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Campus may enter agreement with Pepsi By Anny Dow | Staff adow@dailycal.org UC Berkeley’s 10-year beverage contract with Coca-Cola Co., which has previously been highly scrutinized by some students on campus, expired Wednesday and will likely be followed by a new contract with PepsiCo Inc. In May, the university released a request for proposal which stated the minimum requirements necessary for beverage companies to bid for a contract. The only responsive bid came from Pepsi, according to Nadesan Permaul, the director of and alliance negotiator for the ASUC Auxiliary. “No contract has been signed, but the campus is working closely with Pepsi to ensure that contract language acceptable to both parties is in place,” Permaul said in an email. “We unanimously drafted the RFP and are pleased that we received a responsive bid.” If successful, the new contract will span from Aug. 3 to August of 2021. Last spring, a group of concerned students joined forces with ASUC senators to author a bill condemning Coca-Cola’s business practices and urging the campus to reconsider the terms of its contract. The student bill raised concerns about CocaCola’s labor, human rights and environmental track records in India and Guatemala as well as domestic health and sustainability practices. Pepsi agreed to the minimum requirements outlined in the proposal, which include an annual $1.3 million sponsorship fee to be paid to campus stakeholders, product donations of $40,000, sustainability program support of $15,000 and marketing and promotion funds of $235,000. “We were looking at the criteria and the amount of money we were receiving from the contract,” said former ASUC president Noah
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entific research mission. In January, the UC issued a Request for Qualifications on behalf of the lab so that a decision for the second campus’ site could be made, according to Weiner. The campus should have approximately 800 people and be an estimated 475,000 square feet, he added. On May 9, the university released a list of six finalist sites, including Alameda Point, the Berkeley Aquatic Park West in West Berkeley, properties currently occupied by the lab in Emeryville and Berkeley, Oakland’s Brooklyn Basin, Golden Gate Fields and the UC-owned Richmond Field Station. According to Weiner, the lab
The AC Transit Board of Directors announced on Friday that it had reached a collective bargaining agreement with three employee groups, resulting in more than $7 million in savings. The decision will result in the groups contributing 10 percent of the cost of their monthly medical and dental insurance premiums and receiving one fewer paid holiday. Discussions regarding the budget process have been in the works for at least a year, according to Interim General Manager Mary King. “I recommended the decision because it was the only way to live with our means and be sustainable,” King said. The three groups affected by the actions include the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 1245; the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Local 3916; and unrepresented employees. According to a statement released Friday, AC Transit will implement work schedule changes for IBEW, which represents approximately 25 electricians, electronic technicians and other specialists. AFSCME — which consists of approximately 200 managers, professionals, supervisors, and administrative staff — will face wage reductions of 5 percent through June 30, 2013, for total district savings of about $5.8 million. Wages for unrepresented employees will also be cut by 5 percent, according to the statement. “I don’t think that with a situation like this anyone leaves totally happy, but hopefully no one leaves completely upset either,” said AC Transit spokesperson Clarence Johnson. “It’s been clear not only with AC Transit but with organizations all over the country that given our economic times, labor groups to some extent will have to bear a bigger share of some of the financial burden, particularly in regard to health care costs and benefits.” Johnson said that while the current contracts with the employee groups are set to last for two years, if there are state cuts to public transit, “there will be more talk about what can and needs to be done to keep us viable.” Employees are not the only ones affected by the need to reduce costs. AC Transit fares were also raised Monday by a dime for single ride adult fare and a nickel for senior, disabled and youth fare. AC Transit Director at Large Chris Peeples said that the projected revenue from fare increases is $2.4 million for 2011 and 2012. Peeples added that the Metropolitan Transportation Commission is working on a transit sustainability project that may help AC Transit in future planning. “Caltrain almost shut down, Muni, everyone’s got problems,” Peeples said. “It’s good that somebody is out there spending money on planning and looking at all that stuff. That is something that we at AC use to try and figure out what we’re going to be doing in the next 20 years.” This is not the first time AC Transit
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Trucks featuring the Pepsi logo were parked outside the Recreational Sports Facility and Evans Diamond on Wednesday. The campus will likely enter a 10-year contract with the beverage company on Thursday. Stern. “Coke wasn’t willing to give us more money, improve their recycling program, so on all fronts Pepsi seemed to be a better fit.” The contract’s stakeholders are composed of representatives from the four-unit campus beverage contract consortium — the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics, the ASUC Auxiliary, Residential and Student Service Programs and the Recreational Sports Facility. If passed, the contract will not only result in more revenue for members of the consortium,
but Pepsi also seemed interested in recycling programs and working with students to meet the needs of the student body, Stern said. “We’re going to see an open partner with Pepsi,” he added. ASUC Cooperative Movement Senator Elliot Goldstein said there was a call from students for the contract to include environmental considerations and recycling programs. As a result, the proposal stated that the offer will be expected to
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Graduate loans’ interest subsidy eliminated with debt ceiling deal By Allie Bidwell | Senior Staff abidwell@dailycal.org Though undergraduate students who benefit from a federal grant program came out on top when President Barack Obama signed a last-minute deal to raise the national debt ceiling Tuesday afternoon, graduate and professional students throughout the country will start owing more on their loans. The debt ceiling deal preserves the maximum award for the federally funded Pell Grant program but will eliminate the interest subsidy for a government-subsidized loan program for graduate and professional students beginning in July 2012. Obama signed the deal immediately following a 74-26 vote in the U.S. Senate, raising the nation’s borrowing limit to avoid a debt default and reducing deficits by at least $2.1 trillion over a decade. As a part of that deal — the Budget Control Act of 2011 — the Pell Grant program was given an additional $17 billion to maintain its maximum award amount of $5,550 at the cost of eliminating the interest subsidy for the Stafford graduate loan program. Students who
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Berkeley lab considers new campus sites By Sarah Rosen | Staff srosen@dailycal.org Since the middle of last month, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has been listening to the proposals of cities stretching from Richmond to Alameda in order to decide where the lab will erect a second campus. According to lab spokesperson Jon Weiner, the proposed second campus is an effort to consolidate lab programs currently in leased spaces throughout the Bay Area, provide room for future lab growth, and provide long-term cost savings as the laboratory pursues its sci-
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Online Exclusives Local representative opposes debt ceiling deal Though the recently passed Budget Control Act of 2011 raises the nation’s debt ceiling and will reduce deficits by trillions of dollars over the next decade, Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Oakland, expressed her strong opposition to the last-minute deal on Monday.
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The project to expand the Safeway on College and Claremont avenues has sparked both strong support and opposition. more than 1,000 supporters who spaces likely for small boutiques along signed a petition endorsing the expan- College Avenue spanning up to 10,000 more square feet, said John Skrivansion. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have worked collaboratively ich, principal architect for Lowney ArPlans to expand the Safeway on Col- with local neighbors and groups on chitecture, a designer for the project. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I feel strongly that if this project lege Avenue have ignited both strong this project and believe the current design best represents all interests,â&#x20AC;? gets built close to the way it is desupport and opposition, with a main Ma^ =Zber <Zeb_hkgbZg ;460;B 2><82B ?DII;4B signed, I believe it will be great for the concern being that the expansion Houghton said in an email. On the other hand, those who op- neighborhood,â&#x20AC;? Skrivanich said. could contribute to congestion in the On the other side of Berkeley, the pose the project are mainly concerned area during peak hours. The project for the store, which lies with the added size of the store, which Safeway on Shattuck Avenue has only in Oakland just past the Berkeley-Oak- will bring more vehicular traffic, Brun- yet to begin construction after more than three years of discussion, accordland border, has been in negotiations ner said. But Houghton said in the email that ing to Skrivanich. for more than two years but may not be Skrivanich said the plans for the up for an official Oakland City Council the city of Oakland has taken precauCollege Avenue Safeway are much recommendation until the spring of tions to address such concerns. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As with any construction project, larger than the final plans for the Shat2012, said Oakland City Councilmemthe city ensures that traffic mitigation tuck Avenue Safeway, and he expects ber Jane Brunner. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve gotten a strong reaction in the measures are in place as part of the ap- the same if not more city and public neighborhood from both sides,â&#x20AC;? Brun- proval for our project,â&#x20AC;? Houghton said discussion. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The College and Claremont (Avin the email. ?7>=4) .*)&.-1&1,)) 50G) .*)&1-2&+1), 4<08;)e^`Zel9]Zber\Ze'hk` Ihlm rhnk :eZf^]Z <hngmr E^`Zel pbma nl' ner said. According to the draft of the envi- enue) Safeway will be tougher â&#x20AC;&#x201D; in the The Oakland Planning Commission hosted a public hearing Wednesday ronmental impact report for the proj- end, I hope the changes are minimal,â&#x20AC;? with a public comment period that will ect, the planned expansion will include Skrivanich said. According to Chris Jackson, the increasing the existing 24,260-squarebe open until August 15. According to an economic benefit foot store to 51,510 square feet plus a operations manager of the Rockridge document for the project, anticipated 10,657-square-foot ground level com- District Assocation â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a business benefits include 78 more Safeway po- mercial space along College Avenue by improvement organization whose sitions, $400,000 in annual revenue utilizing the vacant lot that was previ- district covers the Safeway on Colto the city of Oakland and a better pe- ously occupied by a Union 76 gas sta- lege Avenue â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the association has a neutral position towards the project destrian experience through installing tion. Ihlm rhnk :eZf^]Z <hngmr E^`Zel pbma nl' The space is planned to be a restau- but has voiced concerns in regards to planters, bike racks and articulated rant with public roof access, according traffic. store fronts. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When the project goes before City Susan Houghton, Safeway director to the report. The project also includes plans to Council, we will have to see how it all of public and government affairs, said in an email the project has garnered tentatively include eight tenant retail pans out,â&#x20AC;? Jackson said.
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never really liked going to frat parties. Before this coming-of-age admission, however, I was a freshman desperately trying to enjoy college in the midst of periodic existential dilemmas (or was it just hysteria?). So, I followed my floormates out the door in guises resembling Amy Winehouse, a marionette doll, a tourist in Hawaii ... as if thirsty for a night of nauseating cocktails and dance floors. Though I drew the line on parties with themes like “Sexy Secs and Execs,” walking up to Piedmont became a weekend ritual that I thought would help treat my bouts of social retardation. It wasn’t the time to reason against sticky ice luges and predatory hip-thrusting — it was time to commit to an ideology that would help me fit in. But an ideology is just that. A commitment to one version of reality, serving your ego while enslaving reason. According to Merriam-Webster, ideology is “a systematic body of concepts esp. about human life or culture.” While the freshman Greek party scene inspired me to think of partying differently, it looks like the Tea Party inspires Republicans and Democrats alike to surrender their reason to the reality of seemingly unattainable compromise. Though both parties contested the debt deal without time on their side, each party reasoned with each other in order to come up with a budget that could reduce the deficit. While having a new budget that is supposed to lower the deficit seems better than watching the economy collapse, the budget isn’t much of a compromise when major factors of economic stability (such as employment) take a backseat. As the new budget is centered on tax-cuts with hardly any points on generating revenue, President Obama is still hopeful that a more balanced deal will be reached by the end of the year. According to The New York Times, certain Tea Party members (the notorious Michele Bachman being one of them) rejected the debt deal because it does not reduce federal spending. But when hope is all the President can seem to do to balance the budget, his ideology of change is just another futile political platform. dmittedly a contentious issue I am unqualified to assess economically, one thing is certain — the new budget is indeed a bipartisan bill. Though news sources ranging from the likes of FoxNews to Al Jazeera have expressed discontent over the debt deal, whether it be over not enough or too many cuts, the budget’s priorities reflect the reliably merciless ideology of corporatism. Private foreign investment, corporate tax-breaks and short-term growth make up the ideology that
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Pilar Huerta phuerta@dailycal.org systemize our government’s decisions. Democratic leaders may have tried to make the budget more balanced, but when the bottom-line is to avoid defaulting on debt in order to keep up with the global economy, there is no room for fairness. aving two dominant political parties is itself a compromise to run our continent of a country. Though we play along party lines that make us compromise (or utterly forget) our own personal ideals or morals, a nation that is politically divided is more feasible than “one nation under God.” As we become cliches who choose the lesser of two evils during election season, we substitute our ability to reason for a right to be privileged. Public Policy Professor Robert Reich argues in his latest op-ed that the debt deal isn’t a “victory for the American people over partisanship,” yet it isn’t a complete defeat either. It seems that now more than ever people realize how limited our twoparty system is. Though many more today are hopeful for a third party (Tea anyone?) to emerge as a dominant force in the political arena, we must call for a party that is unrestrained by ideology, but committed to serving justice. Unlike most ideologies that we can ultimately dismiss as subjective, justice represents the truth. Though “the truth” and fairness are infinitely contestable concepts, they are grounded in a present balance between reason and reality, rather than that of a defined ideology that systematically carries the past. It requires “a reasonable belief beyond doubt,” as justice is illustrated to be a scale rather than a narrow manifestation as an elephant, a donkey or a cross. Just as political parties conform to one kind of ideology that limits its guest list, I found my kind of college party at the other end of Piedmont, as a co-op called me to dress up as the Cheshire Cat instead of a Pussycat Doll. While my friends and I gleefully danced to the haze of nineties hiphop, some girls (dressed as Barbie versions of Alice) lackadaisically swayed next to us, constantly looking over their shoulders as if waiting for someone to bump them out of this rabbit hole of a party.
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University of California Press announced Monday that it will partner with the Haas School of Business to publish the school’s peer-reviewed journal as part of an effort by UC Berkeley to consolidate campus operations to save money. Beginning this November, UC Press will publish the California Management Review, the business school’s 53-year-old journal. The newly created partnership comes as part of the Operational Excellence initiative, which implements cost-cutting measures in campus offices, services and programs to create savings for the campus. UC Press will now handle all business operations of the journal, which includes articles written by scholars worldwide about topics such as business management, according to Kora Cypress, managing editor for the journal. She added in an email that this will allow the journal staff to focus its efforts on improving editorial quality and developing the journal’s brand. “It will improve the focus of (California Management Review) operations
by having its business activities like marketing, sales, distribution, production run through UC Press,” Cypress said in the email. “UC Press will benefit from this partnership by increasing its revenue and adding CMR to their existing portfolio of publications.” The change comes as part of the campus’s controversial Operational Excellence initiative, which aims to save $75 million annually through actions including administrative efficiencies and consolidations. Past efforts by the initiative have included the consolidation of staff in departments such as gender and women’s studies, African American studies and ethnic studies last semester. According to Cypress, the transition is going smoothly, which she said can be attributed in part to the fact that both UC Press and the journal’s operations have recently been relocated to the same building, something she said “facilitates close cooperation and coordination.” “This partnership is consistent with the goals of Operational Excellence — it promotes the more efficient use of university resources by having them shared among units,” she said in the email. “It lowers costs while allowing both CMR and UC Press to effectively develop their brands in ways that are
competitive with other, similar institutions.” However, Christine Rosen, an associate professor at the business school and co-chair of the Berkeley Faculty Association, said the change is one of a number of proposals under the Operational Excellence initiative that “requires data to see if it will actually save money.” “It’s a great idea — but these are some of the business aspects of the (Operational Excellence), and I hope it works,” she said. Though the journal will experience administrative changes through UC Press, it will continue to produce articles written by scholars about strategy, organization, business and public policy, according to a press release from the business school. Gundars Strads, the journal’s senior editor, has worked at the publication for 28 years and said that while the journal has a small staff, it is still able to cover a broad range of topics. “It’s a small organization with four people, and we wear a lot of hats,” Strads said. “We publish material from across the spectrum — there are articles written by scholars, academics, CEOs, business executives, so it’s not just academics but practitioner-oriented ... Now we get to hand the hats off to UC Press.”
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From Front address financial and operational support for recycling, waste reduction and minimization of plastic container use, recycled product use and promotional support. While in previous contracts, certain sale goals had to be met in terms of volume, the new contract will not set any minimum sales for water bottles. “It’s all part of the goal to remove bottled water, and Pepsi seemed more than willing to cooperate and support the recycling program,” Stern said. Students at UC Berkeley also participated in an effort last spring to reduce plastic waste on campus. The “End the Sale of Bottled Water” initiative requested that the campus consider ending the sale of bottled water and increasing the number of working drinking fountains and hydration stations. Not only will the new contract support sustainability on campus, but
the agreement also contains “broader choices for students including healthier drink options, and will increase support to ASUC student groups through enhanced revenues over the next ten years to the ASUC,” Permaul said in the email. Forming the proposal has been an ongoing collaborative process between members of the beverage consortium and the ASUC. “Unlike our political leaders, the campus representatives and students worked out language that met the goals of a number of constituencies and needs, and produced a product that will serve the campus well over the next ten years,” Permaul said in the email. Stern added that each of the members’ concerns were heard and that they weighed the needs of each of the units. “I think everyone walked away getting something they wanted,” he said.
campus: Decision on final proposals predicted to be made by November From Front is looking for a site approximately 25 minutes from the Berkeley campus. The sites’ developers have been making their proposals to the lab since July 13, and the final proposal will be made by the properties occupied by the lab in Emeryville and Berkeley on August 8. Weiner said he estimates that a decision will be made by November of this year. “Ideally, a move-in date would be 2016, but the construction will depend on the site,” Weiner added. The lab publicized in a presentation that it is looking for a supportive community with a transportation system and amenities for its employees. Lobbying for the lab to choose the Richmond Field Station as the site for the campus, Richmond City Councilmember Jeff Ritterman said Richmond is the ideal place for the lab, complete with a great amount of community support. “Everybody on the City Council is enthusiastic,” he said. “Members of the Citizen Action Group have all come on board, and we have universal support for this in Richmond, which in and of itself is unusual.” Ritterman added that he thinks
having this lab could help solve Richmond’s unemployment problem. He said he thinks that if the lab can attract green companies, then Richmond can provide the training and people for the workforce. “The lab is a world-class facility. It does research on life science, genetics, biofuels and cancer,” he said. “Richmond would become a first-class research center. It would give us a muchneeded economic boost.” Alameda Point’s Chief Operating Officer Jennifer Ott said the site has offered 45 acres of its land for free in order to try to attract the lab. The site provides the best complete package for what the lab is looking for as far as balancing existing amenities in terms of parks, retail and restaurants, with the ability to provide long-term growth potential, Ott said. “We think it would be a great catalyst for redeveloping the rest of the Navy base,” she said. “We think it would increase our retail sales, it would promote job growth in other parts of the city, it would makes us really a center for clean-tech jobs and create a community resource for our youths and our community.”
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AC Transit, which operates buses in the East Bay, announced Friday that it had reached an agreement with three employee groups that could reduce costs by $7 million. and the district have taken steps to cut costs. According to the statement, bus service was reduced in March last year by 7.8 percent and a second time in October by 7.2 percent for total savings of over $21 million. Additionally, more than 70 general and administrative staff positions as well as a third of the executive staff positions were eliminated. The board
of directors also cut its salary by 5 percent, travel by 50 percent and eliminated a special travel account for transit advocacy. “These are some very turbulent economic times,” Johnson said. “Public agencies like ours are looking for ways to reduce costs so we can continue to provide high levels of service. Any time we can do that is beneficial.”
By Amruta Trivedi | Staff atrivedi@dailycal.org Using optics to manipulate the way light bends when it hits an object, a team of UC Berkeley researchers has developed a cloak to create the illusion of invisibility — a technology that may one day also be used to manipulate solar light energy. In a paper published on July 13 in the American Chemical Society Nano Letters journal, campus mechanical engineers described the development of a new cloaking method to make objects invisible to the human eye by controlling the way light bends when it moves through the cloak. The “carpet cloak,” a name given to this new technology by the researchers in campus mechanical engineering professor Xiang Zhang’s nanoscience research lab, was developed in nine months and is a covering made of thin layers of silicon oxide and silicon nitride that sits on a silver mirror. The cloak not only covers an object hidden below, but also bends light away from the bump the object creates to flatten the image viewed by the human eye. “The cloak has a variable refractive index,” said Chris Gladden, a graduate student researcher and a co-author of the paper. “So by controlling the index of a material, we can control the way light moves through it. We can hide something under the cloak, and using the cloak, we flatten the bump.” Although the cloak that Gladden and post-doctoral research fellow Majid Gharghi developed is about 5 inches wide, it only works to create the illusion of invisibility on microscopic objects roughly 300 nanometers in diameter — about the size of a red blood cell. Because this cloak works for objects less than 100 times its size, Gladden said scaling up this technology for a human-sized “invisibility cloak” would be difficult. If the current cloak were scaled up, it would need to be the size of mid-sized room in order to
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work for one person, he said. Gladden and Gharghi have been studying the properties of nanomaterials like silicon oxide and silicon nitride to identify which material combination can provide the a higher index of refraction because, according to Gharghi, the higher the index, the slower the light travels through the material and the easier it is to flatten the bump. “Right now we are limited by the maximum refractive index of the materials we use,” Gladden said. “But that does not limit the potential of a new material. If we are able to find a material with a much higher (refractive) index, we can create a much more compact cloaking.” This is not the first time Zhang’s group has used optics to create invisibility “cloaks.” In 2009, the group
used artificial materials to hide objects on a flat surface, and in February, Zhang’s group developed GRIN plasmonics — the use of specialized lenses to reroute and reflect light on the nanoscale. In contrast to the GRIN plasmonics technology, which according to Gladden, was limited to creating invisibility on the red visible light and infrared light spectra only, the “carpet cloak” creates invisibility across the entire visible light spectrum. Because of this property, Gharghi said the technology could one day be layered on top of solar cells to manipulate solar energy and light, though he added that nanomaterials exhibit certain properties that disappear when they are scaled up to a human size. “The unique properties of nanomaterials make scaling up very difficult,” Gharghi said. “Right now there are no nanofabrication techniques that can be used to size up for the human body.”
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Police respond to illegal acts at Greek Theatre By Noah Kulwin | Staff nkulwin@dailycal.org UCPD responded to several illegal acts at a rock concert at the Hearst Greek Theatre this past Saturday evening, though the department said none were particularly raucous or unusual. Among the incidents were an arrest for alleged battery of a peace officer and several citations for alleged public drunkenness as fans gathered for a performance of metal band A Perfect Circle. UCPD Captain Margo Bennett was also clear in pointing out that the events were not indicative of a trend. The night of the concert, there were four separate listings for illegal acts on the UCPD crime logs — which was not “problematic, but active” Bennett said. “There were a lot of people in line ... security checks going in, a couple citations of public drunkenness and one parole violation,” Bennett said. “It was not unusual.” The parole violation occurred at about 9:56 p.m., almost two hours into the concert. Although the specific violation was not listed and Bennett could not comment on the detail, upon arrest, the suspect resisted and gave the attending officer a hand injury, adding the charge of battery of a peace officer, she said. At this particular concert, there was not any additional staff, nor was there any extra action taken on behalf of the UCPD to ramp up security — the show was not deemed to have been “a bad concert in the sense of public safety,” according to Bennett. “When we determine staffing for a concert, we are staffing the concert on behalf of the Greek Theatre,” Bennett said. “So we ask ‘what’s the estimated attendance, what kind of activity have we seen associated with this group?’ And that helps us to determine how many officers are needed to staff.” A Perfect Circle was formed in 1999 by two former members of a different alternative band as well as several
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Police responded to several illegal acts, including battery of a peace officer and a parole violation, at a rock concert at the Hearst Greek Theatre, above, on Saturday. other instrumentalists. The concert last weekend was part of the band’s reunion tour after a seven-year hiatus. In general, bands playing at the Greek Theatre do not have a significant impact on crime in the area, according to Berkeley Police Department spokesperson Sgt. Mary Kusmiss. “As was the case this past Saturday evening — Berkeley Police Department beat patrol officers stayed in touch with the officers of the UCPD in order to coordinate crowd control efforts,” Kusmiss said. “As fans leave the Greek Theatre towards the Telegraph Avenue area, or the BART, we have a few officers and cars around the area to patrol what’s going on.” While the concert this past weekend was not considered to be troublesome for UCPD, the Berkeley Police Department or the community at large, there have been more severe
spikes in crime associated with other acts at the Greek Theatre in the past. When the popular jam band Phish and its devoted “phans” came to Berkeley to play at the Greek last August, there were 12 instances of public urination, two unauthorized public fires, one arrest for battery against a peace officer, six arrests for drug possession and sales and an unauthorized campsite. In that instance, drugs including marijuana, ecstasy, methamphetamines, cocaine and psylocibin were found among attendees, in addition to the exclusion of eight people from the UC Berkeley campus. Over 20 people were given field interviews for possible alcohol violations — in contrast to the handful of alcohol-related citations at the A Perfect Circle concert. “How we react changes from group to group,” Bennett said. “It just depends.”
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Classroom 127 Dwinelle is currently being converted into an ‘active learning classroom’ in order to foster alternative teaching methods and more student collaboration.
Some campus classrooms undergo changes for learning experiment By Tiffany Chiao | Staff tchiao@dailycal.org One of several UC Berkeley classrooms that are being converted into active learning classrooms, which would serve as “test kitchens” to try out new tools and techniques in classes, was completed last week and will now be available for use in the fall semester. The project to transform two classrooms — 127 Dwinelle Hall and 340 Evans Hall — seeks to reshape the original layout of a classroom into one that engages in innovative modes of teaching for faculty and students and provides technology to enhance learning, according to Mara Hancock, director for educational technology. The renovations began this summer as a project by the campus Educational Technology Services. The new features of the classrooms include more flexible furniture, webcasting, plasma screens and huddleboards — whiteboards that are small enough to use for group work and that could be hung up and used for presentations. These technologies would allow for collaborative activities and different teaching styles, the results of which would then be studied to see which tools worked and which did not, Hancock said. According to Deborah Nolan, a campus professor of statistics, construction of 340 Evans was completed last week, and the classroom will be used in the fall by the department of statistics and CalTEACH. Hancock said ETS hopes to have the other classroom open to select courses shortly after the semester begins. According to Hancock, the idea for the project originated last summer after the Campus Committee on Classroom Policy and Management sponsored a report — of which Nolan was the chair — on active learning classrooms. Following the results of the report,
Hancock said, ETS found there were funds left over from money used for installing, maintaining and enhancing technology in classrooms and proposed to use the funds to create these classrooms and explore their functions, receiving support from the committee. “We suggested that we go ahead and start utilizing these existing funds to test it out and explore what the issues might be with faculty in a controlled space,” Hancock said. Though criteria for choosing which faculty and courses have access to the renovated classrooms are still being developed, ETS is interested in targeting faculty who would collaborate in developing the space and designing a course that allows students to become active learners, according to Hancock. “We’ll work with them to define what they’re trying to achieve and how they’ll use the space to achieve their goals,” Hancock said. Should the test classrooms go over well, Nolan said she hopes the campus can learn from the experiences and refurbish additional general assignment classrooms, stating that other universities, such as Stanford University, have already adopted these new methods. “They’ve found that once they put in the active learning classrooms that the faculty demand has increased to use more of these classrooms,” Nolan said. “I think we’re all recognizing the way students learn is changing.” Vice Provost of Teaching, Learning, Academic Planning and Facilities Catherine Koshland agreed with the project’s goal of experimenting with new technologies and modes of teaching. “It is important for UC Berkeley to be deeply involved in defining and supporting the wide range of methods for teaching and learning in the 21st century ... This project is representative of the (university’s) effort to build and cultivate a wider discussion around these topics,” Koshland said in an email.
Fountains of Wayne SKY FULL OF HOLES [Yep Rock]
ky Full of Holes is Fountains of Wayne’s fifth studio album. Yeah, I couldn’t believe it either. It seems that this New York-based alt. rock group was destined to be a onehit wonder, fading into childhood nostalgia as the only song we can remember is “Stacy’s Mom” — you know, that highly inappropriate yet wildly catchy single. But their latest release comes as a surprise. Featuring a more subdued Fountains of Wayne, it sticks to a basic formula of bouncy guitar riffs, gentle rhythms and boyish vocals. Though it’s nothing drastic and everything soothing, the album is simplicity at its best and a perfect embodiment of its genre. Churning out songs since the mid90s, Fountains of Wayne have been around for awhile. Their rock roots peak in an elegant display of maturity. At the same time, the album could have very easily slipped into the realm of triteness. Fountains of Wayne rely on traditional techniques, piecing together a sound that might come off as derivative. However, there is a poignant rawness, tinged with melancholy, that makes their music anything but commonplace. Opener “The Summer Place” begins on an innocuous note, much like every other rock song in existence. But that’s only the tip of the iceberg, as the track paints a vivid profile of a lost soul, bolstered by distinct guitar riffs. Fountains of Wayne constructs quite a few narratives in Sky Full of Holes, all of which carry a hint of rue, from “Richie and Ruben” to “Hate to See You Like This.” The bad news is that listening to these tracks on repeat can be quite a bit of a downer. But the good news is that the intensity carries a strange sort of catharsis and Sky Full of Holes will be your go-to album in times of emotional need. — Cynthia Kang
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Joss Stone LP1 [Stone’d/Surfdog]
on’t be fooled by the nose ring on the cover of Joss Stone’s fifth studio release, LP1. There’s nothing remotely rebellious about the soulful singer’s new album. All the rebellion of the British neosoul niche seems to have passed along with Amy Winehouse. That’s not to say there’s no life left in the movement. Adele’s taken up the bluesy mantle with the explosive success of 21, and Joss Stone’s latest proves she’s still in the game, with a pleasant string of stirring tracks still in time for summer. Since her debut in 2003, Stone has proven herself capable of vocals on a par with Beyonce and even her evident influences, Janis Joplin and the Queen of Soul herself, Aretha Franklin. Her voice is powerful, evocative and on tracks like the ballad, “Last One to Know,” emotionally raw. But, her impressive vocal ability tends to be easily overshadowed by overwrought production or, perhaps even worse, diluted by lackluster instrumentation. And, with lyrics that are equally sub-par (“treat this day like a newborn baby”), LP1 becomes nothing more than an agreeable mixed bag of R&B ballads and soulful sass. It seems Stone hasn’t quite gotten her footing since her split from EMI in 2009. Since teaming up with a new record label, Stone’d, the name implies a more relaxed, freer and independent environment with increased creative control. Unfortunately, what emerges is perhaps the least dynamic of Stone’s work. While the more upbeat songs, like “Don’t Start Lying to Me Now” with its cheerful hand-clapping and empowering attitude, and some of the slower jams are satisfying, they’re lacking in any real energy. If LP1 is Joss Stone’s independent breakthrough, it’s about as radical as her humdrum nose ring. — Jessica Pena
truly show off the flourishing visuals. The great Redwood trees are smooth and vibrantly colored as the apes climb and swing from the branches. The Golden Gate Bridge battle is nicely detailed, with the apes swinging their way over and under the eloquentl crafted bridge. With its stunning graphics, “Rise” is able to captivate the viewers emotionally as well as visually. Sadly, the human actors aren’t quite as convincing as their ape counterparts. Franco is definitely the most believable of the cast (and that’s saying something). His relationship with Caesar is heartwarming and convincing, but he lacks the magnetism of his ape counterpart — unless you count his usual smug charm and good looks. Freida Pinto (“Slumdog Millionaire”) portrays the love interest Caroline Aranha. Similar to Franco, the actress is mostly there to highlight the plight of the apes. The rest of the cast’s performances are even less noteworthy. Although it is sort of fun to see Tom Felton outside of Harry Potter. Too bad he winds up playing the Muggle, American equivalent to Malfoy, as he once again portrays a cocky asshole who enjoys causing suffering and misery to those around him. With average acting and dazzling effects, “Rise” manages to even out as a fairly entertaining film. The film may not be as effective a reboot as “Batman Begins” or “X-men: First Class,” but Caesar’s complex connections with humans and apes carries the movie and builds from its innocent beginning to a powerful conclusion. Although the slow-brewing plotline makes the film feel longer than its 105minute timeline, director Rupert Wyatt has created a visually radiant film that somehow forms an oddly touching connection between the audience and those “damn dirty apes.”
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debt: Incentives for on-time repayment of loans also to be discontinued in 2012 From front receive Stafford loans will need to begin paying interest on their loans while still in school or let it accumulate. Additionally, beginning in July of 2012, the act eliminates loan repayment incentives for students who make their payments on time. According to a Congressional Budget Office analysis of the act, it is estimated that the changes would reduce direct spending by $9.6 billion over the 2012-16 period and $21.6 billion over the 2012-21 period. Currently, Stafford loan borrowers who make 12 consecutive on-time payments are eligible for a rebate of 0.5 percent of the loan amount, which is applied to the 1 percent repayment fee. Approximately 40 percent of all UC undergraduates are eligible for Pell Grants — which offer up to $5,550 in aid that does not have to be repaid — and received a total of $321 million this past year. Graduate students can currently borrow as much as $20,500 a year in federal Stafford loans. That level will be raised to make up for the extra amount students will have to spend to make up for the subsidies, according to the CBO analysis. “As appreciative as we are that Pell has been preserved this time around,
we move forward with caution knowing that the fight is not over, that the future stability of Pell and other crucial higher education programs is still at stake,” said United States Student Association President Victor Sanchez in a statement. “It’s without a doubt that the victory we do come away with is a result of the hard work of students from around the nation, putting this issue at the forefront of the debate.” According to estimates from the CBO analysis, the overall changes in direct spending for education programs would, on net, increase direct spending by $7.4 billion over the 2012-16 period but reduce direct spending by $4.6 billion over the 2012-21 period. However, Obama said in a statement following the bill’s enactment that this is just the “first step to ensuring that as a nation we live within our means.” “I’ve said it before; I will say it again: We can’t balance the budget on the backs of the very people who have borne the biggest brunt of this recession,” he said in the statement. “We can’t make it tougher for young people to go to college ... or ask scientists to give up on promising medical research because we couldn’t close a tax shelter for the most fortunate among us. Everyone is going to have to chip in.” Allie Bidwell is the news editor.
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Playing with vocalist Kate Long, Zach Rogue delighted fans with his soothing melodies at the Swedish American Music Hall. running around here tonight … that’s mine,” and proceeded to dedicate to her a fitting tune, “Running Away From Me.” Indeed, the familial affection was infectious that night; all the band members, with the exception of Long, were sporting plaid shirts. She joked about the lads’ matching attire, remarking that if “tonight goes well, I’ll have my very own plaid shirt.” Long certainly did not seem segregated from the family, as her tender pipes provided a haunting backdrop for Rogue’s gruff tones. She switched back and forth between bass, keyboards, and the shaker, and at select
moments stole the spotlight away from frontman Rogue. Release the Sunbird’s set grew increasingly more dynamic and powerful as the evening progressed, the musicians displaying more and more patience as they allowed every note to grow fuller and reverberate with more depth. Rogue’s command of the stage cemented as he eased into his songs with the sincerity and confidence of a veteran songster. The vocals of Release the Sunbird were the most pleasing aspect of their sound, as every band member lent his or her voice at some point, and a proficient sound check insured that
no booming bass sounds overpowered the delicate vocal fascia. Their blossoming musicality culminated in the night’s closing track, a spirited cover of “Road to Nowhere” by Talking Heads. David Byrne would have smiled from the heavens down onto the altar-like stage had he been in attendance, as each separate instrumental component converged to form a fluid whole. With Thursday night’s performance, Release the Sunbird have proved to make music for music’s sake, letting extraneous performance qualities dissolve into the mindless chatter of in-law gossip.
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he Thursday night crowd at San Francisco’s Swedish American Music Hall was littered with disgruntled faces of middle-aged nineto-fivers trying desperately to make it through the workweek. Everybody was hoping that Zach Rogue’s new project Release the Sunbird would provide that last surge of strength for the Friday ahead. As promised, the band delivered an hourlong set of airplane music — easy music to drown out the mechanical drone of Boeing engines, or in this case, the cerebral strain of San Francisco desk jobs. The Swedish American Music Hall, immediately up the street from Cafe du Nord, was set up like the interior of a church: a flat, altar-esque stage in front surrounded by wooden benches along the side walls and two columns of seating with an aisle down the middle. The band’s setup was simply minimal, with Kate Long on bass, Kenny Childers and Mike Bridavsky both on guitar and Pete Schriener on percussions framing Rogue at center stage. All the band members stayed relatively stationary throughout the evening, so there was nothing much else to do except relax, pop open a bottle of wine, and sway to acoustic croonings about love, life and why. Release the Sunbird’s set started softly with a tentative rendition of “Always Like The Son” from their debut album, Come Back to Us. The 13-track LP bulges with cliche song titles such as “Why Can’t You Look at Yourself ” and “Everytime You Go.” Yet Thursday night’s spectacle did not resemble a cheese fest but a more subdued family gathering at Sunday church. Rogue’s daughter was in attendance, bouncing up and down the aisle in a flowery smock and massive headphones, watching her dad sing to a room full of strangers. He introduced her with the prelude “if you see a kid
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As long as it’s coming from a place of mystery or a space that has not been uncovered yet or there’s not room for — that’s what makes people react in one way or another.”
Thursday, August 4, 2011 – Sunday, August 7, 2011
—Miranda July, “The Future”
interview
Post-July
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future Director Miranda July sat down with the Daily Cal to discuss her latest film, among other topics.
By Ryan Lattanzio | Senior Staff rlattanzio@dailycal.org
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here was something so Miranda July-esque in learning that I’d only have 20 minutes to interview Miranda July, and that I’d be sharing those 20 minutes with another person. But…why? I thought. I’m so close. I was reminded of a moment in her debut film “Me and You and Everyone We Know” (2005) when Christine (played by Ms. July herself ) approaches a gallery director and asks her to look at a videotape portfolio. Indifferently, the director tells Christine to send it in the mail instead. “But I’m so close,” Christine tells her. Miranda July, doe-eyed, her hair coyly coiffed in ringlets, has been the subject of increasing recognition in cinema. She makes deeply personal films that marvel at the world and see our tedious everyday realities with fresh eyes. For her second film, “The Future” — opening Aug. 19 in the Bay Area — July said she “wanted to move into sadness” and away from the irreverence of “Me and You and Everyone We Know.” July’s film, where each character in that film is “more of an icon than a real person” — seems lighthearted when compared to her sophomore feature. “The Future” feels more lived-in and spare, just like its comfortable but doomed central relationship between Sophie (July) and Jason (Hamish Linklater), who behave like opposite sex doppelgangers. There’s a great deal of sadness in the film as July’s characters Sophie and Jason deal with issues of romantic despair and existential crises, all packaged in crisp and lugubrious images. Like her first feature, July’s film serves up a number of postmodern flourishes — a T-shirt that moves by itself, a talking moon, to name a few — and various contortions of space and time that make “The Future” a decidedly riskier and likely more polarizing project. It’s neither as upbeat or offbeat as her debut. “The humor was so focused on in the first movie … but there were a lot of other kind of queasier themes in it,” she said of “Me and You,” a droll mingling of affectedness and affection, an affection between disconnected people in a disconnected world. “The Future” shares this conceit but with a fatalist tone. July said that despite self-casting, and that the period where she wrote “The Future “was a “dark time” filled with big changes, there’s nothing autobiographical about this film. “There’s lots of qualities of mine in all the characters, which is hard for people to believe,” she said. “I remember with the first movie trying to explain … Yes there’s some of Christine in me but there’s also a lot of the pervert guy who puts the signs in the windows (in “Me and You and Everyone We Know”). That’s me too,” she said.
Though details like this make film her most personal medium, July does not want to be known solely as a filmmaker. She’s also an artist and published author of the book of short stories “No One Belongs Here More Than You” (2007). The collection delved into the romantic dalliances of emotionally alienated characters — the kind of things you’d expect to encounter in a July work. This November, she’ll be publishing a nonfiction book about people who post classifieds in the PennySaver and also about the making of “The Future,” entitled “It Chooses You.” To add to the list of her multi-talents, July seems to have a perpetual backward glance toward her performance art background, which began with staging plays in high school at 924 Gilman, as she moves forward in her career. “How I orient myself and how I come to know the work is partly by being in it,” she said. She puts even more of herself into the film with Shirtie, an oversized yellow T-shirt that moves by itself. “I have a yellow shirt also. Mine’s called Nightie,” July said, candidly. “My thinking was that that shirt … predates everything, every boyfriend, my whole career, everything. It is so essentially me that if I were to ever forsake myself and try to flee my soul, my creativity, my life, everything that identifies me, I think my shirt might come crawling after me.” This is what the shirt does to Sophie in “The Future” when she leaves Jason to try on another life with Marshall (David Warshofky), a middle-aged single dad. The shirt is a symbol of “how you can’t actually divorce from your essential self,” July explained. “I used it as a way to externalize the way you haunt yourself.” July is committed to remaining true to herself. “What makes it interesting is finding a way to do new things that feel like you.” July said. “So I’m actually not trying to do things in a way that doesn’t feel like me. That doesn’t appeal.” In short, July has clearly developed her own trademark aesthetic. It’s a certain kind of preciousness that becomes something more hardhitting. Neither of her films could ever be conceived as the work of anybody else. Her influences are not apparent, or at least she doesn’t wear them on her sleeve, so that can only mean a singular cinematic vision is at work. July said it best herself: “I do think, okay, you can do anything in any style, any which way, so really knowing that, what do you want to do?”
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