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So nice of you to come  After the Cal rugby team squashed Stanford in 1999 (39-3) and 2000 (69-6), the boys from the Farm declined to risk a game in 2001 and avoided the topic altogether by competing in Division II in 2002. But the Big Scrum was resurrected this year, with an entirely predictable result: the Bears trampled the Tree, 98-0. It was the biggest win in the history of the rivalry, which dates back to 1908, but one optimistic Stanfordite was heard to say: "It was a moral victory--we kept 'em under 100." The Bears were not flying so high at season's end. Cal's dominant ruggers have won the title the last 12 years (19 times since the National Collegiate Rugby Tournament kicked off in 1980), but they suffered a stunning upset loss to Air Force in the 2003 semi-final--in retribution, apparently, for Cal's win over Air Force in the tournament's first year. Banner days  As if it weren't enough of an honor to have a lifetime parking spot reserved on the central campus, Cal's Nobel laureates have now been immortalized with a series of banners along Telegraph Avenue. The brainchild of Andy Ross, owner of Cody's Books, the new pennants eventually will be joined by banners featuring famed Berkeley writers and '60s counterculture personalities. We're hoping to see Rick Starr, Wavy Gravy, and the Polka-dot Man up there soon. Broadway bound The Mark Twain Project at the Bancroft Library continues to reveal hidden gems among Twain's as-yet-unpublished manuscripts. The latest, discovered by Shelley Fisher Fishkin, a professor at the University of Texas, is the play "Is He Dead?" Fishkin was so charmed by the play that she convinced a Broadway producer to put on the show--so now, 98 years after Twain shuffled off his own mortal coil, his play is headed for the Great White Way. "Twain wrote some extremely bad plays," Fishkin admits, but she promises this one will be a blockbuster. Stoney's Loaded Resident political pundit Stoney Burke makes an appearance in The Matrix Reloaded. Don't blink--you may miss his big-screen debut as the driver of a truck hauling motorcycles. Life on the streets Following up on a campaign promise, Berkeley mayor Tom Bates '61 spent a night on the streets in April--although the police escort and press conferences may have given the mayor a slightly skewed view of the homeless life. Bates accepted a cold cup of black coffee from a fellow client at a free medical clinic--but, upon discovering that the beverage was not a decaf no-foam soy latte, he frothed: "Beggars can't be choosers." --Linda Schmidt
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Irony maiden The Wall Street Journal noted that the Peterson Business Ethics lecture at the Haas School of Business this spring was delivered by Sherron Watkins, the former Enron vice president who warned chief executive Kenneth Lay of the company's imminent implosion. And which hallowed hall hosted the event? The Arthur Andersen Auditorium, of course.
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