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Radiation fears linger in spite of assurances

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Elections Council Chair Shivom Sinha is encouraging voters, like those at this polling location outside of Dwinelle, to report any possible bylaws violations.

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At around 9:45 p.m. on Monday, UC Berkeley sophomore Mia Lincoln was interrupted during a meeting by a phone call.

The caller was a woman with the campaign for Joey Freeman, external affairs vice president candidate and current Student Action senator. Lincoln said she had no idea how her personal cell phone number was obtained.

“She was encouraging me to vote for Joey and for the Student Action slate,” Lincoln said. “To my knowledge, I don’t know anybody that is working on his campaign.”

Freeman did not respond to requests for comment.

Though Lincoln said it was disruptive, the call — and other similar emails, Facebook messages and phone calls received by students from ASUC candidates that they did not know — does not constitute a bylaws violation.

According to the ASUC Constitution and Bylaws, a candidate can be punished for “using e-mail lists or posting boards to campaign, with spam,” which the

J.D. Morris delves into campaigning during the ASUC election and what is considered a bylaws violation in an online podcast.

bylaws define as mail that is sent without any preexisting relationship with the recipient, permission from the organizational leadership or membership in the respective organization in charge of the list.

Attorney General Nathan Rahmanou said he cannot censure candidates for sending individual messages because the candidates do not appear to have sent them using email lists.

“If I don’t have a specific bylaw saying very clearly that someone’s breaking a rule, even if I feel like it’s unfair, there’s no way I can give someone a censure,” Rahmanou said, adding that “common sense would be that unless you know someone, you can’t email them.”

Last fall as president-elect, President Noah Stern was given three censures for violating the bylaws by sending out spam emails using email lists he obtained from a former Berkeley City Council candidate.

But because emails and phone calls this year are being sent individually, Rahmanou said there

is nothing he can do. The bylaws do not place any restrictions on phone calls.

Though he cannot take any action on the personal messaging complaints, Rahmanou is proceeding with several campaign violations.

He said there are five charges he is currently investigating for senate candidates: one ongoing charge against a candidate caught campaigning in the dorms, three candidates who did not attend the mandatory candidates meeting or any of the subsequent makeups and one candidate who discussed her platform at a Residence Hall Assembly meeting — which is not allowed.

Rahmanou, however, will only completely pursue charges against candidates who are elected.

“If I file against people now, I have to file against everyone,” Rahmanou said. “Also, part of the reason is that we want to hold people in office accountable.”

Furthermore, Elections Council Chair Shivom Sinha said he has made it a priority to ensure that any bylaws violations are reported to him directly.

Since launching a marketing campaign for the elections this week — complete with custom fliers and T-shirts — Sinha said he has received many reports

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52 years later, owner to part ways with Mario’s La Fiesta

By Jessica Gillotte | Staff jgillotte@dailycal.org It has been 57 years since Mario Tejada arrived in the United States, and all but five of them were spent in the kitchen at Mario’s La Fiesta Mexican Restaurant in Berkeley.

After opening and maintaining the legendary La Fiesta with his wife for 52 years, Tejada said he will finally be venturing out of the kitchen to spend more time with his grandchildren and appreciate the numerous important friend-

ships he has developed with his customers over the years.

Immigrating to the United States in 1954, 24-year-old Tejada had to assume the responsibility to support his family. His father had passed away, and as the eldest son, Tejada had to take care of his family — his mother, two sisters and two brothers — whom he brought to Berkeley a year after he arrived.

Tejada was drafted into the U.S. Army without knowing English four months after arriving in California. He served for two years and then left for Mexico, where he got engaged to his fu-

ture wife, Rosalinda. They have been married for 55 years.

When the couple moved back to Berkeley, they decided to open a restaurant at the intersection of Telegraph Avenue and Haste Street because they both loved to cook and saw that the city lacked a real, traditional Mexican restaurant.

“At that point, the Mexican food was ... not what we were used to,” he said. “We decided to open a restaurant with the original recipes that we used to have when we were kids with our parents.”

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Mario Tejada, 81, is saying goodbye to the restaurant he founded in order to spend more time with his family.

Berkeley resident Akane Nobusa has spent the past few weeks raising money for the those affected by the recent disasters in Japan, the country in which she was born and raised.

Nobusa, who has lived in the city since 1992, runs a small nonprofit that has been collecting resources for victims of the multiple crises — the earthquake, tsunami and damaged nuclear reactors — that hit her country of origin. While she said she is primarily “very, very, very worried” about the dangers of radiation in Japan, she also said, after seeing news of low levels of radiation hitting the West Coast of the United States, that she is not confident there is no risk in the Bay Area.

Locally, such anxieties are common, even as national officials say that Americans face no risk from the radiation detected in air, water or milk. With few sources of raw data available, the numbers collected by UC Berkeley scientists are commonly used by people to either quell or confirm their fears, though campus scientists said some analyses of the numbers are misleading.

Many articles online cite the levels of radioactive iodine-131 detected in rain water by the monitor on the roof of Etcheverry Hall on March 23 as 181 times higher than the Environmental Protection Agency’s limit for tap water. However, Kai Vetter, a campus associate professor-in-residence of nuclear engineering, said these conclusions are deceptive.

He said that radiation levels in tap water from March 23 — the highest detected so far — are actually nearly five times lower than the EPA standard. That standard, he added, is conservative and based on a yearlong period.

But some think that campus researchers and the EPA are trying to downplay the dangers of radiation.

“You have enough radiation that’s above the federal drinking water standards — those are the standards, the bottom line,” said Alexander Higgins, one of the first to reference the factor of 181 on his blog.

UC Santa Cruz lecturer on nuclear policy Daniel Hirsch said the lack of available data makes it difficult to discern whether there is a risk.

“It’s a little bit shocking that you can have rain water higher than what you can drink,” said Hirsch, who is also president of the Committee to Bridge the Gap, an antinuclear organization. “Rain water falls on grass and on plants ... the pathway of concern is the ingestion pathway of water and milk and other agricultural commodities.”

While worries persist, campus professors like Vetter are trying to dispel them by supplying up-todate information. “(We want to) provide some kind of independent measurement,” he said. “Yes, we see the increased levels of radiation, but it’s really very small in context.”

Soumya Karlamangla is the lead environment reporter.

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Online Exclusives A.G. Ferrari Foods closes Solano location in light of bankruptcy A.G. Ferrari Foods closed its Solano Avenue storefront Sunday as part of efforts to cut back spending after the company filed for bankruptcy, selecting the location for closure in light of the area’s expensive leasing costs.

The Italian food market closed the North Berkeley location after 13 years of business, along with its Sunnyvale store, while operations continued normally at the company’s remaining 11 establishments.

According to a statement from A.G. Ferrari Foods CEO Paul Ferrari, the company is now in the process of renegotiating the leases of its other stores. ...

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Fire destroys home in Southwest Berkeley A fire that erupted outside of a duplex in Southwest Berkeley early Thursday morning ultimately destroyed the building and took firefighters almost three hours to control as electrical lines and gas meters were also ignited by the fire. No one was injured.

At around 1:00 a.m., several 911 calls were placed by neighbors who saw the flames that eventually destroyed the building at 1517 Dwight Way ...

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Pell Grant proposal could reduce student aid If a Republican proposal to cut federal Pell Grant funding by billions of dollars passes in the U.S. Senate Friday, the more than 40 percent of UC students who depend on the program to finance their education will receive significantly less in financial aid next year.

operational excellence

The proposal, which passed through the House of Representatives on Feb. 19, would implement a $5.7 billion cut to the Pell Grant program for the 2012-13 academic year, bringing the maximum award amount to $4,705 — down from the current amount of $5,550 ...

By Alisha Azevedo | Staff aazevedo@dailycal.org The Operational Excellence Program Office released totals Tuesday for the first time showing how much money was assigned to be cut from campus units last semester through controversial staff restructuring and layoffs, which exceeded original savings estimates.

The restructuring process — which will involve laying off 150 employees by the end of June — is currently expected to save $19.3 million, exceeding its goal of $18.3 million, according to a restructuring update published on the website for Operational Excellence, a cost-cutting project aimed at saving the campus $75 million annually. Plans have projected higher savings than expected because deans and vice chancellors were motivated to make deeper cuts in order to keep additional savings for research and teaching purposes.

After Chancellor Robert Birgeneau announced in a Sept. 21 email that the campus would save $20 million annually under restructuring, the campus settled on the $18.3 million goal after calculating preliminary savings targets and assigning them to units in the fall, according to Bill Reichle, communica-

tions manager for the initiative.

The completed draft proposals of six other initiatives that are also working under Operational Excellence have been published online, but savings targets for the units under organizational simplification — which submitted their final plans to the executive committee for approval in early 2011 — were not published until this week, with campus officials citing concerns of worrying staff about the cuts.

The units will be able to keep 60 percent of the savings to be used at the unit leader’s discretion and must return 40 percent to the central campus to combat budget woes, according to Reichle.

Units that manage to exceed their savings goal may keep the extra savings.

The restructuring has resulted in a 65 percent reduction in the number of supervisors who managed three or fewer staff, as the number of supervisors has decreased from 1,450 to 1,080 — through layoffs, demotions or retirements — to increase the average number of employees per supervisor from five to seven, according to the update.

The chancellor and vice chancellor units project total savings of $12.4 million — above their original target of $11.9 million. The vice chancellor of administration and vice chancellor of student affairs’ offices project the larg-

est individual unit savings at $3.3 million and $3 million, respectively.

The schools and colleges exceeded their original overall target of saving $6.4 million with savings projections of $6.9 million, though some academic units, such as the Goldman School of Public Policy, fell below individual savings targets by as much as $160,000.

The College of Engineering, UC Berkeley School of Law and Haas School of Business are planning to cut over $1 million each, while the School of Information, School of Social Welfare and Goldman School of Public Policy have the smallest projected savings of the academic units, at $50,000 each.

According to Henry Brady, dean of the Goldman School of Public Policy, the “initial conceptualization” of focusing on decreasing the number of employees per supervisor became especially challenging when looking at restructuring a small school.

“When push came to shove, the spans couldn’t be increased to the level they wanted them to,” he said. “If you’re a small school, you need a set number of functions — you can’t get one person who can do things across a whole set of different areas.”

Alisha Azevedo covers academics and administration.

Commission to submit new Southside Plan After more than 12 years of public hearing and debate, the city of Berkeley’s Planning Commission voted to submit a revised Southside Plan to the Berkeley City Council for consideration at its meeting Wednesday night.

In three separate votes, the com-

mission approved and recommended adoption of the plan — which provides policy guidelines for economic and aesthetic development in the area — the Environmental Impact Report, amendments to zoning ordinances and design guidelines. ...

clarification The photo caption on Thursday’s review of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater performance suggested that “Anointed” and “Revelations” were both choreographed by Ailey himself. Only “Revelations” falls under this category.

corrections The March 28 article “ASUC Senate Decides on Election Polling Stations” and the April 1 editorial “Abuse of Authority” incorrectly stated that the ASUC Senate voted to suspend the bylaws. In fact, the Elections Council suspended the bylaws through a Temporary Rule approved by the Judicial Council.

Thursday’s article “Students’ time at community colleges increases” incorrectly stated that Debbie Cochrane is the program director for the Public Policy Institute of California. In fact, she is the program director for the Institute of College Access and Success.

The Daily Californian regrets the errors.

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t’s that time of year again, when the previously unassuming Memorial Glade is transformed into a paradise complete with girls lying out in their Victoria’s Secret bathing suits and boys playing games of Frisbee without their tanks tops.

Despite a few rain showers, summer is in definitely in the air, and with the rise of the temperature comes a rise in opportunities to explore Berkeley while soaking up the Bay Area sun.

Besides the summertime staples of going to the marina and taking a hike while the sun rises, one of my favorite outdoor activities is visiting the beautiful San Francisco Ferry Building’s farmers market. While many of the venues inside the Ferry Building stay open during the week, Saturday morning is when it really transforms into a food lover’s Disneyland.

The market consists of two parts, the Ferry Building Farmers Market and the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market.

The Ferry Building is filled with shops that are open all week long, selling everything from bread to fresh fish to cheese. The building also has restaurants and coffee shops that sell delicious, ready-made meals.

The Ferry Plaza Farmers Market is located outside of the Ferry Building, and is operated by the nonprofit organization Center for Urban Education about Sustainable Agriculture. It is open Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, but on Saturday it is much larger than it is during the week. The Plaza, located directly outside of the building, offers an incredible range of fruits, vegetables and herbs from local farmers and attracts huge crowds — nearly 25,000 shoppers every week.

The market is the perfect place to make a Sunday morning picnic to eat outside overlooking the Bay. hen it comes to selecting the food for your picnic, things can get tricky. I have been known to walk around aimlessly for hours, gawking at all the incredible options but never actually buying anything. Luckily, over the years, I have picked up on the best places to get pretty much everything.

I will start with the best part of the picnic and the best food on Earth: cheese. While I love pretty much all cheese, the Cowgirl Creamery in the Ferry Building trumps all the rest.

Cowgirl Creamery is a European-style artisan cheese shop, with hundreds of kinds of cheeses from all over America and Europe. Although there may be a line, take comfort in the fact that once you get to the front, you are allowed to taste as many cheeses as you want before selecting the perfect variety.

The staff members are friendly and knowledgeable, so they can help even cheese beginners can find everything they’re looking for. Try selecting a few different cheeses; maybe one soft, one semi-soft and one hard. A Brie, a taleggio and an aged Gouda, perhaps, make a delectable combination.

Although Cowgirl Creamery sells crackers and flatbreads, take a pass and

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bylaws: Council chair looks to prevent violations meeting From FRONT and questions about potential violations.

By attempting to get as many violations reported to him as possible, Sinha said he is hoping to circumvent the tradi-

tional meeting between Student Action and CalSERVE parties where bylaws violations accumulated over the campaigning season are discussed and decisions are made about which to proceed with.

“The elections this year have been

pretty clean so far,” Sinha said. “The whole ‘prevention is better than cure’ thing has been something Nathan and I have tried to uphold.”

J.D. Morris is the lead student government reporter.

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Harley Frank hfrank@dailycal.org head to Acme Bread for fresh baked bread make with only organic flour and other fresh ingredients. Acme has a huge selection, so I usually go with a classic sourdough baguette and a nontraditional variety. The baguettes are flawless — soft on the inside and crunchy on the outside with the tang of sourdough. For a sweet treat, try the walnut and cranberry bread. ext stop is the Village Market to get condiments and pretty much any other gourmet food you could even imagine. The Village Market is a large specialty foods store with hundreds of mouthwatering products, many of which go superbly with bread and cheese. For an herbaceous addition, try their pesto alla genovese shipped all the way from Italy. The combination of basil, olive oil, pine nuts and Padano cheese is amazing with fresh goat cheese on baguette.

For a more adventurous choice, try the Acetaia Reale, a fig and balsamic vinegar compote also made in Italy.

This sweet and sour spread goes well with creamy cheeses such as Brie or Camembert on a sweet loaf of bread, like the cranberry walnut.

After the Village Market, head outside to the Plaza Market to grab some exceptional produce. Over the years, I have picked up on the best places to get pretty much everything ... except the produce. Fresh fruit and vegetables should be selected based on your own judgment — the farm with the best strawberries last week may not have the ripest blueberries the next.

Be sure to get some spicy arugula, the perfect addition to a sandwich.

Heirloom tomatoes, which can be pretty funky looking, go well with mozzarella and a sprinkle of balsamic vinegar. Finally, pick out your favorite fruits and vegetables to snack on.

No picnic or meal is complete without dessert. For a freshly made fruity treat, try Frog Hollow Farm. Frog Hollow turns their farm fresh produce into delicious desserts such as galettes and fruit-filled pastries. Frog Hollow is especially famous for their juicy peaches, so if they are ever in season you are in for a treat.

The Ferry Farmers Market is a serious treat for the taste buds, as well as an opportunity to enjoy the great outdoors. But for all you Memorial Glade strippers, remember: no shirt, no shoes ... no service.

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Awareness week takes on suicide issue

By Jessica Rossoni | Staff jrossoni@dailycal.org The second leading cause of death among college students in the United States is suicide.

In order to bring light to this issue on the UC Berkeley campus, the group Student-to-Student Peer Counseling organized Suicide Awareness Week this week, seeking to raise an understanding of mental health on campus.

“The point is to raise awareness about the prevalence of suicide on campus and to provide resources to people for either themselves or if they know someone who may need help,” said Jasmine Mark, coordinator for Student-to-Student Peer Counseling.

On the UC Berkeley campus alone, UCPD has intervened in 16 suicide attempts since January of 2007, all of which occurred on campus property, according to UCPD Lt. Alex Yao. According to Jeff Prince, director of the Tang Center’s Counseling and Psychological Services, the rate of actual suicides of UC Berkeley students may be lower than average when compared to other campuses of similar size.

“We really want to emphasize and encourage people to seek help,” Yao said. “There are a number of services available for students and staff. Prevention is key.”

To further understand and prevent both depression and suicide, during

Suicide Awareness Week, Student-toStudent Peer Counseling showed the documentary “Depression: Out of the Shadows” on Monday, a documentary showing how depression affects people of all ages and ethnicities.

On Wednesday, the group also organized a discussion between students and members of the UC Berkeley faculty to try to combat some of the stigma surrounding mental illness.

For students who may be experiencing depression, suicidal thoughts or both, there are several resources on campus, like the Tang Center Counseling and Psychological Services.

These Tang Center services have recently lost six staff members due to budget cuts, but Prince said the center has been able to improve resources and student access.

“In the last few years, we’ve rearranged our intake system so that students requesting help can get access to care very quickly, including a telephone interview where a student has a 15 to 20 minute phone call within 48 hours of their request,” Prince said.

Hidy Jun, UC Berkeley junior, said she realized the importance of the Tang Center after experiencing a close friend’s battle with mental health issues.

“I do really think that she should have gone to the Tang Center,” Jun said of her friend. “I wish that people around knew the symptoms of depression. I wish that there was more outreach, and I wish that people knew about the Tang Center before they do something irrational.

I wish that more people caught on to what was going on earlier so we could have helped prevent it.”

In addition to assisting students who independently seek help, this past year the Tang Center has begun working with the Students of Concern Committee — a group that combines efforts from several sources on campus — in order to help connect students displaying signs of distress with the many resources available on campus.

The Office of the Dean of Students created the committee starting this year, and now operates under the direction of Assistant Dean of Students Hallie Hunt, who began her position March 14.

As the campus and organizers of Suicide Awareness Week seek to increase understanding about suicide, the topic is all too real for Daniel Chung, close friend of UC Berkeley junior Lawrence Park who died last February in an apparent suicide.

“He had a rough exterior, but inside when you got to know him, he was a true friend, which is really rare,” Chung said. “Lawrence was one of those guys you could really talk to about everything.

“It came all of the sudden to me and everyone else, too,” Chung continued.

“To this day, I still don’t really know what the real cause was. I guess I’ll always want to know, but I don’t think I’ll ever really be satisfied with an answer.”

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With an all-cuts budget, all options are on the table and none will be pretty.”

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Planned Parenthood

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STATE ISSUES The idea that UC tuition could approach $25,000 is a disturbing reminder of the challenges our state faces.

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By Loni Hancock opinion@dailycal.org If you live in Alameda County or go to college here, there are thousands of reasons you should be deeply alarmed by the House of Representatives’ attempt to strip all federal funding from Planned Parenthood — 19,130 reasons, to be exact.

That’s the number of people — including students — who visited Planned Parenthood health centers last year in Alameda County alone and received primary health care, including breast cancer screenings, cholesterol checks and help with family planning.

In many cases, these students and working-poor women and their families wouldn’t have been able to receive such essential medical care anywhere else. In some areas, the demand for basic primary care increased by almost 30 percent from 2008 to 2009. That number will increase as the recession grinds on.

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The overwhelming majority of services for Planned Parenthood patients are basic health check-ups and contraception. The hundreds of teens who attended Planned Parenthood’s education programs learned how to protect themselves from sexually transmitted diseases and avoid unintended pregnancies.

That’s significant in Alameda County, where the Public Health Institute estimated that teen births in 2008 cost taxpayers $25 million, and the medical cost of sexually transmitted diseases among 15 to 24-year-olds cost the county $58 million.

Teen pregnancy rates in California have been declining, and Planned Parenthood has played a role in this progress. But its ability to provide this important help to young people and families will be cut short if Planned Parenthood is cut off from all federal funding and clinics have to close their doors.

The radical right wing leaders in the House claim that their effort to defund Planned Parenthood (in an amendment they attached to a

federal budget bill) will any taxpayer from being spent on

stop money abortion.

But for the last 35 years, federal dollars have been prohibited from being used for elective abortion — which represents only a tiny percentage of the medical services Planned Parenthood provides.

The truth is that the only services that would be cut if the organization loses government funding are family planning, which prevents abortions, and primary health care that protects the lives of women and children who may have nowhere else to turn for medical help.

When I was mayor of Berkeley, we established a health clinic at Berkeley High School that, to this day, provides reproductive health services for young women. I know how important it is to the health of our teens and young adults to have accurate information about avoiding sexually transmitted infections and

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ov. Jerry Brown’s statement that UC tuition could reach $25,000 per year in a Wednesday speech to the California Hospital Association is a chilling reminder of the seriousness of the university and the state’s financial situation.

We don’t realistically expect in-state tuition to reach that level, at least not yet — considering the strong reaction to the 32 percent increase last spring, we cannot imagine the response if the UC Board of Regents proposed a 100 percent increase.

But it would be naive to expect ourselves to be immune from further fee hikes, and the fact that the governor is publicly raising the spectre of such extreme measures is a sign of how desperate the state of higher education in California has become.

This statement comes after public confirmation that negotiations between Gov. Brown and state Republicans to place tax extensions on the ballot in June have stalled — itself a troubling sign that suggests that the $500 million cut to the UC system signed by Brown March 24 is only the tip of the iceberg.

Any measure to seriously defund the UC system is a shortsighted move that risks a drastic shortage in California’s human

capital, which would cripple the state’s ability to maintain one of the world’s largest economies.

Private colleges and out-of-state students cannot be relied upon to alone fill this shortage — hopes for the future of our economy cannot rest in an elite few.

As understood by the writers of the California Master Plan for Higher Education — signed by Gov. Brown’s father in 1960 — an accessible and affordable public education system is essential for the state’s economic future.

This statement should be taken by all Californians as a call for immediate action: Legislators should redouble their efforts to compromise and put the tax extension on the ballot, and voters should remember this message and hold their representatives accountable for the future of the UC system.

Students have a unique role in this debate — as firsthand beneficiaries of the UC, they must publicly call attention to the special place of the university and the dangers that it faces. Next year’s external affairs vice president has his work laid out for him — the state of public education in California, and by extension the state’s economic future, is on the verge of the greatest disaster it has ever faced.

Not a ‘smart’ move CITY AFFAIRS It’s wrong that it took this much time for PG&E to come up with an opt-out plan, especially one this expensive.

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hen the SmartMeter program was announced approximately a year ago, our strongest concern was that the program was mandatory for California PG&E customers. While we are reassured that the company has finally proposed an option for residents who wish to opt out of the program — whether out of health fears or any other reason — the significant cost of that option seems unjustifiably steep.

The SmartMeter program was created to help residents better understand their energy and gas consumption by making usage information available in 15-minute increments for commercial usage and in hourly increments for residential usage, with data from the meters being wirelessly transmitted to the company’s website rather than being read manually.

Rather than moving ahead with the program and imposing it on all customers, PG&E should have anticipated resident resistance and designed the program in such a way to accommodate people who wanted to opt out. Customers should not be saddled with a

severe financial burden because a company did not do enough research beforehand.

The current proposal would give two choices to residents who want to opt out: a $135 up-front fee followed by a $20 monthly charge or a $270 up-front fee followed by a $14 monthly charge, with low-income customers paying less. It’s only fair for residents who choose to opt out of the program to pay more for the privilege — both to pay for the program and to compensate the utility for the costs of manually reading their meters — but the steep cost of both these options is unpalatable.

While we realize that the $2.2 billion program must recoup revenue lost on people without the SmartMeters, people should not be discouraged from opting out of a program they had no choice about joining in the first place with significant financial penalties.

The SmartMeter program was piloted in 2006, and installation began in Berkeley last January.

That it took all this time to come up with an opt-out plan is inexcusable.

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Parenthood: Efforts to defund are both myopic and harmful From Page 4 unintended pregnancies. Planned Parenthood has been a leader in doing this important work for more than four decades.

Defunding Planned Parenthood will not save money and ease the national deficit.

The truth is that Planned Parenthood saves the country millions of dollars in health care costs every year by preventing thousands of unintended pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases. With the acute shortage of affordable community health care providers made worse by the state’s budget crisis —

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also caused by Republicans who won’t let the people vote on maintaining existing taxes — where will tens of thousands of low-income people turn if there were no more Planned Parenthood?

Many of those patients are students who haven’t yet entered the work force. UC Berkeley senior Miranda Hann says she knows many fellow students who have gone to Planned Parenthood for contraceptives, and, as a resident assistant in her dormitory, she has referred many students there. “Students can afford the services at Planned Parenthood, and they know it’s completely confidential,” Hann said. “We have always counted on it.”

As a longtime advocate of access to health care for everyone, I urge you to join me in standing with Planned Parenthood. Let the leaders in the House know that de-funding Planned Parenthood is neither frugal nor responsible.

The casualties of this ideological attack will be those who are hurting the most in this economy, and all of us will pay the price. Please support Planned Parenthood and its mission to provide quality health care for every family in every community.

Editor’s Note: This op-ed was written by Senator Hancock on behalf of Planned Parenthood Mar Monte.

Loni Hancock is a California State Senator.

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Op-ed ignores the positive environmental impact of banning plastic water bottles Was Shawn Lewis’ April 1 op-ed “Bottled Water Ban Will Hurt the Golden Bears” an April Fools’ Day joke?

Do you know there is a plastic island twice the size of Texas in the Pacific Ocean? We would be doing ourselves and the planet a huge favor to ban plastic water bottles on campus.

Yeah, it makes sense to drink bottled water where the tap water is obviously unsanitary, but Berkeley has some of the best tap in the world. Get a Nalgene bottle, and fill that sucker up. It’s a huge waste of resources to drink water that has been purified in a factory, bottled in plastic and transported in semi-truck to get here.

And I think Cal Dining will be just fine without one fraction of their CocaCola contract — Crossroads just put in five new flat screen television monitors that say nothing but “Crossroads.”

Berkeley is a leader in sustainability, and we should continue to be by not selling products that are wasteful and unnecessary.

I was ashamed to see such a materialistic, anti-sustainability article in The Daily Californian.

Grace Kennedy UC Berkeley student

Proposed plastic water bottle ban takes away the consumer’s right of choice I agree with UC Berkeley student Shawn Lewis: “it’s easy to jump aboard the anti-bottled water train, but some of the trendy arguments don’t exactly hold up.” Why is it some of us liberals endeavor to eliminate our rights of choice without completely considering the consequences of automatic political positions? Let individuals make their own decisions about consuming bottled water instead of taking away yet another right of choice.

Michael Brown Benicia, Calif.

Senate vote last step in professor’s appointment At risk of Republican filibuster, professor’s nomination to Court of Appeals considered a controversial choice

By Emma Dries | Staff edries@dailycal.org Despite Republican contention, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted along party lines Thursday morning in favor of bringing UC Berkeley law professor Goodwin Liu’s nomination for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to the full Senate for confirmation.

Goodwin In the past Liu year since President Barack Obama first tapped Liu for the position, the nomination has been returned to Obama twice. Many consider the nomination of Liu — which was passed by the committee with a 10-8 vote — as one of Obama’s most controversial.

At Thursday’s committee Executive Business Meeting, Republicans questioned Liu’s qualifications for the position and reiterated concerns about him promoting a liberal interpretation of the Constitution.

In last year’s congressional session, Liu testified before the Judiciary Committee, after which Republican senators confronted him with supplemental questions via email.

Republicans asked to hold the vote over for a week and then voted along party lines in favor of bringing it to the full Senate.

However, the Senate never voted to confirm the nomination, and Liu was renominated twice before having to testify a second time in the current congressional session. The vote was held over twice before finally proceeding this morning.

Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., said at the meeting this morning that Liu had no meaningful experience as a practicing attorney and that he would “use the court to promote his own progressive agenda.”

Democratic senators rebuffed Republican claims that Liu lacks experience, citing numerous scholars and lawyers — many of whom are conser-

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Health hazards abound in local port As I’m sure most of The Daily Californian readers are aware, a few weeks ago was pledge week for CALPIRG, and if you did pledge, thank you so much. CALPIRG works on many diverse campaigns, but today I want to take the time to talk about a local campaign that CALPIRG is working on this semester.

As UC Berkeley students, I know that we are all stressed out with all the papers, midterms and goings-on of college life; it is easy to not know about what’s going on less then seven miles away from campus.

But environmental injustice is occurring right on our doorstep.

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vatives — who have attested to Liu’s intellect and credibility.

“Liu deserves the same chance to step out of the academic world and into the robe and role of a judge,” said Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.

Republicans also expressed concern that Liu’s published work suggests that he would adhere to a very loose interpretation of the Constitution.

“I believe that the Constitution must control judges, not the other way around,” said Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, echoing a common Republican philosophy that the Constitution should be adhered to as the framers intended it to be at the time of its composition.

However, Feinstein said that “originalism” is but one method of constitutional interpretation and should not be a requirement for nomination.

Liu, a professor at the UC Berkeley School of Law since 2003, specializes in constitutional law, and has been a commentator for major media outlets, including National Public Radio and The New York Times. He is a Rhodes Scholar and won the campus Distinguished Teaching Award in 2009.

“He came to us with a very distinguished background and had worked for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg,” said Herma Hill Kay, a professor at UC Berkeley School of Law. “He has just been a spectacular teacher and scholar and member of the university community.”

Though the nomination now awaits a majority vote for Senate confirmation, Republican senators could still filibuster the vote unless the Democrats acquire the needed 60 votes to block such a filibuster.

“My heart says vote for Goodwin Liu, but my brain tells me something different,” said Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla. “I ultimately will not vote him at the committee and am not sure that I’m right. I think ultimately he will get confirmed and my hope would be that he proves my heart right and my mind wrong.”

Jonathan Singer, a graduate of the law school who operates a website in support of Liu, said he believes that though senators like Coburn will not vote for Liu due to partisan politics, they may not filibuster the nomination, which would pave the way for confirmation.

“I think that it is time to give it an up or down chance so that the president and the people who support him and the people who oppose him can finally get this decided one way or another,” Kay said.

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Oakland is home to the nation’s fourth busiest container port, which means that thousands of trucks, daily, enter Oakland, causing the amount of diesel pollution in West Oakland to be five times higher than in the rest of Alameda County. Its citizens are roughly 2.5 times more likely to develop cancer than other Bay Area residents and one in five West Oakland children suffers from asthma.

I know what you’re asking, “What can be done?”

We need trucks to deliver goods.

We can mandate emission standards on trucks; following in the steps of other port cities. However, mandating emission standards doesn’t solve the heart of the matter. For trucking companies are competing in a race to the bottom, many of which are leasing

truck drivers as independent contractors instead of employees. We need to stop the illegal classification of truck drivers, many of which are working for less then California’s minimum wage, at only $7.64 per hour.

So now you’re probably asking, “What can I do?”

You can be aware of the health risks and the unsustainable jobs that are occurring, you can sign our petition urging local legislators to fix the broken system, you can come to a rally in support of clean air and clean jobs or you can simply tell all your friends.

Because clean air should be a universal human right! And we should all have access to it regardless of socio-economic status!

Kindsey Vaughn is a student at UC Berkeley.

The La Fiesta kitchen offered cuisine that Mexicans would find in their family’s homes. Great care and time was taken to prepare dishes traditionally, and the hot sauce was, well, hot.

The teamwork — Rosalinda cooking and Mario waiting on tables — allowed the Tejadas to successfully open and run their restaurant. But after the first few years, Tejada took charge of the kitchen while his wife raised their three children.

Generations of students were raised through and by La Fiesta, including Tejada’s own children. As the restaurant became more successful, his kids began helping out in the family business. Tejada also encouraged them to pursue whatever careers they loved, explaining that his love for cooking led him to maintain his restaurant all these years.

Aside from his children, many UC Berkeley students and residents remained attached to the family atmosphere at the restaurant.

“When we first started, some of the students (who came) ... got engaged, they got married, they have children and they brought their children,” he said. “Now, those children are bringing their children.”

In addition to enjoying the friendships he has formed with customers, Tejada has seen many events unfold in the city. He said he recalls the 1969 People’s Park riots most vividly. With the chaos of the armed

police line blocking off Haste east of Telegraph and the tear gas permeating the area in front of his store, his restaurant had been stuck in the middle of the action. La Fiesta remained impartial.

“After the riots during the day, the students were in one corner (of the restaurant) and the police were in another corner eating dinner,” he recalls with a chuckle.

But after his laughter died down, Tejada’s worn and fatherly features rearranged themselves into a melancholy smile. He has been so rooted in the community built around La Fiesta that it is very difficult to see it all end.

“I love our customers, they have been a part of our lives — we’d have lunch and customers would come over and talk,” he said. “We had very emotional goodbyes with them because we’ve been friends — real good customers and good friends.”

Tejada said he will visit the new Mexican restaurant at the La Fiesta location, Remy’s, to visit his old customers and see how they are doing.

The new restaurant will retain the same menu under the ownership of Manuel Lopez.

“I feel sorry to go — sad,” Tejada said, tapping his heart through his white chef ’s jacket. “But I’m 81 — I don’t have much time left to enjoy my grandchildren. I have two grandchildren who play baseball. They’re good, I want to watch them.”

Jessica Gillotte is the lead business reporter.

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By Ed Yevelev | Senior Staff eyevelev@dailycal.org Last Saturday’s win at Hawaii was an impressive one by the Cal women’s water polo team: the Bears never trailed, fought off rallies and turned away a pair of fourth quarter penalty shots to clinch a close game.

The best part? “There wasn’t one person cheering for us,� coach Rich Corso quipped.

That will change, as the team comes off two important conference road victories to conclude its regular season inside the friendly confines of Spieker Aquatics Complex.

The marquee game will be next weekend’s Big Splash, a potential 1-2 match-up to decide the MPSF’s top overall tournament seed — but for second-ranked Cal (20-3, 5-0 in the MPSF), there’s still the matter of Saturday’s 1 p.m. date with No. 11 San Diego State. “We don’t even talk about Stanford,� Corso said. “We got San Diego State to play. And I don’t even talk about the whole game with (the Aztecs). We’re talking about the first quarter, and one possession at a time. “The philosophy is tie or win each period. Just take our time.�

With the top-ranked Cardinal looming, it may be easy to overlook SDSU (19-10, 1-4), a team that the Bears dominated on the road last year. Cal was never tested at Aztec Aquaplex, jumping out 4-0 in the opening period and leading 8-1 after three quarters.

This spring, the Aztecs have failed to make much of a splash. They were manhandled at Hawaii, 17-7, lost to

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WHAT: cal vs. SDSU where: spieker complex when: 1 p.m. on saturday 17th-ranked Indiana at home and just edged Arizona State last week to climb out of the conference cellar.

Still, San Diego State has managed to play competitively against the Los Angeles powerhouses. And the Aztecs’ best weapon is a unique offensive style that has helped the team score the third-most goals (11.38 per game) in the MPSF. Many of Cal’s younger players will be facing the team for the first time. “They like to post everybody up,�

Corso said of SDSU’s attack. “They have a primary set but everybody on their team can go to set. Everybody’s going to go inside, like a power forward or a center. At times, if you don’t play with great awareness that’s hard to defend.�

Players will need to choose carefully between dropping back against shooters or leaving the post more open, meaning that discipline and defensive communication will be key for the Bears. “You can’t sit and rest,� sophomore Dana Ochsner said. “It’s about being aware of your person and who is around you. It’s going to be hard because in the first quarter ... we need to try and feel them out, but you can’t just sit back and relax.�

On the other end of the pool, Cal must solve ace goalkeeper Kelly Campoli, the rock in an otherwise inconsistent Aztecs’ defense. Now SDSU’s all-time saves leader, she ranks just behind the Bears’ Stephanie Peckham for most stops per game in the conference.

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needs to win three more games to clinch eligibility.

However, the Bears plan to win a lot more than that, as they will be looking to receive a high seed entering the postseason. A couple of wins against Washington, the defending conference champion, could help bolster their standing. “Every game is important for us going down the stretch,� coach Diane Ninemire said. “You want to establish yourselves and win against top opponents.�

But for Ninemire, the real key to the weekend is just to continue playing hard and do the things they know how to do. “We’re pretty much a blue-collar team, and we need to come out working hard every day,� Ninemire said.

in the country, so we’re really going to have to bring our ‘A’ game,� Wright said.

When the Bears and the Huskies met last season, now-senior captain Pedro Zerbini clinched a top court win to give Cal a 5-2 home triumph.

In the Huskies’ own L.A. trip last weekend, the Bruins snapped their seven-match winning streak — as well as a nine-match doubles point streak — on Friday. The next day, the Trojans dealt Washington its first shutout of the dual season.

At stake for Washington this weekend is the opportunity to land a top-16 ITA ranking, and with that a chance to host the first two rounds of NCAA. Although Cal already has a top-10 spot, at this point in the season the rankings aren’t set in stone.

After this weekend, the Bears will take a two-week hiatus before facing off against rival No. 9 Stanford on April 23.

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Junior Tara Arolla leads the Bears with 29 goals in 13 games this season. She also has eight assists.

By Alex Matthews | Staff almatthews@dailycal.org This time last year, the Cal women’s lacrosse team was preparing to play Oregon fresh off their third conference loss, desperately needing something to kick start league play in the right direction.

While the Bears’ (8-5) most recent conference loss to Stanford is just their first in the MPSF — bringing them to a 2-1 conference record — they’ll likely need an even greater sense of urgency to take on the Ducks today at 1 p.m.

Last year, every MPSF team was seeded in the tournament; this year only four will play, making every conference game key for middle-of-the-pack teams such as Cal and Oregon.

That urgency against the Ducks will be especially useful given the matchup’s typical dynamic. “(It’s) always a really gritty game,� goalkeeper Allie Shropshire said. The

teams racked up a total seven yellow cards against one another last year. “Every year, it’s definitely a battle to the very end, so it will be really exciting to play them, especially in such an emotional game for us,� she added.

The game is senior day for the Bears; Shropshire and fellow seniors Chapin Jackson and Emily Abbood will be playing their final game on Cal’s home turf.

Oregon (4-6, 1-0) has only played one conference match so far this season — a win over lowly Fresno State — which makes knowledge of their past games with Cal all the more important to understanding how they will fare at Witter Rugby Field.

Still, the Ducks have proved themselves competitive against non-conference opponents, losing by just one goal against No. 10 Albany, and falling 12-10 to No. 19 Dartmouth. “They’ve had a lot of close losses, but to some very good teams,� Cal coach Theresa Sherry said. “They’re definitely battle-tested, and I think they have a

very solid and athletic team.�

Two Oregon strengths are sisters Jana and Jess Drummond, who have scored 25 and 18 goals respectively this season. Jana is fourth for average goals per game in the conference. “They’re just a great physical presence,� Sherry said. “They’re strong, they have good speed, and they just go very hard, not unlike the entire Oregon team, so we have to make sure our intensity matches or exceeds theirs.�

Last year, the Bears held the sisters to just one assist, but still faced offensive threats from the rest of the team, such as Bina Barrett and Alex Breiner, who have scored 19 and 20 goals respectively this season.

Given Oregon’s defensive record— their two keepers lead the conference for the lowest goals against averages but not the highest for saves per game — Cal may need to focus less on keeping the Ducks’ shots out of the net than on getting its in.

The Bears will play at Fresno State Sunday at 1:30 p.m.

w. tennis: Weekend foes not as accomplished as Cal From Page 7 directions. Washington has improved from its 11-6 season, and for most of the season, it has stayed at the tail end of the top-25 rankings.

Meanwhile, Fresno State has maintained its poor performance from last season, logging a sub-.500 record for the second consecutive season.

The past two seasons have been a huge dive for the Bulldog program. In 2009, it recorded a stellar 19-5 regular season, won the WAC title and advanced to the sweet 16 in the NCAA tournament.

With only one upperclassman on the whole squad, the Bulldogs are

gathering experience in their return to national prominence.

On the contrary, the Huskies have two talented upperclassmen. Junior Denise Dy, a Bay Area native, is currently ranked No. 5 in singles and No. 10 in doubles with senior Venise Chan. Chan is ranked No. 20 in singles.

But it is a tall order for the Washington duo to gather an upset win over Cal in Berkeley. Dy’s likely singles opponent, No. 2 Jana Juricova, has not lost a singles match this season.

Juricova will look forward to chalking a third victory over a top-5 opponent this season; her other victories came against Stanford’s Hilary Barte

and USC’s Maria Sanchez.

With the season nearly over and the NCAA tournament within a month, the Bears find their game clicking in all cylinders as of now.

In doubles they are led by the No. 3 duo of Juricova and senior Mari Andersson. But they have recently installed a new pair to the lineup. The newly formed duo of sophomore Annie Goransson and freshman Anett Schutting has not lost a game in five matches.

Currently, the pair is ranked No. 25, providing the squad with an effective second doubles team, crucial to winning that all-important first point.

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The Bears have certainly proven dangerous this season, largely without planning for specific opponents. That mentality changed this week, with Clark implementing what he calls “new wrinkles� to Cal’s gameplan given what they know about St. Mary’s.

At the end of the day, however, the team expects the outcome will hinge on aspects of the game it focuses on each week. “I think if we show up and we play the physical, fast-paced game that we can, that’ll be one of our keys to victory,� Gallinger said. “If we let them run at us, if we let them determine the pace of play, then we could be in trouble.�

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Both teams should be familiar to the Bears. Cal played both Washington and Fresno State almost exactly one year ago, with similar results. The Bears crushed the Huskies at their home in Seattle, 6-1, and blanked the Bulldogs at Hellman, 7-0.

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DUCK HUNTING Men’s tennis goes to Oregon as the regular season wraps up.

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baseball

Hot pitchers headline Cal’s trip to desert Quick Look:

By Katie Dowd | Senior Staff kdowd@dailycal.org Last year, Kurt Heyer didn’t get to finish his first career start against the Cal baseball team.

In the top of the fourth inning with first baseman Mark Canha at the plate, Canha crushed a 110mph line drive right into the Arizona ace’s head. Heyer dropped to the ground. Although he tried to get up and continue pitching, he was pulled as a precautionary measure. With Heyer on the bench, the Wildcats fell, 7-2, to the Bears.

You can bet that this year, Heyer plans on completing what he started.

He’ll get the opportunity tonight at 6 p.m., when the No. 13 Bears roll into Tucson, Ariz., for a three-game weekend series against No. 22 Arizona (20-10, 2-4 in the Pac-10).

Pitching is the name of the game this weekend, with stellar starters on both squads, which is unusual considering the type of games usually played at Kindall Field.

“It’s a different game there in Tucson,” coach David Esquer said.

“It’s so offensive and numbers are

WHAT: Cal at arizona WHERE: TUCSON, ARIZ. WHEn: 6 p.m. tonight SP: erik johnson (4-1, 2.08 ERA) inflated. It’s just offensive borne.

You don’t really know what you have. And hey, you got your hands full because it’s a difficult park to defend. The outfield is really big and it can exploit some weaknesses in your defense.”

Heyer hasn’t had much trouble at home. The sophomore righty, already considered one of the best pitchers in the nation, is cultivating a 1.12 ERA with 69 strikeouts in 56 1/3 innings of work. Cal (19-7, 5-1) will pit Erik Johnson and his comparable 2.08 ERA against him.

Considering Cal had easily its worst game of the year last time out, how Johnson does early could dictate the tone of the weekend for the Bears.

“The lesson in college baseball is you can’t play the game on paper,” Esquer said. “You can’t hope someone plays down to their record.”

That’s exactly the attitude Cal

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Sophomore left-hander Justin Jones will start for the Bears on Saturday. Jones sports a 2.47 ERA in 51 innings of work. had against Pacific on Tuesday at Evans Diamond. Then 8-16, the Tigers took it to the Bears for nine innings, employing six different mediocre pitchers to shut down the hot-hitting Cal offense.

“We got caught napping,” Esquer said. “And we take it personally, the whole team.”

The Bears came into the game

having won nine of their last 10, so they can probably chalk up the poor performance against Pacific to a minor case of midweek blues. The loss aside, Cal still has some of the best pitchers and hitters in the country.

Their staff ERA of 2.32 is 10th-best in the nation, and six of their everyday starters are batting over .300.

With that in mind, the Bears aren’t

too worried about their showing on Tuesday. But it has reignited their fire.

“I don’t think we need to fix anything. Just our mentality, just coming in and taking it from them,” left fielder Vince Bruno said. “We’re good at that, especially on weekend games. I know we all want to win just as bad as anyone, if not more.”

Softball

rugby

Bears prep for husky task in Seattle

Local rugby powers match up in Moraga

By Christina Jones | Senior Staff cjones@dailycal.org

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Jolene Henderson was just three outs away from a perfect game in Wednesday’s victory 6-0 over Sacramento State.

By Connor Byrne | Staff cbyrne@dailycal.org After repeating history in its shutout win over Sacramento State on Wednesday, the Cal softball team will hope to break tradition this weekend.

The No. 9 Bears (23-6, 1-2 Pac-10) will travel to Seattle for a three-game series at Husky Softball Stadium against No. 6 Washington, who took two of three games in the series in 2010.

After dropping two contests to Arizona State last weekend, the Bears will look to extend their current two game win streak against another formidable opponent from the Pac-10, which currently features seven teams ranked in the top 25.

“At this point in the season, you can’t take any team lightly,” pitcher Jolene Henderson said.

Quick Look: What: Cal at Washington Where: Seattle When: Today at 6 p.m.

In order to compete with a highly touted Washington squad, Cal will need to get another solid outing from Henderson, its streaking ace.

The sophomore right-hander is coming off two of her strongest performances of the year. Henderson tossed a complete-game win over No. 4 ASU on Sunday, and followed it up with a one-hit shutout against Sacramento State on Wednesday. Henderson leads the Bears with a 0.85 ERA and 159 strikeouts.

“We’re starting to cut down our errors defensively, which was one of our issues early on,” Ninemire said. “But

better pitching helps every aspect of our game.”

In addition to solid defense, the Bears are going to need to ramp up their offensive output, as the Cal batters were impatient at the plate against Sacramento State. Though the Bears managed nine hits against the Hornets, only two of those hits came after the first two innings.

Cal’s batting order, anchored by .479hitting Jamia Reid, will look to equalize Washington’s starting pitching.

Freshman Kaitlin Inglesby is slated to start today for the Huskies (27-3, 2-1). The Portland, Ore., native didn’t allow a hit through five innings in a 3-2 win over Oregon last weekend.

The Bears will be looking to improve their resume to qualify for the Women’s College World Series in May for the 26th consecutive year. Cal

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Going into this weekend, the Cal rugby team has only played three games in the Bay Area this year. A win on Sunday in Moraga, Calif., will guarantee one more game near Berkeley.

The 1 p.m. battle between the Bears and St. Mary’s at Pat Vincent Field will likely determine the No. 1 seed of the CPD’s Pacific division. Each region’s top team gets to choose the location of its quarterfinal match.

Should the Gaels prevail, Sunday’s tilt would likely mark the last local match for Cal’s fifth-year seniors, who were displaced from Witter Rugby Field this year due to the installation of turf to accommodate the football and lacrosse teams.

The top two teams in each region advance to the postseason, however, so the match’s outcome will not eliminate either squad from contention. Given their spotless league records, both are in prime position to claim the two spots.

“I suspect (both teams) will make the postseason,” coach Jack Clark said.

“So that kind of diminishes how critical this game is ... I think it’s an important game because we want to win, but I don’t think it will have a critical impact on how the season unfolds.”

Last year, the match determined which team would secure a bye before the national collegiate round of 16.

Three of the last four matches between the local rivals have had postseason implications.

St. Mary’s has put together an impressive season, defeating British Columbia on Feb. 16 before suffering its lone loss of the year a week and a half

later to split the season series.

“There is a sense and an awareness that SMC is playing consistent, competitive rugby (this year),” Gaels coach Tim O’Brien said, “and if we continue along those trend lines, we could possibly challenge the historic scorelines.”

History has heavily favored the Bears, who have enjoyed large margins of victory over St. Mary’s. The last time the squads met in Moraga, however, Cal escaped with a narrow 20-5 victory and a self-proclaimed unsatisfactory outing.

“They’re as dangerous as we let them be,” junior scrumhalf Connor Ring said. “They’re one of those teams that once they get on a roll, they’ll start off-loading balls, getting things going.

Once they get some confidence going

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The Cal rugby team plays SMC Sunday.