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UC, CSU systems drop opposition to transparency bill

The University of California and California State University systems have dropped their opposition to a bill that would require their auxiliary organizations to adhere to state pub-lic records laws.

A previous version of the bill was vetoed in October 2009 by former governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has said that it would not be an adequate remedy for ensuring that there is proper transparency in the UC system — a sentiment with which UC and CSU officials had previously agreed. But the bill’s author, Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, announced last Wednesday that he reached an agreement with the two systems on a compromise bill that he said is likely to be enacted and would protect the anonymity of any donor who did not receive cer-tain monetary rewards or attempt to “influence curriculum or university operations.”

“After several years of fighting to open up the books of our public universities, I am pleased that we are able to come to this agree-ment,” Yee said in a statement. “Finally, we will have true sunshine and accountability of the administration of billions of dollars within UC and CSU.”

Yee has said he is confident that the bill will be signed into law should it reach Gov. Jerry Brown’s desk.

“Our public universities should not be al-lowed to hide billions of dollars without any accountability,” Yee said in a statement. “Most of these auxiliaries are fully staffed by public employees who administer public funds, yet their decisions are made in complete secrecy. Taxpayers and students deserve better.”

Under the bill — known as SB 8 — UC, CSU and the California Community Colleges auxil-iaries and foundations would adhere to state public records laws, requiring all financial re-cords, contracts and correspondence be sub-ject to public disclosure upon request. Auxil-iary organizations provide noninstructional

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Cal dining, which operates the Crossroads facility shown above, is among the auxiliary organizations that will be affected by the new regulations.anna vignet/senior staff

services to students for user charges.“The University of California is pleased to

remove its opposition to SB 8 in response to amendments that will protect donor privacy and recognize that University campus foun-dations are non-profit organizations that ex-ist solely to assist UC with its educational, re-search and public service mission,” said Steve Juarez, Associate Vice President of UC State Governmental Relations, in the statement. “Senator Yee, his staff, and the sponsors of SB 8 ... are to be applauded for negotiating a compromise that provides for greater trans-parency and accountability without sacrific-ing privacy protections that University donors and volunteers have a right to expect.”

The previous version of the bill would have required donors to request anonymity, accord-ing to Adam Keigwin, Yee’s chief of staff. The amended version of the bill provides anonym-ity for all donors unless they meet certain cri-teria that would remove their anonymity.

It would protect the anonymity of all do-nors and volunteers, except where there is a quid pro quo situation in which the donor or volunteer receives something from the univer-sity that is valued at over $2,500 — up from $500 — or in which the donor or volunteer re-ceives a sole source contract within five years of the donation, according to Keigwin.

“We don’t necessarily just want to throw away anonymity just because they get kind of

a standard perk to a donation that anybody would get,” he said. “What we’re really trying to get at is these situations where they negoti-ate some sort of quid pro quo or perk.”

Additionally, those seeking access to public records would gain access to all financial docu-ments, expenditures and correspondence of the organizations. According to Keigwin, hav-ing access to correspondences would open the door to information dealing with attempted in-fluence of curriculum or university operations.

“If there is anyone trying to influence cur-riculum, you’ll then be able to say ‘Hey, were they a donor?’” he said. “And they’ll have to

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Campus pub operation talks persist

On most early Friday evenings throughout the school year, the Bear’s Lair Pub was overflowing with cus-tomers gathered for the pub’s weekly “Beat the Clock” event.

Despite this, the pub’s current man-agement, Jupiter Beverage LLC, was switched to a month-to-month lease of the space by the ASUC Store Op-erations Board after the pub provided documentation at the February board meeting indicating that it had lost a large amount of money over the previ-ous year and a half since the economic downturn. At that time, the board de-cided the current management would remain until June 30 on a month-to-month lease without paying rent — $4,637 per month — for the space.

Now, the board has decided to con-tinue discussions with a partnership of two new vendors to potentially run the pub.

After hearing a presentation from Cal Dining Executive Director Shawn LaPean and local business owner Daryl Ross at its meeting last Wednesday, the board decided to pur-sue negotiations for a lease with the two vendors in the hopes of opening the pub under their management by mid-August, according to Ryan Lan-dis, interim vice-chair of the board.

Should the two vendors move into

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the asuC store operations Board is currently in negotiations with possible new managers of the Bear’s lair Pub, whose current management will stay until june 30.

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the space, Landis said the pub would hopefully draw more people to the area and therefore help improve the climate of Lower Sproul Plaza.

“The main thing that they see, and that we see, is that the Bear’s Lair can be a destination spot,” Landis said. “Ultimately, they want it, and we want it, to be a place where you can enjoy food, you can enjoy a drink ... and people come back because of the quality of the atmosphere.”

Hedy Chen, an undergraduate rep-resentative on the board, said the set-up of the pub itself would be subject to change depending on what would be taken by the current management. If the two other vendors move in, Chen said the pub would also focus more on food than it has in the past.

“Next year, when football games aren’t in Berkeley, we want Bear’s Lair to be a good place for everyone to go —

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police patrol program leads to less loitering on Telegraph

with regular police patrols, loitering on telegraph has experienced a marked reduction, resulting in fewer public disturbances, according to business owner al geyer.

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Standing in front of his business on Telegraph Avenue between Haste Street and Channing Way on Friday after-noon, Al Geyer, chair of the Telegraph Merchants Association, observed rela-tively sparse amounts of foot traffic and people hanging around outside.

However, this has not always been the

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case. In the past, crowds of people have been prone to linger and disturb the area around Annapurna, the business Geyer has owned since 1969, he said.

“Here’s some tourists walking up the street with their family, here’s a man and woman walking — this doesn’t happen when this other thing starts to happen ... you certainly can’t walk down the street with a baby when you have people yelling at you,” Geyer said.

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on the blogsThe Daily ClogNEWS IN OUR SHORTS: Undocumented students could poten-tially qualify for state financial aid; meanwhile, the national recession has produced surprising results in terms of general behavior, and reducing California’s greenhouse gas emissions might be doable after all.

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The sweet, almost angelic warbles of Ben Gibbard’s voice have become a source of consistency and comfort over the years. With their soft, polite pop and easy-going accessibility, Gibbard and his band, Death Cab for Cutie, have warmed their way into the cockles (yes, cockles) of our hearts like a hot cup of cocoa on a winter’s eve since their debut in 1997. Unfortunately, there’s only so much hot chocolate a person can take before the sugar high wears down and you tire out. And this is the predicament that Death Cab find themselves in with their seventh studio release,

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The No. 2 Cal women’s crew team finished two points shy of capturing the 2011 NCAA Championship. All three boats advanced to the finals on Sunday morning, but their 83 total points ended their run in third place. Though tying Stanford with 85 points, Brown won the title due to a better showing in the varsity 8+ final. “I’m really proud of the way our team raced today,” Cal coach Dave O’Neill said. “Unfortunately, we came up just short of the overall win, but we gave it everything we had and that’s all you can ask for as a coach.”

The competition at the Grand Finals in Lake Natoma, Calif., includ-ing the likes of Princeton and USC as well, which rounded out the top five tied at 72 points. The Bears’ varsity 4+ boat won their first race on Friday and emerged victorious in each of the following races — most notably, its grand final against Virginia. Despite trailing early, the Bears pushed on to a two second advantage and rowed across the line at 7:09.60. “The Flying Bear four was great once again today,” O’Neill said. ...

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After a rocky start to his senior sea-son, Steve Sodaro has the chance to end his collegiate career on a high note. He ran his fastest 3000m steeplechase of the season at this past weekend’s NCAA West Preliminaries to advance to next week’s NCAA Championships, where he will aim to surpass his sixth place finish from 2010. Sodaro finished second in his heat at this weekend’s three-day event in Eugene, Ore. The senior’s time of 8:49.97 was sixth best among all stee-plechasers at the event. His performance is a marked improvement since starting training a month and a half late due to injury. ...

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Financial aid bill set for full vote

The California State Assembly Com-mittee on Appropriations approved a bill Friday which would provide state grants and financial aid to undocumented stu-dents in California and now moves to the Assembly floor for a full vote.

One of two bills that make up the state’s DREAM Act, Assembly Bill 131 — authored by Assemblymember Gil-bert Cedillo, D-Los Angeles — passed through the committee with a vote of 11-5 after being suspended by the com-mittee in mid-April due to concerns regarding the financial impact it would have on the state.

Though former governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed versions of the act last year, Gov. Jerry Brown has said on several occasions that, should the act come to his desk, he would choose to approve it. Both UC President Mark Yudof and UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau have publicly ex-pressed their support for the act.

Under AB 540, nonresident students already qualify for in-state tuition fees

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by meeting certain requirements, in-cluding attending for three years and graduating from a California high school, among other requirements. However, undocumented students are not eligible for financial aid.

If enacted, AB 131 would allow un-documented students at California col-leges and universities to be eligible for state financial aid such as Cal Grants.

The act’s other component — AB 130 — was passed by the Assembly May 5 and, if passed by the state Sen-ate and enacted, would allow the UC, CSU and California Community Col-leges systems to provide financial aid to undocumented students from their financial aid reserves.

Opponents of the act have said that providing state aid to undocumented students would be fiscally irrespon-sible at a time when the state is facing a nearly $10 billion deficit and state higher education institutions have had their budgets slashed in an effort to bridge the gap.

“We have limited resources; these measures would expand the pool of people competing for those resources and will essentially act as one more

incentive for people to come here il-legally,” said Assemblymember Tim Donnelly, R-Twin Peaks, in an April 13 statement.

Additionally, opponents have cited a lack of immigration reform as reason for concern in passing such legislation. Current immigration laws, they argue, would prevent employers from hir-ing the undocumented students that would benefit from the bill’s passage.

However, the act’s supporters have argued that there is still time for re-form in immigration laws and that despite the immediate fiscal impact of the act, there are economic reasons to support the act — that it is crucial for students to become educated so that they can contribute to the state’s economy as tax-paying workers.

“The Committee is helping to foster the development of future architects, doctors, teachers, scientists and schol-ars who are crucial to the success of the California economy,” Cedillo said in a statement. “Increasing the earning potential of these students helps all of us by contributing to our tax base; thus improving services and resources.”

Allie Bidwell is the news editor.

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UC raises retirement plan contributions

The University of California and its faculty and staff will be contributing more to the university’s underfunded pension plan beginning July 1.

The UC Board of Regents approved the increases — which will see most faculty and staff paying 3.5 percent of their total compensation while the uni-versity will pay 7 percent of employees’ salaries — at a meeting last fall. Cur-rently, most employees pay 2 percent of their total pay while the university pays 4 percent to the UC Retirement Plan. The rates are set to increase again in July 2012, with employees paying 5 percent and the UC paying 10 percent.

Though UC President Mark Yudof chose to recommend a dissenting plan

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— in which employees’ contributions would have risen to 7 percent of their total compensation while the university would have paid 8.1 percent — the board voted in December to move forward with original plans for the increased rates.

If Yudof ’s plan had been approved, employees hired after July 2013 would pay the higher rates, would have their minimum retirement age increased by five years to 55 and would no longer have the option of a lump sum cash-out.

The university’s decision was met with strong contention from UC em-ployees and their advocates, who have stated that the plan could leave lower-income UC employees struggling to stay out of poverty.

Until April 2010, the UC and its em-ployees had not contributed to the fund for nearly 20 years, mainly due to the fact that it had maintained a surplus. However, the board voted to reinstate

the contributions in February 2009 as a way to combat its deficit.

According to a university statement, the board has taken a number of ac-tions to address the shortfall in the past year, including the establishment of a new tier of benefits for employees hired beginning July 1, 2013, and the approval of internal borrowing options to better fund the pension plan.

“Until UC and its employees togeth-er begin contributing enough to cover the annual increase in cost for active members (in excess of 17% of pay), the pension program’s current $14 billion unfunded liability will grow, adding to the pressures on UC’s operating bud-get,” the statement reads.

The increased contribution rates expire in July 2013, when university officials plan on implementing a new pension model.

Allie Bidwell is the news editor.

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patrol: Providing funds for program a potential issue

“Those people aren’t here right now.”This time last year, Geyer said groups

of what he described as aggressive peo-ple would form in the area and act dis-ruptive, which he said often resulted in physical altercations. In today’s climate of high-speed communication and or-ganization via social media, Geyer said problematic groups have also been well-coordinated, able to regroup with-in an hour of being dispersed.

But since the Berkeley Police De-partment launched a “walk the beat” pilot program that ran from November to January, such groups have largely dissipated, Geyer said.

During the program, a police officer would be assigned to patrol the Tele-graph area on foot and monitor poten-tially disruptive situations, according to City Councilmember Kriss Worthington.

Geyer said this type of police presence engages those who cause problems more effectively and could create more lasting changes to overall safety on Telegraph.

“These people can only really be kind of dealt with when you’re on foot,” Gey-er said. “It doesn’t work to drive by and just check it out once in a while. You need to have a presence. I’ve been here 40 years — it makes a huge difference.”

Members of both the Berkeley Police Department and the city manager’s of-fice could not be reached for comment.

Worthington is now hoping to see the program instated permanently, because he said it is important to maintain safe-ty in the area, which is close to the UC Berkeley campus and generates a large portion of the city’s sales tax revenue.

“It makes people feel like (the police are) paying attention, and I think it also preempts the problems from hap-pening,” Worthington said.

Worthington said his biggest current obstacle to seeing the program per-manently established is obtaining an itemized city budget. Though the City Council did receive a budget summary as well as a department budget listing,

an itemized budget would detail the exact cost of each component, which Worthington said he needs in order to know what, if anything, can be adjusted to provide funding for the program.

“What if I wanted to eliminate a program? Well, it doesn’t tell me how much that program costs,” he said. “You can’t know what to move around if you don’t have the details.”

The council will vote on the city bud-get June 28, by which time Worthing-ton said he hopes to be able to provide funding for the program in some way.

As the summer progresses and the weather gets better, more people have historically been drawn to the area, Gey-er said. A permanent police presence on foot, he said, could prevent an aggressive atmosphere from taking root by moti-vating some people to leave the area.

“Ultimately, the word gets out that it’s no fun to hang out up here,” he said.

J.D. Morris is an assistant news edi-tor.

With their self-titled album, the oddly-named Buxter Hoot’n have burst out of the finger-pluckin’ country-esque mold and have matured into a multi-faceted style. Combining sensual melodies, screeching electric guitar solos, twangy harmonica and everything in between, the San Francisco group have evolved their sound to include electric swells and slow-building ballads whilst still adhering to their Southern roots.

Buxter Hoot’n have in no way changed their rustic Americana style in an extravagant way. The bangin’

banjos, bluesy violins and old-west vocals are all present and accounted for. The only difference now is that the Bay Area band has explored more aspects that expand their range beyond gritty, folk twangs. ...

CD Review: ‘Buxter Hoot’n,’ Buxter Hoot’n

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I’ve been trying to forget what summer’s supposed to be like.

Endless days of chasing the sun’s inimitable rays, thoughtlessly swimming in a lake filled with melt-ed snow and eating ice cream to dis-tract tongues from talking no longer make up a typical day in my dream. This is the second summer I’ll be spending most of my time sitting at a desk, absorbing the stark white lights of a classroom instead.

Though I have robbed myself of the summer I intricately planned last year — flying back to the Philippines to visit family and friends — I have bestowed upon myself something more valuable than the fulfillment of checking off goals on a list. I am doing what I want to do, not what I feel I have to do.

To declare my major, political economy, I’m taking two economics classes I wish I could understand as easily as I could stomach their rhe-torical bullshit. I want to start my junior year with the quantitative cer-tainty of an economist and the unre-strained curiosity of a philosopher. While my wits may be initially dulled by the constricting precision of mathematical analysis, their ends are sharp enough to pencil out the for-mulas and models.

I only realized that my head has always been in the clouds when I felt the drop in altitude during my first semester at Berkeley. I thought it was in my best interest to forget about pursuing journalism or work-ing for the United Nations because it was all useless. I thought journalists were arrogant martyrs who risked their lives to inform a public too pre-occupied with Jersey Shore and Sarah Palin. And the UN wasn’t any better. Why would I want to work there, when its post in Liberia’s civil war was nothing more than an absent presence?

In addition to these cynical thoughts and hopeless quandaries, I was concerned with the profitability of it all. Here I was, an immigrant blessed with the United States’ gift of financial aid, and I was about to waste it on a masturbatory major? This was my opportunity to reach the height of my potential, to do my best and to live the American dream. I did not leave the suffocation of the Philippines’ pollution and bureau-cracy only to take the easy route and end up in the same situation in California. I was, I thought, just as capable and determined to pursue a discipline that was the equivalent of a six-figure paycheck.

But my head was still in the clouds, in spite of the plans I

made to pull my bootstraps up just like the middle-American I was meant to be. While I was busy forg-ing a plan that reflected the plight of an immigrant’s dreamlike success, I was also dreaming of answers that would lead me to a Plan B.

After a year of effortless mediocri-ty that my GPA unabashedly

reflects, I realized that my academic horizon would remain cloudy and grey as long as my pursuit of great-ness remained superficial. How could I understand the fog of num-bers and functions in my head when my practical reason was disconnect-ed from my current reality? My fis-cally centered future was a point in a graph that meant nothing in the real world. A function in a formula that determined the weight of inputs in my life, inputs that couldn’t be reduced to numbers.

We live in paradoxical terms, by rules that say one thing but mean another. Though our government promotes democracy worldwide, its own people repress the right of homosexuals to marry. Our society reduces human interaction to the confines of traditional values and nondenominational ones by way of desperately televised evangelism and instantly gratifying game shows.

The fog in my head has cleared, but my head is still in the clouds. Models and formulas do not reduce humanity to the certainty of num-bers but rather work with humanity’s absurdity to make life better. But what is “better”? At what cost do we move forward only to leave others behind? Why do we keep up with the rat race of life when we are people with enough senses to question whether to be or not to be?

Though my pursuit in economics is far from over, the light at the end of the tunnel shines all throughout. I am here this summer to share this light with you as I try to uncover the grey areas that the oversimplification of society has reduced to black and white. Just as the blend of black and white form the color gray, the blend of our individual actions shape the world we live in. Seizing the day by feeding impulses instead of thought leads to our disconnect from the struggles others face.

I’ll be seizing this summer mostly sitting at a desk, stimulating my eco-nomic thought and drinking Mojitos at the same time. While my summer won’t include scenes from Animal House, it is what it is — an explora-tion of the shadows ignored by the frenzy of spring.

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man stabbed in parking garage beneath lower sproul Plaza

A man was stabbed Tuesday after-noon in the garage beneath Lower Sproul Plaza, sending him to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

At about 2:57 p.m., the victim was collecting recyclables in the garage and talking to a male suspect. The suspect allegedly disagreed with the victim over the use of the proceeds from the recyclables and proceeded to allegedly stab the victim with a knife.

According to UCPD Captain Margo Bennett, both the victim and the sus-pect appeared to be homeless individ-uals who were collecting recyclables in the northeast corner of the garage. The conflict arose when the victim told the suspect that he should not be spend-ing his money made from recycling on drugs, she said.

The suspect then became angry and challenged the victim, saying, “You wanna fight, you wanna fight.” The vic-tim allegedly attempted to step back, according to Bennett, but the suspect stepped toward the victim and stabbed him with a folding utility knife before leaving the garage.

According to the crime alert, UCPD, Berkeley and BART police officers searched the area but were unable to locate the suspect.

Bennett said the victim sustained two injuries — one cut to the top of his left middle finger, between the first and second knuckles, and a stab wound on the right side of his upper torso, just below his right armpit.

Roughly 13 seconds after receiving the call, UCPD dispatched an officer, who arrived on the scene at approxi-mately 3 p.m. and administered first aid until the Berkeley Fire Department arrived at 3:06 p.m. and transported the victim to Highland General Hospi-tal in Oakland, according to Bennett.

news in BriefThe suspect is described as a male,

approximately 40 years old, 6 feet 2 inches tall, with brown uncombed hair and a skinny to muscular build, unshaven, wearing silver-framed eye-glasses, a short-sleeved shirt and pants. According to the alert, the suspect also had a road bike with him and speaks with a speech impairment.

— Allie Bidwell

student allegedly robbed at gunpoint while on campus

An armed robbery allegedly oc-curred on the south side of the Val-ley Life Sciences Building on campus Wednesday night.

At about 10:43 p.m., a 26-year-old student was walking westbound on the Grinnell Pathway near the Life Sci-ences Addition building wearing ear-phones when he allegedly felt someone grab his shoulder. The victim turned around and saw two suspects stand-ing in front of him — one of whom was holding a handgun — and was told to get on the ground, according to a UCPD crime alert.

The victim complied, and the suspects allegedly took his backpack — which contained his computer, his cellphone and his iPod — before they allegedly fled westbound on Frank Schlessinger Way. The victim did not sustain any in-juries during the incident.

After the victim called 911, UCPD responded and searched the area but was unable to locate the suspects, ac-cording to the alert.

One suspect is described as a male in his late teens to early 20s, approxi-mately 5 feet 8 inches tall, wearing a hooded sweatshirt and carrying a sil-ver handgun. The second suspect is also described as a male in his late teens to early 20s, approximately 5 feet 8 inches tall.

— Allie Bidwell

lair: Length of new lease not yet determinedFROM FROnT

it would be a good restaurant where you can also enjoy a beer,” she said.

According to Landis, the exact length of the new lease has yet to be determined — dependent on many factors, including construction for the Lower Sproul renovation proj-ect — though he said it would likely be for at least one year.

As of Thursday, the two vendors had not been officially notified of the board’s wish to continue dis-cussions about operating the pub under their management.

Associate ASUC Auxiliary Direc-tor Tom Spivey, a member of the board, said nothing is certain yet.

“The pub lease is up June 30, 2011, and at that time, the pub is up for a new tenant,” Spivey said. “What we’re doing now is negotiating with other parties that are interested.”

In order to prepare for any new management, Landis said the space will likely be closed for some amount of time, though he did not know how long it would be.

“The plan is to have it open and running at the start of the school year, but that may or may not hap-pen,” Landis said. “Mid-August is a target date.”

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California’s public institu-tions of higher learning are a step closer to

increased accountability after Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, announced last Wednesday that the University of California and California State University sys-tems had dropped their opposi-tion to SB 8, Yee’s public disclo-sure bill. Although we opposed previous incarnations of Yee’s bill, we endorse the current version because it balances transparency with anonymity, creating account-ability while addressing donors’ concerns.

Previous versions of this bill, which were vetoed by former gov-ernor Arnold Schwarzenegger, would have discouraged large donations by requiring the sys-tems to disclose the identity of any donor who received gifts or services valued at $500 or more in return for their donations. This could have had drastic conse-quences during a financially diffi-cult period for public education.

SB 8 would rectify this trouble-some provision by setting the anonymity threshold at $2500, a compromise that helps mitigate the concerns of donors who wish to remain anonymous. While transparency is important to

maintaining the public nature of the university, donor support has become crucial as the university’s financial crisis deepens. Yee’s proposed bill shines by acknowl-edging this and balancing the interests involved. We applaud the UC and CSU systems for acknowledging the importance of Yee’s proposal and coming to the table to help bring it closer to reality.

We are also pleased at the level of transparency Yee’s proposal would provide. By subjecting col-lege foundations and auxiliary enterprises to the California Public Records Act, it provides a crucial tool the public needs to keep the systems accountable. We hope the university’s embrace of the bill will continue should it become law and that the univer-sity will recognize the benefits of the increased transparency despite the inevitable burdens associated with compliance.

Although we opposed previ-ous versions of this bill, we urge lawmakers to swiftly enact the current proposal and hope that should it land on Gov. Jerry Brown’s desk, he will recognize a compromise that is beneficial to the entire state and sign it into law.

No more hide and seek

It is never good practice for a city to drop the ball on expanding voter-ap-

proved lines of revenue — especially when that city faces an estimated $12.2 million deficit for the 2012 fiscal year.

Unfortunately, the city of Berkeley is doing just this, losing out on a huge potential source of tax dollars by stall-ing on the seating of a new medical marijuana commis-sion and the opening of a new dispensary, as Berkeleyside reported last Wednesday.

Six months have passed since voters approved Measure T in November, creating the commission and calling for the creation of the city’s fourth dispensary. Voters also approved Measure S, which levies a 2.5 percent tax on for-profit medical marijuana facilities. The longer the city fails to implement Measure T, the greater the forgone reve-nue. Council members should recognize that this inaction is unaffordable and refocus efforts toward this unfulfilled mandate.

Though enough of the com-mission members have been

seated to reach quorum — six out of the nine members have been named — the group is not scheduled to meet until all nine are present so that every member has a voice in who is named the chair of the commission. While it would be ideal if all nine of the City Council-appointed members were present to vote for the chair, the fact is that voters approved Measure T six months ago, and it is unfair to the citizens of Berkeley for the commission not to begin work.

Proceedings should com-mence with or without all nine members present. If the com-mission begins, council mem-bers who have not yet named their appointees will perhaps feel more pressure to do so in order to ensure that their con-stituency is represented.

While this issue might have fallen through the cracks, we feel it is imperative that the City Council and the medical marijuana commission move forward. Failure to do so at this point would not only be a statement of financial care-lessness but also of disregard for the will of the voters.

CITY AFFAIRSBerkeley should go forward with implementing all of Measure T to help alleviate the city’s estimated deficit.

Bring in the green

We don’t want the West to go and find alternatives, because, clearly, the higher the price of oil goes, the more they have incentives to go and find alternatives.”

—Al-Waleed bin Talal, Prince of Saudi Arabia

UNIVERSITY ISSUESSenate bill 8 is a victory for public accountability, and we hope the governor has a chance to sign it into law.

Editorial Cartoon By Maen Mahfoud

Tuesday, May 31, 2011 - Wednesday, June 1, 2011

OP-ED

Options needed for city budget

Berkeley needs a creative, cooperative and focused City Council and communi-

ty effort to prevent the doom and gloom layoffs and cuts foreshad-owed in the proposed budget option. We need to work harder and smarter. We need to work together with our workers, our taxpayers and our entire commu-nity to craft a practical, progres-sive budget.

The city budget is perhaps the single most important vote of the year. Yet few people even remotely know what the options are; so far, even the City Council members have insufficient infor-mation.

This year, Berkeley faces proba-bly the most difficult choices in several decades. Significant layoffs and cuts are proposed. The total budget-balancing plan is $15.5 million over two years. There are real and drastic human costs to such a package of layoffs and cuts.

Laying off dozens of city employees will hurt families and contribute to unemployment. It could also increase training costs for new staff after the down econ-omy improves. Franklin Roosevelt met these kinds of challenges with more jobs — not less. Can we find our way to that kind of solution?

City employees have contribut-ed millions of dollars in budget solutions in recent years. The Voluntary Time Off program has avoided the lawsuits and disrup-tion of Gov. Schwarzenegger’s involuntary state furloughs yet gained the city millions in current savings and decreased future lia-bilities for unused vacation time.

It is important to actively invite employee and union suggestions,, and give them the respect of a seat at the table in presenting their

alternatives.Some proposed cuts to non-

profits threaten unique culturally competent services such as J-Sei the CIL blind services. Another proposed cut slashes the all-volun-teer-staff Suitcase Clinic in spite of their incredible successes and stunning cost benefit ratio thanks to the minuscule overhead and no salaries.

In difficult economic times, we need the closest scrutiny of budget decisions. We need our City Council to closely evaluate the itemized details of the budget. The city manager and staff have done an excellent job of presenting one path to follow. Now, our elected officials need to seriously study the implications of each potential lay-off or cut.

It is not good enough to just rubber-stamp the draft budget. It is in these difficult times that we are most urgently called upon to come together and explore any and all serious possibilities for alternatives.

Perhaps there are some expen-ditures that could be delayed. As the original proponent of moving City Council meetings to a larger, more accessible location, perhaps I and all of us need to contemplate whether this is the right time to spend half a million dollars for that change?

Perhaps it is time to bring the work in-house or to raise the fran-

chise fee on corporations that skim off some of the lucrative commer-cial trash pick-up accounts? Are there additional ways we can use technology to improve our service delivery and cost-effectiveness? What about a vacancy tax to encourage landlords to lower rents to fill some of our vacant store-fronts?

In some previous years we have had three budgets to chose from — the city manager version, the mayor’s version and the Vice Mayor Maudelle Shirek’s progres-sive version. A few years ago, four City Council members put togeth-er an alternative that was adopted in an 8-1 vote. Perhaps this year we need to establish a Council Budget Committee to drill into the details and explore the public’s suggestions.

There are multiple ways the City Council can approach these bud-get deliberations. Whatever way is chosen, it is clear that the very negative impacts of possible layoffs and cuts demand more attention to detail, more openness to cre-ative ideas and more efforts to come up with alternatives.

Please share your suggestions, and encourage our City Council to study the itemized budget and work together for a progressive budget that reflects the values of the people of Berkeley.

Kriss Worthington is a City Council member.

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Naturalists launch amphibian websiteresearch & ideas

Social media — the face of a chang-ing culture where a YouTube video can start sweeping revolutions — could also be the savior of some of the oldest animals in the world: amphibians.

A collaboration between Amphibi-aWeb — a comprehensive database of the 6,814 known species of amphibians — organizations devoted to the conser-vation of amphibians and iNaturalist, a Bay Area social network for naturalists, created the Global Amphibian Blitz — a social networking site where anyone with a camera can upload photos of amphibians they have seen around the world for scientists to identify and study, aiding in the conservation effort. The collaboration includes scientists from UC Berkeley, Stanford University and San Francisco State University.

By making use of the eyes of mil-lions, rather than just the comparative-ly few scientists in the field, scientists can gather a more complete picture of amphibian distribution and, as time passes, how that distribution changes as a result of climate change and hu-man activity.

“The major way this is going to change things is by tapping into a whole new human resource, which is the tens of thousands or millions of people around the world that are in-terested in amphibians,” said Vance Vredenburg, an assistant professor at

By Claire Perlman | Senior Staffcperlman@dailycal.org

San Francisco State University and co-founder of AmphibiaWeb. “Right now, we’ve got at most a few hundred people who are collecting information on amphibians, so it’s really a matter of numbers. It could incredibly expand the amount of information coming in on amphibians.”

Amphibians were around long be-fore the dinosaurs, originating about 400 million years ago. They lived on after the dinosaurs perished, surviving every mass extinction since. With the advent of human activity and global warming, however, almost a third of amphibian species have become en-dangered, and in the past 20 years alone, about 168 species have gone extinct.

“One of the biggest problems with these species is that they’re going ex-tinct faster than we can keep track of them,” said iNaturalist co-director Scott Loarie, a postdoctoral researcher at the Carnegie Institution for Science at Stanford University. “The first step to knowing why these species are going extinct and to coming up with a man-agement strategy is knowing where these things are.”

iNaturalist began in 2008 as a mas-ter’s project by Ken-ichi Ueda — who currently serves as the organization’s co-director — and two other students at UC Berkeley’s School of Informa-tion.

Ultimately, collaborators would like to locate an amphibian from each spe-cies, some of which have never been

seen before, Loarie said. In its first day open to the public on May 25, the Global Amphibian Blitz site received and confirmed photos of about 150 species of amphibians from 18 differ-ent countries, including a Yellow-lem-on Tree Frog found in a latrine of Joint Base Balad, an American military base in Iraq.

Most of the entries so far have been of common amphibians, Loarie said. But scientists are constantly scouring the submissions for rare and endan-gered species on which they do not have much data. If an endangered am-phibian is spotted, its exact location is obscured so the information does not fall into the wrong hands, such as those of a collector.

“There is a real risk of this informa-tion getting out to the wrong people, in terms of collectors,” Loarie said. “These rare, endangered species can go for $1,000. It’s really important that we protect this sensitive data.”

In the hands of the scientific com-munity, however, the hope is to gather as much data as possible on the num-bers and whereabouts of the remain-ing amphibian species so that con-servationists know how and where to concentrate their efforts.

“It’s a real win-win,” Loarie said. “We’re engaging the public, we’re edu-cating them about amphibians and get-ting them involved. And then the other side is we’re really gathering some very important data on rare species in dis-tinct and unusual locations.”

opposition: Bill will likely undergo state Senate vote next weekFrom Frontgive that up now.”

But Associate Vice Chancellor for Residential and Student Service Pro-grams LeNorman Strong said in an email that many of the campus’s aux-iliaries — which would include Cal Dining and Cal Housing, among other

organizations — already comply with the state’s public record laws.

“In my 35 years of experience in American Higher Education, mostly in auxiliary organizations at 4 institutions, I have always endorsed open records,” he said in the email. “Since I’ve been at

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w. tennis: Juricova posts first victory over Gullickson in the quarterfinals From Page 6

“Through my experiences, I can pick up the style and tempo of the match, and in the first set, I saw that Tan was starting a bit slow,” Juricova said. “But in the second set, she had nothing to lose, so she came out swing-ing, but I expected she will do that and I was ready.” Coming into both singles and dou-bles tournament as the top player in the nation, Juricova faced high expec-tations. She certainly lived up to them in singles play, cruising to two-set wins in each of the first three rounds. In Saturday’s quarterfinals, Juricova blew away Georgia’s Chelsey Gullickson — who won last year’s NCAA singles final against Juricova — with a convincing 6-3, 6-0 victory. The next day, Juricova faced her first real test of the tournament against the Cardinal’s 18th-ranked Nicole Gibbs. In a dogfight of a match, Juricova was able to control late in the third set — an appropriate timing to win her the tie-break and the match, 6-7 (5), 7-5, 7-6 (2). “Beating Chelsey Gullickson stood out as memorable because I have never beaten her before. I just had to trust my game and believe I can beat any-one,” Juricova said. “The semi-final match was just crazy because it was so

After falling in the NCAA Singles title match last spring, Jana Juricova took down the reigning national champion on her way to capturing the 2011 crown.

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close that it really could have gone either way.” Juricova, alongside senior Mari Andersson, also came into the dou-bles tournament as the No. 1 seed, but fell short in the semi-finals on Sunday against the Cardinal’s Hilary Barte and Mallory Burdette. After losing the first set, 6-1, Juricova and Andersson had no solutions against Barte and Burdette — falling into a 5-0 hole in the second set. Despite showing life to rally back to 5-4, it was too little, too late. As the lone senior for the Bears in the tournament, Andersson also made a huge push in singles play, pulling a major upset against the No. 2-seeded Maria Sanchez and reaching the quarterfinals before succumbing to Florida’s Lauren Embree. “Throughout my college career, I was always noticed as a doubles player. In this last tournament at Stanford, I proved to myself that I am also a good singles player, too,” Andersson said. “It was a very sat-isfying experience for me to realize that in my college career.” Seung Y. Lee covers women’s tennis.

6 sports & legals Tuesday, May 31, 2011 - Wednesday, June 1, 2011The Daily Californian

BASEBALL: Cal lands favorable draw, heads to Houston Regional at RiceFrom back

“It was almost comical at some point,” Esquer said.

Sophomore Justin Jones (7-5, 3.33 ERA) looked shaky to start the game in his up-and-down season, surrender-ing 12 hits and five runs before finding a groove to retire 10 of his last 12 batters.

Monday morning, the Bears caught a break. Despite going 6-7 down the Pac-10 stretch and falling to sixth

place, Cal received a favorable post-season draw — the Houston Regional hosted by overall No. 8-seed Rice. The Bears defeated the Owls, 7-6, in 15 in-nings in March. Cal opens regional play against Baylor Friday at noon.

“We’re gonna come out with some fire in this regional,” Renda said. “I’m sure of it.”

Jack Wang covers baseball.

From backdowdalso lost something the day it was brought back. On April 8, the Bears were 19-8. Since then, they’ve gone 12-13.

It’s too easy to say that reinstate-ment doused the fire that drove the Bears for the first two months of the 2011 season. As an explanation for their struggles, it’s neither fair nor nuanced enough. There are plenty of other reasons why Cal stumbled down the home stretch.

For one, Cal had the misfortune of a very back-heavy schedule. Arizona State, UCLA and Oregon State all came in the second half of the season. They went 2-7 against those squads. Bad, yes, but also understandable. All three teams were selected on Sunday to host NCAA regionals. At least one, maybe two, will make the super regionals.

There’s also the matter of luck. Baseball is a fickle lover. When she’s good, she’s batting .300. When she’s bad, she’s striking out twice a game. The hot bats Cal possessed at the beginning of the year, from the top of the lineup on down, have cooled sig-nificantly over the past several weeks. The pitching staff, once one of the best in the country, is now floundering in mediocrity. And everyone on the team seems powerless to explain why.

“If it was something that I could put my finger on, it would be something we would focus on all preseason the next year to make sure that didn’t hap-pen,” coach David Esquer said.

I’ve covered this team for three years and followed it for many more. It’s

happened year after year. Cal always seems to leap out to spectacular start, only to sleep its way through the final stretch, ending ultimately in a brief and disappointing stint in the postsea-son. It’s what I’ve come to expect.

This year was different. I had never seen the team so motivated, so deter-mined. Their five comeback wins said it all — this Bear didn’t quit and it didn’t die. For a brief moment, I even entertained the notion of flying to Omaha come June. But then lethargy settled over Cal. Every time I ask the players what they had to do to win, the answer was almost always, “Play with more energy.” It’s been two months, and the energy still isn’t back, the way it once was when every game was a game closer to the last.

They probably won’t make it out of the regional stage. But maybe some-body up there still believes. In the weeks leading up the regional announcement, Cal was projected to land in the region hosted by third-ranked Vanderbilt. Instead, they’re in the Houston Regional, hosted by Rice, a team they beat 7-6 in 15 innings ear-lier this season. It looks like even the baseball gods want the Bears to redis-cover the inspiration they once had.

“We’re gonna come out with some fire in this regional,” second baseman Tony Renda said. “I’m sure of it.”

If they do find that fire again, whether through retrograde amnesia or a mental reevaluation, then maybe I’ll find myself on a red eye to Nebraska, after all.

— that can be the hardest to define.But make no mistake; coach Jack

Clark doesn’t do buzz words. He doesn’t speak in abstractions. Every word he utters has a clear purpose and a precise definition.

For instance, leadership is “to make those around you be better and more productive,” in the words of co-cap-tain Jason Law, who repeated the team’s mantra.

On a lot of teams, there is a core group of proclaimed leaders. They’re the ones that speak those impactful words to fire up their teammates in important moments.

On the Cal rugby team, leadership is asked of everyone. Yes, there are co-captains and vice co-captains, and they do take on important roles. From what I’ve seen, moments of leader-ship are often private exchanges between players or witnessing one player going above and beyond what

From Page 7jonES is asked of him to give his best effort.

It’s a quiet word; it’s a simple, unheralded deed.

Mental toughness is my personal favorite of the team’s phrases. Clark’s program defines it as “the ability to focus on the next most important thing.”

To me, that’s the quintessential defi-nition of the Cal rugby team this year.

The Bears have been dealt some dire circumstances that they would be justified to dwell upon.

Possibly losing varsity status was “disturbing” to everyone affiliated with the team, Clark said. While the team couldn’t always control its pro-gram’s future, the Bears decided to take into their own hands what would happen this season.

The team could have been melan-choly over not having a home field, but it focused on turning its so-called “home” games into fundraisers for

high school rugby. It sent a message that the Cal product was the same, regardless of where they played.

The distraction with the most potential to derail the team was quite possibly the loss of half of their training field, especially during postseason practices. The players took their half of a beat-up field and drilled as best they could in prepara-tion for their stiffest competition of the year.

Those obstacles were labeled dis-tractions, but the team rarely even discussed them.

Cal had quite possibly more thrown at it off the field than on the field this year, but the focus remained on the pitch.

At times, it seemed the only thing they could control was what hap-pened on the field.

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Juricova wins NCAA Singles Championship

For all its championship banners and record win streaks, Stanford’s Taube Tennis Center may have a soft spot for Cal women’s tennis. On Monday, Jana Juricova hoisted the NCAA Singles Championships trophy — the very same courts where

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the Bears’ Susie Babos lifted hers in 2006. The top-seeded Juricova defeated Cardinal sophomore Stacey Tan, 6-0, 7-6 (2), at a match that looked more like the Big Slam between Cal and Stanford than a NCAA title game. When Juricova won the match, a roar of Bears fans in the stands nearly drowned her victorious yell. “It was so great that we had the tournament at Stanford because we

had so many fans that could just drive over and support the team,” Cal coach Amanda Augustus said. Playing in her second NCAA sin-gles final, Juricova came out firing against the slow-starting Tan and took command of the entire first set. In the second set, Tan’s aggressive approach worked well as the two traded points until the set went to a tie-break. Within sight of the title, Juricova shifted to another gear, blazing past Tan to a 5-0 lead and eventually the won the tie-break, 8-2.

Dominant two-set sweep in the tournament final clinches program’s second ever NCAA Singles title

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rugby | Season Recap

Bears barrel through obstacles, finish with 26th title

Covering the Cal rugby team this year, I’ve learned a lot of terminology — however incompletely.

I finally grasped the difference between a ruck and a scrum, even though I still can’t explain either term particularly well and always fall back on hand gestures to convey the meaning.

While I have been immersed into a whole new sport, the terms surround-ing the game aren’t the ones that have shaped my experience covering Cal rugby. They’re probably not the ones I’ll remember 20 years from now.

Ironically, though, it’s the everyday words we use when discussing sports — leadership and mental toughness

Champion squad doesn’t just talk the

talk

Christina Jones cjones@dailycal.org

One of the Cal rugby team’s mottos is, “Ask for nothing, grateful for every-thing.”

Never did the mantra carry more weight than in 2011.

Early in the season, it seemed every-thing was being taken away from the team. The Bears could not host home games on Witter Rugby Field, would have their training schedule rear-ranged, and were slated to be stripped of varsity standing within intercolle-giate athletics.

The team even lost some highly respected personnel early in the sea-son when co-captain Jason Law and freshman Tiaan De Nysschen suffered severe injuries during the Pac-10 tour-nament on Jan. 15.

“I probably was at my absolute low-est right then,” coach Jack Clark said.

These numerous distractions threat-ened to loosen the defending national champions’ stronghold on the title. But the Bears refused to relinquish their crown.

“We kind of made a pact that we wouldn’t change anything,” co-captain Derek Asbun said earlier in the year. “We wouldn’t change the way we played. We wouldn’t change the values of our team.”

The battle did not end when the team was reinstated in early February, as the Bears still had to contend with the opponents on the pitch.

A week after receiving news rein-statement, Cal (27-0) faced its first real test on the field against British Columbia, which significantly out-played the Bears in the first half and held a 13-7 edge at intermission. In the pouring rain on a muddy San Francisco field, the Bears dug in their

By Christina Jones | Senior Staffcjones@dailycal.org

cleats and mounted a gritty come-back. A late try by Tom Rooke and a seemingly improbable conversion by flyhalf James Bailes gave Cal the 21-13 win.

“We pulled out against all odds, it seemed like,” co-captain Blaine Scully said. “It’s kind of us.”

The Bears rode that momentum into conference play, routinely deci-mating opponents. Clark’s squad aver-aged a 67-point margin of victory over divisional foes.

St. Mary’s provided the only legiti-mate CPD competition for the Bears in the regular season. Even while allow-ing the Gaels to dictate the game’s pace

Flyhalf James Bailes and his fellow seniors capped their Cal careers with an undefeated campaign despite a trying season.michael gethers/file

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in their April 10 dust-up, Cal emerged a 60-34 victor and secured the top position in the Pacific.

Despite their impressive score lines, the Bears had yet to “play to their potential,” according to Clark.

The next weekend, however, every-thing came together for Cal. In the national semifinals, the squad put together a complete performance to take down Utah, 62-14, and set up a meeting with BYU.

In their final challenge of the year, the Bears had to travel to Utah to defend their national crown against what was heralded as the best Cougar team in history.

Cal woul clear that hurdle with a 21-14 triump, in which the Bears con-tained the Cougars’ big guns and frus-trated BYU into committing penalties while remaining disciplined and orga-nized.

As they sang Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline” with medals around their necks and a trophy in the air, Cal’s players savored the rewarding end result of a taxing campaign.

“After a year like that where it’s just an uphill battle the whole way, it felt right that we came out on top,” Scully said. “Coach before the game said, ‘I don’t feel like anything can hurt us.’”

Christina Jones covers rugby.

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Quick Look:j. Henderson (39-8): 7 ip, 3 H, o er, 7 k j. wallace: 2-4, 3 rbi

“We are never going to sit down and take it. We are always going

to be ready for more.” — Jolene Henderson, Cal softball pitcher, after the Bears’ game three win that earned them a

berth into the Women’s College World Series

Bears earn trip to Women’s College World Series

Afterheracesufferedher first five-inningmercy rule loss this season on Sunday, Calsoftball coach Diane Ninemire had JoleneHendersongointothelockerroom. Hendersonevenredidherhair. For the nation’s ERA leader coming intotheweekend,an8-0runrulelosstoKentuckyingametwooftheLexingtonSuperRegionalmeantsomethinghadtochange—theBears’ticket to the Women’s College World Seriesdependedonit. “I thought, ‘This would never happenagain,’”saidHenderson,whoonly lastedtwoinningsoftheblowout.“IrealizedIcoulddoso much better and I was so upset, but Icouldn’tletitkeepmedownbecauseIknewIwasgoingtogetitthenextgame.” The 5’8” right-hander came out truer toform, armedwith a change-up theWildcatsstruggledtogetapieceofandbolsteredbyanoffense thathadonlymanufacturedone runinthefirsttwogamesoftheseries.Theresultwasa9-0winthatsentCaltoOklahomaCityforitsfirstWCWSappearancesince2005.Italso broke a four-year struggle against SECteams, which had knocked the Bears out ofthepostseasoneveryseasonsince2007. “Nothing was going our way (in the firstSundaygame)andweneededa littlekicktoremindusthattheseteamsareallthebestinthe country and if we wanted to be one ofthem, then we needed to win and pull ittogether,”catcherLindseyZiegenhirtsaid.“Inthatsecondgame,withourbacksagainstthewallandallthatpressureontogetsomethingstarted(we)brokethemomentumfirst.” No.7-seededCal(44-11)brokeitearly,too,explodingfora5-0firstinningleadandneverlooking back. Shortstop Britt Vonk camehome firstwhenAshleyDeckerwalkedwithbasesloaded.SecondbasemanVictoriaJones

By Kelly Suckow | Staffksuckow@dailycal.org

Center fielder Frani Echavarria went 2-for-3 during in Sunday’s game three victory, scoring twice. eugene w. lau/file

thenplatedJaceWilliamswitha single, fol-lowedbyfirstbasemanJordanWallace’sdou-bletobringhomeapairofruns. The four runs scored off of the four hitsforcedKentucky to pull starterChandaBellthe before the inning even ended. A wildpitch with right fielder Elia Reid up to batscoredJonesforthelastrunoftheinningandanchoredtheBearswitha lead itwouldnotrelinquishfortherestofthegame. “They really responded that first inningand that really set the tone,”Ninemire said.“Thenwekeep addingon it a little bit eachinning. Even when we didn’t score, we hadrunners in scoring position and kept doingpositivethingsthatIthinkkeptthemomen-tuminourdugout.” The Wildcats (40-16) threatened in thebottom of the sixthwith strong hits to loadthebases,butHendersonworkedherwayoutofthejambeautifully,fightingoffa3-0counttoforceapop-outthatclosedouttheframe. Caltackedonrunstowidentheleadevenfurther, headlined by Ziegenhirt’s two-runhome run over the center field fence in theseventhinningtomakethescore8-0. “Ihadbeenworking reallyhard trying togetgoodcontactontheball,”saidZiegenhirt,who went 2-for-9 on the weekend. “I think(the home run)was the accumulation of allmyeffortsthisweekend—thatonebighitatagoodtime.” For the Bears, who open WCWS playagainstAlabama(51-9)onThursday,thewinprovidednoshortageofconfidence. “Afterdealingwiththatfirstgame,itbuildscharacter…neversaynever,”Hendersonsaid.“Wearenevergoingtositdownandtake it.Wearealwaysgoingtobereadyformore.” Kelly Suckow covers softball.

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Stanford washes away Bears in regular season finale

Afriendofminesaidawhilebackthat the worst thing that everhappened to the Cal baseball

teamwasgettingreinstated.Calmdown—it’sajoke.Aprogram

asstoriedastheBears’isacornerstoneof the athletic department, and itsrevival in early April was one of thebest college sports storiesof theyear.It was a moment when, in spite ofincrediblecircumstances,thecommu-nity banded together to save some-thingimportant.

But fresh off of two (nearly three)embarrassinglossestoStanfordtoendthe regular season, it’s clear that Cal

Cal must reinstate fire in postseason

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Katie Dowd kdowd@dailycal.org

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Cal second baseman Tony Renda dives for third base after running from first on a single. He was thrown out to end the third inning.eugene w. lau/staff

Quick Look:cal: otHer:

SaveCalBaseballbannerswerestillaround to help close out EvansDiamond’s final showing this spring,theannualBigSeriesagainstStanford.Some flierswere stacked at the frontdesk, and T-shirts still popped up intheseason-highcrowdof1,358—eveniftheBears’reinstatementwasalreadysecurednearlytwomonthsago.

But with the way the Cal baseballteamwasplaying, it lookeddesperateforsomehelp.Saturdayafternoon,therain erased a contest that could havecappedathree-gameCardinalsweep.

“(Having) no game is better thana loss,” second baseman Tony Rendasaid.“Ialwayswanttoplay,butitwasbadconditions.”

The Bears lost the first part of thedoubleheader,4-2,andtheyonlylookedworseinthesecond.Calspiraleddowntoa7-1holeinthetopofthefourth,theday’s intermittent drizzle steadied intoan unrelenting shower. Pitcher KevinMillerhadstartedtolosehisfootingonthe mound, walking three straight toaddtohisseasontotalof12.

If Stanford students didn’t havefi-nals approaching, they would haveresumed play on Sunday. The samemighthavehappened if the game af-fected Pac-10 standings. Neither wastrue,soboxscoreswillbefiledintoasifthosefinalfourinningsneverexisted.

Theregularseasonfinalewasafamil-iarrefrainforCal,wastedopportunitiesdottingtheinningswithabsurdregular-ity.Afterleaving10runnersonbaseintheirseries-opening,3-2lossonFriday,the Bears (31-20, 13-13 in the Pac-10)stranded another eight in Saturday’snoongame.

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Quick Look:j. jones: 8 ip, 12 Hits, 4 er, 4 kt. renda: 2-4, 1 run

“You’vegot towin thebig spot,”CalcoachDavidEsquersaid.“You’vegottocomeupwiththebigat-bat,you’vegottogetthebighitandtheydidthatoverand over. We continually didn’t do itoverandover.”

Stanford (32-20, 14-12) committedthreecostlyerrors,andoftenlookedasifitweretryingtogivethegameaway— to which Cal responded politely, bAsEbAll: PAGE 6

Jolene Henderson shuts out Kentucky in game three of Super Regional, sending Cal to first WCWS since 2005

“Thanks,butnothanks.”TheCardinalgiftedtheBears their

first run Saturday, committing twostraighterrors toopenthesecond in-ningandputrunnersonfirstandsec-ond.Asacbuntmovedthemtosecondandthird,andStanfordpitcherJordanPrieshitthirdbasemanMitchDelfinotoloadthebaseswithoneout.

Cal couldn’t manage a hit, scor-

ing a run on a fielder’s choice beforegroundingout.Thenextinning,Rendastreaked from first to third base withtwoouts,hopingtojumpstarthisteam;StanfordrightfielderAustinWilsoncuthimdownwithaperfectthrow.

Rendacameup tobatagain in thefifth with two outs, runners on firstandsecond.Apitchslidinthedirt,butshortstop Marcus Semien broke latefromfirstonafaileddoublesteal.

TheBearsdidn’tscoreagainuntiltheseventh—onanotherCardinalerror.

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