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The swing dancing DeCal practices at 234 Hearst Gym. The gymnasium has recently been open for student groups to use at no cost.

Groups Now Free to Practice in Hearst Gym ketball courts and three dance studios — in the past month. The rooms are available for reservation from 9 p.m. until 12 a.m. during the week and from 9 a.m. until 9 p.m. during the weekend and can house a total of 335 people. Lawrence Lawler, student union director for the auxiliary, said although any student group can use the space, martial arts and dance organizations have been the primary users thus far. The initial idea for the program developed nearly a year ago by Graduate Assembly President Miguel Daal, current ASUC President Noah Stern and then ASUC President Will Smelko, according to Daal. It will be paid for through the B.E.A.R.S. Initiative — a campaign to revitalize Lower Sproul approved by students last spring. “Our feeling was, if these fees are already being collected, the benefits

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They have practiced in the cold and dark, in the cramped corridors of Dwinelle Hall and on Lower Sproul Plaza’s unforgiving concrete. But as of Jan. 18, registered student groups can reserve space in the Hearst Gymnasium to gather and rehearse free of charge seven days a week. This opportunity is a result of the Hearst Gym Utilization through the B.E.A.R.S. Initiative program — the product of a collaboration between the ASUC, UC Berkeley’s Physical Education program and Cal Recreational Sports. According to ASUC Auxiliary Director Nadesan Permaul, 33 different groups have requested to use the five rooms that have been provided in Hearst Gym — which include two bas-

should be felt by students immediately,” Stern said. He added that the dance and performing arts community was an obvious group that would benefit from designated indoor practice space. Although the campus is currently home to dozens of dance and performance groups, no consistent space has been available for them to practice. However, Stern said the Lower Sproul renovation project plans include a permanent practice space. “Not having mirrors is difficult enough, but not having a hardwood floor to practice on is pretty much a deal breaker,” said graduate student Ariadne Schulz, member and former president of the campus Argentine Tango Club. Some students said that dancing on concrete — which groups do while

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Local Legend a Lifelong Social Advocate by Victoria Pardini Staff Writer

Bundled up in a fleece snowman blanket with “The Oprah Winfrey Show” on the TV, Maudelle Shirek, a local activist and former Berkeley City Council member, contemplates her contributions to the community — which many agree are marked by a genuine passion to better the world — while admitting she personally does not think she has done much. Shirek, who will celebrate her 100th birthday this June, is a Berkeley legend, having fought for many local and global causes, such as affordable housing and union rights. In 2007, Old City Hall — located on Martin Luther King Jr. Way — was named after her because of her devotion to social justice and the disadvantaged in the community, according to Mayor Tom Bates. “She’s a person who deeply cares about the poor ... and was interested in being sure their point of view was taken into consideration,” he said. Shirek, the granddaughter of slaves, first moved from Arkansas to the Bay Area in 1943 to work at the shipyards on the Richmond army base and then for the Berkeley Cooperative Center Federal Credit Union and the New Light Senior Center. Politics was something she began to “just grow into,” said Shirek, who served as the District 3 council member from 1983 to 2004. “Instead of cussing the dark, she lit a candle and jumped right in and has been active ever since (and) for the rest of her life,” said Berkeley resident Carole Davis Kennerly, who

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UC Student Regent and UC Irvine student Jesse Cheng was arrested by Irvine police Nov. 4 on suspicion of sexual battery, but charges against Cheng have not been filed by the Orange County District Attorney. A woman — who said she wished to JESSE only be identified as “Laya” in order CHENG to protect her identity as a victim of an alleged sex crime — said Cheng assaulted her on Oct. 3 of last year. She reported the incident on Oct. 26 and Cheng was arrested nine days later on suspicion of misdemeanor sexual battery. The case was forwarded to the Orange County District Attorney’s office by the Irvine police, according to Lieutenant Julia Engen. However, the office rejected the case, according to Susan Schroeder, the district attorney’s chief of staff. “The accuser and the suspect had a long-term relationship prior to the event and further contact after the event,” she said. “The incident was not reported for three weeks, there was no corroborating evidence and we cannot prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt.” But Laya said Cheng had already admitted to the assault in e-mail correspondences after the incident. “I didn’t do it,” Cheng said. “All the emails, evidence, everything was given to the police and the DA. They didn’t find evidence to charge me with.” According to both Laya and Cheng, the e-mails were given to the Irvine police, the district attorney and UC Irvine’s campus student conduct investigators. “I can’t believe he is denying that it happened,” Laya said. According to Cheng, Laya is a long-

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Maudelle Shirek, a former Berkeley city council member and Bay Area resident since 1943, will celebrate her 100th birthday this June.

time acquaintance. He said that they had been in a relationship for almost a year and that the breakup had been “very messy.” Laya said she did not come forward sooner due to pressure from Cheng’s friends. “I was really reluctant to even speak to (UC Irvine’s student newspaper) because he had friends who tried to convince me not to talk about it,” she said. Cheng said he was not aware of any of his friends intimidating her. Cheng is still subject to an ongoing student conduct investigation, he said, but he is not sure when a decision will be reached. He added that student conduct officials have interviewed both him and the woman bringing the charges. Officials from the UC Irvine Office of Student Conduct declined to comment on the investigation, citing the privacy of the individuals concerned. The pending student conduct investigation has no bearing on Cheng’s status as student regent, according to UC spokesperson Steve Montiel. “This is a student matter that is being handled by the campus in accord with standard processes covered by student privacy laws,” he said in an e-mail. “While there is no indication that any of this has anything to do with Jesse Cheng’s position as a Regent, this matter also is being reviewed by UC’s Senior Vice President–Chief Compliance and Audit Officer.” UC Regents bylaws state that a student must be in “good standing” in the university community in order to serve as Student Regent. According to UC Irvine’s policy on sexual assault, which governs accusations of sexual battery, the consequences for being convicted can range from a censure to dismissal from the university.

Facing a lingering $1.8 million deficit, the Berkeley City Council revised its plan to implement services — and cuts — for the next four months and introduced cost-saving strategies for its upcoming biennial budget Tuesday, highlighting increased fiscal frugality in an uncertain economy. The decline in the city’s revenue stream — from an estimated $146 to $144.25 million for fiscal year 2011 — is attributed to a decline in property and sales taxes as well as parking fines, most of which are sensitive to the economic climate, according to city Budget Manager Theresa Berkeley-Simmons. Property tax revenue, for example, dropped by about $500,000 in fiscal year 2010. Though the city has already instituted one-time money-saving measures — including voluntary furloughs that saved the city $1.7 million in fiscal year 2011 — the council will have to implement further cutbacks to close the mid-

year and projected budget deficits. In the past two years, 130 city employee positions have been eliminated, and seven more are slated for termination, with 14 employees facing pay cuts or job transfers in the coming months, said City Manager Phil Kamlarz. The city is also reducing expenditures by deferring about $813,000 in capital improvement projects for fiscal year 2011, according to Berkeley-Simmons. Deferred projects include a bike and pedestrian program and storm response and maintenance projects. “We thought we were going to get through this,” Deputy City Manager Christine Daniel said at a budget briefing Tuesday. “At mid-year, we realized we have a worse problem than we expected.” The city’s budget woes, though, extend beyond June 30, when fiscal year 2011 will conclude. A general fund deficit of $3 million in fiscal year 2012 and an additional $4 million in fiscal year 2013 — stemming largely from increased costs to

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rehearsing on Lower Sproul — hinders specific techniques and hurts the body. In addition to physical improvements such as mirrors, hardwood floors and lighting, the program will also benefit groups financially and organizationally. “Anything we can get for free, we want,” Schulz said. “We used some of the rooms last semester, but had to pay.” Junior Kristen Lee, executive director of swing dance group Lindy on Sproul, said being able to reserve rooms has motivated the club to establish regular practice sessions. She said they previously struggled to establish a regular location for afternoon and evening practices — al-

ternating between the lobby of Dwinelle Hall or a member’s house. “It was very chaotic,” Lee said, adding that the group continues to seek additional space because the limited available time in Hearst Gym does not always meet their exact needs. Though the program has received some publicity, the need for a more concerted effort was discussed at the ASUC Senate’s Feb. 2 meeting. “We need to do a bit of a better job publicizing it,” Stern said. “I’m tempted to go out at night and approach the groups one by one if I need to.”

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employee benefits — are expected to plague the upcoming budget. Over the next two years, the city’s contribution to its employee pension plan is expected to increase by $7 million, while expensive health care premiums will cost the city another $16.3 million, according to Kamlarz. A long-term plan to address the city’s costly contributions to employee pensions has yet to be finalized, and a $253 million debt due to a decline in assets looms over the budget for now. The city’s department of health services will shoulder a projected $3 million deficit in fiscal year 2012, result-

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he “Lost Generation” isn’t a rebuke, it’s an invitation. Who wouldn’t want to get lost with Stein, Hemingway and Miller in the winding streets of Montmartre? Waltz the poverty line with George Orwell? Sleep on the floor when the sofa won’t do, let the sloping lines of an attic apartment be your horizon when the rain beats down above. Wake up every day in a country that is no longer foreign, but certainly not your own. The invitation beckons. Of course, the power of departure has faded with time. What is an expat these days, but a holiday-maker seduced by better medical benefits and sunnier beaches? Compared to the traffic that zooms overhead, the Silk Road was little more than a winding country lane. The departures and arrivals board at Singapore’s Changi International Airport is a nomad’s book of revelations and would make Ibn Battuta throw up his hands in despair. Yet, for “global citizens,” Americans remain fairly isolated. Only 30 percent of all Americans have passports. One might argue that this is because of our geographic isolation, but that argument falls short when confronted with the fact that 60 percent of all Canadians (Canadians!) own passports. I believe that our seclusion lies in the sheer expanse of the United States, not only geographically, but culturally. As Americans, we are generally not confronted with cultural “otherness.” We turn on the TV to watch American television and go to movie theatres to watch American films. The music we listen to is in English and most encounters with different cultures come in hyphenated form: ChineseAmerican, French-American, Mexican-American, etc. Last week, my roommate and I watched the 1995 movie “Before Sunrise.” When Jesse, the American, is surprised by the fact that Céline, a French girl, speaks English, Céline jokes, “I knew you were American. And of course, you don’t speak any other language, right?” That made me squirm. I am hopelessly monolingual — though, like Jesse, I have been attempting to learn French for over six years, but I would not trust myself to order a cup of coffee in Paris. I have nightmares about being asked to roll my R’s in public, only to be publicly denounced for my Californian drawl. In many ways, though, it is easier to learn English than any other language, simply because of its ubiquitous nature. My Dutch roommate and I both shared a love of “The West Wing” and “Grey’s Anatomy,” but needless to say, I had never heard of the hit Dutch TV show, “Boer Zoekt Vrouw” (“Farmer Seeks Wife”). owever, relying on others to understand our culture is dangerous. Though modern cities have identical facades of concrete and glass, we should not assume that their inhabitants believe the same things we do. My own naivety was brought home to me during a discussion with a

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Former Student Stabbed to Death at 27 oftentimes participated in activities that were completely out of her norm. For example, participating in the Muslim Student Union’s annual Ramadan Banquet, though she was not Muslim.” After finishing her studies at De Anza in 2005, Dunn took time off to become a student trustee, acting as a liaison between the students and the Board of Trustees for the community college, before applying to UC Berkeley “Her goal was to be a Berkeley student since we were little kids,” said Dawn McMahan, Dunn’s sister, in an e-mail. “She loved what Berkeley had to offer and was proud of her accomplishment.” Dunn attended UC Berkeley in the fall of 2005 and decided to take a break from school in the spring of 2007. “She needed just about one more semester to complete her Political Science degree, but like many Cal students, she was overwhelmed with the experience,” said her brother, Jonathan Dunn, in an e-mail. “She always loved Cal and planned to take a break from her job (at the Clift Hotel in San Francisco) this summer to finish her degree.” Melanie Dunn had dreams of diving into politics after her graduation. “We actually joked a few months ago, saying she should write her acceptance speech for the first female president,” he

said in the e-mail. “My sister loved to raise awareness to issues that caused debate. I know that was her calling.” Another of Dunn’s many passions included beauty and makeup, according to Khalid, who said Dunn did her makeup for her wedding as well as her friends’. Jonathan Dunn added that his sister’s relationship with the suspect — David Jerome Shackelford Jr. — was brief and that there were no warning signs. “The only positive about what happened to my lovely sister is now we can join the battle along with many other families, as far as raising awareness to this issue,” he said in the e-mail. Amy Cornell, a public information officer at the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office, said Shackelford was arraigned yesterday afternoon at the Santa Clara County Courthouse, but did not enter a plea bargain. His next court date is scheduled for March 1. He is currently being held in custody, with no bail, booked on a charge of murder and faces 25 years to life in prison, plus one additional year for use of a deadly weapon.

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food and cooking, at the New Light Senior Center from 1990 to 1996. DeBose said Shirek taught her more about global issues — in addition to their work at the center. “Her phrase that I most commonly report is that, ‘You have to choose your battles and the struggle continues,’” she said. “And the struggle is not necessarily a local struggle, it is a global struggle — what happens in the streets of Zimbabwe affects what happens in the streets of San Pablo Avenue.” Shirek said her curiosity and interest in improving the community motivated her to stay socially active throughout her life. “It’s a beautiful world — a lot of beautiful people, but a lot of bad people too,” she said. “It’s a struggle, but it’s what you make it to be. You want the world to be a little better place because you had been there.”

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friend on France’s ban on the hijab in public schools. For me, such an action was indefensible — it violated all basic rights of personal liberty and freedom of expression. My French friend listened to me and then quietly pointed out: France is not the United States. hat he meant, was that I had made an error in assuming that the emphasis on personal freedoms we hold in the United States is universal. In other cultures, society, family or national identity is often held above individual freedoms — a radically different way of thinking than ours. That is the true difference between here and there — not the way people dress, the spices they add to their food or the way they use their cutlery. The difference is in the details, in what others hold to be true and self-evident. That makes it all the more dangerous because values are not things we can learn about in a guidebook. We need to be able to understand those differences in the 21st century. Since before I can remember, the media has been prophesying the end of the American age. This is, I think, a somewhat fatalistic and inaccurate way to describe the shifting of political power. What people are really heralding is an end to American hegemony, what Fareed Zakaria calls “the rise of the rest”. The key to solving climate change does not lie with curbing excess in the United States or the European Union, but on the type of lifestyle the Chinese population is going to claim in the years to come. As a child of immigrants, I can tell you that we cannot rely on Silicon Valley to concentrate wealth and talent in this region in the way we once did. This is scary, but it does not have to be. Alexis de Tocqueville, the French historian and political thinker, said this about the United States: “The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.” There is a whole world out there to explore, a world too large and spectacular to fit into any Disneyland ride. I think we need to leave our shores, not to lose ourselves, but to discover who we, as Americans, will be in the 21st century.

Friends and family remember former UC Berkeley student Melanie Dunn as a caring and outspoken individual, after she was found fatally stabbed in her San Jose home Feb. 10. Her boyfriend was taken into custody later that day and named as a suspect the next day. She was 27. A transfer student from De Anza College in Cupertino, Dunn was known by her friends as a multi-talented and extremely busy student activist. “Her smile was contagious, anyone who was around her would be in a happier mood,” said friend and former De Anza classmate Ayeshah Khalid, in an e-mail. “She was one of those people you wanted to be around.” While at De Anza, Dunn participated in the activist group Students For Justice, which advocated against statewide budget cuts to higher education. In addition to her studies, Dunn was part of the De Anza Associated Student Body, the Black History Month Committee and the Black Student Union. “Melanie was always interested in getting to know new people, especially those who came from diverse backgrounds,” said former De Anza classmate Jittaun Jones in an e-mail. “She

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first met Shirek in the late ’60s or early ’70s when the two were activists at the city credit union. Kennerly said Shirek worked specifically to secure loans for working class individuals in South and West Berkeley. At 73 years old, Shirek was forced into retirement from her post at the senior center and decided to run for city council. Known by fellow council members as the “conscience of Berkeley,” she worked diligently to empower the underprivileged in society and serve the community as a whole, according to Councilmember Kriss Worthington, who was on the council with Shirek from 1996 to 2004. “The thing that made her so compelling to me was she went up a stairway to deliver a meal to someone who was sick, and here she was, 80-something, climbing up a stairway to hand-deliver

a meal to this senior citizen,” Worthington said. “That kind of social service is a great form of compassion.” Dale Bartlett, who served as Shirek’s City Council aide, said he sees Shirek less as a public figure and more as a mother. She and her husband Brownlee Shirek took Bartlett in when he was trying to avoid the Vietnam War draft in 1969, with “no questions asked.” “Her feminine spirit is so strong,” he said. “I’d say she’s a mother to us all. She’s the kindest, wisest, most beautiful human being I’ve ever met in my life, and I’ve learned so much from her.” Bartlett praised Shirek for her work on the committee that created the Peralta Community College system in 1967 and for instigating a lawsuit to establish the Berkeley City College three years ago. Jacqueline DeBose worked alongside Shirek, an advocate for organic

Andrew King of The Daily Californian contributed to this report. Contact Jasmine Mausner at jmausner@dailycal.org.

Victoria Pardini covers Berkeley communities. Contact her at vpardini@dailycal.org.

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sexually abused child turned male prostitute, and treats victims in an unflinching yet sensitive light. Araki attributes his empathy toward outsiders to his upbringing, which was fueled by a passion for alternative music and cultural scenes. “It was the place to be, outside of the boring mainstream, same old shit that everybody else liked,” Araki says. “It was exciting to be on the edge.” Despite his rebellious attitude, Araki describes himself as reserved and camera shy. These qualities weren’t mollified when an article by the San Francisco Chronicle on the local premiere of “Mysterious Skin” published a color photograph of him with an infected eye (“I looked like fucking Quasimodo”). But as soon as he starts talking about his own films, Araki’s eyes light up, and he seems possessed by an onset of logorrhea. “The audience just went apeshit,” Araki says of the previous night’s premiere of “Kaboom” at the Roxie Theater. Like Smith, the movie’s horny film-studies protagonist, Araki worries about the future of cinema. He likes the fact that anybody can shoot a film on the cheap and edit on a laptop; however, the ubiquity of digital media has its downsides. “It’s just in this information age, with everything being faster, more convenient ... there’s the question of, ‘Are people going to have time to go to the movies?’” Araki didn’t seem to care much about egalitarianism in the beginning of his career. His ’90s films, including “The Doom Generation” and “The Living End,” were ahead of their time and featured an abrasive us-versus-them attitude that is sometimes difficult to watch. One of the men in “The Living End” ruthlessly murders any homophobe who dares to bully him. “It was a time of ACT UP, and a lot of despair and anger and frustration about the AIDS crisis and the government and how nobody cared,” Araki recalls. “So many people were dying and people were dropping dead at 25.” Araki has since mellowed, but his films still push what viewers can expect from

UCK THE WORLD,” spraypainted in blood-red on a concrete block. That’s the first image in Gregg Araki’s “The Living End.” A young man in shades finishes spraying, spins around like a discus thrower and tosses his spent can off a cliff, with downtown Los Angeles looming in the distance. This is classic Araki: an attractive young man, played by an attractive, unknown actor, aggressively expressing his independence from the mainstream. The guy may as well be aiming that can directly at Hollywood. As one of the most audacious filmmakers in queer cinema, Araki has spent the last two decades making movies that push boundaries. His latest film, “Kaboom,” which is part college-age sex romp, part cult-paranoia thriller, is, like his other work, never predictable; it keeps you entertained and on your toes. “Like 99 percent of the time, I know exactly where (a) movie’s going before it gets there,” Araki says. “It’s so boring for me to wait for a movie to catch up with what I know is going to happen.” That desire to reject the road most traveled is evident in the range of Araki’s characters who live on the fringes, from the pair of HIVpositive renegades in “The Living End” to the pathetically humorous pothead in “Smiley Face.” His most well-known film, “Mysterious Skin,” stars Joseph GordonLevitt as a

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out for anyone. All the while, Smith is stalked by men in animal masks and receives written messages saying he’s “the Chosen One,” culminating in an absurd pansexual apocalypse. Per Araki tradition, the actors are bad and the dialogue is worse. This is Araki’s auteur style. But here, the camp doesn’t charm like it should: It gnaws at you. Rather than go with his gut, Araki relies heavily on the cliches of gay representation that have marred queer cinema: the media geek misfit, the sexually rapacious foreigner, the daddy issues. It’s easy to applaud the occasioning of a more incisive picture of young sex lives in “Kaboom.” But this film’s story does not feel true because Smith’s sexual manifesto hinges on a pride and pretension that a gay audience would, or should, scoff at. The Smith character recalls Jon, the HIV-positive film critic in “The Living End,” a likable and honest gay film. Both are loners grappling with the hetero-norms imposed upon them; they can’t deal, so they take solace in film (I know the type well). Together, Smith and Jon display candid autobiography on Araki’s part. Yet Smith, in his sexual ambiguity, is the inversion of Jon, suggesting that almost 20 years later, Araki is starting to pander to straight audiences who want to be assured that no one is really “homosexual.” In effect, they can breathe easy. Basically, “Kaboom” is unbelievably bad. If there’s a stage in the movie life-cycle beyond straightto-video, “Kaboom” belongs there. But there is something about this orgiastic mess you can’t look away

from. Like Araki’s 2007 stoner comedy “Smiley Face,” “Kaboom” has potential that, like Smith’s sexual frustration, never becomes kinetic. Araki gets the ball rolling full well but doesn’t pick it up later. Sure, he wields explosive visual technique and has the makings of an interesting plot — sex, the occult and the end of the world — but he makes a lazy attempt to bind all the loose ends in the last 10 minutes. He’s got a doozy of a third act, with bravado that goes ka-splat. Though “Kaboom” gives reason to believe otherwise, there’s hope yet for a New Queer Cinema of the 2000s. So far, the decade’s big entries haven’t gotten it right: Ang Lee’s “Brokeback Mountain” (2005) fell victim to the notion that the lover must die in order to redeem gay desire, backwardly affirming that the closet is always safest. The homosexuals had to die in Tom Ford’s “A Single Man” (2009) too, though for reasons I understand better. That said, Gregg Araki’s shot at authentic gay representation is admirable, even when it misses the mark. Revel in sex, the occult and the end of the world with Ryan at rlattanzio@dailycal.org.

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Stage fright. Youthful energy pervades the Berkeley Playhouse Teen Company’s production of the oft-performed ‘Little Shop of Horrors.’ by Nick Moore Senior Staff Writer

ittle Shop of Horrors” could fit into any number of genres — sci-fi, horror, comedy, musical — but for actors, especially young ones, the song-and-dance aspect would seem to be the most daunting. But judging by the ease with which the Berkeley Playhouse Teen Company performed the show, you’d think anyone could do it. The opening number, an ensemble song called “Skid Row (Downtown),”

made it immediately apparent that these actors were more talented than their years. The subsequent story is pleasantly strange, simple and thoroughly timetested, having been performed countless times since its 1982 off-Broadway debut. Meek Seymour (Aidan Elsesser) and his pretty, unknowing crush Audrey (Emily Morris) work in a Skid Row flower shop for the crusty Mr. Mushnik (Miguel Gamalinda). With the store deeply in the red, Seymour makes a last-ditch attempt to promote

the shop and bring in some new customers. He unveils Audrey II, a strange Venus flytrap-type plant he discovered during a solar eclipse. The plant quickly draws the attention of customers and local media, giving the store and its employees a new lease on life. Only problem is, as Seymour and audience discover together, the plant needs human flesh to live. Kyle Choate and Julia Marlin, in portraying Audrey II, displayed

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n my utopian fantasy of the Oscars — where I am dictator of the AMPAS obviously — Harmony Korine’s “Trash Humpers” would be nominated for Best Picture. Here’s a film that is the exact antithesis of everything the Oscars are about, and one that inaugurates a genre all its own: the verite snuff piece. Take the title “Trash Humpers” literally. In this seamy, sick little number shot on VHS, a trio of heedless bandits pillages the streets of a slum town, defiling every inanimate object in sight. They fellate trees, strangle baby dolls and serve up pancakes drizzled with soap. Korine’s low-budget provocation writhes in the same bath of nihilist filth as John Waters’s “Pink Flamingos.” Like that film, “Humpers” warmed the cockles of my heart more than most movies ever will. The Academy, a mostly family friendly bunch with its eye on Middle America, wouldn’t deign to acknowledge such a film’s existence. I’m astounded that “Black Swan” garnered as many nominations as it did, including Best Picture. After all, Darren Aronofsky’s sleeper thriller — though it looks like “The Nutcracker” next to “Trash Humpers” — is essentially a rompous horror movie. In all the history of the Academy, they rarely go for creepy stuff. Even Alfred Hitchcock got the serial snub, though he was nominated for five Best Director awards. He eventually nabbed a lifetime achievement prize, but that’s Academy guilt for you. When a horror film becomes the movie of the moment — as “Black Swan” did this year, “The Exorcist” did in 1973 and “The Silence of the Lambs”

in 1991 — it has a good chance of a nomination. “Silence” won that year, which baffles me and all other genre geeks to this day. “Black Swan” will not win Best Picture, but its place among films such as “The Kids Are All Right” and “Winter’s Bone” — films of cozier genres like drama, comedy and “dramedy” — is something to marvel at. There were plenty of shining examples last year of great genre flicks the Academy wouldn’t go near. Vincenzo Natali’s “Splice” — or, as I call it, “Freud Does ‘Species’” — remains last year’s unsung hero of sick cinema, undoubtedly destined for cult status. In my Academy Awards, Adrien Brody fucking his animal-human-hybrid lovechild is always a prime contender. As is Alexandre Aja’s “Piranha,” the most outrageous 3D-horror-parody ever, where Jerry O’Connell’s penis is consumed by flesh-hungry fish. These are images I’ll remember forever. They’re not the stuff of “Citizen Kane,” of course, but they’re still remarkable in and of themselves. Often, the most transgressive films of the Oscar crop are appointed to the Best Foreign Language Film category because, naturally, the gutsiest movies aren’t made in the US. This year’s nominee from Greece, Giorgos Lanthimos’s whacked-out “Dogtooth,” is one such film. On the scale of the cinematically depraved, it lies somewhere between “Black Swan” and “Trash Humpers.” Lanthimos adopts the clinical chilliness of Austrian director Michael Haneke — whose work is usually relegated to this same Oscar category — to smash society’s dainty picture of child-rearing. At least someone in the Academy has the sense to recognize filmmakers who spit in the face of Good Taste. Now, back to that hypothetical fantasy of mine, where twisted cinema reigns king of the Oscars and king of the world, presumably: Someday, the evil doppelganger of all these crowdpleasing Academy darlings will burst forth from Hollywood’s factory of feelgoodery, impale Oscar with a shard of glass and proudly pronounce “It’s MY turn!” bloodshot eyes and all. Check out Ryan’s bloodshot eyes at rlattanzio@dailycal.org.

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Glory Days Over Six Decades Before Being Victimized by Cuts to Athletics, the Cal Baseball Team Fought Its Way to the Pinnacle of the Collegiate Ranks

Clockwise from bottom: the 1947 Cal baseball team; pitcher/outfielder Jackie Jensen; center fielder Lyle Palmer; coach Clint Evans. Photos courtesy of Cal Media Relations. christopher mcdermut/staff

by Chris Haugh Staff Writer

he year was 1947. June 28, 1947 to be exact. It was a warm late afternoon in Kalamazoo, Mich., at Hyames Field ONLINE AUDIO on the Western Former center fielder Michigan ColLyle Palmer reflects on lege campus. his playing days at Cal. The sun was a welcome relief after a torrential downpour the day before had threatened to wash out the first game of a best-of-three series between the Yale Bulldogs and the California Golden Bears. Both were playing for the first-ever College World Series title. The two teams were in a tight battle deep in the ninth inning by the time the sun began to set. Cal was up, 8-7, on the Bulldogs with relief pitcher Virgil Butler staring down the last out of the game. The slim 6-foot-2 pitcher knew the gravity of the situation: His team was moments away from winning the nation’s first-ever college baseball championship. Standing on the mound in front of 3,000 paying fans and a handful of freeloaders pressed against the outfield fence, the lefty was unfazed. Like many of his teammates, Butler had come to Cal the year earlier after serving in World War II. As a member of the USS Nassau crew, he had seen considerable action in the Aleutian Islands before returning to school. To a veteran like himself, this last out seemed pedestrian compared to the intensity of war. Standing across from Butler was Yale’s junior first baseman. The young man was going through his warm-up swings in his button-up white uniform with the austere “YALE” lettering embroidered across his chest. Digging

in, his knee-length shorts billowed out below his belted waist. He stepped into the batter’s box and returned Butler’s steely glare. That young man represented the final roadblock between the Bears and the culmination of a charmed season. One more out and they were national champions. n 1939, the NCAA held its first basketball championship tournament, which Oregon won to much fanfare and media attention. Other college sports took notice, and in 1947, baseball decided to emulate its hardwood contemporaries. It seemed fitting that the Bears would be in the first College World Series. The concept was the brainchild of legendary Cal coach Clint Evans, who first saw the opportunity for increased revenue, media attention and recruits in crowning a champion each year. A Cal graduate in 1912, Evans was the leading coach in the country. “He was a great guy. He’d do anything for you,” former Bears center fielder Lyle Palmer says of Evans. “You played against him, you hated his guts. You played for him, he was the greatest guy in the world.” By the mid-1940s, Evans had managed to convince his fellow coaches of the merits of a championship series modeled after pro baseball’s popular World Series. And on Feb. 7, 1947, Evans’ idea was adopted by the NCAA Baseball Committee. The Bears had earned their place in the CWS by winning the Pacific Coast Conference, a now defunct organization that roughly mirrored the Pac-10. In the Western Regional, the Bears dispatched Denver and Texas by one run each at Merchants Park in Denver. Cal, a veteran club feared for its hitting, swept into the series with momentum. But the that trip to Michigan wasn’t without its hiccups — for rea-

sons entirely unrelated to baseball. One of the team’s rising young stars, and a standout halfback on the football team, Jack Jensen was anxious around airplanes. Standing on the tarmac at Oakland Airport, Palmer noticed that the team’s DC-6 plane had turned off its inboard propellers to save fuel as it taxied along the runway. “Oh jeez, Jack,” the former naval air corps service member and consummate prankster said to the 17-year-old Jensen, already jumpy from the nerves. “Two engines quit already!” “(Jack) took off running,” Palmer recounts with a chuckle. “We had to catch him and bring him back.” Despite the rain, game one went relatively smoothly. The ceremonies were christened by MLB commissioner A.B. “Happy” Chandler, who threw out the inaugural first pitch. The hard-hitting Bears came out true to form, blanking Yale, 17-4, with an 11-run ninth inning against Bulldog pitcher Phil Kemp. The inning set a benchmark for single-inning runs which stood for years to come. However, game two would not prove so easy for Cal. ale, which had won the Eastern Division by defeating NYU, played what some might call dirty baseball. After a back-and-forth affair through five innings, the score was 7-6. With the Bulldogs’ Gordon Davis on first, left fielder Bolt Elwell hit a slow roller down the first baseline. As Butler ran to cover the base and assure an easy out, Elwell crashed into the pitcher, knocking the pitcher down and dislodging the ball in what the New York Times called a “football play.” While Butler writhed in pain at first, Gordon advanced to third; he would score on a groundout. It was not the first time that Yale tested the Bears’ grit. The day before, Cal’s Bob Melton had been struck in the chest by a pitch. Staggering to first,

Melton collapsed halfway to the base. The war-tested Bears proved unflappable, however. In the seventh inning, with the score still knotted at seven apiece, Cal second baseman Johnny Ramos scored the go-ahead run on an errant throw by Yale catcher Norm Felske, who was attempting to throw out a stealing Palmer at second. Whatever Yale did, Cal had an answer. By the time Butler stood face to face with Yale’s first baseman for the final out, the pressure was palpable. Settling in, he pitched a gem of an at-bat, working the count and whittling away at the hapless Bulldog hitter. Dialing up his final pitch, Butler struck out the batter with a curveball. Evans would later tell him was the best curve he had ever thrown. As the Cal players celebrated, the first baseman walked off in disgust after his no-hit performance. It wouldn’t be the last time that “Poppy,” as his teammates called him, lost in the CWS. The very next year, Yale lost to USC in the second annual series. Years later, at a commemorative event, Butler was told that “Poppy,” the man he had dueled for a national championship, is better known today at George H.W. Bush — the 41st President of the United States of America. “(It was) a golden moment,” Butler says. oday, Virgil Butler and his teammates have slipped into old age. Butler retired from baseball after a two-year minor league career with the Albuquerque Dukes and became a stock broker. Virg, as his friends call him, turns 90 in May. He now lives in the Mountain Meadows retirement home in Ashland, Ore., where he swims every day and sounds as sprightly as a much younger man. Lyle Palmer signed with the Oakland Oakes for $500 before becoming a teacher. He is 86 now and lives in Pleasant Hill, Calif.

Many players have passed away. Coach Evans died in 1975, finishing his illustrious 25-year coaching career with 547 victories. After the series, eight players went on to sign professional contracts and play in the minors. Young Jackie Jensen was one of the only Bears to crack a major league roster. Playing in the outfield, Jensen was the 1958 American League Most Valuable Player with the Boston Red Sox. Those who remain look back at that series with pride. They swell with delight and excited energy at the mention of the game, recounting the time they beat George Bush on the diamond. But something weighs heavy on their minds. “I feel bad Cal had to cut baseball after 118 years,” a distraught Butler says. “(But they) can’t take away my World Series ring nor the teammates that became lifelong friends.” They can take away a program. More than a half century later, Cal baseball is on its way to becoming a relic, a victim of the Great Recession and budget shortfalls. After so many years, memories, championships, heartaches, strike outs, walks, games and batting practices, one of the country’s richest historic programs will sink into the sands of time. Such is life; nothing lasts forever. A year after Butler walked off the field in Kalamazoo, the CWS emptied out of Hyames Field, eventually moving west down the I-6 to greener pastures in Omaha. As the Bears play their final season this spring, their home field will face a similar fate. But the final out of the final game may find an appropriate resting place — one named after the heart and soul of the 1947 College World Series champions, Clint Evans. Contact Chris Haugh at chaugh@dailycal.org.