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Questions surround director’s retirement By Allie Bidwell and J.D. Morris newdesk@dailycal.org ASUC Auxiliary Director Nadesan Permaul’s retirement only two days before the auxiliary underwent a major realignment prompted some to question whether the realignment was used as an opportunity to force his retirement. Though talk of Permaul retiring in a few years or sometime later this academic year had already been underway, the date was moved to June 29 ­— just before the July 1 realignment of the auxiliary to the Division of Student Affairs. Permaul will continue to work on ASUC projects until Sept. 1, but his retirement comes in the midst of several major events for the auxiliary, including its controversial transition and key phases of the Lower Sproul Plaza renovation project — leading some to suspect that his departure was not entirely voluntary. “This clearly wasn’t part of his original plan,” said a source familiar with Permaul’s retirement who requested to remain anonymous because they were not authorized to speak on the matter. The source said that based on conversations with Permaul, there is reason to believe he may have been persuaded by the campus administration to retire sooner because it appeared that if he did not, he would not have been in a position to negotiate with the campus about his departure. Permaul declined to comment on the realignment and the circumstances of his retirement, stating in an email that he did not think speaking publicly about the transition or any related issues “serves the ASUC or the campus.” Harry Le Grande, the vice chancellor for student affairs who oversees the division now housing the auxiliary, is out of the office until Aug. 1 and was unavailable for comment. Jonathan Poullard, assistant vice chancellor for student af-

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ASUC Auxiliary Director Nadesan Permaul retired June 29, two days before the auxiliary underwent a major realignment. The circumstances of his departure prompted questions as to whether his retirement was forced. fairs and dean of students to whom the auxiliary now reports, said he would be unavailable until the week of July 12. “(Poullard) and I have always worked together collaboratively from day one of my arrival,” Permaul said in the email. “He has been an effective voice for the ASUC Auxiliary on the Store Operations Board since his arrival this past year, for which I have been grateful.” According to Ron Coley, the associate vice chancellor for business and administrative services who oversaw the auxiliary prior to its transition, Permaul took a “voluntary layoff,” which made him eligible to receive severance pay from the campus cost-cutting Operational

city’s boundaries is December 31, 2013, although council members would like to finish the plan by April 2012 in order to allow the new districts to be in place for the November 2012 municipal election, according to Councilmember Kriss Worthington. “If we do need to go to ballot by November 2012, students won’t have the chance to vote for a district of their own,” Freeman said. “We want to make sure city council members don’t fast track this so students can vote on this proposal if need be. They should go by the normal deadline of December 2013.” UC Berkeley students make up roughly one-fourth of the city’s population, with 35,838 students as of fall 2010. However, there has been no student representation on the council since the first district boundaries were drawn in 1986. Worthington said an amendment needs to be made to the city’s charter for the super sizing of districts for students and would need to be voted on during the November 2012 elections. “The city council can’t take half of one district and half of another district and put it together — they are not legally allowed to do that, but voters can do that,” Worthington said. “In the short term, we are trying to figure out how to keep or expand student majority in District 7. In the longer term it’s about how you put something on the ballot that can win.” To encourage more student involvement and participation, the city will be hosting a community meeting about student redistricting this Thursday, and the ASUC will

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The intersection of Telegraph Avenue and Bancroft Way lies in District 7, an area which has a high student population and may face redistricting.

In an attempt to gain a stronger student presence on the Berkeley City Council by allowing for the creation of a student council member, the ASUC has asked the council to extend the deadline for public redistricting proposal submissions in a letter dated July 5. Following a series of letters from the ASUC Office of External Affairs to the council, the office requested that the council push the deadline to Nov. 1 to provide enough time to create a proposal for a super-majority student district wherein students can elect their own student representative. The council already voted on a one-month extension of the deadline from Aug. 19 to Sept. 16, but ASUC External Affairs Vice President Joey Freeman said he believes this date is still too early for students who will be just starting to settle back into school. “The districts have been prone to spread students over several districts, and in fact, you dilute their impact,” said Councilmember Gordon Wozniak. “There should be enough time for students to engage among themselves and take control of their impact on politics.” The city’s redistricting process — which redraws electoral district boundaries every 10 years to ensure balanced districts — will be adjusted according to 2010 census data, which shows a total population of 112,580, up 9 percent from a 2000 population count of 102,744. The final deadline to adjust the

By Allie Bidwell | Senior Staff abidwell@dailycal.org Though state financial support for the University of California has already been slashed by $650 million, should midyear tax revenues not materialize, the university faces the possibility of an additional $100 million cut — and an additional 5.9 percent tuition increase. According to an agenda item for the upcoming meeting of the UC Board of Regents, if the state does not realize $4 billion in tax revenues and if the university receives the entire $100 million reduction from the state, a 5.9 percent tuition increase would be required to cover the cut, “over and above the increase planned for 2012-13.” Patrick Lenz, the vice president for budget and capital resources for the UC Office of the President, said that if such an increase were recommended, it would likely be a midyear increase for the 2011-12 school year. “That’s put in there to recognize that we may be still under some challenging fiscal times with the state,” Lenz said. “So hypothetically, we may be coming back to the regents in November to advise them ... about whether or not we’re going to take an additional $100 million cut. At the exact same time we’re proposing a budget for 2012-13.” Lenz added, however, that it is not certain the 2012-13 budget would include a fee increase recommendation. The 5.9 percent increase, he said, would not replace any action that may need to be taken for the 2012-13 budget but would merely address the $100 million cut the university may take in 2011-12. “The budget passed and signed relies on a lot of things that are questionable,” said Student Regent Alfredo Mireles, Jr. “The biggest questionable element is the expected $4 billion in increased revenue during this fiscal year that legislators and the governor are relying on. We really have to wait and see, because with the vicissitudes of the California state budget, you never really know.” Additionally, the agenda states a date for the implementation of the proposed 9.6 percent tuition increase: fall 2011. This proposed increase would be on top of the 8 percent increase approved by the regents last November, bringing total tuition to $11,220 and total student fees to $12,192 for the 2011-12 academic year. However, because the increase would not affect tuition levels for this summer, the university would lose approximately $10.4 million in revenue that could have been generated from the increase, though alternate revenue strategies may be employed to cover this portion of the

Excellence initiative. In order to receive pay from the initiative, Permaul had to leave before the start of the campus’s fiscal year in July, Coley said. “Severance doesn’t come with retirement — retirement comes with retirement,” Coley said, though he did not know how much Permaul’s severance pay was. According to Coley, Permaul chose to retire when he did for personal reasons. But Graduate Assembly President Bahar Navab said she believes Permaul had wanted to remain longer so that he could train his successor

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permaul: ASUC Senate resolution expressed concern over departure before retiring. “Nad is doing what he thinks is best for students given restructuring,� Navab said. “But the timeline is unexpected — it’s not the timeline that was communicated to students.� In regards to finding Permaul’s replacement, ASUC President Vishalli Loomba said Poullard has been open to having students sit on a hiring team responsible for finding a new director as well as be involved with creating a job description. Additionally, Loomba said she did not learn of Permaul’s retirement until about 24 hours before it was announced to the entire campus — in a letter signed by herself, Navab and Coley — two days before his retirement took effect. Still, Loomba said she does not see a direct relationship between the auxiliary’s transition and Permaul’s retirement. “I can see how there can be a connection perceived because of the timing,� Loomba said. “These are two very significant changes taking place within the ASUC, but I haven’t seen any reason to believe that they are connected.� Yet an ASUC Senate resolution passed last Thursday in opposition to the realignment expressed concern regarding the “immediate and rather enigmatic leave� of Permaul. “It just seems highly unlikely that out of nowhere, Nad Permaul would just decide to retire,� said CalSERVE Senator Stefan Montouth, an author of the resolution. “I don’t know what the official reason is for his retirement, but it’s way too close to this realignment that it seems like it’s definitely somehow related.� Furthermore, Montouth said he had not expected Permaul to retire for at least another couple of years. But according to Coley, the expedited timeline of Permaul’s retirement “made sense from a transition standpoint.� “It had been determined that the ASUC Auxiliary was going to be reassigned, and with that reassignment, we needed to look at (if there are) other ways of being able to operate this operation,� Coley said. “(Permaul) decided that, in the final analysis, it would make sense to make his transition now.� Allie Bidwell and J.D. Morris are news editors.

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Pilar Huerta phuerta@dailycal.org expected to act and react. Our perception of each sex has remained static because of the underdeveloped sexual revolution. We still measure a man’s maturity by the number of women he’s slept with. While Shakespeare’s Ophelia lost her mind with the loss of her lover’s trust, we measure a woman’s stability by analyzing her age and marital status. oday’s feminism reaches the masses with the music of sexedup divas and the dictation of women in power who are nonetheless as corrupt and heartless as their patriarchal predecessors. Women are empowered as long as their status neglects their repressed individuality. As the Food Network’s culinary crafts and Michelle Obama’s presidential-approved modesty continue to symbolize the scent of a woman, such women continue to lust after men who reciprocate their normalized behavior. It’s the all-American men, who can pick them up and save their souls, who hang on the walls of aspiring pin-up girls and college-educated women. Passing the test of time, the idea of masculinity versus femininity continues to prevail in the media’s collective mindset that the likes of Beyonce and Justin Bieber personify — it seems as though one’s sexuality is defined by how much one desires such expressions of beauty. Overlooking intricacies of human nature leads to the hopeless infatuation of such aesthetic perfection. Whether you want to be a man, or act like a lady, know who you are before you make a commitment. In a world where men are teased for enjoying “girly� cocktails like Pina Coladas and women are praised for playing video games, it’s no wonder that 50 percent of marriages result in divorce. We commit to such romanticized norms of the perfect lover that any kind of distinction is seen as an extraordinary quirk. I forget the feminist in me each time I look a girl up and down, but why do I feel silly when I do the same with men? I have two more years of collegiate experimentation to test my media-determinist hypothesis, but something tells me that my appreciation for beauty is beyond salivation.

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higher education,� a letter from the Academic Council reads. “Our advice to request an additional fee increase is based on Council’s recognition that the University cannot maintain its excellence with the State’s budgeted funding and must find additional revenue.� As a way to increase the amount of financial aid to students during this time of fee increases, Lenz said the university is looking in to alternative fundraising efforts that could generate revenue for

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think girls are hot. Because I think so, a classmate who I unknowingly led in the wrong direction suggested that I might be sexually confused, or “trapped in the closet.� Walking through campus on a sunny day celebrated by short skirts and ethereal blouses, my obnoxiously masculine utterances are almost inevitable when trying to dissuade a new friend of the opposite sex from developing smitten delusions. Growing up with three older brothers who had a notoriously charming reputation as “The Huerta Boys,� my acknowledgement of women’s beauty is not desperate objectification, but rather one of my many unfiltered quips meant to steer aimless conversation. Though I lack the charm of my brothers, I possess the same shamelessness. It’s a fact that men and women are two variants of the same species, though the mentality of both has been reduced to the dualism of “masculinity� and “femininity.� Women who stray from the standard of high heels and retail therapy are thought to be more masculine, while men who express their emotions to the point of tearing up are thought to be more feminine. Each dualism results in a general consensus of being unattractive and abnormal. In spite of the general consensus, however, there exist outliers. While docile, made-up dolls swim through the mainstream of wet dreams, there are others who don’t keep up with the current. Whether these men lack the conditioned desire or corporate ability to manufacture fantasies, outliers in turn romanticize the independent woman to be looking for a prince charming of her own. While Rosie the Riveter flexed her bicep with an androgynous hairdo to pull World War II’s housewives into the depressed workforce, her presence faded at the return of America’s wounded and decorated heroes. Rosie’s influence was limited to the economic independence of the lonely woman who longed for her honey to come back home. Though they flaunted their independence with their newfound purchasing power, they were also limited by it. The independent woman was still confined to the home as housewives climbed the social ladder with the standardized glamour of kitchen appliances and fashion magazines. Their honeys came home to the American dream, but it was a dream that lacked the substance of reality. ender roles are as natural as butter dripping off a thawed, hot biscuit. Westernized societies are not alone in perpetuating such dualisms, as they prevail in huntergatherer tribes and isolated mountain societies. However similar the limitations of gender roles are, the difference lies in how each sex is

reduction, the agenda states. The Academic Council — the administrative arm of the systemwide Academic Senate — adopted a resolution June 30 advising UC President Mark Yudof to request the regents increase mandatory systemwide charges effective in the fall of 2011 to offset the additional $150 million reduction in state funding. “The Council is dismayed by the State’s continuing disinvestment in

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In response to the approved $650 million in cuts to the University of California, the UC Academic Council approved a recommendation at the end of last month that calls for utilizing more lecturers to teach classes systemwide to save money. At its meeting on June 22, the council — the administrative arm of the Academic Senate — approved a recommendation to the UC Office of the President that calls for using more lecturers instead of hiring new professors as a cost-cutting measure in the face of increased cuts to the UC. Despite the council’s recommendation, UC Berkeley expects to hire both new professors and lecturers to meet enrollment needs, according to Dan Mogulof, campus spokesperson. The purpose of hiring new faculty members would be to keep in line with the campus’s history of steadily increasing both tenure and tenuretrack professors, he added. According to Mogulof, there are currently 1,533 permanent and

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tenure-track faculty members on campus. While the number has been fluctuating over the past 10 years, it has generally been on the rise, he said. He added that there are 668 lecturers on campus, which also represents an increase over the last few years. According to Mogulof, some of the differences between lecturers and faculty members on campus deal with job security, attendance at faculty meetings, research opportunities and resources available to them. While the Academic Council approved the recommendation, Fiona Doyle, chair of the campus division of the Academic Senate, said the campus needs to maintain its educational standard by both retaining and employing new professors to bring additional perspectives to research on campus. “There are other things we can do to make education cheaper, but we do not want to do this by taking professional steps from knowing that we are

providing a good product to our students,” Doyle said. But Robert Anderson, vice-chair of the systemwide Academic Senate, said the increased utilization of lecturers will likely affect all UC campuses. “Hiring faculty has been curtailed, and that is unlikely to substantially change, but at the same time, we are taking more students, and it is critical that these students be able to get classes,” Anderson said. In terms of the UC system, looking at the number of professors and comparing it to the number of lecturers misrepresents the full extent of a lecturer’s impact, according to Bill Quirk, director of communications and education at University CouncilAmerican Federation of Teachers, a union representing non-Academic Senate faculty members, lecturers and librarians across the UC. “Within the UC, one-third of the teaching is done by lecturers, so students will probably be taught by a lecturer at least once within their time at UC,” Quirk said. Wendy Brown, co-chair of the Berkeley Faculty Association and a campus professor of political science,

said that hearing that the university might be going down this route is disheartening. “This is a sign of continued deterioration in universities all across the state of California,” Brown said. “Lecturers are some of our finest (teachers), but students come here to work with research faculty.” But Virginia Abascal, who has been a lecturer at the UC Berkeley School of Law for the past 15 years, said she would like to see more lecturers on campus because they “are vital to the classroom.” Abascal said she understands why the Academic Council recommended the utilization of more lecturers, because hiring lecturers saves the campus money. According to Jonathan Lang, a campus lecturer and campus local union president for the UC-AFT, lecturers are “cheaper” to the university because he said they are usually hired on a term-by-term basis. “They are very attractive, especially when the university does not have to make a real commitment to them,” he said.

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Berkeley City Council opposes federal audit of Pacific Steel By Tiffany Chiao | Staff tchiao@dailycal.org Berkeley City Council members voted unanimously at their June 28 meeting to adopt a resolution to dissuade the U.S. Department of Homeland Security from pursuing I-9 audits of the Berkeley-based Pacific Steel Casting Company. Councilmember Jesse Arreguin said the vote was a significant step in demonstrating Berkeley’s opposition to the audits, which he said would remove undocumented workers from their jobs, disrupting their lives and families and hurting the local economy which relies on companies like Pacific Steel. The city reached out to members of the federal government — sending the resolution to the department and U.S. Congresswoman Barbara Lee — to make them aware of the support the resolution has and to encourage

them not to follow through with the audits. “(The audits) are also harmful to residents and businesses, and we don’t believe that they’re the best approach to dealing with immigration issues in our country,” Arreguin said. Considering Berkeley’s status as a city of refuge — a city that provides services to all residents, regardless of their immigration status — Arreguin said the audits go against the idea of the city being a sanctuary. “This violates our city policy about how we treat undocumented residents,” Arreguin said. “We believe they should be welcome to come into our community and work.” According to Pacific Steel spokesperson Elisabeth Jewel, the department came to Pacific Steel in late February to conduct an audit and requested employees’ I-9 documents. Pacific Steel complied, gave them information on approximately 550 employees

and is still waiting to hear back from the federal government. “It’s a very difficult situation for everyone involved, but the company will obviously comply,” she said. “The employees know that, and the union is working hard to do whatever it can to protect their members.” Despite these difficulties, Jewel added that the company is “very gratified to have the support of the city council and support for the companies and workers.” Arreguin said one of the city’s main goals is to raise awareness regarding the audits’ impact on communities so that other cities might follow suit. A similar item — to adopt a resolution urging the department not to solicit I-9 forms from the Pacific Steel in Berkeley and other companies — appears on the Oakland City Council July 5 agenda. Arreguin said he expects Hayward’s City Council to address the issue in weeks to come as well.

The audits, Arreguin said, are part of a bigger problem regarding the Obama administration’s immigration policies that pursue audits by asking employers to verify employee citizenship. “Going after employers and making them immigration police is not a good policy, not when we have serious problems with the immigration system,” Arreguin said. Janice Schroeder, a member of the West Berkeley Alliance for Clean Air and Safe Jobs who is working with Pacific Steel’s union to support employees, agreed that fixing the country’s immigration policies was one of their primary aims. However, she said the resolution lacked legal backing. “The city doesn’t have any control over what (the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement) does, but I hope they can pressure ICE not to do this audit,” Schroeder said.

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Previously missing graduate student sighted in nearby city By Allie Bidwell | Senior Staff abidwell@dailycal.org Though family and friends of UC Berkeley graduate student Anthony Michael Martin reported him missing on Saturday, Berkeley Police Department detectives have confirmed that he was seen in a nearby city as recently as Tuesday. Martin’s girlfriend, Amaya Anthony James, reported Michael the 29-year-old Martin missing Saturday evening after he had not returned from a bike ride earlier that day. However, department detectives confirmed a sighting of Martin — who

has been pursuing his Ph.D. in physics — with his bicycle in Roseville, Calif. as recently as Tuesday. A hotel clerk was sent a picture and he positively confirmed that Martin was staying in that area. “Mr. Martin did not appear to be in distress and as a adult, he is legally allowed to make the choices he has made,” said department spokesperson Sgt. Mary Kusmiss in a statement. According to a statement from the department, James and Martin had spoken earlier in the day on Saturday and were supposed to meet for dinner at 8 p.m. However, James went to Martin’s apartment where the lights were off, and no one was home. “Every time I arrive at his house, and he’s not there, I just feel sick to my stomach and think he’s gone and he’s never coming back,” James said in a Tuesday interview with NBC Bay Area News. Martin had gone for a bike ride

and may have left at around 6 p.m., according to a statement from the department. A cyclist found Martin’s phone near the Firestorm Memorial Garden along Tunnel Road in Oakland on Saturday. James said in the interview that she received a call from the cyclist about 30 minutes after she had last spoken with Martin. “Immediately, I was like, there’s something wrong,” she said in the interview. James added that Martin was planning to take a leave of absence from school and work and that he planned to leave for the east coast on Tuesday. “And after searching in the hills and not finding anything, I start feeling more confident that maybe it was just an irresponsible decision of his to go for a long bike ride and not tell anybody, and he’ll come back in three days,” she said in the interview.

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Berkeley Police Department investigators have advised James and Martin’s family of the developments, according to the statement. Because Martin voluntarily left the area, he is no longer considered a missing person, though the department will work with law enforcement agencies to speak with him directly, Kusmiss said in the statement. “Mr. Martin has voluntarily left for whatever private, personal reasons only he can speak to,” the statement reads. “We do not wish to speculate or share any further ... We are most grateful he is not injured or worse.” Campus spokesperson Dan Mogulof said the campus was available to help in any way if asked during the investigation. “We’re pleased that he’s alright, but at this point, it appears to be a personal matter,” he said. Allie Bidwell is the news editor.

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By J.D. Morris | Senior Staff jmorris@dailycal.org Eight months after Berkeley voters approved Measure T, the city’s Medical Cannabis Commission now has a full roster and can begin the process of implementing the items established in the ballot initiative when the commission meets on July 21 for the first time since its reconstitution. Approved by voters in a 64 percent vote last November, Measure T allows the city to permit six new 30,000-square-foot cultivation sites to open in the manufacturing district of West Berkeley, as well as a fourth dispensary, while also calling for the reconstitution of the commission. But the commission itself is responsible for making recommendations to the Berkeley City Council for putting the words of the initiative into practice. Since the election, several meetings have been scheduled and subsequently canceled as the commission has delayed its first meeting, waiting for each member to be appointed. Five of the nine commission members were appointed in the last month. The measure also states that at least one commission member must be a member of a dispensary, a collective that is not a dispensary and a cultivator who is “not primarily associated with a single dispensary and provides medical cannabis to more than one dispensary.” But before the commission can begin to determine exact locations of the six new cultivation centers and the additional dispensary, it must first establish a framework that can make these new “cannabusinesses” possible — including a licensing process for new growth facilities and a set of operational and safety guidelines. “Before they make the rules for what the process will be, I think we need to figure out if there’s people on the commission who are planning to apply to get either a cultivation permit or a dispensary permit — to what extent are they allowed to be involved in creating the rules,” said Councilmember Kriss Worthington. But a recent letter from the U.S. Department of Justice may give the commission pause as it proceeds. The June 29 memo, sent to U.S. Attorneys, strongly cautions state and local governments from violating the Controlled Substances Act through commercial use and distribution of marijuana for “purported medical purposes.” Stewart Jones, the commission member appointed by Councilmember Jesse Arreguin, said when the commission meets, it will need to consider the tenor established in the memo. “Ultimately, I think we have to wait and see how this policy is applied,” Arreguin said in regard to the memo. “It should give us caution in how we proceed with implementing our city law.” Also threatened by potentially increased scrutiny from the federal government is Berkeley’s Measure S, which was also approved by voters last November and places a 2.5 percent tax on for-profit “cannabusinesses” and a $25 per square foot tax up to 3,000 square feet, with each following square foot taxed at $10, on nonprofits. Jones said that the city should also take a look at how the issue of establishing large-scale cultivation centers plays out in Oakland, which had suffered a serious setback when Melinda Haag, U.S. attorney for the Northern District of California, warned that such actions would not be condoned by the federal government. But Jones said the memo should not halt the city’s progress on medical marijuana. “It can’t just stop at this point,” he said. Sarah Mohamed of The Daily Californian contributed to this report. J.D. Morris is an assistant news editor.

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Real estate investors enter guilt pleas for alleged conspiracy involvement By True Shields | Staff tshields@dailycal.org Following a joint investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and divisions of the U.S. Department of Justice, the department announced that eight Northern California real estate investors — including one from Berkeley — agreed to enter guilty pleas for their alleged involvement in conspiracies to rig bids at foreclosure auctions and commit mail fraud. Charges were filed against eight men — David Margen of Berkeley, Thomas Franciose of San Francisco, William Freeborn of Alamo, Robert Kramer of Oakland, Thomas Legault of Clayton, Brian McKinzie of Hayward, Jaime Wong of Dublin and Jorge Wong of San Leandro — in U.S. District Court, Northern District of California in Oakland on June 30. According to court documents, from around May 2008 to around January 2011, the conspirators controlled prices on certain foreclosed properties in violation of both the Sherman Antitrust Act — a piece of 1890 legislation that opposes the combination of entities to hamper business competition — and Section 1349 of the United States Code, which concerns conspiracies. Court documents state that the real estate investors entered into a conspiracy and agreed “to suppress and restrain competition” by refraining from competitively bidding against each other, paying one another off for doing so and obtaining titles to pricerigged properties in the Contra Costa and Alameda counties. The documents also state that in addition to agreeing not to bid against each other, the investors set up private auctions after buying price-rigged properties and divided the difference between the rigged price and the secondary auction price between themselves.

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Franciose, Jaime Wong and Jorge Wong were charged with one count each of bid rigging in Alameda County and one count each of conspiracy to commit mail fraud. Freeborn and Legault were charged with one count each of bid rigging in Contra Costa County and one count each of conspiracy to commit mail fraud. Kramer, Margen and McKinzie were each charged with two counts of bid rigging in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties and two counts each of conspiracy to commit mail fraud. The maximum charges for violating the Sherman Antitrust Act are up to 10 years of imprisonment and a fine of $1 million or double the gross gain or loss of the felonious transactions. For conspiracy to commit mail fraud, the maximum penalties are up to 30 years in prison and a fine of $1 million. According to Rebecca Nemeth, a realtor with Berkeley Hills Realty, the complex process for foreclosure auctions forces real estate agents to work hard to assemble all the documentation necessary to make a transaction, causing the whole process to often resemble “the wild west.” “It’s pretty loosely monitored, if at all, and if somebody is going to do something crazy, that’s where they’re going to do it,” she said. “(The conspirators) are altering the market, affecting how appraisals are going to turn out and making prices drop for everyone else in the area.” Berkeley City Councilmember Laurie Capitelli, who has 31 years of experience as a realtor, said foreclosure processes are fairly transparent but “guys with fistfuls of cashier’s checks and cellphones” frequent courthouse steps to discuss deals — a place Capitelli calls “sleazy.” “Fixing prices is a pretty bad thing to do,” he said. “The entity that’s foreclosing is getting cheated out of money that should rightfully have gone to them. Not very often does extra money go back to the homeowner.”

Two fires break out over holiday weekend By J.D. Morris | Senior Staff jmorris@dailycal.org Two fires broke out in Berkeley this weekend — one on Southside as a result of improperly discarded smoking materials and the other in South Berkeley, likely due to fireworks in the area. On the morning of July 2 at about 5:36 a.m., the Berkeley Fire Department received a call regarding a fire in a three-story, 13-unit apartment building located at 2731 Durant Ave., according to Deputy Fire Chief Gilbert Dong. Upon arrival, the crews were met with a heavy amount of amount of smoke from the structure and requested assistance, resulting in a total of two trucks, two paramedic units, five engines and two fire chiefs on scene. According to Dong, the fire was first spotted by a Berkeley Police Department officer who was driving in the area. Dong said the fire was under control at about 6:26 p.m. and incurred an estimated $300,000 in structural damage and $150,000 in content damage — which includes personal belongings such as furniture — to the building. No one was injured during the incident. Additionally, on Monday at about 11:07 p.m., the department was dispatched to a reported fire on the roof of 3240 Ellis St. — a vacant two-story apartment building, Dong said. Eventually, the fire was extinguished largely through the use of aerial ladders, and crews were pulled out of the building’s interior once it became evident that the roof was compromised, according to Dong. “During the course of battling the fire, the fire presented some pretty impressive flame lengths,” Dong said, which resulted in a partial collapse of

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A fire broke out on the morning of July 2 at a three-story apartment building on Durant Avenue, incurring an estimated $300,000 in structural damage. the roof. The fire was declared under control at about 12:30 a.m. and began on the roof accidentally, probably because of illegal firework activity in the area, Dong said. According to

Dong, people in at least two nearby apartment buildings were evacuated, though no one was injured during the incident. J.D. Morris is an assistant news editor.

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DJ duo employs heavy bass lines, unplugged vocals, distorted mumbles and even a Julian Casablancas collaboration on their sophomore LP, coaxing the surprisingly untapped market of arena rock fans. Those who snubbed Digitalism as a lesser Daft Punk or Justice will be pleasantly surprised to see them break new ground. They elegantly fuse hard electro with more accessible rock elements, while also managing to branch away from the aforementioned groups’ brand of “robot rock.” Digitalism have toured from time to time during the four years since their debut, but it is apparent that most of their time has instead been spent in the studio. I Love You, Dude is a well-polished collection of only ten tracks and each one flows seamlessly into the next. They have

crafted a transformative sound that is sure to earn them a new fanbase, but those who were partial to Idealism’s whimsical electro-punk might not be as pleased. If their goal was to escape the Daft Punk knock-off allegations, then they succeeded. If their goal was to take electronic music to the masses then they definitely succeeded—but their success was achieved at the cost of their original sound. Idealism was a synth-driven dance party; I Love You, Dude is a more serious venture into rock music. The latter’s genre-bending production makes it an important album but it lacks the excitement of its predecessor. Only Digitalism’s next album will tell if this new style is a simple experiment or a full-blown transformation. — Erin Donaldson

PARSON: The folk group Parson Red Heads unleashed psychedelic sounds From Page 7 warm lighting and an outdoor lounging/smoking section bathed in starlight was amplified by both bands’ respective familial ties. Front man Evan Way of the Red Heads acts as the paternal adhesive in the group, which includes his wife, his sister and several longtime friends. Similarly, Alela Diane shared the stage with her father on bass and her husband accompanying her on guitar. By the time Alela Diane and Co. stepped on, the crowd was welllubed with anticipation. Her ethereal tones lured all ears in the room into the tender ebb and flow of her fluid picking patterns. Damn, that girl can sing. There’s a hauntingly poignant quality to her voice that pierces into the recesses of emotion that somehow emulates simultaneous warmth and hollowness. Alela delivered tracks mainly from her

newest album, entitled Alela Diane & Wild Divine, including fan favorites “Elijah” and “Suzanne.” She commanded the stage with a solo performance of “Lady Divine,” and ceded to the audience demands for an encore with “The Rifle” from her debut album, The Pirate’s Gospel. “There were too many heavy boots / And there were too many big black boots / And there were too many little brown shoes marching though,” she sang, showcasing her songwriting prowess in addition to her vocal mastery. Both bands’ performances felt more like an impromptu jam sesh at a family barbecue than a ticketed event in the heart of Oakland; if the walls of the New Parish dissolved into the air and some picnic tables and lawn chairs sprouted in their place, no one would have even batted an eye.

HORRIBLE: ‘Horrible Bosses’ delivers humor that is casual yet still clever From Page 7 opts for cheap laughs rather than refreshing wit. But perhaps a light comedy is exactly what the summer needs. After the disappointing flops at the box office, from supersized action flicks to lackluster sequels, “Horrible Bosses” delivers easy-toswallow thrills that are actually worth the time and price. It may not be the best example of the

underdogs rising to the top, as the motley crew manages to clumsily stumble toward a solution. Their antics and ludicrous messes, however, turn Nick, Dale and Kurt into a different kind of wolf pack ­— more subtle yet still wildly entertaining. And that, really, is reason enough to sit through this film. Cynthia Kang is the arts editor.

LEGAL NOTICES Post your Alameda County Legals with us. ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME No. RG11578171 In the Matter of the Application of Norma Leticia Caldera for Change of Name. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner Norma Leticia Caldera filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Norma Leticia Caldera to Norma Letizia Palermo. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. NOTICE OF HEARING: 7/22/11, at 11:00 AM in Dept. #31, at US Post Office, 201 13th Street, 2nd Floor, Oakland, CA 94612. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed, in this county: The Daily Californian in Berkeley, California. Dated: May 31, 2011 Jon R. Rolefson Judge of the Superior Court Publish: 6/16, 6/23, 6/30, 7/7/11 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE File No. 7037.71615 Title Order No. 4649299 MIN No. APN 053-1662-012 YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST, DATED 07/02/07. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. A public auction sale to the highest bidder for cash, cashier’s check drawn on a state or national bank, check drawn by state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, or savings associ-

ation, or savings bank specified in §5102 to the Financial code and authorized to do business in this state, will be held by duly appointed trustee. The sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to satisfy the obligation secured by said Deed of Trust. The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the property address or other common designation, if any, shown herein. Trustor(s): Homer Stephens and Doris Stephens, husband and wife Recorded: 07/11/07, as Instrument No. 2007254933 of Official Records of ALAMEDA County, California. Date of Sale: 07/14/11 at 9:00 AM Place of Sale: Hilton Newark/Fremont, Grand Ballroom, 39900 Balentine Drive, Newark, CA The purported property address is: 1109 RUSSELL ST, BERKELEY, CA 94702 Assessors Parcel No. 053-1662-012 The total amount of the unpaid balance of the obligation secured by the property to be sold and reasonable estimated costs, expenses and advances at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale is $485,257.98. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid, plus interest. The purchaser shall have no further recourse against the beneficiary, the Trustor or the trustee. Date: June 17, 2011 NORTHWEST TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC., as Trustee Melissa Myers, Authorized Signatory 1241 E. Dyer Road, Suite 250, Santa Ana, CA 92705 Sale Info website: www. USA-Foreclosure.com or www. Auction.com Automated Sales Line: 714-277-4845 or 800-280-2832 Reinstatement and Pay-Off Requests: (866) 387-NWTS THIS OFFICE IS ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE F E I # 1 0 0 2 . 1 9 6 1 6 6 6/23/2011,06/30/2011,07/07/2011

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 452274 The name of the business: Spirit Guide Software, street address 2743 Park Blvd, Oakland, CA 94606, mailing address P.O. Box 20161, Oakland, CA 94620 is hereby registered by the following owners: William Haynie Rowan, 2743 Park Blvd, Oakland, CA 94606 and Charlene Mary Quan, 2743 Park Blvd, Oakland, CA 94606 This business is conducted by a husband and wife. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Alameda County on May 31,2011. Spirit Guide Software Publish: 6/23, 6/30, 7/7, 7/14/11 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 453225-29 The names of the business: (1) Sav Marketing Solutions LLC, (2) JC Graphics & Printing, (3) UPBC Enterprises, (4) ADA Printing, (5) ADA Printing & Trading, street address 2590 Durant Ave, Berkeley, CA 94704, mailing address 931 Corriente Pointe Drive, Redwood City, CA 94065 is hereby registered by the following owners: Sav Marketing Solutions LLC, 2590 Durant Ave, Berkeley, CA 94704. This business is conducted by a Limited liability partnership. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Alameda County on June 23, 2011. Sav Marketing Solutions LLC JC Graphics & Printing UPBC Enterprises ADA Printing ADA Printing & Trading Publish: 6/30, 7/7, 7/14, 7/21/11 NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO SELL ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES To Whom It May Concern: The Name(s) of the Applicant(s) is/ are:

Slow Restaurant Group Inc The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to sell alcoholic beverages at: 1966 University Ave Berkeley, CA 94704-1024 Type of license(s) applied for: 41 – On-Sale Beer and Wine – Eating Place Date of Filing Application: May 4, 2011 Publish: 6/30, 7/7, 7/14/11 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TS No. 11-0025344 Title Order No. 11-0020141 APN No. 066-2810-026 YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST, DATED 04/17/2007. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. Notice is hereby given that RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., as duly appointed trustee pursuant to the Deed of Trust executed by JAMAL D. RAAD, AN UNMARRIED MAN, dated 04/17/2007 and recorded 04/26/07, as Instrument No. 2007164432, in Book , Page ), of Official Records in the office of the County Recorder of Alameda County, State of California, will sell on 07/21/2011 at 12:00PM, At the Fallon Street entrance to the County Courthouse, 1225 Fallon Street, Oakland, Alameda, CA at public auction, to the highest bidder for cash or check as described below, payable in full at time of sale, all right, title, and interest conveyed to and now held by it under said Deed of Trust, in the property situated in said County and State and as more fully described in the above referenced Deed of Trust. The street address and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 717 STANNAGE AVENUE, ALBANY, CA, 94706. The undersigned Trustee

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ucking God!,” screams an aging Marlon Brando in the 1972 film, “Last Tango in Paris.” Ragged and wilting, this certainly isn’t the virile Brando of “Julius Caesar” or “On the Waterfront.” He’s weaker here, more vulnerable and intimate. And by the end of the film, he’s cradled, dead, in a fetal position — broken. This is the world of Bernardo Bertolucci. For more than 50 years, the innovative Italian director has, more than any other filmmaker, crafted a cinematic landscape of physical rawness and psychological intensity that continually re-defines the boundaries of what film can do and be. From the politically radical to the sexually graphic, Bertolucci’s films are epic, rebellious and, above all, enigmatic. Starting on Friday, July 8, the Pacific Film Archive will explore the maestro’s dynamic canon with new prints of thirteen of his most notable films in their latest showcase, “Bernardo Bertolucci: In Search of Mystery.” Born in 1941 to the poet and film critic Attilio Bertolucci, young Bernardo was raised in a world of lyrical expression. By the age of 21, he was already an award-winning novelist with a burgeoning film career on the horizon. Released in 1962, his first feature, “The Grim Reaper” (“La commare secca”) explored the criminal undercurrent of human behavior with a Rashomon-esque tale centered around the murder of a prostitute. Though perhaps derivative in plot, the combination of blunt brutality and overt sexuality in “The Grim Reaper” forged what would become the definitive style of Bertolucci’s early career — violent

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sensuality. Working within the contemporary framework of Italian Neorealism and the emergent French New Wave, Bertolucci’s films focus on the moral and emotional dilemmas of individuals within a turbulent society. Films like 1964’s “Before the Revolution” combines these threads of unfettered cruelty and individual attention within a larger historical and political consciousness. After WWII, with the fall of Fascism and Mussolini, the state of personal and national identity was in flux. Likewise, characters in Bertolucci’s earlier films encapsulate this conflicted complex. They are personal stories that mirror the deep-set fears and ambiguities of the postwar, modern world. In “Before the Revolution,” upper class Fabrizio struggles between his old world, bourgeois origins and his progressive, idealist views of the new as he embarks upon an affair. For Fabrizio, his story becomes as ambiguous and difficult to define as Bertolucci’s career. Though they contain those trademark traits of unabashed sexuality, politics and ferocity, Bertolucci’s films are as varied in their genre as they are in style. From a documentary on the distribution of Middle Eastern oil (1967’s “The Path of Oil) to a sumptuous biopic of Pu Yi, China’s last emperor, Bertolucci’s range proves that the only consistency in his career as in life is uncertainty. In his latest feature, 2004’s “The Dreamers,” the almost incestuous twins, Isabelle and Theo (Eva Green and Louis Garrel) indulge in the hedonistic pleasures of film and sex only to have their innocent world destroyed by the social revolutions of May 1968 in France. The camera observes and invades their personal lives as the world outside them comes crashing down. Their future is unknown and their past is puzzling, but this is the way film works for Bertolucci — mysterious and seductive. Jessica Pena is the assistant arts editor.

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