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By Jordan Bach-Lombardo Senior Staff jbachlombardo@dailycal.org Students strolling through Sproul Plaza Thursday — many enticed by the free hot dogs — stopped to explore a new social networking app, which allows students to meet people in the university community with similar interests.

Ntro — created and promoted by the company nProgress, Inc. — connects people based on users’ expressed interests, linking students to other students, as well as to student groups they could be interested in.

The app launched Sunday at Caltopia, but the company used Thursday as its main day to publicize the product. It already has over 1,000 subscribers, according to Rosie O’Neill, vice president of marketing.

While some used the promotional download event as a crime of opportunity to snag a Top Dog — offered in return for downloading the free app — other students said they would use the app for practical purposes.

“The number one reason to use it is because you can find a study buddy really easily,” said Joseph Baietti, a UC Berkeley senior working with the project.

Molly Roth, a UC Berkeley junior and music major, said the app could make it easier to find other musicians for jam sessions. It could also make putting a band together much smoother, she said.

Josh Resnick, CEO and founder of nProgress, said the idea for the app was borne out of the many hours he spent in airports watching hundreds of fellow travelers pass by

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Watch students download and try out the ntro app Thursday on Sproul Plaza.

without any contact.

“I (thought) there must be something I have in common with these other people, but there’s no way for me to figure that out,” he said. “I’m way too gun-shy to walk up and say, ‘Hi, my name is Josh, I used to make video games, are you into that?’ And so I started thinking about this app.”

Resnick began developing the app over a year ago, raising “millions of dollars” in the process. He decided to focus on marketing to students because he thought the college environment appeared similar to his experience in the airport — lots of people in a relatively compressed space, running past each other without a word.

The program, which requires a UC Berkeley email address to join, is exclusive to the campus. UC Berkeley’s schedule of classes and an entire database of campus student groups are programmed into the app to facilitate finding people and scheduling a time to meet.

Security was a main focus in designing the app, Resnick said. Unlike other social networking programs, such as Facebook or Foursquare, ntro — which he termed an “optin network” — does not give out a user’s last name or location and does not allow users to search for other people. The only way to access another person is based on an expressed common interest.

The app makes it easier for student groups to reach potential members, O’Neill said. Groups can send out news feeds to all registered students who identify a certain interest.

Employee at UCSF files a suit against UC Regents

By Jordan Bach-Lombardo Senior Staff jbachlombardo@dailycal.org

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UC Berkeley students try out ntro, a new social networking app, on Sproul Plaza.

While it is currently operating only at UC Berkeley and the University of Southern California — Berkeley is the first city the app has expanded into from nProgress’ home city of Los Angeles — Resnick has big plans for his program. He hopes it will be in use at 50 of the largest colleges across the United States by 2012.

“In a weird way, we’re using tech-

nology to get people to look up from their phones and actually walk up to someone and introduce themselves,” said Resnick. “Serendipity strikes so rarely, (so) we want to make that process a lot more efficient. There’s so many great missed opportunities out there.”

Jordan Bach-Lombardo is the university news editor.

A racial discrimination lawsuit filed in San Francisco Superior Court against the Regents of the University of California began jury selection Wednesday and will likely begin evidence presentation on Monday.

The suit, filed by former UC San Francisco employee Todd Senigar, alleges that, despite positive performance reviews and qualified credentials, he was passed over for promotion on the basis of his race.

UCSF spokesperson Amy Pyle said the UC does not believe the claim has any merit. According to Pyle, the position in question was opened in accordance with university policy but was not filled by anyone due to budgetary constraints.

Senigar’s complaint cites a litany of instances going back to 2001, alleging racial discrimination in the workplace, including alleged inadequate pay for his position and racial harassment by colleagues that was not adequately dealt with by UCSF. Furthermore, Senigar, a black man, alleges that his manager, Jeffrey Fritz, did not promote him based on his race.

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Percentage of students Report says youth nationwide struggle to find passing exit employment and many have stopped trying exam rises Labor

YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT Unemployment Rate for July 2011

12 %

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According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

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48.8 % 59.5 % were employed in July 2011 — the lowest rate on record.

of people ages 16 to 24 were employed or looking for work in July 2011 — the lowest rate on record.

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With the continuing nationwide economic slump, youth are not only struggling to find jobs, but many may have stopped trying altogether, according to federal data released Wednesday.

A mere 59.5 percent of youth between 16 and 24 were working or actively looking for work in July, marking the lowest rate on record — since 1948 — according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

However, Delfina Geiken, Berkeley’s employment programs administrator, said the city’s youth employment initiative, YouthWorks, did not see a decrease in applicants this summer, receiving an usual number of applications — nearly 1,000. Funded by the city, YouthWorks is a program that finds jobs for people between the ages of 14 and 25.

Typically, the youth labor force, which includes those with jobs or seeking jobs, skyrockets between April and July each year, as students finish the school year and search for work. This year, the labor force jumped by 11.8 percent between those months, with the youth labor force growing by 2.4 million.

While there is no data about youth employment rates in Berkeley, the national youth em-

Souyma Karlamangla talks about the numbers behind the unemployment rate for teens and minorities nationwide.

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ployment rate in July was 48.5 percent, also the lowest rate on record, according to the data.

“Youth are competing with adults for jobs that typically youth would expect to get,” she said. “I’m not surprised that the data shows that at all.”

Geiken added that in the past few years, she has seen that many of the city’s youth looking for jobs are doing so to support their families rather than to earn cash for their own use. She also said that while the program tries to target youth from South and West Berkeley, historically poorer areas, YouthWorks is willing to find jobs for anyone who applies. The city’s overall unemployment rate was 10.5 percent in July, according to an analysis by the California Employment Development Department.

“In our mind, all youth are at risk regardless of their income level,” Geiken said.

The situation in California is already worse than in the rest of the country, since the state’s July unemployment rate — 12 percent — was higher than the national rate that month, 9.1

The percentage of high school students passing the California High School Exit Exam continued to increase statewide for the sixth consecutive year, according to data released by the state Department of Education Wednesday.

Despite heavy cuts to K-12 education over the last decade from the state, the percentage of students in the graduating class of 2011 that passed the exam rose from 94.4 percent to 94.6 percent. In 2006, that number was 90.4 percent.

“We’ve been making the curriculum tougher, when you ask kids to do more, they will do more, and when you ask more of children, they will do better,” said Tina Jung, a department spokesperson.

The first exit exam — required to graduate from California high schools — was held in 2001 as part of a package of educational reforms, including revamping teaching and curriculum standards.

The exam has been widely criticized as some allege teachers forgo education by teaching to the test and argue it does

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Gov. Brown appoints local resident as special advisor Gov. Jerry Brown has appointed Berkeley resident Jeanne Clinton as special advisor to the California Public Utilities Commission, the governor’s office said Tuesday.

Clinton, 60, has been a manager of the commission’s Climate Strategies Branch since 2009 and was an advisor Jeanne on clean energy

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and policy planning to the commission from 2006 to 2009, according to a press release from the governor’s office. Prior to that, she served as a consultant to former California Energy Commissioner Jackalyne Pfannenstiel, an international energy efficiency advisor for the Vietnam Ministry of Industry, as well as deputy director for the California Consumer Power and Conservation Financing Authority.

As special advisor for the commission, Clinton will help coordinate development and implementation of energy efficiency programs and policies, including financing mechanisms and other incentives — program design and implementation, program evaluation and other matters — according to the governor’s office. She

also may work on related distribution generation and demand reduction programs.

Clinton’s new position does not require senate confirmation. Her compensation is $130,236.

In addition to Clinton’s appointment, Brown announced the appointment of San Francisco resident Barbara Emley, 69, to the Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission. Emley has fished commercially for more than 20 years and has served as the strategy team leader for the Pacific Coast Federation of Fisherman’s Associations since 1995, according to the press release.

Her newly appointed position requires state Senate confirmation and provides compensation of $100 per diem.

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Hundreds of students flocked to Lower Sproul Plaza for Calapalooza Thursday evening to learn more about the clubs, organizations and activities on campus.

Division plans to create affordable housing for some mentally-ill adults

By Adelyn Baxter | Staff abaxter@dailycal.org

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How much weight can Lower Sproul Plaza take?

The city of Berkeley’s Mental Health Division is planning a $15 million project to create affordable, permanent housing in Berkeley for mentally-ill adults who are homeless or at risk of homelessness.

The project — overseen by the division in conjunction with the California Department of Mental Health and the California Housing Finance Agency — will involve renovating an existing 74-unit apartment complex at 1040 University Ave. so that it can accommodate and provide services for homeless individuals.

“The long-term goal is to provide people who have been without housing for a long time with an opportunity to live fuller lives in a cleaner environment,” said Amy Moore, the division’s supervisor.

The city is holding a 30-day comment period to gather input from the public until Sept. 21, at which point

an application will be submitted to the Berkeley City Council, which will then vote on the project.

Funding for the housing project will come mainly from the state and other yet-to-be-determined sources, according to Moore. An additional sum of $758,600 in leftover funds allocated by the Mental Health Services Act will also be used in the renovations.

The property on University Avenue is owned by Berkeley-based Resources for Community Development, an organization dedicated to providing lowincome housing for Bay Area families, which will work with the division to operate the site once it opens.

Jessica Sheldon, associate project manager for Resources for Community Development, said they hope to complete all administrative and funding steps by the end 2011 but that construction will probably not begin until next year. Renovations will mainly consist of interior improvements — plumbing, ventilation as well as installing energyefficient lighting.

Seven units will be set aside for occupants who are both homeless and certified mentally-ill. All occupants must have an income lower than 30 to 50 percent of the area’s median income. Rent will be subsidized to 30 percent of each occupant’s income.

The site will also provide occupants with medical screenings, social work services, counseling, vocational training, mental health assessments as well as individual and group therapy.

Severely mentally-ill homeless people in Alameda County comprise 20 percent of its total homeless population as of January 2011, according to a report from the group EveryOne Home released in June. The number of mentally-ill homeless individuals has decreased almost 19 percent since 2009. The report also states that “about 60 percent of severely mentally-ill homeless people are sheltered” — meaning they currently live in emergency shelter programs — “while about 40 percent are unsheltered.”

Adelyn Baxter covers city government.

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Four months ago, UC Berkeley engineers and administrators — fearing that excessive weight could cause damage to the garage below — refused to allow any vehicle larger than a golf cart drive across Lower Sproul Plaza.

Monday night, approximately 1,500 Greek-curious students — whose combined weight far outstrips that of a laden golf cart — reveled on that same plaza at the annual Greek carnival.

While holding events on the plaza that attract large volumes of students may seem counterintuitive and in direct opposition to the point of the weight restrictions, Christine Shaff, communications director of the campus’s Facilities Services Department said that big cranes are more of a concern than big crowds. ...

Corrections The caption for the photograph accompanying Thursday’s article “Questions surround offense as fall camp wraps up” incorrectly identified the featured player as Kaelin Clay. In fact, it was Avery Walls.

The Aug. 10, 2009 editorial “Speaking Up” incorrectly identified all three UC Berkeley alumni and hikers detained in Iran as UC Berkeley graduatesturned-journalists. In fact, only Shane Bauer was a journalist.

The Daily Californian regrets the errors.

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leary-eyed and carrying a slight headache from jet lag, I stumbled up a concrete staircase to a second-story shop.

It was my second day in Amman, Jordan, and I found myself accompanying our Palestinian study-abroad program director as he ran errands.

To a sweet shop, then an office supply store, afterwards a bread shop and then, for our final stop, to the tailor’s to pick up a pair of pants.

In the shop’s cluttered lobby, Abboud, the tailor, met us with the slacks. After the flurry of introductions, Abboud asked me the traditional second question: “What’s your religion?� “I don’t have one,� I answered, utterly unaware of the rabbit hole I had just plunged myself down and equally unprepared for the vehemence of his response.

Ten minutes later — a period during which I struggled to cobble together, in Arabic, a defense of my life philosophy as Abboud blazed through the finer points of Muhammad’s words and actions — I retraced my steps down the staircase, head reeling worse than before.

This dialogue repeated itself many times across the country, in taxi cabs and coffee shops, libraries and kiosks.

Each conversation reinforced the absolute difference between me and the majority of the Jordanian people.

As a non-believer, a fundamental distinction separates me from the Muslim Jordanians — who constitute 92 percent of the country’s population — I encountered every day.

Belief in God plays such an integral role in their everyday life — a hefty percentage of expressions of hope are greeted with the phrase, “If God wills it� — that many simply cannot understand how anyone can live without it.

The moment many people I spoke with learned of my areligious conviction, I instantly perceived a slight change in the way they viewed me. In their eyes, without God, I had no moral compass. As one zealous defender of the monotheistic philosophy lectured me, without the supreme deity dictating my thoughts and actions, there is nothing to stop me from killing people on the street. o while I was always treated with respect and kindness, I felt separated from the people around me.

There exists no bigger division between people than the trenches dug by religion.

I relentlessly tried to breach this gulf. I sipped tea with a street-side bookseller, debated economic policy with Jordanian communists, rolled balls of traditional mansaf in a family’s home — all to no avail. Always eluding me was the answer to that essential question: How do I connect with the Jordanian people at a fundamental level?

The answer came during the holiest month of the Muslim calendar.

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By Damian Ortellado | Staff dortellado@dailycal.org

Jordan Bach-Lombardo jbachlombardo@dailycal.org Ramadan is the month of fasting that requires Muslims to abstain from eating and drinking from sunup to sundown. Beyond the introspection and religious reflection that traditionally accompanies fasting, it also strengthens ties between people as they collectively undertake the task.

Considering the societal implications of this practice, I decided to fast. Immediately, I felt a change in my relationship with the people around me. n the first day, about 10 minutes before the call to prayer that announced sundown and the end of the fast, I brought a box of dates – a food traditionally used to break the fast – to the lobby of the hotel in which I was staying. Yusuf, a manager with whom I had always been on very good terms, looked at the gift and, understanding the symbolic significance of the dried fruit, asked me, “Are you fasting?� “Yes,� I responded.

A bright smile appeared on his face, and he quickly stood up to shake my hand. The dialogue repeated itself innumerous times as the question quickly supplanted any investigation into my religion.

Each time I answered, my new friend smiled, shook my hand and, after forcing me to sit down, brought tea or coffee or some food to share.

Fasting opened doors into the society to which I had previously not even had access. Every night of Ramadan I went downtown with a friend from the program — he also fasted — and stayed there for hours, less an intruder on the community there than a part of the group.

We broke fast in restaurants, surrounded by locals, expectantly awaiting the call to prayer alongside them and, as one, digging into the food in front of us when the time came.

After fast, we sat for hours on the broad, round concrete columns near a three-way intersection, whiling away the time until suhoor – the meal eaten before beginning the day’s fast – by talking and laughing with our friends and passersby. The barriers between us were diminished because we shared something special — I became a part of the local community.

Ramadan kareem.

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The UC Office of the President released the University of California’s annual payroll report for 2010 Wednesday, revealing a recent trend of declining state funding for employee compensation.

The report, which outlines both the sources funding payroll and the groups receiving compensation, pinpoints the two major sources for funding of the payroll as state general funds, which includes educational fees and teaching hospitals.

State funding for payroll declined by $174 million to 26.7 percent in 2010, making up 2 percent less of the total payroll than in 2009. Total pay from teaching hospitals increased by $76 million, .4 percent higher than the fraction of total compensation it made up in 2009, according to the report.

In 2008, however, state general funds and educational fees made up over 30 percent of payroll funding, according to the 2008 payroll report. “(The decline) makes it harder to pay our staff and faculty, makes it harder to keep tuition levels stable, makes it harder to keep our buildings running,� said Leslie Sepuka, a spokesperson for the UC Office of the President, in an email.

Sepuka added that the decline in

state funding especially affects the university because state funds are flexible, whereas grants, for instance, are not. “I think the key point is that the funds from the state are unrestricted — so the university has the flexibility to use them where it sees a need,� Sepuka said in the email. “If the university gets a grant for a specific purpose (melanoma research) you can’t use it to keep the library open for extended hours during finals.�

Although funding from federal government sources increased by $80 million, the increase was due primarily to increased funding for research, according to a press release from the UC Office of the President. Sepuka said the increased funding is a step in the right direction for the university. “The medical centers have been growing,� Sepuka said. “They also help support the medical schools and students — so that is a positive for the university,� said Sepuka in an email.

The growth in research expenditures also explains the total payroll increase to just under $1 billion in 2010, a 1 percent increase from 2009. However, the rise is smaller compared to previous years, according to the press release.

Sepuka said the increase in research spending shows the importance of the university — which develops more patents than any university in the nation — in the scientific community.

Health care personnel made up

the largest percentage of payroll for any single group, academic or nonacademic, with 21.6 percent of compensation funding going to the group — almost .5 percent higher than their fraction of the total payroll in 2009.

Health care personnel have made up the largest percentage of payroll since 2007, according to calendar year payroll reports from previous years.

In the 2005-2006 fiscal year, health care personnel made up a little more than half of the payroll percentage they made up in total 2010 UC employee compensation, according to a 20052006 fiscal year payroll report.

Health sciences faculty members remain among the top 10 earning employees at the university, along with athletic coaches who — unlike faculty — are paid from non-state funds, according to the press release. These faculty members are often well-known in the medical community and receive much of their income from their clinical practices at UC medical centers.

According to the report, about 40 percent of payroll went to academic personnel, such as professors, lecturers, student assistants and librarians.

In fiscal year 2005-06, academic personnel made up almost 80 percent of total compensation, nearly double what they did in 2010, according to the 2005-06 fiscal year report.

Damian Ortellado covers higher education.

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Friday, August 26, 2011

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Supporting the hikers CAMPUS AFFAIRS UC Berkeley must continue to acknowledge two campus alumni sentenced to eight years in prison by Iran.

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or more than two years, they sat together in an Iranian prison. For more than two years, they fended off sickness and depression, watching as their comrade showed signs of sickness so serious that she was allowed to return home without them. And now, the two UC Berkeley alumni may face eight more years of the same heinous conditions after they were sentenced.

Though the verdict was read, the campus community cannot consider this case closed.

In the summer of 2009, Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal were hiking near the Iran-Iraq border with Bauer’s fiance Sarah Shourd when the three were seized by Iranian authorities, accused of trespassing and spying — claims which those close to them have vehemently denied.

The drawn-out legal process came to somewhat of a resolution last Saturday with an eight-year sentence. But the evidence against them is extremely shaky, if at all existent.

With a brand new freshman class finding their way around UC Berkeley this week, it is the campus community’s duty to not let Bauer and Fattal become irrel-

evant. These men walked through the same doorways to get to class and were taught by some of the same professors that many of us engage with today.

We, as students, cannot execute a plan to solve this situation: The relations between the United States and Iran are beyond our reach. We cannot offer diplomatic solutions or economic resources. We can, however, offer a resounding voice with the UC Berkeley community, in unison with the friends and families of Bauer and Fattal. We must call on others within the campus — student government officials, administrators, students and professors — to renew the call for Bauer and Fattal’s and release. And we must remain steadfast in our determination to keep Bauer and Fattal alive in the campus consciousness and discourse.

No matter how much time passes, we should not and cannot forget these alumni who have captured the attention of the nation and the world. As Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said, “It is time for them to return home and be reunited with their families.”

We must stand behind our fellow Golden Bears.

More than monetary UNIVERSITY ISSUES The University of California’s new merit raise plan is a first step, but other factors affect employee rentention.

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irst came the dreaded furlough program. Then came fewer graduate student instructors due to a lack of funding, continued competitive offers from big-budget private schools and the layoffs of colleagues and friends, all while salaries for many UC faculty and staff members remained well below market rate.

And yet across UC Berkeley and the entire UC, many professors and staff members have chosen to stay. For this, we commend them and believe that the UC merit program announced last Wednesday is a step in the right direction.

However, we also hope that the university sees the bigger picture.

It is not only the level of pay that keeps these professors, supervisors, financial analysts and others from fleeing to Harvard, Stanford or other private prestigious universities, but also the caliber of the school’s research, students and educational atmosphere.

Under this merit plan, faculty and non-union staff members will be eligible to receive raises based on performance evaluations. The raises — set at 3 percent of overall base pay — will be a much-needed reprieve, especially for non-represented staff who have not received pay increases for four years and

who have had to take pay-cuts during the furlough program.

Through all the hurt that the university has experienced — with the slashing of $650 million in state funding this year alone, the elimination of phones from many campus departments two years ago, the dwindling budgets of academic units — faculty and staff members have certainly shouldered a good share of the impacts.

In discussions of budget cuts, the fear of loss in scholarly quality repeatedly surfaces. But the campus maintains high rankings because our outstanding instructors and role models stick around.

This new plan demonstrates that the UC acknowledges the need to retain these academics, shows that those at the top value academic excellence and suggests the UC is aware of the ramifications of potential brain drain.

At the same time, the UC needs to pursue more than just fiscal incentives. We realize that money is tight, but we hope that the UC will seek to support other programs that make employees want to stay — the space for innovative and thorough research, students eager to learn and grow and a community that lives and breathes academic excellence.

Our campus has a commitment to both access and excellence mobility for huge numbers of lowincome students. Now that tuition increases have raised the stakes, our challenge will be to develop strategies for better supporting students from households earning $80,000 to $120,000.

Of course, all our students deserve access to a first-rate curriculum as well. Toward that end, we have invested some of the funds from tuition increases and nonresident tuition into expanding access to required Reading and Composition courses, to large, introductory classes in physics, chemistry, mathematics and statistics and to foreign language courses. Next on this agenda is the construction of two new biology teaching laboratories, made possible by funds from an external source, which will then make it possible for us to add sections in introductory biology classes.

Improvement of the campus’s infrastructure is always on our radar screen. One cannot deliver 21st century research and teaching in antiquated laboratories, libraries, classrooms and facilities. At least a half-dozen new buildings have been completed and opened in recent years, and another four will come on line in the next year and a half. Most of these buildings have been paid for predominantly from private fundraising and seismic funds from the state.

We also aspire to excellence in our administrative operations and services — areas in which Berkeley has historically lagged. That is one of the principal purposes of Operational Excellence.

Access and excellence are expensive to maintain, but that is our determined goal. Funds from the State of California for operating Berkeley now constitute only 11 to 12 percent of our total revenues. While we will continue to lobby vigorously for state funding,

By George Breslauer Special to the Daily Cal opinion@dailycal.org I want to welcome everyone back to campus and share some reflections on what I think makes this campus so special.

It is no secret that UC Berkeley is going through challenging times and that the state’s persistent disinvestment in higher education forces us to make unhappy choices, such as tuition increases.

I am often asked how we deal with these challenges. The answer is that everything we do is filtered through our commitment to access and excellence. We are committed to maintaining and enhancing UC Berkeley’s ranking as one of the top research universities in the world. Forty-six new faculty will join our ranks this year, 156 of our entering graduate students are winners of prestigious National Science Foundation multi-year fellowships, and our entering undergraduate class is the product of the most competitive admissions process in our history. We continue to launch cutting-edge, interdisciplinary research initiatives in the sciences, humanities and social sciences, such as the Berkeley Energy and Climate Change Institute; the Haas Diversity Research Center and the Berkeley Institute for Jewish Law and Israeli Law, Economy and Society.

We are committed to maintaining broad social access to this excellence. Our financial aid policies and our private fundraising for scholarships have made it possible for us to cushion the effects of tuition increases on all students who come from households that have a total annual income of less than $80,000. These financial aid policies have allowed UC Berkeley to serve as an engine of upward

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we must plan for, and are actively pursuing, alternative sources of funds. In addition to tuition increases and larger nonresident undergraduate enrollments (shifting the ratio from 90 percent Californians to 80 percent Californians), we have raised $2.2 billion in private fundraising during the past six years and anticipate completing our $3 billion campaign within 30 months. We are also exploring entrepreneurial initiatives that will provide new income streams for departments within the university.

We have a lot going for us: an all-star faculty, a global reputation, strong support from a large alumni base, the Bay Area as an attractive place to live, connections to Silicon Valley and to Asia, a committed workforce and a lock on the status of being the preeminent public university in the world. Moreover, we’ve been through very hard times before: the Great Depression; the political controversies of the 1950s and 1960s; and the slashing of our state allocations in the late 1970’s, the early 1990’s; the early 2000’s and again in the late 2000’s. Yet historically, we have always bounced back and retained our preeminence as a public university. There is something intangible that has kept UC Berkeley resilient through all these trials. Surely, our commitment to maintaining both access and excellence — and to serving the public good — has been an inspiration to students, staff and faculty, attracting them to this remarkable institution.

We would value your thoughts on what makes UC Berkeley so special and resilient. You can post your comments on our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/ ucberkeley.

George Breslauer is the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost at UC Berkeley.

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By Catherine Cole Special to the Daily Cal opinion@dailycal.org This week marks the fortieth anniversary of Chez Panisse, the legendary Berkeley restaurant that pioneered the Slow Food movement that has now prompted Americans to desire seasonal, local, organic, whole foods.

The “mother” of Chez Panisse, Alice Waters, credits her student experiences at UC Berkeley as inspiration. She was among a group of countercultural activists who found their vision for sustainable agriculture on Sproul Plaza in the heady days of the Free Speech Movement.

What might have seemed at the time an idealistic, impractical pipe dream became four decades later a popular, widespread, economically viable movement. The rise of farmers’ markets, community gardens and Edible Schoolyards in public schools can be traced, in part, to UC Berkeley and its students’ capacity for invention. There is much to learn by revisiting this history, not just as a nostalgic walk down memory lane. This history is a reminder that paradigm shifts happen through creativity and collective invention, with protest and rejection of a status quo only part of a much larger process.

We begin the 2011-12 academic year with the inauspicious news that for the first time in the University of California’s history, students are contributing more than the public to the cost of their education. With the specter of continuing budgetary shortfalls and tuition hikes looming, students are likely to be paying even more by year’s end. UC Berkeley and UCLA are admitting unprecedented numbers of out-of-state students, their full tuition payments backfilling the state’s fiscal withdrawal. What exactly is it that makes the University of California “public?” And how is our university “of ” California when campuses now receive so little of their overall operating expenses from the state — at Berkeley as low as 12 percent?

These are big, fundamental, longrange questions. We ask them in a climate of instability and duress. It appears that higher education — not just in California, but also nationally and globally — is undergoing a profound paradigm shift the likes of which we have not seen for at least 50 years. The simultaneous emergence of higher education’s first great technological change in five centuries — the digital revolution — only compounds

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our instability, for this is yet one more mobile tectonic plate.

The 2011-12 year is likely to see many political flashpoints: tuition increases, layoffs, organizational restructuring, a rise of “permatemp” lecturers, challenges to shared governance, a further erosion of the ties that once bound UC’s world renowned system. Students may have difficulty getting classes; the wheels of Operational Excellence will roll along to a destination widely proclaimed yet remarkably ill-defined (i.e. how will we know when we are “excellent?”). Protest actions, with their attendant Twitter feeds, will inevitably pull us into a myopic fixation on the present. The battlegrounds will be multiple and dynamic.

Yet protests won’t make a future.

Neither will managerial exercises in efficiency. Our needs far transcend what either the flash mob or organizational restructuring can produce.

We need a big rethink about the future of higher education. The last great paradigm shift in higher education happened half a century ago with the University of California its epicenter. Can we once again be a leader?

The scale of our current challenges is formidable, its contours complex, its inner workings opaque. Unlike the last great period of innovation in higher education, the signs are not auspicious.

The present has neither unprecedented prosperity nor the expansive vision that marked former UC President Clark Kerr’s era and the 1960 California Master Plan for Higher Education.

Today a new design for higher education is unlikely to come from on high, and it’s unlikely to come from one man. The future of higher education — if it is to be bright — may well require collective invention. It may require the very sort of collaborative ingenuity and original thinking that

gave rise to the Slow Food movement, a product of Berkeley’s soil.

If you have walked by the Berkeley Art Museum this week, you may have noticed corn growing outside. Yes, corn. This is a sign that the artists’ collective OPENrestaurant has taken up residence with their new project “OPENed: Education as Experience.”

On Saturday, Aug. 27 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., they will transform the museum into an open classroom and living kitchen, tracing the history of Chez Panisse and pointing to alternative strategies, new and historical, for the future of education. They invite us to inaugurate the new academic year by looking into our past in order to envision our future. They invite us to cultivate, not just corn, but also the art of the long view.

Catherine Cole is a professor in the Department of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies at UC Berkeley.

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From Front percent. Since at least 2002, the state unemployment rate has been consistently higher than the national rate, according to the state’s analysis.

In a press conference Thursday morning, Gov. Jerry Brown unveiled a three-part strategy, called California Jobs First plan, aimed at lowering the state’s unemployment rate. The plan, which will require a two-thirds vote from the state legislature for approval, would provide a tax credit for

businesses that hire more employees and also remove sales tax on manufacturing equipment for startup companies during their first three years of business.

“Boosting job growth in California is a top priority, and this proposal is a critical step in making sure the state does everything it can to support local job creation,” Brown said at the conference.

Although Brown did not say specif-

ically how many jobs he estimates the plan will create, he seemed confident that it would help lower the state’s unemployment rate — the second highest in the nation last month.

“We know the future depends on growing our way out of this economic morass,” Assembly Speaker John Perez, D-Los Angeles, said at the conference.

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Caleb Dardick, the UC Berkeley director of local government and community relations, has been an important part of the community for the past 16 years.

Director of community relations to leave post

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After being a part of the Berkeley community for 16 years working for the city and the campus, Caleb Dardick, UC Berkeley director of local government and community relations, is returning to his river roots to take up a new position at home in Nevada County.

Dardick — who has been instrumental to town-gown relations since immersing himself in Berkeley politics as former Mayor Shirley Dean’s legislative aid — will be moving to Nevada City to serve as executive director for the South Yuba River Citizens League. In June, Dardick applied for the position and was chosen earlier after a nationwide search.

“He brings incredibly strong communication skills, expertise in strategic planning — certainly in coalition building and program management,” said Kim Milligan, interim executive director for SYRCL. In his new position, Dardick will lead the organization in its mission to protect the Yuba River and Watershed while working on statewide issues, such as the recovery of salmon in the Yuba River — named one of America’s Most Endangered Rivers in May by the conservation group American Rivers.

“We went to the Yuba River all the time ... the older kids who could drive would drive through the neighborhood, honk the horn and all the little kids would come running out and jump in the back of the truck, and we’d go to the river for the day,” Dardick said. “We just grew up ... lounging on the rocks and swimming in the beautiful clear water ... it’s part of my DNA.” After managing his father’s campaign for county supervisor in 1994 — his first foray into politics — Dardick worked on several more campaigns, including Dean’s run-off campaign in December 1994, and then served as Dean’s legislative aid for four years.

“I became immersed in Berkeley

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politics, and I loved it. It was the most interesting and exciting job I ever had,” Dardick said. “You could be dealing with potholes in the morning and the city’s position on divestment in Nigeria in the afternoon.”

In 1998, Dardick was hired by UC Berkeley’s department of community relations as interim director of the Berkeley Alliance — a collaboration between UC Berkeley and Berkeley Unified School District that still exists today, which aims to build community partnerships to effect change on critical social and economic equity issues in Berkeley.

Two years later, he decided to work for himself as a community relations consultant, working on projects like the Ed Roberts Campus at the Ashby BART station and the David Brower Center.

When Ed Roberts, a UC Berkeley alum and leader in the local disabilities rights movement, passed away in 1995, Dardick — under the direction of Dean — put together a task force of local activists, disability rights leaders and campus community members, to honor Roberts’ memory.

“Mayor Dean asked me to represent the office at his memorial, and I was honored to do that ... because I grew up in the disability rights movement ... my father was a person with a disability,” he said.

After 10 years of working for himself, Dardick returned to the campus’ community relations office where he continued to work on projects to connect the campus and city communities through community service projects and partnerships, like the Joint Southside Safety Patrol program.

“He knew the community. He knew the various stakeholders and he had a manner, or an ability, to bring people to the table and work out solutions,” said Councilmember Laurie Capitelli.

“They’ll be big shoes to fill.”

Stephanie Baer is the city news editor.

not gauge college preparedness, says Mary Perry, deputy director of EdSource, a nonprofit organization that researches education in California.

A separate report released earlier this month from the not-for-profit organization ACT — which administers a test of the same name designed to measure college preparedness — seemingly contradicts the exit exam numbers, showing college preparedness levels declining across the state from 31 percent meeting ACT’s benchmarks to 30 percent, a decrease of roughly 1,500 students.

Perry says the ACT report’s numbers’ discrepancy may only be superficial. She said ACT test takers are selfselecting, college-bound students, whereas every California high school student must take the exit exam.

“You don’t know whether the decline you’re seeing is a reduction of the skill set of California students or is because the group taking the test changed,” she added.

State department spokesperson Jung says the two tests shouldn’t be compared because the exit exam measures math skills through seventh grade and English and language arts through the 10th grade, while the ACT tests a student’s ability to take college level courses.

UC spokesperson Ricardo Vazquez said most UC admits take the SAT — a college-readiness test administered by the not-for-profit College Board — and a growing number are taking both the ACT and the SAT, though few take the ACT exclusively. Exact numbers for university were not immediately available as of press time.

According to Perry, 50 percent of graduating seniors in California took

BERKELEY BREAKDOWN • The percentage of Berkeley Unified School District students that took and passed the exit exam for math decreased from 82 percent for the class of 2010 to 81 percent in the class of 2011 and for English and language arts decreased from 84 to 81 percent.

• Passing black BUSD students decreased from 63 percent for the class of 2010 to 57 percent for the class of 2011 for the math portion of the exit exam and from 68 percent to 57 percent for the English portion. Statewide, the numbers increased from 66 to 68 percent and 71 to 72 percent respectively.

• Passing Latino BUSD students increased from 73 percent for 2010 to 75 percent for 2011 for the math portion of the exit exam and from 74 percent to 78 percent for the English portion. Statewide, the numbers increased from 74 to 77 percent and 73 to 76 percent respectively.

• Passing white BUSD students increased from 97 percent for 2010 to 99 percent for 2011 for both portions of the exam. Statewide, the numbers stayed constant at 91 percent for both.

All numbers are from the exit exam administered in the 10th grade, the first time the exit exam is administered and when most students take the exam. the SAT while 22 percent took the ACT in 2010.

She said the state is working on new standards that will better incorporate

college preparedness into high school requirements like the exit exam.

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discrimination: Initial complaint was filed in June 2009 From front Pyle, in dismissing the merit of Senigar’s claims, said that “UCSF has an historic commitment to diversity in the work force.” “(Fritz) had a very strong record of hiring, retaining and promoting African-American employees,” she added.

A judge dismissed a wage discrimination complaint that had originally been part of Senigar’s claim, according to Pyle. However, Senigar is still claiming damages for wages he alleges he should have been paid because he was passed over for promotion.

Senigar is claiming damages for that amount of money, for the amount of money necessary to cover his medical expenses and for the amount of money to compensate for, among other things, a “general loss of self-

esteem and well-being,” according to the second amended complaint.

The claim does not specify an exact amount for these damages.

“This case is not about the money,” said Pamela Price, Senigar’s attorney.

“He should have been given the opportunity to succeed. The denial of that opportunity is the issue.”

Senigar began to work for the university in October 1999. Over the seven years leading up to the first incident, Price said that Senigar received positive reviews from his superiors. Senigar was fired by UCSF prior to the case going to trial, but it is not part of the current complaint, according to Price.

Pyle said that Fritz was ultimately laid off in 2009 for the same budgetary reasons that the position in ques-

tion was never filled.

Senigar filed his initial complaint on June 23, 2009. A first amended complaint was filed on Aug. 20, 2009, and a second amended complaint — the complaint that forms the basis for the trial currently underway — was filed on Aug. 16, 2009.

Because the complaint was not settled out of court, it is now going to trial — an outcome that Senigar did not want to happen, Price said.

“He spent a lot of time trying to resolve it internally, (so) a trial is totally a last resort,” she said. “He never imagined he would have to go through the ordeal of filing the lawsuit or going to trial.”

Jordan Bach-Lombardo is the university news editor.

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Research uses new technique to study the electronic structure of materials

By Claire Perlman | Senior Staff cperlman@dailycal.org

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The surface of a material is usually as far as scientists have delved when exploring the object’s chemistry because it is where the most important reactions happen.

But with relatively unexplored materials, such as semiconductors and superconductors, looking past the surface has become increasingly important, which Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory scientists have accomplished in recent research.

In a study published Aug. 14 in the

Claire Perlman explains how Berkeley lab scientists have studied electronic structures.

journal Nature Materials, lab researchers explored the concept of using a high-energy version of the technique of angle-resolved photoemission — HARPES — to study the electronic structure of materials. Though HARPES and its less intense counterpart, ARPES, have been around since 1905 when Albert Einstein first explained the photoelectric effect — the basis for these techniques — scientists have only recently been able to make use of the techniques.

The photoelectric effect, an important part of the foundation of quantum mechanics, means that light behaves like a quantum of energy, or a photon, which can give all of its energy to an electron and liberate it as a photoelectron, which then flies away, explained Chuck Fadley — a distinguished professor of physics at UC Davis, an Advanced Light Source professor at Berkeley Lab and co-author of the paper.

“One then measures the energy of the electron and its direction as precisely as possible ... and from these measurements can deduce exquisite detail about how the electron was moving in the material before it was

ejected, how the atoms are bound to one another, whether they are magnetic or not, how the material will conduct electricity,” he said.

Without a sufficiently bright light source — and therefore sufficiently powerful beams of hard x-rays — scientists were unable to penetrate the materials on the atomic level that was necessary to observe interactions of photons and electrons beyond the surface.

Because HARPES uses higher energy, it can reveal interactions significantly past the scope of what the less powerful ARPES can do. According to Fadley, ARPES uses ultraviolet and soft x-ray photons and therefore can-

not penetrate much past one nanometer, whereas with HARPES, scientists can measure photoelectrons and electronic properties at depths anywhere between 6 and 10 nanometers.

“You really give them a kick,” said Alexander Gray, a graduate student at UC Davis and Berkeley Lab and a coauthor of the study. “This way, even with electrons that are deep, deep inside of the material, you can really get the information about the electronic properties of the material. You can seek them out, you can catch them and you can analyze them.”

Claire Perlman is the assistant university news editor.

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It sounds demeaning to say tune-up, but I would say these games are more of a way to get momentum going for our team.”

— Volleyball coach Rich Feller, on the preseason

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volleyball | Season Preview

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Bears’ new quarterback won’t stop surging Cal

Bears open 2011 season with barren Riverside club

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Christina Jones cjones@dailycal.org At Cal, we are more than familiar with the aftermath of losing an incredible quarterback. Perhaps current students only know Aaron Rodgers as the alumnus that won the Super Bowl last season, but I remember him as the savior of Cal football that brought us some respectability.

After Rodgers bolted for the NFL, coach Jeff Tedford has yet to trot out a competent, let alone comparable, quarterback. We’ve just had a flurry of disappointments.

In volleyball, the setter is essentially the quarterback of the team.

She’s the one that delivers the ball to attackers, which requires remarkable rapport and timing with hitters, quick decision-making and the ability to read defenses.

The Cal volleyball team loses its quarterback this season in Carli Lloyd. But don’t expect it to mean the demise of the Bears as Rodgers’ departure proved to be.

Lloyd probably meant more to her team than Rodgers. The national Player of the Year, Lloyd instituted the new up-tempo offense that led to the squad’s incredible run to the conference title and debut in the national title game.

More importantly, she was the heart and soul of the team. There was no doubt she was the leader on the court, keeping her teammates together and hitters focused. She simply refused to let her team lose, and had a way of killing opponents’ momentum with big plays.

Her intensity was infectious, and it’s hard to imagine the Bears going

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better than anyone. We may continue to bounce her between middle and right side.”

If Johnson doesn’t win a middle spot, she’ll battle highly regarded freshman Christina Higgins for a position on the right side.

As Feller experiments with rotations, the setter position is foreseeably locked.

After two years as Lloyd’s understudy, Elly Barrett will take the helm. The untested junior has some huge shoes to fill — Lloyd earned National Player of the Year honors last year — but benefits from two years of experience setting the B-team.

Barrett will be surrounded by powerful attackers to help her ease into the role. AllAmerican Tarah Murrey returns as the lone senior on the team coming off a breakout junior campaign in which she emerged as one of the country’s top outside hitters. Murrey will step into Lloyd’s role as the vocal leader in addition to the strongest offensive threat.

While Murrey will certainly be heard, she notes that the team has a more reserved temperament this year.

“Me and Carli last year, we could get a little rowdy,” Murrey said. “But I think that once we get more comfortable with each other, all of our true personalities are going to come out and it’s going to be a lot of fun.”

The ability to keep energy up down the

Eight months after dropping the NCAA championship match to Penn State last December, the No. 3 Cal volleyball team will see its first action of the 2011 season this Quick weekend.

The Bears will host the Cal Look: Molten Classic today and Saturday Cal v. at Haas Pavillion, inviting UC Riverside, Fairfield and Florida UC riverside International University into when: tonight Berkeley.

Cal will be looking to repeat its at 7 p.m. performance from 2010, when it where: Haas won both of its matches of the preseason tournament, tallying Pavilion victories over UC Santa Barbara (25-18, 25-15, 28-26) and Manhattan College (25-8, 25-15, 25-7).

Outside hitter Tarah Murrey, who returns to the Bears as the lone senior, was named the tournament’s most valuable player after leading the team with 11 kills and 14 digs. The Bears’ offense was solid, logging a .341 attack percentage across the two games.

Cal should be poised to see similar results tonight when it opens its season against UC Riverside at 5 p.m. The Highlanders had little to celebrate in 2010, posting a 2-30 record, including a 0-16 mark in the Big West. Riverside was picked to finish last in the Big West in 2011.

“It sounds demeaning to say tune-up, but I would say these games are more of a way to get momentum going for our team,” coach Rich Feller said. “The three weeks of preseason are meant to establish some sort of lineup and momentum.”

Though the Bears might be pushed a little more on Saturday when they square off with Fairfield at 11 a.m. and FIU at 7 p.m., Cal likely won’t see any serious competition. Still, the squad knows it needs to get off to a quick start to the season.

“You play every game likes it’s the national title,” Murrey said. “You’re never going to play perfect volleyball, but you always have to respect your opponent.”

The Bears will also be using this weekend, as well as the matches in the upcoming weeks, to solidify its starting lineup. Though the team returns six starters from 2010, it will need to find a way to replace the presence of Carli Lloyd, the AVCA National Player of the Year in 2010. Lloyd finished her career with 5,697 assists — good enough for second all time in Cal history.

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All-American Tarah Murrey (middle) returns to lead the Bears as the biggest offensive threat.

Bears slightly modify the recipe for success in 2011

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The Cal volleyball team is coming off its best season in program history. The Bears took their first Pac-10 title, and made their debut in the national championship.

One school of thought would be not to mess with success and simply plug players in to fill the two vacant positions at setter and defensive specialist in the starting lineup.

Reigning AVCA Coach of the Year Rich Feller is taking a slightly different route.

While the overall offensive and defensive schemes will remain in place, Feller said he is mixing things up in the lineup, beginning with tonight’s opener against UC Riverside.

“I don’t think you’ll see any sweeping changes,” Feller said. “We have a lot more weapons now. Minus Carli (Lloyd), who was the setter, we increased our offensive threats by three or four new players.”

Last season, the starters were solidified early in the preseason, and didn’t change much. This season, even those accomplished starters that were key contributors last year have to fight for their positions.

Most notably, Correy Johnson, who garnered All-Pac 10 and AVCA honorable mention accolades as a right side hitter last season, is duking it out with two of the conference’s top blockers, Shannon Hawari and Kat Brown, for a spot in the middle.

“Mostly, we need one of the middle positions to be able to hit behind the setter exceptionally well,” Feller said. “Correy does that

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Lauren Battung scored Cal’s first goal in its 2-1 overtime win over San Diego State on Sunday. It was her second goal of the year.

Bison are question mark for Cal

By Seung Y. Lee | Staff sylee@dailycal.org Last year, the Cal women’s soccer team had its biggest victory of the season against Hawaii at Edwards Stadium, piling eight goals from six different players.

But as the Bears prepare to fly down to Honolulu for the rematch, coach Neil McGuire does not expect another romp over the Rainbow Wahine.

“Hawaii has a new coach and the players will be more motivated,” McGuire said. “We are also playing in front of about 3,000 people. I don’t anticipate any sort of similar performances.”

Participating in the ‘Ohana Hotels No Kai ‘Oi tournament, Cal (1-1) will first play North Dakota State (1-0) on Friday night at 10 p.m. before battling the tournament host Hawaii (0-1) on Sunday night at 8 p.m. Both matches are at the Waipi’o Peninsula Soccer Stadium.

Neither the Bison nor the Wahine have close to the talent the Bears have.

Although North Dakota State won more

than half its matches last season, most of its opponents were tiny, obscure schools scattered across the Dakotas. With such obscurity, Cal players and coaches are readying to play the Bison knowing nearly nothing about the team. The one thing the squad does know about North Dakota State is that it plays a 4-4-2 lineup, the most common formation in soccer.

Unlike with North Dakota State, the Bears have experience playing against Hawaii. Led by star striker Alex Morgan’s hat trick, Cal battered the Wahine defense in the second half, scoring five goals.

However, Sunday’s match will likely be considerably different, since the Wahine hired a new coach, Michele Nagamine.

Like Hawaii, Cal is also in a transition mode, adjusting to the void left by the senior Morgan. In the last two matches, the Bears have struggled to score goals, losing to Pepperdine, 2-1, and threading past San Diego State, 2-1, thanks to two late goals by senior Julie Benz and junior Lauren Battung.

“We have been practicing how to penetrate through the defense backline and

creating scoring chances,” Benz said.

“We need to be more fearless in front of the net.”

For the Bears, the ghost of Morgan — who scored nearly a third of the squad’s total goals last season — looms large over the team, demanding alternative ways for the team to score and win games.

One of the solutions that McGuire and the coaches are hoping for is the return of injured forwards Miranda White and Rachel Mercik.

Mercik, a sophomore, has shown promise in her first year with the team, starting four games and scoring two goals. White, a utility player for both defense and offense — will be able to provide experience alongside Benz and Battung in the attacking lines.

“White and Mercik are two players that suffered from long-term and shortterm injuries that have come back,” McGuire said. “We haven’t had them enough of the field, so I want to give these two some quality playing time this weekend.”

Season openers always have their jitters, especially when teams are away from the comforts of their home field.

With these two forces working against the No. 7 Cal men’s soccer team this Friday evening, the Bears travel across the bridge to face the University of San Francisco at Negoesco Stadium at 7 p.m.

The disparity in the two teams’ standings — the Dons are unranked — might provide a hint towards the game’s result, but on paper the Bears’ all-time series record against USF stands at 14-21-2. Even though Cal shut out the Dons in their last four encounters, the matchup still stands a tricky test.

“USF is a strong and talented team,” junior co-captain Steven Birnbaum said. “We are just looking to play our game and get a good start to the season.”

Last year’s tilt at Goldman Field produced then-sophomore John Fitzpatrick’s game winning goal in overtime. It was thensophomore Anthony Salciccia who found Birnbaum’s head for the assist on the last corner kick of the match. The goal gave his squad the 1-0 lead and a share of the Bay Area Classic with Stanford.

Those three lethal juniors are the only players to return to the Bears’ 11-man lineup from 2010.

All posted career highs in goals, assists and points in their sophomore years and will be looking to add to their tallies. Birnbaum is the sole returning starter from the backline and is joined by Salciccia

as a fellow co-captain. The current members will have big shoes to fill after last season’s highly successful campaign saw five seniors and one junior head to Major League Soccer.

Coach Kevin Grimes will have his options open with this young team — more than half are entering their freshmen and sophomore years. The five time Pac-10 Coach of the Year, most recently awarded in 2010, also has two experienced forwards, redshirt juniors Kyle Lunt and Michael Munoz, at his disposal.

“We are confident with our team,” Birnbaum said. “All the underclassmen are very talented and will be a big part of our team this year.”

Cal has been preparing appropriately and avoiding any major injury concerns during the past month of preseason. The ultimate goal is to retain the conference championship. They are predicted to finish second, while UCLA, which claimed the second spot last season, is projected to take the title. Nonetheless, the Bears are feeling optimistic about the season opener after honing their techniques in the summer.

“We are ready for tomorrow,” junior goalkeeper Robby Gogatz said. “We just want to keep on improving, one game at a time, and build on our strengths.”

Cal will have three games remaining in the Bay Area Classic.

Although the jitters of a season opener will have diminished, the Bears will still be playing in unfamiliar territory in Illinois and Connecticut. It won’t be until Sept. 16 that the club returns home to Edwards Stadium to finish off against Santa Clara.

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Season preview: Bears will face a stacked Pac-12 schedule the Pac-12 season by four matches, forcing the first leg of the Big Spike to take place on a Tuesday night.

No. 2 USC, picked to win the Pac-12, will pose the greatest challenge for the Bears, who are predicted to finish second. The Trojans return all of their starters from the team that lost to Cal in the Final Four, but defeated the

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After a weak preseason, Cal will have to be on top of its game to host perennial power No. 6 Stanford to open conference play on Sept. 13. The addition of Colorado and Utah extend

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Bears twice in the regular season.

Calâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not quite ready to face the likes to Stanford and USC yet, but are putting the work in to get to that point. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We played some hard volleyball in practice, so conditioning-wise weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re right there,â&#x20AC;? Murrey said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mentally, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re getting ready every single day.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re ready to play.â&#x20AC;?

Scheidtmiller provided one of Louisvilleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s goals in that game while the other score came from Tuli Lim, Mankl]Zr% FZr ,% +))0 DUMMY Ma^ =Zber <Zeb_hkgbZg who has since graduated.

One thing the Bears have going After an undefeated exhibition schedule, which included two con- for them is an extremely strong vincing wins and a tie with Stanford, preseason, which began with a the Cal field hockey team will visit dominating 10-2 victory over UC No. 16 Louisville at 3 p.m. at Trager Davis.

From page 9 Sophomore Jordan Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Reilly Stadium for its first official game of started the contest off with a pair of nearly as far last season without her. on the team, who was clearly part of be an issue. the 2011 season.

This year, however, it seems plausible the leadership core last year.

Last year, the Bears lost Pac-10 Coming off last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s disappoint- goals, and the Aggies never recovthat Cal will achieve similar heights Barrett doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to try to learn a Player of the Year in outside hitter ing finish â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a loss to Stanford in the ered.

Sophomore Andrea Earle, freshwithout the setter extraordinaire. new offense like Lloyd did, or guide Hana Cutura, and the preseason talk NorPac Tournament final â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the Lloyd had a lot of help with the her teammates through such adjust- was focused mainly on how Cal would Bears hope to start the season strong man Marcia Venter and senior Erin meteoric rise of Tarah Murrey as one of ments to their timing. The system is compensate for such a huge loss. as they embark on a mini-roadtrip to Magill each provided two goals in the premier outside hitters in the nation. already in place. The Austin, Texas It only took a few weeks for Tarah Louisville, Ky., for games against the the offensive barrage.

Cal then went to No. 20 Stanford So long as Lloydâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s successor, Elly Barrett, native just needs to be a competent Murrey to rise from the ashes of a disCardinals and No. 13 Michigan and tied a tough Cardinal squad, 1-1, can find Murrey on the outside, the setter. Given that she was an even appointing sophomore campaign to State.

Bears will be in great shape. more highly-sought after recruit than emerge as one of the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best.

Louisville enters this season with due to strong goalkeeping from It has yet to be seen if Barrett will Lloyd, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s safe to assume Barrett has Suddenly no one was mentioning some new faces. Justine Sowry is the senior Maddie Hand and sophomore Cutura anymore. contribute the same kind of dynamic that ability. new head coach, and a number of Courtney Hendrickson. Senior play that Lloyd did, or if she will have With two years waiting in the wings, It would be foolish to assume that senior leaders from last season have Megan Shimojima provided the Bearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lone goal. since graduated. as well-rounded a game.

Barrett amassed a significant amount Barrett, who has not had experience In its final preseason scrimmage, The squad, however, returns But frankly, the team doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need of reps in practice with her attackers. starting, will have a similar breakout three All-Big East preseason selec- Cal defeated the University of her to be Lloyd. She doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need to be Coach Rich Feller said sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tightly year. However, once she proves herself tions along with a number of expe- Alberta, 4-1, with another fine the most vocal player on the court or bonded with her fellow juniors, many to be a capable setter, Lloydâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name performance from rienced players to fill out the rest of offensive fire her team up. That responsibility of whom sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be setting in the middle will start to fade and Barrett can begin Shimojima, who netted two goals in the roster. will be left to Murrey, the lone senior and right side, so chemistry shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t building her own legacy.

The Cardinals finished the 2010 the match.

The road does not get any easier season with a 13-7 record and a 5-1 conference record, good enough for after Louisville as the Bears face No. second in the strong Big East confer- 13 Michigan State the following day.

The Spartans, who finished with an ence.

Louisvilleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s season ended in the 15-6 record last season, figure to be semifinals of the Big East one of Calâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s toughest matchups this Tournament, a 2-1 loss to No. 4 upcoming season.

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