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Scott Appleby & Kerry ApplebyPayne A Family Tradition VILLAGE of Real Estate Success LA JOLLA NEWS 858-775-2014 DRE#01197544 DRE#01071814 LA JOLLA’S LOCALLY OWNED INDEPENDENT VOICE SERVING UNIVERSITY CITY AND LA JOLLA TODAY AND EVERY DAY SAN DIEGO COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER GROUP FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2014 LJTODAY.COM | VOLUME 18, NUMBER 16 THE BIG PICTURE As far as San Diego Superior Court is concerned, the time for talk on UCSD's Ché Café may be past. COURTESY PHOTO TEACHABLE MOMENT By MARTIN JONES WESTLIN Ché said that Bacal's decision was not the end of the café's road. A GETTING THE DROP Those crazies at UCSD will use any excuse to party – especially when it involves a Halloween tradition, By the time you read this, a San recent note on the venue's website like the annual Pumpkin Drop, set to take place this afternoon at the school's Muir College. The ritual (shown here in a photo Diego Superior Court judge may (checafe.ucsd.edu) demanded that from the past) involves dropping a humongous pumpkin from the college's upper floors; inside is an assortment of individu- have issued a written notice of her the university roll back the evic- ally wrapped candy that students scurry to claim. This year's colossus, donated by grower Jon Berndes, weighed 500 pounds. Oct. 21 finding – that UCSD owns tion procedure in the interest of The pumpkin's splat is measured for posterity each year; the largest occurred in 1995, when a 398-pounder exploded over the property on which its Ché Café the democratic process; the 100 feet. The drop is the focus of Muir College's Halloween Carnival. COURTESY PHOTO sits and that the eviction notice the venue's blog announced an Oct. school issued the vegan eatery and 28 rally in the venue's support and music venue last summer was suf- that the collective allegedly has ficient. Bryan Pease, attorney for 14,000 favorable petition signa- SD Jewish Book Fair 2014 is not your father's the Ché, said on Oct. 20 that he tures it intended to present to uni- thought Judge Katherine Bacal Book Fair has become a major fac- versity Chancellor Pradeep By MARTIN JONES WESTLIN would the following day sign the Khosla. tor atop this landscape — and if university's written notice of her If there's such as thing as a Gold- Khosla wasn't available to you set aside some time on Nov. 8 to decision, after which the Ché en Age of Jewish literature, it prob- receive the supporters, but the lat- 10 and Nov. 13 to 16 for points in would have five days to vacate its ably had its start 60 years ago, ter have said they will seek an Cardiff-by-the-Sea and University premises at 1000 Scholars Drive, when authors like Isaac Bashevis audience with him again next City, you'll have fun in your trek just east of La Jolla Playhouse's Singer and Saul Bellow unstinting- week. About 100 demonstrators through a genre that's singularly Mandell Weiss Forum Studio. ly declared the Jewish presence in attended the Oct. 28 event. impressive in its own right. At the moment, Bacal hasn't American society. Nobel prizes Events take place at Cardiff's Tem- signed whatever notice the univer- would eventually follow for both ple Solel the 8th and 10th and UC's sity may issue, and at least one men, and soon, works reflecting the Lawrence Family Jewish Commu- representative of the student-run SEE CHE >> PG. 16 uniquely Jewish experience were nity Center for the second install- part of the mainstream book trade. ment — and Marcia Wollner, direc- That was then, and this is now. tor of literary arts and education TIMELY REMINDER To say that Jewish literature has at the community center's Center kept pace with today's 24-hour for Jewish Culture, said the Cardiff Daylight Saving Time ends at 2 a.m. on news cycle is to understate the bur- venue reflects one growth phase as Theater journalist Eddie Shapiro will have Sunday, Nov. 2. Be sure to change your geoning presence of Jewish book J*Company to watch his back at the 20th fairs, seminars and websites. clocks back when you go to bed Saturday. annual San Diego Jewish Book Fair. Recently, the San Diego Jewish SEE BOOKS >> PG. 23 COURTESY PHOTO FRIDAY · OCTOBER 31, 2014 2 LA JOLLA VILLAGE NEWS News Suit says pupping-season beach ban violates state constitution By DAVE SCHWAB In the ongoing tug-of-war over believing this violates our Consti- shared use of La Jolla’s Children’s tutional right to access on the Pool, beach-access proponents coast.” have “yanked back” with a law- “Our office has received the suit challenging the recent Coastal complaint and it is under review,” Commission decision to ban said Gerry Braun, director of com- human access to the beach dur- munications for the City Attor- ing the seals’ upcoming pupping ney’s Office, responding to the law- season. suit. Friends of the Children’s Pool Overriding objections by beach- filed a suit in Superior Court access proponents, the California Oct. 10 alleging city mismanage- Coastal Commission on Aug. 14 ment of the pool and violation of unanimously endorsed a five-year constitutionally protected ocean ban on people accessing La Jolla’s access. Children’s Pool from Dec. 15 to “We have a constitution in Cal- May 15 to afford greater protec- ifornia that the city of San Diego tion to harbor seals during their cannot circumvent,” said Friends pupping season. spokesman Ken Hunrichs, adding In rendering its decision, the that California’s constitution Commission also directed that “guarantees coastal access and ways of cleaning Children's Pool fishing rights.” and making it accessible for the There are other, legal, justifica- disabled need to be addressed tions for the lawsuit, Hunrichs when the matter returns to them said. for review in five years. Beach-access proponents are challenging a state action that bans humans from La Jolla Children's Pool beginning Dec. 15. “The land was transferred in a The suit was the latest twist in a COURTESY PHOTO tideland grant, and they (govern- series of back-and-forth develop- ment) have violated the right to ments over several years defining to the city in 1931. During the waters. Signs there continue to tinue sharing the fraction of fish and for access,” he said. the relationship between seals and 1990s, the manmade breakwa- warn that water contact could shoreline accessible to them that Hunrichs said Friends is asking human recreational users — ter became increasingly overrun pose a serious health risk. is legally upheld per the state for the Coastal Commission’s deci- swimmers, fisherman, divers, et by seals, who turned the pool into In its suit, Friends alleges the Constitution. This right needs to sion banning human contact with cetera — who access the ocean via a haul-out site and a rookery. City deliberately avoided alter- be re-established before other the beach to be “set aside.” the protected pocket beach. In 1997, the pool was closed nate management proposals that beaches, where seals or sea lions “We want to enjoin the city Paid for by La Jolla philan- to human contact by the county would allow shared use to work have decided to land, are sum- from enforcing or enacting thropist Ellen Browning Scripps health department because of at Children’s Pool. marily and unnecessarily closed (restricting beach access) making and created as a safe wading area high bacteria counts from seal ”We are asking for the ability of to make life easy for city adminis- it a crime to be on the beach, for children, the pool was deeded waste buildup in its shallow citizens,” Hunrichs said, “to con- trators.” Open House November 12, 8:30 – 10:00 a.m. Pre-elementary school (ages 2-4), Kindergarten and First Grade RSVP: 858-456-2807 Ext 306 or [email protected] • Multi-cultural, international environment • Non-French speakers welcome • Pre-elementary French teachers hold a master’s degree in education • Advanced math curriculum in all grades • Bilingual French-American curriculum prepares students for American or international high schools. 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