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www.dailycal.org Established 1871. Independent Student Press Since 1971. Berkeley, California Monday, November 1, 2010 SPORTS DAMMED: Bears lose Riley in first quarter of 35-7 loss at Oregon State. SEE BACK Campus Conduct Hearings Have Been Costly More than 11 months after a three-day demonstration rocked the UC system, the conduct hearings for UC Berkeley students charged with misconduct dur- ing those protests continue to move for- ward, amid rising financial and time-re- lated costs to both the students involved in the process and the campus. Since their beginning, the conduct proceedings have been clouded in con- tention with allegations by the students of procedural violations by the Center for Student Conduct and Community Standards and disagreement on both sides regarding causes for delays. Both parties agree, however, that the drawn- out proceedings have been costly. So far, faculty, staff and students have spent approximately 438 hours this semester on three ongoing student conduct hearings, numerous pre-hear- by Aaida Samad Contributing Writer ing conferences and informal meetings for approximately 17 students charged with misconduct related to the pro- tests last November, according to Su- san Trageser, director of the center. The hearings for those involved in protests last November alone have cre- ated financial costs of approximately $23,000 for the campus — around $16,569 in faculty and staff time and $6,462 in space rental, educational technology services like recording and sound amplification, as well as copying expenses, according to Trageser. Hearings are paid for by the center, but with the center’s small operating budget, expenses related to open hearings or others requiring additional support are covered through the Office of the Dean of Students and the Division of Student Affairs, Trageser said in an e-mail. Given budget cuts, the office continues to look for ways to reduce costs, she added. “The Center for Student Conduct and Community Standards is always exploring ways to reduce costs,” Trag- eser said in an e-mail. While there may be costs to both sides, comparing student costs to the costs to the campus is not necessar- ily fair, according to Laura Zelko, a UC Berkeley junior charged with five violations of the code of student con- duct for her involvement in the Nov. 18 occupation of the Architecture and Engineering building and the Nov. 20 Wheeler Hall occupation. “I understand the administration has the ability to tally up the time they spent on these hearings, but for the (Office of Student Conduct) this is their job, whereas for me, it’s really not my job,” Zelko said. According to Zelko, the last 11 months have been physically and emo- tionally taxing as she struggles to juggle her school work, her social life and her pending student conduct proceedings. “It’s been hard,” she said. “I’m work- ing on a lot of prerequisites for nursing school that are pretty difficult, so trying to budget my time between learning about microbiology and learning about the intricacies of the student code of conduct has been very difficult. It’s like having at least another class or two.” While monetary costs do not have as much of an impact on students, the emotional toll and time spent dealing with hearings, instead of working or going to class, has had the greatest im- pact on students, said Daniela Urban, a UC Berkeley School of Law student and member of the Campus Rights Project who has been advising students. “There are many ways that this could have been handled differently by the Office of Student Conduct that would have saved the campus and students a lot of time and money, and all that boils down to a respect for the students’ in- terests and rights,” Urban said. Aaida Samad covers higher education. Contact her at [email protected]. School Board Candidates Have Range Of Funding The six candidates for three open seats on the Berkeley Unified School District Board of Education who will come before voters Nov. 2 show wide-ranging levels of funding for their cam- paigns, though the race appears to be more competitive and high-profile than in previous years. According to campaign filing state- ments updated as of Oct. 16, Karen Hemphill — current board president and the only candidate running for reelection — has raised only $8,898, while Josh Daniels, a school finance at- torney who is another candidate in the race, has raised the most at $21,713. Candidate Norma Harrison did not file statements, since she has had no contributions to her campaign, did not do any fundraising and used her own money to pay for any campaign-relat- ed expenses, she said. After Harrison, Hemphill is the least funded candidate of the race despite her current position on the board. “Many of my supporters believe I won’t have a problem getting re- elected,” Hemphill said. “A lot of my contributors also contributed to other campaigns.” On the other end of the spectrum, Daniels’ funding is not only the high- est in the race but is also above normal for school board candidates in the past four elections. High levels of funding across the board reflect the similar level of inter- est in the race, candidates said. “The amount of attention being paid to this race is unprecedented,” candi- date Julie Holcomb said. “You don’t often have five or six good candidates running for three spots on the board.” Because campaign finance laws in the city of Berkeley prevent businesses from donating to campaigns, all can- didates said most of their funds came from individual donors. Candidate Leah Wilson, who has raised $12,142 for her campaign, said her most effective means of fundraising was one-on-one meetings with potential supporters. She added that 90 percent of such meetings resulted in a donation. Though Daniels and Holcomb both said they received donations from po- litical action committees on behalf establishments such as the National Electrical Contractors Association Northern California Chapter and the Construction & General [Laborers] Laborers’ Local Union, they also said those donations account for only a small portion of their funds. “I’ve had people from law school donate, friends I’ve known since kin- dergarten have donated, neighbors and family members have donated — the whole range truly does reflect the broad support I think I have in Berke- ley,” Daniels said. Two of the candidates — Holcomb and Priscilla Myrick, who have raised $15,157 and $10,730 as of Oct. 16, re- spectively — have loaned their own by J.D. Morris Contributing Writer Elections dailycal.org/elections 2010 >> BOaRd: Page 6 Fraternity House Property Faces Zoning Violations Krishan and Neelam Rai — owners of a Dana Street property that includes a fraternity and two additional dwell- ings — said they were unaware that their property, which they have owned for 30 years, is out of regulation and lacks the necessary permits to make housing a fra- ternity and multiple living units legal. The property is zoned as R-2A — categorizing it as a multi-unit dwelling — and features a nine-bedroom house, currently occupied by the fraternity Sigma Epsilon Omega, and two small- er units in the back, one of which is in- by Nina Brown Contributing Writer habited by the Rais’ daughter and her family. A third tenant lives in rooms adjoining the main house. While zoning gives owners the right to have multiple units on one parcel of land, the owners must apply for and receive permits for the individual dwellings. “It’s kind of like a driver’s license,” said Robert Pennell, an architect at Jarvis Architects, a firm working on the Rai property. “You have it by right, but you need permission.” In June, after learning that their daughter’s house was not considered to be a legal living unit for lack of a correct permit, the Rais applied for an administrative use permit. They hired Jarvis Architects to redesign the back- yard dwelling to fit requirements. “There are very few lots in that neighborhood that have one house,” Pennell said. “Most of the neighbors have two or even three dwelling units on the property.” He added that there are many illegal second units and apartments all over Berkeley. “Nobody says anything until it’s a problem,” Pennell said. In August, the Rais received a no- tice of violation from the city’s code enforcement unit, stating that the main building on the property was not >> ZOning: Page 2 Sigma Epsilon Omega’s fraternity house and two additional dwellings on the property have been found to be out of city zoning regulations. jeff totten/contributor Remember to vote. Election Day Tuesday, Nov. 2 ARTS BRAvE NuDE WORlD: Ryan McGinley’s new show opens at SF’s Ratio 3. SEE PAGE 4 $23,000: $16, 569: $6,462: space rental, sound devices, & copying expenses faculty & staff time approximate financial costs to the University Of the $23,000: liz cunningham/staff Heavy Turnout exp ected From Voters Casting Mail- in Ballots While the number of total reg- istered voters in Alameda County has decreased since the 2008 gen- eral election, the idea of vot- ing by absen- tee ballot has gained traction in the region as a more conve- nient mode of democratic participation. Of the about 386,000 vote-by-mail ballots mailed to county residents this year, approximately 155,000 have been returned as of Oct. 30, with many more ballots expected to come in on election day, according to the Alameda County Registrar of Voters. “I don’t know what to expect, but I think that (turnout through vote-by- mail ballots) will be relatively heavy,” said Dave Macdonald, Alameda Coun- ty’s registrar of voters. “It depends on what we get back on election night ... I expect 50,000 to 60,000 (more votes) county wise.” Section 3201 of the California Elec- tions Code states that voters can apply to vote by mail and become perma- nently registered to do so. As a result, ballot cards are mailed 29 days prior to by Yousur Alhlou Contributing Writer Elections dailycal.org/elections 2010 >> aBSenTee: Page 6

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SPORTS

DAMMED: Bears lose Riley in first quarter of 35-7 loss at Oregon State.SEE BACK

Campus Conduct Hearings Have Been Costly

More than 11 months after a three-day demonstration rocked the UC system, the conduct hearings for UC Berkeley students charged with misconduct dur-ing those protests continue to move for-ward, amid rising financial and time-re-lated costs to both the students involved in the process and the campus.

Since their beginning, the conduct proceedings have been clouded in con-tention with allegations by the students of procedural violations by the Center for Student Conduct and Community Standards and disagreement on both sides regarding causes for delays. Both parties agree, however, that the drawn-out proceedings have been costly.

So far, faculty, staff and students have spent approximately 438 hours this semester on three ongoing student conduct hearings, numerous pre-hear-

by Aaida SamadContributing Writer

ing conferences and informal meetings for approximately 17 students charged with misconduct related to the pro-tests last November, according to Su-san Trageser, director of the center.

The hearings for those involved in protests last November alone have cre-ated financial costs of approximately $23,000 for the campus — around $16,569 in faculty and staff time and $6,462 in space rental, educational technology services like recording and sound amplification, as well as copying expenses, according to Trageser.

Hearings are paid for by the center, but with the center’s small operating budget, expenses related to open hearings or others requiring additional support are covered through the Office of the Dean of Students and the Division of Student Affairs, Trageser said in an e-mail. Given budget cuts, the office continues to look for ways to reduce costs, she added.

“The Center for Student Conduct and Community Standards is always

exploring ways to reduce costs,” Trag-eser said in an e-mail.

While there may be costs to both sides, comparing student costs to the costs to the campus is not necessar-ily fair, according to Laura Zelko, a UC Berkeley junior charged with five violations of the code of student con-duct for her involvement in the Nov. 18 occupation of the Architecture and Engineering building and the Nov. 20 Wheeler Hall occupation.

“I understand the administration has the ability to tally up the time they spent on these hearings, but for the (Office of Student Conduct) this is their job, whereas for me, it’s really not my job,” Zelko said.

According to Zelko, the last 11 months have been physically and emo-tionally taxing as she struggles to juggle her school work, her social life and her pending student conduct proceedings.

“It’s been hard,” she said. “I’m work-ing on a lot of prerequisites for nursing

school that are pretty difficult, so trying to budget my time between learning about microbiology and learning about the intricacies of the student code of conduct has been very difficult. It’s like having at least another class or two.”

While monetary costs do not have as much of an impact on students, the emotional toll and time spent dealing with hearings, instead of working or going to class, has had the greatest im-pact on students, said Daniela Urban, a UC Berkeley School of Law student and member of the Campus Rights Project who has been advising students.

“There are many ways that this could have been handled differently by the Office of Student Conduct that would have saved the campus and students a lot of time and money, and all that boils down to a respect for the students’ in-terests and rights,” Urban said.

Aaida Samad covers higher education. Contact her at [email protected].

School Board Candidates Have Range Of Funding

The six candidates for three open seats on the Berkeley Unified School District Board of Education who will come before voters Nov. 2 show wide-ranging levels of funding for their cam-paigns, though the race appears to be more competitive and high-profile than in previous years.

According to campaign filing state-ments updated as of Oct. 16, Karen Hemphill — current board president and the only candidate running for reelection — has raised only $8,898, while Josh Daniels, a school finance at-torney who is another candidate in the race, has raised the most at $21,713.

Candidate Norma Harrison did not file statements, since she has had no contributions to her campaign, did not do any fundraising and used her own money to pay for any campaign-relat-ed expenses, she said.

After Harrison, Hemphill is the least funded candidate of the race despite her current position on the board.

“Many of my supporters believe I won’t have a problem getting re-elected,” Hemphill said. “A lot of my contributors also contributed to other campaigns.”

On the other end of the spectrum, Daniels’ funding is not only the high-est in the race but is also above normal for school board candidates in the past four elections.

High levels of funding across the board reflect the similar level of inter-est in the race, candidates said.

“The amount of attention being paid to this race is unprecedented,” candi-date Julie Holcomb said. “You don’t often have five or six good candidates running for three spots on the board.”

Because campaign finance laws in the city of Berkeley prevent businesses from donating to campaigns, all can-didates said most of their funds came from individual donors.

Candidate Leah Wilson, who has raised $12,142 for her campaign, said her most effective means of fundraising was one-on-one meetings with potential supporters. She added that 90 percent of such meetings resulted in a donation.

Though Daniels and Holcomb both said they received donations from po-litical action committees on behalf establishments such as the National Electrical Contractors Association Northern California Chapter and the Construction & General [Laborers] Laborers’ Local Union, they also said those donations account for only a small portion of their funds.

“I’ve had people from law school donate, friends I’ve known since kin-dergarten have donated, neighbors and family members have donated — the whole range truly does reflect the broad support I think I have in Berke-ley,” Daniels said.

Two of the candidates — Holcomb and Priscilla Myrick, who have raised $15,157 and $10,730 as of Oct. 16, re-spectively — have loaned their own

by J.D. MorrisContributing Writer

Elections

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>> BOaRd: Page 6

Fraternity House Property Faces Zoning Violations

Krishan and Neelam Rai — owners of a Dana Street property that includes a fraternity and two additional dwell-ings — said they were unaware that their property, which they have owned for 30 years, is out of regulation and lacks the necessary permits to make housing a fra-ternity and multiple living units legal.

The property is zoned as R-2A — categorizing it as a multi-unit dwelling — and features a nine-bedroom house, currently occupied by the fraternity Sigma Epsilon Omega, and two small-er units in the back, one of which is in-

by Nina BrownContributing Writer

habited by the Rais’ daughter and her family. A third tenant lives in rooms adjoining the main house.

While zoning gives owners the right to have multiple units on one parcel of land, the owners must apply for and receive permits for the individual dwellings.

“It’s kind of like a driver’s license,” said Robert Pennell, an architect at Jarvis Architects, a firm working on the Rai property. “You have it by right, but you need permission.”

In June, after learning that their daughter’s house was not considered to be a legal living unit for lack of a correct permit, the Rais applied for an administrative use permit. They hired

Jarvis Architects to redesign the back-yard dwelling to fit requirements.

“There are very few lots in that neighborhood that have one house,” Pennell said. “Most of the neighbors have two or even three dwelling units on the property.”

He added that there are many illegal second units and apartments all over Berkeley.

“Nobody says anything until it’s a problem,” Pennell said.

In August, the Rais received a no-tice of violation from the city’s code enforcement unit, stating that the main building on the property was not

>> ZOning: Page 2

Sigma Epsilon Omega’s fraternity house and two additional dwellings on the property have been found to be out of city zoning regulations.jeff totten/contributor

Remember to vote.Election Day

Tuesday, Nov. 2

ARTS

BRAvE NuDE WORlD: Ryan McGinley’s new show opens at SF’s Ratio 3.SEE PAGE 4

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$16, 569: $6,462: space rental, sound devices, & copying expenses

faculty & staff time

approximate financial costs to the University

Of the $23,000:

liz cunningham/staff

Heavy Turnout expected From Voters Casting Mail-in Ballots

While the number of total reg-istered voters in Alameda County has decreased since the 2008 gen-eral election, the idea of vot-ing by absen-tee ballot has gained traction in the region as a more conve-nient mode of democratic participation.

Of the about 386,000 vote-by-mail ballots mailed to county residents this year, approximately 155,000 have been returned as of Oct. 30, with many more ballots expected to come in on election day, according to the Alameda County Registrar of Voters.

“I don’t know what to expect, but I think that (turnout through vote-by-mail ballots) will be relatively heavy,” said Dave Macdonald, Alameda Coun-ty’s registrar of voters. “It depends on what we get back on election night ... I expect 50,000 to 60,000 (more votes) county wise.”

Section 3201 of the California Elec-tions Code states that voters can apply to vote by mail and become perma-nently registered to do so. As a result, ballot cards are mailed 29 days prior to

by Yousur AlhlouContributing Writer

Elections

dailycal.org/elections

2010

>> aBSenTee: Page 6

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Noise complaints led to a neighbor-hood movement to remove the fraternity from the area. General complaints about the fraternity brought its non-permitted status to the city’s attention, said Lief Bursell, a code enforcement planner.

“The (noise complaints and permit violations) happening at the same time is probably not politically good,” Pen-nell said.

Krishan Rai said although he is frus-trated with the neighbors’ objections to the fraternity, it is the “financial strain” of filing for two zoning changes simul-taneously that bothered him the most, particularly because he and his wife were “not even aware that (they) were in any violation” in the first place.

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So we discussed what was going on in Africa. And never, ever did I say, “ Well gee, is it a country or is

it a continent? I just don’t know about this issue.”

Fear not, dear reader, my brain has not been completely fried by midterms, and my grammar is,

for the most part, still intact.Nay, what you see above is a Palin-

ism, sprouted from perhaps the current most amusing political figure (if you can call her that) during a FOX inter-view in November of 2008.

Of course, these outrageous com-ments and claims are not just confined to the Republican camp. Both parties have had their share of mediocre per-formances and tiresome grandstand-ing. But this election cycle comes with not just the usual slew of speeches that lack content. No, they’re filled with something else — anger.

Welcome to Midterms 2010, year of the outraged voter.

Americans are anxious, and have good reason to be — 28 percent have less than $500 in savings, and seven in 10 have a close friend or relative who has lost their job. This anxiety has been translated into anger. The latest News-week poll shows that 23 percent of vot-ers say they are angry, and 54 percent say they’re frustrated.

Thus we get candidates such as Jimmy McMillan, proclaiming that “the rent is too damn high!” and people like New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, rousing a crowd by saying he told union leaders, “You punch them (teachers), I punch you.”

This November 2 should be quite the event, with a projected 71 percent of registered voters going to the polls.

But amidst all this anger and hyste-ria, one group has predictably not been riled up. Yep, that’s us.

Only 27 percent of 18-to-29-year olds say they will definitely be voting tomorrow, in stark contrast with the 57 percent who voted in the 2008 elec-tions.

It’s somewhat understandable.We’re not prone to voting to begin

with, but couple this with our irritation at rising tuition costs, slow, ancient ele-vators in the residential halls and two Late Nights being slashed from this year’s schedule, and we’ve got plenty of reason to send a message via boycott.

The man most of us stood behind two years ago hasn’t completely come through on his promise of change.

And plus, it’s the midterms. Why should we even bother?

Well, there’s a story of a guard who patrols the border between two

countries. One night, a man with a large bag slung over his shoulder comes riding down to the border on a bicycle. Naturally, the guard stops the man and searches the bag.

Upon emptying the mysterious bur-lap of all its contents however, the guard finds nothing in it but ... dirt. So he lets the man go on.

The next night the man comes back. And once again, the guard finds noth-ing in the bag but dirt.

This continues for a year, until finally one night the man comes up to the guard and informs him that it is his last night crossing the border.

The guard inquires, “I know you must have been smuggling something all this time. What exactly was it that you were smuggling?”

The man smiles, and replies, “Bicy-cles.”

The media likes to spin politics so that we focus on the dirt in the bag

and not the bicycle riding by. The deci-sions our leaders make should be understandable and simple, but our vision gets clouded by the smaller details so that come election time, we’re missing the bigger picture.

Damn chronically high unemploy-ment and big government! Well, with-out the bailout and TARP, unemploy-ment would be well over 12 percent right now. And without the govern-ment’s help, GM and other auto com-panies would have collapsed, dragging another million jobs down with it.

Stupid inefficient Congress! Whether you support it or not, the health care bill is nevertheless a land-mark piece of legislation, and the financial reform bill, if well-enforced, looks promising.

“Alright, so they’ve done a couple of things,” you say. It doesn’t disprove the fact that politicians are sleaze bags and annoying, and Washington is tightly hung up in gridlock.

True. The system isn’t perfect, but it’s what we’ve got.

And simply choosing not to partici-pate won’t make things any better.

Midterms 2010 is slated to be a his-toric election, with the possibility of a divided House and Senate. This would mean the potential for a lot more paralysis on Capitol Hill, and a series of stalemates until 2012 rolls around.

It would be foolish to sit this one out.

As Daniel Webster aptly put it, “Anger is not an argument.” Neither is apathy.

Now I’m not going to bother you with cheesy lines and tiresome encour-agements of how your single vote is going to make all the difference in the world, ‘cause it’s not.

“Then what’s the point?” you ask.Hmmm ... well as Palin said, “I

didn’t really had a good answer, as so often — is me.”

So that people who say things like that and mis-underestimate the status of the country of Africa will not end up in the Oval Office in 2012. And because even though your single vote will not be the deciding ballot in tomorrow’s elections, it’s still worth something.

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A teenage victim was shot Saturday afternoon in South Berkeley in what multiple sources have called an acci-dent, marking the second shooting in the immediate area in only a week.

According to a statement from Sgt. Mary Kusmiss of the Berkeley Police Department late Saturday night, the department received a single 911 call reporting a shooting victim at about 3:26 p.m. Oct. 30. In the statement, Kusmiss said officers found a male vic-tim in his teens with a gunshot wound

in an apartment in a multi-unit build-ing located at 1521 Alcatraz Ave.

Multiple sources who live in and around the apartment complex said Sun-day that the victim was accidentally shot in the head while playing with a friend. The department statement indicated that the shooting was not random.

Multiple sources also said the vic-tim was taken to Highland General Hospital in Oakland by Berkeley Fire Department paramedics for treatment following the shooting.

The victim was in surgery at 9:45 p.m. Saturday, according to the statement,

and sources at the apartment complex Sunday afternoon said he is alive and recovering.

According to the statement, detec-tives remained on scene continuing the investigation late into the evening Saturday. The shooting Saturday occurred about a half-mile away from last Tuesday’s double shooting on Sacramento Street just south of Russell Street in which one victim — 35-year-old Gary Ferguson, Jr. of Oakland — was killed and another was hospital-ized. Brandon Wallace, 21, of Bay Point, has been charged with murder and attempted murder in connection with the Tuesday shooting.

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Stripped of clothing and inhibitions, ryan McGinley’s nymph-like models bound through nature: they climb

trees, roll down sand dunes and splash in waterfalls. it makes for an atmosphere at once sensuous and innocent, like his pho-tographs were shot in the Garden of eden, if eve hadn’t taken a bite out of that apple and adam was bi-curious.

McGinley captures motion better than any other photographer today, a talent that gives his photos a refreshingly visceral impact and spontaneous thrill. “a big part of my work is contingency,” McGinley says, sitting in front of a large photograph of a boy falling through a shower of fireworks. “When you plan everything out, for every-thing to go wrong.”

at 25, McGinley was the youngest artist to have a solo show at the Whitney Mu-seum of american art. his newest exhibit at ratio 3 in San francisco, “life adjust-ment Center,” showcases two of his series shuffled together. the first consists of black and white studio portraits of nude models interacting with animals, the second, McGinley’s signature landscapes of models set free in the wild.

the animal series, while not as imme-diately cathartic as his other photography, has a wonderful sense of texture and wit, as when a tarantula crawls across a woman’s body or an owl perches on the curve of a butt cheek. his other set of photographs recalls the romantic paintings of thomas Cole and Caspar david friedrich (specifi-cally his “Wanderer above the Sea of fog”), in their placement of solitary nudes in sublime nature, obscured by mist and rain. these are a departure into more impres-sionistic work for the artist: “alex (Giant explosion)” could easily be confused for a painting.

yet McGinley’s portraits of man and

by David GetmanContributing Writer

beast sometimes dip into an unwelcome self-consciousness, emphasized by the more natural landscapes hanging on the wall nearby that impart the feeling of tag-ging along for an adventure. the juxtaposi-tion can be disconcerting, but it is hard not to smile while browsing his pieces and well worth the visit to ratio 3 to see McGinley’s photos in the flesh, so to speak.

“this is an escape,” McGinley explains. “My photographs are about this idea, this fantasy world that doesn’t exist, where peo-ple fall out of houses or through sparks. it’s just this world that i feel like, i don’t know, i really wanna live in.” he has just slid on sunglasses for an interview conducted in a place that makes a point of being well lit.

McGinley has crafted this exhibit for someone to “get lost in for 20 minutes and forget about all the bullshit that’s going on in their day.” this speaks to the uncomplicated appeal of his work, of its ability to immediately transfer an expe-rience or moment of pure joy to the viewer. in “Chloe & amanda,” a woman and her dog lie naked next to each other, mouths agape and with the woman’s hand casually rubbing her own tongue as she smiles.

for McGinley, part of engineering this “fantasy” is gathering a ragtag band of white, thin and androgynous models to embark on his annual summer road trip across america that costs around 100,000 dollars. “the people who i work with shooting my nudes are all perform-ers. i really only want to work with artists,” McGinley adds.

Whether consciously or not, McGin-ley doesn’t refer to his craft as taking photographs but rather as “making” them. and therein lies the paradox of much of McGinley’s work: he labors intensely to make his photographs feel organic. he readily acknowledges that editorial choice

is integral in his photography, taking an over-abundance of shots and choosing the one that captures the moment best.

McGinley is now at work on a rock and roll festival documentary. Beyond that, he is uncertain. “i’m just interested in what’s happening today and maybe what’s hap-pening tomorrow,” McGinley says. Such a mindset, of not lingering on what comes before or after, seems to fit with the mood of his work. the best way to think about and enjoy ryan McGinley’s photographs might be to not think at all.

Pose naked with an owl for David at [email protected].

‘Lions’ Looks for Laughs in Topical Taboo

British comedian Chris Morris gets a kick out of watching silly people try to achieve something together. “in the organization of pretty much any-

thing,” Morris explains, “a camping holiday, a picnic, a day in the woods, a football match, a stag party — there’s a lot of scope for things to be funny. for things to go wrong.” Petty arguments erupt into shouting competi-tions, inadequacies are humorously revealed and people trip and fall on their faces. laughter is almost guaran-teed. of course, his fascination isn’t unique. from the three Stooges to “fawlty towers,” “this is Spinal tap” to “the ladykillers,” watching an inept bunch of fools mucking up is a formula that spans decades as well as continents. But is this situation inherently funny, regard-less of context? for example, is it still funny when the common goal involves blowing up innocent civilians in a terrorist attack?

Morris pushes this question to its logical and hilarious conclusion in “four lions,” a film that follows a band of english wannabe suicide bombers. omar is the ring-leader by virtue of being the least idiotic of the bunch. Barry, a converted white Brit, finds an outlet for his childish rage in radical islamic culture; Waj, a confused simpleton, is assured by omar that blowing oneself up is just like riding a water slide; hassan, a suggestible lad, seems more invested in lowbrow hip-hop than religious observance; and faisal, a quiet halfwit, straps bombs to trained crows so he won’t have to blow himself up. they communicate over the children’s social networking web-site Puffin Party to hatch their diabolical, hapless plots.

the film is careful not to equate religion or ethnic-ity with stupidity or evil. actually, given that they know more about tupac, “the lion King” and “rambo” than they do about Pakistan or islamic tradition, it might be more accurate to say that their motivation comes more from pop culture than the Quran. and the police that chase them turn out to be just as moronic and violent. “four lions” is certainly provocative, but Morris is no Sacha Baron Cohen. touchy subjects attract him because

by David WagnerDaily Cal Staff Writer

they’re more difficult to make fun of, and he savors a challenge. he’s perhaps best known as the man behind the infamous “Brass eye,” a show that sent up alarmist news programs long before “the Colbert report” hit the airwaves. an episode called “Paedogeddon” tackled pedophilia, causing an uproar about what belonged on British television. When asked whether certain topics should be off-limits, such as child suicide bombers, Morris cheekily responds, “Well, i can immediately see that a suicide bomber cell formed entirely of children might be funny.” answering the question more directly, he says, “there’s no moral imperative there. in fact we demand that jokes are often,” Morris pauses devilishly, lowering his voice, “naughty.”

Morris did extensive research before committing to the film. he started off with extensive reading; eventu-ally he began attending court cases and interviewing “army officers, intelligence officers, recently ex-radical Muslims,” and even “some mad people.” Morris recalls, “i met some people who told me that very soon i would be a second-class citizen because i wasn’t a Muslim.” Still, Morris seems as disinterested in giving us a history lecture than he is in shocking for the sake of being shocking. he’s steeped in the tradition of British comedy, trading in subversive, bawdy humour with two u’s. he makes terrorism funny because he doesn’t wave his arms about shouting, “look at how keen i am on breaking social taboos!”

last friday’s attempted attack on Chicago syna-gogues reminds us just how sensitive this territory still is. fart jokes these aren’t, and the film’s timely nature will likely turn some viewers off completely. But Morris himself asserts, “terrorism itself isn’t funny and the film isn’t saying that.” rather, “four lions” makes the much less controversial claim that bumbling fools in mundane situations are funny. it’s a fresh take consid-ering how cable news has taught us to view terrorists as almost superhuman evil geniuses. Because if we can’t laugh at someone accidentally blowing himself up by tripping over a sheep, then the terrorists really have won.Watch the BBC with David at [email protected].

Ryan McGinley Opens New Photography Show ‘Life Adjustment Center’ at San Francisco’s Ratio 3 Gallery

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Blow-up. Kayvan Novak, Arsher Ali, Riz Ahmed and Nigel Lindsay star in Chris Morris’ ‘Four Lions,’ a comedy which takes suicide bombers as its subject. Morris avoids the Sacha Baron Cohen route of going for shock value when tackling provocative topics.

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Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan Turn Trite at Great American

You know those housewares stores, nestled in the downtown areas of affluent suburbia, that sell a simpler time? This doesn’t refer to our friendly

Trader Joe’s brand of affordable lager, but a certain nostalgia — tin lunchboxes and old-fashioned toys and hand-woven potpourri baskets (bourgeois and rustic). But despite the tiffany lampshades and absence of USB ports, these products are in no way authentic recol-lections of another time. They are overwrought affects of imitation, pushing the consumer button of nostal-gia. Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan, formerly of (respectively) Belle & Sebastian and Screaming Trees, are pushing the same type of button. Their performance at the Great American Music Hall last Thursday was a sterile rendition of their well-constructed but formulaic new album, Hawk, executed in a prefabricated “beauty and the beast” duet persona akin to 1960s Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg.

Put more simply, what was so disappointing about their performance was a complete lack of innovation or improvisation. It never drifted from the middle of the road to stare at a car wreck nor generate a euphoric concert experience, and that makes it all the less interest-ing to talk about: It was boring. The performance never broke the surface of the album’s studio-produced quality, never deviating perceptibly from the album’s cadence and orchestration. Especially with the continued devaluing of physical music media sales, a live performance is an op-portunity space to emphasize and exploit the music’s la-tent abilities in a live context. The ticket price was equiv-alent to the retail price of a new CD, and you get what you pay for: an animatronic Isobel and Mark mouthing along to their album’s soundtrack. Standing about eight feet apart from each other on the stage, staring straight ahead and almost never interacting directly with each other, they reinforced the sterility of the recording studio, even without the sound booth. Their independent musi-cal registers formed two separate hemispheres, but their performance never breached the equator. It felt like I was being let in on the dry run of a mediocre high school play, the performers running through their lines and blocking with a glassy-eyed indifference to an imagined audience.

What made the expressionless performance even more frustrating is the duo’s purported homage to the turgid, smoky emotionality of the heterosexual duet. It may be a bit too much to ask that the music’s referenced genre be congruent with the relationship between the sing-ers — being another Rosanne and Johnny Cash isn’t a prerequisite to putting out an album of similar tonality. But when your MySpace profile is likening your music to that of the aforementioned Jane and Serge, or the Johnny Cash American recordings, or Nancy Sinatra’s Lee Hazle-wood productions, you place yourself within a pretty lofty context. And singing into an old-timey microphone is not enough to recreate these relationships in song.

Exiting the theater that night, I left behind the warmth and low lighting of the Great American to the slick as-phalt and indifferent traffic of O’Farrell. The yellow glow of the Great American’s marquee fading behind me as I biked past a luminous strip club advertising “Wild Girls,” their bodies painted to resemble jungle cats, I realized how immediately the ambience of the performance had dissolved in my memory. Being rained on in front of a strip club was more stimulating than Isobel and Mark’s performance, and probably a lot closer to something Serge would have done.

by Amelia Taylor-HochbergContributing Writer

While language and photogra-phy often serve documentary purposes (like the words and

pictures in the newspaper or web page currently in front of you), our reliance on these media to transmit information often makes it easy to forget their materiality as physical objects. From a certain camera angle to a particular turn of phrase, the artist’s presence looms behind these seem-ingly truthful methods of communication.

Constructing a dialogue from found photographs and favorite poems, R.H. Quaytman’s new series of mixed media paintings explores the reciprocal exchange between representation and the material world. Part of SFMOMA’s “New Work” series, an ongoing endeavor to highlight individual artists, Quaytman’s new body of work blends blurred silhouettes, text and visually disorienting color combinations to reflect upon the way art transmits what is absent from the viewer’s present reality. Though her philosophies carry an air of academia, Quaytman’s series of works “I Love — The Eyelid Clicks / I See / Cold Poetry, Chapter 18” captivates the viewer in its hazy visual elegance.

Using images excavated from SF-MOMA's archives, Quaytman transforms anonymous found photographs into some-thing between holographs and shadows on her two-dimensional wooden panels. She combines partial silhouettes or entire photographs with tightly controlled geo-metric patterns, silk-screening the original image and embellishing it with oil paint or diamond dust. Though the artist employs a wide variety of media, each panel’s harmo-nious color combinations and meticulous painting techniques fuse into cohesive, cryptic wholes.

The panels in “Chapter 18” lack indi-

by Nastia VoynovskayaDaily Cal Staff Writer

vidual titles, implying a sense of continuity among the works. Repeating patterns and images echo throughout the exhibit like ghostly howls in a desolate hallway. A long, vertical panel creates an illusion of three-dimensional space with its black and white stripes and cream-colored shadows. Thin stripes repeat horizontally, providing a backdrop for the diagonal, wider stripes that form the corner of an illusory box. One of its walls contains barely legible text and a realistic image of an eye. Quaytman seems to remind the viewer of the act of careful looking re-quired to make out the words among the stripes, which merge into a fuzzy softness despite their hard edges.

The same text, blurry like the let-ters in an optometry exam, emerges on a separate panel, also adorned with repeating horizontal black and white stripes. The lines seem to distort the light hitting them, creating glimmers of green that disappear when concentrated on directly. The monochromatic pattern’s iridescent glow makes it painful to read the text, a poem titled “5” by the Beat poet Jack Spicer. “... The poetry / Of the absurd comes through San Francisco / television. Directly connected / with moon-rock-ets,” the poem reads, alluding to the cathode-like glow of the pattern that contains it.

Other works in “Chapter 18” contain multilayered allu-sions to the physicality of the wood panels, as well as the deceptive nature of photog-raphy. Several of the panels contain a 1910 photograph of a camera reflected in an ornamented mirror, lock-ing the viewer in a Mobius

strip of contemplation of the picture of a picture of a picture. In silk-screening the original image, Quaytman positioned the photograph receding at an angle into the panel, adding a stripe of sandstone shades that mimics the beveled edge of the panel that contains the image.

Though tracing the allu-sions in

“Chapter 18” may enthrall amateur sleuths, the sleek graphics and fascinating photo-graphs engross the casual onlooker in their lustrous repetitions. Quaytman’s works self-consciously refer to their media, but they also invite viewers to lose themselves in their eerie regularity.

Nastia Voynovskaya is the lead visual art critic. Contact her at avoynovskaya

@dailycal.org.

Get stimulated outside of a strip club with Amelia at [email protected].

‘Lions’ Looks for Laughs in Topical Taboothey’re more difficult to make fun of, and he savors a challenge. He’s perhaps best known as the man behind the infamous “Brass Eye,” a show that sent up alarmist news programs long before “The Colbert Report” hit the airwaves. An episode called “Paedogeddon” tackled pedophilia, causing an uproar about what belonged on British television. When asked whether certain topics should be off-limits, such as child suicide bombers, Morris cheekily responds, “Well, I can immediately see that a suicide bomber cell formed entirely of children might be funny.” Answering the question more directly, he says, “There’s no moral imperative there. In fact we demand that jokes are often,” Morris pauses devilishly, lowering his voice, “naughty.”

Morris did extensive research before committing to the film. He started off with extensive reading; eventu-ally he began attending court cases and interviewing “army officers, intelligence officers, recently ex-radical Muslims,” and even “some mad people.” Morris recalls, “I met some people who told me that very soon I would be a second-class citizen because I wasn’t a Muslim.” Still, Morris seems as disinterested in giving us a history lecture than he is in shocking for the sake of being shocking. He’s steeped in the tradition of British comedy, trading in subversive, bawdy humour with two u’s. He makes terrorism funny because he doesn’t wave his arms about shouting, “Look at how keen I am on breaking social taboos!”

Last Friday’s attempted attack on Chicago syna-gogues reminds us just how sensitive this territory still is. Fart jokes these aren’t, and the film’s timely nature will likely turn some viewers off completely. But Morris himself asserts, “Terrorism itself isn’t funny and the film isn’t saying that.” Rather, “Four Lions” makes the much less controversial claim that bumbling fools in mundane situations are funny. It’s a fresh take consid-ering how cable news has taught us to view terrorists as almost superhuman evil geniuses. Because if we can’t laugh at someone accidentally blowing himself up by tripping over a sheep, then the terrorists really have won.Watch the BBC with David at [email protected].

R.H. Quaytman Exhibit at SFMOMA Explores Medium of Photography Through Innovative, Multilayered Visual Tropes

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each election, allowing voters to cast their ballots by mail rather than in-person at a polling booth.

In the 2008 elections, nearly 304,000 absentee ballots were sub-mitted, comprising about 38 percent of the total ballots cast.

According to District 1 Berkeley City Council member Linda Maio, vote-by-mail ballots are convenient for voters who prefer to vote in the comfort of their own home with easy access to reference material.

“This works for people who plan ahead and are probably a bit older,” she said in an e-mail.

While this method of participation may be convenient for many voters, Maio added that vote-by-mail is also beneficial for candidates, who can fo-cus their campaign strategies solely on those who have not voted.

Macdonald said he hopes the rise in absentee voting will encourage the county to adopt a more hybridized voting model — with greater num-bers of vote-by-mail ballots and a few “super polling centers” — to ben-efit both voters and poll workers.

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BOARD: Many Candidates Try Internet CampaigningfroM fronTmoney to their campaigns within the last month, though both said they ex-pect to repay themselves soon.

“Running a campaign is quite ex-pensive, and that often prevents in-dependent candidates from gaining exposure,” Myrick said.

Within the last filing period, Myrick only received two donations and loaned $2,000 of her own money to her cam-

paign, according to the statements.Several of the candidates have tried

to gain exposure through their own websites and presence on Facebook, though none said they placed a strong emphasis on those methods, prefer-ring instead more traditional means of campaigning, such as precinct walk-ing, phone banking and mailings.

Contact J.D. Morris at [email protected].

“We will get our best poll workers that can run things efficiently,” he said. “(The super centers are) not as con-venient as having a walking-distance polling place ... but we will have a higher turnout, and it is significantly cheaper.”

UC Berkeley senior Valentina Prado, a forestry and natural re-sources major, said in an e-mail that she decided to vote by mail because it allowed her to spend more time researching candidates and proposi-tions.

Stefan Montouth, a CalSERVE party ASUC senator, said in an e-mail that he understands why vot-ers busy with school or work may choose the absentee option, but he also added that he prefers going to a polling place and receiving an “I Voted” sticker.

“It’s exciting waiting in line knowing that your vote will make a difference,” Montouth said in the e-mail. “Whether people vote via absentee ballot or going to a voting booth, I just want people to vote.”

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dowd from backto those people. They got what they wanted.

Now, if there is anything good to be had from this, perhaps they can look back at Riley’s career with less bitter-ness.

He had so many games there were supposed to be “the game.” Air Force on New Year’s Eve 2007, Arizona State in 2009, even Oregon State in 2007, a game he quarterbacked bril-liantly until that last play.

They were all supposed to be his turning point. None of them were.

The blame for so many losses has fallen on Riley’s shoulders — and some rightfully so. A team can’t win without a competent quarterback, and there were games where Riley

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who got heated at a no-call on a late hit on tailback Shane Vereen.

False starts and holding penalties made every step forward feel like two steps back. Vereen finished the day with 53 yards rushing behind a leaky line that also gave up five sacks. As an offense, the Bears generated 206 total yards. Bryan Anger, in contrast, had 347 yards in punts.

“We didn’t protect the passer very well. We didn’t block very well,” Ted-ford said. “Too many penalties. Just a poor effort.”

There are few worse situations un-der which a second string player earns himself a starting spot, but quarter-back Brock Mansion finished the game admirably, if not winningly. He threw mostly screen passes in what was more of a damage control role than anything else.

“The playbook gets shrunk quite a bit,” Tedford said.

Mansion ended the day 14-of-24 for 138 yards and one touchdown, a 45-yard completion to tight end Anthony Miller in the final seconds of the game.

The touchdown prevented Cal (4-4, 2-3 in the Pac-10) from being shut out in a conference game for the first time since 1994.

“Honestly, I was kind of in shock. I was like, ‘Okay, I guess I’m going in,’” said Mansion, who looked exhausted after the game. “After the first series, when we shot ourselves in the foot a few times, it was just live bullets so everything was going faster. I was an-ticipating things being faster and I was trying to go even faster than I should have been going.”

Because of the Bears’ offensive in-eptitude, Oregon State (4-3, 3-1) hap-pily found itself working with a short field all afternoon. the Beavers’ first four drives ended in touchdowns; two of those drives started at their own 43-yard line.

Tailback Jacquizz Rodgers juked his way to 119 rushing yards and wide re-ceiver Markus Wheaton, who Oregon State has been using in much the way it did with James Rodgers, added 73 more rushing and 57 receiving. Both had their way with the Cal defense which, a week after destroying Arizo-

After 109 minutes of a thrilling con-test against Washington, the No. 10 Cal men’s soccer team (11-2-3, 7-1-1 in the Pac-10) snared the win on one great play.

Senior forward Davis Paul’s free kick from the right side found the boot of senior co-captain Hector Jimenez in the wall of players. Jimenez turned around, beating the defenders and fin-ishing the shot right behind goalkeeper Spencer Richey for the game-winner.

The 2-1 win in double overtime must have been a little sweeter for the mid-fielder, who was sidelined with a bro-ken leg during the 2008 tilt with the Huskies (9-5-1, 3-4).

The squad came into the contest after a 2-1 win in double overtime against Oregon State on Friday.

Scot VanBuskirk, Ted Jones and A.J. Soares were all missing from the back line against the Beavers. Despite the absences, substitutes Riley Kovatch and Mike Munoz held their ground in the defense. It was Paul who chipped a ball in over the Beavers’ defense to secure the win.

Soares and Jones were both back in the swing of things yesterday, strength-ening the defense’s effort.

“Washington is a really hard team to play always,” Soares said. “We beat them pretty good up there, so we knew they would come out extra hard.”

The Huskies kept that defensive front on its toes for the first half of play with 10 shots.

In the backfield, senior captain Taylor Mueller was missing due to a red

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card in Washington’s upset of Stanford on Friday. Even with the loss of Mueller’s leadership, a stout defense still man-aged to foil all of the Bears’ seven attempts on goal.

Freshman forward John Crenshaw put away the first goal of the match at 21:55, pouncing on a loose ball at short range on an assist by defender Chris Brundage.

The Huskies carried the lead into the second half, when Cal came out hungry for a goal of their own.

A foul on Jimenez in the top left corner of the Washington penalty box set up the chance the Bears needed.

Senior co-captain Servando Carrasco took the penalty kick, burying the ball in the left upper corner of the net with 12 minutes remaining in the second half to knot the score, 1-1.

With the score remaining the same, the teams went into overtime.

Cal outshot the Huskies in the first extra period, forcing four saves on six shots. Despite the advantage, none found the back of the net.

Coming down to the wire in the sec-ond overtime period, it was Jimenez’s goal that ended the physical match.

“To be fair to Cal, my hat’s off to them,” Washington head coach Dean Wurzberger said. “They pulled a nifty little move on a set play, which is off the practice field. I think that showed their practice organization …

“You work for those things and hope at the right minute you pull it off, which is what they did.”

Bears Spell Double Trouble for Washington in 2-1 Home Victory

Kelly Suckow covers men’s soccer.Contact her at [email protected].

na State at home, reverted back to its usual road form.

“That is not the most physical line they’ve had,” defensive end Cameron Jordan said. “I expected a little bit more and for them to do as well as they did against us was really a pain. They didn’t really fire off the ball like they used.”

But the stats all ring hollow when compared to the specter of what could be an extended absence for Cal’s senior starter. Riley will have an MRI as soon as possible so, until then, the damage done to his knee — and his career — remains to be seen.

Mansion will be the starter until further notice, Tedford said. Games against No. 1 Oregon and No. 10 Stan-ford still remain on the schedule.

Which means going forward, the Bears’ future is more uncertain than ever.

“I said after the SC game, ‘We can’t have a hangover from something like that. We have to move forward,’” Ted-ford said. “I have confidence that we will. That we’ll come back next week.”

was far from adequate. But perhaps the program cheated

him, too. Maybe he was just the wrong quarterback for the system. Maybe the game, in a sad way, stopped being fun for Riley.

Seeing him with tears in his eyes on Saturday hit so hard because, through it all, he’s maintained the strength and poise of a much older man.

He has been dignified both in tri-umph and in failure, which is more than I can say for the Cal fans who have mercilessly bashed him over the years.

Vince Lombardi once said that the measure of a player is not whether he gets knocked down; it’s whether he gets back up. That, Riley has always done.

And for that reason, I don’t want to

see the story end this way.With any luck — and that’s some-

thing Riley so desperately deserves — he’ll have another chance to get back up, walk on two strong legs and say goodbye to Cal the right way.

But, if this column must become a eulogy, there is another Lombardi quote that evokes Riley’s career:

“The spirit, the will to win and the will to excel — these are the things that endure and these are the quali-ties that are so much more important than any of the events that occasion them.”

Regardless of wins and regardless of losses, maybe someday people will remember Kevin that way.

Katie Dowd covers football. Contact her at [email protected].

Cal defender Steve Birnbaum attacks the goal against Washington’s Brad Keller. The No. 10 Bears, who lead the Pac-10, outshot the Huskies 9-3 in two overtimes of a 2-1 win.

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CORVALLIS, Ore. — A figure in gray parted the orange and black celebration that flooded

out of Reser Stadium.Though they were flush with vic-

tory, the Oregon State fans lowered their voices as they passed him, a wounded quarterback struggling on crutches.

“Tough break, Kevin,” one man said gently.

Kevin Riley looked down, his eyes brimming with what he was too bro-ken to say.

We won’t know the extent of Ri-ley’s injury until an MRI is done, but coach Jeff Tedford said that it looks “more serious than just your everyday sprained knee.”

This could be the end of his season. And if it is, then it’s also the end of his career.

Cal has been unkind to Kevin Ri-ley. This, though, may be the unkind-est cut of all.

Few players in the history of Cal football have endured the kind of virulent, extended pain that Riley has endured.

The abuse from message boards and fans, the booing at games, the quarterback controversies that shook his confidence, whether or not he ad-mitted it.

There were fans who called for Beau Sweeney and Brock Mansion week after week. Congratulations

cardinal spoils cal’s Home season Finale

Any member of the Cal field hockey team will say to expect close finishes in games against Stanford.

And in close matches, the outcome is defined by just a few, but significant, individual plays. A couple of late goals garnered a 4-2 victory for the Cardinal (11-5, 5-1 in NorPac), in addition to a share of the NorPac West Division championship along with the Bears.

Unlike the first meeting between the two teams in September, the late goal that decided the game belonged to Stanford, and not to Cal (8-8, 5-1). With six minutes left to play, Stan-ford’s leading scorer Becky Dru took a shot from the top of the circle to break the 2-2 deadlock.

Although the Cardinal out-cor-nered the Bears, 12-5, it couldn’t do much with that advantage against Cal’s defense.

“Those are designed plays that we had defended quite a few successful-ly,” Bears head coach Shellie Onstead said. “So for them to only score once on a corner, I’m actually pretty happy about.”

Less than two minutes later, Stan-ford capitalized on Cal’s confusion sur-rounding a foul call — or rather, the lack of a call. The Bears waited for a whistle for what they thought was a foul on a preceding play. The call never came, and Xanthe Travlos took advan-tage of the momentary disconcertion to double Stanford’s lead with an un-contested shot at the net.

But as in all close games, momen-tum often hinges on a single play – one that might have precluded the Cardinal’s two last-minute goals and given Cal the edge in the final out-

by Catherine NguyenContributing Writer

come.Halfway through the second half,

the Bears had their own opportunity to break the 2-2 tie on a breakaway. How-ever, Megan Shimojima’s shot from the right side went wide and Cal couldn’t collect the loose ball to fire home for a goal.

“To be honest with you that’s a tough fluke — we make the breakaway here and take those two (goals) away, it was that kind of game,” Onstead said. “It was close.”

Though Stanford carried its lead through the final minutes of the game, the Bears’ defensive effort had Onstead watching the clock. Cal did not have to clear the ball from its side of the field until the 26th minute.

The defense allowed the Bears to set

up in front of the Cardinal’s cage in the 11th minute, when freshman Shannon Elmitt wrapped the ball around the post to give Cal an early lead.

Such defensive pressure should serve the Bears well in the NorPac tournament from Nov. 4-6. There, No. 2-seeded Cal may have the chance to mete out revenge against No. 1-seeded Stanford, which broke its 11-game losing streak at Maxwell Field on the Bears’ Senior Night.

“The seniors were great, “Onstead said. “You’d like to send them out with a win, but we’ll turn around and focus on next week and try to make it up then.”

stanford’s Press Breaks through Bears’ Defense

Defender Lisa Lohre took two shots in her final game at Maxwell Family Field. She was one of three players who ended their home career schedules with a 4-2 loss to Stanford.

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The banner hoisted in the bleach-ers of Edwards Stadium during the Cal women’s soccer team’s home games reads, “It’s a perfect day for soccer!”

That statement didn’t really apply for the Bears as they took on undefeated Stanford in Saturday’s “Bay Area Derby.” The game started with rain and ended with Cal’s fourth conference loss, a 3-0 defeat against their biggest rival.

But “perfect” adequate describes the conditions on the other side of the field. The top-ranked Cardinal (16-0-2, 7-0-0 in the Pac-10) shut down the Bears to hold on to their perfect record.

“In 14 years of college coaching, that’s the best team I’ve ever played against,” Cal coach Neil McGuire said. “It was like playing against Chelsea.”

The Bears played with motivation in the emotionally charged match. Stan-ford’s offensive system was capable of breaking past Cal’s back line, but defensive tenacity kept the Cardinal scoreless for almost 20 minutes.

In the 19th minute, the Bears’ fresh-man goalkeeper Emily Kruger’s save went out in favor of the second consec-utive Stanford corner. The Cardinal’s Lindsay Taylor knocked in the rebound from that set piece.

Five minutes later, Christen Press solidified the Cardinal’s lead. She turned inside of a Cal defender who was on her back, and fired the ball into the right side of the net. Press’ speed

by Alex MatthewsContributing Writer

tested the Bears, particularly Kruger, who saved nine of Stanford’s 23 shots — 10 of which Press took herself.

Cal held the Cardinal off until the 81st minute, when Press finished off the game with a breakaway, drawing Kruger out of the net for a shot on open goal.

“(Press has) got wheels, so that was a hard one to stop,” co-captain Emily Shi-bata said.

The Bears spent most of the game doing the runaround against the Car-dinal’s almost flawless possession. The disadvantage would cost Cal the game.

“Stanford is so good in possession, so when you press you open up space behind you,” McGuire said. “When you open up space behind you, you bring in players like Press to take advantage of your back space. Unfortunately, no matter what system we played, our in-ability to keep the ball and their ability to keep the ball was problematic.”

Losing against a team whose most re-cent defeat was last year’s NCAA cham-pionship against North Carolina isn’t unexpected, but the Bears (7-5-5, 2-4-1) still see room for improvement.

“I’m just frustrated cause I know we’re better than that, but we played a little bit too scared at times, and it showed,” Shibata said.

“We need to have that type of play, possession, speed, everything. So from that we learn.”

Catherine Nguyen covers field hockey.Contact her at [email protected].

Alex Matthews covers women’s soccer. Contact her at [email protected].

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CORVALLIS, Ore. — As the Cal football team jogged back onto the field after halftime, their hearts must have been heavy for the man they left behind in the locker room.

Because although the Bears will live to fight another day, Kevin Ri-ley’s future is not so certain.

Cal started out slow and never re-covered from the injury to its starting quarterback, falling 35-7 to Oregon State at Reser Stadium, adding the most heartbreaking chapter yet to its 0-4 away record.

The Bears lost Riley on their sec-ond drive of the game. Under the weight of a low take-down by Oregon State defensive tackle Brennan Olan-der, Riley’s left knee buckled, leaving Cal’s starter crumpled in his own end zone. Riley lay on the ground in agony for a few minutes before being helped off the field, tears in his eyes.

There were eight minutes remaining in the first quarter, but the game was over.

“The coaches did a great job of preparing us,” wide re-ceiver Keenan Allen said. “We just came out flat.”

Offensively, even with Riley, Cal struggled mightily to move the ball. Much of that was self-inflicted. Through three quarters of play, the Bears had 107 total yards of of-fense and 103 yards in penalties, including an uncharacter-istic unsportsmanlike conduct call on coach Jeff Tedford,

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Marvin Jones is tackled after making one of his five catches. The junior wide receiver totaled 66 yards in Cal’s 35-7 loss, its fourth consecutive to Oregon State. Brock Mansion threw the Bears’ lone score to Anthony Miller.

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