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Claremont Hotel Files for Chapter 11 Protection BSC Looks Resort’s Operations Will Continue Into the Future Despite Filing, According To Hotel Management by Mary Susman Staff Writer

The Claremont Hotel Club & Spa, located in the Berkeley Hills, filed for bankruptcy Tuesday to undergo a restructuring of debt, though ONLINE PODCAST the resort’s daily Mary Susman describes operations will not be affected the Claremont Hotel’s bankruptcy filing. in the process. The Claremont, which boasts a sweeping view of the San Francisco Bay, is one of five resorts across the country that filed for Chapter 11 protection — which is often referred to as “reorganization” bankruptcy — with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court. The five hotels collectively owed about $1.5 billion in mortgage debt by Tuesday, according to a press release from the Paulson Investment Company, one of the investment groups that jointly acquired the five resorts last week. Tuesday’s filing comes after Paulson Investment Company, Winthrop Realty Trust and Capital Trust Inc. seized the Claremont and seven other resorts from the financial firm Morgan Stanley through a foreclosure auction Jan. 28, according to the press release. The firm originally purchased the properties for $6.6 billion in 2007, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. After the firm acquired the Claremont, the resort underwent “a major renovation,” though since then it has not been able to maintain the property, said

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Adrian Larick, director of sales and marketing at the hotel. While the hotel ownership has changed, the integral part of the historic resort remains untouched. The Pyramid Hotel Group, which has managed the hotel since 2007, will continue business as usual despite the bankruptcy and the new ownership. “These kinds of things happen often in the hotel group where someone buys property,” Larick said. “It’s when the management changes that things change internally for the hotel. The management is staying the same, and that’s a good thing for us.” As the corporate offices sort out debt, Todd Felsen, general manager for the hotel, said the resort’s future is not in jeopardy. In fact, Larick said she hopes that by filing Chapter 11, the hotel will be able to access previously inaccessible funds. “We will be able to loosen up funds for improvements in property that haven’t been able to be done in the last three years,” Larick said. While the Claremont has faced financial difficulty due to the country’s economic downturn, Larick said the situation is turning around, and the hotel, which she said has “touched” many Bay Area residents, will continue its legacy. “Since October of last year, we’ve seen an uptick in everything — room reservations, people spending money on the spa,” she said. “It’s been here a long time.” During the debt restructuring process, Felsen said the hotel will continue serving the community the way it has throughout its 95 years. “It’s an iconic, legendary hotel,” he said. “We continue our operation as normal.” Mary Susman covers Berkeley communities. Contact her at msusman@dailycal.org.

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The Claremont Hotel Club & Spa has been a Berkeley landmark for the past 95 years. The resort filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Tuesday to undergo restructuring of debt.

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Students ‘Die’ to Support Egyptian Protesters Holding posters, banners and flags, around 80 demonstrators staged a “die-in” Thursday afternoon at Sather Gate to raise awareness about violence against Egyptian ONLINE VIDEO protesters, to See footage from the denounce U.S. aid “die-in” demonstration to the Egyptian government and held at Sather Gate. to stand in solidarity with ongoing protests in the country. At the demonstration hosted by the cam-

pus Muslim Students Association political action committee, around 20 protesters wearing black clothes and holding signs and banners blocked Sather Gate, while nearly 40 other protesters lay on the ground, representing those killed in the Egyptian protests. A crowd of onlookers, including students and concerned community members, gathered around the demonstration as the students lying on the ground got up and stated the reasons for their “deaths.” “I died for a dictator to step down,” said

one student. According to Sadia Saifuddin, a member of the committee, the purpose of the event was to raise awareness about ongoing protests in Egypt. “Egyptians are dying at the hands of our tax money,” Nuha Masri, a member of the committee and organizer for the event. “Our money is going into killing people and supporting the regime of a dictator.” According to Fatima Mekkaoui, a student at the event and member of the committee,

students need to be aware of the money going into U.S. foreign aid for Egypt. “The university and education are looking at budget cuts right now,” Mekkaoui said. “If we have enough money to send aid to the regime in Egypt, but don’t have enough money to aid our own people, that is pure hypocrisy.” The majority of the protesters left Sather Gate by around 1:30 p.m., but as of press time, some were discussing staying overnight. —Aaida Samad

The Berkeley Student Cooperative has issued a systemwide call to action in order to address mounting concerns over incidents of drug overdoses. A Jan. 14 letter sent to nearly 1,300 students explained that the organization faces claims for damages by family members of former Cloyne Court resident John Gibson, who suffered brain damage from a drug overdose last spring. The letter — written by the co-op’s board of directors’ Community Harm Reduction Outreach Committee — also says Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Harry Le Grande would advocate “severing any formal collaboration with the BSC by terminating all four UC leases,” including Cloyne, Fenwick, Rochdale and Convent houses, should another drug overdose occur. Le Grande did not respond to requests for comment. Due to concerns cited in the letter, the BSC is holding a meeting of its entire membership Feb. 26 to discuss the direction further overdose prevention measures should take. The co-op has fallen victim to several other drug-related incidents that drew legal action throughout its 77-year history. In 1989, the now-defunct Barrington Hall was sued by neighbors citing the RICO Act — a federal law meant to combat crime organizations — and was eventually closed due to alleged trafficking. The suit, which was heard in the California Northern District Court, alleged that members of Barrington collectively agreed to allow drug dealing to take place within the house, with at least 19 members engaging in sales, according to court documents. Another group of neighbors sued the co-op in 2004, citing drug dealing at Le Chateau. The house was eventually closed as a result of the suit, but was replaced by Hillegass-Parker House in 2005. As a result of the two incidents, the cooperative spent about $200,000 in each case for remodeling, vacancy and legal fees, which in turn caused a room and board rate increase of $672 per year from 1989-90 to 1990-91 and $654 from 2004-05 to 2005-06. As a nonprofit organization, the BSC’s room and board rates rise and fall with operating costs, vacancies and other factors including lawsuits, according to Jan Stokley, co-op executive director. “Our organization is 100 percent self-supporting, and all costs are borne by member rates,” she said. “We are a very bare-bones organization.” Financial documents detailing BSC’s current debt show the co-op is paying off $20 million in loans taken out in 2007 to fund seismic retrofits — a cost that contributes to higher room and board fees. The letter suggests that the potential loss of Cloyne’s lease and its nearly 150 boarders would result in a $637 fee increase per year to accommodate the loan’s repayment, not including possible rate increases as a result of damages from Gibson’s case. BSC President Daniel Kronovet, a former employee of The Daily Californian,

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Saturday, Feb. 5 WHAT FILM The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts begins its 25th-anniversary showing of the entirety of “Shoah,� Claude Lanzmann’s marathon-long seminal documentary. The film features interviews from those involved in the Holocaust, including its survivors and perpetrators. WHEn 1:00 p.m. WHEre 701 Mission St., San Francisco Cost General admission $12. CONTACT (415) 978-2787

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said it is important for co-op residents to remember that larger houses such as Cloyne partially subsidize smaller houses to accommodate for their lower membership. “It’s crucial that we educate our members on the BSC’s delicate and complex situation and how the actions of individuals can negatively impact the entire community,� he said. “This is a co-op. In the end, we’re responsible for each other.� While the lawsuit concerning Gibson’s overdose is pending, the co-op has already taken steps toward preventing similar incidents. Christine Shaff, communications director for the UC Berkeley Department of Facilities Services, said the department was pleased that Cloyne complied with a September request to hire a live-in manager to help monitor drug activity. The co-op also adopted a Commu-

nity Harm Reduction platform at a Dec. 9 board meeting, stressing a tripartite strategy for dealing with drug incidents that focuses on referring students to university and community resources for treatment. “Unfortunately, the phrasing of the (Jan. 14) letter gave some people the impression that we have a strict zerotolerance policy,� Kronovet said. “That’s not actually true — our policy is much more sophisticated and ultimately relies on a committee of students to arbitrate on a case-by-case basis.� Stokley said education, such as that taking place at the co-op’s planned meeting, is crucial to their continued success. “Under Daniel (Kronovet’s) leadership, the BSC is having a very healthy and engaged dialogue about an issue that affects not just us, but all student housing,� she said. True Shields is the lead courts reporter. Contact him at tshields@dailycal.org.

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Kepler Mission Discovers 1,235 Possible New Planets by Claire Perlman Staff Writer

In the search for life on another planet, NASA and UC Berkeley astronomers from the Kepler mission announced Wednesday the discovery of ONLINE PODCAST 1,235 possible Claire Perlman talks planets, which about the mission’s would triple the number of new discoveries. known planets in the universe. Although the planet candidates have not yet been confirmed, astronomers believe that most will prove to be planets. But even more thrilling to scientists than the sheer number of new planets is the possibility that 54 of those planets happen to fall in the habitable zone, where the temperature is suitable for life. “We’ve worked 16-hour days, 7 days a week toward this,� said Geoff Marcy, co-investigator of the mission and a

campus professor of astronomy, in an e-mail. “We’re exhausted ... but this is a watershed moment in human history.� The mission’s planet-hunting satellite has only actively been on the prowl since March 2009, but Alex Filippenko, campus astronomy professor, said it has already made fundamental advances. Over the last 15 years, traditional methods yielded about 400 confirmed exoplanets. In just over a year, the Kepler mission, which instead finds planets by measuring how much the host star’s light dims as a potential planet passes by, has located more than 1,200 candidates. “The traditional way in the past was to take a spectra of stars over the course of time and see if those stars were wobbling in response to a planet orbiting them,� Filippenko said. Most planets found before this group were far too large to support life, as greater size generally indicates an inhabitable composition, such as of gas or

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om Brady is a badass. Yup, I’m a Pats fan, the only two reasons being that one, Tom Brady’s badassery destroys flying machines, and two, the fact that the Pats have men deck themselves out in excellent Revolutionary War costumes at their home games. But, mostly, Tom Brady. So you can imagine my disappointment and lackluster spirit over this weekend’s game. It will be an almost-butnot-quite epic show down between Ben “the Viking-bearded” Roethlisberger, and Aaron “the greatest quarterback Cal has ever had and football demigod” Rodgers. I know, I know. The last thing you want to hear is a girl spouting her views on offensive strategy and insert-twohyphenated-names-here defense when ESPN and co. have over-analyzed every last player, family member and Nike shoe sponsor for the past few weeks. Rather than bore you with my predictions of which barely-clothed celebrity will sit in a bathtub and be featured in a phone commercial this year, I will start off a new round of forecasting. Just as one season draws to an end, here comes — well, really, continues — the endless, trivial and tedious analysis of the brain-children of sycophantic Los Angeles producers. The 83rd Annual Academy Awards, ladies and gentlemen, hosted by Anne Hathaway and James Franco, the most awkward pairing in recent memory, is upon us. Well, there’s still two more weeks. Which, in critics speak, means “upon us.” Pass the popcorn. The Starting Kick-off: The Academy likes to begin with the Supporting Actor/Actress category. Not too flashy, not too obscure. Christian Bale — a Daniel Day-Lewis on steroids — is finally getting the nomination he deserves. Unlike Michael Vick though, his transformation will undoubtedly lead him to movie gold. In the female race of the same category, I’m really pulling for a Helena Bonham Carter upset. Bellatrix Lestrange is such good fun, as is the Duchess of York/Elizabeth I/mother of Her Majesty. But alas, Melissa Leo’s portrayal of a loud-mouthed, female version of Billy Lowman vis-a-vis “Death of a Salesman” in “The Fighter” will score her another one of those shining naked statuettes. The First Down: I’m hoping tomorrow’s game opens with a long, soaring 50-yard pass by Aaron Rodgers deep into enemy territory. It will be beautiful. It will be exhilarating. It will be soul-crushing for the Steelers’ defense and result in miserable breakdowns on the sidelines. And it most probably won’t happen. ut I can assure you, that exhilarating, beautiful opening drive for The Social Network will occur. Aaron Sorkin — yes, I’m still an obsessed fan — will easily take one home for Best Original Screenplay. At long last, the god of smart television writing gets one for the big screen. The Third Down: I know, I ignored the two-yard gain on second down. Hopefully Rashard Mendenhall will be pulling a lot of those, and only those. The third down is nail-biting, exciting and

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LYNN YU essential. I’m giving this one to Best Original Score, a hotly contested race between Alexander Desplat for the subtle score of “The King’s Speech,” Hans Zimmer for the jarring brilliance of “Inception,” and the wonderfully written, ingeniously crafted music of “The Social Network.” Here we go with extending that drive toward the end zone, as Atticus Ross and Trent Reznor nab the Oscar for creating an essential component in the telling of Facebook’s founding. The field goal: Field goals are for wussies. Field goals are for teams like Auburn that chicken out from going into overtime in the BCS title game. Field goals are for Rex Ryan and his Just End The Season (JETS) team. The Academy isn’t willing to give a nod to Christopher Nolan. Even though David Fincher will take home the Best Director award, at least show some respect to Mr. Nolan, the man who single-handedly executed the summer’s biggest blockbuster, not to mention a mind-fuck film of mass appeal. he Interception: Benny R is gonna throw an interception tomorrow. I’m not hoping for it, I know it. His large and lumbering ways will come to an end. The biggest no-brainer of the night, besides “Toy Story 3” winning for Best Animated Feature, is Colin Firth finally feeling love from the States as he stoops down in all his Mr. Darcy-like grace and class, and takes the Best Actor award once and for all. I’m also feeling a fumble coming. Not as certain as the interception, but just as likely. Natalie Portman for Best Actress is almost, but not quite, a given. The Touchdown: And so we end here. Best Picture of 2011. The competition is really just between “The Social Network” and “The King’s Speech.” The academy likes to flip from their evil counterpart, the HFPA. Last year “Avatar” won at the Globes, and “The Hurt Locker” got sweet vengeance against the wild-haired James Cameron. A similar situation arises this year — the story of the marvel that changed social interaction won the Globes, but the tale of class, character, and overcoming obstac — alright I’ll stop with the cheesiness. “The King’s Speech” takes it all. And they deserve it. May the old win over the new, and the meat over the steel. Go Brits, and go Packers!

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Tackling genetics with expertise and enthusiasm, three UC Berkeley freshmen from the College of Letters and Science won acclaim and a combined $2,000 in grant money by participating in a contest, showcasing talent and creativity, that was born out of controversy. The contest, “Show Us What You’re Made Of,” began this year as part of the College of Letters and Science’s annual “On the Same Page” program, which aims to engage faculty and incoming students in discussion on a common topic, and asked for student perspectives on personalized medicine, in line with this year’s topic, “Bring Your Genes to Cal.” The winning submissions embraced and critiqued genetics, reflecting the controversy the program faced when it first launched the topic last summer. It initially planned to examine DNA of individual new students, but was stopped after a state Department of Public Health decision in August. But this did not stop Juliana Green from using the idea of individualized salivary testing to discover information about the body. Green’s first-place research proposal,

which earned her $1,000, seeks to measure nitrite levels to gauge a person’s endurance and blood pressure — a topic she said has interested her since high school. “One time before my run, I replaced my usual peanut butter sandwich with celery, and I felt better — and after doing some online research, I made the connection to nitric oxide,” she said. After discovering that nitrites were surrogate markers of nitric oxide, which is key to improving endurance, Green formulated a way to test her own nitric oxide levels by measuring the levels of nitrite in her saliva rather than using a blood test. Green tested her saliva with a cotton swab that had been treated with a combination of chemicals that caused the swab to turn different shades of pink depending on the levels of nitrite detected — a method known as the Griess test. “I literally performed this experiment on my kitchen table,” she said. “(The program) just took it to the next level, leading me to make this nitrite test into a product that athletes could use to monitor their health, using salivary tests just like the ones the program sent out to test students’ DNA.” Chris Allen, one of two second-place contestants who won $500 each, said

he was inspired to look at another aspect of this year’s topic: ethical questions raised by genetic testing. “The side issues that were debated that people thought were novel struck me as not that novel at all — I wanted to explore the idea that philosophy has been dealing with them for a really long time,” he said. In his essay, “The New Genetic Frontier: A Philosophical Perspective,” Allen discussed changing conceptions of identity and morality in the face of modern genetics. “One issue is perceiving ethical issues arising from genetics, but not realizing the unchallenged assumptions at work,” he said. “You can address this by thinking about why they are bothersome in the first place, and why they are causing these assumptions.” Tying for second place, Josephine Coburn presented a more upbeat interpretation. Parodying Lady Gaga’s song and music video “Telephone,” Coburn and some of her friends from high school presented what they called Lady Gallium’s “Chromosome.” They created the educational video, complete with Gaga hairstyles and jumpsuits, over the summer at the

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The success Cal Athletics supporters have had fundraising suggests that cutting teams may have been premature.

ews that supporters of the campus’s five cut sports have been able to raise between $12 million and $15 million dollars is welcome news that raises the question of whether the decision to cut the programs was premature. In September, campus officials announced five teams — baseball, men’s and women’s gymnastics, lacrosse and rugby — would lose varsity status (though rugby would remain a “varsity club” sport). At the time, we noted that the cuts suggested administrative mismanagement but said that we understood that sacrifices were necessary due to the financial crisis. Now, however, it has become clear that outright cuts were not the only option on the table. The success of the fundraising organized by “Save Cal Sports” and the campus’s agreement to consider reinstatement of the five cut teams raises the question of why the teams were cut outright, rather than placed on a probationary fundraising period. Had the campus announced at September’s press conference that the teams would be cut in June if

they were not able to raise $25 million, we believe the urgency would have still prompted a successful fundraising drive without the uncertainty and confusion that occurred. Administration officials have announced that in order for the sports to be reinstated, supporters must raise $25 million to support the teams for up to 10 years and create a viable endowment plan. We believe it is shortsighted to insist on $25 million and ignore the money that has already been raised — if supporters were able to raise at least $12 million in 4 months, what’s to say they couldn’t reach $25 million in the time that they could already fund? While the urgency isn’t as present, the teams should have more than enough time. We say give “Save Cal Sports” a chance, and consider giving supporters more time to hit the $25 million requirement. Bringing back teams funded entirely by donations, is the best of both worlds — Cal can continue its strong athletic tradition, and it does not have to compromise on its world-class academics.

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City officials should address the concerns of taxi drivers or risk permanently losing Berkeley’s fleet of 120 taxi cabs.

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ecent news that the city has been slow in addressing the concerns of its taxi drivers is a bothersome sign that suggests the city is not doing everything it can to help its businesses succeed. The taxi drivers, some of whom have formed an advocacy group titled “The Berkeley Taxicab Association,” have multiple complaints and say that they reached out both to City Manager Phil Kamlarz and Chief Michael Meehan of the Berkeley Police Department last October. Though members of the association have met with both Mayor Tom Bates and Councilmember Kriss Worthington, they have not been able to meet with the police department. At issue is primarily enforcement of a city ordinance prohibiting nonBerkeley-registered taxi cabs from picking up passengers in the city. Though the association has asked the police to enforce this ordinance, Berkeley Police Department has claimed that they are uninvolved in any such enforcement. We are having trouble understanding why the city would pass an ordinance but not ensure that it is actu-

ally being followed — especially if the ordinance was designed to protect Berkeley taxi drivers and their livelihoods in the first place. Why should taxi drivers be forced to subject themselves to an inefficient permitting system if they derive no benefit from it? The city also needs to clarify its tax requirements. This year, in their annual letter detailing renewal procedures, the city stated that a new business license cost $215 per company, as it had previously. However, drivers who went to renew learned that the city is charging $215 per vehicle — the amount required by city statutes but never enforced. It’s not fair for the drivers if the city enforces one law that hurts them — levying the tax — and ignores another that helps: the Berkeley-only ordinance. The city should either enforce all of their ordinances or not punish the taxis financially. A strike would be detrimental for everyone — it would inconvenience Berkeley residents and potentially even cost the city at least 120 jobs by allowing Oaklandor other locally-based taxi companies to fill in the resulting vacuum.

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Campus Administrators Continue Working on A Solution for the Lack of Student Prayer Space by Jonathan Poullard I read with great interest the Feb. 1, 2011 editorial, entitled “Meditations on Progress,” and felt a need to provide clarity on the work that the administration has been doing for more than two years on this issue. The editorial left out key efforts that have been made over the past two years by many in the senior administration to resolve this matter. Students should know that we have attempted and failed to find acceptable space for reflection space in the following locations: Hearst Gymnasium, Dwinelle Hall (this space was used for approximately one month, but was then rejected by students), Multicultural Community Center (currently used by some Muslim students as an ad hoc location for prayer), Evans Hall, the Recreational Sports Facility, Berkeley Hillel and the First Congregational Church of Berkeley.

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All of these temporary alternate spaces have been rejected by students as acceptable locations because it was felt that they were not “central enough” to meet student needs. Every attempt has failed and students have ultimately returned to the fourth floor of the Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union as the preferred location for this activity, causing much consternation among folks who use fourth floor rooms for meetings and/or office space. Nadesan Permaul, executive director of the ASUC Auxiliary, provided financial numbers and studied space utilization patterns of rooms on the fourth floor to determine the viability of taking a room off-line between the hours of 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. (or sundown) for this purpose. While a room could be identified it would only allow for a maximum of six to 10 students at one time, thus causing any additional individuals to spill onto the fourth floor foyer area when

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more than 10 students seek this opportunity at the same time (more common than not in inclement weather). Further, the need for an ablution station prior to reflection has caused angst amongst users of the restrooms since students will often wash their feet in restroom sinks. And still, the question remains: What to do? At a recent meeting to continue this conversation it was suggested to senators present that they consider allowing the ASUC Senate Lounge to be used during the hours from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. for this purpose until another space could be identified. This decision currently rests with the senate. The Office of the Dean of Students, in collaboration with those of the vicechancellors for student affairs and equity and inclusion, remains committed to working with the ASUC and other student leaders to find an acceptable solution. Jonathan Poullard is assistant vice-chancellor for student affairs and dean of students. Reply to opinion@dailycal.org.

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liquid. However, among the planets announced this week, more than 600 are smaller than four times the size of Earth, Marcy said in the e-mail. “These numerous worlds of nearly Earth-size indicate that the prospects of finding habitable, Earth-like planets are very good,” he said in the e-mail. The planets are not confirmed and life on any one of the 54 planets in the habitable zone has yet to be found. Confirming that the planets are, in fact, planets will require years more of work, using data collected from telescopes on the ground to measure planets’ masses, among other methods. Only then can astronomers begin the actual search for life on another planet. According to Filippenko, there are a variety of indicators that suggest life, such as the contents of the planet’s atmosphere. “The composition of Earth’s atmosphere ... could be used by aliens to strongly argue that there’s life on

Earth,” he said. “You don’t have to get tweets from aliens in order to know that they’re there. You can figure out that life is present based on the effect it has on the planet’s atmosphere.” Indicators could include an abundance of atmospheric oxygen and methane, the former allowing life to survive and the latter a byproduct of life’s existence. Even without confirmation, the certainty scientists have that most of the 1,235 are planets makes the discovery historical, akin to when the first exoplanet was found, Filippenko said. “When you look up tonight at the night sky, gazing at those twinkling lights, you are the first people in human history to know that most of them contain planets, big ones and small ones,” Marcy said in the e-mail. “Surely some of those planets are rocky with a temperature just right for life.” Clare Perlman is the lead research and ideas reporter. Contact her at cperlman@dailycal.org.

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McLaughlin Research Institute in Montana, where Coburn worked as an intern. Unaware of the contest at the time, Coburn said she initially made the video to spread enthusiasm among her peers — something she thinks is essential in learning about science. “It’s a really cool program,” she said. “The other winning entries are really interesting. The idea that you can be so self aware about your health, or looking at genetics from a philosophical standpoint — just more science-related things to inspire enthusiasm.” Alix Schwartz, coordinator of the program, said she was pleased that a range of disciplines were represented. “We are a diverse college — it’s amazingly fortunate that the best entries reflected this,” she said. Kate Lyons covers research and ideas. Contact her at klyons@dailycal.org.

Sotomayor Visits Elementary School Students by Jeffrey Butterfield Staff Writer

Fourth- and fifth-graders at Rosa Parks Elementary School got to meet and shake hands with Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor Wednesday morning when the judge dropped in for a surprise visit during her day in Berkeley. Students performed a play about Rosa Parks for Sotomayor — who later that evening acted as judge for a student competition at Zellerbach Hall hosted by the UC Berkeley School of Law — and asked the justice questions ranging from “What is it like being on the Supreme Court?” to “How much do you get paid?” “Her presence was just extraordinary,” said Berkeley Unified School District spokesperson Mark Coplan. “A group of parents also got to meet her ... They looked like an audience for Jay Leno, all eagerly reaching out at the same time just to get a handshake.” Sotomayor chose to stop by the school because two children of the law school’s dean, Christopher Edley,

attend the elementary school. Additionally, Sotomayor — the nation’s first Hispanic Supreme Court justice — was specifically interested in the school’s Two-Way Immersion program, a language acquisition program that aims to teach various school subjects in both English and Spanish to a classroom of students who each speak only one of the languages. According to Rosa Parks’ principal Paco Furlan, Sotomayor then visited an immersion class of about 20 students and taught a lesson entirely in Spanish. “She was so personable,” Furlan said. “The best part was how well she interacted with the kids and made a point to meet each of them. I’m glad they got to meet such a great representative of our country.” According to Coplan, in addition to the two classrooms she visited, more than 100 Rosa Parks students probably saw the judge as Sotomayor “poked her head into other classrooms” to say a quick hello. He said the fourth- and fifth-grade teachers had been informed a few

weeks in advance that the justice would be visiting, so the class had spent time studying Sotomayor and her career. The students were told the morning Sotomayor arrived at an assembly that the woman they had been studying would be visiting the school. Sotomayor is not the first notable political figure to pay a visit to Berkeley schools. According to Coplan, President Barack Obama’s Secretary of Education Arne Duncan visited Longfellow Middle School last year to learn more about the school’s algebra program, and Prince Charles toured gardens and learned about the school lunch programs at Martin Luther King Middle School in 2005. “She is someone whom I’ve read about and seen on the news, someone I deeply respect,” Furlan said. “I am so happy the teachers and the students and the parents met her. It’s a big honor for Rosa Parks.” Jeffrey Butterfield is the lead local schools reporter. Contact him at jbutterfield@dailycal.org.

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Berkeley Public Heath Division Prepares for Further Fiscal Cuts Division Faces Likely Additional Budget Reductions With Gov. Brown’s Proposed $20 Billion in Cuts by Yousur Alhlou Staff Writer

The city of Berkeley’s Public Health Division is bracing itself for possible financial setbacks amid proposed cuts to state-funded health and huONLINE PODCAST man services Yousur Alhlou discusses stemming from dwindling state the health division’s impending budget cuts. revenue. While the division — which receives about 42 percent of its funding from the state — currently faces a $3.1 million deficit, it, like most county and city departments, will have to carry the additional weight of about $20 billion in reductions from federal funds as outlined in Gov. Jerry Brown’s budget proposal. Public health expenditures account for 7 percent of the city’s annual budget, but as the city struggles to tackle a $16.2 million shortfall and is facing a decrease in state funding, it is likely that the division will be forced to institute service reductions and staff layoffs, according to Berkeley City Councilmember Gordon Wozniak. “It’s still too early to speculate on the specific effects on specific services,” Budget Manager Teresa Berkeley-Simmons said in an e-mail. “It would be hard to imagine a service area that did not have to make some adjustments going forward.” Come June, when the council will pass a new biennial budget, the division will be particularly vulnerable, as the city is reluctant to cut resources to K-12 education and public safety because realignment funds — revenue from state sales tax ­— have declined. Shawn Martin, health director at the Legislative Analyst’s Office, said that although the state’s public health department will receive reduced federal funding, state spending for these purposes has increased 52 percent since the 1990-2000 fiscal years, despite a significant dip in 2008.

“There aren’t that many cost reduction proposals compared to prior years,” Martin said. However, the city’s division is likely to experience a negative fiscal impact if the proposed state budget is passed. The city has already slashed nursing services and reduced funding to community agencies that provide direct services to residents. The Berkeley Free Clinic — which recently lost half of its annual funds due to state cuts — has experienced a $25,000 decrease in laboratory service fees from the city, according to Yves Gibbons, clinic fundraising coordinator. Gibbons said he does not directly attribute the clinic’s diminished budget to the city’s financial woes but added that decreased public funding has put a strain on the clinic. “We haven’t cut services,” he said. “We’re actually expanding ... and we’re trying to go after a lot of smaller grants, and local businesses to make up for the difference.” But the city’s ability to continue providing quality care remains uncertain. In response, Councilmembers Kriss Worthington and Max Anderson recently produced “The People Stand for Preventing Early Obituaries by Proposing Logical Economic Solutions,” a proposal that outlines $4 billion in short-term budget cuts — including reducing prison sentences for minor marijuana possession — to be placed on the Feb. 15 consent calendar. If passed by the council, the proposal will likely be presented to Brown. “I just happen to think that these particular cuts are too devastating to accept,” Worthington said. “There are alternatives that should not have this severe of a consequence.” The council is set to review the 2011 fiscal budget, including the future of the city’s public health division, and forecast city revenue at its Feb. 15 meeting. Yousur Alhlou covers city government. Contact her at yalhlou@dailycal.org.

Miscommunications Between Cal Dining, King Pin Donuts End Business Dealings by Jessica Gillotte Staff Writer

About a year ago, Cal Dining’s healthy relationship with Durant Food Court’s King Pin Donuts — which used to supply baked goods, pastries and donuts to on-campus dining locations — turned from sweet to sour. A series of miscommunications between Dari Shamtoob, owner of King Pin Donuts, and Cal Dining administrators resulted in multiple delayed payments, which at one time amounted to $50,000, according to Shamtoob. Additionally, an administrative desire for more efficient operations and product control resulted in Cal Dining’s establishment of the Honey Bear Bakery in Crossroads as the new supplier of baked goods and desserts at residence hall dining commons and on-campus retail locations. Cal Dining had been ordering deliveries of King Pin products — pastries, muffins and donuts — daily for about 15 to 16 years, according to Shamtoob. Less than two years ago, Cal Dining stopped ordering its baked goods, and last fall, the dining services stopped ordering its donuts. Cal Dining’s reduced product flow from King Pin two years ago paved the way for the Honey Bear Bakery to flourish. Charles Davies, associate director of residential dining and executive chef at the bakery, was the mind behind its establishment in fall 2008. “We had a space in Crossroads that was being underutilized,” he said of his project. “Honey

Bear is really efficient because it’s Cal Dining staff — we don’t generate any invoices. It’s not designed to make a profit, it’s more of a breakeven operation.” Though the bakery opened in Crossroads three years ago, Cal Dining continued ordering donuts from King Pin because it did not have the capacity to produce them. But eventually, the cost of processing invoices from the donut shop surpassed Cal Dining’s profit from selling the donuts. Ida Shen, assistant director of culinary and executive chef for Cal Dining, said it took “quite a bit of manpower to process the invoices, and it was an administrative tax on our budget.” “We had a very good relationship with King Pin Donuts,” she said. “They have a very good product and were willing to move toward trans-fat free, but things changed and organizations have different missions. We moved on and I realize that that may be a financial hardship for King Pin — for us to have moved forward — but that is part of the risk for owning a business.” Following the trend of switching to electronic transactions, Cal Dining started to “require electronic invoices” in order to minimize administrative costs and increase efficiency. Shen said Cal Dining had offered to continue doing business with Shamtoob provided that he switched to electronic invoices, but added that he did not respond to the offers. However, Shamtoob said the idea to switch to electronic invoices was his. He added that several of his e-mails and voice

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King Pin Donuts, located in the Durant Food Court, supplied orders to Cal Dining for at least 15 years. About two years ago, Cal Dining began reducing its orders, making way for the Honey Bear Bakery at Crossroads. messages to Suzanne Golden — the dining services administrator with whom he had been in contact — received no response. “The choice was never provided to me,” he said. “And if it was, I would have definitely accepted.” After a long period of silence, Shamtoob said

he was exhausted by the lack of communication and decided to seek a response from Golden in person, and he was told that she had retired a couple months ago.

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Operational Excellence Aims to Reduce Travel Costs for Campus Workers, Athletes by Alisha Azevedo and Katie Nelson

UC Berkeley spent $36 million on domestic and international travel costs last year for campus community members such as faculty, staff ONLINE PODCAST and athletes, Alisha Azevedo and Katie but a campusNelson discuss plans to led project is hoping to re- save on travel costs. duce such costs in the future. About 60 percent of costs were for

domestic travel, while international travel comprised 40 percent of costs, according to Claire Holmes, associate vice chancellor for public affairs and university communications. To cut costs, UC Berkeley’s Operational Excellence procurement initiative team is seeking to update campus travel software, encourage video conferencing and book trips farther in advance. Estimated savings, according to Operational Excellence and consulting firm Bain & Company’s diagnostic report last April, for travel and

entertainment originally totaled between $1.5 million and $3.8 million — roughly 2 to 5 percent of the total $75 million the campus hopes to save through the initiative. But after collecting data, the initiative team has estimated lower savings of $1 million to $3.3 million. Campus travelers must follow the university’s travel policy, which places U.S. General Services Administration caps, based on location, on how much travelers can spend per day for international travel, according to the UC Business and Finance Bulletin.

The policy also reimburses lodging for domestic travel, which “must be reasonable for the locality of travel,” according to the bulletin. Though departments are required to review the costs of reimbursements for the travel of their members, there is currently no cap on domestic travel, so the initiative team has suggested the addition of caps to such travel. The team also recommended using web conferencing for trips less than 24 hours in duration — which are currently about 6 percent of travel — as well as requiring travel arrangements

to be made 30 days in advance for lower rates. Procurement Initiative Manager Heidi Hoffman said she has heard that Skype is being used more often to interview job candidates and that conference call frequency has increased. The team also suggested updating the campus’s current Carlson-Wagonlit travel system — an optional travelplanning program that is only used by 27 percent of campus travelers — to a new system called Connexxus.

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Tree-Sitter Pleads Not Guilty to All Charges by True Shields Staff Writer

From behind a glass wall in one of Wiley W. Manuel Courthouse’s rooms, People’s Park tree-sitter Matthew Dodt pleaded not guilty to all charges Wednesday after being arrested last Friday morning. Dodt, who is currently being detained at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin, is being charged with attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon and Ma^ =Zber <Zeb_hkgbZg disorderly conduct. He entered a not ;460;B 2><82B ?DII;4B See the website for additional information guilty plea for all charges. or contact Jennifer at (510) 642-7720. Nearly a half-dozen supporters, including local activist and homeless advocate Zachary RunningWolf, attended to give character testimony. During the arraignment, Zadik Shapiro, Dodt’s lawyer, echoed Dodt’s earlier assertions that he was defending himself from Austin White, whom Shapiro said was advancing on the tree Dodt occupied. Reading from a police report, Judge Rhonda Burgess expressed concern 4<08;)validity e^`Zel9]Zber\Ze'hk` Ihlm rhnk :eZf^]Z <hngmr E^`Zel pbma nl' ?7>=4) .*)&.-1&1,)) 50G) .*)&1-2&+1), regarding the of Dodt’s claims,

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Michael Laux, assistant director of human resources, said the administration was waiting for Shamtoob to bring in copies of outstanding invoices. “We’ve been trying to get copies from him to get them paid,� he said. Following an inquiry into the matter by The Daily Californian on Wednesday, a Cal Dining administrator contacted Shamtoob to resolve payment issues, according to Shamtoob. “Yesterday they gave me $4,463, and today they gave me $1,100 for error of their accounting,� he said in an interview Thursday. “They gave me the credit card number and they said go ahead and charge it.� Shen said on Thursday afternoon that “as of this moment, he has been paid.� Jessica Gillotte is the lead business reporter. Contact her at jgillotte@dailycal.org.

“Connexxus was designed with faculty in mind where there are no forms or waiting periods like there were with Carlson-Wagonlit,� said Jon BainChekal, finance project manager in the campus Controller’s Office. Bain-Chekal added that the range of transaction fees for each trip booked within the system is lower than it was with the original system — down from between $26 and $32 to $7.50 per transaction. He said the drop in costs would increase usage and efficiency. Connexxus is being tested in two departments — University Relations and the Engineering Research Support Organization — and will begin expanding to others in February before becoming available campuswide in the fall, according to Bain-Chekal.

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tered by the following owners: Louise Balsan, 1635 Tenth Street, Berkeley, CA 94710. This business is conducted by an Individual. The registrant began to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 11/2010. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Alameda County on December 21, 2010. LKAB Consulting Publish: 1/21, 1/28, 2/4, 2/11/11 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 446039 The name of the business: Golden Gate School of Feng Shui, street address 3225 Adeline Street, Berkeley, CA 94703, mailing address 3225 Adeline Street, Berkeley CA 94703 is hereby registered by the following owners: Darrell Manu Butterworth, 1042 60th Street, Oakland, CA 94608. This business is conducted by an Individual. The registrant began to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 12/31/2002.

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To Whom It May Concern: The Name(s) of the Applicant(s) is/ are: Aurora Theatre Company The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to sell alcoholic beverages at: 2081 Addison Street Berkeley, CA 94704-1103 Type of license(s) applied for: 69 – Special On-Sale Beer and Wine Theatre Date of Filing Application: January 20, 2011 Publish: 1/28, 2/4, 2/11/11 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 447092-93 The names of the business: (1) Luka’s Jewelry and (2) O Unique Jewelry, street address 318 Hudson St., Oakland, CA 94618, mailing address 318 Hudson St., Oakland, CA 94618, is hereby registered by the following owners: Shu Ling Luka Lai, 318 Hudson St., Oakland, CA 94618. This business is conducted by an Individual. This statement was filed with the

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lead, and it seemed that they may be able to replicate the 20-point thrashing Freshman forward Erica Barnes made a they gave the Wildcats at Haas Pavilion layup. With the score 28-34, Boyle called last month. a 30-second timeout, and Cal returned In spite of Cal’s 72-55 lead, however, to the court with five points to regain the this was not the same game. The Bears double-digit lead. managed to out-rebound Arizona 55-28 The start of the second half saw in their last match-up, a statistic it was EASY Arizona matching the Bears nearly bas- clear the Wildcats intended to change. ket-for-basket. Yet their slow beginning “They’ll probably try to keep us off in the first period still haunted the the boards,� Sherbert said prior to the Wildcats, and Cal’s lead consistently match. “What we did well (last time, Ma^ =Zber <Zeb_hkgbZg DUMMY hovered around 10 points. they’ll) just take that away from us. We With three minutes remaining, a just have to do our thing.� jumper by Stallworth, who had a douCal still posted 38 rebounds, but ble-double, gave the Bears a 17-point Arizona nearly matched it with 37,

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Coach David Durden has spent most of the season downplaying the hype surrounding the Cal men’s swimming team’s status as a favorite to win the national championship come March. However, if the squad continues to have the kind of success it has seen thus far, it’s going to be a lot harder for the Bears not to buy in. No. 1 Cal (2-0) will host a pair of dual meets this weekend at Spieker Aquatics Complex, taking on No. 8 USC (6-1) today at 5 p.m. and Cal State Bakersfield (6-1) Saturday morning. This will be the first competition for the Bears since being ranked first in the nation in the coaches’ poll last week. Cal had been ranked No. 4, but dominated both Arizona State and then-No. EASY 2 Arizona to grab the top spot in the rankings. “I look at the polls as coaches giving our team a compliment,� Durden said. “We’re going to enjoy it for as long as it lasts.�

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There are only so many NBA games on TV, and most of them will be over by 10 or 11 p.m. With All-Star Weekend coming up, what else is a sports fiend to do? When you’re scrounging around your apartment for snacks at 2 a.m., this is your only viable option. And there’s still franchise mode, Barack Obama and a whole bunch of Jordan Challenges I haven’t tried out yet. God, I need to do my reading.

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indicating a more competitive game from the Wildcats. After Stallworth extended the gap to 17 points, Whyte made her final layup of the game, and Arizona took a 5-1 stretch against the Bears for the final score, 73-63. The victory was the third straight road win for the Bears, who struggled on the road earlier this season. However, this win does not mean that wins out# side of Berkeley are a sure thing. Cal will face Arizona State, which is currently tied with the Bears and USC for third place, at Wells Fargo Arena in Tempe, Ariz. on Saturday.

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Cal Comes Back Late to Nip Devils by Ed Yevelev

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Thursday night featured devils, a fall and, ultimately, redemption. Only it wasn’t a Bible passage — it was a Pac-10 basketball m. hoops game. Buried in one of Arizona State 62 his worst shooting Cal 66 performances of the season, Allen Crabbe rose up and drained the biggest shot of his young career — a right corner 3-pointer with 14 seconds left that clinched Cal’s 66-62 victory over visiting Arizona State at Haas Pavilion. “I knew it was down, the shot clock was at like two seconds. I just shot it,” said Crabbe, who finished with 10 points on the night. “I was just telling myself, ‘Keep shooting, one of them is going to have to fall before the night is over.’ So I’m glad I made it there.” After nearly upsetting UCLA in Tempe, the Sun Devils hounded the Bears (13-9, 6-4 in the Pac-10) into their lowest output in seven games — and no one endured a more hellish evening than the freshman guard from Los Angeles. Crabbe came into the showdown at Haas Pavilion on a tear, averaging 17.4 points over his last eight conference games. But he was stymied to just seven points on 1-of-9 shooting before his late-game heroics. “It was just one of those nights,” Crabbe said. “I wasn’t moving around to get to the open areas like I should have.” In the final minute, whether or not he would connect again was up in the air. With 1:02 remaining and Cal clinging to a 63-62 lead, Crabbe tried to find Jorge Gutierrez in the left corner. His pass found the Bears’ bench instead. But after Harper Kamp rejected the Sun Devils’ Trent Lockett at the free throw line, he would get one more chance. On the other end, Gutierrez managed to roll a pass to Crabbe while stumbling into the lane. His assist set up the shot that sealed the Bears’ fourth straight conference victory and moved them to within a game of second place in the Pac-10. “Obviously when you’re the leading scorer and you’re putting up the numbers (Crabbe) has, people are going to start defending you,” Cal head coach Mike Montgomery said. “He was having a hard time getting shots, but he found a good time to hit one at the end. “I think had not Jorge rolled the ball across the lane, they might have figured that they needed to defend him.” Lockett paced Arizona State with 18 on the evening, and it was Herb

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have never been good at video games. Maybe it’s because my parents never bought me a console. I didn’t get one until my dad’s friend gave us a PlayStation — a year or two after PlayStation 2 came out. Maybe it’s because I just suck. Either way, video games and I had never had the most unbreakable of relationships. But now there’s an Xbox 360 in my apartment, a 42-inch TV and, most importantly, a copy of NBA 2K11. And believe me, I would rather be playing that right now then writing this. (And I would rather be writing this than reading for class, which is why my books sits sadly unread. Actually, I‘m going to take a short break from writing this for a quick game.) Now, I realize that I’m a little late on the bandwagon. This thing was released five months ago, so half of you reading this have probably already played it. Sorry about that, but just bear with me. (Or go play it. That’s fine too.) Again, not exactly hip to the gamer scene. This game is realistic. Really realistic.

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blog along... ... with the Daily Cal as Cal men’s hoops team takes on Arizona. see dailycal.org Like, oh-what-game-is-on-right-now? realistic. More so than any past basketball video game — or any sports game, for that matter — players move like they do in real life. This, of course, affects gameplay. You can’t just jack up running threes or barrel down the lane. Pick-up iso isn’t going to work here (unless you’re playing pick-up mode, which is an option). You get punished for taking dumb shots or even close, contested layups. Players also play more like their actual selves, which means that J.J. Redick is usually ice cold from the arc and that Sasha Vujacic will miss the occasional point-blank dunk. (This actually happened.) The only thing that really misses the mark are faces, which mostly look like mishmashed versions of their real-life counterparts. But when there are faces like Chris Kaman and D.J. Mbenga, maybe realism would have been a bad thing. If anything, this is more a basketball simulation than a casual game. Sometimes, parts of it are frustrating. Going 1-for-6 from the charity stripe, for example. (It was a goddamn OK release!! Why can’t you sink that, Derrick Rose?!) But the struggles push you to keep working rather than put down the controller — and successful players feel so much sweeter. Let’s be clear; I’m not good at this game either. I still don’t have icon

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Freshman Allen Crabbe iced the game for Cal by hitting a three with 14 seconds left in the contest. Crabbe scored 10 points overall, nearly all of them coming late in the game. Sendek’s club hitting the big-time 3-pointers to start. The Sun Devils started off drilling three of their first four from beyond the arc, but were especially clutch in the second half. Trailing, 52-50, with under nine minutes to play, the Sun Devils (9-13, 1-9) retook the lead after consecutive open treys from Rihards Kuksiks, Jamelle McMillan and Ty Abbott. Meanwhile, Arizona State’s stingy zone defense was flat-out suffocating the Bears. With 7-footers Ruslan Pateev and Jordan Bachynski clogging the lane and wing players moving actively, the

Sun Devils held Cal to just 26-percent shooting in the second half. “We knew the zone was going to be hard to break, and we knew that they could shoot the ball as well. We needed to play harder,” said Gutierrez, who led the Bears with 18 points on the night. “When we got the stops we got confident and we started making shots.” That they did. And the final bucket came from the player who needed it most, Ed Yevelev covers men’s basketball. Contact him at eyevelev@dailycal.org.

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Stacked Stanford Invite Lineup to Test Bears by Chris Haugh Staff Writer

At the Stanford Women’s Water Polo Invitational this weekend, the unbeaten No. 3 Cal women’s water polo team will partake in NCAA water polo’s baptism by fire. With teams that account for nine of the last 10 NCAA champions, all 10 of this past decade’s national runners-up and all five of this year’s top-5 ranked teams, the Bears will be in for a true test of their team’s abilities. Cal (7-0) takes its impressive record into a star-studded slate of opponents at the Avery Aquatic Center in Stanford Calif., where it will play games against seven-time NCAA champion No. 4 UCLA and No. 15 Indiana on Saturday followed by a match against No. 5 Hawaii on Sunday. If the Bears advance, then they would most likely play either No. 1 Stanford or No. 2 USC later on that evening. “It’s pretty tough,” sophomore driver Breda Vosters said of the world-class

competition. “But we’ve been preparing pretty well and as long as we stay focused and just work on what we’ve been doing in practice, we should be right up there with them and give them a good challenge.” By most indications, Cal is ready to face the nation’s brass — they’re coming off a 13-5 shellacking of then-No. 16 UC Davis last weekend. In the culminating game of the Bears’ 4-0 performance at the Spartan Open, Vosters, a Canadian junior national team product, continued her scorching offensive output this season, tallying five goals against the Aggies. “Mostly it’s been my teammates,” Vosters said of her scoring streak. “I plan on making things happen on my own, but we’re just following the game plan and I happen to be in good position a lot of the time and my teammates get me the ball.” However, Vosters, the team’s leading scorer with 18 goals, is not the only Cal player coming into the weekend on a tear. This season the Bears have scored more than 10 goals in every game and

have outscored their opponents 10927. It’s an impressive stat that Cal still downplays. “The early games have all been warm-up games preparing for this weekend,” associate head coach Matt Flesher said. “So after this weekend we’ll have a very good sense of where we stand.” With the hyper-competitive pursuit of NCAA tournament berths (a tournament in which the Bears advanced to the semifinals last year) looming in the near future, this weekend will be a pivotal testing ground of the team’s talent and grit. In fact, seven out of eight teams in the invitational are future MPSF opponents, giving it a rare peek at its upcoming conference foes. “This is just as important as the season,” Vosters said. “If we do really well in this we’ll be in a good position to advance in the postseason. “This is a final within the start.” Contact Chris Haugh at chaugh@dailycal.org.

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Center Talia Caldwell was one of four Cal players to score in the double digits against Arizona. Caldwell scored 10 points, pulled down four rebounds and also had a block. by Alex Matthews Staff Writer

Usually, it’s easy to see a team’s stars from looking at a scoreboard. For example, just a glimpse of the Arizona women’s basketball team’s box score against Cal last night creates a obvious picture of the team’s leaders. Ify Ibekwe and Davellyn Whyte split 42 of the Wildcats’ 63 points. The Bears’ side of the scoreboard, however, seems to be an exception to the rule. Among the six players that scored, four made it to double digits: DeNesha Stallworth, Layshia Clarendon, Lindsay Sherbert and Talia Caldwell. The other two scorers, Eliza Pierre and Afure Jemerigbe, notched nine points each. Apparently, it pays off not to have just two stars dominating every game. Cal defeated Arizona, 73-63, last night, making the arguably most impressive individual statistic of the

game coach Joanne Boyle’s 200th career win. The Bears had almost no trouble putting the Wildcats away in their first match-up this season, an 80-60 victory at Haas Pavilion back on Jan. 8, and early on, it seemed this game would likewise be a blowout. The Bears jumped out to a 9-0 lead on Thursday night. Arizona didn’t see the scoreboard until Whyte’s fifth minute layup, to which Sherbert responded with a three-pointer, putting Cal up by a score of 12-2. After her first field goal, Ibekwe netted three free throws and a three-pointer. Though the game became a little more back-and-forth, the Bears’ early lead ensured the contest never came within more than six points. In the last three minutes of the first period, the Bears were up by 13 points. Ibekwe made a layup, and Whyte made the gap single digits with a three-pointer.

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