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Tensions run high prior to union election

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Downtown Area Plan takes steps forward

downtown Berkeley revitalization is moving forward as the city’s planning Commission will have a hearing next month to discuss the newest version of the downtown area plan.

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With little more than two weeks until a tri-annual statewide leadership election for a union representing UC academic student employees, tensions were run-ning high at a statewide leadership meeting Saturday, with growing divisiveness in the union reflected in the decision to adjourn the meeting early by a partisan vote.

More than 50 leaders of the United Auto Workers Local 2865 — which represents nearly 12,000 readers, tutors and graduate student instructors — met at a quar-terly meeting in Berkeley to discuss a variety of union issues.

Three-day union voting, in which all leadership posi-tions will be up for election, is slated to begin April 26.

Charlie Eaton, a UC Berkeley graduate student and trustee for the union, said the meeting was abruptly

By Aaida Samad | [email protected]

Years of planning, a referendum campaign and ballot initiative later, the most recent reincarnation of the perennially contentious Downtown Area Plan is currently under review by the city’s Planning Commission and may be headed to the Berkeley City Council this year, though the sought-after revitalization for the area may still be a long time coming.

After six years of working to re-draft the city’s plan governing de-velopment in the area, the Planning

By Weiru Fang | [email protected]

Commission will hold a public hear-ing for the latest version — based on voter-approved Measure R goals and many components of the highly con-tentious 2009 version that inspired a referendum campaign that August after its approval by the City Council — next month.

This version of the plan restricts allowable building heights in the Downtown, with exceptions for five tall buildings, and encourages tran-sit-centered and green development in the area per Measure R, which was approved by a solid majority of 64 percent of Berkeley voters last No-vember.

According to Matt Taecker, princi-pal planner for the Downtown, this

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The UC’s controversial Online In-struction Pilot Project was granted an interest-free, $6.9 million loan from the UC Thursday to develop its project, though the systemwide Academic Sen-ate had approved the plan contingent on the program raising funds through external sources.

The UC awarded the seven-year loan Thursday from the its Short Term In-vestment Pool — mainly used by UC re-searchers as a sort of savings account to hold and accrue interest on grant funding not currently being used — to the project, which aims to create 20 for-credit cours-es for the 2011-12 academic year.

In a memo confirming the senate’s original approval of the project last May, then-chair Henry Powell wrote that the Academic Senate “does not en-dorse the redirection of existing funds” for the project and that the senate ap-proval is “contingent on the procure-ment of external funds.”

“The whole idea was originally sold a year and a half ago with promises of the ability to raise a great deal of mon-ey from external sources,” said current Academic Senate Chair Daniel Sim-mons. “It turns out that those external sources weren’t very interested in the program being proposed.”

Simmons said that while the senate’s role in resolving budgetary issues is ul-timately just advisory — with the final funding discretion residing with UC President Mark Yudof — it does de-cide whether to approve the program’s courses for UC credit.

Dan Greenstein, UC vice provost for academic planning, programs and coor-dination and co-lead for the pilot proj-ect, said the university was able to seek out the loan because of the UC’s “Work-ing Smarter” initiative, which aims to

By Sarah Burns | [email protected]

Program for web classes gets UC loan

The campus celebrated the University of California’s Char-ter Day — March 23 — on Friday with free cupcakes available on Upper Sproul Plaza for students and will celebrate Cal Day this Saturday with a campuswide open house and free events. With these annual events call-ing attention to the university’s history, here is a look at how the university has changed in its 143 years.

Charter Day marked the an-niversary of the signing of an 1868 act by Gov. Henry Haight that created the University of California, which opened in Oakland the following year. In 1873, classes moved to the Berkeley campus that at the time consisted of two build-ings — North and South Halls. Thirty years later, the campus as it is known today began to take shape, as John Galen Howard executed an architectural plan that would eventually include landmarks such as Wheeler Hall, Sather Tower, the Greek Theatre and Doe Library.

In the past 143 years, the flagship campus has grown from a population of 40 male students who paid $50 a year to a population of over 25,000 men and women undergraduate students who pay either $13,360 or $36,238 in registration and fees, depending on residency status. —Damian Ortellado

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Bill for protester safety draws ASUC concern

A bill that would admonish the treatment of protesters by the UC Berkeley campus administration and UCPD by requesting these offices re-spect students’ constitutional rights drew concern at last Wednesday’s ASUC Senate meeting.

The bill, authored by External Af-

fairs Vice President Ricardo Gomez, has been tabled for discussion by the Standing Committee on University and External Affairs, which planned to revisit the issue at its meeting Monday night.

Gomez — who has consistently stressed the importance of ...

School buildings across the state — including several sites within the Berkeley Unified School District — may be unfit to safely endure Califor-nia’s next big earthquake.

An investigation conducted by the watchdog reporting group California Watch found that at least 20,000 school building projects across the state are not certified under state seismic regulations and that roughly 1,400 have known “safety concerns that arose during construction.”

According to the report, 16 sites in Berkeley’s school district contain at least one building that may be unsafe. Each of those building projects is ei-

ther mentioned on a list compiled in 2002 called the “AB 300” list of po-tentially hazardous structures, or it has been named by the state’s archi-tectural office as a “Level 4” project ...

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Union: Divisions form between groups

halted early with a partisan vote be-fore proposed policies to address the union’s upcoming elections could be addressed. Such proposals included providing equal access to lists of union members and emails in order to com-municate about the election.

While those affiliated with the union reform caucus Academic Workers for a Democratic Union have asserted that the purpose of the proposals was to “ensure a free and fair election,” mem-bers of the candidate team affiliated with the incumbent union leadership, United for Social and Economic Jus-tice, have said the policies were “divi-sive, partisan posturing.”

In addition to the meeting adjourn-ing early, Eaton said issues arose when the union’s trustees requested, but were denied access to, union financial records after the meeting, something he said they are entitled to see under the union’s bylaws.

According to Daraka Larimore-Hall, the union’s president, the records were not provided because of the “time, place and aggressive manner in which the request was made.”

Donna Fenton, union financial sec-retary, said the appropriate way to re-quest the records would be to make a written request and an appointment to

view them. “I think the elections and partisan-

ship was largely what was behind this request,” she said. “This was about making a point.”

The union has been increasingly partisan and divided since a highly contentious vote to ratify the contract early last semester.

Filiberto Nolasco, union guide and a UC Santa Barbara graduate student who is part of the group affiliated with the incumbent leadership, said it was “fine to have lively debate and conver-sations and about the direction of the union.” But he added that when taken too far, some of the recent behavior stemming from the tension surround-ing the elections was counterproduc-tive.

“It is completely natural and healthy for there to be divisions and differing ideas within a union,” he said. “Con-cerns come up when there is a level of aggression and hostility that we’re see-ing here.”

However, according to Megan Wa-chspress, a UC Berkeley GSI and head steward affiliated with the reform cau-cus, the partisanship has helped the union by increasing participation as well as holding current union leader-ship accountable.

“This partisanship has revitalized the union increasing engagement at the statewide and local levels,” she said. “As unpleasant as the divisiveness is, it’s good for the membership that people are challenging those in charge to be increasingly transparent and ac-countable.”

Aaida Samad covers higher educa-tion.

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commission: Plan could be sent to council this fall

version of the plan could be sent to the council for discussion and possible approval early this fall, though minor revisions may still be made to the draft by the com-mission following the public hear-ing May 18.

Though Measure R itself was a contentious issue for the council last year — with Councilmembers Kriss Worthington and Jesse Ar-reguin arguing that the measure failed to provide clear direction to city staff and officials and refer-ring to it as a plan to have a plan — commissioner Jim Novosel said it allowed the commission to better gauge community members’ priori-ties for the area, including limiting buildings to 60 feet for most of the area.

The measure also allows two residential buildings and one ho-tel to be built at heights up to 180 feet, while an additional two office spaces can be as tall as 120 feet.

“We’ve got the mandate from the citizens,” Novosel said. “We cannot get a better situation for planning. Our direction is as clear as the sky.”

But according to Arreguin, whose district includes the Down-town, this draft is not in alignment with voters’ direction to the city.

“If you look at the ballot argu-ments at Measure R, it just made these claims that it would do these things,” Arreguin said. “My issue with the draft plan that’s been written by staff is that it doesn’t follow through with the compo-nents of Measure R that were promised.”

He added that he feels that the draft does not require enforceable community benefits, expand af-fordable housing opportunities in the Downtown or protect the neighborhood’s diversity or quality of life and that the plan will con-tinue to be contentious until it ad-dresses these issues.

Arreguin said he will be putting forward amendments to achieve these goals of a greener and more progressive plan and will also sug-gest alternative language in the draft once it reaches the council.

“We shouldn’t have a plan that doesn’t represent what the com-munity as a whole wants for the Downtown,” he said.

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Politically correct

The lobbyists of Delphi

money to make even more money by ultimately tainting legislation in ways favorable to their clients’ specific needs. It’s no wonder, then, that a large chunk of retired or repudiated elected officials end up going to work on K Street. The Center for Responsive Politics says that about 20 percent of those who left office in the last midterm and returned to another job have taken up positions in lobbying firms.

The opposite is also true. Former lobbyists account for at least 130 chiefs of staff and legislative directors in the 112th Congress.

Lawmakers-turned-lobbyists as well as lobbyists-turned-government employees underscore the unholy union between our government and special interests.

But don’t let all of this talk fool you into such views as “It’s the

government, man” or “It’s the corpo-rations, dude,” because the reason behind this relationship is something far less complex but far more power-ful: money. And money will always have the largest influence over those in charge so long as those governing are driven solely by profit.

When democratic dreams turn into bureaucratic nightmares, money inevitably trumps the will of the peo-ple. While this is partially symptom-atic of the size of our government, it is more an indicator of the caliber of people we elect. Unfortunately, rotten strawberries and rotten blueberries taste bad either way.

Of course, there are ways to address this, but politicians in control hinge on every word K Street profi-teers say and will most likely never take up serious electoral reform.

It will ultimately take an indepen-dent who can garner enough support due to personal wealth (think Ralph Nader’s “Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!”) or extreme luck.

Either way, it’s high time the peo-ple we send to Washington stop wor-shiping at the feet of false-prophets and start listening to the average citi-zen. But then again, an all-expenses-paid re-election campaign does sound good, even to me ... I mean, health insurance companies shouldn’t have to provide actual insurance. It’s got to be unconstitutional or some-thing. And who even wants health care, anyway? Isn’t that French or Canadian or something?

Atop buildings in our nation’s capitol sit the high priests of the political class. They pos-

sess wisdom so powerful that even our politicians, known for their mal-leability, often snap beneath the weight of such awe-inspiring profi-teering — sorry, I mean prophesying.

Those who were once pacifists become humanitarian intervention-ists; once deficit hawks, now revenue-cutting anti-tax freedom fighters.

These priests come in many forms, but they are all the same species: they are lobbyists. Most of them call K Street, Washington’s thoroughfare version of Delphi, home.

Their wisdom, however, is not derived from divine power in the mythical sense. Their prophecies are self-fulfilling because of their large coffers, and they keep most of Washington on their payroll. They lobby for an issue, flash some cash and call it a day. Sure enough, their clients get that defense contract or pull the teeth from the mouth of that financial regulatory bill.

Like a lot of things, lobbyist orga-nizations can serve some good. As the argument goes, they exist as a tool for people to effectively petition Congress, the White House and gov-ernment agencies. Lobbying firms are there to share in the spoils of govern-ment: to win contracts for their cli-ents, reduce government intrusion into various business sectors and get paid by their clients. And man, are they good at what they do.

But then you have to ask: Do national corporations, national unions and politically motivated groups of very affluent people really need the charisma of a Nick Naylor to pass or stop legislation?

The answer is yes, because those who employ lobbyists don’t want to be seen as the “fat-cat” corporate bosses of Washington. That’s bad PR.

Cue the high priests: those lobby-ists who hail from K Street on behalf of their clients.

According to the Center for Responsive Politics, the exact number that was spent on lobbying in 2010 was $3,492,725,128.

After you’re done thinking “holy shit,” let’s break that number down.

The business, health and finance sectors spent around $566 million, $516 million and $472 million on lobbying, respectively, and have recently been the subject of “reform” legislation. For whatever reason, when reform is concurrent with or followed by heavy amounts of lobby-ing I can’t assume it accomplishes much in the public good.

So when someone argues that lob-bying firms are simply tools peo-

ple can take advantage of to effective-ly petition Congress, just know that “people” means big business. What average-sized, average-income group of people can possibly compete with even the paltry sum of 472 million dollars in lobbying money?

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While some city of Berkeley officials say quotas for businesses have been successful in diversifying the city’s economic sectors, some community members are advo-cating for the suspension — and even elimination — of quotas to fill vacancies and revitalize the city’s economic climate.

The Telegraph Business Improvement District, So-lano Avenue Association, North Shattuck Business Improvement District and Elmwood Business District have had quotas in place since the 1980s to control rent — which was increased by certain types of establish-ments, such as restaurants — and encourage business diversity. However, in recent years, concerns about the effectiveness of these quotas have been voiced by some community members, who say the quotas no longer serve their intended purpose of increasing business vi-tality in the areas.

During the city’s Planning Commission meeting April 6, Roland Peterson, executive director for the Telegraph Business Improvement District, asked the commission to eliminate all quotas in the district. The district cur-rently has two quotas: one for barber or beauty shops and another for food service establishments, which also includes subcategories for carry-out food services, quick service restaurants and full service restaurants.

The city’s Southside Plan, which was referred to the Berkeley City Council at the same meeting last week, abolishes the quota on the district’s full service restau-rants while maintaining the other quotas to encourage small business variety.

In December, Councilmember Laurie Capitelli sub-mitted a proposal to suspend quotas on Solano Avenue for about two to three years.

“We’re hoping to suspend them to generate economic activity,” Capitelli said. “There have been ... some busi-nesses that have had lengthy delays in order to get their

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Business

permit (and) there have been others that have been discouraged from moving forward.”

On Solano, there are about 70,000 square feet in vacancies, 90 percent of which are on the easternmost block of the avenue, according to Allen Cain, executive director and events manager of Solano district.

“We’re desperate to fill vacancies on the avenue and a lot of the businesses that are exploring and investing on Solano are restricted business types,” Cain said. “We have high expecta-tions that (a suspension on quotas) will diminish the number of vacancies.”

According to Peterson, the current quotas have increased the number of vacant lots — which are usually left unoccu-pied for long periods of time — and slowed the Telegraph district’s ability to address commercial needs, as prospec-tive owners have limited choice in locations since spaces are sometimes only appropriate for certain types of businesses.

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Required ReformCAMPUS ISSUESNow is the perfect opportunity for election officials to undertake real reform — they need to be committed.

As the election furor fades into the background and both campus and candi-

dates eagerly await the tabula-tion of results, student officials must now turn to an equally important task — the often promised but rarely accom-plished review and reform of election bylaws.

Time and again we have heard elected officials and candidates pledge to review the bylaws, and time and again their attempts have fallen short. While officials accomplished some bylaw reform after last year’s presidential vot-ing scandal, the effort was far from the thorough reform that we need.

There are many instances of the bylaws having loopholes or significant oversights, and offi-cials looking to reform them must seriously consider how best to adopt them to the mod-ern world. The restriction on unsecured campus voting, via AirBears or in ASUC sponsored buildings, while well-inten-tioned, can be easily circum-vented by voters using a proxy server or using mobile devices. Candidates wishing to spam vot-ers with campaigning can make harassing phone calls or send individual emails to people on

mailing lists.What is clear is that current

bylaws are complicated and extremely flawed, significantly outdated and replete with over-sights. Officials such as the Elections Council chair and the ASUC attorney general must con-sider the past two weeks and task themselves with completely mod-ernizing and reforming the bylaws.

A successful effort will not end with the terms of current Elections Council members — their successors must continue it as well. Current and past officials must maintain a lineage of insti-tutional knowledge and be pro-vide guidance even after graduat-ing or moving on.

Elections Council Chair Shivom Sinha and Attorney General Nathan Rahmanou have stated that soliciting reports of bylaw violations and holding people in office accountable are their top priorities, and their actions appear to be living up to those goals.

Now that the election is over, however, they must realize that their jobs are far from over. The potential for curbing future viola-tions — and holding future can-didates accountable — is within their grasps.

Home RunCAMPUS ISSUESReinstatement of baseball is welcome news indeed, but donations cannot replace future campus involvement.

One cannot help but imag-ine administrators as umpires determining the

fate of the Cal Baseball team, bel-lowing “Safe!” to an audience on the edge of its seat with anticipa-tion.

Now that officials have announced the baseball program will continue to represent the campus as a varsity intercolle-giate sport, joining rugby, lacrosse and women’s gymnastics in being reinstated, we and other support-ers can breathe collective sighs of relief.

But as the cheers of baseball supporters fade and the campus community moves forward, it’s time to reflect on the turbulent process leading up to this point. As men’s gymnastics languishes as the sole remaining sport unable to meet fundraising tar-gets, it’s clear that donations are inextricably linked with teams’ successful futures.

We hope men’s gymnastics will be able to raise the necessary $4 million — while the sport is not as high-profile as baseball, his-torically it has been incredibly successful and made significant contributions to national and Olympic teams. We didn’t expect baseball to come back — espe-cially not so quickly — and we

would love to be similarly sur-prised by the men’s gymnastics program.

It’s impossible to know how this would have panned out dif-ferently had the campus present-ed an ultimatum rather than cut-ting the teams outright — per-haps the three athletes who left to attend less renowned baseball programs would have remained to pursue successful careers here at Cal — but administrators deserve credit for keeping rein-statement an option and bringing the team back when it became clear it met financial require-ments.

As Cal baseball enjoys a rein-vigorated future, officials must use some of the new funds to invest in the program. Baseball’s success depends on active donor involvement, and donors will be more willing to contribute if the campus shows it is willing to invest its attention.

Campus athletics have come a long way from the gloomy announcement last November five sports would disappear from the varsity roster. The reinstate-ment of baseball was the latest of a series of welcome surprises — and a step toward the end of a painful process that must never be repeated.

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Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Rewording the March 3 eventsOp-ed: prOtest

The inhabitants of George Orwell’s Oceania communicate with “Newspeak,” a language working, by way of euphemism, to quash free thought and consolidate totalitarian ideology.

When on the afternoon of March 3 student protesters took to the roof of Wheeler Hall to challenge repeat-ed cuts to their education coupled with repeated “fee” increases (in “Truespeak,” don’t we really mean “tuition”?) Chancellor Robert Birgeneau, who, in my experience, has never appeared afraid of email prolixity, issued to students and fac-ulty the following two-sentence pro-nouncement: “The campus is dealing with a health and safety issue in Wheeler Hall and the building is closed. All classes and events sched-uled in Wheeler Hall for this after-noon/evening are cancelled until further notice.”

The email is both deceptive and insulting. It is a clear sign of the dis-connect between the university’s privileged administrators, answer-able to no democratic process, and the university’s students, upon whose backs our bloody budgets continue to be carved.

The email is inaccurate because administrators and police, and not students, made the choice to close down Wheeler Hall. When there was a real threat to public safety, this came from the police themselves, who (we all know) have upon several recent occasions beaten students taking action against the administra-tion. We are all familiar with their barricades and batons: ironic sym-bols of “free speech” at Berkeley these days. (I say nothing about the UCPD officer who pointed a loaded gun at protesters in November.) I must assume that Birgeneau is an intelligent man with a strong com-mand of the English language. As

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such, I must also assume that he was intent on deceiving the Berkeley community by sparsely referring to a “health and safety issue.” For those unaware of the protests, the email works against awareness. For those aware, it implies that the protesters were solely responsible for the “health and safety” issue, for classes being cancelled and office hours cut short (as were mine, by a bevy of officers).

Regent Gavin Newsom certainly comprehends the situation this way, as evidenced by an interview pub-lished March 31, in The Daily Californian. Therein, Newsom declares that he “completely understand(s)” student frustration but that “when people start locking themselves in and denying other people access that are innocent in terms of the debate and when people start to incite behavior that can actually start tipping and losing sup-port, that’s when I just want to pause and say, ‘Hey guys, you don’t need to go this far.’”

Thanks for the fatherly advice, Regent Newsom. But you see, it was the police who locked everybody out, not the protesters. It was the police who “den(ied) other (‘innocent’) peo-ple access.” Moreover, it was certain-ly the police who “start(ed) to incite behavior ... tipping” students not against the protesters but rather against the police and the adminis-tration. From widespread local and national news reports, it was clear to me that the administration embar-rassed itself that day: the protesters held the high ground at night, and were celebrated by their fellow stu-dents. The victory proudly adorned the front page of the next morning’s Daily Californian. With such exten-sive coverage, I expected more words from our Chancellor. I guess that he was content with his two-line, absurdly euphemistic dismissal.

My second point: The email insulted the entire UC student popu-lation. These two lines indicating a

“health and safety issue” boast a loud and clear, not to mention arrogant, dismissal of genuine student con-cerns.

You would be amiss to assume that these concerns are not shared broadly by UC students, their hard-earned money (or their parents’) now the preferred salve for budget-ary slashings. You would be amiss to assume that Berkeley students look to such protesters with any resent-ment. No, our students are intelli-gent enough not to confuse the short with the long term. I saw them (not anarchists, not vainglorious atten-tion-getters, but hard-working, cou-rageous and angry — can you blame them? — young men and women compelled to support their own) turn increasingly against the police who provoked them with their threats and barricades, and against the privileged regents.

No, neither you, Chancellor Birgeneau, nor you, Regent Newsom (a millionaire), “completely understand(s)” what students and their families endure to fund UC educations. How could you under-stand the single mother struggling against service cuts to graduate or the 19-year-old with a full course working 20 hours per week to cover “fees?”

Back to these silly but pernicious euphemisms. The “organizational restructuring” plan that the UC is now trying to implement in response to budget cuts has been placed under the banner of “Operational Excellence.” When the reality of employees losing their jobs, families faced with increasing insecurity, more labor and less returns, is veiled by the banner of “Operational Excellence” (do not veil California’s and UC’s shame!), the prospect of the near and long-term future can perhaps best be described as “dou-bleplusungood.”

Brendan Prawdzik is a postdoctoral fellow in the department of English. Reply to [email protected].

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The Daily Californian 5opinionTuesday, April 12, 2011

Despite the fact that President Obama will technically be running against a yet-to-be-named Republican, most likely Tim Pawlenty or Mitt Romney, in a deeper sense, his real opponent will be himself. Meaning, the 2012 election is going to be what one might call an “Obama showdown.” It will be President Obama versus the image of him in the eyes of the American people.

The mainstream media and popular pundits currently believe that the unemployment rate and the relative weakness of the GOP candidate field are the two primary factors that will ultimately determine the outcome of the election. Their basic argument goes as follows: If the unemployment con-tinues to fall to near 8 percent by elec-tion day and no big-shot Republican emerges, riding in on a white horse, then victory for the president is assured.

Alas, this is an illusion. Granted that a lower unemployment

rate can only help the president’s chances, the final result is not going to be the product of some technical eco-nomic figure. Most voters in America don’t think about the economy in such abstract terms.

Instead, they are far more concerned with whether the country is on the “right track” or whether it is moving in the “right direction.” As of today, that key number is hovering around a mere 28 percent. That is highly pessimistic and clearly not a positive sign.

The good news is that the Republican contenders are weak. None of them are likely to inspire much con-fidence or the sort of hope needed to get people excited; they evoke roughly the same reaction you get when think-ing of an average politician (“blah”). So with such “blah Republicans” to com-

By Brit Moller Special to the Daily Cal

pete against, the upcoming election stands to be an internal struggle about who Americans believe President Obama is: a good bet or a bad one.

Given Americans’ clear anxiety about the future direction of the coun-try, the central challenge the president faces is painting a convincing image of what the future will look like with him in charge. Even though the president is still widely admired personally, the question in every voter’s mind is proba-bly something along the lines of: Why will America be better off if I vote for him?

Unfortunately, President Obama’s answer cannot simply be “look at those guys, they’re worse!” since he has already had his shot in the Oval Office. To get another four-year term, he will need to sell himself.

The most important group in need of persuasion is “working-class vot-ers,” which polls show are widely dis-affected with the president. As William Galston, a former senior advisor to President Clinton argues, these lower-middle class voters are “gloomy about the present and think it will be a long time before the econ-omy recovers. They fear that the job market of the future will have little use for workers with their level of education and skills.” In other words, to win, the president must convince these Americans in particular that the future of the country is bright and in good hands; the current confidence rating simply won’t do, the target ought to be 50 percent or higher.

President Obama may have more talent in his little finger than any of the GOP contenders, but the focus of the 2012 election will nevertheless be solely about him and his perceived ability to lead the country on the road to pros-perity.

His image, to put it bluntly, must come to reflect who he truly is — the right man for the job.

Brit Moller is a UC Berkeley alum-nus. Reply to [email protected].

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UC proposes voluntary pay reduction program for staff

Faced with a $500 million reduction in state funding for the 2011-12 fiscal year, the University of California has developed a new program to cut costs while avoiding layoffs by allowing staff members to voluntarily reduce their working hours.

The Employee-Initiated Reduction in Time, or ERIT — the latest program in a series of cost-cutting proposals — was put forth by the UC Office of the President March 30 and would allow staff members to voluntarily reduce their working hours by 5 to 50 percent in order to save salary costs for cam-puses.

By Adelyn Baxter | [email protected]

The program is currently under-going its comment period — during which employees can send comments and questions to the UC Office of Hu-man Resources and Benefits — until May 2, at which point it can be official-ly adopted and employees can begin to take part. Participation in the program can range from one to 12 months un-til its projected expiration on June 30, 2012.

ERIT is similar to the Staff and Academic Reduction in Time pro-gram, a systemwide program that ran from July 2008 until it expired last December. ERIT would apply to staff

employees only, whereas START was available to academic employees and senior management group employ-ees — positions such as chief officers and deans, whose hours cannot be reduced.

Tom Holub, director of computing for the UC Berkeley College of Letters and Science, took part in the START program before it ended in Decem-ber.

“START was good for me at a point in my life where I was willing to buy free time,” Holub said. “The incen-tives were relatively small — partici-pants maintained full sick leave and vacation. I think that some folks may be less likely to participate in the new program because they would not be getting the full service credit.”

According to UC spokesperson

Leslie Sepuka, 6,700 employees par-ticipated in START from July 2009 to December 2010, during which the UC realized $25.6 million in savings in the last full year of the program.

The major difference between the two programs lies in their effect on employee pension plans. While START allowed participants to reduce their working hours while still accru-ing the normal amount of retirement service credit, ERIT would adjust an employee’s service credit based on his or her reduced working hours.

“START was meant to be a tem-porary program, since it did have an impact on (the UC Retirement Plan),” Sepuka said in an email. “This new program helps the university preserve the retirement plan while providing a tool for locations to achieve savings

and avoid layoffs.”Proposed incentives for participat-

ing in ERIT include the fact that vaca-tion and sick leave continue to accrue for participants the same way they would without participating in the program.

“It really depends on where you are in your career,” said Howard Fallon, a member of the staff assembly for UCOP. “It’s a good option for people with young kids who can opt to work less, but it’s less ideal for someone like me who is nearing retirement.”

According to Fallon, the program is an option that would allow employees to maintain crucial health benefits.

“We’re trying to cut pennies any way we can,” he said. “We’re really trying not to jack up tuition any more, but we’re desperate to cut costs.”

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Adelyn Baxter discusses the program’s impact on UC staff and the university’s bottom line.

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QuOtas: One district to survey residents about regulations

The quotas also limit the establishments’ abilities to diversify their services and force them to stay in the same locations, Peterson said.

“What you tend to get is when the salon leaves, you get an-other salon,” he said. “You hold that (location) until the next type comes around.”

While some community members, including Peterson, ad-vocate for the removal of quotas, Councilmember Kriss Wor-thington — whose district includes the Telegraph area — said the quotas have encouraged small businesses to remain in the city, adding that businesses in the Telegraph district need to be consulted before any changes are made.

“If restaurants got together and say, ‘This isn’t working’ ... I would have a very open mind, but doing that without con-sultation is poor planning and very anti-small businesses,” he said.

Councilmember Gordon Wozniak — whose district includes the Elmwood Business District — is in the process of conduct-ing an online survey of his constituents to better understand the neighborhood’s feelings toward the business district and its regulations, including the quotas.

“The quotas are somewhat controversial,” Wozniak said. “We’re working on our questionnaire or electronic survey we’re going to send out in the next days to neighbors.”

Karinina Cruz covers business.

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lOan: Online project faces some faculty opposition

save $500 million over five years and was created after the senate’s stipulation prohibiting existing funds.

Greenstein said the loan does not draw money from student fees or away from academic funds.

“The aim will be to pay back the loan,” he said. “I think there will be ways to pay back the investment of the project.”

The online instruction project has been met with strong opposition from some faculty and students, in-cluding the Berkeley Faculty Association.

“This time of budget cuts, (it) really makes no sense to be borrowing money to do this,” said BFA vice-chair and UC Berkeley professor of geography Richard Walker. “There are many other things they could be borrowing money for.”

According to program manager DoQuyen Tran-Taylor, the project has secured a $748,000 grant sponsored by The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and has put in a proposal to the National Science Foundation for a $1.3 million grant.

Vice Chair of the Academic Senate’s University Com-mittee on Educational Policy Jose Wudka said the com-mittee — which recommended the pilot project’s initia-tion last May — did not have time to discuss the loan’s proposal at its April 4 meeting. The committee’s next meeting is scheduled for May 2.

School district set to vote on gun safety measures

Following the recent spike in firearms on the Berkeley High School campus, the Berkeley Unified School District Board of Education will decide whether to approve several measures aimed at increasing safety on school cam-puses at its meeting Wednesday.

The board will consider safety recommendations, including the creation of an Ad Hoc Advisory Committee on Safety — which will consist of six district employees, four parents and two students — the ad-dition of two safety officers on the Berkeley High campus and the in-stallation of interior locks on class-room doors. These measures, some of which are already under way, were formally proposed April 5 by the dis-trict in a status report, detailing its response to weapons on campus.

“The overall goal is to carry all of these responses and actions that

news in Brief have been taken to the next level,” said district spokesperson Mark Coplan. “We want to bring it to the board, show the board steps that have been taken and what will be taken in the future.”

At the meeting, the board will discuss the role of the advisory committee that will study proposed security issues and present recom-mendations to Superintendent Bill Huyett, according to the report.

The Berkeley Police Department, community members and students will also have the opportunity to respond to the steps taken by the district to improve safety and make their own suggestions, Coplan said.

In a March 31 letter to Huy-ett, Berkeley police Chief Michael Meehan made several suggestions to improve campus safety and ex-pressed the department’s willing-ness to continue working with the school in the future.

“Part of the actions taken have been to establish and schedule class-es that (the department is) going to give to our staff,” Coplan said. “They’re equally invested in our schools as they are in our streets.”

—Jessica Rossoni

7sports & LEGALsThe Daily CalifornianTuesday, April 12, 2011

The Cal rugby culture is rooted in selflessness, humility, hard work and respect for the game. Law is the embodiment of that culture.

“We talk about being known by our deeds around here, and all that mat-ters is what you do and how you do it, on the field and off,” Billups says.

“Jason’s got the ultimate amount of respect of anybody on this team be-cause of how he conducts his business, who he is as a person.”

Law was forced to deal with a whole new set of circumstances for the ensu-ing three months. While his team-mates were preparing for the Scrum Axe match against Stanford, Law was preparing for surgery. When they were anticipating the beginning of league play, he was anticipating getting the bulky brace off his elbow. While they were working on tackling, Law was working on staying in shape.

“He pushed sleds up and down here until he was almost passed out,” fresh-man Tiaan De Nysschen says. “He’s one of those guys, he just goes 100

percent all the time. You wonder how he can do it.”

But the road to recovery didn’t take him away from the team.

Law essentially pulled double days. In addition to the extra hours of physi-cal therapy, rehab and conditioning, Law continued to attend the vast ma-jority of team practices and matches.

Sometimes he would sit on the bench and talk to other sidelined players about rugby, the team, school and life. Other times, it may have looked like there was another coach on the field.

Law isn’t one for yelling from the sidelines, but he’d pick his moments to impart some of his wisdom to his teammates. To do so, he had to devel-op a more vocal side rather than just leading by example. In the process, Law discovered aspects of himself that previously laid dormant.

“I’ve always been an emotionally reserved player, more of a stoic player, I guess,” he says. “Since it’s been taken away from me, I realize how pas-sionate I am about (rugby), and I’ve

developed more of an emotional side to who I am and my game.”

But having to stand on the sidelines still wore on him.

When the Bears were being out-played in the first half of a February match against British Columbia, Law contemplated instructing the trainers to tape him up so he could get on the field.

“I was losing my mind,” Law says. “It’s only human. You gotta realize what’s going on in your head and realize that’s not where you need to be mentally.”

There were times when he found a way to sneak on the pitch. Law and nine of his teammates made a home-coming to their alma mater, Jesuit High School in Carmichael, Calif., for Cal’s match against UC Davis. Law just couldn’t stay off the field where he picked up the sport.

After one of Cal’s tries, Law stormed the field. His arm in a sling, Law brought water bottles to his teammates as the sports medicine staff does at every prolonged break. It was all an excuse to relay some in-

structions from the coaches — but he also had some instructions of his own.

Needless to say, his teammates listened to him, as they always do.

Even when speaking about the injury, he exhausts most of his words heaping praise on his support network of coach-es, trainers, doctors and teammates.

When he does talk about the injury in relation to himself, he takes a matter-of-fact, almost detached tone. It happened, no reason to dwell on it.

But when he talks about running back on the field for the first time on that April day, the same UCLA field where the injury occurred, a little vulnerability comes through as a grin overtakes him.

When the signal came for Law to enter the match, the Cal sidelines and stands erupted, and the magnitude of the moment overwhelmed the field and the co-captain.

His eyes dance as he looks down for a little privacy to relive the moment.

“It felt super-rewarding to put in all the work and go through all the

emotional stress and finally get back on the field and play again,” he says.

The imposing figure softens again with a smile, but then he looks straight ahead with piercing conviction.“It was a feeling I don’t think I’ll ever forget.” Christina Jones covers rugby.

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SportSTUESDAY, APRIL 12, 2011 • DAILYcAL .oRg/SPoRTS

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It was a cloudy April morning when the Cal bus pulled alongside the UCLA rugby field, and Jason Law was anxious.

It was more intense than standard pre-game jitters, and the fifth-year senior was the lone man on the bus feeling it.

As Law looked out the window and gazed at the field, he couldn’t help but think of the last time he was on that patch of ground. It was here that Law last played rugby, and the road that led him away from the field that day had brought him back full circle.

Law took that field on Jan. 15, the first day of the Pac-10 Tournament. Facing Utah, he was making his second start of the young season.

Play was nearing the end of the shortened

20-minute first half. Law had the ball in his right hand, and used his left arm to support himself as he scrapped for a few more me-ters, hoping to extend across the goal line.

Then it happened. Somebody hit him, and the only thing he remembers is hearing a pop.

When the co-captain looked down, he found his left elbow about halfway between his shoulder and where it should have been.

This season was supposed to be Law’s swan song, one he entered with a little

extra fire after being overlooked as an All-American last year. Law, who plays lock and flanker, came back for his fifth year for one last go at another national championship. And in an instant, it seemed it all was going

to be taken away from him.None of that was going through his mind at

the time, nor has it since. No fear, no sorrow, no anger. As the coaches and sports medicine staff stood over him, his thoughts were about what it would take to play again this year.

“He wasn’t withering around in pain or self-pity, like, ‘Oh, my season’s over,’” coach Tom Billups says. “He was demonstrating mental toughness, at least by our definition, which is the ability to focus on the next most important thing.”

Despite attempts from Cal’s sideline physi-cian, the elbow couldn’t be jerked back into place, and the movement caused Law quite a bit of pain. Coaches thought his collegiate career was over.

He was carted off in an ambulance to a nearby hospital, where he had to be put under so doctors could put the elbow back in place.

Standard elbow dislocations do not re-quire surgery, but this injury was severe. The elbow popped completely out of the side, tearing the tendons and ligaments.

It wasn’t until he saw Dr. Laura Timmer-man, an orthopedic surgeon in Walnut Creek, a few weeks later that he realized his season could be salvaged. She assured him that he would at least be back around the time of the national championships in mid-May.

At the time of the injury, shock buffered Law’s body from the onslaught of pain. The team was not so lucky.

“We were pretty gutted,” head coach Jack Clark says. “The biggest loss was an emo-tional one because Jason is a very important character within the team.”

Adds Billups: “We’ve got other good play-ers, but we only have one Jason Law.”

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Look for photos of cal rugby co-captain Jason Law’s road to recovery.

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