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UC releases 2011 admissions data

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More selective UCs still less diverse than other campuses

By Nina Brown | Staff nbrown@dailycal.org The University of California admitted significantly more nonresident freshmen and fewer California residents for the 2011-12 academic year than in past years. And while the system’s more selective schools attracted the most out-of-state students, they remained less diverse than campuses with less competitive admissions, according to data released Monday by the UC Office of the President.

While the number of nonresident students increased to about 18 percent systemwide, 4.1 percent fewer state residents were admitted than last year. Fewer students from varied ethnic and financial backgrounds were accepted to the most selective campuses — UC Berkeley and UCLA — compared to affluent

Campus admits fewer in-state residents due to budget issues

out-of-state applicants, according to Pamela Burnett, interim director of undergraduate admissions at the UCOP. The figures illustrating the ethnicities of in-state students accepted to the university varied little from last year’s statistics, with the percentage of white and Pacific Islander students remaining the same — at 30.6 and 0.3 percent respectively. While the percentage of accepted black and American Indian students dropped slightly, the percentage of Asian Americans increased marginally.

The most noticeable change in the ethnic makeup of the admitted in-state students was a 2.7 percent growth in the proportion of admitted students who were Latino — increasing from 13,699 students last year to 15,418 this year, or 23.3 percent of all those admitted to 26 percent, respectively.

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By Katie Nelson | Staff knelson@dailycal.org UC Berkeley admitted nearly 18 percent fewer California residents to its freshman class for the 2011-12 academic year than in the past two years, while out-of-state and international student admissions have steadily increased — a change campus officials attribute to the current financial crisis and an effort to increase diversity on campus.

According to data released Monday by the UC Office of the President, 52,953 freshman students applied to UC Berkeley this year and 13,523 freshmen were admitted. In total, 609 more freshmen were admitted for next year.

But the data also showed that since 2009, there has been a 17.6 percent reduction in the number of California residents admitted to UC

Berkeley, while the numbers of out-of-state and international students admitted to the UC Berkeley freshman class have increased by 13.7 percent and 3.9 percent, respectively.

According to the data, 9,303 of the freshmen admitted to UC Berkeley for fall 2011 are California residents — 156 fewer than last year, and 1,881 fewer than 2009.

A Monday press release from the campus stated that a decrease in the number of California residents and an increase in the number of out-of-state and international students was a result of a need to provide funding to the campus during difficult economic times as well as to broaden the diversity of the campus population.

“We’re not willfully decreasing California students,” said Walter Robinson, campus assistant vice chancellor and director of

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Obituary

seismic safety

Student dies in apartment fire while studying in Paris

Studies question structural design of Lower Sproul

By Damian Ortellado | Staff dortellado@dailycal.org UC Berkeley junior Jasmine Jahanshahi, known for her fearlessness, sense of humor and studiousness, died in an apartment fire last Thursday that took the lives of four others and injured 57. She was 20.

The fire broke out in the stairwell of an apartment building in the Menilmontant neighborhood of Paris early Thursday morning and was extinguished by fire fighters at approximately 5:30 a.m.

Jahanshahi died after falling Jasmine while trying to climb down the side of the building, which Jahanshahi has no fire escape.

Friends of Jahanshahi have begun a letterwriting campaign to improve fire safety standards in Paris.

The district in which the building is located is particularly dense and buildings are hard for firefighters to access, according to Frederique Calandra, mayor of the district. Although Paris mayor Bertrand Delanoe expressed his condolences to the families of the victims, he added that the

building did not show any signs of being decrepit.

Media outlets in France reported Monday that officials suspect that the fire might have been caused by arson, as traces of gasoline were found on the ground floor of the building.

Jahanshahi, a native of West Palm Beach, Fla., had an “obsession” with French culture and was studying at Sciences Po, a highly selective Paris university. Sarah Blanc, a close friend of Jahanshahi since the sixth grade, described her as a “professional student who loved school.”

A talented piano student at the Dreyfoos School of the Arts where she attended high school, Jahanshahi was always more interested in academics than anything else.

“She was one of the most studious people I knew,” said Joanna Brockhouse, a UC Berkeley junior and former employee of The Daily Californian who lived with Jahanshahi last year.

“She had extraordinary follow-through and did everything she set out to accomplish.”

Jahanshahi thrived in the UC Berkeley community, and “found a home” on campus, where she studied history and political science. She planned to go to law school and work in international relations, according to Zoe Friedland, a close friend and high school classmate.

“Our thoughts are with (her fellow students abroad) as we share our campus’ deep sadness

for Jasmine’s bright life that was so tragically ended,” UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau said in a statement Monday.

Friends also described Jahanshahi as adventurous and as having a “fine-tuned” sense of humor.

“The most vivid memories of her I have are when I would have my ribs hurting from laughing,” Friedland said. “She could take any situation and make it hilarious.”

Friends recalled many of Jahanshahi’s adventures, such as a bike trip around the country during high school, a trip to India and Tibet to teach children English the summer after graduating and a camel trip through Morocco with friends from the study abroad program earlier this year.

Jahanshahi was also known for helping others. Jahanshahi, whose parents, Nazie and Reza, are Iranian, raised funds for an organization that works to remove land mines for former Middle Eastern war zones.

“She would take time to volunteer for things even when she was incredibly busy,” Friedland said.

Friends and family said they plan to keep her generous spirit alive by starting a nonprofit organization that will work to provide fire escape ladders and fire safety education to lowincome housing residents in Paris.

By Kelsey Clark | Staff kclark@dailycal.org Studies conducted by engineers in the early design phase of the Lower Sproul Plaza renovation project have led the Department of Facilities Services to raise concerns about the ability of the plaza to support significant weight.

In an April 12 letter from the department to groundskeepers, Cal Performances, Capital Projects and various tradespeople such as electricians, the department stated that any vehicle larger than a small golf cart is prohibited from driving on the plaza, which also serves as the roof of the Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union parking garage.

“There is a structural study going on on the whole complex as a part of the whole Lower Sproul redesign,” said Dave Johnson, assistant director

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Dailycal.org On the blogs The News Blog BIG MAC Marathon: In a victory deserving a theme song the likes of “Chariots of Fire,” UC Berkeley graduate student Sean McFarland completed the Big Mac challenge — running a 10k and eating six McDonald’s Big Macs in under an hour — on April 3 at Edwards Stadium ...

CAMPUS: More out-of-state, international students admitted From front undergraduate admissions. “The state is paying well below what the campus admitted, and we’re covering the difference. But, we happen to be in a position to be able to mitigate against the entire cut the state has brought in by bringing in out-of-state and international students who also pay a portion of California residents’ tuition. It slows the bleeding, if you will.”

A waitlist, which the campus first implemented last year, currently holds about 200 spots, and according to Robinson, some of those students have already been admitted. Last year, the campus did not admit any waitlisted students.

In addition to the number of increased out-of-state and international students, the report also showed an increase in Asian American and Latino freshman students admitted to UC Berkeley and a decrease in American Indian, Caucasian, Pacific Islander and black students.

“With all these budget cuts, it’s hard to maintain diversity from California,” said senior Annelisa Luong, campus organizing coordinator for REACH!, an Asian or Pacific Island Recruitment

and Retention Center. “But I do feel like there has been more international students here. I see a lot more folks who are not as fluent in English or who are clearly not from here.”

Robinson said, however, that the reduction in California resident admissions would hopefully be re-examined, as UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau has devised a five-year plan with the Office of Undergraduate Admissions to try to cap the number of out-of-state and international students at 20 percent should state funding not be an issue, leaving the remaining 80 percent of admission spots open to California residents. “(Campus officials) were disappointed and upset by the decreasing of California resident admissions — there is no way anyone can be happy with having to take these measures to make things work against the reduction of state funds,” Robinson said. “But national and global diversity is value added to the education of experience and we are in the business of preparing future leaders.”

Katie Nelson is the lead academics and administration reporter.

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Recently admitted students from across the world visited the UC Berkeley campus for Cal Day this past Senior Weekend.

SYSTEM: Admissions show fluctuations in ethnic diversity

The ASUC on arts and crekevin foote/staff ativity: As the 2010-11 ASUC Senate rapidly heads toward the end of its term, its business is far from over. After the most recent senate meeting, the future of the Arts and Creativity Fund — a grant for the arts created by Academic Affairs Vice President Viola Tang earlier last semester — is now up in the air ...

The Daily Clog Feeling taxed?: As we come up on mid-April, also known as the dreaded tax season, adults all over the nation feel the stress of getting their dues in on time. Living on a college campus, we generally don’t see this hubbub of tax time but it prompted some researchers to wonder: How exactly do college students manage their finances ...

From Front This jump reflects the growth in both the state’s Latino population and the number of Latinos graduating from high school, according to Hans Johnson, senior fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California.

The percent increase in Latinos offered admissions in 2011 dwarfs the relatively meager 1.1 percent growth these students experienced from 2009 to 2010. According to Joseph Rios, a coordinator for UC Berkeley’s RAZA Recruitment and Retention Center, this boost can be attributed to efforts to reach out to Latino students — who now make up roughly half of the student population in the state’s public school system — and encourage them to apply to universities.

The swell in Latino admits was more pronounced on the university’s less competitive campuses. Latino admissions rates increased by approximately 5 or 6 percent at UC Merced, UC Riverside and UC Santa Cruz, compared with a less than 2 percent increase at UC Berkeley and UCLA. The campuses that accepted more Latino students also accepted more students who graduated from high schools with low Academic Performance Index scores, according to the report.

According to Burnett, a higher percentage of underrepresented students — including Latinos — attend schools with lower API ratings, making them less likely to be ready to compete for a place at a more selective campus.

“Students attending schools that are ranked lower by the API are usually schools that have fewer resources and are less likely to have a college-going culture,” Burnett said. “There is less information and less encouragement, less support to be a really, really competitive applicant.”

She added that the university will know in May how many students who have received an offer of admission will choose to attend.

“The university values a diversity of ideas and perspectives,” Burnett said.

“You can have a broad definition of diversity, and that would include students from outside California and outside of the country.”

Nina Brown covers higher education.

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You give all those movie posters at the theater a cursory glance — and then do a double take. Is that a missing comma you spot? A misspelling you’ve caught? ...

Corrections The photo caption accompanying Monday’s article “Henderson’s dominant weekend helps Bears sweep visiting Ducks” incorrectly identified Cal outfielder Jamia Reid as pitcher Arianna Erceg.

The photo caption accompanying Monday’s article “Owner of Serendipity Books dies at 72” incorrectly identified the man in the photo as Peter Howard. In fact, the man was Marc Selvaggio, Howard’s longtime friend and colleague.

The Daily Californian regrets the errors.

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sex on tuesday

Conquering the orgasm

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t’s strange how the words, “But ...

I can’t orgasm off of sex. I’ve never been able to,” always come out in a faint whisper. The tone of “shameful confession” is adopted frequently. Sitting by your side in the confessional box, I reply in a steady voice, “There is a way.”

But, there is a dichotomy here.

Though sex with and without an orgasm seem to be interchangeable, I assure you they are not. While sex without an orgasm can be enjoyed, the pleasure is dull, and can lead to a sense of disappointment that will fall onto your partner. An orgasm is a vital part of the sexual experience, not just a far-off possibility. In fact, an orgasm is the only difference between a workout and a night of furious passion.

There may be a multitude of factors inhibiting people from achieving their happy ending — dissatisfaction with their significant other, stress or other psychological factors — and while I wish the best to them all, I am in no way fit to assist them in this regard.

But what I can do is look at it from a physiological point of view, analyzing the strictly physical component of sex and finding the best way to utilize positions. My hope is that, if you are in a state of sound body and mind, you can follow these suggestions and lead yourself to a happier place.

For starters, we take a look at foreplay, in which the same, complacent techniques are used day after day. If you have been unsatisfied in your sexual endeavors thus far, why continue in your timehonored traditions?

Invigorate your style and put a spin on an age-old classic. One such variation I came across is called “the tunnel of love,” a hand job position in which you interlace the fingers of both your hands and overlap your thumbs, creating the “tunnel.” Though be carefully advised: Do not begin getting adventurous without lube — the consequences will be severe.

We now move on to examine the ancient art of fellatio. One key component to oral sex that is tragically overlooked is rhythm. In the world of sexual literature, you will see this word crop up again and again. It is the development of a good sense of rhythm that distinguishes experienced lovers from the naive, and it is rhythm that allows someone to hit the brink of the edge and come like that! ith this knowledge in mind, conquering fellatio is considerably less daunting. For blow jobs, I suggest that you focus on the area of the penis that connects the shaft to the head, otherwise known as the frenulum. This area has abundant nerve endings and responds keenly to even the most gentle of touches. Use the tip of your tongue to glide up and down it, and just watch what happens.

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Janelle Albukhari sex@dailycal.org As for cunnilingus, my advice is: Know your anatomy. It never fails to amaze me that there are still people out there (men and women alike, mind you) who haven’t the faintest idea about where the clitoris is.

Google it, check out an instructional booklet — there is no excuse for someone who is sexually active not to know this basic information.

And once you do, go back to the original mantra. Rhythm, rhythm, rhythm. Go slow; take your time and experiment with various paces. Gauge your partner’s reaction to each technique and adopt the ones that yield the most applause, so to speak.

Everyone likes a considerate lover. nd now, to the main event. In trying to comfort my girlfriends about their problems with orgasms, I would find myself at a loss for words trying to describe something that had always come so easily to me — but fortunately, I’ve become a bit more articulate. Which leads us to CAT, the Coital Alignment Technique.

Imagine my surprise, then, when the technique I’d previously sworn by appeared in the most recent issue of Cosmopolitan. Though some of you may scoff, Cosmo has done its homework on this one: It’s been proven to increase chance of female orgasm by 56 percent. Take that.

The position itself is surprisingly simple. The premise is having the male pubic bone, or the base of the shaft, come together with the clitoris in a rhythmic fashion. (What a mantra.)

There are several ways this can be achieved, but the simplest is in a missionary position, during which the man (on top) shifts forward after entering, minimizing the distance between his chest and your shoulders. While in this position, the guy uses short, rhythmic thrusts while his partner moves in tandem to find a sort of harmonious rocking.

Orgasm? Check.

There are other variations on this, too. One very simple way to achieve it is through propping a few pillows beneath the woman in missionary, allowing her pelvis to tilt at a more upward angle, facilitating clitoral contact. A girl-on-top version of CAT is possible, too (and my all-time favorite): just get on top, slide in real close and let the fireworks begin.

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OPINION & News

LOWER SPROUL: Report to determine weight plaza can hold From front in project management with facilities services. “Until the study is done, it might be prudent to prohibit large trucks from going out there.”

The Lower Sproul Plaza deck was built in the 1960s and is made up of several different pieces of adjacent buildings that fit together to form the roof deck, according to Johnson. He said that a report will be released in the near future detailing exactly how the various pieces fit together, which will help to determine the actual weight the plaza can withstand.

Despite the vehicle prohibition, a truck was allowed on Lower Sproul in the early morning of April 16 in preparation for Cal Day. According to Millicent Chaney — student affairs officer for the ASUC auxiliary who said she was not aware of the April 12 letter sent by Department of Facilities Services — a truck drove onto the plaza in the early morning to unload tables and chairs. Chaney said that table and chair rentals were coordinated under the Office of Public Affairs, who could not be reached for comment.

Johnson said he is not aware of any concern for large crowds congregating on Lower Sproul.

“The only thing that has changed is not wanting vehicles driving around on the deck ... It’s just being cautious,” he said.

According to ASUC Auxiliary Director Nadesan Permaul, the ASUC Auxiliary is not concerned about safety of crowds for their SUPERB performances and other activities at this point.

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Because of efforts to redevelop Lower Sproul, officials are determining the weight the plaza can bear. Meanwhile, a ban on large vehicles in the plaza will be enforced.

“We have many activities that have lots of individuals which represent a lot of weight on the roof of the parking garage, which is Lower Sproul,” Permaul said. “We do understand that the focused weight of a vehicle is of particular concern.”

Hank Chapot, a gardener for UC Berkeley for the past four years, said that it has always been an unwritten

rule that large vehicles are not allowed to drive on the plaza roof deck.

“It’s been kind of gossip that the place is not safe, and periodically they tell us not to drive down there,” Chapot said. “Now we have the strict rule of no vehicles in the plaza.”

Noor Al-Samarrai of The Daily Californian contributed to this report.

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We have high expectations that (a suspension on quotas) will diminish the number of vacancies.”

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Tuesday, April 19, 2011

EDITORIALS

op-Ed: Protest

Fighting for the freedom to speak

By Josh Wolf | Special to the Daily Cal opinion@dailycal.org

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Since the birth of our country, the rights of a free press have been linked to the survival of democracy. In fact, Thomas Jefferson once suggested that he’d prefer anarchy to a country without newspapers.

And while UC Berkeley hasn’t made any moves to shutter The Daily Californian, the Center for Student Conduct and Community Standards’ efforts to sanction me for committing journalism is putting our constitutional rights to a free press at risk.

On Nov. 20, 2009, a group of students occupied Wheeler Hall in protest of the impending fee hike and the way the UC spends what money it has. It was my first semester at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, and although we aren’t exactly encouraged to focus our reporting on the campus, I knew this was a story I wouldn’t want to miss.

Rather than filming the events from the outside landing where dozens of cameras would eventually capture the ongoing confrontations between the police and students, I shot my footage from inside the occupation while about 40 people held fast to the second floor and kept out the police. I wasn’t the only reporter in the building — Brandon Jourdan, a frequent contributor to Democracy Now!, was also inside; some of my footage made it into his report for the program.

Neither Brandon nor myself acted as participants;

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we were there to record what happened, we were not there to hold onto doors and help keep out the police.

But we certainly weren’t there to assist law enforcement either.

For more than a year now, the Center for Student Conduct has acknowledged that my role was that of a journalist and not a participant. But the campus still insists that I face sanctions for simply being inside the building.

Their position is that I’m a student first and a journalist second. When those responsibilities conflict, student conduct insists my role as a student takes precedence. In other words, when the police ordered the protesters to take down their barricade, it became my responsibility to overpower the protesters and open the door.

In fact, during the first part of my hearing, UCPD Lieutenant DeColoude said that it would’ve been acceptable for me to physically interfere with the students in order to help the police, provided I used “reasonable force.”

I’m not sure how he defines “reasonable force,” but in the two years I’ve spent studying journalism at UC Berkeley, I haven’t heard any of my professors talk about when it’s appropriate to beat up your subjects.

While I’ve never believed in objectivity, I do believe that it is my job to remain independent and avoid interfering as much as possible. After all, if journalists are forced to work as agents of the police, then their sources won’t trust them and the entire campus community will suffer.

Similarly, if student journalists fear conduct charges for aggressively covering contentious issues on campus, they will become much more cautious, and our community will again suffer. The Supreme Court has ruled that government has a duty to inoculate against such a chilling effect.

Whenever a group of people confronts an authority, the people in power have an incentive to contain and control the story. We’ve seen it in Egypt, Libya, Iran and even here in the United States.

Earlier this month, at the National Conference for Media Reform in Boston, I had an opportunity to hear Amy Goodman, the host of Democracy Now!, describe how she and two of her staff were arrested while covering the protests against the 2008 Republican National Convention in Minnesota. Although her team was wearing press credentials that provided them access to the convention floor, the police ignored their passes and arrested them anyway.

“We shouldn’t have to get a record when we try to put things on the record,” said Goodman during the speech.

These risks, and several unrelated factors, have driven many media outlets away from actively covering the conflict and over to the sidelines. As a result, our understanding of these situations suffers, and without enough information, our democracy is also put at risk.

This isn’t Libya, and Moammar Gadhafi doesn’t work for the University of California, but when a student is put on trial for committing journalism, it’s hard not to see the similarities.

Josh Wolf is a student at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.

By Nina Tompkin

A call to action CAMPUS ISSUES The incoming Student Action executive officials have major responsibilities to fulfill in their coming terms.

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hursday’s announcement that all four Student Action executive candidates were elected into their respective offices by commanding margins is a sign of high expectations.

Julia Joung, Joey Freeman, Chris Alabastro and Vishalli Loomba — respectively the incoming academic affairs vice president, external affairs vice president, executive vice president and president — are our new generation of student leaders. Though we we were not confident in their abilities when we made our endorsements, the success of our student government is contingent on their success, and we hope they exceed our expectations. Though we ultimately chose not to endorse them, our hope is for our student government to succeed, and we hope they will have a successful year.

All have their tasks laid out for them. The vague proposals that they submitted to The Daily Californian can no longer substitute for the concrete plans each office requires.

Julia Joung must reconsider her plans in order to ensure she best serves her constituency — demanding greater transparency is a good goal but will not happen without careful work. Joey Freeman must work on inspiring students to

lobby — a problem current EAVP Ricardo Gomez has struggled to overcome.

Chris Alabastro must work to solve a problem that EVP candidate Elliot Goldstein noted: the rampant usage of instant messaging by senators that is a source of distraction and disinterest. He must also lessen the traditional squabbling over the allocation of funding to student groups. Finally, Vishalli Loomba must ensure that the office of the president visibly produces tangible improvements for the student body.

In the past, there have been difficult transitions between administrations, especially when the replacement is a member of a different party. Current AAVP Viola Tang and EAVP Ricardo Gomez owe the student body a smooth transition and must not let partisanship get in the way of this task.

With firm control of the senate and the traditionally partisan executive positions, Student Action has the potential to make major strides on behalf of the student body. We hope that they use this power wisely and ensure that dissenting voices are heard.

The candidates have a second chance to do right by the student body — and we look forward to seeing this happen.

Quitting the quotas CITY AFFAIRS The city of Berkeley’s longstanding practice of enforcing quotas for business types is stifling the local economy.

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rom Telegraph Avenue to the Solano Shopping District, empty storefronts are an omnipresent element of Berkeley’s business community. As we have stated in the past, we firmly believe that city administrators need to take action to ensure that the city provides the most attractive climate possible for business owners. We have previously called for a review of often-lengthy permit process and the expedited improvement of local zoning laws.

Recently, city councilmembers and local business leaders have focused on another factor contributing to the slow economic recovery: quotas on local business categories. Four business districts have had quotas in place since the 1980s limiting the number of types of establishments, such as restaurants, to increase business variety and control area rents.

However, with vacancies dotting the city — Solano Avenue alone has about 70,000 square feet in vacancies, according to Solano Avenue Assoication executive director Allen Cain — we believe the city can no longer afford to be so discriminatory

about who can or cannot take the available space.

There have been steps in the right direction. In December, Councilmember Laurie Capitelli proposed suspending quotas on Solano Avenue for two to three years, and the Southside Plan would abolish the quota on the Telegraph district’s full-service restaurants.

We believe that the city council should go further and finally get rid of quotas. Though critics contend that this would decrease the diversity of businesses, we believe that it is up to the residents of each district to determine which businesses are worthy of their support.

Businesses that are superfluous would not survive. While Councilmember Kriss Worthington believes that the removal of quotas would lead to higher rent, we believe that rents will ultimately arrive at their market-determined value.

No one change will help the city’s businesses get back on track.

But by considering every option for improvement, the city can ensure that it is putting forth a full effort to revitalize Berkeley’s economy.

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The Downtown

Obituary

Downtown district may see new funds

UC Berkeley alumnus, prolific agriculture reporter dies at 95

By Karinina Cruz | Staff kcruz@dailycal.org The Downtown Berkeley Business Improvement District, responsible for improving the business and consumer climate in the area, may soon have four times as much money to work with in its ongoing effort to revitalize Downtown Berkeley, as the district looks to adopt a new method of collecting funds from property owners.

The Downtown Berkeley Association, which oversees and administers the business improvement district, aims to charge private property owners and non-property tax paying entities — such as the city of Berkeley, UC Berkeley and nonprofit organizations — based on the square footage of their property, rather than collect its funds through business license fees. Many property owners supported the change in a petition last August, and the association’s official proposal will go before the Berkeley City Council on April 26, with a public hearing scheduled for June 28. “(The association) decided to evaluate where the (district) has been, what it is today and where it wants to go,” John Caner, executive director of the association said. “There was a sense that we didn’t have the impact that was desired.”

Caner said the proposed change allows for a more fair and systematic allocation of the district’s funds. Property owners tend to have a more long-term investment in the area than the merchants, who pay the business license fee. He added that the fee is also flawed in that it requires self-reporting, while the property taxes will be collected by Alameda County.

The district currently generates about $300,000 in revenue each year, but the association projects a generated revenue of about $1.2 million during the first year of implementing the

change. About 70 percent of the association’s budget will go toward Downtown environmental enhancements, according to the proposal.

Currently, the Downtown business district is the only business-based district in the city, while other districts, such as those for the Telegraph Avenue area and the North Shattuck Avenue area, have been property-based since their establishments.

Roland Peterson, executive director of the Telegraph Business Improvement District, said property-based districts have more unanimous agreements than business-based ones, as merchants tend to differ in opinions and goals. He added that propertybased districts also have larger budgets to sponsor programs, such as beautification projects.

The Telegraph district estimates an allocation of $351,857, and the North Shattuck district projects a collection of $166,466 in revenue in the coming year — both of which are significantly lower than the estimated funds of their Downtown counterpart, which encompasses a larger area of 24 blocks and also has a higher population density that demands more services, Caner said.

Michael Caplan, the city’s economic development manager, said having a property-based district does not inherently increase revenue, but that for the Downtown district, it will because of the broad range of entities that will have to contribute.

In quadrupling its revenue, the district also increases its potential to improve the area by carrying out its Strategic Action Plan for the Downtown, Caner said.

“The goal is not to form a property (business improvement district),” he said. “But the goal is to create a more prosperous and cleaner Downtown, and the property BID is the mechanism to achieve that.”

Karinina Cruz covers business.

By Adelyn Baxter | Staff abaxter@dailycal.org UC Berkeley alumnus and former San Francisco Chronicle agriculture reporter Henry Schacht died due to old age March 30 in his home in Oakland at the age of 95.

Though raised in Aspinwall, Iowa where his family owned a lumber mill and grew corn, Henry Schacht spent the Henry majority of his life Schacht in the Bay Area, covering California agricultural issues like Cesar Chavez and migrant worker unions. Beyond his work as a journalist and radio broadcaster, Henry Schacht is remembered by family and friends as a loving grandfather and passionate Cal sports fan.

Henry Schacht moved to the Bay Area after his sister was accepted to UC Berkeley in the 1930s. After being accepted himself, he became a sports writer for The Daily Californian and later became editor in chief his senior year. In 2009, he was named The Daily Californian’s Alumnus of the Year.

Henry Schacht met his wife of 67 years, Mary, while working at campus

humor magazine, The Pelican. The couple celebrated their honeymoon at the 1938 Rose Bowl, where Cal beat the University of Alabama for its last Rose Bowl victory to date.

Upon graduating from UC Berkeley in 1936, Henry Schacht was asked by the campus to edit a study on agriculture. His work impressed them enough to offer him a broadcast series on agriculture, sparking the beginning of a career covering California farming.

The local NBC affiliate later gave him his own agriculture radio program.

Henry Schacht’s son Henry John Schacht remembers waking up to his father’s voice on the radio. His father’s radio program, Farmer’s Digest, was the first broadcast each morning.

Schacht was offered a column in the San Francisco Chronicle in the 1950s, which he continued writing until 1981. His columns covered issues faced by state farmers and cattleherders, aiming to make the information relevant to urban readers.

“He once estimated that he had written 2,000 columns for the Chronicle and done 5,000 radio broadcasts,” said his daughter Linda Schacht, a lecturer at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. “He had great respect for people who worked in agriculture all over the country.”

Linda Schacht sits on The Daily Californian’s board of directors, which has no control over editorial content.

Henry Schacht also received many awards for his work, wrote for other publications, was a U.N. agriculture consultant and authored two books.

“He made friends and was easy to work for, which made it easy for him to gather sources,” said Henry Schacht’s friend and collegue Len Richardson, current editor for the California Farmer. “He did a lot to improve the understanding between urban folks and farm folks. He saw a lot of opportunity for things to talk about that other people hadn’t seen.”

Legendary 1954 All-American Cal football quarterback Paul Larson was a lifelong friend of Henry Schacht. The two met when Larson was a freshman, and Larson said he recalls his friend’s dedication to Cal sports teams — particularly football and basketball. Up until 2009, when he became too frail to climb the steps of Memorial Stadium, Henry Schacht would attend the Big Game every year.

“He dearly loved the university,” Larson said. “Sometimes I even wished I would have settled closer to Berkeley to go to sports events with Henry.”

Henry Schacht is survived by his son, daughter and grandchildren Kate and Peter Gage.

His family is requesting that any donations made in his honor be given to the Berkeley Public Library Foundation, or to The Daily Californian.

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Fewer families living on the streets, but ‘hidden homelessness’ on the rise Study reveals rise in Berkeley families who lack permanent homes

By Victoria Pardini | Staff vpardini@dailycal.org While fewer families in Berkeley found themselves on the streets in 2009 than in 2003, the number of families without permanent housing — who stay in hotels or with friends — increased, according to a report.

The Alameda Countywide Homeless Count and Survey, released by the EveryOne Home organization in 2009, reported that the number of “literally homeless” families in the city — individuals residing on streets, in shelters or in transitional housing — decreased by 6.5 percent, from 46 families to 43. The amount of “hidden homeless” families, who reside in hotels, motels or with friends or relatives on a temporary basis, increased from one family to 10.

Single adults still made up the bulk of the city’s homeless population, which totaled 824 individuals in 2009, according to the report. However, their proportion dropped from 87.3 percent in 2003 to 74.5 percent in 2009. As a result of the decrease in homeless single adults, homeless families composed about 25.5 percent of the city’s homeless population in 2009.

Amy Davidson, senior management analyst for the city’s Housing and Community Services Department, said the decrease in the number of people living on the streets is a result of a county effort to end homelessness rather than manage it. According to Davidson,

the city received three years of funding from the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act — which funds health, education and entitlement programs — to be expended at the end of this calendar year.

Elaine deColigny, executive director of EveryOne Home, said that since the organization released the report, it has created different programs for struggling families to help pay families’ back rent and subsidized rent while unemployed families search for work.

EveryOne Home plans to release another report on homelessness in the next month, according to deColigny.

She said that though the report will not include counts of “hidden homelessness” — information that she said proved to be too complex to collect this time around — she hopes the organization and the city’s joint work will reflect a decrease in the number of the “literally homeless.”

“We hope we were able to help the situation from getting a lot worse for those from ’09 who showed up in the hidden homeless,” she said.

Mary Carl, program co-coordinator at the Ursula Sherman Village in Northwest Berkeley, said the shelter cannot help the “hidden homeless” because it is funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, which does not recognize the distinction.

“We’re in kind of a tricky situation because we’re funded through HUD, and sleeping at a friend’s house doesn’t qualify them,” Carl said.

She added that in the past five years, the number of younger families headed by single mothers has increased in the shelter, which currently devotes 60 of its 110 spaces to families.

Victoria Pardini covers Berkeley communities.

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Drug stores, like this Walgreens on Allston Way and Shattuck Avenue, could be restricted in the placement of new sites if a City Council recommendation passes. New stores would be required to be 1,000 feet away from existing locations.

Location restrictions could be ahead for Berkeley drug stores

By Jessica Rossoni | Staff jrossoni@dailycal.org In response to a string of competing drug stores in Berkeley — and rumors of even more locations opening — Mayor Tom Bates, along with Councilmembers Laurie Capitelli and Susan Wengraf, have authored a recommendation that would require the location of new or expanded drug stores to be a minimum of 1,000 feet away from existing stores.

The recommendation — to be voted on by the Berkeley City Council at its meeting April 26 — cites an overabundance of drug stores in the city that currently operate within close proximity, advocating for more diversity in the city’s retail stores.

Wengraf said one of their main reasons for authoring the bill was the ongoing battle between Walgreens and CVS/pharmacy for locations in Berkeley, in addition to rumors of the two companies looking to open more stores in the city. According to Dave Fogarty, the city’s economic development project coordinator, there are currently five Walgreens — with a sixth to open on North Shattuck Avenue — and three CVS stores in the city.

“I have concern about the prolifer-

ation of that particular type of store in a concentrated area, because it seems like we have an awful lot of Walgreens and CVSs,” Wengraf said. “Walgreens and CVS seem to be in a turf battle.”

Julie Sinai, chief of staff for Bates, said in every area of the city, there is a Walgreens, CVS or both.

“What (Bates) would like to see is more diversity,” Sinai said, adding that she would like to see other establishments, such as clothing or hardware stores, open in the city’s few large lots available. “His sense is that there is no shortage of drug stores ... There’s not a lot of large store square footage, and it limits the diversity in our commercial areas.”

Although the recommendation does cite alcohol sales as being an important aspect of drug stores, both Wengraf and Sinai said this was not a main factor in the decision to author the recommendation. “(Drug stores) don’t get to sell alcohol by right, they have to go through another level in order to get permission to sell alcohol,” Wengraf said.

“That is not my concern. If there are kids in town who want to find alcohol, they’ll find it ... We just don’t want lots of places in the Downtown selling bottles of alcohol.”

Fogarty said he believed the popularity of drug stores in Berkeley is due

to a lack of property available for largescale general merchandise stores. ((According to Fogarty, the 2007 census of Retail Trade stated that while pharmacy sales account for 4.88 percent of retail in all of California, in Berkeley they account for 9.57 percent.))

“I don’t think it has anything to do with demand for over-the-counter drugs because Berkeley in that respect is normal,” Fogarty said. “It has to do with the fact that Berkeley does not have general merchandise stores like Target, Kmart or Walmart that sell a full range of general goods, so instead in Berkeley people go to drug stores.”

Despite rumors that CVS is looking to open additional location in the city, Mike DeAngelis, public relations director for CVS, said in an email that CVS does not currently have plans to open another Berkeley location.

“We are always looking for opportunities to open new stores at locations that will provide consumers with convenient access to our retail pharmacy services,” he said in an email.

If the council approves the recommendation it will go to the city’s Planning Commission, though it could take four to six months before the recommendation is implemented, according to Wengraf.

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baseball: Cal enters midweek game on weekend sweep of Washington From back “He wasn’t the best pitcher, but he was the best teammate and guys respected him for that and elected him as a team captain,� Peters said. “He was our dugout leader. He was the guy that kept guys into the game and motivated.�

It’s already been a rough year for UC Davis. The Aggies enter the game with a record of 8-21.

Cal (23-9, 9-3 in the Pac-10), on the other hand, is coming off a weekend sweep of conference foe Washington that bumped it up to No. 15 in the nation, according to Baseball America.

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The Bears’ team ERA (2.83) is still one of the best in the country, clocking in at 20th out of 292 Division I baseball programs. Their team batting average, just a shade over .300, also ranks in the top 40.

But last year, the Bears were also a top-20 team when UC Davis played them, and that didn’t prevent the Aggies — and Heinig — from winning. “We traditionally play the Bears pretty tough, so I expect us to go out there and do well,� Peters said. “A victory would be nice, but I don’t think it would have to happen for us to feel good about honoring Scott in one way or another.�

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Although the Bears finished in a DUMMY Ma^ =Zber <Zeb_hkgbZg disappointing fourth place, the The more a team sweats in a squad conceded that the other practice, the less it will bleed in teams simply performed better. battle. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I just donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t feel like it was But for all the blood, sweat and the best we could do,â&#x20AC;? sophotears the Cal menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gymnastics more Donothan Bailey said. team has put into its routines each â&#x20AC;&#x153;We worked too hard to not be day in practice, it did not trans- able to have the competition of late into the success the Bears had our lives.â&#x20AC;? hoped for.

Still, the Bears have no research In its final season in program grets. Every gymnast on the history, Cal had to adopt a now- squad received a letter, meanor-never mindset. Even with the ing everyone competed in at pressure of their program being least three competitions. cut, the gymnasts kept training â&#x20AC;&#x153;Being a redshirt freshmen, through it and left everything out and with the program cut, I saw on the floor.

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Sports Tuesday, April 19, 2011 • dailycal.org/sports

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You never forget, but it’s a chance to put the sorrow behind us.”

—UC Davis coach Rex Peters discussing the death of former Aggie pitcher Scott Heinig

Football | Spring Practice

Early Report

Less than five months away from the first snap of the 2011 season, the Cal football team tries to maximize spring practice.

Quarterback

Defense

Next week, the Cal football team will hold its last open spring practice at San Ramon Valley High, the stomping grounds of 2012 quarterback recruit Zach Kline.

Judging from how spring practice is going, he may not even be too far off from competing for time.

A week ago, coach Jeff Tedford narrowed down the quarterback competition to senior Brock Mansion, junior transfer Zach Maynard and freshman Allan Bridgford. Since then, they’ve taken turns rotating in and out of the top spot.

Mansion is the only one with any sort of on-field experience, but his performance in Saturday’s practice at Valley Christian High in San Jose didn’t do much to distinguish him from the pack.

Maynard — who arrived at Cal with his brother Keenan Allen after playing two years at Buffalo — had impressed Tedford throughout the week, but like the rest of the offense, sputtered.

He threw two interceptions Saturday, forcing one and getting sacked on another, and said his mechanics were rusty.

That left Allan Bridgford to shine — however relatively — at the halfway point of the Bears’ spring practices. Although he didn’t get many first-team reps, the oft-injured sophomore tossed a pair of touchdowns on 6-of-10 passing during the scrimmage portion.

—Jack Wang

Tedford admitted that the defense outplayed the offense at Saturday’s practice. That may have been a bit of an understatement.

By the end of practice, the defense had intercepted two passes and recovered two fumbles, including a 39-yard return for a touchdown from junior defensive back Tyre Ellison. The unit also finished with five sacks, a number that would have been a lot higher if not for the limited contact on the quarterbacks.

After losing star linebacker Mike Mohamed, who garnered All-Pac-10 honors the past three seasons, to graduation, two freshmen look to fill that void. Lucas King had one sack in another standout practice after recording two more sacks and a fumble recovery in the squad’s April 2 practice.

“Gabe has done some good things,” Tedford said. “He’s getting better everyday. I think he’s a strong competitor.”

Three sacks came from Cecil Whiteside. The second string offensive tackles could not stop 6-foot-3, 229-pound freshman.

Marc Anthony grabbed an errant pass for an interception during practice. The junior cornerback will have to play a bigger role this season after the loss of senior defensive backs Darian Hagan and Chris Conte, who is projected to be selected in the NFL draft. “(He) had a forced ball today that he picked off,” Tedford said.

“Drove real nice on a wide screen ... You expect him to make that play when he wasn’t blocked.”

—Jonathan Kuperberg

Running Back

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Two weeks have passed since Cal’s first full practice in pads, and the running back situation has yet to get any clearer. Isi Sofele still stands as the No. 1 back. The coaching staff said it is fully aware of his capabilities after he backed up Shane Vereen last year.

Mike Manuel had a rough day at Saturday’s practice, coughing up the ball after a big hit. Nonetheless, the junior transfer continues to impress Tedford, who called him a “real pleasant surprise.”

Covaughn DeBoskie-Johnson has tweaked his ankle and is still a step slow, but has lost 10 pounds by self-report. He told BearInsider.com that he has another five pounds or so to shed.

“There was an open hole and I couldn’t get to it and I felt like crying,” DeBoskie-Johnson said. “Back in the day I could have gotten to that hole, so I made a promise that after every practice, I’ll be doing gassers. I’ve got to get that back.”

He had some nice short runs, including two touchdowns during Saturday’s practice, but Tedford said his ability to compete will depend on his competition, which includes freshman Darren Ervin, who is nursing a sprained ankle.

The running back situation only gets murkier when considering touted recruits in Daniel Lasco and Brendan Bigelow.

“Those guys are really good players,” Tedford said. “So we’re going to depend on some of the young guys, like we did when Jahvid (Best) was a freshman, when Marshawn (Lynch) was a freshman.”

—Christina Jones

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baseball

GBaum’s world

Aggies to play in ex-pitcher’s honor

By Katie Dowd | Senior Staff kdowd@dailycal.org Last season, the Cal baseball team and UC Davis met twice as they usually do. It was a good year for the Aggies.

In their first meeting, a no-name senior reliever named Scott Heinig helped them to five-hit the red-hot Bears. In the second, they topped Cal, 6-5, in the ninth.

It’s been less than a year since they last saw each other. Since then, one team was nearly cut while the other tried to rebuild. The Bears won some, the Aggies lost more. They’ve both graduated a handful of players to the professional ranks.

It’s happened in a blink of the eye — a reminder that life, too, can be achingly short.

When UC Davis takes the field against Cal at 2:30 p.m. today at Evans Diamond, it will be for the first time since Heinig’s death.

The Aggies postponed Sunday’s game against Cal State Bakersfield to mourn, but today they’ll play to heal.

“It gives us an opportunity to move

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evans diamond 2:30 p.m. forward,” UC Davis coach Rex Peters said. “You never forget, but it’s a chance to put the sorrow behind us.”

The Aggies learned of Heinig’s passing on Sunday. The 22-year-old, who was a co-captain for UC Davis last year, fell down at an off-campus house party in Davis on Saturday, after the annual Picnic Day open house.

He was rushed to the hospital with critical head injuries and passed away the next day.

As a junior college transfer, Heinig worked out of the bullpen in his two years with the Aggies. In 23 career appearances, he had a 9.03 ERA. He didn’t strike out a lot of guys, didn’t win a lot of games, but his athletic ability wasn’t what his teammates loved about him.

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Second baseman Tony Renda went 5-for-12 at the plate with three RBI this past weekend. The sophomore’s .355 batting average on the season leads the team.

s a Berkeley student, how often do you think about, well, Berkeley, on the macro scale? Are you happy to tell people that you study here? Does the press — positive or negative — affect your mood or opinions? I think most would agree that it is important that our school be represented well in whatever we choose. We are the “top public university in the world,” so it is important that we act that way, right?

I know I should follow this by discussing our academic prowess in so many different departments, but I feel I have to highlight why Cal needs to make a savvy hire for its vacant women’s basketball head coaching position. I understand that U.S. News and World Report doesn’t exactly emphasize women’s basketball in its rankings criteria, but financially, the women’s head basketball coaching position is one of the most notable for several prominent universities.

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