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The Berkeley Wire: 02.25.13

February 25, 2013 5:05 pm by Berkeleyside Editors
At the corner. Peter Alfred Hess

At the corner. Peter Alfred Hess

UC Berkeley pushes stadium seat sales (SF Chronicle)
BHS band, The Newcomers, breaks onto music scene (BHS Jacket)
Cal Haas team wins international competition (Daily Cal)
Cal Art Magazine begins to publish work of Berkeley High students (BHS Jacket)
Danny Scheie to host Berkeley Rep’s “Ovation” gala (Broadway World)
Segregation remains a significant influence in BHS academics (BHS Jacket)
UC Berkeley places 27th in improved ranking system (Daily Cal)
Rally Day officially cancelled (BHS Jacket)
Bob Melvin, A’s manager, buys Claremont estate (SFGate)

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  • bgal4

    re: Segregation remains a significant influence in BHS academics (BHS Jacket)

    this statement (among others) seems inaccurate, anyone know the current racial breakdown?

    “For example, life expectancy for residents living in South Berkeley — which is 73 percent African–American — is 62 to 64 years.”

  • EBGuy

    The census(dot)gov site allows you to get this information down to the census block level. It uses a map overlay so the interface is somewhat intuitive.

  • guest

    Has nothing to do with segregation. Teens shooting each other to death when they get “dissed” drives down the mean life expectancy.

  • bgal4

    yeah, the data presented in the Jacket is hardly accurate.