major classroom building, remain closed. Officials say students should assume classes in those buildings — listed below — will be canceled today. Classes in all other buildings will go on as scheduled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Alumni House\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Bancroft Library\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>California Hall\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Central Heating Plant\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Doe Library\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Durant Hall\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Dwinelle Hall\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Dwinelle Annex\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Edwards Track (East and West areas)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Haas Pavilion\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>EH&S Facility\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post:\u003c/strong> UC Berkeley officials say a copper theft at the university may have led to a power outage and electrical blast and fire that darkened the campus Monday evening. Several people were hurt in the explosion and fire, near California Hall near the center of campus. Still unknown at midnight Monday: Whether power will be restored in time for classes to resume tomorrow morning. An official campus announcement late Monday says:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Another update is expected to be available by 6 a.m. Tuesday. Updates will continue to be posted on the \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeley.edu/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">UC Berkeley home page\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"http://emergency.berkeley.edu/\" target=\"_blank\">UC Berkeley emergency page\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/UCBerkeley\" target=\"_blank\">campus Facebook page\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ucberkeley\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter feed\u003c/a>, and the toll-free campus emergency information line at 1-800-705-9998.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>KQED News Associate Berkeleyside liveblogged the emergency: \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/09/30/breaking-power-outage-explosion-reported-on-cal-campus/\" target=\"_blank\">Cal: Explosion was two-stories tall, as wide as a two-lane street\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Chronicle quotes UC Berkeley spokesman Dan Mogulof, who told reporters that the incident could be related to a copper theft discovered last week. Mogulof said the theft was carried out by a crew using heavy equipment:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"The damage that could be seen and assessed was repaired over the weekend, but it now appears that the damage caused by the unknown vandals may have been far more extensive and may have been the cause of what happened,\" [Mogulof] said.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->Here are a couple of Twitter images of the incident as it unfolded, followed by a Storify of the leading evening coverage of the event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/dailycal\">@dailycal\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Sgrossman\">@sgrossman\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://t.co/sn8C3jXBw4\">pic.twitter.com/sn8C3jXBw4\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Alice Oh (@missonederland) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/missonederland/statuses/384859832672473088\">October 1, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>THERE WAS JUST AN EXPLOSION IN A BUILDING WTF BERKELEY \u003ca href=\"http://t.co/OIYsKe2DZ0\">pic.twitter.com/OIYsKe2DZ0\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Jasmine Park (@jasmintfosho) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/jasmintfosho/statuses/384856294898688000\">October 1, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cdiv class=\"storify\">\u003ciframe src=\"//storify.com/danbrekke/explosion-fire-and-power-outage-at-uc-berkeley/embed\" frameborder=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"750\">\u003c/iframe>[\u003ca href=\"//storify.com/danbrekke/explosion-fire-and-power-outage-at-uc-berkeley\" target=\"_blank\">View the story \"Explosion, Fire and Power Outage at UC Berkeley\" on Storify\u003c/a>]\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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