By Gian Gonzaga Frances Northcutt
The Funny Paperz has often confused us with cryptic opinions on local and national issues. However, Joe King’s recent effort to honor UC Berkeley graduate Duane De Witt, who had gone from being a homeless veteran to Phi Beta Kappa, reach a new level of baseless opinion. King blamed the fact that De Witt was rejected from Berkeley four times on the proposition that the school was saving places for SARS infected foreign students. Since De Witt was accepted to Berkeley long before the SARS epidemic and UC Berkeley has recently come under storms of criticism for NOT allowing students from SARS infected countries to take summer courses we were left wondering exactly what Joe King was commenting about. He just doesn’t make any sense.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on June 14, 2003. Read the original PDF.