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Rent Board Incumbents To Face CouncilmemberEndorsed Pro-Landlord Slate in Nov. 2 Elections by Stephanie Baer Daily Cal Staff Writer

Although the Rent Stabilization Board has implemented rent control policies independently from the Berkeley City Council since the mid- Berkeley 1980s, increasing opposition to the board’s Elections pro-tenant slate has given rise to what some commissioners say is, for the first time in years, a serious attempt to disrupt the board’s progressive majority — a move that also mirrors the council’s own changing dynamics. Five current commissioners — Dave Blake, Katherine Harr, Lisa Stephens, Jesse Townley and Pam Webster — and challengers Asa Dodsworth, Tamar Larsen, Marcia Levenson and George Perezvelez are running to fill six of the board’s nine commission seats. As the Nov. 2 elections approach, a formidable opposition to the board’s protenant slate has surfaced, challenging the security of the board’s progressive majority. Mayor Tom Bates and five council members — Linda Maio, Darryl Moore, Laurie Capitelli, Susan Wengraf and Gordon Wozniak — have endorsed Perezvelez, a restaurant manager who serves on the city’s Commission on Labor and is currently chair of the Police Review Commission. Wozniak has also endorsed Larsen in addition to Perezvelez, making him the only one of the six to endorse more than one candidate for the board. Councilmembers Max Anderson, Jesse Arreguin and Kriss Worthington have endorsed the pro-tenant slate selected by the Berkeley Tenants Convention, which includes Dodsworth and the five commissioners seeking reelection. “To some degree this is positioning itself to see if the mayor and his allies on the right side of the council will be able to break the tenant majority,” Blake said, adding that the majority of the current board is allied with the progressive minority on the council. “I think (Bates) just wants to feel that he hasn’t got anybody out there who’s going to challenge him on other things.” Sid Lakireddy, president of the Berkeley Property Owners Association, said there is a more moderate force running in this year’s election that, if elected, could hold the board “more accountable.” “As an independent body, they’ve sort of created their own little playgrounds without any oversight … and that hasn’t worked,” Lakireddy said. He added that in recent years the board has created “very expensive” positions for friends, while also running a yearly surplus of almost $500,000, which he said should instead be used to improve the city’s other housing and outreach programs. According to Stephen Barton, deputy director for the Rent Stabilization Program, the board’s surplus is set

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Parking meters, such as this one across from People’s Park, are few in number in the streets around the park. The city is considering changing this current dearth in metered parking. by J.D. Morris Contributing Writer

Plans to possibly install additional parking meters around People’s Park are under discussion by Berkeley community members and city officials, with the intent to reduce crime and spark business interest in the area. Officials are in preliminary talks of increasing the number of meters around the park to limit the number of vehicles lingering on adjacent streets, which community members have said may encourage criminal activity and make it more difficult to shop in the city and on Telegraph Avenue. With retail income in the city down $200 million since 2008 — according to Dave Fogarty, the city’s economic development coordinator — and crime

in the park peaking in the past weeks, Jim Hynes, assistant to the city manager, said community members have been considering a change in parking policy around People’s Park for the past couple of months. “We’re trying to do everything we can to move people into the area,” Hynes said. “It’s really, ‘What can we do to help the business community by making it easier for people to come in?’” Currently, signs around People’s Park indicate a two-hour parking zone along its perimeter, but no meters regulate spaces adjacent to the park. Meters regulate Haste Street’s north side and Bowditch Street’s east, both of which are across the street from the park. There are no meters on either side of Dwight Way near the park.

Hynes said in an interview that it seemed “arbitrary” that meters did not surround the park. According to Roland Peterson, executive director of the Telegraph Business Improvement District, people are currently able to park their vehicles free of charge for any amount of time, a situation that has recently come to be regarded as a problem by both city and UC Berkeley staff. New meters that would limit the amount of time people would be able to leave their cars parked in the area would encourage vehicle and patron turnover, he said. But any concrete action or meter installation is still several months away, city officials said, as the city’s public works staff must first prepare a report to be considered by other departments before any plan can be formally sent to

the Berkeley City Council. “The most accurate thing to say is that it’s an idea that’s being investigated,” Peterson said, adding that he supports the consideration of such a plan. George Beier, president of the Willard Neighborhood Association and a candidate for the District 7 city council seat in the upcoming November election, said he is “fully behind” measures to reduce crime in the park, though he added that a real link between crime in the park and current parking policy would need to be investigated before taking further action. “I think that crime in People’s Park is a big problem,” Beier said. “Anything that drives new business to Telegraph Avenue is a great idea.” Contact J.D. Morris at jmorris@dailycal.org.

San Bruno Fires Hit Too Close To Home for Some Students by Samantha Strimling Contributing Writer

Though 23 miles away, the fires that hit San Bruno after a gas line 30 inches in diameter exploded on Sept. 9 felt close to home for some UC Berkeley students. The gas line that exploded in the Glenview area destroyed 37 homes, and 48 more homes experienced some degree of damage, resulting in four confirmed fatalities and at least 66 injuries. The city is in the process of removing debris, and a local assistance center with PG&E and American Red Cross personnel was set up to provide services to victims. “It was more scary than anything,” said UC Berkeley senior Kevin Hui. “My house was four blocks away, and my family could see the flames from home because they were so high.” Though Hui’s house and family were unharmed, the house of a classmate who he went to school with for eight years was completely destroyed, and her father was hospitalized for third-degree burns. Other students with roots in San Bruno also said that while their families were unharmed, friends’ houses were destroyed or damaged. Sophomore Sam Richman, whose first home was three blocks away from where the fire hit, said one of his brother’s friends lost her mother and sister, as well as her house, in the fire. Also, the homes of three of Richman’s family friends were destroyed. Richman said he first found out about the fire when he saw the entire neighborhood go up in flames on the television and was immediately concerned about the many homes of his

classmates from St. Ignatius College Preparatory High School, a private school in San Francisco where many students from San Bruno go to school. “It was obviously very scary,” he said. “I didn’t know which of my friends in San Bruno could possibly be affected. I didn’t know if it would start a wildfire. I didn’t know if it would stop. There was a lot of phone calling.” Richman said losses from the fires were especially difficult for St. Ignatius after the deaths of alumna Jill Costello, a Cal women’s crew squad coxswain who died from cancer in June, and Kendra Fallon, a UC San Diego sophomore who died from a plane crash in August. Richman plans to donate to the school’s clothes and food drive to help the fire victims while they are out of their homes. Senior David Bautista, who grew up and attended Capuchino High School in San Bruno and had one friend lose his house in the fire, said the school hosted a dinner the night after the fire to provide food for the victims. The San Bruno community also hosted a fundraising festival Sunday, which Bautista attended, and the recreation center also collected donations, which senior Katie O’Connell — who commutes every day to UC Berkeley from her home in San Bruno — helped sort the day following the fire. Still, some students felt limited in their ability to respond. “I wish I could be involved,” Hui said. “If I was home, I would call friends and try to get stuff together, but I feel I can’t do anything from Berkeley.” Contact Samantha Strimling at sstrimling@dailycal.org.

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Raudel Wilson, Kris Hermes and Amanda Reiman (left to right), members of the Medical Cannabis Commission, met Thursday to discuss the application process for permits.

Medical Cannabis Commission to Develop Standards for Permits by Gianna Albaum and Mary Susman In light of the Berkeley City Council’s proposed ballot measure to create seven new “cannabusiness” facilities, the Medical Cannabis Commission — which will likely be reconstituted under the measure — met Thursday to develop a comprehensive rubric to evaluate applications for facility permits. In July, the council placed a measure

on the November ballot that would allow for six 30,000-square-foot cannabis cultivation facilities and a fourth dispensary within the city. Anticipating a flood of applications, the council asked the commission to develop a set of standards by which it could evaluate applicants. Kris Hermes, a commission member and spokesperson for Americans for

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Turkeys and Temporary Restraining Orders Members of the UCPD and Berkeley Police Department took to their bicycles this week to raise money to buy 500 turkeys. But what are they going to do with all those turkeys? Find out on the news blog. Also, some news that will make you think twice about a certain counselor at Berkeley High.

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Correction Friday’s article “Grad Student Group Policy Would Change Funding Rules” incorrectly stated that the Graduate Assembly voted that the executive board’s decision over the summer to alter student group funding policies was “unlawfully imposed.” In fact, the assembly debated a resolution stating the summer decision was in violation of assembly bylaws but did not approve it.

New Candidate Alzheimer’s Drug May Enhance Learning Backs from front by Jessica Gillotte Contributing Writer

A drug currently used to lessen the effects of Alzheimer’s disease may soon be able to aid healthy adults in perceptual learning, according to a study by UC Berkeley researchers. In the study, published Sept. 16 in the science journal Current Biology, UC Berkeley researchers Michael Silver and Ariel Rokem found a link between the use of the Alzheimer’s drug donepezil and improved attention and memory in adults not affected by the disease while the subjects performed a specific task. Donepezil, a drug often prescribed to Alzheimer’s patients, raises the level of one of the brain’s signaling molecules — called acetylcholine — by destroying the enzyme that inhibits its longevity. “Acetylcholine is involved in many

different processes in the brain including voluntarily devoting focused attention to a particular portion of the visual field when you know something important might appear in that location,” Rokem, a postdoctoral fellow at the campus Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute and lead author of the study, said in an e-mail. Twelve subjects participated in the study, which had them take a 5-milligram dose of the drug during the first round of five-day courses and a placebo during the second round about two weeks later. After each round of courses, the subjects took a test that measured perceptual learning by reporting whether two sequentially presented fields of moving dots were proceeding in the same direction. “Perceptual learning is the ability to get better at a particular perceptual

discrimination with practice,” Silver, an assistant professor at the School of Optometry and the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute and the study’s principle investigator, said in an e-mail. “With practice, anyone can improve their ability for a given perceptual discrimination, but in our experiments, subjects taking donepezil during practice show about twice as much improvement in perceptual ability compared to subjects practicing under placebo.” Silver noted that the study only revealed an improvement in attention in the specific task that the subjects were given, and more research is needed to determine whether the drug would enhance performance in other tasks. “One analogy is a fruit inspector who becomes very good at discriminating small differences in the colors of red

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aside for disaster relief, software upgrades and other special projects that are not implemented on a regular basis. “Everybody runs a surplus ... because by law you have to,” Blake said. “We have a very prudent surplus, and … any government runs a considerable surplus to make sure if you screw up, you don’t have to go borrow money.” Since the state-mandated CostaHawkins Rental Housing Act of 1995 established a system of “vacancy decontrol” to ensure property owners could align rates with market values at the time of vacancy by a tenant, major policy debates have been virtually eliminated, and the presence of a prolandlord slate — which typically leans toward the center or the right of Berkeley politics — has been nonexistent. “We’re a body that’s put into place to ensure that there is some sort of economic justice in city government ... we have to lean to the left,” Townley said. Though Perezvelez said he has been told he is not “progressive enough,” he added that the pro-tenant slate should not necessarily be defined as the “progressive” candidates, since the CostaHawkins act in many ways eliminated the need for a pro-landlord slate. “The whole thing about who’s progressive and who’s not ... is extremely problematic,” he said. “The issue should be how do we, Democrats or Greens, liberals or progressives … get together and have viable discussion to move things forward.” He also said the board should no longer only be defined along pro-tenant or pro-landlord lines and should instead represent the city’s different communities that cannot be so easily divided into the two categories. “There is a disconnect between the rent board and minority communities in the city, and ... it needs to be diverse, and that’s one of the major things I’m running for,” Perezvelez said. “The diversity of elected officials is what makes us real — it’s what makes Berkeley real.” Noor Al-Samarrai of The Daily Californian contributed to this report. Stephanie Baer is the lead city government reporter. Contact her at sbaer@dailycal.org.

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We’re Virtually Friends

riend (n.) — a person attached to another by feelings of affection or personal regard. It took him a few seconds and sips to find the courage to ask that certain forbidden question. To cross a line that is hardly discussed but is frequently felt. “Why didn’t you accept me?” “I don’t know what you’re talking about.” “My friend request. I sent it to you like a month ago.” “I-I don’t go on my Facebook very often, so I didn’t get a request.” “But you just changed your profile picture two days ago!” He pointed across the party. “I saw it on her page!” Yes, he went there. Now, I’ve never believed in the “awkward turtle” gesture, feeling that pointing out how uncomfortable a situation is will inevitably make it considerably worse. We didn’t need it anyway — the moment was already bad enough. All we could do was stare at each other in silence for a good twenty seconds. You see, we both were caught in our own very inane and shallow traps. Now he knew that I had deemed him unworthy of mere Facebook friendship, which he took as the insult of insults. And now I had a very creepy idea of how much time he spent on the computer looking up trivial information about people he hardly knew. Suddenly, we both knew far too much about the each other because we knew how the other one behaved on the Internet. Which is far too intimate a knowledge for people who are barely acquaintances “IRL.” The Internet creates a digital distance that can dramatically change our behavior. Some people with more time to reflect about what they are saying and how it might be perceived act in a manner that is very formal, composed and polite online. This is how the quiet, vaguely aggressive guy in your group project can come off as a charming and well-informed gentleman in e-mails only to switch back to his douchy self in person. Even worse, I’ve seen this happen to roommates who secretly hate each other but choose only to communicate cordially and digitally to set a record for a potential lawsuit. hen there’s the other extreme, where someone who seems normal and well-adjusted in real life uses the Internet as a playground for the id, where they can indulge their secret wishes while feeling little or no criticism. This is how a seemingly mildmannered and virtuous person can swiftly become very forward with their messages, demands and pictures taken. Of course, that last part could just be attributed to the ubiquity of Photoshop. And while most of us probably don’t have two outrageously different identities we switch between depending on our proximity to eye contact, we are nevertheless encouraged to behave very differently on the Internet and redefine the terms of our relationships with each other. Many of us add almost anyone we can on Facebook, ranging from some girl met while drunk to the grad students in charge of our grades. And it

pauline horcher works. None of this feels that weird — at least, not as weird as it would be to have a conversation with these people face to face. Sometimes, like the old-school AIM buddy list, the “Friends” category exists mainly to collect people, to quantify popularity and to gather information for the sake of stalking. While this might seem extreme or even stupidly unnecessary, I doubt that most of us would call every member of our list a “Friend” in the real world sense. A more accurate organizing label would be “People I Have Probably Met” with subcategories like “Childhood Chum,” “Work Peers,” “Relatives,” “Celebrities,” “Enemies,” “Old StudyGroup Members,” “Exes,” “Former Roommates,” “Not Sure” and, of course, “Associates I Care About and Would Like To Talk With On a Regular Basis.” You know, friends! ow, you might be a pretty normal person in everyday life. You’re humble, kind-hearted and polite, meaning you probably don’t talk about yourself very much. But by opening a laptop, you can have another identity with a much larger group of Friends, one where you are a picture of you at your best, where you demonstrate your impressive selfesteem by displaying your myriad interests, quotes that you guide your life by and your religious and political views. You are free to announce your feelings, whether they are angsty or humorous, to everyone you know. Your Friends care, comment and figuratively laugh aloud with a thumbs up. How gratifying! The problem, as I opened with, is when this self hits your real self — it can be very awkward to be confronted with the other person you’ve been. If you still have any doubts about this, find an acquaintance you are also Facebook friends with. Now, print out their “About Me” section and read it aloud to them. You’re probably not going to get very far, especially if you get the point where you remind them that they claim to like “the mini heart attack you get when you miss a step going down the stairs.” What would happen if we considered all the people on our Friends list every time we updated our statuses, posted our pictures and sent out an invite? If we’re lucky, we can make it just as uncomfortable as real life.

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Safe Access, said the proposed two-tier process — whereby applicants send the commission a letter of intent and then a certain number are invited to submit complete proposals — was intended to help “weed out” unfeasible proposals, adding that creating a fourth dispensary would open a “Pandora’s box” of applicants. Though Thursday’s meeting was largely a brainstorming session, Amanda Reiman, a commission member and research director for Berkeley Patients Group, said she expected next month’s meeting to yield a rubric for the council. Commission member Jorge Galan suggested that the rubric evaluate the viability of applicants’ plans. “(Applicants) can promise the moon,” he said at the meeting. “How are they actually going to implement the plans?” The commission is also considering

using a point system to rate applicants in several designated categories such as quality control, safety and environmental sustainability. Reiman said she and Wendy Cosin, deputy planning director for the city, will review their notes and come to the next commission meeting on Oct. 21 with a summary and clarification of Thursday’s discussion. The recommendations the commission brings to the council are not binding and may be undermined as current members can be superseded if the ballot measure passes, especially since the commission now largely consists of “cannabusiness” representatives and medical marijuana activists. In a June interview, Mayor Tom Bates likened the makeup of the commission to “the fox guarding the henhouse.” The ballot measure would bring the commission under the city’s purview, requiring that each of the nine commission members be appointed by a council member.

Though the new commission will continue to have two dispensary representatives, Hermes said it was not clear how much of the membership would stay the same. However, Reiman said the change was merely an attempt to include more voices in the development of local cannabis policy, adding that she supports the reconstitution of the commission. “They’re just evolving the commission into what other city commissions already are,” she said. Hermes said the change would grant the city more control than before because the council would not only choose the members of the commission, but also select the recipients of the licenses. “Hopefully (we can develop) a set of recommendations based on a meritrating system that will help guide city council members in making what is hopefully an objective and not subjective decision on who gets licensed,” he said. Contact Gianna Albaum and Mary Susman at newsdesk@dailycal.org.

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apples,” Silver said in the e-mail. “This perceptual learning for color discrimination of red may not generalize to discriminating colors of green apples.” Ahmad Salehi, a clinical associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University, said in an e-mail that the study is immensely important in helping researchers understand the role acetylcholine plays in the cognitive processes of both healthy people and people with the disease. Although the effects of donepezil are very beneficial to specific tasks involving visual perception, Silver notes that “it is far too early to say how donepezil

may be used in the general population in the future.” According to Aaron Seitz, UC Riverside assistant professor of psychology, this is the first study to make a direct link between acetylcholine and visual perceptual learning in humans. “This research shows promise,” he said in an e-mail. “With more detailed studies, acetylcholine can be used to help optimize learning procedures to produce better and greater learning effects in people with sensory and learning disabilities as well as in the general populations.”

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ompulsion,” the first production of the Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s 2010-2011 season, depicts one PHOTO SLIDESHOW Sid Silver (ManCheck out more shots dy Patinkin) in his attempts to from Berkeley Rep’s publish Anne ‘Compulsion’ online. Frank’s “The Diary of a Young Girl” and adapt it for the stage. Mesmerized by Anne’s hopeful prose and steadfast courage, the erstwhile writer devotes and sacrifices his professional life to championing her work. Silver comes up against obstacle after obstacle: Unsympathetic editors, mean lawyers and anti-Semitism. As the play

unfolds it becomes apparent that the biggest hurdle is his own paranoia. The literary bigwigs and attorneys are unhelpful politicos, a bit cartoonish at first. But Sid’s devotion to telling Anne’s story becomes an unhealthy obsession, one that torpedoes his career and threatens to sink his marriage. Silver speaks with Anne Frank about his mission, her writing and the terror she witnessed. Speaking to dead teenage girls might seem laughable in another context, but here it’s a touching look into a troubled man’s mind. The play uses marionettes to represent Anne and her family as Silver recollects some of the diary’s most moving scenes. A group of puppeteers expertly bring Silver’s dream to life. All four actors lend Anne a voice, each distinct, but each also full of whimsy and hope. Although she’s not the star of the show,

Anne provides rays of optimism. The play is full of jokes, not all of them funny, but I’m not sure playwright Rinne Groff is going for guffaws. At first the neurotic Jewish jokes have a charm to them; Patinkin comes off as something between Woody Allen and Lewis Black. It becomes increasingly apparent that his neuroses and fears are sad rather than funny. Silver is a perpetual victim of others’ bigotry, both real and perceived. Some jokes are actually recycled from “Annie Hall,” which suggests the writer wanted to evoke stereotypes instead of laughter. One of the better gags is Silver mistaking various WASP-y editors for the same person, a biting dose of “reverse racism.” Patinkin is spectacular in “Compulsion.” He perfectly balances the affability and grotesqueness of the obsessive Sid Silver. He has a rare gift to

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command and terrify a room with his shouts, and then lull/pacify the crowd with soft lyrical adulations of Anne Frank’s work. That skill — to repel and attract an audience simultaneously — is crucial to the success of the work. Groff plays with narrative voice in the play, giving a peek into her main character’s head. We see his madness firsthand: His jokes and paranoia are identifiable, his obsession admirable, and his terror is capable of producing boatloads of empathy. The reality of his obtuse methods (litigation) seems noble at first, insane towards the end. Silver slowly morphs into a monster, showing that even a good cause can be undone by too much passion. “Compulsion” is a horrifically interesting character study. Although Silver never hid in an attic or entered a death camp, the Nazis have scarred him irre-

vocably. The crimes of Auschwitz have driven him mad with fear and disgust. Anne’s diary becomes the only reassurance of hope for man’s redemption. However, investing his entire soul in this figure can only result in disaster. “Compulsion” is deft, smart and terribly sad. However it suffers from a slow second act, which has many redeemable moments but lacks a driving force. But maybe it’s a bit truer to life in that respect, as Silver wastes away and gradually confronts his problems. Regardless, it’s a fantastic script paired with a powerful turn from a Broadway great. (Another reason to see it: You can brag about seeing it first next year when it wins a bunch of Tonys in New York.) Make early Tonys predictions with Derek at dsagehorn@dailycal.org.

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ost of the time, music just sounds like music. It doesn’t need to conjure up the image of a bowl of oranges or depict a dramatic conversation in the way that figurative painting, film, or literature all need to refer to something beyond themselves. Unlike these and many other art forms, music doesn’t need to represent anything. It’s a purely abstract medium. Music just needs to be musical. But of course, music can sound like something beyond itself. Debussy’s “La mer” sounds a lot like the rising and falling of a swelling sea. Brian Eno’s Another Green World features songs like “Little Fishes” and “Sombre Reptiles” that actually sound like swimming and slithering creatures from some alien ecosystem. Thelonious Monk’s “’Round Midnight” accurately captures that tenuous hour when today turns into tomorrow. San Francisco’s Tamaryn falls firmly within this tradition of representational music. When the duo (comprised of the eponymous chanteuse and guitarist/producer Rex John Shelverton) released their first full-length album last week, they aptly titled it The Waves. The nine heavily textured songs undulate, crash and recede just like waves breaking on a rocky beach. Rex’s fuzzy, reverb-drenched instrumentals suggest a scene, whether it’s the ocean (“The Waves”), a dry windy desert (“Sandstone”), or a colorful underwater reef (“Coral Flower”), and Tamaryn’s atmospheric lyrics and willowy vocals complete these vivid landscapes. During a phone interview, Tamaryn elaborated on the use of landscape in her songs, saying, “They represent external and human internal emotional landscapes.” To explain what she aims for in creating musical landscapes, she brought up the work of German director Werner Herzog. “The kind of thing

I’m talking about is really captured in ‘Aguirre, The Wrath of God,’” she said, referencing Herzog’s 1972 film, which follows a 16th century conquistador as he and his crew travel down the Amazon River in search of El Dorado and increasingly lose their sanity. Tamaryn’s way of wiggling into the listener’s subconscious and manipulating their mental imagery may be a skill learned from her upbringing. She was raised by her mother and godmother, both non-normative psychologists. The former founded one of the first primal scream centers in Northern California, the latter’s work focusing more on Jungian archetypes and emotional intelligence. She spent her formative years in New Zealand, where her mother and godmother ran a homeless shelter, until she permanently moved to the United States at age seven. This early exposure to psychology formed the way Tamaryn would later approach music. “I was raised by really far-out people that have really far-out ideas and it’s affected me,” said Tamaryn. “I have my own personal mythology and my own personal symbolism or connection to symbolism and that comes out in the lyrics for sure.” More recently, she’s worked for her uncle, a psychiatrist in San Francisco. But she remains hesitant to stretch the connection between her family’s psychological interests and her music. “I didn’t start a band to talk about psychology,” she claims. Yet traces of dark, subconscious forces seem to figure strongly in her husky yet breathy vocals. Tamaryn is a San Francisco transplant, still somewhat new to the foggy peninsula. Before heading west, she lived in New York City for nine years, where she worked in record stores, clothing stores, bars, and avant-garde music venues, establishing strong ties in the local rock scene. She and Rex would collaborate whenever their paths happened to cross or by longdistance communication. But after re-

leasing 2009’s EP Led Astray Washed Ashore, Tamaryn says she came to “realize that I was not going to find anybody else that was a better match for me than him.” She packed up and moved to San Francisco to work on what would become The Waves. And San Francisco, as another kind of landscape, also shows up in the music. “The beauty of it was a big inspiration,” says Tamaryn, “but also for me it was kind of a lonely place because I came from being in New York for nine years … The fact that I didn’t really know many people here and spent a lot of time alone really affected the record.” “San Francisco is a weird place,” muses Tamaryn. “It’s really beautiful and it has a lot of atmosphere to it, but it’s also a dark place,” she says, describing how the city’s drug culture can often lead to burning out. This mixture of beauty and desolation pervades The Waves, and similarly informed the group’s hometown performance last Wednesday at the Elbo Room in celebration of their album’s release. Rex may have been the first person to walk onstage and the last to leave, making his elusive guitar stylings the dominant force driving the music, and the bassist and drummer may have held down a solid, gritty bedrock with admirable stage presence, but really, the three dudes on stage were ultimately Tamaryn’s props. Waifishly thin, broodingly pale, languidly waving her spidery limbs to her bandmates’ wall of sound, she sported all black attire and fire engine lipstick, delivering her hazy siren song vocals with dramatic flair. She oozed just the right mixture of disdain and allure to keep the audience intrigued. She seemed to make more than a few fans that night at the cramped, dimly lit venue. And with music as compelling as hers, it’s hard to imagine that San Francisco will be a lonely place for Tamaryn much longer. Steer a ship through the swelling seas with David at dwagner@dailycal.org.

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Farmers’ Market Tries New Approach by Justin Bolois Contributing Writer

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erkeley is a city whose social fabric is held together by its local enclaves, DIY enthusiasts and, of course, eco-friendly food distributors who make their homes in Berkeley’s thriving farmers’ markets. And it is especially these markets that encourage active community engagement, providing the cultural paste to join independent outlets to the greater development of the community. But with three prominent Berkeley Farmers’ Markets stationed at Center, North Shattuck and Derby, is there room for another one? Does the cultural paste need another adhesive element? Co-founders Isaac Cronin and Julia Fry think so. For the past 14 Saturday mornings, at the corner of San Pablo Avenue and Virginia Street in the Berkeley Adult School parking lot, the Beehive Market has re-conceptualized what a farmers’ market could be and how it could function. Its official opening took place this past Saturday, launched by a heartfelt speech from City Councilmember Darryl Moore and culminated with a lively performance by rock band Grand Lake. Sure, it has green, local sustainability stipulations for its vendors, but where else can you find recycling outposts to discard decrepit electronic equipment, purchase hand-tailored bike apparel, listen to local Berkeley bands and engage in epicurean delights like pupusas and artisanal sauerkraut? “Other markets only sell food, but we’re a greenconsumer project,” notes Cronin, who in the ’80s worked in marketing for organic food and green transportation. The idea of transforming the typical farmers’ market into a holistic social gathering was conceived about a year and a half ago by Fry, whose bio-botanical laundry detergent was continually ignored by other local farmers’ markets. Fry briefly saw an opportunity for a green pop-up store on Shattuck, but after that fell through, she looked to West Berkeley — a neighborhood to which many markets have ventured, full of promise, but have left empty-handed. “We’re trying to change behavior in an area that hasn’t had a stable farmers’ market in almost 30 years,” said Fry. Her complaint was that many other farmers’ markets fell short of promoting a fully integrated green lifestyle, focusing on food production but excluding other important green domestic services. The Beehive supplies customers with 30 to 40 vendors, including big names like Scream Sorbet

and Soul Food Farm, that appear in a rotational shift each week, allowing new businesses and neophyte entrepreneurs to test their product. This dynamic offers what co-founder Steve Goldin describes as a setting for “incubation.” UC Berkeley student and compost distributor Jerry Gorin, a friend of mine, recognizes this relationship as a viable opportunity. “The Beehive seemed like it was at a level of progress I was at,” says Gorin. “I was starting out with something completely new and educating people about it, while the Beehive was also trying to expand the credo of what a farmers’ market can be. Typically students don’t have the capital or experience to open a store immediately, but for someone who has a hobby or strong desire, the Beehive is a place that will embrace you.” One of the most distinctive aspects of the Beehive’s makeup is its fall concert lineup, curated by UC Berkeley student and NPR contributor Will Butler, also an acquaintance. Unlike the ukulele fondling or hippie yodeling one might find at the Center market, the Beehive navigates in an entirely different direction, culling local independent talent from all over the Bay Area, such as Emily Jane White, Man/Miracle and promising new acts like You Are Plural. “I don’t know of any place in Berkeley where you can go on a weekly basis and see a great band for free,” says Butler. “I think that the northwest San Pablo corridor is an awesome area and is a safe and more vibrant strip than most students would imagine it to be. And yet it’s still largely un-trafficked by the university population. Many of these bands have received serious critical acclaim, but they’re still our local boys (and girls).” Although in its nascent stage, the Beehive features ambitious projects like its underground dining program, offering a four-course meal every Tuesday in conjunction with a local winery, and is already hoping to expand the quantity of available vendors. Cronin, who attended UC Berkeley during the Free Speech Movement, understands Berkeley’s receptivity to new ideas and hopes that the community will come to appreciate this new model. In broadening the concept of a farmers’ market, Cronin and company are pushing for progress, a place of congregation rather than stop-and-shop curiosity. And who could ever complain about that? Keep away from ukelele fondling and hippie yodeling with Justin at jbolois@dailycal.org.

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really don’t know how anyone could kick me out of a band. I’m like, the perfect bandmate,” says Heather Fedewa, with an air of pseudo-stupefaction. “It’s a mystery to me, at least.” The Oakland inhabitant and frontfemme of fuzzy foursome Wax Idols doesn’t have to wonder what it might be like to have a band give her the ol’ heave-ho. She knows — a few times over — how the process goes. The 22-year-old was “too serious” for Hunx and His Punx (“I’m moody and they all have a party-thing,” she explains) and the wrong kind of metaphorical fish to share the proverbial pond with the rest of Bare Wires, both Oakland staples who’ve given Fedewa the boot. But like Momma said, things always work out for the best. “I just kept getting kicked out of shit,” she explains. “I was like, ‘Damn, this sucks. I need to stop being in other people’s bands.’” It was enough of a realization to turn her oncesolo project into a full-fledged band (with Ashley Thomas, Paul Keelan and Courtney Gray rounding out the group) sometime last year. Wax Idols, who play at Rickshaw Stop in San Francisco tonight, was the result. The band’s sound is a bit too corporeal to rightfully claim their self-applied MySpace “post punk” tag, and despite well-defined melodies, “pop” seems like it’s missing a qualifying adjective. But paired with their other label, “hyphy,” it’s hard to imagine they take pre-determined descriptors to heart. Noisy but focused, the band creates tight bursts of jangly abandon almost entirely under Fedewa’s direction. The multi-instrumentalist also plays drums in Lilac (who, along with Hunx and His Punx and Frankie Rose & the Outs, will share the stage with Wax Idols at Rickshaw) and “everything” in Blasted Canyons, but she has complete control over everything in Wax Idols, going as far as comparing herself to a well-known dictator. Thus far, she’s written and recorded everything on her own, and while a more textbook band relationship is developing, being the head honcho ain’t too shabby. “It’s kind of cool to be able to be like, ‘Nope, you can’t play it like that, I don’t care what you say. No,’” she says laughing. “That’s what really does it for me.” Fedewa, a Michigan native, landed

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n case you were wondering, Joaquin Phoenix is still here. Not that anyone cared where he went in the first place. Since the premiere of the Casey Affleck-directed mockumentary “I’m Still Here,” Phoenix has gone from has-been to I-don’t-want-toknow-where-this-guy’s-been. When Phoenix announced on the “Late Show with David Letterman” back in 2009 that he’d forgo acting in pursuit of a hip-hop career, nobody took him seriously. If you did, you were most likely asleep under a very large boulder while all of pop culture flew by overhead. Things were already getting weird even before the “Letterman” lampoon. In 2006, Phoenix was pulled from the driver’s seat of his flipped car — you might guess with a BAC higher than his Rotten Tomatoes score — by one Werner Herzog. Since Phoenix’s downward spiral began, he has created some kind of personal meta-narrative about show business and its stultifying effects. But the fact remains that, at least for “I’m Still Here,” everything has been staged. Phoenix has been operating on a certain trajectory from the beginning and, once Casey Affleck confirmed this after the movie’s release, everything up to this point is rendered totally embarrassing — if it wasn’t embarrassing enough already. Phoenix’s stunt is contrived, to say the least. That beard alone is enough to discredit an otherwise solid, sometimes great body of work. Let’s have a moment of silence for the Joaquin Phoenix of bygone days: The nebbish Joaquin of “Two Lovers,” the half-baked studmuffin of “Walk the Line,” the alien-ass-kicking-baseballwielding Joaquin of “Signs” and even that little shit in “Gladiator.” However, if “I’m Still Here” were directed by Werner Herzog, I’d reconsider my position. —Ryan Lattanzio

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in Oakland a few years back when a lack of cash money determined that the California city would be the final destination of her travels. As rooted as her band is in the East Bay, she’s blunt and detached, but not distant, when it comes to describing her home base. “Oakland is fucked up. There’s gang wars and crazy violence and depression and people are poor and shit,” she says, desensitization almost showing itself off. “It’s kind of scary.” However, the surroundings provide fodder, negative or not, for her personal outlook and musical output. “I guess I’m kind of pissed all the time and maybe part of it is because of that kind of stuff.” Based on her track record, it’s hard to imagine Fedewa settling into a musical routine that’s written in stone, but this doesn’t mean that the future of Wax Idols hangs in the balance. “We haven’t played that many shows, but

I think we’re pretty good.” There’s a nonchalance in her tone that suggests either disinterest or disbelief, but in either case Fedewa recognizes that she’s got something good going on. “People seem to like it. It’s been really fun and all of my friends have been really supportive and shit. Everyone in my band is awesome. It’s just cool.” Bryan Gerhart is the lead music critic. Contact him at bgerhart@dailycal.org.

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Dougherty’s Goal Upsets Cardinal in Cal Upset dinal tallied a total of 16 fouls in the first half alone. Six minutes before halftime, Stanford’s Courtney Haldeman ended the scoreless struggle with her second goal of the year by firing home a loose ball. The 1-0 lead was short-lived. Forward Lauren Livingston scored her second goal of the season to tie the game 1-1 going into the break. The second half was even more foulridden than the first. Both squads committed 11 and 12 fouls, respectively, and both managed only four shots each. Despite the number of fouls called, the Bears continued to work toward the elusive tiebreaking goal. “We made it a point not to let officiating get in the way,” Cal head coach Shellie Onstead said. With only ten minutes left, Onstead’s team earned a corner that would prove to be the turning point of the game. Freshman Shannon Elmitt dished the penalty stroke to Deanna Kennedy, who assisted Claire Dougherty for the

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The Cal field hockey team entered the weekend seeking retribution for last season’s 4-2 loss to Stanford, and got it. A 2009 defeat denied Cal its Field hockey first top seed in Cal 2 the NorPac tourna- Stanford 1 ment in four years. On Sunday, the Bears toppled the No. 16 Cardinal, 2-1, at Varsity Turf in Stanford. In a contest between two high-scoring offenses, Cal (4-4, 3-0 in the NorPac) matched Stanford shot for shot and outcornered the Cardinal (5-2, 2-1) 6-1 in the first half, but neither found the cage until a few minutes before halftime. Stanford tested Bears keeper Maddie Hand early, recording three shots on goal within the first three minutes. After the opening minutes, however, play bogged down. Fouls committed by each team picked up; Cal and the Car-

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yevelev from back The Bears’ thumping of UC Davis and Colorado may have given the Cal Student Store and Mario’s La Fiesta more customers and accelerated the end of Dan Hawkins’ forgettable tenure in Boulder. What that early-season cupcake feast didn’t do is douse those burning concerns. 497 Nevada yards and three Riley interceptions later, the questions were met with a resounding “no.” When it mattered most against the Wolf Pack, Cal’s quarterback hardly looked like the conference’s most experienced (and winningest) active signal-caller. All three of Riley’s picks occurred in Nevada territory. A delay of game penalty in the final period turned a fourth-and-4 into fourth-and-long, which the Bears failed to convert. After a final interception into the arms of Duke Williams, Riley’s brimming offseason optimism devolved into unbridled frustration. “(Coach Jeff Tedford) asked me

what I was doing and I said ‘Obviously I forced the damn ball’,” Riley said. Meanwhile, a defensive unit that made so many plays earlier in the year started to give them up instead. After preaching discipline and sure tackling throughout the week Cal’s defense found itself repeatedly caught off-balance and out of position. A unit that prided itself on dictating the opponent’s offensive gameplan continually found itself at the mercy of King Kaepernick. For the third straight September, the Bears must regroup quickly after another fast start was derailed in embarrassing fashion. Cal’s first chance to respond comes against a surging Arizona team fresh off an upset of No. 9 Iowa. Fittingly, the game is a rematch of the one that started Vereen’s remarkable late-season stretch in 2009. If there’s a safe bet to make after Friday’s debacle, it’s that he’ll be ready to deliver. Beyond him, it’s anyone’s guess. Give Ed a resounding “no” at sports@dailycal.org.

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The Cal womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s soccer team was exhausting its final resources. Defender Emi Lawson was playing forward for the last 10 minutes of what was almost w. soccer the Bearsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; first loss Cal 1 of the season. Pacific 1 Pacific scored on Cal just minutes before the end of the first half yesterday, and 12 shots later, the Bears still couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get a goal. But when Lawson knocked the ball off the crossbar into the back of the net with barely three minutes remaining, her team survived with a 1-1 tie. The Tigers werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t expected to provide this type of test. Out of its four Pac-10 opponents this season, Pacific has only scored on Cal and Oregon. Coach Neil McGuire attributed the difficulty the No. 16 Bears (5-0-3) endured against the Tigers partially to the tight turnaround between their Friday game against San Francisco and yesterdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tilt at Edwards Stadium.

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tinually bailed out the Tigers. The keeper saved eight of the Bearsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 12 second-half shots, effectively shutting down the Calâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attack. McGuire said he put Lawson up top to get more goal-scoring opportunities in the air. It was not until there were just three minutes remaining that his decision paid off. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Every chance we got, I was focusing on what can I do in that moment to try and keep us from losing,â&#x20AC;? Lawson said of being asked to play offense for the last ten minutes of regulation. Although the results werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t necessarily ideal, these high-pressure game situations are more realistic for what awaits the Bears the rest of the season. Cal faces No. 3 Portland on Thursday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mentally, this game is a really good stepping stone, going into playing against Portland and the Pac-10,â&#x20AC;? Lawson said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Because if weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re mentally able to come back in a game like this, then I think weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be able to stay strong throughout the regular season.â&#x20AC;?

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RENO 911: KAEPERNICK TORCHES CAL IN 52-31 WIN by the

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by Ed Yevelev

Bears Running Out Of Answers

Contributing Writer

RENO, Nev. — Mike Mohamed could only stand on the sideline and watch. Held out of Friday night’s ONLINE PODCAST contest against Nevada with Katie Dowd, Jack Wang a sprained big and Ed Yevelev discuss toe, Cal’s senior where Cal went wrong. linebacker saw the Bears stub their own toes ONLINE VIDEO on the road at See footage from Mackay Stainterviews with Kevin dium. In front of Riley and Shane Vereen. an energized, sellout crowd of 28,809, Nevada (3-0) rolled to a 52-31 home rout, hanging the most points on a Jeff Tedford-coached Cal team since Arizona amassed the same total in November of 2002. The Wolf Pack piled up 165 of their 497 offensive yards in the game’s first 18 minutes, decimating a Bears defense that allowed an average of just 161 over its first two games. 329 of Nevada’s yards came courtesy of quarterback Colin Kaepernick. “They run (the offense) with such precision,” Cal coach Jeff Tedford said. “The quarterback has been playing in it for a long time and is excellent at what he does.” Indeed, the 6-foot-6, 225-pound Kaepernick masterfully triggered his team’s pistol offense all evening. He constantly beat defenders to the edge with his long strides and exploited gap after gap in the Bears’ secondary with his arm. Kaepernick finished an efficient 11for-16 for 181 yards and two scores, while adding three more touchdowns on the ground. Running back Vai Taua actually paced the team with 151 rushing yards, but Kaepernick made the Wolf Pack’s opening statement — finding Tray Session in the endzone to cap a 12-play, 80 yard scoring drive. On its very next drive, Nevada’s offense marched 85 yards in another 12

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Instead, disaster struck. Nevada cornerback Marlon Johnson pounced on Riley’s quick pass to Alex Lagemann, returning it 65 yards to give the Wolf Pack a 31-21 lead. “That was really a game-changer,” Riley said of the interception. “That’s why they call it those. It was just a complete momentum shift. “(I was) just rushing the play at the line. I saw the clock running down, I just tried to quick hitch it and the guy just complete jumped it. It’s a good play by him, bad play by me ... That should never happen.” Cal never got closer than a touch-

Standing outside the visiting locker room of Nevada’s Mackay Stadium, Kevin Riley searched for a silver lining in his team’s 52-31 loss to the Wolf Pack. He found it in Shane Vereen. “He was breaking tackles all over the place,” Riley said of Vereen’s 198yard, three touchdown effort.” Riley added: “That’s what Shane does.” His statement was supposed to be one of encouragement after Cal’s 11th loss in 14 games as a ranked team. Nevertheless, there was something disconcerting about that final sentence. Friday featured the Shane Vereen that everyone knew — the burst, the elusiveness, the patience, and most importantly, that unrelenting effort for positive yardage. Problem is, the rest of his team is once again an enigma. When pundits picked the Bears to finish seventh in the Pac-10 this preseason, it wasn’t because of the steady Vereen, whose eight total touchdowns now place him among the nation’s top individual scorers. Rather, everyone’s doubts about Cal revolved around two main questions: Will Riley, in his final season in Berkeley, provide the stability and consistency at quarterback that has eluded the Bears in recent years? And could Cal’s defense prevent the giant chunks of yardage that opponents racked up last season?

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Kevin Riley takes one of his two sacks against Nevada. The senior’s third-quarter interception turned into a 10-point Wolf Pack lead. plays. Kaepernick’s two touchdown scrambles put the Wolf Pack up, 21-7, in the second quarter. As devastating as Kaepernick was early, Cal faced a manageable 24-14 deficit at halftime, thanks to a standout performance by Shane Vereen. After being bottled up against Colorado, the Bears’ junior tailback broke out for a career-high 198 rushing yards and three scores. The Valencia, Calif. native now leads the Pac-10 in rushing yards and total touchdowns. “He was breaking tackles all over the place,” quarterback Kevin Riley said. “That’s what Shane does. He

stepped up big, kept us in it.” Vereen touched the ball on six of the team’s first eight snaps, scoring from 50 yards out in the first quarter to tie the game, 7-7. Keith Browner’s forced fumble at the Wolf Pack 21 paved the way for Vereen’s one-yard plunge to pull Cal to within 21-14. On his third carry of the second half, Vereen broke loose again, taking a pitch and weaving through defenders for a 59-yard touchdown. That play cut the third quarter lead to three, and Cal was poised to strike after forcing a three-and-out on the ensuing Wolf Pack possession.

Bears Bury Gaels to End Preseason Top-Ranked Cal Hosts NorCal by Christina Jones Contributing Writer

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Adrienne Gehan and Shannon Hawari registered six kills each against St. Mary’s on Saturday. Cal swept the Gaels to maintain its undefeated record heading into Pac-10 play.

MORAGA, Calif. — In its first eight games, the Cal volleyball team’s play drastically varied between sets. In their two tilts this weekend, however, the No. 10 Bears’ play varied between matches. On Friday at War Memorial Gym in San Francisco, Cal (10-0) looked like the unfocused squad that has shown up frequently in the second set of matches. This time, the team’s lackluster play finally resulted in a dropped set. San Francisco (1-9) capitalized on the Bears’ errors — hitting, serving, and receiving — to snap Cal’s 24-set winning streak in the first frame. “It was kind of like a wake-up call,” sophomore Correy Johnson said. “We really need to start playing our game and not play down (to our opponents).” The Bears won the next three sets, the final offering a glimpse of the team that would take the court the next night at McKeon Pavilion in Moraga, Calif. Against No. 25 St. Mary’s, Cal was the doggedly determined team it usually is in the first and third sets of matches. On Saturday, that steadiness stretched from beginning to end. “We can play pretty darn consistent volleyball for about an hour and a half straight,” coach Rich Feller said. “Our serving and passing tonight was as good as it has been all year.” The Bears’ near-perfect serving night allowed for better defense, Feller said, which was evident in Cal’s 50 digs on the night. Senior setter Carli Lloyd praised the passing, which allowed for better attacking opportunities and sus-

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Invitational, Sinks to Third Bears Spot Trojans 8-4 Lead in First Half of Semifinals at Spieker Aquatics Complex by Byron Atashian Contributing Writer

The NorCal Invitational should retroactively be named the SoCal Invitational considering that the finals featured the USCm. polo UCLA rivalry. The Trojans scored the Cal 11 go-ahead goal with Stanford 8 four seconds left to seal the championship, 11-10, yesterday evening. No. 1 Cal (5-1) fell in the semifinals to No. 4 USC by a single goal, 12-11, but went on to win the third-place game 11-8 against Stanford. The pivotal game was an almost epic comeback story. The Bears were down 5-10 in the third quarter before staging a 5-0 rally in under five minutes, tying it up at 10 goals apiece. “The guys really fought back and played with a lot of heart in the second half,” coach Kirk Everist said. “(It) was unconventional, frantic water polo.” While the Bears matchup against the Trojans wasn’t Cal’s brightest point in the tournament, it was the most telling. The freshman squad rose to the occasion of the season’s first true test. “We had a lot of big moments from

our younger guys,” Everist said. Among those mentioned were freshmen Giacomo Cupido and Perry Short, who contributed to the 5-0 run against USC. “(Cupido) is extremely athletic, it’ll take a while for people to adjust to how he plays,” Everist said. “He gave us a good two meter (defense) and got a lot of ejections so I was happy with the way he played.” Additionally, the win that got away against the Trojans forces Cal to focus on the areas in which it was lacking. One of these fields is drawing ejections. Seven of USC’s 12 goals came off of power plays and it drew seven ejections before the Bears earned one. “We didn’t get very many calls, but some of that we have to look and see how we’re playing,” Everist said. “We have to figure out what we’re not doing.” The other major aspect of the game Cal must refine is its defense, closing out the nooks and crannies of its cage. “They’re big guys, when they get up high in the water that cage gets real small,” Everist said of his team. “(Sunday morning against USC) they were low and there were a lot of holes.” Despite how close the Bears were to defeating the tournament champion Trojans in the semifinals, they have yet to reach their full potential. According to Everist, the underclassmen are only improving and time will improve team chemistry. “We’re not nearly as good a team as we’ll be at the end of the year,” he said.

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