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SPORTS
TimbeR! bears close out regular season with a home rout of rival Stanford.See bACK
ARTS
AGe OF WAR: Hannah Jewell reflects on ‘Ruined’ at the berkeley Rep.See PAGe 4
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exCelleNT ideA: Teams propose ideas for cutting extraneous costs around campus.See PAGe 2
Police Protest Response CriticizedAs protesters complain about the
use of pepper spray and batons by po-lice officers during Thursday’s protest, UCPD main-tains that the ac-tions were nec-essary in light of the situation.
As initially nine protest-ers stood atop a ledge on Wheeler Hall Thursday be-ginning at about 1:45 p.m., a crowd fluctuating between 50 to 300 people throughout the day began to culminate around the steps below, at one point prompting police to declare an unlaw-ful assembly and creating a situation where police officials said it became necessary to use strategies to clear the steps in order to both secure the build-ing and for fear that those above might fall.
To handle the situation, UCPD called in mutual aid from police departments in places like Oakland, Berkeley and
by Weiru FangStaff Writer
Legal Fate of Protesters Still Up in the Air
The legal fate of protesters involved in the March 2 and March 3 demonstra-tions is yet to be determined as protest-ers wait to see whether the district attorney will file charges against them.
All three pro-testers booked on charges of obstructing a peace officer in the line of duty during Wednesday’s Wheeler Hall sit-in have been released from jail as of early Saturday. The nine protesters who sat on a ledge atop Wheeler on Thursday are waiting to see whether charges will be brought against them and have not yet had their arraignment scheduled.
UCPD Chief of Police Mitch Celaya said police will encourage the district attorney to bring charges against the
by Sarah BurnsStaff Writer
ledge-sitters. However, as of Friday, police had not yet brought the cases to the office for review, according to Dep-uty district attorney Teresa Drenick.
Michael Veremans — a San Fran-cisco State University student who was among the Wednesday protesters to be booked for trespassing and obstruct-ing a peace officer — was released Thursday night from a holding cell at the Alameda County Sheriff ’s Office after posting a $10,000 bail.
Jason Ozolins and Elizabeth Bam-aca — also not UC Berkeley students — were arrested on suspicion of the same charges and released at about 12:15 a.m. Saturday on their own re-cognizance after having an arraign-ment Friday and the scheduling of a second arraignment set for March 18.
UC Berkeley sophomore Marco Amaral — one of the 17 protesters ar-rested on suspicion of trespassing after refusing to leave Wheeler on Wednes-day — said the group is waiting to see
whether the district attorney will bring charges against them after an incon-clusive arraignment Thursday. Though no charges were brought against them that day, the district attorney may still file charges for up to a year later.
Veremans said the three facing po-tential charges for obstructing a peace officer were also given citations stating they cannot return to campus for seven days, until March 10.
Though some protesters questioned the reasoning behind the obstructing a peace officer booking charge, Celaya said the three were arrested because they refused to cooperate with officers.
“Protesting doesn’t mean that they can do whatever they can to make the officers’ job as difficult as possible,” he said. “Whether they’re physically re-sisting or going limp and making the officers have to carry them is a safety issue for the officers.”
ASUC External Affairs Vice President Rallies for Change
Ricardo Gomez does not want to be a politician.
Though he has been involved in stu-dent government since becoming an intern three years ago in the office he now runs, the ASUC External Affairs Vice President said the job has con-vinced him not to remain on the po-litical track. For him, the bureaucracy of the political process is too great a detractor from his ability to create tan-gible change.
But that does not prevent him from engaging in a different brand of politi-cal involvement by using his office as a means of organizing around various
by J.D. MorrisStaff Writer
direct action campaigns. Instead of keeping focus on lobbying
legislators, Gomez prefers to help stu-dents and workers raise awareness about social issues and plan days of action, such as Oct. 7, 2010 and March 2. He reserves equipment, helps design fliers, distrib-utes Disorientation Guides and often participates in protests.
His unrelenting mantra has seen him arrested twice since taking office in August — at the October 2010 Blum Poverty Center sit-in and the protests at the UC Board of Regents’ meeting in November. He stresses the fact that he does not act as an ASUC execu-tive when his efforts take him so far,
Parents of Schoolchildren Push For Increased Pedestrian Safety
Zachary Cruz aspired to be a doctor or an astronaut and was a constant source of love and pride to his parents. But his dreams were cut short on Feb. 27, 2009 — 13 days before his sixth birthday — when he was hit and killed by a 2.5 ton truck at Warring and Derby streets.
In honor of their son, Frank and Jodie Cruz established the Zachary Michael Cruz Foundation to spread awareness about pedestrian safety in Berkeley. A year later, the city of Berke-ley declared March to be pedestrian safety month. In June 2010, the city adopted the Berkeley Pedestrian Mas-ter Safety Plan, a program designed to “raise the caliber of the existing pedes-trian environment.”
Each year the Berkeley Police De-partment analyzes safety statistics — such as the number of auto-auto and
by Theresa AdamsStaff Writer
pedestrian-auto collisions — to deter-mine the type of programs that will help promote safe driving. According to Berkeley police Sgt. Rob Rittenhouse, traffic accidents decreased by 2.45 per-cent from 2009 to 2010, while pedestri-an-auto accidents increased slightly.
Rittenhouse and other officers are reaching out to parents and students in informative classes this month, where officers will teach about traffic signals and rules for crossing streets safely.
However, following another pedes-trian-auto accident involving a 6-year old girl from Malcolm X Elementary School, who survived, Fidel Valenzu-ela, a Malcolm X parent, and other parents are concerned that the city has not done enough to improve pedes-trian safety.
“We have increased student popu-lation, but the city has failed to make safety improvements around the
ONLINE VIDEO Watch footage of last week’s demonstrations at Wheeler Hall.
ONLINE TIMELINETake a long look at a chronology of past UC Berkeley protests.
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Ricardo Gomez, the ASUC External Affairs Vice President, has personally changed the emphasis of his office from lobbying at the state level to protesting for change on campus.
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Zachary’s Corner is the memorialized intersection for the location where Zachary Cruz was hit by a truck at Warring and Derby Streets.jeff totten/staff
Emeryville.While trying to clear the steps, po-
lice yelled instructions to the crowd while pushing them with batons past the steps and a barricade was erected to hold the area. Pepper spray was em-ployed by one officer who was strug-gling with a couple people to close the door, said UCPD Police Chief Mitch Celaya.
“It comes down to people having a right to assemble and to protest, but at some point, when the people have to move for safety reasons, people also have an obligation to follow instruc-tions,” Celaya said.
However, protesters and passersby said they felt the police used excessive force and that pepper spray and batons were used without sufficient warning.
Sophomore and member of the Stu-dent Worker Action Team Jessica Astil-lero said she was pepper sprayed after studying in the doorway when police told her to move. Before she could get out of the way, police started hitting people and one police officer was wait-ing with pepper spray, she said.
“I just thought they would tell us be-
fore they charged. We weren’t expect-ing it,” Astillero said Thursday.
UC Berkeley senior Pourya Khademi said he was on his way to class when he saw the protest efforts and went to see what was going on. The police showed up without warning and started mov-ing, he said.
“The police hit us with the batons in the stomach with the tip of their stick. Absolutely full, full force,” said Khademi, a professional violinist who said he now suffers injuries to his left arm, making it difficult to play.
Still, according to UCPD Lt. Alex Yao, the main concern during protests is to ensure the safety of everyone pres-ent, but also to ensure that rules and policies are being followed.
“Our main concern is the safety of all those involved, including the dem-onstrators and the crowd,” Yao said. “At the same time, we must ensure that everyone’s rights are being observed ... and that rules and policies are being complied with.”
But Ph.D. student Callie Maidhof,
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Operational Excellence Teams Present Cost-Cutting Proposals
Reducing energy costs, creating an online course evaluation system and using new software to track the cam-pus budget comprise some of the goals of three Operational Excellence initia-tive teams, who presented draft pro-posals to the initiative’s coordinating committee Feb. 24 for consideration.
The proposals of the energy man-agement, finance and student services teams — published Feb. 28 on the ini-tiative’s website — outline business cas-es, requests for resources and budget summaries for projects the teams hope to pursue. The Program Office within Operational Excellence — a campus administrative cost-cutting project aimed at saving $75 million — must review the drafts before presenting them to the coordinating committee, which then decides whether changes are needed and whether to recom-mend them to the executive committee for approval later this semester before implementation begins.
by Alisha AzevedoStaff Writer
The coordinating committee recom-mended an altered version of the energy team’s proposals, removing the installa-tion of solar panels on the Recreational Sports Facility roof and a biodigester at the Richmond Field Station, according to Bill Reichle, communications man-ager for the program office.
Individual draft proposals for 30 to 40 projects will be presented to the executive committee by March 31. The coordinating committee will most likely decide later this month whether to recommend the finance and student services plans, according to Reichle.
The energy management team — which will submit its plans to the exec-utive committee March 11 — expects to save $3 million to $4 million annually and is requesting funding of $5 mil-lion to $11 million as well as additional funding to cover ongoing costs for implementation. The campus spends $17 million annually to supply electric-ity to the central campus, according to Christine Shaff, communications di-rector for facilities services.
The team hopes to provide mon-
etary incentives for campus units that decrease electricity use and give work order credits to recruit people from Physical Plant-Campus Services to make buildings more energy-efficient, said Lisa McNeilly, initiative manager and campus director of sustainability.
“What we’ll do is set a baseline based on historic usage, and if (the units) consume less electricity, we’ll share the savings with them,” she said.
The finance team submitted drafts for its Cal Budget and Planning project to implement Hyperion Planning — a budget planning and analysis software system intended to help keep budget information updated — in addition to the campus’s other enterprise systems, such as BFS9 and BAIRS.
The team’s budget draft calls for over $6.1 million in funding to imple-ment the system, Reichle said.
The student services team proposed to replace paper course evaluations, which cost the campus about $510,000 per year, with the online Sakai Evalu-ation System — which is expected to save about $160,000 annually and
should be available by spring 2013, according to Anne De Luca, initia-tive manager and university registrar. Evaluation results would be published on the online schedule of classes.
“We’ve heard very positive com-ments from departments about this proposal,” De Luca said in an e-mail. “They do not want staff to have to use their time to prepare, distribute, col-lect, and tabulate paper evaluations.”
Operational Excellence Program Head Andrew Szeri sent an e-mail Thursday sharing the organizational simplification team’s Jan. 28 draft report on shared service centers for the campus. The full proposal will be presented to the coordinating committee March 10.
About eight shared service centers — consolidating information technol-ogy, finance and human resources — are expected to secure savings between $20 million and $35 million and will be completed January 2012.
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I believe that a fine way to test a person’s character is to play them at pool.
Harold Hill warned about the perils of pool-playing in “The Music Man,” singing to the good people of River City that they had trouble. “Trouble with a capital ‘T’ and that rhymes with ‘P’ and that stands for ‘Pool.’” Accept a pool table into your community, and it means one thing: libertine men and scarlet women.
“Ya got trouble,” indeed.Last December, my co-op purchased
a pool table. Well, we purchased the parts to a pool table and put it together almost, almost perfectly. It would have been perfect, too, if it weren’t for a single nail that was adhered under the felt, to take any innocently-rolling ball and turn it into a deadly bullet, ricocheting clear off the table and towards the face of whatever man or creature stood near.
And alas, as Mr. Hill prophesized, things took a turn for the worse at the Andres Castro Arms student co-operative.
Cues were dropped, bent and broken. Feet were stomped in expressions of triumph or despair. The people downstairs moved out without so much as a goodbye.
The foosball table stood sadly in a corner, forgotten.
Formerly kind people became ruthless tyrants. People, who in that past would not have harmed a fly, were suddenly shaking their dearest friends by the shoulders in rages of defeat. People who used to spend hours studying calmly took to long nights of screaming at the eight ball to just roll a little further, just a little damn further, damn it!
And by “people,” I mean “me.”This new creature in my midst, this
felted thing to be mastered, awaited me. So I played, I yelled, I laughed, I cried. I practiced my bank shot, my jump shot and a particularly powerful little move known colloquially as “the ol’ Hannah Jewell.”
Soon enough I was out with an injury. My pool arm, worn out. My right shoulder would spasm with any shot that required more force than a feeble tap. My game was ruined. I was ruined.
I took some time off from my pool career. I rested up. I reflected fondly on dear memories of alienating people with my rage.
I realized, eventually, that my pool injury was for the best — for my game and for my life. I was forced to learn more gentle shots. And I was forced to stop being such a douchebag.
I should have known the trap I had laid for myself by entering the pool world. People who care about being good at pool are people prone to becoming unrelenting assholes.
On more than one occasion, I have lost interest in a guy once he
revealed his douchebaggery at a pool table. One young man — so cute, so freckled, so apparently innocent — showed his true colors after offering condescending advice and getting just a tad too enraged when his partner messed up. From an eligible sweetheart to an unbearable tool in under 20 minutes.
But a guy or gal who can swoop in, calmly sink four stripes in a row, without the raucous celebration that I am incapable of succeeding without — that’s a shark. The highest title of honor for any player of pool.
Competitiveness runs rampant in Berkeley.
There are thousands of us at this university. And there are thousands of universities. We are crawling around like ants. Instead of grains of sugar we are seeking A’s and letters of recommen-dation to bring back to our queen. Which, I suppose, is our futures. This is a terrible, terrible analogy. I apologize.
I like to imagine that part of growing up is like learning how to transform from a competitive imbecile — flailing the cue about, arms akimbo — to a cool, calm and collected shark, who barely blinks after executing the sweetest god damn shot the world has ever seen. Who offers a firm handshake and no excuses after a loss to a worthy opponent.
Two things cause me to lose faith in this hope of mine. Firstly, the sheer number of adults — I’m talking real-live grown-ups — who hide their competi-tive asshole selves under a veneer of maturity, employment and receding hairlines. They reveal their true colors in a number of specific scenarios. Monopoly games. Internet forums.
Secondly, I know for a fact that I was a generous and kind child, a child who once traded her silver medal for her best friend’s bronze one to make her feel better after a middle school drama competition. And I have no idea where that cute little urchin has gone.
I once was so sure of myself that I needed only my own recognition to feel good. Now, I wish I could show each and every one of you readers my sweet, sweet pool victory the other night. I came back from the edge of defeat and sunk, like, five balls in one — er, whoops, I temporarily forgot the point of this column. But seriously, you should have seen it.
You may not play pool, but each and every one of us has some activity which tests character and confidence. Maybe yours is that “sports” thing I keep hearing about. Maybe it’s school.
Too many Berkeley students can’t handle defeat, can’t handle the feeling of being not-the-best at something, or everything. So I invite each and every one of you to chalk up a cue, step up to the proverbial pool table and practice the art of losing gracefully.
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police: Some Onlookers Complain About Safety frOm frOnt
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arrests: Activists Question reasoning Behind ChargesfrOm frOnt
Among the nine on the ledge Thurs-day, UC Berkeley junior Alex Poska was first to be arrested at around 2:38 p.m. af-ter police pulled him off of the ledge and into Wheeler through a window. Poska was arrested on suspicion of trespassing with intent to injure property and taken to the Berkeley Jail Facility where he was kept for processing until about 9 p.m.
Poska said he has been instructed by legal aid that his charge will be convert-ed into an infraction, though Alameda County records still report an arraign-ment scheduled for April 5. Poska said he does not believe he inflicted any property damage, despite the possible charge.
“The only thing we did was tie peo-ple to the decorative vases outside the building so in case they did fall, they didn’t die,” he said.
The other ledge-sitters were cited for trespassing and released at the scene at about 8:45 p.m. Thursday after choos-ing to leave the ledge. UCPD Lt. Alex Yao said the fact that those protesters were cited and released rather than brought into the police station for more formal processing could be why they have yet to show up in Alameda County logs or have an arraignment scheduled.
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said the actions taken by police did not demonstrate that they were trying to protect anyone’s safety. Maidhof said the measures seemed counterproduc-tive in subduing protesters, with the number of people swelling when the police arrived.
Celaya maintained that officers “lawfully moved people back.” When some did not comply, “it was neces-sary to physically move them back,”
said Celaya.Khademi, who was also hit in the
face with pepper spray, said the worst part was that even though he wanted to get away, he was stuck in the crowd.
“It felt horrendous. I really wanted to die in that moment,” Khademi said.
Adelyn Baxter of The Daily Califor-nian contributed to this report.
In 2000, Nelson Mandela said in an interview with the National Geographic: “I dream of an
Africa which is in peace with itself.” But in the Congo, more than five mil-lion have died in the past ten years of war. Clearly, Mandela’s dream is far from realized.
Lynn Nottage’s “Ruined,” now play-ing at Berkeley Rep’s Roda Theatre, provides a glimpse into this bloody conflict. In a dark but hopeful pro-duction directed by Liesl Tommy, “Ruined” brings Berkeley audiences
closer to a world they could otherwise easily ignore.
In a phone interview last week, Tommy expressed her hope that the play could help combat ignorance. “It can put a humanizing face on the newspaper stories that people might not read, because it’s too depressing,” she said. “But you can watch the play and connect with individuals and see people’s humanity — and it can make you care.”
“Ruined” centers on a group of women who have escaped the threat of death and sexual violence in the east Congo by seeking refuge in a small brothel. These women, victims
of unthinkable sexual crimes, work nightly entertaining soldiers and min-ers to survive.
This arrangement is far from ideal, but there are no simple answers for these characters — and there are no simple characters. The men and women of Nottage’s story defy easy moral judgment. One character vic-timizes another, but may herself have suffered the worst of war.
Hundreds of thousands of women have been victims of rape in the Congo. To be “ruined” is to have been so violently sexually assaulted, some-times with a weapon or other foreign object, as to destroy the urogenital
system, causing incontinence and infertility. Many are also “ruined” socially, rejected by their husbands and communities. Some of the char-acters in “Ruined” have suffered fistu-la and the stigma of rape and its aftermath.
To prepare for the intensity of Nottage’s material, Tommy put her cast through a rigorous research pro-cess. According to Tommy, after watching multiple documentaries to orient themselves politically and his-torically, her cast gained “a strong sense of responsibility and a burning passion to tell these peoples’ stories.”
by Hannah JewellSenior Staff Writer
Hands up. Now wave them up and down. Pump your fists into the air. Whip yo’ hair. Bust out
‘em elbows. Mosh to your heart’s content. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the proper decorum for a Crystal Castles concert.
Known for their seizure-inducing light shows, the electronic duo did not disappoint during their set at the Warfield last Friday. Alice Glass’ part-screeching and part-melodic vocals, Ethan Kath’s mastery of the bass line and the strobe lights’ unceasing attack made for a performance that was both a health hazard and the epitome of every raver’s dream.
The Crystal Castles invasion was instant and unforgettable. There was no small talk — neither of the two uttered a single word to the audience. Wearing black hoods, they quietly slipped on stage without any showiness and immediately unleashed the cacopho-nous “Fainting Spells,” giving the crowd a taste of the chaos that was to come.
The bombardment of impossibly bright neon colors was painful to stare at yet difficult to look away from, making Crystal Castles’ light show the standard by which all other displays should be judged. In certain cases, such as their rendition of “Air War,” the patterns were tasteful and synced to match the beat of the music; in others, like “Yes No,” reality blurred as the luminous explosion forced everything to move in slow motion. Blinding flashes, burning lights and psychedelic colors all worked in unison to fuck with your vision while the deafening beats successfully ensured that your ears would never be the same again.
With such mind-boggling visuals, it’s easy for the band to fade into the background. But Crystal Castles were not one to forgo an opportunity for theatricality. Glass, who had broken her ankle, stubbornly refused doctors’ orders and continued to dance around as if nothing was wrong, crutches and all. Her delicate frame worked the stage as she delivered her trademark headbanging, while Kath hunched over the mix board and launched the pulsating beats that fueled the party.
Liking Crystal Castles’ music is not a prerequisite for enjoying their live performance. Their strategy is to create a dazzling experience rather than a comprehensive showcase of their songs. Tracks like “Baptism” and “Intimate” proved to be the exception; the effects only bolstered the songs’ accessibility. But when it came to pieces like “Doe Deer” — whose blatantly messy discord makes it an odd set list choice — Crystal Castles fed off of the crowd’s energy and magnified it in a frenzied showcase, rather than attempt to force the track’s hidden charm upon listeners.
Crystal Castles’ innovation acts as both a rise to fame and a potential downfall. Their rough, almost-scream-ing instrumentals create a surprisingly melodic rhythm that made their debut refreshing. But their second album, which was more or less a repeat of the techniques of Crystal Castles, illustrates
by Cynthia KangStaff Writer
Wax nostalgic with Zachary at [email protected].
At the risk of sounding parochial, I’m going to go out on a limb and say that from 2006 to
2008, Los Angeles was the site of the most exciting underground music scene of the past decade. For a few short years, a host of young punk/noise/art-rock bands was playing all-ages shows at the Smell almost every weekend. One of the scene’s most cru-cial players was the tropical punk (yes, that’s a real thing) outfit Abe Vigoda. Back then, they dealt in a mellower, more playful version of the deliberate aggression proffered by luminaries like No Age. Like many of their compatri-ots, Vigoda has spent the last few years creeping slowly into the indie main-stream as evinced by their Thursday night double bill at the Rickshaw Stop with shoegazers Wild Nothing.
To an enthusiast of Vigoda’s early, less polished output, this might seem like an incongruous pairing, but the band has matured (though some might say they’ve degenerated) since their rough-and-tumble period at the Smell. Their recent output’s more contempla-tive, significantly slower, and more reli-ant on synthesizer and semi-gimmicky guitar effects. They’ve now got more in common with the heartfelt broodiness of a band like Wild Nothing than the fierce pugnacity of their predecessors No Age and Mika Miko.
Thursday’s show unfurled much like any other small venue indie rock event. The bands bantered wryly and bluffed their way through a couple of technical
by Zachary RitterStaff Writer
hitches. The ugly specter of NorCal/SoCal tension reared its head during Vigoda’s set, when keyboardist/guitarist Juan Velazquez mentioned how anxious he was to return to L.A. and the crowd responded with indignant silence.
Other than that, everything shook out smoothly, if uninspiringly. Wild Nothing’s shimmering arpeggios and synths are nothing new, but they do it well enough. Vigoda’s set was tight and well-constructed, but it exuded a defi-nite lethargy. If Vigoda want to pursue a new sound, that’s fair enough, but one hopes they’d be able to do so without losing the energy and sense of fun that fueled their tenure at the Smell.
Vigoda used to be a band people would mosh to, but Thursday’s set didn’t inspire anything more kinetic than nodding and swaying. Both bands played competently, but at no point did either of them demonstrate any real tendency towards unabashed rocking. They took up their spots behind the mikes and plugged away professionally for 40-odd minutes. Technically, a band is at work when it plays a show, but it sure as hell shouldn’t seem that way.
This is what people are talking about when they say things like, “I was there from the beginning, man! I knew about them before they were cool!” Abe Vigoda is going places, and nobody should begrudge them their success or their right to evolve creatively. Still, for some of us, they’ll never be as awesome as they were during those few glorious years at the Smell.
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Gomez: Effectiveness of Activism Draws Debatefrom front
though he had never been arrested be-fore coming to the position.
For three years, Gomez saw the ex-ternal affairs office maintain its tradi-tional lobbying focus, which he viewed as an ineffective strategy in light of on-going budget cuts.
Then the university announced a 32 percent systemwide fee increase in No-vember 2009, and Gomez saw results.
After demonstrators occupied Wheeler Hall and thousands protested on Sproul Plaza, he saw then Gov. Ar-nold Schwarzenegger present a budget with a $370 million funding increase for the UC from the year before.
“I attuned to a different kind of or-ganizing that wasn’t just ‘let’s go talk to legislators,’ it was ‘lets do something about what’s going on here,’” he said.
It was a time when thousands of stu-dents across the state were mobilized in protest. The efforts at UC Berkeley resonated with Gomez as issues he had cared about were thrust to the fore-front, prompting him to channel the spirit of the Free Speech Movement — a time when he said student gov-ernment leaders were more directly engaged with social issues.
“What I saw was that there is this effective realm of political organizing that the ASUC is sort of ignoring or hasn’t been as engaged with and that it doesn’t have to be that way because it hasn’t always been that way,” Gomez said. “It really motivated me to see the
ASUC in a different light.”Gomez is quick to point out that he
does not take sole credit for any of the activist efforts he has been a part of — his philosophy centers around being a “coalition partner” in a collaborative effort for change.
His predecessor Dani Haber, howev-er, approached the position differently. For Haber — and many before her — it was about lobbying for student inter-ests at the state level and advocating on their behalf to campus administra-tors when necessary.
“When there were x-amount of stu-dents in Wheeler, I was out there with a bullhorn,” Haber said. “And then when the big decisions were being made ... I was in the room because I had good re-lationships with (the administrators).”
The attention Gomez has devoted to organizing has meant he has de-veloped less of a relationship with the campus administration than Haber had while in office. Gomez referred to his dealings with administrators as a “rough area” because, for the most part, he said he only communicates with them after students’ rights have been violated.
“You have to give your adminis-trators, and your peers in general, a certain amount of respect in order to receive it,” Haber said. “What he fails to understand is how you can leverage your power in your relationships and that building strong, powerful rela-tionships is the best way to get what you want in life.”
The relationships Gomez has instead opted to build are with fellow organiz-ers and others in the activism commu-nity. Marco Amaral, a sophomore and campus activist who was most recently arrested along with 16 others for the March 2 sit-in at Wheeler Hall, said he sees Gomez as a brother.
“I think that being part of the people, being with the people, being a person of the people is what matters, not just hid-ing behind a desk,” Amaral said. “That’s something I really admire about him.”
But for now at least, Gomez is keep-ing a low profile.
He said that after being arrested for his civil disobedience twice before, a less visible role is necessary for fear of charges from the district attorney.
On March 2 and 3, while protest-ers were staging sit-ins inside and on the fourth-floor ledge of Wheeler Hall, he remained a background fig-ure, moving equipment and letting others have their turn at the bull-horn — in most respects, appearing to be just another member of the crowd. But he is integrated into the movement as well as the ASUC, and though the campus met some of the protesters’ demands, he said his fight is not yet over.
“I don’t think we’ve ever been any-where near a point where students should be satisfied,” he said. “No mat-ter what, we have to keep on mobiliz-ing, but I do think that these were victories and I do think that it shows that direct action works.”
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safety: Community members Call for City Supportfrom front
school to prevent traffic accidents,” Va-lenzuela said.
As part of the awareness month, Malcolm X staff, parents and stu-dents have scheduled a Rally for Safety Wednesday and with the help of the Alameda County Public Health De-partment, are holding a local “Walk and Roll Day,” an international event in October when students around the world walk or bike to school.
“We work where there is school support, a teacher champion or par-ent liaison,” said Rachel Davidman, Berkeley and Albany education and site safety coordinator for Safe Routes to School, the organization that spon-sors “Walk and Roll Day.” “We must make sure infrastructures around school are safe. In order to do this, we must work with city and county orga-nizations as well as community based organizations.”
Contact Theresa Adams at [email protected].
The city’s Department of Public Works, police department and Public Health Division have been working to identify outdated signage and review accident data in areas that have been determined to be the most danger-ous locations for pedestrians, said city spokesperson Mary Kay Clunies-Ross.
“We want them to slow down, look around and put their cell phones down,” Sgt. Rittenhouse said.
Cynthia Kang is the lead music critic. Contact her at [email protected].
Hannah Jewell is the lead theater critic. Contact her at [email protected].
ruined: nottage Play Exudes masterful Pathosfrom PAGE 4
Despite the trauma of the process, she believes it was time well spent. “I think this is the strongest version of the production thus far,” she said. Liesl has already directed “Ruined” for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, La Jolla Playhouse and Huntington Theatre Company.
“They’ve just gotten better and better and gone deeper and deeper and become more committed with every audience," she said. "It’s incredibly moving and I can’t help but be proud of them. It’s very draining to do this kind of work, to go to these traumatic, emo-tional places every night.”
For all its pain, the production has several surprising moments of levity, framed by the beautifully detailed jun-gle scenery designed by Clint Ramos. Music plays a leading role in bringing peace to moments of chaos.
“The fabulous Congolese music that the musicians bang out there every night — it really helps uplift,” said Tommy. “For the actors too — they get to dance and they get to sing and it helps balance expressions of joy with expressions of anguish. I think it’s essential for them as well as for the audience.”
“Ruined” does not allow its audience much escapism. Viewing this play means more than becoming a spectator to another bloody conflict in Africa. It is a highly emotional work, and one that implicates its audience in the trag-edies it portrays.
Because the fact is that Americans are partly responsible for this conflict and all the horrors it entails: kidnap-
ping, enslavement, torture, rape of young women, of elderly women, of men and boys. Congo’s violence is sus-tained today, even after an official peace agreement in 2003, due to the trade in so-called “conflict minerals” such as coltan, used in the manufacture of everyday electronics used by Americans. The Enough Project esti-mates armed militias earn $183 million each year trading these minerals.
These are the very soldiers responsi-ble for conducting mass rape.
For all its ability to educate audienc-es about the situation in Congo, “Ruined” manages to avoid diatribe. Although “Ruined” is set in a specific place and time, its subject is universal: the horror of war and the struggle for survival.
These themes are driven in this pro-duction by a number of powerful and moving performances. Tonye Patano as Mama Nadi, the self-proclaimed busi-nesswoman and leader of the brothel, defies description. She taps into a deep well of pain that fills the entire stage with her smallest breath or gesture. She also provides many of the play’s moments of comic relief. Humor, some-how, is a consistent force in “Ruined.”
“People are people no matter what their circumstances are,” Tommy explained.
“Even though the material can be grim and the circumstances horrific, we’re watching people fight for hope and survival, and there are moments of joy and laughter and silliness and hope. Because that’s life.”
castles: frenzied Show Proves raver’s Delightfrom PAGE 4
the temptation of reverting to old tricks. Their struggle to stay relevant, however, becomes less of a challenge, as indicated by their flawless control over their live shows. One of the spare delights of Crystal Castles II is the showcase of Glass’ breathy vocals, a stark contrast to her typically eerie shrieks.
The band’s set highlighted this
ethereal nature, as Glass commanded the stage with her renditions of the dreamy “Celestica” and “Not in Love.” Performing with a meticulously engineered execution, Crystal Castles delivered hard-hitting beats with disorienting visuals, ensuring a musical hangover that’s hard to shake off.
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ISRAELI APARTHEID WEEK
Events are sponsored by Middle East Children Alliance, Law
Students for Justice in Palestine, Muslim Student Association, &
South Bay Mobilization
• Monday, March 7th 7 PM 2060 VLSB
Movie screening of Soweto to Berkeley followed by a panel of
UC Berkeley student activists speaking on Palestine, Berkeley
and Apartheid. Soweto to Berkeley is a documentary which
explores the student protests and debates at UC Berkeley
during 1985-86.
• Wednesday, March 9th 7 PM Boalt Hall Room 100
"Life Under Occupation and Palestinian Civil Society's call for
Boycott, Divestment And Sanction". Panel includes Bazian (UC
Berkeley), Mira Nabulsi (SFSU) and Ziad Abbas (MECA)
ISRAELI PEACE AND DIVERSITY WEEK
Israel is a diverse society with equal rights for all citizens, and
wants peace with its neighbors. Come learn and celebrate! Full
schedule at http://tikvahsfi.berkeley.edu/ipd.
• Monday, March 7th 7-9 PM 215 Dwinelle Hall
Life Under Fire: The Israeli Victims of Hamas Terrorism- a
presentation by Yaakov Lapin about how rocket attacks from
Gaza have affected the lives of the Southern Israeli civilians.
• Tuesday, March 8th 7-9 PM 160 Dwinelle Hall
Art Meets Justice: Portrait of the Israeli Artist as a Social Justice
Activist- a presentation by Netally Schlosser, a world-renowned
painter, also known for her activism to improve the lives of
Darfur refugees who have found asylum in Israel.
• Wednesday, March 9th 12-1 PM Sproul Plaza
Peace Rally with music, Israeli folk dancing, the Jewish vocal
group Kol Hadov, and more!
• Thursday, March 10th 8-9:30 PM 110 Barrows Hall
Forgotten Refugees: Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and
North Africa- a presentation by JIMENA about the return of
Jews to their homeland in Israel.
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Thursday, March 10, 155 Dwinelle;, 7pm (6pm meet
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Electroboy is Andy Behrman, the author of
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attempts.
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Monday, March 7th Major Madness on the Plaza
11am-2pm @ Upper Sproul Prepare to Declare
5-6:30pm @ Unit 1, L-40 Majoring in What you Love 7-8pm @ Unit 1 All Purpose Room Tuesday, March 8th Major Madness on the Plaza 11am-2pm @ Upper Sproul Student Faculty Dinner 6-9pm Clark Kerr Garden Room (reservations) Doubling Up and Capping Off 7-8pm @ Unit 1 All Purpose Room Wednesday, March 9th Crossroads Majors Faire 5-7pm @ Crossroads Dining Babbling with the Biological Sciences Panel 6-7pm @ Foothill Classroom A Feeling Social? Panel 7-8pm @ Unit 2 All Purpose Room Thursday, March 10th Café 3 Majors Faire 12-2pm @ Café 3 Unit 3 People, Cultures, and More 6-7pm Unit 1 @ All Purpose Room Money, Politics and Policy Panel 7-8pm @ Unit 3 All Purpose Room
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7SPORTS & MARKETPLACE Monday, March 7, 2011The Daily Californian
Bears Still Can’t Chop Down Cardinal’s Home Dominance
W. TENNIS
For the past 12 years, the No. 6 Cal women’s tennis team has been unable to put a stop to Stanford’s home win-ning streak.
“I really want to see that record go away,” Bears coach Amanda Augustus said. “I’m tired of hearing about it, even back in the days when I was a student.”
Unfortunately for Augustus and her squad, that record is here to stay, at least for now.
After defeating Sacramento State 6-1 at Hellman Tennis Complex on Friday, Cal became victim No. 173 to Stanford’s dominant streak at the Taube Tennis Center with a 5-2 loss on Saturday.
The No. 2 Cardinal have not lost in Stanford since February 27, 1999, a 5-4 loss to the Bears. Augustus was the star senior on that squad, the last to snatch a victory from the Cardinal at the Farm.
“It takes a little extra to beat Stan-ford at home,” Augustus said. “They are fiercely defensive of the streak. They will battle as hard as they need to win at home.”
Despite losing to its archrival in front of a full house, Cal (10-2, 2-0 in the Pac-10) showed an uncanny amount of optimism and encourage-ment.
The squad’s two points came from the unlikeliest source: the top two singles courts, where No. 4 Jana Ju-ricova and senior Mari Andersson pulled off upsets against top-ranked Hilary Barte and No. 24 Mallory Bur-dette, respectively.
Barte retired due to an injury after losing the first set to Juricova, while
by Seung Y. LeeStaff Writer
Andersson was able to hold off Bur-dette, 6-3, 5-7, 1-0(7), in a third-set tiebreaker. It would be the team’s only singles victory of the competi-tion at Taube.
The match was close throughout doubles and singles. Stanford (13-0, 2-0) squeaked away with the doubles point after the tandem of Carolyn McVeigh and Stacey Tan held on to win against Marina Cossou and Anett Schutting, 8-6.
In singles, Stacey Tan came back to beat Schutting, 2-6, 7-6(5), 1-0(4) in a third-set tiebreaker after losing the first set.
Had a few points gone the other way for the Bears, they would have had the four points necessary to snap Stanford’s streak.
“The momentum was going back for the doubles point, and we had chances to get the point,” Augustus said.
“The score does not indicate how close the match was. On every court, there were no instances where one player from either team was getting destroyed.”
From the start of the season, Au-gustus has emphasized the impor-tance of the doubles point as a spring that helps the team jump out to a good start. Cal has dropped the dou-bles point in both of its defeats this season, the other one coming against Northwestern.
The Bears will go down to Tempe, Ariz. to take on No. 3 Duke and Ari-zona State next week. With another contest against a top-five team, Au-gustus is looking for her players to bounce back from the loss against Stanford.
Seung Y. Lee covers women’s tennis. Contact him at [email protected].
m. SWImmINg
Card Edges Cal, Continues Pac-10 Reign
Heading into the Pac-10 Champion-ships, most people figured this would be the Cal men’s swimming team’s best shot in recent history at snapping Stanford’s 29-year reign atop the conference.
The Bears are going to have to wait at least one more year to end that streak.
No. 1 Cal took second at this week-end’s Pac-10 Championships at the Belmont Plaza Pool in Long Beach, Calif., with 864 points. No. 2 Stanford won the meet for the 30th consecutive year with 911 points, and No. 7 USC took third with 534 points.
The Bears (4-1) did, however, man-age to win nine of 18 swimming events on the weekend.
Despite being unshaven and un-rested, sophomore Tom Shields was named Swimmer of the Meet after winning two individual events, the 200-yard butterfly (1:40.31) and the 100 backstroke (45.65), and compet-ing on three winning relays.
Most of the Bears, including Shields,
by Connor ByrneStaff Writer
did not shave down, and only a few re-duced training in preparation for the meet. The team will fully shave and re-duce their training yardage for NCAAs.
“We still had good swims across the board,” coach David Durden said. “Our guys should have some great confi-dence going into the next few weeks.”
One of the Bears’ championship relays was the 400 freestyle, in which the team of Shields and seniors Na-than Adrian, Graeme Moore and Josh Daniels set a new Pac-10 record with a time of 2:48.16. Cal’s 200 medley relay also broke a conference record with its first-place finish at 1:23.92.
However, the Bears struggled in the distance events, and Stanford (7-0) took full advantage. Cardinal junior Chad La Tourette defended his Pac-10 title in the 1650 freestyle (14:38.13), and was just one of four to swim for Stanford in the final heat of eight.
“There are a couple of areas of con-cern that aren’t necessarily our areas of strength,” Durden said. “We just need to take advantage in the areas that we are strong.”
Stanford also benefitted from a strong performance by its divers, high-lighted by qualifiers in the top eight for the platform. The Bears didn’t even qualify anyone for the event finals.
Cal did have some impressive indi-vidual performances, which bodes well heading into NCAAs. For the third year in a row, senior Damir Dugonjic took the conference title in the 100 breaststroke (51.88), and senior Na-than Adrian won the 50 and 100 free-styles (19.00 and 41.75).
“We had a really great opportunity to swim fast, and I think we took ad-vantage of that,” Durden said. “We’re just really excited about what’s next.”
The Bears will compete in the NCAA Championships in Minneapolis, which start on March 24. In 2010, the Bears ended up taking second at the NCAAs, just behind national champion Texas.
“All year long, our expectations, hopes and goals have been geared to-wards NCAAs,” Adrian said. “We’re not going to change anything now.”
Connor Byrne covers men’s swimming. Contact him at [email protected].
Christina Jones covers rugby. Contact her at [email protected].
RUGBY: Cal Sharp After Close Call Against UBCfrom BACk
came a mere three minutes apart.“They were really team tries, to be
honest,” Asbun said. “That was just all the forwards pushing hard.”
Senior flyhalf James Bailes said it was the “best 80 minutes” the forwards have played thus far. Clark juggled his forwards rotation, adding senior Ryan Hodson as a fourth forward in the back row instead of lock/flanker Bren-dan Daly.
A complete game effort was a good sign for Cal, which has previously struggled to play consistently in both
halves.“I think we had a pretty good work
rate today,” Clark said. “We didn’t really fall off of it for any length of time.”
Asbun was among three Bears to score multiple times, with senior fly-half/center Sean Gallinger and sopho-more center Seamus Kelly each chip-ping in two scores. Notably absent was Asbun’s fellow co-captain, Blaine Scully, who sat out on Saturday af-ter an injury forced him off the pitch against UBC.
Going into the match, the Bears were uncertain about the type of game
the Aztecs would play under first-year coach Craig Hartley. When Cal prod-uct Matt Sherman was on the coach-ing staff the past two years, San Diego State’s systems were very similar to the ones Clark employs.
Hartley, who has no connection to the Bears, ran different systems, but the Aztecs’ toughness was the same this past weekend.
“They have some athletic guys that run pretty hard, especially in their backs,” Clark said. “We were asked to make some tackles against some strong, athletic men. We were up for being physical.”
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Bears rip Card in Pac-10 Finale
Richard Solomon scored just six points on the afternoon, but they came in dramatic fashion. All three of the freshman forward’s buckets were powerful, wide open dunks.
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When asked about how he felt after his team’s dominating performance to end the regular season, Cal’s lone senior cracked a smile and briefly pondered the question.
“I’m just try-ing to enjoy life,” Markhuri Sand-ers-Frison said.
After yet another great p e r f o r m a n c e in what may have been his final game at Haas Pavilion, the Cal men’s basketball team’s big friendly giant will probably remember this moment long after his collegiate career concludes.
Anchored by suffocating man de-fense and a splendid second half from freshman Allen Crabbe, the Bears thoroughly dominated both ends of the floor on Saturday night en route to a 74-55 annihilation of Stanford at Haas Pavilion. Cal (17-13, 10-8 in the Pac-10) finished the regular season tied for fourth in conference play and will face USC in the first round of the Pac-10 Tournament on Thursday.
“I think finishing with 17 (wins) and 10 (in the conference) is fabulous,” Bears coach Mike Montgomery said. “I know that with this group I am very pleased with what they were able to get done this far in the year.”
Everybody who took the floor for the Bears seemed to stand out, but Saturday belonged to Sanders-Frison. Nicknamed “The Beast,” the center turned in a fero-cious physical performance, scoring 13 points, grabbing 13 rebounds and help-ing limit Stanford’s starting frontcourt to eight combined points.
Forward Harper Kamp, who finished with 20 points, admitted that the Bears were “pretty sour” about the 14-point loss they suffered across the Bay in Janu-ary. From the opening tip, it was appar-ent that Cal was out to prove that it was a different squad than the one that was trounced by the same Stanford team.
By applying constant pressure both on the perimeter and in the paint, the Bears manhandled the Cardinal (15-15, 7-11) to start the game. Stanford scored only four points in the opening 11:01.
A “man” team that has been forced to play a lot of zone this season, Cal was clearly excited to man up against an ath-letically formidable Cardinal lineup.
“We wanted to get out and jump on them like we did against UCLA,” Sand-ers-Frison said. “That was a great game plan by the coaching staff.”
Stanford’s leading scorer Jeremy
by Gabriel BaumgaertnerSenior Staff Writer
Green was held effectively in check in the opening minutes of the game when Cal built its lead. Though he still had 14 first half points, the junior guard only seemed to score on free throws and no-tably impressive individual efforts.
Freshman Dwight Powell, who torched the Bears for 20 points in Janu-ary, was a non-factor, scoring only four points and struggling with the physical play of Kamp and Sanders-Frison.
“What happens is you wear people down a little bit,” Montgomery said of his team’s defense. “(The other team) loses their confidence and ability to go to a certain guy ... I thought our guys were pretty persistent on defense.”
While the season is far from over,
Montgomery lauded the team’s veteran leaders — notably Sanders-Frison — on the final home game of the regular sea-son.
“They have been spectacular,” Mont-gomery said. “We talked with Jorge (Gutierrez), Harper and Markhuri and told them that they needed to take over this thing and they really, really did.”
As for the big man? It was an emo-tional day, but he’s not done yet.
“I’m going to play another game somewhere else,” Sanders-Frison said. “The NCAA Tournament. That’s where I want to play.”
Gabriel Baumgaertner covers men’s basketball. Contact him at [email protected].
m. hoopsStanford 55 Cal 74
Bears regain Dominant Form in Shutout of SDSU
Cal got off to a very quick start against the rival Aztecs on Saturday after struggling with UBC. The Bears had four tries and two conversions within the opening 25 minutes.
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The sunny San Diego backdrop on Saturday afternoon was not the only contrast to the Cal rugby team’s mucky shootout against British Columbia two weeks ago.
The Thunderbirds made the Bears play defense to grind out a come-from-behind victory. On Saturday against league rival San Diego State, coach Jack Clark’s team seldom let go of the ball in a 95-0 rout.
Coming off a lackluster first half performance against UBC, senior Drew Hyjer said the Bears (16-0, 1-0 in the CPD) entered the contest against the Aztecs wanting to “blow them up” in the first 20 minutes.
By the end of the 25th minute, Cal
by Christina JonesStaff Writer
had scored four tries and made two conversions, while making a pair of goal-line stands to keep San Diego State off the scoreboard at the Little “Q,” a field adjacent to Qualcomm Stadium.
“We were more physical today,” Clark said of the team’s performance. “I was happy to see us play with just a little more determination to put a physical stamp on the game.”
The Bears lit up the Aztecs for 55 points in the first half on nine tries, tacking on six more after the intermis-sion.
Co-captain Derek Asbun single-handedly scored more tries on Saturday than the Bears managed collectively against the Thunderbirds, finding the try zone four times. His final two tries
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Cal Sputters to Sloppy Finish in San Diego
After the Cal baseball team opened its weekend with a 6-2 win over San Diego, coach David Equer credited his defense.
This was one of the major improve-ments in the team, Esquer said Thurs-day. He spoke of the need to back up his squad’s stellar pitching. He spoke of the team’s ma-turity and of Tony Renda and Mar-cus Semien’s play at second base and shortstop.
He may have spoken too soon.The No. 14 Bears (6-4) dropped their
next three games at San Diego Tourna-ment, committing six errors in the last two contests at Tony Gwynn Stadium. The most costly came yesterday against No. 22 Connecticut, putting the Huskies on the scoreboard in a 3-1 decision.
by Jack WangSenior Staff Writer
The first mistake came in the bot-tom of the third inning. UConn’s Billy Ferriter had stolen second base after being hit by a pitch. Then, first base-man Mike Friel laced a single into the left field. Cal’s Vince Bruno couldn’t connect with first baseman Devin Ro-driguez, scoring Ferriter and moving Friel to third.
Kevin Miller, in his second start of the season, forced the next two outs to close the inning and limit the damage.
Both Cal and Connecticut (4-4) went scoreless through the fourth, fifth and sixth, but the Bears’ defense faltered again in the seventh.
After giving up a run on a double and a pair of singles, Miller was re-placed with reliever Matt Flemer. The junior immediately struck out the next batter, but an ensuing single scored the Huskies’ runner on third and put the Bears in a 3-0 hole.
Cal scored its lone run of the game in the top of the eighth inning — on a fielding error by UConn’s Ferriter.
The Bears fared little better in the tough slate on Saturday, making a sea-son high-tying four errors against No. 3 Oklahoma in a 5-3 loss.
Top pitcher Justin Jones took the mound for Cal, but gave up the first run early in his eight-inning start on a sacrifice bunt. The Sooners’ Max White
reached home plate after stealing third on a failed pickoff attempt, the Bears’ first error of the contest.
Cal responded quickly in the bottom of the first, with Renda doubling into right center. Austin Booker’s single scored Renda, and a throwing error moved Booker to third. The senior then scored on a fly out to give his team a 2-1 lead.
Oklahoma tacked on two more runs in the top of the third. With runners on second and third, the Sooner’s Garrett Buechele singled for two RBI.
Facing two outs and empty bases in the top of the sixth inning, Oklahoma somehow managed to score its fourth run — without getting a hit. First, Jones walked Sooner catcher Tyler Ogle. Ogle then stole second and ad-vanced to third on a throwing error. The team captain scored on another throwing error.
Cal center fielder Chad Bunting fin-ished up his team’s tally with an RBI double in the eighth.
The Sooners (14-0) stayed perfect with the victory despite being outhit, 8-7. Coming after a 2-1 loss to San Di-ego State on Friday, it gave the Bears their first losing streak of the spring.
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Cal Has Bounce-Back Weekend after Losing Late to Wildcats
After seven scoreless innings, the No. 10 Cal softball team notched two runs in the eighth inning against Northwestern.
Unfortunately for the Bears, they buckled in a 3-2 loss to the Wildcats on Friday to open the DeMarini Invitational in Fresno, Calif.
Cal left fielder Jamia Reid and short-stop Britt Vonk both singled at the top of the eighth to bring Jordan Wallace and Reid home for a 2-0 lead.
Northwestern (12-5) answered in the bottom of the inning when Robin Thompson’s squeeze bunt brought in Kristin Scharkey. With runners on first and third, Michelle Batts laid down an-other squeeze bunt, scoring Emily Al-lard to knot the extra-innings duel, 2-2.
Unable to secure any runs of their own in the ninth, the Bears (12-2) went to the field in the bottom of the ninth. With the bases loaded, Allard hit a game-winning walk-off single to record the win, 3-2.
After its second loss of the season, Cal bounced back later in the day with an 18-8 win over Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne (6-3-1).
The Bears exploded out of the first inning, notching seven runs. The vic-tory marked pitcher Arianna Erceg’s first collegiate win.
“After losing to Northwestern, we had to make a comeback and make a change,” pitcher/first baseman Jolene Henderson said. “We accepted the
by Kelly SuckowStaff Writer
challenge.”On Saturday, after falling behind by
two runs to Iowa (8-9) in the fourth and fifth innings, the Bears found the extra effort to pull off the comeback.Five runs came in throughout the fifth inning to put Cal up, 6-2, where the score stayed the rest of the game.
To wrap up the tournament, Hen-derson pitched her second career no-hitter — and first of the season — across six innings against Murray State (3-8) later Saturday afternoon.
In the 8-0 mercy win, the right-hand-er saw 18 batters, striking out six of them to raise her season record to 11-2.
“It was a good game to say that our defense was strong,” she said. “I can never throw a no-hitter without a strong defense behind me.”
It was center fielder Frani Echavar-ria and utility player Jordan Wallace who had consecutive singles to kick things off in the bottom of the fourth. Right fielder Elia Reid’s triple scored both of the players to push Cal ahead, 4-0. Jamia Reid’s sacrifice fly brought her sister in and third baseman Jace Williams batted Vonk in for the last run of the inning.
Overall, the 3-1 performance this weekend proved the team’s ability to overcome a loss and finish out the ef-fort for the rest of a weekend’s slate.
When asked what word to use to describe the team’s performance, Hen-derson picked “glue.”
“That’s because we all came together to win every game,” she said. “It came down to every player to win in one way or another.”
soFtballCal 8 Murray State 0
Jack Wang covers baseball. Contact him at [email protected].
Flurry of Errors Proves Costly for Bears, Who Suffer Their First Losing Streak of the Season
Kelly Suckow covers softball. Contact her at [email protected].
oNLiNe PoDCaSTOur beat writers recap Saturday and preview the Pac-10 Tournament.