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Concern over voting fraud grows in union elections

By Aaida Samad | Staff asamad@dailycal.org Though Thursday marks the last day that members of a union representing academic student employees throughout the UC system can vote in the union’s tri-annual statewide leadership election, which many assert is the most contested in the union’s history, there has been concern that policies are not in place to ensure a fair election free from vote-tampering.

Members of the United Auto Workers Local 2865 — a union representing nearly 12,000 graduate students, readers and tutors — began voting Tuesday in the election. While an elections committee determined voting protocols before the election began, there has been growing concern that the policies are insufficient to protect against vote-tampering and fraud, according to Adam Hefty, the elections committee member from UC Santa Cruz.

According to Hefty, the elections committee agreed to protocol with “few serious protections against tampering,” despite the fact that the union is facing what he said is the most contested election it has ever experienced, with two candidate slates and most

campus, and all executive leadership, positions contested.

“There are lots of members that have been coming to the polls and voting, and their votes will certainly be counted, but the election protocol, or lack of protocol, does give me pause,” he said.

“We’ll have to see what happens in the next couple of days before a final judgment can be made.”

In a blog post, Hefty detailed some of the concerns, which included whether student identification must be shown at polling locations, how and where ballot boxes will be stored overnight and how ballots will eventually be counted.

However, Erik Tollerud, a UC Irvine graduate student and elections committee alternate, said he is confident that the policies the committee decided on will enable the union to have a fair election.

“I’m completely confident that the procedure we’ve decided on democratically as a committee will make it clear that if tampering was to happen, the procedures will make it clear, and then those issues can be addressed,” Tollerud said.

While there is debate regarding whether or not election policies were adequate to protect against vote-tampering, both Tollerud and Hefty agreed that some of the concern going into this election stems

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Due to concerns regarding election policies, which some assert are insufficient to guard against voting fraud, some fear that the elections of the United Auto Workers Local 2865 could be unfair as a result of vote-tampering.

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City to impose Local Pre-K ordinance on curriculum local landlords might face

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By Kate Randle | Staff krandle@dailycal.org

New houses were found to sell for a lower price than older properties where the previous owners had installed panels after moving in, Hoen added.

“The assumption is that a buyer and a seller agree that the house has an increased value as the carrying costs are lower,” he said, “This was a question that had been out there for years — those selling solar panels had speculated houses with them would sell for more, but no one had tested it previously.”

Hoen added that new homes were less likely to profit from having photovoltaics on the roofs than older homes because developers were more focused on selling the property than getting the highest price in an uncertain housing

The Berkeley Unified School District Board of Education planned to address Wednesday whether a 15 percent statewide reduction in funding for preschool and extended-day programs could result in a restructuring of the Pre-K program — something parents fear could affect plans to close the district’s academic achievement gap.

The proposal, on which the board did not take any action at the meeting, could eliminate the 9.5-hour Pre-K program and reduce the number of full-day students enrolled in district preschools.

Although the proposal would increase the overall number of students enrolled in the program, the proposed restructuring would underrepresent students from low-income families, according to Pablo Paredes, chair of the School Governance Council for the district’s three preschools and parent of a child enrolled in the program.

“Berkeley holds the distinction of having the last (9.5-hour) program in the state,” Paredes said. “It cannot be a system that lets middle-income families ride out the recession and lets lowincome families suffer.”

The school district partially relies on Head Start — a United States Department of Health and Human Services program dedicated to promoting school readiness for children in low-

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A local residential home on 640 Hilldale Avenue has solar panels on its roof. Such houses have been found to have a higher resale values by a recent Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory study.

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While a study by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has found that California homeowners who invest in photovoltaic systems will earn up to 6.4 percent in resale prices compared to those who do not, some Berkeley real estate agents remain skeptical as to whether solar panels will act as an incentive for buyers to pay higher prices when buying a house.

The study, released April 21, surveyed 72,000 homes fitted with photovoltaics, also known as solar panels, across California and compared two types of houses — those built prior to having photovoltaics installed and brand new houses built with photovoltaics already installed, according to Ben Hoen, lead researcher on the study and a principal research associate at the lab.

By Damian Ortellado | Staff dortellado@dailycal.org

In an effort to keep landlords in line with state law, the Berkeley City Council passed an ordinance that would impose a penalty on property owners who do not comply with California’s screening fee procedures and require them to disclose information to prospective tenants about their rights.

The ordinance — passed unanimously by the council at Tuesday night’s meeting — will go into effect in June if it is approved again at next week’s meeting. The penalty fee would not be applicable until January 2013 in order to make sure landlords have enough time to become properly educated about the new law.

Under California law, property owners can charge a maximum screening fee of $42.41 — a price that increases annually based on the Consumer Price Index — to cover the cost of a credit or rental history background check on a rental applicant.

California law stipulates that landlords return unused money and provide tenants with an itemized receipt upon request. According to Councilmember Jesse Arreguin, who proposed the ordinance, these actions are often neglected without repercussion.

“I’ve been a tenant in Berkeley for nine years, and I’ve never received a receipt with an itemization,” he said.

Arreguin said the ordinance would make it harder for landlords to pocket unused money from screening fees because tenants would know the rules and be entitled to a $250 penalty from landlords who do not comply.

Originally, the penalty was set to be twice that amount and to be implemented in June along with the rest of the ordinance, but after a meeting with the Berkeley Property Owners Association, Arreguin agreed to amend the ordinance.

Sid Lakireddy, president of the association, said he was concerned not only with the “excessive” fee but also that immediate implementation would limit opportunities to properly educate property owners.

Rachel Banning-Lover discusses the findings of the research involving the changed cost of homes with photovoltaic systems installed.

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Lawrence Hall of Science to open Vallejo satellite center UC Berkeley’s Lawrence Hall of Science plans to open a new satellite center May 5 in Vallejo in an effort to provide more science education directly to communities in Solano County.

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munity Center in Vallejo — will open the “Inventor’s Lab” to the public next Thursday and will provide youth with different types of gears and tools to meet certain challenges, such as using solar energy to make appliances called kinetic sculptures. ...

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Protestors staged a hunger strike outside to oppose departmental consolidation.

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Watch the events of the hunger strike unfold on campus Wednesday.

UC Berkeley senior Horacio Corona.

They returned Wednesday morning with a crowd of around 40 people rallying at 3 p.m. to hear speeches by professors from the consolidated social science departments as well as from organizations around the county. Despite the fact that five delegates — three strikers and two supporters — met with campus administrators, as of Wednesday evening, demands remain unresolved.

According to sophomore and student organizer Marco Amaral,

A group of about 12 hunger strikers with their supporters gathered for a second day outside of California Hall to protest the consolidation of three UC Berkeley social science departments.

But after holding a rally and sending in delegates to meet with administrators regarding the protesters’ demands, no resolution was reached, and the strike was set to continue as of press time.

The strike began Tuesday afternoon, and demonstrators continued to camp outside the hall into the early hours of Wednesday before receiving a disbursement order from UCPD, according to

from the union’s highly contentious contract ratification vote late last semester and allegations by some that the policies enacted there were not sufficient to protect against possible vote-tampering.

While there is contention regarding election policies that were not approved, the policies that are in place do help ensure transparency in the election, said Megan Wachspress, a campus graduate student and head steward for the union at UC Berkeley.

According to Wachspress, the elections policies that were in place to protect against fraud in the election involve checking voter names against roll sheets and a two-envelope balloting system.

Lizzy Mattiuzzi, a UC Berkeley graduate student and elections committee chair alternate, said despite concerns raised regarding certain election policies, she is confident in the policies that are in place and is hopeful regarding the outcome of the election.

“Overall, I’m pretty confident that despite the fact that on the election committee we were outnumbered on certain procedures and policies we proposed, I have confidence in the process that we’re putting out,” Mattiuzzi said.

“I’m confident in the process, even though I wasn’t happy with every decision by the elections committee.”

Aaida Samad covers higher education.

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Arts & Entertainment: BareStage reinvents Genesis Though the title implies its root in the often-told biblical stories, “Children of Eden” has tweaked and added to these familiar tales to bring plenty of twists and surprises: the motive for Cain’s murder is almost accidental, and Adam is torn between leaving or remaining in the beautiful garden. Such changes allow the musical to create its own flavor; it becomes focused not on the religious material but on the importance of family and familial bonds.

The principal characters of the musical are the strength and core of the production, and the BareStage

casting was, for the most part, spot on. Barnaby Williams keenly brought two different characters to the stage, innocently naming animals as the childish Adam and wisely attending to the matters of the Ark as the calm Noah.

Equally as impressive was Audrey Baker, delivering bright and clear solos as the curious Eve and mature Mama Noah.

Most notable, however, was Alex Bronte, whose deep voice and contrasting expressions of enthusiasm and great anger gave Father a very human touch. ...

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On the blogs The Daily Clog Nowhere to go: Fourteen years after Berkeley’s sit-lie laws were repealed, Telegraph and Shattuck Avenue merchants are mobilizing to reinstate them, inciting a rash of rallies, protests and petitions from those who have nowhere else to go.

The News Blog protests persist: On April 13, as part of a Day of Class Action to protest state budget cuts, 23 California State University campus groups organized sit-ins, walkouts and marches, some of which extended throughout the week ...

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All my little words

Oh Berkeley, my Berkeley Residents irritated by seemingly

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erkeley was never my first choice. Like many people, my ideal college would have been somewhere east of Venus and south of Mercury — anywhere that was light years away from home.

Despite living 40 minutes away, I had never been to Berkeley before I was accepted. On my initial visit, the university did not put up a great show. It was late March, and the storm clouds hung low over campus, not so much menacing as monotonously gray. I spent most of my tour trying to stay dry and marveling at my tour guide’s ability to walk backwards uphill. I left underwhelmed.

Berkeley fits well into the DIY movement. It’s education, do it yourself style. I believe, sincerely, that it is entirely possible to go through four years on this campus without learning a damn thing. No ivory towers here, girls and boys, our buildings are made of concrete and glass. Yet, over the past two years, I’ve come to have a great affection for this school, for the people and for this damn peculiar place that we learn to call home. So here’s some wisdom (or, at least, lessons learned) from a second-year Cal student, for whatever it’s worth.

Take a breadth. Pun intended.

Berkeley students tend to be very passionate and very dedicated to their chosen subject. On the other hand, most people tend to regard breadths either as a GPA booster or an enormous waste of time. I have never met anyone who took a Scandinavian R1B class because they were genuinely interested in it.

But with the current structure of the global economy, we’re highly unlikely to remain in one job, let alone one profession, all our lives.

According to Newsweek, the average American changes jobs 11 times before they turn 40. Life isn’t linear, and the oddest things can turn out to be significant. Steve Jobs credits the calligraphy class he took at Reed College for Apple’s beautiful typography and, by extension, the modern computer’s typographical interface.

Chosen correctly, taking classes outside of your major department can be a way to complement and enhance your education.

Pre-med? Take the History of Science for your breadth. English?

Try a course on the neurological disorders of famous artists. Prebusiness? How ’bout Ethics, Policy and the Power of Ideas (I kid, I kid)? our friends are your greatest assets. They are the ones who keep you sane during finals week, who listen to your rants about TeleBEARS, grading curves and what the hell Foucault actually means. But beyond that, don’t be afraid to ask your friends for help. They care, and in a school of this size, they may be the only ones who do. Specifically, try and make friends with people in your major classes. It helps, not only to make class more fun, but also to

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Meghna Dholakia mdholakia@dailycal.org make learning more engaging. I only realized this admittedly obvious fact after my friends finally revealed to me that they did not find heuristic framing effects as wildly fascinating as I do. Or, rather, as they put it, “Meg, we don’t give a flying fuck.” kay, last bit, and this is the most important. Don’t forget who you are, and don’t forget why you’re here.

The crystallizing moment for me came in a discussion group for my global poverty class. Global Poverty is one of the most popular courses on campus, with over 700 students.

However, Professor Roy offers a few small discussion sections for a couple students to meet with her and discuss the lecture. I came, sat down and was suddenly surprised to hear myself speaking eloquently, and at length, about microfinance and American individualism. Later, Professor Roy and a few other students came up and thanked me for my contribution.

When I left, I immediately called my best friend, “I have the silliest, stupidest grin on my face,” I told her.

“I’m smart! How did I forget that for a year and a half?” She called me a rude name, and I laughed, but the question still disturbed me. It’s easy to become just another backbencher in a lecture hall of 150, to stop challenging yourself to really think instead of just regurgitating information. It’s easy to forget that you even have ideas worth thinking. Don’t do it — remember who you are and have faith in what you can do.

As I prepare to leave the country for the next year, I found myself returning to an email I had written my then-future roommate. In the email, I tried to put into words what I loved about Berkeley. I told her about the classes, about the beautiful campus and the way the lights twinkle out on the bay at dusk. I talked about how I love coming home late on a Friday night and seeing people wandering the streets. The way it feels like the city is always alive, thrumming with potential. I told her that within this small radius, she would meet people who believed in things she never dreamt possible and had experiences she couldn’t imagine.

It’s true that diversity is not always pleasant — I once met a homeless man who believed in alien overlords — but it’s always interesting, and who could really hope for more?

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The arrival of four tower cranes at UC Berkeley’s Memorial Stadium in early April marked an end to six months of heavy demolition at the construction site while ushering in a new phase of the stadium renovation project that promises to be relatively quieter amid persistent frustration from local residents.

Erection of the stadium’s concrete structure began earlier this month and should last until October, according to Assistant Athletic Director for Capital Planning and Management Bob Milano. Milano said the project is still on track to hold the first football game of the 2012 season in the newly renovated and seismically safe structure.

“The magnitude of what needs to be done is significant,” he said. “Demolition was hard, but we’re through the worst of the noise.”

He added that the cost of leaving the stadium unused as well as potential extended project costs have pushed the campus to move as quickly as possible on the project without sacrificing quality.

Take a look at the slideshow of the continuing construction project of Memorial Stadium.

The retrofit and renovation of the stadium and the construction of the Student Athlete High Performance Center — a building under construction next to the stadium that will serve as a training center for UC Berkeley athletes — has aggravated neighboring students and community members since it began last summer.

Since heavy construction began in January, workdays have lasted from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. during the week and 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. on weekends.

After a lawsuit was filed by members of the community group Stand Up for Berkeley! and the Council of Neighborhood Associations last February, an Alameda County Superior Court judge ruled in November that the addendum prepared by the university to its 2006 Environmental Impact Report did not comply with the California Environmental Quality Act because the university had made changes to the report without publicly disclosing them.

In an effort to more fully disclose and detail changes that will occur to the area surrounding the stadium

during construction, the campus will recirculate a portion of its second Environmental Impact Report for public comment in early May, according to Jennifer McDougall, principal planner for physical and environmental planning for the campus.

According to Sherman Hall House Manager Frances Lu, air purifiers provided by the campus for each of the cooperative’s 28 rooms have significantly improved living conditions for housemates. The purifiers were delivered following several months of health complaints about the negative respiratory effects of the nearby construction site, and an ASUC Senate bill was also passed in support of the residents.

“We’re still next to a construction site, and we understand that,” she said.

“It’s not ideal. I’m thankful to see my housemates feeling relatively better, but there’s more that can be done.”

Lu added that the campus has yet to respond to multiple requests for ongoing noise and dust monitoring, although the campus has agreed to begin daily construction work two hours later during finals week.

“Is the air quality better? Yes. But is it up to the standard it needs to be is

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Presented during two consecutive weekends at Zellerbach Playhouse, Berkeley Dance Project’s ‘Stream’ combines the material body and the incorporeal mind, with an emphasis on use of technology.

Dance crafts solid ‘Stream’ and flow The unconventional Berkeley Dance Project allows its dancers to improvise and learn ­— outside the studio.

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ance is a complicated medium. At once visceral and abstract, the form translates the corporal body into a metaphor for ideas and emotions. Each spring, UC Berkeley’s Department of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies explores this complexity through a collaborative and somewhat notoriously abstract showcase of dances. “Stream,” the title of this year’s rendition of the Berkeley Dance Project, is meant to evoke the flow of water as well as the flow of human consciousness and its interaction with technology in the modern world.

The show opened with graduate student and choreographer Hentyle Yapp’s piece “The MacGuffin,” film jargon for an object or element that drives the actions of the characters. The macguffin of “The MacGuffin” is an instant message conversation between friends projected onto a screen above the stage. As it became clear that there were suppressed romantic feelings involved, the conversation grew increasingly awkward. From this the dance took shape. Saturated in hyper-drama, the momentum was as much confusing as it was intriguing, like something strange that you can’t stop staring at.

Adding to the unconventional flair, “The MacGuffin” was not set to music in the traditional sense. Rather, the accompaniment for the piece was a sort of subtle noise, oftentimes generated live by the exhalations of the dancers or the bouncing of rubber balls across the stage. “I purposely made it more of a sound scene than a soundtrack,” said Yapp of his approach to crafting the piece. “I wanted to think how dancers could still improvise, and have sound enter and dissipate like waves.”

From “Macguffin,” the production shifted to the

more politically-flavored “Many Have Lived without Love, but None without Water,” choreographed by faculty member Peggy Hackney. Created for inclusion in the upcoming international project “Global Water Dances,” the piece dramatized privatization of water rights. Set against a backdrop of two floor-to-ceiling screens (along with masterfully layered projected images and music), dancers in flowing white dresses flowed like droplets of water.

Technological elements worked to enhance “enormity and intensity of depth of color, and also the amplification of human flow,” as Hackney put it.

In stepping though the trajectory of soothing natural water motifs to the grind of the industrial world, the dance’s focus became the global controversy of water rights. Empty plastic bottles littered the stage, and the dancer-droplets lost their flow and became confined to more mechanical motions.

A trio of women in dresses made of plastic bottles (a true feat of costume design) appeared on stage, evoking the fashionable culture of bottled water.

The third and final piece of the evening, “The Somnabulist’s Dream,” was a darkly whimsical commentary on the strange state of mind between waking and sleeping choreographed by faculty members Lisa Wymore and Ellen Bromberg.

Along with pre-shot footage, the piece employed seven projectors and two live-feed video cameras, allowing images and video to be shot and projected live on an onstage screen.

“The camera itself becomes a character,” said Wymore. “I’ve always been interested in the ‘mecanique,’ the things that we build that are extensions of ourselves.” The use of the camera and the layering of images gave the audience a sensation double-seeing, enhancing strange details and heightening emotional moments. In this way, “The Somnambulist’s Dream” crafted a moving portrait of the diffuse space between physical and digital being.

A unique aspect of the Berkeley Dance Project is

that it is produced in the university environment.

Each piece is simultaneously an original work and a learning experience for the students involved, providing the choreographers a chance to experiment with novel teaching methods. Dancers in the Water piece took time to observe the flow of water in Strawberry Creek. For “The MacGuffin,” Yapp allowed his performers an unusual measure of freedom shaping the finer details of the performance, encouraging them to improvise on the spot. “The piece was four minutes longer or shorter on some nights,” said Yapp. “I wanted to allow the dancers to improvise and play, and feel what they needed to within the framework that I gave them.

But they could mess with time in that way.”

Giving technology such a central role in both the Water piece and in “Somnabulist” brought about new challenges for both choreographers and performers. Because the show relies so heavily on technological elements, it was impossible to see how it would actually look until the performers moved into Zellerbach Playhouse during the final week of rehearsals. “I had no idea how it would turn out. There was an incredible anxiety,” said Hackney. In performance, however, the technology cooperated flawlessly.

The real challenge of making the Berkeley Dance Project work is bringing the dances together in a way that isn’t disparate, avoiding artificial connections and instead crafting a cohesive and meaningful performance out of three abstractions.

If this year’s production tells us anything, it’s that dance is an evolving art form. It can be political, it can be a social commentator, it can be simply a celebration of the beauty of the human form — but all in a somewhat limited capacity. “Stream” as a whole is wary of this. “If we just continue to think that each one thing has the potential to change the world, then we aren’t doing justice to what justice really is,” said Yapp. “We’re not doing justice to what change can really be.”

REELING

What did we learn?

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here is no way to end a column and make everybody happy, just as there is no way to end a movie and make everybody happy.

First, I’ll proffer the requisite ending for a film column, a few of my favorite cinematic endings: Scotty in the bell tower in “Vertigo”; Alvy and his eggs in “Annie Hall”; Betty/Diane/whoever blowing her brains out in “Mulholland Drive”; Divine eating shit tartare in “Pink Flamingos.” But my ending will be nothing like these.

I’m writing this on BART, where I am en route to see Werner Herzog’s new documentary “Cave of Forgotten Dreams,” which I am reviewing in this issue of the Daily Cal for the San Francisco International Film Festival.

Actually, the sad reality is I’m laying in bed and grazing on the low sodium (least favorite words) barbecue chips that were left on my

nightstand. But in a few hours, I will be on that train, sitting on those drab faded seats of indeterminate color while catching a mean case of MRSA, hurtling toward that “Cave” of cinema dreams.

The journey to the Sundance Kabuki Cinema in Japantown is a long and even harrowing experience (“There’s no earthly way of knowing / Which direction we are going,” sang Willy Wonka in the hell tunnel). But I’ll go, I’ll go, because it’s Werner Herzog. And it’s not like he’s going to come join me in my cave — the bed cave, with the crumbs and the self-loathing — cooing in my ear with that downy yet brooding voice of his as I feed him some all-natural, gluten-less goodness.

But this is merely my fantasy, and I bet it’s yours, too, so I will go to him instead. Herz so good.

The fact that someone such as my-

self is willing to make a long night’s journey into even-later-night just to see a movie says something about the general life of moviegoers and what gets them off.

We are drawn to movies. We go and see them in the hope that they will move or entertain us somehow, whether that means traveling two feet, two keystrokes or two hours (as I once did to see “The Hours”). When all is said and done, film as an art form is about having the experience rather than the telling that follows.

You don’t go to a movie so you can recall it to someone later, and you might not even go to remember it, either. The point is the experience itself.

If a movie is really doing it for you — as the good ones do — and you feel that mechanical click, then you should be somewhat at a loss for words, because great films are always

something of a mystery.

I suppose this might negate everything I’ve tried to do in my column, but I just like to prime you for that experience, or join you in reflecting on it afterward. But don’t take my word for it.

All nighters, missed deadlines and weeping-into-bowls-of-pasta aside, this has been a most unconventional semester for me. Call it an era. Writing this column has kept me continually thinking a cinephile’s thoughts and always doing a cinephile’s work, however devious. That’s not an unusual pattern for me, but at least I got to do it in public once a week for 12 inches at a time.

Cut to me, now at the Kabuki. I’m sitting in the lounge, finishing a glass of wine that was too expensive and too small. The movie should start soon, and knowing that sends me reeling.

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From giant trolls to Werner Herzog fare, the SF International Film Festival 2011 showcases some of the best new films of this year.

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Chantrapas Otar Iosseliani

The Troll Hunter Andre Ovredal

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tar Iosseliani’s “Chantrapas” joins the long list of works about a director who struggles to make a film.

Like those characters in the other movies, Nicolas (Dato Tarielashvili) tries to find an escape. Not from himself, like Guido in Federico Fellini’s “8 1/2,” but from Soviet-era Georgia.

Iosseliani nicely captures the tension between older and younger generation Georgians. Nicolas, a young but impetuous jerk, butts heads with the older producers who are funding his art film.

The producers bring in an older editor to make something out of the failing movie, but Nicolas blocks his way. “We

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n the cold mountains of the Norwegian countryside you’ll find trolls the size of buildings, kept at bay by high voltage power lines. But what happens when those power lines fail? Taking lessons from “Jurassic Park” and “The Blair Witch Project,” Andre Ovredal’s “Troll Hunter” is a highly original movie that already has a cult following. In 1999, “The Blair Witch Project” popularized the mockumentary style of filmmaking; now, “The Troll Hunter” brings it into the 21st century.

“The Troll Hunter” follows three young filmmakers from Volda University. The crew tracks down an expert

hunter who exposes them to the world of Trolls, whose only weakness is a sensitivity to UV light. And if you were wondering if the Trolls explode or petrify under light ... the answer is both.

It’s always refreshing to see an independent film successfully use CGI in a prominent manner. Unlike other low budget films that opt to merely leave the fictitious subject to the imagination, “The Troll Hunter” has brilliant moments where trolls take center screen.

The film provides a unique sense of reality through its cinematography, bringing the creatures to the real world. ­— Carlos Monterrey

don’t want you, grandpa,” he warns.

“Chantrapas” is at its best when dealing with this tension, but the film becomes an exceedingly passive viewing experience. The camera sits back as people pass the time sitting around while drinking or smoking. This lack of energy is odd, considering the social tensions underlying the film. After his film fails at its premiere, Nicolas jumps off a pier and is — literally — taken away by a mermaid. The older men on the lakeshore simply relax and picnic, while the country’s youth is left to swim with the fishes.

— Max Siegel

Miss Representation Jennifer Siebel Newsom

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fter escaping from a terrible film, it’s essential to take step back and look at the silver lining: You wouldn’t be able to fully appreciate great movies if not for awful films. “Hospitalite,” written and directed by Koji Fukada, falls into the latter category. Somewhere in a working-class neighborhood in Japan, a timid brother and his half-sister run a small printing shop. They spend most of their day making pension envelopes for the labor department, a knock at Japan’s aging population. And the brother’s daughter loses her pet parakeet, Pea. Yes — its name is Pea. A creepy, bearded man claims to

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have seen Pea the Parakeet, yet never brings the bird back home. Instead, he starts working at the printing shop, gradually taking over the business so as to house illegal immigrants. The story is flat, but Fukada’s direction is even more uninspired. Frequently, a character (like the bearded man) will stand in the center of the frame for 10 seconds before someone in the background comes forward and starts the scene proper. The pacing and visuals of the entire film are so flat that it makes you want to step in and tell the characters to just get on with it.

— Max Siegel

irector Clio Barnard redefines the documentary film genre with her unconventional yet captivating piece “The Arbor.” The film centers on the tumultuous life of the late British playwright Andrea Dunbar and the family dysfunction that became a hallmark of her plays. Here, Bradford weaves together reenactments of Dunbar’s works, interviews with past relations and news footage of her life.

“The Arbor” delves into the drug-riddled, depressionfilled trajectory of Dunbar’s life. The latter half draws parallels between the writer’s life and that of her halfPakistani daughter.

The most fascinating and crucial element of the multi-faceted work is Barnard’s employment of actors to lip-sync extensive recorded interviews with Dunbar’s family and acquaintances. The actors mouth the audio — exasperated sighs and slight chuckles — with exact precision and effectively give new faces to the voice of Dunbar’s past and posthumous presence.

Nothing is too personal for the audience to know. In the midst of documentary experimentation, Bradford has created a stunning piece that forthrightly confides a kind of jarring intimacy.

— Dominique Brillon

The Arbor

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saccharine compassion.

Newsom’s directorial debut doesn’t merely assess media’s obsession with women’s appearances. Rather, it is a movement that campaigns for fair representation of gender. While cheers and ovations indicate diffused enthusiasm, Barbara Berg reminds us that “patriarchy is America’s default setting.”

Yet Newsom’s motivation to provide women and men with an equitable world could very well be predictor of her documentary’s future social impact.

— Charlene Petitjean

Athina Rachel Tsang

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n “Miss Representation,” actress, filmmaker, and former first lady of San Francisco Jennifer Siebel Newsom covers well-documented territory as she grapples with media messages that dumb down women’s strength to merely skin-deep.

The film presents startling facts and statistics and explores recent instances of sexism within the public sphere, all supported by well-aware high school students’ testimonies. In-depth interviews with media specialists add expertise to the candid observations made by students and Newsom herself, who weaves personal narratives throughout the film - an incorporation that exacerbates a sense of

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thina Rachel Tsangari’s potentially alienating character study takes its title from a mispronunciation of naturalist Sir David Attenborough’s surname; protagonist Marina (Ariane Labed) relishes his films, mimicking the animals as she watches. It’s a fitting moniker for what is essentially a distorted nature documentary, fixing its camera unflinchingly on the awkward sexual awakening of its subject. At 23, Marina splits her time between caring for her sickly father and goofing around with her best friend. Despite a stated disdain for the idea of intercourse, she embarks on an affair with a man who she chauffeurs, adding to rather than breaking from the monotony of her life.

It’s tempting to compare “Attenberg” with “Dogtooth,” a film Tsangari produced, since both deal with the late induction of adults into sex and society. But “Attenberg” is a more somber dissection of the same themes. By discarding conventional portrayals of physical intimacy, Tsangari fools the audience into aligning with Marina’s mixed disgust and fascination. She makes you think she’s showing you the peculiarities of a new species, when really, it’s your own.

—Sam Stander

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he urban infrastructure is confused as human societies develop in industrial wastelands, as documented in Véréna Paravel and J.P. Sniadecki’s “Foreign Parts.”

The ethnography focuses on Willets Point in Queens, New York: a community of garages that repair, trash or scrap cars for parts.

Within this industrial boardwalk lives a tenacious collection of people who welcome the camera into their home without hesitation. Those who live, work or squat in the neighborhood face the threat of urban redevelopment, already approaching their doorstep in the form of the nearby Mets stadium.

Composed without the constraints of voice-over or staged interviews, the documentary does not try to spin a narrative out of the footage, but explores the human

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impact of urbanism.

The din of mechanized tools, combined with airplane traffic over LaGuardia Airport, almost overwhelms the human presence, a consciously planned urban society looming over a naturally grown one.

“Foreign Parts” documents a tense time in modern American neighborhoods, where naturally-arising human societies face extinction in the expansion of American cities. ­— Amelia Taylor-Hochberg

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n Kelly Reichardt’s quietly devastating “Meek’s Cutoff,” the setting of untamed 1840s Oregon serves her well as she continues to study the tenderness and emptiness that vie for sovereignty at the vertices of human interaction.

Scripted by Jonathan Raymond, a frequent Reichardt collaborator, the movie — based loosely on a real incident — follows three families traveling by covered wagon. They’re guided along a supposed shortcut by the grizzled Stephen Meek, played with self-important sleaze by Bruce Greenwood. But they’re going nowhere fast, and Solomon (Will Patton) and the other men in the group consider hanging Meek rather than following him to their death.

When Solomon’s wife Emily — a tenacious Michelle Williams — encounters a lone American Indian (Rod Rondeaux), the already desperate tone changes to one of potential violence. Short on water, the party holds the man hostage in hopes he will guide them, despite an impenetrable language barrier. Meek’s barbarism clashes with Emily’s pragmatism and compassion, in an open-ended and morally challenging narrative of wayward souls doing what they must to find their way again.

—Sam Stander

Aleksei Fedorchenko

art folklore and part ethnography, Aleksei Fedorchenko’s “Silent Souls” is an unsentimental but ardent story of love and grief in the lives of the Merja people, an ethnic minority from Russia’s Volga region.

The film follows two men, Aist and Miron, performing the funereal rites of Miron’s wife, Tanya. In sober voice-over, Aist narrates the film as the two men lovingly prepare Tanya’s body for cremation. In lingering, patient fragments, the story sketches the relationship between individuals steeped in a deep loss. The camera endures the two men’s mourning, gazing on them for long periods of stoic silence as they travel through

frigid landscapes to where they will cremate Tanya, on the shores of the riverbank where she spent her honeymoon.

In the eyes of cinematographer Mikhail Krichman, bleak terrain becomes the beloved homeland of these two men — a community being dissolved into city outskirts. The camera follows the men in transit, but often faces backwards, eager to trace the past to this moment and continue ebbing traditions. “Silent Souls” chronicles and celebrates that ritual’s persistence through death. ­— Amelia Taylor-Hochberg

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erner Herzog is the only filmmaker working today who should be allowed to use 3-D technology. Actually, he can do whatever he wants and the cineastes will line up in troves. “Cave of Forgotten Dreams,” the auteur’s latest foray into natural history, reminds us that the mysteries of our world are far more enigmatic than the hyper-constructed world of films like “Avatar.”

With a camera that heaves and flows, torques and twists through the deep network of the Chauvet Cave in southern France, Herzog encounters what he calls “protocinema” and “the beginning of the human soul” in Paleolithic paintings.

Like a museum built in rock, the cave contains the earliest known cave drawings, predating even Lascaux.

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Werner Herzog rarely has this much texture: The 3-D camera allows us to see the calcified contours of the cave, the colors of the paintings and even the petrified ooze of stalagmites.

Herzog crafts a lyric poem worthy of Whitman, all with landmark technology. If this is the future of film, get me to a time machine.

—Ryan Lattanzio

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fee: Enforcement of new law will not require city funds From front

By Jessica Rossoni | Staff jrossoni@dailycal.org Though UC Berkeley ranks in the top five schools in the nation for student return on college investment, accounting for student financial aid packages pushes the campus out of the top-five ranking, according to a report released by PayScale, Inc. When students attend UC Berkeley for the instate “list price,” the return on investment ranks in the top five in the nation, according to the April 7 report. However, when financial aid is accounted for — when students attend for the “discounted price” — UC Berkeley falls out of the top five and is replaced by several private schools that can provide more financial aid for their students and by public schools whose students graduate at a faster pace.

The report does not take into account students who go on to obtain graduate and other professional degrees.

PayScale, an online database for career compensation reports, calculated returns on investment following college graduation by looking at how much graduates are paid compared to their schools’ average cost of attendance. “(UC) Berkeley does really well with returns on investment because (UC) Berkeley graduates tend to be really successful and receive high wages, but they’re also public, so their cost for attending isn’t as high,” said Katie Bardaro, PayScale senior research analyst.

However, once financial aid awards are included in the study, UC Berkeley drops to number 14.

Private schools, such as Harvard University and Princeton University, move up in the rankings because large endowments allow these institutions to provide their students with a better “discounted” price, therefore lowering the cost for students, who also on average tend to have higher salaries than UC Berkeley graduates.

“The private schools that move into the top (five) for Annualized (returns on investments) once we account for financial aid are ones of good reputa-

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tion that spurn out graduates that are typically paid a relatively high amount,” said PayScale spokesperson Steven Gottlieb in an email.

According to Carol Stewart, an institutional researcher at UC Berkeley’s Financial Aid and Scholarships Office, a decrease in funding for financial aid has accounted for a slight decline in enrollment in recent years of students from middle-class families.

“They don’t tend to come to (UC) Berkeley because there’s a certain level where we can’t give them good packages, because we’re not a private school, so they go to our competition,” she said. “But we also have a lot of students who come because they see (UC) Berkeley as a bargain.”

For several public schools on the East Coast, such as the College of William and Mary, faster gradua-

tion rates cause an overall lower cost of attendance, even though financial aid award packages are very similar and UC Berkeley students earn slightly more on average upon graduation.

According to the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, a yearly study by the Department of Education, about 73 percent of UC Berkeley students graduate in four years, whereas 91 percent of students from William and Mary do the same. This overall slower graduation rate accounts for a $110,000 average net cost for UC Berkeley students, compared to the $81,680 net cost for William and Mary students.

“Graduation rates are a little bit better for William and Mary, so their cost will be lower,” Bardaro said.

“This causes their higher return on investments.”

“We have no opposition to following the law,” Lakireddy said. “There needs to be an education campaign as opposed to just being punitive ... I personally am not aware of any abuse. Many landlords don’t even charge an application fee ...

If there were many people who looked at this as a revenue stream that they relied on, then we’d have a problem.”

The ordinance’s implementation would require no city funds and only minimal staff time, as the ordinance would be self-regulated by tenants who could file in small claims court if there were a discrepancy.

To ensure renters are fully aware of their rights, the city would also launch a website to which landlords could refer tenants during the application process.

“The Rent Stabilization Board has agreed to calculate the fee amount on an annual basis,” Arreguin said. “They also agreed to develop and maintain the website that we will be directing tenant access to. They’re going to be helping do outreach.”

Arreguin said that the limited staff requirement was appealing to the city manager, Phil Kamlarz. Some student renters, however, said they are concerned that a lack of city involvement could possibly make it easy for landlords to take advantage of them.

Caitlin Catalano, coordinator of the tenant rights campaign for UC Berkeley’s CALPIRG chapter, said many students enter into rental agreements without fully understanding what their landlords are allowed to do and that the city needs to actively prevent this.

“It’s great that they’ve passed the laws, but if the city doesn’t step in to regulate, things won’t get done,” Catalano said.

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News in Brief

Fire breaks out at Haas Schol of Business A fire broke out early Wednesday morning at the Haas School of Business — located on the east side of UC Berkeley’s campus near Memorial Stadium — leaving parts of three floors closed for cleanup and damage assessment.

According to UCPD spokesperson Lt. Alex Yao, the department received a call at 6:05 a.m. reporting smoke coming from the school. Yao said that UCPD officers arrived on scene within three minutes and that the Berkeley Fire Department arrived at 6:14 a.m. The fire was extinguished at 6:31 a.m., according to Yao. The fire originated from a paper shredder in the mail room on the fifth floor. Yao said there were no injuries reported. The fire also set off the school’s sprinkler system.

At this point, there is no indication that foul play was involved, Yao said.

Ute Frey, associate director of marketing and communications at the business school, said the campus fire marshal was still investigating the cause of the fire at press time.

Frey said employees were asked to either work from home or elsewhere in the school, but classes continued as scheduled. A news update posted on the school’s website advised staff who normally work in the building to temporarily meet in the Bank of America Forum on the second floor of the school’s Faculty Building.

At press time, parts of the third, fourth and fifth floors of the Student Services Building were still closed. The news update said that besides water damage and smoke odor,

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the damage is confined to the shredding machine.

The Thomas J. Long Business and Economics Library on the third floor is also closed, but both the computer and recruitment centers remained open. The Dean’s Suite was also open, according to Frey.

An email sent to the Haas community at 7:55 a.m. Wednesday stated that some ceiling tiles had “extensive damage� and some carpets, computers and printers were “soaked.�

Emily Ewell, a graduate student at Haas, relocated to the UC Berkeley School of Law Library Wednesday to work on class work. “Fortunately the school has been incredibly communicative about the incident to ensure the safety of students and staff at Haas,� she said in an email. “(The) only impact to me is that we had a few meetings moved and some of our other rooms are more crowded than usual.� — Sara Johnson

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market. “New home sales are down about 80 percent (this year), so sellers are trying to find creative ways to sell houses,� Hoen said. “Developers of new houses are doing something similar — using (photovoltaics) as an advertising gimmick.�

Anything that reduces the cost of ownership makes a house more valuable in today’s buyer’s market, according to Gary Gerber, president and CEO of Sun Light & Power, a company that installs solar panel systems. “Most of my customers are motivated more by their carbon footprint — I haven’t seen people installing panels specifically for increasing their house price, but people do ask,� he

said. “The study means we can now tell customers with confidence it will raise the price.�

But real estate agents are speculative about whether houses with solar panels will sell for a higher price on the Berkeley market. “I’ve worked here 25 years, and my gut feeling is that it doesn’t make a difference,� said Nacio Brown, a realtor for Pacific Union International. “Size, the feel, the neighborhood — that’s what matters; solar panels are like gravy.�

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Fate of local agencies remains unclear

By Yousur Alhou | Staff yalhou@dailycal.org The fate of several community agencies in the city of Berkeley remains uncertain as federal funding for community development services is to be slashed and the Berkeley City Council deliberates on the most cost-effective allocation of the remaining money.

At the council’s three-hour public hearing Tuesday night, many community agencies — ranging from those providing disability services to vocational skills — pleaded for continued funding, citing the projected decrease in federal funding as a threat to services and overall organizational vitality.

The council is set to approve allocation of funds for community agencies at its next meeting on May 3.

Though over 60 community agencies applied for continued funding — whose total requests amount to about $10 million — only about $8.3 million is available for distribution in fiscal year 2012, according to director of the city’s Housing and Community

Services Department Jane Micallef.

Funding allocation is based on agency performance and the value of “safety net services” to the community, according to Micallef, who added that resources are limited due to inflexible grant requirements and an increased number of applications.

To offset the effects of the substantial cuts, City Manager Phil Kamlarz has proposed denying funding for new projects, maintaining the current level of funding for a third of agencies and reducing the current level of funding for another third.

“It’s very difficult to come up with recommendations that fit within the available resources and add to it the complexity of the ever-changing forecast about how much money was going to be available in federal funds,” Micallef said at the meeting.

In fiscal year 2012, the city is projected to face a 16.8 percent reduction in entitlement amounts to the Community Development Block Grant, a federal block aimed at improving public and community facilities and public services, and a 12 percent de-

crease in funding to HOME, the largest federal block grant exclusive to affordable housing. However, the city is expected to receive increased funding to the federal Emergency Solutions Grant, which serves the immediate housing needs of the homeless.

As a result, many community agencies in the city, already vying for external funding sources, will likely experience direct impacts from the cuts.

Inter-City Services, a Berkeley nonprofit that provides vocational and training services, receives nearly $133,000 in community development funds annually. However, the agency, like many others, is expected to experience substantial reductions in funding from the city.

“Inter-City Services is a vital safety net in our community,” said Mansour Id-Deen, executive director for the organization, at the meeting. “The recommended cut is an economic denial of services for residents of South Berkeley and West Berkeley.”

Yousur Alhou covers city government.

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“there were things within the demands that were met and things that were not.” He did not specify which were approved by administrators.

Campus spokespeople could not be reached as of press time.

Demands outlined by strikers included reinstatement of full-time equivalent staff positions in the African American studies, ethnic studies and gender and women’s studies departments, an end to Operational Excellence, official campus support of California Legislative Resolution ACR 34 and public acknowledgment of the creation of a Third World College on campus.

After 3 p.m., speeches were presented to a crowd of about 70 students.

Carlos Munoz, a professor emeritus of ethnic studies, read from a resolution written by Assemblymember Luis

Alejo, D-Salinas, a UC Berkeley alumnus. He also expressed his support for students involved in the hunger strike and rejected Operational Excellence.

“You have my complete support in solidarity,” Munoz said in the speech.

“If we’re not here physically, we’ll be here in spirit.”

Similar speeches from other organizations, including an Oaklandbased group, Homies Empowerment Program, echoed Munoz’s call to fight against the cuts.

At around 4:05 p.m., three hunger strikers and two members of the coalition went inside California Hall to negotiate with Vice Chancellor for Equity and Inclusion Gibor Basri.

Supporters of the strike include members of the Coalition for Gender and Women’s Studies, African American Studies and Ethnic Studies as well as

members of the Ethnic Studies Undergraduate Graduate Front.

The negotiators exited the hall at 5:16 p.m. and met with protesters to discuss the meeting and consider their next move.

When the negotiations ended, the crowd began to trickle away from the demonstration. As of press time, about 40 remained on the lawn outside of California Hall.

Though the protesters had to vacate the area the night before, following UCPD’s disbursement order, Corona said as of press time that even if the organizers receive the same order Wednesday night, they plan to stay until all of the demands are met.

The protesters are planning another demonstration at 3 p.m. Thursday and a larger rally at noon on Friday, according to Amaral.

Construction: Nearby residents also irked by road congestion another question,” said Alex Ghenis, vice president of external affairs for the Berkeley Student Cooperative. Ghenis said he intends to continue working with the campus to ensure that requests for monitoring are met.

Robert Breuer, a resident who has been involved with the Stand Up for Berkeley! campaign, said although he feels the campus has listened to the complaints and concerns of community members, he does not expect a lot more change.

Breuer added that he is frustrated by the road congestion and traffic that occurs as a result of the nearly 50 trucks that enter and exit the stadium each day.

“Life is one of enduring right now — the disruption is profound and relentless,” Breuer said. “Construction will invariably come to an end and there will be a good quality product, but I don’t see things getting any better in the meantime.”

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Conferece tournament in Ojai to provide tune-up for NCAAs

By Seung Y. Lee | Staff sylee@dailycal.org The main thing Catalina Visico remembers about the Pac-10 Championships had nothing to do with tennis — it was the strawberry shortcakes the junior had in the town of Ojai, Calif.

“Every year, the strawberry shortcakes are what I look forward to in Ojai,” Visico said. “Every time Jana (Juricova) and I arrive in Ojai, that is the first thing that we get.”

Like the strawberry shortcakes, the annual trip to Ojai is always a sweet experience for No. 8 Cal women’s tennis team. From today until Sunday, the Bears will compete at the Ojai Valley Tennis Club against players from all schools in the conference for the Pac-10 singles and doubles titles.

The tennis club has held an annual tournament since 1898, making it the oldest tennis competition in California. With 111 years of history under its belt, the tennis club and the town display a tennis-infatuated atmosphere that is usually only found on the other side of the Atlantic.

“It always has a really great crowd and they have traditions, like afternoon tea in the park,” Cal coach Amanda Augustus said. “It’s sort of like Wimbledon, with all its traditions down in Ojai.”

The Pac-10 Championships will not affect any team standings. Unlike the season matches, in which the squads in addition to the players are declared winners or losers, the tournament only looks at the individual performances.

The tournament is divided into two: the Pac-10 Championships and the Pac-10 Invitational. The former is for the top 32 singles players and top 16 doubles partnerships in the conference; the rest plays in the Invitational.

Every season, the Bears normally send four singles

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softball: Erceg faces few problems against an anemic Broncos offense

Cal talking practice at Pac-10s and doubles tournament are individual. Moreover, rankings arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t heavily affected and the players who take the crown arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even guaranteed a seed As he was walking onto the courts in their respective NCAA event. at Hellman Tennis Complex, Cal menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important is preparation for tennis coach Peter Wright said aloud the NCAA tournament, which begins DUMMY to himself, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Okay, Ma^ =Zber <Zeb_hkgbZg we got work to do.â&#x20AC;?

May 13. The team will use this weekConsidering that the dual season endâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s matches as a way to fine tune its officially ended last weekend, an out- doubles lineup and get in some valusider might think that Wrightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s decla- able live matches. ration came a few months too late. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t say weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re overlooking But this is when hard work mat- matches,â&#x20AC;? junior Sky Lovill said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But ters most. Wright and his team are weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re just trying to get better and betin their element, preparing for the ter. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re ready to make a postseason NCAA Championships. run.â&#x20AC;?

But before the No. 16 Bears reach The Bears plan to capitalize on the that point, they must first contend opportunity by sending out four douwith this weekendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pac-10 Champi- bles squads that are entirely different onships, which begin today in Ojai, from the regular lineup used in the Calif., at the Ojai Valley Tennis Club. dual season. In addition to doubles, Cal is the first to admit that the Pac- each of those eight players will com10 tournament is not a top priority. pete in the singles round â&#x20AC;&#x201D; an added â&#x20AC;&#x153;The results arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t important,â&#x20AC;? bonus for seldomly used singles playWright said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;but playing in the tour- ers like senior Zach Gilbert, junior Tommie Murphy and Lovill. nament is.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is a chance to really focus on The players wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be playing for team glory; all matches in the singles what weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been working on and to

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The freshman from Rancho Palos â&#x20AC;&#x153;We try to be that aggressive on the Verdes, Calif. took over the five innings bases every game,â&#x20AC;? head coach Diane Ninemire said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is the type of in the circle. game, running-wise, that we need to â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was good to get all five innings,â&#x20AC;? Mankl]Zr% FZr ,% +))0 Erceg said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s good for me to get any have every game here on out. We can put a lot of pressure on a lot of defenskind of work out there.â&#x20AC;?

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Santa Clara, limiting the visitors to The Broncos undoubtedly felt that only three hits and no runs in the pressure, committing five errors on the afternoon. In the circle, freshman shortened game.

For the Bears (31-9, 7-5 in the Pac- starting pitcher Jessica Turner strug10) it was a different story on offense. gled as well. for Santa Clara (6-24, Although the first inning was scoreless 2-10 in the PCSC). The Bears knocked for Cal, the squad picked up four runs her around for six earned runs off nine each in the second, third and fourth hits in just three innings of work.

Senior Jenna Fong came in for one innings. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In the first inning, we were still inning of relief with one earned run. getting used to their pitcher,â&#x20AC;? Erceg Despite the trying three-game series said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Once we got our timing down, against Stanford last weekend, Cal our bats really started to break out came out strong in its last nonconference match of the season. there.â&#x20AC;?

The bats began breaking in the bot- â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m glad we showed up and made it tom of the second inning. First base- only a five-inning game,â&#x20AC;? Ninemire man Jordan Wallace came up with an said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what I thought it should RBI double, followed by Jonesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; two- have been. I told the girls, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The only thing that is going to stop us (on RBI single.

At the end of the shutout, the Bears Wednesday) is ourselves.â&#x20AC;?

Kelly Suckow covers softball. stole 10 bases, while racking up 10

build confidence,â&#x20AC;? Wright said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important to come back energized for NCAA.â&#x20AC;?

Pedro Zerbini will have plenty of energy for the NCAA championships.

The Bearsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; senior captain and top player will sit out, rather than risk injury.

Sophomore Carlos Cueto, who generally plays on court No. 2, wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be competing in Ojai this weekend either, nor will freshman Ben McLachlan.

But Cal isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t entirely throwing away a perfect opportunity to practice. This probably wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be the last time the Bears battle their conference foes. Cal could face at least one of them again if it makes a deep run in the NCAAs. As far as preparation goes, the eight players have been improving serving accuracy and doubles strategies throughout the week. Players have been working on refining particular skills. For instance, Murphy worked on his serve on Wednesday while his teammates practiced points play.

After all, the Bears still have plenty of work to do.

Annie Gerlach covers menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tennis.

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ranked players to play and learn from some of the best players in the nation. If they are able to perform well this weekend, it can also boost up their national rankings and a favorable seeding at the NCAA Singles and Doubles Championships.

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I was talking to the NCAA, ‘Can I get two more years?

How much does it cost to get two more years of eligibility?’”

— Rachelle Federico, Cal senior guard, on Lindsay Gottlieb being named Cal’s head coach

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Lindsay Gottlieb, a former assistant at Cal under Joanne Boyle, was introduced as the Bears’ new head coach at a Tuesday press conference.

Gottlieb returns to coach Bears Check Online

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Lindsay Gottlieb was 24 years old when head coach Joanne Boyle hired her as her top assistant at Richmond. Only a few years fresh off the end of her own playing career at Brown, she couldn’t even rent a car for recruiting trips without a note from the athletic director.

It’s been nearly a decade, but the 33year-old Gottlieb — whose resume has since been padded with a Cal associate head coach spot under Boyle and her most recent job at the helm of UC Santa Barbara’s program — still possesses the same sort of youthful fire. That energy was the main reason behind athletic director Sandy Barbour’s decision to hire the familiar face as a replacement for Boyle, who left Cal recently for Virginia.

“I’ve heard she’s passionate,” sophomore point guard Layshia Clarendon said.

“That’s one thing I’ve think I’ve heard most about her, is that she cares so much about her players, which is one thing that I really loved about Coach Boyle and about her that I think is going to continue on.”

Gottlieb’s return after three years in Santa Barbara, a move signaled by a Monday announcement and Tuesday press conference, comes on the heels of a disappointing season for Cal. After winning the WNIT in 2010, Cal began its latest campaign with high expec-

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tations and what looked like a good shot to return to March Madness. Instead, a young group with only two seniors — neither of whom started — went 7-11 in the Pac-10 and 18-16 overall. Its season ended in the second round of the WNIT. Before Gottlieb left for UCSB, she and Boyle led Cal to three straight NCAA Tournament berths and 20-win seasons. The streak continued for another year after Gottlieb’s departure, and became the best stretch in program history.

With her hiring, the Bears hope those days return sooner rather than later.

“Certainly, there is no rebuilding,” Gottlieb said. “There’s too much talent, there’s too much heart in this group. What I’m hoping is to take a firmly established program and say, ‘Where else can we go?’”

Six players transferred from Cal during Boyle’s six-year tenure, most recently starting power forward DeNesha Stallworth.

The sophomore led the team in scoring this past winter, averaging 13.3 points, and was named to the All-Pac-10 Freshman team her first season.

But to hear it from those who know her, Gottlieb’s reference to Cal as “one of the gem’s of the women’s college basketball world” doesn’t seem far-fetched at all.

“I was talking to the NCAA, ‘Can I get two more years?’” joked graduating senior

Rachelle Federico, who played under Gottlieb before she took the UCSB job. “‘How much does it cost to get two more years of eligibility?’ I’ve been talking to Layshia and I let her know, ‘You’re in great hands.’”

In her first season at Santa Barbara, Gottlieb led the Gauchos to a 15-1 conference record and an NCAA Tournament berth, and was named 2009 Big West Coach of the Year for her efforts. She was the first coach to win 11 conference games at UCSB, and also the first to post a winning inaugural season.

The remainder of her tenure was perhaps less spectacular — Gottlieb went 5639 in three years — but her strength lies in her ability to establish strong relationships with her players, which she said would be her top priority with her new team.

Cal does lose a very strong recruiter in Boyle. Her 2009 haul was ranked third in the country by ESPN and contained seven top-50 players. And while Boyle didn’t enter her first season at Cal with her own recruits — stars like Ashley Walker, Devanei Hampton and Alexis Gray-Lawson committed to Caren Horstmeyer — she was able to take them to the Sweet 16 in 2009.

Now it’ll be up to Gottlieb to try to do the same.

“Her door is always open for anything you want to talk about ... How are you gonna get a kid to dive on the floor for you and get a loose ball if you’re not gonna have a relationship with them?” Federico said. “I think it’s gonna be something that they’ve never experienced in a coach before.”

Jack Wang is the sports editor.

W 12-0

Bears blank Broncos in mercy victory

By Kelly Suckow | Staff ksuckow@dailycal.org The No. 9 Cal softball team took a break from Pac-10 competition in a big way on Wednesday — pummelling Santa Clara in a 12-0 mercy rule decision.

After three innings and a 8-0 lead, the Bears’ bench came out to relieve nearly all of the starters at LevineFricke Field.

Substitutions included junior Amy Bishop for Jace Williams in the hot corner, freshman Taylor Vincent for sophomore Lindsey Ziegenhirt behind the plate, sophomore Diane Leider for freshman Victoria Jones and freshman Alex Robben for sophomore Jordan Wallace at first.

Given the light opponent, combined with a looming final home stand against No. 11 UCLA, Wednesday was

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Freshman left fielder LaRisa Jones went 1-for-3 at the plate against Santa Clara, driving in a pair of runs.

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he other day I was walking up by Memorial Stadium and I looked inside to see that its seats had been gutted. I didn’t miss them — I never needed a place to sit in the Student Section anyway.

But when I looked up to where the press box should have been, there was nothing. And, for a moment, I felt sad.

Don’t get me wrong: There was nothing worth missing in that press box, which was less box, more bench. It had to have been one of the worst press facilities in Division I football.

The TVs were so grainy it looked like a game of Madden ’92 was on and, when it rained, they passed out plastic bags to put over our laptops.

They served the most disgusting sandwiches I’ve ever eaten. I got through the season on cookies and kettle chips.

But every time I sat there with my legs folded underneath me (I couldn’t see over the railing otherwise), I lived my dream in its totality. At the end of the season, standing on the sidelines next to Andrew Luck, I looked over at him and realized that I was probably just as happy as he. In that moment, we both had everything we wanted.

It’s been four years since I joined the Daily Cal, which sometimes feels like four blinks of the eye and sometimes more like four ice ages. I’ve been the sports editor twice, and I’ve written about nearly every sport on this campus at least once.

At this point I have to move on, not just because I’m graduating, but because I think I’ve gotten every ounce possible out of this organization.

As I look back, I realize that I threw away the box scores, the press releases and the rosters.

I gave away the media guides, back when they were still printing those big, glossy books. Of the hundreds of events I’ve covered, just a handful will stay with me. But the things I’ve kept — that I’ll always keep — are the people.

First, the men’s golf team. They taught me to ask questions fearlessly and, more importantly, they taught me the value of humanity. In the cutthroat world of sports journalism, where it’s constantly us against them, sometimes kindness is the most powerful tool. I never forgot that lesson.

Of the dozens on the football team, a few stand out: Giorgio Tavecchio, Bryan Anger, Kevin Riley, Dasarte Yarnway. You let me ask you questions that no stranger should be allowed to, and then I turned around and told the world. Thank you for being so open, and thank you for not punching me in the face the next time you saw me.

I’ll miss second baseman Tony Renda, the toughest man I’ve ever met and the only player who moved me to tears during an interview. I will always remember how afraid I was to ask him about the death of his father. But Tony, with grace as always, memorialized him in one beautiful sentence: “The guy could dress.”

Thanks, Tony, for reminding me that life is about the little details as much as it is about the big moments. It inspires me every day.

Beyond the fields and stadiums, I found boundless inspiration in the people I love most.

Thank you, Powers and Krister, for supporting me while I cried and complained; I didn’t always deserve your patience. I am so grateful to you both. Most of all, though, this is for my parents, who taught me to believe. I made this a reality because you never gave up on my dreams. I love you, Mom and Dad. Finally, here’s to my coworkers, my beat partners, my best friends. My four years at the Daily Cal would be nothing more than a pile of newspapers without all of you.

A few of you may someday sit in that new Memorial Stadium press box. I hope that you find beauty and hope in it, as I did. I hope the sandwiches are better. But most of all, I hope that you never forget that what we do is important. Perfection is rare on this earth, and we get to pursue it. It’s all ours for the taking, this world.

So take it.