This item appeared over the weekend and seemed to be lost in the noise of revelations of improper FBI activity at Berkeley in the '60s: Alameda County Court dropped all charges against the pro-Palestinian demonstrators at UC-Berkeley who occupied a building in April, disrupted classes, resisted arrest and assaulted a police officer. Under a deal with prosecuters, The 78 demonstraters will pay court costs of $2,900 ($37 each). The students may still face suspension (but don't count on it). Furthermore the group included 37 non-student activists, who got off scot-free. This doesn't sound like a very good way to discourage people from inflitrating a university and turning it into a playground for demonstrations on behalf of foreign terrorists.