CALIFORNIA IN BRIEF : OAKLAND : Names Won’t Be Sold to Recruiters

In a protest of impending war with Iraq, the Oakland Board of Education voted 7 to 0 to stop selling names, phone numbers and addresses of high school students to military recruiters. About 30 parents, students and anti-war activists spoke Wednesday night against recruiters’ repeated phone calls and letters to high school students. The Oakland Unified School District, the state’s sixth largest, had sold lists for $150 to the services in a practice that is common across the state. “Parents don’t even know it’s going on,” said parent Beth Kean, who became outraged when a recruiter called twice at the end of December asking for her daughter, a 17-year-old graduate.