A man who calls himself D.J. Stump is one of the median strip campers, in front of the controversial grove of oak trees.
Posted on 08/05/2008 9:47:57 AM PDT by SmithL
UC Berkeley, poised to clear the Memorial Stadium oak grove for a sports training center, has asked the city for help to control a growing encampment on a nearby street median of people who support tree-sitting protesters.
Campus Police Chief Victoria Harrison last week asked the Berkeley police and city manager's office to remove the encampment, which includes 10 to 20 people, tents, dogs, sleeping bags and banners along about 100 feet of the city-maintained divider on Piedmont Avenue.
"The median is not meant to be a campground or a park. It's a major traffic artery for campus," said Harrison. "It's a health and safety issue, and obviously we're very concerned."
The city has not decided whether to intervene.
"We received the university's request, and it's under ongoing consideration," said Berkeley police Lt. Andrew Greenwood. "Our primary concern is always safety, and this doesn't appear to be an urgent safety issue."
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Threaten them with a bath. They’ll be gone in a matter of minutes.
It must be nice to be so disconnected from today’s world, so lacking in responsibilities and commitments of any kind, that you can sleep in a median to protest the cutting down of a couple hundred trees.
!@#$%^& hippies.
Looks more like a vagrancy issue.
The chickens are coming home to roost.
This is what they learn attending UC Berserkley so what better place to demonstrate what they have been taught?
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