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By Mary Susman | Staff msusman@dailycal.org Each weekend last year, current UC Berkeley sophomore Sydney Lai would go to fraternities with friends, where she would flirt with guys and enjoy her nights — all the while playing a game with her identity. Lai is a lesbian, and although she said she likes the satisfaction of fooling men at fraternity parties into thinking she is attracted to them, the game bores her after awhile. Yet much of the Greek scene is focused around heterosexual lifestyles, sometimes leaving students who identify as queer feeling disenfranchised. “Aside from the sisterhood, which is what attracted me, a lot of the socializing is with frats, which is for me I guess just wasting that time,” Lai said. “I don’t want to spend all my time flirting with guys.” So Lai founded her own lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and ally sorority colony of Gamma Rho Lambda this semester with a mission to reclaim what it means to be both a sorority sister and a queer woman. “What binds us together is not so much our sexual orientation, but the fact that we advocate as well as identify with that group,” Lai said. “We wanted that sisterhood.” Gamma Rho Lambda was founded in 2003 at Arizona State University. Zina Alam, vice president of communications for Gamma Rho Lambda National Sorority, said after becoming the “only nationally-based, active queer and ally sorority” in 2006, it now has 11 groups nationwide at both liberal and conservative college campuses. “Some schools, they already have a lot LGBT groups, so they want something more,” Alam said. “Some don’t have any. They call (the sorority) the safe zone, they call it their second family and it’s the only family that understands them and accepts them for who they are in more conservative communities.” Group membership for each chapter ranges from eight to 30 members, according to Alam, who said the sorority has gained about two new colonies a year since 2006. The national sorority also receives two to five inquiry emails a week from students wanting to start their own chapters, she said. “We just let people come to us,” Alam said. “We don’t go out and colonize. The people at the universities have to help recruit and be

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Isabella Mazzei, left, and Sydney Lai are both members of Gamma Rho Lambda, the newlyfounded LGBT sorority. The UC Berkeley colony has was recognized nationally in February. motivated themselves.” The campus Gamma Rho Lambda colony — which will become a chapter after three semesters — was recognized nationally in February with an alpha class of 18 students. “The sorority has become my life,” Lai said. “Honestly, I spend probably more time on this than I do on classes.” Although the sisters live separately, they have weekly meetings and are planning for a service project in the future. As the alpha class, the group has added responsibility. According to Lai, everyone has to go through new member education like any other new sorority, except for one difference. While they learn the Greek alphabet and their sorority drinking song, they also learn about queer issues. Lai said the group is already becoming close, especially after internal bonding activities, which range from hikes to karaoke nights at a sister’s apartment to a screening of the Rocky Horror Picture Show.

The sorority is joining an already active queer community at UC Berkeley — there are over 10 student organizations for queer students — yet the founders of Gamma Rho Lambda believe the sorority provides a unique space for queer women. “A sorority is a lot more serious. A club, you can come and go, and you don’t really feel that involved,” said sophomore Melissa Gioino, one of three founding “mothers” of UC Berkeley’s colony. “A sorority — it’s more of a commitment.” While Gamma Rho Lambda is the first queer sorority at UC Berkeley, it is not the first queer organization within the campus’s Greek system. A gay fraternity, Delta Lambda Phi, existed briefly in the 1990s. Currently, Sigma Epsilon Omega, a gay fraternity founded in 2007, has 40 active members, according to junior James Kealohi, president of the fraternity. “It’s nice to have a group of friends that share

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A 2006 Berkeley murder case faced more interpreting problems Wednesday morning as an alleged murderer underwent direct examination from his lawyer at the Rene C. Davidson Courthouse in Oakland. Asmerom Gebreselassie, 47, was accused of fatally shooting his sister-in-law Winta Mehari, her mother Regba Baharengasi and her brother Yonas Mehari, then a 17-year-old Berkeley High School student, in the Mehari family’s Telegraph Avenue apartment on Thanksgiving Day, while his brother, Tewodros Gebreselassie, 43, was accused of helping plan the shooting. Although Asmerom Gebreselassie gave a testimony in Ethiopian that was “clear enough,” the court decided to continue the direct examination process on Thursday, according to Joni Leventis, the deputy district attorney handling the prosecution. The interpreter confused the jury by translating the testimony in the third person, Leventis said, adding that this type of error is common in English translation of the Ethiopian language. Asmerom Gebreselassie requested an interpreter from the court during the preliminary hearing in 2008. He, his brother and the Mehari family are all of Eritrean origin. Prosecutors have said the shooting was an act of revenge in response to the death of Abraham Tewolde — the Gebreselassies’ brother and Winta Mehari’s husband — in March 2006 and that the brothers suspected Winta Mehari had killed Tewolde to acquire money from his life insurance policy. The Gebreselassie brothers testified in 2008 that they acted out of self-defense, claiming that the Mehari family attacked the two to prevent them from revealing to the community that Merhawi Mehari, one of Winta Mehari’s brothers, was gay. The defendants also claim that Tewolde had revealed to them that Merhawi Mehari was molesting Tewolde and Winta Mehari’s two-year-old son, whom the defendants also face charges of kidnapping from the scene of the crime. The trial has been marred by a variety of factors, Leventis said. Both the defendants and witnesses have cycled through interpreters, creating over 8,000 pages of documents relevant to the trial over the years. After further delays, the trial was rescheduled to start in May 2010, but it was then again postponed after Asmerom Gebreselassie asked to fire his criminal defense counsel, a motion that Judge Larry Goodman eventually granted, according to Leventis. Direct and cross examination will continue on Thursday morning when a new interpreter is found for the defendant.

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n nights like this — nights when the minutes tick away as it (paradoxically) gets later and earlier — I can finally understand Facebook addicts. You would know the ones I mean: the people who live their lives in the gaps between status-update one-liners and tell-all “Notes.” You always know what’s happening in their lives, regardless of whether you care (you probably don’t) or whether you asked (you didn’t). They are honest and soul-baring, which means they are awkward and overly-revealing. They are metaphorical nudists who abandoned our insular ideas of formality and boundaries. And we hate them. We all do. But ... but ... the numbers are flying by on my alarm clock and thoughts are spinning in my head — and all of a sudden, I really want to tell someone how I feel. But who to call? The early birds have gone to sleep and the partiers have yet to stumble in. Anyway, it’s not that I want to talk to anyone in particular. I especially don’t want to have anything as involved as a conversation. I just want to post a memo. To: Life. RE: Everything. Message: It Sucks. And that’s when a Facebook update starts to seem really, really appealing. With an over-heating laptop to keep you warm at night, you need never be alone again. Now, I’m hardly a Luddite. I grew up in Silicon Valley where tech startups are more common than garage bands and everyone is always obsessed with “the next big thing.” Seriously, if you think New York has an obsession with trends, try being in San Francisco during the Macworld Expo. However, I’ll admit, I find Twitter dubious, Tumblr questionable (did I really spend an hour looking at pictures of hungover owls?) and Foursquare a sign of the coming apocalypse. A recent prank, which I learned about through Tumblr, concerned a Google Mobile app for a “locationbased air service” that would allow you to track where your friends had recently breathed. The frightening thing is how few people realized it was a deliberate prank rather than the delusions of a visionary. rivacy seems, in some way, such an outdated concept. This is, in part, because the way we use the Internet has undergone a rapid transformation in recent years. When I was growing up (all those many years ago), the Internet was a fairly anonymous place. Before the Facebook Revolution, most “social networking” sites took the form of blogs, diaries or forums. The key being that they were mostly formed on the basis of mutual interest rather than of mutual acquaintance. Yet somewhere in the transition from LiveJournal to Xanga to Myspace to Facebook that anonymity was lost. Where early usernames were probably some combination of your favorite animal plus “cute adjective” plus “string of random num-

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After an ASUC Senate majority voted on it, the initiative to phase out water bottle sales is on the ballot

Meghna Dholakia mdholakia@dailycal.org bers,” post-Myspace you are no longer “cocoaducks” ... you’re just you. The Internet stopped being where we lived alternate lives and became, quite simply, a part of RL (real life). True, the Facebook transition decreased the number of Myspace creepers posing as small children, but it also means that what happens on the Internet can now follow us home. To the home that everyone can see on Google Maps. n December, The Wall Street Journal did an expose on popular mobile apps and their privacy breaches. Before the article went to press, they found that both free and paid versions of the Angry Birds app for the iPhone sent the phone’s unique device ID and location to Electronic Arts Inc. (the app’s marketer). Of the 101 apps that The Wall Street Journal examined, 56 sent the phone’s ID to other companies, 47 passed on the location and five transmitted personal details such as gender and age. The creepiest indication of this was a little ad that popped up on a random website over spring break. “Hi Meghna,” it said. “How’s the weather in Palo Alto?” I may have screamed. It works like this. According to a paper from Arnold Roosendaal of Tilburg University, when you visit a page that has a Facebook “Like” button, information gets sent back to Facebook itself. If you happen to be logged in to Facebook at the time, it’s possible to link your web browsing with your Facebook identity. In a 1999 episode of “The West Wing,” Rob Lowe’s character declares privacy as the issue of the 21st century. In an epic address to the camera, Lowe proclaims, “The next two decades are going to be privacy. I’m talking about the Internet. I’m talking about cell phones. I’m talking about health records and who’s gay and who’s not. And moreover, in a country born on the will to be free, what could be more fundamental than this?” There is something fundamentally repugnant to me about someone making money by selling data about me. Especially, when I have no idea how that information is used. So please, tonight after you shut all the windows in your apartment, draw the curtains, lock your doors and bolt them shut, take a moment and check your Facebook privacy settings. You never know what might follow you home.

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By J.D. Morris | Staff jmorris@dailycal.org At the Feb. 23 ASUC Senate meeting, UC Berkeley senior Rose Whitson conducted a taste test. As part of a presentation to convince senators to support her initiative for the 2011 ASUC General Elections, which calls for the campus to phase out the sale of bottled water, Whitson — director of the ASUC Sustainability Team — presented each senator with two cups of water, and after drinking each, asked them to vote on which they liked better. Tap water won. Taking into account the environmental impacts and waste associated with bottled water, Whitson hopes her “End the Sale of Bottled Water” referendum will lead the campus to a more sustainable future, though she said she is mindful of the challenges to getting there. “It’s going to be very difficult, and for us to actually make change, we’re probably going to need to provide a very, very sound fiscal plan,” Whitson said. If the referendum passes, it will have no authority to actually phase out bottled water on campus, but proponents hope that the statement of support would prompt the campus to begin doing so.

Whitson had originally tried to bring her initiative to voters through a petition, but unclear requirements in the ASUC Constitution and Bylaws inhibited her from attaining the proper amount of signatures. So Cooperative Movement Senator Elliot Goldstein authored a senate bill, and it was This seems placed on the like more of ballot after a majority of a symbolic senators vot- measure, really, ed on it via the referenda than positive process at the impact on March 9 senate meeting. environmenNow, voters talism or will decide sustainability ...” whether there is suf- —Shawn Lewis, Berkeley ficient sup- College Republicans port for the question. Sophomore Shawn Lewis does not think there is. Even if it should pass, Lewis — president of the Berkeley College Republicans and an outspoken opponent of the referendum — said he does not think the general campus population would truly support phasing out bottled water, citing Whitson’s struggle to get the proper amount of signatures during the petition process. One of Lewis’s primary concerns is the vagueness of the referendum’s language. “This seems more of a symbolic measure, really, than any kind of positive impact on environmentalism or sustainability because there is no thought-out plan to it,” Lewis said. Lewis said although he supports environmentally conscious efforts, he

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does not believe this petition is the right approach, favoring instead to focus on a lack of campus recycling. Furthermore, chair of the campus Beverage Alliance Kurt Libby said in a statement to The Daily Californian that if the campus were to actually eliminate bottled water sales, it could Should lose about this pass, $150,000 a year in rev- my hope enue. is that Goldstein, h o w e v e r , this will remains un- send ripple convinced. He said effects across that certain the country ...” unclear aspects of the —Elliot Goldstein, c a m p u s ’ s Cooperative Movement c o n t r a c t Senator with CocaCola call into question exactly how much of a financial impact bottled water sale reductions would have and that if the campus decides to submit a Request for Proposal on a new beverage contract, which he said he expects to happen, the re-negotiations could accommodate for a phasing out of bottled water. Goldstein said he hopes the referendum’s passage will have an impact on other campuses, as well. “Should this pass, my hope is that this will send ripple effects across the country where other colleges that have students that are also environmentally conscious will pass similar efforts to create their own phasing out,” Goldstein said. J.D. Morris is the lead student government reporter.

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The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater showcases the 50th anniversary of Ailey’s landmark ‘Revelations.’

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Celebrating works such as ‘Anointed’ and ‘Revelations’ — choreographed by the artist himself — the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater performed at Zellerbach Auditorium this Sunday. By Erin Donaldson | Staff edonaldson@dailycal.org

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n first glance, the crowd outside of Zellerbach Auditorium on Sunday afternoon seemed exceptionally energetic — ­ no grumbling children being dragged to a show by their parents or uninterested students simply trying to complete an extra credit assignment. All of these people came ready to enjoy the annual Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater show put on by Cal Performances. Drawing on a wide array of modern dance styles, the company celebrated

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the 50th anniversary of founder Alvin Ailey’s classic “Revelations” with a moving reflection on the history and experiences of its own choreographers. Sunday also marked the company’s final Berkeley showcase under the critically-acclaimed artistic direction of Judith Jamison. A desire to honor their long-time collaborator formed an emotional current that manifested itself in details as minute as an outstretched arm or a single gaze into the

audience. The dancers’ incredible commitment to the performance was well-received, eliciting multiple standing ovations and spontaneous applause. The company chose to perform two pieces that honor Jamison’s contributions to their success. Jamison is a central character in both “Anointed” and “Cry,” choreographed by Christopher L. Huggins and Ailey, respectively. The pieces illustrate not only her influence on the dance world, but also the impact that dance has made on her life. When juxtaposed, they highlight the contrast in style between the older and newer generations of choreographers. Huggins’ work, only

one year old, employed an almost orchestral arrangement of the dancers; Ailey’s relied on a more abstract solo performance. Recurring throughout the afternoon was a theme of evolution of masculine and feminine nature. “Cry” embodied the experience of African American females, and “The Hunt” sought to draw a parallel between Spartan war tradition and modern sports culture. The dancer in “Cry” resembled a caged animal in the beginning, looking battered and downtrodden but never losing that wild spark in her eye. Yet by the end of the performance she was gallivanting around stage in sheer

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‘Poetry’ paints intricate portrait of senescent heroine Veteran actress bolsters South Korean auteur Lee Chang-Dong’s latest feature film. By Michelle Lee | Staff mlee@dailycal.org

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In ‘Poetry,’ Yoon Jeong-Hee plays Mi-Ja, an ordinary grandmother who must come to terms with extraordinary circumstances.

riting poetry is not hard, if it comes from the heart.” So says the local writing instructor in “Poetry,” a riveting film that won Best Screenplay at last year’s Cannes Film Festival. The latest work from Lee Chang-Dong, director of “Peppermint Candy” and “Secret Sunshine,” “Poetry” is both heartbreaking and poignant, paying homage to the power of words and observation. The film follows the seemingly innocent story of an ordinary and endearing grandmother, Yang Mi-Ja (Yoon Jeong-Hee). Absentminded and often misplacing her things, Mi-Ja carries out her tasks as caretaker of an elderly man and grandmother of a

slovenly grandson Jong-Wook (David Lee) with dignity. Out of curiosity, Mi-Ja enrolls into a local poetry class, where the assignment is to write one poem. Her world is suddenly interrupted by the news of Jong-Wook’s involvement in a horrible crime, as well as the news of her own failing health. Much like the river that runs near Mi-Ja’s home, the screen flows from one scene to another, granting the film a smooth pacing that subtly reaches its end. Every scene moves with a purpose that captures its audience, and the 139 minutes of the film never drag. Seamlessly switching from scene to scene, the camera captures quiet moments: sunlight streams into a classroom, dim light fills a homey and tidy apartment on a silent night. Brightly colored flowers and the fresh greens of the fields pop out and give life to the screen. Both the natural scenery and the rural setting of the film are free from the busy rush of large cities, and crowds of hassled people are absent. There is an overwhelming sense of peace that permeates the film as it unfolds.

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Saoirse Ronan plays the title character in director Joe Wright’s latest film, ‘Hanna.’ Sharing the screen with Cate Blanchett and Eric Bana, Ronan plays a 16-year-old assassin in a refreshing confluence of its literary and cinematic predecessors. By Derek Sagehorn | Staff dsagehorn@dailycal.org

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good action movie is hard to find. Fortunately there are rare coins like “Hanna” that stand out from the myriad bland and repetitive efforts. The film features Saoirse Ronan, Eric Bana and Cate Blanchett, but the real star is the directing of Joe Wright. He takes a script with many disparate threads and weaves a stunning, measured and personal work. The plot requires some serious attention: The titular Hanna lives in a sub-Arctic hut with her former Spook of a father; he is training her to hunt, kill and survive. “Adapt,” he coos. Hanna’s education is so regimented that her father responds to her request to hear music with an entry from the encyclopedia. When she’s proven her mettle, her father gives her a mission: Kill the secret agent Marissa Fiegler (played superbly by Cate Blanchett). The father disappears and leaves this 16-year-old girl to trek across the world to kill. In the course of this, Hanna discovers the truth about Marissa, her father and

herself. Of course, this plot description is totally inadequate for describing what happens in “Hanna.” There are all sorts of twists, revelations and discoveries that keep the film moving towards a sense of Mission Accomplished (except for one, annoyingly lifted from an Orson Scott Card novel). While the film is well-paced and “action-packed,” that’s not what makes it especially noteworthy. A well-designed narrative arc does not a good action film make. Instead, what’s compelling about “Hanna” is its stunning visuals and dazzling style. Cinematographer Alwin H. Kuchler does a stellar job of creating beautiful but menacing compositions in the tundras, deserts and industrial wastelands that make up the film’s locales. “Hanna” is also rich with color; its many brilliant greens and reds sparkle on-screen. The film also invests heavily in literary history. There are complementary nods to “1984” and the Brothers Grimm. The latter is actually central to both the plot and the film’s fairy tale aesthetic (a world resembling our own but without the strict realism, a moral at the end, circular nature, etc.) Moreover, Wright liberally quotes from Fritz Lang’s “M.” While

surveillance and the underworld are major subjects of “Hanna,” it’s the character Isaacs (Tom Hollander) — the cabaret owner-cum-assassin tracking Hanna — who most vividly recalls Lang’s work. He’s a dead ringer for Peter Lorre, and soon he is entering rooms with leitmotifs (the Chemical Brothers’ score really contributes to the overall experience of the film in a variety of ways that I don’t have time to get into here) and chasing young Hanna all over Berlin. It’s film quotation done right: with tact, purpose and none of orgiastic smugness of a Tarantino film. Re: Tarantino’s “Kill Bill,” and by extension Zach Snyder’s “Sucker Punch” — the Girls Kicking Ass film genre is a perilous exercise because male directors can easily succumb to the belief that women beating people up is an example of strong femininity, especially when many of these killers are highly sexualized. Tarantino thinks that enough bitten-off penises will justify this absurd rendering of women. Zach Snyder ... frankly, I don’t know what he’s thinking. But part of Joe Wright’s genius is making Hanna an unwilling participant. She just wants to be a teenage girl, not a killing machine, making her far more human in general — and female in particular.

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film will never mean to you now what it will in another year, month, day. We’re everevolving, and our tastes grow more discerning as we get older, too — and that makes us pretty special, right? Ask anyone: We all went through that “Titanic” obsession, the one I’ve been so loath to reiterate since my first column. While I consider that big, bloated, stinking ship to be the dawn of my movie fandom, I’ve absolutely outgrown it. There’s no question: I will never look back and I will let go, Jack. If I skip about five years of moviewatching, I arrive at my Woody Allen phase, an idolatry I’ve invoked here time and again. Re-watching Allen classics from the ’70s and ’80s, I found that while some of his films remain close to my heart, they don’t do much for my head. If you look at Allen’s favorites from his own catalogue — “Match Point” is one — it seems even he has outgrown his old self because these films are quite unlike ageless gems like “Love and Death” or “Hannah and Her Sisters.” Sometimes I wonder if I’ve outgrown him, too. But I’ve got to give that nebbish little man, the poster-boy of all nebbish little men out there, some credit. He was like a teacher in the formative years of my cinematic education — and aren’t they always formative? All the references, diegetic or not, in films like “Manhattan” or “Stardust

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Memories,” led me to Bergman, Fellini, the list goes on. Name any director from an annual Sight and Sound poll and I probably found them because of Woody Allen. Like many college-ass kids, I too was swallowed up by the indie monster of the ’00s: I thought “Garden State” was the greatest thing ever. I bought my first (and last) Sartre book after seeing “I Heart Huckabees.” I waited desperately for every Wes Anderson film like Cash waits for Margot in “The Royal Tenenbaums.” People stick their nose up at these “quirky,” “indie” films, but I think they’re a good start for cultivating taste since each is, however conspicuously, cinema-obsessed. Though I no longer feel as close to Anderson, a film like Noah Baumbach’s “The Squid and the Whale” — which I love more each time I see it­— wouldn’t exist without the Wes aesthetic. And thanks to him, I found out about the other, better Anderson. Part of me sees my bygone movie taste the same way I see unseemly pictures of myself from a year ago, or sometimes even a week ago: with disgust. But the other part, the less superficial voice in my head, thinks maybe I was pretty cool (or another flattering euphemism for “pretentious”). This week in class, I watched Fellini’s “La Dolce Vita” for the first time since I was about 14 and saw it on TCM on a Friday night. Clearly, I didn’t have a social life then: I had the movies. At the time, I probably said I liked the film, but in retrospect it couldn’t have meant much to me. I think you have to live a little first. You have to go out on those Friday nights, even if you’ll never find a party quite like the ones Marcello attends. Now, I realize “Vita” will be a favorite of mine for the rest of my life. I had to grow into it ­— it just took half a decade for me to get there. So finally we come to the last shot, where I look into the camera and turn my eyes to the audience before the fade-to-black: If there’s a movie you thought you didn’t get the first time, try it in a few years. You might be surprised. Or you might feel the same way, the same disappointment, and that’s saying something, too. I’ll get back to you later, when I know what that is.

Poetry: Scenes of the sweet quotidian From Page 4 Despite the turn of events, the calm peace remains. Even in the face of shocking news, everything remains as undisturbed as it was before, untouched by the horrible trials that looms over Mi-Ja’s life. There is rarely anything explosive to interrupt the relative stillness; bouts of anger or passionate fits of violence don’t occur. The heinous crimes are shocking, yet they are subdued by the serene nature of the film, which renders its soft and melancholy tone. The only change that occurs in “Poetry” is within Mi-Ja herself. At first acquiescent and composed, Mi-Ja is forced to perform unexpected actions driven by her growing desperation. Her forays into poetry give her the power to observe the world around her and the courage to challenge its injustice. In peaceful scenes of nature, Mi-Ja jots down little notes about the vivid color of a ripe apple, or on the sweetness of a

fallen apricot; these observations inspire her and fuel her poetic endeavors. Veteran actress Yoon Jeong-Hee portrays Mi-Ja with quiet grace. Her sweet smiles and soothing voice fill the screen, yet in scenes of great distress, her eyes stare into the distance and display her quiet sorrow. Yoon’s Mi-Ja is an ordinary woman, desperate to find both order and poetry in her life. She is easy to empathize with, and this is perhaps why Yoon is successful in her role. “Poetry” is full of despair and loneliness, yet it is remarkably beautiful. Lee Chang-Dong successfully creates a movie deeply touching and remarkable in its insight. He challenges his audience to find the poetry that lies in Mi-Ja’s story, and to find inspiration from her observations. Drawing lyricism from its screenplay, the film is sure to enchant its audience — and perhaps make poets of some.

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suggests that, despite Jamison’s departure, the future is still bright for the Ailey company. Ailey’s “Revelations” united the show’s varying perspectives on history, gender and human nature with a timeless illustration of the human experience. It opened with a cluster of dancers reaching to the sky as the words, “There is trouble all over this world,” were repeated, kicking off an enthralling journey of redemption and self-discovery. In pieces like this, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater distinguishes itself from other dance companies by going beyond a simple showcase of talent. It is their effort to craft something that speaks to a diverse group of people that has brought them so much success.

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After a month of correspondence between administrators and protesters, four UC Berkeley students and one union worker may be able to meet with campus administrators on Friday to address grievances regarding the way in which Operational Excellence is run, a chance that was the result of negotiations between the campus and nine protesters who took part in the March 3 Wheeler Hall ledge sit. According to an email sent to protesters Wednesday evening by Felicia Lee, chief of staff for the Office of Student Affairs, four protesters that sat on the ledge and one union member will be allowed to meet with Chancellor Robert Birgeneau, Operational Excellence program head Andrew Szeri and other campus officials to discuss issues with student involvement, communication between administrators and the campus community and the overall transparency from the program — a campus initiative that aims to save $75 million annually. Though four different students and one union worker had been selected to attend the meeting, campus officials told organizers in the email that because those selected were not part of the original nine who sat on the Wheeler Hall ledge, they were not allowed to be a part of the meeting. Officials asked student organizers to re-submit selections for the meeting on Friday or, should they not comply, risk having the meeting postponed. “We are most likely not changing the students,” said sophomore Marco Amaral, one of the original students

selected to attend the meeting. “Being part of the ‘ledge sit-in protest’ doesn’t mean you have to be part of the actual sit in ... Everyone else that was part of the protest was also part of it.” Campus spokesperson Dan Mogulof said before the email was sent out that officials hope the meeting will facilitate a discussion that would help them understand the reasoning behind why the students want to end the implementation of Operational Excellence. “This is meant to be a civil, open discussion to see why these students are so adamant about ending (Operational Excellence),” Szeri said. “We will not be ending Operational Excellence, it is that simple. But we do want to hear what they have to say.” In addition, student organizers are hoping to gather 200 to 500 people outside California Hall and have speakers discuss concerns the campus community may have regarding not only Operational Excellence, but other issues such as budget cuts. UC Berkeley alumnus and one of Friday’s organizing committee members, Zachary Miller, said speakers including ASUC President Noah Stern, professor emeritus of physics Charles Schwartz and lecturer Michael Cohen will address the crowd. Miller said the speakers will focus specifically on what students can do to become more aware of the budget crisis as well as changes within Operational Excellence and how to get involved. While organizers said they would have liked more people to take part in Friday’s meeting, those participating in the outside event said they will not engage in any kind of confrontation between UCPD or campus officials. Katie Nelson covers academics and administration.

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Student-founded CampusCred sells vouchers to local businesses By Rachel Banning-Lover | Staff rlover@dailycal.org Last August, UC Berkeley junior Sagar Shah did not expect much from the new business he had founded and launched with several other students last semester. CampusCred started by selling discount vouchers to students for Berkeley businesses through tabling, fliering and online advertising. They also gave the businesses the opportunity to raise students’ awareness of their presence beyond their storefront and have since expanded to six other universities, Shah said. “Berkeley was our pilot project to see if (the idea) worked at Cal and at college,” Shah said. “We thought we’d

sell 20 to 30 vouchers per deal, but our success was surprising.” Instead, 235 vouchers were sold for CampusCred’s first deal with the Cal Student Store, and for the first time in its history, the organization reached 1,000 sales for a deal offered in conjunction with La Burrita — launched March 13, according to Shah. “We wanted to explore the new media of Internet advertising and marketing, and they seemed to have a good following,” said Izat Eliyan, manager and partner at La Burrita. “In the beginning, I thought maybe about 500 (tickets would be sold), as it was close to spring break. That was my estimation, but when it got to 1,000, I was like ‘wow.’” Eliyan said he had worked with CampusCred in the past to promote D’Yar on

Durant Avenue, a business he co-owns, and received a good response. Offering students a $10 voucher for La Burrita for a $5 payment seemed to be a good way to give back to students to show his customers that he appreciated their business, Eliyan said. The organization’s previous success in providing exposure for businesses also appealed to Sam Nassar, a partner at Northside Cafe. CampusCred will offer a $10 voucher for the cafe for a $5 payment. “A couple of my fellow business friends had used them before — I know the people at CREAM and Urban Turban, and I wanted to give it a shot and see how it works,” Nassar said. “A lot of people who live on Southside don’t know us and we wanted to increase

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Students’ time at community colleges increases By Jasmine Mausner | Staff jmausner@dailycal.org Berkeley City College student Ali Attari was ready for UC life over a year ago, but unavailable core community college classes held him back from applying to UC Berkeley until this year, his third year at the college. Attari is just one of many students whose life plans have been stalled due to budget cuts at the community college level and a shortage of courses for the amount of enrolled students. A recent Pearson Foundation study found that 47 percent of students in the state’s fiscally strained community college system experienced difficulty when enrolling in courses — nearly twice the national average. Because of this shortage, more California students like Attari are being forced to stay additional semesters and sometimes years at community colleges before fulfilling the 60-unit minimum requirement for transferring to a UC, according to UC Office of the President administrator Nancy Coolidge. “The ones who probably have to take just one more semester are the lucky ones,� said Public Policy Institute of California Program Director Debbie Cochrane. But despite these difficulties facing transfer students, the UC — per a stated goal in the UC Commission on the Future Final Report — is admitting more transfer students than

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the process. She added that a majority of her friends took at least three years to meet all their transfer requirements. “It is all about starting early and not procrastinating,� she said. “I had a friend who needed just one math class her last quarter and did not get it, so she had to stay another year.� Cochrane said the overpopulation of the state and the high demand for education rests on the UCs, CSUs and community colleges. But, because of huge budget cuts that affect all three institutions, California is not able to meet the demands of all the students. “When the UC is not able to accept all the students that it wants to, some of those overflow students go to CSUs,� she said. “When CSUs cannot accept all their students, others are left to go to community colleges.� President and CEO of the Community College League of California Scott Lay said because community colleges are so populated, more space and resources are greatly needed. But, with an additional $400 million reduction from the state coming to the institution next year, things are looking to get worse for students, and their plans to transfer may be stalled even more. “When state budgets are as problematic as they are now, higher education in California is feeling it more than other institutions in other states,� he said. “Community colleges are advocating for more money, but preparing for more cuts.�

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Midweek starter Kevin Miller entered Tuesday’s game with the second-best ERA in the country at 0.46. His mark dropped to 0.63 after Pacific rang up a 4-0 lead against him and the Bears in four innings.

baseball: Offense shows signs of life late after flat start From back They didn’t let it go to waste. A bunt moved runners to second and third, and a single into left field made it 2-0. A sac fly added another score. Second baseman Tyger Pederson, who went 5-for-5 on Tuesday, capped

the run with a single RBI to grab a 4-0 lead for the Tigers. After striking out a career-high 15 against San Francisco a week ago, Miller (3-2, 0.63 ERA) mustered four Ks in four innings of work. It wasn’t a terrible performance, but not enough given the rest of the team’s showing.

“We didn’t do him any favors ... We’ve all got a hand in this,” Esquer said. “If we came out thinking Kevin Miller was gonna strike out 15 guys and win the game on his own, we were sorely mistaken. That’s putting a lot of pressure on him. He’s a piece of the puzzle.”

Things only got more out of hand in the sixth. An error put Pacific in scoring position again with runners on second and third, and Pederson singled for his second RBI of the day. A sac fly not long afterwards stretched the Tigers lead to 6-0. Cal showed some life in the bottom of the seventh and eighth innings with two runs in each. Still, it was too little, too late.

Pacific retired three straight batters in the ninth inning to end the game. With Pac-10 play picking up again Friday at No. 22 Arizona, the Bears have a bit of time to shake the bad vibes. “I think we just need to come out tomorrow, work our asses off,” Bruno said. “Stay an hour. Why not? Stay an extra hour.” Jack Wang covers baseball.

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Softball: Offense sputters after first two innings of victory over Hornets From Page 9

Freshman pitcher Taylor Stroud of the Hornets had been struggling Bears’ bats fell flat. entering the matchup against the “We definitely need to have more discipline at the plate and better pitch Bears, but appeared to regain her selection going down the road here early season form after a shaky first two innings. against top teams,� Ninemire said. For the game, the Bears did outhit Stroud had been allowing oppothe Hornets 9-1. However, after seven nents to hit .407 in four starts in Ma^ =Zber <Zeb_hkgbZg DUMMY hits in the first two innings, Cal man- March. Prior to the slump, Shroud had aged just a single and a double for the a season ERA of 0.95, and tossed a rest of the game, and left a total of five two-hit shutout against Utah State. Cal will look avoid repeating history runners on base. “We didn’t make the adjustments this weekend in a three game series quick enough, but we were making against Washington in Seattle. In 2010, hard outs,� Henderson said. “It just the Huskies took the series, 2-1. Connor Byrne covers softball. wasn’t going our way.�

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Cal track and field’s senior decathlete Mike Morrison is the kind of person who performs best under pressure, according to both himself and his coach Tony Sandoval. The first day of the decathlon at the Texas Relays in Austin was no different. In the shot put and long jump, he logged his highest marks both times on the final attempts. His last try in the shot put came in at 40-8.25 and he matched three competitors for the best long jump of the day, sailing 24-3.75. Additionally, he broke his personal record in the 100m and tied his personal record in the high jump to put him at the front of the 22 competitors from all around the country. His combined efforts were enough to put him in the lead by a slim margin of 35 points over Texas-Arlington’s Romain Martin. Of Morrison’s four decathlons as a Bear, this is highest total after the first day with a total of 4,100. His point totals from each event are 940 in the 100m, 913 in the long jump, 631 in the shot put, 794 in the high jump and 822 in the 400m. Morrison’s weakest events tend to be the throwing events and there are two today, the discus and javelin throw.However, the pole vault, which is one of Morrison’s strongest events, is today as well.

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diversity and curiosity to be a delightful surprise. around the world for two years. Now, Andersson believes she has But months later, a middle route matured enough to embrace her appeared. That path pointed westforgotten history. After exposure to wards, across the Atlantic Ocean. the diversity in Berkeley, she wants Go west, young lady, it said. Go to know more about Korea and to to America. rebuild those broken links. efore she quit, she thoughtMankl]Zr% FZr ,% +))0 While Andersson has never that collegiate tennis was for been to Korea, she had encounplayers who weren’t serious about tered at Cal more Koreans than the sport. But she was willing to she ever had. The high Asian compromise after realizing she population can be a bizarre sight couldn’t live without playing. to any Swede travelling in America “I emailed every program I can for the first time. Just ask Mr. and find the address for,� she says. “But Mrs. Andersson. for some reason, I just wanted to “They were waiting for me, and go to a school in California. when I saw them they were amazed “I really first heard about Berkeby how many Asian students that ley through the TV show ‘The O.C.’ were here,� Andersson says. “Three I thought it had to be famous since times, my mom thought she saw it came out from a TV show.� me, but it was someone else. Thanks to a personal connec“A mother should be able to tion with Morten Christensen, recognize her own daughter, but it the Danish assistant coach of the was so unfamiliar since they never Cal men’s tennis team at the time, saw so many Asians.� Andersson was able to get a hold of After three years of tennis at Cal, Bears coach Amanda Augustus. She Andersson is ready to hang her joined the squad in fall of 2008 deracket up for the last time. After spite applying late in the summer. winning the NCAA doubles title Berkeley opened her eyes in a in 2009 with Jana Juricova, she new direction. In Sweden, she had hopes to win one last title in the no interest in her past. She had NCAA tournament next month. no memories of Korea or known In the less immediate future, relatives there. The only bridges Andersson hopes to go back to were her physical appearance and Korea. When that day comes, a stack of adoption papers. maybe then she can find the key to That changed at Cal. After unlock answers about the life she growing up in Sweden, where never knew. Maybe then, her story will come people weren’t as interested in her full circle. background, she found Americans’

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Thursday, April 7, 2011 • dailycal.org/sports

W. TENNIS By Seung Y. Lee | Staff sylee@dailycal.org

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f you were to walk past Mari Andersson, you might not even notice her. She is 5-foot-5, has a short, jet-black ponytail and distinctly Asian features — hardly characteristics that set her apart from thousands of other girls at Cal. But talk to her, and odds are, you might never find anyone with her kind of story. When Andersson, now a senior on the Cal women’s tennis team, was only four months old, she was adopted from South Korea by a Swedish couple. One of about 9,000 Koreans to have ever been adopted in Sweden, she ended up in a town of about 5,000 people. But no matter how much she loved Swedish Idol or how often she ate risgrynsgrot at Christmas, the color of her skin made her stand out. “I’m not really special here even though I’m not at home,” she says of Berkeley. “Whereas where I am home in Sweden, where everything should be

normal, I’m special.” All her life, from northern Europe to the western United States, she never felt she fit in completely. Now at 24, as she prepares to make her leap into the real world, Andersson is left with a lingering question: Is there a home for her where she will no longer stand out? erhaps the only time she did was during the first four months of her life. Like every baby in the hospital, she was Korean. And maybe if she had never been adopted, she could be listening to K-pop or gossiping over Korean dramas. Adoption is a common practice in Korea for orphans and children in poverty, even in the late ’80s, when Korea was one of the richest nations in the world. Although the reasons why Andersson was adopted are unknown, her biological parents gave their daughter to two Swedes, never to see her again. “I did think about what might have happened, but the difference from the life I have now to the life I would have if I wasn’t adopted is so big,” Andersson says.

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“I can’t imagine what it would be like. “I’m sitting here, with a full scholarship, playing tennis in Berkeley. The odds are small that I sometimes can’t believe it.” Leaving the busy metropolis of Seoul, Andersson arrived in the small town of Bastad. A quiet, beautiful town on the western coast of Sweden, near the Danish border, the place has a strong Scandinavian ambience, like something out of a postcard or brochure. It was almost destiny that Andersson picked up tennis. Bastad has the most courts in the nation and has hosted the Swedish Open since 1948. In Sweden, Bastad is Tennistown. She was introduced to tennis at age six by a friend of her mother and was immediately hooked. After winning her first Swedish Championship at age 12, people quickly recognized her potential. “There were a lot of professional tennis players, like (former World No. 1) Stefan Edberg, watching,” she recalls. “It was the first time I won something really big. I really liked that feeling I had when I won.”

While tennis provided a path for Andersson to maximize her athletic gifts, it also shielded her from insensitive racial remarks. “I learned to ignore comments early in my life,” she says. “But I have a couple of friends who were also adopted from Asian countries, and I think they experienced a harder time being Asian in Sweden. “And really, if you are the best one in tennis, your friends are not going to make fun of you.” As a teenager, her days were spent on the tennis court either practicing or in tournaments. She was focused on becoming the best tennis player she could possibly be, and hoped to play professionally after high school. But gradually, she changed her mind. She loved it but did not want to sacrifice her education for it; in Sweden, collegiate athletics do not exist. She had only two options for her tennis career after high school: go pro or abandon her career. Ultimately, she decided to quit tennis after competing in tournaments

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Baseball

Bears’ bats fall flat in 7-4 home defeat to Pacific on Tuesday Quick Look:

By Jack Wang | Senior Staff jwang@dailycal.org

Pacific: 7 cal: 4 Hits: 13-12, Cal cal LOB: 12 cal Errors: 2 miller: 4 k, 6 hits allowed

Brent McMinn started on the mound for the Pacific baseball team Tuesday afternoon, less than two innings’ worth of action worked into his glove this season. He stood in the middle of Evans Diamond, staring down No. 13 Cal’s leadoff hitter Vince Bruno. Three innings later, McMinn sat down, his ERA still spotless. No matter that the sophomore’s resume was just as thin as it had been when the national anthem was blaring from the speakers; his team was well on its way to a 7-4 win

that wasn’t as close as the score, staffed by a six-man pitching committee of relative no-names. Cal (19-7, 5-1 in the Pac-10) had entered the game victorious in nine of its last 10, but without that record on paper, no one could have guessed. The players swung at bad pitches, missed out on routine plays. They left 12 runners on base and went 4-for-17 from the plate in scoring position. “It’s as bad as we’ve played all year,” coach David Esquer said. The Bears’ bats looked dead right from the get-go, with each of the first three batters falling behind 0-2 in the pitch count. Shortstop Marcus Semien got on base with a single, but second baseman Tony Renda lined into a double play to end the first inning.

Starting pitcher Kevin Miller kept Cal in the game through the next few innings, working his pitches in the usual high-70s and mid-80s. Entering the game with the second-lowest ERA in the country at 0.46, he gave up a run in the first inning but faced only four batters in both the second and third, striking out three and allowing two hits. But then the senior stopped hitting his spots. First, Miller walked Pacific (9-16) right fielder Allen Riley on four pitches to start the top of the fourth. Renda fielded the next grounder, but tossed it to Semien at second instead of going for the easy out; Semien bobbled the ball, and the Tigers were suddenly in scoring position.

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