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SAN FRANCISCO — As California entered its 77th day without a budget Wednesday, the UC Board of Regents met at the UC San Francisco campus, voicing concern about an uncertain budget that could at best leave the university with a $237.1 million shortfall this fiscal year and at worst create a $1.2 billion deficit over the next two years. During an hour-long presentation, Patrick Lenz, the UC’s vice president for budget, told board members there is no way of knowing whether in coming years the state will compensate for last year’s $637.1 million cut or for the estimated $586 million in increased costs over the next two years, which includes catching up on deferred building maintenance and increasing contributions to the employee pension system. Faced with these possibilities — but without a clear picture of what the state’s allocation will actually amount to — board members could do little more than speculate, putting off their decision of what to cut and what to keep until their November meeting. Some board members, including former chair Richard Blum, decried possible coping measures laid out before the board, including cutting 1,500 freshman seats for next fall, and at least one regent said the university should take on more “draconian” responses to the loss of funds to communicate to the state the consequences of reduced funding, though he did not offer specific proposals. “I am talking about something that we would actually be prepared to do which would put so much pressure on the legislature from the people of

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Professor Michael Eisen, center, observes a freshman seminar on genetics issues as a part of the On The Same Page Program.

“Berkeley is the perfect place for such a program ...” -Mark Schlissel, Dean of Biological Sciences

“I can’t really think of any class that’s been as controversial ...” -Robert Sanders, UC Berkeley spokesperson

Contentious DNA Project Continues by Cristian Macavei Contributing Writer

Despite months of controversy involving state legislators and critics nationwide, UC Berkeley officials kicked off this year’s ONLINE PODCAST On the Same Page Program Cristian Macavei and Monday eve- Mihir Zaveri talk about ning with a On The Same Page. lecture from campus genetics and developmental biology professor Jasper Rine that discussed the implications of genetic testing and the program’s development. Campus officials sent DNA kits to incoming students over the summer, giving them the opportunity to send the kits back and find out about their own genetic makeup. While the move attracted national media attention, the DNA results represent a small part of a greater push to educate incoming students about personalized medicine

and genetics research issues. On the Same Page, which began in 2006 and featured a lecture from renowned scientist Stephen Hawking, is part of an effort to give new students a common topic to discuss each year. While in past years the program has featured one or two expert panels on topics related to that year’s theme, this year’s program will feature four panels­­­­ ­— on topics ranging from “Direct-to-consumer DNA Testing” to “Uses and Abuses of Genomic Knowledge” — that will involve several experts, including professors from Stanford University and UCSF. Rine said that by giving students the opportunity to consider participating in the program, he and his colleagues have achieved everything they had wanted, except for delivering individual genetic information to students. “By the time the students opened the envelope and made the decision with their families — did they want to participate in this or were they nervous about it — they confronted

all of the issues we wanted them to confront,” he said. Dean of biological sciences Mark Schlissel, a principle organizer of the program, said the seminar he teaches about personalized medicine is “hardly” affected by the fact individual results cannot be returned to students. “Although it’s interesting the controversy that’s been provoked, that’s not the message of the educational program,” he said. “The message is the substance of what personalized medicine is for us as individuals and for the way society is organized.” The controversy In response to calls to abandon the program, Schlissel wrote an open letter May 24 addressing concerns about the security of participants’ genetic data and whether proper consent could be assured, among other issues. But in August, organizers informed students they would not receive their individual DNA results as planned

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Bill Allows Stadium Retrofit to Proceed by Katie Nelson and Aaida Samad

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Construction signs at Memorial Stadium caution passersby to avoid the area. The renovation of California Memorial Stadium has been allowed to proceed with a new bill that exempts it from a previous bill against fault line construction.

A new California state bill solely exempts UC Berkeley’s retrofitting and renovation of California Memorial Stadium from a current state earthquake zoning law, despite ongoing opposition from various environmental groups. While the Alquist-Priolo Earthquake Fault Zoning Act prevents buildings used for human occupancy from being placed on top of active faults, the new bill maintains an exemption for construction to the stadium, which straddles the Hayward Fault. The bill provides more specificity about exemptions to the act, as per Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s request. In October 2009, Senate Bill 113 established exemptions to the act for certain state-owned or -operated buildings, which raised concerns that the language of the bill was too ambiguous about which buildings were exempt. The new bill, Assembly Bill 2133 — authored by Assemblymember Roger Niello, R-Fair Oaks — retracts earlier exemptions under the act. According to Emily Currin, legislative director for

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Two floors of UC Berkeley campus housing were vandalized early Saturday morning in what has been identified as a hate crime, resulting in the possible targeting of a Sikh student who lives in the building. The word “terrorist” — written “a couple inches tall and about six inches wide” according to UCPD Lt. Alex Yao — was written in black marker across the door of junior Aashbir Basi’s room in the Channing Bowditch Apartments at around 1 a.m. on Sept. 11, just above a picture of the student. Basi is a “practicing Sikh who wears a mini turban,” according to his roommate, UC Berkeley junior Danny Dhillon. “Basi ... was possibly singled out by others who lived in the building based on the articles of his faith and was mistaken to be a terrorist because Osama bin Laden also wears a turban,” Dhillon said in an e-mail. “This is a common practice of prejudice against Sikhs.” The incident occurred on the third and fourth floors of the building, where “specific doors were targeted with hate speech,” according to Midhun Joseph, the campus’s resident director of apartments. At a building meeting held to inform residents about the incident Tuesday evening — which was attended by two residents and four staff members — he said white boards were “targeted and ripped down,” broken glass was found on the floors and additional graffiti was located in the stairwell. Yao said markings were found on five doors in the building, but the vandalism that included the word “terrorist” has been designated a hate crime because this word “might have been drawn or written due to the perceived ethnic background of the person living in the apartment.” Joseph added that building and UCPD officials do not know whether the crime was committed by building residents or if someone came in from outside to target specific students. Unlike some campus housing, the building does not have a security monitor. In addition to expressing surprise that the incident occurred in the first place, building resident Keenan Evans said at the meeting he was also somewhat “taken aback” by the limited emotional response to the crime throughout the building’s community. “I feel a little bit better — okay about it as time passes,” he said. “But with the residents here, it seems to be a nonchalant thing, even with my roommates, and I’m surprised about that.” At the meeting, Joseph emphasized that building and campus staff will “be checking in that affected residents and the community are getting the resources they need,” but — similar to complaints following last spring’s vandalism incidents when swastikas were drawn at Clark Kerr Campus — Dhillon said communication between the building’s management and residents has not reflected the gravity of the situation. “I feel that the building is not doing enough to address this issue,” he said in an e-mail. Sarah Springfield is the city news editor. Contact her at sspringfield@dailycal.org.

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Niello, the bill seeks to clarify the intention of SB 113. The University of California has sponsored both SB 113 and AB 2133 in order to facilitate the progress of construction on the stadium. “Absent the kind of clarification provided in this bill, we were looking at being locked up in lengthy, expensive and endangering litigation — endangering in the sense that the longer we have to wait to renovate, the greater the risks in the case of a seismic event,” said Dan Mogulof, UC Berkeley spokesperson. “Given the budgetary concerns facing the university, we had an obligation to get some clarity and reduce risk of litigation.” But opposition groups such as Save Strawberry Canyon are concerned not only with how the campus will be able to fund the $321 million project, but also how the renovation will ultimately impact neighborhood communities. According to Lesley Emmington, president of the organization, while AB 2133 was adjusted to nullify SB 113, it is continuing to undermine the safety of the communities because of the stadium’s location atop the fault. “There are many unanswered questions for Berkeley and the university,” Emmington said. “Liability questions remain unanswered, there is a lack of scrutiny, et cetera. We have no idea what we are now being subjected to. Even the city council has shut off facilitating discussion.” But Staff Director for the state’s Standing Committee on Local Government Peter Detwiler said the university has taken all necessary precautions to make sure the stadium will be in accordance with safety codes. According to Detwiler, the committee not only met with university officials to discuss the stadium plans but also spoke with city officials to ensure the plans proposed by the university were acceptable. “If you look at the bill analysis, no one is hiding the bacon,” he said. “I think it would be fair to say that Assemblymember Niello’s bill is more surgical than the exemption that was previously enacted. The wording is more clear.” Mogulof said supporters of the bill believe it is consistent with one of the act’s primary purposes — to assist in retrofitting historical buildings. “One thing the bill does not do is jeopardize health and safety,” Mogulof said. “The right thing to do is ... to make the building safe for generations to come and to preserve every attribute that has made it a landmark and one of the most beloved places on campus.”

The UC Board of Regents voted Wednesday to modify Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s security procedures for increased access to classified information under the lab’s contract with the federal Department of Energy, in order to comply with changes to the Federal Acquisition Regulation System. The lab will alter the security clearance of the laboratory director and other staff members, allowing these employees to receive information and attend classified meetings at other federally-contracted facilities, though Berkeley Lab will not be changing clearance methods on their own sites. The Federal Acquisition Regulation System is a series of guidelines that governs how the national government acquires certain types of services, in-

cluding the research Berkeley Lab conducts for the energy department. According to an action item released by the UC Office of the President, the change to the contract would grant certain lab staff access to classified facilities. “LBNL is an unclassified facility, however, the laboratory director and certain staff members have personal security clearance to receive information and participate in classified meetings at other facilities,” the action item states. E.J. Bernacki, spokesperson for Berkeley Lab, said because the lab is unclassified and does not fall under Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12, the facility’s security remains unchanged. The directive, passed in 2004, standardized employee identification for classified facilities. “We have a memo ... from the thenSecretary of Energy Clay Sell regard-

ing the HSPD-12,” Bernacki said. “It was determined that the Berkeley Lab was exempt from the program.” According to UC spokesperson Chris Harrington, modifications to the contract are fairly regular and the UC adjusted the contract in order to recognize changes in the federal regulation system. “It was a routine action taken by the Board of Regents to ensure that the current contract conforms to Federal Acquisition Regulations,” Harrington said. Berkeley Lab’s contract with the Department of Energy is slated to extend until 2015. Harrington said the quality of the lab’s work led to the energy department’s decision to continue using the lab’s services. “Since the contract was put in place, we have actually received a number of extensions due to the strong performance,” he said. Contact James Zhao and Karinina Cruz at newdesk@dailycal.org.

Homicide Prompts Need for Preventative Action by Jasmine Mausner Contributing Writer

In the aftermath of Berkeley’s fourth homicide of the year, officials and community members are searching for methods to improve safety and reduce crime throughout the city, though preventative actions are limited for indiscriminate crimes such as Sunday morning’s shooting.

Adolfo Ignacio Celedon was fatally shot while walking home from a party with his fiancee — a UC Berkeley graduate student studying architecture, major media outlets report — near the intersection of Emerson and Adeline streets at approximately 3:41 a.m. Sunday, according to a Berkeley Police Department statement. Sgt. Mary Kusmiss said in an e-mail that Celedon was shot numerous times during an intended robbery and was

pronounced dead after being transported to a local trauma center. His fiancee was also punched in the face and sustained minor physical injuries, she said. Berkeley averages between five and 10 homicides per year, according to Kusmiss. “One homicide is too many and yet, per capita it is not a high number,” she said in the e-mail.

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regents: Some Hope to Pressure State Legislature from front California that they would have to make some move,” said Regent Norman Pattiz. “Are we being too damn nice?” Additional student fee increases are also among the options that could be considered, but without a state budget in place, all decisions will have to wait until the board’s November meeting. In an interview after the meeting, Student Regent Jesse Cheng said he could understand why some regents were considering more drastic measures to address the possible looming deficit, but added that ultimately he would wait until the state had a budget to take a stance on what to cut. “I don’t want to hurt students, faculty or staff to show the state we feel pain,” he said. Because of the budget impasse — the second longest in state history — the UC is currently fronting $189 million to pay for 53,000 Cal Grant awards as well as an additional $200 million for other expenses normally funded by the state, officials said. Close to $352 million in construction projects, mostly seismic retrofits, have also been stalled

because of the impasse, Lenz said. Though both Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Democrat-controlled State Legislature have set aside $371 million in their respective budget proposals for the UC system, that amount could be reduced, Lenz said. The state has allocated $106 million in federal stimulus funds to the university and will likely reduce state funding by that same amount, he added. According to Lenz, if the state does not have a budget by the next board meeting, the system could decide to postpone their own budget decisions until January. “We have a whole wish list here, all credible, all important. We are not going to get them all,” said Board Chair Russell Gould. “So let’s start focusing on where our real priorities are ... because we are going to have to sell them, we are going to sell them like hell in Sacramento.” Javier Panzar is the lead higher education reporter. Contact him at jpanzar@dailycal.org.

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:00 a.m., Central Standard Time. The cold air conditioning rushing from the door of the tour bus pierced through the thick September humidity straight into my face, slapping away my half-awaken haze. At 17, I was the youngest new recruit boarding the bus that would take me and 40 others to the Naval Support Activity Center (NSAC) in the Upper 9th Ward of New Orleans where we were to be processed and shipped to our basic training units. I needed written permission from my parents to join the Army at such a young age, which didn’t seem like a humongous risk during a period of relative peace. But everything changed. Over the last 10 to 15 years, hundreds of thousands of young Americans have made that decision. Whether it was for a chance at a college education, a chance to serve a patriotic calling or just a chance to get away from home, these men and women have given selflessly to a cause greater than themselves. 5:40 a.m. The early days of a recruit’s life in the military consist mainly of being hurried in 19 different directions at once, only to sit and wait once you arrived at your destination. The bus deposited us at the Military Entrance Processing Station (MEPS) at the NSAC. We were searched for contraband and ushered into a waiting room of bright fluorescent lights and uncomfortable benches. We were held there while different groups were processed through the very last bit of red tape before being sent to the airport to fly to individual training sites. Over the next few hours I waited. Signed my final paperwork. Waited. Took a breathalyzer test. Waited. Took the oath that officially swore me into my new life as a soldier. Waited. The most momentous occasion of my young life was crawling along as the morning news began on the big-screen TV at the front of the waiting room.

7:30 a.m. My group was brought into a classroom where we were told we would receive our instructions for our trip from MEPS to our final destination. We were all supposed to travel to Fort Jackson, South Carolina that day and were quite anxious to leave our mundane surroundings. hen, just as the Marine sergeant started his spiel, a Navy ensign knocked on the door. After a short, hushed conversation between the two, we were instructed by the ensign to return to the waiting room. We had no idea what was happening, or why. We just followed instructions and returned to the place where we would witness our lives change forever.

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robert r king grasping what I was seeing. I knew it was New York City. I saw something was on fire. I heard reporters talking about a bomb exploding or a plane crashing. Nobody knew what was going on, yet. 8:03 a.m. The second plane crashed into the South Tower of the World Trade Center as everyone at MEPS watched. Nobody could speak after the initial cacophony of screams and gasps. Nobody would admit it, but we were all scared. Eventually the ensign told everyone that air traffic was grounded and nobody was shipping out that day. By 4 p.m. I was home. My recruiter told me in the car on the way there that, because of my age, the Army would not hold me accountable for not returning to MEPS when I was called. knew I had only one choice. Six days later, on September 17, 2001, I returned to MEPS, and by 1:00 a.m. the next morning I was at Fort Sill, Okla., ready to begin basic training. To me, September 11 isn’t about Osama Bin Laden’s hatred. It isn’t about the omissions and obfuscations of the Bush administration. It isn’t about huge mineral caches or Abu Ghraib. It isn’t about the politicization of death. To me, September 11 is about the stoic camaraderie I felt with the five other recruits on my flight to Oklahoma City. It’s about every person I met that served at least one tour in Afghanistan, Iraq or both. It’s about the gut wrenching fear that any one of them may be dead. It’s about the kid on my brother’s soccer team that walked into a booby-trapped door in Fallujah. It’s about the thousands of tears that moistened the ground at his funeral. It’s about remembering the thousands that died in the attacks and the thousands of troops that have been injured or died fighting for what they believed was a righteous cause. No matter what you did on September 11, whether you studied for a test, went to work, took a trip to the beach or protested the wars, I hope you took a moment to pay some sort of tribute to those that have given life and limb in wake of that fateful day nine years ago. For if we forget to remember them, they have given in vain.

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after the California Department of Public Health said the campus should have gotten a physician’s approval before collecting the samples and must use federal- and state-approved laboratories for the testing. State Assemblymember Chris Norby, R-Fullerton, authored a bill that would restrict or regulate similar programs at CSUs and UCs, but the bill failed in a state senate committee Aug. 11. He opposed the program due to concerns about the abuse of DNA gathering. Campus spokesperson Robert Sanders said while other scientific issues such as BP funding for the Energy BioSciences Institute have drawn considerable media attention, this program has caused more controversy than any other class UC Berkeley has offered during his twodecade-long tenure at the campus. “For one of our educational programs to get this much attention is unusual,” he said. This semester and beyond The fallout from the controversy caused professors involved in the program to reconsider their seminars’ structure. “My particular hope was that this program would get people personally

engaged in a topic that they don’t often get engaged in,” said genetics, genomics and development professor Michael Eisen. “I’m less concerned about the effect it will have on my seminar than I am on the missed opportunity for the freshman class as a whole.” Despite her misgivings about sending in her DNA samples, freshman and seminar participant Camille Enriquez said she continued with the program to learn more about the three gene variants being tested — ability to metabolize alcohol, tolerate lactose and absorb folic acid. “I just want to learn more about DNA in general and how it can incorporate more in our lives,” she said. Rine said he hopes the program’s effort to encourage people to discuss genetic issues will serve as inspiration for controversial programs in the future. “It’s going to teach us that a way of really getting the conversation going more broadly across the college is to start to think about what the more contentious and perhaps controversial issues are and to not to shy away from them because it is not our responsibility to avoid controversy,” he said. “It is our responsibility to illuminate controversy.” Cristian Macavei is the lead research and ideas reporter. Contact him at cmacavei@dailycal.org.

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homicide: Some Claim Prevention Not Effective from Page 2

The city’s first homicide of the year occurred in February, when a suspected gang member fatally stabbed a resident in West Berkeley. In the city’s second incident of the year, a resident was shot in South Berkeley in June. In July, a man was found in the driver’s seat of his car, having suffered multiple gunshot wounds, marking the third homicide of the year. Councilmember Kriss Worthington said it is important to adopt a more preventative method for police structure involving quick response and higher accessibility and visibility. But Jim Smith, president of the Berkeley Safe Neighborhoods Committee, said these types of untargeted crimes cannot be addressed on such a local level and that the city’s preventative actions might not be able to counter them in any effective way. “That’s the type of problem that has to be fought against on a larger societal basis as opposed to some of these gang related murders that could be

prevented by some action we’re taking here locally,” he said. Still, Councilmember Max Anderson participated in a meeting with Berkeley City Manager Phil Kamlarz Wednesday evening to discuss crime prevention in the city. “We are involved in many things in order to improve the social conditions on the street and make (Berkeley) an all around safer environment,” Anderson said. According to Anderson, there will be a community meeting with city representatives on Sept. 29 to give residents up-to-date information on the Celedon investigation and planned improvements for the city’s safety. “It wasn’t just the homicide that prompted this — we have been working for four to five months to improve things,” Anderson said. Stephanie Baer of The Daily Californian contributed to this report. Contact Jasmine Mausner at jmausner@dailycal.org.

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olonialism ends — check! Social tolerance dominates discourse in the media — check! The public celebrates people of all ethnicities — check! Well, that was easy enough. But despite most people’s outwardly egalitarian attitudes, an uncomfortable wariness still pervades the utopian sweetness of life in a multicultural society. As we shuffle through crowds, we collect passing impressions of faces and clothing, picking out individual strands of identity from the dense tangles of strangers we encounter daily. New to the Oakland art space 21 Grand, the exhibit, “The Other Other,” summons our subconscious social biases to its therapy couch for examination. Small in scale but not affective intensity, the interdisciplinary group show challenges the popular conceptions of “us” and “them” with its psychologically provocative contemporary photography, videos and mixed-media art. Working with a loose conception of otherness that ranges from individual strangers to colonized populations, the artists grapple with the ways we perceive the unfamiliar people around us. Each series approaches the show’s theme from the vantage point of a

different discipline. More scientifically methodical than intimate, the exhibit uproots the viewer’s intrinsic emotions rather than demanding sympathy for any single personal struggle. In this experiential vein, Kathryn Williamson’s poignant photography series “Concrete Intervention III” offers glimpses into group behavior towards perceived others. Staged on busy San Francisco crosswalks, the black and white photographs depict passersby’s reactions to the artist as she spontaneously collapses to the ground. Making the viewer privy to random individuals’ gut-level responses, the photos convey concern through body language regardless of the subjects’ race, age or gender. Williamson’s voyeuristic works evoke vicarious discomfort with their documentary-style realism. Without using dialogue, her short video “Es Muy Practica” conveys the self-consciousness of a foreigner attempting to assimilate into a culture she has not fully mastered. As the camera follows Williamson shakily balancing a bag on her head like the women in a Mexican pueblo, it becomes possible to imagine the parallel uneasiness of U.S. immigrants. “The Other Other” unsettles the viewer further with its exploration of the patronizing ways wealthy nations repair their colonial-era wrongdoings.

Combining science fiction with the abysmal reality of Third World living conditions, Eric Sanchez’s surreal digital photography series, “An-i-ma-li-a,” alters charity brochure-style scenes of children receiving Western medical aid. Questioning the portrayal of these children as helpless creatures rather than individuals, “An-i-ma-li-a” converts its subjects into unrecognizable humananimal hybrids that pitifully stare from behind fur and bulging puppy-dog eyes. JC Lenochan’s chalk on canvas series attacks cultural bias at its scholastic front, combining statue-like figures with brainstorming lists as if scrawled on a scuffed blackboard. With their realistic renderings of athletic bodies, Lenochan’s works assault contemporary morality with an outdated spectacle of race once commonplace in textbooks and popular entertainment alike. While many take multiculturalism for granted in an age of political correctness, “The Other Other” prompts the viewer to examine the ghosts of latent prejudice haunting society today. Though the dirty work of beheading institutionalized racism has mostly been done, this provocative exhibit dares us to prod the monster’s carcass to make sure it’s truly dead and won’t return. Behead institutionalized racism with Nastia at avoynovskaya@dailycal.org.

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ew Possibilities: Cinema is Dead, Long Live Cinema.� The title of British director Peter Greenaway’s lecture this past Monday at Zellerbach Playhouse, the first of two Avenali lectures sponsored by the Townsend Center, is an ambitious one. It suggests that cinema, as it reaches its apogee with nowhere else to go, has a regenerative capacity, an untapped gene previously pronounced vestigial. Like any carbon-based life, film has to die first before it can be reborn a new species. “I come from the same country as Monty Python,� Greenaway announced early in the lecture, immediately setting the stage for what would be a provocative, insightful diatribe on the state of cinema. Though his self-proclaimed “adopted country� is Holland, where apparently the Dutch go to the movies “once every two years,� Greenaway is mostly known for his British features,

beginning with “The Falls� in 1980 and the many Trojan magnum opuses that followed. Before that, he directed avant-garde shorts in the 1960s and later, a series of experimental film projects that, just like his features, continue to reject the sinews of genre. Greenaway declared cinema as we know it a mere “115-year prologue,� so of course there must be a main body and epilogue. Greenaway’s obsession with trilogies doesn’t stop there: he referred to the Trinity of fresco painting as Giotto, Michelangelo and Carracci. His interest in painting, which stems from his background as a visual artist, is made manifest in films like “The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover� (1989) where he married the mad world of Jacobin France with the oil-painted decadence and religious rhetoric of Dutch painter Pieter Aertsen’s “Butcher’s Stall with the Flight into Egypt� (1551). Throw in some sex acts that might be illegal in a few countries and you’ve got a Greenaway film. Greenaway deemed Sergei Eisen-

stein the father of cinema, where Fellini was the Oedipal son and Godard was the brilliant, crude grandson who turned the medium on its head. For America, Greenaway outlined the same trajectory with D.W. Griffith, Orson Welles and John Cassavetes. So if Godard and Cassavetes have dried up cinema’s impetus — not before leaving a legacy or two on the nightstand, of course — what happens in the morning? Greenaway, half-playful, half-serious, posited that cinema finally flatlined in the 1980s when the “remote control was introduced,� giving the audience “choice.� “Cinema as an individually perceived phenomenon is erroneous,� he said. Obviously he abhors domestic movie-watching — imagine someone in front of the TV “with a cat on their lap and a glass of cocoa in their hand� — which is strange considering his praise of YouTube and the sensory overload-inducing tickers of CNN. Even further, Greenaway decried the filmgoing experience as counter-intuitive to human physiology, a denial of

our 360-degree world when witnessed on a 180-degree, 16-by-9 screen. “What the fuck are you doing sitting in the dark? You’re not nocturnal animals!� He also took to task the “tyranny of text,� urging us to give cinema agency over literary forms, the “tyranny of the actor� (“Cinema was not created to be a playground for Sharon Stone�) and finally, the “tyranny of the camera.� In an attempt to cut cinema free from the “straitjacket of its own genre,� Greenaway screened excerpts of his unparsable short films. With classical soundtracks and archival footage, these were the kind of clips you’d send to extraterrestrials to provide a microcosmic picture of our world. It’s an entirely intellectual spectacle that may shut the layperson out. Occasionally, as in the Arnold Schoenberg-scored “Warsaw,� the films hearkened back to the polyoptic frenzy of Dziga Vertov’s “Man with a Movie Camera� (1929), one of avant-garde cinema’s founding works. Still, Greenaway’s films, intended as present tense, non-narrative cinema

on multiple screens rather than today’s standard anamorphic view, don’t quite translate on a PowerPoint presentation. Greenaway offered weighty, theoretical recourse for cinema — now crawling under the covers of its deathbed –– but it seems as if these notions are still incubating. Where does cinema go from here? Hell if I know. It’s like trying to imagine a color that doesn’t exist. But maybe that’s because we’re living in an era that isn’t finished or dried up. It’s still very much happening and waiting to have its stakes claimed. Our era doesn’t even have its own name: Postmodernism is, after all, just “after Modernism,� and even Modernism doesn’t seem so far gone from our own vantage point. If all we know about film has been a 115-year prologue, just imagine how long it will be until cinema climbs to yet another stratospheric summit. On Greenaway’s terms, the Armageddon might come first. Watch television with a cat in your lap with Ryan at rlattanzio@dailycal.org.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT The Daily Californian capitalism is that some buildings, abandoned for whatever cause of blood or money, are up for grabs to advertisers. Walking a familiar route one day, perhaps from an academic appointment to a charity engagement, or perhaps between two bars, I noticed the most enormous ad for a clothing store I had ever seen. It was for a clothing store called Moustache. Moustache: for women. It covered four sides of a building in a busy shopping area. Just try to envision the absurdity of it. Moustache moustache moustache moustache. The ad was uninspired. It featured a man and woman before a grey backdrop doing little other than standing while wearing clothes. There they were, magnified larger than any moping human ought to be magnified, towering above some clothing shop or another. No wait, it was a Moustache store. I think it was Moustache: for men. The sheer size of the thing was breathtaking. I was so taken aback by its proud erection over its store that I could have taken off my pants right then and there. So that I could go buy new pants. From Moustache. Please stop thinking about penises, you’re making me uncomfortable. Anyway. The point is, the terribleness of the ad was easily forgotten due to its sun-blocking size. Which begs the question: Why have I not learned at the ripe old age of 21 to use the expression “beg the question” correctly? Anyway. The impressively-endowed ad raises the question: Does size matter in art as in advertisement? Anyone who has visited the Louvre in Paris can empathize with the feeling of disappointment upon seeing the Mona Lisa. Yes, I know all you Da Vinci huggers will be cringing now, but at least I’ve got your mind off dicks (for once). Sure, it’s a perfect and mysterious and compelling work of art from one of the greatest geniuses in human history. Yawn! It takes half a Canadian

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our mothers and grandmothers can continue to shock and confuse today. “The Lead Shoes” is one of the film series’ earliest works, created by Sidney Peterson in 1949. Its bewildering footage cuts abruptly between shots of hopscotch, an hysterical, busty woman, chalk lines drawn in reverse and other such odd but doubtless poignant and deeply intellectual scenes. Meanwhile a woman is heard screaming out for some beloved “Edwaaaard!” Though some films like “The Lead Shoes” were rendered unintentionally hilarious by their forays into the avant-garde, others managed to combine their experimental medium with a pathos that remains affecting to this day. “Have You Sold Your Dozen Roses?”, a 1957 film from Allen Willis, Philip Greene and David Myers, transfixes with its footage of a garbage

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tourist to obscure it completely. As a child taken to France before I was old enough to appreciate it, I ditched old Lisa quickly and marveled at Jacques-Louis David’s 1807 “The Coronation of Napoleon� instead. This sixty-square-foot masterpiece requires hours to examine, announcing through its sheer size the weight of time the Ihlm rhnk :eZf^]Z <hngmr E^`Zel pbma nl' ?7>=4) .*)&.-1&1,)) 50G) .*)&1-2&+1), artist spent4<08;) on e^`Zel9]Zber\Ze'hk` every shadow and every face among the dozens. Let’s jump to the titillating present. Modern-day artist and certified crazy dude Christo once “wrapped� 11 islands off the coast of Miami with 603,850 square meters of hot pink plastic, environment be damned. Photos of the two-week event are extraordinary and How families in Africa, using stoves designed by Berkeley stunning. Lab, are at the forefront of global carbon reduction. Now reduce the size of this piece of art to, say, Mona Lisa dimensions. You have a couple square feet of pink plastic. You have a Halloween costume. SEPTEMBER 20 There is a lesson here for artists FREE ADMISSION taken straight out of the advertisers’ book. If your art sucks, go big. Size 7-9 P.M. matters.

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revelations beyond a general feeling of sixties-ness, “Schmeerguntz,� the work of Gunvor Nelson and Dorothy Wiley from 1966 features the kind of nudity that brazenly confronts societal norms to this day. Specifically, footage of a pregnant woman squatting over a toilet or a close-up of a live childbirth may not make for pleasurable viewing, but when juxtaposed with idyllic advertisements of mothers and babies, it at least confronts the social taboos on things women do when not dancing naked. While most of the short films previewed for the “Radical Light� series resorted to shock-and-awe methods of social commentary, Alice Anne Parker Severson’s 1970 “Riverbody� was a peaceful display. 87 nude, natural models of every shape and size transform into one another over the soundtrack of a quietly winding river. Perhaps it is the most radical message of “Radical Light� that something as normal and natural as the bodies of 87 normal, natural people was ever considered radical at all. Shape-shift into other naked women with Hannah at hjewell@dailycal.org.

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Bears Go South to Try and Slow Broncos in Bay Area Classic If Paul can continue his prolific scorby Gabriel Baumgaertner ing, then the Bears should have little Contributing Writer trouble dispatching the Broncos. Paul Those Northern California games, has nine points (four goals and one assist) in the team’s first four games they can always be tough. After dropping a heartbreaking 2-1 this year, including three goals in two decision to St. Mary's this past Friday at games last weekend. But for Paul, the mentality is no difEdwards Stadium, the No. 21 Cal men's soccer team (2-1-1) takes to the road for ferent, he has merely been getting another Nor-Cal tilt when it takes on results this time around. Ma^ =Zber <Zeb_hkgbZg 3D<<H “I just try to go out and out work my Santa Clara tonight at 7 p.m. at Buck Shaw Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif. It opponent for 90 minutes,� Paul said. is the first match of the two-game Bay “So far, my team has done a great job of generating chances and I have just Area Classic, an event Cal won in 2009. A traditional soccer powerhouse, been fortunate enough to get the last Santa Clara (2-2) is off to a rockier start touch on several different occasions.� Cal has already visited two hostile than usual, dropping matches to both Wisconsin and Valpraiso in early-sea- environments in Notre Dame and son tournaments. While the Broncos' Indiana this season, but Buck Shaw rough patch is not quite as shocking as Stadium is no easy place to play. Also Stanford's four-game losing streak to home to the MLS’s San Jose start its season, Santa Clara could use a Earthquakes, the stadium usually packs jolt after disappointing showings in in Bronco fans to create an intimidatboth the UC Irvine Tournament and ing environment. A program that has reached the finals of the College Cup Marquette Invitational. three different times, there is ample But those showings matter little to the Cal players. As far as they are con- Bronco pride in Santa Clara. Paul cerned, the fact that it’s a local squad describes it as a “real soccer town and will give the contest an edge just not school.� “It’s always exciting to play a team seen in other non-conference games. “There is always a rivalry when it that is right in our backyard. Its going to be a great game,� senior defender comes to local teams,� senior forward Demitrius Omphroy said. “Santa Clara Davis Paul said. “There is a real sense of always has a great atmosphere, and pride when it comes to these Bay Area night games always get the adrenaline Classics and we are really looking forrushing.� ward to defending our results from last If Friday’s thrilling loss to St. Mary’s year.� is any facsimile of what Thursday will Last year, the Bears knocked off the bring, the adrenaline will pump. Broncos and San Francisco by scores of 3-1 and 3-0, respectively to win the Gabriel Baumgaertner covers men's event. The Bears take on San Francisco soccer. Contact him at at home on Sunday. gbaumgaertner@dailycal.org. ACROSS

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Servando Carrasco is second on the team in points with four, sitting only behind Davis Paul. The senior midfielder is an important stabilizing force on both offense and defense.

Jack Wang covers football. Contact him at jwang@dailycal.org.

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SPORTS

The No. 2 Cardinal have had a somewhat predictable start to their 2010 season. Stanford has yet to lose a match or move up or down in the rankings. Considering the majority of their opponents have been at least comparable to, if not more difficult than the competition they will face in the Pac-10, the Cardinal’s early season stats give some indication of the season to follow. After tying No. 1 North Carolina, 2-2, last month, it’s questionable whether even the strongest conference teams can challenge the 2009 NCAA finalists.

In the Pac-10 preseason coaches’ poll, Oregon State, USC, and Cal all jockied for the No. 3 spot, with only an eight points separating the trio. While the Beavers were the bottom of the pack in that prediction, their season so far demonstrates consistency unrivaled by their Pac-10 opponents. The last goal Oregon State let by came almost a month ago, in a 3-1 exhibition victory over Trinity Western. The Beavers will get a better taste of Pac-10-caliber play when they take on Butler and San Diego State this weekend in the Oregon State Nike Invitiational. The Bears are something of a wildcard in this year’s conference. While their explosive offense, led by national team member Alex Morgan, has been embarrassing its opponents with obscenely large leads, those teams haven’t been comparable to the level of soccer Cal will play in the Pac-10. Still, a 0-0 tie with Santa Clara demonstrates that the Bears, with 11 new freshmen, will be able to keep up against the same level of competition. The real question about the 2010 Bears is whether the newcomers mean a difficult adjustment period or a solid foundation for a bright Pac-10 future. A fifth-place projection doesn’t exactly do the Trojans justice. But for a team that’s been jostling in the middle of the pack with Cal’s seemingly unstoppable offense and an Oregon State’s brick wall defense, USC will need to show that it deserves to rise above the pack. Wins against Auburn and Purdue show that the Trojans will remain a power in the Pac10, and they’re still retain four players from their 2007 NCAA championship squad. However, USC has done nothing to demonstrate that it poses a threat to the top half of the conference order.

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The No. 12 Bruins aren’t quite the unchallenged Pac-10 power they used to be. Last year, they misssed out on a conference title for the first time since 2002. Yet, UCLA hasn’t fallen far from the top, with 20 returners and a talented freshman class led by U-20 national team player Jenna Richmond. The Bruins have only lost to Northwestern so far this year, demonstrating that they are still a national soccer powerhouse. But UCLA hasn’t had enough undisputed success this season to ensure that other middle of the pack teams — Oregon State, Cal, and USC — aren’t a threat.

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Current Pac-10 standings, based on nonconference play this season, have Arizona State on top. That’s unexpected, given that the Sun Devils’ projected 8th place finish in the preseason coaches’ poll. Yet, their current standing is by no means unearned. Barring Stanford, Arizona State has one of the conference’s more challenging preseason slates, and the Sun Devils been doing well with it. ASU followed a 1-1 tie at No. 20 South Carolina with fairly dominant wins over Tennessee and Nebraska. But given the stiff competition in the Pac-10, the Sun Devils’ early season success will not translate into a conference titile. While the Huskies have never had great success in the Pac-10, it doesn’t mean they won’t challenge the conference’s top teams. Last year they finished conference play 3-3-3, with a 1-0 win over Cal and a tie with USC. Still, given that Washington graduated nearly half their team last year, including five starters, this year might be a difficult transition for the Huskies. Their freshman class of eight will have to continue its early production — two of Washington’s top five scorers so far are first years. These newcomers must complement veterans Kate Deines, Kellye Joswick, and Jane Mitchell to help the offense. Although their close 2-1 loss to Long Beach is now an embarrassment next to Cal’s 6-0 devastation of the 49ers, the Cougars have at least held their own against well ranked competition. A common opponent like Long Beach doesn’t necessarily say anything about how Washington State, which finished last season ranked No. 17, will do against teams like Cal. The Cougars’ 0-3 record against more competitively ranked teams such as BYU, Florida State, and Texas A&M is better indicator. Right now, it’s not looking great for Washington State Given the start of football season, it might be a bit jarring to see Oregon not completely dominating a Pac-10 sport. But European football just isn’t the Ducks’ strong suit. In a conference where the top schools have national team super stars rounding out their rosters, Oregon’s ability to compete just isn’t enough. Oregon has only had a women’s soccer program for the last five years, so the Ducks’ will need some development before they can draw comparable players. Last year, the Ducks went 1-8 in the Pac-10, and not much indicates this season being very different. Remember Oregon’s 1-8 conference record last season? The “one” in that statistic came from a 5-1 victory over Arizona. That doesn’t mean the Wildcats will experience that kind of smashing all season. Arizona has been known to slip a win in against a decent opponent, like last year against Arizona State or last weekend against Tennessee. The Wildcats are trying to revamp a program that made the NCAA tournament in 2004 and 2005. But like Oregon, making this team a Pac-10 power will take time and effort, especially since Arizona has had a longer history of losing than the Ducks.

Former Bear RBs Continue To Scamper Through NFL by Jack Wang Contributing Writer

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Shane Vereen has scored five touchdowns, three rushing and two receiving, through the first two games of Cal’s 2010 campaign. The starting running back has enjoyed success catching passes out of the backfield to complement his skills as a running back. Vereen will face a test this weekend when he lines up opposite the stingy Nevada run defense.

Friday Night Game Alters Bears’ Practice Routine by Ed Yevelev Contributing Writer

Friday's match-up in Reno has thrown a small wrench into Cal's practice schedule this week. “Everything is pushed forward a day,” linebacker Mike Mohamed said on Monday. “Your natural rhythm is kind of thrown off. Starting off this week, coach Tedford came out and told us we're not gonna be hitting as much. We still want to play fast, play hard, but we're not gonna be banging.” Sundays are typically reserved for the coaching staff to evaluate film, while the players have the day off. Instead, the coaches examined Colorado game tape on Saturday night, and the team was stripped of its rest day.

“(The coaches have been) stressing a lot to go get treatment early, whenever you can, hop in the ice tub so you can rejuvenate your body,” linebacker Jarred Price said. Mohamed was one of the Cal players taking it light and recovering. The senior linebacker sat out practice on Monday and Tuesday with a foot brace after battling through most of Saturday's game with a sprained toe. According to Tedford, he should be ready to play against the Wolfpack. Meanwhile, cornerback Steve Williams underwent surgery on Tuesday morning to repair a ligament in his thumb. Tedford was uncertain about the freshman's game status for Friday, but said that Williams will likely sport a hand brace if he plays. Preparing For the Pistol In getting ready for Nevada, the Bears have used 6-foot-5, 232-pound Brock Mansion to play the role of dual-

threat quarterback Colin Kaepernick in practice. “(Kaepernick is) really lanky, and has long strides,” coach Jeff Tedford said. “He has great speed in the open field. That's why we put Brock in as the guy today to simulate that.” The Wolfpack's signal caller commands a potent pistol attack that's by far the stiffest test for Cal's defense. Clancy Pednergast's unit, which is currently the nation's stingiest in yards allowed, faces an offense that has amassed nearly 600 yards per contest — also tops in the country. “Their main thing is getting people to do what they shouldn't be doing,” said Mohamed, whose primary role on Friday will be handling Nevada's tailback dives “Everybody has to do their particular job. When guys start trying to do too much, try to help out somewhere here when they should be out there, that's when they hit you.”

One thing the team believes will help with preparation is a new practice policy implemented this season. Unlike years past, Cal's second team offense now serves as the scout team for the No. 1 defense. “That definitely helps a lot,” linebacker D.J. Holt said on Tuesday. “The speed is almost close to what the game speed will be like. The twos are not that far from the ones, a lot of the guys who are twos also get into the game, as well. That's a great look.” Extra Points Kevin Riley on being ranked No. 24 in the USA Today poll: “It’s just a statistical fluke,” the fifthyear senior said. “If you go out there and you’re ranked it doesn’t matter. I wish we weren’t actually, but its doesn’t matter at all.” Ed Yevelev covers football. Contact him at eyevelev@dailycal.org.

USC is the school known as Tailback U, but the same could apply to Cal. Under coach Jeff Tedford and running backs coach Ron Gould, the Bears have churned out 1,000-yard rushers with mechanical regularity. The seven-year streak ended last year; Jahvid Best’s stadium-silencing fall kept him out the final four games. Shane Vereen filled in admirably, but fell 48 yards short of hitting four digits. Best is in the NFL now, busy trying satisfy Detroit Lions coach Jim Schwartz’s professed lust, but he’s not the only Bear earning a paycheck. Justin Forsett JustForsett has beat the odds before. The diminutive tailback was little recruited out of high school, eventually becoming one of Cal’s last signings in 2004. After leading the Pac-10 with 15 touchdowns his senior year, he fell to the seventh round before the Seattle Seahawks plucked him out. Now, he’s fighting for the starting spot against former All-Pro kick returner Leon Washington — himself discarded by the New York Jets after a gruesome leg fracture. However, both are still being haunted by the ghost of Julius Jones. The Notre Dame product only ponded out a meager 3.7 yards per carry and two touchdowns last season. The seventh-year veteran only avoided being cut by restructuring his contract. Jones was still trotted out for eight touches last Sunday, inching his way to

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