medin@ucbvax.ARPA (Milo Medin) (02/20/85)
Well, monday morning someone torched the UC Berkeley ROTC building, it was leveled. Estimates show about $2 Million damage. Plans for a new building are being drawn up. Just thought I'd drop a note to the taxpayers who will end up paying for it.... Milo
baba@spar.UUCP (Baba ROM DOS) (02/21/85)
> Well, monday morning someone torched the UC Berkeley ROTC > building, it was leveled. Estimates show about $2 Million > damage. Plans for a new building are being drawn up. Just > thought I'd drop a note to the taxpayers who will end up > paying for it.... > > > Milo It should be noted, however, that the arson is as likely to have been the work of a (presumably deranged) random arsonist who's been torching buildings in Berkeley for months as it is to have been a political act. Just thought I'd drop a note to the voters who mandated the scaling back of state services such as mental hospitals... ;-) Baba
srm@nsc.UUCP (Richard Mateosian) (02/21/85)
In article <4951@ucbvax.ARPA> medin@ucbvax.ARPA (Milo Medin) writes: > >Well, monday morning someone torched the UC Berkeley ROTC >building, it was leveled. There's been a rash of arson in Berkeley lately--mostly directed at apartment buildings. I haven't heard anyone suggest that the latest was any sort of protest against ROTC. Most of the fires have been near the UC campus, though, so there may be some anti-UC feeling behind them. The police arrested, then released a suspect, so perhaps we'll know all the answers soon. -- Richard Mateosian {allegra,cbosgd,decwrl,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo}!nsc!srm nsc!srm@decwrl.ARPA
medin@ucbvax.ARPA (Milo Medin) (02/25/85)
BTW, the police had let go the suspect they were holding, vharging him with being on the campus illegally. They don't believe he is the one who did it. In private talks with some of the ROTC commanders, I understand the police are very suspicious of a group called the SPartacus Youth League. A week or so earlier there was a big fight in the free speech area between the SYL and Marine Corps recruiters which got out of hand and the police were called in. This might have been the cause of the incident. Plans for a new building are being drawn up, and a combonation ROTC and Facilities building may be built, with police stationed in the building. The ham radio club on campus (Of which I am the VP) may even get space allocated to it in the plans. There is also some talk about consolidation of the new CS building with the ROTC building. I dont know how serious this proposal is. Anyways, thats as much as I know right now. One note about the Phased Array Radar, according to my old crow friends, the fourth PAVE PAWS radar will be built at Goodfellow AFB in Texas, NOT in San Diego as previously mentioned. The Soviet deployment of its ABM-1 radar where it is is a CLEAR violation of the ABM treaty, as well as the proven multiple reload and refire capability of their SH-04 and SH-05 ABM interceptors. Milo
myers@uwmacc.UUCP (Jeff Myers) (02/26/85)
> BTW, the police had let go the suspect they were holding, vharging him > with being on the campus illegally. They don't believe he is the > one who did it. In private talks with some of the ROTC commanders, > I understand the police are very suspicious of a group called the SPartacus > Youth League. Why don't we let the police handle it, and stop distributing innuendo and rumours to the world?