A memorial event will be held on Aug. 10 to commemorate the life of Berkeley City Councilmember Dona Spring who passed away last month.

The city-sponsored event will be held Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Civic Center Park, located on Martin Luther King Boulevard between Center Street and Allston Street.
Spring, who had been wheel chair-bound for the past two decades, died on July 13 after a long battle with rheumatoid arthritis.

Dennis Walton, who was Spring’s primary care-giver during the past 27 years and who calls himself Spring’s soulmate, said he wanted the memorial to be at the park so it will be wheel chair accessible, saying he expects 40 to 50 people in wheel chairs to attend the ceremony.

UC Berkeley Professor James O’Brien discusses Digital Molecular Matter, which was implemented for the upcoming video game Star Wars: The Force Unleashed.
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Today marks day two of Tele-BEARS phase two appointments and some UC Berkeley students are having trouble signing up for courses due to an as-of-yet unknown technical problem.

Associate Registrar Walter Wong said that for some unknown reason the system is picking up the wrong appointment time for some students, preventing them from signing up for courses.

The central course registration system has had glitches in the past that erased class waitlists and determined unfair advantages in the appointment times of students at the Boalt Hall School of Law.

In this case, Wong said in many of the instances students were able to sign up for classes after logging in and out a few times. However, that method was ineffective in some cases, and students are still having problems, he said.

According to Wong, the office is currently trouble-shooting to figure out the source of the problem.

The tree-sitter who ascended into the oak grove near UC Berkeley’s Memorial Stadium just over a week ago decided to end his tree-top stay this afternoon at about 12:30 p.m., campus officials said.

Jeff Musgrave, 30, came down after a lengthy discussion with UCPD officers, according to Dan Mogulof, UC Berkeley’s executive director of public affairs.

Tree-sit supporters said Musgrave left the grove after learning of a death in his family.

“We support his wishes to come down,” said a tree-sit supporter known as “Citizyn.”

Musgrave is being charged with trespassing, violating the court order which prohibits the public from feeding or supplying the tree-sitters, vandalism and with possession of less than one ounce of marijuana, Mogulof said in a statement.

According to Mogulof, Musgrave has been taken to Berkeley city jail and is expected to be cited and released.

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