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Council votes to foreclose on vacant lot By Adelyn Baxter | Staff abaxter@dailycal.org Berkeley City Council voted eight to zero in a closed session Tuesday night to initiate a nearly $641,000 foreclosure on a Southside lot that has been vacant for more than 20 years. After years of hearing complaints about rats, noise and trash accumulating in and around the lot — located at 2501 Haste St. on the corner of Telegraph Avenue — the council held a special meeting to decide whether to seek litigation against the owner of the lot, local business owner Ken Sarachan. Sarachan, who owns several Telegraph businesses — including Rasputin Music and the building across the street that once housed Cody’s Books — addressed the council during the public comment period prior to the closed session. He also submitted a personal letter addressed to Mayor Tom Bates voicing his frustration with the city. “If I have to defend myself in court, it will be a great effort,” Sarachan said at the meeting. “I would rather work on rebuilding Cody’s.” Sarachan cited the city’s inability to communicate what is required of him as the reason for the delay in developing the lot. City staff hold that much of the delay has been caused by Sarachan, according to Wendy Cosin, interim planning director for the city. “We’ve reached the end of the line,” Bates said in an interview after the meeting. “We’ve given Mr. Sarachan every opportunity to move forward, but he hasn’t for various reasons … we hope we can work it all out.” The total amount of the foreclosure on the lot is $640,957.39. This includes the $503,034 deed of trust for the property, as well as a nuisance abatement charge of $137,923.39. “Hopefully this will scare him into doing what he needs to do,” said Councilmember Kriss Worthington in an interview after the meeting. “Or it could just make him angry.”

UC Berkeley student dies in fatal fall during sleep By Noor Al-Samarrai | Staff nsamarrai@dailycal.org

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The City Council voted Tuesday to foreclose on the lot on the corner of Haste Street and Telegraph Avenue. Shortly after the Berkeley Inn, which had occupied the lot for more than 80 years, burned down in 1990 and was subsequently demolished at the city’s expense, the nonprofit Resources for Community Development tried to partner with the city to buy the property. RCD and the city intended to turn the space into an affordable housing unit with retail space for Amoeba Music beneath, but when the nonprofit’s option to buy expired, Sarachan bought the property for $800,000 — a move that many saw as intending to thwart the ex-

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pansion of Amoeba, which is located across the street from the lot. Sarachan was told that the city would waive the lien attached to the property — incurred when the city was forced to demolish the ruins of the Berkeley Inn after it burned down — under the conditions that he build affordable housing and a public toilet on the site, according to Worthington. “We thought that would be enough incentive to get something accomplished, but many

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Financial transparency bill is signed into law By Jessica Rossoni | Staff jrossoni@dailycal.org

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Chancellor Birgeneau honors late Native American Ishi at a conference dedicated to his legacy and the modern representation of Native Americans.

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A bill aiming to bring greater transparency and accountability to California’s institutions of higher education was signed into law Tuesday night by Gov. Jerry Brown. SB 8 — authored by Senator Leland Yee, D-San Francisco — requires auxiliaries and foundations associated with the state’s institutions of higher education to produce all financial records, contracts and correspondence to public disclosure upon request, according to a press release from Yee’s office. The bill applies to the UC, CSU and state’s community college system. The signing comes after three years of legislative work and two vetoes by former governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Prior to the signing of this bill, public education institutions were not required to disclose details on donations through their auxiliaries and foundations. SB 8 will now require that these gifts be subject to transparency rules similar to the California Public Records Act, according to Terry Francke, general counsel for California Aware, a nonprofit group that audits public institutions for transparency.

Recent activities at state public institutions brought the issue of transparency to the forefront, Francke said. Last year, the California State University, Stanislaus Foundation hired former Alaska governor Sarah Palin to speak at the campus’s 50th anniversary celebration. The foundation was not required to provide any details of the speaking contract with Palin to the public, including how much she was paid to speak at the event. To obtain this information, Californians Aware filed a lawsuit, according to Francke. “The key is that these foundations in particular at each campus are in the business of trying to attract charitable donations to support scholarships, research programs and other educational activity,” Francke said. “It’s a significant supplement to income from the state and student tuition, so it’s a whole stream of money that is supposedly flowing to these campuses through foundations.” The signed bill was amended to protect donor anonymity except in situations where the donor receives something from the institution valued at over $2,500, receives a no-bid contract within five years of the donation or attempts to influence the

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UC Berkeley undergraduate Christopher Zahuta, known for his heart and humor, died in Haiti on July 17 after falling from a roof while sleeping three days prior. He was 20. Zahuta had been building schools with the nonprofit organization All Hands International in Leogane, Haiti, for over a month before he fell Christopher 15 feet from the roof Zahuta upon which he was sleeping. The roof ’s perimeter was bordered by a snow fence that did not break his fall. Since the accident, a solid fence has been raised around the encampment. “The thing that’s great to me is that he never felt any pain, he never felt any fear. He was asleep, and then he woke in the hands of God — I can’t think of a better way for my baby to die,” said his mother, Christie Jeffers. “I am only sorry that he’s not here with me.” As an organ donor, Zahuta continues to help others even after death — his heart now resides within a 55-year-old man in Virginia and his liver in a 50-year-old man in Florida. “It’s nice to know that his heart is still beating somewhere, even now,” said Kristina Grasser, his stepbrother’s girlfriend. “I keep calling him a kid like he’s young — and he was young. The thing I’ll miss most is seeing the potential he had.” Prior to traveling to Haiti, Zahuta decided he wanted to change lives through disaster relief work, changing his major from business and economics to sociology so he could focus more on relationships between people, Jeffers said. “Determination and perseverance — those were some of his most paramount traits,” said Saif Umemoto, a close friend from campus. He raised the $4,000 he needed for the trip through donations from family and friends. “When it comes to Chris, he always tried to put other people before him,” said former roommate Salvador Garcia. “I know while he was (in Haiti) he was ecstatic.” From Haiti, Zahuta emailed his mother daily, updating her on events in his life from the quotidian routine of laborious construction in high heat, meal after meal of rice and beans and post-work beers to the adventurous escapades — contracting tapeworm, watching a bullfight and tasting Klerin, a potent moonshine liquor. His family and friends attended a funeral service in Leogane, where a school has been dedicated to him and some of his ashes were scattered. “He liked to have a good time here and there, but he had light in him,” Garcia said. “You could just tell there was something special about him.” After the memorial service in Haiti, his older brother Matthew has remained in Leogane, where he will volunteer with All Hands for two months. Zahuta’s childhood friend Francisco Martinez will join him there. “Going out to Haiti is going to help a little with the pain,” Martinez said. “The hardest part is missing his companionship, missing his answers.”

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A tree-sitter, who goes by the name Moonshato, came down over the weekend. The People’s Park tree-sit that began just over a week ago came to an end early Tuesday morning after one of the protesters fell out of the tree and had to be rushed to the hospital. A 19-year-old female fell out of the tree at about 4 a.m, sustaining major injuries and effectively bringing the demonstration to an end. Officers from UCPD and the Berkeley Police Department arrived at the scene at about 4:37 a.m., according to UCPD Lt. Marc DeCoulode, spokesperson for the department. Police have not confirmed the extent of the tree-sitter’s injuries, though various residents of the park claim she broke her back during the fall. According to local activist Zachary RunningWolf — who has organized several tree-sits in the park — the 19-year-old female, whom he called Amy, fell out of the tree after accidentally rolling over in her sleep. ...

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Just over a year since a lawsuit was filed against the city for its proposal to demolish two branches of the Berkeley Public Library, the Berkeley City Council approved the terms of a settlement Tuesday night, giving the green light for construction. The partial settlement agreement with the Concerned Library Users over the contentious demolition of the South and West branches — part of the overall rehabilitation project slated for the Berkeley Public Library — calls for the establishment of a $100,000 historic preservation fund and will not halt the demolition and rebuilding of the two branches.

The money will be used for the physical restoration and preservation of other city buildings and some private structures. In addition to the fund, the city will pay $15,000 — a portion of the group’s legal fees, according to a Berkeley Public Library Foundation press release. Councilmember Jesse Arreguin said the city opted to resolve the lawsuit since it was not sure what the court ruling might be and because the ballot measure talked about preserving historic buildings. “If the court did rule in favor of the plaintiff, we would need to find funding elsewhere and create a new plan,� he said. In 2000, the library system began to review feasibility studies to update the libraries, according to Elisabeth Watson, president of the Berkeley Public Library Foundation. Eight years later, voters approved Measure FF, a $26 million bond to fund improvements at the city’s public libraries. Since some of the subsequent proposals included options to demolish, remove and make adjustments to library branches, the Concerned Library Users sued Aug. 30, stating that funds from the measure could only be used

to “renovate, expand and make seismic and access improvements.� The group’s spokesperson Judith Epstein has previously stated that other issues, such as the energy-efficiency evaluation and the costs of the new construction, were also part of the basis for the lawsuit. “We gathered a bunch of people together when the city started to break its word,� she said in an interview Wednesday. The city rejected the group’s preservation plan, saying it was too expensive and would not meet the current needs of the community. The approved plans will allow libraries to provide equitable services, Watson said. This would entail teen workspaces, quiet areas and locations for story-time for kids. The settlement means the project will now move forward, and work on the West and South buildings will begin once the other two branches, the Claremont and North, are completed and reopened. “It’s really about getting the best libraries for the money we have to spend,� Watson said. “Libraries serve a lot of purposes, and we need the libraries to meet those needs.�

Auxiliaries: UC official lauds bill for respect of donor privacy From Front institution’s curriculum or operations. In a letter to Brown, UC Associate Vice President and Director for State Governmental Relations Steve Juarez wrote, “the bill, as amended, recognizes the need for donor privacy and recognizes the unique role that UC

Campus Foundations play in supporting the educational, research and public service mission of the (UC).� In a press release this morning, Yee expressed his appreciation for the passage of the bill. “Finally, we will have real transparency at our public universities,� Yee

said. “While this law does not technically go into effect until January 1, I am urging the UC and CSU to immediately begin complying and providing sunshine to the actions of their foundations and auxiliary organizations.� Jessica Rossoni covers higher education.

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The campus group Muslims for Life cosponsored a blood drive Wednesday.

On the blogs The Daily Clog Story time: A good reason to visit the library? (In case there weren’t enough already.) The monthly “Story Hour in the library� kicks off this evening with faculty and staff reading from their favorite books and stories.

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Correction Tuesday, August 30, 2011’s Senior Editorial Board staff box failed to include Kelly Fang, the Multimedia Editor of The Daily Californian. The Daily Californian regrets the error.

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t is almost time to go on stage, and I am terrified. Thoughts are bouncing around inside my head like frenzied bees, and I’ve broken out in a full flop sweat — the kind that immobilizes you with its awful gravity and torrential volume. The act before me consists of a frazzled old man philosophically dissecting the idea of why the chicken crossed the road. What a lead-in. When the coffee shop emcee asks me if I’ve paid my $5 yet, I respond with a grave stare and a slow nod. I endure a few fistclenching moments of tension, and before I realize it I am standing before a small crowd with my nerves wound tightly, my teeth grinding from nervousness. How did I find myself here? I belong to a family of cynics. If you were to travel back to the Globe Theater in Shakespeare’s heyday, there would be a Shields standing in the back of the crowd pointing out plot holes in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Growing up, I learned that the most popular view was not as important as the one that questioned why certain ideas were seen as correct or great. Content to keep my head down during high school, I spent a lot of time buried in books thinking up (and rarely acting upon) ideas that would topple the prevailing ideology — often acerbic, but mostly absurd. I never thought I would exercise these traits in front of a live crowd. y stand-up career really started with my younger brother Zane. He spent much of his childhood too small, too uncoordinated or too undisciplined to really succeed at anything, with the exception of describing his bitterness at being all of these things. Luckily for him, selfdeprecation is one of the pillars of stand-up comedy. Zane performed his first show at the legendary Hollywood Improv (albeit with the curtains drawn). He did very well, so well that some of the older women in the crowd playfully hit on him after the show. He was beaming, only partially because of the flirting. As he performed more shows at Los Angeles clubs like the Vault, Zane gained more confidence. One of my brother’s best jokes was about how the tenets of Christianity — if they were supposedly handed down from on high and then edited and translated and edited again — were the result of a giant game of telephone. He was very proud of that joke and only told it if he needed to shore up new material. Almost a year later, I found myself watching a David Cross special. Cross, a comic not afraid to step on toes, began a routine about the Bible. Yes, yes, religion is funny, David. But then something strange happened. He told the exact same joke my

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True Shields tshields@dailycal.org brother had written nearly two years prior — the “Christianity is the result of a game of telephone” bit. And I realized that the smallest observations can resonate with great numbers of people. t its core, stand-up comedy is about self-realization. As an audience member, we can enjoy jokes as the products of offbeat perspectives that force us to examine our beliefs in spite of ourselves. It is the magic of stand-up comedy that allowed Stephen Colbert to openly insult former President Bush at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner and get away with it. It is the same magic that forces us to re-examine ourselves when George Carlin lambastes American capitalism and tells us we have too much stuff. The truth is not often pretty, but if attacked from an unexpected angle it can cause an audience to pay more attention. For performers like my brother, comedy is therapeutic. It is the pressure valve that produces Louis C.K. and Larry David’s self-deprecatory rants and the socially conscious acts of comedians such as Richard Pryor. Comedians — my brother included — enjoy feeling clever or cynical because it makes them feel more powerful, like they have some measure of control over themselves and their surroundings because they figured it out first, and they are the only ones who see the world in this way. The rest is simply a process of sharing what they’ve found. It may sound like a narcissist’s wet dream, but the reality is that comedy is about commiseration, not selfaggrandizement. For me — a graduating senior with no girlfriend, few career prospects and few places to hang up my hat — it seemed like the perfect way to complain without being a nuisance. And so here I am on a stage at a coffee shop in West Oakland, trembling to the core of my being while I stand before a surly-looking crowd. Say something. Anything. They came here to hear you. Maybe. You are sort of the main event. You matter, if only as a source of cheap laughs. Just talk. “Hey folks ... how are we doing tonight?”

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Dozens of groups, ranging from state teachers’ organizations to a multinational company, paid to lobby the second part of the California DREAM Act, according to documents from the Secretary of State’s office. The documents, available through a database compiled by California Watch, indicate that the act — also known as AB 131, which the state Senate and Assembly approved last week and now awaits the signature of Gov. Jerry Brown — was lobbied by over 30 groups, many of which contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars to lobbyist efforts. Organizations lobbying the state Legislature must submit a Form 635, which names the bills being lobbied and the amount paid to those lobbying in the state Legislature. The form does not specify the amount paid to lobby individual bills but rather the total expenditures for all lobbying actions. Of the many groups that lobbied AB 131, the California Teachers Association paid a combined $5.3 million to lobbying efforts on that bill and over 20 Assembly and Senate bills in the first half of fiscal year 2011, according

to the Form 635s the association submitted. Mike Myslinski, a spokesperson for the 325,000-member association, said the approximately 25,000 undocumented students who graduate from state high schools every year should be eligible for financial aid. “Our communities and our economy are best served by a higher education system that recognizes equal access to educational opportunities,” he said. The association’s touting of the economic benefits of AB 131 was expressed by several other groups that lobbied the bill, including the California Federation of Teachers. The federation, which represents faculty in public and private schools and colleges, also lobbied the bill, contributing about $380,000 in the first half of fiscal year 2011 to lobby over 30 bills, including AB 131, according to the federation’s Form 635s. “The social costs for not providing this aid far outweigh the financial cost of helping these Californians succeed and contribute to the recovery of California’s economy,” said Judith Michaels, a legislative representative for the federation, in a letter to state Senator Christine Kehoe, D-San Diego. But groups representing teachers were not the only organizations to lobby the bill at the state level. The North-

ern and Southern California as well as the San Diego and Imperial Counties branches of the American Civil Liberties Union also supported the bill, paying approximately a combined $170,000 in the first half of fiscal year 2011 to lobby over 60 bills. “(Students’) ability to pursue higher education promises not only the fulfillment of personal dreams, but also a more vital labor force for the future of California,” said Tiffany Mok, a legislative advocate for the union, in a letter to state Assemblymember Gil Cedillo, D-Los Angeles. Although the documents show mostly in-state organizations lobbied the bill, the multinational American International Group Inc. — an insurance organization headquartered in New York — contributed about $20,000 to lobbyist efforts for AB 131 and seven other bills in the second quarter of fiscal year 2011, according to a Form 635 submitted by the organization. The city of Berkeley also participated in lobbying the bill. The city, which voted unanimously to support AB 131 in May, provided about $12,500 to lobby AB 131 and over a dozen other bills in the second quarter of 2011, according to the city’s Form 635. Damian Ortellado covers higher education.

Council: Other Telegraph business owners welcome the decision From Front years later there’s still nothing there,” Worthington said. Although Sarachan could not be reached for comment after the council voted, he wrote in his letter to Mayor Bates that he would “spend all the resources necessary to provide a

Community Open House Wednesday, September 14, 2011 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., 2626 Bancroft Way

Preview the schematic design for the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA), future home in downtown Berkeley, designed by the world-renowned firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro. BAM/PFA Director Lawrence Rinder and designer Charles Renfro will discuss the plan and its progress. RSVP by September 12 at http://bampfa.eventbrite.com

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maximum defense of the contract in court.” For many community members and businesses along Telegraph, the city’s decision is welcomed but long overdue. “I suspect it will be a while before we see anything happening (at the lot),

but I’m thrilled that a coalition finally got together to get something done,” said Amoeba Music owner Marc Weinstein. “I think it’s going to be good for everybody, including the property owner.” Adelyn Baxter covers city government.

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Of Time andthe City In the wake of the September 11 attacks, New York City filmmakers Martin Scorsese and Spike Lee crafted vivid tributes to a wounded metropolis.

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ifteen months after the destruction of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, New York City was reborn in glorious fashion on celluloid. It took a pair of feature films from two of the city’s most influential filmmakers to do it. The first, Queens native Martin Scorsese’s “Gangs of New York,” framed a father-son revenge saga around immigrant life in Civil War-era New York and the 1863 draft riots. The second, Brooklyn resident Spike Lee’s “25th Hour,” followed a convicted drug dealer as he navigates post-9/11 New York City before serving a sevenyear prison sentence. Set 140 years apart, the films nevertheless coalesced remarkably in their portrayals of the turbulent divisions shared between the city’s past and present. When “Gangs of New York” opened in the December of 2002, Scorsese’s violent dramatization of mid-19th century ethnic tensions in New York’s Five Points district captured not only the operatic allure of a bygone era, but also conveyed a veteran filmmaker’s resolute manifesto of hope for a city constantly regenerating itself

amid the tumultuous ebb and flow of history. “My father told me we was all born of blood and tribulations,” muses Amsterdam Vallon (Leonardo DiCaprio) in the closing moments of the film, “And so then too, was our great city.” As he vanishes from the screen, we see New York blossom in the background from an imaginary vantage point on the shores of the Hudson River. Gray trails of industrial waste billowing out of smokestacks transform into skyscrapers, the Brooklyn Bridge rises out of the water and finally, moments before the fade to black, the World Trade Center towers emerge, proud pinnacles of one hundred years of progress. We know from anecdotes that “Gangs” spent decades in gestation and that Scorsese had always wanted to make a historical epic in the tradition of Italian masters like Luchino Visconti. But his vision of premodern America has more in common with D.W. Griffith’s “The Birth of a Nation” in its treatment of human conflict transpiring along the lines of ideology and identity. There is something indelible about Scorsese’s decision to end the film with an image of the New York skyline with the World Trade Center towers intact. As viewers, we are reminded that the city’s transformation from industrial upstart to cultural behemoth would mean little

without the most recognizable symbol of its global prominence. eleased on the same day as “Gangs of New York,” Spike Lee’s “25th Hour” picks up where “Gangs” left off, capturing a city and its inhabitants mired in a post-9/11 purgatory. This concept manifests itself in the film’s opening credits sequence, which features shots of the twin beams where the World Trade Center once stood, illuminating the New York City skyline like specters of modern history. In the years following his seminal “Do the Right Thing” (1989), Lee had carved a niche for himself in the city’s cultural landscape, and “25th Hour” ranks among his finest efforts. The film brims with physical and psychological reminders of the 9/11 tragedy. Midway through the film, we see protagonist Monty Brogan (Edward Norton) lock himself up in a bathroom stall and embark on a schizophrenic diatribe against the socioeconomic and ethnic makeup of New York City. Taken on its own, it remains one of the last decade’s most provocative sequences. “Let an earthquake crumble it, let the fires rage, let it burn to fucking ash and then let the waters rise and submerge this whole rat-infested place,” we hear Norton’s character yell, unable to reconcile what he perceives as America’s existen-

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tial malady with his own regret over having lived a wasted life. Meanwhile, Lee orchestrates a montage of faces, buildings and found footage over a mournful jazz riff, creating a kaleidoscope of post-9/11 America. By capturing one man’s frustration over the loss of dignity in a mercurial new world, Lee reveals a fractured microcosm: beautiful, broken, desperately alive. rame by frame, New York City’s cinematic sons debunked the myths of America’s march into modernity in favor of harsher, heartbreaking realities. In their own ways, “Gangs of New York” and “25th Hour” retain their power as remarkable anthropological documents, complementing each other as they recreate the destruction and rebirth of America within the framework of the urban identity. Fifteen months after witnessing the city’s greatest tragedy, New York’s eight million residents saw themselves reflected on the screen. To experience Scorsese and Lee’s respective contributions to the American film canon is to gaze anew into the deepest recesses of 21st century America itself, through the human eyes of a city at once divided by perpetual conflict and united in an eternal celebration of resilience, reconstruction and redemption. David Liu is the arts & entertainment editor.

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Michael Arad, Berkeley-based architecture firm to unveil 9/11 Memorial By Sara Hayden | Staff shayden@dailycal.org

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oss creates a void — a physical and emotional space that needs to be filled. In the case of the Sept. 11, 2001 and Feb. 26, 1993 attacks, the void is particularly severe as it affects families, a nation and the lot once occupied by the World Trade Center. Architect Michael Arad took it upon himself to fill the latter with a memorial that preserves the memory of the 3,000 people who lost their lives in these tragedies. Arad’s memorial design, which was selected from a 2003 international design competition, stood out from 5,201 applications from 63 countries.

Although the original design is uniquely Arad’s, ambitious plans called for cooperative relationships between Arad, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation and Peter Walker and Partners, a Berkeleybased architecture firm. Challenging plans to execute construction and sky-high estimated costs grated nerves and caused relations to thin. Despite myriad difficulties, however, the disparate teams struck a collaborative balance in the end. The National September 11 Memorial is now completed and rises out of Ground Zero, open just in time for the 10-year anniversary since the tragedy. Some changes suggested by Walker were made to the design

Arad submitted to the competition, but the essence of Arad’s original vision for “Reflecting Absence,” as he titled his project, has been maintained. The proposed plan offered a space in which people could fall into the hush of private and shared grief; the final creation does exactly that. Protected by trees whose leaves quietly track the passage of time with seasonal changes of color, the memorial offers a haven away from shrieking traffic and overbearing pressure of the city environment. Pools swell 30 feet below ground in the square acre prints where the Twin Towers originally stood, inviting visitors to reflect. Waterfalls hem in the pools; the water’s

perpetual flow is reminiscent of a collective whisper that persists in the mists of memory. For individual commemoration, names have been engraved in bronze around the pools with the intention of visitors being able to find the names of their loved ones and create rubbings and impressions of the inscribed letters. To facilitate tracking a specific person on the memorial walls, the 9/11 Memorial website features a search bar in which one can enter a name, birthplace, residence, employer, affiliation, first responder unit or flight. Additionally, names can be searched for in an on-site museum that complements Arad’s outdoor

space for remembrance. Designed by the Norwegian architecture firm Snohetta, the museum presents educational opportunities through interactive exhibits. Children who are too young to remember the events or adults who are just now ready to confront them will have the chance to learn about the victims, the events that led to the attacks and how 9/11 continues to affect us. Inside the museum and outside the plaza surrounding the pools there is space. Rather than creating emptiness, the space is filled with respect and the knowledge that, despite our checkered patterns of personal backgrounds, shared memory brings us a common American identity.

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Novels reflected on ‘Incredibly Close’ disaster By Ryan Lattanzio | Senior Staff rlattanzio@dailycal.org

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n literary terms, September 11 no doubt reshaped the way we consider the trauma narrative. The turn-ofthe-century tragedy, and the millennium itself, announced not just the boom of postmodernism, but also a question to be answered: Where do we go from here? Jonathan Safran Foer’s exuberant, wildly stylized novel “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” (2005) incorporates intertextuality, metafiction and a young boy’s spiritual education — what we English major folks call “bildungsroman” — in reconciling national trauma. Foer’s novel was published two years after British author Ian McEwan’s politically engaged “Saturday” (2005),

also a rigorous novel about post-9/11 psychology. Yet Foer offers a more flesh-and-blood, human tale of coping in the 21st century. “Extremely Loud” has a complex visual surface featuring color and black-and-white images, blank pages, broken text and even a flipbook used at the book’s end to achieve surprising emotional effect. Yet the story at the novel’s center is simple: Nineyear-old narrator Oskar Schell, who is also the most precocious kid you’ll encounter in contemporary literature, searches New York high and low in search of a lock to match a key left behind by his father who died on September 11. In doing so, he uncovers the buried past of his ancestors and experiences emotional catharsis. Had this novel been written in standard typography, with a linear narrative and a clearly outlined story arc, perhaps Foer would have fallen short in his attempt to reconstruct the stories of individual people affected by the attacks. Here he has

shown us that in the wake of disaster and in order to reinvent the tired genre of the “trauma narrative,” a novel might need to leave Modernist literary conventions behind to find truth and meaning. Soldered to historical literary conventions — think Joyce’s “Portrait of the Artist” meets W.G. Sebald’s “Austerlitz,” also a millennial trauma narrative — Foer’s approach to visual writing suggests that we need to look outside of what we typically view as “literature” to explore a deep psychological wound, a wound that’s in all of us. In turn, it seems that the implements of pre-9/11 literary tradition afforded us no way of reshaping our own trauma narrative. Not only did Foer set the bar for how we understand September 11 in terms of the novel, a site for exploring for emotions we can’t yet broach, he in effect imagined a whole new tradition of fiction writing. No journalism, or at least none I can think of, could do such a thing.

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ramatizations of defining moments in history are nothing new for movies, or any other artistic medium for that matter. World War II and Vietnam films belong to their own subgenre of war movies, while a typical period piece always has the need to wink at viewers by cleverly referencing real life events. But even after ten years, a “9/11 genre” has yet to make a major impact on the film scene. Sure there have been a few movies that have tackled the topic head on, namely Oliver Stone’s “World Trade Center” and Paul Greengrass’s “United 93,” but neither film saw the level of devotion given to Steven Spielberg’s epic “Saving Private Ryan” or Stone’s critically and commercially acclaimed take on Vietnam, “Platoon.” Part of the issue might relate to the very reason why audiences go to the movies in the first place. Films allow audiences a chance to peer into

situations and phenomena that most would never have the opportunity or desire to be a part of. 9/11 stands as one of those rare occurrences that managed to touch every American, from those who actually experienced the falling of the towers in person to the millions who followed the events on TV or the radio. Who would want to relive the feelings of that moment? But therein lies the genius of “United 93,” a film that should eventually go down as Paul Greengrass’ seminal work, even if it never gains the large following of his two “Bourne” movies. Greengrass strips the plot down to its very basics. There is no mention of Al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden or Afghanistan. The politics that have shaped the country since 9/11 are pushed aside in favor of a story that has to do with survival and dealing with a situation with courage once the hope for survival has vanished. “United 93” gives us exactly what a movie is supposed to give its audience — a chance to peer into a situation that we hope we’ll never have to be a part of.

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Current Stanford coach and former Bear assistant coach and player Matt Sherman will coach the backs, including Colin Hawley and recent graduate Blaine Scully. They join former Bears Chris Biller, Eric Fry, Mike MacDonald, Brian McClenahan and Louis Stanfill, who will serve as forwards on the national squad. “I was hopeful for every one of them because I knew they were in the running, but typically you just get caught up in a numbers game,� Clark said. “The idea that it would work out for really every one of them is pretty unique.� Since rugby has not been included in the Olympics since 1924, the Rugby World Cup falls just behind the Summer Olympics and the FIFA World Cup as the globe’s most watched event. With this being an off-year for the Olympics and the World Cup, rugby will take center stage as the world’s biggest sporting event this year. “It’s a huge honor for me repre-

By Christina Jones | Senior Staff cjones@dailycal.org The Cal rugby team has quite a reputation in the United States, having won a staggering 26 national championships in program history, including the 2011 title. With the opening of the Rugby World Cup on Sept. 11, the Cal name reaches the international stage. More than any university or even junior national squad, the Bears send an unparalleled eight former players to the US national team, seven as players and one as an assistant coach. The Cal contingent makes up almost a fourth of the roster. “Those guys reaching this milestone makes me really, really happy for them,� Cal coach Jack Clark said. “But I also feel satisfied for the rugby program, that we’re contributing in the way we are collectively, and for our university, not just the rugby program, to the success of these players.�

senting not only my country, but Cal,� said Scully, who captained last year’s national championship squad. In order to get a plane ticket to New Mankl]Zr% FZr ,% +))0 Zealand and a red, white and blue uniform, players had to make incredible sacrifices, Clark said. Scully was fortunate in that such an opportunity came on the heels of graduation, and both MacDonald and Stanfill play professionally overseas. For the others, getting to this point has involved a less than steady post-collegiate life. Clark said more than just these seven players have come through his program with the level of talent to make the national team. Many pursue graduate study or a fulfilling job. A select few “tread water looking for this opportunity,� taking less than desirable jobs that allow them the flexibility to travel on little notice to earn a spot on the team, according to Clark. Unfortunately for these former Bears, the American team is not projected to fare well against highly-professional sides. The squad opens against Ireland, which is projected to go deep into the tournament. “I think a lot of the celebration unfortunately for these guys is in making the team and having the opportunity and responsibility of representing the United States in such a large, significant sporting event,� Clark said.

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he ease with which Alice Hoagland speaks about her son is not merely admirable but extraordinary. Almost 10 years removed from the day that saw her son rise as an American hero, the mother of Mark Bingham — the former Cal rugby player who helped bring down the hijacked United Airlines Flight 93 on September 11, 2001 — speaks vigorously and vividly about life with and without her son. Alice Hoagland wants to talk because the tragic results produced the advancement of movements that her only son — her only child — advocated. Alice Hoagland wants to talk because 10 years, though a necessary reminder to the public, remains a number, while the loss of a son cannot be measured. But why does Alice Hoagland really want to speak up? “9/11 may have drifted into some people’s distant memories but it is right there for me all the time,” Hoagland says. “My life now is about the unfinished business of 9/11.” Alice Hoagland wants to be heard because complacency is not an option. An engaging conversationalist and a motivating voice, she will stop at nothing to commemorate her son. That means not merely championing Mark’s causes, but also confronting the issues that took his life. Mark Bingham was a reserve on the 1991 Cal rugby National Championship squad and graduated from Berkeley in 1993. Bingham and three other former athletes — Jeremy Glick (a national collegiate judo champion), Todd Beamer (a former college shortstop and three-sport high school athlete from Bingham’s high school, Los Gatos) and Tom Burnett (a star high school quarterback) — stormed the cockpit of Flight 93, initially headed from Newark to San Francisco, and helped crash the plane before it reached the hijackers’ intended target of the U.S. Capitol Building. The plane crashed in a field in Stonycreek Township, Pennsylvania killing all 44 on board but none on the ground. We may not dream of such a scenario, but heroes are those that act decisively and forcefully. By entering the cockpit and disabling armed terrorists intent on destruction, Bingham, Glick, Burnett and Beamer saved lives and acted not solely as human beings, but also as athletes. “I think what athletes do is instinctively take into account what’s happening and what’s real and what needs to be done. It’s part of the DNA of being a real athlete,”

Cal rugby coach Jack Clark says. “Once an athlete gets that bit of data that these things are ending bad, you act. It’s an informed decision at that point. You don’t sit there and hope for the best or pretend that the information isn’t real. It’s real and it’s actionable. You take action and that is what athletes are taught to do.” or Mark Bingham, it was rugby that helped instill those reflexes. “I saw what wonderful things rugby did for Mark and by extension what wonderful things competitive sports and athletic skill that was aboard Flight 93 did for America,” Hoagland says. “Those skills that those guys learned showed. They demonstrated themselves on the back of that doomed 757. They realized how dire and desperate the situation was. They came up with a desperate plan to overthrow a plot two years in the making.” Hoagland will discuss the event — it is difficult to avoid with the anniversary nearing — but it remains “fresh bad news” for her every time it resurfaces. It’s the loss of a son after all. Tragedy motivates, but Alice merely continued what she was doing before — loving her son. And the love is all-encompassing, one of reconciliation, equality and peace. “Every peace-loving person owes it to his fellow human being to speak out on behalf of the human race to remember that we are all a part of the human family.” Hoagland says. “We are knit up together. Mark’s family is related several generations to the Moorish lines that populated Europe. Whether we like it or not we are all intertwined genetically.” s a former United Airlines flight attendant, Hoagland frankly discusses her beliefs in strengthening aviation security and eradicating terrorism. The mother of a gay son, Alice is passionate in her desire for mainstream America to fully accept LGBT individuals. When discussing her life since 9/11, Mark’s mother is sincere. But when talking rugby, Alice’s tone is markedly upbeat. Bingham received all sorts of posthumous awards which created opportunities for others. Prior to his death, Mark was a pioneer of the San Francisco Fog, a multi-ethnic, non-discriminate team whose creation parlayed into the International Gay Rugby Association and Board (IGRAB). Just a few weeks before September 11, the Fog was accepted into the Northern Calfornia Rugby Union, an accreditation Mark helped achieve. People reached out generously after the attacks. In 2002, the firstever Bingham Cup was hosted by the Fog in San Francisco. Now, the Cup is a biennial international gay rugby

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