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Former campus doctor faces charges By Jordan Bach-Lombardo and Sarah Burns newsdesk@dailycal.org

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Former University Health Services doctor Robert Kevess, left, is accused of committing sex crimes against patients. Alleged crimes include sexual penetration with a foreign object.

A former UC Berkeley health center doctor was charged Wednesday by the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office with 19 counts of sex crimes against former patients. Robert Kevess, who worked for University Health Services for nearly 22 years, is alleged to have committed the sex crimes against six former patients beginning in 2006. The charges include four counts of sexual penetration with a foreign object of an unconscious victim — meaning the victims were unaware of the nature of the acts because they occurred during a medical exam — as well as seven counts of sexual battery committed with false Robert professional purpose and eight counts of sexKevess ual exploitation of a patient. Kevess pleaded not guilty to the charges at an arraignment Thursday at Wiley W. Manuel Courthouse in Oakland. He surrendered Wednesday night and was released on bail, according to UCPD Capt. Margo Bennett. The bail for Kevess was set at $745,000, which he posted. The patients were all male, between the ages of 18 and 42 and students at the time of the alleged incidents, said Bennett. Kevess faces the charges under both the state’s Penal Code and its Business and Professions Code for allegedly using his position as a doctor to commit the crimes. Deputy District Attorney Teresa Drenick said the alleged sex acts “were committed by fraudulent means during the course of medical treatment.” Kevess has been placed on interim suspension from his profession, meaning that he will not practice medicine for the duration of the case, according to his attorney, Robert Beles. According to the charges, filed in Alameda County Superior Court, the alleged crimes occurred between March 9, 2006, and March 9, 2011. In a statement, Claudia Covello, executive director of University Health Services, and Brad Buchman, medical director of University Health Services, said that no problems were identified during Kevess’ most recent re-accreditation review in the July 2010. According to the statement, one of Kevess’ former patients met with Buchman March 23 and detailed the alleged sex crimes. Once University Health Services heard the allegations, it notified UCPD, and Kevess was placed on administrative leave March 31 after he returned from a weeklong vacation. Kevess then resigned on April 14. UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau was informed of the allegations the day after the meeting with the patient, according to the statement. “This news is shocking and profoundly unsettling for all of us,” Birgeneau said in a statement Thursday morning. “On behalf of the entire Berkeley campus, we deeply regret any harm that has been caused.” Beles said the case was “grossly overcharged.” “The plea is not guilty,” Beles said. “We will be making motions to dismiss the charges of the complaint.” Bennett said it is possible that other victims could come forward as the case evolves, saying that UCPD is still conducting an “active investigation.” She said former patients who believe

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SEMESTER IN REVIEW

Berkeley High Firearm Incidents

Struggle to End Business Vacancies

Wheeler hall Protests

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Four firearms have been confiscated from students at Berkeley High School since January. In response to these and other incidents, the district formed a safety committee that has advised requiring students and staff to wear identification badges on campus and has already allotted $89,000 for additional staffing and safety training. —Sarah Springfield City News Editor

As city leaders aim to reduce the number of business vacancies, a sitlie ordinance outlawing sitting or lying on sidewalks during business hours, the elimination of certain business districts’ quotas capping the number of certain types of business that can locate in an area and the easing of permit processes have all been discussed as possible solutions. —Sarah Springfield City News Editor

Following a Wheeler Hall March 2 sit-in, nine demonstrators stood atop a ledge on the hall. After negotiations with administrators, an Operational Excellence town hall was proposed and agreements were made about student conduct charges. A month later, Berkeley Police Review Commission voted to investigate Berkeley Police Department’s actions. —Emma Anderson University News Editor

On March 24, Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law $500 million in cuts to the UC. But when Brown declared he was done negotiating with Republicans, his plan for tax extensions was jeopardized and the picture for the UC began to look bleaker. If the tax extensions are not passed, the university’s $500 million cut could double in size. ­—Emma Anderson University News Editor

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By Katie Nelson | Senior Staff knelson@dailycal.org For a man who has had to deal with serious business regarding public policy and the economy, public policy professor Robert Reich does not take himself too seriously. Sitting among caricature pictures and seemingly endless stacks of paper in his office at the Goldman School of Public Policy, Reich chuckled to himself when he discovered he nearly forgot to include his stint as the Director of the Policy Planning Staff at the Federal Trade Com-

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mission as he rattled off his professional history over the last 30 years and his involvement in three national administrations for three separate U.S. presidents. “You know, I either studied or practiced and dealt with issues closely akin to social justice,” he said. “I continuously found myself dealing with the fundamental issues of who gets what in a society and why is it fair.” Reich knew from an early age that the world around him would impact the direction of his career and his life. Born in Scranton, Penn., Reich was raised in upstate New York, where he attended public school while his father worked in his women’s clothing store. Raised in an era that experienced deep domestic and international political conflict, including the Civil Rights Movement, the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy and the Vietnam War, Reich said such issues deeply affected him during his formative teenage and early adult years. Following an extensive education that led him from Dartmouth College to the University of Oxford as a Rhodes scholar and then back stateside to Yale Law School, Reich served as a law clerk and as an assistant to the U.S. Solicitor General before being appointed Secretary of Labor by former president Bill Clinton in 1993. When his term ended, Reich returned to what he loved — teaching. Reich became a professor at Brandeis

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The only thing standing between the Cal lacrosse team and the MPSF championship game is No. 6 Stanford. Unfortunately for the Bears, the Cardinal have stood between the rest of the conference and the MPSF title for the past six years. Cal, the last of the four competing teams to clinch a tournament seed, faces the daunting task of taking on Stanford in today’s 1 p.m. semifinal. A loss would mean the end of the season for the Bears, but a win could propel them to within one game of an automatic NCAA bid. “This is an opportunity for us,� Cal coach Theresa Sherry said. ...

Bears head to Stanford Invite for world-class competition Long-distance runners tend to travel in packs and feed off each other’s energy — the better the runner’s competitors, the better the runner’s time. More than 1,000 entries have been accepted to compete in Sunday’s Payton Jordan Invitational, some of which are world-class athletes seeking a qualifying mark in Stanford, Calif. for the World Championships and Olympics. With the Pac-10s in two weeks, the high-octane meet held at the Cobb Track & Angell Field is the Cal track. ...

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Sanford Elberg, a professor emeritus in the UC Berkeley School of Public Health and former dean of the Graduate Division long remembered for his good-humored approach to life died April 8 in Ukiah, Calif. He was 97. Born in Dec. 1, 1913, in San Francisco, Elberg received his undergraduate and doctoral degrees in bacteriology from UC Berkeley. He began his teaching career on campus in 1938 as lecturer of immunology and microbiology in the School of Public Health. ...

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A UC Berkeley graduate student journalist charged with misconduct violations for his role covering the Nov. 20, 2009 Wheeler Hall occupation was found responsible for three of five charges at the second part of his hearing Wednesday evening, more than 17 months after the protest. The hearing for Josh Wolf — a student at the campus Graduate School of Journalism — concluded after the hearing panel found him responsible for the charges. His sanction is to complete a paper detailing the status of student journalism on campus, which may aid the campus in revising the campus Code of Student Conduct. Wolf was found responsible for three violations — unauthorized entry to university properties, obstruction of university activities and failure to comply with officials. After Jeff Woods, the assistant director for the Center for Student Conduct and Community Standards, completed his presentation of the case, Wolf described his experiences at the

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Food for thought

When food feeds the soul

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or most of my childhood, all I liked to do was sleep. I would come home from school, eat a big snack and then take a nap that ended whenever dinner started. I felt somewhat lost, confused as to why I could never find my “thing” in life. My friends would constantly be practicing their instruments, singing in the choir, painting beautiful self-portraits and rehearsing for their dance recitals. I was never good at any of these activities. I have tried playing the piano, the clarinet and the cello, all with little to no success (I say little because I can still play The Lion King theme song on the clarinet). I took choir in my freshman year of high school, and quickly discovered that I break out in hives when asked to sing in front of a group of people. Art didn’t work out either, aside from my puzzling and utterly useless talent for pottery wheels. And finally, I tried dance class, which I would have to say is my greatest failure to date. I tried everything from ballet to hip-hop to lyrical ribbon, only to realize ... I am uncoordinated. Each failed venture dampened my spirit, and I would spend the majority of my time trying to accept my dull future of eating, sleeping and doing homework. To quell my fear of a horrifying, directionless life, I would come home from my failure of a lyrical ribbon dancing class and make a sweet and cinnamon-y apple crisp with vanilla ice cream to ease the pain. I assume you see where this is going. My “thing,” my passion, my talent was there all along. Cooking is the one thing I have always felt good at, and food is the one thing that has always been there for me. I love it like a fat kid loves cake ... literally. Everyone has that something that makes them feel like they are the most talented person in the world, and cooking does that for me. Aside from finding something I was good at, cooking allowed me to experience the invigorating feelings that can only come from creative expression. The excitement that comes with the spark of a new idea, the satisfaction that comes when you finally make your vision a reality, the heart-pounding anxiety that comes with worrying about whether it is good enough and the pride of finally sharing your creation with the world. hen in high school, I started writing for the newspaper, and discovered my affinity for projecting my feelings onto paper, translating my thoughts into words and sharing those words with others. Writing takes me on the same emotional roller coaster that I had come to associate with cooking. I realize now that what I have always loved so much about cook-

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Harley Frank hfrank@dailycal.org ing — and about writing — is the satisfaction that comes from making something that is a unique expression of myself. riting this column and combining the two things I am most passionate about has been a profound experience. It has taken the place of the countless hours I used to spend in front of the stove whipping up whatever I had dreamed of the night before. Instead of falling asleep thinking about what I would make for breakfast in the morning, I now doze off to thoughts of the next restaurant I’ll try, or how my experiences with food tie into my childhood anecdotes (perhaps you’ve noticed that all of my columns begin with “When I was a child ... ”). My weekly homework assignment of finding a new restaurant to write about was exciting and challenging (and probably the only one I have not put off until 1 a.m. the night before). Aside from the possibly irreversible damage to my waistline, it was the most fun research I’ve ever had to do. Of course, the writing was stressful at times. I have spent countless Friday mornings wondering whether people are tired of hearing me say “I love food” in a thousand different ways, reading a column that uses the word “mouthwatering” in every other sentence or listening to me talk about an airplane ride with my sister. My hope is that people are not tired of it, because food is so universally adored. Its appeal is unexplainable and mysterious. Nothing else has the capacity to inspire, to please, to repulse, to intrigue. It can bring people together around the table, and lend anyone a short moment of joy with a single bite. Food is magical. Even a sorority girl with a date party coming up can’t bring herself to stay away from a chocolate lava cake. And so I end my column as I started it, trying desperately to articulate my relationship with food. I am not sure how good of a job I did, but hopefully I have inspired you to make food a part of your life, to see the world around you through an edible lens. Oh, and just so you know, I am a much better cook than I am a writer.

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Ph.D. candidate helps create campus Mystery Hunt By Victoria Pardini | Staff vpardini@dailycal.org In his spare time, UC Berkeley Ph.D. candidate Ankur Mehta breathes fire, salsa dances and plays African drums. Saturday, he will be facilitating the first day-long Berkeley Mystery Hunt across campus, where he and a group of four other organizers have been planning on and off for about a year and a half. The hunt is a puzzle-solving competition that will incorporate several different types of problem solving — including word problems, popular culture quizzes and number games — in order to find a hidden object somewhere on campus. The hunt follows a backstory in which the organizers are trying to find a solution to the campus’s financial troubles that can only be found by solving every puzzle. Mehta, who wrote most of the puzzles himself, said because the hunt includes a wide variety of puzzles, no particular major will be at an advantage. “Ankur has basically been the driving force behind getting this going,” said organizer and physical chemistry graduate student Annelise Beck in an email. “He wrote most of the puzzles and has been in charge of getting everyone together to plan things out.” The organizers are expecting about 15 teams at the hunt, which according to Beck, may draw about 150 participants. Mehta said he was inspired to introduce the hunt to this campus after participating in the MIT Mystery Hunt, which he said is often a big draw for alumni. However, while the MIT hunt is spread out over the course of three days, the UC Berkeley hunt will last only 12 hours — beginning at 10 a.m. on Saturday, which Beck said will make the time commitment more manageable. Mehta, a former participant on the

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Ankur Mehta, a UC Berkeley Ph.D candidate, will be facilitating the first day-long Berkeley Mystery Hunt across campus, which will incorporate problem-solving. reality show “Beauty and the Geek” in 2006, received his undergraduate and master’s degrees at MIT by the age of 20 before coming to UC Berkeley in 2004. “MIT is a very tech-heavy school,” he said. “Here, some of my closest friends are architects, film majors or Japanese studies majors, which you don’t get much of at MIT.” While problem solving is one of Mehta’s passions, his list of hobbies also includes performance and social dancing, climbing trees and playing volleyball or frisbee around campus. Because he is currently not taking classes and instead working on research for his Ph.D., Mehta said he is free to leave the office periodically to take adventures around campus. “I just live in the moment — whatever’s the most fun thing in the moment, I try to do,” he said. “I try to enjoy life and have as many different experiences as I can.” Nupur Garg, a medical student at Yale University, said in an email that

Mehta taught her how to breathe fire. She said she has known him for eight years, since she was a freshman and he was in the master’s program at MIT. “Let’s just say he’s probably had more adventures/experiences in his life than any other student on your campus,” she said in the email. After the puzzle hunt is over, Mehta said he may continue work on designing a board game, admitting that he never has one single project going on at one time. He said he can instead divide his time between research for his doctoral project — a flying helicopter controlled by autopilot — and participating in different activities such as the puzzle hunt. “The thing is, I’m interested in pretty much every field there is,” he said. “If I ever find that one passion that I like above all, that’s when I’ll graduate and go pursue that.” Victoria Pardini covers Berkeley communities.

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Op-ed | The Fight Against Cancer

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Strength in numbers

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By Ashley Vink and Anh-Thi Le Special to the Daily Cal opinion@dailycal.org

The hunger strike showed campus officials have learned from the past ­— but they must be more open to dialogue.

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Why will you Relay? Cancer is the most frightening word in the English language. Saying it out loud can make a heart stop. To combat this fear, figuratively and literally, Relay for Life occurs once a year for 24 hours. On the American Cancer Society’s website, Relay is defined as “a fun-filled overnight event designed to celebrate survivorship and raise money for research and programs of your American Cancer Society.” In reality, the experience exceeds the definition. I discovered Relay for Life during my freshman year and it has had a constant presence all four years of my time here at Cal. I had no idea what Relay for Life was before college and I had no idea what I was missing. I started as a participant and worked my way up from being in the DeCal to being a committee chair. Relay has held a special place in my heart not because of the family I have made with the committee but the reasons I do Relay. I relay for my father who was diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia and for my aunt and uncle who also have survived cancer. I am fortunate to not have lost anyone close to me because of cancer. I participate each year because I am tired of hearing the words “I have cancer.” Statistics tell us that one in two men and one in three women will have cancer at some point in their lifetime. While this sounds like an exaggeration, it isn’t. Cancer is something that is very real

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and it is something that is affecting each and everyone of us every single day. When I think of cancer, I am more angry and scared than sad because losing the most important people in my life terrifies me. I could not give my loved ones all the money in the world to help with treatments or ask God to take the cancer away, but the least I could do is walk. This Saturday, over 800 students and 100 student groups will come together for an event that occurs only once a year on the UC Berkeley campus. Cancer is something that affects everyone and in a few hours, Memorial Glade will be trans-

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formed into a pathway for family, friends, and strangers to come together and hope for a cure. Throughout the day, there will be team competitions, live bands and time to reflect upon those who have been affected by cancer. There will be different activities to show how the American Cancer Society supports cancer patients. Zumba instructors will be out to help keep participants healthy and Pantene Beautiful Lengths is partnering with the American Cancer Society to encourage people to donate their hair in order to create free wigs for

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uccessful protests call attention to a cause, with participants rallying as the issue gains visibility and negotiating to effect progress toward their goals. In these respects, the hunger strike that began Tuesday afternoon was a total failure. The protesters seemed completely unprepared for the administration’s offer to meet on Tuesday and chose instead to prolong the strike in the hopes of gaining support. While representatives of the students ultimately decided to meet with administration officials Wednesday, they never achieved substantial levels of student support and apparently struggled to determine what path their protest should take. The strikers’ goals were neither realistic nor representative of the entire student body, and we cannot imagine that they expected administrators to capitulate. Their decision to wait for more substantial support before agreeing to a meeting with officials is a sign that this protest was not very well thought-out in the first place. The protesters and their supporters had their message ready for their signs, slogans and chants — but not ready for a fruitful discussion. It was the administration that came across as the most reasonable side of this protest. Officials obviously learned from previous protests and were quick to pro-

vide a means to resolve the dispute. However, the mere existence of the protest suggests a dangerous proposition — that some students feel like the only way they can directly reach out to administration officials is to force the issue through protests and hunger strikes. The administration must be more open to meeting — we see no reason why town halls, or other open forums, should not be held at least once per semester. Campus officials should preemptively begin conversations about controversial issues. Otherwise, they risk appearing to lack transparency and can end up incensing the student body. If officials do not wish to hold these forums, they must justify their concerns to the student body. The existence of a clear and open dialogue between administrators and students is critical for strengthening the campus community and may itself diminish the number of protests by opening a less confrontational avenue of interaction with campus administrators. The hunger strike was an illconceived protest, and it’s unsurprising that little amounted of it. But campus administrators have the responsibility to provide students with less extreme, more productive means of communication.

Digitize the donors CITY AFFAIRS

By Ed Yevelev

Publishing campaign donors is an invaluable practice, but the city cannot afford to continue to do so in print.

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oday’s digital age provides the means with which to make vast amounts of information available to more people than ever before at lower and lower costs — and, with a bit of irony, we believe city officials should revise the Berkeley Election Reform Act to take advantage of this opportunity. The act was passed by Berkeley voters in 1974 to regulate campaign finances and requires the city to publish in a Berkeley newspaper a list of donors who contribute $50 or more toward political campaigns. We strongly believe in transparency and believe that the intention of this law remains as relevant as ever. But the requirement that the list be published in a local newspaper has, like last week’s headlines, become largely outdated. The city must consider its abil-

ity to provide the information to the greatest number of people with the cost of doing so, and we believe that making the list available online achieves the greatest balance. Access to the Internet is available to all community members at the public library, and if computer literacy is a concern, the act could require the list to be posted at the library branches or other public areas. Newspapers remain effective in generating publicity and providing information and analysis, but they are not necessary to fulfil the spirit of the law. With Berkeley’s only newspapers remaining featuring limited circulation and readership, the city cannot afford the $1,876 it spent in October 2010 to publish the list in the Berkeley Voice. Long live the newspaper, but election reform must embrace the 21st century.

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Op-ed | Public Safety

Step up, take responsibility into your own hands By Alex Pollock Special to the Daily Cal opinion@dailycal.org One of my projects this year has been to collect stories, from around campus, about times when members of our community step-up when they see a problematic situation. It has been extremely uplifting to hear about the times where Cal community members stand up for other’s safety and well-being. You, reading this, you are part of this community and should be proud. You have told me about stopping a fight before it happened by calming everyone down or about getting a belligerent friend out of a confrontation. You have told me about bravely having a conversation with friends concerning their derogatory jokes. You have told me about intervening during a domestic abuse situation. You have told me about walking a friend home when they were inebriated, or just scared. You have told me about calling 911 for a passed out stranger ... and the list goes on. I won’t go into a full description of these events but if you are interested my stories and other’s posts they are at avoidapartyfoul.blogspot. com. First, please understand that some of the actions you all take are huge and some seem small, but they are all amazing. Just acting is difficult. The field of sociology has done research on this phenomenon and found something now known as the “diffusion of responsibility.” The quick explanation is that, in large groups, there is strong pull to conform and to not act because the assumption is

that someone else (maybe someone who is more qualified) will help or that there is no problem because others have not already identified it. There are no personal qualities that have been found to differentiate those who act from those who don’t. (Beware — no one should think himself or herself above this effect.) Intervening bystanders, somehow, overcome this effect and that is why I find them so amazing. So, Go Bears! But, as I mentioned, there are no personal qualities that determine whether a person will act or not. Is it alright that we only help sometimes? What percentage of incidents quelled b y bystanders will satisfy

you? For me, it is always better for that number to be higher. So, as you get ready to leave for the summer or for the working world, remember that there is one thing that has been shown to combat the diffusion of responsibility: Knowledge about it. Obviously, everything will not change overnight. But we can all help to make a community where we are aware and watch out for each other. I hope to watch out for you if you fall off of your bike, are too drunk to get home safely, are in a domestic violence situation or are in another sort of dangerous

circumstance. I hope that you will all watch out for me too. So please, remember the dangers of the diffusion of responsibility and we all can be even better at watching out for each other — together, we can make Cal an even better place. In closing, I want to give a caveat and say that if or when you do intervene, remember to keep yourself safe, too. I hope you will keep this in mind and watch out for your fellow neighbor! Alex Pollock is a UC Berkeley student and an intern with Party Safe @ Cal.

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Relay: The campus community joins together to help combat cancer From Page 4 cancer patients. There is plenty for the community to learn and enjoy throughout the 24 hours. The Luminaria Ceremony at 9 p.m. helps us remember and honor those who have lost the battle, and support those who continue the fight today. We watch a slide show of family and friends who have been touched by cancer and participants are given the opportunity to share why they relay. It is truly an astonishing moment for friends, families and the campus community to come together to reflect upon a disease that is plaguing us each and every day. The decorated Luminaria bags surrounding the track light up our path and shows us that cancer is something that we can overcome. When the sun rises the next morning, participants continue to walk until the 24 hour marker hits. Knees and heels are aching but the relationships and bonds created over the course of 24 hours are worth it all. Cal students, friends and alumni come back every year to experience the power of hope. This year, UC Berkeley’s Relay for Life theme is “Video Games” and we (just like Mario and Luigi) want to “1-Up” for a cure. Last year’s Relay for Life brought together more than $75,000 and we plan to exceed that number this year. The truth is that everyone has a reason to relay. No one is or will be left untouched by cancer in some way, but we all can hope that, together, we will find a cure as we relay for life. Make your mark today. Start a team, invite a survivor, volunteer or donate funds to this year’s Relay For Life. Don’t wait another day. Choose today to be a part of the cure. Celebrate, remember, fight back! Ashley Vink and Anh-Thi Le are students at UC Berkeley and committee chairs for Relay for Life of UC Berkeley.

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Friday, April 29, 2011 • dailycal.org/sports

Baseball

Football

Who Dat? Cameron Jordan New Orleans selects Cal’s former defensive lineman with the 24th overall pick in the NFL Draft.

Quick Look: Oregon at No. 20 Cal Evans Diamond 2:30 P.m.

By Jonathan Kuperberg Senior Staff jkuperberg@dailycal.org Every mock draft had Cameron Jordan going in the first round of Thursday night’s NFL Draft. But other teams kept passing over him, selecting other defensive ends instead of the former Cal standout. So Jordan waited at New York City’s Radio City Music Hall, his tan suit and red plaid shirt perhaps too flashy for someone whose name had not yet been called. They’ll fit perfectly in New Orleans, where Jordan will play next NFL season after the Saints selected him with the 24th pick. “After 20, I was like, ‘Uh oh, you lied to me, big guy,” Jordan said. “He was like, ‘chill.’” Jordan is the 26th Cal player to be picked in the first round of the NFL draft. Five defensive linemen were selected ahead of Jordan, whose father Steve played in the NFL for 13 seasons and was invited to six Pro Bowls as a tight end with the Minnesota Vikings. The younger Jordan knows what it’s like to be looked over. Jordan arrived in Berkeley as Rivals’ No. 8 prospect in Arizona but didn’t make his first start until the fifth game of the 2008 season. In that Oct. 4 matchup with ASU, Jordan had eight tackles, two sacks and a forced

By Katie Dowd | Senior Staff kdowd@dailycal.org

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Cameron Jordan led Cal’s defensive lineman last season with a career high 62 tackles, 12.5 of which were for a loss. fumble, earning him Pac-10 Defensive Player of the Week honors. He started all but one game after that. Jordan was an honorable mention All-Pac-10 selection in 2008 and 2009. As a senior, he finally made the first team, finishing the season with 62 tackles, 12.5 for loss. Pro Football Weekly dubbed him an honorable mention All-American. The Chandler, Ariz., native was a star for Cal’s defense, and when the

season ended and pre-draft buzz and workouts started up, Jordan’s name held more repute than his team that went 5-7 on the season. In a sport full of egos, attitudes and off-the-field drama, the affable Jordan was targeted as much for his athletic abilities as his personality. His strong character stood out in interviews, according to many sources. Teams also appeared to like his versatility at 6-foot-4, 283 pounds with a 4.74 40-yard dash. He is con-

Softball

sidered to have a quick first step, and the endurance to play every down. Of course, there may not be any downs next year with the lockout. Jordan isn’t worried though. “Not at all,” he said. “Eventually there will be football games, and I will be ready.” Even though 23 picks went by without Jordan hearing his name called, he is in good company. The only other Bear to be the 24th pick in the first round? Aaron Rodgers.

W. Polo

Bears see selves in UCLA squad Bears face

Aztecs to open MPSF tournament

Quick Look:

No. 11 UCLA at No. 9 Cal Levine-Fricke Field 3:00 P.m. By Connor Byrne | Staff cbyrne@dailycal.org A typical quote from a coach is that the players aren’t actually playing against their opponent, but rather are “playing themselves.” But for the Cal softball team, that’s pretty close to the truth — at least for its upcoming series with UCLA. The No. 9 Bears will host the No. 11 Bruins for a three-game series, starting today at 3 p.m. at LevineFricke Field. Both teams are currently sitting in a three-way tie for second place in the Pac-10 with No. 10 Arizona, each with a 7-5 record in league play. In addition to their identical conference records and strikingly similar overall records (30-9 for the Bears and 31-10 for the Bruins), the teams are nearly mirror images of one another. Both have struggled at the plate this season. Cal enters the game with the second lowest team batting average in the Pac-10 — a meager .288. “We’ve done well when it comes to clutch hitting,” center fielder Frani Echavarria said. “But we can definitely improve throughout the game in addition to those times.” UCLA hasn’t been much better, cur-

Cal hungry as Ducks arrive in Berkeley

Quick Look: No. 2 Cal Vs. No. 9 San diego state

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Center fielder Frani Echavarria is hitting .248 over her 40 starts for the Bears. rently sitting two spots ahead with a .321 team batting average. But pitching has been a different story. The Bears currently lead the conference with a team ERA of 1.74. Sophomore Jolene Henderson has been the workhorse, boasting a 27-6 record and a mindboggling 0.74 ERA, which comfortably leads the Pac-10. Though the Bruin pitchers don’t quite have the same flashy stats, they make up for it with their balance. Freshman Jessica Hall and senior Donna Kerr have combined for a 2710 record in 40 starts. Reliever Aleah Macon has been equally effective, allowing batters to hit just .211. Henderson will likely start all three games for Cal, whereas each of UCLA’s pitchers will probably see the circle. Last season, the Bruins won the national championship by sweeping Arizona in the final, whereas coach

Diane Ninemire’s club was two wins short of making the final round of eight. In their regular season matchup, UCLA snagged two of the three games — which included spoiling a two hit gem by Henderson. This weekend, the Bears will need to cut out their fielding errors. Cal has committed 42 errors on the season, the third most in the conference. “A lot of our errors are really silly and unnecessary,” Ninemire said. “This team is more than capable of playing an errorless game. We can’t afford to have any errors this weekend.” Whichever team differentiates itself this weekend will have the inside track for second place in the Pac-10. “Our destiny is in our own hands, and it’s definitely possible for us to be a top-eight team in the country,” Ninemire said. Connor Byrne covers softball.

San Jose State Aquatics Center 10:00 A.m. By Ed Yevelev | Senior Staff eyevelev@dailycal.org Just how dominant is the MPSF in women’s water polo? Forget that the conference has won every national title since the sport’s first NCAA season in 2001. Or that only one non-MPSF team — Loyola Marymount in 2004 — has made the championship game during that span. And the league’s virtual monopoly of the top five in the national rankings is a given. But after Tuesday’s practice, Cal coach Rich Corso found a new superlative. “The MPSF, between the ages of 18 and 21, is the best conference in the world,” Corso said. “It’s better than anyone in Italy, it’s better than the Dutch league, and it sure as heck is better than the Russian league ... or the Hungarian league.

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The last two weeks haven’t just been rough for the Cal baseball team. They’ve been downright terrible. After winning five in a row, the No. 20 Bears have dropped their last four in a row. Although those losses have come to good teams (No. 8 Arizona State and No. 21 Stanford), Cal’s poor showing in all but its 17-inning loss to the Sun Devils ensured that no game was close. Four conferences series remain in the season, so ending the slump now is almost essential if the Bears intend to take home their first conference crown since 1980. Luckily for them, Oregon — the weakest Pac-10 rival still left on the slate for Cal — comes to Evans Diamond this weekend for a three-game series. The first starts today at 2:30 p.m. with righty Erik Johnson (5-1, 2.04) on the mound for the Bears. Johnson was one of the few bright spots for Cal (24-13, 9-6 in the Pac-10) in last week’s 17-inning marathon against ASU. Johnson pitched what would have been a complete game on a normal day, giving up two runs through nine full frames. Pitching hasn’t been as much a problem for the Bears as hitting, though. On Monday’s midweek nonconference jaunt to Stanford, Cal proved as much. “Well, all I can say is, hitting can be very contagious and first six innings. We couldn’t string it together, just like we’ve been in the early past,” right fielder Vince Bruno said. “We’ve been struggling lately.” Because of those struggles, coach David Esquer pulled the entire starting eight in the seventh inning of Monday’s contest. The bench scored all five of Cal’s runs. “Coach made a big move,” Bruno said. “It just shows how you can take bats for granted sometimes and sometimes you can dig in and get something going ... Our bench guys did a great job igniting us.” The bench likely won’t make an en masse appearance today, which means the starters need to return to their former glory. A few weeks

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The Bears hope to return to their winning ways against the Ducks.

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