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UC Staff, Students Remain Stadium’s Safe After Japan Quake Renovation Senior Staff Writer

Duncan Williams, a UC Berkeley associate professor of East Asian languages and cultures, was on his way to the Narita International Airport in Tokyo when a devastating earthquake shook Japan. “My train nearly derailed in Chiba Prefecture, which is about 200 miles from Sendai, the epicenter,” he said in an e-mail. In the days following the onset of an 8.9 magnitude earthquake and ensuing catastrophic tsunami that hit the east coast of Japan last Friday, UC officials are working to ensure the safety of faculty like Williams — who was able to return to Berkeley this past weekend — as well as the potential relocation of students that are currently abroad. According to a UC Office of the President statement released Friday, the UC has identified some 32 faculty, staff and researchers who were in Japan as well as about 80 students in the UC Education Abroad Program. Mary McMahon, the UC Education Abroad Program regional director, said the students in Japan have been accounted for and are safe. A subse-

quent UCOP statement released Monday stated that the faculty, staff and researchers are also safe. Another group of students was scheduled to begin their spring term in Japan on April 1. From this group, UC Berkeley sophomore Alex Hendricks said he is now unsure as to whether he will be able to depart. “Basically, no decision by the university has been made either way as to whether I’ll even be allowed to go to Japan if I wanted to,” he said in an email. “And at this point I’m vacillating between whether I’d even want to go if given the opportunity.” McMahon said most programs will be moving forward, while those universities that have been affected — namely those in northern Japan — will either offer students the opportunity to study at another university in Japan or in another country. McMahon declined to name which universities had been affected. Because universities were on spring break, most UC students abroad were relatively unaffected by the event and were either traveling in other parts of Europe and Asia or were at home with

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Initiative Asking to End Bottled Water Sales Placed on Ballot by Katie Bender Staff Writer

An initiative to request the end of all bottled water sales on the UC Berkeley campus will be on the ASUC ballot ASUC this April, after a bill was passed at Elections last week’s ASUC Senate meeting. The initiative — part of an ongoing effort to reduce waste on campus and encourage students to use refillable canteens rather than plastic water bottles — will be voted on during the April

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5, 6 and 7 ASUC elections. Co-authored by Cooperative Movement Senator Elliot Goldstein and Rose Whitson — director of the ASUC Sustainability Team, which has led the initiative to get rid of plastic water bottles on campus since last semester — the bill supporting a referendum to “End the Sale of Bottled Water Initiative” was passed Wednesday night. The referendum requests the renegotiation of existing campus contracts to end the sale of bottled water as well as increased efforts to provide other water options to students through

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Concerns Neighbors

by Madeleine Key Staff Writer

The ASUC Senate passed a significantly amended bill at its March 9 meeting, calling for an offiONLINE PODCAST cial dialogue to take place be- Madeleine discusses tween campus complaints regarding administrators the stadium renovation. and students who have been negatively affected by the ongoing construction at Memorial Stadium. After a lengthy and emotional presentation was made by residents of nearby cooperatives Sherman Hall and Davis House, senators approved a bill requesting a meeting with Vice Chancellor for Capital Projects Edward Denton, Dean of Students Jonathan Poullard, Athletic Director Sandy Barbour and the affected students before next Friday. However, according to Cooperative Movement Senator Elliot Goldstein — a co-author of the bill — the meeting will not be scheduled until the senate hears a presentation from Christine Shaff, communications director for facilities services, at its meeting Wednesday. “We want to see what she brings forth to the table first, and then we’ll act accordingly,” Goldstein said. He added that ASUC President Noah Stern said Chancellor Robert Birgeneau had been receptive to student concerns after Stern informed him of this issue. Shaff said she was not yet certain what her presentation is going to be. “I’m looking forward to talking more with the sponsoring Senator (Goldstein) about what type of information they want to hear,” Shaff said. At the March 9 senate meeting, students described the respiratory problems that numerous members of their houses have developed in the past two

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Stadium construction has negatively affected students residing in nearby co-ops. The ASUC passed a bill calling for official dialogue with campus administrators about the issue. months and talked about how extended construction hours have disrupted their daily sleep and study habits. Since students returned from winter break, construction hours now last 12 hours each day during the week and 11 hours each day of the weekend. According to Sherman Hall House Manager Frances Lu, she and other residents of the co-op have contacted Shaff and Bob Milano, assistant athletic director for capital planning and management, to express their concerns about excessive dust and noise at least once a week since construction hours increased at the beginning of January. “We just want to have a dialogue with

the people that can act quickly,” Lu said. “It’s been a slow process up until this point, and that’s what was crucial about the bill — it’s pushed the university to consider what we have to say.” Goldstein said it was important that the bill passed at the meeting — rather than being tabled for further discussion as some senators recommended — because campus officials who he said can bring about tangible change need to hear from affected students as soon as possible to produce timely improvements. The original senate bill submitted by Goldstein and co-author Samantha Strimling — an ASUC intern and

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AGENDA Meetings of the Regents of of the University of California

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Compliance and Audit Report on privacy and security Pending litigation Presentation on trends in higher education by PricewaterhouseCoopers

Grounds and Buildings Changes to some capital projects

WEDNESDAY Budget Update on ‘11-’12 budget Campus presentations on the impact of cuts Budget options for ‘11-’15 Changing relationship between campuses and the Office of the President

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THURSDAY Compensation Approval of individual compensation actions from Wed.

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Finance Additional contribution to UCRP

Health Services Health care reform and impact on the UC The Board will convene at the end of today to vote on everything

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Tuesday, March 15 WHAT READING As part of the Crossroads Irish-American Festival, the gathering’s First Annual Crossroads Irish-American Writing Contest in Memoir will announce its winner. The event will be held at St. Patrick’s Church, McKenna Hall. WHEN 7:00 p.m. WHEre 765 Mission Street, San Francisco. Cost Free. CONTACT info@irishamericancrossroads.org

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by Soumya Karlamangla Staff Writer

As more solar and wind power makes its way into the state’s energy sources, increased costs are also expected to make their way into the UC’s pocketbook. Last month, the California state Senate passed a bill that would require utilities companies to generate 33 percent of their energy from renewable sources — including solar, wind and geothermal energy — by 2020. The bill is now waiting for approval from the state Assembly, and if it passes there, it will move on to Gov. Jerry Brown’s desk. “You pay more for renewable energy, and that would definitely impact the University of California as a large utility customer,� said Andy Coghlan, the UC sustainability specialist. Renewable energy sources, which are derived from resources that can be naturally replenished, are generally endorsed as eco-friendly because they are not produced by burning fossil fuels. If utilities companies — like PG&E, from which UC Berkeley purchases its electricity and gas — begin to use more sustainable energy sources, UC utility bills could increase, as the majority of UC electricity is purchased from utili-

ties companies. The UC already struggles to pay its utilities bills. As state finances started to dwindle over the past 10 years, costs for the maintenance of buildings began to shift from the university — which has historically covered those payments with direct state funding — to individual campuses. Currently, about $40 million of the university’s annual utilities bill of between $280 million to $300 million for buildings that are eligible for state support is paid with campus monies, according to UC spokesperson Steve Montiel. Specifically at UC Berkeley, over $6 million in campus discretionary funds that would otherwise go toward research and teaching are used to pay for its approximately $26 million annual utility bill, according to campus spokesperson Dan Mogulof. Neither the campus nor the UC is unfamiliar with price increases — since 2001, energy prices have risen 120 percent, according to Montiel. So keeping costs down has been difficult because even as usage decreases, total payments frequently stay the same or even go up because of the elevated rates. Coghlan said he hopes to work against the potential cost changes by continuing to conserve energy on campuses.

“We don’t have to accept a higher utility rate and turn it directly into a proportionally higher utility bill,� he said. Both the UC and UC Berkeley have sustainability plans that include reducing greenhouse gas emissions. And since the proposed legislation would require more eco-friendly energy sources, it would bring them closer to their goals. “Part of the carbon footprint of the University of California is the carbon net embedded in the electricity that we buy,� Coghlan said. “So to the extent that the utility companies in the state have to buy renewable energy, that’s going to lower the carbon intensity of the electricity and indirectly (and) it will help the university achieve its greenhouse gas emission goals.� The UC sustainability policy calls for a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions to 2000 levels by 2014. UC Berkeley has a more ambitious target; in 2007, Chancellor Robert Birgeneau made the commitment to bring down campus greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2014. And since about 30 percent of campus emissions come from electricity usage, the bill would help further those ends, according to campus sustainability specialist Kira Stoll.

“If (utility companies) are using less coal and more solar, then our electricity has less greenhouse gas emissions in it,� she said. “So there is a very strong connection between what our utilities are doing and our emission from the campus.� Most utilities companies in the state have already begun to use alternative energy sources because in 2006, the state passed a bill that required them to use 20 percent renewables by 2010. Similar policies are being passed in many other states, and more than half have already set renewable energy targets. If oil prices continue to rise, renewable energy may not only be more environmentally friendly than oil, it also may be cheaper, said Ellen Hanak, an economist who specializes in natural resource management and a senior fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California. “Our oil reserves are finite; at some point in the earth’s future, we’ll need to be completely independent of oil,� she said. “A lot of innovation is needed to move us there, and California is in a position to be an innovator in this kind of thing.� Soumya Karlamangla is the lead environment reporter. Contact her at skarlamangla@dailycal.org.

Inter-City Services Prepares Students for Green Job Market by Soumya Karlamangla Staff Writer

As more companies shift their focus to green products and services, knowledge about sustainable technology is becoming increasingly valuable, even as jobs in the city — in any market — are hard to come by. But through grants and contracts with the city and the Berkeley Unified School District, Inter-City Services — a vocational training institute in South Berkeley — is able to provide free services for its students, many of whom are veterans and most of whom are unemployed. And now, after over 25 years of serving Bay Area residents, the establishment is offering training appropriate for the green job market, an industry that the institute’s founder and executive director Mansour IdDeen expects to boom.

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The headline for the March 4 article “Co-Op Board Set to Vote on Drug Policy� incorrectly stated that the board was going to vote on drug policies. In fact, its agenda did not include these items. The March 10 article “College of Engineering Ranks in U.S. News Top 10� incorrectly stated that Lisa Alvarez-Cohen, chair of the civil and environmental engineering department, referred to money going through the Lawrence Hall of Science. In fact, she referred to money going through the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The March 11 article “CalSERVE Says It Will Not Run an Executive Slate� incorrectly stated that Student Action released its slate on March 2. In fact, it was released on March 7. The Daily Californian regrets the errors.

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“There’s a tremendous trend in this direction,� he said. “We’re just at the apex of it at this moment. We expect it to blossom in the years to come.� In January, the institute began to offer solar panel installation training classes online and, over the coming months, three more classes with a green technology focus will become available. But even slightly shrinking the city’s unemployment rate — about 10 percent in January — by tapping into the green market may prove difficult, according to Carol Zabin, research director for the UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education. “When you have so many experienced, unemployed workers training people in specific — particularly entrylevel — skills, they’re probably not going to be able to find work,� she said. “It’s unlikely.�

Zabin said that for the construction industry, training programs that do not have connections with employers do not result in jobs. About 40 percent of jobs in construction in the state have been lost since 2006, she said, making it the sector with the largest employment drop. Consequently, there are already trained, experienced workers looking for the same jobs. However, the green job market, which includes positions in construction and technology, is growing — from 2008 to 2009, the number of green jobs increased by 3 percent in the state while total jobs only increased by 1 percent, according to a recent study from Next 10, a nonpartisan research group. The Bay Area showed the greatest growth, expanding by 109 percent since 1995. “It’s just amazing the leadership that the Bay Area has had in terms of

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green technology and innovation,� said Noel Perry, founder of Next 10. “I don’t know the future, but based on the progression of increase, I see (green jobs) continuing to grow.� Since the economic crisis began, people have hoped that the green sector would create more employment opportunities. But some business owners are skeptical of whether the demand for environmentally friendly products and services led to an expected high level of growth in the job market. “When the recession hit, they said, ‘This green stuff is going to blow up, ;460;B 2><82B ?DII we’re going to see huge growth,’� said Javier Valenzuela, a co-owner of Alter Systems, a Berkeley-based business that sells and installs solar products. “That hasn’t really happened.� From 1995 to 2009, jobs in the

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here’s a little exhibitionist in me. Of course, when I say “little,” I mean huge. An utter pervert struck dumb by the idea that sex in public is generally a no-no. A gasping, pleading miscreant just waiting to be let out. And as an exhibitionist, I feel safe in saying that it all comes down to location, location, location. Under the influence of planning the debauchery that will ensue, what was once a seemingly mundane location becomes fetishized. The friendly neighborhood park down the street is no longer. Rather, a warm, open field surrounded by roses and the inkling of sunlight filtering through the glossy tree leaves overhead takes its place. Suddenly, that secluded hill behind the picnic area seems intentional, as if the god of architecture himself was urging you, “Go on ahead. I’ll sit here and watch, shall I?” In my experience, the average person has yet to come to terms with their inner exhibitionist for two reasons: fear of breaking the law and the lack of an adventurous partner. If anything, these are both fairly sensible reasons to continue on with your bedroom love-making and the post-coital cigarette in the kitchen. But if you happen to be in possession of some serious cojones (or for females, sheer fortitude) and an excitable enough mate, you might start wondering about the possibilities. Honestly, the possibilities are endless. But the mistake that first-timers (aw, bless them) often make in executing the ever-so-daring act in public is forgetting to be pragmatic. I know this because I am the proud owner of two very destroyed kneecaps. You see, my first offense took place in one of the dorm lounges (for the sake of current dorm residents, I won’t say which, so please don’t ask). Giddy at the prospect of getting it on, I flung all my reservations aside, only to then realize, as I switched into cowgirl position, that carpeting does terrible things to bare skin. I rode on in sheer agony, determined to put mind over matter and have an orgasm, because damn it all, there’s nothing quite like cowgirl. evertheless, on the whole, the experience was fantastic, and I held my head high the next day, relishing my little adventure. The next location was a laundry room. Rather than indulging in the cliched “doing it on top of a washing machine,” I’m afraid this wasn’t how events unfolded. After all, you can’t really fuck someone in that position, you just get fucked. Maybe it was my stubborn love of cowgirl, but I decided my location of preference would be on the floor. The stone cold, concrete floor.

JANELLE ALBUKHARI If there is any lesson I could hope to pass on to you, it is this: Don’t ever have sex on concrete. Ever. y now, you think I would have learned. You think I would have understood the repercussions of what I was doing, because, let’s face it, the scars from the last rendezvous had just barely healed and my mind was only half-blinded with lust. But no. Concrete it was. I had chosen. Don’t get me wrong. For about an hour or so, I had the time of my life; the aftermath, however, left my joints about as firm as overcooked spaghetti. I hobbled my way around campus for days, swearing at benches that were built too low to the ground and at unsuspecting pedestrians for flaunting their fresh, untarnished kneecaps in shorts. My body was thoroughly defeated. But physical pain shouldn’t stop you from having sex wherever the hell you feel like it, keeping in mind of course the potential consequences of your lusty ways. Whereas I only had to deal with what I’m sure would become early-onset osteoporosis (the result of the aforementioned incidents and, er, a further romp on a sidewalk one day), you could possibly be dealing with much more serious things, like getting arrested or, even worse, having the local hot dog vendor get a glimpse of your unmentionables. Either way, be forewarned that this is a sexual frontier not for the faint of heart. The trick to not getting lost amongst the unending options offered by exhibitionism, is to keep your eyes firmly on the lookout (for the available merch truck or movie theater, wherever you may be at the time). After all, it can’t hurt to have a couple of emergency exit strategies in mind. There’s no predicting the whims of sexually keen deviants, such as myself. You never know when you’re going to meet that one tour guide in the city and count the seconds until you get to fuck him mercilessly on the top deck of the bus. Or, maybe you’re counting down the seconds as we speak — 10, 9, 8 ...

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former employee of The Daily Californian — included a list of specific mitigation requests for Sherman Hall that Lu helped draft. But these requests — which included asking the campus to fund compensation measures like double-paned windows and air purifiers and contract a third party to conduct air quality and noise monitoring — were removed after contention was raised by several senators. “We want to find an amicable solution,” said Alex Ghenis, the vice president of external affairs for the Berkeley Student Cooperative. “The senate bill that passed is a less combative solution. We’re hoping things will move more quickly now.” Although several meetings have taken place between residents of Sherman Hall, representatives of the BSC, Milano and Shaff in the past two months — including a public forum held on Feb. 24 also attended by residents of the area — none of the official requests submitted by the co-op have been met. “This is a health and well-being issue,” Lu said. “It was really alarming when at least 10 girls within a month talked to me about having new respiratory symptoms.” Lu said five Sherman residents have expressed their intention to move out as a result of the construction. Shaff said the campus is “working directly with the residents of Sherman and will continue to do that.” Madeleine Key covers student government. Contact her at mkey@dailycal.org.

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7. Temple

14. Bucknell

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8. Butler

9. Tennessee

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1. Duke

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10. Georgia

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11. Marquette

6. Xavier

13. Princeton

4. Kentucky

12. UAB/Clemson

5. West Virginia

9. Villanova

8. George Mason

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11. Middle Tennessee

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6. Oklahoma

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5. Green Bay

5. Georgia Tech

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8. Houston

9. Texas

8. Marquette

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2. Duke

10. Marist

7. Iowa State

14. Navy

3. DePaul

11. Dayton

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13. St. Francis (Pa.)

4. Maryland

12. Princeton

5. North Carolina

8. Texas Tech

16. UC Davis

5. Georgetown

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8. Kansas State

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Furthermore, this decision suggests UC Berkeley’s oldest active student political party is losing its appeal to its voter base and cannot find four candidates for the executive office positions. In 2006, Student Action swept all four partisan executive seats, but CalSERVE returned to dominance in 2007-08 and 2008-09 after a scandal involving 2006-07 ASUC President Oren Gabriel, who unsuccessfully sued the ASUC and tried to bill it for his legal costs. Barring another Student Action debacle, CalSERVE has little assurance of successfully rebounding. They are not the ASUC’s guaranteed second party, as is demonstrated by the increasing popularity of independents and third-party candidates like Elliot Goldstein, who are competing to fill the role of challenger. If CalSERVE has any hope at staying relevant to students, it must now focus on its pledge to advocate for its constituents both through the senate and outside the organization. Only next year’s election will reveal whether they were successful — or whether forfeiting these elections came at too high a cost.

Granting Access HIGHER EDUCATION

The two proposals on the future of Cal Grants would make for a more efficient, targeted aid system for all Californians.

mid all talks of budget cuts and fee hikes is talk of maintaining access to higher education for as many students as possible. The Cal Grant program, the largest source of California state aid, is essential to preserving this access. However, given the state’s current economic crisis, it must look for ways to cut the program’s cost. Two proposals currently being considered by the California State Legislature would save the state $124 million annually and appear to do so in a way that minimizes the negative impact on students with the most need and addresses the problem of high defaults at for-profit colleges. The state distributes approximately $1 billion in Cal Grant aid, with about $94 million of that going to for-profit colleges. However, while only 10 percent of students nationwide attend for-profit colleges, they account for 44 percent of all student loan defaults, according to a U.S. Senate study. Clearly, something is wrong — forprofit colleges attract students with promises of better futures, but at many institutions, the only guaran-

tee is a higher likelihood of default. The first proposal, denying for-profit schools with high default rates Cal Grants, would provide a financial incentive for these institutions to follow up on their promises of a better future. Implementing this proposal also could potentially save the state $24 million. The second proposal, which would save $100 million, is to reevaluate students each year on their eligibility for receiving Cal Grants. While this would necessarily lead to less aid being disbursed, it would ensure that the system is run as efficiently as possible and helps recipients demonstrating the highest need. Paying for college is difficult for most families, and it pains us to endorse a proposal resulting in fewer students receiving aid. We are heartened that the University of California would increase aid to those who unexpectedly stop qualifying for grants and hope universities with similar resources do the same. Unfortunately, however, the state is between a rock and a hard place — and escaping our financial crisis requires painful sacrifice.

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Jumping Through Policy Hoops

CalSERVE’s decision not to slate candidates in this election costs students choice and casts doubts on the party’s future.

his spring, a curious void will be all too present during the ASUC elections season. CalSERVE has decided not to nominate a slate for any of the four partisan ASUC executive positions. Though this is highly unusual, it is not unprecedented — the last time CalSERVE declined to run an executive slate was in 2006. Party leaders have said the recent decision was the result of months of deliberation. By not seeking the executive offices as a party, they expect it to be able to play a larger role in student activism while maintaining accountability through representation in the ASUC Senate. However, any advantage CalSERVE gains from this comes at a significant cost to both the student body and the future of the party. Executives often serve as their party’s public face, and an absence of executives from CalSERVE would deny constituents representation they expect. The decision to take themselves out of the race may also hurt the student body by limiting CalSERVE’s ability to serve as a check on Student Action, the other major party.

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2012 Admissions Policy Doesn’t Act in the Interest of Students Who Need It by Cecilia Tran and Eunice Kwon Making students jump through admissions hoops is essential to a world-class university's prestige. However, for students of color and students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, that hoop is about to shrink in size. Proposed by President of the Univeristy of California Mark Yudof and approved by the UC Board of Regents, the new UC admissions policy, set to go into effect in 2012, is a deceptive piece of work that actually reduces the percentage of high school students guaranteed admission to at least one UC campus while masking its true nature by expanding the pool of applicants eligible to apply. Although these reductions in guaranteed admissions will affect all applicants, this policy will disproportionately impact students of color. There are three main features of the new admissions policy: It reduces the percentage of students who are guaranteed admission to a UC campus from the top 12.5 percent of statewide high school graduates to the top 10 percent; it eliminates the SAT II Subject Tests as a UC requirement; and it increases the percentage of seniors who are guaranteed admission within each high school (“eligibility in local context”) from the top 4 percent of a high school’s graduating class to the top 9 percent.

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Overall, this policy will expand the pool of applicants eligible to apply to UC by as many as 30,000 students, which, according to Yudof and UC Academic Senate Chair Mary Croughan, will “increase opportunity” and allow well-qualified students who have not taken the subject tests to have their application considered for comprehensive review. While there are several positive aspects of the new policy — particularly in decisions to expand both the Eligibility in Local Context and the pool of applications that UC will review — there are critical problems with the policy's implementation that severely compromise its overall effectiveness and intended goals. First, this policy relies on a murky category of students who are “entitled to review, but not guaranteed admission,” thus deflecting attention from the administration's reduced commitment to hard admissions guarantees. By eliminating the requirement of SAT II Subject Test which, admittedly, has been seen as a barrier for students in lower socio-economic classes and for many minorities as a UC requirement, the policy does allow more students to apply to the university than under the current policy. Yet, having one’s application reviewed does not guarantee admission, particularly at a time when campuses like UC Berkeley are cutting back in-state enrollment in order to replace declining state funding.

By Nina Tompkin

According to UC Office of the President's (UCOP) own data, approximately 18,000 fewer California high school graduates would have been eligible for guaranteed UC admission had this policy been in effect in 2007. Second, the elimination of the SAT II Subject Test as a University of California requirement means that the criteria for deciding who constitutes the top 10 percent of high school graduates, statewide, will be more heavily based on scores from the SAT I, a test that privileges groups with access to test-preparation and other similar resources. Yet, in the policy's defense, the administration argues that the percentage of students eligible for admission in their local context will increase and thereby level the playing field for students from poorer schools. As UCOP studies show, such a boon, however, is nullified by the overall reduction in guaranteed admissions. Although the pool of students eligible to apply might be larger and more diverse, the actual group of students eligible for guaranteed admission will be increasingly homogeneous. According to a California Postsecondary Education Commission eligibility study, 50 percent fewer African Americans, 42 percent fewer Chicano/Latinos, 41 percent fewer Filipinos, 39 percent

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To Whom Does Wheeler Hall Really Belong? UC Berkeley, Bears The March 4 Closure of Wheeler Hall Placed Students’ Rights in Jeopardy by Larisa Mann On Thursday March 4, I went to Wheeler Hall to teach section for Legal Studies 140 “Property and Liberty” — a subject about which we learned a lot more than we expected that day! Students were protesting in front of and on the balcony of the building, and police were standing around, but nobody stopped me from going inside. Students in my section showed up and we started the

discussion. Twenty minutes later, two police officers came and told us “the chancellor is closing the building.” But by what right does the chancellor get to close Wheeler Hall? This campus exists because the land was donated by the state legislature to the university in exchange for its providing education to the citizens of California. So who owns the university? If the labor of teachers is part of the educa-

If there is ... diversity of opinion, who or what should arbitrate these rights?

tional mission, at what point do teachers get to decide what happens on school property? If you believe, as I do, that student labor is also part of education — helping to create what is learned by all in the classroom, what right do students have to make use of the spaces whose existence is justified by an educational mission? If there is disagreement or diversity of opinion, who or what should arbitrate these rights? I later got an e-mail from the chancellor saying that a "health and safety issue" in Wheeler Hall required its closing. Immediately afterwards, a friend who was outside Wheeler Hall told me about police pepper-spraying and beating protesters with batons while

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And Bottled Water by Rose Whitson

It’s true, bears don’t drink plastic water. So why should you, a Golden Bear, drink bottled water? There are a plethora of reasons not to drink bottled water. The plastic containers accumulate in landfills and can take up to 1000 years to degrade. A study by the Pacific Institute further reveals that the bottled water industry uses the energy equivalent of 17 million barrels of oil to meet the annual American bottled water demands. Cases in India and the United States show that bottling plants also stress the surface and ground water, both in terms of local community and ecosystem requirements. The common estimate is that it takes three liters of water to produce one liter of bottled water, with the best conversion factor reported by the European Federation of bottled water at 1.7 liters of water to one liter of bottled water. But the more I talked to other students, the more I realized that even

when people knew these facts, they still buy bottled water. So instead, I would like to address two major reasons that consumers turn to bottled water: convenience and health. Convenience: Bottled water is transportable. It is now available in vending machines, in restaurants, in convenience stores, almost everywhere. The bottles are even designed to ease the way your hand wraps around the bottle. But I challenge this concept of convenience. On the UC Berkeley campus, going to a store is less convenient and requires money. We have water fountains in nearly every building on campus. There are hydration stations for refilling water bottles at the Recreational Sports Facility, the ground floor of Dwinelle Hall and the ground floor of Wurster Hall. Not to mention, any place where there is a restroom on the campus is a place where you can access fresh water from the sinks. Reusable water bottles are no longer

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Bottles: The Cost of ‘Cheap’ Plastic Is Too High from Page 7

cost-prohibitive, especially since many “green� festivals give them away for free or at a discount. Plus, a reusable bottle is usually a one-time purchase, unlike single-use bottles that need to be bought daily, sometimes multiple times in a day. If the cost is still a primary inhibiting factor, one can reuse glass jars and containers. So really, in terms of convenience, we are in no short supply of fresh water sources, nor of container options. Health: People also commonly turn to bottled water when they do not trust their local water supply or think bottled water is healthier and safer. However, this misconception is usually unfounded. California state law requires water agencies to produce annual “consum-

er confidence� reports that detail levels of common water pollutants and heavy metals. Furthermore tap water standards are more stringent than bottled water standards. According to the California Department of Public Health in 2010, the California bottled water standards use 300 micrograms as the maximum level of lead allowable. By contrast, tap water standards only allow 15 micrograms of lead, with East Bay Municipal Utilities District detecting less at four micrograms in 2009. Many health issues surround single-use bottled water. A 2008 study by the Environmental Working Group detected cancer-causing chemicals, trihalomethane and bromodichloromethane in some brands of the bottled water. Polyethylene terephthalate (PET), the most common plastic used

for bottled water, leaches antimony. According to the governmental Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, antimony can cause diarrhea, joint and/or muscle pain, vomiting, anemia and heart problems. The US Environmental Protection Agency sets the maximum contaminant level at 6 ppb (vol). While most bottled waters do not exhibit antimony leaching at first, a 2008 study also demonstrates that storage of bottled water in cars,

garages, or exposure to microwaves or other sources of heat will up antimony levels above acceptable standards. Even if you take precautions with your bottled water, can you guarantee that nowhere in the life cycle of your bottle of water did it get stored in damaging conditions? Postconsumption, these PET bottles end up in landfills and the ocean and leach chemicals into our water supplies and potentially end up in our food by bioaccu-

Even if you take precautions with your bottled water, can you guarantee that nowhere in the life cycle ... did it get stored in damaging conditions?

OPINION

mulation. Wrapping Things Up: Single-use bottled water is not convenient and can even be toxic and harmful. Places like New York and San Francisco, the University of Seattle and the University of San Francisco, among others, successfully banned bottled water in their government buildings and on their campuses. Students at the University of California, Santa Cruz are also working to also ban bottled water. Here on Golden Bear turf, a group of concerned students and I are working to gather support for a 2011 Spring ASUC Election referendum that asks students to support phasing bottled water off our UC Berkeley campus. Until you live in a place where the water quality and accessibility necessitates bottled water, join us in the pledge to drink tap. Rose Whitson is a UC Berkeley student. Reply to opinion@dailycal.org.

Wheeler: Students Have the Right to an Open Education and a United Voice Admissions: New Policy Would Hurt Diversity

better expenditure of university from page 7 resources than paying the wages of attempting to remove them from the police who beat students. area. Was that the health and safety Whose rights are being protected issue? by the beatings, the pepper-sprayIn November 2009, a police officer ings, the denial of water to protestsmashed the hand of and nearly took ers? off the finger of a student participatLet’s consider students’ rights to ing in the protests, while at the pursue an education without disrupNovember 2010 Regents’ meeting, tion. We were carrying on our section police pepper-sprayed nonviolent stu- without a problem until closure of dents in the face. On March 4, police Wheeler Hall happened, it was the ch[[hZk]']Zber\Ze'hk` prevented people from bringing police who kicked us out. water to those protesters who were What of the rights of the students thirsty and had requested it. Police who have dropped out because of fee presence appears to be a leading hikes (many of whom are locked into cause of these “health and safety crushing debt), or the janitors and issues,� and yet they are still allowed members who will no lons 10-NV-D-0248 Pg.other D20 staff of D31 on campus. ger be on campus because of the poliSize: 8.5� x 11� Another issue raised during previcies like fee hikes and the layoffs like ous protests was concern over damthose dictated by Operational age to the building. But is damaging Excellence? Did they have any rights human bodies preferable to damagto pursue an education? The founding buildings? Also, has anyone seen ers of the UC system would have said the bathrooms in Wheeler Hall? If that they did. police were to start beating people How do we measure these rights over building damage, 20 percent of alongside those of students, proteststudents there on a–regular day would ing or not, currently attending UC NERAL OFFICER NUPOC need ambulances. Hiring back the Berkeley? Non-protesting students’ laid-off janitorial staff would be a rights to pursue an education have better response to this concern and a already been affected: Despite mas-

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fewer Pacific Islanders and 36 percent fewer Asian Americans would have been eligible for guaranteed admission had the policy been effective in 2007. In short, this policy does not validate the claim that it will increase diversity on UC campuses. Of the three UCOP simulation studies, two demonstrated that this policy would be damaging to diversity in student admissions, and one showed negligible impact. If the best case scenario results in a neutral outcome and the worst indicates a drastic decrease in diversity, then we must question the university administration's folly in implementing this policy. The 2012 admissions policy, as with recent decisions to reduce the size of the incoming freshman class while increasing out-of-state and international enrollment from 12 to 23 percent, creates the most devastating climate for diversity in the UC TM

system since the 1996 passage of Proposition 209. The promise of “entitled to review, but not guaranteed admission� is ultimately a hollow one. What is necessary, now, more than ever, is a policy that can deliver tangible results — not a policy that, under the cloak of increasing diversity, permits the university to accept fewer qualified instate students. The university administration has argued that Californians must communicate their concerns for public education with Sacramento. Yet we submit that the university itself must act, in principled and forthright ways, to preserve a public vision for the UC system. For starters, the administration must rescind its disastrous 2012 admissions policy. Editor’s Note: This piece was written on behalf of the Committee for Equitable Admissions Policies. Cecilia Tran and Eunice Kwon are students at UC Berkeley. Reply to opinion@dailycal.org.

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Early Assessment Program Aims School District Issues Potential Layoff Notices Unified School District Distributes Pink To Increase College Readiness Berkeley Slips to Dozens of Teachers Who May Be Laid Off by Nina Brown Staff Writer

About 90 percent of incoming freshmen at certain California State University campuses arrived unprepared to complete college-level work in English and math in fall 2009, compared to 8 percent at UC Berkeley, according to a report issued last Thursday by the Legislative Analyst’s Office. Overall student preparedness has increased slightly in the UC system in

recent years, while at the CSU the demand for pre-collegiate level courses peaked at CSU Los Angeles and CSU Dominguez Hills and was high across the board, with 58 percent of freshmen needing remediation in writing, math or both, according to the report. After failing to meet its 1996 goal to reduce the number of freshmen requiring remediation in math and English to 10 percent by 2007, CSU implemented the Early Assessment Program

>> Report: Page10

by Jeffrey Butterfield Staff Writer

Approximately 50 to 55 teachers for grades kindergarten through 12 in the Berkeley Unified School District will receive pink slips this week, a few days past a deadline set by the state’s education code for notifying district employees who may be potentially laid off for the next school year. The affected teachers who now face a level of uncertainty concerning their employment for next fall are full-time equivalents — district educators who teach full-time as temporary fill-ins for other absent teachers. The district, which plans to miss the deadline to send the notices by no more than four days, issues the letters this time every year along with other districts statewide to meet the March 15 date required by law. According to Delia Ruiz, district assistant superintendent of human resources, while some may lose their jobs eventually, none of the 50 or so teachers are being directly laid off as a result of these letters. Some may return to their

JAPAN: UC Makes Plans

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Plastic water bottles are the target of an initiative put on this year’s ballot that asks the campus to end bottled water sales, to be voted on during the ASUC election April 5, 6 and 7.

BOTTLES: Initiative Would Lack Binding Power from front

better maintenance of water fountains and more hydration stations. If passed, though, the initiative would have no binding power on the campus. The bill was passed after the referendum was amended from saying it would encourage the campus to “exclude” the sale and purchase of bottled water to saying it would urge the campus to gradually “phase out” water bottles. Initially, Whitson tried to get the initiative on the ballot through the petition process. Although at first Whitson thought 1,000 signatures were needed, as the bylaws on the ASUC website had indicated at that time, she found out in January that in fact she needed around 3,500 signatures. The bylaws had not been updated properly and therefore she had seen the incorrect figure. When it became clear that Whitson and the Bottled Water Coalition would not likely be able to reach the number of needed signatures, Goldstein decided to co-author the bill with Whitson. Whitson said that although the bill got the majority of senate votes, she was “frustrated by the lack of support for the proposition.” ASUC Auxiliary Director Nadesan Permaul said in an e-mail that the referendum is misleading because it does not provide all of the information. “It does not indicate that funding that supports the ASUC and ultimately

underwrites student activities and programs would be affected by the elimination of bottled water sales on the campus,” Permaul said in the e-mail. Kim LaPean, communications manager for University Health Services, said although she hopes to see further reduction of plastic water bottle use on campus, there are not currently enough water refill stations on campus. The question, according to LaPean, is “do we have enough places on campus for 50,000 people to get tap water everywhere they need to get it?” She said efforts have been made to increase the amount of water available on campus, but UC Berkeley currently lacks the infrastructure to do so. Yishi Zuo, chair of the ASUC Store Operations Board, said if the initiative passes, it will not likely have immediate effects. “Understanding Berkeley’s bureaucracy, it will be hard to get all of Berkeley’s campus to end the sale of bottled water,” Zuo said. In May 2009, the board forgave The Daily Californian a portion of its rent for the office it leases. As part of the agreement, a nonpolitical student member of the board, currently Zuo, sits on The Daily Californian’s Board of Operations, which has no control over the paper’s editorial content. Contact Katie Bender at kbender@dailycal.org.

their families, said McMahon. However, she added that roughly 15 students will be relocated to the UC Tokyo Study Center, where housing has been arranged to accommodate those that were residing in affected areas. “Our first 48 hours were finding students, making sure they were safe and then relocating any that may be in a danger zone,” she said. “We are now turning our attention to try to look forward and see what can go on as normal and what we might need to adjust.” UC spokesperson Lynn Tierney said issues affecting the entire country, such as a lack of water, limited housing and rolling blackouts, will also affect students, especially if they do not have constant power sources. UC Berkeley graduate student Bart Watson was in Fuji City — about 84 miles southwest of Tokyo — for an Ultimate Frisbee tournament when the earthquake hit and said that travel following the tsunami was difficult because the country’s electric trains had stopped running due to the blackouts. “We didn’t get much of the tsunami, luckily,” Watson said. “We stayed there for another day because no trains were running and eventually made it back to Tokyo ... I saw panic behind. People were buying bread and water and there were super long gas lines.” He said after traveling to Tokyo by car, he was able to return to Berkeley on Monday. Though there was little structural damage in Tokyo, there were aftershocks from the earthquake about once every hour, he said. “We could still feel the earthquake (in Fuji City) pretty strongly and it was definitely the strongest I’ve ever felt,” he said. Tierney said now that the UC has located all students, they are continuing to make plans to move forward. “Our position is to try to ... make sure they’re safe, make sure we get them to a safe place and then make decisions about continuing their education,” she said. Allie Bidwell is the assistant university news editor. Contact her at abidwell@dailycal.org.

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positions depending on both case-bycase circumstances and the state of the district’s budget for the next school year. “These are notifications to teachers who are on a temporary contract that their contract is ending this year,” Ruiz said. “Once we know the needs of the district next year, they will be eligible to reapply for the position.” In addition to the full-time equivalent letters, the district has already sent out eight potential administrative reassignment letters — notices that indicate that the employee may fill another administrative position or perhaps a teaching position in the next school year. Two probationary non-reelection notices, meaning the probationary employees will not be elected to receive training for the following year, were also dispensed. Ruiz said much of the uncertainty about what positions the district will continue to provide will be resolved after tax extensions in the planned June 2011 special election either pass or fail. “We are hopeful that the budget is such that we can employ teachers,” Ruiz said. “They are temporary for a reason.” According to district spokesperson

Mark Coplan, many of the full-time employees who received the slips might be reinstated if the teachers they are filling in for continue to be absent. “In general with those contracts, you have to look at them individually,” Coplan said. “Look at the circumstances. Who are they replacing, who are they filling in for, or, in this case, are the economic circumstances a factor?” Until more information about its budget becomes available, the district must prepare for a worst-case scenario. Ruiz said that people often misunderstand the district’s precautions as rash decisions. “There is a distinction between being laid off and having your contract ended,” Ruiz said. “Right now, it is too early for us to be making those types of decisions.” The Berkeley community has, in the past, spoken out against pink slips by showing its public support for protecting the jobs of district teachers. In March 2009, a day of action and protest at the district’s administration building featured demonstrators wearing all pink and demanding that district teachers be allowed to retain their jobs.

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

City Council May Make Zoning Changes to Assist Businesses by Kate Randle Staff Writer

After months of claiming to prioritize small business needs throughout the city, the Berkeley City Council is considering zoning changes to help new and existing businesses, increase sales tax revenue and fill vacancies in commercial districts, though the changes will not be seen in the next three months. Five amendments — which should be brought to the council for approval by June and were submitted preliminarily at its meeting last week — are intended to consolidate permit processes for pedestrian-oriented businesses. Though it will be months before changes are made, the city is aiming to expedite approval of these five less controversial amendments to the city’s zoning ordinance. “I think (a reduced permit process) will make it easier for small businesses to get up and running more quickly,” Councilmember Laurie Capitelli said. “Right now it’s conceivable that people can wait six or eight months to get going. You could go in and have your zoning certificate within four to six weeks.” IScream owner Robin Dalrymple spent eight months obtaining the necessary permits before opening her Solano Avenue store March 9. As her lease agreement had only accounted for half that time, she paid rent on unused space for four months.

“Everything took so much time,” she said. “That’s OK when you’re not paying rent, but we were. If there were some way to streamline the permit process for businesses, that would be great.” In addition to the amendments currently under consideration is a series of 11 more controversial proposals that do not have a time frame for implementation but may be brought before council in the fall, according to Dan Marks, director of the Planning and Development Department. The city is delaying moving forward with these amendments, which could prove problematic due to their complexity and impact on business owners and residents. Some of these amendments would only apply to certain districts. For example, an amendment to extend business hours would be directed toward Solano stores, Capitelli said. Another amendment might make it easier for restaurants to host live acoustic music by only requiring overthe-counter zoning certificates instead of an authorized use permits, which take about four months to obtain. Another amendment to be considered at a later date would exempt businesses smaller than 2,000 square feet from undergoing a complex design review process when posting signs at their location. Instead, the city would provide businesses with basic design standards for new signs.

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Event Honors Outstanding Women of Berkeley by Victoria Pardini Staff Writer

Seven Berkeley women from many different fields and walks of life — a networking pioneer, two ONLINE VIDEO health experts, a troubadour, an See footage of the event Emmy-winning honoring seven women journalist, the of Berkeley online. founder of a youth arts program and a recovered drug addict — were honored at the 2011 Outstanding Women of Berkeley Ceremony Monday night for their contributions to different social causes and groups within the community. The event, held at the Berkeley Public Library on Kittredge Street in Downtown Berkeley, honored the women selected by the city’s Commission on the Status of Women, a group that seeks to improve conditions for women in Berkeley and advocates for women’s issues. At the beginning of this year, not-for-profit organizations, public agencies, city officials, department heads and community leaders nominated women who “live, work or learn� in Berkeley and have gone above and beyond their regular duties, according to event chairperson and commission member Sophie Hahn. “When we recognize the bright stars in our community, it elevates all of us,� said Yelda Mesbah Bartlett, commission chair. “We can be proud of their accomplishments and we can encourage them in their work, so they can continue with renewed energy to do their good work and inspire young women.� The award recipients received flowers and certificates from the city in addition to a certificate from Assemblymember Nancy Skinner. The night’s first honoree, Hope McDonnell, has worked with homeless youth and HIV-positive clients in the city for about 40 years and said she was proud to see the self-esteem of youth blossom through her work. McDonnell’s tie to social justice and social outreach was a theme that connected several of the honorees. Vicki Alexander, co-founder of the Black Infant Health Program, said the civil rights movement helped her pursue a career in medicine, which she had previously been denied during the 1960s. After completing her studies and residency at UC San Francisco medical school in 1978, she moved to New York City, where she worked as a gynecologist and obstetrician at Harlem Hospital Center. In 1995, she returned to Berkeley to work at the city’s Public Health Division. “It was very fitting and a very good way to exert all my expertise, doing the medical stuff together with all of the social justice stuff, and talking about all of the inequity issues and how to resolve them and make programs to create change,� she said. Nancy Schimmel grew up in what she called a political household and witnessed the Free Speech Movement

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state’s green economy grew from 111,000 to 174,000, according to the Next 10 study. But Valenzuela said he thinks that most consumers do not have enough money to sustain the industry and that, since his company opened in 2004, the sector has become “saturated.� “You can have all these workers, and if the demand isn’t there, you’re not going to get projects,� he said. “You can’t just rely on one sector of the economy to do this, it’s kind of foolish.� Inter-City Services is not looking to fix the state’s economy, though. By providing these services, Id-Deen said he hopes to simply give his students an edge so they can begin a career. “Our goal is to make sure that, as with the digital divide, that there’s not a green tech divide in our community,� he said. “We want to make sure that folks in our community understand the need for sustainable energy.�

Lachu Moorjani, owner of Indian restaurant Ajanta on Solano, said the design review process for a new sign was the most difficulty he has had with the city in his 17 years of business. “For some regulatory agency to decide if the sign was appropriate I thought was totally unnecessary,� Moorjani said. “It was extra expensive and I should not have to spend anything extra. In those kind of things I would prefer less regulation.� To reduce vacancies, the city may also explore the possibility of providing incentives to those leasing commercial spaces. Councilmember Kriss Worthington said the city needs to also implement penalties for landlords with vacant properties and actively encourage them to lower their rent. “I would say that it needs to be a carrot and a stick,� he said. “I don’t have a problem with some nice incentives, but I think we need to have a stick to back it up with some type of vacancy fee or tax.�

Soumya Karlamangla is the lead environment reporter. Contact her at skarlamangla@dailycal.org.

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Seven women from diverse walks of life were recognized Monday night for their dedication to social causes in a ceremony held at the Berkeley Public Library on Kittredge Street. at UC Berkeley as a graduate student in library science. Since 1976, she has worked as a librarian for the Berkeley Public Library and later as a songwriter and storyteller. In 1978, she published a book on the art of storytelling and last November, she co-wrote a song with fellow Berkeley songwriter Bonnie Lockhart for the “No on Proposition 23� campaign. She currently coaches aspiring storytellers at the library and in her home. Before singing with the Organic Women’s Chorus at the ceremony, Schimmel mentioned the pioneers of social justice, particularly Alexander. “I just want to thank everybody who makes Berkeley such a great place to be,� she said at the ceremony. “I mean, where else ... can you find yourself sitting next to a fellow red diaper baby?� While several of the “outstanding women� fought for social justice in the community, others had to first overcome personal adversity before achieving success in their fields and making a difference in other individuals’ lives. Suzoni Camp struggled with drug addiction since she was 13 years old.

For about 20 years, she was in and out of jail and estranged from her three children. She said that in early 2006 she decided that she was “sick and tired of being sick and tired� and returned to the East Bay to enter Berkeley’s Options Recovery Services. Camp, who has been sober for about 5 years and is currently the administrative director of the center, said she is humbled by the other honorees. “I’m the community that you serve,� she said at the ceremony. “Today, I’m a different person because of the strong, beautiful women here.� Ginger Ogle, founder of the Berkeley Parents Network; Jennifer Burke, founder of the Young Artists Workspace; and Linda Schacht Gage, library advocate and Emmy-winning journalist, were also honored at the ceremony for their influential work in the community. Gage serves on an advisory board for The Daily Californian that has no control over editorial content. Victoria Pardini covers Berkeley communities. Contact her at vpardini@dailycal.org.

and is now also organizing the Early Start program, set to begin in 2012. Both seek to address students’ unpreparedness while still in high school. The EAP tacks additional questions onto standardized tests taken by high school juniors and informs students if they are on track to be ready for college. The program also teams up university professors with high school teachers to develop grade level-appropriate courses, according to Judy Heiman, a principal analyst at the Legislative Analyst’s Office. The Early Start program requires that students who have been admitted to a university but have not met proficiency standards start addressing the gaps in their knowledge during the summer before their freshman year, according to Steve Boilard, director of higher education for the Legislative Analyst’s Office. However, Boilard was hesitant to call either program a success yet. “I think some individual students have probably benefited from it, but for the overall university, proficiency hasn’t improved very much,� he said. Teachers at schools that send students to CSU Los Angeles and CSU Dominguez Hills cite language challenges and frequent schedule reshuffling as factors contributing to students’ need for remediation. “Most of our kids are limited Eng-

lish performance students,� said Owen Jung, testing coordinator at Bell High School, which sent 28 students to CSU Los Angeles last fall. “At one point or another, most of them speak another language besides English, and Spanish is their language at home. They struggle with English reading comprehension.� Angel Gamino, a math teacher at Huntington Park High School, said that out of roughly 1,500 upperclassmen, only 40 or 50 students enroll in the Advanced Placement calculus courses he helps teach each year. He attributed the low figures to the school’s recent shift to a block schedule, where students complete requirements in a subject all at once. When they study a topic earlier in their high school career, students’ skills often deteriorate by the time they graduate, he said. Determining how a student becomes unprepared to enter college can be tricky, according to Kevin Woolfork, budget policy coordinator for the California Postsecondary Education Commission, who cited family circumstances, income and home environment as influences that cannot be measured by a test like the EAP. “If you come home and there’s no food in your house, being prepared to do college level math is probably 15th on your top 10 to-do list,� he said. Nina Brown covers higher education. Contact her at nbrown@dailycal.org.

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needed to choose between graduating on time and representing her country. If the thick Dutch accent and bright blond hair didn’t give it away, Vonk hails from Holland — a place where athletics are not as integrated into the school systems. Prospective pro athletes have to make significant sacrifices to their education. Collegiate competition does not exist. “If I wanted to play professional softball, I just had to leave my schoolwork a little bit behind,” Vonk says. “That didn’t work out really well. I hated it.” In July of 2005, a secret vote in Singapore eliminated both softball and baseball from the 2012 Olympic slate in London, marking the first sports eliminated since 1936. It would be Vonk’s only opportunity to participate in the Olympics — she knew she could not pass it up. “Even though I wanted that diploma so bad, I knew that I could finish (school) any time I wanted,” she says. Her teachers thought she was crazy. They just didn’t understand why anyone would quit high school. Nevertheless, she committed to representing the Netherlands at the Games in August 2008. As the youngest player in the Dutch delegation, Vonk did not receive the warmest welcome from the other players. Some of her teammates were born in the late ’70s. Vonk was born in 1991. While the final Olympic roster was being solidified, tension built up between the players — most of it geared towards the girl who wasn’t even old enough for a driver’s license. But she had enough talent to compete for anyone’s place on the roster. “When I knew that I had the opportunity to play in the Olympics, I didn’t care what other people thought of me,” Vonk says. “I would have done anything to get that spot.” he 5-foot-7 left-handed batter earned her stripes, not only making the squad but also securing a starting spot at second base. The adversity she faced from her teammates eventually subsided.

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It was a time that bore a testament to her seven years of playing softball and her experience with track and field. Sports had always been a significant part of her life. Her mother, Tanja Reijerink, played professional water polo in the Netherlands. Her father, Theo Vonk, played professional soccer and now coaches in the Netherlands. Her two half-brothers also play pro soccer. “She just possesses a lot of good skill,” Cal coach Diane Ninemire says. “She has a quick release, she’s got a strong arm and good range. She has all of the intangibles that you would be looking for.” However, both she and her team struggled in Beijing. After seven games, Vonk finished with just a single hit in 12 at-bats. The Dutch team closed its Olympic tournament with one victory, a 4-2 win over Chinese Taipei, finishing in eighth place. Despite the disappointing finish, it was a surreal time for such a young athlete, a blur of emotion-filled moments that whipped past her. Because she made her Olympic debut at such a young age, she considered herself too young to really understand what it meant to be there. “If I could turn back time, I would do it because I would experience it way different,” she says. “I didn’t even think about it, like, ‘I am in the Olympics.’ It is just weird. If I could turn back time, I would do it right away.” Following her stint in China, the shortstop returned to the Netherlands to finish up her last year of high school. She also needed to make plans about where softball would lead her after graduation. She had known for a while that she wanted to go to the United States for college, since American schools did not force her to decide between books and bats. The question was, whose colors would she wear? Light blue and white for North Carolina? Maize and blue for Michigan? A little bit of luck had Vonk donning blue and gold. aleo Eldredge was one of Vonk’s old club coaches. She played center field for the Bears under Ninemire and was a part of the 2002 national championship team. Eldredge had already filled Vonk’s ears with stories about life in Berkeley. What she learned, along with her own research on the school, grounded her decision. She had heard about American universities and liked that she could go to school and play ball at the same time. Vonk couldn’t pass up the academic prestige that coupled so well with her love for school. Now, as a freshman living in Clark Kerr — over 5,500 miles from her hometown of Enschede in eastern Holland — she has had an explosive first season as Cal’s first international softball player. “I am starting,” she says of her accomplishments on the team thus far. “I worked my ass off to get there.” She leads the team in batting average (.488) and is sixth in the Pac-10 halfway through the preseason. Her .588 onbase percentage also puts her at fourth in the conference. “Her batting average is outstanding right now, but really, what is so unbelievable, is that it could be so much more,” Ninemire says. “There is so much more that’s there. It is hard to say where she will end up.” With so much potential in the next couple seasons and plans to play professionally in Japan in the future, she is just living and learning at Cal right now. Finally, she doesn’t have to choose anymore.

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

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