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Activists Standing Atop Wheeler Hall Demand Change Eight Protesters Occupy Fourth-Story Ledge on Wheeler Hall, Step Down Following Negotiations With Officials

17 Arrested Wednesday; None Have Trespassing Charges Filed Against Them in Arraignment

by Jordan Bach-Lombardo Staff Writer

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Eight protesters occupied a fourth-story ledge on Wheeler Hall for over seven hours Thursday, returning to the ground after two of their four demands were addressed by the UC Berkeley administration.

Demands to have student conduct MULTIMEDIA charges dropped and to open a diaFor videos, photos and logue about the campus Operational Excellence program were partially full coverage, go online met, while demands to end budget at dailycal.org. cuts and to democratize the UC Board of Regents were not.

“True democracy can happen through this method, through our voices,” said sophomore Marco Amaral. “This has to continue because we have two demands that have not been met ... There’s nothing we can’t do.”

Soon after an initial nine activists moved to the top of Wheeler by 1:45 p.m., a crowd of demonstrators — whose numbers peaked at about 300 by 4:30 p.m. — flooded the building’s south steps. One of the nine ledge protesters was pulled inside

by UCPD and arrested at 2:46 p.m. and booked at the Berkeley Jail Facility for trespassing with intent to damage property.

The crowd was forced off the eastern half of the steps at around 6:15 p.m. by a police force equipped with riot gear that included officers from the Berkeley, Oakland, UC San Francisco and UC Berkeley campus police departments.

Pepper spray was used against some demonstrators, while other protesters reported being hit with batons.

“All of a sudden, I was surrounded by riot police who were hitting me in the stomach and head,” said senior Pourya Khademi. “Just as I was turning away, another one sprayed me directly in the face.”

Dean of Students Jonathan Poullard conducted final negotiations with the protesters’ representative, UC Berkeley School of Law student and Campus Rights Project member Daniela Urban. The conclusion of negotiations was announced at about 8:45 p.m. and protesters began to leave the ledge. They left the building at 9:17 p.m. to a group of about 150 people outside.

According to the terms of the negotiations, protesters from demonstrations at Wheeler Hall on both Wednesday and Thursday will not face student conduct charges. However, three of the 17 arrested Wednesday may still face charges for obstructing a peace officer by the district attorney.

Additionally, students with pending charges from the Nov. 20, 2009, Wheeler Hall occupation will have the option to

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None of the 17 protesters arrested Wednesday night after refusing to leave Wheeler Hall had trespassing charges brought against them at an arraignment Thursday, though three of the demonstrators may be charged with obstructing a peace officer at a later date.

At a 2 p.m. arraignment at the Wiley W. Manuel Courthouse in Oakland, the protesters — who were arrested after refusing to leave Wheeler Hall past its 10 p.m. closing time following a day of protests — did not have trespassing charges brought against them, though the district attorney may still choose to bring charges against them for up to one year under the statute of limitations.

According to Graham Archer, an attorney who provides volunteer support for protesters and was speaking to demonstrators after the arraignment, charges were not brought because the district attorney may not have had an opportunity yet to look over the police reports.

The three who were also booked for obstructing a peace officer are scheduled to appear at an arraignment Friday at 2 p.m. at the Wiley W. Manuel Courthouse.

UCPD Lt. Alex Yao said that after being arrested Wednesday night, all 17 protesters were taken to the Berkeley Jail Facility, where those who were booked exclusively on trespassing charges were “cited and released,” meaning they were allowed to leave the facility after having their paperwork processed and being fingerprinted.

Yao said the remaining three protesters were held at the jail facility overnight.

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Four stories above ground, protesters rallied as supporters and observers below on the steps of Wheeler looked on.

>> arrests: Page 5

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Food Network to Feature Local Eatery Downtown Restaurant Sumo Grub Dishes Out Food With a Deep-Fried Asian Twist: Tempura

by Amruta Trivedi Staff Writer

About six months after opening, Downtown Berkeley restaurant Sumo Grub — where ethnic flavors meet fairground food — will be featured on the Food Network in April for its deep-fried comfort food with an Asian twist.

Owners Jason and Ly Sum opened the restaurant in October on Milvia Street across from Berkeley High

School with the goal of introducing a new fast food flavor to the Downtown with menu items such as tempura-fried pizza, cheesecake and burger patties.

“We wanted to open a restaurant with food that was fun for everyone,” Ly Sum said. “This is another fast-food option with an Asian option.”

Berkeley High students Cari Wyrick, Jose Maldonado, Gabriel Garcia and Oscar Gonzales, who frequent Sumo Grub during their lunch hour, said they do not mind waiting in lines that extend well beyond the door for the eatery’s fries and ice cream.

“The burgers are OK, but it’s quite popular because it’s close and cheap,” Wyrick said.

Ly Sum said that since the economy is not great, she and her husband strive to keep prices as low as possible to

maintain a strong customer base.

Jason Sum, whose family owns Berkeley Thai House on Channing Way, came up with Sumo Grub’s menu, including the tempura macaroni and cheese and Sumo pork taco, both of which are customer favorites.

“Outrageous Food” — a Food Network program that features restaurants serving unusual food — profiled Sumo Grub and visited the restaurant last month.

In April, the program will feature Sumo Grub chefs cooking a typical entree that starts with mixing homemade tempura batter and ends with drizzling “sumo sauce,” Jason Sum’s original creamy vinaigrette made from 20 different sauces.

“It was a very good experience to be filmed by such a big network,” said Sunny Banih, an employee who has been work-

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Sumo Grub, a restaurant on Milvia Street, is known for its tempura-fried snack foods and will be profiled in an April episode of the Food Network program ‘Outrageous Food.’

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Seven departments within UC Berkeley’s Division of Social Sciences at the College of Letters and Science — including African American studies, gender and women’s studies and ethnic studies — will begin consolidating staff in an effort to cut $500,000 from the division, which will result in layoffs and reductions in work hours.

The division currently has a $55 million budget, 1 percent of which has been mandated to be cut by the organizational simplification team of Operational Excellence through four layoffs and four partial time reductions while leaving two vacant positions unfilled, according to a fact sheet prepared by Dean of Social Sciences Carla Hesse.

Hesse said she considered each department’s faculty size, the amount of credits taken by students and number of declared majors in order to fairly distribute staff reductions. “I looked at the relative workload, and then I tried to, with a team of people that were staff themselves, come up with the least painful way to reduce the staff size in such a way that I actually believe will be better supported in the end,� she said.

In addition to consolidating staff and administrative processes of different departments into a “shared services unit� between African American studies, ethnic studies and gender and

women’s studies, units will be created for the departments of sociology and demography. Some services will also be shared between the departments of history and linguistics.

Such units are already in effect in the College of Natural Resources as well as in various humanities departments, including the classics department.

After 23 years of employment on campus, Althea Grannum-Cummings, the student services adviser for gender and women’s studies, will have her hours reduced by 50 percent because of the cuts. “I just always thought that seniority meant something,� she said. “It’s a little hurtful to get the sense that you’re obsolete and not necessary ... because you don’t have 800 students in your major.�

Three social sciences departments — anthropology, geography and political science — will not see cuts to staff, according to the fact sheet. “Cuts to departments that are really small questions what gets counted as legitimate education,� said Pooja Chaudhuri, a senior gender and women’s studies major. “Operational Excellence is a euphemism for firing people.�

Thomas Biolsi, chair of the department of anthropology and professor of Native American studies said additions to the faculty outweigh the cuts in terms of consequences for students.

But in addition to cuts to administrative services, the number of faculty and

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accept probation through the end of the semester rather than go through with their hearings.

That the student conduct charges — which had a “very chilling effect on student protesters� — were dropped shows that student protesters will not be silenced, said sophomore Abhay Agarwal, who has a pending student conduct hearing for the November 2009 occupation. “Finally (the administration) got their shit straight,� he said. “They have seen our power.�

While she said she was happy with the outcome of the protest, senior Cristina Urista, who was one of the protesters on the ledge, said that the change had been a long time coming. “This is my last semester ... I refused to give up,� she said. “It doesn’t even feel so much like a triumph, it feels like, ‘Oh, finally.’�

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Ever since Food Network visited the restaurant, the number of evening customers has increased, according to Ly Sum. Sumo Grub was featured on KNTV last week and CBS San Francisco on Wednesday. “We are going to start having more entertainment at night,� she said. “Next Friday, we will hold an open mic night.�

Following the program’s filming, Sumo Grub instituted a “Wall of Fame� featuring customers who have completed one of four challenge entrees in 15 minutes or less, as well as a “Wall of Shame� with photographs of those who made attempts, but failed. Of the seven who have tried, only one has finished the “Tempura or Die� plate, which consists of one tempura cheesecake, two tempura ice cream pieces, six tempura Twinkies and 12 tempura Oreos topped with whipped cream and chocolate syrup.

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Any successful movement requires strong leadership and clear, defined goals or risks alienating its core supporters.

he low attendance of rally, but the lineup was not finalized Wednesday’s protest and the until the night before the protests. method of Thursday’s protest Part of the low profile by faculty showcased a defining feature of this and students is no doubt due to the student movement: wasted opportu- increasingly radicalized direction of nity due to a lack of leadership. the protests. In allowing them to be On the March 2 Day of Action for associated with fringe extremists, Public Education, UC Berkeley bare- and condoning actions such as pullly stirred. There were few of the ing fire alarms, organizers alienate hallmarks of previous protests: no the groups whose support they need picket lines blocking every entrance, to be successful. almost no teach-outs visible to stuWe are at a crucial juncture in the dents around campus and an anemic protest movement, and those passhowing by students at a noon rally sionate about higher education and on Sproul Plaza.

Berkeley’s future must decide how On March 3, the protests took a they will proceed. more visible — yet entirely misguidThe decision by some to raise ed turn. awareness of the protests by engagThroughout the protests, ing in civil disobedience is the recognizable elements The decision by not a substitute for uniting that were present were those movement around a sinsome to raise the we wished were not. Groups gle leader. However, we supwho advocated for commuawareness of port the students arrested at nism or conflated the proWheeler Hall on Wednesday test with revolution in Egypt the protests by night, who nonviolently failed to adequately address engaging in civil resisted the police and stayed the true dangers that the knowing that they would be disobedience is arrested and showed a concampus faces.

Wednesday’s poor showviction most students lack. ing was a stark reminder not a substitute By only staying past closing that protest organizers need for uniting the time, the students did not to reevaluate both their goals any classes or create movement disrupt and their leadership strucan unsafe situation. ture if they want to effecaround a While the eight students tively reengage the student the ledge of single leader. occupying body. Protests should have a Wheeler Hall Thursday more cohesive message and night were successful in getbe directed at legislators and ting some of their demands other state officials who are actually met, we cannot condone their methmaking the cuts to public education. ods. The campus will not pursue Calls to democratize the regents or conduct charges against participants lower administrators’ salaries are in the past two days’ protests and will counterproductive — while the uni- hold a town hall meeting to discuss versity does not always use its money Operational Excellence and campus efficiently, mere internal reform finance. Also, participants with pendcould never be enough for the UC ing conduct charges for the Nov. 20, system to survive state divestment.

2009 protest will have the option of However, we see little hope for choosing probation rather than havprogress given the lack of leadership. ing conduct hearings. However, this A powerful, effective movement can- type of protest cannot lead to the not use collective agreement to deter- long-term change we need. mine its course. On Wednesday, we The students created a dangerous saw no one step forward to gather situation, not only needlessly risking the student body and present a uni- their own lives but also disrupting fied message. Our ASUC leaders, hundreds of students and faculty and such as President Noah Stern and interrupting at least one midterm.

External Affairs Vice President This kind of activism, while attractRicardo Gomez, are evidently unable ing publicity through sheer shock to assume such leadership. value, will never gain broad student The result was a student body support — it is never appropriate and largely uninformed and unaware of only hurts the cause by interfering the recent cuts to public education with affected students and faculty. and what is truly at stake. It has been We’re calling on a leader — a true several months since the last fee leader, who will listen to the students increase, and public awareness of the and demand real change — not on threat to public education is signifi- eight people to climb out on the side cantly diminished. of a building to make unreasonable The seemingly last-minute plan- demands. Building a successful ning also contributed to the campus’s movement will be a difficult, lengthy lack of awareness. Organizers could process, but once it gains momenhave countered the ignorance with a tum, it has the potential to be truly strong lineup of speakers at the noon unstoppable.

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Increased Funding For Languages Makes a World Of Difference Foreign Languages Are Thriving Due to the Continued Support of The Administration

by Rick Kern The UC Berkeley administration’s recent allocation of more than half a million dollars to expand numerous foreign language courses is a bright moment, and stands in stark defiance of the defeatism that has crippled many universities in these times of shrinking budgets. Hats off to the members of our administration for their visionary academic leadership!

Ever since the current financial crisis began, universities across the country have faced critical strategic decisions. A number of them have made the unfortunate choice of reducing funding for foreign language teaching, sometimes dismantling whole degree programs — CSU Fullerton, the State University of New York at Albany, Louisiana State University, the University of Nevada, Reno and Winona State University in Minnesota are just some of the institutions where these causalities have occured. And the U.S. is not alone: Radical changes in funding schemes in the United Kingdom and other parts of Europe have led to cutbacks in languages and the humanities in general.

Ironically, these cuts are coming at a time when foreign language enrollments are higher than ever. A recent report by the Modern Language Association found that foreign language course enrollments increased by 6.6 percent between fall of 2006 and fall of 2009 and reached a new high in fall of 2009, with some languages showing dramatic increases (Arabic, for example, was up 46.3 percent). The MLA enrollment figures will undoubtedly drop the next time the survey is done in 2012, but it won’t be because students are any less interested in languages.

UC Berkeley is an internationallyminded campus. Some 60 modern and ancient languages are taught here, and Berkeley students can select from the more than 200 study abroad programs offered each year. Maintaining international expertise cannot possibly be achieved without offering instruction in

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a wide variety of languages and cultures. It is crucial to remember that with dwindling resources in high schools, our students have fewer and fewer language options to choose from before coming to this campus.

Moreover, heritage language learners often do not have any opportunity to formally study their family’s language until they get to college. It’s therefore essential that we maintain as broad a range of language offerings as possible.

This breadth of offerings could be threatened if our administrators took a bean-counting attitude and funded courses strictly on the basis of demand.

Clearly, we need to meet the demand in high-growth languages like Chinese, Japanese, Arabic and so on, but not at the expense of lesser-demand languages like Bulgarian, Catalan or Finnish, which are no less vital to our overall language ecology. The question that will continue to face the administration is how many languages can be supported with relatively low enrollments.

In the case of less commonly taught languages, we may need to think about demand on a systemwide, not campus, level. To date, UC Berkeley and UCLA have most often provided distance learning classes in languages not taught on other campuses. And this, once again, puts a special responsibility on Berkeley to continue offering as wide an array of languages as possible. We are back to the question of what makes a

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university “world class.”

There may be relatively few students enrolled in introductory Telugu, but this is certainly not a language to be dropped — it is the language of some 80 million speakers and is ranked 13th in the Ethnologue list of most-spoken languages. It is apparently only taught at three American universities, and it is therefore a real mark of distinction for Berkeley to offer it.

We are lucky to have administrators who understand that funding language teaching is not a zero-sum game and that you can’t simply offer where demand is high and eliminate where demand is low. Who knows what world event will suddenly make a currently low-demand language a highdemand one? Most of all, what unique lens on the world is lost for our students when a language and culture is no longer taught?

We are also lucky to have some of the finest language faculty and graduate student instructors to be found anywhere. They are energetic, creative and absolutely dedicated to their students’ learning. The fact that Berkeley’s language courses are so popular is largely due to their talent and devotion.

We at the Berkeley Language Center are very grateful for the administration’s ongoing strong support and we look forward to continuing to work with language instructors and students, providing them with resources to enhance their language teaching and learning experience.

All of us who love languages have much to celebrate.

Rick Kern is the director of the Berkeley Language Center. Reply to opinion@dailycal.org.

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by Kelly Suckow Staff Writer

The Cal softball team is on a roll.

With a seven-game winning streak under their belts, the No. 10 Bears (9-1) take their momentum to Fullerton, Calif., for the DeMarini Invitational.

Pitcher Jolene Henderson’s versatility in the circle and at the plate is a big part of that strength.

At last weekend’s Cathedral City Classic, her 28 2/3 innings of work have boosted her in the conference rankings at this point in the preseason.

The sophomore is first in the Pac-10 in innings pitched (63 2/3) and is tied for first with 22 strikeouts.

The Elk Grove, Calif., native shrugs off the attention.

“I’m just doing what the team wants,” Henderson said. “Everyone is showing strength, and that is what you need. They’re right behind me and I can never do well without them.”

The players behind her are gaining recognition in the conference standings as well. The Bears are second with a 0.971 fielding percentage.

On the other side of the ball, players like shortstop Britt Vonk and outfielder Jamia Reid have garnered accolades of their own. Vonk is second in the Pac-10 with a 0.536 batting average and Reid is fourth with eight steals.

The weekend’s slate starts with a doubleheader on Friday, with a tilt against Northwestern (7-5).

“Northwestern is a Big 10 team and we are making it a goal to beat teams

in big conferences like the Big 10 and SEC,” catcher Lindsey Ziegenhirt said.

Last year, the Wildcats crept up on the Bears in the bottom of the sixth inning. They turned the tide in their favor with an RBI from Emily Haug and a two-run homer from Kelly Dyer for the win, 5-3.

Both Haug and Dyer have since graduated, but first baseman Adrienne Monka, shortstop Emily Allard and relief pitcher Meghan Lamberth return.

Allard leads off with a team-best 0.571 batting average, while Monka provides power in the lineup — she has five home runs and 13 RBI. On the rubber, Lamberth has 18 strikeouts and six wins.

Following the game against Northwestern, Cal plays Indiana UniversityPurdue University Fort Wayne (4-0-1).

Mastodon pitcher Courtney Cronin has recorded three complete-game shutout wins with 16 strikeouts and three walks. Through five games, only seven players have been able to get a hit off of her.

Her 0.00 ERA will be a force to be reckoned. The Bears kick off Saturday’s docket with a match against Iowa (7-5) and wrap up the weekend with Murray State (2-4).

“We always try to put an exclamation mark on wins,” Ziegenhirt said. “Any win this weekend, as long as we put in our best effort and make it an exclamation win, would be a good win.”

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

Rugby: Bears Play First Conference Game Ever from Back

According to senior wing Dustin Muhn, the formation of the new CPD, a group of teams considered a rung above Division I, does not impact the Bears much since Cal ordinarily faces the top teams. Nonetheless, the squad is ready to begin league play, he said.

“The stakes are a bit higher now that we’re entering Premier (Division) competition, and just like we would every year, we make a conscious note of it,” Muhn said. “But it’s not going to change the way we prepare.”

Cal is unsure of what the Aztecs will bring to the table this year with a new coach. Hartley replaced Cal product and current Stanford head coach Matt Sherman. The Bears are certain, however, that their challengers are skilled players

that will capitalize on Cal’s mistakes.

The key to the match, according to Clark, is keeping the “athletic” Aztecs in front of the Bears because they have the ability to burn opponents with fast break plays. Strong defense will be critical to that endeavor, but Cal hopes to spend more time attacking than defending its goal line.

“I’d be very disappointed if we were playing as much defense as we had to play at UBC,” Clark said. “They had, I think, every bit as much if not more possession than we had. I would hope that we can change that around this Saturday.”

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

Cal Seeks to Double its Fun in San Diego Weekend Tournament

by Annie Gerlach Staff Writer

On doubles court No. 2, senior Pedro Zerbini and junior Tommie Murphy of the Cal men’s tennis team waited.

The two were down 6-7 against JeanCharles Diame and Francis Alcantara of Fresno State, and they needed to break serve to win the match.

“That was the most stressful part of the match, that moment when Fresno served,” Cal coach Peter Wright said.

“It was a challenge to get out of that situation.”

But Zerbini and Murphy did get out.

And after a tie break they seized the final 9-8 score for themselves — clinching the doubles point for Cal as well.

After Zerbini and Murphy’s performance, the No. 14 Bears (6-3) went on to sweep the match, 7-0, at the Aztec Tennis Center in San Diego on Thursday.

The Bulldogs (5-6) won the first match of the day on the top doubles court, where Cal’s duo of junior Nick Andrews and sophomore Christoffer Konigsfeldt fell, 8-2, to Remi Boutillier and Rikus de Villiers.

Fresno State wouldn’t post a win for the remainder of the match.

Sophomore Riki McLachlan and his freshman brother Ben overpowered Taylor Witt and Siddharth Alapati, 8-2, keeping Cal in the race for the doubles point.

Then came Zerbini and Murphy’s narrow comeback.

“I wasn’t worried,” Zerbini said. “It ended up being closer than it was sup-

posed to be. But I knew we had a shot and I’m grateful we pulled it off.”

According to Wright, that final doubles match set the tone for the rest of the day. For singles, Cal used the momentum gained in the doubles matches to trounce all six opponents.

“We really narrowed our focus in singles,” Wright said. “We were a bit out of sync in doubles. But after that we just concentrated on being more offensive and making fewer mental errors.”

No Bulldog won more than four individual games in a set. From Zerbini’s easy 6-1, 6-3, victory over de Villiers on the top court, to senior Bozhidar Katsarov’s 6-2, 6-2 triumph over David Ayoun on court No. 6, the Bears routed Fresno State.

Konigsfeldt’s 6-2, 6-3 win over Diame on court No. 3 clinched the day’s contest, 4-0, for Cal. Still, the fact that the match was already decided didn’t stop the Bears from securing the last three matches for good measure.

Both the Bulldogs and the Bears will stay in San Diego this weekend to compete in the Pacific Coast Doubles Championships at the La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club.

Cal is the first to admit that doubles aren’t its strong suit, so the team plans to use this tournament to improve.

“We’ll all have different partners than who we normally play with,” said Zerbini, who will play alongside Ben McLachlan. “It will be a great way to work on crossing and serving.”

Annie Gerlach covers men’s tennis.

Contact her at agerlach@dailycal.org.

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County documents list those protesters as being held on $10,000 bail. Archer said he believes the one female protester being held will be taken to Santa Rita Jail and that the two male protesters still being held will be taken to the Glenn E. Dyer Detention Facility.

According to Lesley Haddock, a UC Berkeley freshman and one of the protesters booked for trespassing, protesters were put into police vans around midnight and then brought into the station between 1:30 a.m. and 2 a.m.

Those booked exclusively for trespassing were not released until 8:30 a.m. on Thursday morning when processing was completed.

“They said because the processing was taking so long they were keeping us in the cells,” Haddock said.

Two of those booked for trespassing said they felt the decision to additionally book others on charges of obstructing a peace officer seemed arbitrary.

“What they were doing was refusing to stand up and letting their bodies

go limp and allowing themselves to be dragged out,” Haddock said.

While the charge for obstructing a peace officer in the line of duty is colloquially referred to as “resisting arrest,” under the California Penal Code, the charge can also include “any person who willfully resists, delays or obstructs any public officer, peace officer ... in the discharge or attempt to discharge any duty of his or her office of employment.”

Though Yao said police are still working to authenticate the student status of all of those who were arrested, UCPD’s crime logs show that seven of the protesters who were arrested Wednesday are UC Berkeley students and that none of the three booked on the obstruction charge were students.

Thanks to the agreement reached Thursday between that day’s protesters and the campus administration, the 17 will also be free of any student conduct charges associated with their involvement in the protest.

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staff members will decrease as the division cannot afford to replace all retirees, Hesse said. Although 22 social science faculty members are retiring this year, the division will only hire 12 for next year.

“I don’t think any of us are happy about staff reductions,” said Charles Henry, chair for the department of African American studies. “You know, it’s more work for less people but it’s a part of Operational Excellence and a part of the effort to make up for the huge budget deficit.”

Hesse said despite staff consolidation, the departments will remain independent.

“I think there’s a lot of anxiety because (students) hear clustering and they think downsizing,” she said. We are not downsizing or consolidating the majors.”

City Considers More Hours for Telegraph Shops

by Karinina Cruz Staff Writer

Looking to offer Southside’s student-centric population a livelier commercial zone and to increase business vitality on Telegraph Avenue, the city of Berkeley’s Planning Commission will hold a public hearing for the proposed extension of Telegraph business hours after its advised changes to the proposal have been made.

At its meeting Wednesday, the commission reviewed the council referral — based on the Telegraph Business Improvement District’s proposal to extend business operation hours to 3 a.m. as part of a plan to transform Telegraph into a 24-hour commercial zone — and asked the city’s Planning & Development Department to draft a new report, which will restrict the proposal to establishments that do not sell alcoholic beverages and will be maintained between Bancroft and Dwight Ways.

“We really didn’t make a decision, (but we) explored the question and (are) leaning toward a public hearing,” said James Samuels, a member of the commission.

One main issue raised was the Berkeley Police Department’s opposition to the proposal, which was the basis of the city staff’s refusal to support the extension,

Dave Fogarty, the city’s economic development coordinator, said at the meeting.

Roland Peterson, the district’s executive director, responded to the issue of police concerns by saying that similar arguments have been made by other police departments in regard to different cities’ incorporation of a 24hour commercial zone. “(It’s a) knee-jerk reaction of the police to oppose, but it’s up to us to show them it works,” said Craig Becker, owner of Caffe Mediterraneum and main proponent of the extension.

The commission also touched on the financial implications — in particular, the cost of overtime pay for police officers — of extending Telegraph businesses’ hours.

At the meeting, Peterson added that Blake’s on Telegraph, where most of the police concerns previously arose, is now closed and that there will be a “long discussion on what would take its place.”

Though Peterson stressed that the proposal includes “soft closings” for bars, which would provide an extra hour for customers to stay and eat in such establishments and “trickle out in a gradual process,” the commission does not wish to include establishments that sell alcohol, which may not serve food during the additional hours.

“If (bars) stay open past 2 a.m.,

(commissioners) want to make sure they make food available,” Becker said.

Commission member David Stoloff said at the meeting that the 3 a.m. extension “may be palpable” if it is limited to establishments between Bancroft and Dwight that do not serve alcohol.

Although restrictions on liquor sold outside of bars and restaurants are not included in the district’s original proposal, Becker said the district wants to restrict “off-sales” to 12 a.m., as opposed to the current limit of 2 a.m.

The commission also considered the possible redirection of late-night activity to the UC Berkeley campus due to planned retail expansion on Lower Sproul Plaza and student demands for extended hours.

Regardless of the restrictions suggested by the commission, several businesses maintain their support for creating an active business atmosphere on Telegraph.

Renee Araneda, owner of Tienda Ho — a clothing store on Telegraph — said at the meeting that though she would not extend her operation hours, the lights of businesses that would stay open later would make the avenue “feel safer, and that feeling will carry over to the day.”

Karinina Cruz covers business.

Contact her at kcruz@dailycal.org.

Co-Op Board Set to Vote on Drug Policy Changes

by True Shields Staff Writer

Amid concerns about drug use in the Berkeley Student Cooperative and the impacts of a student’s overdose last spring, the co-op’s board of directors was set to discuss and vote Thursday on possible changes to drug policy as well as potential collaboration with campus resources.

As of press time, Thursday’s projected meeting agenda included a discussion of the creation of a new student liaison to the Tang Center, a suggestion to distribute the overdose antidote naloxone at co-ops and a suggested revision of the “good Samaritan” policy — which prevents evidence obtained when a resident calls 911 to report an overdose from being used by the co-op against the caller, according to BSC President and former employee of The Daily Californian Daniel Kronovet.

At the co-op’s Feb. 26 general meeting, about 150 students gathered in the Valley Life Sciences Building to listen to a panel featuring UCPD Chief Mitch Celaya, Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Harry Le Grande and other drug and legal experts, prompting a discussion which several co-op alumni called “historic” for its frank assessment of the co-op’s drug policies.

The meeting was announced in a Jan. 14 letter urging students to discuss drug policy and examine the co-op’s financial situation in light of current debt payments and the ramifications of an overdose last spring.

Among the most pressing issues discussed at the February meeting was the recent name change of the co-op’s new Community Harm Reduction platform to “BSC CARES” in order to soften the message of the program, which aims to mitigate the impact of drug use in the co-op community. The meeting also addressed the possible creation of an internal student position acting as

liaison to the Tang Center to educate students about drug policies.

This liaison position was set to be discussed Thursday, as well as whether to revise the good Samaritan policy to include the victim’s immunity as well.

“By enacting harsher penalties and stricter policies, kicking out drug abusers, (the co-op is) creating all the conditions for another overdose where people will be afraid of calling 911 because there are no protective policies,” said Lothlorien Hall member Michael Ruderman.

Le Grande, who has been at UC Berkeley since 1981, said he has worked with the co-op over the years to prevent overdoses. He said he recalls that when major overdose incidents occurred at Barrington Hall in 1989 and Le Chateau in 2004, the co-op’s only recourse was to shut down the houses in an attempt to reform them.

The decision to close Barrington resulted in a 25.1 percent increase in room and board for members, while Le Chateau’s closure caused a 12.6 percent rate increase, documents show.

Early efforts to change policy after the incidents were met with mixed responses.

“One of my suggestions (after Barrington) was to divide the larger buildings up into about 50-person increments to gain some oversight,” Le Grande said. “The eventual outcome was to shut the house down, fix it up and bring people back, but the culture returned.”

Madelyn Bennett, the mother of John Gibson — a former UC Berkeley student who suffered brain damage resulting from a cocaine overdose last March at Cloyne Court and continues to receive intensive care — has assigned an investigator to pursue a $3 million claim against the co-op’s liability insurance.

While the co-op has “excellent” insurance rates due to an absence of claims in the past five years and a $4 million excess liability policy, if Ben-

nett’s claim is successful and if the coop’s insurance rates increase, student room and board fees will be directly affected, according to co-op executive director Jan Stokley.

“The BSC has enormous sympathy for anyone injured by overdosing on illegal drugs, but we do not believe that the organization is responsible for the harm which results,” Stokley said in an e-mail.

As a nonprofit, a vast majority of the co-op’s costs are borne by member rates. The organization received only $157,342 in donations from 2008 to 2009, while members’ room and board fees provided nearly $8 million of about $8.7 million in revenue for the year, documents show.

Bennett said her claim is well warranted — expenses resulting from Gibson’s overdose include about $177,000 for nurses, $70,000 for medical equipment and $35,000 to fly Gibson back to his San Diego home, according to Bennett.

“I would like to see the co-ops changed completely,” Bennett said. “Students are up in arms about not having an affordable place to live and yet they buy liquor, drugs and all these things.”

To Bennett, whose living room now resembles a trauma center because of the oxygen machine and racks of towels lining the walls for her son, the coop’s culture may be unredeemable.

“If you tell a 4-year-old you can have chocolate for every meal, then that is what they will pick,” she said.

Kronovet said that optimally, the co-op will take current student suggestions into account in future meetings while continuing to uphold a policy he said is “incredibly gentle.”

“This is one of the first times we have consciously addressed our culture,” he said. “Now we have support for education and concrete projects.”

True Shields covers the courts. Contact him at tshields@dailycal.org.

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Bears Seeing Red for Regular Season Finale

by Ed Yevelev Senior Staff Writer

Just one game over .500, Stanford is by no means an upper-echelon Pac-10 team.

Still, facing the Cardinal in SaturCal day’s 4 p.m. regumen’s lar season finale at Haas PavilionHoops will be something TIPOFF: of a measuring stick for the Cal Cal battles basketball team.

Stanford vs Few Pac- on 10 teams have Saturday changed more over the course of at 4 p.m. at Haas conference play Pavilion. than the Bears TV/Radio: CSN, (16-13, 9-8 in KNEW (910 AM) the Pac-10), who opened up 2011 with a humbling 82-68 defeat across the Bay. Stanford (15-14, 7-10) led by as many as 17 and never trailed in the contest, handing Cal its lone doubledigit conference loss to a team not named Washington.

Looking back to the first meeting against Johnny Dawkins’ club shows just how far the Bears have progressed over two months.

“We’re a completely different team,” junior Harper Kamp said. “As the season’s gone on, we’ve definitely started to click. Guys are a little more comfortable than they used to be, as far as our game goes.”

The differences are stark, indeed.

At Maples Pavilion on Jan. 2, Brandon Smith had yet to establish himself as Cal’s primary handler; shuffling between Smith, the nowdeparted Gary Franklin and Jorge Gutierrez at the point guard spot, the Bears turned in an erratic performance on offense in Stanford.

During a stretch of eight second-half possessions, Cal gave the turned the ball over five times to ground any kind of comeback effort.

Similarly, Allen Crabbe had yet to find his role.

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Now a go-to scorer and the team’s top outside shooter, Crabbe was blanked in the second half against the Cardinal after seven quick points to start the game. The freshman guard has had just two single-digit performances since, and is coming off his best two-game stretch of the season: a combined 45 points, including 10 3-pointers, during a pair of comebacks up in Oregon.

“Allen is definitely coming into his own,” Kamp said. “From a personal standpoint, I know it helps me out.

Guys can’t collapse inside on me, they have to respect guys like Allen as a shooter.”

For all of their improvement on offense, the Bears can also exact some defensive redemption on Saturday, after allowing Stanford to shoot 72.2 percent after intermission the first time around.

Jeremy Green poured in 21 for the Cardinal in January, including five 3-pointers, while 6-foot-9 forward Dwight Powell burned Kamp for 20 — 13 came after the break.

“We definitely didn’t play well against them last time,” Kamp said in.

“They pretty much took it to us, and we’re gonna have a little chip on our shoulders.

One player looking for an extra-special performance is Markhuri SandersFrison, who will be making his final regular season appearance at Haas.

After fighting injuries for much of his brief career, the junior college transfer from Portland, Ore., has stepped up this season in a big way — providing reliable double-digit scoring in the low post and a solid rebounding presence for an undersized Cal squad.

“It’s crazy, time went by real fast,” said Sanders-Frison, who will be joined by his parents and older sister on Saturday afternoon. “(This experience) has passed my expectations. It’s just been a great chapter of my life, it’s meant a lot for me. I’ve grown a lot here.”

Ed Yevelev covers men’s basketball.

Contact him at eyevelev@dailycal.org.

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Harper Kamp is second on the team in both scoring and rebounding, checking in at 14.4 points and 5.7 boards per game. The redshirt junior has started every game this season.

On Saturday at noon, the Cal rugby team will take the pitch for the first time since beating British Columbia two weeks ago — but the Bears (15-0) don’t want a repeat of their comeback thriller.

Cal was nearly shut out in the first 40 minutes against the Thunderbirds, and trailed for the first time this season.

The Bears will look to dominate San Diego State the whole way through at the Little “Q,” adjacent to Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego.

“It’s an important game to win, but I don’t think there’s many guys on the team that felt that they played to their potential,” coach Jack Clark said of the 21-13 triumph over UBC. “I think it would be nice to go out and put in an 80-minute performance that we’re really proud of.”

The same is true for the Aztecs, although their focus may be more on improving their focus in the last 40 minutes than the first 40. In its last battle, San Diego State held a 34-12 edge over Arizona in the second half, but the Wildcats rallied to a 36-34 victory.

“They were playing just amazing rugby in the first half,” San Diego State coach Craig Hartley said of his team.

“And I think because of that and the lead that they had developed, they took their foot off the pedal ... They know now that they can’t back off because they know teams won’t roll over.”

Both squads have the chance to redeem themselves with College Premier Division competition opening this weekend. Everything up until this point is considered the preseason.

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Cardinal Crushes Bears to Complete Pac-10 Sweep

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by Jack Wang The Cal baseball team began the University of San Diego Tournament yesterday, its bats still warm from a 29run explosion last weekend.

Just baseball two innings in, 6 Marcus Semien Cal made sure they San Diego 2 started burning.

Facing two outs and loaded bases against host San Diego in the second, the shortstop sent a pitch sailing over the left field fence.

His first career grand slam — the No. 14 Bears’ of the season — kicked the lead up to 5-0 in the eventual 6-2 win at Cunningham Stadium.

The home run was also Semien’s first of the spring, nearly doubling his RBI from five to nine on the season. After batting .328 a year ago, the junior had been slow out of the gate, hitting just .217 through six games.

“He made a good sacrifice bunt down in the first inning,” coach David Esquer said. “When you start doing things positive offensively, it can relax you a little bit. You don’t feel like you have to do so much to help the team.”

Despite the outpour, Semien’s roundtripper was only Cal’s second hit of the inning. Catcher Chadd Krist was the first man on base for the Bears after being hit by a pitch. Two walks and a single put the team on the scoreboard and set up Semien’s at-bat.

On the mound, junior Dixon Anderson limited the Toreros to six runs in his six innings of action. The righty notched just one strikeout, but forced

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Talia Caldwell led the Bears with eight rebounds in their 24-point loss on Thursday.

The sophomore center leads Cal with a whopping 8.2 rebounds per game this season.

Stanford’s starting seniors Jeanette Pohlen and Kayla Pedersen have never lost at Maples Pavilion.

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The Cal women’s basketball team put up a worthy fight on Thursday night, but were eventually overwhelmed by the No. 2 Cardinal, falling, 75-51.

Pedersen and Pohlen put the finishing touches on a perfect conference record. The duo combined for 32 points, 13 rebounds and 10 assists for Stanford (27-2, 18-0 in the Pac-10), which had already clinched the Pac-10 championship.

Cal (15-14, 7-11) actually kept the game close in the first half and was only down by five points at the break. The Bears were shooting 50 percent at the half.

The key to Cal’s offensive success was the sweet stroke of Rachelle Federico.

The senior guard was in the starting lineup for just the second time in her career (the first time was on Saturday against Oregon State), and she scored a career-high 16 points. The Tucson, Ariz., native was 2-for-5 from behind the arc and made 6-of-11 baskets.

She wasn’t the only one hitting midrange jumpers, though.

Pohlen did not miss her first shot until about eight minutes left in the game. The point guard nailed shot after shot from the free throw line.

While Pedersen and Pohlen were among the seniors honored after the game, junior forward Nnemkadi Ogwumike put on a show as well. The reigning Pac-10 Player of the Year capitalized on her return from an ankle injury that sidelined her for two games and limited her to 12 minutes on

Saturday. She scored 16 points, grabbed eight rebounds and had three steals against Cal. Many probably expected a repeat of the teams’ matchup on Jan. 2. In the Pac-10 opener, Stanford blew the Bears out of their own gym, winning by 33 points. But on Thursday, it was a much different story.

The game was surprisingly competitive until the Cardinal broke open the game with an 11-0 run that spanned the end of the first half and the beginning of the second half.

Although Cal was still lurking not too far behind, and still competing, the Bears could never mount a comeback in the second half, missing eight of their nine 3-point attempts after intermission.

Meanwhile, Stanford shot 51.8 percent as a whole and outrebounded Cal, 40-28. The Bears did not have enough offensive firepower to match the Cardinal at Maples Pavilion, where Stanford has not lost since February 2007.

Cal’s leading scorer DeNesha Stallworth was held without a point.

Stanford trapped the sophomore power forward whenever she got the ball and, like in the squads’ first matchup, she did not make a field goal.

Nor did Cal have enough fuel. In the second half, the Cardinal would get easy layups after beating the Bears’ press.

Things got sloppy, too. At one point near the end of the game, Cal center Talia Caldwell lost the ball, which went off her shoe, and teammate Rama N’diaye picked it up. N’diaye promptly missed the layup, which Caldwell failed to follow despite grabbing the board.

The Bears would have had to play a perfect game to break Stanford’s now61 game win streak at home. Cal will have to settle with the moral victory of a competitive first half.

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