An Alameda County judge will issue a ruling on the stadium/oaks ordeal by Monday. Three plaintiffs, including the city of Berkeley, have filed a request for a preliminary injunction on construction of the stadium renovations and additions. The plaintiffs argue that the plans could not possibly be seismically safe with the proposed buildings so close to the fault line. The city, combined with the Panoramic Hill Association, suggest that the stadium be strengthened first before any additions are made. Campus officials answer that the state will not fund such measures and that the donor money used for the athletic center and stadium renovation will go toward making the stadium seismically safer in the next two years.

Why can’t we all get along? Both sides agree that the stadium is in a precarious situation and desperately needs some retrofitting and renovating. However, the addition of the “student athlete high performance center” or whatever the hell it’s called is not something the school really needs. Donor funds should be spent on something that will benefit the students as a whole and not just a small percentage of them. The campus does not need to expand further east. It does not need to add more traffic on Piedmont (just think of those horrid game days…times, like, a bajillion). And, hey, just for kicks let’s add a nine-hundred-space parking garage on top of that. The more the merrier, right?