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Initiative proposes creation of online advising system

By Afsana Afzal and Alisha Azevedo newsdesk@dailycal.org In order to streamline administrative work for UC Berkeley advisers, two Operational Excellence initiative proposals would create an online advising system and leadership body if approved by the campus.

The student services team within the initiative — a campus cost-cutting initiative aiming to

save $75 million annually — drafted suggestions for numerous changes to the operation of advising across the campus, stating that advisers spend too much time on administrative tasks and not enough time meeting with students.

The Advising Toolkit proposal — approved by the initiative coordinating committee June 23 — calls for the creation of an online portal which would replace paper forms, schedule appointments electronically and allow advisers to take notes and view student records.

The portal would cost the campus $5.2 million

to implement and would then save about $5.9 million annually, according to the proposal summary.

According to initiative communications manager Bill Reichle, the executive committee has not decided if it will grant the proposal final approval.

“The Executive Committee is reviewing all student services technology proposals and has asked the team to better quantify savings estimates as well as identify additional funding sources for these proposals,” he said in an email.

On Sept. 8, the team presented another proposal to the coordinating committee ­­­— expected

to be approved Sept. 22, Reichle said — to establish a nine- to 11-member advising council for the campus, which would be led by an advising administrator hired for a five-year tenure. After those five years, the council would become a volunteer committee with rotating leadership.

The committee would be charged with “working to achieve advising excellence through assessment, knowledge sharing, training, and talent development” by standardizing policies and practices across campus advising departments,

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Local Schools

New program sets sights on closing the achievement gap

By Weiru Fang | Staff wfang@dailycal.org This fall, the Berkeley Unified School District will launch new programs in its schools as part of 2020 Vision, an effort to close the district’s racial achievement gap.

The programs aim to improve kindergarten readiness, third grade reading proficiency and overall attendance — three of the eight improvement areas identified by 2020 Vision — as part of an attempt to prepare students early on for later academic success.

Whereas the district’s statewide test scores increased overall, the district’s achievement gap between white students and their black and Latino counterparts still exists, and is frequently called one of the worst in the state.

The Berkeley City Council and the district’s Board of Education adopted 2020 Vision in June 2008 with the goal of closing the achievement gap in public schools by 2020. More than three years later, Berkeley officials maintain that strides have been made by the initiative and change is coming.

Julie Sinai, chief of staff to the Mayor Tom Bates, said that in the past few years, the goal has been to analyze and collect data over various sources to better identify the needs of students.

“What’s the data we really want to measure — do we have baseline data, or do we need to create it?” Sinai said.

Sinai said that this month, district kindergarteners will take a universal assessment, which

will inform teachers how they can be more effective in the classroom, as well as provide a baseline for the percentage of kindergarteners ready for school.

According to this year’s data from the California Department of Education, white students in the district scored more than 250 points higher than black students — an Academic Performance Index score of 908 points versus 643 points, respectively. The district’s Latino students scored 744.

Paco Furlan, principal of Rosa Parks Elementary, said that many times, it is not an achievement gap but an “opportunity gap,” where certain students benefit from certain advantages, during the summer and after school, that others cannot afford.

Students in the district identified as socioeconomically disadvantaged were 711 this year, lower than the state target of 800.

“You absolutely have to believe that every kid can learn and provide opportunities for that kid to learn,” Furlan said. “No matter where they come from ... you have to meet them where they are.”

A newcomer who assumed the role of principal in 2010, Furlan saw extraordinary test score growth at the elementary school, which met both of its state standards this year. The school saw the most growth in math and science scores.

Based on 2020 Vision’s identified problem areas, he budgeted and made funding decisions

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Higher Education

Campus study abroad units join Students present postcards to increase access for students in support of DREAM Act

By Amruta Trivedi and Franklin Krbechek newsdesk@dailycal.org In an effort to increase the number of UC Berkeley students studying abroad, the campus created a single unit that combines the administration of all the campus study abroad offices.

The new office, called Summer Session, Study Abroad & Lifelong Learning, combines the administration for Berkeley Programs for Study Abroad, Summer Sessions and the adult learning Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, but will not cut any staff positions, ac-

cording to Richard Russo, director of the new unit, which opened Sept. 1.

The consolidation of the summer session and academic year study abroad programs will mean that students can receive advising for both study abroad options at one on-campus location, as opposed to in the past, when advising for the programs was in two separate offices. However, though student advising has been consolidated, the two institutions’ offices have remained separate.

“The main purpose of consolidating the units is to facilitate and try to triple the number of Berkeley students going abroad,” Russo said.

The timeline to meet this goal has

yet to be set, said Barbara Tassielli, assistant director of the Berkeley Study Abroad program. The campus currently sends about 1,200 students abroad every year, giving it the second highest study abroad rate among UC campuses, trailing only UC Santa Barbara, where the UC Education Abroad Program is based.

The campus began this restructuring project after observing UCLA’s success with a similar reorganization, according to Russo.

“This reorganization was done solely to improve and meet the needs of Berkeley students and increase our

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By Jessica Rossoni and Chris Yee newsdesk@dailycal.org Student leaders from California’s public higher education institutions teamed up Monday to present Gov. Jerry Brown’s staff with 11,309 postcards, each urging the governor to sign the second part of the California DREAM Act — AB 131 — into law.

Luis Quinonez, a staff member for the bill’s author, Assemblyman Gil Cedillo, D-Los Angeles, joined student leaders from the University of California, California State University and

California Community Colleges in a press conference to show support for the act — which would allow certain non-resident and undocumented students access to state financial aid for the first time.

The press conference was followed by a meeting in which the postcards were presented to several of Brown’s staff members.

The governor has until Oct. 9 to sign the bill into law.

Joey Freeman, UC Berkeley ASUC external affairs vice president and Jeremy Pilaar, UCSA board member, brought a delegation of 15 UC Berkeley undergraduates to join the more

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ADVISING: Similar programs already exist at other UC campuses From Front the proposal states.

Putting “policy development” in the hands of the council rather than departments is expected to save $940,000 annually, according to the proposal.

Increased efficiency will cut $1,100 annually from “advising students who are simply confused because they do not have access to information about their finances” and $37,000 annually from advising students about their degree status, the proposal states.

According to Mark Gotvald, a college adviser in Letters and Sciences Undergraduate Advising, online por-

tals have already seen success at other UC campuses, including UC Davis and UCLA. “Such a portal would obviously free up advisers to see students, rather than process petitions,” he said in an email.

“It would save hours of time each week that advisers spend answering phone calls from students seeking to schedule appointments.”

The proposal also predicts that student satisfaction with improved advising services will increase the percentage of alumni who donate to the campus from 18 percent to 20 percent.

Student services initiative manager Anne De Luca and project sponsors Cathy Koshland and Harry Le Grande could not be reached for comment.

However, the proposals fail to take the unique needs of advisers into account, according to Richard Walker, vice chair of the Berkeley Faculty Association and campus professor of geography.

“There is a constant interaction to get it right and to make majors run smoothly,” he said. “I’m dubious if this is going to be used as an excuse to cut — there is no leeway left in cutting departmental staff.”

RESTRUCTURING: Office to create new travel study programs From front

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Thousands of Berkeley residents flocked to the Solano Stroll this weekend. The annual event featured a variety of food vendors and musical performances.

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ability to accommodate the growing number of students (studying abroad),” Russo said.

According to Russo, the consolidation does not save the campus money but has allowed the new study abroad office to add one more full-time study abroad adviser. In addition to providing a one-stop advising location for both summer and academic year abroad programs, the new unit will also facilitate the creation of a sus-

tainable revenue model similar to the one the summer session office had followed.

The summer session previously offered short-term travel study options, which may be expanded to the academic year through the consolidated unit. Russo also said that the new office will develop study abroad programs specific to UC Berkeley, such as short-term travel study and faculty-led international programs catered direct-

ly to UC Berkeley students.

“There is the capacity for the new office to create new options,” Tassielli said. “But for the time-being and foreseeable future, we are a continuation of UCEAP and summer session travel study.”

Tassielli said that although the consolidation would make it easier for students to receive advising, the way students apply for study abroad programs would remain the same.

dream: Students across state show support of act to governor From front

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Chancellor Robert Birgeneau speaks at a forum on Thursday where panelists discussed the mark the Septmeber 11 terrorist attacks left on the United States.

Ledge sitters to complete community service Seven protesters from the March 3 ledge-sit pled no contest to a misdemeanor charge for disturbing the peace Monday at the Wiley W. Manuel Courthouse in Oakland.

Per an agreement between the district attorney’s office and defense counsel, the charge will be converted into an infraction if protesters complete 30 hours of community service by Nov. 18. The agreement also requires protesters to keep away from Wheeler Hall until their community service has been registered with the court but allows them access to the hall for “lawful conduct.” ...

than 65 students from across the state.

“If we are going to be an equitable institution, then everyone should have a fair shot at higher education,” Freeman said. “I definitely think today was a successful event. It brought attention to a really important issue.”

According to Freeman, there were several media outlets, including at least six television stations, that sent representatives to cover the event.

Although Brown has previously stated that he would sign the bill should it arrive at his desk, Brown spokesperson Evan Westrup said in an email that his office would not weigh in on legislation prior to the governor taking action on

the bill.

Cedillo — author of both parts of the California DREAM Act — had originally planned to attend the press conference but told event organizers Sunday night that he had a “commitment conflict in his district” and would send a representative in his stead, according to Darius Kemp, UC Student Association communications and organizing director.

Conrado Terrazas, communications director for Cedillo, said that although the event was not officially sponsored by Cedillo’s office, the assemblyman appreciated the students’ actions. “(Today’s event) demonstrates the

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strength and support that the DREAM Act has with the students of the UCs,” Terrazas said. “We are hopeful that he will sign it, but we are asking our supporters to contact (Brown) and urge him to sign the bill.”

Despite Cedillo’s absence, Kemp said he felt that the presentation would make just as significant an impression due to the sheer number of postcards created by California students in support of AB 131.

“We wanted to bring the cards to the governor because we wanted him to have a visual memento of the hard work that the UC students have done to get this bill signed right now,” Kemp said.

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hree years ago, a sportswriter told me you should never be a fan of the team you cover. I’m still trying to decide if he was right.

I now cover the football team for the Daily Cal, and I’m starting my second year on the job. It’s the coolest gig around, and I’m incredibly fortunate to have it — even if it pays me nothing besides memories and free entrance to every home game.

But chances are I care less than you do when the clock runs out.

When I tell people where I work, they often assume that I’m obsessed with the fortunes of Cal football.

That’s not entirely false, I suppose. I scan through countless stats and quotes each week. I need to remember the numbers and faces of most of the team. When I write lengthy feature articles, ideas constantly bounce around in my head for days on end.

A Cal loss, however, doesn’t bother me anymore. That might be partly because I’ve simply gotten used to them, but my job is to write about the team as objectively as possible.

Sportswriting and fandom don’t have to be mutually exclusive, as Bill Simmons’s wild success will attest, but it does help. The blue and gold faithful have long worn Rose Bowltinted glasses, which helped make Cal one of the most statistically overrated teams in the past five years.

So I try to pull back. I sometimes think about whether or not this makes me a bad sports fan. Is some part of my sports-obsessed self lost forever? Has the job sucked some of the joy out of watching sports? Is this the real-life equivalent of being attacked by a Dementor?! ig Game 2010: Cal’s worst loss to Stanford since 1930. My best friend from high school turned down Harvard for Stanford, and that 48-14 dismantling gave him the first win of our college careers.

And strangely enough, I didn’t feel particularly distraught when he rushed the turf at Memorial Stadium, echoing what I did across the Bay one year prior. Maybe the slightest of twinges, but nothing that distracted me from how incredibly good at football Andrew Luck is.

(What did hurt? Losing my second

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Jack Wang jwang@dailycal.org consecutive Ink Bowl — an annual flag football game against The Stanford Daily. Fuck those guys.)

Maybe part of this was a coping mechanism. I did start the beat on what became Jeff Tedford’s first-ever losing season at Cal. t takes more than a win over Colorado to get my heart pumping. Cal baseball managed to do this with a stunning run to the College World Series a few months back, less than a year after the team was cut by the administration. The Bears did it in Big Game 2009, the greatest football game I’ve ever seen in person.

There’s a plus side, too, I think. I get excited by stellar plays in general, even when they come at Cal’s expense (YouTube “Andrew Luck, Sean Cattouse”). I can see the big picture.

I have other teams I follow with unbridled fervor. No young boy becomes a sports fan without latching on to something or someone, and maybe it’s a detriment to the craft of sportswriting to dismiss that.

The aforementioned sportswriter, who still writes for the Chronicle, was from the old school — the type that still eschews recorders for illegible shorthand. In opposition to him is the blogosphere, which the old school will say is run by a bunch of moronic fans who shouldn’t be granted access.

But there are some solid blogs out there, even if they’re outnumbered by horrid ones. Some don’t make much attempt at objectivity; it’s not as if we’re handling court cases here.

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The Berkeley Housing Authority received a recommendation from one of its subcommittees Thursday regarding its impending decision to choose a developer to rehabilitate the city’s 75 public housing units.

The housing authority has now entered into an exclusive negotiating rights agreement with housing development company The Related Companies of California, LLC, after the agency’s joint finance and feasibility subcommittee recommended the company be chosen to take on the units.

The housing authority, which manages 75 public housing units at 18 sites

across the city, was given permission by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to sell the units last December, and had been searching for a development organization for the past year to purchase the units — finally receiving proposals from The Related Companies of California, LLC and another development firm, Pacific Development, LLC. In January, the housing authority employed EJP Consulting Group — a consulting firm that collaborates with governments as well as private and nonprofit clients on urban revitalization projects — to review the development proposals, alongside an outside panel made up of Berkeley Housing Advisory Commission members and city staff, according to Kathleen Sims,

project manager.

“Essentially, after reviewing the units … we asked the housing authority to improve the condition of properties or find someone to do it,” Sims said. “The cost of improvements were in millions, and because the Berkeley Housing Authority was a very small housing authority, they did not have resources financially, so they brought in another strategic planner to look into their options.”

The agreement allows the company to enter into a 90-day period with a possible extension of 30 days to discuss business terms involving the negotiation and transference of the units.

Commissioner Mark Sawicki served on the outside panel that reviewed the

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Local Schools

Board to consider another charter school petition

By Jamie Applegate | Staff japplegate@dailycal.org In the wake of the opening of Berkeley Unified School District’s first charter school late last month, the district’s Board of Education will consider another charter school petition this week.

At its meeting Wednesday, the board will review a proposal from Oaklandbased Integrity Educational Center, which resubmitted a petition to the district after having its first charter petition denied earlier in the year.

James Madden, lead petitioner and principal of the proposed school, said he feels his school would provide a much-needed service to the district’s students.

“The idea of this school is to provide hope for young people who may

not have been successful in a traditional school setting,” Madden said.

“The focus is a dropout prevention.

We want to motivate kids to get their high school diploma and provide them with a trade. We will address students who have traditionally fallen by the wayside.”

Madden said he thinks his school will fill a niche by teaching practical skills that will help students get a stable job after graduation.

“There are plenty of charter schools, but they’re not schools focused on dropout recovery,” he said. “There are plenty of schools, but few will offer signature programs that I would offer, like a career center program that has students working who will help other students learn to fill out a resume.”

Madden originally submitted a proposal to the board June 29, which the board discussed and ultimately denied.

District Superintendent Bill Huyett said the original petition was denied for reasons including a lack of compliance with state guidelines and proof that the program would be sustainable over the long term.

“Programs where you’re recovering students, that’s a hard task to do,” Huyett said.

He added that he thinks the district is diligent in its review of charter schools, particularly about ensuring a school meets state guidelines.

“It’s very important that whoever operates a school does a good job because we do,” he said. “We have highquality schools throughout the district, and we want to make sure that if a charter school is offered, it’s high quality.”

Madden said he is hopeful the board will approve the school’s petition with the changes that have been made to it.

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Opinion Tuesday, September 13, 2011

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op-ed | Opposing the California DREAM Act

Media cannot be caged How the DREAM Act may be a mirage BAY AREA AFFAIRS BART suggests creating a “media area” during protests, but it is not the role of police to protect reporters in this way.

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he role of a journalist is not to obstruct but to remain a fly on the wall and a diligent observer. A reporter’s primary objective is to disseminate accurate accounts of current events to the public, and to inform without bias. But to restrict a reporter’s ability to follow the ebb and flow of a given event hinders that reporter’s ability to thoroughly fulfill that purpose.

We are therefore concerned about a BART official’s statement Friday to the San Francisco Chronicle that, during protests, the agency may sanction “media areas” guarded by a police line.

Journalists who cross the line could be subject to arrest. We acknowledge that BART may be seeking to better accommodate journalists, especially after at least six were handcuffed and detained amid a protest last Thursday. We also recognize the frustration and difficulty officers experience when attempting to distinguish journalists from civilians recording an event with their camera phones. But essentially caging journalists in order to protect them is not the role of the police. Not only would this impede reporters’ ability to fully deliver the facts of an event to the

public, but it would also distinguish and identify reporters, denying them the ability to transform into that fly on the wall.

It must then be up to reporters themselves to acknowledge the repercussions of covering a protest and to not interfere with the actions of police officers. When an officer instructs them to move, they should do so. To behave otherwise is to break down the fourth wall separating the reporter from the story and from its characters, becoming a participant in the news rather than an objective witness.

Journalists certainly implicate themselves in much more serious situations — abroad in war zones and domestically in tracking dangerous criminals. In these circumstances, the risks are understood. When covering a protest, reporters too must be mindful that without proper press credentials, they may be subject to arrest when a scene gets heated or when they are in fact becoming obstacles. While reporters must be protected from legal ramifications resulting from their work as journalists, they must also shoulder the responsibility for their own well-being and practices.

By Tim Donnelly Special to the Daily Cal opinion@dailycal.org Assembly Bill 131, the second half of the so-called “DREAM Act,” is on its way to the Governor’s desk.

Despite its name, it offers little more than a mirage to the students it promises to help and a nightmare to the citizens whose hard-earned dollars will be used to fund it.

As a graduate of UC Irvine who worked his way through to pay out-

This bill is like a coach of a team saying ‘Yeah, I’ll let you on the team, and I’ll chris make you norby practice, you’ll do the wind sprints, you’ll go through all the drills, but I can’t legally let you in the game.”

— Assemblymember Chris Norby (R-Fullerton)

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come to make friends and weave themselves into the fabric of the campus’ social network — the dorms. UC policy is clear: a student whose drinking habits impair “work performance, scholarly, activities, or student life” may face “corrective action, up to and including dismissal.” Resident assistants prohibit underage drinking, causing students to hide stashes in mini-fridges behind closed doors.

That is where the trouble begins — in the foundation of the relationships between resident assistants and their charges. The role of the resident assistant should not be to admonish those who choose to drink. Establishing trust, openness and an understanding that the resident assistant is there to help is key in ensuring that hazardous drinking does not happen behind closed doors. It increases the chance that students will be taken care of if they do imbibe too much, even if that means whisking them to the hospital.

The campus should view UCPD’s statistics as a red flag and should assist the dorms in redefining resident assistants’ role. We encourage students to put health and safety first.

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Elected officials in the state capital debate the California DREAM Act

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t universities nationwide, the same weary mantra plays out semester after semester — college students bingedrink in dorms and anywhere that will serve hard liquor. UC Berkeley is no different, and we recognize that this is to be expected, but the spike in students rushed to the hospital for alcohol intoxication this fall is troubling.

UCPD statistics show that between the move-in and Labor Day weekends, twice as many students were sent to the hospital compared to the same period last year. While we recognize that this jump may indicate increased reporting and that the number of calls ­— 13 — is small relative to the student population, we are concerned about the level of support provided to students.

Students are often hesitant to seek aid for a friend because of the consequences that the friend may face. Students should have resources they can turn to for assistance and a support system that is open and accommodating. The priority should be to offer students proper care. Fear of disciplinary action should not deter calling for help.

Change must originate in the very place where new students

who subsidizes the university system to pass this fiscal nightmare.

The state has told students that it does not have adequate funds to pay for enough classes so they can graduate in four years. Now, California is even actively recruiting out-of-state students to help fill the education budget gap. Still, the Legislature purports to have miraculously found $40 million to fund the dreams of these illegal students, on top of offering them in-state tuition rates.

It is absurd. Even the governor has

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Alcoholic awareness The increase this year in alcohol-related casualty calls by students indicates the campus environment must change.

of-state tuition the first year until he became a legal resident, I understand both the cost and the value of an education.

California’s UC and CSU systems are currently facing the most drastic budget cuts that we have seen in a generation ­— more than $1 billion. At the same time, the state is hiking tuition rates on all students by 10 to 12 percent while students compete in lotteries to get enough classes to graduate.

As citizens continue to struggle through what may come to be known as the Second Great Depression, it is an insult to every California citizen

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I know that I stand here today as the result of a great public education.

Public education is gil the lifeblood of cedillo our democracy.

Public education in this great state and this great nation is the equalizer of our society.”

— Assemblymember Gil Cedillo (D-Los Angeles)

Anything that’s going to advance the cause of our people — whatever their background, their color, their religion, their political philosophy — all of that is secondary to the fact that we’re Californians together. There’s a dream, and that dream is fulfilled by the human imagination nurtured in schools, but also nurtured in neighborhoods.”

— California Governor Jerry Brown

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I too share the compassion and the understanding of what these Bill kids bring Berryhill to our economy, to our future.

I agree with literally everything that’s been said on this floor, but I don’t feel that until there is truly federal immigration policy ... or we take the penalties off employers for hiring ... I just regretfully can’t support this today.”

— Assemblymember Bill Berryhill (R-Ceres)

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Educating undocumented students is an important reflection of our public mission in economically-challenging times

By Robert J. Birgeneau Special to the Daily Cal opinion@dailycal.org With the passage of AB 540 in 2001, the state of California allowed any students who had spent at least three years in a California secondary school, graduated and earned admission to college to be treated as Californians paying resident tuition. The legislators responsible for AB 540 recognized that many undocumented students who are products of California’s education system were brought here as young children not knowing that they did not have proper legal status. These talented and ambitious young people have earned the opportunity to attend college and deserve to be treated justly and fairly.

However, while enabling undocumented students to pursue a public education In California, the Legislature stopped short of making any provision for financial aid, without which the expenses of attending are too onerous for many. UC Berkeley’s tuition is $11,200, and the total cost of attending is as much as $32,600 per year. This is insurmountable for the vast majority of undocumented students.

By comparison, their fellow California residents from families with low incomes who qualify for aid are required to contribute as little as $8,000 to their education through work-study and loans.

Thanks to the leadership

of Assemblymember Gil Cedillo, two bills, AB 130 and AB 131, were put forward in the Legislature that would allow financial support for undocumented students.

I personally traveled to Sacramento to testify on behalf of both bills with Mr. Cedillo and witnessed our legislators moved by the testimony of many undocumented students as they talked about their hopes and dreams for higher education and the hardships and challenges that they encountered.

The principles behind AB 130 a n d 131 reflect UC Berkeley’s institutional identity as an engine of social and economic mobility, providing access and affordability that allows promising students of exceptional caliber to pursue higher education.

AB 130 was recently passed and signed into law by Gov. Brown. It enables all students who qualify for nonresident tuition exemption to be eligible to compete for scholarships that are paid for with private donor funds awarded by the university, beginning on Jan. 1,

2012. I have already made an approach for private support to a foundation that is a leader in social justice issues and believes in enabling all people to reach their full potential, as do we at UC Berkeley.

AB 131, which was passed by the legislature and is on its way to Gov. Brown’s desk, will further level the playing field by making undocumented students eligible for state funding such as Cal Grants, effective January 2013. If the bill is enacted, as we have every reason to believe that it will UC estimates that approximately 800 undergraduate students eligible under AB 540 would meet the requirements for participation in the Cal Grant Entitlement program. While it is impossible to determine exactly how many undocumented students who are eligible for need-based financial aid attend UC Berkeley, our best estimates indicate that we have approximately 60.

California can take the lead in helping to reframe the national conversation on investing in undocumented students. Rather than representing a financial loss for the state, these students will have the opportunity to contribute to the economic and social vitality of California. Supporters of AB 540 are exploring ways in which these students, once they graduate, can find legal employment, thereby ensuring that they are integrated into California’s professional community, are able to put their degrees to good use and are one step closer to citizenship. I recently had the opportunity to speak to President Obama directly about the DREAM Act. He emphasized that California cannot afford to waste one single talented person and that as a nation, we must not neglect individuals who can become tremendous assets to the United States.

UC Berkeley has been a state and national leader in addressing issues of equity, access and affordability. That tradition is only strengthened in times of economic hardship — we have more low-income students attending UC Berkeley today than at any time in our history. We are proud of our public mission to serve all Californians, including helping those talented, economically disadvantaged undocumented students who through their merit have earned a place at UC Berkeley.

Robert J. Birgeneau is the chancellor of UC Berkeley.

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donnelly: Assemblyman questions cost of California DREAM Act to state, students of legal residence From Page 4 expressed reservations about funding this subsidy in our current economic state.

This bill institutes an expansion of funding for one category of students while requiring others to pay more on their behalf. This is unfair, fiscally irresponsible and bound to encourage more illegal immigration, which already costs between $11 billion and $22 billion across the country annually. I believe we need more legal immigration. This bill, however, entices more people to come here in the most dangerous way possible.

By creating a new entitlement for those who are in the country illegally, we are engraving an invitation to those who have not yet come ­— what are you waiting for?

Not only do we offer a K-12 education, a myriad of welfare programs and in-state tuition, but now we will tax the citizens of California to provide additional financial aid for your child’s college education. In the end, though, the dreamlike promises still fall short.

Students who are in the country illegally cannot legally get a job in California, regardless of the degree they obtain. So, arguments that this is an investment are, at best, misguided. Worse yet, I fear that this bill does nothing but prolong the inevitable realization that to fully participate in society, these students must go through the honorable process to become citizens. Only then can they truly pursue the American Dream. AB 131 is merely a cruel hoax on both the future ”dreamers” and the citizens who are forced to give up their child’s dream to fund this nightmare bill.

Tim Donnelly is a California State Assemblymember representing the 59th State Assembly District.

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BART officials propose designating area for reporters at protests

By Annie Sciacca | Staff asciacca@dailycal.org Following the detention of at least six journalists at a protest Thursday, Bay Area Rapid Transit officials have proposed new guidelines for media that would create a designated area in the station for reporters to cover protests.

The idea is to have reporters stand behind a line to ensure their safety and make it easier for BART police to differentiate protesters from the media, according to BART spokesperson Jim Allison.

Allison said a media barrier would reduce the risk of reporters being detained in a situation like that of San Francisco Chronicle reporter Vivian Ho, who was detained during last Thursday’s protest after being identified by Allison as a Chronicle reporter. Ho said she was detained for about 15 minutes as police reviewed her press badge.

She added that it is important that the media are present at protests to cover the actions of protesters and police alike.

“The press needs to be there for both sides,” she said. “We’re keeping both sides accountable.”

Before the recent wave of protests — in response to the fatal shooting of

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vagrant Charles Hill on July 3 and the transportation agency’s decision to cut cellphone service during an Aug. 11 protest — BART officials were familiar with certain members of the media and did not consistently check press passes, according to BART Director Lynette Sweet. Now that there are so many new reporters covering protests, it has been more difficult for officials to differentiate protesters from reporters, Sweet said.

Stephen Proctor, managing editor of the Chronicle, said creating a zone for the media can be helpful and is sometimes necessary.

“As long as a journalist is able to witness the story unfold, reasonable controls are fine and necessary,” Proctor said.

He added that a protest situation is comparable to an event like a fire, in which reporters would be asked to stand at a certain distance for safety reasons. However, he said, such restrictions should not prevent journalists from doing their jobs.

“A situation (like Thursday’s) — reporters being handcuffed in the course of their duties — those things are unnecessary and unacceptable,” he said.

Jim Naureckas, editor of Extra — a magazine published by media-watch group Fairness and Accuracy in Re-

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A train arrives at the Ashby BART station on Monday. Following the detention of six journalists at a protest last week, BART officials have proposed new media guidelines. porting — said he was more skeptical of BART’s intention to create a media zone during protests.

Naureckas said it is similar to the idea of shutting down phone and social media communication on public

transportation — an “absurd idea” and an attempt to keep people from knowing what the government is doing.

“The best way to keep journalists from being detained is to not detain them,” he said.

A study by UC Berkeley researchers is leading to new evolutionary knowledge of how symbiotic species can reestablish a connection after being geographically separated.

The study — published Sept. 7 in the journal Biology Letters — focuses on leafflower trees and leafflower moths, which are mutually dependent. However, a study by UC Berkeley researchers in collaboration with the French Polynesia Terrestrial Arthropods survey and the Moorea Biocode Project found leafflower trees but no leafflower moths on 15 of the 17 islands in French Polynesia.

David Hembry, co-author of the study

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Commission: City Council has shown interest in allocating some funds to public housing repairs From Page 3 developers’ proposals and said the Related company proposed doing more rehabilitation with the funding at hand.

“Some of the things that we liked about the Related proposal was that they had more experience with what was being requested, and proposed doing more rehabilitation with increased funding,” Sawicki said.

Vincent Casalaina, chair of the commission, said the Berkeley City Council has shown interest in allocating some funds to the project out of the city’s Housing Trust Fund — which has been sustained primarily by federal funds in order to provide assistance for nonprofit developers to develop projects around Berkeley — but the Related company will be in charge of raising the majority of project funds.

“The City Council has shown an interest since they allocated $236,000 in the past in order to do roof repairs on public housing so (the housing) didn’t deteriorate,” Casalaina said. “They also suggested using additional Housing Trust Fund money in the future.”

Sims said that though the developer’s main goal is to rehabilitate current public housing units, it is possible that they will create new units after looking at the scope of the project.

“They will take a look … and if there is land available for them to improve conditions of the property (they will),” Sims said. “But initially, our proposal was to rehabilitate units and bring them up to modern standards of efficiency — mainly with the roofs, drainage, plumbing and heating.”

Anjuli Sastry covers housing.

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Some of the city’s public housing units are located on Ward Street.

The Berkeley Housing Authority aims to rehabilitate many of them.

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The city of Berkeley looks to fix up its public housing units.

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Symbiotic: Study shows species’ mutualism can be broken and reconnected From Page 7 and a graduate student in the campus Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, said these findings shed new light on the island biodiversity theory, which describes how highly specialized and dependent species would die out on isolated islands.

“It seemed mysterious,” he said.

“I thought maybe the trees had evolved.”

The results of the three-yearlong study led to the discovery that the trees did not in fact evolve but have somehow survived and repopulated without the aid of the leafflower moths. However, the moths have been able to symbiotically reconnect with the leafflower

trees on some of the islands.

“My guess is that the moths are good at getting caught in the wind and blow about, and periodically the moths and trees find each other,” Hembry said, who spent a year and a half in French Polynesia documenting leafflower trees as part of this study.

The study showed that the moths are consistently finding the leafflower trees on every island, demonstrating that the mutualism between two species can be broken and reconnected.

“I think this will force us to realize that a lot of these connections can be novel,” said George Roderick, UC Berkeley professor in the

Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management who was involved in the study.

“The connections between species are not as constrained as we were thinking. It shows us that some of these associations that we thought took millions of years to establish can form and reform if you get the right species together.”

As of now, scientists are unsure of the reason as to how the leafflower trees continue to survive without the leafflower moths, Hembry said. However, he said that an unlikely but possible explanation is that the trees are being pollinated by another species or are reproducing asexually.

The next step in the research is to analyze the DNA from the different subspecies of leafflower trees in order to reconstruct the co-evolutionary history of the leafflower trees and the leafflower moths, which will help scientists understand the process of how symbiosis between species promotes diversification, according to Hembry.

“This will be a model system in evolutionary biological research,” Hembry said. “There will be a lot of things the leafflower trees and leafflower moths will be able to teach us. This will help us understand co-evolution and symbiotic relationships.”

2020: Some say district should target gap from elementary school level From front accordingly, Furlan said.

District superintendent Bill Huyett said though the district can intervene at the high school level, he agrees that academic achievement must be targeted from the lower grades up.

With new programs looking to improve reading abilities amongst elementary school students on the horizon, the district is optimistic that 2020 Vision will achieve its goals.

“It’s not like a train that runs down the tracks and keeps going,” Sinai said. “It’s going to be an ongoing effort to refine and readjust and take what works and move it forward.”

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kuperberg: Cal has reloaded with talent, year after year, to become an elite volleyball program From Page 11 reached their first national title match.

More than numbers and records, Cal was simply the most dominant team in the country for most of the year.

“Those wins were big,” Feller said.

“Being able to sweep them for the first time was a big deal for us going into the NCAAs.” That hasn’t changed much to this year, as the club has yet to drop a set and are ranked No. 1 in the nation.

The Bears are one of six Pac-12 teams in the top-16, and among four in the top-six.

But even in a conference with a cornucopia of capable clubs, Cal is the cream of the crop.

And it seems like the squad is only getting better.

The Bears just keep on reloading.

Last year, they lost Pac-10 Player of the Year Hana Cutura and thenjunior Tarah Murrey blossomed into not only one of the best outside hitters in the conference but also one of

the best players in the country. This season they lost star setter Carli Lloyd, the national Player of the Year in 2010, and replaced her with the effective and efficient Elly Barrett — a top recruit back in 2009 — who has guided the team to a spotless record and its highest ranking in program history.

Oh yeah, Cal’s freshman class is ranked No. 6 by PrepVolleyball. com.

Stanford is not longer the team in the West with biggest target on its

back; that red circle is firmly planted on the Bears.

That’s fine with Feller’s squad.

“Stanford has an awesome team,” Murrey said, “(but) we’re going to ... go out there with the mentality that we’re going to win.

“And we’re going to do it.”

Cal isn’t just a top team; it’s a powerhouse now.

It’s more than just a Final Four squad; it has become a championship-caliber program — year in and year out.

The Bears came a few plays away from winning the crucial second set against Penn State in the national championship match in 2010 — a set that would have changed the match around and just might have given them the momentum they needed to seize the crown.

They came close.

They’ve felt the roar of the Nittany Lions for four years straight now, and the time for the Bears to bite back beckons.

The road begins tonight.

Volleyball: After losing both Big Spike matches in 2010, Stanford looking for revenge against Cal From Page 11 Cal setter Elly Barrett has spent 2011 trying to fill the role left open by the departure of Carli Lloyd, the 2010 National Player of the Year. Stanford has been looking to replace outside hitter Alix Klineman, the 2010 Pac-10 Player of the Year, and setter/ outside hitter Cassidy Lichtman, a two-time AVCA First Team AllAmerican.

Senior Tarah Murrey, who currently leads the Bears in kills with 103 on the year, claims that the squad isn’t even thinking about what happened in 2010.

“That’s last year, so we’re not at all worried about that,” Murrey said. “We just go out there and play one match at a time. You always want to step out there and say, ‘we’re number one,’ and have the confidence to play and always win.”

Though both squads are boasting flawless records, their roads into Tuesday’s matchup couldn’t be more different.

Of Stanford’s six tilts, three have been against top-25 teams, including a 3-1 win over four-time defending national champion Penn State, in which standout sophomore Rachel Williams finished with 22 kills and 12 digs.

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Of the 10 teams that Cal has faced in 2011, only three currently have winning records. The only opportunity that the Bears have had to face elite players have come in their own scrimmages against each other.

“In practice, we play very high competition in playing against each other,” Murrey said. “We have a lot of work to do, but the more practices we have and the more matches we play, we will be the best team (in the Pac-12).”

Cal will likely see the return of outside hitter Correy Johnson, who missed Saturday’s match against Georgetown due to a sore hip. The team claims that Johnson’s injury is minimal, and missing time Saturday night was just a precautionary measure.

Fatigue could potentially be an issue for the Bears, as they are currently in the midst of hosting seven home games in eight days. But having competed in four matches this past weekend, playing just one comes as a relief.

“It’s a lot easier to prepare and play just one match,” Murrey said.

“We love to play Stanford. They have an awesome team, but we’re going to go out there with the mentality that we’re going to win.

And we’re going to do it.”

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On Oct. 22, 2010, the Cal volThe Bears swept the Cardinal last leyball team went into Maples season for the first time in 31 years.

Pavilion on the Stanford campus and They won the conference crown and did more than just win a match â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the squad made a statement.

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In 2010, the Cal volleyball team took a major step in asserting its status as the team to beat in the conference by sharing the title with Stanford.

In 2011, the team will be looking to take it one step further.

The No. 1 Bears (10-0) will play host tonight at 7 p.m. to No. 2 Stanford (6-0) at Haas Pavilion in what will be the first match of the Pac-12 season for both clubs. It will be the fourth match in history that both clubs are ranked in the top-five.

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when: tonight at 7 p.m. where: haas pavilion online: dailycal.org Live blog â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s too early in the season for it to be â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;do or die,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? coach Rich Feller said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But it can set the tone for the Pac-12 start, and a victory always means a lot for that.â&#x20AC;?

In 2010, Cal swept the season series for the first time in 31 years.

Both matches went four sets (21-25, 25-16, 25-22, 25-16 at Stanford on Oct. 22 and 26-28, 25-17, 25-17, 25-20

on Nov. 19 at Haas Pavilion) But despite winning both tilts, the squad still had to share the conference crown with Stanford.

Still, Cal cites those two wins as having been a major factor in its eventual run to the national championship game. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Those wins were big,â&#x20AC;? Feller said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Being able to sweep them was a big deal for us going into the NCAAs.â&#x20AC;?

Both squads lost major contributors in 2010 due to graduation.

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At the age of 12, Tarah traveled to â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was kind of like, who was going â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be by myself playing like I was a mother says.

She also knew that she would be the St. George, Utah, to compete against to be the biggest beast in the family?â&#x20AC;? lion in the jungle or something, having â&#x20AC;&#x153;Almost broke a few windows spiklone junior on the squad with only girls one to three years older than her Barbara says. the best time by myself,â&#x20AC;? Murrey says. ing, bumping,â&#x20AC;? their father adds. two seniors, so naturally she would be in the USA volleyball circuit.

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We love to play Stanford. It’s awesome to play great volleyball players. We’re really frickin’ excited to play.”

— Tarah Murrey, on tonight’s Big Spike

Tuesday, September 13, 2011 • dailycal.org/sports

EVAN WALBRIDGE/STAFF

BEAST mode

Tarah Murrey, the Cal volleyball team’s All-American outside hitter, pushes herself athletically, physically and mentally to feast on opposing players.

By Christina Jones | Senior Staff cjones@dailycal.org

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arah Murrey went up for one of her many lethal swings on Nov. 19, 2010 in the Cal volleyball team’s match against rival Stanford.

By the time she returned to the ground, so had her defender.

It’s not unusual for a libero to fall to the floor diving for a ball. It’s not unusual for the ball to hit them on places other than their arms.

But Gabi Ailes, Stanford’s libero, got hit square in the chest, and the force of the impact sent her flying

backwards onto the gym floor.

As the Bears – and the 4,000 plus at Haas Pavilion – roared at the pure display of power, a common thought permeated the arena.

Tarah Murrey is a beast.

That was just one of 24 balls Murrey laid down that night against the Cardinal, finishing with a .356 hitting percentage against one of the nation’s best defenses to lead the Bears to their second straight win over Stanford.

That testament of her supreme athletic ability was not just contained to Haas Pavilion, or even crowds in opposing gyms. The nation became enamored with Murrey’s brute strength, pure

athleticism and crafty shot selection in her breakout junior campaign.

As the 6-foot-3 outside hitter climbed into her new role as Cal’s go-to attacker that year, Murrey’s production only continued to skyrocket. The El Cerrito, Calif., product finished the 2010 season ranked third in the country in kills per set, which earned her numerous accolades, including being named a first team All-American.

The volleyball world had discovered what Murrey often imagined she was as a child.

As a youngster, one of the future attacker’s favorite activities was lurking

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