So season 2 of Raised by Wolves is bonkers. I am not sure if this show knows what it is doing or is ever going to answer any questions. They keep adding more layers of unsolved mysteries.
Well, not so much about food, but I was grilling some onions for my sausage sandwich for lunch, and I remembered a conversation with a tenant, maybe 20 years ago. I was in his space discussing something, and he was fixing his lunch, and I said that it looked good, he turned to me and said "well, *I* have to eat it".
Why does the US and western countries continue to let authoritarian oligarchs and cartel members purchase real estate, park their money, park their super yachts and allow their children to go to school on the west when we know most of that money has been illegally obtained? We shouldn’t allow this.
Obviously it is money but come on, how much can it be.
I am a big believer that foreign nationalist should not be allowed to purchase residential real estate in the US and that was before the housing market went crazy.
TIL: With her background in Civil Engineering, she had used reinforced concrete so many of her buildings survived the disaster while the rest of the city crumbled and burned.
My great-aunt (paternal g'father's sister) and great-uncle lived at 910 Oxford St., Berkeley. That house was designed by Julia Morgan. Gorgeous views of the Bay and San Francisco.
They lived in that house for 60+ years until my great uncle passed away in September '91. My great aunt passed in January '98.
Oh, the pasta. I love it, but when I make it it usually turns into a gloopy sticky pile of pasta and overcooked bacon bits. Need to add more pasta water during the endstage I guess.
Ukraine Navy is no more. The Hetman Sahaidachny was essentially the only sizeable ship they had. Everything else is either tiny patrol boats or logistics.
There's this kerfuffle because Belarus' president had a televised meeting with his security counsel that had a map of the joint Russo-Belarussian invasion on TV, some of which hasn't happened yet - including a planned invasion of Moldova. There are plans to sweep into Moldova and occupy Transnitria. Here's the weird part. Transnitria is a break-away state that has fought two wars against Moldova. It is essentially a pro-Soviet 500k person country that isn't a country. It's supposedly pretty backward and looks pretty much like Soviet Union 1980s. It has Russian troops located inside of it.
Hmmm... I read this as "Brunch" place, because I've never "gone out" for breakfast. The last good brunch I've had was a place in Nashville on the Ole Miss trip - and thinking about it, even though we are a foodie family, we hardly ever go out to brunch, since like Justbear said, long lines. Restaurants take reservations for dinner, but not for brunch, hence the long lines at popular places.
When Double D was just a 10 year old, his team played in a tournament at DeLaveaga Park off Branciforte Drive in Santa Cruz. We stayed in a motel not far from downtown Santa Cruz. On my suggestion, the whole team and parents had breakfast at Zachary's well before the game.
The parents enjoyed breakfast, the kids had a great time, and we won the tourney. Who could ask for anything more?
There's a diner near the summer camp in Vermont where the missus works that serves a decent breakfast, a real old school place, but I never go out for breakfast locally.
I really didn't appreciate Taiwanese breakfast growing up (felt it was too doughy). It also lacks all the sugars in American cereal (which I also don't really love but do occasionally crave). I do like the egg with meat though, but I make and eat that outside of the morning period.
Did a cross country drive with the tweenagers about a decade ago, and we hit various buffets on the road trip as it was easy to have something for everyone. Think Golden Corral and the like. The kids were thrilled with the variety and picked out what they thought was the best one (A random chinese buffet in Sioux Falls). We realized we did not raise our kids to think this was the pinnacle of buffet-dom, so we made it a point to drive 300 or so miles out of our way back to WA, and go through Reno. We hit the Silver Legacy buffet. The kids were overwhelmed, and changed their road trip buffet rankings.
One of the most fun away games I ever attended was at Nevada, even though some guy named Colin Kaepernick torched us in the loss. The fact that it was a Friday night game allowed us to play the rest of the weekend, and the drinks were flowing. Pretty cool to watch Gameday at the Silver Legacy sipping the best $2.50 Bloody Marys on the planet.
Used to deal craps in upstate NY...when I moved back to the West Coast for good following the predictably and unfortunately inevitable split from the former Mrs Jimmy C. the year that Cal basketball died, I went on a delightful, Jameson-fueled dice run at the Silver Legacy.
Managed to stumble back to my pet friendly hotel through the ghost of downtown Reno...it was empty.
Suggesting anybody is going to run the table in the Pac is proof its a click-bait piece by someone who doesn't actually know what they are talking about.
1/6 Commission publishes refutation of John Eastman's filing to have his emails blocked. Turns out his emails are a bit of smoking gun, where he write in plain English that he knows what Trump strategy to overturn the election is illegal and that he asks Pence to accept a less illegal strategy.
Michael Madigan (D), ex-speaker of the Illinois House, has been indicted on 22 charges , including racketeering and bribery. Corruption in and around Chicago. I am shocked, I tell ya. Shocked.
ICYMI: Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) left his safe TX-1 seat to take run at Texas AG seat. He lost in the primary, coming in a distant fourth. Still eligible for jail.
They care and may even toss some of his flop sweat posse into the clink. But Trump will probably skate or die ignominiously before facing repercussions.
He was expelled from Labour when I lived over there, for a variety of things but including telling British troops they shouldn't obey orders. He then went on Celebrity Big Brother, where the highlights included him getting down on all fours and lapping up a bowl of milk to impress none other than the very famous Rula Lenska.
USFL teams - the Houston Gamblers, the NJ Generals, Michigan Panthers, New Orleans Breakers, Philly Stars, Pittsburgh Maulers, Tampa Bay Bandits, and the Birmingham Stallions will all play their games in Birmingham.
I tried to find the roster after their draft, I don't think any Cal players are on the teams. CB Steve Williams had been the lone Cal alum in the recent AAF and then XFL.
California Supreme Court refuses to weigh in on UC Berkeley enrollment caps due to a lower court ruling about environmental issues on Upper Hearts Development project. UC Berkeley will have to send out about 5,200 less acceptances this year to get enrollment to the capped amount.
What I find amazing is that the vast majority of people on this site think that ever increasing enrollment is 1) sustainable and 2) somehow desirable for the host city. Enrollment has increased by more than 50% since 2005. Why isn't the UC system building another campus?
EDIT - The foregoing is not to say that Philip Bokovoy isn't a huge douche - he is- only that the issues raised by the litigation aren't getting solved by sniping at Bokovoy's character.
It's sustainable if you build affordable housing complexes in the city, which NIMBYs like Bokovoy have also opposed. They are attacking from both fronts and making life miserable for lower-class students, pricing them out of living close to campus and forcing them to commute from outside.
Gee, maybe Berkeley City Council ought to do something about that.
Berkeley City Council has been the problem for decades in that scenario. But Berkeley City Council has dithered on the issue of *approving* housing projects precisely because it is such a contentious issue.
If the solution is affordable housing complexes, Avi, then Berkeley City Council could solve this problem with a wave of its hand. Or rather, a policy and action. But they have NO POLICY except getting re-elected and raking in the bucks for their campaigns.
Sorry if I come across as snotty, condescending, and otherwise hostile to your position. It's just that I am. It's not the University's mission to provide housing for its students. But if it's not the University's mission to provide housing for its students, then they must also accept that there are limits on enrollment, especially if they're going to lowball host communities on the costs of infrastructure for their campus.
Until recently, the City Council was basically run by NIMBY-supported candidates as Berkeley's active voting population has been primarily white homeowners. The balance has gotten better as younger families have moved into Berkeley and the population has titled YIMBY and students become more active voters, but the reason housing development historically has dithered in most of California is because the opponents of housing development have usually been getting the representation they desire.
The SBN Rep Bokovoy states even with the cap, UCB can still fulfill its obligation to CA residents by simply cutting of state enrollment. Among the many fulfilling memories of my time at Cal is meeting and befriending folks from places such as Somalia, Israel, Serbia, Singapore, etc. The composition of the student body is a huge part of the education and experience.
I expect out of state enrollment is what currently plugs the budget holes left by declining state support. Same story at public unis throughout the country.
I would imagine that the having a very noticeable foreign student contingent is a huge plus for all Cal students. The exposure to students with perspective from outside the United States is invaluable.
"Community-minded, dyed-in-the-wool liberal" Hah. Also this guy literally bought a place that is one block from part of campus, Clark Kerr. And having spent considerable time now in his little sanctuary, and I can tell you that noise and wild coeds are not part of the vibe.
In the past year, I started taking my dog for walks to "Monkey Island", which is a a little strip of grass in the middle of the old mansions at the top of Claremont, just inside the gates on the stretch leading to Clark Kerr. One of the houses has a banner hanging in front that reads "Stop the War on Berkeley Families". Talk about perspective. Oy. Was on Nextdoor a couple of weeks ago and noticed Bokovoy posted and listed his neighborhood as Monkey Island. So now you know which house to teepee.
Yeah, maybe I'm wrong. I'm only deducing from that banner and the fact that his Nextdoor neighborhood lists monkey island, which is also only a block from the south end of Clark Kerr. That house should be teepeed regardless.
Uncharacteristically long-ish ESPN.com article on why Georgia basketball has never been able to get it together, and somehow only two non-informative sentences on Fox and his nine seasons in Athens. https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/33400503/why-georgia-bulldogs-win-men-college-basketball
So season 2 of Raised by Wolves is bonkers. I am not sure if this show knows what it is doing or is ever going to answer any questions. They keep adding more layers of unsolved mysteries.
Father still has the best dad jokes.
Does bonkers = worth watching? I didn’t feel satisfaction with S1
2 more episodes left in the season. Let me finish it and then I’ll let you know if it is worth watching.
DBD kitchen
Well, not so much about food, but I was grilling some onions for my sausage sandwich for lunch, and I remembered a conversation with a tenant, maybe 20 years ago. I was in his space discussing something, and he was fixing his lunch, and I said that it looked good, he turned to me and said "well, *I* have to eat it".
Why that stuck with me, I don't know.
The comment is interesting in and of itself. It is certainly *not* the ordinary thing that one says in response to, "Hey, that looks good."
Maybe he thought that you were judging him for eating in front of you?
He was still in the process of fixing it, not eating.
Why does the US and western countries continue to let authoritarian oligarchs and cartel members purchase real estate, park their money, park their super yachts and allow their children to go to school on the west when we know most of that money has been illegally obtained? We shouldn’t allow this.
cause its cash money, yo
Obviously it is money but come on, how much can it be.
I am a big believer that foreign nationalist should not be allowed to purchase residential real estate in the US and that was before the housing market went crazy.
Huge sums. If it wasn't worthwhile, they wouldn't do it.
in case this is of interest--Cam Cole, the busker from Ted Lasso, is going on tour in the US
https://archives.ced.berkeley.edu/collections/morgan-julia
TIL: With her background in Civil Engineering, she had used reinforced concrete so many of her buildings survived the disaster while the rest of the city crumbled and burned.
My great-aunt (paternal g'father's sister) and great-uncle lived at 910 Oxford St., Berkeley. That house was designed by Julia Morgan. Gorgeous views of the Bay and San Francisco.
They lived in that house for 60+ years until my great uncle passed away in September '91. My great aunt passed in January '98.
Carbonara
Oh, the pasta. I love it, but when I make it it usually turns into a gloopy sticky pile of pasta and overcooked bacon bits. Need to add more pasta water during the endstage I guess.
Post had a story about it yesterday.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2022/02/23/spaghetti-carbonara-recipe/
Thought it was a good TruTV series early on. Perfect background viewing for the whole family.
Ukraine
Ukraine Navy is no more. The Hetman Sahaidachny was essentially the only sizeable ship they had. Everything else is either tiny patrol boats or logistics.
https://twitter.com/GrangerE04117/status/1499448469794488325
Ukraine Forces Reportedly Kill Russia Major General Andrei Sukhovetsky in Blow to Invading Army
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine-sukhovetsky-conflict-1684441
a tweet about Eritrea https://twitter.com/RahawaHaile/status/1499131692354658304?s=20&t=QRhV2O0oboJ9y1X_4EfW-w
No need to worry about your increased assets
https://www.newsweek.com/ukrainian-tax-office-says-captured-russian-tanks-dont-have-declared-1684278
They could sell them back to Russia but the market is weak for both firebombed materiel and rubles.
Another good ones about bureaucrats at work in the Ukraine
https://nypost.com/2022/03/01/ukrainian-gov-agency-removes-road-signs-to-confuse-russian-troops/
hahaha
TIL: Transnistria exists
There's this kerfuffle because Belarus' president had a televised meeting with his security counsel that had a map of the joint Russo-Belarussian invasion on TV, some of which hasn't happened yet - including a planned invasion of Moldova. There are plans to sweep into Moldova and occupy Transnitria. Here's the weird part. Transnitria is a break-away state that has fought two wars against Moldova. It is essentially a pro-Soviet 500k person country that isn't a country. It's supposedly pretty backward and looks pretty much like Soviet Union 1980s. It has Russian troops located inside of it.
Moldova, the European country that most people don’t even realize exist, when it was created or what it is known for.
this came up at some point last year because of a team in the champions league IIRC
Macron talks to Putin, says that the latter wants to control the whole country
https://twitter.com/afpfr/status/1499386859771867141
France seizes oligarch's yacht.
https://www.thelocal.fr/20220303/france-announces-seizure-of-russian-oligarchs-e108m-yacht/
3 yachts down, many many to go. Forbes is helpfully tracking them in real time. https://www.forbes.com/sites/giacomotognini/2022/03/01/biden-and-allies-are-coming-for-russian-billionaires-yachts-forbes-tracked-down-32-heres-where-to-find-them/?sh=13bb666f3dd7
3 Yachts Down does the worst easy listening covers of Y2K hard rock (which is also the worst rock).
Heh, hearing Wilson Picket's version of "Sugar, Sugar" lifts it from bubblegum territory.
The US should seize any and all Russian oligarch yachts and turn them into homeless shelters.
If it was owned by Greenpeace they'd have sunk it, so this counts as progress I think
one step at a time
Ukraine-born oligarch Mikhail Watford found dead at home in Surrey
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/mar/03/ukraine-born-oligarch-mikhail-watford-found-dead-at-home-in-surrey
I think it's interesting that the local 5-0 were so quick to say it wasn't suspicious.
Ukraine President Zelenskyy delivers defiant message to Russian troops
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNrBjlbj9SM
Your favorite breakfast place
Hmmm... I read this as "Brunch" place, because I've never "gone out" for breakfast. The last good brunch I've had was a place in Nashville on the Ole Miss trip - and thinking about it, even though we are a foodie family, we hardly ever go out to brunch, since like Justbear said, long lines. Restaurants take reservations for dinner, but not for brunch, hence the long lines at popular places.
Zachary's Santa Cruz.
Love it.
When Double D was just a 10 year old, his team played in a tournament at DeLaveaga Park off Branciforte Drive in Santa Cruz. We stayed in a motel not far from downtown Santa Cruz. On my suggestion, the whole team and parents had breakfast at Zachary's well before the game.
The parents enjoyed breakfast, the kids had a great time, and we won the tourney. Who could ask for anything more?
I rarely go to popular breakfast places because there's always a looong line.
Fire Sign Inn in Tahoe Park, or Plow in Potrero Hill.
There's a diner near the summer camp in Vermont where the missus works that serves a decent breakfast, a real old school place, but I never go out for breakfast locally.
https://hungryintaipei.blogspot.com/2010/10/chinesebreakfast-i-recommend-fu-hang.html
I really didn't appreciate Taiwanese breakfast growing up (felt it was too doughy). It also lacks all the sugars in American cereal (which I also don't really love but do occasionally crave). I do like the egg with meat though, but I make and eat that outside of the morning period.
The Mission (San Diego)
Biscuit Head (Asheville, NC)
Not quite a favorite, but I enjoy a nice Moons Over My Hammy from Denny's every now and then
no shame in this game
Peg's Glorified Ham and Eggs, Reno, NV
Lois the Pie Queen
Bette's Ocean View Diner
RIP
it's back as Ocean View diner. The employees bought it
Reno
The biggest little city in the world.
Did a cross country drive with the tweenagers about a decade ago, and we hit various buffets on the road trip as it was easy to have something for everyone. Think Golden Corral and the like. The kids were thrilled with the variety and picked out what they thought was the best one (A random chinese buffet in Sioux Falls). We realized we did not raise our kids to think this was the pinnacle of buffet-dom, so we made it a point to drive 300 or so miles out of our way back to WA, and go through Reno. We hit the Silver Legacy buffet. The kids were overwhelmed, and changed their road trip buffet rankings.
One of the most fun away games I ever attended was at Nevada, even though some guy named Colin Kaepernick torched us in the loss. The fact that it was a Friday night game allowed us to play the rest of the weekend, and the drinks were flowing. Pretty cool to watch Gameday at the Silver Legacy sipping the best $2.50 Bloody Marys on the planet.
I remember watching that game at Kip's for some reason.
The run option really fooled the TV camera crew for that game, in addition to the Cal defense.
Ha! We wouldn't know that, but we saw that pick coming before it happened.
Used to deal craps in upstate NY...when I moved back to the West Coast for good following the predictably and unfortunately inevitable split from the former Mrs Jimmy C. the year that Cal basketball died, I went on a delightful, Jameson-fueled dice run at the Silver Legacy.
Managed to stumble back to my pet friendly hotel through the ghost of downtown Reno...it was empty.
Tedford abandoned the run and Riley threw a pick 6 on a crucial 3rd down to basically end the game.
We were there: https://www.californiagoldenblogs.com/2011/8/28/2390173/dbd-8-29-11-a-visit-to-the-seventh-circle-of-hell
Jesus, 11 years ago
Lamp-post
Hello, lamp post
Whatcha knowin'?
I come to watch your flowers growin'
Ain't you got no rhymes for me?
Doo-doo-da-doo-doo
Feelin' groovy
Elsewhere in college
Pitt QB Kenny Pickett has 8.5 inch hands, per NFL combine results. Goff had 9.0 inch hands.
https://twitter.com/FieldYates/status/1499415111269855235
...and what is that measurement actually measuring? The span from tip of thumb to tip of pinky when fully extended? Or something else?
If that's the case, then most NBA playes must have HUGE hands by comparison. You can't palm a basketball with small hands.
Needs to hook up with Brady's equipment guy.
22 Things for Spring: The college football teams, names and storylines you need to know in 2022
https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/22-things-for-spring-the-college-football-teams-names-and-storylines-you-need-to-know-in-2022/
Crazy, they think Cal is a dark horse to run the table and make the playoffs?
Suggesting anybody is going to run the table in the Pac is proof its a click-bait piece by someone who doesn't actually know what they are talking about.
Suggesting Cal is going to run the table is proof it’s a click-bait piece.
Turns out it was my comment that was the click-bait
Made me click.
hahahaha
The 10 wild things Gene doesn't want you to know!
Oh yeah I saw that...sniff
Today in Covid
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
Rep. Van Taylor (R-TX) drops out of running for his re-election for [checks notes] having a 9 month affair with an ex-ISIS war bride.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/texas-republican-quits-us-house-race-admits-affair-with-former-isis-war-bride-2022-03-02/
She's quite attractive even if she does have those crazy eyes in some photos.
She did win the Ms. Caliphate competition, after all.
It was really the bedazzeled burka however.
Bedazzeled Burka would make a great name for a all female Muslim punk band - like on We Are Lady Parts (songs were not punk though).
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I really miss photos on this site. That and the east bay map are the best.
Also sunshine pumping and deflated Oski.
I think GO has the East Bay Map on his phone just ready to be used.
Yeah, never did a post for the road trip about Provo, what's the point without pictures?
Co-signed.
These GQP members are crazy.
Tucker Carlson says racist things.
https://twitter.com/DanRather/status/1499225194811908096
And water remains wet.
1/6 Commission publishes refutation of John Eastman's filing to have his emails blocked. Turns out his emails are a bit of smoking gun, where he write in plain English that he knows what Trump strategy to overturn the election is illegal and that he asks Pence to accept a less illegal strategy.
https://january6th.house.gov/news/press-releases/thompson-cheney-statement-filing-eastman-lawsuit
Michael Madigan (D), ex-speaker of the Illinois House, has been indicted on 22 charges , including racketeering and bribery. Corruption in and around Chicago. I am shocked, I tell ya. Shocked.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/former-illinois-house-speaker-michael-madigan-charged-with-racketeering/2773445/
This is what you'd call a lifetime achievement award in Illinois.
that is shocking, I tell you what
Arizona GOP filed a lawsuit to prevent absentee voting, which is how 90% of AZ voters do it
https://news.yahoo.com/gop-lawsuit-looks-throw-absentee-220343860.html
I would think this would hurt the GQP as much, if not more than the democrats since outside of Phoenix and Tucson, it is rural.
ICYMI: Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) left his safe TX-1 seat to take run at Texas AG seat. He lost in the primary, coming in a distant fourth. Still eligible for jail.
https://ballotpedia.org/Texas_Attorney_General_election,_2022
Gohmert really is the dimmest of bulbs
So the Repub runoff is a choice between Paxton who is a complete tool and George P. Bush who says his first priority includes completing the wall.
my word, there's a P Bush on the scene now?
Let's cut to the Washington Post's Nick Merloff to see how Trump's Wall is doing. Nick?
[Nick]:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/03/02/trump-border-wall-breached/
Jan 6 Commission concluded that Trump did illegal things. Now let's see if the DOJ cares.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-house-panel-says-trump-may-have-broken-law-bid-overturn-election-2022-03-03/
They care and may even toss some of his flop sweat posse into the clink. But Trump will probably skate or die ignominiously before facing repercussions.
I'm sure of two things: the DOJ cares; the DOJ will not prosecute cheeto face.
Yeah, I seriously doubt the DOJ prosecutes trump but I hope they at least go after his seditious entourage, starting with Eastman.
Ex-MP from Labour Party and current host on an RT channel has his Tweet age like raw chicken:
https://twitter.com/georgegalloway/status/1493282583068696579
He was expelled from Labour when I lived over there, for a variety of things but including telling British troops they shouldn't obey orders. He then went on Celebrity Big Brother, where the highlights included him getting down on all fours and lapping up a bowl of milk to impress none other than the very famous Rula Lenska.
He's quite something.
Galloway is a complete c*nt.
PRO
USFL teams - the Houston Gamblers, the NJ Generals, Michigan Panthers, New Orleans Breakers, Philly Stars, Pittsburgh Maulers, Tampa Bay Bandits, and the Birmingham Stallions will all play their games in Birmingham.
I tried to find the roster after their draft, I don't think any Cal players are on the teams. CB Steve Williams had been the lone Cal alum in the recent AAF and then XFL.
They are also being sued by the old/original USFL. https://sports.yahoo.com/larry-csonka-role-lawsuit-filed-003253245.html
Wait, they didn't buy the USFL name? That seems impossible.
How’s that work?
7 on 7 style tourney every weekend i would hope
CAL
California Supreme Court refuses to weigh in on UC Berkeley enrollment caps due to a lower court ruling about environmental issues on Upper Hearts Development project. UC Berkeley will have to send out about 5,200 less acceptances this year to get enrollment to the capped amount.
https://www.berkeleyside.org/2022/02/14/uc-berkeley-enrollment-drop-court-of-appeal-ruling
What I find amazing is that the vast majority of people on this site think that ever increasing enrollment is 1) sustainable and 2) somehow desirable for the host city. Enrollment has increased by more than 50% since 2005. Why isn't the UC system building another campus?
EDIT - The foregoing is not to say that Philip Bokovoy isn't a huge douche - he is- only that the issues raised by the litigation aren't getting solved by sniping at Bokovoy's character.
It hasn't increased by 50% at Berkeley. That's impossible.
It's sustainable if you build affordable housing complexes in the city, which NIMBYs like Bokovoy have also opposed. They are attacking from both fronts and making life miserable for lower-class students, pricing them out of living close to campus and forcing them to commute from outside.
Gee, maybe Berkeley City Council ought to do something about that.
Berkeley City Council has been the problem for decades in that scenario. But Berkeley City Council has dithered on the issue of *approving* housing projects precisely because it is such a contentious issue.
If the solution is affordable housing complexes, Avi, then Berkeley City Council could solve this problem with a wave of its hand. Or rather, a policy and action. But they have NO POLICY except getting re-elected and raking in the bucks for their campaigns.
Sorry if I come across as snotty, condescending, and otherwise hostile to your position. It's just that I am. It's not the University's mission to provide housing for its students. But if it's not the University's mission to provide housing for its students, then they must also accept that there are limits on enrollment, especially if they're going to lowball host communities on the costs of infrastructure for their campus.
Until recently, the City Council was basically run by NIMBY-supported candidates as Berkeley's active voting population has been primarily white homeowners. The balance has gotten better as younger families have moved into Berkeley and the population has titled YIMBY and students become more active voters, but the reason housing development historically has dithered in most of California is because the opponents of housing development have usually been getting the representation they desire.
The SBN Rep Bokovoy states even with the cap, UCB can still fulfill its obligation to CA residents by simply cutting of state enrollment. Among the many fulfilling memories of my time at Cal is meeting and befriending folks from places such as Somalia, Israel, Serbia, Singapore, etc. The composition of the student body is a huge part of the education and experience.
I expect out of state enrollment is what currently plugs the budget holes left by declining state support. Same story at public unis throughout the country.
Except I don't think it is. In order for Cal to satisfy the in-state requirement for students, I think fewer out of state students are admitted.
I would imagine that the having a very noticeable foreign student contingent is a huge plus for all Cal students. The exposure to students with perspective from outside the United States is invaluable.
meanwhile, it is literally not in the NIMBY's backyard because...he lives in New Zealand https://twitter.com/RigelRobinson/status/1498775676484083713?s=20&t=UuVyTeF9cJC6IGCWpP747w
This piece of trash...
Nelson's quite pretty though, definitely wouldn't mind living there one bit.
Phil Bokovoy seems like a class-A NIMBY twat. His solution? UC Berkeley should build facilities in El Cerrito or Richmond.
https://morehealthier.com/the-nimby-king-taking-on-uc-berkeley/
Bokovoy is an alumnus.
"Community-minded, dyed-in-the-wool liberal" Hah. Also this guy literally bought a place that is one block from part of campus, Clark Kerr. And having spent considerable time now in his little sanctuary, and I can tell you that noise and wild coeds are not part of the vibe.
In the past year, I started taking my dog for walks to "Monkey Island", which is a a little strip of grass in the middle of the old mansions at the top of Claremont, just inside the gates on the stretch leading to Clark Kerr. One of the houses has a banner hanging in front that reads "Stop the War on Berkeley Families". Talk about perspective. Oy. Was on Nextdoor a couple of weeks ago and noticed Bokovoy posted and listed his neighborhood as Monkey Island. So now you know which house to teepee.
I think he lives west of Clark Kerr, not Monkey Island
Yeah, maybe I'm wrong. I'm only deducing from that banner and the fact that his Nextdoor neighborhood lists monkey island, which is also only a block from the south end of Clark Kerr. That house should be teepeed regardless.
Monkey Island sounds like the perfect place for a new dorm.
Ridiculous.
Go Bears!!!