There's by far more than enough money within Berkeley to fund the programs you cherish, so it's time for Berkeley, and not the rest of us, to do so -- Berkeley has been living on other peoples dimes since the '60's, and this subsidized ride should cease! As Tip O'Neil observed: "All politics is local", warning that you earn what you have chosen. So the GOP (as you point out) has begun weighing in, by name, Office, and State, on Berkeley's choice -- but where is the opposition? Have Feinstein, Boxer, Lee, Dellums, Tauscher, et. al. weighed in? Or Harry Reid? Or Nancy Pelosi? I've seen not one neighboring City, nor County adjacent to Alameda, let alone one State, that has supported the resolution of your City Council -- have you? Do you not understand that the First Amendment maintains its universal respect, and so relies on, broader Citizen review? This Council's action has trivialized the First Amendment, and until Berkeley's citizens (and not us outsiders) overturn it, Berkeley will continue its descent into irrelevancy. The University does not, and has never, depended on Berkeley for its identity, but the same cannot be said for the City -- left to itself, the City would be nothing but a fetid swamp. Snorkler