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Misconduct Hearing City Aims to Close Refuse Fund Deficit Delays Spark Discord

by Aaida Samad Staff Writer

For UC Berkeley graduate student Zack Norwood, the last 14 months have been difficult as he struggles to balance work toward com- Editor’s Note pleting his degree with countless This is the first hours spent deal- installment of a ing with his pend- five-part series on ing student constudent conduct. duct proceedings.

Though Norwood, who is facing charges stemming from his involvement in the occupation of Wheeler Hall in November 2009, initially planned to graduate last fall or summer, he was forced to delay in part because of time spent dealing with student conduct proceedings.

“It affected my classes for sure,” Norwood said. “It’s emotionally burdensome to deal with, even if it’s not time consuming. ... Do you know the number of hours I’ve spent in meetings? Days and days, weeks of time.”

Norwood has been at the campus since 2005 working on a concurrent master’s degree in mechanical engineering — which he completed in 2009 — and doctorate in energy and resources.

The proceedings have also had an impact on his ability to complete his thesis.

Norwood is one of about a dozen students still waiting for resolution of their conduct hearings for their involvement in the protests that shook the campus in November 2009, according to Sean Graham, a student at the UC Berkeley School of Law and a member of the Campus Rights Project — a group advising students dealing with misconduct charges.

The misconduct proceedings — which have been drawn out over the course of more than 14 months — have stirred contention since their beginning, with multiple allegations by stu-

dents of procedural violations and delays on the part of the campus, as well as two lawsuits filed by students last semester against hearing panel chairs for their involvement in the process.

In response to these allegations, officials from both the campus and the Center for Student Conduct and Community Standards have maintained that while they cannot comment on specific conduct cases, proceedings have followed the conduct code.

Graham said in an e-mail that the delays in the proceedings constituted an “egregious violation of students’ rights.”

The UC’s Policy on Student Conduct and Discipline entitles students to hearings that are “prompt and fair,” but Graham said given the delays, students have had the threat of punishment hanging over their heads, amounting to a “de facto disciplinary probation.”

“It’s ludicrous, and I don’t know how they get away with this sort of process,” Norwood said. “At this point we’ve been punished more than we would have been had we received sanctioning. ... Our ability to function as students has been compromised trying to navigate this ridiculous process.”

According to Christina Gonzales, the campus associate dean of students, the delays in the process are due in part to difficulty in assembling hearing panels given the large amount of schedules — of faculty, staff and students on the panels — that have to be juggled for each hearing to be scheduled. She added, however, that the campus is trying to “expedite the process as quickly as they can.”

“I can see and hear a little bit of the frustration because it’s taking a while, but this is the process that was outlined in the code, and we’re following the code,” Gonzales said. “Our goal is to get this completed before the end of

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The city of Berkeley is struggling to decide how best to close a $1.2 million deficit in refuse funding following a report released Tuesday.

by Andrew David King Staff Writer

While the Berkeley City Council has already reduced what was a towering $4 million deficit in the city’s refuse fund at the beginning ONLINE PODCAST of the 2011 fis- Andrew David King talks cal year, a reabout the refuse deficit port released Tuesday out- and efforts to close it. lining how the city might close the remaining $1.2 million gap has failed to persuade some council members.

In July, the city entered into a $84,000 contract with Irvine-based consulting firm Sloan Vazquez to evaluate the city’s revenue and ef-

ficacy in spending with regard to its refuse fund, according to city spokesperson Mary Kay Clunies-Ross. The firm’s findings and subsequent recommendations include outsourcing the processing of recycled materials to third parties, terminating the cityfunded Ecology Center, conducting audits to ensure that all city services are paid for, eliminating discounts for food waste disposal and reducing the number of workers.

Councilmember Kriss Worthington said he found issues with the methodology and implications of the consulting firm’s study.

“If we spent that much money and we got a comprehensive study that was coordinated with our financial situation and which offered realistic solutions, that would be great,” he

said. “But you get a study that says, ‘You’re broke, and all you need to do is go spend $7 million and everything will be great.’ And if we had the $7 million, I’d be happy to spend it, but we don’t.”

Despite feeling that the report glossed over the complexities of altering city services, Worthington said he agreed with the report’s suggestion — which he claimed he put forth several times in past years — that the city’s now-separate collection services for trash, recycling and green and food waste be consolidated. But he added that making changes to pre-existing services is the answer, and that there is no need to extradite services to commercial operations.

Worthington said he filed a request

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Scooter Store Offers Green Alternatives UC Berkeley Business Professor

Nominated as Adviser to Obama

Bancroft Avenue Shop’s Electric Bikes, Scooters Provide Environmentally Friendly Transportation

Haas School of Business Professor Carl Shapiro To Join Council Pending Confirmation in Senate

by Neetu Puranikmath Staff Writer

While visiting China in 2007, Vassili Kokkinias, former aerospace engineer turned high school physics teacher, first realized the untapped business potential of electric scooters.

“We had nothing of that sort in America,” he said. “I was enamored almost instantly.”

One year later, Kokkinias founded the electric scooter company Green Choice Moto in Toronto, Canada. Business was booming and after two years, he decided to franchise the company and expanded into the United States.

Last October, he eventually settled on 2576 Bancroft Way. “Berkeley was the place to be,” said Kokkinias, CEO of the company. “We really liked the atmosphere and culture and felt it was friendly to what we wanted to do: green transportation.”

The first shipment of electric scooters and bicycles arrived from China in December, when Green Choice Moto

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Green Choice Moto offers a variety of electric, environmentally friendly wheels for sale and rent at their store, which opened last October on Bancroft Way and Bowditch Street. opened its doors. Since then the store has served more than 200 customers.

Prices for the e-bicycles and e-scooters range from $549 to $1,600. The vehicles are also available for rent at $10 an hour or $40 for 12 hours.

While gas scooters use only 20 percent of inputted fuel, the electric scooters and bikes use more than 95 percent of the energy from one charge.

Each scooter or bike can travel 35 to

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President Barack Obama announced Wednesday his intent to nominate UC Berkeley Economics and Haas School of Business professor Carl Shapiro to the Council of Economic Advisers.

The council is composed of a chairman and one member, currently Austan Goolsbee — who is on leave from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business — and Cecilia Rouse, respectively. The council’s role is to advise the president on economic decisions. Pending Senate confirmation, Shapiro will take over for Rouse, who will return to teach at Princeton University, from which she is currently on leave.

“Carl Shapiro has demonstrated knowledge and dedication throughout his career,” Obama said in a statement released Wednesday. “I am grate-

ful that he has chosen to take on this important role, and I look forward to working with him in the months and years to come.”

Shapiro is currently on leave from UC Berkeley and serves as deputy assistant attorney general for economic analysis at the U.S. Department of Justice in the Antitrust Division, a position he also held from 1995 to 1996.

From 1998 to 2008, he served as the director of UC Berkeley’s Institute of Business and Economic Research.

“Carl is one of the leading economists in the field of antitrust economics and has been for many years,” said Vice President at Charles River Associates John Hayes, who was previously an economist for the U.S. Department of Justice. “This really is a step beyond that arena ... into a wider field of public policy.”

Shapiro said he could not comment on the nomination currently.

“He brings a unique combination of skills,” said Jonathan Baker, a professor of law at American University, who collaborated with Shapiro in 2008 on a paper regarding merger analysis. “(He has) deep practical experience in crafting public-sector solutions to

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Corrections The Feb. 7 article, “Students Aim to Harness Energy From Elliptical Machines in RSF,” incorrectly stated that energy consumption totals were measured in kilowatts. In fact, energy is measured in kilowatt-hours.

Tuesday’s article, “Bill Supports UCPD Plan to Lower Bicycle Dismount Fines,” incorrectly stated that UCPD Lt. Alex Yao said that until a new policy is in place, UCPD officers have been ordered not to issue any citations for students riding their bikes through the dismount zone. In fact, Yao confirmed this.

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ASUC Passes Bill Sponsoring Hip-Hop Concert

by Anjuli Sastry Staff Writer

In an attempt to raise funds and promote larger campus events for students, the ASUC Senate passed a bill at its Feb. 23 meeting sponsoring a spring concert tentatively scheduled to feature rap and hip-hop artists Andre Nickatina and Too $hort.

The senate has depleted its Senate Only Fund — which typically funds senate training — by allocating $5,000 for the event, though officials in charge of planning expect to make it back through ticket sales and corporate sponsorships.

The allocation of any extra money made will be up to the senate’s discretion.

Student Action Senator Vishalli Loomba, a co-author of the bill, said the total cost of the event has been capped at $25,000, though she added that she hopes for a lower cost.

“The budget is really fluid right now,” Loomba said. “We are negotiating, and $25,000 is the cap, the highest amount we will pay, but because this is for charity and philanthropy, the

artists understand and we will only be paying them two-thirds of that price.”

Another $2,000 from the Student Opportunity Fund and $500 from the Arts and Creativity Fund have been requested, bringing the senate’s total down payment to $7,500.

Loomba said the event, preliminarily scheduled for April 13 or 14, will most likely take place in Pauley Ballroom and that she is confident the senate can sell the 1,000 tickets necessary to fill the space and cover event costs.

To pay for the remaining costs of the event, Loomba said she is seeking corporate sponsorship from businesses such as CampusCred and Red Bull, but she said sponsorship packets cannot be sent out until the artists’ contract is set.

According to Hedy Chen, chief of staff in the office of the executive vice president, money raised through ticket sales — which she said will likely cost between $20 and $25 — and sponsorship will be used to replenish the Senate Only Fund and also to the Senate Contingency Fund, which is used to fund student groups.

Although the bill passed with 15

votes in favor and none in opposition, there were five abstentions. CalSERVE Senator Kenny Gong, one of those who abstained, said he had issues with the nature of the artists’ music.

“I think the politics around the ways that they objectify women is problematic,” Gong said. “I don’t support the artists, and in the future I want to take into account the politics and potential lyrics and music artists have.”

Garrett Marker, president of UC Berkeley’s Kappa Alpha Order and co-author of the bill, said he has been working with Loomba to plan the event because of his contacts in the music industry as well as a connection from a concert performed at his fraternity house by rapper E-40 on the day of the Big Game, Nov. 19.

“The event at my house was fun and good for all the guys, but we want it more open to campus in general, and not just a Greek system thing,” Marker said.

Now that the bill has passed, he said he hopes to officially sign the artists by Feb. 27.

Contact Anjuli Sastry at asastry@dailycal.org.

School District to Establish New Attendance Board Berkeley Unified’s Board Of Education Approves New Panel to Evaluate Cases of Student Truancy

by Jeffery Butterfield Staff Writer

Students who frequently skip their classes in the Berkeley Unified School District in the next school year will have to appear before a new panel specifically created to abate district truancy rates by addressing repeated offenders on a case-by-case basis.

The district’s Board of Education members voted at a meeting Wednesday to establish a district-wide School Attendance Review Board that, starting this fall, will assess cases of students with recurring unexcused absences.

According to a monthly school enrollment report, the district’s average daily attendance in December was 8,798 — 802 students short of the district’s 9,600 total enrollment.

The new review board will function less as a disciplinary body than as a forum for parents or guardians — along with district officials — to help identify the reasons why a student may be missing school.

“Often times when a student is truant, there is some underlying reason that is on some level legitimate,” district Director of Student Services Susan Craig said at the meeting. “That’s what usually comes out in the SARB hearing.”

According to Craig, personnel from a district school health center and mental health professionals will be available at the hearings if factors regarding a student’s wellness are contributing to his or her deficient attendance. The board will also broach issues of safety

such as bullying or harassment and work with school officials to resolve those problems.

“At the elementary level, the focus is more on holding the parent responsible,” Craig said. “At the high school level, the focus is more on holding the student responsible. For middle school, it really depends. It could go either direction.”

A student will appear before the review board only after multiple instances of intervention fail to prevent additional truancy on his or her attendance record. Craig said a student will meet with the School Attendance Review Board after three truancy letters are sent home by the school and after attending two school-level truancy meetings.

Under state law, a school must send the first truancy letter to students in grades kindergarten through 12 after

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However, at a public hearing last Friday for senior Julian Martinez — a student charged with misconduct for participating in the Wheeler Hall occupation in November 2009 — Thomas Frampton, a campus law student and member of the Campus Rights Project, alleged that while campus officials have maintained that staff layoffs are part of the reason for delays, information from public records shows that this was not the case.

According to the records, since January 2010 the campus held about 25 panel hearings and resolved around 29 cases.

According to Susan Trageser, director for the Center for Student Conduct and Community Standards, the conduct code outlines options for a student to resolve his or her conduct case either informally through an administrative disposition or formally through a hearing, and the duration of conduct cases depends on a variety of factors.

“The length of time to reach resolution will vary depending on the complexity of the case, number of persons involved, and level of engagement by the responding student in the conduct process,” Trageser said in an e-mail.

According to Marika Iyer, a junior peace and conflict studies major facing misconduct charges for her involvement in the occupation of Wheeler Hall in November 2009, as a result of the delays, some students trying to graduate by the end of this semester have had to settle their cases because otherwise their degrees could be withheld.

The campus Code of Student Conduct states that “an academic degree may be deferred when disciplinary proceedings are pending.”

Iyer said that despite the delays she has faced, she will continue with the conduct proceedings.

“The biggest reason that I’m sticking with this process is that I still have a big sense that I didn’t do anything wrong that day,” Iyer said. “I feel like what happened that day was a constructive process. The destruction has come from the police and the administration in their decisions that day and in the days following.”

Aaida Samad covers higher education.

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eople are scared of many things.

A Google search of strange fears will leave you with a list of unexpected and puzzling conditions.

Zemmiphobia: Fear of the great mole rat. Pteronophobia: Fear of being tickled by feathers. Aulophobia: Fear of flutes.

Although mole rats may not be on my personal list of fears, I am scared of a lot of things. These include the ordinary: murderers, rapists/creepy men, philosophy papers, bathing suit season, breaking out, pregnancy (now) and childbirth (ever).

My deepest horrors also extend to the extraordinarily unusual: the movie “Pocahontas,” newborn hamsters, man thighs, sea cucumbers, Virgin Mary figurines and talking to adults on the phone.

Another shockingly common epidemic is mageirocophobia: The fear of cooking. Over the last few months, I’ve discovered that this horrifying condition is especially widespread among college students.

Maybe the fear is caused by a general lack of experience in the kitchen, maybe it’s our nonexistent monetary funds, maybe it’s the busy schedules that leave us with virtually no time to spend messing around with dinner. After a long day, ordering a pizza just sounds so much easier.

With these factors taken into account, I understand how cooking can be intimidating, especially when you’re making food for other people and especially when it’s for someone you’re trying to impress ... like a date.

But cooking doesn’t have to be scary. I don’t care how tiny your kitchen is, how little time you have or how small of a budget you’re on, cooking can be just as easy as, and way more fun than, waiting in Chipotle’s dinner-rush line.

If it is time constraints that keep you from making magic happen in the kitchen, I am here with tips that can make 10 minutes of work taste like a full day’s worth of slaving away over a hot stove. The most important thing to do is take help where you can get it.

Although food snobs may scoff at the Pillsbury Doughboy and his sweet-assugar girlfriend, Betty Crocker, cake mixes, frozen cookie dough and other pre-made food products can be the perfect tools for new chefs beginning to explore the culinary world.

Using baking mixes from the grocery store can help save you time, money and the tears that come with watching the homemade cookies you slaved over for hours spread out and form one gigantic mass as soon as you put them in the oven.

These mixes practically ensure that your desserts turn out picture-perfect every time. Now, I know what you’re thinking — mixes are boring and they are not going to impress anyone. But, really, all you need to do is think of simple ways to spruce them up, and by adding just a few ingredients you can create a dessert Nestle would be proud of. o invent your own dessert concoctions, think of your favorite mix, whether it’s cake or cookies or pancakes or waffles or muffins or brownies. Then, think of a flavor combination that would be amazing with it. You can add candy,

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HARLEY FRANK fruit, marshmallows, peanut butter, cookie crumbs, cereal. Let your imagination run wild — experimentation is greatly encouraged. ere are a few of my favorite ideas that will allow you to become a Chef Boyardee ... or Chef Girlardee, my first screen name.

This doctored up creation is one of my personal favorites, as it brings together two of the best foods on this earth: cake and cookies.

Make these “cookie dough cupcakes” by preparing yellow cake cupcakes according to package instructions. Just before putting them into the oven, drop a spoonful of raw chocolate chip cookie dough into each cupcake.

That’s right, put an entire gooey, unbaked cookie inside of a cupcake.

Bake according to package instructions ... be careful to pay attention to the timer, this is probably the only step of the process you could actually mess up.

Top with your favorite store-bought or homemade frosting and voila! Anyone lucky enough to taste these puppies will be so happily shocked by the surprise cookie they will never even think to ask if you made them from scratch.

Next on the mission to demystify the kitchen, think about all the store-bought snack foods you would never dream of making in your own home. I give you the art of deconstructing the munchies in order to identify its basic parts. Take a Pop-Tart — it’s nothing but two pieces of pie dough with jam in the middle (and icing on top if you buy the fancy ones).

Am I right or am I right? How simple is it to go to the store, buy a few ingredients and make these all by yourself?

This way, you can put on as much icing and sprinkles as you want. What could be a better post-slumber party treat?

So next time you’re grocery shopping, maybe it won’t be quite so scary. Look for the supermarket’s ready-made products and let yourself be inspired.

Rocky road cupcakes? S’mores brownies? Mint chocolate chip cookies?

Oreo-peanut-butter-banana-pancakes with whipped cream and hot fudge?

Chocolate peanut butter cupcakes? The possibilities are endless.

Hopefully these tips will help you to relax and let go of some of your kitchen anxieties. After all, cooking really isn’t that scary, especially when you compare it to some of the horrors that haunt the dreams of others. I, for one, would take a kitchen over a nest of great mole rats any day.

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Looking to distinguish itself from other litigation consulting firms, the Berkeley Research Group announced a new business research journal Tuesday that will provide a publication outlet for the firm’s many academic experts.

The group — an advisory and data analytics firm based in Emeryville — initially released the journal free of charge on its website in January. The journal, titled the Review, is published twice a year, and its intended readership is attorneys and college professors, according to Lynnie Kim, business manager for the journal.

“Our hope is to provide a medium where we can inform our clients and anyone else who’s interested,” Kim said. “It is a way to basically showcase our academic talent.”

The firm has a panel of experts who advise lawyers and other clients in business-related court cases. Additionally, experts at the firm often testify at trials and depositions, according to Director David Lewin, one of the journal’s co-editors.

The journal, which will be available online and in print, features contributions from experts and affiliates in business, finance and accounting from the firm’s 10 worldwide offices.

“It’s similar to a law school review journal,” Kim said. “Our hope is that (finance professionals, lawyers and professors) will benefit from it.”

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tor of the group and journal editor in chief, who called the journal “a natural extension” of the firm’s work.

While other consulting firms publish newsletters and “thought leadership” pieces — articles that introduce innovative business ideas — Kim said the Berkeley Research Group hopes to distinguish itself with academic talent.

Several of the firm’s affiliates are professors at the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, including Laura Tyson, a member of the President’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board. Lewin said affiliates’ backgrounds as academics who prioritize research and publication fueled the journal’s creation.

Lewin is the faculty director of the UCLA Anderson School of Management’s Advanced Program in Human Resource Management and sits on the boards of four other journals, two of which are published by UC Berkeley.

“We have an audience in the academic world because (the publications) can be useful reading tools,” Lewin said. “The idea is to show how knowledge of these practical matters applies in decision making ... (the journal) has a practical flavor about it.”

In the firm’s first year publishing the Review, Kim said directors and affiliates hope to tackle current legal issues like subprime lending and reach out to attorneys and professionals across the globe.

“Our firm can differentiate itself by having a journal,” Lewin said. “We differentiate ourselves by adding intellectual capital to the industry.”

with the city manager to obtain an itemized list of the data used in the consulting firm’s calculations, which he plans on distributing to the city’s Zero Waste Commission for its meeting Friday.

On March 22, 2005, the council approved a resolution stating its commitment to meet the specifications of Alameda County Measure D, which in 2000 instituted a county goal of reducing waste by 75 percent by the end of 2010.

A report published by the Alameda County Source Reduction and Recycling Board in conjunction with the Alameda County Waste Management Authority in August included statistics that indicated Berkeley achieved an 8 percent diversion of possible recyclables from 2000 to 2006, though it did not include information on the city’s progress in recent years.

According to the county report, Albany also managed to reduce its waste by 8 percent within the same time frame, while Emeryville reached a 27 percent reduction.

However, Councilmember Gordon Wozniak said he is concerned about how the city will earn revenue from the refuse fund while simultaneously decreasing waste.

“We have a business model where basically the city’s efforts have been aimed at decreasing trash, but our revenue is based on how much trash we collect,” he said.

The council will discuss the firm’s report at a work session March 8.

Contact Damien Ortellado at dortellado@dailycal.org.

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It was right to end the practice of disproportionately large fines for bicyclists who rode through the dismount zone.

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he announcement by UCPD that it is no longer issuing citations with outrageous fines to students who ride through the dismount zone on their bicycles during prohibited hours is a necessary reform that we are happy to see implemented.

Until last semester, offending students were cited according to the California Vehicle Code, which does not differentiate between bicycles and cars when determining fine amounts. Unfortunately for students, this meant a total fine of $219 — an amount not at all proportional to the significance of the offense that provides no revenue to the university.

When asked last semester why the amount was so high, UCPD spokespeople said that its senior management was unaware of the total fines associated with the citation. This is not an acceptable excuse — instead it testifies to a general lack of understanding existing between police and students.

However, the issue is more than one of simple ignorance by the command staff. When asked about the fine at the ASUC’s Sept. 23, 2009 meeting, then-Sgt. Andrew Tucker, the former UCPD Liaison, correctly estimated it to be between $200 and $300, and was able to provide the exact number the following week.

We fail to see how this information was never disseminated to the senior management, or why they would not have known the same ballpark estimate after enforcing the citations for 10 years.

While we regret how long it has taken, we nonetheless are pleased with how UCPD has handled the issue since becoming aware of the fines. In speaking with bicycle activists, honestly admitting that their senior management was unaware of the consequences and implementing a warning-first policy, UCPD has made long-due progress on an important issue — even if action required prompting from the outside.

UCPD should take this opportunity to fully study its bicycle policy, and identify elements where it can further improve. Dismount zone enforcement times should be shifted to better match student traffic, and any new citations policy should generate revenue for the campus, rather than the state.

Bicycling is an important activity on campus, and the dismount zone is a necessary safety element. UCPD is right to revisit its policies and ensure that it continue to serve the students and encourage alternative transportation — not discourage it through excessive punishment.

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t would be an understatement to say that CalMail is not the best e-mail service on the Internet. It forces you to choose between the aesthetically dull SquirrelMail and the garish Roundcube, and it has limited features compared to a more common provider like Gmail.

The ASUC passed a bill Feb. 2 that encouraged the campus to replace CalMail with Google Apps, citing its use by multiple other college campuses. But we see little reason for the campus to spend time and resources changing something that those concerned could easily change themselves. CalMail supports both mail forwarding and the ability to sync with any other e-mail client.

Prefer Yahoo? Then have your e-mails forwarded to Yahoo. Want the added functionality Gmail provides, like Google Docs or Google Calendar? Then you can have your emails imported to your Gmail account.

CalMail has the advantage of being

a known quantity. The Information Services Technology division is already familiar with it, and the campus community has the benefit of prior experience. Switching to a new provider, such as Gmail, would potentially require substantial retraining for staff.

The campus should always be looking for the most efficient means with which to serve students and should be routinely evaluating the best possible solution for students in the long term. If switching to a new e-mail provider such as Gmail would save money in the long run by outsourcing maintenance costs, then the campus should transition away from CalMail.

However, if switching would cost extra in fees or require compromising the security of our information, the campus shouldn’t bother.

Students or faculty members who are ardently against CalMail can stop using it themselves — the campus shouldn’t foot the bill for their personal preference.

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Lead the Action to Defend Public Education

by Justin Cheong Education is a right, not a privilege. California’s public higher education system is the state’s greatest democratic achievement.

Won out of the struggles of black, Latina/o, Asian and white working class and middle class communities during the civil rights movement, California developed the greatest public college and university system in the nation and, arguably, in the world. Dozens of campuses were built and opened up the future for millions of Californians. Today, Governor Jerry Brown’s proposed budget cuts place that right in jeopardy. On March 2, we need to shut down California to defend the right to public higher education.

Governor Brown's proposal would slash a whopping $1.4 billion from public higher education, which will likely lead to higher tuition, campus closures, program cuts, layoffs and enrollment reductions. Our state would experience even greater inequality and segregation in all areas.

In response to last year’s cuts, Latina/o freshman enrollment at UC Berkeley dropped 12 percent. Should this trend continue, hundreds of thousands of students — especially black, Latina/o, other minority and working class students — would have nowhere to go after high school, and thousands of students would be pushed out simply because they could not afford college. We cannot hold back from fighting just because Brown is a Democrat.

California can support public education. In 2010, were California its own country, it would rank eighth in a list of the world's largest economies.

The only reason we face these cuts is that the rich and powerful forces behind Brown are tired of paying for public education and view the prolonged economic crisis as an opportunity to cheapen the cost of education.

Brown’s regressive and inadequate tax plan, coupled with the fee hikes, shifts the responsibility for paying for education from the rich onto the backs of California’s poor, working-class and middle-class communities.

Instead, the money should come from taxing the corporations, banks and billionaires who created the economic crisis. We demand a real federal bailout for public higher education, nationwide.

An overwhelming majority of people support public education as a right and not a privilege. If we stand up to

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this attack, we can stop the cuts. Last school year, the collective action of California students sparked a new student movement. By the March 4, 2010 day of action, mass demonstrations spread to colleges and schools across the country. Our movement was successful and former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger restored more than $300 million to the University of California.

This year’s day of action, March 2, 2011, is gaining statewide and national support. However, in the face of the bipartisan attack that Governor Brown is leading, we need far more than it took a year ago to score even a modest victory. If March 2 is simply a solitary, large-but-tame day of moral protest actions, then Brown wins and the people of California lose. We need a series of sustained mass actions that are more determined, angrier and much larger in order to succeed.

Jerry Brown wants to pass the budget cuts by March 10. Students must lead March 2 to make it as large, mili-

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tant, bold and democratic as possible to ensure that the movement is not shut down, but keeps fighting. If we do that, we can delay the vote and build momentum. Community college students are organizing a mass march in Sacramento on March 14. The California State University is organizing a day of action on April 13. Our leadership on March 2 is critical to make sure the later actions aren’t simply protest actions after we lose, but are, instead, fighting actions that are part of a sustained movement.

To succeed, our movement must link the fight for the right to public education with the fight of oppressed and immigrant communities. The fight against racism and the fight for full rights for all immigrants, documented and undocumented, must be central demands of our movement. This includes passage of the DREAM Act and restoring affirmative action programs so that minority students are no longer denied a seat at the UC. We have to ensure that our fight to defend public education as a right extends to every Californian.

More than any other state, California is poised to realize Dr. King’s vision for America.

The rich and powerful do not have to be the force determining the direction of our state. The Latina/o, black, immigrant and other oppressed communities have enormous social power. But we need leaders to organize this power and place us in the position of power that is rightfully ours to make California into our California. By Any Means Necessary (BAMN) urges all those who are serious about building a new, mass, youth-led, integrated and independent civil rights and immigrant rights movement to join us.

On March 2, UC Berkeley students should gather at noon on Sproul Plaza to take action. Already, student organizations and many campus faculty have signed the call to action. The Oakland and Berkeley Unified School Districts are holding official events involving their students and staff on this day.

This is our moment: UC Berkeley students can and must set the model for the statewide and national movement once again.

Justin Cheong is a member of BAMN and a UC Berkeley alumnus. Reply to opinion@dailycal.org.

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Multiple-Vehicle Accident Hits Solano Avenue BMW Collides With at Least Three Vehicles on Sunday, Berkeley Man Arrested on the Scene

by Sarah Burns Staff Writer

A black BMW collided with multiple vehicles while driving west down Solano Avenue near the boundary between the Berkeley and Albany city limits Feb. 20, resulting in at least one totaled vehicle and multiple injuries.

According to Sgt. Mary Kusmiss of the Berkeley Police Department, at least three vehicles were involved in collisions with a black BMW 330ci as it drove west on Solano late Sunday morning. Following a 911 call placed by a community member at 11:43 a.m., members of both the Berkeley and Albany police departments responded the incident.

Berkeley resident Shahram Farshchi was arrested at the scene by Berkeley police and booked on a charge of misdemeanor non-injury hit-and-run in connection with the collisions on the Berkeley side of Solano.

Some witnesses to the scene have placed the number of affected vehicles as high as seven. Kusmiss said none

of the injuries resulting from the collisions currently appear life-threatening, though she was unable to confirm the nature or number of the injuries.

Berkeley resident Susan McLester was driving west down Solano near the 7-Eleven located at 1540 Solano Ave. when her blue Audi was hit from behind by the BMW on the Albany side of the avenue. The collision sent her car spinning, totaling the vehicle and slamming her head onto the steering wheel, she said.

According to Kusmiss, a Walnut Creek woman said a BMW of the same description hit her gray Lexus as she approached Ensenada Avenue while heading west on Solano, pushing her car into the intersection of the two streets. Kusmiss said the woman was traveling 15 to 20 mph with her 8-year-old grandson in the right rear seat. Though the woman reported no injuries, Kusmiss said the vehicle sustained moderate damage to its rear end.

The woman also said the BMW did not stop before continuing further west down Solano, Kusmiss said.

Solano is split between the Berkeley and Albany city limits, so the jurisdiction for the collisions is also divided between the two police departments.

According to Investigation Lt. Daniel Adams at the Albany department, Albany police have not requested any criminal charges be brought against

Farshchi. Kusmiss said Farshchi exited the BMW but remained on the scene after the collisions on the Albany side of the avenue.

Cecily Rodriguez, receptionist at Joi Nail Spa on Solano and witness to the collisions, said the BMW’s speed far exceeded the avenue’s 25 mph speed limit.

“If you could blink you couldn’t even see it,” Rodriguez said. “I don’t think anyone even saw until they saw the cars piled up.”

Because many of the details surrounding the collisions are still unclear, Berkeley police have requested that Solano merchants analyze their surveillance video from Feb. 20 during the collision for any pertinent footage.

“There is an air of mystery (as) to what precipitated this (incident),” Kusmiss said.

As of press time, police had not obtained any footage from merchants.

“Most of the cameras aren’t focused on the street,” said Allen Cain, executive director of the Solano Avenue Association. “Merchants are more interested that they catch the guy at the register with the gun.”

Farshchi said he sought medical tests after the incident but would not comment further. A court date for his misdemeanor charge is set for March 23, Kusmiss said.

Contact Sarah Burns at sburns@dailycal.org.

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real-world problems that protect the public interest without unnecessarily hobbling the private sector.”

UC Berkeley has a history of professors serving as chairmen, members and senior economists for the council.

Past chairmen include business professor Laura Tyson and business professor emerita Janet Yellen. Past senior economists for the council include business professors David Levine and James Wilcox.

“Recent administrations have recognized the quality of the faculty here and have called upon them for government service at the highest level,” said Jonathan Leonard, George Quist Chair in Business Ethics at the business school, who served as a senior economist for the council in 1989. “The list is pretty prominent, and it’s unusual for a university to have so many people selected for this kind of service.”

Most recently, economics professor Christina Romer returned to teach at UC Berkeley after serving as chair for the council from 2009-10.

“It’s just extraordinary that one campus gets this kind of recognition,” Leonard said.

Contact Emma Dries at edries@dailycal.org.

40 miles on one charge at a speed of 22 to 25 mph and at a cost of 6 cents per charge.

Under California law, electric scooters and bikes are classified as powerassisted bicycles, which do not have an insurance requirement or required parking fees. Drivers are not required to have licenses and can travel within designated bike lanes.

“Customer feedback has definitely been positive,” said Vice CEO Joe Xiao, a 2010 UC Berkeley alumnus. “Most people, especially students, like that we are green and low cost.”

In the near future, Kokkinias said he hopes to expand the company into Stockton and San Francisco.

“The electric motors industry is going to be a huge opportunity,” said

three unexcused absences.

If a student continues to be truant after coming before the review board, the student’s case will be referred to the Alameda County District Attorney’s office for legal consideration.

The impetus for the district to maintain good attendance at its schools is both academic and economic. In addition to the adverse effects that frequent absence from school has on a student’s

Cal Prepares for Los Angeles Powerhouses in Sojourn South

by Annie Gerlach Staff Writer

With two consecutive NCAA titles and the fourth-ranked singles player in the country in Steve Johnson, No. 9 USC is far from holding an empty hand.

Similarly, No. 5 UCLA can safely hedge its bets on the No. 17 doubles team of Nick Meister and Amit Inbar.

For some teams, such high stakes might serve as a major source of dread.

For the No. 20 Cal men’s tennis team, it serves as an opportunity to battle two Pac-10 opponents.

The Bears (4-3) will compete in back-to-back matches, first against the Trojans (8-2) on Friday at 1:30 p.m. at Marks Stadium, followed by Saturday’s 1 p.m. tilt versus the Bruins (9-1) at the Los Angeles Tennis Center.

With No. 8 Stanford sojourning to play the Bruins and Trojans as well, the weekend looks packed for all four Pac-10 opponents.

“There have been some great matches back and forth over the years between the four schools,” Cal coach Peter Wright said. “It certainly means something for us to play into the NorCal-SoCal rivalry.”

Cal was far from winning the pot in last year’s matches. The Bears fell twice to UCLA — once at home, once down south — in the dual season and were eliminated by the Bruins in the second round of NCAAs last May. Although Cal only played the Trojans once last year, the latter team clinched a 6-1 victory on its home court. It hasn’t beaten USC in Los Angeles since 2006.

“We haven’t won in L.A. in quite a while,” sophomore Riki McLachlan said. “It’s not a question of not being up to the challenge. It’s just a matter of execution on that particular day.”

UCLA and USC also received coveted berths in the ITA Team Indoor Championship earlier this month in Seattle. Despite suffering their very first losses of the season — USC to No. 17 Duke in the first round and UCLA to No. 3 Tennessee in the quarterfinals — the tournament nonetheless provided both with valuable experience.

Throw in the fact that the Bears are on the road, away from home-court routines and fans, and this weekend becomes even more of a challenge.

“It takes a little more attention to detail to play on the road,” Wright said.

“There’s less predictability. You can’t count on simple things, like getting a good night’s sleep in a hotel bed or navigating L.A. traffic. You have to have a little flexibility and a lot of preparation.”

The Bears will also be dealt backto-back matches. According to Wright there isn’t much time to relax between matchups, so preparation for the second match will begin right after the first.

Still, Wright doesn’t think the cards are stacked against his team.

He doesn’t dread anything about this weekend, save the potential rain that could cancel the matches.

“We’re continuing to show improvement every week,” he said. “From here on out there are no simple matches.

And I’m excited about this particular opportunity.”

Annie Gerlach covers men’s tennis.

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Bears Back Outdoors in Return Home Against Northwest Rivals

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CFO Tony Liu, a 2010 UC Berkeley alumnus. “Most people haven’t heard of our product yet, but that won’t stop us. Maybe we can eventually get government support.”

Although Green Choice Moto has not yet publicized on campus, it will be attending the PLAYgreen Festival at Pauley Ballroom Friday.

UC Berkeley senior Monserrat Toro, who is interning at the company, said she is currently working with CampusCred to issue a coupon deal by the end of March.

Green Choice Moto is one of several electric scooter and bike companies in Berkeley looking to capitalize on customer demand for environmentally friendly transport.

“We have a pretty good relationship with the owner there,” said Bill Hogan, manager of Pacific E-Bike in West

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education, state funds received by the district are in part dependent on the average daily attendance recorded at schools each day. Last year, the district lost $29.66 in unearned revenue each time a student was recorded absent.

School board Director Karen Hemphill requested at the meeting that further discussion on truancy take place sooner rather than later. The board will address the issue again — along with other attendance and truancy policies

Berkeley. “I feel like it’s pretty different from my place. He sells models different from us and vice versa. It seems like they have a good location and know what they are doing.”

The city’s 2006 Climate Action Plan — a green initiative that aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent by 2050 — reported that 29 percent of Berkeley’s emissions were from gasoline-powered vehicles. With more residents and students choosing greener modes of transportation, like e-scooters, that percentage may drop in the future.

“The people of Berkeley are definitely in favor of green corporations,” said city spokesperson Mary Kay Clunies-Ross. “Berkeley has taken a lot of pains to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.”

Contact Neetu Puranikmath at npuranikmath@dailycal.org.

and programs to be implemented for the 2010-11 school year — at a meeting in March.

“Attendance and truancy is one of the items that the entire (school board) unanimously says is an important priority to focus on,” she said at the meeting. “It’s also very much a part of our equity work that we’re trying to do, our 2020 Vision work. If you’re not in school, you’re not going to learn.”

Jeffrey Butterfield is the lead local schools reporter. Contact him at jbutterfield@dailycal.org.

Mother Nature has not been kind to the No. 6 Cal women’s tennis team.

After coming back a day late from Virginia last weekend due to a snowstorm delay, the Bears (7-1) received news that rain may postpone their weekend home matches against Washington State (8-2) and Oregon (6-2).

Cal, back from the ITA Team Indoors after dropping its opening round match to Northwestern, will play at its own Hellman Tennis Complex for the first time since Feb. 4. The Bears face off against the Cougars on Friday at 1:30 p.m. and against the Ducks on Saturday at noon.

The Bears left the tournament on a bittersweet note. After losing 4-1 to the Wildcats on Friday, they won the two consolation matches against No. 15 Georgia Tech and No. 16 Arkansas on Saturday and Sunday. Northwestern may have been the underdog coming into the match, but Cal coach Amanda Augustus said the Wildcats’ familiarity with indoor courts helped them offset the talent gap.

Like Northwestern, Washington State and Oregon play on indoor courts. To exploit the squads’ inexperience on different terrain, the Bears have practiced outdoor court techniques to emphasize their strengths on their home courts.

As indoor court teams are more accustomed to a faster tempo, Augustus has held groundstroke drills to slow the match down and to shake the opponents from their comfort zones.

Although the Cougars and the Ducks both have a winning record, neither has competed against any top20 teams this season. Considering that the majority of players on both teams are underclassmen, they have a daunting task to defeat the Bears.

Augustus also emphasized the play of her first-year players. During the ITA Team Indoors Championships, the coach experimented with different lineups that included freshmen Alice Duranteau and Anett Schutting.

Schutting, who appeared in her first matches for Cal last weekend, played in all three contests. The Estonian native has played in doubles with senior Marina Cossou, who was impressed with her teammate’s composure and talents.

“We have been good complements to each other in doubles,” Cossou said.

“I’m more of a setter, and she likes to poach nearby the net. I need a partner (like) that.”

While Schutting and Duranteau are improving their game, senior Mari Andersson was awarded as the Pac-10 Player of the Week. She was the only player to win all three matches for the Bears last weekend.

Andersson, who also received the award two years ago, is the second Cal player to receive the honor this season after fellow Swede Annie Goransson won it just two weeks ago.

“It’s a tradition on our team,” Augustus said. “Mari has won all the matches indoor this week. I’m happy for her to win it for Cal.” Seung Y. Lee covers women’s tennis.

Contact him at sylee@dailycal.org.

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was Georgia who defeated Cal last year in the Super Regionals to advance to the Women’s College World Series.

“I think it would be a great win for our team if we got it,” Echavarria said.

“We have just been working hard on the things we need to get done to win.”

Specifically, she mentioned the team’s work on honing its small ball skills by getting ahead in pitching counts, making routine plays and stealing bases to manufacture runs.

Ziegenhirt also added that another

aspect of practice has centered on the team’s hitting.

“We get a lot of runners on base and we tend to string our hits together well, but we need more run production to back up our pitching and defense, which has been really stellar, she said.

“We don’t give up that many runs, so it is our goal to score more than we have been.”

Sunday’s tilt against Cal Poly (2-8) will finish out the weekend’s festivities.

Kelly Suckow covers softball. Contact her at ksuckow@dailycal.org.

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Mike Morrison is one of the biggest, if not the biggest, name on the Cal track and field team. With that said, he hasn’t posted a huge score in the indoor heptathlons so far.

“Normally, you shake the rust off the first meet,” Morrison said. “That was a terrible meet for me. It was literally the first time I ran a high jump approach or had taken up a jump this year.”

This weekend’s MPSF Indoor Championships at the Dempsey Indoor Facility at the University of Washington is fast approaching and it can take multi-event athletes a little longer to get up to speed.

“Since then, I’ve been honing in on all the technical events, especially the high jump, hurdles, and trying to get the rhythm with the long jump” Morrison said.

Perhaps the most technical event of all, as well as the one that’s been giving him the most trouble, is the pole vault. With seven events indoors and 10 events outdoors, sacrifices have to be made when faced with such time limits.

When faced with the decision to choose between practicing several events, however, it may make sense to leave the hardest for last.

“There’s certainly a mental aspect to it, you’re up in the air 16, 17, 18 feet and you’re upside down, there’s an element of fear with that,” coach Tony Sandoval said. “Sometimes you can think things over too much and have difficulty getting off the ground.”

Morrison and other pole vaulters also had to miss some valuable training time in the fall with Ed Miller, the pole vaulting coach, out because of an ankle surgery until the new year.

As last year’s defending champion with a score of 5,655, there’s certainly pressure on Morrison, but it’s nothing he isn’t used to.

“One thing I know about Mike is that when his back is against the wall he’s responded very well,” Sandoval said.

“I expect him to do a good job in the pole vault and get a qualifying mark for NCAAs, I think he’s made some big strides in practice (this week).”

Morrison has a simplistic approach to the event.

“I feel like that’s all the heptathlon events are is just finding the rhythm, but I think I’ve got a good mentality,” he said. “I’m getting pumped.”

Cal will also return another MPSF Indoor Champion from last year in shot putter Patrick Kowalsky, who logged a throw of 59-0.75.

Morrison will defend his title starting with the competition’s first piece of action today at 2:30 p.m. with fellow Bear heptathletes Kevin Kuechler and Idarre Coles.

The Bears had other champions last year, but two won’t be able to repeat this weekend. The winner of the 3000m, Mark Matusak, graduated, while Deborah Maier, who also won the 3000m, is redshirting due to a foot injury.

The meet resumes Saturday at 11 a.m. and ends with the women’s 4x400 relay at 3 p.m.

Byron Atashian covers track. Contact him at batashian@dailycal.org.

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It was ironic that the Cal softball team was singing, “This Little Light of Mine” at Wednesday’s practice.

With the rain that prevented the team from finishing its five-game lineup last weekend, the lyrics, “Let it shine, let it shine let it shine,” could be seen as hopes for clear skies this weekend.

After two big wins to add to their now-three game winning streak, the Bears (5-1) are confident traveling down to Palm Springs, Calif., for the Cathedral City Classic, starting tomorrow.

Last week’s wins against then-No. 8 Missouri and Santa Barbara warranted one step up in the rankings for the No. 14 Cal softball team. The team took advantage of the opportunity and defeated the highest-ranked squad it has seen thus far in the preseason.

“I do think that we have the potential to go higher in the rankings,” center fielder Frani Echavarria said. “It is a good starting point, but we definitely don’t want to settle on that.”

One significant factor of last week’s success was Jolene Henderson’s efforts to hold down the opposition’s batting average to 0.146. Her two completegame wins this past weekend earned her recognition as the Pac-10 Pitcher of the Week for the first time in her career.

Cal hopes that Henderson will continue to bring the heat during this weekend’s rematch against Indiana (5-5) in the Big League Dreams Sports Park today to open the tournament.

The Bears came away with a 3-0 win against the Hoosiers on the tail end of Cal’s opening weekend on Feb. 13.

“We have seen their No. 1 pitcher, they have seen our pitcher, so that is definitely going to be a factor,” catcher Lindsey Ziegenhirt said. “I think the batters are going to be the same, so the strategy pretty much stays the same.”

After closing out the double-header against Indiana and Massachusetts (2-3) on Friday, Saturday features only one game — against No. 20 LSU (9-3).

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“You get that blood lust on the pitch,” Slug No. 8 and team president Phil Brody said. “We’ve got a lot of seniors on the team and when you’ve got a bunch of sophomores coming at you, it becomes a little bit of a pride thing.”

But Santa Cruz is after more than pride. One of the Slugs’ coaches, Robbie Bellue, is a product of the Cal program, and schedules the match annually to test his players and expose them to a “well-drilled team,” Brody said.

Cal has been drilling on crisper passing lately, which sophomore scrumhalf Jose Peña said has yielded tangible results. More importantly, however, the young squad is making strides in its ability to function as a unit.

“It’s a lot of younger guys coming in from their old systems in high school just starting to adapt to Cal systems,” Peña said. “So those last couple games we had, like against Cal Maritime, we did a lot better at bonding together and knowing exactly what we were do-

ing on the field — what’s on, what’s not on, just connecting.”

The Bears look forward to connecting on Santa Cruz’s pitch, which Coquillard considers to be one of the finest away fields. It will be a stark contrast to the dirt patches found on other fields the team has played on this season, such as the ones found in Las Vegas two weeks ago.

“We like to play a quick style of game,” he said. “We like to run our opposition around the field. So when we know there’s a nice patch of grass out there, we can really dig our boots in and go for it.”

It may not carry the same weight as last weekend’s match, but this Sunday’s game is important to the program’s future.

“While the other guys mark the big games on the schedule, this is one of those I circle as a big game for us, for the young boys,” Coquillard said.

Christina Jones covers rugby. Contact her at cjones@dailycal.org.

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Second-Half Surge Sparks Sweep of Ducks

by Ed Yevelev Senior Staff Writer

Earlier in the season, Brandon Smith found and sifted through his own scouting report.

An opposing m. hoops squad had written: “looks to be aggres- Cal 81 sive, must keep Oregon 71 him out of the lane and stop penetration.”

Teams should probably put a hand up near the 3-point line, as well.

A reluctant shooter in his limited playing time last year, Smith has grown more and more dangerous as a perimeter threat in his sophomore season. His success reached new heights in Cal’s 81-71 come-from-behind victory over Oregon at Matthew Knight Arena — the team’s seventh straight over the Ducks.

One game removed from drilling the game-clinching three-pointer against UCLA, the sophomore from San Ramon, Calif. native turned in a nearflawless shooting performance for the Bears (15-13, 8-8 in the Pac-10), who overcame a 16-point first half deficit in Eugene, Ore. Allen Crabbe added four from downtown and 19 points total, while Jorge Gutierrez poured in 16 of his game-high 23 after intermission. But it was Smith who hit the biggest shot of the night. His uncontested 3-pointer with 4:07 remaining gave Cal a 68-65 lead and put the team ahead for good.

Smith was 5-for-6 from the field, including 4-for-5 from beyond the arc.

Playing all 40 minutes for Mike Montgomery, he finished with a careerhigh 18 points, along with six rebounds and three steals.

The De La Salle High School product also connected three times from beyond the arc in the opening frame, helping the Bears stay alive in a game that the Ducks (14-13, 7-8) dominated inside to start.

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Dana Altman’s burly frontcourt of Tyrone Nared and Joevan Catron helped spark Oregon out of the gates.

The two forwards are formidable at 6-foot-8, 210 pounds and 6-foot-6, 245 pounds, respectively, and they certainly loomed large in the opening frame.

The duo combined for 22 points and five rebounds in the opening half. E.J. Singler finished with 11 and Garrett Sim chipped in 12 for the Ducks, who used 11 points off of nine Cal turnovers to race out to a 40-24 advantage.

After pulling to within 45-34 at the break, Cal came out and stepped up its zone to hinder Oregon’s attack. The Ducks outscored the Bears in the paint, 16-8, in the first half, but Nared and Catron mustered just eight combined points in the second 20 minutes.

“Not what I envisioned,’’ Altman said of his team’s performance out of intermission. “Not what I had hoped for.’

“You saw what happened when we weren’t energized in the second half.

Cal just took it from us.”

The Bears were particularly effective in defending Catron, preventing entry passes and crowding him with as many as four players when he received the ball. The Phoenix, Ill. native attempted only one field goal in the second half, and Oregon tried unsuccessfully to make up for his absence from the perimeter.

While the Ducks went 10-for-24 from the field in the second half — including just 2-for-11 on 3-pointers — Cal’s offense found new life. Trailing, 54-50, at the 13:04 mark, the Bears put together a 13-5 run over the next 6:43.

Cal would shoot a sizzling 62.5-percent in the second half, and connected on 10 of their 20 long-distance attempts on the evening.

“I think we got a little too comfortable tonight,’’ Nared said.

Ed Yevelev covers men’s basketball.

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Talia Caldwell pulled down a career-high 20 rebounds in Cal’s 60-46 loss to Oregon on Thursday. Nine of the boards were on the offensive end for the center, who added 10 points.

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Despite the weather forecast no longer predicting snow for this weekend, there was quite a bit of ice on the court at Haas Pavilion on w. hoops Thursday night.

The Cal wom- Cal 46 en’s basketball Oregon 60 team simply could not make a basket, shooting an ice-cold 21.3 percent from the field. The Bears lost their sixth consecutive game, this one a 60-46 tilt against Oregon.

“I’m searching for answers, I’ll be honest,” Cal coach Joanne Boyle said.

“We couldn’t have had any better looks” It didn’t matter if it was a layup, a 3-pointer or anywhere in between; the Bears (14-13, 6-10 in the Pac-10) were 1-for-26 from behind the arc, and missed many more from closer in.

Nor did it matter whether the player was being guarded or not. On several occasions, Cal broke the Ducks’ fullcourt press and had the advantage but could not convert.

At one point, late in the first half, the Bears had a two-on-one fast break, with a third player trailing, and the squad still could not put the ball in the hoop.

“We have to come out better on both ends of the floor,” Boyle said. “I don’t know why we’re not. I don’t know if there’s a lack of focus ...

“I’m just stuck for answers.”

Cal shot 24.2 percent in the second half, which was a considerable improvement from the first 20 minutes.

In that period, the Bears made only nine of their 47 attempts and missed all 13 of their 3-pointers.

One reason for the low percentage, besides shoddy shooting, was Cal’s work on the offensive glass. The Bears finished with 26 offensive rebounds — 16 more than Oregon (13-13, 4-11) — and actually outrebounded the Ducks, 57-49.

Center Talia Caldwell grabbed a career-high 20 rebounds, nine on the offensive end, to go with 10 points.

But even with extra opportunities, Cal still couldn’t find the basket.

“We’re all just searching for answers for how to help them,” Boyle said. “I hope that they don’t want their season to be over.”

It took five and a half minutes for Cal to make its first field goal in the second half. At one point in the half, the Bears were shooting close to 16 percent from the field.

The teams’ offenses differed greatly.

The average Oregon possession consisted of a 3-pointer, going in about one-third of the time. The average Cal possession consisted of a missed basket, an offensive rebound and another missed basket.

“If a team goes up on us at the beginning, we tend to play a little tentative,” said senior guard Rachelle Federico, who went scoreless in 11 minutes of action. “And then everybody puts it on their shoulders to be that person who steps up and hits shots. That can get a team playing a bit hectic. That was basically what happened to us tonight.”

With just over four minutes remaining in the game, sophomore point guard Layshia Clarendon swung the ball to guard Lindsay Sherbert at the top of the key. The freshman spotted up and swished the shot, Cal’s first made 3-pointer of the contest.

It was the Bears’ 23rd attempt.

The basket narrowed Oregon’s lead to 55-46, the closest the game had been since late in the first half.

Less than a minute later, though, the Ducks’ senior guard Kristi Fallin banked in a 3-pointer, effectively sealing the game.

The lid to Cal’s basket, on the other hand, had already been sealed.

Jonathan Kuperberg covers women’s basketball. Contact him at jkuperberg@dailycal.org.

Most of the freshmen and sophomores on the Cal rugby team had to watch last Saturday’s comeback over British Columbia from the sidelines, chomping at the bit to get in the game.

Eight days removed from the win, those young players will get the chance to take the pitch as they take on UC Santa Cruz in Santa Cruz, Calif., on Sunday at 1 p.m.

“Just to see the fight and the hunger that our older guys have definitely gives us pride,” sophomore fullback Andre Coquillard said. “We just want to be part of the same culture and the same tradition that our first team plays with.”

That process of becoming ingrained in the Cal rugby culture starts in these younger games, when the underclassmen face lower-end competition to prove themselves to the coaching staff.

Such contests are reserved for the younger players only for the Bears (15-0); the Slugs (1-4), meanwhile, will put out their regular starters, pitting the young blood against seasoned veterans.

Santa Cruz has had some tough luck of late, losing two of its last three matches in the few remaining minutes of the game. Cal Maritime then blanked the Slugs, 35-0, last weekend.

Given its recent run of misfortune and its age over its opponents, Santa Cruz may come out of the gates feeling it has something to prove.

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Chanticleers Welcome Cal To First East Coast Swing

by Jack Wang Senior Staff Writer

Kevin Miller hopes to be well rested for his first start of the season. The senior pitcher, along with the rest of the Cal baseball team, had to get up early yesterday — really early.

To make their way to the Caravelle Resorts Tournament, the No. 17 Bears started the trip at around 3:30 a.m.

After a flight to Atlanta, a layover, and a second flight to South Carolina, Cal finally bussed its way to Myrtle Beach, S.C. “I’m gonna sleep the whole way,” Miller said Wednesday.

While players often opt to entertain themselves with iPods and movies, most will likely follow Miller’s example on their first road trip of the year. At 4 p.m. EST, they’ll see one of the No. 1 seeds from last year’s postseason.

Coastal Carolina hosted a Super Regional for the first time in 2010, the current apex of their recent success, but was edged out by eventual national champions South Carolina. Ranked No. 17 by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association but outside the top 25 by Baseball America, the Chanticleers (3-2) may not be as intimidating as they did a year ago.

Coastal Carolina lost a group of players that produced 54 percent of its runs lost year, and is only hitting .215 collectively. On the other hand, it has also stolen 11 bases on 13 attempts in five games.

“They like to run,” Miller said. “I think the big thing for us is gonna be to play the game at our pace, not fall into

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