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Hearing to Evaluate Funding Deal The College of Natural Resources' deal with a private pharmaceutical and genetic engineering company will be the focus of a state Senate hearing Monday, in which the effect of private funding on public research will be evaluated.
The World Is Not Enough The phrase is used fairly often in conjunction with Cal swimmer Anthony Ervin, the Daily Californian's Male Athlete of the Year.
Room With Two ViewsIt's not often when an on-campus performance piece fuses two separate student works about two separate topics onto two separate stages. But a couple of students of the Campus Performing Arts Association are doing just that for a batch of end-of-the-year performances this weekend.
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Hearing to Evaluate Funding Deal The College of Natural Resources' deal with a private pharmaceutical and genetic engineering company will be the focus of a state Senate hearing Monday, in which the effect of private funding on public research will be evaluated.
Innovative Trading Site Created by UC Berkeley StudentsWith the economics and computer science knowledge they have received from college - and a bit of ingenuity - two UC Berkeley students have launched a trading site on the Web that has gained popularity in its short history.
Sports
The World Is Not Enough The phrase is used fairly often in conjunction with Cal swimmer Anthony Ervin, the Daily Californian's Male Athlete of the Year.
Close Losses Plague Cal After the Cal baseball team failed to make the postseason last season, the old adage never seemed more appropriate.
Giving Them Credit Where Credit is DueMemorial Stadium, Nov. 23, 1996 - Despite a six-game winning streak to start the season, the Cal football team hit a four-game skid and entered its home field for the 99th Big Game, hoping to avenge the previous year's loss to the Cardinal.
Women's Tennis Takes On Pacific You'll have to excuse the Cal women's tennis team if it isn't jumping up and down on the courts in anticipation of tomorrow's match.
Arts & Entertainment
Room With Two ViewsIt's not often when an on-campus performance piece fuses two separate student works about two separate topics onto two separate stages. But a couple of students of the Campus Performing Arts Association are doing just that for a batch of end-of-the-year performances this weekend.
Better Off StageIt's pretty hard to mess up a formulaic, dancer-boy-meets-dancer-girl movie, but the creators of Center Stage manage to make a gigantic failure out of it. The saddest part is that they do not honorably fail by trying to make an original film, but are completely formulaic and simply miss all the steps along the way.
BattlefieldologyEditor's Note: In case you don't get it at first, this is Bernie Kornberg's review of Battlefield Earth, the popular L. Ron Hubbard science fiction novel that is now a film starring John Travolta (as Terl). In typical Bernie style, he's found a new way to trash the flick - in a journal form from the viewpoint of the main character, Jonnie. Mass HysteriaInject Go, last year's frenetic party movie, with the insouciant disposition of Trainspotting and you're high on Human Traffic, a weekend of drugged out friends plastered onto a movie reel. The Generation Y of this British comedy shoves aside their disenchanted lives in order to wear themselves out raving.
re:CalendarThe First Berkeley Satirithon, closing the two week Berkeley Arts Festival, 3 p.m., Sunday, May 14, $5-$8, Berkeley Arts Festival Headquarters, 2216 Shattuck Ave. 841-1982.