Photo of the Week: Arachnid Arabesque A spider does an eerie highwire act near a ghoulish-looking University House. It completed its web by cover of night, just in time for the Halloween holiday. Peg Skorpinski photo.

Hollywood made a temporary mark on the campus landscape this Sunday as the patio entrance of Giannini Hall became an outdoor cafe, full of parked bikes and tables shaded by blue and yellow "Cal" umbrellas. With a dousing of spray paint, a brown spot in the lawn got "greened." Faux benches -- dead ringers for granite, from a distance -- appeared along the paths. (continues)