Protesters also should check their behavior

UCSD must face same scrutiny that SDSU did

Re “San Diego panel endorses lifting UCSD property restrictions for growth plan” (Feb. 19): The story gave the reasons why the public-private development at UC San Diego was a good thing. All of them applied equally to the SDSU West campus.

Yet the city attorney and mayor took an adversarial position against SDSU to wring the last drop of blood out of my university. Now the city is going to give UC San Diego a valuable property right for nothing, for a similar project? Bad enough the city insisted on selling the land to SDSU. Worse, removing the reversion would nullify a very important right the city was farsighted enough to add to the terms of the original gift.

UC San Diego got the land for a university — not private development of a conference center, etc. The right to get the land back, before it can be used for non-university purposes, is worth multimillions. The city should demand full market value. Fiscal prudence and equity for SDSU require it. Vincent Biondo Jr. Del Mar Heights

Re “New policy dictates San Diego police response to protests” (Feb. 21): We should be pleased with the first steps in creation of standards for police response to protests. The time has now come for the protest organizers and protesters to consider their behavior.

In any event that law enforcement is seen to be excessive, in that same matter the public may well see excesses by the protesters. Shain Haug Allied Gardens