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BART service disrupted by protest By Tiffany Chiao | Staff tchiao@dailycal.org BART’s controversial decision to cut underground cellphone service during an attempted protest last week has since resulted in a breach of the transit agency’s computer system, another protest and a federal investigation. Organized by the group Anonymous, the first protest was scheduled for Aug. 11 to denounce fatal shootings at BART stations but was disrupted when the transit agency decided to disable cellphone reception in order to prevent protest organizers from communicating and causing a disruption in service, according to BART officials. In response to that decision, protests broke out at several BART stations in San Francisco Monday evening, prompting officials from the transit agency to close off four

stations and disrupting passengers headed to or from other Bay Area cities, including Berkeley. Once protesters began to cause a disturbance by crowding the platforms and preventing others from getting on the trains, BART police — aided by the San Francisco Police Department and Sheriff ’s Department — closed the Civic Center station at around 5 p.m., according to Bob Franklin, a member of the BART Board of Directors. When that station was cleared, protesters moved to other train stops, resulting in the closure of the Powell, Montgomery and Embarcadero stations as well. All the stops resumed their normal schedules by approximately 7:30 p.m. Though people at those San Francisco stations were unable to leave for the most part, BART trains continued to let passengers off at every stop. “If you were leaving from Powell and going to Berkeley, you were

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and buy-back operation. Under the new contract with the conservation center, which took effect this fiscal year, the center will remit 7.5 percent of gross receipts resulting from the sale of the city’s recyclables and use the remaining 92.5 percent of the revenue to fund its operating and capital expenses. Total remittances are estimated to be about $1 million over the next four years, with an additional $500,000 available if the contract is renewed for both of its potential one-year

UC Berkeley junior Bonnie Tung was forced to switch public universities during her study abroad program in Santiago, Chile, these past few months due to ongoing local protests for education reform. This summer, the social and political predicaments in several foreign countries hosting thousands of UC students like Tung hit home with the occurrence of the London riots and the ongoing Chile protests initiated by local citizens calling for government reform. “We were allowed to choose two of Chile’s oldest and best universities for the program ... but because of the protest, most of the students had to transfer from La Chile to La Catolica (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile),” Tung said in an email. “But even then, a lot of us are taking classes in the humanities department — which is completely on strike. We would go to class, and there would be no class.” Riots in neighborhoods throughout greater London abated on Aug. 12 after five days of civil disturbances including looting and vandalism, according to the UC Education Abroad Program website. Across the ocean in Chile, hunger strikes and school takeovers — launched in June by approximately 100,000 students, teachers and education workers fighting against government spending cuts — have escalated in power this past week. According to Andrea Delap, senior analyst at the UC Education Abroad

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Protesters demonstrate in San Francisco in response to a recent BART decision. impacted,” Franklin said. “At downtown San Francisco, at various times (stations) were shut down to new passengers, but passengers who were leaving could get off.”

In an earlier response to the cellphone service cut, Anonymous hacked into the myBART website — an email service that offers event

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city budget

Waste management division addresses deficit By J.D. Morris | Senior Staff jmorris@dailycal.org Though at first glance, the city of Berkeley’s waste transfer station and recycling center look much the same as they always have, the monetary aspects behind them tell a different story. Located in the outskirts of West Berkeley near the freeway and the bay beyond, the recycling center — managed by a third party contractor — pro-

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This is the third installment of a three-part series that covers the city’s budget.

cesses local residential and commercial recycling, while the city-operated transfer station performs a similar service for trash and green waste. Over the last two years, as the city’s Solid Waste Management Division has attempted to overcome a several million dollar structural deficit in the refuse fund — which supports the collection of

UC students abroad notice the impact of recent unrest

waste, recycling and green waste and the contracts that allow for those services — a series of measures has been taken to create a more sustainable program. Earlier this summer, the Berkeley City Council approved new contracts, altering the city’s relationships with the Ecology Center — the agency responsible for operating the city’s residential recycling program — and the Community Conservation Center, which processes those recyclables as well as commercial recyclables collected by city crews. The conservation center also runs a drop-off

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Bart: System has seen intermittent protests the last two years From FRONT discounts — on Sunday and compromised contact information, including names, email addresses and passwords, for approximately 2,400 members, according to a BART statement. The Federal Communications Commission also responded to BART’s cellphone service disruption and plans to investigate the incident. “Any time communications services are interrupted, we seek to assess the situation,” said FCC spokesperson Neil Grace in a statement. “We are continuing to collect information about BART’s actions and will be taking steps to hear from stakeholders about the important issues those actions raised.” Franklin said the discussion with the FCC is ongoing but that BART has been providing necessary information and explanations for the cut in service. According to Franklin, BART’s decisions to disable cellphone usage last week and close the stations during the Monday protest were made to prevent a disruptive protest similar to the one on July 11 — held in response to the fatal shooting of Charles Hill — from occurring. Demonstrations have occurred in-

termittently in and out of BART stations for the past two years decrying the deaths of Oscar Grant III on Jan. 1, 2009, and Hill on July 3, both of whom were shot by BART police. According to Franklin, during the July 11 demonstration, protesters blocked passengers from entering or exiting BART trains, and one person even climbed on top of a BART car — an act that might have led to electrocution. The backed-up BART trains resulted in extremely crowded stations and cars and delays of up to 30 minutes, Franklin said. On Aug. 11, Franklin said, BART officials realized protest organizers were using their cellphones to communicate police locations to each other and assembling based on such reports, and they cut off cellphone access to prevent the protest from escalating. According to BART spokesperson Jim Allison, the decision to stop cellphone service was made by BART police, signed by the general manager and carried out by interrupting the cellphone signal, which would normally go down to the platform levels. Phone carriers were not involved, though they were informed,

Allison said. Despite disabling cellular phones at and in between the four San Francisco stations, Allison and Franklin both said courtesy phones that would connect callers with a station agent were located in the stations. Franklin added that it is illegal for people to protest inside the BART fare gates and on the platforms for safety reasons. “We have free speech areas where we encourage people to go,” he said. “But when you’re impeding the access of people in wheelchairs, people can’t walk around, you’re not letting people on and off trains — we had to intervene.” Jean Hamilton, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3993, agreed that maintaining service was a top priority but said she was unsure whether or not the decision was fully thought through. “I’m not sure whether it was reasonable or not under the Constitution,” Hamilton said, “But we know longstanding that any time you give a service to riders, there’s hell to pay if you end that service.”

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Gift to help campus develop online programs By Javier Panzar and Mihir Zaveri newsdesk@dailycal.org

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Five UC Berkeley professional schools and the UC Berkeley Extension will develop cutting-edge tools for online education thanks to a $1 million gift from a campus foundation, officials announced Tuesday. Over the next 18 months, the five schools and extension will use the money from the Chamberlin Family Donor Designated Fund at the UC Berkeley Foundation to create test courses, workshops and other online initiatives. The gift will be split up among the extension and UC Berkeley’s College of Engineering, Graduate School of Education, Haas School of Business, School of Information, and School of Public Health. The move is separate from the controversial systemwide foray into online education for undergraduates, led by Christopher Edley, dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law. That move has been subject to criticism from faculty who say the

lack of personal interaction cheapens the quality of a UC education and could be a financial boondoggle when the UC is facing hundreds of millions of dollars in cuts from the state. The UC first began pursuing online education in March 2010, when Edley presented his online education proposal to the UC Commission on the Future. Since then, the university has approved an undergraduate pilot program, though limited funding for the initiative has delayed its implementation. The UC now hopes to have 29 online courses for the spring 2012 semester. But proponents of online education argue that the development of online courses increases accessibility and affordability for students while creating a new source of income for the UC. Adam Berman, executive director of the Berkeley online consortium, said the Chamberlin-funded pilot will help determine the financial viability of full-scale online courses. “We are really piloting the next generation of online learning,” said Adam Berman, executive director of emerging initiatives for Haas.

But information school dean AnnaLee Saxenian said Edley’s pilot and the Chamberlin-funded initiative are inherently linked. She said the information school will use some of the gift to help develop its undergraduate courses for the UC program, including an online Introduction to Information course. According to Karen Rhodes, executive director of marketing and communications at the engineering school, the school has not set any specific plans for how it will use its slice of the money — about $100,000. “It’s going to be a period of exploration — there are a lot of different directions the college can go with this,” she said. She added that the school is particularly interested in developing professional or master’s degree programs relating to integrated circuit design. “This is a pilot, and the thesis here is that there are a variety of emerging technologies that are creating opportunities to rethink how we’re educating students,” Berman said. “We need to understand how these technologies should be incorporated into Berkeley’s plans.”

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think, therefore I am.� But as the jester literati of the Heuristic Squelch once put it, “I think, therefore I am sad.� And to avoid such pensive thoughts, we plug into something — anything — to animate mundane weekly routines, and then escape into weekends of consumable debauchery. Many of us enter college with intangible goals that were preset in high school. Whether it be the reinvention of isolated adolescence into sophisticated credit-backed independence, or sacrilegiously living up to unfulfilled dreams of parents, we forget what we want. Simply getting ready for the best four years of life that Hollywood has produced for medicated souls, we enter college with uncertainty that we reassure with the quantifiable measurements of the internationalized American Dream. As many struggle to catch up with the picture perfect illusion of ‘the rest of America,’ one way to bridge the gap is to develop marketable resume points instead of staying true to their own individual portraits. But as the land of milk and honey is losing the credibility of its dream, we sink in and out of depressions and anxieties that often result from the aimless consumption that necessary weekly routines seem to be centered on. The desire for instant gratification often clutters our minds so much that we forget about personal growth and find passing highs in material fulfillment. While everyone has heard that “money doesn’t buy happiness,� not having enough of it always seems to be a problem. But as fellow American-dreamers struggle to make ends meet without maxing out their credit cards, material fulfillment satisfies the void that self-awareness would otherwise fill when excess is synonymous with having “just enough.� e are caught in a comatoselike dream where the most evident crack in the breakdown of this perpetually dissatisfying system is the adrenaline shot that will wake us up. As Westernized countries become more open about the economic interdependence between them and that of the “Third World,� the antidepressant effect of credit is wearing off. Accruing financial debt has become a rite of passage for the majority of American individuals, starting off with college loans that have become part of “the college experience,� and having an unpaid mortgage as a regular mid-life crisis. While some have been blessed with the wisdom and will to “just say no,� too many of us are preoccupied with living up to an unnatural standard of living that only the manufactured American dream can quench. While we revel in the majesty of

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Pilar Huerta phuerta@dailycal.org art, knowledge, culture, technology and other luxuries that have become necessities, the better half of the world’s population can only dream of it. ur race has gone above and beyond the imaginations of our cavemen ancestors, but it seems that we have been too absorbed in our progress to question the reality of injustice. Though “life is unfair,� our ignorance has allowed it to flourish into proportions indirectly connected to our actions. What’s the point of educating ourselves for a better world when we don’t even know how it got so bad in the first place? While we get most of our news from headlines in the New York Times and let the Most Viewed sidebar influence which stories we invest our unpaid time in, current events have become everyday incidents. The news is a scroll of daily occurrences as common as seeing overweight squirrels on campus, and as shocking as seeing naked students run through Moffitt during dead week. We don’t know how or why it happened, just that it did. Journalists write the news with the intent to inform and not to persuade. This way, we can make up our own opinions free of intellectual advertising. We have been witnessing reality from the looking-glass that is our computer screen, which has reduced our perception of reality to meaningless names, random dates and faraway lands. While the immediate effects of global warming take a backseat to those of the inflated economic crisis, thinking of the San Francisco Airport buried underwater in 30 years is as hard to imagine as it is true. Though urban planners and environmental consultants in the City plan for this future backed by copious data and research, we are more reliant on varying economic forecasts to plan our short-term stability. Let’s not be sad, but thoughtful. At a time when thoughts are reduced to repulsively clever online statuses and Tweets, we must continue to type real words instead of using our thumbs to abbreviate.

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After months of anticipation, speculation and construction, Apple Inc. will unveil its new retail store location in Berkeley on Saturday — a move which some hope will contribute to the atmosphere and revitalization of the area. The Apple store — located at 1823 Fourth St. — will be open to the public at a Grand Opening ceremony beginning at 10 a.m. on Saturday. Prior to the construction of the Fourth Street store, the Apple retail store located closest to Berkeley was in Emeryville, just under three miles from the new store’s location. The store will occupy a space previously held by furniture retailer Slater Marinoff & Company. According to Dave Fogarty, Berkeley’s economic development project coordinator, the store’s opening will contribute to the revitalization of the commercial area surrounding it. “There’s no question that the store will attract a lot of people and help

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to revitalize Fourth Street,� Fogarty said. “I think it will bump up Fourth Street in terms of Berkeley business districts.� The store’s opening will contribute to the city by generating revenues from sales tax as well as bringing consumers to the area, he said. Additionally, the store will have an impact in terms of employment despite its small size, Fogarty added. “We’re certainly concerned about employment in the midst of a depression, but it is one store, and I can’t imagine they’ll employ more than 50 people or so,� Fogarty said. “Even so, that number is not negligible.� Local merchants expressed a mixture of excitement and trepidation at the Apple store opening in the area. According to Wai Lee, owner of Modern Accessories for Computers, which is located on Shattuck Avenue near University Avenue, it will take time to determine what the impacts of the Apple store will be. “It’s hard to say, and we’ll see how it plays out,� Lee said. “We have a very happy customer base, and they are really loyal to us.� Lee said that, ideally, he hopes to es-

tablish a cooperative relationship with the store. According to Lee, local Apple retail stores already refer customers to his store. “There isn’t a 100 percent overlap between the things we do,� Lee said. “We welcome them to the community, wish them well and if they need any help from us, they’re always free to refer people our way.� George Kiskaddon and his wife Sally own Builders Booksource, which is located directly adjacent to the new Apple store. George Kiskaddon said he had “mixed feelings� about the store opening in the area. “It’s going to change our block a lot, but at this point I need to be optimistic because business has been depressed for over the last year,� George Kiskaddon said. “We’re optimistic that it’ll bring a whole new group of people ... it could be great. We’ll see what happens.� While the news that the store is opening is now publicly available, initially the store had been tightlipped about releasing information regarding the store’s coming to

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A recent study published by a UC Berkeley postdoctoral scholar shows that same-sex pairs of one type of monogamous bird have relationships that are just as faithful and strong as those of male-female pairs. Julie Elie, currently a campus postdoctoral scholar, began her research on zebra finches in 2007 at the University of Saint Etienne, looking to examine how different types of relationships influence communication between the birds. In the study — published online Aug. 6 in the journal Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology — Elie and her two colleagues found that male zebra finch pairs exhibited different types of communication as well as behaviors displayed in heterosexual pairs. “Male–male and female–female same-sex bonds display the same behavioral characteristics as male– female ones: they are intense, highly selective, and stable affinitive relationships involving the same behavioral displays already described in wild birds,” the study reads. “Because the pair-bond in socially monogamous

species represents a partnership that may give advantages for survival ... we propose that same sex pairing in the zebra finch may result from the pressure to find a social partner.” In her research, Elie used five groups of adult zebra finches: two same-sex groups of only males or females and three mixed groups of varied sex ratio. “Either they could choose to interact with all the birds or what we observed — still they did interact with only one particular individual,” Elie said. “That was a sign they had wellestablished, clear pair-bonds.” In the male-only groups of zebra finches — a type of bird that typically forms long-lasting monogamous relationships with members of the opposite sex — Elie observed that they exhibited similar behaviors as those birds in heterosexual pairs, such as private duets of calls, preening each other and touching their beaks together. According to Elie, even the introduction of new potential mates did

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Don’t let Berkeley’s urban sprawl fool you. Not only is the campus intertwined with luscious bouts of greenery, but so is the city with hiking trails. Hiking for me started with Sunday night hikes up Dwight Avenue, dragged along by new friends. That’s right, Dwight. The street you cross when walking down Telegraph to get to the Unit 2, or Amoeba. If you keep going straight up Dwight, past Clark Kerr, a dirt path behind a fence leads to hushed Berkeley hills and the bay’s glorious view. Be cautious of healthy Berkeley families and wandering joggers and their dogs; it’s less of a secret than you think. While walking or bicycling to Tilden Regional Park is an activity in itself, the 800 or 851 bus toward the

Richmond BART station takes you straight there. The next time your family or friends drive over for a visit, take the car up to Tilden and explore its trails. Whether you’re in for a mellow walk or an invigorating hike, bring a camera along to remember that the forest is only a 12-minute ride from Shattuck and Durant. Other popular hiking trails include a path of seven miles behind Strawberry Canyon and a less strenuous walk up to the Big C. As walking uphill becomes every Berkeley resident’s default exercise, take a breather and go naturetripping. Ease your transition into Berkeley, and forget about the campus and Telegraph for a while. Get lost in the hills (but don’t forget to bring a friend or a flashlight). — Pilar Huerta

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Wandering the streets of Oakland is not usually the first thing that comes to mind for a nighttime jaunt. But if that night happens to be on the first Friday of the month, you may find that judgment sorely mistaken. Take a stroll between 23rd Street and Telegraph Ave. and instead of your typical urban landscape of barren

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Pedal to the Medal As a freshman, I loved being able to sit on my bike and roll downhill from Foothill to VLSB in less than three minutes. Gravity carried me, while my classmates sprinted across campus. Instead of sweat down my shirt, I had the wind blowing through my hair – or my helmet at least. I do occasionally get jammed between the bus that passes with inches to spare and the parked driver who opens his door without looking. Steep downhills leave even less room for error – I didn’t realize how sharp the curve was on Centennial Drive until I crossed the double-yellow into an oncoming car. Despite this near-death experience, I still ride my bike every day. The BikeStation staff keep a watchful eye on my bike at the BART station, and a

cheap cable lock keeps it safe on campus. Friendly students at the BicyCAL cooperative pump tires, change brakes and grease chains for the small price of a “Thank you!” Whether day or night, rain or shine, I leave the car behind for my human-powered wheels. Miss the bus? No problem! A brisk pedal will take you to Oakland before the next 1-not-so-Rapid arrives. I love seeing the speed limit sign flash “SLOW DOWN” as I race down the street at 25. So don’t drive, scooter, taxi or wait for the chronically delayed bus. Ride a bike! A note to pedestrians: Please do not move out of the way for a bicyclist. Just keep walking and we’ll avoid you. Thanks! — Jeffrey Joh

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Whether you want to touch your toes, melt that beer belly or align mind, body and breath, Yoga to the People is your home away from home. The studio is exactly as advertised: yoga to cashiers, cat surgeons, starving college students and all those who are bendy and stiff. No Sanskrit greeting is required upon entry — just comfortable clothes and willingness to sweat. Yoga to the People practices vinyasa flow: sun salutations, balancing postures, spine-strengthening sequences, and of course, the dreaded abs routine. But all of these human-pretzel poses are facilitated by the continuous cadence of the breath to your moving meditation. The studio space is impeccably clean (teachers double as janitors) and minimally yet tastefully decorated ­­— think hardwood, floor-to-

You’ve been waiting for this. College is why you showed up in high school — you can finally binge on chicken fingers, come home in the wee hours of the morning and experiment with your sexuality (if you haven’t already been to summer camp). But college is more than these indulgences; it’s an uncharted map for you to fill in the grids. And to afigure out the coordinates, you have to lose yourself — often literally — as you find feasts beyond the dining halls, castles beyond Bowles and rendezvous beyond frat parties. Don’t simply buy the hype you’ve heard about Berkeley. Live it. Meet those hippies, picnic with some Nobel laureates, inhale the greenery, protest the budget cuts!

ceiling windows and mini-candles. The uniqueness of the Yoga to the People experience lies in its refreshing approach to teaching: it does not post teaching schedules so every class is a gamble. “We want the students to commit to their practice and come to class because they love their yoga, rather than follow a specific teacher,” says Annemaria Rajala, a teacher at the Berkeley studio. “The environment allows you to cultivate your inner teacher and that can be an incredibly empowering experience.” Classes are offered every day, all at a pay-what-you-can rate. Mats are for rent at two bucks, but you will be pooling your dollar bills for a top-of-theline mat to support your newfound yoga addiction. — Belinda Gu

And don’t limit yourself to just things Berkeley when the City and Oakland are at your feet. Skydive into your college experience uninhibitedly. Lose yourself in the in vast could-bes, and keep what sticks. This isn’t first grade storytime; there is no masking tape on the carpet to mark your place as you are free to roam, wander and stray in every which way. Take your high-tech GPS phone along, or leave it behind — just get lost. So, freshgrasshoppers, we leave you with these wise (yet preachy) words: There once was an ogre named Shrek Who loved to watch Star Trek He came to Berkeley But didn’t get workly Now his whole life’s a wreck! — Belinda Gu & Pilar Huerta

Budget cuts and changes for the UC mean challenges for the incoming class.

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There are a lot of ways to measure how the University of California has changed in the last few years. You could look at systemwide fees, which ran around $6,636 a year in 2007 but have since risen to $12,192 this year and may well climb higher. Or the growing number of out-of-state students at UC Berkeley. In 2009, 11 percent of freshmen were from outside the state, but in a significant shift, 30 percent of this fall’s entering class will not hail from California. Then there are the programs that have been eliminated throughout the system, the classes that have grown crowded in size and the buildings that have not been repaired.

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But at the center of it all is one simple metric: state support for the university has dropped 27 percent since 2007. That year, the university received $3.25 billion from the state system for its teaching mission — a far cry from the $2.37 billion the 10-campus system will get this year. This summer, the university was cut $650 million as the State Legislature and Gov. Jerry Brown struggled to bridge a multibilliondollar structural deficit. Weeks later, the UC Board of Regents voted to raise tuition another 9.6 percent. And tuition could rise another 5.9 percent this spring if the state falls shy of the $4 billion of extra tax revenue the State Legislature expects to garner this fiscal year. If that money doesn’t materialize, an additional $100 million “trigger cut” will hit the university. “I just ask all your readers to reflect: How can any organization get nearly a quarter of its funding

cut in one year and maintain the same level of quality?” said Student Regent Alfredo Mireles Jr. “I don’t want to be an alarmist ... but this could be catastrophic.” This year’s funding cuts also prompted one UC administrator to write an obituary for the Master Plan for Higher Education, the 1960 document that outlined California’s three-tiered university system and guaranteed affordable high-quality education for qualified high school students. “The loss of the Master Plan will leave a major void in the State of California,” wrote Lars Walton, the assistant vice chancellor for government and community relations, in the obituary published on The Huffington Post. “It is expected that the State will experience a shortage of 1 million college graduates by 2025. Without the Master Plan, students will now experience sharp increases in tuition as well as reductions to access and quality of instruction.”

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Mireles said he does not believe the Master Plan has been abandoned, adding that the UC still guarantees spots to the top 12.5 percent of high school graduates. But some things have been lost in the latest round of budget cuts. In an interview with the San Diego Union-Tribune this January, UC President Mark Yudof warned that in light of deep budget cuts, the university was going to have to pick between its three “compass points”: access, affordability and excellence. “We are moving dangerously close to having to say: pick two of the three. That’s my view, and the excellence is nonnegotiable,” he said. “We are going to have to look at access and affordability.” Mireles, a UC San Francisco medical student and UC Berkeley graduate, said that the university had transitioned into a “high-fee, high-aid” model, commonly employed at other public research universities like the University of Michigan and the University of Virginia. In a high-fee, highaid model, the university charges large tuition and uses the revenue to fund scholarships for lower-income students. Mireles added that while the UC still charges less than other public universities in the nation, something has been lost in California with the recent budget cuts. “We were this beacon on the hill — we really were the gold standard for high quality, low cost education,” he said. “The perception is that it is not what it once was … the doors aren’t as wide open as they used to be, that the University of California isn’t as distinct from its peers as it used to be.” “Sometimes perception is reality and we lose some of that luster we had historically,” he said.

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Wait before you commit to a major. “There seems to be a common misconception that there are certain jobs connected with each major,” said College of Letters and Science adviser Jane Paris regarding the college’s liberal-arts disciplines. With thousands of careers to choose from, students seem to look for majors with clearly defined paths that lead to the careers of their dreams. But as Paris said, “There is no single path.” The College of Letters and Science has more abstract and theoretical majors than other colleges like Engineering and Natural Resources. Though there are fewer majors to choose from, there is less of a need to research career opportunities. In spite of this reassuring direction, choosing a major does not have to rest on practicality alone. Paris suggests that while liberal arts majors do not entail a single career path, they entail two tracks that focus on academics and careers. Academic counselors may oversee academic progress, but it is the students’ responsibility to make informed decisions about where exactly their progress is leading them. Junior Namita Dhawan switched from declaring business to molecular & cell biology, after participating in a summer marketing internship. “The internship, combined with my interaction with other business students, helped me realize that business was not for me,” said Dhawan. And after her dog died of cancer, Dhawan plans to enter the veterinary field with an MCB degree.

Paris emphasizes the importance of being proactive in connecting your major to potential careers that might not be as obvious as being a doctor or a lawyer. “So many students want to change the world, and you can find a way by pursuing your interests outside the classroom,” she said. Senior Shane Mason started out as a philosophy student who is now pursuing two degrees — one in Business Administration and another in Interdisciplinary Studies, with a focus in the political economy of natural resources. In addition to doing a summer internship in “green” real estate development, Mason pursued both majors in order to have a more balanced education that would develop his critical thinking skills on sustainable development. Though many students enter Cal passionately determined to pursue particular majors, Paris encourages students to keep an open mind. When students ask her about mapping out the likes of premed or pre-law, she asks them about their interests. Students should “stop and assess” how they are engaged in the classes of their intended major. If you find yourself daydreaming in your Pre-Med 101 DeCal, take it as a sign to get lost in something else. Though she declared art history during her secondyear, junior Beth Soroko also took various “discovery courses” to keep an open mind as a freshman. But since her interests in art history extend to that of English, public policy, political science and African-American Studies, Soroko has since created her own major in the interdisciplinary studies field department — social change in the arts. “One discipline is never absolute,” said Soroko. Choosing your major shouldn’t be as daunting as planning the rest of your life. Now is the time to start engaging and exploring to find a place in “the real world,” and make your life mean more than just a college degree.

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ince I was a freshman, a friend and I have repeatedly tried to map out our lives together. We know we want to go to Europe the summer after we graduate, but that’s about it. I came in thinking I might double major, become a worldrenowned doctor or lawyer and sail off into the sunset of wealth and prestige. Then I thought I would become the next Bruce Springsteen, again sailing off into the sunset of wealth and prestige. Now I’m entering my fourth year, and the only thing I know is that somehow, some way, I am going to sail off into that sunset. Or maybe just build a cabin on the side of debt mountain, growing old reminiscing about my glory days (they will pass you by, so says the Boss). But regardless of where I wind up, I’ll always have Berkeley. These three, going on four, years of countless misadventures and spontaneous acts of hopelessness have made me who I am and will continue to shape who I become. I’ve heard so many people say, “It’s college, you’re allowed to fuck up.� Don’t be fooled. You aren’t. Or if you are, you still feel like dirt afterward. It’s not that you drew up a bad map. It’s just that things change and you have to adjust. That’s why planning doesn’t work — if you fuck up the plan, then what are you left with? A backup plan? Oh please, if it was actually worth its weight in water it wouldn’t be a backup. Now, I’m not saying to go maverick all over Berkeley. You probably have some semblance of drive or ambition with some distant goal in the back of your head, otherwise you wouldn’t be here in the first place. But you can’t expect everything to fall into place — because it won’t.

When I was really young my dad would tell me, “Some days the bear eats you, and some days you eat the bear. But rest assured, there will always be another day.� That makes no sense, but for better or worse, I still think it’s the best advice my dad ever gave me. Now you might find yourself dry-humping someone’s leg for a semester thinking “How I Met Your Mother,� before you realize that’s not how you meet her. Or chain smoking outside of FSM because, let’s face it, the only side affect of smoking is looking cool (you’re young and invincible). And you will definitely find yourself in Mainstacks cramming for a final, turning down AdderaLl from the guy outside in a gray hoodie (unless that’s your thing). hese things will pass, or maybe they won’t. But regardless, you can’t plan for them. They just happen. And that’s the best part about college: It just happens ... it happens again and again and again, and before you know it, it’s almost over. That’s why it’s important not to get caught up in the motions. Daily routines are nice, but they breed exhaustion, complacency and an impermeability to excitement. So many people get lost in the daily grind, mistaking routine for busyness, that they just fade away. “Whatever happened to John from

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freshman year?� No ones knows, and no one really cares. Take some time to jump on a bus, BART or go on foot and walk around. Don’t go out with a destination in mind. It’s the best way to experience this place, and its the best way to clear your head after a night full of awful decisions or a week full of papers and midterms. So it’s on you and you alone to get what you can out of your time at Berkeley. Whether you want to dryhump, chain smoke or jump on the A-train and study down, do it, but don’t plan for it; that ruins all the fun. ast weekend, I met with my friend. We got out our compasses and papers but wound up doodling. She drew a really great boat, and I made the most realistic stick figures you’ve ever seen. Three years in, we’ve realized we might not be the greatest cartographers. But we don’t need maps, anyways.

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roads and shady sidewalks, you’ll find the cultural haven known as Art Murmur, where creativity and community coalesce. Begun in 2006 by eight art spaces looking to promote the city’s artistic profile, Art Murmur has grown into one of Oakland’s mustsee cultural events with over 20 art galleries and spaces that are open to the public for free between 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. Wander, wideeyed, amid original paintings,

sculptures or photographs, and you’ll bear witness to the variety and stunning vibrancy of the Bay Area art scene. In one gallery, you’ll find the wonderfully wacky world of amateur wrestling documented by photographer Paul Mueller. In another, the contemplative and abstract designs of artist Yoni Matatyaou. While you roam from room to room, indulge in the food stands on the streets packed with patrons and performers.

A 20-minute bus ride takes you to an atmosphere of thriving local art with lively crowds that has proven magnetic for both the East Bay locals and international art collectors. The event has become so popular that many of its spaces have offered additional Saturday admissions. So, brave the bus or BART and defy the name — Art Murmur is an occasion to shout about. — Jessica Pena

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t wasn’t until the cashier at Gypsy’s pointed to the Greek letters on my tank top and asked me which sorority I was in that I realized I had a problem. Because I’m not in a sorority, and I wasn’t wearing a puffy paint sorority tank — I was sporting my very own frat shirt. To anyone else, spring semester was one for the record pesky double standards, but it books. However, we’re also the helps immensely to be a girl. It’s outliers, the exceptions to the just easier for a girl to infiltrate a rule. frat house than it is for a guy to While frat hopping is a social pull the same stunt at a sorority. calendar shoo-in for every freshSince sororities are officially dry, man during fall semester, frats are responsible for you’ll experience throwing parties. Makes a severe drop-off It’s for easy pickings, if you when you come happen to be a member of back from winter definitely the fairer sex. break. Something Step Two: Zone in on about strict guest worth one of the smaller frats. lists, I’ve heard. Plus, your while My personal favorite flew when you’re wearing under the radar this past a mini skirt, the rain to befriend year, but that didn’t stop isn’t exactly motivat- some frat its brothers from having a ing, either ... good time. The mere fact But I digress. In a guys. Earn that it wasn’t wildly popunutshell, anyone with their lar made it so much fun. the right ratio can Instead of trying to throw binge on jungle juice respect, one major rager each in a sweaty basement semester, those guys were during Welcome not their Week, but it takes a belt notches. pretty much down for any impromptu chillax-sesh. certain kind of party Step Three: Show up animal to create stayto any event they host. ing power. Even if it’s not official. Especially I’ve more than proven I can party if it’s not official. You get to party with the wildest of animals. And with a smaller, more personal cirI’m here to teach you, oh curious cle of people, all while making newbie, how to follow in my footfriends and memories (hopefully steps. you’ll remember the latter in the Step One: Blame it on those

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One of the most exotic gourmet foods in Berkeley would be found in Angeline’s Kitchen. Straight from the South, this is food from the Louisiana bayou. They serve alligator, gumbo, jambalaya and everything you would expect from New Orleans cuisine. Their best dish is the hush puppies dipped in honey butter. It’s fried, bready heaven in buttery deliciousness. Another popular dish is mac-’n’-cheese topped with bread crumbs, served still bubbling from the oven. Angeline’s has a wide variety of desserts specific to Louisiana, but the must-order desserts are the beignets, French pillowy donut-like pastries covered in powdered sugar. The restaurant captures the ambience of New Orleans with a dimly lit, romantic interior and brick walls. The upbeat waiters are enthusiastic about the food they serve. It is a restaurant that cannot be found elsewhere in Berkeley and is definitely worth trying ... you’ll go home extremely full and happy. — Cecilia Wong

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Berkeley has no shortage of gourmet restaurants, but finding a place that balances fine dining with a fresh vibe can be a challenge in this foodie-filled city. Look beyond the traditional picks (yes, that means turning a blind eye to the tempting Chez Panisse), and try Trattoria Corso on for size. Don’t expect your nonna’s spaghetti and meatballs — Italian cuisine has truly grown up at Corso. Instead, enjoy a menu that offers dishes based on the season’s best, where authentic Italian recipes get kicked up a few notches through bold flavor profiles. It’s old world meets new world, and a total crowdpleaser. When ordering, don’t feel timid if you can’t pronounce the names of the dishes! Be adventurous and try the rabbit or indulge in a grilled peach salad — you won’t be disappointed. And even though you’ll probably want to stuff yourself with all of Corso’s savory offerings, save room for dessert. No meal is complete without “affogato,” a scoop of gelato drenched in fresh espresso. Close your eyes, have a taste and you’ll be instantly transported to a sidewalk cafe in Rome. Buon viaggio! — Jillian Wertheim

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morning). Bear in mind that everything is awkward until everyone gets drunk. Plus, less people equals less chance of running out of booze. Step Five: Flirt mercilessly and become “good friends” with a few brothers. But in all seriousness, it’s definitely worth your while to befriend some frat guys. Earn their respect, not their belt notches. Not all of them are as stereotypically fratty as you’d expect, and most of them have your back. Even if that means walking you home when you’re too drunk to make it back to Clark Kerr alone. Step Six: Do something crazy that goes down as the craziest thing to ever happen in that house. Use any means necessary to become the life of the party. Not like I’m pulling from personal experience here, but if they have a pool, strip down and jump in it. If there’s a table, dance on top of it. And if they keep letting you back in, make damn sure that you become a legend. That’s all I can divulge for now. Please, my friends and I are going down in history, and we’re not about to give up that title any time soon. But that doesn’t mean we’re not going to seriously enjoy watching you try.

Guerilla Cafe The walk up the hill justifies everything you are going to eat at Guerilla Cafe (or you can take the 7 bus straight there to Shattuck and Cedar.) Featuring a rotating display of artwork from upand-coming artists and table decorations with information about the revolutionaries of the 1970s, Guerilla immediately sets a very Berkeley vibe. Either get a latte in a bowl or bring along a friend to split a pot of French Press coffee (they serve San Francisco’s Blue Bottle Coffee and various other brands). For people not hooked up

For cheap eats that start your day right, it’s hard not to think immediately of Ann’s Kitchen. Conveniently located just a few blocks away from campus on Telegraph Avenue, Ann’s is the place to go for a breakfast that fills up your tummy without emptying your wallet. You can’t go wrong with the cinnamon french toast or the impressive variety of egg dishes. A few bucks go a long way here, which is great considering that just about everyone can identify with the starving student stereotype — this is college, after all. Huge portions (seriously, they’re not joking around when it comes to massive sides of home-fried potatoes and plenty of toast) are one perk — the fact that the food’s also really darn good is another. In addition to the grub, the low-key atmosphere makes Ann’s a prime spot for doing a little reading or writing while you’re nomming, so feel free to bring some work and hang out for a bit. We’ve all been told that breakfast is the most important meal of the day — why not embrace the morning? Give your snooze button a break, and chow down at Ann’s Kitchen. — Jillian Wertheim

to a caffine IV, they offer a selection of a la carte brunch food that includes challah French toast, a rotating menu of unique waffles topped with seasonal fruit, breakfast sandwiches and local free-range poached eggs with toast. A smaller breakfast than standard, but I love to go and get a latte and eggs with toast, and do my reading in style. — Erica Chase

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Nude Sushi I have never had Nude Sushi before midnight. That is, in some ways, the point of Nude Sushi. Delivering from 5 p.m. to 3 a.m., their purpose is to serve the hungry night owls. When Late Night is closed, or when greasy food just doesn’t sound appetizing, Nude Sushi is there with an array of sushi rolls, nigiri and classic Japanese entrees. While their fish and rolls aren’t something I rhapsodize about, the food is good, and their door-to-door delivery has fueled my late-night study sessions more than once. Plus, they carry my favorite: the cherry blossom roll made with salmon and avocado inside and draped with tuna outside; Nude Sushi does it well enough that it always hits the spot. For the late-nighters that still haven’t gotten over the fear of raw fish, they also have a good chicken terriyaki and other nonsushi options. So next time you realize that you are hungry, everything is closed and you have no food, call Nude Sushi. — Erica Chase

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Berkeley Student Cooperative becomes a challenge by functioning not merely as an affordable living space, but by prompting an evaluation of my lifestyle choices: how I eat, how I get to school and how I interact with the people and the resources around me. The co-ops operate with a bit of an ‘anything goes’ culture that encourages creativity (think David Bowie-themed parties, dinners with octopus as an entree). Yet they’re driven primarily by an idea of collective responsibility for the well being of others. The cooperatives give over 1250 students the opportunity to thrive in a socially and environmentally progressive environment, fighting college complacency by demanding active living. In my experience at Andres Castro Arms, there has always been a constant push toward improvement and growth, whether it be for that of our housing or the planet. There’s an incredible sense of empowerment that comes with this way of life. At Kingman Hall, Nicola Stathers worked to implement a rainwater collection system to catch more than 20,000 gallons of water a year to be funneled to their laun-

dry machines. Anyone can cram for a class, but a co-op provides a learning and teaching space between peers. Age differences and social walls between Cal, community college and international students dissipate. Co-opers have taught me the basics of planting, composting, fighting ants with cinnamon and unclogging toilets. These skills might seem trivial, but I might not have practiced these simple essentials in other housing. This economy of sharing extends beyond practical skills because a priority of the cooperative system is completely “open membership and democratic control.” It seems unfair for the housing process to devolve into a popularity

contest in kitchen is a hotbed of recipe which housemates are judged exchange and cooking tutorials, as on first impressions or on well as dirty pots. Since living here how well they fit a house iden- ,I’ve gained an affinity for nutritity or reputation. By not tional yeast and fine-tuned some working completely off of cooking skills. Not to mention, commonality, the co-ops have I’ve enjoyed homemade meals introduced me to students whipped up by my housemates who can volunteer to do from a divertheir five hours of worksity of spiritushift in the kitchen. Meals al, ethnic and (Co-ops become social cement and philosophical a nightly gathering for b a c k g r o u n d s : are) a nice male, vegan, introduction everyone to take a breath and appreciate fresh food. female, queer or to how the We’re empowered to otherwise. vote and propose policy A student visworld really changes for the house at iting for a semester from Germany is: inhabited weekly councils. For example, Sherman mobilized to ushered in spring ensure safety of air in with a ‘dance by all types proximity to retrofitted around the of people Memorial Stadium by ralMaypole’ barlying students, petitioning beque. It’s a nice whom we the ASUC, university, and introduction to learn from other avenues. how the world The institutional aspects really is: inhabited and work by all types of peo- with to solve of cooperatives (workshifts, dinners, councils) ple whom we keep people truly accountlearn from and issues. able and engaged. If you’re work with to solve someone who is happiest issues. Alfred Twu with a great amount of of Lothlorien Hall has reduced waste by 75 percent personal space and cleanliness, and to a single bin for a house- this can be overwhelming. If you hold of 57, and he says his phi- can loosen your standards on losophy is to “lead from the bot- those two, there is nothing more invigorating than the ideas, cretom.” Co-ops are renowned for their ativity, and constant company of food. Packed with spices, the others.

RESOURCES: Keeping mind and body fit From Page 9 want to check out, it is time to look into the second part of the two-pronged plan to defeat stress and the Freshman 15: the Recreational Sports Facility. As someone who deeply resents exercise for being so damn helpful, I sympathise with resistance to gym-going. But an hour at the gym can make everything seem more manageable. Luckily, the RSF offers more than just treadmills and free weights. It costs students only $10 a semester to join, and membership gets you access to the facilities and an extensive list of exercise classes. Whether you want to wind down with yoga, sweat it out with cardio kickboxing, or boogie down with dance classes, the RSF has you covered. If none of the classes tickle your fancy, there are also sport clubs. From the traditional (basketball, soccer, baseball) to the little more esoteric (ballroom dancing, squash, table tennis), there is enough variety that anyone can find something he or she likes. Being away from the parents means that you are now the only one looking out for your health. Offset the upswing in alcohol consumption by utilizing the resources that can help.

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adminton? Oh, isn’t that the backyard game with the feathery things and the rackets? Yeah, I play that all the time at family barbeques!” That is almost the exact reaction I get when I tell people I play badminton. However, what these people do not know is that badminton is a legitimate Olympic sport, played beyond the grassy knolls of one’s yard. With birdies traveling at the speed of 200 mph, badminton is the fastest racket sport in the world. Although it is not popular in the United States, it is the most popular sport worldwide after soccer, with its best international players predominately in Asia and parts of Europe. The sport is similar to tennis, where games can be played between double teams, mixed doubles teams and singles. Instead of a ball, a shuttlecock, or a birdie, is used. And unlike the common misconception that badminton is usually played outdoors, professional badminton is always played indoors to ensure that no external factors affect the aerodynamics of the shot.

Another misconception is that badminton is a feminine activity, requiring little or no strength. However, if you give it a try, you will soon discover how very wrong this assumption is. Badminton is a sport that requires agility, speed, quick reflexes, stamina and strength. In order to get a shot to travel at 200 mph, building up power is essential. It works out one’s entire back, legs, arms and mentality. It is no less tiring nor is it wimpier than tennis or baseball. That being said, Cal has one of the best badminton teams in the nation. Placing first for the past two years in Collegiate Nationals, Cal Badminton is one of the most well known and feared badminton teams around. Many of the badminton players who enter Berkeley have been competing in prominent tournaments since they were as young as seven years old. Junior Terrence Pang shares, “I’ve been playing badminton, I think, since I was 10. So about 10 years now. I have represented the United States in Panamerican games in Mexico and Puerto Rico.” Beckie Neumann, also a

junior, adds, “One of the main reasons why I chose to attend Cal was because I wanted a college that will allow me to continue to play. Berkeley has one of the best teams around, and I wanted to be a part of that.” Badminton is the fastest growing high school sport in the nation. Many students only play at their school, so when they enter college without a badminton team, they have no choice but to quit. Cal Badminton welcomes high school players, as well as people who are discovering the sport for the first time. Junior Thomas Go says, “I started playing badminton two years ago as a freshman. I joined initially because I wanted to meet new people, but as I continued to play, the sport is what kept me in the club.” So not only does the club consist of the greatest Junior National players in the nation, it also is balanced out by the newest players. With all the sports available at Cal, it’s hard to make a decision about which club to join. But take a deeper look — you might be surprised at what you find.

Finding yourself off the map Clark Kerr is in a world all its own. Any campus map can attest to that, because ff er | Sta k a Clark Kerr is one of the B i rl a by C only buildings not on ilycal.org a d r@ e k cba the map. Instead, there is usually a quaint little box on the souteast corner saying “To Clark Kerr Campus: 2601 Warring St.” As an incoming freshman counting down the days until I would be at Berkeley, I was livid that I was placed in the one dorm not even on the bleeping map. The distance, the isolation, the expenses — everything seemed wrong. It didn’t matter that they had arguably the best food, the biggest rooms, a lot of athletes or the nicest scenery. I didn’t need that. I was set on having my Berkeley experience living in Units 1 or 2, watching the soccer team practice at Underhill, hanging out at the Asian ghetto, being able to get out of bed 10 minutes before class and not worrying about being late. But soon the issue lost its importance. I met my roommates (and by that, I mean that I added them on Facebook), and got ready to be a Bear. I just thought I’d turn into a very athletic one, walking the 0.9 miles

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from CKC to Sproul Plaza each day. But after moving into Clark Kerr, I began to see that its charm, its style, exactly fit my Berkeley style. The fact that my key opened all buildings made it simple to make friends everywhere, and also helped when the laundry rooms got crammed on Sunday afternoons. The space was appreciated, especially considering how messy my roommates and I were able to be during stressful times. The grass areas made the perfect place for a quick game of frisbee, a tan, or just for doing homework in the sun. I still envied the Unit’s for their size and proximity to everything, as well as their funky design and the beautiful view some rooms got. My friends also raved about the social aspects, eating at Crossroads, the large common areas and the giant buildings where there was always something happening. Another great dorm was Foothill, although it tends to always be under appreciated. Its food is good and always fresh, and its East side location gives you the ability to get to the Botanical Garden, the co-ops and the gourmet ghetto much easier than from some of the other dorms. Its also ridiculously close to the Greek Theater so you can’t beat having the ability to listen to awesome bands from the

comfort of your own room. Despite everything, I don’t think my college experience would have been the same if I hadn’t lived in Clark Kerr. I will always love the fact that the frats were across the street, and that we had our own gym (albeit a slightly lame one). Because of Clark Kerr, some of my best memories are on the Claremont — a regional preserve that borders CKC and has some amazing hikes. I will miss the piano in our lounge, and my conversations with my friends in the shower. I might even miss the football parent barbeque’s every game day, which never failed to wake me up on Saturdays. But, more than anything, Clark Kerr has given me an appreciation for how deep friendship can become when you live with a group of really special people. I love the people I lived with, on my floor, in my building and the others we adopted. But meeting amazing people isn’t something that is unique to Clark Kerr. My fellow Bears, Berkeley will soon become home for all of you. I hope you know that no matter where you are living, you will have fun and meet people. The dorms are just one way that can help you explore everything that makes Berkeley a place worth getting lost in.

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Local legislators join Amazon boycott By Jonathan Tam | Staff jtam@dailycal.org Two local legislators joined advocacy groups in Sacramento Monday to boycott Amazon due to the company’s effort to overturn a law requiring online retailers to collect state and local sales tax from their customers. State Senator Loni Hancock, DBerkeley, and state Assemblymember Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, teamed up with state advocacy groups who claim that Amazon and some other online companies have refused to collect these taxes from their customers, which could result in $200 million to $500 million in lost state tax revenue this year. These funds could be used to help address the state budget crisis, rather than cutting social services and increasing public university fees, Skinner said. “Up and down California, the majority of businesses pay sales tax, but it is Amazon that wants a different business model,” Skinner said. “(Amazon) refuses to pay this sales tax, and this is creating an unfair competitive advantage.” Representatives from Amazon could not be reached for comment as of press time. Jean Ross, executive director of the

non-partisan California Budget Project, said that the company’s refusal to collect sales tax could also indirectly result in increased student fees. “Every time a student buys a textbook from Amazon, Amazon’s not sending that tax to the state, which results in the rising student fees,” Ross said. Ross added that even if Amazon does not collect these taxes, consumers must still pay this tax to the state. “The key point for people to understand is that regardless of what Amazon decides to do in California, California consumers still owe that money to the state,” Ross said. “It is not a new tax — it is a new way of collecting a tax that (consumers) always owed.” Ross said that typically, non-online businesses collect sales tax from their consumers, but before AB 28X was signed into law in June, Amazon employed a business model that did not require them to collect tax from their consumers. “When you buy from Amazon, they ... will admit that the consumer will need to send it to the state,” Ross said. “They have built a business model on the assumption that most consumers won’t pay their user tax when they file their income tax.” This advantage unfairly shifts consumers toward Amazon and away from local businesses, said Robert Blanco, a

legislative aide to Hancock. “What is happening up and down California is that businesses that pay state taxes are just becoming show rooms for Amazon,” Blanco said. “For example, (consumers) try all these different cameras at their local store and go home to just order it online.” However, Ned Wigglesworth, a spokesperson for More Jobs Not Taxes, said the political committee is currently trying to collect more than 500,000 signatures by Sept. 27 for a ballot initiative to allow voters to approve or reject the law on the June 2012 ballot. “The reasons that we are opposed to this new law is it hurts consumers, it hurts small businesses, it destroys jobs, when we need them for economic recovery,” Wigglesworth said. But Nancy Berlin, the executive director of California Partnership — an advocacy group that was present at the boycott — said that this tax revenue could be used to fund needed social services such as day care centers and vision services. “I know that $200 million is not a huge number in the state budget, but it is significant,” Berlin said. “Adult day care centers that have been closed, children who are losing vision care — we are talking about families who are losing basic benefits. The least we can do is collect this revenue that we should already be collecting.”

STORE: Apple initially slow to announce opening to neighborhood merchants From Page 3 Berkeley. According to Kiskaddon, merchants in the area surrounding the new store initially heard about the stores’s construction “through the grapevine.” “We’ve been a little flabbergasted at how they only just recently

sent an email announcing the store was going to open, despite the fact that it was something we’d been hearing through the grapevine,” he said. “They were very secretive about it.” Aaida Samad is an assistant news editor.

birds: Research indicates relationships feature social as well as sexual elements From Page 4 not split the majority of the couples. When females were introduced into the cage of eight male-male pairs, five of the couples remained together. “This indicates something else,” Elie said. “It’s not just a sexual relationship. There are also social things going on.” Previously, all research has been focused on the reproductive behaviors of same-sex animals, Elie said. However, the research she conducted along with Clementine Vignal and Nicolas Mathevon from the University of Saint Etienne more closely examined the social aspects of such relationships.

“This is quite new to describe a same-sex relationship using the whole behaviors those birds were expressing,” she said. Though Elie said she plans to continue different research involving communication between birds with a more sensory point of view — how birds perceive different types of calls — she said that her research has raised some important questions for future research on this topic, specifically in examining female-female relationships. Allie Bidwell is the news editor.

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Campus alumnus finds credit rating error By Amruta Trivedi | Staff atrivedi@dailycal.org A UC Berkeley alumnus found a $2 trillion calculation error used by a major credit rating agency to decide on a historical downgrade of the United States’ credit rating. John Bellows, acting assistant secretary of economic policy at the U.S. Department of John the Treasury who received his Ph.D. Bellows in economics in 2009, found the error Aug. 5, shortly after Standard & Poor’s presented a document to the treasury department with calculations it used to justify its unprecedented downgrade of the United States’ credit rating, from AAA to AA+. “S&P’s $2 trillion mistake led to a very misleading picture of debt sustainability — the foundation for their initial judgment,” Bellows wrote in a blog post on the department’s website. “In their initial, incorrect estimates, S&P projected that the debt as a share of GDP would rise rapidly through the middle of the decade, and they cited this as a primary reason for a downgrade.” The company’s decision was originally based primarily on the incorrectly

calculated projection that overestimated the amount of public debt that will be a part of the nation’s gross domestic product in 10 years by $2 trillion. As a result, Standard & Poor’s concluded that this makes public debt — money that the government borrows through treasury securities and securities from other non-federal investors — very unstable and makes investing in the United States’ economy risky. The company officially downgraded the nation’s credit rating on Aug. 5 after it was informed of the error by the treasury department earlier that same day. The corrected estimates lowered the projection of future deficits by $2 trillion over the next 10 years and lowered the estimate of debt as a share of GDP by 8 percent, making public debt much more stable. After correcting its calculations, Standard & Poor’s said in a statement that the downgrade “reflects our view that the effectiveness, stability, and predictability of American policymaking and political institutions have weakened at a time of ongoing fiscal and economic challenges.” Additionally, the statement said that “the gulf between the political parties over fiscal policy” that deepened in late July when Congress began discussing the Budget Control Act of 2011 had reduced the company’s confidence in national leaders to handle the country’s finances and stabilize the debt. In his blog post, Bellows said that

there was no justifiable reason to downgrade the debt of the United States, independent of the error he caught. “There are millions of investors around the globe that trade Treasury securities,” he said. “They assess our creditworthiness every minute of every day, and their collective judgment is that the U.S. has the means and political will to make good on its obligations.” He maintained that because the company did not change its decision after the error was found and cited a lack of confidence in U.S. policymakers, the rationale behind the decision changed from being economic to political. When stock markets reopened on Aug. 8 following the announcement of the downgrade, share prices around the world plunged but began to regain stability towards the end of the week. Markets continue to show signs of recovery into this week. Because the markets are now stabilizing after the initial shock of the downgrade, it is unclear whether the new credit rating will have a big impact on markets in the long run, said Edward Miguel, a professor of economics at UC Berkeley. “The credit rating agency did not tell us things that we did not already know,” he said. “Investors can now see that the S&P downgrade does not mean that fundamentals of United States economy will change.”

protests: UC to decide on Chile study abroad program this week From front Program, there are currently 500 students in Brighton and Cambridge who are all safe and accounted for and will be in place until the program ends on Aug. 27. Delap said that though there are no UC students in London presently, the fall London program that will begin Aug. 24 and other England programs with September deadlines will proceed as usual. As for Chile, Delap said all 59 students studying there have also been accounted for, and students are encouraged to continue going to class. The UC will make a decision this week about the fate of the Chile study abroad program based on a report released by the local university. “Our students (in London) were not affected — they were studying far away from riots and vandalism,” said Ines DeRomana, the security and health affairs director of the UC Education Abroad program. “With the Chile edu-

cation strikes, we are right now assessing the students’ situation with our directors in Santiago.” The UC Education Abroad Program’s first choice will be to preserve the fall 2011 programs in Chile, according to a statement. However, if classes cannot be offered to the same degree of quality and consistency as in the U.S., the UC will have no choice but to bring students back to California. “The government of Chile is not giving in to public demands for educational reform, so demonstrations are growing in frequency and in scale, placing unprecedented pressures on universities,” the statement reads. In addition to quality of education, safety and quality of life that students have experienced while studying abroad are other vital issues. Students have been instructed not to get involved with demonstrations, but Tung said she and her fellow students are still affected by the consequences

of these massive protests. “Some of us live in downtown (Santiago) and have had to stay at friends’ places to avoid the tear gas in that area,” she said in the email. “It’s always the police with the tear gas/hoses — trying to use it to disperse the crowd. EAP warns us to stay away from downtown on days when we know there are strikes.” While students in Chile are still dealing with the ongoing protests right outside their doors, Jonathan Simon, a professor at the UC Berkeley School of Law, said that even though they are over, the U.S. can learn from the aftermath of the London protests. “In both countries (England and America), we see governments on the defensive and unable to offer a coherent plan of relative prosperity present earlier in the decade — this lack of confidence could be a predisposing factor to protests,” Simon, who spent the past year on sabbatical in Edinburgh, said.

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waste: Report from consulting firm recommended different approach From front extensions. “We are going to be in charge of basically buying new forklifts, any machinery that we need and in charge of maintaining the equipment — but we’ve always been in charge of maintaining equipment,” said Jeff Belchamber, general manager of the conservation center. “Our facility is in good shape — we think that we can maintain it and continue to run it for the next several years without any large capital investments.” Historically, the conservation center has charged the city a per-ton price for processing and selling materials delivered to its Materials Recovery Facility at the recycling center as well as for items at its drop-off and buyback station. The conservation center previously paid the city with money made from the sale of recyclables. Additionally, in the past, the city reimbursed the conservation center for any major capital equipment purchased or repairs as well as costs associated with the recycling facility. As part of the new relationship with the Ecology Center, the center agreed to adjust its 10.5-year contract — which spans from Jan. 1, 2010 through June 30, 2020 — by about $2.4 million, mostly through the implementation of single-person collection trucks, as opposed to the two-man system currently used. These contractual adjustments were made to help close a projected $2 million to $3 million deficit in the refuse fund for this fiscal year. The fund, which is part of an overall city budget of about $318 million, anticipates revenues of about $32 million and expenditures of about $35.4 million for the next fiscal year, according to city budget documents. But a report issued earlier this year by an Irvine-based consulting firm recommended a slightly different approach to the division’s budgetary woes. In July 2010, the city entered into an $84,000 contract with the firm

Sloan Vazquez to assess the division and determine possible solutions for consideration by the council as a way to reduce costs. The firm came back in February with a final report recommending that the city not renew its contract with the conservation center — instead proposing the outsourcing of those services to increase revenue by over $900,000. Additionally, the report recommended terminating the Ecology Center contract to save about $1.5 million annually, among other recommendations. “What the city was trying to do in the long run was basically reduce costs,” said Councilmember Gordon Wozniak. “Both the (conservation center) and the Ecology Center helped do that, and I think that was a good result.” In general, the structural deficit faced by the refuse fund exists because costs continue to exceed revenues, according to city officials. Acting Public Works Director Andrew Clough attributed much of the deficit to the way the division has historically been run. “If you make no changes, labor costs go up, gas costs go up — all of the costs go up, even if you’re running the exact same operation,” Clough said. But initial spending is still required to bridge the gap. In order to help overcome the deficit, the division will employ a number of one-person solid waste trucks — originally estimated at around 19, though Clough said the exact number is not yet certain — requiring an investment of about $1.6 million. Moving forward, Clough said the division may also need to examine its rates, which he said are currently based on garbage can size. “As part of these operational changes, we also need to evaluate the rate structure and how we charge for garbage and recycling services so we can achieve a sustainable rate,” he said. J.D. Morris is an assistant news editor.

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ooking one of the electronic scene’s most prominent artists for an afternoon time slot was a strange move on Outside Lands’ part. But despite not having the advantage of light shows, Major Lazer easily delivered a memorable performance. With warm sunlight basking over the park, it seemed that afternoon shows should be enjoyed on a blanket set down over the lawn. No, not for Major Lazer. Producers Diplo and Switch turned the crowd into a mass of failing limbs and general chaos. Hype man Skerrit Bwoy was probably responsible for most of the bodily injuries experienced by the crowd. He constantly shouted

deadmau5 directions and, because everyone was in love with the reggae dancehall beats, we all obeyed. Bounce? Okay! Hand in the air? Sure! Shirts off? It took a few seconds of deliberation, but soon the audience was waving their clothes in the air. Major Lazer ran through a varied setlist by remixing artists such as Chris Brown and Skrilex but dutifully pounding out hits like “Pon de Floor.” But no matter what they played, the crowd instantly ate it up, and their unbridled energy further enhanced the already enticing beats of Major Lazer. — Cynthia Kang

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Miranda July directs and stars in ‘The Future,’ a complex exploration of maturation. By Ryan Lattanzio | Senior Staff rlattanzio@dailycal.org

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t has been a long six years since we have seen a feature film from Miranda July, the coyly svelte poster girl of independent cinema. But in the time since her debut feature “Me and You and Everyone We Know” (2005), July has been a busy little bee, toiling away in the mad curio that is her brain. She published the exquisitely painful collection of short stories “No One Belongs Here More Than You,” finished a nonfiction book and staged the performance exhibit “Things We Don’t Understand and Are Definitely Not Going to Talk About” — the inspiration for her new film “The Future.” The long intermission between films has allowed her to mature and even experiment as a writer/director/actress/ anything-else-you-like. “The Future” is the grown-up version of “Me and You,” a film about adults behaving like children. And here, the grown-ups are bracing themselves against time’s arrow. Sophie (played by July, of course) is

a thirty-something dance instructor. She lives in a sparse LA apartment with her shut-in boyfriend, Jason (Hamish Linklater, with a haircut that matches July’s). They’ve been dating for four years, but their intimacy is something like that of two co-habitating cats: cozy and comfortable. And how apropos, because it’s a cat named Paw Paw (voiced by July like vocalized chicken scratch) that gets the wheels of fortune turning for these two lovebirds perched on the tenuous branch of relationship rut. Sophie and Jason make a collective decision to adopt Paw Paw, lame from a leg injury, in the unconscious hope that, like a surrogate child, he will fix everything. His recovery will take 30 days, and in those 30 days, Sophie and Jason will live each day as if it were their last. So Jason unplugs the phone. Sophie shuts off the Internet. But their ambition runs dry after a day or two. At the center of the film is Sophie, who is like a Christine only older, jaded and settled down for terminal good — a once doe-eyed optimist turned doleful caged bird. In the excellent “Me and You,” July seemed to cosset her characters preciously despite their perversions and hang-ups. Yet here, July sets Sophie free, allowing her to fuck up without clemency because that’s honest and that’s what really happens to people in the world. Sophie’s “choice” to see what life is like with another person, and the aches and pains accompanying that risky alternative, is heartbreaking and real, as if July is projecting our dreams onto the screen. July the director always captures a sense of marvel at the world. Yet she somehow, miraculously, solders that sense of whimsy to a darker vision of the unknown. What

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est-selling novels with dedicated fan bases can be notoriously difficult to adapt into films, and runaway British hit “One Day” by David Nicholls is no exception. Months ago, when the details of its film adaptation were released, the blogosphere lit up with the impassioned criticism of diehard British fans who balked at the selection of Danish director Lone Scherfig and the casting of Anne Hathaway as working-class British darling Emma Morley. But you wouldn’t be able to tell that there’s any backlash by talking to the charming and warm Scherfig. A fellow fan of the novel herself, Scherfig signed onto the film after falling in love with the story. “I had to go on a trip, and I took the book along and just stayed up all night until I

finished it. It’s a very lovely and a very loved book now, particularly in the U.K.,” she said. Dexter Mayhew (Jim Sturgess) and Emma Morley (Hathaway) meet on July 15, 1988, the night of their graduation from university. They are complete opposites — Dexter a wealthy playboy and Emma an intelligent idealist. The two initially decide to become friends instead of getting romantically involved and decide to keep in touch. Hathaway immediately felt a connection to the sarcastic and witty Morley and campaigned heavily for the role. Despite her initial skepticism about casting an American in a distinctly British role, Scherfig was ultimately persuaded by Hathaway’s passion. “Anne’s a sensual, intelligent actress who warms the whole film up in a way that I can’t imagine someone else having done,” she said. Also, Scherfig was comforted by the fact

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ONE DAY: Disjointed and unrealistic, the film proves to be difficult to enjoy From Page 19 gardless of the circumstance, Clarkson shines, acing her comedic lines and remaining sincere throughout some of the overwrought theatrics. She is the only one who remains at all lifelike and likeable. Director Lone Scherfig’s previous film, “An Education,” made a standard coming-of-age story feel so real that the whole premise seemed almost new again. “An Education” never tried to be anything it wasn’t. It simply strove to be the best at what it was.

“One Day” would have done well to follow in those footsteps. Instead, it becomes a romantic comedy with an identity crisis. It clearly wants to be considered more than a run-ofthe-mill rom-com but, in this day and age, a charming, authentic rendition is rare enough. With less ambition and pretension, “One Day” could have easily slipped into the realm of pleasant mediocrity. Unfortunately, it just ends up falling flat.

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is the future? What if we took a wrong turn in getting there? These are all questions — the crisis of any creative spirit, no doubt — July takes up, punctuating with a trembling ellipsis rather than a period. In some ways, “The Future” is more performance art piece than feature. July offers us little in the way of narrative skein and instead instructs us to read the emotional codes and cues of her characters. She also gives us a talking cat, an anthropomorphic T-shirt and the Moon as, literally, Father Time. Distortions of space-time and continuity errors abound, all well-oiled by Jon Brion’s melancholy, almost geometric score and July’s steely blue lens.

At bottom, “The Future” is expressionist, more concerned with sensation rather than sense. Sense is what we instinctively cling to in film, and in life. Rarely do we witness a filmmaker so singlehandedly, and so brazenly, probing the depths of her own soul, just as she plumbs the possibilities of cinema.

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advances, if any, under the terms of the Deed DOWN of Trust, estimated fees, Likely of the Trustee charges and1.expenses Goodcreated buy and of the2.trusts by said 3. British title# 23 Deed of Trust, to-wit: $450,807.39 4. Crier!s need (Estimated).5. Big Accrued interest and person additional 6. advances, if any, will Old Egyptian money increase this 7. figure Stick prior one!sto sale. The outbid less Beneficiary maylower electlip to 8. credit Electrical than the full bid. strength The beneficiary under said Deed of Trust heretofore executed and delivered to the undersigned a written Declaration of Default and Demand for Sale, and a written Notice of Default and Election to Sell. The undersigned caused said Notice of Default and Election to Sell to be recorded in the county where the real property is located 7 more 1 8than2 three 9 3months 6 5have4 and elapsed 5 9 since 2 8 such 6 4recordation. 3 7 1 Date: 08/10/11 MORTGAGE 3 6 4 7 1 5 9 2 8 LENDER SERVICES, INC. 81 BLUE RAVINE 9 3 5ROAD, 4 8 SUITE 7 1 6100,2 FOLSOM, CA 95630, (916) 962-3453 4 7 1 6 5 2 8 3 9 Sale Information Line: (916) 8 2 6or 9www.nationwidepost3 1 7 4 5 939-0772 ing.com Tara Campbell, Trustee 1 5 7 3 4 9 2 8 6 Sale Officer MORTGAGE LENDER 2 8 9 5 MAY 7 6BE 4A DEBT 1 3 SERVICES,INC. COLLECTOR 6 4 3 1 ATTEMPTING 2 8 5 9 TO7 COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. NPP0187351 PUB: 08/18/11, 08/25/11, 09/01/11 NOTICE INVITING BIDS Notice is hereby given that sealed competitive bids will be accepted in the office of the GSA-Purchasing Department, County of Alameda, 1401 Lakeside Drive, Suite 907, Oakland, CA 94612 NETWORKING/ NORTH COUNTY BIDDERS CONFERENCE RFP #900720, PreEmployment Physical Exams, Wednesday, August 24, 2011, 10:00 a.m. – General Services Agency, 1401 Lakeside Drive, Room 228, 2nd Floor, Oakland, CA NETWORKING/SOUTH COUNTY BIDDERS CONFERENCE RFP #900720, Pre-Employment Physical Exams, Thursday, August 25, 2011, 2:00 p.m. – Public Works Agency,

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Estates Act. (This authority will 45 personal representative to allow the take many actions without obtaining 46 47 NOTICE INVITING BIDSEASY court approval. Before taking cer48 hereby 49 50 given that sealed 51 52 53tain very important actions, 54 55 however, Notice is the personal representative will be competitive bids will be accepted in 56 57 58 59 required to give notice to interested the office of the GSA-Purchasing persons unless they have waived 60 61 62 Department, County of Alameda, notice or consented to the proposed 1401 Lakeside Drive, Suite 907, 63 64 65 action.) The independent adminisOakland, CA 94612 NETWORKING/ tration authority will be granted NORTH COUNTY BIDDERS unless an interested person files an CONFERENCE RFP #900899 for objection to the petition and shows Business Outreach and Contract good cause why the court should not Compliance Services – Wednesday, grant the authority. A HEARING on August 24, 2011, 10:00 a.m. – the petition will be held in this court General Services Agency, 1401 as follows: September 6, 2011 at Lakeside Drive, Room 201, 2nd 9:30AM in Dept. 201 located at 2120 Floor, Oakland, CA NETWORKING/ Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Berkeley, SOUTH # COUNTY BIDDERS 23 24 8 3 5 2 9 6 IF 7 YOU 4 OBJECT to# the CA 1 94704. CONFERENCERFP #900899 for you should 2 1Contract 6 5 4granting 7 9of the 8 petition, 3 Business Outreach and appear at the hearing and state your Compliance Services 4 – Thursday, 7 9 3 6objections 8 5 or2 file1 written objections August 25, 2011, 2:00 p.m. – Public with the hearing. 1 2 3 9 7 4the8court 5 before 6 Works Agency, 951 Turner Court, Your appearance may be in person Room 230, Hayward, CA Responses 9 6 8 1 3or by5 your 2 attorney. 4 7 IF YOU ARE A Due by 2:00 pm on September 29, 7 Jeannise 5 4 6 8CREDITOR 2 1 3or a9contingent creditor 2011 County Contact: the decedent, you must file your Gonzalez (510) 208-9612 3 9 or2 via4 5of 6 7 1 8 claim with the court and mail a copy email: jeannise.gonzalez@acgov. 4 7 8 1to 9the 3 personal 6 2 representative org Attendance at 5Networking Conference is Non-mandatory. 6 8 1 7 2appointed 3 4 by9 the 5 court within four months from the date of first issuSpecifications regarding the above ance of letters as provided in Probate may be obtained at the Alameda Code section 9100. The time for filCounty GSA Current Contracting ing claims will not expire before four Opportunities Internet website at months from the hearing date www.acgov.org. noticed above. YOU MAY EXAMINE 8/18/11 the file kept by the court. If you are CNS-2155620# a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request NOTICE OF PETITION TO for Special Notice (form DE-154) of ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: DIANA the filing of an inventory and appraisL. SCHWARTZ (AKA DIANA LEE al of estate assets or of any petition HECKMAN, DIANA LEE or account as provided in Probate SCHWARTZ, DIANA SCHWARTZ) Code Section 1250. A Request for CASE NO. RP11585236 Special Notice form is available from To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, the court clerk. contingent creditors, and persons Attorney for Petitioner Linda S. who may otherwise be interested in Durston the will or estate, or both of Diana L. Law Offices of Linda S. Durston Schwartz (aka: Diana Lee Heckman, 1604 Solano Avenue Diana Lee Schwartz, Diana Berkeley, CA 94707 Schwartz. (510) 526-1376 A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by Leslie M. Byrne in the Publish: 8/18, 8/22, 8/25/11 Superior Court of California, County CNS-2155050# 43 44 DAILY CALIFORNIAN

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veterans they are, playing classics like “New Slang” and “Girl Inform Me” as the crowd cooed along. It was like a welcome family reunion, where fans mouthed the lyrics to the soaring sounds of “Phantom Limb” and a guitar-heavy “Kissing the Lipless.” Mercer and the gang seemed to be equally excited as they amped up their sound for a resounding new number off their upcoming 2012 album. And, if the crowd’s enraptured reaction was any indicator, the long wait may be worth it. Outside Lands proved the Shins are still at the top of their game. — Jessica Pena

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of the afro, the Roots are at their best live, reveling in an improvisational atmosphere of joyful jamming. The Philadelphia-based group delved into some of their vintage numbers, like “The Seed” and “You Got Me,” but they also incorporated some covers of “Sweet Child of Mine” and “Bad to the Bone” that cemented their status as the chairmen of cool. The Roots may play live every night with their gig on Jimmy Fallon, but their jazzy riffs and hip-hop swagger can’t be contained by a studio. The Roots’ magnetic gusto requires a venue like the open fields of Outside Lands. — Jessica Pena

ith groups like the Black Keys and the Stone Foxes, this year’s Outside Lands seemed to be booked with bands that brought equal parts funk and rock. But, no musical collective combines these genres with more panache and unadulterated vigor than the Roots. Formed in 1987, they’ve been at this whole live show business for a while. But, they’ve never been stale or boring. Opening with a blustering torrent of keyboard, horns and Questlove’s stellar syncopation on drums, they brought the funk. The only thing missing was Questlove’s trademark ’fro. But, despite the absence

favorites such as the sensual “Under the Sheets” and lovey-dovey “Every Time You Go,” Goulding was the epitome of unbridled energy. Her voice, ringing loud and clear, erased any doubt of her synthetic studio efforts. Clad in a bright red military jacket and tight leather pants, she was a true performer at heart, and her charm won over even the most apathetic person in the crowd. Granted, many filled up the Sutro stage with hopes of getting good spots for Big Boi’s performance, but everyone found themselves swaying and singing along to the sweet croonings of Ellie Goulding. — Cynthia Kang

!!! (chk chk chk) ments of the blues. Every song came with a full dose of fuzz and a rugged, soulful vibe. The Keys continued to kick out track after track with recent hits like “Tighten Up” and earlier works such as “10 A.M. Automatic.” The Keys managed to cram in a plethora of songs from their discography while occasionally switching it up with freestyle jams. As they closed with the explosive “I Got Mine,” the thriving applause and shouts affirmed the Keys as one of the festival’s most impressive dirty blues bands. — Ian Birnam

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a more restrained spectacle, he still basked in the limelight as he strutted from one edge of the stage to another. His shenanigans had no limits, from his impressive pelvic thrusts to interactions with the audience (he came down and gyrated with the crowd for a good 10 minutes). Each song effortlessly blended into next, with the help of a never-ending bass line. Surprisingly, !!! opted not to play their hit single “AM/FM” but made up for it by unleashing a frenzied Prince cover. — Cynthia Kang

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