Credit the 71-year-old former mayor and other mature women activists in Berkeley for putting at least a temporary halt to construction at the University of California.

The former mayor, Shirley Dean, was among the tree-huggers who hoisted themselves into live oaks recently to stop them from being cut down as part of a school project to build a new gym. She admitted to a reporter that she was "scared to death because I'm afraid of heights,"

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The protest worked. After a temporary injunction was issued by a local judge to stop the clearing of the site, Dean said "this is a wonderful day. We are rejoicing." The judge cited enviornmental concerns in felling trees in Berkeley's Oak Grove outside Memorial Stadium. Dean had been joined in the branches by a 86-year-old city councilwoman and the 91-year-old head of Save the Bay,Sylvia McLaughlin.