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Reform caucus sweeps executive positions in election By Allie Bidwell and Aaida Samad newsdesk@dailycal.org A little more than five months after a contentious contract ratification vote left some calling for change in a union representing academic student employees throughout the UC, a reform caucus swept all executive board positions and about half the seats on a leadership council, concluding the most contested election and vote count in the union’s history. The election ended Sunday, with Academic Workers for a Democratic Union, a reform caucus within United Auto Workers Local 2865 — which represents more than 12,000 graduate student instructors, readers and tutors — winning all 10 executive board positions and 45 of the 80 seats on the union’s Joint Council. The Joint Council is a governing body of the union comprised of head stewards, recording secretaries and unit chairs from each campus as well as the union’s 10-member executive board. The next meeting of the council — which is slated for July — will be the first with the newly elected leaders. “It’s been a relief,” said president-elect Cheryl Deutsch. “More than the actual campaigning and the election, just the vote count process itself was exhausting and trying. It’s really exciting to move forward and build off the momentum that not only this movement has created, but especially the very difficult vote process really strengthened us as a group.” Incumbent union president Daraka Larimore-Hall lost the election to Deutsch, a graduate student and union steward at UC Irvine, who gained 56 percent of the votes cast. Overall, AWDU won just over 55 percent of the votes cast statewide. Deutsch said institutional changes for the union will be process-oriented, such as including more statewide members in decisionmaking processes, which she said have typi-
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cally been limited to executive positions. Prior to the election, United for Social and Economic Justice, a slate affiliated with the incumbent leadership, held eight of the 10 executive board positions and a majority of the seats on the Joint Council. “This is a strong and powerful organization that can certainly roll with a change in leadership, so long as members of AWDU challenge their leaders to stop the tactics of intimidation, misinformation, lying and personal character assassination that they led with in the campaign,” Larimore-Hall said. Tensions were running high prior to the
election, following a contentious bargaining session with the UC and a contract ratification vote late last semester that resulted in increasing levels of partisanship and divisiveness in the union as members debated its structure and direction. Controversy continued to grow, with accusations and allegations of voting fraud from both slates and negative, aggressive campaigning. The vote count itself faced setbacks from challenges to many ballots from both slates and was halted in a vote by the union Elections Committee April 31. With a little less than half the votes uncounted, the decision
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was met with outcry and mobilization of members from both slates, including “sitdowns” in union offices by AWDU members and letters from both slates demanding that the votes be counted. Counting resumed last Thursday with additional policies — such as the involvement of a third-party mediator — in place to avoid problems that had hindered the process. While AWDU swept all executive board positions, results for elected campus leaders were mixed and varied by campus. At UC
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With thousands of UC Berkeley students vacating the campus this week as another semester draws to a close, a national virtual sharing group implemented on campus last August is hoping to ease the stress of giving away that mini fridge or getting rid of unneeded textbooks. CalShares — created by Rentalic, a nationwide peer-to-peer virtual marketplace — allows UC Berkeley students to rent or share anything from electronics to textbooks with their fellow students at relatively no cost. Using a campus email address, students can register on the website and automatically have access to a shared database of belongings that students post up to rent out or share. The difference is that renting costs money — the rental transaction fee is 5 percent of the rental cost but depends on the product — while sharing is free. “College students put items they own into a sharing pool and can list whatever they want on the specific Cal group created on our website,” said Rentalic CEO and Founder Punsri Abeywickrema. “Cal is the first major group we have created, and we are concentrating mostly on colleges to build an ecosystem of sharing.” Launched in March 2010, Rentalic — a San Mateo-based online service company — has gained more than 7,000 members
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After two decades under the administration of the UC Office of the President, it was announced last Thursday that the systemwide UC Education Abroad Program will again be administered by UC Santa Barbara — which managed the program 50 years ago — beginning July 1, as an effort to make the program more efficient and reduce operating costs. The program, established in 1961, began as a part of the UC Santa Barbara campus under former UC president Clark Kerr before operations were transferred to UCOP about 20 years ago. The program currently provides 4,834 students with options to study abroad in 34 countries. Transferring administrative oversight to the campus — a change first proposed about two years ago — would make the program more efficient, according to Andrea Delap, a senior analyst for the program. “As an academic program, it was a better fit on a campus,” she said. Delap said it is not uncommon for systemwide programs to be located on individual campuses for administrative purposes. She said the administra-
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tive partnership is part of an effort by UCOP to restructure the way programs are handled by the university. “The current political climate is to devolve programs ... out to the campuses,” she said. “At the time (when UCOP administered the program), there was more centralization occurring.” Delap said that although students will not likely notice a difference, the administrative change could greatly benefit the program and that the campus would take the program in a new direction, possibly opening up new administrative efficiencies that could better serve students. According to Juan Campo, the campus director of the program, such efficiencies include having students involved in the office, more coordination between departments and the creation of an assistant director position. “We’re looking forward to a new partnership with UCSB, and we’re hoping it’ll all go well,” Delap said. “We know it’ll all go well.” Along with the change in administrative oversight, the campus will also
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ere Procrasti-Nation a country, I would be its queen. Supreme ruler over endless matches of computer solitaire, hours of channel flipping and impromptu trips to the grocery store for nothing in particular. My throne would be built from Tetris blocks and cushioned with the inane fluff that fills 98 percent of all Facebook statuses. Like any other art form, procrastination takes practice to perfect. But it’s the kind of non-practice that festers in your bones, slowly eating away at the tiny cells that long for a job well done. An utter undoing of desire for success and the sensation of defeat as apathy settles in. And this is problematic, because as much as I love to procrastinate, I still want to not fail all of my classes. Dead week was a disaster. I caught up on an entire season of 30 Rock before beginning to think about starting a truly massive final paper. Exams took a back seat to mid-afternoon naptime and AnonCon browsing. I hit up Trader Joe’s and baked a lemon-plum cake instead of writing this column (until the incessant ticking of my wall clock forced me to get my lazy ass in gear). There’s a part of me — small as it may be — that is so grateful to the 72-minute limit on Megavideo, because without the required waiting period between time allotments, it is distinctly possible that I would never get anything done. Ever. That screen pops up, so rudely interrupting a perfectly relatable Liz Lemon moment, telling me to get to work, and a flash of rage surges through my body. Why should some computer tell me what to do or how to spend my time? Oh, it wants me to take a break from watching video after video and actually do something productive? I refuse! Naturally, I’ll take the opportunity to switch over to old episodes of The West Wing ready and waiting on my desktop. It’s a rare, but satisfying day when I choose to forgo my small screen distractions for a halfhour of reading. t never used to be this way. Once upon a time, I was young and ambitious, with hobbies and extracurricular activities to occupy my life. School assignments were always completed, sometimes even whole days before they were due. I took the initiative, I was proactive! I had set goals for myself that didn’t involve discovering how little effort I could put into my work and still get away with it. I find it wholly unsettling to look back on my short life and wonder if I were a better person at age nine than I am at 19. It’s like checking your inbox and finding a supposedly “empowering” chain-email from your mother ... kind of endearing, but
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Jillian Wertheim jwertheim@dailycal.org mostly just worrisome. (By the way, ladies, your greatest wish will come true if you share this column with 10 of your closest friends!) ood habits are drilled into our wee little brains while they’re still soft and still moldable, in the hopes that traits like punctuality and integrity will stick with us as we grow older. But frankly, when your biggest worry is remembering to get a parent signature on a field trip permission slip, there isn’t all that much of an opportunity to drop the ball. Responsibilities are limited. Homework is done because it has to be—there’s no other way to acquire those scratch-n-sniff stickers that elementary school teachers used to put on perfect spelling tests. It’s a matter of baby steps: from nightly cursive practice to weekly quizzes on times tables. Summer book reports come next, maybe even some watered-down sort of science project. Suddenly, we’re grown up; whole semesters can go by and the only thing that holds you accountable for the work is a final exam that you can’t bring yourself to prepare for. I think somewhere along the way, we must have forgotten how to walk. Or, at the very least, forgotten how to pick ourselves back up when we stumble and land on the floor, instead of just sitting there, watching the world pass by. There is a law of life — of British historian Cyril Northcote Parkinson, to be more precise — that says, “Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.” In other, less eloquent words, if we have a day to write a paper, we’ll do it in a day; if we’re given a week, we’ll take the whole darn thing, down to every last minute. It’s a little bit tragic, really, and I can’t help but wonder if I’ll be forever doomed to this seemingly trivial fate. Summer starts tomorrow, though, mere hours away (yes, I’ve been counting — you probably have, too), and that means empty days and minimal morning alarm clock usage. I’ve got three glorious months to waste before I have to think about any of this academic nonsense again ... Better get started.
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From Front Berkeley, all campus positions went to AWDU, but at campuses such as UC San Diego and UC Santa Barbara, all campus leadership positions went to members of USEJ. The fact that this year’s election was so largely contested made both slates aggressively solicit votes, using different outreach methods, rather than relying on previous one-on-one methods, said Megan Wachspress, a UC Berkeley graduate student and campus head steward for the union. Voter turnout in this year’s election increased to about 3,400 votes as opposed to about 300 in the last tri-annual election in 2008, according to Charlie Eaton, a UC Berkeley graduate student and union financial secretary-elect. According to Wachspress, mobilization of students in this year’s election made a great difference in voter turnout, as opposed to the 2008 election, which was relatively uncontested. The union’s last widely contested election was in 2005, in which about 1,500 people voted. “There have been individuals that
have been working very hard to change the way union operates,” she said. “The change is that it became unified in statewide caucus, as opposed to before when it had been isolated on various campuses. It inspired a response from the incumbent leadership that made them realize that they would have to actively campaign and solicit votes.” Though the election has been certified and the elections committee decided to “count all of the ballots where voter intent was clear to all sides rather than resolve the challenges and objections,” the issue of the challenged ballots may not be fully settled, according to a report by the committee. According to the report, making a decision on the challenges is “beyond the expertise of the Elections Committee,” and they should be resolved through the process outlined in UAW Local 2865’s bylaws, the UAW Constitution and the UAW Election Guide. “At the elections committee’s recommendation, the opposing slates participated in mediation on May 5 and 6,
2011 in an attempt to reduce the number of potential challenges,” the report reads. “The mediation failed.” According to Eaton, because the vote count was completed and the election was certified, the elections committee has rejected all challenges or found that they would not change the outcome of the election. He added that under the union’s bylaws, constitution and elections guide, the decision on challenges can be appealed to the next statewide membership meeting on May 21. Any such decision made at the statewide membership meeting can then be appealed to the executive board of UAW International and then to the internal Public Review Board of UAW, according to Eaton. “This process would take several months and I would be shocked if any of these bodies overturned the election results at (UC) Berkeley or for the (executive board),” he said in an email. The union is now calling for a statewide meeting on May 21 in Berkeley to discuss its future plans.
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in about 145 cities in 36 states, utilized in small communities and neighborhood schools, according to Abeywickrema. The company began recruiting UC Berkeley students last year at the campus’s college lifestyle fair Caltopia, after creating the CalShare program as a separate branch of the site — a decision that Abeywickrema said was made in order to target a larger number of Bay Area users. He said the company came back to campus this past week to integrate a greater portion of the student body just in time for the end of the spring semester. “We are changing consumer behavior, starting with the college students,” said Lillian Miller, a community outreach and marketing intern with the company. “Instead of people putting
stuff out on the street for people to take, it’s a neat idea to put stuff back into the community, and it’s something to feel good back about.” The company provides a basic scheduling service — allowing the owner of the item to set dates and show availability on a virtual calendar and then create a partnership with the prospective borrower through email to set up a time to complete the sharing or renting transaction in public. “We allow people to safely engage in sharing communities,” said Rentalic Marketing Consultant Kim Koo. “The idea is to really make a smaller microsystem on college campuses and create a sharing pool that keeps things localized, so we know what’s safe and available. You are talking about practical things. You are not sharing personal
items.” The program allows the renter to place a pre-approved PayPal security deposit on their items. With 584 registered UC Berkeley students, Abeywickrema said he feels that trust is key. “Since it’s a close community, trust is pretty high, but if someone isn’t feeling very secure about throwing an item into the sharing pool, they can charge a security deposit,” Abeywickrema said. Koo said the service has seen a fair amount of positive reception on campus, registering 114 students in the past week. “I used the renting program, and someone rented one of my textbooks,” said UC Berkeley junior Deepti Rajendran. “It’s really easy to use, but not many people know about it yet.”
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and evaluation of the program, the dependence of the budget model on enrollments of non-UC students, the corresponding focus on lower division requirements and possible competition with the Community College mission, and the financial feasibility of paying back the loan,” Simmons said in the letter. “In short, while the pilot project was intended to enhance access and to generate revenue, it is now unclear whether these goals may be meshed and met.” The letter goes on to request that no more courses — other than the 27 already selected for funding — be developed through the pilot until its concerns are addressed. UC officials were not available for comment Wednesday. The online education program was developed through the UC Commission on the Future and was given approval by the Academic Council in May 2010, though the council made its approval contingent on the use of non-UC funds. At the project’s inception, Christopher Edley, dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law and the chair of the project, estimated that $30 million in privatized funding could be secured for the effort, though since then, only a single $748,000 grant sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation has materialized.
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Tan Hall chemical explosion leaves one student injured A small chemical explosion in Tan Hall Monday morning resulted in one student sustaining moderate injuries. The explosion was reported at approximately 9:38 a.m. on Monday. The Berkeley Fire Department, the Alameda County Fire Department and the UC Fire Marshal responded to the call along with UCPD and the Tan Hall building management, according to UCPD spokesperson Lt. Alex Yao. He added that the 23-year-old student who sustained the injuries was transported to Highland
General Hospital in Oakland for treatment. Yao said that to his knowledge, the perimeter of the building and access to the building were “limited and controlled,” though he did not have any further information on whether the building had been evacuated because of the explosion. Tan Hall, which opened in 1997, is located on the east side of campus near the Hearst Mining Circle and houses the College of Chemistry. Within an hour and a half of the occurrence, several students sitting outside the building said they had not heard about any explosion. —Katie Nelson
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“Ghost World” Dir. Terry Zwigoff 2001
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If there were ever a movie to cure the graduation blues, look no further than Peter Yates’ 1979 film “Breaking Away.” It truly has everything a film about moving on should. It’s about growing up, being an underdog, reconciling with disappointed parents and much more. We follow Dave, a lanky, blondhaired Italophile who’s so devoted to bicycling that he sings “Figaro!” at the top of his lungs while shaving his legs in the bathroom. “He’s turned into an Iti!” exclaims Dave’s disapproving father before heading off to work at his used-car business. In a year filled with movies the likes of “Apocalypse Now” and Woody Allen’s “Manhattan,” “Breaking Away” managed to win an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay — and rightly so. We see Dave abandon his dream of winning a major race, thanks to some cheating Italian bicyclists, and then overcome everything in a thrilling competition at the end. The story is so rewarding and uplifting that it feels like Dave is family to us. —Max Siegel
When it comes to the anxieties of graduation, an indispensable touchstone is Terry Zwigoff and Daniel Clowes’ “Ghost World.” The 2001 film adaptation of Clowes’ ’90s comics is a bitter but sentimental little thing. It focuses on Enid (Thora Birch), a recent high-school grad who grows apart from her best friend as they both react to the challenges of the real world. Enid’s inability to get her shit together might seem attractively defiant at first, but her growing fixation on Seymour (Steve Buscemi) — an older, lonely obsessive — suggests she’s looking for an excuse to avoid contact with reality. With its precisely detailed characters, the film isn’t exactly a generalized cautionary tale; Enid’s better-adjusted best buddy Rebecca (Scarlett Johansson) turns out all right, after all, and as college grads, we have juicier prospects than Enid. But for the more aimless among us, it may feel like a startling (if frequently hilarious) gaze through the looking glass into an uncertain future. “Ghost World” is not purely a misanthropic prophecy of doom, though — its open ending is neither happy nor sad, but cleansing. —Sam Stander
About a year ago, I wrote another blurb that was sort of about “The Graduate.” It was for the Daily Cal’s graduation issue last year, and I was writing about how everyone should sit in what is called “The Graduate Seat” at Caffe Mediterraneum before graduation. It is a seat at a table from which Dustin Hoffman looks out at Telegraph Avenue at Moe’s. I have sat there, and it is worth it. But this blurb is just about the movie. Surprisingly, everything I wrote about it last year has gotten even more true. Is that even possible? Well, I think it is. Because the protagonist’s situation hits even closer to home for me as a senior. He graduates, then loafs around joblessly for a while, much like I will probably do. Also, the fact that he is banging his actual love interest’s mom is more relatable now: Boredom and existential angst can make a person do crazy things. It’s a good thing the economy is picking up. Also, it’s not a blurb about “The Graduate” without this: plastics. —Jill Cowan
“Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” Elton John Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973)
“In My Life” The Beatles Rubber Soul (1965)
Maybe you think that Elton John’s music is too saccharine to be emotionally resonant. That’s completely understandable, and considering the quality of some the man’s output, it wouldn’t be surprising if you were never fond of him at all. Still, it’s hard to not feel the power of “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road,” off his 1973 album of the same name, when you are about to leave something behind forever. John’s vocals are partially regretful, melancholic and wistful, and the background vocals enhance the emotions. It also helps that the song features stellar lyrics from Bernie Taupin that show its protagonist longing for the simpler life he once led, one without frivolous fantasies and fame. More than anything else about the song, it’s the final line of the chorus that really gets to you: “I’ve finally decided my future lies / Beyond the yellow brick road.” After chasing after an idealized version of reality, the protagonist decides that when all is said and done, the life he wants to lead is a simple, happy one. And perhaps at graduation, that is all we should really hope for in our futures. —Rajesh Srinivasan
Let me put it to you this way: Is “In My Life” used as a graduation song so often that it is now a borderline cliche? Yes. Is it infinity million billion times better and more multi-functional than Vitamin C’s “Graduation?” Yes. Is it a “Canon in D” cover? No, thank God. Basically, “In My Life,” says everything you’d want to say to anyone you’ve ever cared about at a turning point in your life. “In My Life” is not just a song about reflecting on past experience — it’s a song about enduring love. It’s a song about the things that are left after you forget about all of life’s quotidian trivialities. You may have a lot of memories, but eventually as the song says, “all these memories lose their meaning.” All that’s left is “you.” And you decide who your “you” is. Plus, it includes the only harpsichord solo in rock ’n’ roll history recognizable to the average human being, which makes it extra timeless. One more question: Have I been avoiding actually listening to “In My Life” even though I’m writing the blurb about it because I know it will make me start to sob uncontrollably? In the immortal words of Sarah Palin, you betcha. It is just that potent. —Jill Cowan
Thursday, May 12, 2011 – Sunday, May 15, 2011
Homecoming
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After graduating, some seniors find themselves back where they were four years ago — at home.
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By Emma Anderson | Senior Staff eanderson@dailycal.org About one week after he walks the stage this weekend after earning a degree in political economy, Tom Tran will take another big step — moving back home with his parents in Orange County. Tran secured a job in Macy’s leadership development program last fall, but since he knew the position would be near home, he said it made sense financially to move in with his folks until he can find his own place. “I’m not looking forward to living with my parents, but it will be OK since it’s only for a little while,” he said. “My parents are really old. I was the third child, and I had two siblings who passed away before I was born ... It would be nice to spend more time with my parents.” While some are able to start living independently soon after leaving UC Berkeley’s grounds, others face the prospect of moving the same taped-up cardboard boxes that they moved into their first apartments right back home with mom and pops. It may be because they can’t find a job, because the position they have landed pays little to nothing or because of economic purposes, like Tran’s.
“It was awful,” said Patrick Stelmach of having to move home soon after graduating last May with a degree in political science and society and environment. “It was nice to be back home and to see my friends again from high school ... but it was hard to feel like there was something else out there.” For Stelmach, living in the “grueling atmosphere” of job-hunting in the suburbs of Sacramento only lasted five months before he was able to land a job working on Phil Ting’s campaign for mayor of San Francisco and move out. Others face longer durations at home. Patrick Samuel, who graduated in December 2008 with a degree in conservation and resource studies and who also moved home to Sacramento, spent six months job-hunting before finding a job at a consulting firm in Oakland, but he was miserable and soon quit. After getting laid off from another job, he was on unemployment for several months before he landed a job at Sports Authority, which also took months of searching to find. In an email, he said about two dozen of his close friends from various universities graduated around the same time he did, but he only knows two who are not living at home with their parents. “I would be lying if I said I never felt
regret about going to Cal over some of the other private schools I applied to that might have provided better networking to land a job after graduation,” he said in the email. “We are inundated with ‘best public school in the country’ talk during our (undergraduate years) at Berkeley, but even that outstanding reputation means nothing in such a tough job market.” Though times are still hard, some say there are signs of improvement. The recent “Just in Time” job fair on campus boomed with 156 employers compared to 97 last year and was spread out over two days rather than just one, as had been the case since the financial crisis hit in 2008. “It seems as though we’ve in some respects turned a corner,” said Suzanne Helbig, assistant director for counseling and marketing at the campus Career Center. “It’s still challenging for students, but there seems to be some glimmers of hope.” Though Tran is moving home, he said he is extremely excited about the opportunity with Macy’s and that he hopes to go far in the company. His parents are even more excited. “My mom is still counting down the days until I come back home,” he said with a laugh. “They’re really happy. I guess I’ll be happy to see them, too — not as happy as my mom though.”
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n ninth grade I had this English teacher. He was a pretty cool dude. He was young, hip, incredibly sarcastic. He had a tattoo on his bicep that he refused to show anyone. He semi-ironically wore cardigans and dark shades to class. We often suspected that the shades masked signs of a hangover. He tried to get non-AP tenth graders to read “The Wasteland.” He also rarely graded anything, so I’m pretty sure none of them did. About two years after arriving at Tesoro High School, he absconded to Rome, where he apparently taught English to rich Italian children. Last I heard of him through the rumor mill, he had wedded an Italian woman and was never coming back. Needless to say, Mr. Sigafoos was an English major. And for some reason, I got the distinct sense that he, like most lofty-minded English majors, never wanted to become a high school English teacher. I learned a lot from Mr. Sigafoos. He made literature seem exciting and — dare I say — kind of sexy. Once, he tasked my best friend and me with figuring out what “The the” was at the end of Wallace Stevens’
“The Man on the Dump.” We were stumped. Looking back, I’m pretty sure he was just messing with us. But to this day, I have a special place in my own English-major heart for Wallace Stevens. The thing is, as much as I thought Mr. Sigafoos was cool, and though he may have played some small part in my eventual commitment to English major-dom, I did not want to become Mr. Sigafoos. He didn’t seem depressed, exactly, but from time to time you’d catch whiffs of the bitterness underpinning his life and work. He had the air of someone who thought he had been destined for greatness, if only some kind of tragic flaw weren’t holding him back. Don’t ask me what that flaw was. It just seemed like he thought he had one. For a long time, I thought there was a chance that I was destined for greatness. Except I was determined to avoid whatever life pitfalls had led someone like Mr. Sigafoos to become a public high school English teacher in Orange County, where very few people give a flying rat’s ass about what some fancy-schmancy poet meant by “The the.” And for a long time, the threat of mediocrity was like a ticking time bomb in the back of my mind. With every birthday, my chances to do something awesome in life — like winning a Pulitzer or curing cancer using only words — seemed to get slimmer. Of course, those chances have always been and always will be, practically speaking, nonexistent. I accepted that fact many moons ago, young grasshopper. It did, however, take four years of college and several months of desperate job hunting to make me
realize that living under the strain of those kinds of hopes and dreams is completely idiotic, however deeply you bury them in your subconscious. This isn’t to say that working hard to achieve your goals is stupid or that you, personally, are as mediocre as I am. I’m sure you are extraordinary, Random Person Accidentally Reading This. What I’m trying to say is after all the life learnin’ I’ve done in college, the reason I don’t want to be like Mr. Sigafoos is not because I think I can do better than becoming an English teacher in Orange County. I don’t want to be like Mr. Sigafoos because I want to be happy. I don’t want to spend my time being bitter about things I haven’t done. Because what I have done, I’ve loved doing. I didn’t major in English because I really thought it would help me write the next great American novel. I majored in English because I love reading and I love pointlessly analyzing the shit out of the shit I read. And I haven’t been at the Daily Cal for almost four years because I really believed it would put me on the fast track to a New Yorker by-line or because I thought I could singlehandedly revitalize journalism (PSYCH. I can totally singlehandedly revitalize journalism. Hire me?) I’ve stayed at the Daily Cal because I love working here, and I can’t imagine having spent that time doing anything else. I love the people I’ve met here, and if I’m honest, they’ve made me happier than anything else. For me, you guys are “The the.” Whatever that means. Maybe it’s different for everyone.
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Good Life
The Daily Californian
Thursday, May 12, 2011 – Sunday, May 15, 2011
By Jack Wang | Senior Staff
Gabriel Baumgaertner gbaumgaertner@dailycal.org
S
ettling into his chair on the press row for the first round of the 2006 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, Chris Nguon knew the moment wouldn’t last, but it sure was worth remembering. Sitting in the vast Dallas’ American Airlines Center — home to three professional franchises with a 21,000-person capacity — Chris was living the dream of a Daily Californian sports writer and, more importantly, the dream of a West Oakland youth. Chris knew his UC Berkeley experience was something bigger than himself. A Chinese and Cambodian product from a predominantly black neighborhood and a graduate of McClymonds “Mack” High School, Chris used his college opportunity to pursue sportswriting. It would be his way to represent and, in turn, give back to his home— a home where dreams are seldom ever realized, much less lived. “From day one, it is pounded in your head that if you get out, you have to find a way to give back to your community, because the community needs it so much,” says Nguon, now 25 years old. “What it meant when I got into a prestigious school such as Berkeley is that I was representing the whole community, and that seems too far-fetched for a lot of people to understand.” After graduating in 2008 with a B.A. from UC Berkeley in ethnic studies, he discovered the challenges of writing — or even helping — for a living. His struggles are a stark reminder that graduation is an accomplishment that doesn’t guarantee a paid future. In his time at Cal, Chris watched from the press box as DeSean Jackson returned six different punt returns for touchdowns, Leon Powe scored 41 points at the Staples Center and as Kevin Riley fell to the turf nine yards short of Cal’s first ever no. 1 ranking. Like the college experience as a whole, graduation means the benefits of such unique exposure are only temporary. ow three years removed from his Berkeley graduation, Chris has reached out to several Bay Area media outlets — the San Francisco Chronicle, Oakland Tribune and Patch. com — and also worked extensively in subscription-based online sports journalism at Yahoo.com’s BearTerritory.net, where I worked with him for more than a year. Writing is Chris’s vision because he can be a voice for West Oakland. Through his word, he believes he can strengthen the community at large. The former high school of barrierbreaking athletes Bill Russell and Frank Robinson, Mack is a rough place. Chris graduated in 2003, and upon entering Berkeley, he knew that helping his old high school would be a significant part of his life mission. And the school needs the help. In 2004, Oakland’s Measure Y bill funded a leadership excellence program designed to reduce dropout rates and curtail violence in West Oakland.
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t the beginning of every televised NFL game, recorded player profiles ring up on screen as they say their names and their alma mater. In these few seconds, Cal has sometimes gotten the short end of the stick. DeSean Jackson opted to represent his high school, Long Beach Poly, for years. Marshawn Lynch has mentioned Oakland Tech High. Even Super Bowl-winning quarterback Aaron Rodgers has given credit to Butte Community College, where he labored in anonymity until Cal coach Jeff Tedford spotted him by chance. Defensive end Cameron Jordan was drafted 24th overall by the New Orleans Saints two weeks ago, becoming the latest Berkeley product to go in the first round. Will the Arizona native go a similar route? “Chandler High?” he said. “I mean, Chandler High is my roots. It’s where I started off. As far as saying that’s where I came from, I did come from there. But I come from here as well. I don’t know what’s
gonna happen in the future, but I rep both for sure.” Cal has become an unlikely NFL pipeline; coming off its first sub-.500 season under Tedford, it’s not exactly a national power. But with four more Bears drafted this April, the blue and gold total in the pros now sits at 38. Of those, four are ranked among the league’s top 100 by NFL Network. Only Miami and Tennessee have more. “That’s a pretty good geyser,” Jordan said. At the same time, outof-staters don’t immediately associate “Cal” with “UC Berkeley,” which, despite deep budget cuts, still often boasts itself as the top public institution in the world. While it is possible to get by with easier classes, trying to skate past the workload here isn’t quite the same as doing it at Arizona State. “It’s been a little tougher for sure,” said Jordan, a legal studies major. “Once you get to your upper-division classes, you sort of know what classes you just don’t wear any football gear to. You don’t wear sweats, you don’t wear any Cal paraphernalia. You sort of just go in jeans and a casual shirt ... (otherwise) you
Defensive end Cameron Jordan is the latest Cal football player to go to the NFL.
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YUDOF BECOMES MARINE RECRUITMENT PRESIDENT CENTER CONTROVERSY
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University of Texas Chancellor Mark Yudof is named the 19th president of the University of California, replacing President Robert Dynes. Yudof had also previously served as president of the University of Minnesota.
March 27, 2008
The outcry culminates in a gathering of 2,000 people from both pro-military and anti-war groups outside City Hall, leading to four arrests.
February 12, 2008
The Berkeley City Council passes a resolution to call Marine Corp recruiters “uninvited and unwelcome intruders.” This results in outcry from military supporters and pushes Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., and California Assemblymember Guy Houston, R-San Ramon, to propose plans to remove federal and state funding from Berkeley, respectively.
January 29, 2008
After going 5-0 and earning the no. 2 spot in the nation, Cal comes seconds away from becoming no. 1 after the top-ranked LSU Tigers fall. All that stands in the way is Oregon State. But time runs out with Kevin Riley just 9 yards short of the endzone, and the Beavers win. Cal then loses six of its last seven Pac-10 games.
October 13, 2007
The UC Board of Regents votes to approve a 32 percent fee increase, with only one regent casting a dissenting vote. This action raises the cost of an undergraduate UC education to more than $10,000 in systemwide fees for in-state residents when the fee increases are implemented in fall 2010.
November 19, 2009
FEE INCREASES 32%
The day an occupation of Wheeler Hall, dubbed “Open University,” ends, 40 and 75 people march to Chancellor Birgeneau’s house around 11 p.m. Some in the group break outside lighting to the house, damage impact-resistant windows on the house, allegedly throw torches at police, and more. The attack ends with eight individuals being arrested.
December 11, 2009
On Nov. 5, 2010, Mehserle is convicted of involuntary manslaughter and receives a two-year sentence. That night, a mob forms in Downtown Oakland, smashing storefront windows and buses. Eventually, the police declare the protest an unlawful assembly and arrest around 120 people.
Like on most New Year’s Eves, BART had extended service, offering drunken revelers a safer alternative to driving themselves home. But in the early hours of the new year, BART police officer Johannes Mehserle shoots and kills 22-year-old unarmed civilian Oscar Grant III at the Fruitvale station in Oakland.
January 1, 2009
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With five dissenting votes and amid uneasiness about another fee hike, the UC Board of Regents nonetheless approves an 8 percent systemwide fee increase at its meeting at UC San Francisco. Protests the day before end in 13 arrests.
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A controversial “On the Same Page Program” from the College of Letters & Science gives incoming freshmen the option of sending in their DNA to be tested for three markers. Later, campus officials announce that individual results will not be released, after receiving criticism from the California Department of Public Health.
May 2010
Stern is issued three censures by the Judicial Council for sending spam emails but is not disqualified from the presidency.
May 12, 2010
A Daily Cal reporter witnesses ASUC presidential candidate Noah Stern appearing to vote on his Blackberry on behalf of another student. Stern is elected, but charges are filed against him.
April 8, 2010
The Cal men’s basketball team wins the Pac-10 title outright when it defeats Stanford 71-61. This represents its first conference title in 50 years.
February 28, 2010
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November 18, 2010
‘BRING YOUR ASUC ELECTION M. HOOPS GENES TO CAL’ SCANDAL WINS PAC-10
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CONDUCT HEARINGS
STATE CUTS MONEY FROM UC
We Make History
Gov. Jerry Brown signs into law SB 70, a bill that cuts $500 million in state funding to the University of California. The bill also slashes $500 million in funding to the California State University system.
March 24, 2011
The conduct hearing process for Wheeler Hall protesters is mostly completed in the months of March and April, with hearings held for Julian Martinez, Aakash Desai and Josh Wolf. A number of students with pending conduct charges accept a settlement offered by the campus. Martinez and Desai are found not responsible for all charges against them. Wolf is found responsible for three charges.
March-April, 2011
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Sen. Barack Obama is elected to the presidency, and thousands of students and residents take to Berkeley’s streets to celebrate. Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates is re-elected, and Proposition 8 passes.
November 4, 2008
It began on the day of the 2006 Big Game with three protesters, some hammocks and a plan to ascend trees in the oak grove in front of Memorial Stadium. Fast-forward 647 days and the longest urban tree-sit in history ends. In between? Numerous court appearances, millions of dollars spent by the university and national media coverage.
September 9, 2008
An estimated 1,000 people gather outside Wheeler Hall. Violent clashes occur between members of the crowd and police officers on the perimeter of the building. The occupation ends about 12 hours after it begins with a group of 40 protesters being arrested, cited for trespassing and released.
hike. From the building, speaking through a megaphone, the protesters demand the repeal of the approved fee increase, the rehiring of 38 custodians and more.
OPEN UNIVERSITY: December 7-11, 2009
November 20, 2009
SEPTEMBER 24, 2009 WALKOUT 6:30 a.m., protesters begin an WHEELER HALL Before of Wheeler Hall, the day after the UC OCCUPATION occupation Board of Regents approves a 32 percent fee
PROTESTS 2009 - 2011
Senator John Moghtader is recalled after the controversy of Nov. 13, 2008, despite the video evidence.
A group including ASUC Senator John Moghtader goes to the second-floor balcony of Eshleman Hall to confront Palestinian protesters during a Israeli Liberation Week concert on Lower Sproul Plaza. A physical altercation occurs, and some participants are cited for battery. Moghtader denies involvement in the fight. Months later, video footage shows Moghtader taking no visible physical action toward the protesters.
A number of prominent speakers have graced UC Berkeley’s campus over the past four years. Here are a few of the biggest names to speak to students and community members.
Oct. 11, 2008 HARUKI MURAKAMI Zellerbach Hall
April 25, 2009 DALAI LAMA TENZIN GYATSO Greek Theatre
PROMINENT SPEAKERS ON CAMPUS
March 5, 2009
November 13, 2008
1,021 NO
July 25, 2009 HAYAO MIYAZAKI Zellerbach Hall
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ISRAELI LIBERATION WEEK FIGHT AND JOHN MOGHTADER RECALL
2008 ELECTION THE TREE-SIT
February 24, 2010 BILL CLINTON Zellerbach Hall
April 19, 2010 BILL GATES Zellerbach Hall
After receiving $12 to $13 million in pledged donations, the campus decides to preserve women’s lacrosse, women’s gymnastics and men’s rugby past the season. Baseball and men’s gymnastics remain slated to lose their status.
Following months of rumors, the campus slates five Cal athletic teams to lose their varsity intercollegiate status after their upcoming seasons. The programs are men’s and women’s gymnastics, women’s lacrosse, baseball and men’s rugby.
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Graduates file into Edwards Stadium for the 2011 commencement ceremony. Paul E. Jacobs, Chairman and CEO of Qualcomm Inc., is the keynote speaker.
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COMMENCEMENT
After men’s gymnastics raises $2.5 million in pledged donations, the campus determines that the program will continue past the 2010-11 season. Nearly seven months after the initial announcement, all five teams pegged for elimination are allowed to continue.
May 2, 2011
$9 million in pledged donations saves Cal baseball from the cutting board. Men’s gymnastics is the only program still set to be eliminated.
April 8, 2011
February 11, 2011
Billed as a “Day of Action for Public Education,” March 2 draws relatively few people compared to past protest days. But on March 3, eight protesters occupy a ledge on the fourth story of Wheeler Hall with four demands for the campus. All protesters leave at about 9 p.m. after the campus partially agrees to drop student conduct charges and be more open to student concerns over Operational Excellence.
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MARCH 4, 2010 DAY OF ACTION
An occupation of Durant Hall becomes a riot on Telegraph Avenue in the early morning hours with a crowd of more than 200 people.
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Graduation Issue The Daily Californian
Thursday, May 12, 2011 – Sunday, May 15, 2011
Family Business
CAM JORDAN: Football player matured in his time at Berkeley From Page 8 stick out like a sore thumb.” Measuring in at 6-foot-4, 283 pounds, Jordan has stuck out on campus since committing after around five unofficial trips. He played in all 13 games as a true freshman, returning one fumble for a touchdown. But it’s not terribly surprising that he also enjoys the off-field part of college life. His father, Steve, now works as a civil engineer and played college ball at Brown University before becoming a Pro Bowl tight end with the Minnesota Vikings. For Jordan, Cal is also a place where he’s matured from a teenager who was arrested on suspicion of DUI. Jordan was picked up on his way from a party, spent six hours in a cell and served a one-game suspension to start the 2008 season. “After that happened, it’s like the world crashed, ground split, glass shattered,” he said. “It was like, ‘All right, it’s time to wake the hell up and realize I’m an adult.’ ... When you’re in a holding cell, you don’t go to sleep.” Since then, he’s become a leader on the team while maintaining his jokester side. He has all the physical tools but also came off in scouting reports as a high-character player. Jordan will leave for New Orleans next week, still a few units short of graduating. He’ll hold off on that until he takes off his pads for good. “They say a Cal degree goes far,” Jordan said. “We’ll see how far it goes after I get done with the NFL.”
Some UC Berkeley students’ families have bled blue and gold for generations upon generations. By Katie Nelson | Senior Staff knelson@dailycal.org Betsi Fores and her family proudly bleed blue and gold and have been doing so since the roaring ’20s. “When I was little, going to Cal football games was like a holiday,” she said. “And I went to the Cal Alumni camp, so I basically grew up with Cal all around me.” From the inception of Oski the Bear as UC Berkeley’s mascot to dancing the Time Warp at freshman orientation, Fores’ family has been here to witness it all. Fores, a senior majoring in political economy, is a fourth-generation UC Berkeley attendee. It all began with two of her great-grandmothers attending UC Berkeley in the 1920s, and then Fores’ grandparents followed in their footsteps. Her mother and father even attended Cal, and Fores said her father hoped to continue the tradition with one of his children.
“Growing up, he used to always say how he hoped one of his kids would come to Cal,” Fores said. “I only applied to four schools, but I knew that this was where I always wanted to go.” Fores, who will be moving to Washington, D.C., this summer, said that she hopes generations of her family will continue to come to UC Berkeley, like her younger brother. “There are a couple of youngsters that could go here,” Fores said, laughing. Katie Salmond is also a fourthgeneration Cal attendee, and this Saturday, she will become the thirteenth person in her family to have graduated from Cal. Salmond’s mother and nearly all of her family on her mother’s side attended UC Berkeley, including Salmond’s great-grandfather and his brother. Salmond’s sister also currently attends Cal and in the fall, her cousin will become yet another family member to step into a Berkeley classroom.
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baumgaertner: Berkeley graduate gives back to hometown community From Page 8 The dearth of available writing jobs drove Chris to alter his career plans. If it wasn’t yet his time to project his voice, he could directly help others through a positive influence — or at least try. The economic crisis was no easier on Oakland than it was any other suffering urban city, so how could any nonprofit organizations turn down a Berkeleyeducated Oakland native to help its deteriorating neighborhoods? Chris applied to several local nonprofit organizations intending to help at-risk youth. More phone calls went out than came in, and no job materialized. Chris was named a finalist for a position to assist a social worker at the nonprofit Casey Family Programs in Oakland, but he wasn’t hired. The boss loved his resume, but there were just too many qualified candidates. “When you talk to the people that are hiring, they sift through 200 or 300 resumes for one or two positions,” Nguon says. “Though not everybody may have grown up in West Oakland, there is still North Oakland, East Oakland and Richmond. All of that adds up.” he remains of the economic crisis are too bleak to confuse anybody. If the college-educated Oakland native struggles to find a job aiding his community, then how can the repressed youth find jobs to keep them away from violence?
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In turn, how can the city slow the decay of urban Oakland? Today, Chris has found opportunities, but they are light-paying. To try and forge journalism contacts, Chris agreed to help do layout for the San Francisco Chronicle. In his community efforts, he works as the Assistant Recreational Director for the notoriously violent Acorn Housing Projects. Acorn was where Black Panther leader Huey Newton was killed and the location of one of the most famous police raids in Oakland history in 2008. Working at housing projects like Acorn requires patience. Kids scuffle until they get bloody and would rather play “Call of Duty” indoors instead of go outside to exercise on a May afternoon. The problem is that outside, cops might be chasing down teenagers or attending to the scene of a shooting. Chris wants to help, but quoting his supervisor, a woman whose son was killed at McClymonds in 2000: “I can’t help anybody that ain’t willing to help themselves.” He knows he is doing the right work, but it is often a slow process. The plush writers’ lounge in Dallas is only a memory now and Oakland is, again, almost all of what he sees. Though his work, he hopes that someday he will return to that press box so he can once again represent and, in turn, give back to West Oakland on the grand stage. His grand stage.
The Daily Californian
Thursday, May 12, 2011 - Sunday, May 15, 2011
The Senior Gift Campaign has become a way for graduating seniors to begin giving back to Cal. By Anjuli Sastry | Staff asastry@dailycal.org David Hamilton had never thought about donating to the campus until he received a phone call this semester encouraging him to contribute to the Senior Gift Campaign. For more than 10 years, physical contributions — such as benches or courtyards — have been a thing of the past. Instead, seniors today giving to UC Berkeley’s class gift contribute to specific funds, departments and groups based on personal preference. “To give something back to my student group, I decided to contribute around $20 to $25 to the Cal Band,� Hamilton said in an email. “I wasn’t really expecting to get anything out of my donation, but I ended up getting an invite to a nice senior gift donor event a few weeks later.� The Senior Gift Campaign kicked off on March 9 with the “Countdown to Commencement� event, put on by the Senior Gift Campaign Committee in collaboration with the Californians student group. To recognize the efforts of student donors and encourage more involvement, the campus held a number of similar events this semester, including a banquet reception with Chancellor Robert Birgeneau. Seniors donors are given buttons recognizing their donations, and those who give $250 or more are eligible to be on an Honor Roll of Donors. In addition, the New Alumni Challenge — which began last year to encourage new and continuing donors — will provide a one-to-one match of individual donations from the classes of 2006 to 2011 for donations up to $1,000. The effort has been funded for the last two years by $1 million from the UC Berkeley Foundation Board of Trustees.
“There is a lot of motivation in giving back to Cal,� said senior Lizz Campos, co-chair of the Senior Gift Campaign Committee. “Because Cal gave you a degree, it’s a big deal if you can give back so it can keep chugging along for someone else.� As of this week, 1,500 donors from the class of 2011 have given more than $79,000, well on their way to surpassing the $100,090 raised by 1,750 donors for the class of 2010, according to Zareen Khan, manager of young alumni and student philanthropy with university relations. The deadline for giving to the campaign is June 30. However, some students are still not motivated to give, especially because of rising tuition and their personal financial situations. “It ties into the issue of tuition already going up twice for the time I’ve been here,� said senior Jenny Gant, an urban studies major. “From my point of view, I’m paying more for less, and I’m not in a place in life where I would donate.� Still, departments and colleges such as the College of Engineering and Haas School of Business have seen a significant percentage of their graduating classes give to the Senior Gift Campaign. “We want to build a culture of giving back at Haas,� said Betsy Cardis, associate director of class & regional giving at Haas. “All our peer private schools’ students learn about the alumni who came before them giving.� With a $500 million cut in state support to the university possibly doubling in the future, giving has become more important for the campus. “This was the first year in Cal’s history that private philanthropy outweighed state funding, and it will probably increase for years to come, seeing the way the state is looking,� Khan said.
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Work It Out job market
With the economy’s slow recovery, will it still be easier for UC Berkeley’s class of 2011 to secure a job than graduates just one year ago? By Valerie Woolard | Senior Staff vwoolard@dailycal.org
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UC Berkeley seniors graduating this semester may have an easier time securing a post-graduation job than others who graduated just a year ago. According to a May 6 report by the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, 244,000 jobs were added in the month of April, and the nationwide unemployment rate is 9 percent. This is only modestly down from 9.9 percent in April of 2010, but some feel sure that the job market is on its way to recovery. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The job market is definitely better than last year, and we have clearly turned the corner,â&#x20AC;? said Tom Devlin, director of the UC Berkeley Career Center. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We saw a significant increase in employer activity this semester in terms of on-campus interviewing, attendance at career fairs and the number of job listings. Employers have a higher degree of confidence in the economy, and that is demonstrated by their willingness to hire graduates for entry level positions.â&#x20AC;? Devlin added that he expects to see a 30 to 40 percent increase by the end of the year in the annual number of jobs posted on Callisto, the career centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s job listings website. Others were less optimistic in their outlooks. While noting that there had been improvement in the economy since
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last year, Jesse Rothstein, an associate professor of economics and public policy, maintains there is still a long way to go. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s somewhat better Ââ&#x20AC;&#x201D; weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re now adding jobs faster than weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re adding people to the labor force,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hiringâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a little bit higher than it was, but weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not doing enough of that to make up for the people who were already unemployed.â&#x20AC;? In addition, he said that while graduates have a chance at the jobs that are being created, in many cases they are competing against other candidates with far more experience. Moreover, new college graduates may be under even more pressure to find a job, given that the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s graduating class of 2011 will be the most indebted ever. According to The Wall Street Journal, this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s graduating seniors nationwide will carry an average student debt of $22,900. Rothstein said that while graduating with such debt is still highly preferable to not earning a college degree, high debt loads have the potential to bias students toward looking for higher-paying jobs, rather than working in the public sector, for example. It could still be too early to say how
seniors will be affected by increased job openings. Devlin noted that many companies take on recent graduates as interns, later promoting them to full-time, permanent positions if they perform well. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The major trend among employers is the increase in internship hiring and, in turn, some employers extend more full-time employment offers to students who are very successful in the internship program,â&#x20AC;? he said. Seniors still looking to secure jobs may find an arduous process ahead of them. Cary Luu, a senior and psychology major, has so far received two job offers but has not yet decided which of them, if any, she will take. But they didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t come easily. She estimated that she applied to nearly 100 jobs since fall semester and interviewed for about 10. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There were some nights when I made myself apply for like five jobs before I went to bed,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;During fall semester, since I was applying to a lot of jobs that didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t tend to take people from my background, it felt a little more frustrating. This semester has been a lot better.â&#x20AC;?
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Graduation Issue
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Thursday, May 12, 2011 - Sunday, May 14, 2011
Generations: Cal was an â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;asylumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; from domestic duties for alumna Burnsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; grandfather, uncle and cousin also attended UC Berkeley, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t feel pressured to come though Burnsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; grandfather transhere, to be honest, and I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really ferred to Stanford University after know what the school was about three years. According to Burns, her when I applied,â&#x20AC;? Salmond said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I flew grandfather said it was â&#x20AC;&#x153;probably the up with my mom during my senior worst decision he ever made.â&#x20AC;? year of high school after I applied to Burnsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; cousin, who went to Cal Cal. And when I got here I knew I during the 1930s, still talks about her really wanted to be here.â&#x20AC;? time at UC Berkeley with Burns. Salmond and Fores are among Of the many things Burns said her many students with a family legacy at cousin remembers Ma^ =Zber <Zeb_hkgbZg from being a young ;460;B 2><82B ?DII;4B UC Berkeley. woman at Cal, it was that school was Jessica Burns, also a senior, is yet an asylum for her when she didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t another student who is part of long want to be at home fulfilling the doline of UC Berkeley alumni â&#x20AC;&#x201D; she mestic duties expected of her. is the fourth person in her family to According to Burns, her cousinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attend Cal. parents insisted she get a college Burns had originally hoped to education. attend Stanford University as an â&#x20AC;&#x153;(My cousin) jokes that to this day, undergraduate, but once she began she used to take on extra art classes so at UC Berkeley, she said she â&#x20AC;&#x153;quickly that she could avoid doing housework realizedâ&#x20AC;? she was much better off at by spending hours on end in studio,â&#x20AC;? Burns said. Cal than across the bay.
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Thursday, May 12, 2011 - Sunday, May 15, 2011
FILM
From the mundane to the majestic, Stephen Parr — owner of the largest film archive in Northern California — lives and breathes cinema. By Max Siegel | Staff msiegel@dailycal.org
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ddball Film+Video, the largest film archive in Northern California, is tucked away in a warehouse in the Mission District. Venture down a dark street lined with auto repair shops, and you’ll come across an open door leading to a staircase that is lit only by a bare light bulb. At the top is a black felt door with a framed sculpture of Ganesha, Destroyer of Obstacles, keeping watch overhead. Ring the buzzer. Click. Enter. Inside this cinematic speakeasy you’ll find Stephen Parr, the founder and director of the archive and its screening component, Oddball Films. Parr lives and breathes film — day in, day out. He works beneath row after row of 15-foot-high shelves brimming with 16mm film reels with titles as far-ranging as “The Hillbilly Grand Opera” and “Vandalism — Why?” But he doesn’t have much time to savor them. Parr arrives at Oddball by 8:30 a.m. and leaves at midnight. He spends that time curating screenings for the public every weekend and running a film-archiving and distribution business, which has lent footage to films like Gus Van Sant’s “Milk.” When Parr isn’t scurrying around his cavernous warehouse, carrying boxes full of reels, he responds to business emails in his office, which is lined with stereos and pole dryers from a salon. No matter how busy he gets, he maintains the same appearance: black-rimmed glasses, and combed-back brown hair that frames his receding hairline. On a Friday afternoon, Parr paused to look down at a schedule posted beneath an oversize dry-erase board. He leaned a hand on the table edge as he sidled up to Kristie, an intern on her first day of work. “I’m scheduling 20 people. I’m doing 15 shows this month,” Parr explained, in his usual earnest, raspy voice. “I’m running the business. I’m planning a trip.” That trip is not to India — which he has visited at least eight times — but to an “Orphan Film Symposium” at UCLA, where he is screening some films from his archive. Parr now has over 50,000 films, including a few reels of highly combustible nitrate film. “I just found a roll today that’s kind of disintegrating,” Parr said. “It’s kind of sad.” He gets most of his collection from people who don’t want to hold on to their films anymore. “In a certain sense, some of them were orphaned,” he said. When he isn’t occupied with curating programs, Parr makes his own movies — not with original footage, but from other people’s material. “I use the entire history of cinema as a visual canvas,” Parr said. “Because I have so much film, I use that as my source. I use that as my reference.” Although Oddball Film+Video can only send archival footage to clients by digitizing them, Parr remains dedicated to film, especially because it can last hundreds of years. “I know I can just put a film on a shelf, and 10 years from now, I can take it right off the shelf,” Parr said. Digital media, on the other hand, undergoes a process of planned obsolescence that makes it difficult to preserve information in the long-run. Within less than a decade, digital formats are often no longer compatible, and a hard drive will have almost certainly failed by then. “Everybody is an archivist that records images digitally,” Parr said, “because they’re going to spend the rest of their lives backing up that information.” This tactile approach differs from that taken by media giants, which are moving information into a nebulous digital “cloud.” These digital-media conglomerates are among the first things that pop up in casual conversation with Parr. “There isn’t a corporation out there that isn’t going to be looking after our media preservation well-being,” said Parr, who noted that, in a perfect world, he would store everything on film so he knew that it was still around. “As long you’re giving them money, Yeah, fine. But that’s not always going to be the solution. If you buy a $50,000 car, it’s still going to run on oil.” Parr, who grew up in Syracuse, New York (“It has the least amount of sunny days of any city of its size in the
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country”), during the 1960s discovered his passion for cinema after watching experimental films that were coming out of San Francisco. While studying media at the University at Buffalo in the mid-seventies, Parr made his own experimental films using holography, which involves etching a plate with a laser to create a three-dimensional image. “I built a laser,” he said. “I saw (it) as a way to project images using pure light. I was thinking what, at the time, it would be like to work with just pure light.” Parr soon found his way to San Francisco, where he moved into cheap warehouses, which allowed him to maintain large, flexible artistic spaces. There, he could store his growing film collection independently. Parr moved into his current warehouse in the Mission 15 years ago, a location that he enjoys, even though it has its share of downsides. “There’s junkies on the streets, there’s prostitutes. But that’s the way it is in most of the world,” Parr said, adding that there are also many mechanics and working-class people in the area. “It’s like most of the world,” Parr reiterated. “That’s why I like the Mission.” The screening room at Oddball, like much of the Mission, has an eclectic, homey feel. A glittering disco ball spins over several rows of red and turquoise couches, which are so worn out that they look like they’ve been clawed by a cub. In the back sit two 16mm projectors that are used during screenings. Dozens of trophies and all sorts of tsotchkes cover every available surface, including a black-and-red sticker that reads “End Compulsory Consumption!” and a small wooden box, which Parr pointed out and affectionately stroked. The wooden box sat on top of a set of drawers, stuffed to the brim with organized crap: Corks in one, tickets to theater screenings that Parr had been to in another. A man had given him all of these trophies, and Parr noticed something odd about them. “Not one of them was first place,” he said, with a smile. “Maybe that’s why he wanted to get rid of them.” Parr frequently invites guest curators to help program his weekend screenings. On a recent Saturday night, guest curator Soumyaa Kapil Behrens prepared for her show: “How Does She Do It? The Modern Multi-cultural Woman Revisited.” Among the short films on tap was a lighthearted instructional video on how women can achieve orgasms and a documentary about arranged marriages in India. Parr, who was wearing a plaid pea coat with a Smokey the Bear pin, fiddled with the stereo. Behrens told Parr that she wasn’t sure if she would be able to fit a longer film into her program. Parr stood up. “I mean, it’s film!” He reassured her, keeping a hand in his pocket while the other waved in the air. “People sit through 20 minutes of ads. They don’t mind being fed garbage.” The door buzzer went off and Parr swiftly left the screening room to welcome a couple who was visiting from Los Angeles. Parr gestured toward the towering shelves and explained to them that his collection is completely organized, although, he added, “The best database is in my head.” When there were 13 people in the screening room, Parr shuffled to the front corner of the room to give an introduction. He encouraged people to come to his monthly program, “Strange Sinema,” now in its third year, which plays weird films from his collection. But they aren’t too weird. “If I showed the strange stuff,” Parr said, “the only people who’d still be here would be me and three of my friends.” After two hours, the screening ended. Several people stuck around to chat about the last film they had seen, about a group of women taking a gender studies course that ended in discord. Parr stood on top of one of the worn couches to remove a spool of film from the projector. The weekend screenings don’t generate a lot of revenue; most of that comes from the archival footage side of the business. “But I like film, and I screen it as long as I own it. It doesn’t make any practical sense to store it and use it anymore,” Parr said. “But a lot of things don’t make practical sense, and if you have to go through life creating practical things, there wouldn’t be any art.”
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