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Stadium Construction Triggers Complaints by Alisha Azevedo Staff Writer

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Kevin Quigley, president of the Peace Corps, presented his nine ideas for improving the association at Saturday’s symposium.

Event Highlights Peace Corps’ Past, Goals by Kelsey Clark Staff Writer

Bob Haas was walking across Sproul Plaza in 1963 when he heard that former President John F. Kennedy had been shot. Nearly 50 years later, Haas tearfully recounted his memory to the crowd that filled the International House Auditorium at the Peace Corps’ Bay Area 50th Anniversary Symposium on Saturday. “I took comfort in knowing that by serving abroad, I could perpetuate President Kennedy’s ideals of helping others” said Haas, who served as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Ivory Coast from 1964 to 1966 following his graduation from UC Berkeley. March 1 will mark the 50th anniversary of the Peace Corps, which was created by a 1961 executive order signed by Kennedy, and UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau has taken this opportunity to renew the call for UC Berkeley graduates to join the Peace Corps. “Our chancellor has sent the call out to our student body to be number one,” said UC Berkeley Executive Vice Chan-

cellor and Provost George Breslauer. With 92 undergraduate alumni Peace Corps volunteers each, UC Berkeley and UCLA hold the number six ranking in the country for most alumni currently serving. This year, the University of Colorado, Boulder ranks number one with 117 volunteers. Since holding the number one spot in 1984, UC Berkeley has consistently been ranked in the top 10 and remains the only campus to send over 3,000 alumni as volunteers. The symposium served as an opportunity to honor the history of the Peace Corps as well as to revitalize the government agency for the future. The event’s keynote speaker and President of the National Peace Corps Association Kevin Quigley outlined nine ideas geared towards increasing the relevancy and effectiveness of the Peace Corps. These ideas include focusing service to specific countries that display a need, opportunity and national interest for a Peace Corps presence and the narrowing of programs to enhance the effectiveness and long-term viability of service.

“There needs to be a context-specific evolution in any organization,” said Meera Chary, a UC Berkeley alumna and board member of the Northern California Peace Corps Association who volunteered with the Peace Corps in Uganda from 2003 to 2005. Like Haas, Maureen Orth was on campus when she heard the news that Kennedy had been shot. She received her letter of acceptance to the Peace Corps one week later, dated the day of the assassination, and said she took it as a sign. Orth, currently a writer for Vanity Fair magazine, was sent to Colombia after graduating from UC Berkeley in 1964. Nearly 40 years later she revisited the school she built while in the Peace Corps, and in 2005 she started the Maureen Orth Foundation to help underprivileged Colombian schools. Director of Intergovernmental Affairs and Partnerships C.D. Glin represented Peace Corps headquarters in Washington, D.C. at the symposium. “The future of the Peace Corps is entwined with UC Berkeley,” Glin said.

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UC Berkeley junior Alva Gardner has been going without sleep recently. As she hears jackhammers and saws going to work on the renovation of MemoONLINE PODCAST rial Stadium Alisha Azevedo and and the construction of Emma Anderson discuss the Student the recent complaints. Athlete High Performance Center beginning each weekday morning at 7 a.m., she must wait for attendants who help her into her wheelchair. “If construction wakes me up before I have to get up, I’m just awake in bed, and there’s nothing that I can do,” said Gardner, a resident of the Sherman Hall cooperative, located about 50-feet from the stadium. “My eyes hurt all the time from the dust and from being tired.” With construction work lasting 12 hours each day during the week and 11 hours a day on weekends, UC Berkeley has been receiving increased complaints in recent months about the construction’s dust and noise, which neighbors say have a detrimental effect on air quality, health and standards of living. Because construction plans have changed since 2006 when the UC Board of Regents approved the construction’s first Environmental Impact Report, the campus had to draft a second Environmental Impact Report, which was published online Jan. 28 and is open for public comment until March 14. The new report describes changes such as the installation of permanent field lighting and amplified crowd noise played during football practice at Witter Field, where the football team is practicing temporarily next to the stadium. After public comment is reviewed, the report will be finalized later in the spring. Neighbors of the stadium came out to a meeting last Thursday night to voice their concerns about stadium construction, which will be considered in reviewing the report. In addition to construction noise

concerns, Christine Shaff, communications director for facilities services, said the campus also received a complaint last week about the brightness of lights shining over Witter Field. New lights are creating increased glare in neighbors’ homes and resulting in a lack of ability to sleep, according to Michael Kelly, president of the Panoramic Hill Association. “This is exactly the kind of thing that creates frustration in the community and a sense of distrust of projections of future impacts,” he said at Thursday’s meeting. “There’s a fundamental disconnect here that needs to be fixed.” Departments that manage the use of Witter Field will meet this week to address lighting brightness and the noise of athletes practicing, according to Jennifer McDougall, principal planner for physical and environmental planning for the campus. Members of the Davis House and Sherman Hall cooperatives have also expressed discontent with the construction. Berkeley Student Cooperative Executive Director Jan Stokley sent a letter Jan. 24 to Shaff requesting a meeting to discuss respiratory illness complaints from 12 members of Sherman Hall, which was held Feb. 8 to discuss requests including postponing the use of heavy machinery until after 9 a.m., providing independent air monitoring services and purchasing 28 air purifiers to be placed throughout Sherman. Since January, five of Sherman’s 37 residents have expressed plans to move out because of the construction and one has signed a contract to transfer to another co-op, said Frances Lu, house manager for Sherman Hall. “Right now, we feel as if it’s our obligation to prove that there’s a significant impact and that the university should be concerned with this,” she said. “The messages that we’ve been getting don’t seem to reflect that we, as students, are a priority to the university.” Lu added that the amount of visible dust in the house has increased, and that the most physically active members of the house have been the most likely to experience respiratory difficulties. So far, none of the requests from

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Campus Festival Encourages Eco-Awareness Last Friday’s PLAYgreen Festival promoted itself as the “largest eco-experiential college festival in the nation,” and featured tabling from eco-conscious businesses from around the Bay Area and beyond displaying their green products and innovations. Hosted by the Recreational Sports Facility, the event was held in the Martin Luther King, Jr. Student Union and aimed to promote sustainability and eco-consciousness, according to the event website. The festival also featured an organic produce stand from Cal Dining, a display from Cal Adventures and a large number of vendor-driven freebies. “It’s one of the nice events where ... green initiatives are coming together,” said Kim LaPean, communications manager for University Health Services. LaPean was also tabling at the event as an affiliate of the “I Heart Tap Water” campaign — a movement focused on improving campus accessibility to and attitude toward tap water.

In addition to the "I Heart Tap Water" campaign, the festival featured booths from various student groups including the Berkeley Student Food Collective, The Green Initiative Fund, The UC Berkeley Office of Sustainability, and UC ROTC among others. LaPean said that there was a good mix of staff and students who attended the festival. Students who attended the festival said the event promoted sustainability in an entertaining manner. “I think a lot of it is making it fun for people and realizing that being green is pretty cool and pretty fun,” said freshman Meredith Jacobson. Students at the festival could be seen sporting complimentary merchandise from various vendors, including metal water bottles from Bank of America, eco-friendly tote bags, Sabra hummus, Naked Juice and plastic sunglasses with neon green earpieces. —Sarah Burns adam romero/staff

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“We help take that Cal passion and purpose to communities that would otherwise not interact with Americans.” According to Glin, students’ passion to be a part of a movement and their global awareness predispose them to take opportunities through the Peace Corps. Orth said she is working to “bring the world home” — the final idea proposed by Quigley at the symposium to continue the Peace Corps’ impact in the future. According to Quigley, global perspective in America will help make the Peace Corps’ next 50 years a success.

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State Finds Berkeley Patients Group Liable for Unpaid Taxes by Sara Mohamed Staff Writer

In a hearing with the State Board of Equalization Tuesday, the city’s oldest dispensary, Berkeley Patients Group, was found liable for over $6.4 million in taxes on its medical cannabis sales from 2004 to 2007, though the group could still negotiate the payment down to a lower amount. The dispensary owes the state about $4.4 million in retroactive taxes and $2 million in interest built up since 2004, and although the dispensary was found accountable for those taxes, it qualifies for the Offer in Compromise program — which assesses a business’s ability to pay liabilities to the board and adjusts the amount accordingly. The dispensary has been paying taxes since May 2007 after the board notified the group of the requirement to pay taxes on medical cannabis. “Between 2007 and now, Berkeley Patients Group exhausted all of their opportunities to challenge the tax — they challenged and lost,” said Elisabeth Jewel, a lobbyist with the firm Aroner, Jewel and Ellis, which has represented the dispensary over the past three months. Given that the not-for-profit organization Berkeley Patients Group is prohibited from setting money aside for rainy days, news of the $6.4 million audit prompted the dispensary to fight on the grounds that the framework for medical cannabis taxation was unclear, according to Brad Senesac, chief marketing officer for the group. The group claimed that state tax laws did not specify the rules for taxation of those sales. “When you get a bill like this, there’s no way — the money is just not there,” Jewel said. “If the board of equalization said ... ‘You have to pay $6 million,’ that

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would put Berkeley Patients Group out of business.” During the hearing, the dispensary was denied a request that it only be charged for the taxes dating back to October 2005 — when the board began issuing seller’s permits to medical marijuana dispensaries. According to the hearing summary, the request was deemed invalid given that the board never included medical cannabis sales under its medicinal exemptions. The board also denied the group’s request to have the $2 million in interest relieved, as well as a request to exempt from its liability a number of nontaxable services — including medical advice, acupuncture therapy, hospice services, fitness advice, massage therapy and yoga — that would have accompanied medical cannabis sales over the three-year period. While the board maintained that the group should be liable for unclaimed taxes over the three-year period, it recommended the dispensary apply for the compromise program to ensure that it not fall into bankruptcy. The group plans to send its application sometime this week, according to Jewel. “The state decided it’s not its interest or desire to put businesses out of business,” Jewel said. She added that the $6.4 million will most likely be significantly reduced through the program, although there is no guarantee that the group’s application will be approved and result in a lower payment. The dispensary expects a recommendation within 180 days of completion of the application process, according to board documents. In September, Berkeley Patients Care Collective — another Berkeley dispensary — was found liable for $600,000 in retroactive taxes. Sara Mohamed covers city government. Contact her at smohamed@dailycal.org.

Community Members Aim To Increase Sustainability by Sara Johnson Staff Writer

Some Berkeley residents are looking to transition back to a day when they knew their neighbors and grew their own food. About 100 community members crowded into the city Ecology Center Wednesday to discuss plans for the city’s new Transition Town, as part of an international movement aimed at promoting community-based sustainability, specifically in regard to energy consumption, oil reliance and food production. Co-initiator Susan Silber said she was inspired to create the group with Linda Currie because it aims to create a community “where we are not only surviving, but thriving.” “We want to look at the needs of Berkeley,” Silber said at the meeting. “It’s going to take the entire community to make it happen.” Each Transition Town — an international hyper-local movement — strives to meet these sustainability goals differently. Silber, for example, said she wants to work with children to map fruit trees in Berkeley and also collaborate with local efforts such as the Bicycle-Friendly Berkeley Coalition’s “1,000 Bicyclists” campaign and Berkeley’s Victory Garden Club. Transition U.S. Executive Director Carolyne Stayton said her chapter in Sebastapol has organized neighborhood walks and mapped emergency water and gas shutoffs. Rob Hopkins, founder of the Transition movement, outlines the concept in his 2008 book “The Transition

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remember watching a documentary as a small child about Ernest Shackleton, who led an exhibition in 1914 to cross Antarctica. When his ship, the Endurance, was trapped and destroyed by ice, he led his men on an epic journey over land, ice and sea, drifting on ice-packs, sliding down glaciers, dodging whales and giant waves. A member of his crew lost his mittens and Shackleton gave that dude his own mittens and then got frostbite. Shackleton reached safety after almost three years without losing a single man through the sheer force of his own badassery. “We had reached the naked soul of man,” he wrote of their journey. I was young and in search of heroes. Shackleton was it. I remember thinking to myself, “Well shit, that’s what leadership is all about.” I was a little blue-eyed girl who cursed too much in her head. To bravely go where no man has gone before, Ernest Shackleton is exactly what humanity needs. For feats north of the Antarctic Circle, he’s not. At Berkeley, and in America, we fetishize leadership. We take leadership, we dress it up, build a pedestal for it and then attempt to climb atop that pedestal. Because, we learn, a leader is the highest thing we can aspire to be. I would like to humbly suggest that it is not. I would also like to humbly suggest that I, Hannah Jewell, am not a leader. (Future voters of California: If I ever run for Governor, please disregard the previous sentence. And the ones that follow.) I don’t want to be a leader. Not yet, anyway. Nearing the end of my time at Berkeley, I realize I have spent most of college in a daze of educating and worthwhile subservience. I’ve sifted through mountains of documents searching for a tiny tidbit of knowledge at a professor’s request as a research assistant. I bent to the whims of theater directors who instructed me to act like this or that and do it “again, but better.” As an assistant cook at my co-op, I shut up, chopped onions and wept silently so that I might learn from people better than myself. Often, I think that when people describe themselves as “good leaders,” they mean to describe themselves as “better than others,” or perhaps, “presumptuous assholes.” few months ago, a friend showed me her resume. She had a section for education, for activities and for “leadership.” It was peppered with leadership awards, leadership classes, presidencies of this or that. Is this what employers want? We have come to college, apparently, to become leaders. In doing so, we forget to become interesting people. I had a brief dalliance with leadership as an editor here at the Daily Cal. I enjoyed the importantsounding click of my shoes in the office as I walked from one writer to another, instructing them, unequivocally, to delete unnecessary adverbs. But at the end of the semester, I missed the sense of producing, of

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Sherman’s residents to improve conditions have been fully met, Lu said. However, Shaff said the campus needs to continue looking at the concerns of the house more closely before moving forward with requests. “We have absolutely followed up on all of their concerns,” she said. “We

have provided them with information about air monitoring and about how it’s gone so far, and we need to continue to see what kind of monitoring needs to happen.” The Berkeley Student Cooperative cabinet and board of directors are currently looking into using internal funding to purchase air purifiers and hire independent air monitors, according

HANNAH JEWELL transition: City Hopes to Join International Movement creating things. I think the greatest opportunity provided at Berkeley is to be anything but a leader. The real chance in a place like this is to be meek and terrified for four years. To do menial work for an important professor. To wander through the Main Stacks realizing the horrifying amount of knowledge in the world, of which you will come to understand almost none in your lifetime. To feel small and insignificant but to find a sense of self-worth anyway. To learn how to lead yourself in a place with little to no handholding. rom elementary school right through college, we are taught history as a tale of a few valiant leaders making great changes. There are the usual suspects: Martin Luther King. Lincoln. Here at Berkeley, we like Mario Savio. We also focus on the villains — those whose singular evilness ruined everything, for everyone. You know who I’m winking at — he had a stupid little mustache and shouted a lot. The problem with this habit is that when we tell the story of any movement or achievement or colossal fuck-up as one person’s biopic, we fail to learn how things actually happened. We don’t learn how to replicate positive events in our own time and place. Nor do we learn how to avoid the evil. We just keep an eye out for good guys to quote in essays and for bad guys with little mustaches to fear. Somehow, through our training to become leaders, we have learned complacency instead. For any great change to happen (a change, perhaps, that we can believe in) we must wait patiently for a leader to show us the way. No single person has ever made great change. (That feels almost un-American to write.) Neither positive change, nor negative change. Great leaders make easy heroes, great villains easy scapegoats for society’s systemic ills. We are not, as Berkeley students, better than anybody. I’m willing to bet that most of us are not Ernest Shackletons-to-be. Through a combination of privilege, hard work and good luck, we have ended up here in this place. But we do not automatically get to be the leaders of tomorrow. We have not earned that right — not yet.

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from page 2 Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience.” Hopkins offers a set of twelve steps for the model, including building bridges with local government, honoring elders and creating an “energy descent action plan.” This locally-focused movement has gone global. In 2006, the Transition Network opened in the United Kingdom, followed by Transition U.S. the next year. Stayton said the national organization has 80 official chapters as of Friday, with three additional chapters expected on Monday. San Francisco and Albany already have Transition Towns of their own. While the Berkeley group has yet to apply for membership into Transition U.S., Stayton said groups are sometimes denied if they seem to not understand the handbook or lack diversity. “The goal of the movement is to create every town, city, district (and)

neighborhood to be resilient,” she said. Transition Town Totnes — Hopkins’s flagship town in Ireland — organized film screenings and talks, held a seed swap and business swap, and even created the Totnes Pound, which was exchangeable for local goods, according to his book. Timothy Burroughs, the climate action coordinator at the city of Berkeley’s Office of Energy and Sustainable Development, also spoke in support of the group at the meeting Wednesday. “I’m really excited when local residents take the initiative to lower their carbon footprint and build their community,” Burroughs said. Silber said the city’s Climate Action Plan — a voter-approved initiative to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the city by 80 percent by 2050 — is already a Hopkins-style “energy descent plan.” At the meeting, attendees wrote thoughts on poster paper about the group’s direction. Respondents advo-

to Alex Ghenis, vice president of external affairs for the cooperative. “We recognize that the university is in a time crunch to finish this project, but there are reasonable things they can do to stay within their timeline and still protect the health and the studious environment of the members of Sherman Hall,” Ghenis said. Alisha Azevedo covers academics and administration. Contact her at aazevedo@dailycal.org.

cated partnering with UC Berkeley and neighborhood associations, and the long brainstorm list included projects such as integrating electric vehicles into transportation services, legalizing rooster-keeping and creating community orchards and network gardens. One woman even spoke up during the question-and-answer period and asked the group to help her start a garden in her backyard. “Those are exactly the projects that we can help make happen,” Silber responded. Ralph Bartholomew recently retired from UC Berkeley, where he worked on engineering and building in the optometry department. He said he grew up in rural Connecticut and looks to return to the small-village model. “Life is faster now,” he said. Yasmina Hadri, founder of the Berkeley Healing Center, agreed. “If there is one thing that can save us, it is community, I think,” she said. Sara Johnson covers the environment. Contact her at sjohnson@dailycal.org.

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ontrary to its claim, “The Extraordinary Life of Jose Gonzalez” proves how ordinary an “extraordinary” life can seem. This past Wednesday, the Roxie held the U.S. premiere of the documentary as part of Noise Pop’s film series. The film was remarkably similar to a Jose Gonzalez album: poignantly profound yet mildly sleep-inducing. Although that works for the slow guitar riffs of the indie-folk singer, it falls short in the film itself, which aims to explore the artist’s intense introspection. A silent shot of him eating cereal does the trick, but a dozen more of him sleeping, sitting on the couch and so on are simply boring. Despite the film’s lethargic quality, however, directors Karlsson and Egerstrand succeed in illuminating Gonzalez’s musical process. In its best moments, the film offers a surreal view into Gonzalez’s mind through animated sequences accompanied by endearingly accented narrations. These expose the artist’s internal ponderings engagingly enough to ensure that devout Gonzales fans will enjoy themselves. The rest of filmgoers, however, might prefer a film about someone whose life is a bit more visibly extraordinary. —Sarah Burke

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ell-traveled and predictably solid, Yo La Tengo kicked off this year’s Noise Pop at the Fox Theater in Oakland Tuesday. As three New Jerseyans that have been together since 1984, Yo La Tengo isn’t a local or new act. In fact, they’re kind of the opposite: a rock band that features a husband-and-wife act (lead vocalist/guitarist Ira Kaplan is married to drummer/vocalist Georgia Hubley). Like a fine ham, Yo La Tengo has aged and matured over time, developing a distinctive but not too spicy flavor. They’re not pushing any definitions of rock music, and their show at the Fox was more relaxed and comfortable than raucous and inspiring. A wheel of fortune determined the songs played in the first set, a little piece of whimsy for both audience and band to chuckle over. They slid easily between songs selected from their entire discography, giving a strong but calm performance of their signature noisy-yet-melodic lo-fi rock. Husband, wife and bassist put on a performance that made the grandiose Fox into a cozy living room. —Amelia Taylor-Hochberg

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t’s all too easy to judge Best Coast with a derisive ey on lead singer Bethany Cosentino’s unhealthy attac or the simplistic lyrics. But as surf pop trio Best Coast the Regency Ballroom to the strains of 2Pac’s “Californ exuded an offbeat charm. Though the content matter Cosentino sings about what she knows, and fortunatel situations that wax all too familiar. She breezed throu lescent recollections, from angst (“Crazy For You”) to b (“Goodbye”). Blithely strumming her guitar, Cosentino was a mo Perhaps her relaxed state was not entirely self-induced up a guitar riff on a new track, she blurted out, “I smo Though unconventional, Bethany’s openness with the what made Best Coast’s show so enthralling. With its s rhythms — and not to mention the numerous referenc — their performance evoked feel-good images of an ev Best coast, indeed.

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ased on their name alone, it’s safe to assume that San Francisco’s Hunx and His Punx deliver performances unlike any other. And indeed they did last Saturday, filling the Regency Ballroom with their unique fusion of raunchy entertainment and sugary melodies. Influenced by the music of the ’60s, Hunx and His Punx convey a sound that implements hints of both hardcore punk and sweet innocence. Clad in a leather jacket and skin-tight, leopardprint leggings, lead singer Seth Bogart basked in the spotlight, having a hard time keeping his clothes on. Flanked by two buxom divas, his outlandishly sassy moves, coupled with his love of being the center of attention, made for a dazzling production that evoked both cringes and laughs. The band ran through old favorites, such as the breezy “Cruising” and strangely addictive “You Don’t Like Rock n Roll,” and also introduced its new members’ vocals, as flaunted in “Lovers Lane.” With their uplifting beats, Hunx and His Punx won over the hearts of new fans that night, but in all honesty, Bogart’s flamboyance was what really stole the show. —Cynthia Kang

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afe du Nord witnessed a haunting tribute to ’90s R&B on Saturday night. DJ Shlohmo and falsetto crooner How to Dress Well complemented each other well with their mutual obsession over this genre. Playing both a rare live set and an impromptu DJ set, Shlohmo synthesized old school R&B tracks, bass-heavy electronic beats, and unexpected sounds that one wouldn’t even normally consider music. Tom Krell of How to Dress Well, instead, redefined the purpose of music-making itself. His intention was to emulate the death of his favorite genre, but his performance also seemed to be a very personal, therapeutic experience. Krell’s depression is made clear in his lyrics but is even more apparent when he is seen live. As he sang, or rather whimpered, he tugged at his shirt and absentmindedly wrapped his microphone around his body in an emotional frenzy. Even his dialogue with the audience only left them trying to cheer him up — perhaps he could have learned a thing or two from the more charismatic Shlohmo. Krell’s strength was in his passion and commitment to his music, but his fans did not receive such unwavering attention. —Erin Donaldson

Vienna Philharmonic Performs Historically Significant Works at Zellerbach by Arielle Little Senior Staff Writer

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he Vienna Philharmonic needs little introduction, and so it was without introduction that the musicians took the stage in Zellerbach Hall Friday night. The sudden flow of musicians onto the stage was followed by the entrance of guest conductor Semyon Bychkov. Likewise without introduction, the maestro strode onstage and confidently faced the audience for a brief moment before turning to his orchestra and beginning to conduct. Cal Performances hosted the worldrenowned orchestra last weekend for three performances. It’s hard to know what to say about the Vienna Philharmonic aside from what everyone

expects you to say — which is the truth. That being: The Vienna Philharmonic is fantastic. Friday night’s program opened with Schubert’s Symphony No. 2 in B flat major. Bychkov’s style as a conductor soon revealed itself to be emotive but precise — his motions effused a clarity of purpose that was matched by the pure sound of the Vienna strings. From Schubert, the performance ventured forward in the history of Western music to Richard Wagner’s swelling prelude from the opera “Tristan und Isolde.” In the midst of the romantics of “Tristan,” the visual spectacle of the orchestra became art in its own right; the stage, awash in the warm wood of so many instruments, rocked with the sway of so many bodies

and the rise and fall of so many bows. Bela Bartok’s “The Miraculous Mandarin” was the final number. The Hungarian composer’s suite, taken from his bizarre ballet of the same name, worked as a foil to the previous piece. Where Wagner’s “Tristan” embellishes a story of forbidden love that finds resolution only in death, “Mandarin” is a fraught tale of the mad pursuit of a somewhat-unwilling woman. The music is intense and distraught, explosive in juxtaposition with the rest of the repertoire. The Bartok piece allowed the program to step away from the SchubertWagner Germanism and embrace Eastern European influence — a quality which resonates especially under the hand of conductor Bychkov, a

Russian-American born in Leningrad. The Eastern European folk music flavor continued into the encores, which were comprised of Brahms’ Hungarian Dances No. 1 and No. 5 in G minor and Czech composer Antonin Dvorak’s Slavonic Dances. The entire program was rooted in history — after all, Vienna Phil played a role in the initial popularizing of the works of Schubert and Wagner. Saturday and Sunday night, the orchestra went on to perform Schumann, Brahms and Mahler, whose compositions all have similar historical significance. In the end, the music speaks for itself. The range of Friday night’s program, from Schubert to the Slavonic Dances, was drawn from a period when music, as well as the world,

was truly transforming. These pieces (intentionally or otherwise) articulated the strange beauty of the old world’s confluence with the new. It’s harder for a contemporary audience to ignore that the number of women on stage was relatively small. The gender ratio seems an uneasy relic from the notso-distant past — and an affirmation that artistic legacy also comes with less appealing ghosts of cultural memory. Nevertheless, the very fact that there were women on stage, and even the fact that the Vienna Philharmonic can fill a Berkeley venue, indicates a world apart from Wagner’s or Bartok’s, albeit one in which their music is still relevant. Check out Arielle’s range at alittle@dailycal.org.

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oncertgoers at the Great American Music Hall Friday night got much more than “A Night with Aesop Rock and Kimya Dawson.” For three hours, the audience traded reality for a bizarre world of insane antics, animal suits and awkward dance moves. In spite of constant displays of indulgent ridiculousness (including a blast off to the moon, a dancing drag queen and a man in a pig suit) both Kimya and Aesop’s sets were musically unadventurous and disappointing. The dullness was only accentuated by the bored murmurs of fans who came to see one artist, and were not impressed by the dramatically different style of the other. Luckily, by the end of the night, Kimya and Aesop outdid their individual sets with their new, surprisingly cohesive sound as a rapping/guitar-playing duo. On top of that, they showered the finally enthused crowd with candy from a T. Rex pinata, then passed out stage decorations. When it came time for their final song, “Tits Up,” the entire floor was shamelessly thrilled, feeling up air boobs above their heads to hilarious rap verses. Post-show audience grins said that they didn’t know what hit them, but they were sure glad it did. ­—Sarah Burke

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o Age’s show at the Rickshaw Stop this past Saturday was one of the last of Noise Pop, concluding the festival with a heartening reminder of why people pay money to see rock shows. Supported by an excellent line of openers, including Grass Widow, Rank/Xerox and Crazy Band, No Age came on stage at the peak of the concert’s intensity, the crowd churning in a riptide of moshing and drunken yelps of excitement. Their set was straightforward and forceful, mixing vocals and guitars together to make a formidable and pleasantly deafening atmosphere of guitar-reverb and shouting. The lyrics were unintelligible, but it could not matter less — this experience is why people go to live shows: to get completely drowned in sound and punch people under the pretense of dancing. Mixing tracks from their earlier albums (including 2008’s highly acclaimed Nouns and Everything In Between, their most recent release), No Age pulled together a thunderously immersive set that rose and fell with a satisfying gravity, leaving the crowd sweaty and exhausted but grinning from ear to ear. —Amelia Taylor-Hochberg

Online www.dailycal.org VANISHING ON 7TH STREET: Zachary Ritter reviews the latest film from director Brad Anderson (“The Machinist,” “Transsiberian”). WOUNDED RHYMES: Check back on Tuesday for

Cynthia Kang’s review of Swedish vocalist Lykke Li’s latest album. DEPARTING: Cynthia Kang reflects on the new album from Canadian indie rock band The Rural Alberta Advantage. VIENNA PHILHARMONIC: See photos from the

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Radiohead THE KING OF LIMBS [TBD Records]

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adiohead have never been a band to follow conventions. From taking long hiatuses to implementing a “pay-what-you-want” policy, the leaders of the alternative rock scene have been defying expectations for years. Their latest

album, The King of Limbs, builds upon this type of unconventional marketing. After months of public buzz and speculation, Radiohead quietly slipped in an announcement of the album’s release and dropped the digital download a day early, to throw fans further off track. Despite the pleasant surprise that Radiohead have bestowed upon us, the actual work itself comes as less of a wonder. Refined but derivative, The King of Limbs relies on techniques already touched on in their previous albums, though it still makes for an enthralling listen. Fans of Kid A, rejoice: The King of Limbs is a deeper exploration of the band’s foray into the electronic realm, though it doesn’t quite match the high standard of their previous works. Despite its intriguing use of a looping bass line, “Feral” is a convoluted, much too abstract piece; its

messiness makes it only a poor man’s cover of Kid A’s “Everything in Its Right Place.” When more organization comes into play, however, the pieces exhibit their brilliance, as exemplified in “Lotus Flower.” Its synchronized beat and subtle bursts of melody make it easily the most accessible track on the album. But accessibility isn’t what Radiohead strive for in this album. Unlike the immediate appeal of an album like In Rainbows, the band’s recent project seems to be created for loyal fans only. Complex and idiosyncratic, it’s a struggle to decipher. Since it may take even the most obsessed Radiohead devotee a while to appreciate, new listeners are bound to shy away from the album. Of course, figuring out an album’s hidden genius is part of the fun, and The King of Limbs, though it pushes your patience to the limit, creates a lasting

impact once you’ve broken down its barriers. Popular consent from critics and fans alike affirms the latter half of The King of Limbs overpowers the opening tracks. But that’s not to say that the beginning is not worth your time. What the tracks lack in organization and coherence, they make up for in emotion. Thom Yorke shows a surprisingly high level of energy in “Morning Mr. Magpie” and creates an angry intensity as he scolds, “You’ve got some nerve coming here.” The incensed animosity shifts to a more teasing tone in “Little by Little,” whose scattered beginnings are tightened in what is probably the album’s catchiest chorus. If the first half of The King of Limbs acts as a demo, then it certainly proves useful — what follows are tracks of polished execution. The eerie calmness of “Codex,” the

smooth ambiance of “Separator,” and the acoustic sorrow of “Give Up the Ghost” all culminate in instant empathy with the pieces. Like the rest of Radiohead’s works, The King of Limbs takes multiple loops until you reach that magical click. And while the album is a thought-provoking and beautifully mastered piece of work on its own, it is somewhat of a disappointment when set against the backdrop of Radiohead’s massive library. The lack of ingenuity could be explained by the band members’ ventures into solo projects, but still cannot be justified by the four-year gap between In Rainbows and now. The King of Limbs seems to have been created to show that Radiohead is alive and kicking — and though it satisfies, it leaves fans wondering if the band is slipping into decline. —Cynthia Kang

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career-high 13 points. “When other people hit shots, it State guard Earlysia Marchbanks was takes a lot of pressure off Layshia from back responsible for seven of those boards (Clarendon),” Federico said. and scored 11 of the Beavers’ 30 points Clarendon struggled in the first half, ourselves in the foot by getting picked at the break. scoring just four points, but the point off twice. We had the leadoff guy on The Bears effectively shifted from guard managed to lead the team with three of the first four innings, but geta man to a zone defense: Marchbanks 16 points by the final whistle. ting picked off twice gives him more didn’t score in the second half. More than anything, this win was confidence … “We were just trying to deny her important for Cal to regain its post“He was lights out after he got those PHONE: 510-548-8300 FAX: 510-849-2803 EMAIL:legals@dailycal.org Post your Alameda County us. early touches and just not let herLegals get a with season hopes. After a 60-46 loss to two pick offs.” good look,” Boyle said. The bullpen, which has been the Oregon on Thursday added a sixth But Cal’s real turning point didn’t loss to the Bears’ streak, Cal needed Bears’ most inconsistent unit over the come until midway through the secsomething to change before its up- last few years, may be developing some ond half, when guard Mikayla Lyles coming trip to Stanford and the Pac- reliable options, too. Right-hander Lohit back-to-back 3-pointers to tie the gan Scott, who redshirted last season, 10 Tournament. game at 39. They were the first two “It was just like, ‘Cal basketball has been perfect though two appearbaskets of a 19-0 run that gave the is back; We’re not going to lose this ances. Freshman lefty Kyle Porter addBears a 52-39 lead. game,’” Federico said of the run. “You ed three no-hit innings of long relief on Oregon State guard Sage Indendi get on a little losing streak, you start Saturday. ended that five-minute scoring frenzy Through six games, the Bears are questioning yourself, questioning with her fourth 3-pointer. But even her batting .309, and they have five home your teammates, but we all had the on fifth three, which tied the school’s sinruns and 44 RBI. Their team ERA is gle-season record of 69, wasn’t enough switch tonight, and it ended up work- 1.02, and they’ve given up 29 hits in 53 ing out for us.” for the Beavers to recover. innings of work. Boyle attributed the Bears’ offen- Alex Matthews covers women’s sive comeback in part to players such basketball. Contact her at Katie Dowd covers baseball. Contact her at kdowd@dailycal.org. as Federico and Lyles, who scored a almatthews@dailycal.org.

the No. 20 Tigers. Outfielder Jamia Reid singled early and freshman Britt Vonk’s following at-bat brought the talented baserunner home to notch the first run of the game. After that, the momentum train started rolling for Cal. Jordan Wallace unloaded a long homer to right field that scored pitcher Jolene Henderson and Echavarria in the top of the second inning. Henderson and the Bears kept LSU’s offense at bay to finish out the second inning with three groundouts. Redemptive efforts in the bottom of the third inning garnered the Tigers’ only three runs of the game. In the top of the seventh, sophomore catcher Lindsey Ziegenhirt stepped up to the plate with Vonk and Reid on second and third. Her line drive scored Reid to make the score 8-3. Another smash effort came with Henderson’s three-run homer over center field to push Cal ahead, 11-3. The scoreboard stayed that way for

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the rest of the contest. “We came out knowing it was a big game, and we stepped up to the plate and executed,” Echavarria said. “To break it down, we just executed everything coach (Diane Ninemire) asked. It was a great ball game.” The rest of the weekend fared as well as the skies, as the Bears collected another win versus Cal Poly, 2-0 on Sunday. Cal’s two runs were in the first and sixth innings. Reid came in on third baseman Jace Williams’ hit back to the pitcher, who threw to first, and Echavarria’s single to center field in the sixth inning that scored third baseman Jace Williams. The Bears’ topping of the Mustangs marked Henderson’s fourth win of the weekend in the circle and her ninth of the year so far. “Jolene is a great player who plays with a lot of heart and passion,” Echavarria said. “It was a great outing.” Kelly Suckow covers softball. Contact her at ksuckow@dailycal.org.

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vidual titles and four relay crowns en route to its third straight top two finish in the Pac-10. Prior to 2008, the Bears Heading into the final event of the had never finished higher than third. Pac-10 Championships, the Cal wom- Cal was in the lead after the first and en’s swimming team needed to take third days of competition. “We definitely surprised some peofirst and finish at least two spots ahead Ma^ =Zber <Zeb_hkgbZg DUMMY of Stanford in order to surpass the Car- ple,� McKeever said. “With this big freshman class, it was important for dinal in the standings. Cal’s A squad did take the top spot in them to get through it and get a better understanding of what they need to do the 400 freestyle relay with an NCAA as they become returners as next year.� automatic qualifying time of 3:13.83, Among those freshmen was Cindy but the Cardinal managed to hang on Tran, who set a meet record in the 100 to second, clinching the Pac-10 title. back (51.22) with her first-place finish, The No. 4 Bears took second at and took ninth in the 200 back, clocking the Pac-10 conference meet in Fed- the sixth fastest time in school history eral Way, Wash., edged out by No. 1 (1:55.13). Freshman Stephanie Au took Stanford by 22 points (1567.5-1545.5). second in the same event with the fifthSixth-ranked USC took third with fastest time (1:54.96) in Cal history. 1309.5 to round out an identical top But it was sophomore Caitlin Lethree from 2010. verenz, the 2010 Pac-10 Newcomer of “We came up a little short, but that’ll the Year, who came up the biggest for the keep us focused on what we need to do,� Bears. Leverenz broke her own school coach Teri McKeever said on CalBears. record in the 400 IM (4:02.72) with com. “It’s like a dual meet — sometimes a third-place finish, and came within one hundredth of a second of Natalie you get ‘em and sometimes you don’t.� Cal managed to take three indi- Coughlin’s 200 IM school record. Her

second-place finish (1:54.97) and captured her first individual Pac-10 crown in the 200 breaststroke (2:07.45). Junior Liv Jensen set a program record in the 50 free (21.73), taking first. Jensen also anchored the second-place 200 freestyle relay and swam on three other winning relays. Cal benefited from a strong performance from its diving team, highlighted by a fifth-place finish in the platform by freshman Kahley Rowell, who finished with an NCAA zonal qualifying score of 250.15. “The divers did a nice job too,� McKeever said. “That’s a piece of our program we’ve been trying to move in the right direction, and they did that tonight and this whole meet.� The Bears will be back in action in three weeks when they travel to Austin, Texas, for the NCAA Championships. Though Cal isn’t considered a threat to contend for a title, it will look to surprise its critics once again.

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tance runners, including the Bears’ 60m hurdle champion Ray Stewart. “With someone like Ray in the sprints, you need it hot and humid,� Sandoval said. “Everyone was walking around with gloves and earmuffs and it was a detriment to every athlete competing.� Stewart came in at the finish line 7.91 seconds after the fire of the gun and 0.03 seconds before runner-up Eric Hersey of Oregon. The cold slowed Stewart from his personal record of 7.77 two weeks ago at the Husky Indoor Classic held at the same venue. “Just to see this guy come in and do it day in and day out, he’s definitely got the ability to go to NCAAs,� Morrison said. “There’s no doubt in my mind he can go to NCAAs and come away with an All-American finish.� Hammed Suleman was the third and final Cal athlete to capture first place for the Bears. He finished with a personalbest 52-10.75 in the triple jump, putting him ninth on Cal’s all-time performer list. Only Lenards Ozolinsh, who set the school indoor record of 54-2.50 in 1995, has leapt further for the Bears over the past 16 years. “Hammed and I are pretty close, we came in as the new guys so I always felt mine,� Glike heLwasI a Sbrother T of D I MorriM E son said. “I couldn’t be happier to see Ahim compete A R EandAdo that, OheVdeserves A L Lit just B O Aif not R more D Wthan A anyone L K as much else out there.� O P E N R E N T S

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by Gabriel Baumgaertner

On Two Years Probation

Senior Staff Writer

Entering this weekend’s road games against the Oregon schools, Cal men’s basketball head coach Mike Montgomery said that his squad needed m. hoops to win “two out of Cal 87 three games” if it Oregon State 76 wanted to compete in the postseason. In both games, lackluster first halves looked like they would jeopardize the Bears’ chances to improve within the conference. And in both games, the Bears picked up difficult road wins in a weekend where everybody was jockeying for position in the conference. Anchored by 26 points from guard Allen Crabbe and another stellar second half, Cal completed its seasonsweep of the Oregon schools with an 87-76 win over Oregon State on Saturday in Corvallis, Ore. The win puts the Bears (16-13, 9-8 in the Pac-10) in fifth place, trailing USC by half a game with rival Stanford on the horizon. “It’s really good that we got these two wins early and out of the way,” Crabbe said. “Both games we came out very aggressively in the second half. We played very well this week.” Playing significantly better than in their visit to Haas Pavilion, the Beavers (10-17, 5-11) looked determined to win for four seniors playing their final game at Gill Coliseum. Alternating their defensive pressure and forcing a series of bad passes, Oregon State scored 17 points off turnovers in the first half to take as much as a 14-point lead. A mediocre offensive team that relies heavily on steals and points off turnovers, they knocked down jumpers in the half-court and finished their fast-break opportunities. The strong opening effort was led by freshman Ahmad Starks, who paced Oregon State with a career-high 18 points and dished out six assists. The best senior performance came from forward Omari Johnson, who scored 10 points and grabbed eight rebounds. But the shots eventually stopped falling, the transition opportunities became limited and the Bears channeled their trademark resilience. Buckling down what was a relatively porous zone defense in the first half, the Bears found the red-hot Crabbe and muscled up and limited easy baskets in the second half.

NCAA Penalty Limits Bears to Five Official Recruiting Visits Over Next Two Academic Years by Gabriel Baumgaertner Senior Staff Writer

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Jorge Gutierrez scored 14 points, dished out nine assists and racked up four steals in Cal’s road win over Oregon State. Against Oregon, he scored 16 of his 23 after halftime. Showing off one of the cleanest releases in the conference, Crabbe was deadly from the perimeter. A strong candidate for Pac-10 Freshman of the Year, the Los Angeles native drilled six of his eight 3-point attempts and finished 8-of-12 from the floor. “My teammates found me really well,” Crabbe said. “I kept finding myself wide open on 3-pointers and I was shocked that they did that. I just kept finding the right spot at the right time.” If Crabbe’s release was the smoothness of Cal’s comeback, then the play that produced four technical fouls was the tougher element. With the Beavers leading 61-59 and both the audience and the home bench groaning about a series of nocalls, Cal guard Brandon Smith barged into his former AAU teammate Jared

Cunningham. The Beavers’ swingman would be quickly called for a reach-in foul moments later, angering of every person wearing orange. After some light pushing and bumping initiated by Oregon State’s Calvin Haynes, the referees issued four technical fouls, starting with Smith’s initial push. After the smoke cleared, Jorge Gutierrez hit a go-ahead three on the ensuing possession and the Bears took the lead for good just two minutes later. Now winners of three straight, are Crabbe and the rest of the Bears ready for Stanford next week? “Yes,” Crabbe said. “Definitely.” Gabriel Baumgaertner covers men’s basketball. Contact him at gbaumgaertner@dailycal.org.

The Cal men’s basketball team was placed on two years probation on Friday for making over 300 impermissible phone calls. Having already reported the majority of the violations and self-imposed sanctions, the Bears were issued only minimal penalties by the NCAA. “Cal self-reported this violation and they caught it,” said Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Commissioner Dennis Thomas, who is also the chairman of the NCAA infractions committee. “That’s a good thing. When they caught it, then they took the appropriate action of investigating it and determining what violations had occurred.” Thomas and the committee decided on minor punishments because they determined that the majority of the infractions were due to neglect as opposed to intentional circumvention of the rules. One Cal assistant was ruled to have made 212 impermissible calls while another made 107. In December, Montgomery and other members of the athletic department met with the NCAA infractions board in Indiana to discuss the matter that prompted the sanctions. A former chair of the NABC Ethics Committee, Montgomery has an exceptional reputation in the NCAA. Much of the speculation has been directed at Cal assistant Jay John, who acknowledged that the rules and regulations may have changed from when he was last an assistant coach in 2002. The longtime coach joined Montgomery in Berkeley in 2008 after coaching Oregon State for over five seasons. Thomas mentioned that the inadmissible phone calls resulted from im-

proper logging. The Bears would have likely avoided both the self-imposed sanctions and the additional penalties by the NCAA if the majority of these calls were correctly registered. Phone call regulations have changed since former Oklahoma head coach Kelvin Sampson was found guilty in 2006 of making 577 inadmissible phone calls. The case was perceived more as an intentional circumvention and resulted in harsher penalties than those imposed on Cal. “I believe deeply in following NCAA rules and have always promoted an atmosphere of compliance within our program,” Montgomery said. “It is gratifying to know that during our NCAA hearing in Indianapolis that there was agreement among all parties that these violations were unintentional. “However, that does not excuse them, and we need to remain diligent in our efforts to remain compliant. We strive to maintain a very high standard and take this situation very seriously.” Athletic director Sandy Barbour reiterated her support for Montgomery and his staff and does not believe that probation will be a problem for the future. “When Mike Montgomery joined our program in April 2008, we knew we were hiring a coach known for his integrity who cares deeply about this student-athletes’ college experience,” Barbour said. “He expects the same ethical behavior from every member of his staff. The manner in which Coach Montgomery and his assistant coaches have responded to and engaged in this process has only confirmed our initial beliefs.” The additional penalties handed down by the NCAA were a limit of five official visits for the next two academic years as well as well as public reprimand and censure. None of the violating assistants were named in the press conference. Cal’s probation will last until Feb. 24, 2013. Gabriel Baumgaertner covers men’s basketball. Contact him at gbaumgaertner@dailycal.org.

Bunting Sparks a Run-Happy Cal Downs Beavers to End Six-Game Skid Weekend for Cal Down South by Alex Matthews Staff Writer

Bears Record 29 Runs Over Three Weekend Wins in South Carolina, Bunting Drives in Seven by Katie Dowd Senior Staff Writer

Three years ago, Chad Bunting was a nobody. “In every sense of the word, Chad Bunting was a bullpen catcher baseball when he came to Cal 8 our program,” Cal 1 baseball coach Da- Kansas State vid Esquer said. “He didn’t hit in a regular batting group. If we played a three-game series of intersquad, he got maybe two or three at-bats on the whole weekend.” The coaches didn’t spend much time with Bunting, but he kept working. Last year, his “fearless” approach at the plate got their attention, earning him a spot in the outfield. After this weekend, Bunting has guaranteed that the coaches will never ignore him again. Led by the junior center fielder’s seven RBI and two home runs, the No. 17 Bears raked their way to three big wins at this weekend’s Caravelle Resort Tournament in Myrtle Beach, S.C.

With those three wins, Cal improves to 5-1 on the season. The Bears have been receiving publicity mostly for circumstances beyond the diamond, but their performance in South Carolina should generate buzz for another reason — Cal has the potential to be a damn good team. After opening the tournament with a 17-0 thrashing of Coastal Carolina, the Bears went on to outscore their opponents 29-1. All three teams they faced — the Chanticleers, North Carolina State and Kansas State — made it to the NCAA regionals last year. “The key for us was our pitching and defense, and that was very encouraging to see,” Esquer said in a press release. “Our focus this year is to win games on the road and this weekend we had great contributions from everyone on the squad.” Cal’s pitching was nearly flawless, from starters on down. Kevin Miller one-hit Coastal Carolina through 7 1/3 innings on Friday; Johnson shut out the Wolfpack on Saturday; lefty Justin Jones gave up Cal’s only run of the weekend in his first inning against the Wildcats, but stabilized to seal the sweep. “(Jones) did a great job,” Kansas State coach Brad Hill said in a press release. “He didn’t have good command early, but unfortunately we shot

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Cal women’s basketball guard Rachelle Federico could not have imagined a more perfect ending to her career at Haas Paw. hoops vilion. “It’s like my own Oregon State 49 Disneyland Cal 58 fairytale,” she said. The senior, ONLINE VIDEO starting for the first time in her Coach Joanne Boyle career, scored a and Rachelle Federico career-high 15 discuss Saturday’s win. points to help the Bears snap their six-game losing streak with a 58-49 win over Oregon State on Saturday night. At halftime, when Cal (15-13, 7-10 in the Pac-10) was trailing the hapless Beavers, 24-30, it probably didn’t feel so perfect. The game began with an 8-0 run from Oregon State (9-18, 2-14), and the Bears didn’t see the basket until Federico’s jumper after more than three scoreless minutes. The start was characteristic of many of Cal’s recent losses, in which the first few minutes tilted the scoreboard in favor of its opponent. “We’ve been struggling to score, and I think we just let the game get away from us,” coach Joanne Boyle said. Though its shooting percentage was not as abysmal as it had been in previous games — like Thursday’s 21.3 percent — Cal still had trouble putting

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DeNesha Stallworth struggled from the field on Saturday night, scoring nine points on just 4-of-15 shooting against the Beavers. Stallworth also pulled down seven rebounds. the ball in the basket, shooting 34.5 percent at halftime. The Bears also struggled with their transition defense, giving up easy fast break baskets to the Beavers. “We fall apart on one end of the floor when things on the other’s not

going well,” Boyle said. “I don’t know why that happens, but I think everyone just has to bring more effort and be smarter.” At halftime, the Beavers were outrebounding Cal, 24-15. Oregon

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