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Top UC Leaders Discuss Current State of the University Yudof Addresses Future, Present Condition of UC Regarding Potential Fee Hikes, Academic Quality

Academic Senate Chair And Vice Chair Discuss State Budget, Keeping Faculty Within the UC

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On Thursday, reporters Aaida Samad and Jordan Bach-Lombardo sat down with Chair of the UC systemwide Academic Senate Daniel Simmons and Vice Chair Robert Anderson to talk about the state budget, its potential impacts on the UC and potential solutions to maintain the university’s core values of “access, affordability and excellence.”

On Thursday, The Daily Californian and other UC student newspapers met with UC President Mark Yudof, Executive Vice President for ONLINE VIDEO Business Oper- See video and complete ations Nathan Brostrom and interview transcripts Provost Law- online at dailycal.org. rence Pitts to discuss the current state of the UC and what lies ahead.

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The Daily Californian: Do you guys have general reactions to (the budget cuts), especially the ballot measure? Because in talking to Yudof today it’s interesting to hear him say that he’s not supporting the ballot measure out-and-out right now because even though you need the tax extensions, you don’t know exactly what’s going to be on the ballot measure in terms of the hard cap on spending. Daniel Simmons: You know, we are toast without those tax extensions, end of story. We’ll be a very different place if we have to take another $500 million cut, which is what people are anticipating if those tax extensions aren’t enacted. Yudof makes a very good point, it’s very difficult to support a ballot measure if you don’t know what is going to be on it, and what trade-offs the governor may have to agree to to get Republican support. If there is, for example, a hard spending cap on the

UC President Mark Yudof (top), Academic Senate Chair Daniel Simmons and Vice Chair Robert Anderson discussed the UC with students.

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The Daily Californian: Historically there have been those higher ed compacts between the governor and the UC ... Is there a legal recourse you can take to ensure that level of funding? Mark Yudof: No. There is no legal recourse. I actually taught constitutional law and contracts when I made a respectable living, and you can’t do that. The lesson I learned from that experience is you don’t enter into a compact with the governor; you have to get the leadership in the House and the Senate, Assembly and the Senate and hopefully the minority leaders in the Senate and the Assembly and the governor, enter into a compact. But if you actually mean legally enforceable like could we file a lawsuit ... the answer is no. The California Aggie: The (Legislative Analyst’s Office) also recommended a 7 percent fee hike in the next academic year — what do you think about that?

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Protest Agreement Resolves Construction of Arpeggio Building Resumes Some Student Conduct Claims by Karinina Cruz Staff Writer

by Aaida Samad Staff Writer

For UC Berkeley sophomore Abhay Agarwal, demonstrations centered around Wheeler Hall marked both the beginning and the end of nearly a year Editor’s Note and a half he spent dealing with his This is the second pending campus installment of a student conduct five-part series on proceedings. student conduct. Agarwal — who faced misconduct charges for his involvement in the November 2009 occupation of Wheeler Hall — resolved his case earlier this week as a result of negotiations between administrators and a negotiator for protesters who occupied the fourth-floor ledge of Wheeler Hall March 3. As part of the March 3 negotiations, students with pending conduct charges from the November 2009 occupation could choose to accept an informal resolution of probation for the rest of the semester rather than proceed with a formal conduct hearing. Following the negotiations, Agarwal chose to accept the offer, settling his case informally, he said in an e-mail. “I’m entirely in awe of the success of the balcony occupation of Wheeler Hall,” Agarwal said in an e-mail. “In light of that victory and in order to set a new precedent for future protests,

I have decided to accept the offer of probation.” Agarwal is one of about a dozen students from the November 2009 protests who needed to resolve their conduct proceedings by the beginning of the semester. Like Agarwal, most of those who had not resolved such cases have now settled for the probation offer, according to Daniela Urban, the UC Berkeley School of Law student who negotiated on behalf of the protesters. Urban is also a member of the Campus Rights Project, a group that has been advising students with student conduct charges. Associate Dean of Students Christina Gonzales said she was happy the students who sat on the Wheeler Hall ledge were safe and that they were able to reach some sort of agreement. “I’m glad that students who wanted to be done with the process are done now,” she said. “I’m happy we’ve gotten to the point where we can resolve as many cases as possible.” She added she was not happy that the process has taken so long, and she hopes the remaining cases will be resolved by the end of the semester. Urban said for students, the decision to settle involved weighing a variety of issues. She said because the conduct

While plans for the revitalization of Downtown Berkeley are slowly beginning to start, the construction of a nine-story building that will bring additional condominium units to the area has resumed after it slowed down due to financial negotiations between owners and lenders. Located on Center Street, the Arpeggio — a multi-use building with approximately 187,345 square feet of primarily residential space — is set to be completed by July or August. SNK Realty Group, the property owner, is currently advertising and pre-marketing the units despite the deceleration of their construction, which was a result of several months of working with lenders to modify the real estate firm’s loans. The building will include 143 residential units, about 12,274 square feet for cultural arts use, a ground floor retail space and a garage with 160 vehicle spaces. Of the 143 units, 23 will be sold at lower prices due to city and state affordable housing requirements. Don Peterson, the group’s director of development executive vice president, said construction on the building is 90 percent complete and that he expects the scaffolding to come down to the second-story level in April. According to Steve Smith of Norheim & Yost, a real estate firm that deals with land sales for development projects, construction halts on major projects such as the Arpeggio are uncommon, and development firms are often tightlipped about the reasons behind delays. He added that the development market has been somewhat “dead” over the past few years. “There are very few developers out looking for projects and those that are still around are looking for dirt cheap deals,” Smith said in an e-mail. “Those developers that acquired land just before the fallout and had not yet begun construction, are sitting, waiting and watching.”

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state budget, that ballot measure could be in the long term more harmful to the university than helpful, and you couldn’t support that. DC: A few of Yudof ’s buzzwords have been “access, affordability, and excellence,� and you’re saying that the excellence is non-negotiable, if it comes to a cut, how about access and affordability — do those get cut? DS: It really is my belief that if we lose affordability and have to raise fees, at some point the state of California might be able to come back and say, this is too expensive, we need to provide a lower-cost public education, and we could do that. Same thing with access, in a way, the state of California, if we have to cut enrollment in this budget crisis, the state of California can come back and say, we need to enhance the budget, put the instructors in place, put the classrooms in place, and we can do that, without too much difficulty. If we lose the quality of the University of California, if we lose the faculty and the high level of high quality research faculty that makes the university, if we lose that, we’ll never get it back, or it would take decades to get it back ... It simply won’t come back if we lose that, and we’re on the edge of losing that. DC: Do you think that there’s a prospect for holding onto (faculty), given

the significant financial barriers? Robert Anderson: Another effect of the budget cuts on faculty is just (there are) fewer of us. So most of the UC campuses have done only minimal hiring last year and this year ... That has a whole bunch of effects. It clearly has an adverse effect for students because ... to make that work either the faculty are teaching larger classes or there will be more classes taught by visiting faculty, let’s say. So the contact with the regular faculty ends up diminishing in that situation ... It also has some effect on faculty morale, particularly for small departments. There’s a critical mass that you need in order to make it work. A large department may be able to shrink a little bit, but a smaller department ... it’s a lot tougher. And even in a large department, if there is someone there who is very close in their research interest to yours, and that’s the only person and he or she retires, and the decision is you can’t replace them, it may be a loss in terms of the quality of interactions and stimulation you get from others. One of the biggest things that’s helped develop the UC, the quality of the faculty has been that people like to be around other good faculty and good graduate students and good undergraduate students. Contact Jordan Bach-Lombardo and Aaida Samad at newsdesk@dailycal.org.

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hen I was 7 years old I went to Paris with my family. I remember trying Nutella for the first time and stuffing my little body with as much baguette and brie cheese as it could handle. My most puzzling memory, however, took place after a lovely dinner at a cafe. After the plates were cleared my mother asked the waiter for a “café au lait” (coffee with milk). To our great shock, the waiter said, in a thick French accent with a condescending smirk on his face, “Why of course, madam. Would you like me to bring you a donut to dunk in it?” He proceeded to laugh and walk away, never to bring the coffee ... or the donut. A local later informed us that the French do not, I repeat do not, drink milk past 8 p.m. And they don’t let anyone else do it either. By requesting that particular beverage, my mother and everyone else at the table were instantly labeled as dumb, donut-loving Americans. This was my first experience with the complicated rules that govern dining in cultures that are not my own. At the time, I was at a complete loss as to why this waiter cared what my mother drank. At home, no one ever told me what to eat, when to eat or where to eat. America is the home of the KFC Double Down, bacon ice cream and deep-fried Mars bars. People eat breakfast for dinner and dinner for breakfast. America is truly the land of the free; no food is off-limits. But as I got older and began to immerse myself into all things culinary, I realized that the rest of the world has structures they stick to and rules they abide by when eating. Countries pride themselves on their deep respect for food. And when it comes to being serious about food, the Europeans pretty much stand on a pedestal, only to be admired by the rest of the world. “You want to be a chef?” people always tell me, “go study in Italy.” “You want to really learn to cook? Go to France.” Throughout my life, it has become obvious that America is the home of the drive-through, while Europe is the palace of the gourmet. ecently I was at Trattoria La Siciliana for my friend’s birthday dinner. It is a restaurant meant to give you the same dining experience as you would find in a traditional Italian trattoria (as the name may imply). It is small, crowded and pleasant, with the feel of a genuine family-owned business. After eating way too much of their amazing bread with garlic-infused olive oil, the waitress came to take our party’s order. The restaurant serves food family-style, and as a passionately stubborn group of eight we were having trouble deciding on a menu. When we asked the waitress for suggestions, she collected our menus and said, “Don’t worry, I’ll order for you guys. Trust me, I own the place.” She gave us a hint of a wink, her confident Italian demeanor radiating. I was intrigued. As a foodie, it has always been my dream to have a restaurant owner bring me the best dishes on the menu. “Any allergies?” she asked.

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HARLEY FRANK “I don’t eat pork.” She scribbled on her notepad. “I hate anchovies.” She rolled her eyes a little. “Me too!” She rolled her eyes a lot. “No olives, please.” She looked pissed. “I don’t eat seafood.” The waitress, no longer able to hide her disgust, grumbled, “typical Americans,” and walked away. She proceeded to bring us bruschetta with tomatoes and basil, penne with meatballs, spaghetti with pesto, penne with pink sauce and peas and chicken with artichoke hearts. The meal came to a dull close with a piece of tiramisu for the birthday girl. t was clearly the preset dumb American menu. She didn’t bring us any of the house specialties: the spaghetti with squid ink or gnocchi with fried eggplant and ricotta salata. She had clearly judged our ability to appreciate food by our “typical American” taste preferences. Well, now it was my turn to be pissed. The Italians, and almost every other culture in the world, pride themselves on having their own distinct palettes and dining rituals. So why did ours mean we could no longer appreciate sophisticated food? Why is it embarrassing for me to admit that I don’t enjoy the slimy, fishy, mushy, salty taste of whole anchovies when an Italian would proudly turn down a hot dog, fresh out of the carts that grace Manhattan’s every corner? Why do I feel pressured to enjoy the French delicacy of goose liver when a Frenchman would stick up his nose to a Philly cheesesteak? Why does everyone else think they are better than us? American dining culture is constantly degraded. The burgers, the mac and cheese and the fried chicken are called unsophisticated. But what makes a burger anything less than escargot? What makes mac and cheese inferior to a lasagna? The answer is absolutely nothing. As Americans, we need to embrace our culinary identity. If we all start owning the palettes our mamas gave us, maybe Europeans will stop giving us so much shit for them. Because whether it makes me a supposedly palette-less American or not, I will never turn down classic glazed donut to dunk in my coffee, and I am proud of it.

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USGS Report Predicts Effects of a Major Storm by Sara Johnson Staff Writer

Six years before UC Berkeley was founded, California saw one of the worst storms in its history. To prepare for another, scientists have predicted the effects should a major storm hits the state. The U.S. Geological Survey’s MultiHazards Demonstration Project released a report in January outlining the effects of a hypothetical storm on California. The ARkStorm, which is modeled after a large storm in the mid-1800s, could cause substantial flooding and landslide damage to the Berkeley area. The project is intended to help the state prepare for large-scale natural disasters. According to the report, the ARkStorm could cost $725 billion statewide, including property and agricultural losses as well as lost business. Scientists emphasize, however, that this storm is a hypothetical model, not a prediction. “The ARkStorm is an emergencyplanning scenario,” said Keith Porter, an associate research professor of civil, environmental and architectural engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder. “It is one possible outcome of a severe winter storm in California ... By planning for this storm, one can be prepared for other storms.” Porter said ARkStorm economic loss estimates are based on national hazard loss estimates and potential flooding, and the losses “in a different storm

could be higher or lower.” He added that estimates become less reliable at the local level. “(For the city of Berkeley), the floodrelated building repair cost modeled in ARkStorm is approximately $150 million, or just over 1 percent of the building replacement cost,” said Porter, who coordinated physical impact assessments for ARkStorm, in an e-mail. ARkStorm is modeled after a storm that hit California in the winter of 1861 and 1862. That January, flooding in Sacramento forced the state Legislature to temporarily move to San Francisco. The Evening Bulletin, a San Francisco-based newspaper, reported on Jan. 24, 1862 that San Francisco had seen 36.67 inches of rain that season — almost twice that of the previous winter. Sacramento-based newspaper The Daily Bee reported a day earlier that 46 people had died due to the flood up to that point and “every bridge between Santa Clara and Pescadero has been swept away.” According to data maps released by the USGS, the ARkStorm flooding in Berkeley would mainly occur west of Interstate 80 and could reach levels from 3 to 10 feet for up to 12 hours. The data maps show larger impacts for the rest of the Bay Area. The runways at San Francisco International Airport as well as the Google campus in Mountain View and much of Silicon Valley could be flooded by 3 to 10 feet of water. Jonathan Stock, a research geologist with the USGS and ARkStorm, said the main concern for Berkeley is

landslides, particularly shallow landslides caused by intense rainfall. Deepseated landslides require “not a single storm but a series of storms” and happen days or weeks after the storm. “I do not think we are effectively prepared for a storm like this,” he said. Chris Wills, a California geologist who worked on landslides in ARkStorm, said “large areas” of the Berkeley Hills have deep-seated landslides, but the ARkStorm scenario would probably only affect “dozens of houses in the Berkeley (and) Oakland Hills.” In the 1968-69 rainy season, Alameda County had 13 landslides totaling $5.4 million in damages, according to Stock. In the 1972 to 1973 season, damages totaled $400,000. According to Wills, many of the homes in the Berkeley Hills were built prior to modern ordinances requiring new construction to be assessed for potential landslide damage. Nonetheless, he said most deep-seated landslides move slowly and thus cause damage slowly. UC Berkeley’s Office of Emergency Preparedness compared the ARkStorm report to the campus’s multi-hazard mitigation plan in January. Director Stephen Stoll said that after looking at the report, “We feel that our plans are adequate.” Mary Kay Clunies-Ross, city of Berkeley spokesperson, said the city does a lot of emergency preparedness, but that it is “not doing anything with (ARkStorm) at this time.” Sara Johnson covers the environment. Contact her at sjohnson@dailycal.org.

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The ASUC needs to more realistically set the budget or cut their spending to avoid exceeding the contingency fund.

t’s hardly a surprise that the ASUC senate has yet again found itself in the position where it has to replenish its contingency fund due to unplanned for amounts of spending — this is a practice that has been going on for years. However, what is surprising is that, after all this time, there are still no concrete plans to fully address the problem. ASUC Finance Officer Anuj Kamdar warned the senate at its Feb. 16 meeting that it is depleting its contingency fund at an unsustainable level. The figures are alarming: In the first four weeks of this semester, the senate spent $24,109.85 — only approximately $1,600 less than it spent during all of last semester. While the senate was able to write a bill transferring money from its reserve fund, the carry forward fund, relieving any immediate pressure, senators must realize that this is only a temporary solution and must finally tackle this recurring problem. The practice of continually draining and then refilling the contingency fund brings into question how the contingency amount is determined

in the first place. The ASUC should either be more realistic in their budgeting or curtail their spending to stay within their budgeted amount. We’re concerned that the current senators aren’t doing enough to address the problem. While finance committee chair Rachel Horning has identified practices that would help address the problem, there is no indication that any rules or guidelines are being changed to ensure compliance. The only firm step toward addressing the problem seems to be CalSERVE Senator Stefan Montouth’s bill stipulating that allocation bills be submitted to the senate no later than the Tuesday before any event. This proposal, while common sense, won’t singlehandedly solve the problems. We want to see more concrete steps toward solving this problem, especially as this spring’s allocation nears. The carry forward fund is a limited reserve — not an endless source of extra money — and in budgeting next year’s contingency fund, senators shouldn’t expect their successors to continue the tradition of regular bailouts.

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Police response to last week’s protests, while professional, escalated the protests and caused unnecessary disruption.

very protest is a careful balance between the protesters’ actions and the police response. Escalation by either side, as we saw on Nov. 20, 2009, risks upsetting that balance and maximizing the disruption to campus. We are impressed with how UCPD handled the events of March 2. By repeatedly informing the protesters of what they were doing and giving deadlines in advance for leaving the building, UCPD Chief Mitch Celaya and the officers present were able to arrest the 17 protesters while avoiding confrontation. On March 3, when the protesters climbed out onto the ledge of Wheeler Hall, police immediately closed down the fourth floor of the building and stationed officers in the stairways. Classes continued as normal, and the only disruption to campus life was the small group of spectators gathering outside the building. Confrontation was entirely absent, as the deployment of the officers avoided the usual setup of dueling lines of protesters and police. We’re not sure why the police chose to escalate their response and

disrupt this delicate balance. When it was decided to close down Wheeler Hall, disrupting or forcing the cancellation of at least two midterms, the police moved from being unobtrusive to unavoidable. Even if they were concerned that Wheeler would be occupied, there was no reason to forcibly clear the stairs with pepper spray and batons. Last Thursday was not like Nov. 20 — many of the gathered crowd were casual bystanders, and the crowd became energized only after the police moved to secure the building. If protesters were preventing doors from being closed, officers could have pushed — rather than beaten or sprayed — them back. Police should have continued monitoring the situation and made necessary arrests in the off chance of an occupation. By instead electing to secure the entire building, they escalated the situation, tipped the balance and created the confrontation they aimed to prevent. When responding to protests, UCPD must weigh the necessity of controlling an area against the costs. On March 3, shutting down Wheeler Hall was too high a price to pay.

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by Sruti Bharat and Katya Cherukumilli Described as the “Bay Area’s Premier Eco-Lifestyle Festival,” PLAYGreen was hosted by the Recreational Sports Facility (RSF) on Feb. 25. A day of food samples and other giveaways sponsored mainly by corporate vendors, the purported “eco-friendly” event was green only in name, not practice. The leadership of Building Sustainability at Cal (BS@C), a studentrun, campus-funded organization contracted to provide waste management for the event, believe it is our responsibility to provide a public evaluation of this event. A year ago, many students and staff presented concerns to the RSF about how the event was not environmentally sustainable. The amount of giveaways undermined the message of reduction and rarely did the freebies have anything to do with sustainability. “Greenwashing,” or efforts by corporations to portray themselves as environmentally responsible to mask environmental wrongdoings, was prevalent. This year, the RSF promised improvements by earning Green Event Certification through the campus’s Office of Sustainability (but fulfilled only the minimum requirements to achieve this) and also contracted us for composting services. They put a slideshow presentation with each company’s sustainable commitments on the event’s Facebook page. The following quotes are from promotional e-mails and advertisements about the event: “Priority of Zero Waste: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.” “ We’ve reduced the number of

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exhibitors at the event and have concentrated our efforts on maximizing the engagement with a core group of campus and community partners.” “We’d like to ask for [the vendors’s] help to reduce our waste production by bringing recyclable/compostable packaging, cutlery and food containers for festival giveaways, whenever possible. ” In our professional and personal opinions, this year’s event did not live up to these promises, as demonstrated by these observations: Vendor behavior. Despite the expectation that vendors would minimize the environmental impacts of their operation, all vendors provided excessive handouts, possibly even more so than in 2010. Bank of America handed out water bottles, each individually wrapped with cardboard and plastic. San Francisco Soup Company used noncompostable cups. Several vendors threw waste arbitrarily without ensuring the correct segregation of materials. Event focus. In a casual discussion with Cal Dining farmers’ market, we found that they agreed students were there “just for the free stuff ” — otherwise they would have sold more vegetables, and student groups would have received more recruits. More vendors were brought in at the last moment, preventing the event from being “community-focused” as was claimed. Little to no attention was focused on companies’ sustainable practices at the event. Waste reduction was not taken seriously. The single commitment PLAYGreen made (to compost) was not completed satisfactorily on their end. Not only did they fail to provide waste hauling, which was not our contracted

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duty, but they also purchased only 26 compost bags when we agreed on 100. These bags had to be over-filled to handle the waste volume, which resulted in breakage and leaking. The one serious suggestion we offered for waste reduction (one plate and cup per student) was rejected. Overall, the failure to implement sustainable practices prompts Building Sustainability at Cal to draw the following conclusions: Many student and staff concerns from last year were not incorporated into this year’s event, so we have little faith in its potential to improve. PLAYGreen halfheartedly took simple strides, like paperless event promotion. A real commitment to sustainability would have been to enforce standards with vendors. This “strong encouragement” was missing, though it was promised. We recommend that student and sustainability groups refrain from participating in this event next year because they historically have gained nothing from this event, since the majority of attendees are not there to learn about sustainability. The event itself is, by nature, unsustainable and, essentially, all efforts to “go green” are gestures that mask the true purpose of corporate sponsorship. The campus and the RSF should realize why there is such concern about this event. When UC Berkeley hosts an event meant to be the most “eco-experiential” in the Bay Area, it must live up to that, or else our reputation as a leader in sustainability will crumble. As students and campus stakeholders, we must consider the difference between playing green and living green. Editor’s Note: Anna Szendrenyi and Krishna Kalpathy contributed to this piece. Sruti Bharat and Katya Cherukumilli are co-lead program coordinaters at BS@C. Reply to opinion@dailycal.org.

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Students, Staff Remember ASUC Building Supervisor by Amruta Trivedi Staff Writer

Remembered by students, staff and local business people as an incredibly hard-working man, the lead building maintenance supervisor for the ASUC Auxiliary, Juan Malano, died Feb. 28 after battling a long sickness. Co-workers, friends and acquaintances described Malano as a generous person who always had a smile on his face. “Juan would often stop by my office to inquire how I was doing,” said ASUC Auxiliary Director Nadesan Permaul, in an e-mail. “He would ask, ‘Good morning Mr. Nad. How are you?’ Those cheerful encounters meant a great deal to me, especially to begin the day.” Malano began working at the ASUC Auxiliary as a custodian in 2007 and eventually worked his way into a position to oversee the maintenance of ASUC facilities. Jeff Deutsch, director of the Cal Student Store, said he got to know Malano through the work he did fixing the lights and doors of the Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union. “Juan made significant improvements on how the union looks and feels,” Deutsch said. “There are things that would not be in the student union if Juan was not here.” To honor Malano, Deutsch asked the ASUC Senate to take a moment of silence during its March 2 meeting to no motions of objection. “We just took the moment of silence then and there,” said ASUC Executive Vice President Nanxi Liu. “We are all really appreciative of his help in setting

up tables, getting storage.” At the senate’s March 9 meeting, ASUC President Noah Stern asked the senators to contribute money to Malano’s family, part of which will also go toward buying flowers. The senators and ASUC Recording Secretary Steve Litwak also signed a card for Malano’s family. “Juan often went on retreats with ASUC leadership to get to know the students better,” Stern said. “He was a very valuable member of the ASUC family.” Stern recalled moving a giant stuffed bear to the Cal Lodge on Donner Summit with Malano. “Juan was laughing the whole time, making fun of students for being so scared of what to do with a stuffed bear,” Stern said. “He was able to enjoy every situation, even odd ones.” Auxilary staff remember Malano for his personality, strong work ethic and commitment to bettering the student union. “He often received ovations for his work, his ethic, his effort and written thank you notes from members of the staff,” Permaul said. According to Haitham Alloun — owner of the Coffee Spot in the Bear’s Lair Food Court — Malano, who he remembers as a “down to earth” and hard-working person, had been on a leave of absence since the end of 2010, but did come and visit his workplace in a wheelchair with his wife. Malano’s funeral service will be held this Saturday, March 12, in Clayton, Calif. He is survived by his wife, Rita Palacios and their children. Contact Amruta Trivedi at atrivedi@dailycal.org.

yudof: UC President Hints at ‘Radical Changes’ from front

MY: My position right now is, we’ve hit you so hard, I’m not planning on recommending a fee hike beyond what is already on the books, which is 8 percent in September. If this tax extension doesn’t go through, instead of a $500 million reduction, we have a billion dollar reduction plus $200 million from pension, plus union contracts we need to honor, plus energy costs, plus retiree health benefits. I just have to tell you, if that occurs all bets are off on everything, that’s enrollment, fees, financial aid, size of the faculty, student-faculty ratio ... this will really be a crux, and in my thinking, it will really be an extremely difficult situation, and so that’s where we are today ... We’re going to have to do some fairly radical changes ... and one thing I’m not going to compromise on is the quality of it, I’m just not going to turn this place into a place where we have a 40to-1 student-faculty ratio, you can’t get out with your degree in under five or six years because of class availability. It’s no longer the University of California at that point where we’re losing faculty members ... I’m not going to compromise on the quality. It’s going to be nasty if that scenario plays out. Daily Bruin: I know you’re saying that it’s going to be a really huge budget gap if the tax extensions don’t even get on the ballot, but I still don’t understand because you’re so tentative about the extensions themselves. Can you explain that — MY: I’m not tentative. I am in favor of extensions, but I don’t want to sign a blank check because there could be all

sorts of things in that ballot measure, which would gut the University of California, and I’m not going to sign on until I know what’s in it. And if it has hard caps, that means that we cannot get increased appropriations for the next five years, I have real reservations ... That’s the reason. It depends what else is in there. DC: What were some of the things that you weren’t expecting (as president) and what do you want your legacy to be as you’re continuing through? MY: I wish my legacy were I started the new programs, that I had the moral equivalent of the health care legislation and Social Security and we added 30,000 students to the University of California. I would say that what I’m trying to do, and it’s not easy to communicate, is I’m trying to deal with each of these issues one at a time and reach the most rational longrun solution we can ... Now what I’m wrestling with is to get us on a trajectory that will leave the great UC as a great university with a foundation to be even better in the future. So I’d like that to be the legacy, that through the worst economic time for universities probably since the Great Depression, that University of California came through it with its quality intact, its terrific student body, its professors and maybe this is just a foundation. Maybe we don’t grow like this for the next two, three or four years, but ultimately 10, 20, 30 years from now, people will look back and say the university was protected during that difficult time and now has the platform to make even more advances in the future. Contact Emma Anderson, Jordan Bach-Lombardo and Aaida Samad at newsdesk@dailycal.org.

arpeggio: Builders Still Owe City for Street Closure from front

As construction of Arpeggio continues, the building’s owners owe the city $92,332.80 in “temporary rightof-way” fees, which include compensation for parking revenue and curb fees for closing Center Street from Aug. 20, 2010, until Apr. 20, 2011, according to city spokesperson Mary Kay CluniesRoss. She added that any developer who has not paid outstanding fees by the time construction is completed will not receive a certificate of occupancy from the city. Peterson said the group is in discussions with the city regarding “settling up” on the remaining balance. “Arpeggio ownership has already paid millions of dollars in total fees to the city of Berkeley over the course of the construction and development of the project — regarding the one spe-

cific Center Street closure fee, some of that fee has previously been paid,” he said in an e-mail. Councilmember Jesse Arreguin, whose district includes the Downtown area, said that closing Center has resulted in traffic problems and that the issue should be resolved quickly. Arreguin, along with many Downtown advocates, has also consistently raised concerns about “the idea of high-end condominiums in Downtown” and questions whether the Arpeggio will experience significant success there. Nevertheless, he added that he personally wants the project to be completed and have a building that is occupied rather than vacant. Karinina Cruz covers business. Contact her at kcruz@dailycal.org.

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CalSERVE Says It Will Not Run an Executive Slate by J.D. Morris Staff Writer

UC Berkeley’s oldest existing student political party announced Thursday that it has decided not to run any executive ASUC candidates in the spring 2011 ASUC elections. Elections Cal Students for Equal Rights and a Valid Education, or CalSERVE, will not be nominating an executive slate in order to focus more on work within the communities that form the traditionally coalition-style makeup of the party, though it will still run candidates for the ASUC Senate, according to party senators. It is still possible that someone from CalSERVE could decide to run for a position independent of party support in time for the filing deadline Friday, though party leaders said they are not aware of anyone intending to do so. Current CalSERVE Senator Larry Bach said the consensus decision to not run candidates for executive office came as a result of several meetings held over the course of about two

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months. “There have been times where there was no CalSERVE executives in office, and it was the senators who kept (the executives) accountable to the students when representing them to the administration,” Bach said. The last time the party did not run an executive slate was in 2006, when it wanted to shift focus to campus issues outside of the ASUC. Currently, the party has two executives in the student government - External Affairs Vice President Ricardo Gomez and Academic Affairs Vice President Viola Tang. Tang said having no executives in office will allow the party to play a larger role in student activism, as she said it was able to do last academic year, when no party executives were elected. The Student Action party, which has traditionally been CalSERVE’s primary competitor, announced its executive slate on March 2. Christopher Alabastro and Julia Joung, the Student Action candidates for executive vice president and academic affairs vice president, respectively, said CalSERVE’s announcement, though surprising, will not change their

campaign efforts. “I didn’t come into this seeing it as solely a bipartisan election,” Alabastro said. “As of now, I still feel the pressure of the election.” CalSERVE was founded in 1984 in order to mobilize students around the systemwide campaign to encourage the UC to divest funds from Apartheid-era South Africa and has since focused on including marginalized communities and underserved students. CalSERVE Senator Kenny Gong said that the party’s history shows that it has been mainly a coalition and that its decision not to run executives will enable the party to pursue other methods of accomplishing its goals outside of the traditional channels of the student government. “Because we’re not just a political party, because we don’t exist just to get folks into office, I see this as an opportunity for folks to really think about what CalSERVE means and understand that even if we don’t run folks on the executive slate, CalSERVE values still exist,” Gong said. J.D. Morris is the lead student government reporter. Contact him at jmorris@dailycal.org.

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Sleep Shown to Spur Sustainable Learning by Anjuli Sastry Staff Writer

Trading in that final hour of cramming for another hour of sleep the night before a big test may actually be beneficial to sustaining inONLINE PODCAST formation and being receptive Anjuli Sastry discusses the next day, the effects of sleep on recent evidence information retention. from UC Berkeley researchers suggests. In a study published March 8 in the journal Current Biology, UC Berkeley researchers found that brain waves, known as “sleep spindles,” move information from the brain’s hippocampus — which has limited storage capacity — to another part of the brain, allowing it to absorb new information. However, these sleep spindles only come to life during stage 2 of non-Rapid Eye Movement sleep, which occurs frequently during the second half of a sleep cycle. Therefore, sleeping six hours or less can be detrimental to your memory because not enough sleep spindles are generated in this short time span. “If you deprive or restrict someone of sleep, stage 2 is the first to go,” said Bryce Mander, lead author of the study and a postdoctoral fellow in psychol-

ogy at UC Berkeley. “Sleep spindles are important for learning, and they show you how sleep facilitates something you learn.” Matthew Walker, associate professor of psychology and neuroscience at UC Berkeley, was a senior author of the study, which was funded entirely by federal grants from the National Institute of Health, along with Mander. The sleep patterns of 44 adults from UC Berkeley were recorded for five days before the tests formally began. After this five-day period, participants were separated into a nap group and a control group that was not allowed to take naps. Both groups had to refrain from caffeine, drug and alcohol use before they came in to participate in the test studies, which consisted of two rounds of face and name recognition before and after the wake period. Though there has been evidence from previous studies that sleep loss is associated with impaired ability to learn, these particular study results indicated that the test group that had napped performed better at name recognition than the group that had stayed awake. “The lack of sleep is endemic to undergraduate college students,” said Jared Saletin, a co-researcher of the study and a UC Berkeley psychology graduate student in the Sleep and Neuroim-

aging Laboratory. “Though the study is only a nap and not a replication of what college students go through every day, it does hint that having sleep makes you better prepared to learn.” In an effort to improve overall performance and stress management, the Tang Center provides education on the importance of sleep in its “Be Well to Do Well” campaign, according to Cathy Kodama, the health promotion director for University Health Services. Sangeetha Santhanam, another co-researcher of the study and a UC Berkeley alumna, said the study motivated her to get more sleep and encourage others to do the same. “Before this study, I had an absolute disregard for sleep,” Santhanam said. “Now I know that sleep hygiene determines how well you sleep and what your body requires to consolidate memories.” Saletin also said that sleep spindles affect elementary school children who attend school at earlier times. “Children are waking up too early for school, cutting off a certain part of their sleep in the morning,” Saletin said. “Later school start times mean a full night of sleep that may impact learning. A critical time of learning is when kids are in school, but school start times are getting earlier and earlier.” Contact Anjuli Sastry at asastry@dailycal.org.

conduct: Individual Circumstances Played Into Decision to Settle Informally from front

cases were so different, the decisions were personal and individual to each students’ specific situation. For Jennie Lu, a junior facing student conduct charges for her participation in the November 2009 Wheeler Hall occupation, the delays in the process as well as the nature of the proceedings were factors she considered in her decision to settle. “I took the new disposition because it was clear that the hearing was not going to be a productive, (constructive) space,” Lu said. “Not to say that this space will never exist, that the university will never agree to good faith discussions, but that space would never have been the hearings.” Lu added the outcomes of the student conduct proceedings highlighted a lack of transparency, accountability and communication between the administration and students. “Students and workers should not need to occupy a building, or go on a 10-day hunger strike, or lock themselves to a fourth floor ledge in order for the university to be responsive to our concerns,” she said in the e-mail. However, Gonzales, who was involved in the negotiations with the students on the ledge of Wheeler Hall last week, said she was “still having a hard time understanding why students felt that they couldn’t have a dialogue with administrators.” “I want to know why they felt that they have to go to that extreme to get the attention of administration,” she said. “I almost felt like it goes from

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March 3 protesters played a key role in negotiations with administrators to allow students with conduct charges from November 2009 to choose an informal resolution of probation. zero to on a ledge, but nowhere in the middle did we have conversations about students not feeling heard.” Gonzales added that in the next few weeks administrators will meet to discuss “different areas where we can do better so students don’t feel like they have to go to that extreme to be able to communicate their concerns.” Zack Norwood, a graduate student who also resolved his pending November 2009 misconduct charges informally this week, said while he had

hoped to reform the conduct process through the hearing process, looking at changes that have occurred in the process so far there has been improvement. “Over the course of a year and a half, a lot of things have changed in the way the administration has treated other protesters,” he said. “There’s been success in that sense and I hope that we’ll be able to continue to hold the administration responsible.” Aaida Samad covers higher education. Contact her at asamad@dailycal.org.

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Cal Takes Third Straight Trip to SoCal to Face Two Ranked Foes by Annie Gerlach Staff Writer

For the third weekend in a row, the No. 14 Cal men’s tennis team will board a plane bound for Southern California. Two non-conference tilts await the Bears at the Ralph-Straus Tennis Center in Malibu, Calif.: one against No. 4 Duke on Saturday and the other versus No. 13 Pepperdine (10-2) on Sunday. The last time Cal (6-3) faced off against the Blue Devils (9-4) was in 2003, when the Bears snatched a 4-3 upset at the National Team Indoor Championships. Eight years and as many rosters later, neither program can use those results as a way to gauge the competition. However, Cal coach Peter Wright insisted that even if his team doesn’t know how Duke plays, it isn’t going into the match blind. “We know who they’ve played this season, and we know they’ve got some of the top singles players in the country,” Wright said. He was referring to No. 11 Henrique Cunha and No. 7 Reid Carleton. Though only a sophomore, Cuhna is an All-American in both singles and doubles, and was named the ITA Rookie of the Year last spring. He and Carleton also garnered the No. 1 final ranking in doubles to become the ITA National Doubles Team of the year. Wright knows the challenge these two power players pose to his squad, but he takes it in stride. “We know what’s at stake,” he said. “It’s the same as what’s at stake every

time we hit the court.” The match is the first in a three-year deal between the two programs. Similar to last weekend’s neutral-site bout against Fresno State in San Diego, the location for this match-up is a matter of convenience; the Blue Devils are also playing Pepperdine, but the day before. While there are few benefits for the Bears to playing on the road with the unestablished routine it entails, at least Duke will be in unfamiliar terrain too. With only seven home matches this season, Cal has mastered the art of playing on the road fairly quickly. The team has won each of its last three away matches, including a particularly intense 5-2 upending of UCLA. “This will be a good opportunity for us as a road team,” Wright said. “It’s our place to shine and play some of our best tennis.” But Duke is only one half of this weekend’s equation. The Bears must storm the very same court to play the Waves (10-2) the next day. Cal’s history against Pepperdine is extremely one-sided; the latter has emerged the victor from every contest since 2004, including a 4-1 decision in the first round of the 2009 NCAA Championship. However, Wright doesn’t think that past trends are any indication for how this year’s match will go. “I don’t really like to look back,” he said. “I’m not a guy who spends time dwelling on the past. I look toward the future. This is a whole new season and a whole new team.” Annie Gerlach covers men’s tennis. Contact her at agerlach@dailycal.org.

rugby: Cal Game Will Help Fund Jesuit Squad baumgaertner from back from page 7

The UC Davis campus is about a half-hour drive from Carmichael, but Aggie coach Andy Malpass is convinced the Bears will have the home field advantage given the amount of Cal alumni in the region. The Davis fans that do make the trip will see an Aggies team unrecognizable from previous seasons. Malpass lost 12 of last year’s starting 15, which so far has made for the least successful year in his five-year stint with the program. Davis has yet to post a win this season. “It’s difficult because it’s a rebuilding season for us,” Malpass said. “I’m pleased with the effort they’ve put in ... They’re improving week in and week out.” Scully, who will return to the team after suffering a concussion against British Columbia, cites “constant per-

formance improvement” as being the Bears’ focus, even when facing less than fierce competition. Both teams are coming off their selfproclaimed best games of the season — Cal thrashed San Diego State, 95-0, while the Aggies fell, 52-10, to St. Mary’s, a team that is likely to be the Bears’ premier competition in its division. Still, Cal expects a fight from Davis. “Every year it seems they put in one of their best performances of the year against us, and they always look forward to it,” Scully said. “It’s important that we don’t get blind sided by it. “We can’t just look through them to UBC (the Bears’ next opponent), which would be a natural tendency. We see this as setting a platform to jump into UBC.” Christina Jones covers rugby. Contact her at cjones@dailycal.org.

softball: Reid Heating Up as Season Goes On from page 7

But things can turn around quickly. Right fielder Elia Reid went into last weekend hitting .130. In the four games, she upped her stats, recording 10 RBI from two home runs and two triples. The performance brought her batting average up to .229 and earned her Pac-10 Player of the Week. “I have been working with the coaches, working with my teammates and sister (Jamia), staying relaxed, having my rhythm and having my timing down,” Reid said. “It is the team that is helping me stay encouraged and not get down.” This weekend’s tilts are nothing to get down about either. The Bears open up the tournament with a doubleheader on Saturday against two teams they have never seen before: Bradley and Troy. Saturday’s tilt against Cal is Bradley’s second versus a ranked opponent this

year. The Braves buckled to then-No. 19 Texas A&M, 3-1, earlier this year. In terms of Pac-10 opponents, Bradley has also not fared well; it fell to Oregon State, 8-6, last month. Next, the Bears square off against Troy (13-6) at 3 p.m. Infielder Nikki Hollett will bring stiff offensive competition. She paces the squad with a .487 batting average and has 14 homers in 21 games. On Sunday, Cal will see Drake (8-7) and tournament host Fresno State (8-4) in a doubleheader. One of Drake pitcher Jenna DeLong’s best games was her 8-0 no-hitter against Wisconsin-Green Bay last month. She currently ranks fourth on Drake’s all-time strikeout list with 593. Kelly Suckow covers softball. Contact her at ksuckow@dailycal.org.

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talk about four teams from the Pac10,” Montgomery said. “I was encouraged that the league started to gain some prestige the last couple of days.” That’s not to say that the Bears could not have won on Thursday. After all, they knocked off the Trojans in Los Angeles and narrowly lost to them in Berkeley without Allen Crabbe. But Thursday was all about circumstances, and while any Pac-10 team can win the tournament for the conference’s automatic berth, USC’s prospects for an at-large bid far outweighed Cal’s pipe dream of a tournament victory. If the Trojans don’t win the tournament, then they will anxiously await the bracket’s unveiling on Sunday afternoon to see if the tournament committee considers them one of the top 68 teams in the country. When asked about what he thinks about his team’s matchup with USC today, Arizona coach Sean Miller made his thoughts perfectly clear about USC’s caliber. “To me it’s that USC is a very good team. I look at them as one of the top 35 teams in the country,” Miller said. “I firmly expect them to be in the (NCAA) Tournament.” As for the Bears, it’s an acceptable loss that should give them a boost for postseason play this year and motivation for what will be a brutal conference next year. For now, it will likely be an NIT berth for the Bears while four, perhaps as many as five Pac-10 teams go dancing. Cal learned on Thursday the strides that it needs to make and the challenges that it will face before it is a legitimate date to the dance. Montgomery realizes this much, and even though his team will not return to the NCAA Tournament this season, he let them know about not merely the improvements, but the potential that this squad possesses. “I really believe that we had one hell of a year given the circumstances that we dealt with,” Montgomery said. “They have grown tremendously as a group and as a team and I want them to now start thinking about where they want to be next year.”

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Rice’s junior third baseman Anthony Rendon. Rendon is considered the No. 1 pick in the MLB Draft and has from back Tony Renda. Last year’s Freshman All- generated huge buzz over the last year, cidence given its fragile status within America, Renda is leading the team in winning six different Player of the Year the athletic department. But part of RBI (12) and stolen bases (3). honors last season. He’s currently hitThe evening tilt against Louisiana- ting .404 with a slugging percentage of that jump in attendance probably Ma^ =Zber <Zeb_hkgbZg ;460;B 2><82B ?DII;4B also has to do with how good the Lafayette doesn’t boast any particular .731 for the Owls. Bears have looked so far this year, es- interest, but the rest of the weekend This marks the second-to-last weekshould be well-worth the cost of ad- end of nonconference play for the pecially at home. On Tuesday afternoon at Evans mission. Perennial powerhouses No. Bears. From here, there are no easy Diamond, Cal slugged Santa Clara, 18 Rice and Long Beach State play wins. Half of the Pac-10 teams are 20-5 to improve to 7-4 overall. Two No. 20 Cal on Saturday and Sunday, ranked in the top-25. of those losses came to opponents respectively. “We want to, at the end of the year, “Both those games, it’ll be a great Thursday, May 3, 2007 ranked in the top-10 and they were have the selection committee know both close contests. But if the Bears atmosphere,� coach David Esquer said. that we challenged ourselves to play are losing close ones, they’re winning “We’re hoping to get some people out a lot of different conferences and the in big ways. Cal is outscoring its com- there and give our kids a little energy. The home of the World Champions, best competition,� Esquer said. petition 75-26.

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Bears Bow Out of Pac-10 Tourney in First-Round Loss to USC by Ed Yevelev Senior Staff Writer

LOS ANGELES — Playing USC this season has been less basketball and more whack-a-mole for the Cal men’s basketball team. At the Galen M. hoops Center, it was Cal 56 Donte Smith who USC 70 caught fire. They shut him down a month later in Berkeley ... only to see tiny Maurice Jones erupt. On Thursday afternoon at the Staples Center, Cal failed to contain either of USC’s speedy guards in a 70-56 loss. The diminutive duo combined for 30 points to vault surging USC (19-13, 10-8 in the Pac-10) into the Pac-10 Tournament semi-finals against Arizona. The Bears, meanwhile, were sent packing. “We really had trouble keeping their quick guards in front of us, especially in the second half,” Bears coach Mike Montgomery said. “The two guys who hurt us in the regular season really ended up being a thorn in our side.” Like his 24-point outburst against Cal (17-14, 10-8 in the Pac-10) in January, Smith did much of his damage on Thursday with crisp outside shooting. He scored 12 of his 14 points from beyond the arc, while the 5-foot-7 Jones attacked the rim for lay-ups or pointblank assists. They combined for 10 points during the game’s key stretch, an opening push out of intermission that upped the Trojans’ 35-27 halftime lead to 5337. Along with 14 points and 16 rebounds from Alex Stepheson, the two guards helped make up for a seven-point night by Nikola Vucevic. Hampered by foul trouble, USC’s AllPac-10 first teamer was held to seven points — including just one in the first half.

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“Most of the time we run our stuff through Nik and Jio (Fontan),” USC head coach Kevin O’Neill said. “The first game we played, Nik didn’t do anything and we lost by two ... We’ve been getting those kind of performances by different guys in different weeks and it was our turn to carry him today.” Cal, meanwhile, could not overcome off-days from critical scorers. The Bears received a game-high 21 points from Allen Crabbe, whose transition three at the 6:42 helped an 18-point second-half deficit to 10. However, their three veteran scorers all turned in forgettable outings. Harper Kamp was smothered by the Trojans’ sizable front line and mustered six points, and senior Markhuri Sanders-Frison scored two on just four attempts. The most frustrating performance of the afternoon belonged to Jorge Gutierrez, who went 2-for-10 and recorded more turnovers (seven) than points (four). Gutierrez has shot just 6-for-32 from the floor in three contests against USC. “Jorge’s such an integral part of what we do,” Montgomery said. “We really don’t have the luxury of seeing our main guys not have good games ... “I think they hurt us mentally, to where we lost a little bit of our fire and then it hurt our defense. We weren’t able to stay in front of people.” Defensive intensity certainly wasn’t the issue for Cal early on. The Bears used an effective man scheme to rattle the Trojans and build a quick 11-3 lead in the opening 12:30. Yet, Cal couldn’t take advantage when USC came out of the gates with cold shooting and listless offense. “I don’t think we played like we were capable of,” Montgomery said. “Our inability to score the ball early got to us and hurt our confidence.” Ed Yevelev covers men’s basketball. Contact him at eyevelev@dailycal.org.

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Sophomore center Talia Caldwell led all players on Thursday afternoon with nine rebounds. Caldwell also scored nine points in the Bears’ upset win over Arizona State.

The great poet T.S. Eliot wrote that April is the cruelest month. The Cal women’s basketball would point to February to disprove that statew. hoops ment. 48 In that one Cal month, the Bears Arizona State 43 went from NCAA tournament hopeful to the WNIT bubble. On Feb. 5, Arizona State’s Deja Mann hit a buzzer beater that derailed Cal’s season. The Bears went on to lose their next five games, plummeting the Pac-10’s third-place squad to the bottom of the conference’s rankings. On Thursday afternoon, Cal avenged that loss. “It was just sweet revenge,” point guard Layshia Clarendon said. The sixth-seeded Bears defeated third-seeded Arizona State, 48-43, in the second round of the Pac-10 tournament at the Galen Center in Los Angeles. “When we play ASU, it is always a battle, a war,” Clarendon said. “It is always going to come down to the wire. It is never going to be a blowout.” There was no last-second shot this time, but there were clutch shots. After a neck-and-neck game in which the largest lead was only eight points, the Bears (17-14, 7-11 in the Pac-10) were up by one with under a minute to go. The Sun Devils (20-10, 11-7) fouled Clarendon, a 67.7 percent free throw shooter. She calmly nailed them both, and made two more on the next possession. “Layshia was playing great all night, so when she walked up there, I thought she was knocking them down,” Cal coach Joanne Boyle said. “We haven’t been a great free throw shooting team. That was a change in today’s game, too.” Indeed the Bears have struggled from the charity stripe all season long.

They shoot 61.9 percent as a team and were just 11-for-28 in Wednesday’s first round matchup with Washington. Clarendon followed up her double double (16 points, 10 rebounds) against the Huskies with an even more impressive performance against ASU. The sophomore played the entire contest and scored a game-high 22 points, nearly half of Cal’s total. She also added five rebounds and three steals. “Layshia has been playing here lately with a lot of confidence,” Boyle said. “So with her stepping up, it gave us the ability to go into a press and slow it down a little bit.” The Bears came into the game averaging close to 14 3-point tries per game, but they took only one yesterday. As a result, they shot 40 percent from the field for the fist time in four weeks. Sophomore post players DeNesha Stallworth and Talia Caldwell were a combined 7-of-11 and totaled 17 points and 15 rebounds. Freshman Afure Jemerigbe came off the bench to score eight points in 33 minutes. When the Bears needed points, though, they gave the ball to Clarendon. “I just put the ball in Layshia’s hand, and she gets to call what she needs to call,” Boyle said. “Anytime something breaks down it is just her getting to the rim and I thought she did a great job, not only of getting to the rim, but she hit her pull up tonight, which was really nice. “She just did a really good job of executing the offense.” Cal will need Clarendon to continue her hot streak. The Bears face secondseeded UCLA, the No. 7 team in the country, in the semifinals today at 12:30 p.m. down the street at Staples Center. The Bruins swept their season series with the Bears. Jonathan Kuperberg covers women’s basketball. Contact him at jkuperberg@dailycal.org.

OS ANGELES — Five days ago, it appeared that the Bears could make the run that nobody thought they could. They had dominated Stanford so thoroughly and so convincingly that suddenly, the Bears were being mentioned as one of those dark horse candidates to make a run at the Pac-10 Tournament Crown. But Thursday finally arrived and the Bears lost to a better, more tournament-ready USC team. And given the circumstances that surrounded Cal this season and that are currently surrounding the Pac-10, Thursday’s loss wasn’t all that bad of an exit. Maybe it was because Jorge Gutierrez played probably his least engaged game of the season. Maybe it was because Cal often looked helpless in the face of USC’s trademark defense or that Cal had only six players play more than four minutes. But I think it is because nobody realized that the Pac-10 was this good. Just ask Mike Montgomery what he thinks about the prognosticators of the college basketball world. “I was encouraged that the talking heads who know nothing started to

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Bears Host Star Talent At AT&T Park Rice, Long Beach State On the Slate for Cal on Home Field of World Series Champions by Katie Dowd Senior Staff Writer

Two years ago, the Cal baseball team played at AT&T Park to a quiet, nearly empty crowd. That was, until the flock descended. “When it gets a CAL little cold there,” Baseball senior outfielder Austin Booker said, FIRST “then the seagulls PITCH: start flying in.” vs The Bears be- Cal plays lieve that this time Louisiana around, their fans Lafayette will outnumber the tonight at birds that last year 7 p.m. at AT&T Park came to eat leftover in San Francisco. popcorn and hot Radio: dogs. KALX 90.7 FM The inaugural — and perhaps last — Cal Baseball Classic begins at 7 p.m. tonight against Louisiana-Lafayette at AT&T Park, home of the San Francisco Giants. Part of the proceeds of ticket sales will go toward the fund to save the program. “I’m real excited. We’re probably gonna get a big turnout,” Booker said. “That’s what I’m hearing.” Cal baseball has been drawing higher attendance numbers than it has in a long time, which is no coin-

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