It has come to our attention that backlash against Principal Pasarow appeared shortly after he gave direction to personnel to patrol stairwells at BHS to prevent sexual assaults. (There have been 5 such assaults in stairwells in the past 1.5 years.) An alert reader posted this comment on Berkeleyside: "The silence on the matter from BUSD is starting to get absurd. "I watched the January 11th Board meeting and saw that there was a lot of support for Mr. Pasarow tightening “loose nuts and bolts” on the Berkeley High campus. I poked around the school web site and after some google searching, I found that more than one security officer has a public Facebook profile. One security officer updated his profile 50+ times last Thursday while on the job! No wonder BHS has safety issues…" www.bit.ly/bhs_security