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The only way to create a student super-majority city council district, which would theoretically allow for the easy election of a student council member, is to amend Berkeley’s city charter, according to city staff. At a small, student-oriented meeting Thursday night, staff informed those in attendance that the redistricting process must follow three basic rules: no change in boundaries shall oust an elected council member, districts shall continue to be nearly equal in size and they shall preserve, to the extent possible, the original boundaries established when the Berkeley City Council districts were formed in 1986. Because the creation of a student super-majority district would likely entail a major shift in the boundaries of Districts 7 and 8, located just south of the UC Berkeley campus where many students live, an amendment to the charter would have to appear before voters on the November 2012 ballot. But the district lines are slated to be readjusted before then, in time for voters to be placed in the updated districts when they head to the polls. In the election, Districts 2, 3, 5 and 6 will hold city council races. Those districts are also scheduled to gain a total of 4,295 voters as a result of redistricting, which aims to adjust the boundaries such that each district contains about 14,073 people. “These 4,295 residents have a right to participate in the 2012 election,” said Councilmember Kriss Worthington at the meeting. The city’s redistricting is being conducted to reflect data gathered in the 2010 census. Proposals must be submitted to the city clerk by Sept. 16 in order to have new boundary lines and maps submitted in time for the April 1 deadline mandated by the Alameda County Registrar of Voters

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The Lower Sproul Plaza is still set for renovation, but a presentation projected that operating costs of the future facilities are associated with a negative cash flow.

Renovations projected to cause deficit By Kelsey Clark | Staff kclark@dailycal.org Projections for the operating costs of the redesigned Lower Sproul Plaza show a negative cash flow associated with the future facilities, according to a presentation from a consultant to the plaza’s renovation project. A deficit as high as $800,000 may occur between 2019 and 2022, after an expected bump in revenue due to increased student fees in 2018, according to the presentation. The consultant discussed several revenue generating factors, including the placement of high revenue vendors in ideal locations in the new facilities and increased seating capacities — strategies that

may help offset this projected deficit. “The point that they were making in the analysis showing deficits in Fiscal Years 2019-2022 was to point out the current rate of revenues and expenses that appear to be scheduled during those years so that the University can address the issues causing the deficits in advance, and therefore avoid them,” said LeNorman Strong, associate vice chancellor for residential and student service programs, in an email. The renovation project for the plaza has completed its schematic design phase, and plans for the design have been given to stakeholders of the project for review, according to ASUC President Vishalli Loomba. She added that comments are being submitted to the architects — Moore Ruble Yudell Architects & Planners — who will then make changes if necessary before the project moves into

its development phase before the end of August. This third presentation from the Washington, D.C.-based Brailsford & Dunlavey consultant to the ASUC Store Operations Board at its July 7 meeting included a 30-year model on the operating and maintenance costs of the entire student union complex. The consultant has been working with the board since April and serves to advise the board on the new business plan for the plaza. “It is a bit of a bumpy ride in terms of our expectations and assumptions for staffing and operating facilities,” said Jim Carruthers, senior project manager at Brailsford & Dunlavey, at the meeting. “We are still at a very broad level perspective. We’ve tried to give you an understanding of the bumps in the road, where there

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The U.S. Geological Survey, along with five universities including UC Berkeley, recently launched a plan to install over six thousand seismic sensors in civilian homes and classrooms to detect movement from the earth. As part of the Quake-Catcher Network, community members can volunteer to host sensors in order to help seismologists track movements in the earth. The first batch of these sensors was distributed across the Bay Area on July 9 and 10. According to Elizabeth Cochran, a

Tiffany Chiao explains in detail the Quake-Catcher Network and its ground-breaking research.

USGS research geophysicist, having such a large number of sensors would allow researchers to track ground movements after an earthquake from more locations, providing a denser record of seismic data. A sensor can be purchased for $49, or residents can volunteer to host one for free if they live in the specific regions being studied, according to the network’s website. To install the sensor, it needs to be plugged into a computer’s USB port

and firmly attached to the ground to prevent false triggers, such as people moving around, Cochran said. The user must then download a piece of software that monitors the sensor and sends the data back to Stanford University, where the information is being collected. “Any time there’s significant shaking, such as you kicking the sensor or an earthquake happening, it sends the signal back to the server in Stanford,” Cochran said. Peggy Hellweg, a research seismologist at UC Berkeley, said campus graduate students have been invited to help learn how to install sensors and can

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Erica Chase sex@dailycal.org the long run. Or even in the short term. A partner safe wording out of the scene because they got freaked out is most likely to end in nobody getting laid. f you want to be swimming in the deep end of the kinky pool and they are just barely ready to dip their toes in, there can be a lot of impatience making you want to just give them a little shove. But making your partner feel guilty about what they are and are not willing to do not only makes you a bit of an ass, it breaks down one of the major necessities when moving past missionary: a sense of trust and safety. Kink can open the door to a lot more risks than standard sex, so a little nervousness isn’t unwarranted. Talking things out beforehand can save a lot of emotional angst. Venturing into the unknown with someone else can bring two people closer together, but it can also let a lot of resentment into the relationship if someone feels alone and harried when starting down the path. Always educate yourself and your partner before trying anything. There are risks associated with kinky sex, and it is a good idea to know what you are getting into. If the whole host of STDs that can come along with vanilla sex isn’t enough, kink opens up different risks depending on what exactly you want to try. Anal play without proper cleanliness can lead to a host of different urinary tract and vaginal infections. Improperly tied ropes can lead to loss of blood circulating to the hands, which can cause long term damage if ignored. If you’re not careful, spanking can cause soreness and bruising that wasn’t signed up for. Different kinks bring along different risk and rewards, and going about things in the safest way possible is the ultimate sign of care for both yourself and your partner. Kinky sex can add a new dimension to a couple’s sex life and relationship, but it can also become a sore point that just causes resentment. Keeping these facts in mind can help avoid a potentially rocky experience. Or go the easy route, and next time you have a first date, break out a survey.

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By Jonathan Tam | Staff jtam@dailycal.org A recent study by UC Berkeley and Smithsonian Institution paleontologists on past gray whale diets suggests that researchers should look to how animals survived past events, such as the Ice Age, in order to anticipate how they will deal with such extreme environmental conditions in the future. The study, published Wednesday in the journal PloS ONE, found that by adapting and finding food elsewhere, gray whales survived over 20 cycles of intense temperature changes during the Pleistocene Ice Ages, which had caused their main food source to disappear. Prior to and during the Ice Age, when glacial cycles were not occurring, the most visited food source for gray whales was in the Bering Plateau, between Alaska and Russia, where they still frequently feed today, according to David Lindberg, a UC Berkeley professor of integrative biology and a co-author of the study. When the Bering Plateau dried out due to the glacial cycles, gray whales

most likely survived by having a diversified diet, similar to one group of gray whales today that feeds on herring and krill found in water columns off the coast of Vancouver Island, said Nick Pyenson, a curator at the Smithsonian and a co-author of the study. “To be genetically and ecologically distinct, gray whales feed on these water columns,� Pyenson said. “We see this as important to be ecologically flexible during tough times in where they are not forced to feed on the sea floor.� According to the study, the Bering Sea is also one of the most productive marine ecosystems in the world and provides a primary food source seasonally to many species of crustaceans, bony fish and whales. Pyenson said that there are about 22,000 eastern gray whales existing along the Pacific coast today, even though the population peaked at about 70,000 gray whales about 120,000 years ago. This observed decrease in the gray whale population can be attributed to human whaling and human-mediated habitat deterioration, according to the study.

Lindberg added that what is even more interesting is that there are only a few hundred western Pacific gray whales found between the coast of China and the Sea of Okhotsk, though there is a huge feeding potential in that area. Pyenson said he would attribute this anomaly to a long legacy of exposure to whaling, which likely decimated the western gray whale population. Though the population has declined over time, gray whales are still considered to be one of the best examples of conservation practices, which restored their population from a few thousand after hunting to the 22,000 gray whales today, according to the study. International whaling laws such as the U.S. Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 have allowed the eastern gray whale population to recover from near collapse, the study states. “Many organisms including whales have adapted to those changes, where many of them have survived similar kinds of bad times — the problem now is to distinguish who are going to be the winners and the losers,� Pyenson said.

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Students should aim for September deadline they did not get the chance to vote either for or against. They will have to wait until 2016 to vote for a city council member. Far from increasing student voice, this proposal to push back the deadline to November will silence thousands of voices in the 2012 elections; many of these voices are those of students. In 1986, the Berkeley voters established the districts, and according to the City Charter, Article 5, Section 9: “Any such redistricting shall preserve, to the extent possible, the Council districts originally established herein.” What this means is that it is not legal for the council to move more people out of a district than necessary to comply with the new census numbers. Regardless of a desire to create a district with a “student supermajority,” the city map will look largely the same. As it stands, students are spread between districts 4, 6, 7 and 8, so to create a district with a student supermajority the city map will need to be drastically redrawn. While Freeman ran on a platform of creating a student supermajority district, the only way to legally accomplish this is through a voter referendum. I applaud Freeman’s platform to create an entirely student district because he is right that we have not had a student on the city council in

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We stand with the ASUC in condemning the way in which the ASUC Auxiliary realignment has occurred.

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Take back the ASUC he ASUC has faced many significant issues and challenges over the past few decades, some of the most important of which pertain to the student government’s autonomy. While different groups have each had their fair share of fault, rarely have we seen such a baffling and outrageous change carried out in such a brazen and disrespectful manner as the campus administration’s transfer of oversight of the ASUC Auxiliary from the Office of Administration and Finance to the Division of Student Affairs. The lack of consultation and transparency goes against any precedent of good-faith communication between the administration and student leaders. We would have expected that if the administration were to carry out such a monumental change to the student government in a way that jeopardizes its autonomy, it would have thoroughly consulted student leaders and informed the student body of its reasoning. Given the This could not have magnitude been further of this from what o c c u r r e d . conflict, we Not only did call on the adminChancellor istration not include stu- Robert dent leaders Birgeneau to in the decision-mak- directly ing process, involve but it has himself in stonewalled the student negotiations. leaders by not answering fundamental questions regarding the change. Though we strive to understand multiple perspectives prior to endorsing a position, the reasoning behind the change is not even available for us to consider. For a change of this magnitude to be acceptable, the benefits would have to be substantial — but we do not even know the benefits because the administration has failed to articulate them. The realignment is not the only substantial change about which the administration has been silent. Significant questions regarding the circumstances of ASUC Auxiliary Director Nadesan Permaul’s retirement two days before the realignment remain unanswered. For this to be the end to a long history of service to the ASUC by an official who has garnered significant respect among student leaders is disappointing and unfulfilling. For key administrators to remain quiet regarding his abrupt retirement is unacceptable. Administrators have repeatedly dodged questions from our reporters as well as ASUC officials. Harry Le Grande, the vice chancellor for student affairs, is out of his office until Aug. 1, and Jonathan

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Poullard, the assistant vice chancellor for student affairs, had said he would be unavailable until this week. Their absence suggests a lack of care for the student body, which is absurd coming from the division of student affairs. We demand that they publicly respond in detail to the ASUC’s concerns. That is their job. But the student government itself also has a role in bringing issues to the attention of the student body. After The Daily Californian first reported on a possible auxiliary change in September, our elected officials stood largely silent. Then-ASUC President Noah Stern should have brought more attention to the possibility of such a significant change. Current ASUC President Vishalli Loomba must be more vocal in spearheading the opposition to the realignment. She must succeed where her predecessor fell short, and she must start now. We were also surprised by the resolution unanimously passed by the ASUC Senate and the letter signed by members of both the current and incoming senate classes. While we are impressed that senators crossed party-lines for the good of the student body, we feel that this was an explosion of anger that should have been let out earlier in the process, not the day before the realignment. Students have a right to know how their elected officials feel about major campus issues. This clash comes at a time when a united campus message is needed more than ever due to dwindling state support for higher education. The relationship between the administration and the ASUC is obviously tarnished and the onus is on the administration to make amends; no one benefits if these two groups are at odds. We endorse, line-by-line, both the letter and the resolution and demand that the administration adhere to their provisions. The auxiliary must be moved back to the Office of Administration and Finance, and the realignment must be thoroughly and properly debated and justified — as it should have been in the first place. We demand that administrators answer all questions regarding the oversight change and that they seek student input while ensuring full transparency. And, given the magnitude of this conflict, we call on Chancellor Robert Birgeneau to directly involve himself in negotiations going forward. We stand side-by-side with the ASUC on this issue and hope our elected officials take all actions necessary to reverse the realignment. Moving forward, they should mobilize students and explain to them the complicated issues at hand and the importance of standing up for the autonomy of their student government. We cannot allow complacency to take hold. Let this be their call: Take back the ASUC.

With the 2010 census numbers in, redistricting in Berkeley is about to begin, and residents of the city are being asked to submit proposals. Recently, the city council moved back the proposal deadline from mid-August to Sept. 16 in order to give students more time to have their voices heard; however, many believe this still does not give students enough time to submit a proposal for a “pro-student” district. ASUC External Affairs Vice President Joey Freeman has been working with Councilmember Gordon Wozniak to push back the date to Nov. 1, to make sure that students have as much time as possible to weigh in on the redistricting process. However, it is absolutely critical that the city maintains the current deadline so that redistricting is completed in time for the 2012 elections. If the deadline is pushed back any further, redistricting will not be complete until 2013, and some 4,000 Berkeley citizens will be disenfranchised, many of who are students. Districts that are set to lose overall numbers are districts 4, 7 and 8 — all areas heavily populated by students. In 2012, none of the council members in these districts will be up for reelection. Because of redistricting, around 4,000 people will have to be moved out of these districts, into districts where council members are up for reelection. But, if redistricting does not happen by the 2012 election, the newly added residents will not be voting for a new council member. Then, after redistricting is finished in 2013, they will be moved into a new district. The council person representing them in their new district will be someone elected in 2012 whom

over two decades. I also admire his motivations to increase student involvement in this process; however, I urge him to work within the reality of the situation. It is completely feasible to submit a redistricting proposal by the Sept. 16 deadline that works within current laws to create the most pro-student districts possible for the 2012 election. Regardless of the proposal that is submitted, by law the new districts will look largely the same as they do now. By sticking to the deadline we can be sure that student voices are still heard in the process, and that every voice is heard in 2012. The office of the EAVP can then focus their attention on drafting and pushing for a ballot measure to be voted on in 2012 — a referendum that will allow us to create a truly student supermajority district. Even if the City completes redistricting for 2012, if the people vote to create a student district, this vote will supersede anything created by the city council. If this presumed ballot measure ends up failing, then at least we can be sure that every student vote is still counted in 2012. If the deadline is pushed back and a proposed ballot measure ends up failing, then student voices will be doubly silenced. Andrew Albright is an ASUC Senator for the 2011-2012 year.

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Letters to the Editor: Higher Education Cuts Thank you for emphasizing the role of the state in your editorial on the current budget crisis. While the university is hardly a perfect institution, the continued cuts and tuition increases come not at the whim of Yudof and the Board of Regents but are a direct result of the state’s systematic divestment from higher education. This is a structural problem: Thanks to ballot-box budgeting and federal mandates, higher ed is the largest piece of the budget pie that can be cut. Moreover, the university can’t make campaign contributions to preserve our interests in the political arena, and the biggest budgeting season falls in the summer when students are scattered and difficult to mobilize. We need to change the game if we are to avoid future cuts. We need to get our families and our communities involved in the battle for our education and to start holding legislators accountable at the polls when they pay lip service to higher education and then stab us in the back. We need to be more wide-reaching and forceful in our advocacy measures and prove to Sacramento that our hurt is their hurt, and that we aren’t just apathetic students who never vote and can therefore be dismissed. We need to become a force to be reckoned with. — Julia Gettle, history major

As Salon and the WSJ pointed out this week, 2011 quarter 1 GDP was higher than the 2007 pre-recession peak. A study from Northeastern University noted that since the official end of the recession in 2009, corporate profits have accounted for 88 percent of national income growth, while wages and salaries comprised only slightly more than 1 percent. Austerity budgets are political, not inevitable. There’s plenty of money in this country, but it’s in the possession of a very few people. Warren Buffet was right. Class warfare is a basic feature of our political

economy, and the rich are winning. Unions are little refuge, and the un-unionized student class is an even easier target. Expect many more tuition increases. — Richard Booth, returning student.

University degrees are seen as gateways to personal success and welfare, and so it is a rarity finding students seeking to increase the welfare and knowledge of society. Students and faculty promoting such an increase are marginalized both physically and financially. The UC Regents have supported such a shift by increasing tuition by 49.6 percent in the last three years (this includes the soon to be approved 9.6 percent increase). As burdens have been directly placed on students to fund the private interests of individuals, apathy has arisen in society. No longer do universities support philosophers, lovers of knowledge seeking to improve society, but lovers of money and personal success. My question is how long can this unsustainable narcissism exist? — Devin Richards, CRS major

Unfortunately, we Californians only have ourselves to blame for the most recent round of tuition hikes. There are a myriad of reasons for California’s ongoing budget crisis and why our government cut more than $600 million from higher education in just one year. However, one crucial reason is that California’s taxpayers have been completely unwilling to pay what’s necessary to maintain access to some of the nation’s finest public universities and colleges. We are apparently no longer willing to collectively invest in institutions that help ensure opportunity to all Californians, no matter their economic background. And this will have an impact on everyone in this state, not just the students. — Luke Reidenbach, graduate student

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Student voices crucial for city vibrance Carol Denney Special to the Daily Cal opinion@dailycal.org The realization will hit any day now. It will be brutal for those who thought they could somehow create Rodeo Drive out of Telegraph Avenue, but the upside is that it will save years of police riots, court costs and the bewildering schizophrenia of having the richest property owners in town kill off tourism by bad-mouthing Berkeley. This is a college town. If you really want to you can arrest the guy from Sweden with the backpack sipping coffee and poring over a map trying to figure out how far Berkeley is from Santa Cruz. But there will be another one in an hour or so. No matter how brutal we make our streets, how unaffordable we make our hotels and restaurants, rich property owners in Berkeley and the campus itself would be wise to consider that having the University of California sitting like a cat in the sun in the middle of town is an attractive nuisance worth exploiting rather than fighting. And it does mean listening to youth. It may be tough for the class that commands the country club to take, but it might save Berkeley a lot of money to take a few cues from the 30,000 or so young people. These young people would love to shop, dance, join, learn and participate in community events if they weren’t treated as such a threat by a town that can’t seem to grasp that not only are they here to stay, but they have something to offer. It isn’t just the students enrolled on campus, but the wider culture they create by just being here that will always attract travelers, hitch-hikers, poets, artists, dreamers and people who aren’t sure who they are yet but want to check out any town roaring with creativity and life. That’s us. That’s us at our best, and youth culture is a big part of it. The recent pushpoll that flopped as an effort to support the proposed anti-sit-

ting law revealed some valuable input from the students who took it, who wanted more dancing, more creative events and more art events available to them. We can do that — this town really does know how. But the people doggedly wed to the criminalization of poverty need to make a little room at the table for creative ideas. We’re a college town, and with a more inclusive attitude we can thrive in every possible way. We might even learn a thing or two. Carol Denney is a Berkeley city resident.

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Bill allowing UC to consider race, gender passes committee By Sarah Rosen | Staff srosen@dailycal.org A bill that would allow UC and CSU schools to consider factors such as gender, race and economic status in undergraduate and graduate admissions decisions passed through the state Assembly’s higher education committee in a 5-3 vote July 5. Senate Bill 185, authored by state Senator Ed Hernandez, D-West Covina, has brought a great amount of controversy regarding its legality. According to Pedro Salcido, senior district representative for

Hernandez, the bill hopes to increase the number of qualified minority students — particularly African Americans and Latinos — who are accepted into the state’s university systems. “Overall, the purpose of the bill is to create an education system that represents a diverse demographic,” Salcido said. “We want to produce a diverse workforce that represents the overall demographic of California.” Salcido added that the bill will also allow UC and CSU campuses to consider factors such as race, gender and economic status when creating outreach, recruitment and retention programs. Last year as an assembly member,

Hernandez proposed a similar assembly bill which would have authorized UC and CSU campuses to consider geographic origin, household income, race, gender, ethnicity and national origin in admissions decisions. However, that bill was vetoed when it came before former governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Hernandez’s current bill has raised concern regarding the legality of affirmative action in admissions decisions. The passage of Proposition 209 in 1996 illegalized preferential treatment for any student on the basis of race, gender, economic status or ethnicity. The American Civil Rights Coalition

RENOVATION: Increased traffic flow pursued to create revenue From Front are possibilities and where there are constraints.” The assumptions for the projections are made as the consultant shadows ASUC Auxiliary members, sitting in on meetings and looking at finances in order to see how the ASUC functions first-hand, Loomba said. A spreadsheet presented at the meeting calculated costs of operation by square foot for the facility. Emily Marthinsen, assistant vice chancellor for physical and environmental planning capital projects and a member of the board, stated in the meeting the importance of understanding how the building upkeep will compare to the rest of campus. “If the students are footing the bill for things that are not only the students’ responsibility, then those things have to be very defensible,” Marthinsen said. According to the spreadsheet, maintenance of the new facilities will exceed the costs of upkeep for other campus facilities. Carruthers said while costs may be higher, the new buildings need to be unique and must operate differently than other campus buildings. A finalized spreadsheet is expected

to be shared with the board after more adjustments are made to the included assumptions, Carruthers said. Current assumptions do not take into account a possible increase in number of students admitted to the campus. “I don’t think we’ve built enough capacity for revenue,” said Jonathan Poullard, assistant vice chancellor for student affairs and dean of students, during the meeting. “I don’t want students in 2021 with a debt of $800,000 that we can’t support.” Increased traffic flow and seating capacity are being pursued to generate revenue to offset operation costs of the new facility. According to the presentation, the goal for traffic flow through the new buildings is to have 50 percent of the campus interacting with one of more of the facilities on any given academic day. Todd La Porte, professor of political science and another member of the board, voiced concern during the meeting that ambiance of the area might be ruined with too much traffic flow. “Is there a sociological upper limit to how much traffic and the character

of traffic before it ruins what you hope for?” La Porte said. He added that the board should be wary of the negative effects of increasing traffic and seating in the new facilities in an effort to avoid debt. “At this point, it is too early to determine if there is a real problem,” Strong said in the email. “What we know is that the assumptions that we’ve laid out need to be reviewed and validated; then action needs to be taken to ensure that there will not be a deficit.” The presentation was made in order for the current board to begin making changes that will help to move away from negative cash flow in the future. “This is a cautionary tale,” said ASUC Auxiliary Director Nadesan Permaul at the meeting. “We’ve got to plan.” 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 Hedy Chen, sits on the Daily Cal’s Board of Operations, which has no control over the paper’s editorial content.

strongly opposes SB 185 for being in violation of the proposition. Ward Connerly, president of the coalition and former UC Regent, said the bill is unconstitutional and a waste of time and money. “I think it’s not so ingenuous that somebody can’t see that they are trying to get past Proposition 209 — it has already been vetoed before,” Connerly said in reference to Hernandez’s earlier assembly bill. “I don’t understand why we would want to inject the state into legal battles and cause it to spend money it doesn’t have to defend a bill that shouldn’t have been passed in the first place.” Connerly added that the UC system

has adapted well without implementing factors such as race into admissions. “Why would anyone want to go back to the days where we distinguished by race?” he said. “Why would we want to inject that into the admissions?” According to UC spokesperson Steve Montiel, the university will remain neutral on this bill, as they did on the prior assembly bill. “Despite the significant concerns with legality and implementation of the bill, we support its underlying goal and would welcome additional tools to achieve a more diverse student body,” Montiel said.

meeting: Complete redistricting packets available at City Clerk Department From front if the adjusted districts are to be in effect for the election. ASUC External Affairs Vice President Joey Freeman has encouraged the council to support Councilmember Gordon Wozniak’s motion to extend the deadline to Nov. 1, alleging that the current date does not provide enough time for a proposal to be drafted by students who will just be returning to the city. However, Deputy City Manager Christine Daniel said at the meeting that a November deadline would not give staff enough time to have the boundaries ready by April 1. At the meeting, Worthington said it is possible for redistricting pro-

posals to be drafted for the election in accordance with the city charter while a charter amendment is also proposed. In effect, this would result in redistricting occurring twice, should the charter amendment be approved. “Those two things are in no way in conflict with each other,” Worthington said. Complete redistricting packets containing further information such as public hearing dates, timelines, maps and data will be publicly available at the City Clerk Department and on the city’s website. J.D. Morris is an assistant news editor.

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7 Softball breaks

8 Men’s soccer: from worst to first in Pac-10

WCWS drought

In 2009, injuries plagued the Cal men’s soccer team, pushing them to dead last in the Pac-10. Ever since Cal softball captured the 2002 This past fall, the squad Women’s College World Series title, the squad bounced back in a big way. has been working to paint another title win on the back fence of Levine-Fricke Field. For the Led by a starting front of past six years, however, the Bears could not eight seniors, the Bears (14-2-4) even make the final eight in Oklahoma City. clinched the program’s third That is, until sophomore ace Jolene Pac-10 title — its first since Henderson and her scrappy teammates hand2007 — in front of a large crowd ily beat Kentucky 9-0 in this year’s Lexington at Edwards Stadium. Californian DUMMY Super Regional The to endDaily that drought and In addition to the conference advance to the WCWS. trophy, the Bears garnered six The road up to that point had not been easy All-Pac-10 spots. Head coach for Cal. All-American pitcher and first baseKevin Grimes earned Pac-10 man Valerie Arioto suffered a season-ending injury in the second practice of the year, creating a void in the infield and leaving the lineup without its strongest bat. The start of conference play didn’t go In 2011, a pair of accomsmoothly, either, as the Bears dropped four of plished Cal athletes finally their first six Pac-10 games. Despite that slow hunted down the NCAA chamstart, the team picked itself up and turned the pionship trophies missing from season around. Henderson stepped up in the hardware collection they’ve Arioto’s absence and emerged as one of the accrued over their careers. country’s best pitchers, turning in 18 shutouts Mike Morrison captured the and championing an ERA under 1.00. men’s title in the decathlon, Although the run to the WCWS champiwhile Juricova took home the onship game was cut short against Florida, NCAA Singles crown — making Cal returns every single player next season her the first player in team his— including a now-healthy Arioto. tory to win a national champi With Henderson and Arioto on the rubber, onship in both singles and douthe Bears may indeed have a title in their bles. future. — Kelly Suckow Morrison had been upstaged

Coach of the Year and senior defender A.J. Soares won Player of the Year. 2010’s memorable season didn’t stop there, however, as the team matched its deepest postseason in program history to finish No. 8 in the country. Cal earned home field advantage for its first postseason contest against UC Santa Barbara. In the final second of overtime, senior forward Davis Paul knocked knocked through a golden goal to eliminate the

10 Two runners-up in water polo

Gauchos in a nail-biting 2-1 victory. A 2-0 win over a gritty Brown defense in the third round of the NCAA College Cup sent the Bears to Ohio for the quarterfinals against the host Akron. That dream run ended when the Zips handed the Bears a 3-2 loss in penalty kicks. With six players from the squad now in the MLS, Cal’s magical 2010 season will be a tough one to repeat. — Kelly Suckow

Both water polo squads reached their national title games, finishing one win away each from a potential Cal aquatics grand slam. The men came within minutes of the program’s 14th championship and the women ended a landmark season by falling short in their NCAA title game debut. In a classic match that took place under nightmarish Berkeley rainfall, the secondThursday, Maybattled 3, 2007 seeded Cal men’s team relentlessly against top-ranked USC — the two-time defending champions, With 5:02 left in regulation, Cutino Award winner Ivan Rackov gave the Bears a 10-9 lead. Cal, however, lost that lead to a penalty shot that forced overtime. Failing to score in the extra period, the Bears allowed two goals and the Trojans got the 12-10 win, the three-peat and a chance to celebrate in Cal’s home pool. Only one season after their first NCAA appearance, the women’s team reached new heights. Led by sophomore star Breda Vosters, who poured in 63 goals in 2011, Cal put together a banner year that also featured their first-ever MPSF tournament crown. In what may have been a case of the championship jitters, the No. 2 Bears went down 4-1 by halftime. The deficit proved too much to overcome and their season came to a close with a 9-5 loss against top-ranked Stanford. Both squads return loaded and should have redemption on their minds in 2011-2012. — Ricardo Barton

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the past three years by threetime decathlon champion Ashton Eaton of Oregon. Last year, Morrison finished second despite tearing a ligament in his elbow during the javelin throw. After a long road of recovery during the following summer and fall, the Florida transfer hit his peak performance at the end of this season by setting six personal bests on the way to a Cal-record 8,118 points. “I came into college with the goal of winning an NCAA

championship, this is what I’ve been working for for five years,� said Morrison, the nation’s point leader even before NCAAs. “To accomplish it is really rewarding.� Juricova, who entered the NCAA Championships as the nation’s top seed, triumphed over Cardinal sophomore Stacey Tan, 6-0, 7-6 (2). Juricova, however, still has one more goal to complete her legacy: a team title. — Byron Atashian

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The Year That Was

The Daily Cal sports staff runs down the moments that defined 2010-2011.

1 Cal campus eliminates, then reinstates, five varsity sports It was supposed to be the only viable option. Sandy Barbour looked grim. Chancellor Birgeneau smiled through it. On Sept. 28, 2010, Cal shockingly eliminated five varsity teams: baseball, rugby, lacrosse, and men’s and women’s gymnastics would no longer represent the campus. Rumors had swirled over the summer, but only concerning the fate of the two gymnastics programs. Barbour, the athletic director, had responded then with a general statement that nearly all sports were potentially at risk. No one knew yet just how serious she was.

Almost without warning, the five teams were given one final season to live. So, the teams fought back. By February, rugby had raised almost $10 million, enough to bring back both itself, women’s gymnastics and lacrosse. No longer eliminating any women’s squads, the campus could leave out baseball and men’s gym and still remain in Title IX compliance without managing rosters. That was what it did. Then, the baseball team did the unthinkable. Spurred by former pitcher and current San Francisco attorney Stu Gordon, fundraising efforts gained new

steam. A little over a month later, the Bears had gathered over $9 million in pledges. Birgeneau agreed to bring them back. Weeks later, he did the same for men’s gymnastics.The administration avoided some embarrassment. In May, the rugby team gutted out its 26th national championship. In June, the baseball team ended arguably its greatest season ever in the College World Series. Next spring, both teams — along with the three others — will be back for more. — Jack Wang karen ling/file

2 Baseball’s 2011 CWS trip marks a season for the ages A few days after the greatest comeback in Cal baseball history, coach David Esquer noted that first baseman Devon Rodriguez’s game-winning single against Baylor did more than clinch the Houston regional. It changed his life forever. But Rodriguez’s is not the only life that was irrevocably altered when Cal rose from the brink of elimination to make a remarkable College World Series run. It was a year of crushing defeats, stunning victories and an enduring hope that sustained everything around it.

First, there is Esquer himself, a coach who pieced together 12 mediocre seasons at Cal before being surprised with the Coach of the Year award while in Omaha. No matter his cumulative legacy, his name will now forever be etched alongside the team that he helped hold together in the toughest of times. Then, there’s senior outfielder Austin Booker, who had almost no shot at being drafted at the beginning of the season. After a standout year with the darling of college baseball, he now finds himself

with the A’s. Of course, there’s second baseman Tony Renda. The steely heart of the team, Renda honored his father’s memory by winning Pac-10 Player of the Year less than a year after his passing. Renda, now a junior, will be the face of the Bears — who return many key starters — next year. And finally, there are the friends, family and fans who tasted so much bitter in order to appreciate the sweet aftertaste that now lingers in their mouths. — Katie Dowd

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3 Football sees its first losing season under Jeff Tedford The Bears’ 2010 season began with Keenan Allen easily scampering around UC Davis defenders. It finished on a somber note. As time expired on a rainy November afternoon at Memorial Stadium, Washington tailback Chris Polk slithered into the end zone to hand the Bears a season-ending home defeat — and Jeff Tedford his first-ever losing campaign in nine years as Cal’s head coach. Like their heartbreaking finale, the Bears’ 5-7 campaign featured no shortage

of frustration. Cal’s offense struggled to find consistency with Kevin Riley at quarterback, but became downright listless after the fifthyear senior suffered a season-ending knee injury in Corvallis, Ore. With Brock Mansion starting under center for the final four games, the Bears’ anemic attack failed to score more than 20 points. Even the defense, which emerged as the conference’s top unit under first-year coordinator Clancy Pendergast, turned in clunkers against Stanford, USC, Nevada

4 Cal swimming teams

double up at NCAAs

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Charlie Sheen would be proud, indeed. Cal swimming wasn’t just winning in the pool in 2011 — it was “bi-winning.” The Bears’ women’s squad began the trend by capturing an NCAA title for the second time in three years, only one week before the men snapped their 31-year championship drought with a trophy of their own. By the end of day two at nation-

als, Cal’s women jumped out of fourth place to take control of the tournament. Senior Amanda Sims won her second career 100-yard butterfly title, while freshman Cindy Tran took the 100-yard backstroke. The Bears also captured three relays on the way to a schoolrecord total of 424 points, almost 30 ahead of second-place Georgia. The top-ranked men’s team quickly followed suit. Senior Nathan Adrian took the 50-yard freestyle in an American-record time of 18.66 and the Bears won the 400-yard medley relay for the second year in a row. Day two was sheer domination by Cal, with Damir Dugonjic winning the 100-yard breaststroke for the third straight season, Tom Shields taking the backstroke and the Bears claiming the 200-yard medley relay to finish off the day in front. Then Adrian — who earlier in the day had claimed the 100-yard freestyle for his second crown of the tournament — took command of the last leg in the 400 freestyle relay and secured Cal’s first NCAA title in over three decades. — Ricardo Barton

and Oregon State. In the end, the numbers and milestones weren’t pretty: Cal’s worst Big Game defeat since 1930. No bowl game for the first time since 2002. No victories against an FBS team with a winning record. Three deficits of at least five touchdowns. A lot will change for Cal this upcoming season. The team has new coaches, a new home at AT&T Park and even two new conference-mates. Whether the Bears can change their record back to the right side of .500 remains to be seen. — Ed Yevelev

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5 Jill Costello leaves a lasting legacy

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In the world of athletics where most of us are so focused on an athlete’s game accomplishments, Jill Costello will be remembered for a feat that had little to do with sports. During a courageous year-long battle with Stage IV lung cancer, the late Cal coxswain devoted her last few months to raising public awareness about an illness that has been long stigmatized as simply a “smoker’s disease.” Costello and the Bonnie J. Addario Foundation joined together to create the “Jog for Jill” 5K event to raise money and educate others in the fight against lung cancer. Although Costello attended the first annual “Jog for Jill” event last February, she passed

away last June. On Sunday, Sept. 12, over 3,000 people gathered at Golden State Park in San Francisco to participate in the second annual “Jog for Jill.” All of Cal’s athletic teams participated — including the baseball team, whose players ran in honor of Frank Renda, the father of second baseman Tony Renda who, like Costello, passed away last summer due to lung cancer. The event raised nearly $350,000 and helped increase awareness that the disease can afflict not only smokers, but anyone like Costello. Like last year, 2011’s “Jog for Jill” will be held on September 18, at Golden Gate Park. — Seung Y. Lee

6 Volleyball’s

breakthrough

Even though Cal’s volleyball team had never advanced to the national title match before 2010, the squad’s fall campaign was not all that improbable. After all, the Bears were led by the National Player of the Year in senior setter Carli Lloyd. She may have been a freshman when Cal reached the Final Four in 2007, but she was an integral part of that team and had a burning desire to get back to the big stage. The squad instituted a new offense in 2010, with quick passes and fewer high lobs. It worked to perfection. After two perhaps underachieving seasons, outside hitter Tarah Murrey became one of the country’s best players, ranking third in the nation with 5.23 kills per set. Cal also blew open matches with suffocating defense, averaging over three blocks per set. Aside from a pair of losses to USC, Rich Feller’s club had a nearly spotless conference record, including the team’s first season sweep of Stanford since 1979. Cal’s first two rounds of the NCAA tournament were a breeze. The regional semifinal and final were more challenging, but nothing the Bears couldn’t conquer. It was onto the Final Four to face the Trojans — the only team that had given the Bears trouble. Cal swept them. Then came the true problem: Penn State. Though the Nittany Lions knocked the Bears out of the tournament in straight sets, Cal’s run solidified their status as a national powerhouse and serious championship contender for many years to come. — Jonathan Kuperberg

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