www.dailycal.org Established 1871. Independent Student Press Since 1971. Berkeley, California Friday, January 28, 2011 SPORTS bROken dam: bears burst through with 85-57 rout at Haas Pavilion. See baCk OPInIOn RenOvaTe: Officials explain why memorial Stadium needs to be renovated. See PaGe 4 Application Deadline TODAY 5:00PM 6th floor Eshleman Family Strives to Pick Up Pieces After Fire Students Seek Permanent Prayer Space West Berkeley Project Introduced to Public Following its initial September 2007 request for zoning amendments that would increase flexibility in the use of West Berke- ley’s industrial zoning districts, the Berkeley City Council received recommendations from the city’s Planning Com- mission and held a public hearing at Tuesday’s meeting to hear community input for further by Jessica Gillotte Daily Cal Staff Writer Everything was going well for the White family last spring. John White had just been accepted to UC Berkeley, his daughter was go- ing to enter kindergarten in the fall and the family of three had recently moved into an affordable apartment on 9th Street in a safe neighborhood in Berkeley. But then, after living in the apartment for just over one month, a fire destroyed their new home. The family lost nearly everything May 19 when the fire caused by a dryer in the Berkeley-East Bay Humane Society — located below the family’s home — spread up to the apartment. More than eight months after losing their home, the family is still trying to come to terms with the tragedy but is having difficulty communicating with the humane society — their former landlord — and facing personal strug- gles, according to JoHanna White. “That apartment was perfect for by Mary Susman Daily Cal Staff Writer Finding a space for students to pray and reflect undisturbed has been a campus issue for years, but a solution may finally be coming to fruition. Last semester, an e-mail was sent to members of UC Berkeley’s Muslim community asking them to refrain from praying in certain areas of the Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union after several complaints were received. Finding a permanent space for prayer was the focus of a Wednesday meeting among several student and campus of- ficials, who discussed finding a tempo- rary space until the renovation of Lower Sproul Plaza is complete, according to CalSERVE Senator Stefan Montouth. by J.D. Morris Daily Cal Staff Writer >> WeSt Berkeley: PAge 2 Students gather for prayer at Heller Lounge. They currently use various available spaces and are negotiating for a permanent location. Allyse BAchArAch/senior stAff >> FAmIly: PAge 5 >> PrAyer: PAge 2 Editor’s Note This is the first installment of a two-part series on the West Berkeley Project. Members of The Dancers’ Den swing the night away at their new indoor venue at the Berkeley City Club. Opening night on Jan. 26 attracted swing enthusiasts of all backgrounds. The group began five years ago, Lindy Hopping and socializing on Upper Sproul Plaza. The group is offering weekly lessons and social dancing. In Full Swing Allyse BAchArAch/senior stAff revisions. After more than three years of for- mulating zoning amendments to the 1998 West Berkeley Plan, the Planning Commission’s program — called the West Berkeley Project — was intro- duced to the City Council, aiming to develop large multi-parcel land sites, encourage new types of industrial ac- tivities and support current businesses in the West Berkeley area. Dan Marks, the city’s director of planning and development, said the West Berkeley Project will “make it easier for many businesses to locate and expand there over time” and that it will also enable the city to receive ben- efits “in exchange for granting more development opportunity” to busi- nesses looking to relocate in the area. The proposed zoning amendments would primarily affect the three indus- trial zoning districts in West Berkeley and would allow for the expansion and reuse of buildings and businesses in the “Ultimately all of this is going to be temporary — it’s just a matter of how long,” Montouth said. Though students normally use the Multicultural Center on the first floor of the student union for their prayers, some instead went upstairs at times when the center was occupied for another event. The e-mail in the fall — sent to the Muslim Students Association by Milli- cent Morris Chaney, student affairs of- ficer for the ASUC Auxiliary — cited complaints that use of the fourth floor interfered with safety and with other students who needed to use the space and asked students not to pray there. Ahmad Ibrahim, president of the association, said the e-mail only add- ed momentum to an already ongoing discussion. Student government leaders have em- phasized that a future reflection space will not be specifically Muslim and that stu- dents of different backgrounds will benefit from its creation, though the location for this space has not yet been determined. According to Yishi Zuo, chair of the Store Operations Board, the new plaza will include a designated reflection room for all students. In the meantime, Dean of Students Jonathan Poullard said establishing a temporary area until the project’s com- pletion must take into account the “so- ciopolitical implications for where we would locate that space.” “We will definitely do our part to make sure this is a permanent stay on our campus so we don’t have this issue us,” said JoHanna White, who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of the fire. “It was right in our budget. It was enough that we could save money each month instead of live paycheck to paycheck.” The family now rents a duplex in South Berkeley that costs $600 more per month than the humane society apartment, JoHanna White said. She added that they want to move back to the 9th Street apartment if the humane society rebuilds because it was affordable, at a good location and open to tenants owning animals. However, JoHanna White said they have had difficulty communicat- ing with the humane society, which she said has not responded to several phone calls and e-mails. “I have no clue what’s going on there,” she said. Stacey Street, executive director of the humane society, said she has not avoided the Whites intentionally but has nothing to tell them, adding she is “sympathetic for their plight.” “I know it was difficult for them be- cause they were homeless, but we were homeless too,” Street said. According to Street, humane society staff reached out to the Whites by donat- ing clothing, furniture and toys. Street said the shelter also paid the full amount required under the Berkeley Relocation area. This would be achieved by clarify- ing the sometimes muddy language in the Zoning Ordinance, increasing the number of uses allowed in industrial dis- tricts and making the Master Use Permit process less complicated to navigate. Businesses looking to obtain an MUP would be required to offer one or more of three benefits to the commu- nity — job training programs for their employees, protection of arts and crafts and artisan space or non-automobile related transportation improvements, such as more bicycle paths. In exchange for these benefits, the city’s MUP provisions include an in- crease in the maximum allowable height of buildings from 45 feet to 75 feet and will also permit taller build- ings in narrower spaces. “It really does enrich all of our com- mercial districts by bringing jobs to town,” said John DeClercq, co-CEO of the Berkeley Chamber of Commerce. Project Seeks to Amend Zoning Laws, Promote Business Development In West Berkeley Area Family Made Homeless By Humane Society Fire Hopes to Return to Old Home in Wake of Blaze
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Established 1871. Independent Student Press Since 1971.
Berkeley, California Friday, January 28, 2011
SPORTS
bROken dam: bears burst through with 85-57 rout at Haas Pavilion.See baCk
OPInIOn
RenOvaTe: Officials explain why memorial Stadium needs to be renovated. See PaGe 4
Application DeadlineTODAY5:00PM
6th floorEshleman
Family Strives to Pick Up Pieces After Fire
Students Seek Permanent Prayer Space
West Berkeley Project Introduced to Public
Following its initial September 2007 request for zoning amendments that would increase flexibility in the use of West Berke-ley’s industrial zoning districts, the Berkeley City Council received recommendations from the city’s Planning Com-mission and held a public hearing at Tuesday’s meeting to hear community input for further
by Jessica GillotteDaily Cal Staff Writer
Everything was going well for the White family last spring.
John White had just been accepted to UC Berkeley, his daughter was go-ing to enter kindergarten in the fall and the family of three had recently moved into an affordable apartment on 9th Street in a safe neighborhood in Berkeley. But then, after living in the apartment for just over one month, a fire destroyed their new home.
The family lost nearly everything May 19 when the fire caused by a dryer in the Berkeley-East Bay Humane Society — located below the family’s home — spread up to the apartment.
More than eight months after losing their home, the family is still trying to come to terms with the tragedy but is having difficulty communicating with the humane society — their former landlord — and facing personal strug-gles, according to JoHanna White.
“That apartment was perfect for
by Mary SusmanDaily Cal Staff Writer
Finding a space for students to pray and reflect undisturbed has been a campus issue for years, but a solution may finally be coming to fruition.
Last semester, an e-mail was sent to members of UC Berkeley’s Muslim community asking them to refrain from praying in certain areas of the Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union after several complaints were received.
Finding a permanent space for prayer was the focus of a Wednesday meeting among several student and campus of-ficials, who discussed finding a tempo-rary space until the renovation of Lower Sproul Plaza is complete, according to CalSERVE Senator Stefan Montouth.
by J.D. MorrisDaily Cal Staff Writer
>> WeSt Berkeley: PAge 2
Students gather for prayer at Heller Lounge. They currently use various available spaces and are negotiating for a permanent location.Allyse BAchArAch/senior stAff >> FAmIly: PAge 5
>> PrAyer: PAge 2
Editor’s Note
This is the first installment of a two-part series on the West Berkeley Project.
Members of The Dancers’ Den swing the night away at their new indoor venue at the Berkeley City Club. Opening night on Jan. 26 attracted swing enthusiasts of all backgrounds. The group began five years ago, Lindy Hopping and socializing on Upper Sproul Plaza. The group is offering weekly lessons and social dancing.
In Full SwingAllyse BAchArAch/senior stAff
revisions.After more than three years of for-
mulating zoning amendments to the 1998 West Berkeley Plan, the Planning Commission’s program — called the West Berkeley Project — was intro-duced to the City Council, aiming to develop large multi-parcel land sites, encourage new types of industrial ac-tivities and support current businesses in the West Berkeley area.
Dan Marks, the city’s director of planning and development, said the West Berkeley Project will “make it easier for many businesses to locate and expand there over time” and that it will also enable the city to receive ben-efits “in exchange for granting more development opportunity” to busi-nesses looking to relocate in the area.
The proposed zoning amendments would primarily affect the three indus-trial zoning districts in West Berkeley and would allow for the expansion and reuse of buildings and businesses in the
“Ultimately all of this is going to be temporary — it’s just a matter of how long,” Montouth said.
Though students normally use the Multicultural Center on the first floor of the student union for their prayers, some instead went upstairs at times when the center was occupied for another event.
The e-mail in the fall — sent to the Muslim Students Association by Milli-cent Morris Chaney, student affairs of-ficer for the ASUC Auxiliary — cited complaints that use of the fourth floor interfered with safety and with other students who needed to use the space and asked students not to pray there.
Ahmad Ibrahim, president of the association, said the e-mail only add-ed momentum to an already ongoing discussion.
Student government leaders have em-phasized that a future reflection space will not be specifically Muslim and that stu-dents of different backgrounds will benefit from its creation, though the location for this space has not yet been determined.
According to Yishi Zuo, chair of the Store Operations Board, the new plaza will include a designated reflection room for all students.
In the meantime, Dean of Students Jonathan Poullard said establishing a temporary area until the project’s com-pletion must take into account the “so-ciopolitical implications for where we would locate that space.”
“We will definitely do our part to make sure this is a permanent stay on our campus so we don’t have this issue
us,” said JoHanna White, who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of the fire. “It was right in our budget. It was enough that we could save money each month instead of live paycheck to paycheck.”
The family now rents a duplex in South Berkeley that costs $600 more per month than the humane society apartment, JoHanna White said.
She added that they want to move back to the 9th Street apartment if the humane society rebuilds because it was affordable, at a good location and open to tenants owning animals.
However, JoHanna White said they have had difficulty communicat-ing with the humane society, which she said has not responded to several phone calls and e-mails.
“I have no clue what’s going on there,” she said.
Stacey Street, executive director of the humane society, said she has not avoided the Whites intentionally but has nothing to tell them, adding she is “sympathetic for their plight.”
“I know it was difficult for them be-cause they were homeless, but we were homeless too,” Street said.
According to Street, humane society staff reached out to the Whites by donat-ing clothing, furniture and toys. Street said the shelter also paid the full amount required under the Berkeley Relocation
area. This would be achieved by clarify-ing the sometimes muddy language in the Zoning Ordinance, increasing the number of uses allowed in industrial dis-tricts and making the Master Use Permit process less complicated to navigate.
Businesses looking to obtain an MUP would be required to offer one or more of three benefits to the commu-nity — job training programs for their employees, protection of arts and crafts and artisan space or non-automobile related transportation improvements, such as more bicycle paths.
In exchange for these benefits, the city’s MUP provisions include an in-crease in the maximum allowable height of buildings from 45 feet to 75 feet and will also permit taller build-ings in narrower spaces.
“It really does enrich all of our com-mercial districts by bringing jobs to town,” said John DeClercq, co-CEO of the Berkeley Chamber of Commerce.
Project Seeks to Amend Zoning Laws, Promote Business Development In West Berkeley Area
Family Made Homeless By Humane Society Fire Hopes to Return to Old Home in Wake of Blaze
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“It’s very good that the arts and crafts are being protected.”
Many members of the Berkeley com-munity attended Tuesday’s City Coun-cil meeting and voiced support and concerns for what the zoning amend-ment entails.
The discussion was centered around the prospect of granting MUPs to large businesses and authorizing land use for research and development pur-poses in the West Berkeley industrial districts.
Mayor Tom Bates said at the meet-ing he hopes that by implementing flexible permit processes, spin-offs from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory or UC Berkeley will be enticed to stay in the city and create more research and development jobs locally, instead of moving to the more business-friendly Emeryville.
The cities of Alameda and Rich-mond have also expressed interest in hosting the planned second campus location for the lab, bids that appear to have Berkeley officials worried.
However, some community mem-bers at the meeting were concerned that allowing research and develop-ment businesses to locate in the area would increase property values and subsequently make it more difficult for small businesses to locate and operate there.
“If you don’t change, you die,” Bates said at the meeting. “We need other avenues for flexibility, opportunity and innovation. We have to be real and get ahead of the curve.”
The Planning Commission is ex-pecting direction from the council fol-lowing the Feb. 8 meeting, according to Marks. The next step would then be to make the appropriate findings to gain approval from the Environmental Impact Report.
Marks said the challenge was to strike a balance between making it eas-ier for new businesses to move in while “limiting impact” and not displacing the existing businesses in the area.
“We think that the compromises are all well-handled and well-reasoned, and (the project) ought to be adopted,” Declercq said.
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going on and on,” Poullard said at the Wednesday ASUC Senate meeting.
Setting up a tent on the balcony of the student union, a suggestion CalSERVE Senator Alex Tan advocated on behalf of the center, is one solution currently being explored.
According to Zuo, it would be diffi-cult to justify the cost for dedicating a room inside the current student union because of the loss of rent revenue that would result.
“Any commercial space ... that we rent out would lose tens of thousands of dollars,” he said. “We also have to think of the other students who wouldn’t be able to use that room.”
Student Action Senator Spencer McLeod said he was grateful for the progress made by Montouth, Tan, CalSERVE Senator Farrah Moos and Independent Senator Waseem Salahi, who have been working to solve the long-standing issue this year.
“It’s so valuable — it’s a place they ab-solutely have to have, and there’s no-where that’s really acceptable at this time,” McLeod said.
Though many factors have yet to be worked out before any space is set up, Ibrahim said he was optimistic that one will be ready before the semester’s end.
“We’re really grateful to have the peo-ple working on it be as cooperative as they are,” he said. “Hopefully we will ar-rive at some sort of solution soon.”
In May 2009, the board forgave The Daily Californian a portion of its rent for the office it leases. As part of the agreement, a nonpolitical student member of the board, currently Zuo, sits on The Daily Californian’s Board of Operations, which has no control over the paper’s editorial content.
J.D. Morris is the lead student government reporter. Contact him at [email protected].
Friday, Jan. 28 WHAT FILM As part of an ongoing series highlighting the films of Alfred Hitchcock and Claude Chabrol, the PFA screens one of Hitchcock’s most iconic works, the 1951 murder mys-tery “Strangers on a Train.” WHEN 7:45 p.m. WHErE Pacific Film Archive, UC Berkeley. CosT $5.50 students, $9.50 adults.
saturday, Jan. 29 WHAT VIsUAL ArT The Art of Graffiti “Sketching Letters,” a monthly course on the technique and history of street art, kicks off its first session. Hosted by Bay Area designer Nate1. WHEN 12:00 p.m. WHErE 1AM Gallery, 1000 Howard St., San Francisco. CosT $50.
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3OPINION & NEWS Friday, January 28, 2011The Daily Californian
Here’s what it feels like for a student of Middle East politics to read the news this week:
Imagine an astronomy major, with big glasses to correct permanent eye damage from squinting through telescopes from an early age, whose dorm is strung up with mobiles of the planets and whose bookcase is packed double with sci-fi novels. Now imagine this precise student opening the paper one morning to find the following three stories splitting the front page:
“Life Discovered on Mars”“Man Lands on Sun”“1969 Moon Landing Was Fake, FBI
Confirms”There may not be little green men on
Mars, but reading recent news I feel there might as well be.
First, in Tunisia, mass protests have overthrown Zine el Abidine Ben Ali, president (dictator) since 1987. Protests have now erupted in other Arab dictatorships — most importantly, in Egypt, where President Hosni Mubarak has been in power (with the well-wishes and economic support of the United States) since 1981. You know, with 99.9 percent of the vote.
Next, in Lebanon, Hezbollah has just picked a new, pasty-faced, politically unexciting, billionaire Sunni business-man prime minister, after bringing down the former (U.S.-backed) coalition government. It wasn’t a coup — it was parliamentary politics as usual. The new guy isn’t Hezbollah, and even though he was picked by Hezbollah, he could easily be the United States’ new tool. But the U.S. is terrified nevertheless, and threatening to halt aid to Lebanon.
Finally, in the Palestinian Territories, a leak of papers documenting the inner workings of the Palestinian Authority has revealed what everyone already knew: The PA is weak, self-serving and willing to sign away what most Palestinians consider nonnegotiable rights in negotiations. And Israel will say “no” to even the most absurdly favorable deal. In short, the “peace process” of the past 20 years is a farce.
These developments are as exciting as they are contrary to U.S. interests. Because — and many Americans don’t realize this — what the United States wants to happen in the Middle East, is for nothing to happen. Especially not democracy.
So here I am, torn between an optimism that this could a true
democratic revolution for Arab nations and a hesitation inspired by the knowledge that great powers hope for nothing to happen.
I returned two weeks ago from a trip around the Middle East interviewing young Palestinians in Jaffa, Bethlehem, Amman, Beirut and Saida. They were mostly refugees who live inside or outside of refugee camps.
I discovered (and was admittedly surprised by) the optimism of these young people in their own generations’ ability to make change. They pointed to the example of Tunisia, where Ben Ali had just fled the country. Although they are two different cases, their political desire is essentially the same thing: the ability to choose their own fates. In
Tunisia, these young refugees found inspiration in the strength of a people who could overthrow a U.S.-backed dictator with the power of a popular uprising. What’s more, almost all the interviewees identified as independent from any political party or movement.
This is same case in Egypt — that the protesters are not, primarily,
Islamists. The Muslim Brotherhood did not officially participate in Tuesday’s protests. This is essentially bad news for the Mubarak regime, who have used the threat of political Islam as a justification for its perennial state of emergency and brutal repression of its own people.
These protesters are young, independent and fed up.
The trite post-9/11 question, asked in the media, in classrooms and around American dinner tables, is “Why do they hate us?” Do they hate our freedoms? Are they radical Muslims, indoctrinated from a young age to fight the infidels? Are they stupid? Are they evil?
How about this: “They” are well aware of the United States’ role in preventing democracy and human rights in the Middle East for a half a century. Without Arab dictators for puppets, the US would lose its greatest tool in propping up Israel. Egyptian democracy could mean an end to the siege of Gaza.
There are two currents flowing through the Middle East as I see it. The first is a courageous march toward democracy. In Tunisia, in Egypt and elsewhere, the people are demanding their right to choose their own government, to say “no,” once and for all, to the corruption, unemployment, poverty and oppression brought about by decades of leaders focused not on the betterment of their people but on the mad scramble to hold on to power.
The second is an exhaustion brought about by politics as usual. The young Palestinians I spoke to are tired of the mockery that is their official leadership, of the failure of negotiations to achieve anything. They are ready to take up the cause of their own resistance, whatever that may entail.
The United States has an opportunity here. To unravel 50 years of subverting democracy in the Middle East, to strip away the oppressive regimes that have given “them” so much cause to hate “us.” Because of what that means for Israel, the U.S. is unlikely to do this. But if the revolution of this week continues on, the U.S. may not have much of a choice.
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Livermore Lab Retirees Bring New Evidence to Benefits Suit
Met with a lukewarm response in court last December, a group of UC retirees who worked at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory sub-mitted a new petition on Monday bol-stering their claims that their retire-ment benefits were unjustly altered.
The grassroots UC Livermore Re-tirees Group brought an amended complaint with several new pieces of evidence against the UC Board of Re-gents, whom the group claims allowed Lawrence Livermore National Security to raise premiums and co-payments despite promising otherwise.
Lab retirees Joe Requa, Jay Davis and Donna Ventura — who started working at the lab in the 1960s and 1970s — each report paying about $1,000 more in premiums than retirees in other depart-ments in 2009 as a result of the consor-tium’s policy changes. Requa and Davis estimate paying an extra $1,000 in 2010.
Alameda Superior Court Judge Frank Roesch ruled last December that the regents’ demurrer — a legal attack that is essentially a request to throw out a case — would be sustained with leave to amend, allowing the retirees time to rework their case.
Among the evidence presented in the new complaint are excerpts from a May 1990 Retiree Handbook, in which the university denies that references to benefits do not constitute its “endorse-ment, recommendation, or favoring.”
“In the late ’90s, (the UC) changed
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their tune,” Carl Whitaker, a publicist hired by the retirees, said. “Fine print appeared that states the UC reserved the right to change the benefits at any time.”
A 1998 version of the handbook states: “The University of California intends to continue the benefits described here in-definitely; however, the benefits of all ... plan beneficiaries are subject to change or termination at the time of contract re-newal or at any other time by the Univer-sity or other governing authorities.”
Representatives from the UC de-clined to comment. Representatives from the consortium could not be reached as of press time.
As recently as July 2010, the univer-sity stated in a post-employment bene-fits report that the retirement program it offers compensates for the lack of competitive salaries that private com-panies might offer. Some fear that this policy has already been compromised.
“(The UC) used these benefits as a tool to get them away from the private companies, but now they are saying ‘tough,’” said Andrew Thomas Sinclair, who represents the retirees.
Ventura, who worked at the lab from 1974 to 2006, said retirees’ only recourse to the alteration or termina-tion of their benefits would be to seek full-cost Medicare.
“If they can do this to one group of UC retirees, they can do this to any group,” she said. “It’s not just us that are in danger.”
True Shields is the lead courts reporter. Contact him at [email protected].
School District Board Debates Charter School Facilities Plan
Berkeley Unified School District board members began considering options to accommodate the district’s first two charter schools at their meet-ing Wednesday, also discussing the ex-tent of their obligation to provide the charters with classroom and adminis-trative space.
Planning to open a middle school and high school this fall, the Revo-lutionary Education and Learning Movement charter school requested facilities from the district last Novem-ber. The board plans to issue a prelimi-nary proposal with facilities details by the end of the month.
“This is really our first set of char-ters,” said District Facilities Director Lew Jones. “There are a couple things, like requests for facilities, that we are not accustomed to responding to.”
Jones said the district must pro-vide facilities for REALM only if the schools — in accordance with both of the charters’ applications — maintain an average daily attendance of 89 stu-dents from the Berkeley district for the coming school year.
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The city’s recent agreement with local labor organizations is a step toward lower unemployment and fairer wages.
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The recent lawsuits against the city are costly reminders that it must adequately maintain its public infrastructure.
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settlement between the city and Delmar Mitchell. 3 Number of pavement and
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A new policy voted on by the Berkeley City Council is a positive step toward reduc-
ing city unemployment and ensur-ing fair wages on city construc-tion.
The new policy is in the form of an agreement with the Building Trades Council of Alameda County and several other trade groups. The agreement requires 30 per-cent of the labor-hours on city projects costing over $1 million to be made available first to Berkeley workers, then workers in the East Bay Green Corridor, then finally to all of Alameda County. If no work-ers in all of Alameda County are able to complete the job, then the city is allowed to contract outside the county.
This is one of the first agree-ments of its kind, with the city of Berkeley being only the second city in the state to approve such an ordinance. With the city facing unemployment of 10.3 percent in December, and the unions seeing unemployment of around 30 per-cent, it is good to see the that the city is taking proactive measures to ensure that its policies help
directly reduce those figures. We think the benefits of the
agreement, most notably the inevi-table decrease in local unemploy-ment and the reduction of prevail-ing wage violation fraud — the practice of billing the city one rate and paying non-union workers less than that rate — outweigh its anti-competitive aspects.
We are also pleased with the decision to allow this agreement to operate for a year before consider-ing lowering the threshold from $1 million to $250,000.
As-is, the agreement covers approximately 25 percent of the city’s contracting jobs — a signifi-cant amount that should be more than enough reveal any unforeseen problems over the course of the year.
Negotiating labor relations is a difficult and complicated process, and, because of this, we are trust-ing our city officials to be espe-cially knowledgeable in approving the agreement. In one year, when city officials decide whether to expand the scope of the agree-ment, we will see whether our trust was validated.
Perhaps the most painful thing about the lawsuits that are currently facing the city
of Berkeley is not their high finan-cial costs but instead the knowl-edge that the city could have avoid-ed these problems by better main-taining its sidewalks and other public infrastructure.
Currently, the city is facing three lawsuits. AC Transit employee Delmar Mitchell is waiting for the city council to approve a $50,000 settlement after he allegedly fell on uneven pavement on Shattuck Avenue and injured his knee. Bay Area residents Maria Lazlo and Florence McCrary are each suing the city for at least $25,000 after falling through a metal cover on the sidewalk in North Berkeley and slipping on an “oily substance” outside the Berkeley Adult School, respectively.
These are only the latest such lawsuits — over the past two fiscal years, the city has faced liability claims of up to $125,000.
Though the city is self-insured for $350,000 through its budgeted Public Liability Fund, it cannot become complacent and expect
having the fund to be a substitute for adequately maintaining its public spaces.
In the case of Delmar Mitchell, the city attorney concluded that city failed to repair the uneven sidewalk where he was injured and was thus at fault.
While the city is disputing its culpability in at least one of the other suits, it should consider the suits a wake-up call and should work to minimize its liability in the future.
This is not a complicated prob-lem. While we understand the financial predicament that the city is facing, it must prioritize the maintenance of its public streets and walkways.
Though canvassing the city to determine potentially hazardous areas and fixing them may involve high initial costs, the city may ulti-mately benefit by being able to reduce the size of its insurance fund and freeing more money into its general fund.
In a time of financial austerity, the city cannot afford to be hand-ing out settlements costing $50,000 or more.
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The renovation and seismic retrofitting of California Memorial Stadium (CMS) is an expensive, complicated and essential endeavor for the university. Both of us have carefully analyzed the financial model that will support Intercollegiate Athletics as it services the debt issued to pay for the
A Home Fit for the Golden BearsRenovating Memorial Stadium Is A Sound Plan to Benefit the Cal Community as a Whole
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the project is affordable, and that the financial plan will generate additional funds to underwrite Cal Athletics’ future operations. The report also notes that there is a “less than 10 percent chance, that there will be deficit at the end of the process.” While a degree of uncertainty is inherent in any plan that attempts to anticipate future investment returns and rates of inflation, this level of risk is well within reasonable standards for an endeavor of this sort.
With the above in mind our attention turns to the Endowment Seating Program. As of today, ESP partici-pants have accounted for 1,895 seats, of which 1,569 are under signed contract secured by the required deposit. This is an increase of more than 500 seats since last June and represents 55 percent of our ultimate goal: contracts for 2,878 seats.
Professor Barsky rightly notes that, as anticipated, early demand is skewed toward lower priced seats. But, the data on funds raised so far also suggest the program is on the path to success. To date, the 1,569 seats under contract are valued at $130 million, which amounts to 49 percent of the ultimate goal. (Actual cash received is less
than the amount pledged under these contracts, but our accounting methods are consistent with best practices relat-ed to philanthropic pledges.)
We also acknowledge that professor Barsky uncovered inaccurate data on the ESP web site, the statement that current contracts are valued at $215 million. The person responsible for this error is no longer employed by Cal Athletics and the statement has been removed.
We are not blazing new ground with the ESP; other universities, including Oregon, Tennessee and Minnesota, have successfully executed comparable seat sales programs. The good news is that their experience indicates sales will surge in the final 12 months of con-struction, as donors see architectural renderings become reality.
Also encouraging is the fact that these institutions had sold, on average, 28 percent of their seat inventory 12 months prior to completion, while we are already at or near the 50 percent
mark, in terms of both money raised and seats sold, more than 18 months before the stadium reopens. We project that by the time the project is completed 98 percent of ESP seats will be accounted for.
Barsky is also correct when he states that ESP partici-pants can, at any time, return seat licenses before they expire. However, he fails to account for our and other universities’ experience with sales of premium seats. When these sorts of seats come back on the market they are snatched up very quickly, often at prices well above the original offering. (For detailed information on ESP: CalESP.com/index.asp)
To sum up, we believe the pieces are in place to respon-sibly retrofit and restore California Memorial Stadium, an indivisible part of this campus. We know that the admin-istration, faculty, students and alumni will continue to carefully monitor the project’s progress and financial foundations.
We are confident, but not complacent, and will contin-ue to keep the Cal community updated as the project pro-gresses.
Editor’s note: Frank Yeary serves on an advisory board for The Daily Californian that does not have control over editorial content.
Frank Yeary is vice chancellor of UC Berkeley. Calvin Moore is chairperson of the Academic Senate Task Force on Intercollegiate Athletics. Reply to [email protected].
project, and although we come from different constituen-cies — administration and faculty — we both believe that the current plan is the best alternative available and in the best interests of the campus.
We also share a conviction that the Cal community must continue to carefully scrutinize every aspect of the project. However, discussion must be anchored in fact, and for that reason we must respond to professor Brian Barsky’s recent op-eds that use incomplete data to cast unwarranted doubt on the viability of a carefully designed and continuously monitored plan.
Before we set the record straight, it is worth recalling why and how the university decided to undertake the $320 million renovation of CMS. In 2008, the regents presented the campus with an ultimatum of sorts: Accelerate existing plans to bring the stadium up to mod-ern standards or identify a new location for the Golden Bears’ home games. With broad support, the university decided that home games should continue to be played on campus and not in a distant facility that would cost mil-lions in rent and lost revenue.
Beyond the financial factors, there are other clear and compel-ling reasons why there is no place like home. First, we believe that athletics must remain a fully inte-grated element of campus life. In addition, these games are an indispensable way to bring large numbers of alumni back to the campus. Preserving the ties that bind our most devoted supporters to their alma mater is essential for an institution which, now more than ever, relies on their emotion-al, political and financial support. Finally, a safe, modern stadium owned by the university is essen-tial if our football program is to continue producing millions of dollars in annual net revenue, helping to underwrite the costs of many other teams.
Suffice it to say that we strongly disagree with professor Barsky’s contention that the financial plan for funding construction is precar-ious, much less irresponsible. He makes a critical error by relying on outdated planning documents that estimated interest rates of 6 percent per year on debt to finance the construction.
In fact, most of the construction costs have already been financed for approximately 4.00 percent per year under favorable terms that defer repayment of principal for 20 years. As a result, Barsky’s critique is damaged because future debt payments will be far less and far more affordable than the estimates he presented.
In fact, the current plan will allow IA to generate the incremental revenues required to service and repay the debt without drawing on state funds or tuition. We will rely on private sources of revenue that include philan-thropy, ticket surcharges, corporate sponsorship and an innovative plan — the Endowment Seating Program (ESP) — to sell long term access to 2,878 of the stadium’s best seats.
Our confidence arises in no small part from the report issued by the Academic Senate Task Force on Intercollegiate Athletics, an eight-member faculty group chaired by one of this article’s authors. Members careful-ly analyzed financial plans for both CMS and the adjoin-ing Student Athlete High Performance Center.
A probabilistic risk analysis determined that “under most circumstances, the strategy is predicted to succeed and would leave Cal Athletics with a substantial endow-ment to support operations when the bonds are paid off in 2042-43.” In other words, the analysis suggests that
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lEttEr to thE EditorPension Demands: A Disgusting Display In an apparent attempt to be humorous, UC Berkeley School of Law Dean Christopher Edley refers to himself and his self-serving cohorts as “craven scum.”
Sadly the characterization is more true than funny. The implicit requirement for senior campus executives is the well being of the university. Since they are more interested in lining their pockets while others are making sacrifices
for the university, they are failing their duty and should all be fired. Contrary to Edley’s assertion, there is plenty of talent available these days willing to work for less with greater ethics. What a horrible example of greed they are showing students.
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Longtime Supporter of the Arts, Journalism Dies at 93
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Philanthropist and financial backer for Berkeley’s Center for Investigative Reporting and UC Berkeley’s Gradu-ate School of Journalism David Logan died Jan. 22 due to pneumonia follow-ing a heart operation at the age of 93.
A funeral was held Wednesday in Chicago.
Throughout his life, Logan dedicated his time, energy and financial support to promoting his passions of journalism and the arts as well as to the principle of providing opportunities for all. He funded projects such as PBS’s Frontline documentary series, a competition to promote social and environmental prob-lem-solving among students and — more recently — a $35 million gift to found the Center for the Creative and Performing Arts at the University of Chicago.
Born to Lithuanian immigrant par-ents in Chicago, Logan grew up poor and worked hard to become a “self-made man,” getting his start in law and investing in Chicago real estate, ac-cording to friends and family.
“His father and mother both worked long hours to make sure that their kids had everything they needed,” said son Jonathan Logan. “His mother was de-termined that they should go to the best schools that they could ... so they worked very hard and successfully to get this nice Jewish boy to Catholic school.”
Through the Reva and David Logan Foundation, which Logan set up with his wife, he funded projects all over the country.
“He just loved the idea of helping people find their potential, finding the diamond in the rough and helping them succeed,” said nephew Peter Frumkin.
Known for saying investigative jour-nalism is the “guardian of the public interest,” Logan invested in various pro-grams based on this mantra. Through his foundation, Logan was a major do-nor to the Center for Investigative Re-
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porting, established the Reva and David Logan Distinguished Professor of Inves-tigative Reporting position at UC Berke-ley’s Graduate School of Journalism and established the Logan Symposium for investigative reporters and students.
Lowell Bergman, co-founder of the Center for Investigative Reporting who holds the investigative reporting professor position at the journalism school, said the two met for the first time over lunch before Logan gave the center a large gift in 2005.
“We immediately had a fight over lunch,” Bergman said. “He was bad-gering me about what I do and why it was important, so we got in a big argu-ment, and at the end of the argument, he wrote a check, and a month or two later, he sent $1.5 million to spark the endowment for a permanent teaching position for investigative reporting.”
Logan also possessed a passion for music and art, an interest evident in his support for Ken Burns’ “Jazz” docu-mentary series and in the 29 years he spent on the Illinois Arts Council.
“My father could listen to an album and pick out a solo, and he could tell you each person playing,” Jonathan Logan said. “There could be five trumpet play-ers, and he could tell you each one.”
Those who knew Logan described him as “tough” and “strong,” with a gut feeling for which projects he wanted to fund.
“He had a deep, gravelly voice, and he was a very imposing figure. No non-sense,” said Robert Rosenthal, execu-tive director of the Center for Investi-gative Reporting. “I think he was sort of a teddy bear, too. He had a tough ex-terior, but obviously had a huge heart, and he helped a lot of people.”
Logan is survived by wife of nearly 69 years, Reva, as well as by three sons, nine grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Emma Anderson is the university news editor. Contact her at [email protected].
realm: West Campus facility a Suggested SitefRom pAGe 3Javetta Cleveland, while the middle school currently has significantly fewer than 89 children enrolled, the current projected enrollment for the high school is 85 students — four shy of the required amount. District Superintendent Bill Huyett said the new high school does not technically qualify for any district-pro-vided facilities until 89 students can be confirmed as committed to the charter.
“From my perspective, I would be less concerned about whether this year they meet the 89 exactly,” said board member Josh Daniels. “If it means that we expend more funds up front, I would be comfortable with that. I think it would provide REALM the best op-portunity to succeed and provide us the best opportunity to have a cordial relationship with the charter.”
While Daniels and fellow board member Leah Wilson felt the district should supply facilities despite the high school’s current four-student deficien-cy, members Karen Hemphill and John Selawsky argued that the 89-student requirement should be enforced.
“When this board approved REALM … we wisely stuck close to the process set up by the state to evaluate charters,” Hemphill said at the meeting. “I am a little concerned about providing any-thing beyond what the statute requires — not because I don’t support REALM but because this sets a precedent for the charters that follow.”
Assuming the charter high school will meet enrollment requirements, Jones suggested, among other options, that a building at the district’s West Campus be utilized. He said the build-ing was originally built to serve middle school students and has been used by district high school students in the past and that it would require some minor renovation covered by funds from Measures AA and BB.
After the board submits its prelimi-nary proposal concerning facilities, the charter will have until March 1 to respond.
Jeffrey Butterfield is the lead local schools reporter. Contact him at [email protected].
family: Whites Not Ready to Terminate LeasefRom fRoNTOrdinance and invited the family to file a claim under their insurance.
However, a major difficulty for the Whites was their lack of renter’s insur-ance, which Street said was the fami-ly’s responsibility. JoHanna White said they were waiting for a payday to get the insurance when the fire occurred.
The humane society also has not returned the Whites’ $500 security deposit because the lease is still ac-tive, according to Street, who said they offered to give it back. But JoHanna White said she refused to sign a ter-mination agreement because she does not want to end the lease, even though she has not heard about moving back.
While the shelter reopened last week, Street said it was “premature” to think about whether the Whites would be able to live in the building again.
“It’s very early,” she said. “I can’t an-swer that, not because I won’t but be-cause we have no plans in place what-soever. Keep in mind this is probably going to be a two-year-long process.”
Meanwhile, JoHanna White, who
was home alone at the time of the fire and was saved by the family’s dog, is slowly recovering. Due to her post-traumatic stress, she was on disability leave for three months after the fire.
Additionally, John White said he is struggling in school and was put on academic probation but “can’t afford to lose Berkeley.”
Yet while the couple is having diffi-culty moving on, JoHanna White said their daughter has been resilient.
“I think about books that got de-stroyed and mementos,” JoHanna White said. “That’s not what it’s about for her. It’s about that her dog saved her mommy.”
As the Whites look to the future, their biggest hope is to move beyond the aftermath of the fire.
“The healing is slow — a little bit at a time,” JoHanna White said. “I’m just really hopeful that the humane society will rebuild and I can have my apart-ment back someday.”Mary Susman covers Berkeley communities. Contact her at [email protected].
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out of position for a reason sometimes, because of them.”
The Beavers eventually found a defensive clutch in senior forward El Sara Greer. Late in the game, Greer made seven blocks, matching Cal’s total for the game.
“(Battling down low) was a big focus because Greer is such a good rebound-er,” Caldwell said.
Greer served as a counter to Caldwell’s explosive scoring and rebounding, which was likely Oregon State’s most frustrating defensive task.
The Beavers’ 32.3 percent shooting also played into their downfall. Sage Inendi, who leads Oregon State in points per game and 3-pointers with fellow guard Alyssa Martin, scored just one from beyond the arc. The removal of a typically potent offensive force was just one of the obstacles that stood in the way of the Beavers’ chance to change their winless Pac-10 record.
The Bears had 24 defensive rebounds, totaling 50 over the Beavers’ 29 rebounds. Cal simply possessed the ball, preventing the Beavers from even attempting the field goals from which they were finding so little success.
Until last night, the road had not been kind to the Bears’ conference record. While they managed a double-digit victory over USC at Haas just last week, the weekend before that saw Cal swept by the Washington teams during their first conference road trip.
But this game doesn’t necessarily
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forecast a winning road record for the Bears. Oregon State is a young team, with a head coach in his first year.
Oregon, the next stop for the Bears, has demonstrated a caliber of play com-parable to both Washington teams. The
Ducks will be a more realistic road test for the Bears’ conference abilities.
Alex Matthews covers women’s basketball. Contact her at [email protected].
Guard Lindsay Sherbert missed all four of her 3-point attempts against Oregon State, but the Bears cruised to a 60-47 road win. Cal grabbed 50 rebounds to the Beavers’ 29.
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in the season with a 29-12 victory over UC Davis last week. The win took some of the sting out of a 77-7 thrashing by a strong St. Mary’s team the week before.
“Our win against Davis was definite-ly a step in the right direction,” Stan-ford rugby club president and center Tommy Kramer said in an e-mail. “Our focus is on improving week to week.”
Clark too is looking for weekly progress. Last Saturday against Chico State, he was pleased the team exe-cuted areas worked on in practice that week. Clark hopes the different aspects targeted leading up to the match will carry over as well.
“We’re going to put a couple more ball
placements in,” he said. “We’re turning over too much ball on the tackles still.”
Ordinarily the reserves match takes place after the official game, but the reserves will take the field first on Sat-urday, starting at 11 a.m. Clark said the change was due to a Save Cal Rugby fundraiser that evening.
The timing is critical; there is still a possibility of restoring the rugby team to varsity status and sparing the four other sports playing what would oth-erwise be their final seasons.
The Athletic Department set a $25 million fundraising deadline for Jan. 31 to spare all five cut sports.
Christina Jones covers rugby. Contact her at [email protected].
did a really good job tonight, especially the guards.”
Both the players and Montgomery admitted that the blowout victory was good for the team’s confidence, especially with three straight home games ahead. Cal received bench contributions from Bak Bak, Richard Solomon and Emerson Murray, but Montgomery emphasized the importance of consistency — espe-cially when games are closer.
“You need these games. We didn’t have many in the season and that helps,” Montgomery said. “We have players that when it goes well for them they play better. You’ve got to get bloodied and adjust and play well.”
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Gabriel Baumgaertner covers men’s basketball. Contact him at [email protected].
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Cal Heptathletes Have Seven Events But Just One Location
Freshman Idarre Coles of the Cal track and field team has never competed in a heptathlon. This weekend’s Univer-sity of Washington Invitational will be his only chance to do so before the fast-approaching MPSF Championships.
Luckily for Coles, both meets will be at the Dempsey Indoor Facility in Seattle.
In fact, the only other meet in be-tween this competition and MPSFs is the Husky Indoor Classic, also at the same location. The three consecutive competitions at Washington provide him ample opportunity to familiarize himself with the venue.
“We think he’s going to be a very good one down the road,” coach Tony Sandoval said. “My nickname for him is neophyte. He’s a newbie and he has to get his feet wet somehow.”
Coles, out of Redwood High in Visa-lia, Calif., saw some action last week in the 60m, 400m and high jump at the Cherry and Silver Invitational to pre-pare himself for what is ahead.
Additionally, he will have to compete with veteran heptathlete teammates Mike Morrison and Kevin Kuechler.
After transferring from Florida as a junior, Morrison wasted no time break-ing the Cal heptathlon record at last year’s UW Invitational. He shattered Jonas Hallgrimsson’s 2004 program mark by more than 250 points, finish-ing in first place with 5,710 points in
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his first heptathlon as a Bear.“I would be selling him short if I
said he’s not trying to win it this year,” Sandoval said. “That’s his goal.”
He went on to win the MPSF title before upping the ante again at the NCAA Championships with 5,826 points for a third-place finish.
It will be the first time on the track this season for Kuechler, a junior, who took sixth place at last year’s MPSFs with a score of 5,055.
The Bears’ stiffer competition includes Oregon, UCLA, and host Washington.
The Duck’s women’s team is No. 1 in the country while the men hold at No. 5. Brianne Theisen is the defending NCAA pentathlon champion, while heptath-letes Bruce Burbank, Kevin Godfrey, Dakotah Keys and David Klech will challenge Cal’s No. 17 men’s squad.
The Bruins’ men’s distance medley relay team won the MPSF crown last year and earned All-American honors at the NCAA meet. Last year’s mem-bers all returned this season.
“I don’t look too much at (other teams). We just focus in on ourselves,” Sandoval said. “Sometimes you worry too much about who’s going to be there, who’s not going to be there, it gets too crazy.”
The action starts today at 3 p.m., with the women’s 60m hurdles for the pen-tathlon before resuming on Saturday at 8 a.m. with the women’s 3000m run.
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Cal Prepares for Glory in Return to Spartan Invite
Traveling to San Jose this weekend, the Cal women’s water polo team will be competing in the Spartan Invita-tional — and no, despite its name, the Spartan Invitational will not include an invitation to dine in hell.
The only fine dining the No. 3 Bears will be doing this weekend will take place at least an hour before they jump into the pool to meet a mélange of ranked opponents .
On Saturday, the team will face Cal State Monterey Bay and No. 19 Pacific, while Sunday will bring matches against Santa Clara and No. 16 UC Davis. There is no champion determined in the six-team tournament, which is held at the San Jose State Aquatics Center.
The first game will take place at 10 a.m., against the Broncos, with the fol-
by Samuel FarahmandDaily Cal Staff Writer
lowing match against the Tigers played at 1 p.m. Sunday will have the same time schedule against the Otters and Aggies.
The opponents comprise a tougher field of teams than Cal has seen thus far.
Nevertheless, the Bears (3-0) have started their season off well, despite star veterans Emily Csikos and Stepha-nie Peckham sitting out the first three games with minor injuries. Last week-end gave the team’s younger players an opportunity to test their mettle against weaker opponents but also showed how the team will have to adjust.
“I wasn’t happy with our defense,” coach Richard Corso said. “I think our goal is to try to keep the team — no matter who we’re playing — to five goals and under.”
Historically, the squad has domi-nated all of its Spartan Invitational op-ponents, allowing the team to fine-tune its defense for tougher opponents later in the year.
The Bears had a perfect record against those Spartan rivals last year, outscoring all four by a total margin of 78-20. Despite that impressive of-fensive display, Cal is more concerned about rediscovering that same level of defensive play.
Although it’s still early in the sea-son and Cal has yet to face some of its stiffer competition, Corso pointed to a particular team mindset that will have to develop outside of game time.
“Every weekend will get more dif-ficult. You know, the quality of the competition gets a little bit higher, the level gets a little bit harder, and we’ll just have to make the adjustment for that,” Corso said. “The place to do that is at practice. The intensity has to be higher. All of those things.”
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Samuel Farahmand covers women’s water polo. Contact him at [email protected].
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Bears Pound Beavers in 28-Point BlowoutAll week long, the Cal men’s basketball team faced ques-
tions about whether it would be able to contain Oregon State’s trademark 1-3-1 zone defense, an approach that both-ered them twice last season.
After being stifled by the Bears’ zone the entire night, maybe Oregon State could take notes to add to its defensive strategy.
Cal easily resisted the Beavers’ zones, even forcing them to play man defense in the second half, and swarmed the opposi-tion with its own zone on the way to an easy 85-57 rout on Thursday night at Haas Pavilion.
“We’re playing pretty confident right now,” guard Jorge Gutierrez said. “We are practicing hard. When it comes to game day, we get in the mindset to do whatever it takes to win.”
After playing mainly man defense in the early parts of the season, the Bears have played three consecutive games with heavy doses of zone, a strategy that the players are embracing.
“We don’t get as tired as before so that’s a plus,” Gutierrez said. “We were very comfortable in it. Teams are not shooting as well as they were shooting before.”
Gutierrez played one of his finest games of the season, scor-ing 16 points and dishing out a career-high 11 assists, and Allen Crabbe turned in one of his most active performances of the year on both sides of the ball. The freshman scored 12 points, pulled down seven rebounds and gathered two steals.
Harper Kamp, who led the Bears with 18 points, was one of four different Cal players in double figures.
Oregon State found itself struggling to break Cal’s 2-3 zone in the early going and couldn’t figure it out the entire night. Trying to stretch the Bears out with outside shooting, the Beavers shot a paltry 3-17 from the perimeter and strug-gled finding anything near the hoop.
“This was the first time that I saw us play, in three years I’ve been here that it looked like we just gave up,” Oregon State coach Craig Robinson said. “My team should never come out and lay an egg like the way we did.”
Cal coach Mike Montgomery opted for the zone because he felt thought it would help Cal on the offensive end, a strat-egy that worked perfectly.
“Our week of preparation was good for what they wanted to do,” Montgomery said. “I don’t think their 1-3-1 zone is what it has been in the past. In order for them to be effective offen-sively they need to go small and when they go small their zone is not as good because it is easier to pass through it.”
The Bears didn’t struggle with Oregon State’s variety of zones as it had last season when former Pac-10 Player of the Year Jerome Randle was commandeering the backcourt. With good early ball movement, the Bears led the entire night after taking a 4-2 lead 17:16 remaining.
“I think Jorge and Brandon and Allen did a great job moving the ball and penetrating the seams like coach always empha-sizes,” Kamp said. “We were able to do it effectively tonight. We
by Gabriel BaumgaertnerDaily Cal Senior Staff Writer
M. hoopsCal 85Oregon State 57
Harper Kamp (left) shot 7-of-9 for 18 points, his ninth straight in double digits. He chipped in two rebounds.
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Cal Boards Up Beavers In Stifling First Half
At the start of last night’s match at Oregon State, the Cal women’s basket-ball team was kept on their toes. Though the Bears first shut the Beavers out with an early five points, Oregon State responded with a 7-0 scoring streak to take the lead.
Then the Bears got down to busi-ness. Eliza Pierre and DeNesha Stallworth retook the lead, 9-7, with a layup each.
Talia Caldwell widened the gap between the Bears (12-7, 4-4 in the Pac-10) and the Beavers (7-12, 0-8), which remained in Cal’s favor through the final whistle, a 60-47 victory. Caldwell followed her next three offensive rebounds with field goals.
Such unrelenting pressure from the sophomore center proved too much for Oregon State to handle. Caldwell scored 14 points and grabbed 11 rebounds by the end of the game. The Beavers had difficulty containing Stallworth, who also had a double-double with 16 points and 10 rebounds.
“They really did the work down there and got the second-chance points,” coach Joann Boyle said. “That is really what won the game for us.”
By the end of the half, Cal had almost doubled the Beavers’ score, 30-16.
Oregon State coach Scott Rueck sug-gested his team’s defensive weaknesses last night were a result of failures to get into position.
“Part of that was Cal’s athleticism and their quickness,” he said. “We were
by Alex MatthewsDaily Cal Staff Writer
w. hoopsCal 60 Oregon State 47
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Cal to Defend 16-Year grip on Scrum axe
Bears Can’t wait to Challenge Red Raiders on the Road again
As Willie Nelson once crooned, “Just can’t wait to be on the road again.” Granted, Nelson was referring to a nomadic lifestyle of music and friend-ship, but the lyrics ring true for the No. 19 Cal men’s tennis team as well.
With the spring season already un-derway, the Bears (1-1) have yet to play a single home match at Hellman Ten-nis Complex. Instead, they embark this weekend on their third consecutive away tournament, the ITA Kick-Off Weekend at the Don & Ethel McLeod Tennis Center in Lubbock, Texas.
“We have a pretty good road team,” coach Peter Wright said. “Obviously when you travel a few unexpected things arise — like altitude changes, different courts, the fact that you’re sleeping in a hotel. But the boys are good at adjusting.”
Kick-Off Weekend is a sort of wel-come week for tennis teams across the country. Rather than sampling clubs, course offerings and Greek life, the teams whet their appetites with a taste of national competition instead. At 15 different sites around the country, four teams will go head-to-head over the course of two days. The teams that win both their matches receive an automatic berth in the ITA National Team Indoor Championships in Seattle, Feb. 18-21.
Cal will begin the tournament against Auburn at 3 p.m. on Saturday; the oth-er two teams in the section — host No. 15 Texas Tech and LSU — play earlier in the day. The winners from these two matches will battle on Sunday.
“It’s hard to predict the outcome of the
by Annie GerlachDaily Cal Staff Writer
other match,” Wright said. “All I know is that we’re playing Auburn on Saturday. We can’t look too far down the road. We’re just focusing on Auburn for now.”
Last year, the Bears won the first match, 4-0, against Texas Tech. Howev-er, they fell to host Texas the next day.
This year, if the Bears triumph over Auburn they will have the opportunity to repeat history versus Texas Tech. Although the Red Raiders return five starters from last year, the match fa-vors Cal, which returns all six starters for this year’s rematch.
Strategically, the Bears have been working on different patterns for the singles lineups as well as improving the doubles teams. In doubles, Wright plans to move junior Nick Andrews and sophomore Christoffer Konigsfeldt back to court No. 2, where the No. 13 duo went 10-4 last season.
“As far as doubles are concerned, we want to be one of the stronger teams in the country,” Wright said. “We’re not there yet, but we’re working on it.”
And what better place to start than right at the national scale? Every match at that level is critical if a team hopes to maintain — and improve — its ranking and seeding for future competition.
So as the Bears board planes, check into hotels and prepare for battle on foreign territory this weekend, Wright reiterated the team’s success at re-sponding to change.
“The more we travel, the better we’re able to adjust to different circumstanc-es,” he said. “Those are skills we’ll defi-nitely need by the end of the season.”
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Annie Gerlach covers men’s tennis. Contact her at [email protected].
From old Olympic jerseys to pho-tographs of national championships, Doc Hudson Fieldhouse is packed with rugby memorabilia, so much so that not everything the Cal program has ac-quired can be displayed.
On Saturday, the Scrum Axe will be taken to Stanford’s Steuber Rugby Field for Cal’s 1 p.m. tilt against the Cardinal (1-1). But the Cal rugby team (9-0) hopes the hallowed place won’t remain vacant for more than an afternoon.
The Axe has occupied that space for
by Christina JonesDaily Cal Staff Writer
the past 16 years, coming out yearly for the match and always returning to the Fieldhouse.
Despite the one-sidedness of the rivalry in recent memory, the team re-spects this match, as it is an opportu-nity to be part of the storied tradition that spans 105 years. Senior flyhalf James Bailes, who was unfamiliar with the rivalry growing up in South Africa, recalls being awestruck by the deep meaning of the game and hype sur-rounding his first Scrum Axe match.
“It’s not about the individual; it’s about the Cal culture and everything that comes with that,” Bailes said.
“We’re lucky enough to be on a campus where history means such a big part … You hear these amazing stories about Cal-Stanford games, and to be a part of something like that is very special.”
There is hope that the rivalry will become more contentious with the ar-rival of new Cardinal head coach Matt Sherman, a three-time All-American and former assistant coach at Cal.
“I think he’s the kind of guy that’s going to win the players’ confidence through his own competency,” coach Jack Clark said of his former player.
Sherman has seen some success early
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Derek Asbun scored two tries for Cal in last weekend’s match against Chico State. The Bears face Stanford tomorrow for the Scrum Axe.
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