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Public Discourse Sparked By West Berkeley Zoning by Yousur Alhlou Staff Writer

At the Berkeley City Council’s second public hearing on proposed zoning amendments to the West Berkeley Plan Tuesday, recommendations supporting large site development, warehouse reuse and increased building height limits proved most controversial. In a follow-up to the Jan. 25 public hearing, more than 50 community members voiced concern and support for proposed amendments to zoning ordinances originally put forth by the city’s Planning Commission in 2007. The commission hopes to attract research and development businesses by eliminating conservative land use regulations established by the plan in 1993. “Our zoning process is so byzantine,” West Berkeley resident Christine Staples said at the meeting. “I fear that we are well on our way of becoming a hippie historical theme park.” If adopted, the recommendations would legalize the conversion and expanded use of warehouse and wholesale space — a subset of which the commission called “dead storage” — to provide low rent infrastructure for offices in the research and development sector. “That’s the flexibility,” Michael Caplan, the city’s economic development manager, said at the meeting. “Businesses grow and change pretty quickly. Being able to accommodate a range of sizes and types is important for the whole ecosystem.” Whereas 25 percent of unprotected warehouse space is currently available for research and development, the commission seeks to expand the sector into 2.3 million square feet of ad-

ditional warehouse space, according to Councilmember Linda Maio. However, when probed by Maio — whose district encompasses West Berkeley — the commission could not provide information on potential demand for the converted space. The commission is expected to return with its findings. Speakers also expressed concern that an increase in building height limits from 45 to 75 feet would diminish the city’s skyline, but research and development employees argued for extended vertical space for their equipment. And while ardent proponents and supporters of the resolution disagree on the plan’s physical and economic scope, both artisan and research communities find common ground in respect for the unique economic and residential diversity of West Berkeley. “Research and development, jobs — that sounds great,” local glass blower Lee Miltier said at the meeting. “(Growth) is inevitable, but let’s not make it cancer.” Artisan protections in the form of controlled rent and a proposed community benefits fund would recycle permit fees into the community in exchange for jobs and efficient shuttle programs created by new businesses. At the meeting, Mayor Tom Bates acknowledged the “slow and deliberate” nature of the discussion, while other council members noted that any final decision would require further deliberation, refined definitions and continuous community participation. The council will hold its third public hearing on Feb. 22. Yousur Alhlou covers city government. Contact her at yalhlou@dailycal.org.

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Local Performer ‘Spaces Out’ on Sproul by Noor Al-Samarrai Staff Writer

If astronauts wore celestial suits and walked on Earth instead of the moon, you might mistake William Wollbrinck for one. Wo l l b r i n c k ONLINE VIDEO — who goes by Billie — wears Watch an interview of a popping, red- William Wollbrinck as painted suit that he talks about his life. bags about his spritely frame and is brushed with dozens of white-rimmed black holes that speckle him from his toes to his shoulders, or that — on the days he wears his cardboard-cut, tentacle-like hat — dangle above his thick crop of white hair. On sunny days for 36 years — and on many cloudy ones, too — Billie has been preaching his personal gospel before Sather Gate. Along with a contraption elaborately constructed of found objects — a large stuffed black widow spider he mounted on a heavy wooden plank, a tshirt stating “Superman Returns,” a floral bedsheet flag with a large black hole painted on it, signs that read “End Polio Now,” “Hot Celery” or “Jesus Shaves” — Billie uses his body to take on the character of a messianic figure in a performance art show. As he speaks, Billie waves his hands and gesticulates with the joy of a little boy who has finally broken past the unintelligible blabber of toddler-hood and realizes he is comprehensible to others. Billie, now 63, learned only 15 years ago — after submitting himself to a battery of “crackerbox tests” — that he is a schizophrenic. “I wore a dress, in the sense of

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William Wollbrinck, a local 63-year-old man, uses costumes and art to perform on Sproul Plaza next to Sather Gate. He has preached his personal gospel on sunny days for 36 years.

Local Cottage Stands for Affordability and Energy Efficiency by Kate Lyons Staff Writer

Eighteen blocks west of UC Berkeley, a cottage standing in a professor’s backyard exemplifies a new option for Bay Area affordable housing, consisting of a lowcost, energy-efficient dwelling strategically placed near a major transit corridor. The net-zero energy affordable unit is located on a property on Delaware Street near San Pablo Avenue and is owned by Karen Chapple, a campus associate professor of city and regional planning. Constructed by New Avenue Homes in 2010, the cottage consists of a heat-absorbing concrete foundation, a recycled metal roof, insulated walls and dual-paned windows, making it extremely energy efficient, according to New Avenue Homes founder and CEO Kevin Casey. In 2009, Casey came to Chapple while he was attending Haas School of Business. Casey was working on a group project on affordable housing, and Chapple, who was considering building another unit for financial reasons, offered to use her lot as a model. After Casey graduated and launched a start-up company, he contacted Chapple about the project. “I was reluctant — borrowing $100,000 is a scary proposition, and though I knew it was an investment that would generate income, I was still nervous about it,” Chapple said. She said she decided to proceed after Chancellor Robert Birgeneau announced 8 percent salary cuts in August 2009. Chapple said typically affordable housing units are constructed through a multiunit complex project. Units usually cost $400,000 to build, and developers collect

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A local cottage located in a UC Berkeley professor’s backyard is a ‘net-zero energy affordable unit’ that was constructed last year. rent revenues. The cottage took one-fourth the usual cost to build and is an example of an asset-building strategy for homeowners. Chapple rents the unit to tenants who live there three weeks a month for $950, but said she would rent it out for $1,200 for full-time. Tenant Karen Kerr said the unit is perfect for her. A firefighter with the San Francisco Fire Department, Kerr stays at the cottage with her partner, a firefighter who works in Seattle, and their 2-year-old

son. Kerr — who has another residence in Seattle — uses public transit to commute to her work in San Francisco. “We want to live close to friends and have a sense of community without buying an expensive house,” Kerr said. Chapple also decided to apply for a $60,000 UC Transportation Center grant and with the grant is currently researching how low-cost, energy-efficient houses can boost public transportation use. “The main barrier to building these

houses is the parking requirements,” she said. “If you could tell homeowners they don’t have to build a parking spot but have to rent to somebody that relies on walking, bicycling, car share or transit, that benefits everyone, including the environment.” Read the full story online at www.dailycal.org.

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Editor’s Note Tuesday’s article “UC System Seeks Unrestricted Donations to Increase Revenue” was accompanied by an infographic that used incomplete and incorrect data. The infographic consisted of two pie charts and a bar chart. The pie charts were said to show the percentage breakdowns of the sources and purposes of gifts to the University of California system. They were also supposed to show the monetary value from each source and for each purpose. The bar chart was said to show the percentage of total gifts that came from each of five groups — staff, faculty, parents, alumni and other individuals. Though the infographic was meant to detail these items for the University of California system, the three charts reflected the numbers for only UCLA — some of which were themselves incorrect in the printed infographic. However, all the information in the actual article, to the best of our knowledge, was accurate. The Daily Californian regrets this significant error. We take the need for accuracy seriously, and this infographic was not up to the standard to which we hold ourselves. The correct data for the infographic can be found at www. dailycal.org/article/111863/correction. If you have any questions or concerns, please e-mail me at editor@dailycal.org. —Rajesh Srinivasan

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On dailycal.org/blogs the Blogs Not in Line With Title IX The Clog reports on The New York Times reporting on a tiny oversight ( just a national gender equity law, nothing important) that may lead to the reinstatement of some of the sports teams cut late last year. Also, updates on an upcoming book fair and the great Berkeley donut feud of 2011.

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I Can’t Believe Fabio’s Not on the Cover! Blog.dailycal.org/arts The arts blog urges readers to put down “‘I can’t believe Fabio’s not on the cover!’ swill” in favor of romantic literature of the non-swill variety. They make this easy to do with romance literature recommendations and an overview of upcoming literary events.

Rama Mama and Mooch Blog.dailycal.org/sports Why happiness breeds success: A look at why this year’s men’s swimming team is better than ever before on the sports blog. Also, Rama “Rama Mama” N’Diaye and Rachelle “Mooch” Federico of the Cal women’s basketball team talk about their nicknames and post-grad plans.

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Ruling Relocates Lawsuit Against Professor to Appellate Court by Aaida Samad and True Shields Following a court ruling Wednesday morning, a UC Berkeley professor’s petition to dismiss a lawsuit filed against him was relocated to appellate court. At the hearing, Alameda County Superior Court Judge Frank Roesch transferred a petition filed Feb. 2 by Robert DiMartino, a campus clinical optometry professor, to appellate court because he said the suit fell outside the jurisdiction of the Superior Court. The petition sought to dismiss a small claims suit filed against DiMartino by UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism student Josh Wolf. Due to the decision, Wolf ’s small claims suit — filed Nov. 4 against DiMartino for his actions while presiding over the conduct hearing — is on hold until the appeals process is complete. At the hearing, William Carroll, a lawyer from Schiff Hardin LLP representing DiMartino, argued that during Wolf ’s student conduct proceeding, DiMartino served a “quasi-judicial” function that entitled him to immunity

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from legal action. Stephen Rosenbaum, a lecturer at the UC Berkeley School of Law who was appointed to speak for Wolf during the hearing, contended that DiMartino did not warrant immunity because his role was “educational,” not judicial. However, the ruling does not change the status of Wolf ’s lawsuit, said Nathan Shaffer, a campus law student and member of the Campus Rights Project — a group that has been assisting students. “We remain confident in the arguments that we made and look forward to proceeding with this case in appellate court,” Shaffer said. At Wolf ’s student conduct pre-hearing conference in October, DiMartino did not allow Wolf ’s adviser Thomas Frampton, a campus law student and member of the Campus Rights Project, to speak on Wolf ’s behalf — something Wolf said was inconsistent with conduct procedure. On Nov. 4, Wolf filed a small claims suit seeking damages of $7,500 for

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News in Brief People’s Park Frequenter Arrested by UCPD Monday UCPD arrested People’s Park frequenter Austin White and booked him on charges of battery and five outstanding misdemeanor warrants in the park Monday afternoon. During a security check of the park, two UCPD officers observed White “striking another individual with his hand,” at around 3:48 p.m. and arrested him on a count of battery, according to UCPD Lt. Alex Yao. White was taken to Santa Rita Jail in Dublin on the battery charge, in addition to five misdemeanor warrants. He was scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday morning at Wiley W. Manuel Courthouse in Oakland. On the night of Jan. 27, White was allegedly assaulted by Matthew Dodt, who had been staging a tree-sit in the park for 89 days. Dodt was arrested by UCPD

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the following morning on charges of attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon and disorderly conduct. In an interview with The Daily Californian the night before his arrest, Dodt said White and three other men had approached his tree that night, threatening to burn it down and “end this tree sit.” As the men neared the tree, Dodt lowered himself onto a wooden platform, where he allegedly assaulted White who suffered a hand injury. At Dodt’s hearing Feb. 2, Judge Rhonda Burgess read aloud a police report stating that White’s hands were slashed by Dodt’s knife as White lifted his hand to cover his neck. Dodt pleaded not guilty on all three charges. Dodt is currently being detained at Santa Rita Jail. His pre-trial is set for Feb. 17, with a preliminary examination of evidence scheduled for Mar. 16. —Katie Bender

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MEGHNA DHOLAKIA “Obama.� The man was obviously another one of Berkeley’s prophets of the apocalypse. If you’ve made it this far in your academic career at Cal, you must have met a few. On my first day, as a terrified freshman, I was informed by a dumpster diver that Chancellor Birgeneau had direct contact with our alien overlords. Therefore, it was no great surprise to be told that the world would be ending in a mere three months. Indeed, I thought little of it at the time. I simply remarked to myself that it was sure to happen on a Monday. had forgotten all about our impending doom until several days later, when I saw the man again. The sign now read “119.� The next day it read “118.� Two days later, it said “116.� Eight days, eight days out of my life, had vanished. I tried anxiously to recall what possible life-changing situations I had encountered in the past week. Oh right, I had finally caught up on “How I Met Your Mother� ... and “Community� ... and, oh god, there was a new episode of “30 Rock� waiting for me. Eight days of my life had passed and the most memorable thing I had done was to listen to the laugh track for someone else’s life. The realization was chilling. It is easy, in college, to go unconsciously through life, without noticing or taking advantage of the singular place we inhabit. Hence, Resolution 14: Be Better. Hence, this column. As to what I would like to do with this column, I’ll fall back on the bad writer’s habit of using a quotation as a replacement for original thought. The opening passage to Joan Didion’s “The White Album� begins, “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.� Those are, I believe, the truest words ever written. We do tell ourselves stories, and if we are writers, we’ll tell them to anyone who will listen. So, I want to tell you a few stories that are very dear to me. I want to tell you the story of how the technology is changing our brains. The story about the time I shot a shotgun and the one about the earthquake. Maybe I’ll even tell you about that one time at band camp. There’s a lot to say, after all ... and we’ve only got 74 days left.

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schizophrenia,� Billie said, describing the exclusion and oppression he has experienced because of his unusual character traits as a schizophrenic and explaining what makes his self-definition so important. By performing, Billie said he means to grab the attention of any student who will allow himself or herself to be moved. “You are the father, the son, the Holy Ghost and the mother,� a passing student said to Billie. Pushing a black wheelbarrow filled with his disassembled set home, Billie explained that whether or not he is a messiah is irrelevant, and he does not believe he is one. But if Billie does have a gospel to sing, it’s a simple one, and standing, stretching and speaking before Sather Gate, he forms his own choir. He preaches to students that they must stay grounded, place the heart above the head and practice social ambidexterity, emphasizing the importance of getting to know oneself completely before one can know others. “You won’t be able to get out of this place by using your head — you’ve got to use your heart,� he said, pounding his fist on the left side of chest. “Your heartbeat, there’s your reality.� Born in Hollywood — and, “conceived at 327 North Western Ave.� in his grandmother’s attic — Billie said he graduated from high school in 1966 “with no social skills.�

Contented to lounge in his attic reading science fiction and fantasy books, Billie was driven to a Marine Recruitment Center by a cousin’s husband — an ex-Marine — and enlisted. Recalling a momentous day in boot camp, Billie described himself and his fellow recruits practicing a drill. They surged across the dirt, mimicking mowing down enemies with guns when suddenly, he said, he began to sob. Hurting another person “is like smashing your fist into your own hand,� Billie said, adding “we’re all connected.� Soon after boot camp, Billie deserted the Marines, leaving his home in Los Angeles for San Francisco with no car and no form of identification. With help from a draft resistor in Berkeley and a band of young British tourists on the Washington state border, Billie escaped to Canada, where he stayed for a year before returning to the United States and turning himself into jail on charges of draft resistance. Eventually he moved back to Berkeley and said he believes that today, he can say he is “grounded.� He attends meditation classes, decorates his apartment, befriends students from Cal Rotaract and performs his art, trying to reach students one at a time. “What I’m telling you, all this buzzing, is to make you feel, feel, feel,� he said. Noor Al-Samarrai covers Berkeley communities. Contact her at nsamarrai@dailycal.org.

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DiMartino’s actions in the student conduct process stemming from Wolf ’s coverage of the November 2009 occupation of Wheeler Hall. According to Wolf ’s claim, DiMartino breached his contractual obligation to Wolf by not following conduct procedures outlined in the campus Code of Student Conduct. Because the procedures were not followed, Wolf suffered emotional distress, violation of constitutional privacy rights and interference with his property interest — the money he has invested in his public education — the claim reads. Wolf said he began considering his legal options after receiving no response to an open letter to campus administrators — which he wrote in October — expressing concerns in regard to his conduct proceedings, the student code of conduct and protection for student journalists. “The best response that we could come up with was a lawsuit in small claims court,� Wolf said. “There is no process to remedy problems within the student conduct process, so this is my only method of calling on someone to assess this situation.� Contact Aaida Samad and True Shields at newsdesk@dailycal.org.

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ike many people, I make a list of New Year’s resolutions. For an artificial construct, a new year packs a lot of weight. It forces the kind of self-examination that is usually reserved for college applications and psychiatric consults: on this day, one year ago, was I more or less ___ than I am now? A New Year’s list offers a welcome chance for redemption. It is a list that delineates the difference between the person you are now and the mythical being you would like to be. Generally, it is an exercise in futility, designed to test the empty reservoirs of will power. This year, however, I’ve got the system beat. After making the usual hollow resolutions to exercise more, read more, eat healthier, think before speaking, improve my posture, gain inner poise, stop watching VH1 under the guise of social critique and floss daily — I realized that every wish I had, every desire to do something or be someone, could be condensed into one simple phrase. Resolution 14: Be Better (the capitals are needed for emphasis). This slogan is going on t-shirts, baby. I’m seeing billboards. The spirit of Be Better is simple. Be Better. Be Better at anything or at everything, whatever you feel like. Overachievers, the field is wide open. Specifically, though, being better means not just tying yourself to the image of the person you wanted to be when you woke up on the morning of Jan. 1 (morning here being a relative term). The first of January is, quite possibly, the worst time to reevaluate our lives. After the gluttony of the holidays and the memories of last year’s mistakes, New Year’s resolution lists read less like realistic plans of action and more like drafts for some higher life form. Therefore, after failing even to buy running shoes, I decided to give up on my conception of myself as a LitheAthletic-With-Inner-Glow-Type to focus on something I actually cared about —writing. efore this January, I had not written a word in over a year. Upon coming to college my creative output had flat-lined. I began to doubt not only my capacity but also my desire to write. That is, until I received a sign. The message-bearer took the unlikely form of an elderly man with a snow-white beard. I was dodging flyers on Sproul one icy December afternoon, when I saw him for the first time. You may have seen the man before. He stands, like a frail prophet of the modern age, holding a sign over his head, as if to ward off incoming nuclear fallout. On that day, the sign read “124.� “124, what?� I thought to myself. The amount was clearly too small to be about the budget cuts and not long enough to be his telephone number. Seeing my interest, he shouted to me. Most of the words were unclear, but among the gabble I could pick up the words “brimstone,� “sinner� and

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s the author of more than 50 novels, 20 short story collections and a diverse canon of work that ranges from poetry to children’s books, Joyce Carol Oates can be a bit intimidating. However, not stopping anytime soon, Oates will continue her prolific career with a lecture, entitled “A Writer’s (Secret) Life: Rejection, Woundedness, and Inspiration” on February 10th in the Sibley Auditorium, with a follow-up panel discussion on February 11th in the Maude Fife Room. As the Avenali Chair in the Humanities, Oates will be the latest in a long line of illustrious writers, from Seamus Heaney to Maurice Sendak, invited to speak about their craft. For Oates in particular, that speech will tackle the intimate connection between writing and one’s personal life. In a recent e-mail interview with Oates, she stated that “writers and artists always draw heavily upon their personal history.” As a writer herself, she insists on the need to create from the emotional depths of one’s own personal experience. For Oates, this statement could not be more pertinent considering that her lecture is in anticipation of the February 15th release of her latest work, “A Widow’s Story: A Memoir” — a work which explores the traumatic loss of her husband of nearly 50 years in 2008. During the process of recounting this acutely private experience, Oates found the experience vastly different from that of fiction writing. For her, fiction requires a logical relationship from beginning to end whereas, a memoir “springs from the ‘presenttense’” and “has an air of the breathless and not-yet-determined about it.”

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NICK MYERS & Charlene Petitjean Forget about regular conventions of intimacy and the routine missionary positions that often accompany your sexual (mis)adventures. Sex today needs be daring, exciting and full of surprises — something you’ll actually be proud to scream about to the whole world. New technologies constantly challenge the ordinary, and sex is far from an exception. Now, you can have (cyber)sex in Paris while your roommates are off to eat their daily burrito. You can wander the streets of San Francisco with a smart phone masquerading as your own personal Cupid and spot your next one-night stand with something you just got off the app store. More than ever, sex is about being connected to yourself, your body and others as much as you stay connected to friends and family on Facebook. It is about accepting your erotic spirituality to grasp all opportunities to satisfy your deepest desires. Sex is and will be good as long as you “let it all out,” and what better way to do that than by utilizing all of the modern tools at your disposal? Take all of that sexy tech-savviness you’ve got and plug in. Draw inspiration from the fact that you’re on the cutting edge of sexy — this isn’t how your mom and dad got together — and find one of the multitudes of people out there looking for the same thing. Whether it's getting dirty online or out in the world with another daring adventurer, there isn’t much you can’t do. So get out there and get connected, be it through a digital hookup or a tangible experience, and make something saucy happen. You can even write a hip Tumblr post about what you did when you’re done — just think how liberating that'll be.

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Intimacy is dead. Or at least it must be on life support. In this media-crazed age where certifiably sane individuals would rather contract leprosy than face a wifi-less existence, sexuality has bought itself a jetpack and has burst from the cotton confines of our panties into boundless cyberspace. Gone are the days of hand written letters, soulful serenades ’neath peach-blossomed canopies and (insert clichéd fantasy here), replaced instead by online profiles and text messages that SHOUT AT YOU FROM YOUR SCREEN: “OMG. We just got our seats. His teeth are soooooo WHITE!” What’s changed? Certainly not our desire to fuck each other. No, the biggest breakthrough in courtship methodology has been the introduction of the self-made image. Instead of judging a potential mate’s worthiness based on the decibel of his roar, we have evolved to evaluate attractiveness from the artistic merit of his or her amateur modeling Facebook profile pictures, no doubt taken by an art-school friend with a lomography kit. Yet the newfound ability to present ourselves in a way that reflects how we would like to appear as opposed to how we actually are is a nifty tool for getting laid. Be honest. Countless Sunday mornings have consisted of a cigarette and lemonade ­— or your hangover cure of choice — while hastily untagging photos from the previous night’s escapades in which the florescent lighting made your freckles look like volcanic zits. Any remaining time could be put towards contemplation of a witty tweet that contains a delicate degree of suggestion that your night was epic but classy, in case any potential suitor’s eyes are prying. I mean, who isn’t trying to look cute-yet-goofylike-I-don’t-really-care-about-looking-stupid-while-stilllooking-nonchalantly-cool-in-my-oatmeal-sweater? We perceive others through their own constructed, finely polished personas, which can easily lead to disappointment and disillusionment. Despite this widespread migration towards impersonalization, sex is caught at an ambivalent intersection. Through specified chatrooms or Yahoo! Answers for the bashful, concerns such as “improve cunnilingus technique” or “weird scrotum rash” can be resolved shamelessly and anonymously. But is this anonymity liberating or restricting? Hiding behind an IP address does not facilitate genuine relationships. I’ve certainly stalked boyfriends in the past ­— graduated in ’07, likes Neil Young, ex-girlfriend was a stripper. Long hours culminated in the meager reality that we knew a lot about each other, but we hardly knew each other at all. Yet we all still itch for the delicious, twisted pleasure of accessing privileged avenues of that special someone’s life. Till we realize that the intimacy we experienced is vaporous and superficial, as that information was never privileged or private, but broadcast. However, the internet can play fairy godmother sometimes. A friend of mine landed himself a six month sex-spree with forty-eight year old soon-to-be-expat sugar-daddy retiree. Under what other plausible circumstance could he have walked up and said, “Hey, my name is...”? The prevalence of social media today provides ample opportunity to try our luck with a larger slice of the demographic pie. Yet the private chambers of pillow talk are chronicled, photographed, scrutinized and exposed for public access. Technology may increase your chance of gettin’ some, but be careful who you’re bedding — they may not be as limber as their pictures suggest. Evan walbridge/staff

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Cyber sex — is it the best way to have sex, or is it the best way to not really have sex but still have sex? I know, I know — it all sounds very confusing, but for those of you who can get off looking at some green avatar with three horns and a set of feathered wings or talking for hours on your own blog about your favorite sex toys, I salute you. I don’t know how you do it. Either my imagination sucks when it comes to role-playing, or you boys and girls have too much time on your hands. It is clear that role-playing games attract people with intense imaginations and the ability to create a completely alternate reality — dare I say fantasy — over a very long period of time. And even online, there is noth-

ing solitary about an RPG. To ensure that your fantasy is complete, you must interact with others in a sharedmind adventure. If you can do all that, you can probably cyber sex-it-up with the best. But let me warn you, even if you join in on a game for the sole purpose of cyber sex, you cannot sustain yourself in the game world long enough to find the good stuff. It doesn’t work like that, and I am sorry for those of you who thought this was going to be easy. But in truth, good cyber sex, like good old-fashioned sex, arises out of a relationship. Such cyber relationships might develop over hours or weeks — which, truth be told, is a long time in cyberspace. They can even develop within minutes if you are a real chat-room Casanova. But like any relationship, you must nurture it and allow it to develop before the cyber sex will be any good.

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You need to get a sense for one another’s timing, the type and style of banter that gets the most response, and, as in any gaming world, the kinds of fantasy that turn both of you on. While some games have sexuality as a main theme, most expect you to be able to forge relationships, explore the game world, set up businesses, farms, armies and what have you. In more mainstream gaming, cyber sex can be the inevitable result of those late-night flirty chats with other players. But now that everyone is online, it seems like it is going to take more than chit-chat and common interests to get aroused. Sex is nearly a universal interest, so signing into adult chat rooms doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll find anyone. However, creating a character and going on “adventures” in a Tolkien-esque digital realm given life by imaginations of hundreds of players is a whole new game — liter-

ally. For those of you who avoid green people and magical faeries like the plague, the blog could be the modern hub for like-minded individuals to seek each other out, especially for those who like a good story. As in games, cyber sex results from forged relationships, but even then cyber sex is more about jointly creating an erotic experience than it is about masturbation. For those who lack the time or the interest to live in RPGs, chat rooms and message boards can be the end-all be-all. So, be it chat rooms in the deep recesses of the gaming world or on your very own Tumblr, cyber sex has revolutionized the way we “connect” with people and the way we “have” sex — or don’t — depending on how you like it. Set up a role-play with Katie Nelson at knelson@dailycal.org.

Possessors of smart phones have multitudinous advantages over their unconnected counterparts, but never before has the advantage been so distinctly tied to the user’s evolutionary prospects. Now, with the advent of certain applications such as Grindr and Skout, people can use GPS to find their future soul mates — or their next onenight stand. Such applications have somewhat replaced their more antiquated predecessors — websites like eHarmony and Match.com, which pair two people based on interests and compatibility of personalities. Dating apps, however, reintroduce the serendipity into finding a partner, according to Joel Simkhai, CEO and founder of Grindr, an application that helps gay and bisexual men find others nearby. “The goal is to make it easier to meet others around you — the guy across the street, or around the block,” he said in an e-mail. “People you may have never met otherwise but could end up being a great friend or the love of your life.” Grindr has become one of the most successful GPS-employing date apps, with more than 1.4 million users in 180 countries worldwide and about 300,000 men logging on every day, Simkhai said in the e-mail. With Grindr, users can log on anywhere and see a cascade of photos of the men who are logged in around them. For both Skout and Grindr, as well as similar applications, the user’s exact location is not given away for safety reasons. Rather, an approximate location is provided as distance in feet, or it is left for the users to communicate to each other. Grindr is what you need it to be, Simkhai said in the e-mail. For some, it is a way to hook up without the sometimes awkward process of ascertaining whether the other guy is gay. For others it is the perfect travel companion, enabling you to meet friends to get a drink with in foreign places, and for still others it is a game of entertainment in the form of “grind-and-go-seek,” where you log on to Grindr in a public place and try to find the people who pop up on the screen in real life. “Grindr is unique in that it’s completely mobile — there is no computer

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For some Bay Area couples, Saturday night’s date meant sushi, cocktails and “cockfidence.” Sex and relationship therapists Celeste Hirschman and Danielle Harel held their book-launch-slash-sex-party, “Sensualite,” at 111 Minna Gallery in San Francisco Saturday. Their new book, “Cockfidence: The Extraordinary Lover’s Guide to Being the Man You Want to Be and Driving Women Wild,” was the theme of the evening, which included live performances, an intimacy workshop and dancing. After some drinks and small-talk, guests were led in a few ice-breakers — namely back-scratches, belly-kisses and arm-caresses — all to the encouraging words of the therapist duo. “Notice how you feel now, now that you’ve been touched,” Hirschman cooed. Clad in a gold sequined bra and matching skirt, the first of the evening's two belly dancers swayed and shook to Eartha Kitt’s “Proceed with Caution” and M.I.A.’s “Paper Planes” in a more modern, flirtatious version of the traditional dance form. The evening also included performances of poi spinning, a type of juggling using rope with lighted balls at the end. The burlesque troupe, The Twilight Vixen Revue, also made an appearance in beige towels, pumps and little else, teasing guests to the 1950s song “Mr. Sandman.” The featured performance of Saturday’s event was a dakini tea ceremony, although tea was an afterthought. Three women in white fishnet bodysuits and matching lace panties and pasties kneeled in a circle and tossed glitter and rose petals in rise-and-fall motions. The women concluded their performance with a kind of receiving line, seductively gracing party guests with kisses and glitter. 111 Minna was an ideal location. Tucked away in an alley in SoMa, the unmarked gallery gave the impression of taboo-like invisibility. Inside, the

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Three performers tantalize guests during Sensualite at 111 Minna Gallery in San Francisco. Therapists Celeste Hirschman and Danielle Harel hosted the event to promote their new book. double-barred venue catered to the disc-jockeying, dancing crowd in one room and the electronic-music, intimate-convo group in the other. Party guests were not members of some clandestine underground sex scene. Middle-aged couples and young singles seemed equally pleased with the party. The evening’s noshes were intentionally aphrodisiac — sushi, figs, cornbread with honey and cookies. They seemed to have an effect. “People tend to be very prudish and conservative,” said Alex Sousa, a lawyer from Sunnyvale. “You are going to die — you might as well have fun.” As the book’s title suggests, “Cockfidence” is geared towards men and their relationships with women. Hirschman, who has a master’s degree in human sexuality studies, said the book covers topics such as controlling ejaculation and men’s relationship to porn. Hirschman and Harel are careful, however, to stress that their work is not limited strictly to sex. The thera-

pists work to help their clients live an “ecstatic” and “passionate” life. Hirschman used the example of using “the pussy as (an) oracle.” “If something tastes really good, you may feel tingling in your pussy,” she said. The therapists stress the importance of recognizing this aspect of sexuality. “People do not know how to really harness this energy,” said Harel, who holds a doctoral degree in human sexuality. “We bring people back to their source — to their bodies.” For college students, Hirschman has three pieces of wisdom — explore your sexuality, communicate what you want and need from your partner and don’t do anything that you don’t want to do. This goes for men and women alike. “We women could use a little cockfidence too ... so let’s whip it out,” she said at the party. Find your cockfidence with Sara Johnson at sjohnson@dailycal.org.

Does PETA need to change its name from “People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals” to “People for the Ethical Treatment of Women”? In an attempt to sell the fact that “Vegetarians have better sex,” PETA’s banned Super Bowl ad features scantily clad women “making love” to vegetables. Though the actual ad itself, “Veggie Love,”is no worse than the Burger King ad featuring Paris Hilton washing a car in a bathing suit, the real concern lies in the casting video posted to Facebook and PETA’s website. Its content may sound hard to believe — women sucking on squash and spanking themselves with celery.

I will admit the PETA casting video is semi-pornographic. Though it’s nothing worse than you would see on MTV, PETA’s main demographic is women, making a video that features women in bathing suits “making love” to vegetables a questionable choice. However, it could be argued that PETA is gaining success through its provocative and controversial ads. Moving on from dousing women in fur coats with red paint, perhaps PETA is starting to embrace the old adage that “you catch more bees with honey than with vinegar.” Maybe it is attempting to stray away from its older demographic and attract a new, younger crowd. Hot women in bikinis

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Despite its obvious kitsch and its reliance upon the profane and phallic, concern has risen as to whether this video is truly meant to convince people to opt for vegetarianism or if it is an offensive, misguided attempt that strays far from what PETA says it’s all about — animal rights. Though this video is supposed to advocate for vegetarianism, its attempt to do so is not sincere. What do two women simultaneously sucking on either end of a carrot have to do with someone becoming vegetarian? As a vegetarian myself for eleven years, do you want to know what made me decide to give up meat? It was reading about cruelties in the meat industry and videos like “Meet your Meat.� But this video takes the vegetarianism cause, which has real implications and importance in our society, and transforms it into a shameless, mocking parody. How are people supposed to take PETA seriously now? What can ameliorate the fact that women are perceived as being degraded in this video? When the majority of PETA’s membership is women, perhaps it is not the best marketing idea to make a video that most women will find offensive. This video plays into the overly sexualized culture that we live in because it pointedly represents the traditional modern stereotype of what is considered sexy — a woman who is thin, large-breasted and willing to please. In no way are the diverse qualities of women, which should be celebrated and embraced, represented in this video. When we are constantly bombarded with images of women wearing less and less, it inevitably makes one wonder whether our cultural visage is only working against us. What is the point of working hard to be respected for your mind and your accomplishments if you will still be viewed as a sexual object?

fondling vegetables? Suddenly, every prepubescent boy with a secret fetish for eggplant is willing to give your cause a chance. When you’re advocating for a cause like animal rights, most people would rather remain ignorant and apathetic. As a result, it’s not surprising that PETA will go to unexpected lengths to attract people to their cause. Marketing isn’t written in stone. It’s about pushing boundaries to get people to talk about your product, which, in this case, is vegetarianism. My first thought when I saw this video is that it is trying to be ironic. Overly sexualized women are used to sell countless products in today’s market, and whether you’re for or against this particular method of branding, it doesn’t change the fact that sex sells. Could it be that PETA is attempting to throw this fact in our faces? Or could it be they actually be making a point about the objectification of women in ads, rather than jumping on the bandwagon as everyone assumes? Lastly, saying that this video is degrading to women is applying a standard upon them, which is limiting in itself to what sexuality is supposed to represent — freedom. These are obviously confident, healthy women who are taking part in an ad and having fun with it. Is feminism about saying what is or isn’t offensive? No, it’s about embracing the fact that women have reached a new level in our development and that perhaps our sexuality is just a new aspect of freedom of expression rather than a means of suppression and victimization. Maybe this is an extremely openminded view of women and their sexuality but I would say let them act how they want. Although you personally would not act this way and you personally find it offensive, who are you to judge?

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So, instead of calculating a narrative in retrospection, Oates assembled her journal entries from the time of her husband’s death. On sleepless nights, she would turn to these private entries in an effort to deal with the maelstrom of emotions accompanied by abject grief. The results were a mixed bag. Often frightening, but sometimes refreshingly hopeful, her everyday accounts became a means of “clarifying what appears, to the superficial glance, to be be chaotic and without form or purpose.” Memoir, for her, made sense out of the tragic disorder of her husband’s death. And, for Oates, this clarity is what the memoir, as a work of writing, should aim for. According to her, memoir should be about truth as opposed to the metaphor employed in fiction. However, these lines between fiction and truth become blurred upon closer inspection. Though the description of her memoir seems imbued with the internal intimacy of her mind, she intentionally distances herself by creating the character of “the Widow” framed by her own “interjected italicized lines ... to suggest a voice-over from a future time.” In effect, the two voices of the Widow and the narrator are created to

represent Oates’ singular experience — a duality which transposes itself upon her professional career. Not only an esteemed author, but also a distinguished professor, Oates thinks of herself as “both a solitary person and also a person who enjoys meetings others.” Unlike the average writer who might prefer the secluded life to the social, she is drawn to a double persona — one that is both “solitary and communal.” It is a somewhat paradoxical lifestyle, but one which mirrors the dichotomy of Oates’ writing. Since 1963, her works have come to be associated with a strong penchant for graphic violence. Whether it is children being drowned in “By the North Gate” or a serial killer molding sex slaves in “Zombie,” the content seems at odds with the seemingly domestic sensibilities of its creator. But, for Joyce Carol Oates, art can only be profound if it transcends expectations. According to her, “serious art … disturbs conventional expectations, stirs debate or doubt, provokes, annoys (and) lingers in the mind like a mysterious dream.” And, surely, pain, like that of a widow, or violence, like that of a murder, are two

realities of life that she finds crucial to the creative process of the writer. Pain and violence, like serious art, are transgressive and, for her, become the stimuli for “creativity in diverse and unexpected ways.” With a career spanning nearly 50 years, Oates has accomplished not only a diversity in her work, but has done so in unexpected ways that continue to complicate the boundaries between what is private or public for artists and their art. On Thursday night, Oates' proven ability to express the internal pains of her private life will surely produce a speech that will linger, like her writing, in the minds of the audience. Jessica Pena is the lead literature critic. Contact her at jpena@dailycal.org.

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n “Let’s Push Things Forward,� the rollicking, brassballed standout from his 2002 debut Original Pirate Material, Mike Skinner — aka the Streets — issued his mission statement: “I make bangers, not anthems.� It was at once a boast and an admission.

The lyric is both a gauntlet tossed at the feet of mainstream pap and a self-deprecating acknowledgement of personal limits. These were the two modes that the early Mike Skinner worked in: swagger and stagger, fist pump and shoulder slump. They interacted magnificently, infusing each of his albums with a delicious mixture of cocksure highs and selfflagellating lows. On Computers and Blues, purportedly the final Streets release, we find Skinner losing sight of the polarity that made his early work so vital. There are anthems aplenty here — most notably “Going Through Hell, � a fratty, cliche-burdened ode to perseverance and fisticuffs — and lamentably few “bangers.� On several tracks the production is too slick by half; on others it seems cluttered and arbitrary — one strains to imagine why Skinner thought it was a good idea to include a sitar breakdown in the strings ‘n synth meditation “Trying to Kill M.E.� Skinner also makes a number of disappointing concessions to radio pop. On several tracks he cedes

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here isn’t much sun left in the sky as Ben and Riki McLachlan slouch in the bleachers of the Channing tennis courts. It’s after 5 p.m. and nearing sunset in Berkeley, but halfway across the globe in the little lakefront town of Queenstown, New Zealand, it’s already two in the afternoon on the following day. Like most of the members of Cal men’s tennis team, the McLachlan brothers aren’t from the United States. They aren’t even from this hemisphere. Queenstown is their home, a quiet anchor in their otherwise hectic lives. For most, the thought of picking up one’s life and moving it halfway across the world is unfathomable. But for freshman Ben and sophomore Riki McLachlan, the transition has been easy; after all, who better to share this particular undertaking with than your own brother? The brothers are quiet, and it’s tempting to write them off as shy. They are two nearly identical introverts in the midst of a fast-paced sport, a boisterous team, a bustling city. Yet a first impression of them is

not accurate. Beneath the awkward silences are two quietly determined guys who share everything, from a last name to a tennis team to a common goal to turn pro. Ben and Riki never once glance toward the San Francisco skyline silhouetted against the last stubborn rays of light. Instead, they’re both intently watching the activity on the courts. They glance over at a young boy running drills with his instructor two courts over and laugh. “He just isn’t having any,” Riki says. “The coach is trying to make him jump over the cones and he won’t.” They don’t need to say anything to each other aloud, though; simply by watching the same scene they both have the same reaction. The brothers chuckle again. They find the whole scenario funny, just as they seem to find almost anything funny. Apparently a sense of humor is simply one more thing they share. They shift their focus toward an older man laboriously practicing his serve. They exchange a glance, a few indecipherable words and another signature laugh. They’re in their own world. “He needs to work on his serve,” Riki says. “He’s throwing the ball too high in the air. And I have no idea

what he’s doing with his arm.” ennis — apart from classes, it’s all the brothers think about. After all, a passion for the sport is the reason they’re so close to begin with. “From the time we were seven or so, we just started playing a bunch of different sports,” Ben says. Thirteen months the junior, Ben would see Riki take up a sport, from basketball to rugby to tennis. Ben would attend practices and games, and pretty soon he would sign up too. “We always did everything together, Riki says. “We were like twins in that way. We were always in the same age group and always on the same teams.” Together, the two siblings stuck with tennis as they got older, sharing a coach and even slots in the four Junior Grand Slams and the ITF Junior world rankings. In fact, they owe their careers at Cal to that shared coach back home, Lan Bale, a former assistant coach for the Bears. “(Bale) continually told us that college tennis was a great idea,” Riki says, “Berkeley always stood out in my mind because he would always talk about it.” For Ben, the reason for choosing Berkeley was even simpler: he just wanted to be at the same school as his older brother. The adjustment from a

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“really small town” down under to the Bay Area wasn’t that hard for him, he says, because he already knew what to expect after watching Riki. Still, the academics took some getting used to for a freshman who’s currently shopping around for majors,. “At the start, I had no idea what I was doing,” Ben says with a self-deprecating smile. “I was really struggling, and I texted Riki every day asking for advice. He knows what he’s doing. He helped me out a lot.” t seems that for his entire life, Ben has been looking up to Riki. The older brother takes the driver’s seat and answers all the questions, while Ben is content to sit passenger and listen to his brother’s practical, self-assured answers. Ben’s along for the ride his older brother has already mapped out, and both brothers like it just fine that way. In fact, the joke around the team is that Riki is 30 years old — a mature adult who makes the best decisions. “He’s ...” There’s a pause as Ben looks toward Riki, almost asking him to fill in the blank himself. Finally Ben throws out, “wise. Say how wise Riki is.” But as close as the two are, they don’t play doubles together. The simple reason is that with so many

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other combinations, the team doesn’t need that tandem. But maybe that’s not the full explanation. The two exchange a look and a signature quiet laugh. “We used to play doubles when we were younger,” Riki begins, “but we would fight.” They’re quick to assert that they haven’t fought since Ben arrived at Cal. Instead, they point out how they cheer each other on so loudly during matches that they lose their voices the next day. They point out how they pat each other on the back after doing well on midterms. They point out how often they laugh at each other’s jokes. The sun is rapidly fading. The little boy and his coach, as well as the older man, have long since left. Ben and Riki head down the concrete steps and branch off in different directions: Riki south to the apartment he shares with a few teammates, Ben east to his Unit 3 dorm room. It doesn’t matter that these two parted ways without so much as a goodbye. They’ll see each other again soon enough. After all, they’re brothers. Annie Gerlach covers men’s tennis. Contact her at agerlach@dailycal.org.

Husky Road Trip Awaits Cal Up North by Gabriel Baumgaertner Senior Staff Writer

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Markhuri Sanders-Frison will be in for a challenging match-up against the Huskies’ Matthew Bryan-Amaning. Washington’s power forward is averaging 15.7 points per game.

After suffering perhaps the most heartbreaking loss imaginable, the Cal men’s basketball team now faces its most difficult test. There is no rest Cal men’s for the weary Bears, as the squad travels basketball north for the hardest roadtrip of the season starting tonight TIPOFF: in Seattle tonight Cal visits against Washington Seattle to vs take on the at 6 p.m. Despite three Huskies consecutive road tonight at losses, the Huskies 6:00 p.m. (15-7, 7-4 in the TV/Radio: FSN, Pac-10) are probably NW (KNEW 910 AM) the toughest home squad in the conference. Winners of 12 straight at Hec Edmunson Pavilion, coach Lorenzo Romar’s squad will be hungry for a victory after dropping three consecutive games. “They want to play hard for those fans every night because they get great support,” center Markhuri SandersFrison said. “It was a great atmosphere last year and we didn’t come to play. They jumped on us from the start and we’re going to need to jump on them early if we want to win.”

Cal coach Mike Montgomery sees Washington’s three-game slide not necessarily as a sign of weakness, but as a testament to the strength of the Pac-10. “People are so amazed when anybody loses on the road in this league,” Montgomery said. “When somebody is anointed the king, people don’t believe that anybody can set foot in their kingdom. It’s hard to win.” A notoriously fickle team on the road, the Huskies lost games to Washington State, Oregon State and Oregon and went from first place to two games removed in a matter of two weeks. But after enduring the 92-71 beating that his team did on its own home floor, Montgomery knows the challenge that lies ahead. “They’re a team that gets a lot of confidence from their crowd,” he said. “They seem to play with a lot more confidence. I know they’re a lot more aggressive. They attack more offensively and they seem to get away with a little more at home. Every time there is a call it is not met with much enthusiasm.” Point guard convert Isaiah Thomas was a magician the last time he took the floor against the Bears, scoring 27 points and dishing out 13 assists. The junior has struggled shooting lately, which has led to bigger problems for the Huskies on offense. If Thomas’s struggles continue, then Washington will probably rely heavily on the bruis-

ing Matthew Bryan-Amaning, a player Montgomery thinks has vastly improved during his time under Romar. “They’ve got a pretty good scheme in that they surround a good big guy with shooters,” said Montgomery. “He’s really improved since he’s been there. He’s a quality post guy now and he’s big and strong. He gets low and he’s physical. A lot of times you’re left one on one with him.” Bryan-Amaning put up a doubledouble when the Huskies visited Berkeley in January and was one of several players that torched Cal throughout the night. The brawny senior scored 22 points, grabbed 11 rebounds and was on the receiving end of a large chunk of Thomas’ baker’s dozen of assists. Any type of strong post presence offered by Bryan-Amaning helps open up Washington’s gunners, keyed by senior Justin Holiday. The brother of former UCLA standout and current Philadelphia 76er Jrue Holiday dropped in a career-high 23 points in his visit to Haas Pavilion, anchored by five 3-pointers. An astounding seven different players hit shots from beyond the arc, which highlighted one of the primary struggles of the Cal defense this season. Gabriel Baumgaertner covers men’s basketball. Contact him at gbaumgaertner@dailycal.org.

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