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www.dailycal.org Established 1871. Independent Student Press Since 1971. Berkeley, California Tuesday, January 25, 2011 SPORTS ASk AwAy: Our writers answer questions about both men’s and women’s hoops. SEE BACk OPINION STADIUM: The Endowment Seating Program raises significant funding issues. SEE PAGE 4 Recruitment Meeting TODAY 4:00PM 6th floor Eshleman UC Regents Vote to OK New Post, Pay Bumps With the UC facing large state fund- ing reductions, the UC Board of Re- gents approved over $150,000 in pay raises from UC general funds and created a new position at their meet- ing on Jan. 19, dipping into the diminishing state contributions to the university. Three UC Office of the President administrators — Chief Risk Officer Grace Crickette, Assistant Vice Presi- dent for Financial Services and Con- trols Dan Sampson and Executive Di- rector for Capital Markets Sandra Kim — received pay increases of 10 percent from their 2009-10 salary levels. Additionally, John Wilton was ap- pointed to the newly created position of Vice Chancellor for Administration and Finance at UC Berkeley, with a salary level $91,900 higher than what had been previously budgeted for a po- sition of similar duties — bringing his total compensation to $375,000. “It’s really hard to see those kinds of actions taken,” said Kathryn Lybarger, a lead gardener at UC Berkeley and a member of American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employ- ees Local 3299. “It’s really hard to see Yudof and the university adding more executive positions and more executive compensation at a time like this when people like me are being asked to bear more cost for the benefits.” However, salary changes over the 2010 calendar year have also included significant decreases, and the compen- sation amount for many positions fell as far as 40 percent below the median mar- ket value during the 2009-10 fiscal year. Funding for employee compensa- tion for nonmedical center positions came from a range of sources, with many appointments paid for by state funding, general university funds pro- vided by the state or nonstate funding — including revenues from bond sales or auxiliary sources like dormitories and parking, according to UC spokes- person Steve Montiel. While the regents approved less than $200,000 in compensation in- by Jordan Bach-Lombardo and Nina Brown >> INCeNtIVes: Page 2 ONLINe PODCast Jordan Bach-Lombardo and Nina Brown analyze the approved pay raises. With 300 disposable cameras shipped out this week, each traveling to a different person across the world, a UC Berkeley graduate student is looking for inspiration. The idea of Common Camera Proj- ect is simple: take a photo of some- thing that inspires you and then pass the camera on. The last person to take a photo mails the camera back, and the pictures will be uploaded to a website. “This was an idea to make some- thing bigger than myself, bigger than the campus,” said project founder Kev- in Huynh, a UC Berkeley graduate stu- dent in mechanical engineering. It all started with a class assignment. In fall 2009, Huynh was told to come up with a way to generate $20 million over three years. Huynh thought of disposable cameras. But although his class moved forward with a different proposal, Huynh’s idea did not die. Instead, he reached out to friends and developed his idea. “It’s a good and interesting way to look at people’s behavior,” said Vince Law, a recent UC Berkeley graduate and one of 134 financial backers of the project. “People like being part of something bigger.” Huynh kicked off the project with a test run last spring when he gave out 40 cameras, funded by himself, to friends and family. The cameras traveled across the world — including Iceland, India and Vietnam — although only one has been mailed back so far after it passed through a San Jose high school. This time around, he raised money through the online fundraising site Kickstarter. Huynh said he met his 35- day goal of $1,000 within 24 hours. He ended up raising $2,366. Huynh said all of the funding will go toward paying by Mary Susman Daily Cal Staff Writer for the cameras and the postage to get them from place to place. Huynh’s friends have been eager to join him, even when that means spend- ing a Saturday cutting out stamps and putting together the camera packages. “I knew immediately that I wanted to be part of this project,” said recent UC Berkeley graduate Jane Lee. “I in- tended on being his first camera pur- chaser, but I was at work and someone beat me to the punch.” Although Huynh is working away to complete his master’s degree by the end of this semester, his creative mind never rests, which is evident in his bedroom. White papers cover the wall beside his bed, each paper displaying Huynh’s ideas and thoughts to develop the Common Camera Project. “Everything is really simple, but it’s funny how much thought we put into every step,” Huynh said. In fact, Huynh said he spends 30 hours a week working out the details, hoping the extra effort will make the project a resonating experience. With this batch, people can check in a cam- era and follow its journey online. Peo- ple can also write their stories about the cameras. “It’s one thing to take a picture with your iPhone ... It’s another thing to think about this physical object,” Huynh said. “This camera changing hands 27 times, and it traveling around the world and back. It’s kind of an arti- fact when it comes back.” Although Huynh said he has dreams for a coffee table book or an art instal- lation, he is not making any plans yet. “We want to see what comes back first,” he said. “Maybe the more in- teresting part is the story that people typed about their camera.” Mary Susman covers Berkeley communities. Contact her at [email protected]. Berkeley Residents sue City Over allegedly Negligent sidewalk Maintenance Amanda’s Restaurant in Downtown Berkeley had a simple slogan: ‘Feel Good Fresh Food.’ Customers will no longer be able to enjoy the restaurant’s healthy eats after its recent closure. ANNE MARIE SCHULER/SENIOR STAFF Multiple unresolved personal in- jury claims have pitted several Berke- ley residents against the city in an at- tempt to prove its alleged negligence in maintaining public streets and sidewalks. In addition to the recently proposed $50,000 settlement for AC Transit employee Delmar Mitchell, two other active cases against the city represent at least another $50,000 in damages by True Shields Daily Cal Staff Writer sought by plaintiffs. One case involves Bay Area resident Maria Lazo, who is suing both the city and Pacific Bell Telephone Company after she fell through a damaged side- walk access cover — a thin metal plate that covers electrical equipment — while moving a garbage can on Vassar Avenue in North Berkeley. Lazo filed a complaint with the Alameda County Superior Court on May 21 alleging that she suffered per- sonal injury as a result of negligence on behalf of the two entities. However, Deputy City Attorney Matthew Orebic said in a Sept. 27 case statement that the city is not liable be- cause the access cover was owned by Pacific Bell and that Lazo was “com- paratively negligent” in failing to no- tice the opening. Another resident, Florence McCrary, slipped on an “oily substance” outside of the Berkeley Adult School on San Pablo Avenue and suffered injuries to her right knee and foot. On Sept. 16, she filed a claim against the Berkeley Unified School District, requesting $9,000 for medical fees in addition to other damages. All three plaintiffs report incur- ring wage loss, medical expenses and decreased earning capacity in their personal injury claims. Each is seek- ing more than $25,000 in undisclosed damages. According to Councilmember Gor- don Wozniak, the city reviews quar- terly reports from the city attorney monitoring charges of negligence. Both Wozniak and City Attorney Zach Cowan said the city — which is self-insured for $350,000 against such claims, according to court doc- uments — must take responsibility when liable. Liability claims for the city from the past two fiscal years range from hundreds of dollars to $125,000, according to the quarterly reports. John Diamond, a professor at the UC Hastings College of Law who spe- cializes in tort law, said in most cases the plaintiff is responsible for proving personal injury, whether with medical records or figures. “When you’re suing the city, there are issues of immunity and statutes After approximately two years of giving traditional American fast food a healthy twist, Amanda’s Restaurant closed its Downtown Berkeley loca- tion, bidding farewell to its clientele in December 2010. A combination of factors — includ- ing the recent economic downturn, an incompatible lease structure and an increase in business competition — over the past two years led to the eventual closure of the restaurant at its by Karinina Cruz Daily Cal Staff Writer 2122 Shattuck Ave. location, according to owner Amanda West. Inspired by the documentary “Super Size Me” and the book “Fast Food Na- tion,” West opened her restaurant in July 2008 to cater to Berkeley’s food- conscious consumers who wanted to experience a “better for you” fast food. “What we liked about Berkeley is that it allowed us to access a really di- verse customer base,” West said. She appealed to these customers by offering natural ingredients to people >> aMaNDa’s: Page 6 >> LawsUIts: Page 2 Campus Grad Student Founds Global Camera Project Kevin Huynh, a UC Berkeley grad student, founded the Common Camera Project. Soon, hundreds of cameras will soon be sent around the world, passing from person to person. 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SPORTS
ASk AwAy: Our writers answer questions about both men’s and women’s hoops.SEE BACk
OPINION
STADIUM: The Endowment Seating Program raises significant funding issues.SEE PAGE 4
RecruitmentMeetingTODAY4:00PM
6th floorEshleman
UC Regents Vote to OK New Post, Pay Bumps
With the UC facing large state fund-ing reductions, the UC Board of Re-gents approved over $150,000 in pay raises from UC general funds and created a new position at their meet-ing on Jan. 19, dipping into the diminishing state contributions to the university.
Three UC Office of the President administrators — Chief Risk Officer Grace Crickette, Assistant Vice Presi-dent for Financial Services and Con-trols Dan Sampson and Executive Di-rector for Capital Markets Sandra Kim — received pay increases of 10 percent from their 2009-10 salary levels.
Additionally, John Wilton was ap-pointed to the newly created position of Vice Chancellor for Administration and Finance at UC Berkeley, with a salary level $91,900 higher than what had been previously budgeted for a po-sition of similar duties — bringing his total compensation to $375,000.
“It’s really hard to see those kinds of actions taken,” said Kathryn Lybarger, a lead gardener at UC Berkeley and a member of American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employ-ees Local 3299. “It’s really hard to see Yudof and the university adding more executive positions and more executive compensation at a time like this when people like me are being asked to bear more cost for the benefits.”
However, salary changes over the 2010 calendar year have also included significant decreases, and the compen-sation amount for many positions fell as far as 40 percent below the median mar-ket value during the 2009-10 fiscal year.
Funding for employee compensa-tion for nonmedical center positions came from a range of sources, with many appointments paid for by state funding, general university funds pro-vided by the state or nonstate funding — including revenues from bond sales or auxiliary sources like dormitories and parking, according to UC spokes-person Steve Montiel.
While the regents approved less than $200,000 in compensation in-
by Jordan Bach-Lombardo and Nina Brown
>> INCeNtIVes: Page 2
ONLINe PODCastJordan Bach-Lombardo and Nina Brown analyze the approved pay raises.
With 300 disposable cameras shipped out this week, each traveling to a different person across the world, a UC Berkeley graduate student is looking for inspiration.
The idea of Common Camera Proj-ect is simple: take a photo of some-thing that inspires you and then pass the camera on. The last person to take a photo mails the camera back, and the pictures will be uploaded to a website.
“This was an idea to make some-thing bigger than myself, bigger than the campus,” said project founder Kev-in Huynh, a UC Berkeley graduate stu-dent in mechanical engineering.
It all started with a class assignment. In fall 2009, Huynh was told to come up with a way to generate $20 million over three years. Huynh thought of disposable cameras.
But although his class moved forward with a different proposal, Huynh’s idea did not die. Instead, he reached out to friends and developed his idea.
“It’s a good and interesting way to look at people’s behavior,” said Vince Law, a recent UC Berkeley graduate and one of 134 financial backers of the project. “People like being part of something bigger.”
Huynh kicked off the project with a test run last spring when he gave out 40 cameras, funded by himself, to friends and family. The cameras traveled across the world — including Iceland, India and Vietnam — although only one has been mailed back so far after it passed through a San Jose high school.
This time around, he raised money through the online fundraising site Kickstarter. Huynh said he met his 35-day goal of $1,000 within 24 hours. He ended up raising $2,366. Huynh said all of the funding will go toward paying
by Mary SusmanDaily Cal Staff Writer
for the cameras and the postage to get them from place to place.
Huynh’s friends have been eager to join him, even when that means spend-ing a Saturday cutting out stamps and putting together the camera packages.
“I knew immediately that I wanted to be part of this project,” said recent UC Berkeley graduate Jane Lee. “I in-tended on being his first camera pur-chaser, but I was at work and someone beat me to the punch.”
Although Huynh is working away to complete his master’s degree by the end of this semester, his creative mind never rests, which is evident in his bedroom. White papers cover the wall beside his bed, each paper displaying Huynh’s ideas and thoughts to develop the Common Camera Project.
“Everything is really simple, but it’s funny how much thought we put into every step,” Huynh said.
In fact, Huynh said he spends 30 hours a week working out the details, hoping the extra effort will make the project a resonating experience. With this batch, people can check in a cam-era and follow its journey online. Peo-ple can also write their stories about the cameras.
“It’s one thing to take a picture with your iPhone ... It’s another thing to think about this physical object,” Huynh said. “This camera changing hands 27 times, and it traveling around the world and back. It’s kind of an arti-fact when it comes back.”
Although Huynh said he has dreams for a coffee table book or an art instal-lation, he is not making any plans yet.
“We want to see what comes back first,” he said. “Maybe the more in-teresting part is the story that people typed about their camera.”
Mary Susman covers Berkeley communities. Contact her at [email protected].
Berkeley Residents sue City Over allegedly Negligent sidewalk Maintenance
Amanda’s Restaurant in Downtown Berkeley had a simple slogan: ‘Feel Good Fresh Food.’ Customers will no longer be able to enjoy the restaurant’s healthy eats after its recent closure.
ANNE MARIE SCHULER/SENIOR STAFF
Multiple unresolved personal in-jury claims have pitted several Berke-ley residents against the city in an at-tempt to prove its alleged negligence in maintaining public streets and sidewalks.
In addition to the recently proposed $50,000 settlement for AC Transit employee Delmar Mitchell, two other active cases against the city represent at least another $50,000 in damages
by True ShieldsDaily Cal Staff Writer
sought by plaintiffs.One case involves Bay Area resident
Maria Lazo, who is suing both the city and Pacific Bell Telephone Company after she fell through a damaged side-walk access cover — a thin metal plate that covers electrical equipment — while moving a garbage can on Vassar Avenue in North Berkeley.
Lazo filed a complaint with the Alameda County Superior Court on May 21 alleging that she suffered per-sonal injury as a result of negligence on behalf of the two entities.
However, Deputy City Attorney
Matthew Orebic said in a Sept. 27 case statement that the city is not liable be-cause the access cover was owned by Pacific Bell and that Lazo was “com-paratively negligent” in failing to no-tice the opening.
Another resident, Florence McCrary, slipped on an “oily substance” outside of the Berkeley Adult School on San Pablo Avenue and suffered injuries to her right knee and foot. On Sept. 16, she filed a claim against the Berkeley Unified School District, requesting $9,000 for medical fees in addition to other damages.
All three plaintiffs report incur-ring wage loss, medical expenses and decreased earning capacity in their personal injury claims. Each is seek-ing more than $25,000 in undisclosed damages.
According to Councilmember Gor-don Wozniak, the city reviews quar-terly reports from the city attorney monitoring charges of negligence. Both Wozniak and City Attorney Zach Cowan said the city — which is self-insured for $350,000 against such claims, according to court doc-uments — must take responsibility
when liable. Liability claims for the city from the past two fiscal years range from hundreds of dollars to $125,000, according to the quarterly reports.
John Diamond, a professor at the UC Hastings College of Law who spe-cializes in tort law, said in most cases the plaintiff is responsible for proving personal injury, whether with medical records or figures.
“When you’re suing the city, there are issues of immunity and statutes
After approximately two years of giving traditional American fast food a healthy twist, Amanda’s Restaurant closed its Downtown Berkeley loca-tion, bidding farewell to its clientele in December 2010.
A combination of factors — includ-ing the recent economic downturn, an incompatible lease structure and an increase in business competition — over the past two years led to the eventual closure of the restaurant at its
by Karinina CruzDaily Cal Staff Writer
2122 Shattuck Ave. location, according to owner Amanda West.
Inspired by the documentary “Super Size Me” and the book “Fast Food Na-tion,” West opened her restaurant in July 2008 to cater to Berkeley’s food-conscious consumers who wanted to experience a “better for you” fast food.
“What we liked about Berkeley is that it allowed us to access a really di-verse customer base,” West said.
She appealed to these customers by offering natural ingredients to people
>> aMaNDa’s: Page 6
>> LawsUIts: Page 2
Campus Grad Student Founds Global Camera Project
Kevin Huynh, a UC Berkeley grad student, founded the Common Camera Project. Soon, hundreds of cameras will soon be sent around the world, passing from person to person.
SHANNON HAMILTON/STAFF
Downtown ‘Feel good’ Fast Food shop Closes Its Doors
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creases drawn from state general funds on Jan. 19, compensation increases for medical center employees totaled over $3 million — funds taken from revenue generated by the UC medical centers.
Paul Staton, chief financial officer of UCLA’s hospital system, saw his base salary rise from $380,000 to $420,000 at the Jan. 19 meeting.
Salary increases totaling $45,236 for members of the senior management group at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory were also approved at the Jan. 19 meeting. Funding for these in-creases comes from U.S. Department of Energy funds, which support the facility.
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Nerds don’t go on strike,” my professor says, leaning backwards against the
chalkboard, his glasses gleaming. A grin spreads across his face, all the while knowing he has cleverly dodged the question. The class laughs uneasily.
We laugh because it’s funny; uneasily because we know it’s true. Nerdish rage is often better taken out by playing a vengeful game of “Mario Kart,” by writing on the tables in the LeConte reading room, by dramati-cally ripping up a bad calculation, by cracking open a beer and coding up a world-changing website and etc.
Nonetheless, despite our generally nonconfrontational nature, a classmate and I had miraculously convinced a physics professor to devote part of the lecture to a discussion on the day’s walkouts — which we were, obviously, not attending. As quickly as we had asked the question, we found it turned back on us. What did we think? Why were we still in class? Why hadn’t we walked out?
“We can’t afford it,” is the resound-ing answer from the class. Our classes are too intense, our labs too long, our academic endeavors too important. We’ve got real shit to take care of, seemed to be the consensus. Those humanities kids have no idea what we go through. The class laughs again.
In the interest of full disclosure, I’m going to out and say it. I laughed a little too. I’m sorry, humanities kids. As high and mighty as it sounds, it’s somewhat true. You have no idea what we go through. Unfortunately, what we often fail to realize is that we have no idea what you go through, either.
That’s when I realized: Just because we science kids feel like we have more work to do doesn’t give us a free pass on being insufferable.
I know it’s hard, guys. It’s all too tempting to try and justify your plight by convincing yourself that you’re somehow better than everybody else — especially when you’ve spent 15 hours on a single problem set and it’s due in 10 minutes and there’s still half a problem left and you don’t know what to do because you’re at your wit’s end.
Well, well, well, this subtle undercur-rent of antagonism simply can’t be healthy.
“Whose university? Our univer-sity!” has been the rallying cry for a few semesters now — a cry which I have at best heard from the LeConte window. My question then is, who is this elusive “our”? Sitting in lab as my circuit malfunctions for the millionth (a rough estimate) time, I think to myself: “Hey, isn’t this my university too?” But if I walk out of this lab to “save” my education, I fail this class — and that seems, at this point, more counterintuitive than anything.
Just as it is not productive for science students to discredit other
fields, it is unfair for students in these other fields to accuse science students
of callousness. Like anyone else, many hard science and engineering students believe that can use what they learn to help people. To be a scientist is to have deep, though often tacit, faith in humankind — in the idea that technology that can improve the human condition or in the idea that we are maybe capable of one day under-standing the complexities of nature. In short: We care. A lot of us do, at least. Just imagine the possibilities if the dialogue on the university included a broader range of academic voices.
That being said, the walkouts are simply a case that brings to light a larger issue. In a world where science shapes society and vice versa, we need to be able to communicate with each other. After all, science kids, let’s face it: Who ultimately creates regulatory legislation and holds the purse strings for the research money? Politicians. Elected officials. Humanities majors. Academia is where it all starts, and however appealing it as it might sound to someone like me, physics alone cannot save the world. If only it were that easy.
The problem is not that nerds don’t go on strike. Just take a look at
yourself, my fellow Berkeley student, for goodness sake. If that were the case, the walkouts wouldn’t have even happened. Rather, instead of breeding contempt between sides, our academic culture needs to support a kind of learning that fosters understanding and communication.
I’ve managed to convince myself, possibly naively, that science and art, at their cores, are the very same endeavor: The search for truth and sometimes meaning. Being able to see this bigger picture in the context of (without laughing at ourselves for how ridicu-lously noble it seems) may be a good step in developing mutual respect amongst students of different disciplines.
Changing the culture of academia means more than having students to take breadth requirements — it means changing the way material is present-ed and the way we are taught to think about our own specializations. As students of either nature or of the human condition — or both — we simply have to humble ourselves at the feet of the terrifying truth that we cannot possibly have all of the answers.
Send your relativistic corrections to Arielle at [email protected].
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Off the Beat Regents Vote to Change UC Admissions Policy
The UC Board of Regents unani-mously voted to approve a systemwide change in admissions policy at their Jan. 20 meeting, en-suring that all a p p l i c a t i o n s are reviewed in their entirety by a human reader.
The argu-ment for the switch from a non-holistic comprehen-sive review — through which a comput-er formula reviews the entire applica-tion — to a human-read holistic method is that it would benefit the applicant by not reducing the applicant’s profile to hard numbers. Rather, the holistic hu-man read expands an applicant’s profile beyond test scores and GPA to consider other environmental factors.
All UC campuses currently employ the non-holistic method, except UC Berkeley and UCLA, though some em-ploy the holistic review in certain cases.
“Students have been asking for and fighting for holistic admissions for years (and) this process is endorsed by one of the most important stakehold-ers in this process: the applicant,” said Student Regent Jesse Cheng. “(Holistic review) is the very essence of fairness.”
Holistic review — which is already
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used by six out of the eight universities to which the UC generally compares itself — allows campuses to make a more pre-cise decision about a student, particularly those on the cusp of admission, said UC Provost Lawrence Pitts at the meeting.
“Holistic review is most important in the students where they are very close together and you’re trying to pick and choose a subset that you want to offer admission to a group that looks on the surface fairly similar,” he said. “That’s where holistic review, we believe, is the fairest evaluation for selection of the most appropriate students.”
The proposal passed by a unanimous vote despite vigorous questioning of the switch — which Pitts said would be “time-consuming” and “expensive” — at the meeting, especially regarding the fiscal prudency of requiring campuses to employ a more expensive form of application review in a time of severe funding reductions systemwide.
Although the UC Office of the Presi-dent has not yet discerned exactly how much the switch would cost campuses, it expects current application fee lev-els to cover the cost, according to UC spokesperson Ricardo Vazquez.
Robert Anderson, UC Berkeley professor of math and economics and vice chair of the systemwide Academic Senate — which endorsed the proposal — said the consequence for executing the switch with anything less than a
full commitment would degrade the admissions process.
Regent Richard Blum said standard-ization across campuses in selection criteria posed a significant obstacle.
“I can’t for the life of me see how you’re going to be consistent — it’s judgmental,” he said.
But George Johnson, UC Berkeley professor of mechanical engineering and chair of the senate Board of Admissions and Relations with Schools, which over-sees matters on undergraduate admis-sions, said the switch will not prevent individual campuses from using unique admissions practices. For example, UC Santa Barbara views applicants as eli-gible in their local context, comparing students within their own high schools rather than across the state applicant pool. This allows the campus to admit students from around the state without a rigid metric.
“The proposal that was passed has some language to the effect (that) campus pro-cesses can still be applied as long as they are able to show that they meet campus goals and criteria,” he said. “If somebody is just thinking holistic review means the Berkeley or LA approaches, they would be missing some very important ways of doing the admissions process.”
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The ASUC’s recent failure to confirm the spring elections date by the deadline specified
in the organization’s bylaws is only the latest in a series of missed dead-lines and loose enforcement that seriously calls to question why the senate even has these deadlines.
Article III of the ASUC Elections bylaws requires the Senate to approve election dates by the tenth week of the fall session and states that if the date is not set by this time, the Senate cannot consider official business or make formal decisions. Election dates were not set until the first sen-ate meeting of this year, but Executive Vice President Nanxi Liu claimed that a concussion suffered by Elections Chair Shivom Sinha was an adequate excuse for extending the deadline.
However, setting the date of the ASUC elections is not a difficult task. Article III also states that “The default dates for ASUC Elections shall be the Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of the second week follow-ing Spring Break,” which were the dates eventually scheduled by the Senate for the coming election.
We fail to see how a concussion to an official who serves a strictly advi-sory role in setting elections dates is an adequate excuse for the Senate not to confirm the default elections dates on time, as mandated in their bylaws.
Moreover, we are distressed by Attorney General Nathan Rahmanou’s unwillingness to enforce the bylaws by suing the senate or seeking to have the business of the last three meetings invalidated. While his reason (that doing so would inconvenience student groups) is true, this is an argument that could be applied in any circumstance to justify not enforcing obedience to deadlines laid down in the bylaws.
If the ASUC is going to have dead-lines, it needs to follow them or suffer the consequences of not doing so. If the senators and the attorney general decide that enforcement of the bylaws is not a priority, then they should seriously reconsider having them in the first place. Merely ignoring this problem and continuing to miss deadlines doesn’t inspire confidence in our student government — instead, it suggests incompetence.
Thursday’s vote by the UC Board of Regents to urge University of California cam-
puses to adopt a holistic review process for admissions is a welcome step toward a more open and diverse student body and richer and more valuable college experience.
In a holistic review process, appli-cants are assessed based upon con-sideration of their application as a whole. Each file is read by two peo-ple and given one score that takes into account high school grades, standardized testing, special cir-cumstances that may account for performance problems and any other criteria determined by the campus.
This is in contrast to the tradi-tional evaluation process, which assigns each criterion a score and then totals those scores to create a final application score. Often, these scores are calculated at least par-tially be computer systems.
The advantage that the holistic review system has over the tradi-tional system is that it allows admis-sions officers to account for factors like personal tragedies or socio-eco-nomic disadvantages that cause tra-
ditional numerical assessments of students to not accurately represent the individual’s potential.
It is important to note that by supporting holistic review we are not endorsing affirmative action. While we believe that it is impor-tant to consider how socioeconomic conditions could adversely affect applicant performance, we do not believe race should play any part in admissions.
We also reject the claim that shifting to holistic review could compromise the academic quality of the university. Holistic review has been used for admissions by UCLA since 2007 and UC Berkeley since 2002, and they are consistently ranked the two best campuses of the university.
We have endorsed holistic review before, most recently last April. Then, as now, we believe that while implementing it may cost slightly more for campuses to retrain admis-sions officials and spend more time considering applications, those costs are a small price to pay for what we consider to be a more equi-table and fair system for all stu-dents.
On Nov. 5, 2009, seven of my col-leagues and I brought the “Academics First!” resolution to the best-attended Academic Senate faculty meeting in years where it passed by a large mar-gin. At that meeting, the administra-tion provided a document entitled “Financial Models for California Memorial Stadium (CMS) & the Student Athlete High Performance Center (SAHPC)” promising that if “IA is unable to sell 75 percent of the seats prior to the start of construc-tion, IA will be ready to further evalu-ate the size and scope of its program.” What happened to this commitment?
It is disconcerting that the stated criterion is a percentage of seats sold as if all seats provide equal revenue when some seats are priced more than five times higher than others. Thus, the number of seats sold is not the appropriate metric; rather, the critical factor is the actual amount of cash raised.
The administration has explained that the financial plan is to establish a permanent IA endowment whose earnings will service the debt for the CMS and SAHPC, a commitment that will exceed $900 million, even if assuming lower interest payments than those approved by the regents. According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, the Cal Endowment Seating Program (ESP) is supposed to raise $400 million by 2014. The
by Brian Barsky “Official Website of Cal Athletics” cur-rently states “As of Jan. 15, nearly 1,700 of the ESP seats have been sold totaling more than $215 million” (http://www.calbears.com/genrel/011910aaa.html). But at the Task Force on IA’s public forum on April 27, 2010, details about numbers of seats sold were revealed that can be used as the basis for a calculation that leads to a drastically lower amount, as will be explained below.
The ESP website claims that dona-tions to the ESP “help the University build its endowment” but really the ESP is separate from the endowment of the university (http://www.calesp.com). The ESP’s lowest-priced seat category is $40,000 and prices rise as high as $225,000. With such hefty price tags, it is hardly surprising that only 7 percent of participants have been willing to pay a one-time upfront fee, with the other 93 percent opting to spread their expenditure over periods of 5 or 30 years.
But it is a misconception that this is an installment plan or mortgage requiring annual payments; in fact, the ESP website describes an “annual renewable program — no long-term encumbrance or contract.” Seat hold-ers can stop paying annual payments at any time in what is really a pay-as-you-go annual seat “rental” program.
IA cannot rely on a steady stream of income from these 93 percent of seat holders. Common sense dictates that it would be foolhardy to blindly
forge ahead, plunging into deep debt, given an uncertain future. Over a 30-year time span, seat holders may wish to stop paying due to illness, death, relocation, reduction in per-sonal income, changes in family situa-tion, a poor-performing football team, economic recession, etc.
Or seat holders may stop paying during that 30-year time span because the renovated stadium might be out of service and require signifi-cant repairs, if not completely aban-doned, after suffering damage in an earthquake. The USGS reports a 31 percent probability of an earthquake of magnitude 6.7 or greater in the next 30 years on the Hayward Fault, the most dangerous fault in the Bay Area, which runs directly through the stadium.
In fact, since the stadium straddles the fault line, this construction proj-ect violates the Alquist-Priolo Earthquake Fault Zoning Act of 1972 whose stated purpose is “to prohibit the location of developments and structures for human occupancy across the trace of active faults.” Rather than abide by existing law, the UCOP Senior Vice President for External Relations influenced first Governor Schwarzenegger in Aug. 2009 regarding California Senate Bill 113, allowing the university to spend more than 50 percent of the property value to retrofit the stadium, and
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uC Berkeley’s endowment Seating Program doesn’t Quite add upThe Campus’s Plan to Go Into Debt to Retrofit Memorial Stadium Is a ProblematicIssue
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Sex Change Surgery Is Beside the Point
Sex change surgery is beside the point when examining the city of Berkeley’s budget and its employee health care program.
The city has a “Rolls-Royce” plan that would astound and create envy in 99.9 percent of Americans — rich, poor or middle class. For the basic plan, employees pay nothing and receive their benefits tax-free. In some cases, employees actually receive cash in lieu of coverage.
I refer interested and concerned readers to the City of Berkeley Consent Calendar, item number five, on Nov. 16, 2010.
For families of active employees, the city pays up to the Kaiser rate of $16,900 annually. For families of pre-Medicare retirees, the city pays rough-ly $29,000 annually. For retiree fami-lies, the city pays nearly $18,000 annually. The payments for single and two-party households are of course
by Barbara Gilbert
lower, but still astronomical. Beneficiaries who choose pricier Health Net coverage plans pay the dif-ference out of pocket. For retirees, the city has paid, since 1988, premium increases of up to 4.5 percent annually.
The scope of employee Kaiser cov-erage is apparently limitless. For active employees and pre-Medicare retirees, there is $0 co-pay for office visits and $5 prescription co-pay. For post-retir-ees the office visit co-pay rises to $5 and the prescrip-tion co-pay stays at $5.
My take on health care reform, shared by most other commenta-tors, is that reason-able co-pays dis-courage abuse of the system by providers and patients, and of course promote sensible cost containment.
We also know that physical fitness absolutely promotes good health. City employees receive subsidized gym membership at the Downtown YMCA at a cost of roughly $230,000 annual-
Barbara Gilbert is a Berkeley resident. Reply to [email protected].
letter to the editorStricter Gun Laws Would Hinder Senseless Violence
This letter is in response to the arti-cles covering the shooting tragedy inArizona. The second amendment of the United States Constitution states: “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” Obviously the need for a state militia has been replaced by the National Guard and Coast Guard whereby trained military personnel are entrusted with the defense of this country against domes-tic enemies. Their weapons are tightly
controlled and safeguarded. The only two reasons for a citizen to own a firearm are for hunting or for defense of the household from intrud-ers. In either case, ownership of a hand-gun, shotgun or rifle is more than ade-quate to satisfy these purposes. There is absolutely no need for any US civilian to own any weapon more powerful or sophisticated than these. Accordingly, all handguns, shotguns and rifles must be licensed and registered to the degree necessary to match weapon to owner at the click of a computer key. Furthermore, if we had prohibited the purchase of more sophisticated weapons (i.e. a Glock 19 semi-automat-ic pistol with an extended magazine) several innocent victims may not have
died or been harmed during this trage-dy as well as in shopping malls and on college campuses. The shooter is obviously disturbed by mental illness and it appears that those defending the right to own sophisticated weapons exhibit the same qualities by showing a callous disregard for the safety and protection of their fellow citizens. Mental illness and guns are as bad of a combination as alcohol and driving. Evidently, we have the money to fight two wars over-seas but not the political will to treat the mentally ill who are not only a dan-ger to themselves but to everyone else as well.
Joe BialekCleveland, Ohio
STADIUM: Endowment Program Will Lose MoneyfroM PagE 4then Assemblyman Roger Niello in March 2010 regarding California Assembly Bill 2133, fully exempting the stadium from the application of the act.
Of the three major categories of seats, the most sluggish sales are for the most expensive seats with only an estimated 134 of the 472 University Club seats sold. Roughly half of the
1,568 middle category Stadium Club seats and
1,158 lowest category
Field Level Club
seats have been sold. But only 7 percent of ESP par-
ticipants are paying upfront, leaving 11 percent opting to pay a lower 5-year annual fee and a whopping 82 percent paying a much lower 30-year rate, with no obligation to continue to pay in future years. To calculate the total cash raised would require know-ing what this distribution is for each of the various seat categories; howev-er, in the absence of this knowledge, the same distribution will be assumed for all seat categories.
Moreover, the ESP website states that a “20 percent down payment option would only require a payment
of $548.” Thus, it appears that claims about the number of ESP seats “sold” include some seats that correspond to as little as $548 cash received. Nonetheless, to provide the most optimistic calculation possible, this fact will be ignored and instead the assumption made that all payments are in full.
Based on the above assumptions and the seat fee “donation schedule” provided on the ESP website, the cal-culation of the amount raised by the ESP yields $8 million, $3 million, and $9 million for upfront, 5-year annual
fee and 30-year rate payments, respectively, totaling $20
million comprising $4 million, $12 million
and $4 million, for “University
Club,” “Stadium
Club” and
“Field Level Club”
seats, respec-tively.
Since IA’s
website1 claim of $215
million is more than ten times this
calculation, IA should follow the university’s motto of
Fiat Lux and provide a detailed explanation of its claim.
If this $20 million calculation is reasonably close to the truth, then approximately $380 million, or 95 percent of the $400 million IA endowment, still remains to be raised. Although nothing is impossi-ble, IA provides no convincing argu-ment that it will succeed in raising so much more money in the near future. This is all too reminiscent of the practices based on unfounded expec-tations that catalyzed the sub-prime mortgage crisis.
Editor’s note: this piece follows the Dec. 3, 2010 op-ed “Financial Plan Is on Shaky Ground” by the same author.
ly. Does the city even know how many employees use this valuable benefit? To my knowledge, there has been no serious effort to encourage or require at-risk employees to use this benefit.
Then there is the cash-out issue. The point of health insurance is to address health issues, not to enrich employees. I briefly worked for the city about 10 years ago and was amazed to learn that I could take my health bene-fits in cash since I was insured through my then-husband. I cannot recall whether this cash was tax-free but it may well have been. This wasteful pol-icy is, to the extent of my knowledge, still operative so that some number of otherwise-insured beneficiaries are lit-erally cashing-in. Can the city provide this number and the dollar cost? Perhaps this “free” money should be used for borderline coverages in elec-tive surgery and mental health.
I really wish that the public and the press would not get distracted by push-button issues such as sex-change surgeries, but would instead do the harder work of reading, thinking and analyzing the very serious structural issues facing our communities.
the city has a “rolls-royce”
plan that would astound and
create envy in 99.9 percent of Americans
— rich, poor or middle class.
Barbara Gilbert
Berkeley Resident
The City of Berkeley Should Be Spending Its Time on Other, More Relevent Fiscal Issues
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In an effort to create jobs for the city’s unemployed, the Berkeley City Council voted unanimously at its meeting last week to require the city’s most expensive construction projects to be completed by Berkeley-based and unionized labor.
For the next three years, the city will honor its agreement with the Build-ing Trades Council of Alameda County and its affiliated union organizations to contract out 30 percent of the labor necessary to complete city construc-tion projects valued at over $1 million.
Unemployment currently hovers around 30 percent in many of the 28 unions currently affiliated with the Trades Council, according to secretary-treasurer Andreas Cluver. Berkeley’s unemployment rate fell to 10.3 percent in December, according to preliminary figures released by the California Em-ployment Development Department.
The contract — called a community workforce agreement or project labor agreement — will dictate wage and benefit guidelines and is effective im-mediately, Cluver said. He added that it will likely affect work to be done in the city’s upcoming library renovation.
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However, non-unionized workers may be left out of what is essentially a “private construction workforce,” according to Nicole Goehring, the government affairs director of the Associated Builders and Contractors’ Golden Gate Chapter, an organization of non-union laborers.
“For example, if the city has 20 to 30 general contractors bidding work, it’s competitive,” she said. “With the proj-ect labor agreement, that number of 20 drops down to three or four. With less people bidding, the price goes up.”
If no Berkeley workers are available to complete projects provided for under the agreement, employment opportuni-ties will move to residents of the Green Corridor — a regional association that includes the cities of Albany, Alameda, Berkeley, El Cerrito, Emeryville, Rich-mond, Oakland and San Leandro. If no residents of Green Corridor cities are available, county residents may be hired for such work. All of these workers must be hired through union hiring halls.
“The goal is to try to get as many Berkeley people jobs as are potentially qualified to do them — but if there’s absolutely not anybody available who has the skills, then they are allowed to go to other areas,” Councilmember Kriss Worthington said.
This agreement will also provide workers with apprenticeship programs designed to provide a skilled work-force, Cluver said.
“The problem is that a lot of non-union contractors are not paying pre-vailing wages,” he said. “With a project labor agreement, you eliminate the fraud of prevailing wage violations.”
Currently, contractors may hire non-union workers for less than the prevail-ing wages for a given trade — essentially a minimum wage — but bill the city for the prevailing wages, a violation that will be eliminated with the contract’s restric-tion on hiring non-union workers.
The contract will be effective for three years, though city officials will meet in a little more than a year to as-sess the impact of changes in Berke-ley’s employment climate. Though the program currently only applies to proj-ects with a price tag of more than $1 million, that threshold may eventually be negotiated down to $250,000.
Though it is not clear what percent-age of city projects surpass the $1 mil-lion mark, Cluver estimated that the contract will cover around 25 percent of the city’s contracting jobs.
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in an “affordable and approachable” environment. All items on the menu contained 500 calories or less, she said.
“Amanda’s has been a place where I can indulge my burger and fries crav-ings without eating 1,000+ calories of hormone-laden factory beef,” Rebecca Faulkner, a former regular at Aman-da’s, said in an e-mail.
Berkeley City Councilmember Jesse Arreguin, whose district included the restaurant, emphasized that high rents in the Downtown area often create a struggle for small, independent busi-nesses such as Amanda’s.
“Every aspect (of Amanda’s), from composting to recycling, really served as a model for businesses,” Arreguin said. “It’s a kind of business we re-ally want. It’s not only a business that shares our commitment to environ-mental sustainability, but also it’s a lo-cal business.”
West said that since the restaurant’s opening in the summer of 2008, she saw ups and downs in interest in the eatery, though she said at first sales exceeded
her expectations. Her success became inconsistent about three months after opening, however, which she attributes to the nation’s economic downturn as well as more localized issues.
“We felt the impact of the univer-sity tuition hike and budget cuts … it’s pretty clear that there were fewer peo-ple spending money,” West said. “There were also a number of new restaurants that opened in Downtown Berkeley.”
West added that significant plan-ning had been done to improve her business, but the “structure of the lease” for Amanda’s location was no longer appropriate for her business.
John Caner, executive director for the Downtown Berkeley Association, said he was saddened that the associa-tion did not implement a plan to revi-talize Downtown Berkeley in time to help her business.
“We’re working to make a property improvement district as a part of our strategic plan in January 2012,” Caner said. “It will be a significantly cleaner and more welcoming Downtown.”
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G Baum’s World from Back
from, well, the Clippers, to a team with speed, creativity and most im-portantly, the ability to lift off.
Blake Griffin doesn’t jump; he soars. He takes off like a fighter jet and skywalks like a Jedi. His rim-rattling jams are the types that fans wait weeks to see. And he delivers them nightly.
When he’s mid-flight, he vigorously yanks down rebounds from impos-sible angles and dunks with earth-shattering force.
The best part of his jaw-dropping athletic abilities is that he utilizes them to enhance his surprisingly ad-vanced basketball fundamentals. This devestating combination is turning him into one of the most unstoppable forwards in the game.
On the hardwood, he glides with ease and spins with perfect precision. He handles the ball better than some guards and passes better than most of his fellow big men. His arsenal of spin moves and drop steps is so replete that it virtually guarantees he will find the hoop whenever he faces up his
defender. Griffin has legitimately thrilled the
nation midway through his first year.It’s not merely his leaping ability or
his strength that is impressive, but his tireless effort and dedicated play on a nightly basis. Several players have tried to take Griffin out of his game by trash talking or delivering cheap shots (I’m looking at you Mr. Khloe, aka Lamar Odom), but won’t retaliate with anything besides a basket or a re-bound. That’s my type of player. Hell, that’s anybody’s type of player.
Griffin and players like Kevin Durant and Derrick Rose represent a wave of change in the NBA. These spectacular young players are elevating formerly downtrodden franchises and already challenging the traditional powers.
Start worrying Laker and Celtic fans. After this season, your champi-onship legacies will deteriorate faster than the cartilage in Kobe’s right knee.
So buckle up and prepare for take-off, because Blake Griffin is soaring toward stardom.
Some people would say that a team that finished third in the NCAA Tourna-ment can’t aim any higher. Those people probably haven’t heard of first, or even second place.
But it’s still the question on everyone’s mind: will the third-ranked Cal women’s water polo team three-peat? That is to say, will the Bears repeat a No. 3 finish at the NCAA Tournament? Perhaps, but coming off one of their best seasons to date, it looks as though the team is still after bigger game.
Last year, the squad qualified for the NCAA Tournament for the first time in school history. They brought home the bronze medal, falling to top-seed Stan-ford, and defeating Loyola Marymount to conclude the year with a 26-9 record.
So as the Bears (3-0) look at the first-place finish that eluded them, the impressive third-place they already brought home and the silver lining that lies between the two, they may ask themselves how to improve from a record-setting year.
“The kids that played last year, the ju-niors, the sophomores, all of those girls, they have a pretty good idea of what it takes to be successful,” coach Richard Corso said, “And that’s transferring to the younger girls as well.”
As the team continues moving for-ward, they will look to the leadership of team captains Emily Csikos and Stepha-nie Peckham.
Csikos, a 2010 first-team All-Ameri-can, led the Bears last year with 69 goals in 35 matches. She was third in the MPSF with 1.97 goals per game, scor-ing seven during the conference tourna-ment. Coming off a summer when she led her native Canada to the finals of the
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FINA World Championships, Csikos was Cal’s top scorer in 16 matches.
Peckham is a two-time honorable mention All-American in the cage, set-ting a school-record with 311 saves in 2010; 49 were recorded in the postsea-son. Her 616 saves in two seasons rank third on the school’s all-time career list.
Alongside the team’s veterans, there are a number of freshmen and even sophomores that are looking to prove themselves — while looking back at last season for inspiration.
“Even with the girls that weren’t here last year, they’re coming in with a lot of confidence because of last year’s results,” Corso said. “So you take that young group of players that are coming in, they’ve got a lot of energy, a lot of en-thusiasm.
“They’re still learning the game, and trying to become students of the game, but they’re coming in real confident.”
A key player to watch for this season is sophomore Dana Ochsner. As a fresh-man, Ochsner was third on the team with 40 goals and was named to the
MPSF All-Freshman Team. She has al-ready scored eight goals in three games this season.
Another sophomore with a breakout performance this season is Remington Price, leading the team with nine goals in three games — a stunning contrast to her freshman season in which she scored only once in four games.
A top newcomer for the squad is fresh-man Kelly Mendoza, who was a three-time All-American as well as Monte Vis-ta High School’s all-time leading scorer with 330 career goals. Mendoza has come out of the gate swimming, scoring six times thus far.
Cal will compete in the Spartan Invi-tational this weekend in San Jose, Calif., and the Stanford Invitational the fol-lowing weekend. With the bulk of wa-ter polo season fast approaching, these early matches will be an indication of any future success.
Bears Come In Confident After Banner 2010 Season
Samuel Farahmand covers women’s water polo. Contact him at [email protected].
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sons, the quarterback finally appears to be ready for retirement. If so, an injury-plagued swan song coupled with, ahem, off-field indiscretions did not make for the most graceful exit.
Favre’s Green Bay successor, on the other hand, now has the top career pass rating (98.4) in NFL history. Although Aaron Rodgers has racked up statistics ever since he debuted as a starter back in 2008 — he topped 4,000 yards pass-ing in each of his first two seasons — his detractors have brought up his lack of success winning playoff games.
Now that he’s set to become the fifth former Cal quarterback to ever start in a Super Bowl, the former Pro Bowler has finally taken an unquestioned place among the NFL’s signal-calling elite.
Most stunning was the sheer clinic he held at Atlanta. In a duel against an-other young QB talent in Matt Ryan, the 27-year-old threw only five incomple-tions, shredding the Falcons defense for 366 yards and three touchdowns. The 48-21 blowout moved the Packers into a rematch against the Chicago Bears.
Although Rodgers didn’t have his most brilliant showing in Sunday’s NFC Championship — 17-of-30 for 244 yards and two picks — he still scored a rushing touchdown to back up his status as one of the better scrambling quarterbacks in the league.
Desmond BishopGreen Bay’s other Cal alum is one of
the Packers’ key players on defense. A
former transfer from San Francisco City College, Desmond Bishop started all 25 games he played at Cal and, in 2006, became the first Bear to lead the Pac-10 in tackles since 1993.
The starting inside linebacker ranked second on the squad with 103 combined tackles in the regular season, and has the team’s postseason lead with 18.
Most notably, he opened the playoffs with a 9-yard sack of the Philadelphia’s Michael Vick on the first play of the NFC Wild Card match-up.
Marshawn LynchAlthough his Seattle Seahawks al-
ready spent last week watching the games from home, Marshawn Lynch still deserves mention for putting his unique stamp on his team’s miraculous upset of the New Orleans Saints.
If David slew Goliath, Lynch may as well have been the stone slung from the sling. As the Seahawks fought to hold on with a 34-30 lead late in the fourth quarter, the former Pac-10 Offensive Player of the Year turned a routine play into arguably the greatest run in NFL playoff history.
Lynch burst up the middle, then cut to his right to start a 67-yard journey to the end zone and the emasculation of about a half dozen tacklers. Even if his career never again sees such a bright spotlight, his stiff arm of Tracy Porter will live forever on YouTube.
Jack Wang covers football. Contact him at [email protected].
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Emily Csikos enters 2011 as one of the country’s most dangerous offensive players. The junior from Calgary, Alberta has poured in 134 goals over just two seasons for the Bears.
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offense. The Aztecs, by comparison, ranked 16th.
The most noticeably deficient cog in the team over the past few years has been quarterback, the position Ludwig was responsible for coaching. Last sea-son, only UCLA had a worse passing
offense in the Pac-10. “I appreciate all the effort and hard
work Andy put in during his time at Cal,” coach Jeff Tedford said in a press release. “I wish him all the best as he continues his coaching career.”
There is some speculation that Lud-wig’s replacement will be former Cal
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offensive line coach Jim Michalczik who is currently coaching for the Oak-land Raiders. Michalczik was the of-fensive coordinator at Cal in 2007, but Tedford retained playcalling duties.
After Ludwig’s departure, the spots of offensive coordinator and O-line coach remain unfilled.
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DOWN 1. Word with shot or dragon 2. Novel!s star 3. Solar disk 4. Nonspecific article 5. Sailing vessel 6. Give temporarily 7. Invite 8. Youth: colloq. 9. With 50 Across,1997
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10. Record books11. Eye layer12. By13. “...__ partridge in a pear...”21. Boat item23. Dodge25. Flawless26. Russian rulers, once: var.27. Singing group28. Game of chance29. Tibetan antelope31. Ring-shaped island32. Wordy!s opposite33. Plant fungus35. Article36. Fix in place38. Island nation39. Too heavy42. Look over carefully44. Declares46. Zealous47. Sneezy and feverish49. Llamas! home50. Girl!s name51. Bridge52. Saga
53. Angers54. Swiss waterway55. Puncture56. Robert __57. Algerian governors, once60. Hint
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1. DramatistGeorge B. __5. List of candidates10. Moon: Sp.14. North Sea nation: abbr.15. Highest scorer, in golf16. Smooth17. Region18. Made of a hardwood19. Departed20. Flat-bottomed boat22. __ Falls24. Rest25. Irk26. Red, for one29. Eur. language30. Preach34. Word with land or free35. Rocky crag36. Religious title37. Siamese coin38. Teased good-naturedly40. Assn.41. Finish working43. Have a bite44. Too45. Gem46. __ up; misbehave47. Small land mass48. Set out50. See 9 Down51. Regular payment54. So-called58. Strip59. Sticker61. Part62. Mr. Guinness63. Accustom: var.64. One of four in a deck65. Swallow’s place66. Dutch painter67. Spots
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9. With 50 Across,1997U. S. Open winner10. Record books11. Eye layer12. By13. “...__ partridge in a pear...”21. Boat item23. Dodge25. Flawless26. Russian rulers, once: var.27. Singing group
28. Game of chance29. Tibetan antelope31. Ring-shaped island32. Wordy’s opposite33. Plant fungus35. Article36. Fix in place38. Island nation39. Too heavy42. Look over carefully44. Declares
46. Zealous47. Sneezy and feverish49. Llamas’ home50. Girl’s name51. Bridge52. Saga53. Angers54. Swiss waterway55. Puncture56. Robert __57. Algerian governors, once60. Hint
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ACROSS 1. Dramatist
George B. __ 5. List of candidates10. Moon: Sp.14. North Sea nation: abbr.15. Highest scorer, in golf16. Smooth17. Region18. Made of a hardwood19. Departed20. Flat-bottomed boat22. __ Falls24. Rest25. Irk26. Red, for one29. Eur. language30. Preach34. Word with land or free35. Rocky crag36. Religious title37. Siamese coin38. Teased good-naturedly40. Assn.41. Finish working43. Have a bite44. Too45. Gem46. __ up; misbehave47. Small land mass48. Set out50. See 9 Down51. Regular payment54. So-called58. Strip59. Sticker61. Part62. Mr. Guinness63. Accustom: var.64. One of four in a deck65. Swallow!s place66. Dutch painter67. Spots
DOWN 1. Word with shot or dragon 2. Novel!s star 3. Solar disk 4. Nonspecific article 5. Sailing vessel 6. Give temporarily 7. Invite 8. Youth: colloq. 9. With 50 Across,1997
U. S. Open winner
10. Record books11. Eye layer12. By13. “...__ partridge in a pear...”21. Boat item23. Dodge25. Flawless26. Russian rulers, once: var.27. Singing group28. Game of chance29. Tibetan antelope31. Ring-shaped island32. Wordy!s opposite33. Plant fungus35. Article36. Fix in place38. Island nation39. Too heavy42. Look over carefully44. Declares46. Zealous47. Sneezy and feverish49. Llamas! home50. Girl!s name51. Bridge52. Saga
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SPORTS Back in actionThe Bears return with high expectations after their best season ever.
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conference Questions
The No. 4 Cardinal crushed the conference’s only other ranked team,
then No. 8 UCLA, by 26 points on Thursday in a game that wasn’t even that close. Stanford (16-2, 7-0 in the Pac-10) is the best team in the Pac-10, but that doesn’t mean it will go undefeated in conference.
This squad isn’t without flaws. The Cardinal don’t have a true point guard. Senior Jeanette Pohlen has been playing the point and playing it well — she is averaging 16.5 points and 4.9 assists per game. But will her inexperience at the position and occasionally shoddy ball han-dling and decision-making (she averages al-most three turnovers a game) catch up to her?
Stanford is a tall team — its three starting forwards range from 6-foot-2 to 6-foot-4 —but not a particularly fast team. A quick squad that presses could give the Cardinal problems. They handled the Bruins’ speed and press, but perhaps things will be different when they play UCLA at Pauley Pavilion on Feb. 20.
But mostly, what could cause Stanford to lose a Pac-10 game is apathy. The Cardinal will probably have the conference crown and the top seed in the West Region of the NCAA tour-nament locked up before the season ends.
Nevertheless, Stanford went undefeated in conference play last year and 17-1 the year be-fore. The squad has been in this position time and time again. And the Cardinal have been utterly dominant this season. The closest game was their 26-point win over the Bruins, and two of their wins were by 44 points each.
Pac-10 Player of the Year and All-American Nnemkadi Ogwumike averages 16.8 points and 8.1 boards per game, but her supporting cast has been just as stellar. Her freshman sister Chiney has been a shut-down defender, hold-ing Connecticut’s Maya Moore to just 14 point on 5-for-15 shooting. Senior forward Kayla Pederson has been a monster on the boards (8.1 per game) but more importantly, brings the leadership of starting on three straight Fi-nal Four teams.
This squad might not lose until the NCAA Championship game — if it loses again.
—Jonathan Kuperberg
The Beavers (7-11) are 0-7 in the Pac-10, but going 0-18 seems
unlikely. They went 2-16 last season, sweeping Washington State, and then beating Washing-ton in the Pac-10 tournament.
Oregon State has not been nearly as bad as its conference record indicates. Six of the sev-en losses were by single digits, and the other one was only by 12 to a top-10 UCLA squad.
In fact, the Beavers have had several games go down to the wire. Against Arizona State on Dec. 31, Oregon State cut an eight-point deficit down to three late but Alyssa Martin missed a 3-pointer at the buzzer that would have sent the game into overtime.
Oregon State has proven it can compete with any conference team it has played. The Beavers just have not been able to close out games. They almost beat Washington on Jan. 6, leading, 52-39, before the Huskies went on a 16-0 run to close the game.
On Jan. 2, Oregon State showed its resil-ience against Arizona. The Wildcats were up by 15 points with eight minutes to go when the Beavers went on a 15-2 run to close out the game, falling just short, 67-65.
The squad has youth and potential, with two sophomores and two freshmen in the starting lineup. The team is led by Martin, a freshman guard averaging 14.9 points per game. Sophomore guard Sage Indendi aver-ages 10.8 points a game and is a 40.4-percent 3-point shooter.
It is not as if the squad hasn’t tasted any success this season. Oregon State finished with a winning record in non-conference play, going 7-4. Many of those wins were against the bottom feeders of mid-major conferences like Long Beach State and Cal State Northridge; regardless, the Beavers should have confi-dence from getting those early wins.
The best chance Oregon State has to win its first conference game is the final weekend of the season. It hosts Arizona on March 3 and Arizona State on March 5. The rivalry game against Oregon on Feb. 19 is another oppor-tunity to prevent an embarrassing footnote in program history.
—Jonathan Kuperberg
To say that the 2010-2011 campaign got off to a rough start in West-
wood would be quite an understatement. A victory over No. 9 BYU at the Wooden
Classic was the lone bright spot in a disas-trous non-conference campaign that included glaring losses to VCU and Montana — in the latter defeat, UCLA trailed by 17 at one point and lost, 66-57, to the Grizzlies at home.
Still, with one half of conference compe-tition nearly in the books, the Bruins are perched in the top three of the standings with a 5-2 conference record. It would be an impressive feat ... three years ago. Ben How-land’s club has only landed victories over mediocre or bottom-dwelling Pac-10 schools, while shown only one thing consistently: in-consistency.
UCLA has often started sluggishly — spot-ting Stanford a 22-8 lead on Saturday before turning on the jets in a 68-57 victory, and trailing at halftime in Eugene, Ore., against the lowly Ducks.
And if those sleepy starts were frustrat-ing to watch, Bruin fans have had even more trouble watching their team close out games recently. Not even a 17-point lead was safe in Corvallis, Ore., as UCLA coughed up the advantage before rallying past the Beavers in the closing minutes.
And just last week, the Bruins needed a last second tip-in from Reeves Nelson to sur-vive against Cal after letting the Bears shoot 72-percent in the second half and giving up an eight-point advantage in the final minute of play.
There’s no question that UCLA possesses considerable talent. Yet the Bruins possess a ton of youth, as well — the team does not have a single senior on its roster — and that has been a fine recipe for maddening incon-sistency.
Upcoming dates on the road with Arizona and back at Pauley Pavilion against St. Johns will give the Bruins a chance to really im-press observers. Until then, the team’s cur-rent spurt in conference play is not much to get excited about.
— Ed Yevelev
Washington State is not the type of team that
gets a whole lot of publicity. A t home, the Cougars’ games are almost never nationally televised, and even dedicated Pac-10 fans would be hard pressed to name their coach.
The above reasons are only two why Klay Thompson flies under the radar, and why plenty of fans are missing out on one of the conference’s finest talents. And he will appear at the next level once he decides to declare for the NBA Draft.
The junior from Ladera Ranch, Calif., has as sweet of a stroke as any shooter in the Pac-10. When the Cougars played at Haas Pavilion on Jan. 13, Thompson poured in a jaw-dropping 36 points (narrowly missing his career high), including an NBA-range 3-pointer to tie the game with under 10 seconds left in Washing-ton State’s 88-81 overtime loss.
Thompson doesn’t have a terrific support-ing cast in Pullman, but coach Ken Bone (see, there’s his name) has assembled one of the bet-ter squads in a down year for the Pac-10. The Cougars are 4-4 in the conference this season, but none of those losses have come by more than nine points. Most recently, Washing-ton State came agonizingly close to upsetting heavily favored Arizona, but fell 65-63.
The Cougars have racked up a few high pro-file wins this season, knocking off then-No. 15 Baylor and thrashing both Gonzaga and Mis-sissippi State by more than 20 points. And it’s mostly been under the lead of Thompson, whose shooting has been so stellar that oppos-ing coaches rave about him regularly.
“I like Klay Thompson a lot,” Cal coach Mike Montgomery said after witnessing Thompson’s amazing night in Haas Pavilion. “Basically, he is a big-time player, and this was one of his nights.”
For the Cougars, they will try to utilize Thompson for as long as they have him. His ability to play against the finest will be tested this Saturday, when the Cougars host in-state rival Washington. Perhaps then, we will see if Thompson is NBA-quality talent.
—Gabriel Baumgaertner
I can’t stop talking about Blake Griffin.
I find a way to talk about him with anybody that will listen — whether that person follows the NBA or not. Sorry, Dad.
And why wouldn’t I be excited?He is the emerging star of my
favorite team and he is my same age. Not only is he changing the face of the hapless Los Angeles Clippers, but he’s also doing it in the most high-flying, death-defying, dunktastic fashion.
In a recent game against the Golden State Warriors, Griffin almost finished a reverse alley-oop dunk that he caught from the other side of the court. Even Warriors’ fans stood paralyzed in a mo-ment when a rookie almost completed a superhuman slam in the flow of the game. As a good friend of mine described the moment: “If he finished that dunk, he would have burst into flames like in ‘NBA Jam.’”
Not even at the All-Star break of his first season, Griffin has already accomplished symbolic feats that take elite players years to complete. Is there anybody that has entirely changed the image of a franchise halfway through his rookie season? Who was the last player to take this much attention away from the Lakers, the defending NBA champions no less, in their own city?
Griffin has turned the Clippers
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America’s pastime is almost coming to a close after a fall filled with compel-ling storylines. (Let’s be honest here; the NFL is crush-ing every other sport in viewership and revenue, seizing hold of the title from base-ball.)
Although you wouldn’t have guessed it based on the results of Cal football’s latest lackluster season, the Bears ac-tually had 14 former players make ap-pearances in the playoffs.
With Super Bowl XLV now two weeks away, let’s take a look back at how a few Cal alums have done in the football postseason.
Aaron RodgersOne of the most talked-about tales
of 2010 was Brett Favre’s return to the Minnesota Vikings. Missing the play-offs a year after one of his greatest sea-
by Jack WangDaily Cal Senior Staff Writer
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Aaron Rodgers amassed 5,469 passing yards and 43 touchdowns in two seasons at Cal. He will be the fourth Bears quarterback to make a start under center in the Super Bowl.
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Playoffs a showcase For trio of cal alumni
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oc ludwig leaves cal for san diego state after two seasons
Few will mourn the end of the Lud-wig Era.
After two years at Cal, it was confirmed on Monday that of-fensive coordina-
by Katie DowdDaily Cal Senior Staff Writer
tor/quarterbacks coach Andy Ludwig will be leaving Berkeley for San Diego State. His two seasons coaching for the Bears were mediocre at best and soul-crushingly dismal at worst.
In 2009, Ludwig’s offense was ranked 49th in the nation. This season, they regressed even further, finishing the year 90th out of 120 teams in total Andy
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