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UC Struggles to Fill Multi-Billion Dollar Pension Deficit NOTE: FIGURES ARE AMORTIZED OVER A 5 YEAR PERIOD.

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by Jordan Bach-Lombardo and Javier Panzar A decision made nearly 20 years ago to stop paying into the University of California’s pension program is coming back to haunt the university in the form of a potential $20 billion defiONLINE PODCAST cit, pitting UC officials and Mihir Zaveri discusses faculty against UC pensions with the each other as Higher Education team. they struggle to create a new pension model. The decision, made in 1990 during a period of similar state budget woes, combined with the current sinking economy has eroded the pension program’s value to the point that, without immediate change to the fund’s management, the university will owe billions

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in benefits that it cannot afford to pay. Though contributions to the fund resumed in April, a report released Friday by a university task force recommends the UC increase contributions while decreasing benefits to prevent insolvency of the program — a proposal sharply criticized by university employees who contend it would render the system uncompetitive. “(The 1990 decision) was a serious error, and we’re facing the cost of it now,” said Robert Anderson, a UC Berkeley professor and member of the Post-Employment Benefits Task Force. “Unfortunately ... again the state budget is in very bad shape, and the decline in the stock market means instead of gradually increasing the funding, we have to do it in a big bang that is very painful to the university budget.” The vast problem now facing the UC began in 1990 with the decision by the

UC Board of Regents to stop paying into the system altogether. With California struggling to bridge billion-dollar deficits during that recession, both UC and state leaders decided to save money by ceasing payments, ­ instead banking on the assumption that the program ­— which had been so well managed in previous decades that it was significantly overfunded — would continue to pay for the thousands of pensions. “It really is an amazing thing that this plan has gone along for 19 years without any contributions from anybody,” said Dan Simmons, the incoming chair of the Academic Senate who also served on the task force’s steering committee. “The problem with it is that the university ... kind of became addicted to paying people without having to put any money on the table.” Instead of paying into the fund for the last 20 years, the university chan-

nelled much of the money into its operational budget, growing in both size and scope, according to the report. During this time, the university expanded enrollment, founded its first new campus in decades and formed many new academic programs. Even without any contributions, the fund was still about 50 percent overfunded in 2001, with roughly $30 billion in assets and $20 billion in liabilities, according to the report. But since then, the fund’s liabilities have increased as the number of retirees has grown, and with the economic collapse of 2008 compounding the negative trend, the pension’s liabilities outweighed its assets for the first time in 2009. As of July 1, 2009, the pension plan was 95 percent funded. Following a $16 billion loss in assets in 2008 and 2009, UC President Mark Yudof assembled the task force last year to

analyze the current pension system and propose new models that could not only sustain the university, but also compensate for almost 20 years of nonpayment. Despite the general acknowledgment that contributions to the fund must increase to stave off insolvency, disagreements arose between members of the task force over how to balance future levels of contribution while still maintaining the university’s competitiveness in today’s job market. Every faculty and staff member of the working groups signed a dissenting statement attached to the report, criticizing the steering committee’s approach to reducing costs as ultimately detrimental to the university. “(The report) failed in letting the desire to cut costs dominate the far more important objective, providing benefits

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People’s Park Plagued by Recent Rise in Violence Researchers by Sarah Springfield Daily Cal Staff Writer

A male victim was struck over the head with a skateboard after attempting to help a female victim who was attacked by up to twenty people in People’s Park last Wednesday, according to a UCPD crime alert describing the Aug. 25 incident. The alleged attack and following assault with a deadly weapon mark the second incident of group violence in the park in less than a week, and community members worry new groups of homeless individuals staying at the park may have brought an increased aptitude for crime to the area. Earlier in the week, another altercation — allegedly involving ten or more homeless individuals in the park — forced arborists, who were there to trim trees in the area, to leave out of fear for their own safety, according to multiple reports. The group was allegedly fighting amongst itself and yelling at the tree trimmers as well as park site coordinator Devin Woolridge. “Devin called me and said, ‘Jim, I’ve got to get out of here,’” said Jim Reagan, a member of the UC Berkeley People’s Park Community Relations Advisory Board. “They were threatening, and they were fighting. And this was the same group of people (police had) dispersed from an earlier fight.” Additionally, both violent altercations allegedly followed another fight

involving a large group in the park and surrounding neighborhood a week earlier, which Roland Peterson — a member of the Telegraph Business Improvement District — referred to as a “mini-riot” in an e-mail to university and city officials. Officers from both UCPD and the Berkeley Police Department responded to the incident. Though violence is far from new to the park, community members worry that the series of events in past weeks, combined with the park’s history steeped in contention and occasional violence, may signal a trend that could endanger the surrounding community. “People’s Park has been a haven for the homeless and the like for many years,” Peterson’s e-mail reads. “Within the past few months it has become increasingly a center for a more violent, aggressive crowd. The techniques used in the past are proving to be an abject failure ... I strongly believe that more serious, violent altercations will take place in this neighborhood unless strong, swift interventions take place.” Peterson, along with Reagan, attributes the increase in high-profile violence to a shift within the park’s more transient community, which is largely comprised of people Reagan said are “not Berkeley’s homeless.” “They come from out of town, they group up in packs, they believe that

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Unearth New Clues About Earth’s Crust by Gianna Albaum Contributing Writer

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People’s Park has witnessed an alarming increase in crime over the past few weeks. Community members fear that this will set a precedent for future violence in the area.

After spending the last two years monitoring the underground movement of seismic waves, two UC Berkeley scientists say they have broken new ground in understanding the North American continent’s geology. Published Aug. 26 in the journal Nature, the study provides seismological evidence to support the theory that North America is made not of one but two separate layers and suggests that new material is primarily added [n to continents from the sides rather than the bottom — a contentious debate among scientists, said Barbara Romanowicz, a UC Berkeley geophysics professor and co-author of the study. Romanowicz and Huaiyu Yuan, a postdoctoral fellow and co-author of the study, observed the movements of seismic waves under the ground — more than nine miles deep — to learn more about the lithosphere, the hard layer of the Earth’s surface stretching

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Corrections Last Thursday’s photo caption accompanying the article “Artists Struggle to Reach Younger Fans� incorrectly stated that Blake’s on Telegraph offers an 18 and under night. In fact, it offers an 18 and over night. Last Monday’s column “Four Years and Four Letters� misspelled Dobby’s name, the house elf from the Harry Potter series. The Daily Californian regrets the errors.

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Campus Housing Construction Publishing Group, UC Work to Company Underpays Workers Settle Subscription Rate Issues by Emma Anderson and Nick Myers A Bay Area construction firm that has been misreporting workers’ hourly rates and underpaying employees for years must now pay millions of dollars after a settlement was reached Wednesday with California Attorney General Jerry Brown. Livermore-based construction company Country Builders — which worked on projects such as UC Berkeley’s student housing at University Village in Albany as well as Jubilee senior housing in Berkeley — must dole out $3.9 million after investigators revealed the company was manipulating reports of its employees’ wages to reduce workers’ compensation premium costs. Under the settlement, Country Builders is required to pay $1.6 million in civil penalties, $136,000 to the State Compensation Insurance Fund for unpaid workers’ compensation premiums and $2.2 million in back pay to the 124

wronged workers — about 30 of whom worked on University Village and five of whom worked on the senior center. The company is also barred from working on government-funded construction projects for three years. Country Builders declined to comment on the settlement. Brown began investigating the company in 2008 after employees came forward saying their pay stubs showed they were being paid higher hourly rates than they were actually receiving. Between 2006 and 2008, the company did not pay workers the state’s prevailing wage for work done on government-funded construction projects as required by the state. “The bigger issue is that their pay stubs indicated that they were paid one thing when in truth they were not,� said Evan Westrup, a spokesperson for the attorney general’s office. “That was the major issue when in reality they

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Bicyclists Finish Five-Day Tour To Raise Interest in Area Trails by Samantha Strimling Contributing Writer

To raise awareness of Bay Area opportunities for cyclists, three cyclists completed their five-day tour of the 325-mile Bay Area Ridge Trail on Sunday. Austin McInerny, an avid cyclist and a board member of the Bay Area Ridge Trail Council, conceived of the idea for the ride about six months ago with Yuri Hauswald, a writer for Bike Monkey Magazine. The cyclists hope to draw attention to the 80 percent of the trail available to bikers.

“The whole goal is to show how people can access and use this great resource,� Hauswald said. “The Ridge Trail circles the Bay Area, and there are nine million people in the Bay Area. If more people rode, everyone would be happier and healthier.� Because the trail’s current configuration makes it “not really possible� to go on a one- or two-day trek — due to the prohibition of bikes on land provided by one of the trail’s largest private donors, the East Bay Municipal Utilities District — McInerny, Hauswald and their

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from the ground we walk on to the Earth’s mantle, Romanowicz said. She compared the technique to using an MRI or an X-ray to see inside the human body. “That’s really how we know what’s inside the earth,� she said. “By using seismic waves to image the inside of the earth ... those waves illuminate the structure.� According to Romanowicz, the lithosphere has “stretch marks� following a straight-line pattern from the addition of new material, indicating the material came in from the side. If molten material had risen from the core and hit the bottom of the continent’s lithosphere, it would have created a “spoke pattern� in the rock. She added that their measurements showed that the top and bottom of the continent had different chemical prop-

erties, providing new evidence that North America is made from two layers instead of one solid slab of rock. “Our study is the first one in seismology to propose this at this scale,� Romanowicz said. She said technological limitations prevent direct study of the lithosphere because researchers are unable to drill deep enough holes through the crust to the lithosphere, but she said she expects the study will prompt further examination of the findings. “This study already has generated a lot of interest from people who do modelling,� she said. “We already submitted a proposal for a follow-up of this study ... Basically we want to get more and more precise information.� Contact Gianna Albaum at galbaum@dailycal.org.

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After the threat of a UC-wide boycott of Nature Publishing Group resulted in contention between the University of California and the publishing group, tensions have lifted as both parties recently engaged in discussions to find a compromise, according to a joint statement issued Wednesday. On Aug. 17, representatives from the UC and Nature Publishing Group met to “work together ‌ to address our mutual short- and long-term challenges, including an exploration of potential new approaches and evolving publishing models,â€? they said in the statement. In June, UC librarians urged university faculty to stop submitting work to journals in the publishing group in response to a 400 percent increase in subscription fees. The publishing group responded, stating that the librarians’ assertions of an exorbitant price increase were untrue and that the university had been paying an unfair rate at the expense of other subscribers. While UC representatives have agreed not to provide specific details about the negotiations until they conduct more in-depth discussions with the publishing group, the ultimate goal is to find a sustainable

solution for both parties involved, according to Laine Farley, executive director of the UC’s California Digital Library. “The ‌ debate highlighted the structural problems in scholarly publishing and communication — the increasing growth in output of scholarly articles, the decline in library budgets ‌ and the fact that libraries pay to buy back the intellectual contributions of their faculty,â€? Farley said in an e-mail. “We hope we can find a way to break through this situation which is clearly not sustainable.â€? Michael Eisen, a UC Berkeley associate professor of molecular and cell biology, said the subscription-based model that the publishing group uses is inherently unsustainable and puts universities and research institutions in a position where they have a limited ability to negotiate. “While we don’t have a specific model that we’re trying to achieve in these negotiations, what we do know is that the current system isn’t going to work,â€? said Richard Schneider, chair of the university Committee on Library and Scholarly Communication. “We are all very hopeful that something quite good can come out these discussions.â€?

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kim Bielak for such a device to replace the laptop on every incoming freshman’s college shopping list. Oh, and let’s not forget that the skills involved in playing, or working, with the device — including multi-tasking and social networking — are becoming more and more hireable in today’s digital age. Yes, it actually does pay to know how to Tweet today. till, many fear that people will forget what it feels like to curl up with a real, tangible book. Hell, I fear people will forget what it’s like to flip a page and smell new ink, but sadly I’m afraid this fate is almost inevitable. I will be first in line to cry every time I see a bookstore doomed to the same fate as Tower Records or the Virgin Megastore, or when I see authors caught up in lawsuits fighting for their intellectual property rights. I sincerely hope that people will have a little more integrity when downloading digital books than they have when downloading digital music. And, while eliminating paperbacks might help save the earth, I still hope people will continue to buy at least enough to keep bookstores open. There’s truly nothing like wandering aimlessly in a bookstore for hours, perusing the staff picks and finding a jewel you would have never thought of otherwise. In the end, this is all purely speculation, and while it may come as a surprise, I am sadly not psychic. Still, I feel that not enough credit has been given to the possible ramifications of the iPad or the introduction of the tablet, since many have taken it as a joke (that being said, Steve Jobs might have thought twice before choosing the same name already used in MADtv’s iPad as a maxi pad skit.) In our lifetimes, we may still never see the solution to the missing sock in the dryer conundrum, but we will surely get to witness a ton of revolutionary digital history. Yes, we were astonished by “The Jetsonsâ€? when video chatting was still science fiction. We listened to music on cassette tapes, played games on CD’s and read books on, well ‌ books. And now, before we know it, everything will be in one place sitting in our laps and in the laps of our kids who also will be taking it all for granted.

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accompanying photographer, Scott Markewitz, had to carefully coordinate the ride with public transit schedules and ask friends and other members of the cycling community to shuttle them from one part of the trail to the next. For example, McInerny and Hauswald’s wives shuttled the cyclists along the trail and also drove a van containing all of their gear. Hauswald’s parents-in-law also opened up their house in Napa for the bikers to stay Thursday night. On other nights, the bikers stayed in a Los Gatos hotel and at McInerny’s and Hauswald’s respective houses in Berkeley and Petaluma. Hauswald said a benefit of the attention garnered by the ride might be a push to connect the trail’s different sections. But beyond drawing attention to both the trails’ flaws and benefits, the bikers also used the opportunity to explore new ground, such as the Crystal Springs Reservoir trail. “I am most excited to see new trails that (I) didn’t know existed,� Hauswald said before biking through that portion of the trail. The team’s efforts were also encouraged by the trail’s board of directors, who also hope to generate awareness and more widespread use of the trail. “(The ride) is wonderful,� boardChair Bill Long said. “It will bring attention to the Ridge Trail, to the portions that are open to the public and to the gaps in the trail.� Contact Samantha Strimling at sstrimling@dailycal.org.

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People’s Park is theirs and — come hell or high water — they’re not going to let anyone disrupt their livelihood, which is panhandling on Telegraph and bothering students,� he said. “They don’t know the history of the park, number one, and they have no respect for the park whatsoever, not to mention themselves. And they forget that the university owns it.� Some visitors and residents of the park said the space has not taken a turn for the worse but would not comment further Saturday. Although from 1989 to 1996 the city and the university shared, in shifting capacities, jurisdiction over the park’s maintenance or development, the park has been the exclusive property of the university for years.

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Still, some community members, including Peterson, continue to say the crimes and fights in the park spill over into the surrounding neighborhood and call upon the two bodies to jointly address the violence. According to Reagan, a suspect in Wednesday’s alleged assault was not confronted by police until after the altercation had spread onto Berkeley city streets. “The main point that I have made to city staff and UC staff is that this has continued a newer and stronger sense of defiance and disrespect by a number of the ‘street people’ in the area and in the park as well,� Peterson wrote in another e-mail. Sarah Springfield is the city news editor. Contact her at sspringfield@dailycal.org.

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randma, you were actually alive when they invented the iPad?!? You mean you actually had to use a 5 lb. machine called a laptop AND bound stacks of papers called books? These questions are ones I anticipate to inevitably come alongside others such as: Were you really born last century? (Yes, most of you reading this will be some of the last dinosaurs to say you were really born in the 1900’s. Scary, I know.) As young, tech-savvy students of the new millennium, you are familiar, I assume, with the idea that technology and, consequently, our lifestyles are changing rapidly. Venture with me then, if you will, into a world where the iPad is king. But it’s no more than an oversized iPhone! you say. Right, the damn thing is heavy as hell and isn’t even compatible with Flash, which is why I haven’t thrown down 500 bucks on one yet. But, we all know Apple goes through generations of its devices like tissues, so I’m working on saving for the next one because of one big word: e-books. No, this news should not only be exciting to me because I am an English major and would finally be able to have the eleven different books I am simultaneously reading with me at all times — this could also potentially mean having all of your textbooks with you at all times! Yippee! No, but seriously, aside from eliminating your ability to procrastinate because you “accidentallyâ€? left your 17 lb. brick of a textbook under the wobbly leg of your beer pong table — I mean, in your room, the iPad (or whatever other tablet is engineered) will truly revolutionize the reading, learning and communicating experience. Just think, you could have all your assigned reading, pleasure reading, movies, recipes, blogging, Facebook stalking and of course, the Daily Cal, in one device. Having just finished an internship at a publishing company over the summer, I can tell you from experience that there’s an arms race in the world of e-readers between the iPad, the Kindle, the obnoxiously prominent Nook displays you see in every Barnes & Nobel now and many more you’ve never even heard of. Even when digital books and the Kindle had been out for a while, the unveiling of the iPad in January really changed the ball game. Books, magazines and textbooks are all beginning to be published as “enhanced e-booksâ€? with video, interactive graphics and all sorts of multimedia content. magine zooming into a 3-D image of that brain in your psych book, watching a video about its functions, highlighting and taking notes on the text and video chatting with a study buddy at the same time — all in your lap. At the risk of sounding like more of a nerd than I already am, I’m tempted to say that learning could actually kind of, maybe, sort of, somewhat be at least a little ‌ fun? I personally think it will be interesting to see how long it takes

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Those Old Yiddish Blues

Clark Center’s Japanese Art Graces Berkeley Art Museum by Jill Cowan Contributing Writer

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omewhere in the small San Joaquin Valley town of Hanford, Calif. reside three grotesque weather-related deities: “The Gods of Wind, Thunder, and Rain.” They rode in from Japan on clouds lined with silver, and their way was paved with bull semen. Mythically speaking, anyway. “This is what always makes people laugh ... but I wanted to travel more so I started a business to sell frozen bull semen for the artificial insemination of cattle,” explained Willard G. “Bill” Clark, founder of Hanford’s Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture. Thus, a Central Valley native (and one-time Berkeley student’s) childhood fascination with Japan was allowed to blossom into one of the United States’ most extensive collections of Japanese art. Though Mano Gyotei’s early Meiji period pair of folding screens featuring the aforementioned gods make their home in rural Kings County, you can worship them right now in the Berkeley Art Museum’s exhibition, “Flowers of the Four Seasons: Ten Centuries of Art from the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture.” The exhibit, which opened last week, is comprised mostly of pieces from an exhibition of Clark’s collection that traveled through Japan in 2002 called “Delightful Pursuits,” but the show at BAM also includes contemporary sculpture. It’s a unique chance for Berkeley to get up close and personal with a wide variety of Japanese painting and sculpture, from 14th century

Buddhist paintings to bamboo sculpture created in the past half-decade. “You don’t have — even in the entire Bay Area — this kind of high quality Japanese art often,” said Clark Center Director Andreas Marks, who is cocurating the exhibit with BAM’s Julia M. White. “I think it’s a great opportunity in the Berkeley area to see art from Japan and to see art that is still very highly valued ... directly.” Wander through the exhibit and you’ll see what he means. While the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco keeps its Japanese art in a series of smaller galleries, usually behind glass, almost all of the pieces in “Flowers of the Four Seasons” are out in the open. Ink-painted branches spring off lifesized folding screens displayed at their full 3-D potential in the middle of the airy galleries, and the finest brushwork on the smallest hanging scrolls feels near enough to be properly admired. But what really lends the exhibit an extra sense of continuity is the everpresent eye of the collector — and Bill Clark’s has a twinkle in it. “I say that we have two collections within the collection — one is what I call the serious art ... and then we have what I call a fun collection ... ” said Clark. “They have such a wonderful, playful sense of humor so I buy art that I think will bring smiles to people’s faces — at least to my own.” The line between the two, though, often seems to be charmingly blurred. While Mori Shuho’s Edo painting “Frogs in Sumo Match” clearly falls into the latter category sometimes the

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a collection of virtuoso jazz, blues and pop compositions accented with Yiddish and ringing with notes from the Middle East. While noble in its intent, the ambitious display at times overwhelms the visitor with its numerous, antiquated songs and disparate scraps of musical trivia. But despite its mediocre set-up, Black Sabbath is a sonic treasure trove worth digging through for pearls of historical wisdom. In a literal attempt to embody its claim that black-Jewish musical fusion was in full effect at nightclubs during the heyday of “The Great American Songbook,” the Museum half-heartedly converted its sunny Yud Gallery into an unconvincing mock cabaret. With iPads on cafe tables and not much to look at besides projections of album covers, as well as some promised videos that were nowhere to be found, the exhibit demands aural endurance in order to glean any meaning. “Go Down Moses: Spirit and Soul,” perhaps the most accessible playlist out of the three on the iPads, lays out the ways traditional Jewish music and religious texts inspired African American artists. From Lena Horne’s “Now!,” a howling cry for civil rights set to the tune of “Hava Nagila,” to Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit,” a reaction to a lynching based on a poem by a Jewish high school

teacher, the tracks demonstrate the parallel black and Jewish struggles for equality. Other selections like Cab Calloway’s blend of Yiddish and jive, “Utt Da Zay,” and Alberta Hunter’s heavy blues take on the ballad “Ich Hob Dich Tzufil Lieba” leave the listener in aesthetic appreciation. But how much further the relationships between black artists and Jewish managers extended beyond the studio remains dubiously unexplained. Without prior knowledge of the time period’s cultural milieu, it can be puzzling to encounter the Slim Gaillard Quartet scat singing about matzoh balls to a toe-tapping bass and crashing cymbals. The skimpy information printed on cutesy menus hardly substantiates the notion of a deep link between black and Jewish cultures during the early 20th century. After a long time of sifting through the playlists, notes of social intermingling begin to permeate the godforsakenly loud museum headphones. But for a listener without a Yiddish vocabulary or a familiarity with generations-old jazz, “Black Sabbath” does little to give its stellar song collection the grand stage entrance it deserves.

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f you like cocaine and soccer and the perils of celebrity, and aren’t Diego Maradona, then “The Two Escobars” might be a good prospect for an otherwise dull week at the cinema. Playing at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas in San Francisco’s Japantown, the documentary is a clean break from the summer action movie graveyard that is late August. To be sure, there is plenty of violence and drama in the film, but it’s more sobering than mind-numbing. Directed by Jeff and Michael Zimbalist, “Escobars” explores the ties between Colombian organized crime and the country’s soccer teams in the late ’80s and early ’90s. The Zimbalists use the fraternization and linked deaths of two major players in Colombian national life to expose these connections. The titular “Two Escobars” are Pablo and Andres, stars of their respective in-

dustries. Pablo is the infamous leader of the Medellin cartel; Andres is the star defender of the Colombian national team. The pair share not only a name but a common Horatio Alger story. The film begins in medias res with Andres scoring against his own team in the 1994 World Cup and flashes back to his youth. As he develops from schoolboy player to world-class prodigy, we also see Pablo Escobar getting his first sniff of success in the cocaine business. As Pablo’s money swells he decides to invest it back into his first love: Soccer. With Medellin and other cartel money flushing a previously poor league, Colombian soccer begins to harvest some serious talent. The national team shoots up in the world rankings and soon Andres and the other players are celebrating victories at Pablo’s estate. The downfall of this marriage between drugs and sport is predictable yet still full of deep sadness. The Zimbalists interview cartel bigwigs, friends

and family who alternately hail the achievements of the soccer team and weep over its cost. Yet it is the players themselves who provide the best parts of the feature. As the filmmakers play highlights of the team’s victories, players wistfully recall the tackles, sidesteps and goals of each match with all the tender nostalgia of sport’s best old boys. But when they speak of the parties with Pablo they sound like French collaborators, still scared and still ashamed. It’s a rare moment of vulnerability: When fear replaces the machismo of alpha males. “The Two Escobars” takes an unflinching look at the collision between sports and the “real world.” It is a terrific piece of filmmaking. But perhaps I’m biased, I’ve seen it before. See, here’s the rub: “The Two Escobars” was produced by ESPN Films for a series on that network called “30 for 30.” And it debuted in June.

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whimsy catches you off-guard. One Muromachi period fan painting on a hanging scroll called “Ha Ha Birds Screeching at Baby Owl” is ostensibly an ink work depicting avian life with a degree of anatomical detail, but look again and you might find yourself giggling at the owl’s bewildered eyes as a

crowd of “Ha Ha birds” taunt him like schoolyard bullies. It’s simultaneously goofy and aesthetically refined. And if the various depictions of majestic bulls are any indication, that same description could probably apply to Bill Clark. Wrestle an amphibian sumo wrestler with Jill at jcowan@dailycal.org.

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So now it’s playing at the swanky Sundance Kabuki in San Francisco. Do you think San Franciscans would like the film any less if they knew it came on channel 38 right after NASCAR? The idea that some distributor is betting that San Franciscans will be willing to pay 12 dollars to see something seen on

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aware of surrounding players’ inexperience, to keep up communication on the court and to put themselves in the best position to make a play. Despite the Bears’ youth, the influx of new talent and stability of established veterans will keep expectations high for this year’s team. “I want a national championship,� Lloyd said. “I think we’re going to be as good or better than last year. I think we have the personnel and definitely the ability to be really good, but we are young so it depends on how our youngsters step up, and hopefully I can lead them in the right direction.�

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Monday, August 30, 2010

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SPORTS

All revved up Our football blog will keep you updated as Cal’s season approaches. See online

Quick Attack Fills Experience Void Offense Debuts With Few

Hiccups in Home Opener

by Christina Jones Contributing Writer

The Cal volleyball team reached the regional finals of the 2009 NCAA tournament behind the dominance of Pac10 Player of the Year Hana Cutura. Even though Cutura and two other seniors have since graduated, this season’s team may have more potential. “I think this team has a chance to be better at the end of the season than last year’s team,” coach Rich Feller said. Also gone is last season’s offensive scheme. The standard, high-lobbing system that catered to Cutura has been replaced with a new quick-strike offense that will better utilize the team’s speed and athleticism. “We’re fast, we’re in very good shape. I feel like when it’s a long rally, we’ll win it,” junior outside hitter Tarah Murrey said. “We’re a very aggressive team offensively.” The technique, implemented by new assistant coach Sam Crosson, entails lower, faster sets with rapid movement all around. The back row players take on added responsibility and often deliver the ball to hitters to set up kills. This change in pace has the potential to make the Bears (2-0) more competitive in the Pac-10 since powerhouses like No. 4 Stanford employ similar systems. Cal is ranked No. 11 in the preseason poll, but is projected to finish fifth in the conference. That speaks to the strength of the competition. “The girls are big. They’re fast. They hit hard. They’re very skilled,” Murrey said. “They’re just really good volleyball players all around.” While other squads benefit from more returning starters, just three upperclassmen return for Cal. Having four freshmen on the roster could leave the team prone to more errors early in the season.

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Bears Ease Their Way Past Manhattan College, UC Santa Barbara in Cal Molten Classic by Christina Jones

and Jonathan Kuperberg

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Carli Lloyd is one of just two seniors on the Cal volleyball team. The Bears will look to the 5-foot-11 setter to help lead a young squad as it adapts to a new offensive scheme.

The seventh inning stretch in baseball was started by Manhattan College’s first baseball coach, Brother Jasper of Mary, as an attempt to quell a restless volleyball 3 crowd. The school’s Cal teams are known as Manhattan 0 Jaspers in his honor, and their unranked volleyball team made No. 11 Cal stretch a bit on Saturday evening. After the Bears cruised through the first set, 25-8, at Haas Pavilion, Cal was presented with a challenge. Manhattan was able to narrow the Cal’s lead to 11-10 with the Jaspers finally blocking a Tarah Murrey attack in a set that saw the Bears hit only .125 as a team, down from the dominant .458 on display in the first set. “We had a little bit of a lull,” senior setter Carli Lloyd said. “We weren’t playing with a lot of fire and intensity … We weren’t really thinking and having our heads in the game. We were just going through the motions.” Due to more precise play by the Bears at the net and more errors on the Jaspers’ side, Cal took the set, 25-15. After a pep talk by head coach Rich Feller, the Bears took to the court with the energy missing in the prior set. Lloyd ran the new up-tempo offense efficiently. Quick sets to the middle were effective as were balls to the right side for sophomore Correy Johnson.

Murrey took what Lloyd called “murderous swings” on her way to an 11-kill, 14-dig night with only one hitting error and a tournament MVP nod. The Bears were firmly in control of the third set, earning a 25-7 win to seize the match and the Cal Molten Classic Championship. Manhattan posed little to no threat given their shorter personnel, shoddy passing, lack of powerful hits and frequent miscommunication. Nonetheless, the little bit of pressure applied to Cal in that second set helped it recognize the importance of serving and passing. The freshmen, all of whom earned high praise from their teammates and coach in their opening weekend, got experience in the importance of every touch of the ball in the college game. Outside hitter Adrienne Gehan saw significant playing time while defensive specialists Juliana Stivanicevic and Erin Freeman came off the bench to play in the back row. Lauren Loerch, who did not see action in Friday night’s opener, hit a respectable .333 in her debut. “I think that really we have a lot of interchangeable parts,” Feller said. “We can bring people off the bench and there’s not really a drop in the level of play or the intensity.” Though the Bears redeemed themselves in the third and final set against Manhattan, the team faced a much bigger stretch in the concluding set against UC Santa Barbara on Friday. After setting the tempo in the first two sets, the Bears found themselves down 20-14 in the third set. Cal rallied to tie it 23, and the teams battled until the Bears ultimately prevailed, 28-26, to win the set and the match. Contact Christina Jones and Jonathan Kuperberg at sports@dailycal.org.

Defenses Clash as Cal Plays Santa Clara to Stalemate Late Heroics

By Brightwell Darken Cal’s 2010 Opener

Bears Outshoot Broncos 18-5, Manage Second Consecutive Home Tie in Double Overtime by Alex Matthews

by Byron Atashian

Contributing Writer

Sports fans who dislike soccer for its low final scores would have been frustrated during the Cal women’s soccer game against Santa Clara on Friday. The w. soccer Bears’ first match 0 against a ranked Cal 0 team this season Santa Clara demonstrated the power of effective defense. For the second season in a row, the two teams tied after two overtime periods — this time, a 0-0 struggle at Edwards Stadium. Cal outshot the Broncos, 18-5, yet failed to land any of those balls in the net. “Clearly we were able to create a good deal of offense, unfortunately, we just couldn’t get the ball in the net,” Bears coach Neil McGuire said. While Santa Clara goalie Bianca Henninger made eight saves in order to keep Cal (1-0-2) off the board, the Broncos’ tight defensive strategy was the true key to limiting the Bears’ honest attempts on goal. Cal senior forward Alex Morgan was well contained by the Santa Clara defense. While she challenged Henninger — a Hermann trophy watch list member — with three shots on goal, the Broncos managed to channel most of Morgan’s explosive runs to the outside. Santa Clara (2-0-1) clustered players to prevent any dangerous balls or runs by the Bears in the goal area. The tactic was effective in preventing Morgan’s passes to the middle. In the second half, McGuire said the team switched from a 4-3-3 to a 4-4-2

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Emily Shibata is a team co-captain in her senior campaign. The midfielder started in 18 of 20 games last season and logged an assist. formation, hoping to exploit some of the spaces Santa Clara was giving them. The Bears were still unable to break down the Broncos’ defense. Meanwhile, Cal’s defense made Emily Kruger’s first full game in the net less eventful than one would expect against Santa Clara. The freshman goalie made only three saves in 110 minutes, as many as she did in one half against Loyola Marymount a week earlier. Fellow freshman Emi Lawson and junior Danielle Brunache played as

flat center backs, managing to contain Bronco midfielder Julie Johnston’s dangerous passes from the middle. Santa Clara was forced to rely mainly on long shots until just before the end of the first half. Broncos forward Kelly Jenks challenged Kruger one on one, an attempt only stopped when Lawson cleared the rebound shot after Kruger’s initial save. “We knew we had to be conscious of their ability to counterattack,” McGuire said. Even though they didn’t end up in

goals, the Bears put together some threats against the Broncos as well. Kate Bennett, Kaitlyn Fitzpatrick, and Grace Leer all managed to create offensive opportunities in spite of the Broncos’ tight defense. “There’s no question we have some areas we have to improve on,” McGuire added. “But the team is in a very good spot right now, both in terms of health and the way that they’re handling themselves.” Contact Alex Matthews at almatthews@dailycal.org.

The last time the Cal women’s field hockey team squared off against Miami of Ohio, the Bears fell in a nailbiter. Playing at home in Oxford, field hockey Ohio, the Red- Cal 3 hawks used a May Miami 4 Hull goal to pull out a 2-1 extra period victory. Overtime was looming once again during last Friday’s rematch at Maxwell Field in Berkeley. Late in the second half, the two squads were deadlocked at three goals apiece. Then with six minutes left in the game, Miami’s Christine Brightwell found the net off of a penalty corner to break the tie. The senior midfielder’s penalty corner goal was the difference maker in a 4-3 Redhawks win. “I knew it was going to be a good game, I didn’t know what the result was going to be at the end of it,” Miami coach Jill Reeve said. “You know, you come in to Cal’s home territory on opening day, so I was a little bit nervous to see if our kids would have nerves or if they’d be able to perform.” The Redhawks (1-0) didn’t look nervous to start. Miami took the early offensive, clanging two shots off the goal posts before finding the net six minutes into the game. Meanwhile, Cal need a full 10 minutes just to move the ball inside Miami’s circle. Yet, even though they managed

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