Baker’s Dozen suit settled
Two years after an attack that broke his jaw in two places while on tour with the Baker’s Dozen a capella group, a Berkeley College junior has reached a settlement in his civil suit.
On Jan. 1, 2007, following his a cappella group’s performance at a San Francisco party, Sharyar Aziz ’10 and other members of the Baker’s Dozen said they were taunted with homophobic slurs. Aziz sustained a broken jaw in two places after being kicked and punched repeatedly. Felony charges against the alleged assailants were dropped last April, but a civil suit Aziz filed two months after the attack was...
O! way to be witty: from this far Cisco blight,
What so proudly we hail at the far right's last flailings.
Whose loud antics and spite, for the last thirty years,
We will mock with this ditty and cleanse with our tears.
For Rush's receding hair, and the RNC fair,
Give proof that the right is barely still there.
O! pray that this corporate cabal have no stake,
In the land of the free and and the future we make.
The members of the group were signing the national anthem in San Francisco -- that explains why they got attacked.