MONDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2006
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Volume 5 Issue 278
Santa Monica Daily Press A newspaper with issues
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NEWS OF THE WEIRD BY
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Judge Paul E. Zellerbach was admonished by California’s judicial agency in August for behavior in October 2004, when he left a jury deliberating a murder charge in order to attend an Angels-Red Sox playoff game and declined to leave the game when notified that the jury had reached a verdict (forcing everyone to return the next day). Tammie Lee Doss, 43, and two friends were charged with unlawful imprisonment in September in Athens, Ala., when Doss held her brother Randy at gunpoint and prayed for him. According to police, Tammie had confronted Randy, even firing a shot near his head to keep his attention, and urged him to redress his childhood mistreatment of her.
TODAY IN HISTORY Today is the 275th day of 2006. There are 90 days left in the year. President Wilson suffered a 1919 stroke that left him partially paralyzed. Thurgood Marshall was 1967 sworn in as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court; he was the first black appointed to the nation’s highest court. The comic strip “Peanuts,” created by Charles M. Schulz, was first published in nine newspapers.
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SMC students have ‘Magic to Do’ BY MICHAEL J. TITTINGER Daily Press Staff Writer
SANTA MONICA COLLEGE — The origami-like roof that sits atop the school’s new $17 million Theatre Arts Building seemed particularly fitting on Saturday night, as students opened the state-of-the-art facility to the public by sashaying through a Broadway musical revue that shifted form at an animated pace. The invitation-only show inside the performance hall’s spankingnew 264-seat theater was staged as both a coming-out party and fundraiser, as the college’s Foundation goes about trying to raise revenue to ensure the building and department’s upkeep. The 20,000 square-foot building was made possible by Santa Monica and Malibu voters in 2002, when they approved Measure U, a $160 million bond. Amid the three-year construction, the department held classes and staged plays in a temporary theater at SMC’s satellite campus at Santa Monica Airport. “Thank you for giving our stu-
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30TH STREET — Chris Knauf ’s passion for helping those with disabilities is not exclusively a professional pursuit. The new chair of the Santa Monica Disabilities
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“Follies.” “A person’s a person, no matter how small.” While the space was actually opened up to students for classes on Aug. 28, the beginning of the fall semester, this weekend’s show
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dents wings, for giving them the possibility to fly,” said Pat Train Gage, a faculty member who hosted the performance along with “The Cat in the Hat,” alluding to the students’ lyrical take on the Seussical
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Fabian Lewkowicz Hopes and voices soared on Saturday night as the Santa Monica College theatre department belted out a Broadway musical revue and Seussical “Follies” during the first performance in the school’s brand new Theatre Arts Building.
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Commission watched his own mother struggle in the grips of schizophrenia, an untreated illness that led to her suicide at age 40. “It’s so sad and so ironic that I started doing disability rights after she died,” he said. “I wish I knew then what I know now. I really could have gotten her some help. “Mental illness is a big issue of mine because of that experience.” Knauf recently accepted a proclamation from the City Council declaring October to be Disabilities Awareness Month. Later this month, the Disabilities Commission will hold its “First Annual Disability Awareness Month Celebration” at the Santa Monica Public Library. His unwavering concern for people with mental disabilities has led to Knauf ’s involvement in the controversial effort by Step Up on Second to buy property across from Santa Monica College to house a number of the organization’s clients, all young adults who have recently suffered their first VONS
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Two police shots fired at fleeing suspect BY DAILY PRESS STAFF
episode of mental illness. “These are people that are in treatment with Step Up,” Knauf said. “They are working, they’re going to school, they are trying to be productive members of the community, who happen to have a mental illness.” The reaction of people living in the area has been largely negative, especially at a meeting of the “Friends of Sunset Park” Knauf attended last week. “It was just a very contentious meeting where it was very clear to me that the opponents were basing their opposition on stereotypes and fears, based on what they perceived to be the lifestyle and potential dangerousness of people with mental illness,” Knauf said. As a resident of Sunset Park, Knauf said he was shocked by the reaction of his neighbors. “It’s right down the street from me, it’s basically my neighbors who
THIRD STREET PROMENADE — A Santa Monica police officer fired twice at a fleeing suspect who had allegedly taken part in the beating of a man just off the Third Street Promenade early Saturday. No one was shot in the incident, which led to three suspects being taken into custody by police. At around 12:25 a.m. Saturday morning, officers responded to the 300 block of Santa Monica Boulevard regarding a fight in progress. When officers arrived, they spotted three men beating a male victim. One of the assailants was kicking the victim in the head, while another suspect was then spotted attempting to stab a second victim with a knife, police said. As officers intervened, the three suspects — each later
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marked the first chance members of the public, and potential benefactors, had to catch a glimpse of the impressive arts building, which by all accounts appeared to contain all the hallmarks of any professional theater space. Within the 1.06-acre site resides the main stage, a “black box” performance space, lobby shop, dressing rooms, classrooms, separate sound and lighting rooms, and makeup labs. While the night may have been geared towards raising money for the SMC Foundation — selling off naming rights for everything from individual theater chairs ($1,000 apiece) to the entire building ($1 million) — it wasn’t hard to discern who the building would really stand to serve over time, as excited students, still in costume, walked attendees through the building’s halls and performance spaces for post-show tours. “This building brings theater to life, and that’s what it’s all about,”
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