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Independent and ThirdParty Candidates Emerge by J.D. Morris Staff Writer

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SmartMeters installed by PG&E have been the source of much debate recently. PG&E is working to create a new SmartMeter opt-out policy.

The CalSERVE party’s decision not to run an executive slate for this year’s ASUC elections has opened the field to several third-party and independent candidates seeking to make their mark as viable alternatives to students. Traditionally, CalSERVE is the primary rival of the Student Action party — which announced its slate March 7 — but officials said the initial decision not to run executives was made in order to allow the party to more actively engage in issues such as the campus cost-cutting Operational Excellence initiative and student protests outside the immediate scope of the ASUC.

Viola Tang, academic affairs vice president and one of two CalSERVE executives currently in office, said the party will be able to take a step back next year without being tied down by the duties of an executive position. “It’s very easy to be bogged down by all the requirements and institutional framework when you’re in office,” Tang said. “We’ve done this before, and it hasn’t set us back.” But current CalSERVE Senator Stefan Montouth is running for president independent of his party’s support. “I completely agree with the idea that CalSERVE isn’t just a political party,” Montouth said. “I just think it’s important to have leaders ... who are working

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PG&E Works on SmartMeter Opt-Out Plan Assistant Director for Campus by Kelsey Clark Staff Writer

Although the California Public Utilities Commission announced its decision to direct PG&E to create an optout option for SmartMeter installation Thursday, some Berkeley residents and other PG&E customers — who have been pushing for a moratorium on meter installation — are apprehensive about the details of the proposal. The new wireless technology has raised numerous complaints about inaccurate fee increases, an invasion of privacy and negative health effects since PG&E began installing the meters last year. Following the lead of other Bay Area cities, the city of Berkeley wrote a letter to Michael Peevey, president of the commission, in June requesting an opt-out option and further investigation of the device.

“The SmartMeter technology does have some potential uses for saving energy and saving money, but I think there is going to be some improvements to the technology,” said Berkeley City Councilmember Kriss Worthington, who sponsored the resolution urging the city to write the letter to the commission. In a March 10 statement, Peevey said PG&E is being directed to prepare a proposal within two weeks outlining an opt-out process for customers “who object to these devices at reasonable cost, to be paid by the customers who choose to opt-out.” According to PG&E spokesperson Paul Moreno, the company has been examining the possibility of an opt-out option and is prepared to file a proposal by March 24. SmartMeters transmit wireless radio frequency with information about a unit’s energy use, which can be tracked by the customer online. Moreno said

the meters are operating within the standards for radio frequencies at oneseventieth of the limit set by the Federal Communications Commission. “Meters are safe, they’re accurate, but nonetheless we’ve been directed to come up with a proposal for an opt-out provision,” he said. “Although the great weight of scientific evidence has shown that SmartMeters are safe, we take our customer concerns seriously.” However, many Bay Area groups and residents say PG&E has offered no proof that the meters are safe and accurate. Sandi Maurer, founder of EMF Safety Network — a group that raises awareness about radiation — said the constant exposure to radio frequency pulses from the meters resulted in physical ailments, including headaches, heart palpitations, ringing in the ears and lack of sleep. “We’re asking for a moratorium

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Conduct Center to Leave Post by Adelyn Baxter Staff Writer

Laura Bennett of UC Berkeley’s Center for Student Conduct and Community Standards — who has been involved in the campus’s controversial handling of student conduct cases — is leaving campus this week and will enter a position administering the student conduct process at another school. laura After working almost a year and a bennett half, Bennett — who has served since August 2009 as the as-

sistant director for the Center for Student Conduct and Community Standards and as a student life and development specialist — said in an e-mail that she would be leaving for a position at Harper College, a community college outside of Chicago. According to Bennett, her last day working on campus will be Tuesday. Bennett said in the e-mail that she has been involved in approximately 500 to 550 cases involving various forms of student conduct violations during her time with the center. Though Bennett’s e-mail did not specify when she first announced the decision, she stated that after giving appropriate notice to her supervisor, she began telling other parties of her impending departure

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UC Irvine Office Finds Student Regent Guilty of Sexual Battery by Jordan Bach-Lombardo Staff Writer

UC Student Regent Jesse Cheng was found guilty last Thursday of a student conduct violation for sexual battery by UC Irvine’s Student Conduct Office. The UC Irvine Student Conduct Policy defines sexual battery as “unwanted touching” of a sexual or physical nature and the sanction for the ruling is probation until the Jesse end of the quarcheng ter, according to Cheng. Other possible consequences for such a charge of sexual battery under the policy include suspension or dismissal from the university. He has seven days to appeal the ruling and said he is undecided about whether he will appeal. The woman who brought the case to the student conduct office — who said she wished to be identified only as “Laya” in order to protect her identity

as a victim of an alleged sex crime — said she was relieved that at least part of the process has come to a close. The campus’s conduct office conducted an investigation into the matter and interviewed both Cheng and Laya before coming to their decision. “It’s been a very long time coming,” she said. “I haven’t gotten any justice until now. UC Irvine’s decision has made me feel liberated.” Despite the ruling, Cheng said he “still maintains (his) innocence as a whole,” saying that the student conduct process requires a significantly lower threshold of evidence to find a defendant guilty than criminal proceedings — which he has not faced as a result of the sexual battery allegation brought against him. “In a criminal proceeding you need to prove beyond reasonable doubt,” he said. “Student conduct just needs evidence that this likely could have happened. It’s a much lower standard of innocence than the (District Attorney).” The Orange County District Attorney

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Amber Nelson, the fiancee of the late Adolfo Ignacio Celedon, commemorates his life at the site of his murder in South Berkeley on Saturday. At the event, community members called for continued investigation into the unsolved case. See page 5 for the full story.

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ix metal pelicans, spinning in air. Shadowed by venetian blinds, they whirl away in a poorly-designed mobile, next to a plastic plant, to a soundtrack of smooth jazz. Music designed, I imagine, to be relaxing. One keeps hitting its beak on the others’ strings. The hygienist scrapes away at the dark innards of my mouth. Watching the pelicans’ awkward flight, I realize, in a definitive sort of way, that the world is a ridiculous place. The feeling is not one specific to dentistry, although dentistry, I must say, is an absurdity unto itself. Such a big office, so much time and care, so many trained professionals, all there for the care of such a small part of my body. When my British parents moved to this country, they adopted a few American ideals with great enthusiasm. One was hot tubbing. Another was the doctrine of semiannual dental visits. My pocket depth, the hygienist assures me, plunging some pointed instrument into my gums, is excellent. I have clearly been flossing. (I haven’t.) That crooked bottom tooth of mine — I could go back to the orthodontist, she says and see about straightening it up by some way of metal or plastic. And the gap between my two front teeth — it would only take a few weeks of Invisalign to close it up. I should do it while I’m still young, before it becomes a bigger problem. A bigger problem. Maybe the biggest health benefit of regular dental check-ups is the time it gives you to think, rendered speechless and immobile beneath the swirling metal pelicans. On the drive to my appointment (well before my realization that dentistry symbolizes the spiritual and material disconnect between our society and the rest of the world), a tsunami warning flashed on a sign above the highway. I watched the video of it when I got home. Our own little tsunami, inches high, rolling into the harbor in Emeryville, affecting nothing. The metaphor draws itself. A massive wave that sweeps away cars like toothpicks in Japan, destroying farms and roads and buildings and lives — once it reaches us, is a tiny ripple. No more than an echo of its former, terrifying self as it breaks against the rocks. Completely forgettable. The footage of our end of the tsunami deserves a few seconds of viewing, a few more seconds to ponder the smallness of the earth, then many more seconds of not thinking about it anymore. For a few more days, the headlines will demand large banners at the tops of news websites. Then they will go away. The media tsunami will weaken to a tiny push of water. nd so we live in a world of dentists and disasters. How is this world, packed with wires and satellites and media to connect us across hemispheres, so easy to ignore? On the other side of the Pacific, an entire coastline is swept away. As a tiny wave laps at our shore, I hear the word “Japan” mentioned briefly in the dentist’s office, before the conversation turns back to who-married-whom. There is no moral judgement to be

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HANNAH JEWELL made here. We see, we remark, we forget. Every few months we hear about such a tragedy. New Zealand, Chile, Haiti, China, Pakistan, the list goes on. These are natural disasters. We can’t do much to stop them, except maybe to build stronger houses and donate to the relief. And the recovery will be huge this time — Prime Minister Naoto Kan has said that this is Japan’s greatest disaster since World War II. n a system of mass media where news must sell, the headlines are necessarily suited to what the consumer wants to see, even if it’s something awful. A tsunami looks good on the news — for all its horror, it’s also an incredible spectacle. It’s hard to take your eyes off images of hundreds of cars, once neatly lined up and ready for export, swept away and piled up like plastic toys. Forces of nature snatching control of the earth back from man’s grasp. But when the suffering is man-made and when it occurs without a great spectacle, we forget even faster. These human tragedies, it seems, are more like the tides. They come and go. We learn about them, but they don’t affect us, so we do nothing to stop them. Poverty and starvation do not make for exciting media — these are not even “events,” so they do not make news. It’s the way our system of spreading information works. Without an element of Hollywood apocalypse, mass suffering is just that — suffering. Something we do not want to see, and we don’t have to. So we focus on other things. My gums, the hygienist tells me, after working away at them with a length of floss, are perfectly healthy. “Here’s a human being who is paid to floss,” I think to myself. Maybe the most comfortable society is one that can spend its money worrying about a tiny gap between the front teeth of its young women. The pinnacle of complacency is the point where we can afford not to look outside ourselves. We do not worry about the world because we do not have to worry, until the tsunami hits here as a monster and fades to a gentle lapping of water against another society’s shore across the earth. There are no fingers to point here. It’s just the way it is. Something to think about in the dentist’s chair.

BENNETT: Campus to Begin Search for Replacement Soon from front “as it seemed suitable based on my responsibilities and our interactions.” “I am leaving Cal for a position that provides me with the opportunity to oversee a student conduct program as well as to support other areas of Student Affairs,” Bennett said in the e-mail. “It is also located closer to my family in the Midwest.” According to Associate Dean of Students Christina Gonzales, the center will begin the process of finding a replacement for Bennett soon. She added that the center hired two new staff members in December to help with the

center’s work load — in a move unrelated to Bennett’s decision to leave. Director of the Center for Student Conduct and Community Standards Susan Trageser did not respond to requests for comment. According to Callie Maidhof, a campus graduate student who has resolved her conduct case for her involvement in protests in November 2009, Bennett’s role as the representative of the campus in conduct hearings for student protesters has led to criticism in the past. The center has been the subject of controversy as a result of delays as well as alleged procedural violations in student protesters’ conduct proceedings.

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irected by Cary Fukunaga — one of the most exciting filmmakers to appear on the American scene in recent years — “Jane Eyre” reveals the workings of a master-inthe-making. With its bleak expedition through the lonely rural area of Victorian-era England, the film moves away from the drab fare that has become synonymous with the costume drama piece. Instead, Fukunaga relies on traditional elements of character development and narrative structure to develop an original take on a story that hasn’t had much success in its past film incarnations. An adaptation of the novel by Charlotte Bronte, the film’s story may already be familiar to audiences. As always, the length of the book presents difficulty in creating a film. However, these filmmakers attempted something as yet unseen in past versions of “Jane Eyre.” Instead of beginning with her childhood, the film starts with Jane (Mia Wasikowska) as an adult traveling through the tumultuous weather of the English countryside for reasons unknown. In seven continuous minutes, not a single word is uttered. By eliminating much of the dialogue heard in the novel, Fukunaga establishes the film as an essentially visual piece. As she arrives at the doorstep of St. John Rivers (Jamie Bell), the film abruptly cuts back to Jane’s younger years as an

orphan under the care of her malevolent aunt, Mrs. Reed (Sally Hawkins). The movie continues to move back and forth between Jane’s time with St. John, her governess work at Thornfield Hall and various parts of her childhood. The jumping narrative style may come as a bit of a surprise for some fans of the book, but the practicality of the decision ultimately outweighs anything lost in adaptation. Flashbacks between different periods in the character’s life bring out thematic elements that enhance character development. Jane’s character still feels whole without requiring a three-hour running time, eliminating the need for the first-person narration of the novel. Much of the credit for creating a truly multi-faceted “Jane Eyre” belongs to the performances of Mia Wasikowska and a cast of up-and-comers. With only a look into the camera, the expression on the young actress’ face reveals the nature of every conversation and incident without a word being said. The performances of Michael Fassbender and Jamie Bell bring out the diametric views of marriage, love and masculinity as they vie for Jane’s affection. Fukunaga’s ability to balance the sequence of events helps shift the tone of “Jane Eyre.” Unlike the more traditional novels that came out of 19th century England, Bronte’s story mixes genres. “I knew I was taking on a story that is a period film and a romance

with elements of horror,” said the director. “Walking the line among these tones would be difficult, because it’s easier to default to one or the other. I wanted to maintain consistency in the style of telling the story.” Fortunately, Fukunaga ensures that the darker aspects of the story don’t take a backseat. Instead, they function as a welcome departure from the cumbersome Victorian language and talking heads that dominate whole scenes. “The original novel featured many spooky elements, from early Victorian gothic atmospheres to outright spiritual presences,” he said. “I liked the imagery and was excited by the idea of pushing that side of the story further than in previous adaptations — ­ not full-blown horror, but a definite vibe.” Although the presence of such ingredients is sparse, the use of silence and gothic settings creates an unnerving tension throughout the film. Whereas Terrence Malick’s “Days of Heaven” served as the base for Fukunaga’s first film “Sin Nombre,” the filmmaker and his cinematographer turned to Stanley Kubrick for their work on “Jane Eyre:” “Thornfield put us in (the) mind of the Overlook Hotel in ‘The Shining’.” The grandeur of “Jane Eyre” recalls the director’s past work with his cinematographer, Adriano Goldman. With its heavy contrast between scenes of darkness and light, the portrayal of

the natural world reflects the emotions of its characters in every frame. The harsh weather enhances the feeling of leading a solitary life, while jagged cliffs are as effective as eerie architecture in providing gothic undertones. However, the director makes a departure from his past work in a significant manner, namely in his role as a writer. “You always write, even if you don’t get screenwriting credit,” said Fukunaga. “But I’m not that interested in being an auteur. If there are great stories out there, I want the chance to tell them, not just because it came from me.” Although that may be the case, an unmistakable thread weaves through both of the director’s theatrical releases, uncovering the makings of a new major voice in modern American cinema. After watching his breakthrough film about illegal immigration and Mexican gangs, some may find it odd to see the young filmmaker turn to the heavily ornamented costume drama of “Jane Eyre.” “I think they’re actually kind of similar, minus the trains and gangs,” said the filmmaker. “You have a young woman in search of love and companionship and a home, a place that she fits into society. She has thoughts about the kind of life she wants to lead. And I think I’m just interested in these kinds of stories that search for home.” Jawad Qadir is the lead film critic. Contact him at jqadir@dailycal.org.

‘Win’ Wrestles With Conventional Morality by Amelia Taylor-Hochberg Staff Writer

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he promotional poster for “Win Win” — Thomas McCarthy’s 2011 Sundance submission — suggests a very predictable film. From the image of Paul Giamatti and a towheaded teenager sitting on gym bleachers, dressed respectively as coach and wrestler, you could conclude that this is an offbeat wrestling movie. But this judgment is insufficient: “Win Win” is not a quirky underdog sports flick but a traditional fable wrapped in indie clothing. The film is effectively a moral parable of reconciliation: Normally decent people make bad decisions with the best intentions, and then must shoulder the weight of their poor choices until they make amends. “Win Win” follows Mike Flaherty (Giamatti), a struggling elder-care lawyer and father in suburban New Jersey, who part-times as a high school wrestling coach. In a moment of desperation disguised as professional compassion, Mike poses as the caregiver of one of his clients for the extra money. This initial act tips Mike into a mire of family conflicts, to the point where he even houses his client’s runaway

grandson, Kyle. What follows is the inevitable anxious percolation, where everyone seems to be getting along fine while the lie holds its breath, waiting to emerge. When that lie surfaces, Mike is forced to patch the professional and familial fractures he has caused in both his own and Kyle’s family, with an almost ludicrous level of selflessness. But despite his great personal sacrifice, Mike appears happy with the way his problems have been resolved. The moral here says starkly: Do the right thing, no matter how much self-sacrifice you have to endure, and you will be happy. The plot as a whole delivers its take on ethics in a way that never breaches the conventional structure of modest storytelling. Nor are its characters particularly impassioned or remarkable: In the opening sequence of the film, we witness Mike suffering through a domino effect of inconveniences, to which he can only force out an “oh shit,” never mustering the moxie to go past “frickin’ sucks.” He is in no way criminal: His only vice seems to be cigarettes, smoking just one behind a convenience store dumpster after throwing the rest of the pack away. We see him driving his Subaru to church and plunging his office

toilet, an average man spread thin over a variety of domestic and professional duties. Judging by his performances in films like “American Splendor” and “Sideways,” Giamatti is an actor capable of neuroses and sourness never utilized in “Win Win.” Mike’s general blandness shows the film’s economization: Characters are mainly stand-ins to act out the plot, and the plot is essentially allegorical to the moral, which is given the highest priority. While the plot devices are in part derived from high school wrestling, “Win Win” never becomes a hackneyed sports movie. Really, most virtues of McCarthy’s “Win Win” lie in its moderation and resistance: It approaches the cliche and calmly steers away from it, although never into new territory. The audience is spared a triumphant sports montage, and there is no adorable indie score to accompany witty dialogue (although Jon Bon Jovi is credited in the soundtrack). But tactfully avoiding the predictable isn’t enough to tell an original story, and ultimately, the film seems as if it were made with only mild didacticism in mind. The plot elements are almost entirely homegrown: McCarthy grew up

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Role model. Paul Giamatti as Mike mentors Kyle, the grandson of one of his clients. In Thomas McCarthy’s ‘Win Win,’ they cement their bond over a common interest in wrestling. wrestling in suburban New Jersey with his friend Joe Tiboni (who developed the story with McCarthy), now an elder-care lawyer still living in his hometown. But rather than trying to profit from the untapped “indie high school wrestling movie” market, “Win Win” reconfigures these personal elements into lite ethical education. There’s nothing remarkable about the film’s

style or story, but this only serves to frame the parable in a subtle way. At best, “Win Win” is the film that your parents would read to you before you went to bed: an easy-to-swallow moral lesson that is familiar enough to be nonthreatening. Send Amelia your favorite sports montage at ataylor@dailycal.org.

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from front because they have never done a study to show that the meters were safe,� she said. Mindy Spatt, communications director for the Utility Reform Network, said PG&E rushed into using the technology before addressing customer concerns about the affordability of installation and customer security. “This puts an enormous amount of personal data online, and in this day in age, that makes it vulnerable,� Spatt said, adding that hackers in the system can find out whether somebody is home by looking at their energy use.

She added that she is concerned about the price of the opt-out privilege, as well as the discrepancy between the bills based on analog readings and those from SmartMeter readings. Berkeley resident Phoebe Sorgen, who placed “Do Not Install� signs around her house to prevent PG&E from installing the new meters, said the opt-out proposal is a surprise and would be a “good sign for democracy.� “Wireless stupid meters are another example of ‘corporatocracy’ going against the will of the people,� she said. Contact Kelsey Clark at kclark@dailycal.org.

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tend the UC Board of Regents meeting this week at UC San Francisco’s Mission Bay campus. Protests against his continued service are planned for the meeting on Wednesday by AF3IRM and other women’s rights coalitions. UC spokesperson Steve Montiel said in an e-mail that Russell Gould, the chairman of the Board of Regents, has requested that the UC’s Chief Compliance and Audit Officer Sheryl Vacca review Irvine’s student conduct process to “assure its adequacy for the Regents’ purposes.� “The Chairman has also asked the Committee on Governance to convene expeditiously upon completion of this review to determine what action, if any, is warranted,� he said in the email. “During this time, students will continue to have representation by Student Regent-designate (Alfredo) Mireles.� Both Laya and Levid said the conduct decision represented a first step in the process to eventual justice. “We see the latest decision by the student conduct office as a positive step in getting (Laya) legal justice,� Levid said. “Not everyone finds justice right away, that’s why we’re continuing to fight.� Jordan Bach-Lombardo is the lead higher education reporter. Contact him at jbachlombardo@dailycal.org.

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To raise awareness of the unsolved murder of Adolfo Ignacio Celedon Bravo and commemorate his life, his fiancee and friends gathered with other community members Saturday at the South Berkeley site where he was shot and killed six months ago. Celedon was shot several times in the course of an attempted robbery as he was walking home from a party with his fiancee Amber Nelson, a UC Berkeley graduate student, at 3:41 a.m. on Sept. 12 at the intersection of Adeline and Emerson streets and was pronounced dead after being taken to a local trauma center. It was his 35th birthday. There have been no arrests in connection with the incident, and the Berkeley Police Department has not identified any suspects. Nelson, who organized the event Saturday, hung a timeline of Celedon’s life on the wall of a neighboring building, and she and others drew pictures

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did not press charges against Cheng after the case was forwarded to the office by the Irvine Police Department, citing a lack of corroborating evidence and the long history between Cheng and Laya. Both Cheng and Laya have acknowledged that they were in a long-term relationship prior to the event that led to the sexual battery allegation. The UC Irvine Student Conduct Policy states that “even if the criminal justice system chooses not to prosecute, the University can discipline a student if there is a preponderance of the evidence that the student has committed a violation.� Officials in the UC Irvine Office of Student Conduct declined to comment, citing student privacy. But Jollene Levid, national chairperson of AF3IRM — a feminist women’s group that is organizing rallies on Laya’s behalf — said the fact that the campus found Cheng responsible for sexual battery is “doubly impacting.� “I think that’s almost contradictory that he’s writing off the UC system decision, that’s the system he’s operating within,� she said. “He’s basically an officer of that system, I don’t know what that says.� Cheng declined to comment on how the decision impacted his status as student regent and whether he would at-

Community Members Gather to Honor Murdered Man and wrote messages on the ground in chalk. A friend of the couple, Shaleece Haas, said it was a “day to tend the garden� that has been planted along the sidewalk in memory of Celedon, known to friends and family as “Fito.� Celedon moved to Berkeley from Chile in February 2010 to be with Nelson while she finished her graduate work on campus. The two met when Nelson was travelling in South America. According to his sister, who travelled to Berkeley from Chile for the event, Celedon had wanted to “change the world� through theater. She said he had given up his job as a commercial engineer in Chile to become an actor and wanted to promote social justice. At the time of his death, he was working full-time, building boats at the Berkeley Marina, Nelson said. “He was a dreamer, absolutely a dreamer,� his sister, Alejandra Celedon, said. Nelson said the couple had planned to move down to Brazil following her planned graduation in December, as

Adolfo Celedon was an avid soccer fan and wanted to find a job there that would involve him in World Cup. Nelson said she intends to carry on with this plan, even after his death. “I’ll know he’ll be there for the World Cup,� she said. “That’s why I know I’m going to be there too.� Rolando Ortega, consul general at the Chilean Consulate in San Francisco, spoke at the event and requested “the most expeditious investigation and prompt solution to this case ... so that the family of Adolfo can achieve the peace they deserve.� Berkeley police Sgt. Mary Kusmiss also spoke, urging the community to share any information that could aid in the investigation. The city of Berkeley is offering a $15,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction, in addition to a $2,000 reward offered by the Bay Area Crime Stoppers. “The most insignificant detail sometimes can be what solves this crime,� she said at the event. Contact Courtney Moulds at cmoulds@dailycal.org.

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Charter Games are this Thursday! Come hang out and play games to celebrate the University's birthday! Take a break from classes with tie-dye, giant obstacle course, a joust, a rock wall, and a two person inflatable challenge, and more! See you on Memorial Glade between 1-4 PM on Thursday! “Yes, I AM this Awesome” – The Art of Self Promotion On Wed, March 16, 2011 from 6:30–8:30pm in 230C Stephens Hall, Olga Talamante will discuss her story, from her time as a political prisoner in Argentina to her work as the Executive Director of the Chicana Latina Foundation, as a way to embolden women to take charge of their stories and accomplishments. Practice talking yourself up to gain power in the workforce and beyond. Networking and light refreshments to follow.

Join Rally Committee for a noon rally on Thursday, March 17th from 12:30-1PM on Upper Sproul. GO BEARS! Storming in on a passionate promsie to ameliorate the malfeasances of the past executive administrations, Barack Obama won the hearts of millions with his charismatic persona and grandiose assurances. But has President Obama fulfilled his promises? Was his campaign and victory merely theater? Has he been a success? UPSA (the Undergraduate Political Science Association) will be holding a political forum on Obama’s presidency, moderated by Professor Bimes on Wednesday, March 16th, from 7-8PM in 202 Barrows.

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possible for us.� Even after a long weekend of baseAnderson held tough on the mound ball at AT&T Park, Bruno and his in spite of the sometimes driving rain, team won’t have much time to relax. scattering six hits over 5 2/3 innings. Starting Wednesday, Cal must play The big right hander was drafted by five games in six days at Evans Diathe Baltimore Orioles in the sixth mond. round of the MLB Draft last year but The Bears will host the University opted to return to Cal for one last seaof San Francisco for an afternoon son. tilt on March 16 before opening up Weekends like this one certainly go a three-game weekend series with far to redeem Anderson’s decision to Ohio State. They will conclude the The Daily DUMMY return for one last go-round withCalifornian the grueling stretch next Monday against Bears. Nevada. “The teams that we’ve lost to, we can beat them if we play our game,� Bruno Katie Dowd covers baseball. Contact said. “I feel like nationally, anything is her at kdowd@dailycal.org.

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Los Angeles. “We were not poised, and we hid behind UCLA players,� freshman guard Afure Jemerigbe said. “We forced Layshia to handle the ball the whole time. It’s tough.� Though Clarendon was particularly affected, the Bears struggled to handle UCLA’s high pressure defense on all ends. The Bruins forced 19 turnovers and made 14 steals. Cal looked frenzied trying to move the ball around UCLA’s zone defense and into the key. Meanwhile the Bruins seemed calm and collected on offense, passing around the Bears and maintaining possession easily. “We talked about the press break and breaking it with confidence,� Cal coach Joanne Boyle said. “I think we struggled there. We struggled on the boards. We struggled to make layups. Our confidence was shaken.� It wasn’t just Cal’s inability to break past UCLA’s top-ranked defense that broke its game, however. The Bruins #6 hit the ground running offensively with an 11-1 run to start — and effectively end — the game. The Bears didn’t see a field goal until Jemerigbe hit a layup more than five

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At the onset of the spring season, the No. 14 Cal men’s tennis team suffered through four away matches without ever capturing the doubles point. Compared with that rocky start, a look at the Bears’ last four away matches is almost a study in opposites. In February, the team’s lineup fluctuated with each match and the players were more comfortable in the familiar routine at Hellman Tennis Complex. But these days, Cal’s lineup is more set, and its ability to outplay opponents on the road more than makes up for the lost home court advantage. At the Ralphs-Straus Tennis Center in Malibu, Calif., the Bears (8-3) defeated No. 4 Duke (9-6) on Saturday and No. 13 Pepperdine (11-3) on Sunday, both in 4-3 decisions, both with a clinched dou-

minutes after tipoff. She had a seasonhigh 17 points. It didn’t help the Bears that UCLA sophomore Atonye Nyingifa reached her season high with 17 points, on top of her nine rebounds. The Bruins’ well-rounded offense managed to pick up the slack in spite of Dixon’s scoring drought. In addition to Nyingifa, Darxia Morris and Doreena Campbell also scored in double-digits with 14 and 12 points, respectively. With wins over third seed Arizona State and seventh seed Washington in the past two days, Cal had made a comeback from the abysmal 2-7 run that was the second half of its conference campaign. Yet the Bears’ chances against a UCLA that was well-rested from its two byes in the tournament were still slim. Boyle said fatigue was not a factor for Cal, though. “I didn’t see my teamACROSS tire,� she said. 1. Reagan, “I can tell when my team’s tired. It to friends was how we started the game. We got 4. Role on “Alice� punched in the head a little bit and 7. Passing we just deflated. We didn’t respond fancy 11. Went public with to it.�

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bles point. Yet this weekend’s results are The match against the Waves the next not a one-time deal; the team has won day looked strikingly similar. When Zerits last four consecutive away matches, bini and Murphy fell 8-1 to Alex Llomas well as its last four doubles points. part and Alfredo Moreno, this time on Cal began Saturday’s match against court No. 2, the combined triumphs of the Blue Devils on a low point, as se- the other two duos ensured yet another nior captain Pedro Zerbini and junior doubles point for the Bears. May 3, 2007 Tommie Murphy fell, 8-3, to the No.Thursday, Instead of repeating the previous 9 ranked duo of Henrique Cunha and day’s mistakes and letting a doubles Reid Carleton on the top court. advantage devolve into a singles defiSophomore Riki McLachlan and his cit, the Bears kept the lead throughout freshman brother Ben kept the Bears the remainder of the match. in the match by trumping Jared Pinsky The two teams traded wins as and Torsten Wietoska, 8-4, on court No. Llompart took a 6-3, 6-4 decision 3. The tandem of junior Nick Andrews over Andrews on court No. 3 and Ben and sophomore Christoffer Konigsfeldt McLachlan overpowered Mousheg gave Cal the first point of the day after a Hovhannisyan, 6-2, 6-4, on court No. 5. 9-8(7) battle on court No. 2. Katsarov’s 6-4, 6-2 win over David SoDuke quickly took the lead in the faer put the Bears ahead, 3-1. singles round as Mengel and Cunha Even though sophomore Carlos Cuebested Konigsfeldt and Zerbini, respec- to fell, 7-6, 7-3(3), to Finn Tearney, Zertively. But as Bears coach Peter Wright bini crushed any of Pepperdine’s hopes reiterated numerous times throughout for a comeback when he narrowly dethe past few weeks, Cal hadn’t been feated Sebastian Fanselow with a threefocusing on courts four, five and six for set win. naught. As Wright prophesied earlier in the Ben McLachlan trounced Fred Saba, week, “I just really want to see us play 6-3, 6-2, on the fifth court, while senior two good matches from start to finish.� Bozhidar Katsarov defeated Wietoska, Mission accomplished. 6-4, 6-4, on court No. 6. When Andrews defeated Pinsky, 7-6(2), 6-4 on court No. Annie Gerlach covers men’s tennis. 4, he clinched the day’s victory for Cal. Contact her at agerlach@dailycal.org.

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Pair of Hat Tricks Sparks Cal in Thrashing of Aggies Blaine Scully and Tom Rooke Record Three Tries Apiece to Help Cal Top Century Mark

by Alex Matthews Throughout the No. 7 UCLA women’s basketball team’s nearly perfect campaign this season, junior forward Jasmine Dixon has been key. The W. Hoops All-Pac-10 selec50 tion averages 11.8 Cal points and 7.2 re- UCLA 63 bounds per game and shoots 52.9 percent from the field. Dixon’s track record might lead one to assume that without her, the Bruins (17-4, 16-2 in the Pac-10) are not capable of the dominance they’ve displayed all year. Yet when Cal’s defense held Dixon to just four points on Friday during the Pac-10 tournament semifinal, UCLA was still able to beat the Bears handily, 63-50. “When you’re playing teams twice, three times now, you have to know that they’re coming with double-teams,” Bruins coach Nikki Caldwell said of Dixon’s game. While Cal (17-15, 7-11) focused on keeping Dixon away from the net, UCLA utilized that same strategy against the Bears’ point guard Layshia Clarendon, who averages 12.8 points per game but totaled 38 in the tournament’s first two rounds. Cal’s success in cutting out a huge piece of the Bruins’ offense was negated by UCLA’s defense. Clarendon scored just two points, a pair of free throws in the second half, at the Staples Center in

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by Christina Jones Senior Staff Writer

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Layshia Clarendon had a frustrating outing against UCLA, going 0-for-6 from the field and missing four 3-pointers. Her only scoring came on two free throws in the second half.

Blaine Scully considers the captain of the Cal rugby team to be “the first among equals.” On Saturday rugby afternoon, there was only one other UC Davis 0 player to equal the 106 senior captain’s stat Cal line. Along with senior flanker Tom Rooke, Scully notched a hat trick in the Bears’ 106-0 blanking of UC Davis. Cal has yet to give up a point in league play; the Bears have 201 points on 31 tries. Not only was it Scully’s first 80-minute game of the season, but it was also his return to coach Jack Clark’s lineup after suffering a concussion against British Columbia on Feb. 19. The Sacramento, Calif., native was cleared last Saturday prior to Cal’s match against San Diego State, but he did not play. Scully’s three-try performance came on the field of his alma mater, Jesuit High School in Carmichael, Calif. With the Bears (17-0, 2-0 in the CPD) forced to relocate matches from Witter Rugby Field this season and next, Clark opted to play at Jesuit, the high school home of 10 of his players. The match functioned as a fundraiser for high school rugby. “I think it was special for a lot of us, having the opportunity to play (at Jesuit),” Scully said. “There were quite a few people there, a lot of aspiring young rugby players that came

to watch us play, watch what a rugby team can do. “I was happy to play my role.” Any fellow Jesuit alumni in the crowd had no memory of Scully on the pitch in high school. The All-American did not play rugby for the Marauders, opting for the pool instead. He picked up rugby as an 18-year-old, and played for UCLA prior to transferring to Cal. Scully bookended Saturday’s smackdown of the winless Aggies with scores, while the second of his three came in the 56th minute. Rooke, on the other hand, made all three of his trips across the goal line in the first half. His final try of the day came in the 21st minute, which put the Bears up 33-0 following senior James Bailes’ conversion. Just as Scully deflected attention from himself in his triumphant return to his alma mater, Rooke did not take credit for his success, either. “I was just finishing the hard work of my teammates,” Rooke said. Rooke has been doing quite a bit of “finishing” of late — he scored the Bears’ try in the second half against UBC to bring Cal within one point, setting up Bailes’ winning conversion. Bailes went 8-of-10 on conversions on Saturday and dazzled the crowd with a blocked kick that he returned for a try in the 29th minute. He came off the field after the half, but production did not drop off; his replacement, junior flyhalf Alex Aronson, went 5-of-6. Aronson wasn’t the only reserve to see action against a hapless Davis team. Freshman Paul Bosco started in place of Connor Ring, in what Scully called “his first real test as a scrumhalf.” Despite Bosco’s inexperience with the systems, Scully was impressed by his ability to organize the team. Christina Jones covers rugby. Contact her at cjones@dailycal.org.

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Morrison Sets Cal Heptathlon Record at NCAA Indoor Meet Morrison’s 5,872 Points Break His Own School Mark, Earn Him a Fifth Place Finish Overall by Byron Atashian Staff Writer

Mike Morrison’s fifth-place finish in the heptathlon at the NCAA Track and Field Indoor Championships this weekend doesn’t quite tell the whole story. Not only did he come through in the clutch in the pole vault to help break the Cal heptathlon record that he set, but also the neck-and-neck competition was so close that clearing another bar height in the vault or high jump would have put him in second. “It always feels good breaking a record but I kind of hoped for more, it was a heck of a field,” Morrison said. “The field was deep and almost everybody was in the running to win it if they could step up and put up big marks.” According to Cal coach Tony Sandoval, the field at the Gilliam Indoor Track Stadium in College Station, Texas, was the strongest in NCAA history. The point totals for the fourth through eighth spots were the highest ever and Morrison finished in a lower rank than last year despite having a higher score. The senior cleared an impressive 16-8.75 in the pole vault. Although he was a pole vaulter by trade out of high school, the event has given him the most trouble this season. After hurting his elbow in last year’s NCAA Outdoors and missing a large por-

tion of training in the fall, Morrison struggled to get back up to speed in the pole vault. He turned the liability into an asset, however, coming in second place in the event and reopening possibilities of breaking his personal collegiate record of 17-0.75. “You put him in a corner and he performs, he does a great job of that,” Sandoval said. “He put it together and he really needed a good pole vault for his score.” His solid performance can only mean good things looking ahead to the newly begun outdoor season, as he continues to find his rhythm from the time lost to recovery. “To know that I’m back and I’ve got my groove again was the highlight of the meet for me,” Morrison said. “I feel like I have a lot more left in it and I came away knowing I’m going to go even higher in the outdoor season.” In the transition to the outdoor season, the heptathlon picks up three more events — the javelin, the discus and the 400m — to become the decathlon. The new events are stronger points for Morrison. “He will be better outdoors than he will indoors, he showed that last year as well” Sandoval said. “He has great poise and competitiveness.” Morrison’s teammates, Allison Stokke and Hammed Suleman, also competed at the NCAA Indoors in the pole vault and triple jump, respectively. Stokke, a senior, took eighth in the pole vault with a height of 13-9.50. Suleman, a sophomore, finished 12th in the triple jump with a distance of 50-11.50. Byron Atashian covers track and field. Contact him at batashian@dailycal.org.

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Chadd Krist was solid at the plate on Sunday evening, batting 2-for-4 and driving home a pair of runs against Long Beach State.

Rain Only Delays Win Over Dirtbags by Katie Dowd Senior Staff Writer

At 8:15 p.m., the lights at AT&T Park finally began flicking off. It was a long time coming. On Saturday, baseball it took the Bears over four hours Long Beach State 1 6 and 15 innings Cal to defeat No. 18 Rice. On Sunday, ONLINE SLIDESHOW nature slowed things up. Play Check out photos from was paused for the Bears’ 15-inning win over an hour over Rice on Saturday after Cal starter Dixon Anderson accidentally nailed third baseman Mike Marjama when the slippery ball got away from him, rain pouring down onto the field.

But it was as a team that the Bears pulled a tarp over the field during the rain delay. And as a team, the No. 20 Bears small-balled their way to a 6-1 win over Long Beach State, completing an undefeated weekend at the Cal Baseball Classic in San Francisco. “Oh, this is great,” sophomore left fielder Vince Bruno said. “After a 15inning game, we lost an hour of sleep, got back up and played another game and won, 6-1. It’s a good thing for us.” Dirtbag starter Shawn Stuart came into the contest with a record of 2-0 and an ERA of 1.35, but it didn’t take long for Cal (10-4) to get to him. In the bottom of the third, designated hitter Austin Booker chipped a single off the end of his bat, stole second and scored on a double by Bruno. Singles by second baseman Tony Renda and catcher Chadd Krist drove him in.

Bruno, a junior college transfer from Los Medanos College, went 2-for-3 with two runs on the afternoon. “Everyone is trying to work harder than the next guy,” Bruno said. “That’s something that we carry on ourselves and take pride in. One through nine, they’re all hard workers.” The Bears scored three more in the fifth and another in the sixth, all made possible by stringing together singles, doubles and sacrifices. They also got production from where they needed it; Renda and Krist, Cal’s three-four hitters, went a combined 5-for-8 with four RBI. “We consider all these teams regional teams. It’s pretty much practice for the postseason,” said Krist, who caught 23 innings in two days. “We can come out and defeat these teams.”

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