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UC, CSU systems drop opposition to transparency bill By Allie Bidwell | Senior Staff abidwell@dailycal.org The University of California and California State University systems have dropped their opposition to a bill that would require their auxiliary organizations to adhere to state public records laws. A previous version of the bill was vetoed in October 2009 by former governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has said that it would not be an adequate remedy for ensuring that there is proper transparency in the UC system — a sentiment with which UC and CSU officials had previously agreed. But the bill’s author, Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, announced last Wednesday that he reached an agreement with the two systems on a compromise bill that he said is likely to be enacted and would protect the anonymity of any donor who did not receive certain monetary rewards or attempt to “influence curriculum or university operations.” “After several years of fighting to open up the books of our public universities, I am pleased that we are able to come to this agreement,” Yee said in a statement. “Finally, we will have true sunshine and accountability of the administration of billions of dollars within UC and CSU.” Yee has said he is confident that the bill will be signed into law should it reach Gov. Jerry Brown’s desk. “Our public universities should not be allowed to hide billions of dollars without any accountability,” Yee said in a statement. “Most of these auxiliaries are fully staffed by public employees who administer public funds, yet their decisions are made in complete secrecy. Taxpayers and students deserve better.” Under the bill — known as SB 8 — UC, CSU and the California Community Colleges auxiliaries and foundations would adhere to state public records laws, requiring all financial records, contracts and correspondence be subject to public disclosure upon request. Auxiliary organizations provide noninstructional

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Cal Dining, which operates the Crossroads facility shown above, is among the auxiliary organizations that will be affected by the new regulations. services to students for user charges. “The University of California is pleased to remove its opposition to SB 8 in response to amendments that will protect donor privacy and recognize that University campus foundations are non-profit organizations that exist solely to assist UC with its educational, research and public service mission,” said Steve Juarez, Associate Vice President of UC State Governmental Relations, in the statement. “Senator Yee, his staff, and the sponsors of SB 8 ... are to be applauded for negotiating a compromise that provides for greater transparency and accountability without sacrificing privacy protections that University donors and volunteers have a right to expect.”

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The previous version of the bill would have required donors to request anonymity, according to Adam Keigwin, Yee’s chief of staff. The amended version of the bill provides anonymity for all donors unless they meet certain criteria that would remove their anonymity. It would protect the anonymity of all donors and volunteers, except where there is a quid pro quo situation in which the donor or volunteer receives something from the university that is valued at over $2,500 — up from $500 — or in which the donor or volunteer receives a sole source contract within five years of the donation, according to Keigwin. “We don’t necessarily just want to throw away anonymity just because they get kind of

a standard perk to a donation that anybody would get,” he said. “What we’re really trying to get at is these situations where they negotiate some sort of quid pro quo or perk.” Additionally, those seeking access to public records would gain access to all financial documents, expenditures and correspondence of the organizations. According to Keigwin, having access to correspondences would open the door to information dealing with attempted influence of curriculum or university operations. “If there is anyone trying to influence curriculum, you’ll then be able to say ‘Hey, were they a donor?’” he said. “And they’ll have to

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Campus pub operation talks persist By J.D. Morris | Staff jmorris@dailycal.org

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With regular police patrols, loitering on Telegraph has experienced a marked reduction, resulting in fewer public disturbances, according to business owner Al Geyer.

Police patrol program leads to less loitering on Telegraph By J.D. Morris | Staff jmorris@dailycal.org Standing in front of his business on Telegraph Avenue between Haste Street and Channing Way on Friday afternoon, Al Geyer, chair of the Telegraph Merchants Association, observed relatively sparse amounts of foot traffic and people hanging around outside. However, this has not always been the

case. In the past, crowds of people have been prone to linger and disturb the area around Annapurna, the business Geyer has owned since 1969, he said. “Here’s some tourists walking up the street with their family, here’s a man and woman walking — this doesn’t happen when this other thing starts to happen ... you certainly can’t walk down the street with a baby when you have people yelling at you,” Geyer said.

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On most early Friday evenings throughout the school year, the Bear’s Lair Pub was overflowing with customers gathered for the pub’s weekly “Beat the Clock” event. Despite this, the pub’s current management, Jupiter Beverage LLC, was switched to a month-to-month lease of the space by the ASUC Store Operations Board after the pub provided documentation at the February board meeting indicating that it had lost a large amount of money over the previous year and a half since the economic downturn. At that time, the board decided the current management would remain until June 30 on a month-tomonth lease without paying rent — $4,637 per month — for the space. Now, the board has decided to continue discussions with a partnership of two new vendors to potentially run the pub. After hearing a presentation from Cal Dining Executive Director Shawn LaPean and local business owner Daryl Ross at its meeting last Wednesday, the board decided to pursue negotiations for a lease with the two vendors in the hopes of opening the pub under their management by mid-August, according to Ryan Landis, interim vice-chair of the board. Should the two vendors move into

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The ASUC Store Operations Board is currently in negotiations with possible new managers of the Bear’s Lair Pub, whose current management will stay until June 30. the space, Landis said the pub would hopefully draw more people to the area and therefore help improve the climate of Lower Sproul Plaza. “The main thing that they see, and that we see, is that the Bear’s Lair can be a destination spot,” Landis said. “Ultimately, they want it, and we want it, to be a place where you can enjoy food, you can enjoy a drink ... and people come back because of the quality of the atmosphere.”

Hedy Chen, an undergraduate representative on the board, said the setup of the pub itself would be subject to change depending on what would be taken by the current management. If the two other vendors move in, Chen said the pub would also focus more on food than it has in the past. “Next year, when football games aren’t in Berkeley, we want Bear’s Lair to be a good place for everyone to go —

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Dailycal.org Financial aid bill set for full vote Five Golden Bears will head to the NCAA Championships After a rocky start to his senior season, Steve Sodaro has the chance to end his collegiate career on a high note. He ran his fastest 3000m steeplechase of the season at this past weekend’s NCAA West Preliminaries to advance to next week’s NCAA Championships, where he will aim to surpass his sixth place finish from 2010. Sodaro finished second in his heat at this weekend’s three-day event in Eugene, Ore. The senior’s time of 8:49.97 was sixth best among all steeplechasers at the event. His performance is a marked improvement since starting training a month and a half late due to injury. ...

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CD Review: ‘Codes and Keys,’ Death Cab for Cutie The sweet, almost angelic warbles of Ben Gibbard’s voice have become a source of consistency and comfort over the years. With their soft, polite pop and easy-going accessibility, Gibbard and his band, Death Cab for Cutie, have warmed their way into the cockles (yes, cockles) of our hearts like a hot cup of cocoa on a winter’s eve since their debut in 1997. Unfortunately, there’s only so much hot chocolate a person can take before the sugar high wears down and you tire out. And this is the predicament that Death Cab find themselves in with their seventh studio release,

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The competition at the Grand Finals in Lake Natoma, Calif., including the likes of Princeton and USC as well, which rounded out the top five tied at 72 points. The Bears’ varsity 4+ boat won their first race on Friday and emerged victorious in each of the following races — most notably, its grand final against Virginia. Despite trailing early, the Bears pushed on to a two second advantage and rowed across the line at 7:09.60. “The Flying Bear four was great once again today,” O’Neill said. ...

CD Review: ‘Buxter Hoot’n,’ Buxter Hoot’n With their self-titled album, the oddly-named Buxter Hoot’n have burst out of the finger-pluckin’ country-esque mold and have matured into a multi-faceted style. Combining sensual melodies, screeching electric guitar solos, twangy harmonica and everything in between, the San Francisco group have evolved their sound to include electric swells and slow-building ballads whilst still adhering to their Southern roots. Buxter Hoot’n have in no way changed their rustic Americana style in an extravagant way. The bangin’

incentive for people to come here illegally,” said Assemblymember Tim Donnelly, R-Twin Peaks, in an April 13 statement. Additionally, opponents have cited a lack of immigration reform as reason for concern in passing such legislation. Current immigration laws, they argue, would prevent employers from hiring the undocumented students that would benefit from the bill’s passage. However, the act’s supporters have argued that there is still time for reform in immigration laws and that despite the immediate fiscal impact of the act, there are economic reasons to support the act — that it is crucial for students to become educated so that they can contribute to the state’s economy as tax-paying workers. “The Committee is helping to foster the development of future architects, doctors, teachers, scientists and scholars who are crucial to the success of the California economy,” Cedillo said in a statement. “Increasing the earning potential of these students helps all of us by contributing to our tax base; thus improving services and resources.” Allie Bidwell is the news editor.

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Cal women’s crew takes third place at NCAAs The No. 2 Cal women’s crew team finished two points shy of capturing the 2011 NCAA Championship. All three boats advanced to the finals on Sunday morning, but their 83 total points ended their run in third place. Though tying Stanford with 85 points, Brown won the title due to a better showing in the varsity 8+ final. “I’m really proud of the way our team raced today,” Cal coach Dave O’Neill said. “Unfortunately, we came up just short of the overall win, but we gave it everything we had and that’s all you can ask for as a coach.”

The California State Assembly Committee on Appropriations approved a bill Friday which would provide state grants and financial aid to undocumented students in California and now moves to the Assembly floor for a full vote. One of two bills that make up the state’s DREAM Act, Assembly Bill 131 — authored by Assemblymember Gilbert Cedillo, D-Los Angeles — passed through the committee with a vote of 11-5 after being suspended by the committee in mid-April due to concerns regarding the financial impact it would have on the state. Though former governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed versions of the act last year, Gov. Jerry Brown has said on several occasions that, should the act come to his desk, he would choose to approve it. Both UC President Mark Yudof and UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau have publicly expressed their support for the act. Under AB 540, nonresident students already qualify for in-state tuition fees

by meeting certain requirements, including attending for three years and graduating from a California high school, among other requirements. However, undocumented students are not eligible for financial aid. If enacted, AB 131 would allow undocumented students at California colleges and universities to be eligible for state financial aid such as Cal Grants. The act’s other component — AB 130 — was passed by the Assembly May 5 and, if passed by the state Senate and enacted, would allow the UC, CSU and California Community Colleges systems to provide financial aid to undocumented students from their financial aid reserves. Opponents of the act have said that providing state aid to undocumented students would be fiscally irresponsible at a time when the state is facing a nearly $10 billion deficit and state higher education institutions have had their budgets slashed in an effort to bridge the gap. “We have limited resources; these measures would expand the pool of people competing for those resources and will essentially act as one more

“Those people aren’t here right now.” This time last year, Geyer said groups of what he described as aggressive people would form in the area and act disruptive, which he said often resulted in physical altercations. In today’s climate of high-speed communication and organization via social media, Geyer said problematic groups have also been well-coordinated, able to regroup within an hour of being dispersed. But since the Berkeley Police Department launched a “walk the beat” pilot program that ran from November to January, such groups have largely dissipated, Geyer said. During the program, a police officer would be assigned to patrol the Telegraph area on foot and monitor potentially disruptive situations, according to City Councilmember Kriss Worthington. Geyer said this type of police presence engages those who cause problems more effectively and could create more lasting changes to overall safety on Telegraph.

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an itemized budget would detail the exact cost of each component, which Worthington said he needs in order to know what, if anything, can be adjusted to provide funding for the program. “What if I wanted to eliminate a program? Well, it doesn’t tell me how much that program costs,” he said. “You can’t know what to move around if you don’t have the details.” The council will vote on the city budget June 28, by which time Worthington said he hopes to be able to provide funding for the program in some way. As the summer progresses and the weather gets better, more people have historically been drawn to the area, Geyer said. A permanent police presence on foot, he said, could prevent an aggressive atmosphere from taking root by motivating some people to leave the area. “Ultimately, the word gets out that it’s no fun to hang out up here,” he said. J.D. Morris is an assistant news editor.

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UC raises retirement plan contributions By Allie Bidwell | Senior Staff abidwell@dailycal.org

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“These people can only really be kind of dealt with when you’re on foot,” Geyer said. “It doesn’t work to drive by and just check it out once in a while. You need to have a presence. I’ve been here 40 years — it makes a huge difference.” Members of both the Berkeley Police Department and the city manager’s office could not be reached for comment. Worthington is now hoping to see the program instated permanently, because he said it is important to maintain safety in the area, which is close to the UC Berkeley campus and generates a large portion of the city’s sales tax revenue. “It makes people feel like (the police are) paying attention, and I think it also preempts the problems from happening,” Worthington said. Worthington said his biggest current obstacle to seeing the program permanently established is obtaining an itemized city budget. Though the City Council did receive a budget summary as well as a department budget listing,

The University of California and its faculty and staff will be contributing more to the university’s underfunded pension plan beginning July 1. The UC Board of Regents approved the increases — which will see most faculty and staff paying 3.5 percent of their total compensation while the university will pay 7 percent of employees’ salaries — at a meeting last fall. Currently, most employees pay 2 percent of their total pay while the university pays 4 percent to the UC Retirement Plan. The rates are set to increase again in July 2012, with employees paying 5 percent and the UC paying 10 percent. Though UC President Mark Yudof chose to recommend a dissenting plan

— in which employees’ contributions would have risen to 7 percent of their total compensation while the university would have paid 8.1 percent — the board voted in December to move forward with original plans for the increased rates. If Yudof ’s plan had been approved, employees hired after July 2013 would pay the higher rates, would have their minimum retirement age increased by five years to 55 and would no longer have the option of a lump sum cash-out. The university’s decision was met with strong contention from UC employees and their advocates, who have stated that the plan could leave lowerincome UC employees struggling to stay out of poverty. Until April 2010, the UC and its employees had not contributed to the fund for nearly 20 years, mainly due to the fact that it had maintained a surplus. However, the board voted to reinstate

the contributions in February 2009 as a way to combat its deficit. According to a university statement, the board has taken a number of actions to address the shortfall in the past year, including the establishment of a new tier of benefits for employees hired beginning July 1, 2013, and the approval of internal borrowing options to better fund the pension plan. “Until UC and its employees together begin contributing enough to cover the annual increase in cost for active members (in excess of 17% of pay), the pension program’s current $14 billion unfunded liability will grow, adding to the pressures on UC’s operating budget,” the statement reads. The increased contribution rates expire in July 2013, when university officials plan on implementing a new pension model. Allie Bidwell is the news editor.

NEWS IN OUR SHORTS: Undocumented students could potentially qualify for state financial aid; meanwhile, the national recession has produced surprising results in terms of general behavior, and reducing California’s greenhouse gas emissions might be doable after all.

The Sports Blog OREGON’S FELTON JOINS CAL COACHING STAFF: Jack Wang gives his two cents on the latest addition to the women’s basketball staff, from thoughts on her Pac-10 past to prospects for Cal’s consequential future.

Correction Thursday’s article “AC Transit cuts costs to balance budget” incorrectly stated that the AC Transit Board of Directors decided to close Paratransit Unit at Unit 8 in Oakland. In fact, the Paratransit Unit is located in Division 8. The Daily Californian regrets the error.

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A summer in the clouds

Man stabbed in parking garage beneath Lower Sproul Plaza

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’ve been trying to forget what summer’s supposed to be like. Endless days of chasing the sun’s inimitable rays, thoughtlessly swimming in a lake filled with melted snow and eating ice cream to distract tongues from talking no longer make up a typical day in my dream. This is the second summer I’ll be spending most of my time sitting at a desk, absorbing the stark white lights of a classroom instead. Though I have robbed myself of the summer I intricately planned last year — flying back to the Philippines to visit family and friends — I have bestowed upon myself something more valuable than the fulfillment of checking off goals on a list. I am doing what I want to do, not what I feel I have to do. To declare my major, political economy, I’m taking two economics classes I wish I could understand as easily as I could stomach their rhetorical bullshit. I want to start my junior year with the quantitative certainty of an economist and the unrestrained curiosity of a philosopher. While my wits may be initially dulled by the constricting precision of mathematical analysis, their ends are sharp enough to pencil out the formulas and models. I only realized that my head has always been in the clouds when I felt the drop in altitude during my first semester at Berkeley. I thought it was in my best interest to forget about pursuing journalism or working for the United Nations because it was all useless. I thought journalists were arrogant martyrs who risked their lives to inform a public too preoccupied with Jersey Shore and Sarah Palin. And the UN wasn’t any better. Why would I want to work there, when its post in Liberia’s civil war was nothing more than an absent presence? In addition to these cynical thoughts and hopeless quandaries, I was concerned with the profitability of it all. Here I was, an immigrant blessed with the United States’ gift of financial aid, and I was about to waste it on a masturbatory major? This was my opportunity to reach the height of my potential, to do my best and to live the American dream. I did not leave the suffocation of the Philippines’ pollution and bureaucracy only to take the easy route and end up in the same situation in California. I was, I thought, just as capable and determined to pursue a discipline that was the equivalent of a six-figure paycheck. ut my head was still in the clouds, in spite of the plans I made to pull my bootstraps up just like the middle-American I was meant to be. While I was busy forging a plan that reflected the plight of an immigrant’s dreamlike success, I was also dreaming of answers that would lead me to a Plan B.

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fter a year of effortless mediocrity that my GPA unabashedly reflects, I realized that my academic horizon would remain cloudy and grey as long as my pursuit of greatness remained superficial. How could I understand the fog of numbers and functions in my head when my practical reason was disconnected from my current reality? My fiscally centered future was a point in a graph that meant nothing in the real world. A function in a formula that determined the weight of inputs in my life, inputs that couldn’t be reduced to numbers. We live in paradoxical terms, by rules that say one thing but mean another. Though our government promotes democracy worldwide, its own people repress the right of homosexuals to marry. Our society reduces human interaction to the confines of traditional values and nondenominational ones by way of desperately televised evangelism and instantly gratifying game shows. The fog in my head has cleared, but my head is still in the clouds. Models and formulas do not reduce humanity to the certainty of numbers but rather work with humanity’s absurdity to make life better. But what is “better”? At what cost do we move forward only to leave others behind? Why do we keep up with the rat race of life when we are people with enough senses to question whether to be or not to be? Though my pursuit in economics is far from over, the light at the end of the tunnel shines all throughout. I am here this summer to share this light with you as I try to uncover the grey areas that the oversimplification of society has reduced to black and white. Just as the blend of black and white form the color gray, the blend of our individual actions shape the world we live in. Seizing the day by feeding impulses instead of thought leads to our disconnect from the struggles others face. I’ll be seizing this summer mostly sitting at a desk, stimulating my economic thought and drinking Mojitos at the same time. While my summer won’t include scenes from Animal House, it is what it is — an exploration of the shadows ignored by the frenzy of spring.

A man was stabbed Tuesday afternoon in the garage beneath Lower Sproul Plaza, sending him to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. At about 2:57 p.m., the victim was collecting recyclables in the garage and talking to a male suspect. The suspect allegedly disagreed with the victim over the use of the proceeds from the recyclables and proceeded to allegedly stab the victim with a knife. According to UCPD Captain Margo Bennett, both the victim and the suspect appeared to be homeless individuals who were collecting recyclables in the northeast corner of the garage. The conflict arose when the victim told the suspect that he should not be spending his money made from recycling on drugs, she said. The suspect then became angry and challenged the victim, saying, “You wanna fight, you wanna fight.” The victim allegedly attempted to step back, according to Bennett, but the suspect stepped toward the victim and stabbed him with a folding utility knife before leaving the garage. According to the crime alert, UCPD, Berkeley and BART police officers searched the area but were unable to locate the suspect. Bennett said the victim sustained two injuries — one cut to the top of his left middle finger, between the first and second knuckles, and a stab wound on the right side of his upper torso, just below his right armpit. Roughly 13 seconds after receiving the call, UCPD dispatched an officer, who arrived on the scene at approximately 3 p.m. and administered first aid until the Berkeley Fire Department arrived at 3:06 p.m. and transported the victim to Highland General Hospital in Oakland, according to Bennett.

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lair: Length of The suspect is described as a male, approximately 40 years old, 6 feet 2 inches tall, with brown uncombed hair and a skinny to muscular build, unshaven, wearing silver-framed eyeglasses, a short-sleeved shirt and pants. According to the alert, the suspect also had a road bike with him and speaks with a speech impairment. — Allie Bidwell

Student allegedly robbed at gunpoint while on campus An armed robbery allegedly occurred on the south side of the Valley Life Sciences Building on campus Wednesday night. At about 10:43 p.m., a 26-year-old student was walking westbound on the Grinnell Pathway near the Life Sciences Addition building wearing earphones when he allegedly felt someone grab his shoulder. The victim turned around and saw two suspects standing in front of him — one of whom was holding a handgun — and was told to get on the ground, according to a UCPD crime alert. The victim complied, and the suspects allegedly took his backpack — which contained his computer, his cellphone and his iPod — before they allegedly fled westbound on Frank Schlessinger Way. The victim did not sustain any injuries during the incident. After the victim called 911, UCPD responded and searched the area but was unable to locate the suspects, according to the alert. One suspect is described as a male in his late teens to early 20s, approximately 5 feet 8 inches tall, wearing a hooded sweatshirt and carrying a silver handgun. The second suspect is also described as a male in his late teens to early 20s, approximately 5 feet 8 inches tall. — Allie Bidwell

new lease not yet determined From front it would be a good restaurant where you can also enjoy a beer,” she said. According to Landis, the exact length of the new lease has yet to be determined — dependent on many factors, including construction for the Lower Sproul renovation project — though he said it would likely be for at least one year. As of Thursday, the two vendors had not been officially notified of the board’s wish to continue discussions about operating the pub under their management. Associate ASUC Auxiliary Director Tom Spivey, a member of the board, said nothing is certain yet. “The pub lease is up June 30, 2011, and at that time, the pub is up for a new tenant,” Spivey said. “What we’re doing now is negotiating with other parties that are interested.” In order to prepare for any new management, Landis said the space will likely be closed for some amount of time, though he did not know how long it would be. “The plan is to have it open and running at the start of the school year, but that may or may not happen,” Landis said. “Mid-August is a target date.” In May 2009, the board forgave The Daily Californian a portion of its rent for the office it leases. As a result of that agreement, a nonpolitical student member of the board, currently Chen, sits on The Daily Californian’s Board of Operations, which has no control over the paper’s editorial content. J.D. Morris is an assistant news editor.

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Bring in the green

Options needed for city budget

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By Kriss Worthington Special to the Daily Cal opinion@dailycal.org

Berkeley should go forward with implementing all of Measure T to help alleviate the city’s estimated deficit.

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erkeley needs a creative, cooperative and focused City Council and community effort to prevent the doom and gloom layoffs and cuts foreshadowed in the proposed budget option. We need to work harder and smarter. We need to work together with our workers, our taxpayers and our entire community to craft a practical, progressive budget. The city budget is perhaps the single most important vote of the year. Yet few people even remotely know what the options are; so far, even the City Council members have insufficient information. This year, Berkeley faces probably the most difficult choices in several decades. Significant layoffs and cuts are proposed. The total budget-balancing plan is $15.5 million over two years. There are real and drastic human costs to such a package of layoffs and cuts. Laying off dozens of city employees will hurt families and contribute to unemployment. It could also increase training costs for new staff after the down economy improves. Franklin Roosevelt met these kinds of challenges with more jobs — not less. Can we find our way to that kind of solution? City employees have contributed millions of dollars in budget solutions in recent years. The Voluntary Time Off program has avoided the lawsuits and disruption of Gov. Schwarzenegger’s involuntary state furloughs yet gained the city millions in current savings and decreased future liabilities for unused vacation time. It is important to actively invite employee and union suggestions,, and give them the respect of a seat at the table in presenting their

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alternatives. Some proposed cuts to nonprofits threaten unique culturally competent services such as J-Sei the CIL blind services. Another proposed cut slashes the all-volunteer-staff Suitcase Clinic in spite of their incredible successes and stunning cost benefit ratio thanks to the minuscule overhead and no salaries. In difficult economic times, we need the closest scrutiny of budget decisions. We need our City Council to closely evaluate the itemized details of the budget. The city manager and staff have done an excellent job of presenting one path to follow. Now, our elected officials need to seriously study the implications of each potential layoff or cut. It is not good enough to just rubber-stamp the draft budget. It is in these difficult times that we are most urgently called upon to come together and explore any and all serious possibilities for alternatives. Perhaps there are some expenditures that could be delayed. As the original proponent of moving City Council meetings to a larger, more accessible location, perhaps I and all of us need to contemplate whether this is the right time to spend half a million dollars for that change? Perhaps it is time to bring the work in-house or to raise the fran-

chise fee on corporations that skim off some of the lucrative commercial trash pick-up accounts? Are there additional ways we can use technology to improve our service delivery and cost-effectiveness? What about a vacancy tax to encourage landlords to lower rents to fill some of our vacant storefronts? In some previous years we have had three budgets to chose from — the city manager version, the mayor’s version and the Vice Mayor Maudelle Shirek’s progressive version. A few years ago, four City Council members put together an alternative that was adopted in an 8-1 vote. Perhaps this year we need to establish a Council Budget Committee to drill into the details and explore the public’s suggestions. There are multiple ways the City Council can approach these budget deliberations. Whatever way is chosen, it is clear that the very negative impacts of possible layoffs and cuts demand more attention to detail, more openness to creative ideas and more efforts to come up with alternatives. Please share your suggestions, and encourage our City Council to study the itemized budget and work together for a progressive budget that reflects the values of the people of Berkeley. Kriss Worthington is a City Council member.

t is never good practice for a city to drop the ball on expanding voter-approved lines of revenue — especially when that city faces an estimated $12.2 million deficit for the 2012 fiscal year. Unfortunately, the city of Berkeley is doing just this, losing out on a huge potential source of tax dollars by stalling on the seating of a new medical marijuana commission and the opening of a new dispensary, as Berkeleyside reported last Wednesday. Six months have passed since voters approved Measure T in November, creating the commission and calling for the creation of the city’s fourth dispensar y. Voters also approved Measure S, which levies a 2.5 percent tax on forprofit medical marijuana facilities. The longer the city fails to implement Measure T, the greater the forgone revenue. Council members should recognize that this inaction is unaffordable and refocus efforts toward this unfulfilled mandate. Though enough of the commission members have been

No more hide and seek UNIVERSITY ISSUES Senate bill 8 is a victory for public accountability, and we hope the governor has a chance to sign it into law.

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alifornia’s public institutions of higher learning are a step closer to increased accountability after Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, announced last Wednesday that the University of California and California State University systems had dropped their opposition to SB 8, Yee’s public disclosure bill. Although we opposed previous incarnations of Yee’s bill, we endorse the current version because it balances transparency with anonymity, creating accountability while addressing donors’ concerns. Previous versions of this bill, which were vetoed by former governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, would have discouraged large donations by requiring the systems to disclose the identity of any donor who received gifts or services valued at $500 or more in return for their donations. This could have had drastic consequences during a financially difficult period for public education. SB 8 would rectify this troublesome provision by setting the anonymity threshold at $2500, a compromise that helps mitigate the concerns of donors who wish to remain anonymous. While transparency is important to

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seated to reach quorum — six out of the nine members have been named — the group is not scheduled to meet until all nine are present so that every member has a voice in who is named the chair of the commission. While it would be ideal if all nine of the City Council-appointed members were present to vote for the chair, the fact is that voters approved Measure T six months ago, and it is unfair to the citizens of Berkeley for the commission not to begin work. Proceedings should commence with or without all nine members present. If the commission begins, council members who have not yet named their appointees will perhaps feel more pressure to do so in order to ensure that their constituency is represented. While this issue might have fallen through the cracks, we feel it is imperative that the City Council and the medical marijuana commission move forward. Failure to do so at this point would not only be a statement of financial carelessness but also of disregard for the will of the voters.

maintaining the public nature of the university, donor support has become crucial as the university’s financial crisis deepens. Yee’s proposed bill shines by acknowledging this and balancing the interests involved. We applaud the UC and CSU systems for acknowledging the importance of Yee’s proposal and coming to the table to help bring it closer to reality. We are also pleased at the level of transparency Yee’s proposal would provide. By subjecting college foundations and auxiliary enterprises to the California Public Records Act, it provides a crucial tool the public needs to keep the systems accountable. We hope the university’s embrace of the bill will continue should it become law and that the university will recognize the benefits of the increased transparency despite the inevitable burdens associated with compliance. Although we opposed previous versions of this bill, we urge lawmakers to swiftly enact the current proposal and hope that should it land on Gov. Jerry Brown’s desk, he will recognize a compromise that is beneficial to the entire state and sign it into law.

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Social media — the face of a changing culture where a YouTube video can start sweeping revolutions — could also be the savior of some of the oldest animals in the world: amphibians. A collaboration between AmphibiaWeb — a comprehensive database of the 6,814 known species of amphibians — organizations devoted to the conservation of amphibians and iNaturalist, a Bay Area social network for naturalists, created the Global Amphibian Blitz — a social networking site where anyone with a camera can upload photos of amphibians they have seen around the world for scientists to identify and study, aiding in the conservation effort. The collaboration includes scientists from UC Berkeley, Stanford University and San Francisco State University. By making use of the eyes of millions, rather than just the comparatively few scientists in the field, scientists can gather a more complete picture of amphibian distribution and, as time passes, how that distribution changes as a result of climate change and human activity. “The major way this is going to change things is by tapping into a whole new human resource, which is the tens of thousands or millions of people around the world that are interested in amphibians,” said Vance Vredenburg, an assistant professor at

San Francisco State University and co-founder of AmphibiaWeb. “Right now, we’ve got at most a few hundred people who are collecting information on amphibians, so it’s really a matter of numbers. It could incredibly expand the amount of information coming in on amphibians.” Amphibians were around long before the dinosaurs, originating about 400 million years ago. They lived on after the dinosaurs perished, surviving every mass extinction since. With the advent of human activity and global warming, however, almost a third of amphibian species have become endangered, and in the past 20 years alone, about 168 species have gone extinct. “One of the biggest problems with these species is that they’re going extinct faster than we can keep track of them,” said iNaturalist co-director Scott Loarie, a postdoctoral researcher at the Carnegie Institution for Science at Stanford University. “The first step to knowing why these species are going extinct and to coming up with a management strategy is knowing where these things are.” iNaturalist began in 2008 as a master’s project by Ken-ichi Ueda — who currently serves as the organization’s co-director — and two other students at UC Berkeley’s School of Information. Ultimately, collaborators would like to locate an amphibian from each species, some of which have never been

seen before, Loarie said. In its first day open to the public on May 25, the Global Amphibian Blitz site received and confirmed photos of about 150 species of amphibians from 18 different countries, including a Yellow-lemon Tree Frog found in a latrine of Joint Base Balad, an American military base in Iraq. Most of the entries so far have been of common amphibians, Loarie said. But scientists are constantly scouring the submissions for rare and endangered species on which they do not have much data. If an endangered amphibian is spotted, its exact location is obscured so the information does not fall into the wrong hands, such as those of a collector. “There is a real risk of this information getting out to the wrong people, in terms of collectors,” Loarie said. “These rare, endangered species can go for $1,000. It’s really important that we protect this sensitive data.” In the hands of the scientific community, however, the hope is to gather as much data as possible on the numbers and whereabouts of the remaining amphibian species so that conservationists know how and where to concentrate their efforts. “It’s a real win-win,” Loarie said. “We’re engaging the public, we’re educating them about amphibians and getting them involved. And then the other side is we’re really gathering some very important data on rare species in distinct and unusual locations.”

After falling in the NCAA Singles title match last spring, Jana Juricova took down the reigning national champion on her way to capturing the 2011 crown. “Through my experiences, I can pick up the style and tempo of the match, and in the first set, I saw that Tan was starting a bit slow,” Juricova said. “But in the second set, she had nothing to lose, so she came out swinging, but I expected she will do that and I was ready.” Coming into both singles and doubles tournament as the top player in the nation, Juricova faced high expectations. She certainly lived up to them in singles play, cruising to two-set wins in each of the first three rounds. In Saturday’s quarterfinals, Juricova blew away Georgia’s Chelsey Gullickson — who won last year’s NCAA singles final against Juricova — with a convincing 6-3, 6-0 victory. The next day, Juricova faced her first real test of the tournament against the Cardinal’s 18th-ranked Nicole Gibbs. In a dogfight of a match, Juricova was able to control late in the third set — an appropriate timing to win her the tie-break and the match, 6-7 (5), 7-5, 7-6 (2). “Beating Chelsey Gullickson stood out as memorable because I have never beaten her before. I just had to trust my game and believe I can beat anyone,” Juricova said. “The semi-final match was just crazy because it was so

close that it really could have gone either way.” Juricova, alongside senior Mari Andersson, also came into the doubles tournament as the No. 1 seed, but fell short in the semi-finals on Sunday against the Cardinal’s Hilary Barte and Mallory Burdette. After losing the first set, 6-1, Juricova and Andersson had no solutions against Barte and Burdette — falling into a 5-0 hole in the second set. Despite showing life to rally back to 5-4, it was too little, too late. As the lone senior for the Bears in the tournament, Andersson also made a huge push in singles play, pulling a major upset against the No. 2-seeded Maria Sanchez and reaching the quarterfinals before succumbing to Florida’s Lauren Embree. “Throughout my college career, I was always noticed as a doubles player. In this last tournament at Stanford, I proved to myself that I am also a good singles player, too,” Andersson said. “It was a very satisfying experience for me to realize that in my college career.” Seung Y. Lee covers women’s tennis.

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opposition: Bill will likely undergo state Senate vote next week From front give that up now.” But Associate Vice Chancellor for Residential and Student Service Programs LeNorman Strong said in an email that many of the campus’s auxiliaries — which would include Cal Dining and Cal Housing, among other

organizations — already comply with the state’s public record laws. “In my 35 years of experience in American Higher Education, mostly in auxiliary organizations at 4 institutions, I have always endorsed open records,” he said in the email. “Since I’ve been at

UC Berkeley, we’ve utilized the State’s open records process to comply with any inquiries that have come our way.” According to Keigwin, the bill will move to the state Senate floor for a full vote sometime next week. Allie Bidwell is the news editor.

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— that can be the hardest to define. high school rugby. It sent a message is asked of him to give his best effort. But make no mistake; coach Jack It’s a quiet word; it’s a simple, that the Cal product was the same, Clark doesn’t do buzz words. He unheralded deed. regardless of where they played. doesn’t speak in abstractions. Every The distraction with the most Mental toughness is my personal word he utters has a clear purpose favorite of the team’s phrases. Clark’s potential to derail the team was and a precise definition. program defines it as “the ability to quite possibly the loss of half of their For instance, leadership is “to make focus on the next most important training field, especially during those around you be better and more thing.� postseason practices. The players productive,� in the words of co-capTo me, that’s the quintessential defi- took their half of a beat-up field and tain Jason Law, who repeated the nition of the Cal rugby team this year. drilled as best they could in preparateam’s mantra. The Bears have been dealt some tion for their stiffest competition of On a lot of teams, there is a core dire circumstances that they would be the year. group of proclaimed leaders. They’re justified to dwell upon. Those obstacles were labeled disthe ones that speak those impactful Possibly losing varsity status was tractions, but the team rarely even words to fire up their teammates in “disturbing� to everyone affiliated discussed them. important moments. Cal had quite possibly more thrown with the team, Clark said. While the On the Cal rugby team, leadership team couldn’t always control its pro- at it off the field than on the field this is asked of everyone. Yes, there are gram’s future, the Bears decided to year, but the focus remained on the co-captains and vice co-captains, and take into their own hands what would pitch. they do take on important roles. From happen this season. At times, it seemed the only thing what I’ve seen, moments of leaderThe team could have been melan- they could control was what hapship are often private exchanges choly over not having a home field, pened on the field. between players or witnessing one but it focused on turning And that was enough to hoist its so-called Ma^ =Zber <Zeb_hkgbZg LEGALS, COMICS & PUZZLES player going above and beyond what “home� games into fundraisers for another championship trophy.

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Juricova wins NCAA Singles Championship so many fans that could just drive Dominant two-set sweep in the tournament final had over and support the team,� Cal coach ?7>=4) .*)&.-1&1,)) 50G) .*)&1-2&+1), 4<08;)e^`Zel9]Zber\Ze'hk` Ihlm rhnk :eZf^]Z <hngmr E^`Zel pbma nl' said. clinches program’s second ever NCAA Singles title Amanda Augustus the Bears’ Susie Babos lifted hers in By Seung Y. Lee | Staff 2006. sylee@dailycal.org The top-seeded Juricova defeated Cardinal sophomore Stacey Tan, 6-0, For all its championship banners 7-6 (2), at a match that looked more like the Big Slam between Cal and and record win streaks, Stanford’s Stanford than a NCAA title game. Taube Tennis Center may have a soft When Juricova won the match, a roar Ihlm rhnk :eZf^]Z <hngmr E^`Zel pbma nl' spot for Cal women’s tennis. of Bears fans in the stands nearly On Monday, Jana Juricova hoisted drowned her victorious yell. the NCAA Singles Championships “It was so great that we had the trophy — the very same courts where tournament at Stanford because we

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Playing in her second NCAA singles final, Juricova came out firing against the slow-starting Tan and took command of the entire first set. In the second set, Tan’s aggressive approach worked well as the two traded points until the set went to a tie-break. Within sight of the title, Juricova shifted to another gear, blazing past Tan to a 5-0 lead and eventually the won the tie-break, 8-2.

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BASEBALL: Cal lands favorable draw, heads to Houston Regional at Rice From back “It was almost comical at some point,� Esquer said. Sophomore Justin Jones (7-5, 3.33 ERA) looked shaky to start the game in his up-and-down season, surrendering 12 hits and five runs before finding a groove to retire 10 of his last 12 batters. Monday morning, the Bears caught a break. Despite going 6-7 down the Pac-10 stretch and falling to sixth

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place, Cal received a favorable postseason draw — the Houston Regional hosted by overall No. 8-seed Rice. The Bears defeated the Owls, 7-6, in 15 innings in March. Cal opens regional play against Baylor Friday at noon. “We’re gonna come out with some fire in this regional,� Renda said. “I’m sure of it.� Jack Wang covers baseball.

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happened year after year. Cal always also lost something the day it was brought back. On April 8, the Bears seems to leap out to spectacular start, Mn^l]Zr% CZgnZkr ++% +))1 were 19-8. Since then, they’ve gone only to sleep its way through the final stretch, ending ultimately in a brief 12-13. It’s too easy to say that reinstate- and disappointing stint in the postseament doused the fire that drove the son. It’s what I’ve come to expect. This year was different. I had never Bears for the first two months of the seen the team so motivated, so deter2011 season. As an explanation for their struggles, it’s neither fair nor mined. Their five comeback wins said nuanced enough. There are plenty of it all — this Bear didn’t quit and it other reasons why Cal stumbled down didn’t die. For a brief moment, I even entertained the notion of flying to the home stretch. For one, Cal had the misfortune of a Omaha come June. But then lethargy very back-heavy schedule. Arizona settled over Cal. Every time I ask the State, UCLA and Oregon State all came players what they had to do to win, the in the second half of the season. They answer was almost always, “Play with went 2-7 against those squads. Bad, yes, more energy.� It’s been two months, but also understandable. All three teams and the energy still isn’t back, the way were selected on Sunday to host NCAA it once was when every game was a regionals. At least one, maybe two, will game closer to the last. They probably won’t make it out of make the super regionals. There’s also the matter of luck. the regional stage. But maybe someBaseball is a fickle lover. When she’s body up there still believes. In the good, she’s batting .300. When she’s weeks leading up the regional bad, she’s striking out twice a game. announcement, Cal was projected to The hot bats Cal possessed at the land in the region hosted by thirdInstead, they’re in beginning?7>=4) of the year, from the 50G) top.*)&1-2&+1), of ranked Vanderbilt. .*)&.-1&1,)) 4<08;)e^`Zel9]Zber\Ze'hk` the lineup on down, have cooled sig- the Houston Regional, hosted by Rice, nificantly over the past several weeks. a team they beat 7-6 in 15 innings earThe pitching staff, once one of the best lier this season. It looks like even the in the country, is now floundering in baseball gods want the Bears to redismediocrity. And everyone on the team cover the inspiration they once had. “We’re gonna come out with some seems powerless to explain why. “If it was something that I could put fire in this regional,� second baseman my finger on, it would be something Tony Renda said. “I’m sure of it.� If they do find that fire again, we would focus on all preseason the next year to make sure that didn’t hap- whether through retrograde amnesia or a mental reevaluation, then maybe pen,� coach David Esquer said. I’ve covered this team for three years I’ll find myself on a red eye to Nebraska, and followed it for many more. It’s after all.

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Bears barrel through obstacles, finish with 26th title Champion squad doesn’t Mankl]Zr% FZr ,% +))0 just talk the talk

By Christina Jones | Senior Staff cjones@dailycal.org

One of the Cal rugby team’s mottos is, “Ask for nothing, grateful for everything.� Ma^ =Zber <Zeb_hkgbZg DUMMY Never did the mantra carry more weight than in 2011. Early in the season, it seemed everything was being taken away from the team. The Bears could not host home games on Witter Rugby Field, would have their training schedule rearranged, and were slated to be stripped of varsity standing within intercollegiate athletics. The team even lost some highly respected personnel early in the season when co-captain Jason Law and freshman Tiaan De Nysschen suffered severe injuries during the Pac-10 tournament on Jan. 15. “I probably was at my absolute lowest right then,� coach Jack Clark said. These numerous distractions threatened to loosen the defending national cjones@dailycal.org michael gethers/file champions’ stronghold on the title. But the Bears refused to relinquish Flyhalf James Bailes and his fellow seniors capped their Cal careers with an undefeated campaign despite a trying season. Covering the Cal rugby team this their crown. year, I’ve learned a lot of terminology “We kind of made a pact that we cleats and mounted a gritty come- in their April 10 dust-up, Cal emerged Cal woul clear that hurdle with a wouldn’t change anything,� co-captain back. A late try by Tom Rooke and a a 60-34 victor and secured the top 21-14 triump, in which the Bears con- — however incompletely. Derek Asbun said earlier in the year. I finally grasped the difference seemingly improbable conversion by position in the Pacific. tained the Cougars’ big guns and frus“We wouldn’t change the way we flyhalf James Bailes gave Cal the 21-13 Despite their impressive score lines, trated BYU into committing penalties between a ruck and a scrum, even played. We wouldn’t change the values win. the Bears had yet to “play to their while remaining disciplined and orga- though I still can’t explain either term of our team.� particularly well and always fall back on “We pulled out against all odds, it potential,� according to Clark. nized. The battle did not end when the hand gestures to convey the meaning. seemed like,� co-captain Blaine Scully The next weekend, however, everyAs they sang Neil Diamond’s “Sweet team was reinstated in early February, While I have been immersed into a thing came together for Cal. In the Caroline� with medals around their as the Bears still had to contend with said. “It’s kind of us.� whole new sport, the terms surroundThe Bears rode that momentum national semifinals, the squad put necks and a trophy in the air, Cal’s ACROSS ANSWER TO #1070 the opponents on the pitch. 8. Defender deci- co. together a complete performance to players savored the rewarding end ing the game aren’t the ones that have A week after receiving news rein- into conference play,1.routinely Insurance employee my experience covering Cal squad aver- take down Utah, 62-14, and up a room result of a taxing campaign. 9. set Harem L A C E shaped L AThey’re I Rprobably S TnotEtheTones E statement, Cal (27-0) faced its first mating opponents. Clark’s 4. Word with machine or car rugby. “After a year like that where it’s just real test on the field against British aged a 67-point margin of victory over meeting with BYU. 10. Roman tourist attraction O O U T G R A B E R I’ll remember 20 years from now. A L 8. Type of anesthetic In their final challenge of the year, an uphill battle the wholeI way, it felt Columbia, which significantly out- divisional foes. 11. Length times width Ironically, though, it’s the everyday # 14 Y T E R L K St. Mary’s provided Bears had to travel to Utah to right that we came out onV top,� E Scully R B U T M I played the Bears in the first half and 13.theOfonly thelegitifields:thepref. words we use when discussing sports 12. In case for the Bears in defend their national crown against said. “Coach before the game said, ‘I held a 13-7 edge at intermission. In mate CPD competition E P E E S 14. Bee colony E R N B— Eleadership T A and mental toughness bestTenement Cougar don’t feel like anything can hurt us.’� the pouring rain on a muddy San the regular season. Even while allow- what was heralded as the 13. 15. Think the world of A L S S E O E L Francisco field, the Bears dug in their ing the Gaels to dictate the game’s pace team in history. Christina Jones covers rugby. jones: PAGE 6

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We are never going to sit down and take it. We are always going to be ready for more.” — Jolene Henderson, Cal softball pitcher, after the Bears’ game three win that earned them a berth into the Women’s College World Series

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Bears earn trip to Women’s College World Series Jolene Henderson shuts out Kentucky in game three of Super Regional, sending Cal to first WCWS since 2005 Quick Look:

By Kelly Suckow | Staff ksuckow@dailycal.org

j. Henderson (39-8): 7 ip, 3 h, o er, 7 k j. wallace: 2-4, 3 rbi

After her ace suffered her first five-inning mercy rule loss this season on Sunday, Cal softball coach Diane Ninemire had Jolene Henderson go into the locker room. Henderson even redid her hair. For the nation’s ERA leader coming into the weekend, an 8-0 run rule loss to Kentucky in game two of the Lexington Super Regional meant something had to change — the Bears’ ticket to the Women’s College World Series depended on it. “I thought, ‘This would never happen again,’” said Henderson, who only lasted two innings of the blowout. “I realized I could do so much better and I was so upset, but I couldn’t let it keep me down because I knew I was going to get it the next game.” The 5’8” right-hander came out truer to form, armed with a change-up the Wildcats struggled to get a piece of and bolstered by an offense that had only manufactured one run in the first two games of the series. The result was a 9-0 win that sent Cal to Oklahoma City for its first WCWS appearance since 2005. It also broke a four-year struggle against SEC teams, which had knocked the Bears out of the postseason every season since 2007. “Nothing was going our way (in the first Sunday game) and we needed a little kick to remind us that these teams are all the best in the country and if we wanted to be one of them, then we needed to win and pull it together,” catcher Lindsey Ziegenhirt said. “In that second game, with our backs against the wall and all that pressure on to get something started (we) broke the momentum first.” No. 7-seeded Cal (44-11) broke it early, too, exploding for a 5-0 first inning lead and never looking back. Shortstop Britt Vonk came home first when Ashley Decker walked with bases loaded. Second baseman Victoria Jones

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then plated Jace Williams with a single, followed by first baseman Jordan Wallace’s double to bring home a pair of runs. The four runs scored off of the four hits forced Kentucky to pull starter Chanda Bell the before the inning even ended. A wild pitch with right fielder Elia Reid up to bat scored Jones for the last run of the inning and anchored the Bears with a lead it would not relinquish for the rest of the game. “They really responded that first inning and that really set the tone,” Ninemire said. “Then we keep adding on it a little bit each inning. Even when we didn’t score, we had runners in scoring position and kept doing positive things that I think kept the momentum in our dugout.” The Wildcats (40-16) threatened in the bottom of the sixth with strong hits to load the bases, but Henderson worked her way out of the jam beautifully, fighting off a 3-0 count to force a pop-out that closed out the frame. Cal tacked on runs to widen the lead even further, headlined by Ziegenhirt’s two-run home run over the center field fence in the seventh inning to make the score 8-0. “I had been working really hard trying to get good contact on the ball,” said Ziegenhirt, who went 2-for-9 on the weekend. “I think (the home run) was the accumulation of all my efforts this weekend — that one big hit at a good time.” For the Bears, who open WCWS play against Alabama (51-9) on Thursday, the win provided no shortage of confidence. “After dealing with that first game, it builds character … never say never,” Henderson said. “We are never going to sit down and take it. We are always going to be ready for more.” Kelly Suckow covers softball.

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Center fielder Frani Echavarria went 2-for-3 during in Sunday’s game three victory, scoring twice.

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Stanford washes away Bears in regular season finale Cal must reinstate fire in postseason play

By Jack Wang | Senior Staff jwang@dailycal.org Save Cal Baseball banners were still around to help close out Evans Diamond’s final showing this spring, the annual Big Series against Stanford. Some fliers were stacked at the front desk, and T-shirts still popped up in the season-high crowd of 1,358 — even if the Bears’ reinstatement was already secured nearly two months ago. But with the way the Cal baseball team was playing, it looked desperate for some help. Saturday afternoon, the rain erased a contest that could have capped a three-game Cardinal sweep. “(Having) no game is better than a loss,” second baseman Tony Renda said. “I always want to play, but it was bad conditions.” The Bears lost the first part of the doubleheader, 4-2, and they only looked worse in the second. Cal spiraled down to a 7-1 hole in the top of the fourth, the day’s intermittent drizzle steadied into an unrelenting shower. Pitcher Kevin Miller had started to lose his footing on the mound, walking three straight to add to his season total of 12. If Stanford students didn’t have finals approaching, they would have resumed play on Sunday. The same might have happened if the game affected Pac-10 standings. Neither was true, so box scores will be filed into as if those final four innings never existed. The regular season finale was a familiar refrain for Cal, wasted opportunities dotting the innings with absurd regularity. After leaving 10 runners on base in their series-opening, 3-2 loss on Friday, the Bears (31-20, 13-13 in the Pac-10) stranded another eight in Saturday’s noon game.

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Quick Look: j. jones: 8 IP, 12 Hits, 4 ER, 4 k t. renda: 2-4, 1 run “You’ve got to win the big spot,” Cal coach David Esquer said. “You’ve got to come up with the big at-bat, you’ve got to get the big hit and they did that over and over. We continually didn’t do it over and over.” Stanford (32-20, 14-12) committed three costly errors, and often looked as if it were trying to give the game away — to which Cal responded politely,

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“Thanks, but no thanks.” The Cardinal gifted the Bears their first run Saturday, committing two straight errors to open the second inning and put runners on first and second. A sac bunt moved them to second and third, and Stanford pitcher Jordan Pries hit third baseman Mitch Delfino to load the bases with one out. Cal couldn’t manage a hit, scor-

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ing a run on a fielder’s choice before grounding out. The next inning, Renda streaked from first to third base with two outs, hoping to jump start his team; Stanford right fielder Austin Wilson cut him down with a perfect throw. Renda came up to bat again in the fifth with two outs, runners on first and second. A pitch slid in the dirt, but shortstop Marcus Semien broke late from first on a failed double steal. The Bears didn’t score again until the seventh — on another Cardinal error.

friend of mine said a while back that the worst thing that ever happened to the Cal baseball team was getting reinstated. Calm down — it’s a joke. A program as storied as the Bears’ is a cornerstone of the athletic department, and its revival in early April was one of the best college sports stories of the year. It was a moment when, in spite of incredible circumstances, the community banded together to save something important. But fresh off of two (nearly three) embarrassing losses to Stanford to end the regular season, it’s clear that Cal

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Cal second baseman Tony Renda dives for third base after running from first on a single. He was thrown out to end the third inning.

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