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Tonanzin Klote sits back on Telegraph Avenue. She will be disproportionately affected by the potential Sit-Lie Ordinance, which would make sitting on sidewalks illegal.

Sit-lie debate focuses on homelessness By Noor Al-Samarrai | Staff nsamarrai@dailycal.org Tonanzin Klote sits cross-legged with a feather in her cap and flowers tied to the jangle of necklaces around her throat. The cap, given to Klote by her boyfriend Daniel Ballance, has gained character over the years — a feather here, carefully-stitched tears and tatters there. The pair, both homeless, have been together since Ballance first saw Klote seated on the corner of Telegraph Avenue and Haste Street playing her guitar three years ago. “I’ve been hanging out here every day since I was 14,” said Ballance, 22. “(The police) ask us, why do you always come here?”

The question of the homeless presence along Telegraph and in the Downtown has been discussed more and more in recent months by the business community — a segment of which is pushing for the implementation of a sit-lie ordinance that would make it illegal for individuals to rest on city sidewalks. “Anytime you have economic upheaval or economic hard times, people start looking even harder for solutions that can turn things around and (sit-lie) is one of many tools,” said Mark McLeod, chair of the Berkeley Chamber of Commerce’s Government Affairs Committee, which monitors legislation that directly affects businesses and represents members of the chamber. Many business owners along Berkeley’s main thoroughfares believe that the homeless pres-

ence near their establishments discourages customers from frequenting the area. Berkeley City Councilmember Susan Wengraf said that while she does not see homelessness as the sole deterrent for customer traffic, she has heard complaints of discomfort from her constituents in the Berkeley Hills. “Most people don’t want to be stepping over people as they leave their stores,” she said. A 2010 study conducted by the city’s Office of Economic Development showed that main thoroughfares saw the city’s smallest recessionary declines. While spending along Fourth Street dropped by 21.5 percent, sales on Telegraph and in the Downtown dipped 6.9 percent and 4.6 percent respectively from March 2008 to March 2010.

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Groups emerge as leadership elections near By Aaida Samad | Staff asamad@dailycal.org Less than a week remains until the tri-annual statewide leadership elections for a union representing UC academic student employees, and with election slates and platforms recently released by two competing groups within the union, conflicts have arisen as candidates debate election policies as well as the future structure and direction of the union. Two groups within the United Auto Workers Local 2865 — which represents graduate student instructors, readers and tutors throughout the UC system — released their election slates and platforms April 13 for the threeday union leadership election. In the election, which is slated to begin April 26, all leadership positions — both union executive board and campus specific positions — are open. Academic Workers for Democratic Union — a reform caucus in the union — released a 60-candidate slate, which included 10 candidates for the union’s executive board positions and 15 candidates for campus positions at UC Berkeley, while United for Social and Economic Justice, a team affiliated with the incumbent leadership, released a slate of 80, not counting those running for multiple positions.

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Community members gathered Wednesday in small groups around People’s Park to celebrate the date — 4/20 — with food, music and plenty of smoke. Approximately 100 people cheered and passed around pipes and other smoking paraphernalia during the “smokeout” to commemorate 4/20 and the 42nd anniversary of the park’s founding, which is this Sunday. Community organizers will host a concert Sunday with five bands and free food, according to Michael Delacour, one of the park’s founders and an organizer of the event. Delacour said the event offered regular park-goers an opportunity to gather and discuss issues facing the park community. “We’re trying to have more leaders help out here,” he said. “We have to solve these problems with self-organization.” Delacour said he feared Measure L, a sit-lie initiative passed in December in

San Francisco that made it illegal to sit or lie down on sidewalks, would also pass in Berkeley. He said the community will gather to protest the initiative at Haste Street and Telegraph Avenue on Tuesday at 3 p.m. “(The smokeout) is a celebration, but it makes us all feel good that we can come out with each other and talk about topics like the cuts,” said Gina Sasso, Delacour’s wife. East Bay Food Not Bombs, an organization geared toward providing healthy vegetarian food to those who need it, brought rice and bread to the event. The group supplies the community with free food in the park every day of the week, and many of the park frequenters help provide it. “It’s a good type of social thing,” Sasso said. — Damian Ortellado

Earth Day honored all week By Soumya Karlamangla | Staff skarlamangla@dailycal.org

out pictures of the many Check Check events celebrating Earth Week Online on campus in our slideshow.

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Michelle Choi and Michelle Lowe have been friends since middle school. They not only share the same first name, they are also both juniors at UC Berkeley with the same major, and this year, are the two coordinators of Earth Week, the biggest sustainability festival on campus. Since the school year began, the two have spent over 80 hours a month planning the numerous activities scheduled for this week, all of which are in honor of Earth Day, which falls on Friday this year. “We want to be able to let students know that there are little things that they can do that collaboratively make a huge impact and change the world regarding sustainability,” Choi said. When talking to Choi and Lowe, it becomes difficult to follow who is speaking because the two frequently finish each other’s sentences, probably because of the long hours they have worked together. This year, they have struggled to balance school work and their duties for the ASUC Sustainability Team — which puts on Earth Week — to organize one of the biggest Earth Day celebrations held on a college campus. And it makes sense that this event — which historically sees hundreds of students participating — makes its home at UC Berkeley. Known for being ecofriendly, the campus topped a list of the greenest schools in the world earlier this year and just last week, the student body passed an initiative that calls to end the sale of water bottles on campus. In fact, Earth Week is financed in part by The Green Initiative Fund, which collects a $5 fee from students each semester to provide about $250,000 yearly across dozens of projects that make the campus more sustainable. Since 2009, it has provided Earth Week with $2,000 annually. The various events, which began Monday and will end Friday, range from seminars about cutting electricity usage to movie screenings, all of which center

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Survey seeks student’s tips for businesses By Karinina Cruz | Staff kcruz@dailycal.org

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In an effort to gain insight into what the UC Berkeley community is seeking from its surrounding business districts and to sustain a working relationship with the rest of the city of Berkeley, the campus’s student government will survey students, staff and faculty to gather suggestions on how to better represent their interests in city businesses.

On March 10, the ASUC and Graduate Assembly sponsored a forum where students were able to listen to discussions about recent city legislation and voice their opinions on how to attract more patrons — specifically students — to Telegraph Avenue and Downtown Berkeley. During the forum, the assembly decided to create an online survey focusing on questions regarding consumer demands on retail stores and restaurants, nightlife, entertainment and safety issues, which will

begin in the following days and will be active until the end of the semester. According to Clara Botstein, the Graduate Assembly’s legislative director of city and community affairs, the assembly wants to initiate a dialogue between the city and campus to “make Berkeley a better place for its students.” John Caner, executive director of the Downtown Berkeley Association, said the survey’s focus on students will be an additional help to the outreach the

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Hundreds file into McDonald’s for National Hiring Day Hundreds of job seekers filed into Berkeley’s two McDonald’s locations Tuesday to apply to the fast food giant’s workforce during “National Hiring Day.” Across the country, thousands of applicants showed up at McDonald’s restaurants in the hopes of filling the 50,000 open “McJob” positions, giving

them a chance to find jobs amidst high unemployment rates nationwide. McDonald’s spokesperson Ashlee Yingling said in an email the event was part of an effort by the corporation to play a part in the national economic climate by “helping to fuel economic growth and recovery” by offering more job opportunities. ...

Scientists make advancements in field of plasmonics In an age when technological grandeur is marked by the speed of a device, scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have made an advancement in the field of plasmonics that would broaden the range of materials used to make, among other things, extremely fast computers. Plasmonics is a field that studies the interaction of light with nanoscale structures. The research — published online April 10 in the journal Nature Materials — indicates that localized plasmonic surface resonances are not only displayed in metals but can also exist in semiconductor nanocrystals called quantum dots. ...

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Crossroads supervisor punched in face at Late Night A man was arrested by UCPD on suspicion of battery early Sunday morning after allegedly punching a Crossroads Dining Commons employee in the face. Lukas Warren, 20, allegedly struck Crossroads supervisor Boston Banks, 64, at the entrance to the dining hall at around 1:35 a.m., causing moderate injuries to Banks’s face. According

According to Daraka LarimoreHall, the current union president who is running for reelection, the USEJ slate contains more candidates than available positions because the slate has not been finalized, with candidates still deciding whether they will run. Members from both groups assert that there are fundamental differences in group platforms and candidates, including their approaches to the decision-making, structure and direction of the union, as well as what the priorities should be in the future. Candidates with the USEJ slate said they feel the challenges facing the union include enforcing the union’s current contract with the UC and focusing on threats to collective bargaining rights in the state and to higher education. AWDU candidates said their priorities for the union include engaging members to defend public education, fighting against cuts to fee remissions and benefits for graduate students and forming a union that supports members empowered through direct action. According to Megan Wachspress, a campus head steward who is running for the UC Berkeley recording secretary position with AWDU, a key difference between the two groups is in how they approach decision-making in the union, with AWDU supporting a “bottom-up approach that engages union membership at each campus.” “Decisions should be made at the campus level with the job of leadership being to ensure campuses coordinate with each other and have the resources they need,” Wachspress said. “The current union administration has shown us with their record that their topdown approach ... is ineffective.” However, Donna Fenton, the union’s

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Megan Wachspress, is running for the UC Berkeley recording secretary position. current financial secretary who is running for a UC Berkeley leadership position with the USEJ slate, said the group’s approach to leadership in the union will focus on “bringing people together, to move forward to focus on working on our common goals.” “USEJ definitely believes in having a strong statewide union and strong union leadership,” Fenton said. “That’s why we’ve been successful up until now, and it’s why we support a strong statewide union that is not divided into smaller units.” The union has seen increasing levels of partisanship since a highly contentious contract ratification vote late last semester and going into elections, tensions have been running high. While the groups disagree over ways to run the union, in the weeks leading up to the election, additional

to Banks, Warren had been attempting to enter Crossroads with a small dog and a 40 oz. bottle of beer, at which point Banks stopped him. UCPD Lt. Alex Yao said in an email that the incident was “unprovoked.” Warren was arrested half an hour later at Telegraph Avenue and Dwight Way, according to the UCPD crime logs. ...

contention has arisen over negative campaigning, candidate eligibility and election policies, with both groups asserting that some candidates put forward by each other’s slates are ineligible to run for positions. “In my years as an academic student employee, I’ve never seen an election like this,” said Xochitl Lopez, a student the UC Davis School of Law who is running for union northern vice president with the USEJ slate. “I don’t think these levels of attacks and this type negative campaigning is appropriate.” However, both groups maintain that while the negativity is not constructive, it is not proving too distracting. “For the most part, people don’t care,” Lopez said. “People want to know who is going to be more effective at leading this union.” Aaida Samad covers higher education.

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his article is, in some ways, a continuation of my piece on genre fiction. Together they form a two-act drama I would like to entitle: “Odes to Dying Art Forms.” Next week, this column will discuss how iPhone apps are making the ancient art of finger painting irrelevant. The week after, well, by that time journalism will probably have finally kicked the bucket. But this week, this week I want to talk about theater. I’ve always found it amusing how much people hate the theater. Or at least say they hate the theater, because most of the people who “hate” the theater have never been inside one. They reserve their contempt for whatever satanic rituals they imagine to go on inside those inscrutable buildings — some vague impression leftover from an ’80s teen movie of kids wearing all black clothing, speaking French and calling each other “darling.” The second stereotype of theater seems to be that it is some form of group therapy for people with bruised childhood egos and a penchant for Sondheim. Well, darlings, it’s some of that — but to be honest, black washes me out, my French accent is atrocious and I love my parents. The most important thing I ever learned to do in a theater class was not how to “express” myself or how to “become” a character. The most important thing I ever learned to do was walk. You know the saying “walk a mile in another man’s shoes?” Well we did. We studied the art of walking. We observed how nervousness could manifest itself in an uneven gait, the affect of a heavy tread on the way you hold your shoulders, the difference between walking heel to toe versus toe to heel. You learn, literally, from the bottom-up. Acting is a craft. Anybody can act in the same way that anyone can paint: badly at first. It takes patience and skill and dedication to make a great actor. Which is something that Hollywood seems to have forgotten. Notice that “the new stars” are always young. Twenty-five max, fresh-faced and dimpled. Nobody is ever “discovered” at the age of 30 or 40 or 50 — but with acting, as with any craft, you get better as you mature. ow, I was never a very good actor. I liked being on stage too much. In the middle of a dramatic reconciliation the corner of my lips would begin to rise — the ascent inexorable: “Hey Mom and Dad, look at me! I’m on stage! Isn’t this exciting!” It took me a few more years to find my passion for oratory. But even after I gave up acting, I’ve continued to love the theater. So it broke my heart a little, when at my CalSO, I asked the advisor, “so what’s your theater department like?” To which he responded, “well ... we have one?” This ambiguous answer was slight-

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Meghna Dholakia mdholakia@dailycal.org ly more positive than the reaction I generally receive when trying to get my friends to see shows with me. One dear friend turned down a free ticket to see “The Arabian Nights” at the Berkeley Rep to go on a beer run. Another informed me that he had been traumatized by a childhood encounter with “Little Shop of Horrors” and had sworn never to enter a theater again. But mostly I was met with embarrassed silences, mild coughing and a “so I beat my high score on Robot Unicorn!” et, that kind of reaction seems so counterintuitive. Theater is, at its basis, a performance. The actors, the writer, the director, the techies sweat blood and tears for eight weeks to create something for an audience to watch. So why aren’t audiences interested? Part of the problem, I think, lies in the perception of the theater. It appears as an older tired, even archaic medium — stripped of its glamour by movies and of its relevance by television. Most people struggled through Shakespeare and gave it up as a bad job. Our generation has yet to find the voices of the writers, artists and politicians that will define us. Theater is not a youth-obsessed medium in the same way that movies and popular music are. There is no theater version of a Disney popstar, no concept of a “tween,” no “Angels in America Go to Summer Camp,” and in honesty, I’d argue the medium is richer for it. There is, of course, another reason for Theater’s decline. Movies. Theater today is haunted by the spectre of film. It can’t compete with the production values, the gloss, the exotic locales or CGI effects. It’s a question that gets brought up in every theater class, the one everyone is afraid to answer. Why theater? What can it do that movies cannot? Inevitably, it comes down to this. Theater is alive. It’s separate from film, in the same way that watching a Lakers game on television cannot compete with courtside seats. It’s the electricity and charge of the space. The feeling of being part of a crowd. The event of performance. The knowledge that those actors are here tonight, right now, on this stage for you—to make you cringe, to make you laugh, to make you cry.

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sit-lie: Some unhappy that ordinance applies to everyone From front “It’s true that some businesses are struggling — we’re in the middle of a recession,” said Elisa Della-Piana, director of the Neighborhood Justice Clinic at the East Bay Community Law Center, a clinic that provides legal representation to homeless residents of Alameda County. “But to think that homeless people sitting on the sidewalk are in any way to blame for the failure of business is making them a scapegoat for a problem that’s larger and harder to understand and fix.” Today, Klote — who is five months pregnant — struggles with existing laws in Berkeley that aim to address the homeless presence in commercial districts. It is already illegal for individuals to intentionally block the sidewalk

with their bodies or objects, according to the Berkeley Municipal Code. “Food’s not an issue, neither is the cold — the weather here is great — the only issue Berkeley has is the law,” Klote said. “I got a ticket for resting in the doorway (at Amoeba). I would’ve left if they’d asked me.” Della-Piana said citations like these perpetuate, rather than solve, homelessness, saddling individuals with the kind of criminal records that keep them on the street. Ballance said his mother now resides near train tracks in a destitute area in Contra Costa County because a misdemeanor bench warrant prevents her from continuing to live in Berkeley. “It’s exile,” he said. Ballance said he and Klote are told to move by the police nightly and that

he fears for their health — as well as that of other homeless individuals — should they be prevented from sitting. However, a sit-lie ordinance would not necessarily preclude drastic police actions or forced movement, according to John Caner, executive director of the Downtown Berkeley Association. Nonetheless, some opponents question the basic premise of a sit-lie ordinance altogether, pointing to the law’s possible redundancy and its potential to result in selective enforcement. “The ironic thing about the sit-lie law is that ... it applies to my four year old who sits to tie his shoes, it applies to Girl Scouts on the sidewalk, it applies to kids selling lemonade,” Della-Piana said. “It applies to everyone.” Noor Al-Samarrai covers Berkeley communities.

Earth week: Event symbolizes commitment to sustainability From front around this year’s theme — to make “going green” part of everyone’s daily lives. “We really want to focus on bringing a more relatable aspect — a more relevant thing for the students,” Lowe said. “What little things you can do within your daily routine.” Throughout the week, booths have been set up in Upper Sproul Plaza — on Tuesday, the focus was water usage, on Wednesday, energy savings — and

larger events, like an eco-fashion show as well as an exposition that brings local green businesses to campus, will happen Thursday. Earth Week also serves as a symbol of the campus’s ongoing commitment to sustainability, since it invites all green-focused groups to join the festivities. “Many of us in the environmental community have extracurricular activities that seem to be intertwined with

sustainability groups on the Cal campus ... Earth Week is a time when all of these activities are on full display,” said Tyler Grinberg, lead coordinator for a campus project to restore Strawberry Creek. “Our campus community is educated as to how we’re impacting our local environment and how each of us can individually make a strong difference.” Soumya Karlamangla is the lead environment reporter.

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hursday, April 21st marks the opening night of the 54th annual San Francisco International Film Festival. Presented and exhibited by the San Francisco Film Society, SFIFF stands among the Bay Area’s preeminent film and cultural events, featuring some of the most promising independent and international cinema. The high pedigree associated with SFIFF is partly due to its stature as the longest-running film festival in the Americas. The festival dates back to 1956, then known as San Francisco’s Italian Film Week. Within the span of one year, the film week expanded to a full-fledged festival as organizers attempted to expose Bay Area audiences to the best of Italian, French and Japanese films of the period. Since its inception, San Francisco has played host to the American premieres of notable international films, including Akira Kurosawa’s “Throne of Blood” in 1957, followed by Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray’s “Pather Panchali” in 1958. In contrast with other popular American film festivals such as Sundance, SFIFF remains one of the few U.S.-based film festivals spanning a global focus. “The festival is

first and foremost an international festival,” said Rachel Rosen, director of programming for the San Francisco Film Society. “In the intervening 54 years since we started, there have been a lot of American festivals that promote independent cinema, so the international aspect really helps us remain different.” This year features the innovative works of filmmakers from Romania, South Korea and South Africa. Continuing with the Romanian New Wave, Cristi Puiu’s three-hour long “Aurora” will be making its premiere at the Festival. Winner of the Un Certain Regard last year at the Cannes Film Festival, South Korean director Hong Sang-Soo’s “Hahaha” is also set to screen at SFIFF. Hollywood has never played a major role in the Festival. Feeling that it posed a threat to the excitement and commercial appeal of the Oscars, producers abstained from participating in the festival. SFIFF first played host to a Hollywood film in 1959 with the premiere of Henry King’s “Beloved Infidel.” It would be another four years until Hollywood submitted another film to the festival, this time with Carl Foreman’s “The Victors.” Meanwhile, the independent films coming out of other American urban centers dominated the two-week long event. John Cassavetes became an annual fixture in the program with the exhibition of such films as “Shadows” in 1959 and “Faces” in 1968.

For Errol Morris and Frederick Wiseman, SFIFF became a venue for their early works, quickly establishing the festival as a haven for independent documentary filmmakers as well. Wiseman’s influential and groundbreaking “Titicut Follies” had one of its few public screenings at the festival in 1967 prior to the decision by the Massachusetts Superior Court to ban the film. In this manner, SFIFF created an allure that matched the culture of its city. Much as it has in the past, the festival also boasts onstage events, including conversations with the recipients of the Founders Directing Award (given this year to Oliver Stone) and the Kanbar Award for screenwriting (awarded to Frank Pierson). “I would definitely highlight the State of the Cinema Address, especially for those who are interested in filmmaking,” said Rosen. Every year, festival organizers invite a respected industry figure to offer insight into the intersecting worlds of cinema, culture and society. As the films of Kelly Reichardt and Cristi Puiu make their premieres in this year’s incarnation, the festival’s historical reputation remains intact. The works of younger filmmakers are set to play alongside the classic films of Federico Fellini and the recently departed Sidney Lumet, culminating in a two-week long celebration of cinema’s past and present. Jawad Qadir is the lead film critic.

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iven the title, it’s entirely appropriate that Mike Mills’ second feature film “Beginners” is set to open the 54th San Francisco International Film Festival, on the evening of April 21st. It’s a privileged position for a film that already boasts big name actors such as Christopher Plummer and Ewan McGregor. But for all the bombast, “Beginners” is a quiet and subtle story about a lonely man, his dying father and their adorable Jack Russell Terrier. Hal (Plummer) has been married for 45 years, but when his wife dies in 2003, everything changes. Hal’s been gay the whole time, which comes as a shock to his perpetually melancholy son, Oliver (McGregor). But the film doesn’t linger on this revelation for long; Hal also has cancer. It’s a tragedy that director Mike Mills knows

all too well: He wrote the film based on his experiences with his own father, who died after only four years of being out and comfortable with his homosexuality. Because of this personal touch, the film thrives in capturing both the heartbreaking and humorous moments of Hal and Oliver’s private lives. Told in a non-linear structure, the story offers glimpses of these men’s highest and lowest points: Hal finds a boyfriend, Oliver watches his father die. Mills has an eye for these delicate episodes and even though dialogue is sparse, the film makes up for it with its refreshing artistic vision. There are original drawings, slideshows and a dog that speaks in subtitles — all of which are playfully charming alongside Plummer’s particularly enchanting performance. “Beginners” opens with a death. But instead of being steeped in sorrow, the prospect of death creates a film that revels in the joy of life.

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Cut Copy dazzles with infectious energy By Cynthia Kang | Senior Staff ckang@dailycal.org

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he Regency Ballroom played host to an explosive invasion from Down Under last Sunday night as a luminescent door eerily opened to reveal four dapper young men who greeted the crowd with bashful smiles and blithe waves. Clad in semi-formal attire and adorned with cheeky exuberance, the Australian quartet went on to win hearts as they rhapsodized about fiery love and desperate longings. Delivering the latter of a two-day set, Cut Copy had the chance to experiment with theatrics the night before and as a result, flaunted a polished and elegant showcase. Girls swooned, guys moshed, couples danced under the warm lights — it was all part of the Cut Copy experience, no big deal. Before Cut Copy could work their magic, New York-based remix duo Holy Ghost! gave a preview of the night. Flaunting tracks that brimmed with vintage disco synths and echoed vocals, Holy Ghost! exhibited an almost uncanny similarity to the headliner. The two electronica artists, backed by additional members on bass and drums, kept their set succinct and memorable. Alternating between chugs of beer and head bobs, Holy Ghost! brushed away Sunday-night lethargy and enticed their fair share of hip sways and fist pumps.

Despite Holy Ghost!’s surplus of groove, Cut Copy were not to be easily overshadowed. With strains of “Visions” firing from the speakers, the lights dimmed, the door flew open and shadowy outlines filled the stage. As the Melburnian foursome unleashed an old favorite, “Nobody Lost, Nobody Found,” Cut Copy’s infectious charisma revitalized the previously listless audience. What sets Cut Copy’s persona apart is their aim to liven and charm rather than to disorient and stun, offering us their energy instead of merely siphoning it from the crowd. Exuding an unparalleled onstage personality, Cut Copy’s neatly styled hair and crisp shirts quickly turned tousled and sweat-soaked after just a few minutes. Frontman Dan Whitford’s elegant, almost poetic, hand gestures certainly added new dimensions as he moved from traditional air drumming to flowing swirls. Not to be outdone, guitarist Tim Hoey put on a show of his own. Unabashed, brazen or perhaps just wasted, he elicited a few incredulous laughs with his antics. Fighting his guitar, climbing on top of drum sets, leaping into a crowd of sweaty moshers — it was a spectacle to remember. But wait, you might ask, this sounds great and all, but I don’t know any of Cut Copy’s songs so why would I see them live? Well, skeptical fan, that is the beauty of a Cut Copy show. The band may work in complex lines of synth and beats but

the inherently simplistic lyrics has its advantages. They don’t wax poetic, because that would be overkill. With layer after layer of lovingly-crafted instrumentals, Cut Copy prefer to keep the messages short and sweet. Their live show begs you to bask in the dazzling synth bursts, boasting a magnified sound and heightened energy. You’ll be too busy busting out moves to worry about how familiar you are with the tracks. Mimic Whitford’s actions, chant a few “ohhs” and “ahhs” and you are good to go. The immense and active audience participation can also be accredited to Cut Copy’s perceptive choice of set list. Though the show was a stop on Cut Copy’s Zonoscope tour, they paid tribute to their previous albums by showcasing old favorites. Popular singles such as “Lights and Music” and “Hearts on Fire” inevitably evoked a frenzied response, setting the crowd jumping and screaming along. But the band also honored their rock roots (“Out There On the Ice”) and humble origins (“Saturdays”). Of course, the exotic and action-packed Zonoscope received heavy play as well. “Are you going to give me your love?” pleaded Whitford on the truncated yet powerful “Sun God.” After a visually and aurally engaging set along with two encores, it was safe to say that Cut Copy received an unanimous “yes.” Cynthia Kang is the lead music critic.

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In new ad documentary, Spurlock sells out By Sarah Burke | Staff sburke@dailycal.org

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porting a black blazer embroidered with sponsor logos, Morgan Spurlock stood on stage last week after a screening of his new documentary, explaining why he chose product placement as its subject. He was watching one of his favorite shows on television and all of a sudden found himself seamlessly placed right in the middle of a strategically disguised car ad. As he recalls it, Hayden Panettiere’s character on “Heroes” is given a new car and screams “The Rogue? The Nissan Rogue!? Oh my God Dad, it’s the Rogue!” as the camera pans across the car’s logo. “I was dumbfounded. I was like, I literally just watched a commercial in the middle of this TV show,” Spurlock says. Thus was born the idea for his new film, “Pom Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold.” You may recognize Spurlock from his 2004 documentary “Super Size Me,” in which he criticized the hidden health risks of fast food by only eating McDonald’s for an entire month. Now, he’s moved on to criticizing the outrageous maneuvers of the advertising industry by exploring the comical world of product placement. But here’s the Morgan Spurlock ironic twist: All 1.5 million of the film’s budget is financed through product placement. The new film follows Spurlock as he pitches himself and his film to

sponsor after sponsor in an attempt to sell out. With a subject that may not initially register as the most exciting, Spurlock manages to spin his material into engaging comedy. Ridiculing advertisers by joining them, he goes as far as buying a school soccer team, wearing that NASCAR style suit and inserting blatant commercials into his film. As the film progresses, each shot becomes more of an advertisement, a clever unifying thread that remarkably maintains its hilarity throughout the film. Spurlock pokes fun at business execs, as he pitches them ridiculous ideas for product placement, but makes himself the punchline by always keeping his word. He agrees to only drink Pom Wonderful juice, only fly JetBlue Airways, only fill his car at a Sheetz and only eat pizza from Amy’s Kitchen throughout the entire film. On top of that, he insists on referring

to all of these “official products” as “The Greatest (respective noun) ever (respective verb).” Spurlock also manages to sneak in some prime docu-moments, including interviews on the topic of selling out with the likes of Donald Trump, Quentin Tarantino and Big Boi. There’s this one part where he

sells Ralph Nader the movie’s “official shoe” — ­ or as he would refer to it, “The Greatest Shoe Ever Made.” While Spurlock knows how to get a laugh, at times the comedy detracts from the sincerity of his message, driving one to question how deeply he has actually considered the consequences of product placement. But really, how heavy are those consequences anyway? More light-hearted than the somewhat unsettling “Super Size Me,” “Pom Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold” is a feel-good documentary that gets the point across without leaving you direly concerned.As Spurlock puts it, he simply wants you to ask yourself, “Where do we draw the line?” before it gets too late. Spurlock has only gotten better at his ironically hypocritical documentary style, and “The Greatest Movie Ever Sold” provides just enough depth for a documentary that you actually want to see.

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’ve lost my muse. There are days when, like a lightning bolt, she comes out of the sky, possesses my brain and makes her way through me, commanding my hands to slam away at the keys until I have nothing left. Then there are weeks, like this one, when even the caffeine psychosis can’t save me, when I’m pacing around, tossing loose papers everywhere. I find myself struggling to remain upright, let alone to think of a column topic. These nights, I catch up on my flossing. Maybe if I spiked that coffee with some ketamine, the pale ghost of William Blake would come to me in a billowing nightgown and tell me what to do. Maybe if I could see a burning bush. Or maybe, I could write myself into the story. Is that cheap? Absolutely. But some of my favorite people in movies have done it, and if I’m going to get inspired to write a column about the movies, I have to look to them. When I get cold-cocked by the writer’s block, I think of screenwriter Charlie Kaufman in “Adaptation,” who wrote himself into the movie — and twice, by making a twin. It’s a fat, repugnant version of himself, played by Nicolas Cage, but grotesque caricature makes such a gesture of the ego a little more self-effacing. In narrative cinema, there’s always a script. Before it’s anything else, film is a text-based medium, and I think people forget that sometimes. You can never divorce film from text, just like I can’t divorce myself from my own self-loathing when I’ve sunken to the low low of writing a column about writing my column. More abstractly, Charlie Kaufman wrote himself into another film, “Synecdoche, New York.” Caden Cotard is a playwright in a slump: He’s balding, fat, getting old, getting divorced, has grey poop, is a womanizer, has no new ideas. I don’t share this man’s afflictions (except the ideas bit) but I understand his plight, when grand ambition leaves you feeling so small. The solipsistic Caden spends half his life working on a play that never gets finished. “The idea is to do a massive theater piece. You know, uncompromising, honest,” he says. The play-within-a-play, fomenting the film’s metastasizing meta-ness, is the “uncompromising” story of Caden’s life and the women who cycle in and out like people on a merry-go-round. “I know how to do the play now,” he tells the members of his harem, over and over. These are his last words before he dies. Fellini’s “8 ½” wallows in that same kind of paralysis. Guido, modeled after Fellini himself, is making a mediocre film amid marital and existential crises and finicky critics. To cope with his own creative dearth, Fellini wrote and directed this meta-film, and it’s a masterpiece (duh). Guido’s creative impotence mirrored his own. But these movies, they didn’t tell me what to do. They offered no answers and no hope that my writer’s block, more like a guillotine, would let up anytime soon. So I had to get snuggle-y with it. Cinema offers no easy answers for the writer’s block. You have to take it and sculpt something out of it. Jack Torrance killed people in “The Shining,” and he got many, many pages out of it. I just need 600 measly words. But I did learn something this week: Ideas comes from nowhere, sometimes in the form of nothing, and it’s perfectly acceptable if you need to exploit that lack. At least until you think of something better. As Caden would say, I know how to do the column now.

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UC adopts systemwide student health insurance By Jasmine Mausner | Staff jmausner@dailycal.org The University of California has adopted a systemwide student health insurance plan aimed at reducing student coverage fees, providing a dependent plan option for spouses and children and giving students more pharmaceutical and treatment benefits. By grouping students into one plan, the university can negotiate lower rates with insurance vendors. The plan, which will go into effect Aug. 15, will accommodate approximately 130,000 students at all 10 UC campuses. According to Heather Pineda, director of the UC Student Health Insurance Plan, a group dedicated to the idea of systemwide health insurance was formed in 2008 to gauge whether universal insurance would be beneficial for both students and the university. In 2010, the system was

implemented for graduate students at six of the 10 campuses. “There were significant savings and benefits that could be gained by levering purchasing power of all the UCs,” she said. “So a decision was made to create a systemwide plan to include undergraduates.” Kim LaPean, communications manager at the Tang Center, said students will benefit the most from the increased co-insurance pay. Under the new plan, students will pay only 10 percent of their costs compared to last year’s rate of 20 percent. She added that the new program will have a dependent plan option. Students will be able to add children or spouses with the same insurance benefits for an additional fee of $3,200 per year and $3,700 per year, respectively. Although students will see a $52 increase in the price of their insurance plan, LaPean says they will be saving much more money in the long run.

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Amoeba Music named best record store in U.S. Marc Weinstein and David Prinz own the largest collection of records in the United States, and as co-owners of Amoeba Music, they have the “biggest and most complete record store in the world,” Weinstein said — an achievement that made it the best record store in America, according to Rolling Stone magazine. After meeting in San Francisco in the 1980s, Weinstein and Prinz, a drummer and a guitarist, respectively, decided to make their shared

love for music — which Weinstein called “a great commodity that means something spiritually” — tangible to others. With money from the sale of Prinz’s video store and a few loans, Amoeba Music was “started from scratch” on Telegraph Avenue in 1989 with an inventory of 6,000 records. Since then, the store’s inventory has expanded drastically and now, all three locations — Berkeley, San Francisco and Los Angeles — carry over 100,000 pieces. The Berkeley store keeps its inventory varied and consistently well-stocked, sometimes purchasing over 1,000 new and used records a day. Weinstein said that between its three

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locations in California, Amoeba acquires more than 5,000 pieces daily from private collections, out-of-state sellers and walk-ins at the store’s “buy counter.” He added that in his 21 years of co-owning the stores, he has seen many trends in local and regional economic climates as well as in consumer preferences. At the beginning of the recession, Weinstein said the Berkeley location experienced “a very dramatic decline” in sales, followed by a moderate decrease in San Francisco and no decline in Los Angeles.

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Implementation of online courses subject to delay From its inception, one of the initial plans for the controversial UC Online Instruction Pilot Project was to develop online courses for implementation as rapidly as possible, but while progress is being made towards rolling out online courses, the timeline for implementation has been pushed back, due in part to the pace at which recently selected faculty members are able to design and develop courses. While the release for some of the online courses had previously been slated for fall 2011, the estimate for when the courses would be ready was pushed back to spring 2012 in late February in order to “be sensitive to faculty scheduling and the time it takes to put together the proposals,” according to Dan Greenstein, the UC vice provost for academic planning, programs and coordination and co-lead for the pilot project. “We’re being conservative in our estimates. We got our faculty — the 29 faculty members who were selected — together, and we’re working with them to get a realistic sense of when they’ll be ready,” Greenstein said. “Our initial aspirations for release by fall 2011 were set before we had selected faculty, and now as we’re communicating and working with them, we’ve got a better sense of when these courses are going to be developed.” According to Greenstein, the speed at which the courses can be developed and implemented is contingent on a variety of factors, including what the approval process for each course will require, the specific technology that needs to be developed to implement the course and when faculty are able to work to develop the projects. “These courses are individual enterprises, and you won’t find a formula that fits all,” he said. “Some faculty members are ready and raring to go, so we’re moving with the ones who are able implement this more quickly while at the same time being accommodating of courses take more time to be developed.” At UC Berkeley, Brian Carver, an assistant professor

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insurance: UC students to pay 10 percent of coverage From Page 6 UC Berkeley sophomore Amelia Silverwood gets monthly blood tests at the Tang Center and said that through the insurance plan, her prescriptions and appointments have been extremely cost efficient. “Between prescriptions and doctor visits, I have never had to pay more than $15,� she said. “Through (the campus plan), I have found that some prescriptions are half the price of what I used to pay.� Compared with other public institutions, Pineda said the quality and price of the UC’s insurance plan is in the 90th percentile of universities across the nation.

While UC students will pay 10 percent of their insurance coverage next year, students at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and State University of New York, Buffalo — two of the four public universities to which the UC compares itself — will pay 20 percent. At Buffalo, students also pay $10 for generic prescriptions — compared to $5 at UC Berkeley — while Illinois does not cover any cost of generic prescriptions. Last year, the UC Berkeley insurance plan was $761 per semester for undergraduates, compared to Illinois’ plan at $206 per semester and Buffalo’s price of $843 per semester. The plan is designed to be 99 per-

cent identical between the 10 campuses, according to LaPean. Prices and insurance providers will vary from campus to campus. For example, UC Berkeley will continue to use its school of optometry to provide students with eye care, LaPean said. Pineda said the concept of insurance purchasing across a college system is becoming a trend. Other university systems — including the 16 campus University of North Carolina system, which implemented a systemwide plan in fall 2010 — across the nation are doing similar collaborations and getting increased benefits.

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questions and converse fluently about music is an attractive feature that draws customers to the store. “We always champion great independent artists who don’t have the big media machines behind them — most record stores just put an A, B, C, D,� Weinstein said of the label cards that identify and categorize artists in the store’s records bins. “We give them their own bin cards, giving independent artists their own equal chance.� Jim Brady, an Amoeba customer who has been shopping at the Berkeley store since it opened, said he comes in about once a week to look for new arrivals to add to his collection. Weinstein said it is an honor to be named the nation’s number one record store, but he said Amoeba has always been widely recognized as the best. “We had Paul McCartney come in with his wife and his kids,� he said of the Los Angeles location. “He was just hanging out at the record store.� Jessica Gillotte is the lead business reporter.

“The city has done little, if anything, to bring the avenue back up,� he said of factors contributing to the all-around poor sales on Telegraph. The introduction of digital mp3 music that enabled customers to buy records online has had both a positive and negative effect on his stores. In a move to broaden its consumer base and appeal to those who prefer digital media files, Weinstein said he hopes to launch an online store for sometime in mid-2011. The store, which he said will be the last, will sell records, CDs and mp3 files. Many customers continue to shop at Amoeba despite the availability of music online, which Weinstein attributes to customers who still want the greater “listening experience� of CDs and LPs. Another factor that distinguishes Amoeba Music is the staff ’s love for and knowledge of music. Weinstein said the Berkeley store has many veteran staff members, whose ability to answer

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ormally, I’m the last person to praise any Stanford athlete. After all, Andrew Luck may be a Heisman nominee, but he still ruined my first Big Game. I must concede, however, Ryan Hall ran a damn good race at the 115th Boston Marathon on Monday. He placed fourth with his time of two hours, four minutes and 58 seconds (approximately 4:45 per mile for all 26.2 miles). I know you’re probably waiting for me to jump in with a jab at this

Cardinal grad; the guy wouldn’t have even seen the podium if this was the Olympics (he placed 10th in 2008, in case you were wondering). Hall topped the fastest American time despite finishing so far behind winner Geoffrey Mutai that Hall couldn’t even see him. It’s likely the best any American can do. The stereotype that Kenyans, like Mutai, dominate distance running is backed up by the world’s top 10 marathon times, nine of which are from Kenyans. Ethiopia has the world record. With 110 medals in the 2008 Olympics, the United States clearly has the resources to train and compete with the elite in any event. Except the marathon, apparently. Marathons represent probably the most rigorous test of pure athleticism and endurance there is. Even the most miniscule difference between competitors, like their country of origin, can make or break their ability to keep up. Kenyans not only are raised in a higher altitude, but many elite Kenyan runners are also part of a tribe called the Kalenjin, a culture most well-known for its running skill.It requires an increased lung capacity and a complete immersion in a culture of running at a young age to set the marathon world record. So why didn’t Mutai set one? Mutai’s two hour, three minute and two second time was the fastest marathon in history, but it still wasn’t a world record. According to the International Association of Athletics Federations, the course had

too much of a decline and its design allowed for too advantageous of a tailwind for his time to be considered an official world record. He shattered the course record by about two minutes (and still managed to leave Hall, who also broke it, in the dust). The achievement is just one step closer to a sub-two hour marathon, but even these accomplishments — unthinkable for anyone other than a Kenyan or Ethiopian — don’t earn him the world record because the breeze might have made his 26.2-mile trek easy? Mutai’s time, and the controversy surrounding it, is exemplary of what makes the marathon unique — it’s an unparalleled test of the human capacity to endure. Though marathons may not be the most spectator-friendly sport, the future of long-distance running is worth keeping an eye on. Hall may never be able to catch up to the Kenyans’ lifelong preparation for the event. And perhaps human beings will continue progessing towards that two-hour line without ever crossing it. But the sheer possibility of doing the impossible is what makes marathons worth following. The tactical planning, physical superiority and technical finesse required of team sports are undoubtedly worth our respect. But before I can forgive Andrew Luck for Big Game 2010 and consider him a great athlete, I need to see him keep up with the Kenyans.

Baseball: Only Bears playing for postseason in ASU series From back scrappy defensive end Dan ‘Rudy’ Ruettiger — leads the team in advancing runners with a .588 success rate in that situation. He’s also tough on the base paths. Ruettiger has 17 stolen bases on 27 attempts, a little over half as many at-

tempts as the entire Cal team. So while ASU comes into Berkeley this week with nothing to lose — no College World Series hopes are on the line — the Bears, sitting at second in the conference standings, have their eye on

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miller: Pitcher opted to play injured his sophomore year and recaptured his groove as a senior From back pitched 71 1/3 innings through the spring — a workhorse effort second only to Tyson Ross, who now plies his craft in the Coliseum about 13 miles south. Miller had excelled in “I don’t think long relief and the occasional I could stay start, so plans away from were in place to move him to baseball that Fridays to fill a rotation gutted long ... I have by graduation. to be playing he followbaseball.� ing fall, Hubbs was —Kevin Miller looking over Cal senior pitcher practice footage when he noticed something was off. Miller had changed his delivery. Asked why, the right-hander explained that he was feeling pain in his left hip. An MRI revealed a tear in his labrum. His hip socket was slightly inverted, which had caused the soft tissue to wear against bone every time he lifted his leg to wind up. It was an injury that, for almost anyone other than a baseball player, wouldn’t have

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to be playing baseball. And that was what I decided.� The operation was done in June. The doctor dislocated his hip in order to get to the labrum, and shaved away bone to keep the wear and tear from recurring. Miller was stuck on crutches for the next four weeks. Rehab may have felt worse. Miller’s favorite part about pitching is being in every play, having the entire game revolve around what he does. Getting his body back into shape was the polar opposite. “I didn’t even do anything; I just lay on the table,� he says. “They had to move it all for me. Sleeping at night was terrible. I had to put my leg in a machine to keep it moving throughout the night, so I didn’t sleep a whole lot.� Junior year was supposed to be better, but Miller’s comeback didn’t unfold like he’d planned. His mechanics, skewed from adjustments he made in pain, weren’t spot on. The hip still nagged at him and he worried about stepping wrong than solely focusing on the batter. “It was almost like pitching with your hand tied behind your back,� Hubbs says.

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“It’s kind of a friendly rivalry,� Wallace said. “It’s going to be that fun, kind of edgy game. “And we’ll be the winners.� Currently tied for fourth in a very competitive conference race, both Cal and Stanford should have plenty of motivation heading into the series. The fact that it’s a rivalry should just add to the intensity. “There’s a little bit more fire under us since it’s Stanford. We want to come out especially hard,� Wallace said. “I mean, who doesn’t want to beat Stanford?� Connor Byrne covers softball.

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rowing up, Kevin Miller came home from school every day eagerly anticipating a game of catch. One day, when he was five years old, his dad decided to toss him pop-up balls. One throw hung in the air, and Miller positioned his glove above his head — but not quite where it needed to be. The ball smacked against his face, breaking his nose and splattering out blood. He spent the next hour or so cleaning up. Then he came back out and asked if he could play some more. “Oh my gosh, you’ve got yourself a ballplayer,” his mom said.

Watch Kevin Miller’s delivery and hear him describe pitching through pain to remain on the field his sophomore year.

Kevin Miller is 21 now. With no more than three months left in his Cal career, he says he’s never considered what he might do if the sport doesn’t pan out for him. Baseball is all he’s ever known. This season, coach David Esquer has routinely called him the team’s best pitcher. He no-hit Coastal Carolina through seven innings in February, struck out 15 at San Francisco in March. For about a week, he had the secondbest ERA in the country — that 0.46 has since swelled to 1.38, which still has him hovering in the top-20 and safely among the Pac-10 elite. But look at Miller, whose media guide listing of six feet seems about two inches too

generous, and you wonder how this is happening — how a babyfaced 205-pound guy who looks more like an overgrown child has become the most valuable piece of the Bears’ deep pitching staff. “The only way to describe him is the skinniest fat kid you’ve ever seen,” former Cal pitcher Mike Cassady says. “He just had this body type, you couldn’t describe it. When he got on the mound, you didn’t even notice because he was just pounding the strike zone.” Miller did that immediately, prototype build or not. Even early on, the San Jose native looked like he’d been on campus for years. On March 15, 2008, his parents drove up and watched their son in Berkeley for the first time. Senior Craig Bennigson, an All-Pac-10 honorable mention the year prior, had given up nine runs on 13 hits to Loyola Marymount

and its middling 7-8 record. A three-run homer in the fifth had shrunk the one-loss Bears’ lead to 12-9. Esquer called to pitching coach Dan Hubbs for a replacement. Hubbs called out Miller’s name, and he started warming up. Esquer did a double take. You have a freshman up? The next batter flied out to end the frame. The next inning, Miller allowed one hit. After that, he retired the side. Cal won, 21-9. Miller ripped through his first 44 innings that year without allowing an earned run, and didn’t realize how astounding it was until people started talking. “I just assumed putting up zeroes is what I was supposed to do,” he says. The eventual Freshman All-American

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Bears welcome challenge from Sun Devils By Katie Dowd | Senior Staff kdowd@dailycal.org

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Junior Erik Johnson has started nine games for the Bears this year. The right hander has posted a 2.05 ERA and a 5-1 record this season.

Last December, the five-time national champion Arizona State baseball team was slammed with selfimposed sanctions so severe that its legendary coach Pat Murphy was forced to resign. Among their myriad of violations, the Sun Devils were found guilty of paying players for work they didn’t perform, excessive phone calls and a host of other recruiting infractions. As a result, No. 9 ASU (25-9, 8-4 in the Pac-10) won’t be appearing in the postseason this year, regardless of how good the squad is. But when Cal’s Tony Renda was asked about hosting the Sun Devils at Evans Diamond this week — the first tilt of the three-game series was moved up to today at 2:30 p.m. due to Easter Sunday — the normally serious second baseman wore a big grin on his face. “I’m extremely excited,” he said. “I’m excited to

Quick Look: NO. 9 ARIZONA STATE AT NO. 15 CAL EVANS DIAMOND 2:30 p.m. get them here on our home turf and take them on. I’m very confident going into this weekend.” Renda could be speaking for the entire team, which has been playing like a squad without a care in the world. The Bears (24-9, 9-3) are riding a five-game winning streak and their 24 wins are already six shy of overtaking their entire win total for last season, a year that saw Cal make a postseason appearance. With the Bears well over halfway through the season, their College World Series qualifications are gaining more and more credence and attention. In the beginning of the season, Cal’s offensive numbers

jumped off the page. As the competition got tougher, its stingy pitching stood out. Now, with Cal’s defense finally showing its stuff, the Bears are looking like one of the most complete teams in the Pac-10. “I really think that our infielders are starting to get their confidence now,” catcher Chadd Krist said. “You see Tony and (shortstop Marcus Semien) out there making great plays and really saving us. It’s crucial they’re producing up the middle.” A month ago, the Bears had the second-worst fielding percentage in the conference. Since then, they’ve risen to second-best. The team with the best fielding percentage in the conference is, perhaps unsurprisingly, Arizona State. Sanctions aside, the Sun Devils have been their usual, successful selves. They’re batting .317 as a team with a conference-best 19 home runs. Johnny Ruettiger — who fans of the movie ‘Rudy’ may have guessed is the nephew of Notre Dame’s

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