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People's Park free-box burned down

by cp
The free box was set up in People's park at some point in the 1990s as a place where people could put old clothes, and others could look for items that they wanted. It is maintained by UC Berkeley staff who occasionally dump all the low-quality and mismatched stuff that accumulates over several weeks. It was burned down sometime on May 18th, probably at night
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My idle speculation would be that someone deliberately burned the free box because they didn't like it. This is based on the fact that many people vocally do not like it and even accused it of promoting crime in the area. However, it would be a far shot to speculate who might have done it.

In other news, it is graduation and move-out week at UC Berkeley. Many students' out of town relatives are visiting, and there are moving vans and double parked vehicles all over the place.

A professor of history who wrote a book about the Free Speech movement which he had experienced firsthand, Reginald Zelnik, was run over by a backing up water delivery truck on a campus walkway a day ago. Reports were that he braced himself and tried to push himself back from the bumper and jump out of the way, but his body was pulled under the vehicle, and struck a second time as the vehicle changed gears and went forward.
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2004/05/18_zelnik.shtml
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People\\\'s park is still managed by the university and has many homeless who sleep there every night. Contrary to popular notion, people regularly are arrested and ticketed there for various charges. The rate of assault has declined there quite a bit in the past two years.
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Wed, May 19, 2004 3:23PM
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