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Berkeley, California Monday, January 31, 2011
SPORTS
SiTTing DuckS: Bears withstand late Oregon rally for third straight victory.SEE BAck
ARTS
Funk FREAkS: george clinton conjures P-Funk charm at Yoshi’s San Francisco.SEE PAgE 5
nEWS
iRAn DETAinEES: Local event hikes awareness and funding for the uc Berkeley alumni.SEE PAgE 3
Cuts Could Exacerbate State Transfer System FlawsThe proposed $1.4 billion cut to
California’s three higher education in-stitutions could exacerbate flaws in the transfer system for students moving from a California Com-munity College to a state-fund-ed university and lead to a deficit of “highly skilled
by Nina BrownStaff Writer
>> highEr EduCaTion: PagE 2
and educated workers,” rendering a harsh impact on the state’s economy, according to higher education officials and policy analysts.
As the University of California and California State University are facing potential cuts of 16.4 percent and 18 percent respectively, their continued ability to meet the conditions set forth in the 1960 Master Plan for Higher Education — which requires that they maintain a 40:60 lower to upper divi-sion ratio to allow room for incoming transfer juniors — is uncertain.
“If there is no room for (transfers) at the university because of budget cuts, then it doesn’t really matter how much you streamline that process,” said Hans Johnson, director of research at the Public Policy Institute of California. “You’ll have students who are qualified and ready to transfer, but there is no room for them.”
Limiting access, said CSU spokes-person Erik Fallis, will in the long-run result in fewer highly-skilled and educated workers to fill “high growth, high-demand positions.”
An effort to improve the transfer process — which Fallis said allows too many people to fall through the cracks between community colleges and the state universities — began last fall when former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed two bills meant to streamline the transfer process with the intent of opening up more seats and funds at the community college level.
Since 2007-08, state funding for the CSU has dropped by 23 percent, returning to 1999 levels although the system is accommodating 70,000 more
students, according to Fallis. Thus far, CSU has managed to maintain the Master Plan ratio, although Fallis added that “clearly if CSU doesn’t have the funding to provide for as many stu-dents as we like, that’s going to affect transfer students as well as first time freshmen.”
In the case of the UC, the university has tried to make good on the statement in the UC Commission on the Future Final Report that UC President Mark
onLinE PodCaSTNina Brown examines the impact of cuts on the transfer system.
West Berkeley Zoning Proves Contentious
officials May reconsider Cutting of Sports Teams
Student Regent Jesse Cheng, left, and Student Regent-Designate Alfredo Mireles Jr., right, talked with reporters of The Daily Californian about budget cuts and their position.
Alfredo Mireles, Jr./Courtesy
John Curl, the co-owner of Heartwood Custom Woodworking, examines his wood. West Berkeley owners have debated local zoning.Jeff totten/stAff
Student Regent and Designate Talk Budget Cuts, Experiences
Striking a compromise between big industry and local business in West Berkeley has proven difficult to achieve for the past four years, as zoning regula-tions in the area remain conten-tious and the Berkeley City Council still works to establish a balance between the two sectors.
While proposed amendments to the West Berkeley Plan — adopted in 1993 to set guidelines for land use while maintaining economic and residen-tial quality of life in the area — seek to reconcile the interests of two dif-ferent economic brackets, many small business owners feel that changes in zoning ordinances, if too abrupt, may threaten their livelihoods.
“You don’t want run-away eco-nomic development,” said John Curl, co-owner of West Berkeley coopera-tive Heartwood Custom Woodwork-ing. “You want the kind of economic development that doesn’t displace the valuable places that are already there.”
There are approximately 3,600 private manufacturing, retail and ser-vice businesses in West Berkeley that
by Yousur AlhlouStaff Writer
On Friday, reporters Jordan Bach-Lombardo and Aaida Samad of The Daily Californian sat down with UC Student Regent Jesse Cheng and Stu-dent Regent-Designate Alfredo Mire-les Jr. to talk about the state budget and its implications for the UC as well as what it is like to sit on the UC Board of Regents with some of California’s wealthiest residents.
The Daily Californian: Just to be-
by Jordan Bach-Lombardoand Aaida Samad
gin, I was wondering if you could com-ment on how you see the general state of the university with the budget cuts.
Alfredo Mireles: It’s clearly a dev-astating proposed cut, and I want to reiterate that it is a proposed cut. I don’t want us to be too fatalistic that these cuts have to happen or are man-dated to happen. We’re still in the budget negotiation. Me and two UC Berkeley students were in the capital last (week) on Wednesday going to the first hearing about vetting the gover-nor’s budget. No decisions have been
Athletics supporters are hoping that meetings and conversations over the next few days with UC Berkeley admin-istrators will allow them to move forward with propos-als to reinstate the five sports teams that were set to be cut at the end of the academic year.
On Monday, meetings headed by Vice Chancellor for University Relations Scott Biddy will be held to determine whether the campus can move forward with efforts to reinstate the five teams in the future. Chancellor Robert Birge-neau announced in September that five
by Alisha Azevedoand Katie Nelson
sports teams — men’s baseball, women’s lacrosse, men’s and women’s gymnastics and rugby, which has been designated a club sport — would be eliminated to try to save the campus $4 million annually.
It will cost $25 million to continue to support the teams for the next 10 years, campus officials said.
Doug Nickle, organizer of Save Cal Sports and former Cal baseball player, said the group’s supporters have raised a “verifiable $10 million to $12 million” thus far towards sustaining the teams. They also have other six- and seven-figure donations pending should pro-posals move forward.
“We’ve done this for all the right rea-sons — we haven’t asked for a whole lot in return other than a bit of clarity and good faith,” Nickle said. “We can only
generate approximately $1.2 billion in annual taxable revenue for the city, according to the city’s Planning and Development Department’s website. In order to attract an even larger in-dustrial economic base, the amend-ments would modify strict land use and permit regulations, allowing re-use of existing buildings, flexibility in building use and site re-development.
Residents have most vocally op-posed a proposition to put up for rent 2 million square feet of warehouses — some of which currently house local businesses — in order to create spaces for local research and development in-dustries from UC Berkeley.
According to Cassidy Turley Com-mercial Real Estate Services, the aver-age asking rent of a warehouse in the city in 2010 was $0.58 per square foot whereas the average asking rent for a research and development space was $2.30. If re-zoned, the spaces would subsequently increase in price.
Artisan metal worker David Bow-man, who co-owns David M. Bowman Studio in West Berkeley, said he is concerned that an industrial presence — and tenants who can afford higher rent — will cause real estate prices to skyrocket in areas that are already “too expensive” for artists.
“Artisans and manufacturers ... need space to do work,” Susan Brooks, co-founder of Berkeley Artisans Holi-
day Open Studios in West Berkeley, said in an e-mail. “We thrive because there are other professional artists and crafts people in our building and in the neighborhood.”
Councilmember Linda Maio, whose district encompasses West Berke-ley, said she would not approve the amendments without the provision of a community benefits fund, which would provide job training and in-creased transportation services from revenue made by a real estate “boom” — however, small business owners feel this may not be enough.
In response, the West Berkeley Arti-sans and Industrial Companies, an al-liance representing over 250 industrial and cultural enterprises, has proposed the city take incremental steps within industrial protection zoning guide-lines — which prevent mixed space use — and evaluate demand for space every few years.
“We’re all for research and develop-ment coming here and coming up with a new iPhone app so we can find the keys behind our couch,” said alliance staff member Rick Auerbach. “We’re just saying do a judicious balancing.”
Amendments to zoning guidelines include the proposed development of six large plots of land that will combine cutting edge businesses and homes, according to Maio.
Editor’s Note
This is the second installment of a two-part series on the West Berkeley Project.
onLinE PodCaSTAlisha Azevedo and Katie Nelson discuss meetings on athletics.
>> SPorTS: PagE 3
>> WEST BErkELEy: PagE 2 >> STudEnT rEgEnTS: PagE 5
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2 NEWS & LEGALSMonday, January 31, 2011 The Daily Californian
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higher education: UC Increased Transfer Enrollmentfrom fronT
Yudof has “deepened UC’s commitment to transfer” by increasing the size of community college transfers each year for a total increase of 1,250 in transfer enrollment by 2011-12, according to UC spokesperson Ricardo Vazquez.
However, the UC has been forced to reduce the number of incoming freshman by thousands of students, Vasquez said, while CSU enrollment has dropped by 30,000, according to Fallis. As both CSU and UC try to meet transfer enrollment targets and find room for ever-increasing freshman classes, they repeatedly run up against the limitations of shrinking state aid.
Efficiently meeting enrollment tar-gets is also challenging due to fluctu-ating state funding levels, leaving the universities to cope with a volatility in funding.
“We’ve been on what you could de-scribe as peaks and valleys, or a roller coaster,” said Fallis, describing how in recent years CSU started “cranking up” enrollment after encouragement from
the state, only to “clamp down” after the state pulled back funding. “Con-tinue that enough times and you start seeing the problem of long-term plan-ning that happens.”
UC spokesperson Steve Montiel said a similar instability in funding for the UC has made planning for enrollment targets difficult.
Ultimately, this inability to look further than from crisis to crisis may hinder California’s higher education institutions most of all, Johnson said.
“Instead of having a policy consistent year to year, we have policies created because we budget for emergencies,” Johnson said. “We not only lack consis-tency, but more troubling in some ways, we don’t have a picture of what we want to be as a state ... If the state is going to meet the demands of the economy for highly educated workers, we need more students going to and graduating from college, and these budget cuts are mov-ing us in the wrong direction.”
Nina Brown covers higher education. Contact her at [email protected].
West berkeley: Council to Hold Hearing About Land Usefrom fronT
Although mixed-use spaces remain unpopular among some residents, Jo-seph Slusky, metal sculptor and retired UC Berkeley professor, said the new buildings would be beneficial because developers like environmentalist Doug Herst — who is building a “green com-munity” — have promised affordable housing in the space.
Nonetheless, the hazard associated with the proximity of housing and in-
dustry as defined in the Environmen-tal Impact Report still has some com-munity members worried. The council will further investigate the issue, Maio said.
Due to the controversial nature of zoning regulations, the council will hold another public hearing on Feb. 8 to address ongoing concerns regarding the amendments.
Yousur Alhlou covers city government. Contact her at [email protected].
Friday’s article “West Berkeley Proj-ect Introduced to Public” incorrectly stated that the West Berkeley Plan was approved in 1998. In fact, the plan was approved in 1993.
Friday’s article “Students Seek Per-manent Prayer Space” incorrectly stat-ed that Farrah Moos is a CalSERVE senator. In fact, she is a Student Action senator.
Friday’s feature photo, “In Full Swing,” incorrectly attributed the pho-to to Allyse Bacharach. In fact, Sum-mer Dunsmore took the photo.
The Daily Californian regrets the er-rors.
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3OPINION, NEWS & MARKETPLACE Monday, January 31, 2011The Daily Californian
Take a moment to think of all the opinions you have. About gun control, fee increases, those
people who take the elevator up only one level, how your professor isn’t letting you use laptops in class and everything in between.
Now, choose the opinion about which you are most passionate. One you could defend the most fervently as steam shoots out your ears.
Thought of something? Good. Consider what makes you so confident that you are right. Is it that you know a lot about the issue, or have a unique perspective? Maybe you have heard a convincing argument. Or maybe those on the other side haven’t been exposed to the concepts and insight you have encountered and prudently analyzed.
And consider how the other side could be so wrong, and yet just as confident as you. Did they just connect the dots incorrectly? Perhaps they’re selfish or under bad counsel and corrupt influence. Maybe they mean well, but just aren’t getting it. Or, could it be that they are simply incompetent?
In my two years with the Daily Cal news department, I have heard quite a few opinions. I have spoken to close friends of Oakland police officers who were shot and killed and then read the letter from community members that praised the shooter for defending himself “honorably.” I was there for every major budget cut protest this campus has seen since the original Sept. 24, 2009 walkout and have spoken to activists, union members and adminis-tration officials alike. And I can make a strong case for both sides of the ASUC aisle, regardless of the issue.
When I was a fresh reporter, it was sometimes possible to sway me toward one side of a debate. I would hear an ardent argument and be so persuaded that I’d be certain there could be no reasonable rebuttal. I was always wrong.
Despite all the passionate tirades I have encountered assuring me of how incompetent or misguided the other side is, in speaking to all sides I have rarely found that to be the case. That explanation is too simple. It’s one thing to have a strong argument supported with solid facts; it’s another to do so while understanding those on the other side and being able to explain how they got to their conclusion.
This is not to say that incompetence does not exist. People don’t have unlimited time, and many make decisions that are not as informed as they could be. But simply claiming the other side is incompetent is inadequate. Why were they acting incompetently?
I’m sure many of my readers would argue that George W. Bush is
incompetent, or that Dick Cheney is evil. Perhaps they are. But if that’s the case, they must have been like that for a reason. Adding your voice to the chorus of those claiming incompetency or evilness is far less valuable than sharing a level-headed opinion that takes into account your opponent’s reasoning, interests and justifications.
In 2002, Saddam Hussein made the wrong decision for his interests. How
could he not realize he would lose a war against the U.S. and its allies, and why didn’t he cooperate to show he had no WMDs? Was he incompetent? Well, a January 2008 CBS interview with his chief interrogator revealed that as a deterrent, Hussein wanted Iran to believe he had WMDs and that he didn’t think the US would launch a full-scale war. That was a miscalculation on his part. But in 2002, although many of us were opinionated on this important issue, how many of us came close to understanding his perspective?
Consider your strongest opinions and spend some time trying to understand why someone disagrees. Does University of California President Mark Yudof not mean well for all of us? Are our California legislators simply mentally incapable of doing their jobs? Does your professor really just hate you?
In any debate, each of us should try to contribute a unique perspective that adds to the conversation rather than reiterate the same overly-simplistic calculations anyone can make. Doing so requires that we understand the issue at hand, which in turn requires that we truly understand each other. This not only makes your argument stronger but also brings us closer to a solution.
Under this same reasoning, I have encountered many passionate
opinions espoused by those who admit to not understanding the issue. There is a stigma against not having an opinion, so we are inclined to argue for some-thing — often the nearest seemingly-logical stance — and take the shortest route to a conclusion.
To assist those trying to understand the other side, it is also important for us to be clear and precise about our own opinions and to be transparent about our certainty. You’re saying you don’t think Obama was born in the United States? OK, maybe you’re right. I wasn’t there when he was born, so I’m not 100 percent sure. But I find his birth certificate pretty convincing. If you weren’t there either, what do you have to contribute that makes you so confident?
There are many issues in the world that we need to address, but none of us have time to formulate competent opinions for them all. We must rely on each other’s assessments. That is why we have discussions, why the president has advisers and why organizations endorse during elections. But we need to be able to trust that those contributing their thoughts are sincere and that we are listening to them closely so that we can make the best possible opinions.
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Event Hikes Awareness, Funds for Detainees
Young families and more seasoned art enthusiasts gathered from around the Bay Area at San Francisco’s South of Market Arts, Resources, Technology and Services Cultural Center Saturday night as part of a silent auction fund-raiser for two UC Berkeley alumni who remain detained in Iran.
The event — held for alumni Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal — attracted over 450 supporters and is one of several recent efforts by the Free the Hikers organization, a group dedicated to raising awareness about the men. The two have been imprisoned in Iran since July 2009 when they were detained
by Victoria PardiniStaff Writer
while hiking near the Iran-Iraq bor-der. Sarah Shourd — Bauer’s fiancee who was hiking with the men — was released from the prison in Septem-ber after she found a lump in her left breast.
Shourd said money from the auction will go towards paying for the transla-tion of media and legal documents into Farsi, as well as towards other le-gal fees and transportation expenses, though she also stressed the event’s importance as far as mental and emo-tional support.
“Every dollar that goes toward the campaign is crucial,” she said. “(And) real human sweat and love goes into it.”
The silent auction featured artwork
from over 100 artists in a variety of me-diums from photography to paintings to jewelry. Additionally, three of Bauer’s own photographs he took while in Su-dan were featured in the auction.
Along with the silent auction, six musical acts performed at the event and Shourd sang a few songs that she composed while in prison.
“It’s an incredible outpouring of support and love,” Shourd said. “And it really just reminds me and the other family members, even people from Shane and Josh’s family who weren’t there ... that we’re not alone in this.”
The event was co-organized by Sarah Hobstetter and Pauline Bartolone,
sports: Campus Seeks Fiscally Stable ProposalsFrom Front
hope at this stage that we deserve the communication to move forward. This effort truly is an effort of the campus and passionate alumni. We forged our identities here.”
According to Nickle, the campus originally requested that athletics sup-porters be required to raise $80 mil-lion to $120 million in order to sustain the teams in the future, though they currently have lowered the require-ment to $25 million.
The decision to cut the teams came after a report released earlier that month by the campus Academic Sen-ate Task Force on Intercollegiate Ath-letics recommended the campus take action to reduce its financial support for the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics to $5 million by 2014. These proposed cuts are in addition to the $2.4 million reduction Athletic Direc-tor Sandy Barbour made to the depart-
ment’s budget last spring.According to campus spokesperson
Dan Mogulof, discussions about team reinstatement efforts have been occur-ring over the past four months, and the campus has asked for economically stable proposals that address both long- and short-term solutions to re-instate the teams. He said it is unclear whether there will be proposals from several groups or one joint proposal.
“The last thing we want is a short-term solution that would subject ath-letes to ongoing uncertainty about the funding of the program,” he said. “Jan. 31 is the date when there will be a re-ality check. We’ll continue the engage-ment by sitting down and seeing where they are and judging whether they’re close or if they’ve come up short.”
In addition to the $25 million that they have been asked to raise, support-ers of the teams’ reinstatement are sug-gesting a reduction in the number of scholarships offered to athletes as well
Alisha Azevedo and Katie Nelson cover academics and administration. Contact them at [email protected].
as a streamlining of travel expenses to cut costs in their proposals.
The 163 athletes whose teams are currently slated to be cut have the option of remaining on campus with their original athletic scholarships or transferring to other universities.
So far, three baseball players have transferred from UC Berkeley for the spring semester, including pitcher Eric Jaffe, pitcher Joe Kurrasch and infield-er Brett Bishop, who are now attending UCLA, Pennsylvania State University and Fresno City College, respectively.
“I think our kids have been realistic, and I’ve asked them not to get caught up in false hope and to prepare ourselves for any scenario,” said head coach of Cal baseball David Esquer. “Many of (the athletes) have prepared for the future and are looking forward to representing the school and playing with their teams this year. We’re going to work hard and are feeling confident.”
>> HIkERs: PAgE 5
Off The Beat
Patton OswaltZOMBIE SPACESHIP
WASTELAND
book review
Darth Vader is a zombie. Think about it. He carries all the requisite features: the blind hatred of all those around him, the soulless disposition which
allows him to carelessly destroy human (and alien) life, and of course, the pale, pustule-filled skin. Now, although Darth Vader may not seem like the most accurate zombie candidate, this comparison could not be more adroit for Patton Oswalt. In his debut novel, “Zombie Spaceship Wasteland,” the stand-up comedian and KFC Famous Bowl-hating enthusiast exercises both humor and poignancy on his early comedy days and the adolescent influences that drove him there.
Beginning in the 1980s, as a “suburban feudal subject” in Sterling, Virginia, Oswalt’s book throws you into his world as an employee at the local cineplex with equal parts absurdity, fascination, and regret. For him, it was a transformative experience where popcorn was buttered, assistant managers smelled of “corpse fart” and terrible movies graced the silver screen. An idyllic life to be sure. Framed by the lyrics of R.E.M.’s Fables of the Reconstruc-tion, the teenage tale of small-town shenanigans and southern life culminates at the moment when Oswalt’s cultural awakening took place – in an underground the-ater, listening to Michael Stipe as “Adventures in Babysit-ting” played in the background.
Like the opening essay, Oswalt’s book contains a manic combination of references which serve to match the equally crazed mind that wrote it. It’s a memoir-comedy hybrid that stretches the gamut of genres from childhood whimsy to vampire comics to an epic poem about his childhood D&D character, Ulvaak. As Oswalt’s fantasy warrior, Ulvaak can “wade through blood and gore/claim a treasure” and “bed a whore.” He’s a jack of all trades and more to the point, so is his creator. Not only is Oswalt able to pen a poem which reads like the mental melding of Jonathan Swift and Gary Gygax, but he is also able to transcend these literary styles without hesitation.
One moment we’re given a dazzling set of faux greet-ing cards and the next, we are introduced to the bygone era of hobo songs (my favorite being “Squirrel House
There is an ill-founded stereotype that classical music is for the old and retired, carrying a sort of
maturity that young whippersnappers have no patience for. As Zellerbach Hall filled with snowy-haired, cane-totting seniors, all eager to witness Jean-Yves Thibaudet in action, the misconception resurfaced. But as the dapper, Vivienne Westwood-clad pianist took the stage, he brought along an expressive elegance. Working with Liszt’s most complex compositions, Thibaudet transformed from just another guy clanging away on a piano to the classical genre’s equivalent of a rock star.
When asked to throw out names of classical composers, the First Viennese School — Beethoven, Haydn, Mozart — inevitably comes to mind. So it’s no wonder why Thibaudet describes Liszt as underrated. But this prolific com-poser was a trendsetter in his time. It was Liszt who ardently supported “pro-gramme music,” music that had a the-matic and narrative element, and it was Liszt who was able to convey such vivid imagery through mere notes. In honor of the 200th anniversary of Liszt’s birth, Thibaudet ran through a varied repertoire of his works that showed the different personalities of the Hungar-ian maestro, from “Consolations” to his transcriptions. Expressing a deep admiration for the virtuosic pianist, Thibaudet not only gave flawless rendi-tions but also inserted his own embel-lishments, creating yet another layer to the already complex pieces.
Thibaudet’s immense comfort with mastering intricate sheet music stems from a lifetime acquaintance with the piano. Launching his career at the mere age of seven with his first performance, the Grammy-nominated pianist has now released over 40 albums, toured with the world’s leading orchestras and
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graced the “Pride and Prejudice” and “Atonement” soundtracks.
Perhaps what makes his piano-playing such an intense aural experi-ence is Thibaudet’s incredible display of dynamics. In “Consolation No. 3 in D Flat Major,” he played with a flowing gentleness. This subtlety was sharply contrasted with the harsh urgency of “Tarantella,” whose thundering notes spanned across the entire keyboard. The adroitness expressed through these dramatic changes was how he made the pieces his own creations, adding spirit to what would have otherwise been a placid performance.
It’s a common assumption that a piano concert’s selling point is its music . Maybe that’s why so many people had their eyes closed when listening to Thi-baudet. But when put under the spot-light, pianists are actors too. Something about performing on a minimalist stage must have brought out the theatricality in Thibaudet. He knew his capabilities and had no inhibitions with flaunting them off. During his many embel-lishments, his fingers flew across the keys so quickly that they became rapid blurs. For the more calming selections, Thibaudet lengthened the legatos and hunched over the piano, swaying so extremely that his nose nearly grazed the keyboard. On the other side of the spectrum, Thibaudet showcased his vigor with his exagerrated movements. During the last few bars of “Tarantella,” he pounded the keys so hard that his body practically levitated off the seat.
Classical music lives up to its stereo-type in that it’s not for everyone. But witnessing the ardent fervor flourishing under the bright lights turns the piano from a commonplace instrument to an artistic vessel worthy of appreciation. Working with the poetic pieces of Liszt, Thibaudet’s performance was both a celebration of Liszt’s accomplishments and an exhibit of his own.
Cynthia Kang is the lead music critic. Contact her at [email protected].& Entertainment
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1.31.2011Arts
Unfortunately, I do not get to write about the American Conservatory Theater’s production of Bruce Nor-
ris’ “Clybourne Park” in any mean, nasty and therefore fun way. And it would have been so easy, too. With a few carefully cho-sen words, I could scare away the masses of theatergoers (hordes, really) whose theatri-cal evenings depend on the opinions of the Daily Californian.
For instance, I could offer up some mis-leading taglines to describe the play’s prem-ise. How about: “A Raisin in the Sun II: The Comedy!” or “Two hours of unadulterated uncomfortableness!”
But alas, I cannot mislead you. Because although Norris’ work is indeed a new take on the themes of Lorraine Hansberry’s untouchable “A Raisin in the Sun,” dealing unabashedly with the ever-touchy subject of race relations and even sporting some toe-curling racist jokes — despite all these things, or perhaps because of them, this is a wonderful, wonderful show.
What Norris has mastered — and what the cast, under Jonathan Moscone’s direc-
by Hannah JewellSenior Staff Writer
tion, has executed with the precision of a group of surgeons cutting through a human brain — is the art of uncomfortableness. Of creating a scene that is so awkward, so cringe-worthy, that it seems it could not possibly get any worse, when, all of a sud-den, it does.
The play begins in the 1959 living room of Russ and Bev Stoller, played by Anthony Fusco and Rene Augesen. They are packing up their Chicago home to move to a suburb outside the city and away from the painful memories of their son’s death. A neighbor comes to warn them that their real estate agent has chosen (the horror!) an African American family to buy their home. Cue an awful yet hilarious scene showcasing the delicate yet clumsy dance of white people in the ’50s trying to talk about race while maintaining a facade of civility.
In the next act, the scene has jumped forward 50 years to 2009, where a white couple has been petitioned by the now African-American community of Clybourne Park to halt the demolition and reconstruc-tion of the same home. Although the cos-tumes and the hair show the passing of 50 years’ time, not much has changed in terms of peoples’ inability to talk about race.
The precision of the cast is remarkable. At the slightest pitch from Norris’ script — a simple “yeah” or a nervous laugh — the stage transforms with the cast’s tiny reac-tions in a moment of irresistible synchroni-zation. The physicality of Richard Thieriot as Karl, the “concerned neighbor” (racist), provides the stage with a supercharged dis-comfort, as he wipes his brow and adjusts his glasses with every “um” and “er.”
Rene Augesen, playing Bev the 1950s housewife, creates a character that is mad-deningly difficult to pin down with any sort of satisfying moral judgement. The viewer is torn between wanting to slap her across the face in one moment and give her a deep, lingering hug in the next.
Every character is ultimately impossible to love or hate — no one is always the bad or the good guy, and everyone is dependent on everyone else. The unbearable wife is also the heartbroken mother, the pushy lawyer also the offended minority. The point, then, is the same as that of the play as a whole — people, like books, can’t be judged by their covers.
Hannah Jewell is the lead theater critic. Contact her at [email protected].
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student regents: Position-Holders Given ‘Full Respect’FRom FRont
made yet, no votes have been cast to accept the cuts, so just to preface this whole discussion we’re talking about if the governor’s budget is accepted.
Obviously, $500 million would be an incredible challenge to the university. $80 million would come from this cam-pus alone ... I still think that the univer-sity is a great place, and I don’t want to seem like a cheerleader or Pollyanna-ish, but I really think that in these crisis moments we can become stronger.
DC: Given California’s voter atti-tudes towards higher education and this June’s special election with the tax extension, is there concern, even prep-aration, for the fact that the cut may actually be larger than $500 million?
AM: There’s definitely concern. And I’d say it’s more than concern. It’s like incredible fear that the cut will be larger. I don’t think we’re that far along yet. It’d be easier to be able to plan for a year or five years, but the way the California state government works, we kind of have to go one day at a time to
see where we’re at.DC: I was wondering if you could
talk about being a student regent? Do you feel like a full member of the board as adequately considered as a 12-year member?
AM: I was worried it would be like a token position. And sometimes you feel like, especially as a designate, you feel like the lowest person on the totem pole. But I think that happens in any organization, and it’s not like they’re going to pass something and they’re going to be like, ‘Oh, what does the new guy think about this?’ That’s just not how it works in most organiza-tions.
But I do say, and I mean this with all sincerity because of the history of the position and really progressive and great policies that have been passed by previous student regents, the gu-bernatorial appointee student regents know that student regents come and do good work and do their homework and you know can really effect change ... I think you can be effective. I don’t think it’s a token position. I think you
Jordan Bach-Lombardo and Aaida Samad cover higher education. Contact them at [email protected].
have to work to gain the respect, but if you show that you’re diligent, a lot of people will give you the credit the posi-tion deserves.
Jesse Cheng: He’s a graduate stu-dent, and he’s spent time in Sacramen-to. Alfredo comes into this position with a lot more experience, frankly, in the policy world, than I do. I come from the more activist, organizer, oc-cupy everything framework. That’s the community I was trained by. I ab-solutely agree that regents treat you with full respect, like a 12-year regent. That’s largely based upon the savvy and the skill of previous student re-gents. D’Artagnan, Jesse Bernahl, Ben Allen, Maria Ledesma were very good at establishing themselves as full re-gents. It wasn’t always like that. There were times when we were spit on, like way back when, 35 years back. But we’ve established ourselves as credible regents.
Read the full interview online at dailycal.org.
While many artists are looking to make their mark, eco-artist Daniel Mc-Cormick tries to do just the opposite.
The Bay Area artist, who holds a bachelor’s degree in environmental de-sign from UC Berkeley, installs sculp-tures in eroded gullies and riverbanks to restore damaged ecosystems, hop-ing that after a few years, every trace of his craft will disappear.
“I like to do the work and see it work,” he said. “I don’t need a monument.”
For the past 25 years, McCormick, 60, has been blending aesthetic beauty and functionality to create these ephemeral pieces that filter dirty water to heal riv-ers and creeks. With support from public organizations like the U.S. National Park Service, he has woven these basket forms throughout sites in Northern California, including Berkeley and Oakland. And as his body of work grows, so does his reputation — not just as an artist, but as a pioneer of eco-friendly art.
A handful of his pieces, which re-semble large, elongated birds’ nests that are made to fit each creek indi-vidually, were on display Thursday at the David Brower Center, a nonprofit in Downtown Berkeley that aims to in-spire environmental and social action.
“He’s one of the preeminent eco-art-ists, and what we love about this work is that ... he’s using these forms for watershed and creek restoration,” said Amy Tobin, executive director of the center. “This work that’s really lovely to look at and then has this utilitarian purpose is really perfect.”
Since his elegant structures are in-
by Soumya KarlamanglaStaff Writer
tended to interact with nature and work best outside the gallery, the show, Meth-ods and Materials: Ecological Art in Practice focused on the building blocks of his pieces. However, a list of his ma-terials — willow branches, dogwood cut-tings, sycamore and oak roots, burlap, recycled coconut fibers — sounds little like a typical artist’s palette.
But McCormick is not a typical art-ist. Using riparian materials, which originate around or near the banks of a river, allows his work to biodegrade and become integrated into the local ecology, he said.
“This idea moves away from an an-thropocentric view of nature,” he said. “Nature is not a resource anymore; we need to think of it as a partner.”
McCormick’s work — which he calls watershed sculptures — could easily be considered a part of the Earthworks genre, a movement in which artists carve into the earth. However, McCormick said he was inspired by the political and social climate of the 1970s and watching the federal government try to save a scarred environment with the foundation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Clean Water Act of 1977 and the En-dangered Species Act of 1973.
“Growing up in the Bay Area, I felt some kind of responsibility,” he said. “I began to look at ecology and art and design and landscape and just kind of figured out how to do it.”
Through his relationship with the National Park Service, McCormick col-laborates with hydrologists to choose the correct locations for his sculp-tures to take root. Usually, the sites are grounds for steelhead trout and coho salmon. He attempts to restore
the quality of watersheds, areas of land where all the water has been drained.
“Every state I’ve worked in, there are big water issues,” he said. “We’ve paved too much, and everybody knows it.”
The increased urbanization that en-croaches upon once-rural land pushes more water into the creeks, overflow-ing and eroding the banks, thereby polluting the water, he said. His sculp-tures act as silt traps, filtering the wa-ter, which prevents sediment from suf-focating fish eggs.
“We all live on a watershed. Think of your citizenship as a ‘watership:’ as an ecological boundary and not as a po-litical boundary,” he said. “If we have a healthy watershed ... it makes for the issue of water as a commodity to be less contentious because you have water.”
The idea of establishing a symbi-otic relationship with nature — being a part of it without harming it — is slowly gaining momentum, according to McCormick.
“There’s definitely a paradigm shift, and it’s very evident,” he said. “I just play my role as an artist.”
And he’s been playing his part suc-cessfully — over the years, McCormick has effected change, relying on the in-terplay of nature’s processes and his own innovative works.
“Growing up, I was always told that we have great natural resources in this country, but we don’t anymore — they’re damaged,” he said. “We need to partner with and have a relationship with it, so it can serve us too as we serve it.”
Soumya Karlamangla is the lead environment reporter. Contact her at [email protected].
hikers: Community Supports Detainees through ArtFRom PAGe 3
two of Bauer’s friends. Hobstetter said that Bauer, a photojournalist, hoped to change people’s under-standings of the world — a hope that inspired the idea for the art auction.
Though there have been about four events in the past four months — in-cluding a short film about the hikers’ detainment — Shourd said the auc-tion was the largest event in the East Bay dedicated to spreading awareness about the hikers. A benefit concert will be held at Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco Feb. 10.
Fadwa Musleh, a resident of Santa Clara, met Shourd at another event for the hikers and said she was touched by the cause.
“The world is becoming a smaller place, and we’re all eventually going to be affected,” she said. “And it does start at the grass roots, with the common folk, to make the change.”
Zohreh, a visiting scholar from Iran studying at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, who was not will-ing to give her last name for fear of retri-bution, said she has a friend who was in prison with Shourd. She added that most
Iranians believe the hikers are innocent.“I really wanted to come,” she said.
“I wanted to tell them, I’m with you, and I really want to help if I can do a little bit, for the guys.”
Regarding the case, Shourd said that the families of both men hope the issue will soon be resolved and the men will be released on humanitarian grounds, as she was.
“We’re in regular contact with our law-yer,” she said. “He remains optimistic that we’re getting close to resolution and that Shane and Josh will be found innocent.”
Victoria Pardini covers Berkeley communities. Contact her at [email protected]
Daniel McCormick integrates art and natural life at his exhibit ‘Methods and Materials: Ecological Art in Practice’ on Allston Way.summer dunsmore/staff
Eco-Friendly Artist Breaks the Mold
zombie: Famed Comedian Dissects Pop CultureFRom PAGe 4
Christmas”). The seemingly random collection can be initially jarring, but ultimately rewarding due to its rich sense of creative flair and acerbic observation. Oswalt, after all, is a comedian and observation is what he does best.
Like his fellow Gen X-er Chuck Klosterman, Oswalt critiques and analyzes the culture he lives in with — one made up of three subgroups: zombies (those who simplify), spaceships (those who leave) and wastelands (those who destroy). It’s an incisive and personal dissection of the world he grew up in where the zombies, spaceships and wastelands of the films “Star Wars” and “The Road Warrior” became inextricably linked to the people who watched them – the fans.
More than just for fans, it’s a book for the nerds and the geeks – the products of Oswalt’s generation – who experience their lives through an intimate connection with pop culture. In fact, the progress of Oswalt’s comedy career – recounted in the thoroughly riveting “A History of America from 1988 to 1996”– can be tied to the rise of the nerd, from
fringe loner to mainstream winner proving only one thing: This is the age of Oswalt. It is an era where, now that everything is available at one’s fingertips, the exclusivity of an album like Fables of the Reconstruc-tion becomes moot once it’s available on iTunes. For Oswalt, this broad-ened accessibility is exciting and often humorous, but also somewhat troubling.
In the YouTube generation, this immediacy to music videos, films, and internet memes can produce a certain type of attention deficiency. Look to the end of Oswalt’s chapters where he lists the items which dis-tracted him during his own writing process. It’s perhaps a trivial detail, but one which captures the wry, imaginative and frequently honest scribblings of this possibly mad man to a tee. More than just lists of Wiki-pedia articles and Google searches, they are, like Oswalt’s book, an account of the specific references and cultural connections which have affixed themselves as much to our identities as Darth Vader’s helmet has to his pasty head.
Jessica Pena is the lead literature critic. Contact her at [email protected].
George Clinton seems different these days. His look, no longer flamboyantly funky with his erstwhile rainbow dreads and white beard, is more like that of an aging gangsta rapper. His voice, once a soulful, baby-making baritone, now sounds like a metal rake dragging across concrete. Not to men-tion, George Clinton now plays Yoshi’s.
The San Francisco incarnation of Oakland’s venerable jazz club has made an effort to host acts appealing to a more youthful, top-40-aware audience. In recent months, hip-hop acts Del Tha Funkee Homosapien and Public Enemy have performed, and Mos Def will take the stage for four nights in February.
69-year-old Clinton seems like a more logical choice for Yoshi’s, in that he’s one of those rare artists with as many fans in high school as in retirement. The latter demographic is generally better-represented at Yoshi’s, but thanks to a large, improvised dance floor, it’s not an altogether terrible venue for a famously funky — in every possible sense of the word — group of musicians (though it’s hardly ideal).
You’re probably familiar with the legend of George Clinton — his outlandish, larger-than-life tours, his alleged (and impressive) drug habit, his influence on West Cost hip-hop, his crazed funk genius, and his being pretty much the embodiment of what my gen-eration thinks was cool and liberated about the ‘70s.
While an invitation to play Yoshi’s acknowledges Parliament-Funkadelic’s newfound recognition as high art, the band would appear interested only in the first part of that phrase. A P-Funk show is, for better or worse, as much a spectacle as a concert, complete with blunt-passing, striptease-ing, and belly dancing. At times there were as many as 15 performers on the cramped stage. With all those sources of sound, clarity
by Nick MooreSenior Staff Writer
is hardly the band’s strong suit (nor is lucidity, for that matter).
The classic P-Funk songs, however, call less for precision than a preter-naturally funky bassline and a jubilant chorus. “Flash Light,” from Parlia-ment’s 1977 album Funkentelechy vs. the Placebo Syndrome, employs this formula to hip-shaking success. Lack-ing a definitive verse/chorus structure, it exemplifies the sort of repetitively pleasurable jams for which P-Funk is known, among other things.
Inhabiting a large chunk of the relatively short show, the “Flash Light” sequence reminded the audience that funk is largely a euphemism for another four-letter F-word. While the music itself evokes the undulations of two bodies in amorous sync, P-Funk made sure we got the point. Sir Nose D’Voidoffunk, a recurring villain from Parliament’s late-’70s albums, appeared onstage in the abdominally-gifted flesh to taunt the band and stimulate the au-dience with a variety of bodily maneu-vers, culminating in a bout of simulated sex with a curvaceous backup singer. George Clinton might look differ-ent these days, but some things don’t change — namely his and his band’s apparent mentality that taking a date to a P-Funk show should result in some damn good sex, regardless of the venue.
Admittedly, giving up the funk at a place like Yoshi’s is a little bit weird. But looking out at an audience in part perched at cocktail tables didn’t seem to bother George Clinton (though it’s debatable whether he consistently knew exactly where he was). While not a particularly good venue for a display of such unadulterated funk, Yoshi’s at least seems to have taken to heart a line Dr. Funkenstein himself shouted throughout the night: “Free your mind … and your ass will follow.”
Nick is abdominally-gifted. Ask him about it at [email protected].
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George Clinton Brings In ‘Da Noise, ‘Da Funk to Yoshi’s
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Vosters’ Scoring Helps Bears Coast to Undefeated Weekend at Spartan Invite
Coming out of this weekend’s Spar-tan Invitational at San Jose State, the Cal women’s water polo team held onto its perfect season record.
Very much alive after the onslaught of four matches in two days, the No. 3 Bears (7-0) were led by sophomore Breda Vosters’ 14 goals en route to a weekend of victory. While there was no tournament champion determined, the relevance of early wins
by Samuel Farahmand Staff Writer
was not lost upon the squad.“These are more like confidence
builders, but they’re still games for us to really work on the things we’re going to apply in the harder games,” Vosters said. “Being able to master them in these ones will help us that much more, against Stanford, or a team like that.”
The first wave came at 10 a.m., on Saturday, when Cal took on Cal State Monterey Bay for an invitational-chris-tening 18-1 victory. Vosters paced the team with five scores, while sophomore Remington Price kept in her wake with three goals.
In an equally impressive display of defense, sophomore goalie Lindsay
sports in BriefRackov Named National Player of the Year
It’s one thing to lead your team in scoring. It’s another to lead it in that, plus two other categories. That’s what junior Ivan Rackov did for the Cal men’s water polo team this past fall, an astounding performance that earned him National Player of the Year honors from the Association of Collegiate Water Polo Coaches on Saturday. Rackov led the MPSF conference in scoring with 79 goals, and the Bears with 82 assists and 70 steals. The driver
headlined a group that took the pro-gram back to the NCAA Championship, where the Bears lost to USC in over-time, 12-10. The announcement signaled the 15th Player of the Year award for Cal, which leads the nation with 13 national championships. Current coach Kirk Everist won NCAA Player of the Year in 1988. The Peter J. Cutino Award, the most prestigious in the sport after being established for men in 2000, will be awarded in June. Also nominated for the Cutino are USC’s Joel Dennerley, who was named MPSF Player of the Year, and Pacific’s Goran Tomasevic.
Dorst had five saves in two quarters of work, with freshman Kristen Stern add-ing three more. The pair has been shar-ing playtime at the goalie position in the absence of junior Stephanie Peckham, with effective results. They kept the Ot-ters scoreless for the first three periods.
The second match was against No. 19 Pacific. One of the season’s closer matches, the Bears beat the Tigers, 12-6, after jumping out to a 5-0 lead in the first period and keeping ahead at half-time with a 9-2 margin. It was the only match of the weekend in which Cal had fewer saves than its opponent.
Wave number three made for an early Sunday win over Santa Clara. Cal
defeated the Broncos, 11-2, having built up their usual lead with a 6-1 margin at halftime. The squad has yet to play a game this season where they haven’t led going into halftime.
Sophomore Dana Ochsner paced the team with three goals and Vosters went for two. Dorst recorded seven saves in the game and Stern added another one.
In their final match of the weekend, the Bears beat No. 16 UC Davis, 13-5, in a game that had two parts nail-biting and two parts utter domination. Lead-ing into halftime with the season’s smallest margin of 5-3, Cal came back with a fury of plays and a flurry of goals, going 3-1 in the third period and 5-1 in
w. PoloCal 13 UC Davis 5
Samuel Farahmand covers women’s water polo. Contact him at [email protected].
Cal’s only Cutino winner was John Mann in 2007. Senior two-meter set Zach White was named first-team All-American, while Brian Dudley and Cory Nasoff made the third team. Charlie Steffens and Luka Saponjic received honorable mentions.
—Jack Wang
Bears Top Pair of Pac-10 Rivals at Spieker Complex
After competing away from Berkeley the entire spring, the No. 4 Cal women’s swimming team finally hosted a pair of meets at Spieker Aquatics Complex. They didn’t waste the opportunity, blowing out both No. 3 USC and No. 21
UCLA. On Friday, the Bears opened the weekend with a resounding upset of the Trojans, 182-118. Junior Liv Jensen led the way with wins in four events. The Tucson, Ariz., native took the 50-yard free, which she won in the NCAA Championships last year, as part of Cal’s top-four sweep. She also took the 100 free and was a part of the winning 400 medley and 200 free relays. A day later, the Bears downed the Bruins, 168.5-131.5. This time, it was sophomore Caitlin Leverenz who keyed the effort with a victorious quartet of her own. Leverenz swam the backstroke leg of the 400 medley relay. For individu-al events, she took the 200 butterfly,
400 breastroke, and 400 individual medley. Cal will host Stanford on Sunday in its final dual meet of the season. —Jack Wang
Cal wins First Gym Meet of the Season at Home
It finally happened. The Cal women’s gymnastics team scored its first win of the season. After coming up short in three com-petitions this spring, the Bears defeated Alaska-Anchorage with a clean sweep.Cal bested the Seawolves, 191.850-188.425.15, in part due to Madilyn O’Brien’s top all-around finish.
—Jack Wang
the fourth.Vosters finished her weekend scoring
the same number of goals as the oppos-ing team’s five in total, while Ochsner swam in her wake for two scores. Dorst tallied a season-high 11 saves and ce-mented the victory.
“Our team is really starting to step it up and prove ourselves as a contender,” Vosters said. “We’re definitely prepared, and as long as we keep it together like we did (this weekend), then we’ll do re-ally well.”
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7SPORTS Monday, January 31, 2011The Daily Californian
Christina Jones covers rugby. Contact her at [email protected].
RUGBY: Cardinal Competitive in the Second Half from baCk
half, and senior flyhalf James Bailes made four conversions.
The Cardinal’s best opportunity to get on the board came on a penalty kick in the 27th minute, which scrumhalf Dan Ibarra missed from the 25-meter line.
With replacement parts, however, Cal’s well-oiled machine sputtered in the second half. The Bears were rou-tinely called for infractions and penal-ties, but Stanford was unable to convert those chances into points. Still, the Car-dinal held Cal to half the number of tries it logged in the first half.
“Although we kept the scoreboard turning over in the second half, I think our play kind of went to hell,” coach Jack Clark said. “I wasn’t very happy with our execution and our continuity in the sec-ond half.”
Stanford coach Matt Sherman, a
three-time All-American at Cal, was not let down in the second half. As the match wore on, he felt his team kept up with the Bears’ pace better, which was his objective going into the game.
“We were able to gain more continu-ity and attack so we had some posses-sion, and they didn’t have all the posses-sion,” Sherman said. “We were able to be more organized on defense, and put more pressure on them.”
“For a lot of people that were watch-ing, there was a lot of standstill time, a lot of back-and-forth (in the second half),” Cal junior Danny Barrett said. “We usually don’t see that this early in the season. It just shows that in the next couple of years, the rivalry will just keep getting better and better.”
Danny Barrett scored a try in the 73rd minute of Cal’s win over Stanford on Saturday. The junior from Pacifica, Calif. was one of eight Bears to score a try on the afternoon.
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off Tim Puetz in second-set tiebreaker, 6-3, 7-6(7-5), clinching a Bears vic-tory.
Cal advanced the next day to the sec-ond round against Texas Tech, which defeated LSU earlier on Saturday.
The Bears continued to prove the need for tune-ups on the doubles teams on Sunday. The Red Raiders rapidly gained the doubles point on the first two courts as first Zerbini and freshman Ben McLachlan and then Andrews and Konigsfeldt fell to their opponents.
After that Cal never got the oppor-tunity to turn the tide.
Despite senior Bozhidar Katsarov garnering a well-fought 7-6, 6-1, win against Texas Tech’s Raphael Pfister on court No. 6, three Bears on the top three courts fell in rapid succession to the Red Raiders.
Konigsfeldt lost to Texas Tech’s Raony Carvalho, Zerbini was bested by No. 20 Gonzalo Escobar and then sophomore Carlos Cueto proved un-able to overpower Rafael Garcia. With the final score decided, play stopped on the remaining two courts.
Most of Sunday’s losses were rela-tively close calls after four straight-set wins on Saturday.
Along with a second-place finish in the tournament, Cal also failed to earn one of 15 berths in the ITA National Indoor Team Championships, held in Seattle from Feb. 18-21.
Fortunately for Bears, they don’t have much time to dwell on the final loss. On Feb. 9, Hellman Tennis Com-plex will play host to Utah for Cal’s first home dual match of the season. And on Feb. 12, the Bears will pay homage to the Cal-Stanford rivalry with another home match against the Cardinal.
M. TENNIS: bears Tumble after Win over auburnfrom baCk
Annie Gerlach covers men’s tennis. Contact her at [email protected].
Track and Field
Underclassmen Anchor Big Weekend for Cal Up North
Surprisingly, the strongest efforts on the Cal track and field team came not from veterans, but from a pair of un-derclassmen. They did it in style, too.
Freshman Collin Jarvis and sopho-more Hammed Suleman pulverized their personal records to win their events at the University of Washington Invitational.
Jarvis took the title in the men’s 3000m and Suleman captured first place in the men’s triple jump. Sule-man also tied his personal record in the long jump for a second event title at the Dempsey Indoor Facility in Seattle.
Jarvis shattered his personal re-cord by nearly 15 seconds, breaking the eight-minute mark with a time of 7:59.85.
“It’s exactly how I envisioned my first meet; it went how I wanted it to go,” Jarvis said. “I’m working off of what I did in cross country, it translates pretty well for the 3000.”
He was only tenths of a second away from breaking the freshman record in the event for the Bears.
“I’ll have a couple more shots at it, I’m very certain I’ll be able to do it,” he said. “Hopefully the next time I run in a meet I’ll break it.”
Second and third-place finishers Scott Smith and Nathan Ogden fol-lowed close behind, finishing less than
by Byron AtashianStaff Writer
a second behind Jarvis.Jarvis’ main goal this season is to
run a 7:57. While the automatic quali-fier for the NCAA Championships is 7:54, he said the trend for the last few years has been accepting times of 7:57.
“Jarvis struggled a little bit last season but he’s coming into his own,” coach Tony Sandoval said. “(He) is a pretty talented kid, he was a state run-ner up coming out of high school.”
Suleman let his old personal record of 50-2.50 stand for only a week before shattering it by over a foot on Saturday with a jump of 51-5.75.
Last week’s personal record at the Cherry and Silver Invitational made him the first Cal triple jumper to sur-pass 50 feet since 2004.
Suleman didn’t settle for just the tri-ple jump title on Saturday, though. He went on to match last year’s career in-door best with a 24-6.25 mark, enough to add another title under his belt.
“I have a lot of expectations for Sule-man this season, he struggled last year as a freshman but now he’s coming into his own as well,” Sandoval said.
Suleman also has some high school accolades. He won the 2009 California state championship in the long jump with a distance of 25-2.25.
That mark is higher than any in his college career, indicating that he can still build on what he’s done so far.
Senior Alison Greggor ran a per-sonal record in the 3000m, too, fin-ishing third in the event. Her time of 9:26.58 is 10 seconds better than her old record.
The only Cal athlete to run a faster time since 1997 is her teammate Debo-rah Maier.
Byron Atashian covers track and field. Contact him at [email protected].
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Bears Fly ahead Early, Duck Oregon’s rally
When reserve guard Jeff Powers connected from deep, it looked like an-other rout was on.
Just two days after throttling Or-egon State, the Cal basketball team appeared well on its way to a second straight blow-out victory at Haas Pavilion.
Instead, the Bears had to survive an 85-77 dog fight against a gritty Oregon club.
Few thought Cal (11-9, 5-4 in the Pac-10) would have to break a sweat late, as it could do no wrong in the early going. Powers’ triple from straight away, the second basket of the freshman’s career, gave the Bears a commanding 29-11 advantage with 11:51 remaining.
Markhuri Sanders-Frison poured in a career-high 18 points to pace Cal, in-cluding eight in the first eight minutes. While Dana Altman’s Ducks waddled out of the gate, the Bears came out shooting 67 percent and hit four of their first five attempts from beyond the arc.
The team’s sizzling start would not last, however. At the halftime horn, Cal’s 18-point lead had been trimmed to 47-35.
“I can’t explain it,” Bears’ coach Mike Montgomery said. “We really sliced and diced early, we made plays. The thing that scared me was (Oregon’s) activity. They play a lot of guys with quick hands.
They’re really playing hard, Dana’s done a real nice job. They’re drinking the Kool-Aid of what he’s selling.”
With Sanders-Frison’s second foul sending him to the bench and Oregon (10-11, 3-6) cranking up its full-court press, Cal got sloppy. The Bears missed seven free throws in the opening 20 minutes, and committed 10 of their
by Ed YevelevSenior Staff Writer
11 first-half turnovers after Sanders-Frison’s exit at the 10:41 mark. Allen Crabbe was particularly frustrated — though he chipped in 18 points and seven rebounds, the freshman guard had four of the team’s first half give-aways.
“We knew they were a scrappy team,” Crabbe said. “We knew that they like to pressure. I know on my part that I didn’t know what I was doing in the first half. I kind of took myself out of the game because I kept making mis-takes and being hard on myself.”
Forward Joevan Catron was a force inside all game long for the Ducks, posting a game-high 22 points and bring down eight rebounds. Oregon also got strong performances from center Tyrone Nared (14 points and 10 rebounds) and junior guard Malcolm Armstead (16 on 7-of-9 shooting).
Nared’s 3-pointer brought his squad to within 73-70 with 3:46 left to play, but outside shooting would otherwise be the Ducks’ Achilles’ heel all after-noon long. Oregon finished just 8-of-26 from beyond the arc, and missed a number of 3-pointers that would have tied the game in the second half.
Meanwhile, Cal made the crucial plays down the stretch to come away with a victory. No one came up bigger than Jorge Gutierrez, who scored 17 points and dished out five assists.
The junior guard drilled a left cor-ner 3-pointer to put the Bears up, 71-65 with 4:48 to go. Gutierrez later clinched the game when he split two defenders, jump-stopped at the free throw line and fed a cutting Crabbe, whose lay-in gave Cal a 77-72 advan-tage at the 1:29 mark.
“Jorge’s play was big for us,” Crabbe said. “He knocked down a big three. Jorge is a leader. He’s going to do ev-erything that you want him to do. He came through for us big in the end.”
Bears Blank card, retain Scrum axe Once again
STANFORD — Senior Sean Gall-inger’s pass was a little too far beyond senior wing Blaine Scully’s hands. So Scully kicked the ball up in front of him and extended to catch it himself, eliciting a gasp of awe from the Cal-dominated crowd at Stanford’s Steuber Rugby Stadium on Saturday afternoon.
The drive completed the match day captain’s hat trick at the end of the first half, not that the Cal rugby team needed too many tricks to defeat the Cardinal.
The Bears (10-0) shut out Stanford (1-2) for the second straight year with a 74-0 win, and have not lost to the Cardi-nal since 1996.
After recording a hat trick in last year’s Scrum Axe, his first big collegiate match, outside center Seamus Kelly turned in another stellar performance, racking up two tries on the afternoon.
“Blaine made a great run, sucked in tons of defenders, put me through,” Kel-ly said. “I’d say that was a full team try.”
The Queens, N.Y., native was involved in other scoring drives, finding open field frequently during the match. Kelly set the tone early with a breakaway run in the second minute, which led to a try by senior flanker Derek Asbun.
Kelly wasn’t the only one demon-strating his awareness of the field. With a Stanford wing caught in a tackle and open space ahead, senior scrumhalf Connor Ring wisely kicked the ball to-ward the try zone. Scully chased it down and scored the game’s third try.
Cal registered eight tries in the first
by Christina JonesStaff Writer
road Woes for Bears as red raiders reign Easily at Home
As the ITA Kick-Off Weekend came to a close on Sunday, the No. 19 Cal men’s tennis team was unable to re-peat history, falling 4-1 to No. 15 Texas Tech.
Although the Bears (2-2) easily de-feated the Red Raiders (4-0) at the same event last year, the latter team walked away the victor this time at the Don and Ethel McLeod Tennis Com-plex in Lubbock, Texas.
Cal began the two-day tournament with a 4-2 win against Auburn on Saturday. The day started out promis-ingly as the No. 13 tandem junior Nick Andrews and sophomore Christof-fer Konigsfeldt won the first doubles match on the No. 2 court. However, the Tigers quickly took the next two matches to secure the doubles point.
On the No. 4 singles court, Andrews tied the match at one-all with a neat 6-4, 6-0, triumph over Auburn’s Rafael Rondino. And thus began a cat-and-mouse chase that persisted through the next three matches, with the Bears and Tigers trading wins until Konigs-feldt put Alex Stamchev away, 6-2, 6-4, and gained a 3-2 lead for Cal.
With the final score still up in the air and two courts still playing, Pedro Zerbini secured a win on the top court. After an easy first set, the senior held
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Bak Bak gave Cal valuable contributions off the bench on Saturday afternoon, chipping in with five rebounds and three points in 15 minutes of play against the Ducks at Haas.
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FootballOregon 77 Cal 85
M. TennisStout Second Half Helps Bears Hunt Down Ducks
Layshia Clarendon dropped a team-high 19 points and pulled down seven rebounds against the Ducks in Eugene, Ore. The Bears have won two of their last three contests.
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Cal women’s basketball coach Joanne Boyle told her team at half-time on Saturday not to leave any of Oregon’s shoot-ers open. They had caught fire in the first period and were leading the Bears by two points.
The defensive adjustments worked.The Ducks didn’t make any
3-pointers in the second half and Cal came back to defeat Oregon, 81-65, at Matthew Knight Arena in Eugene, Ore.
After shooting 7-for-14 from 3-point range in the first half, the Ducks missed all 11 of their attempts in the second half.
“That was the difference maker,” sophomore guard Layshia Clarendon said of the 3-point disparity. “We just really held them. We shut down their 3-point game. They are really either transition or 3-point, so we really tightened up on the shooters.”
Oregon’s junior forward Amanda Johnson scored her squad’s first 11 points in the game. She tallied 18 total in the first half, including four 3-point-ers, but was held to just eight points and made no threes in the second half.
“We emphasized that not one of their shooters could be open,” Boyle said. “We would give them the drive to the basket, but we weren’t going to give them an open three. I thought the kids did a nice adjustment, com-ing out and buying into that game plan.”
The Ducks may have rented the 3-point line for the first half, but the Bears (13-7, 5-4 in the Pac-10) owned the glass the entire game. Cal out-rebounded Oregon, 43 to 29, and grabbed 21 offensive rebounds.
by Jonathan KuperbergStaff Writer
Center Talia Caldwell was espe-cially dominant on the offensive glass. The sophomore pulled down eight re-bounds on the offensive end — 11 in all — to go with 17 points and a team-high five assists.
“Defensively and offensive re-bounding, on both ends of the floor, I think she was just a monster,” Boyle said. “When she plays like that and gets put-backs, goes to the free throw line and has been defending the way she does, then it is a great boost for us.”
The Bears’ offensive rebounding effort created easy baskets. Caldwell’s proficiency on the offensive glass led directly to 10 of her points. Four times she followed an offensive re-bound with a tip-in and another time she was fouled and made both free throws.
Still, in the first half, Cal had trouble getting good shot opportunities and was turning the ball over.
Clamping down defensively on Ore-gon’s 3-point shooting had much to do with the Bears’ 18-point differential in the second half, but there was another major factor.
“We were more patient in the sec-ond half,” Clarendon said, “We didn’t turn the ball over. We had 10 turnovers in the whole game and only two in the second half ... It was patience and good shot selection on our part.”
That patience enabled Cal to retake the lead early in the second half. The Ducks (12-8, 3-6) chipped away and narrowed the score to 56-53 at the midway mark of the period.
However, the Bears went on a 20-6 run to close out the game and net their first road sweep in Pac-10 play.
They hope to continue their recent road success when they travel to Ari-zona this week.
Jonathan Kuperberg covers women’s basketball. Contact him at [email protected].
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