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The hearing for the first of approximately 48 students charged with conduct violations during the Nov. 18 through Nov. 20 UC systemwide protests took place Thursday, following months of delay amid ongoing controversy surrounding possible procedural violations in the conduct proceedings. At the end of the nearly eight-hour hearing, a panel of two faculty members, a graduate student, an undergraduate student and a staff member found the UC Berkeley graduate student involved, whose name could not be disclosed because the hearings are confidential, responsible for two of five charges — disruption of administration or other university activities and disturbance of the peace or unlawful assembly. While sanctioning for the student is slated for 4 p.m. Tuesday, the timeline for the rest of the charged students’ hearings has not been set and is “at the whim of the university,” said Neil Satterlund, a student at the UC Berkeley School of Law and member of the Campus Rights Project that is advising the students. “The protracted nature of these proceedings is one more indication that the student conduct code — both its text and implementation — is in need of repair,” said Stephen Rosenbaum, a lecturer at the law school who has rep-
resented student activists in the past, in an e-mail. “Any potential educational or judicial value of the process is obscured by the delay.” While students assert that the delays have been the result of scheduling by the Office of Student Conduct, campus spokesperson Janet Gilmore said students requested the hearings be held in the fall instead of the spring or summer. “One frustration last year was that students would often have reasons, perhaps quite legitimate reasons, to postpone their hearings or their informal resolution efforts and then accuse us of not doing things expeditiously,” said George Breslauer, executive vice chancellor and provost in a Sept. 7 interview with The Daily Californian. While Satterlund agreed that students requested their hearings not be held over the summer, he added that the spring delays should not be blamed on students. With one hearing complete, many still remain, said Daniela Urban, a UC Berkeley law student and member of the Campus Rights Project who is also advising students. She estimated that while nearly half of the charged students have been able to reach a settlement consisting of a semester-long stayed suspension and 20 hours of community service, the rest still need hearings and pre-hearings. Zachary Levenson, a graduate student
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Tom Heir, left, was hired to consult Moore Ruble Yudell, the architecture firm working on Lower Sproul’s renovation. The firm gathered ideas from students to help with planning.
Architects Gather Ideas for Renovation of Lower Sproul by Nina Brown Contributing Writer
Friday marked the culmination of talks between UC Berkeley students and the primary architecture firm for the renovation of Lower Sproul Plaza, in an effort to gauge student opinion on how to remodel an area often overlooked. At the meeting, members of architec-
ture firm Moore Ruble Yudell presented feedback they had received throughout the week during the 20 interviews held for 119 groups chosen to represent different types of student organizations. About six to seven groups were invited to each session and about five to seven students attended each. One ASUC senator,
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Berkeley residents may have yet another option for where they can satisfy their sweet tooth if the Berkeley City Council allows a nationONLINE VIDEO al franchise to Watch interviews with make its mark on Southside owners of the area’s as the frozen frozen yogurt shops. yogurt trend continues to thrive in the city. At its meeting Tuesday, the council may approve a use permit for a new Pinkberry Frozen Yogurt franchise on Telegraph Avenue, but some owners of yogurt establishments already in the area worry the chain’s presence could further saturate the market and cite possible negative impacts a large franchise could have on current, locallyowned yogurt businesses. Deric Ng, owner of the yogurt shop Papamingo on Channing Way, appealed a decision made by the city’s Zoning Adjustments Board — the body responsible for approving or denying land use and development permits in the city — which initially approved the use permit allowing Pinkberry to move in at 2400 Telegraph Avenue, pending council approval. Ng filed his appeal on grounds that the city’s quick-service restaurant quota should not exceed current levels. The Telegraph Avenue Commercial District is limited to 30 quick-service restaurants, according to a board staff report. Currently, there are 43 businesses in this category, but the board has the ability to issue use permits, allowing the quota to be exceeded, as it did for Pinkberry. “Telegraph is pretty much our life line,” Ng said. “All the traffic’s right there, so if (Pinkberry is) right there, it’s just going to cut everything off for us — so obviously, we’re upset.” According to the report, the only frozen yogurt shop categorized as a quick-service restaurant is Papamingo. The four other yogurt establishments in the district — Yogurt Park, Yogurtland, Ryno’s and Michelle’s Yogurt and Sweets — are categorized as carry-out food service businesses. Beyond the district, there are four other frozen yogurt establishments in a 1.5 mile radius of the proposed Pinkberry location. Still, the city staff ’s report concluded that Pinkberry would increase the variety of quick-service restaurant choices in the district. Brady Thus, who filed Pinkberry’s use permit, said in his applicant statement to the board that Pinkberry would offer customers an experience that competing businesses cannot
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Yogurt Park is one of the many frozen yogurt shops that will have increased competition if the Berkeley City Council approves the opening of Pinkberry on Telegraph Avenue. with its “premium” product, a “design oriented” storefront and superior customer service. But some of the area’s established proprietors of frozen yogurt are worried about the economic implications of Pinkberry’s entry into the Berkeley market. According to Charles Lee, owner of Michelle’s Yogurt and Sweets, the family-owned yogurt businesses in the district have already suffered financially from the opening of the Yogurtland franchise on Bancroft Way. Ng said he is planning on expanding his menu to include more items in order to remain competitive and relevant if Pinkberry moves in. Though Marty Piscovich, owner of Yogurt Park, said that in the past, the city has not encouraged franchise
chains to open in the area, it seems like the only businesses able to pay their rent in today’s economy are large, subsidized chains. “Berkeley has changed in the (33) years that I’ve been here, from that standpoint,” he said. “It used to be mom-andpop type operations, and now it seems to be progressing into the other type.” Dave Fogarty, the city’s economic project development coordinator, said that under zoning law, the council has three options on how to proceed with Pinkberry — uphold the board’s decision, open the matter up to a public hearing or send the permit back to the board for reconsideration. Contact Jessica Gillote at jgillote@dailycal.org.
Students Criticize Campus’s Coca-Cola Contract by Noor Al-Samarrai Contributing Writer
A 10-year contract giving Coca-Cola Co. exclusive rights to sell beverages on the UC Berkeley campus is coming under fire within the student community. Students with the Coalition For a Better Contract joined forces with ASUC senators to author a bill condemning Coca-Cola’s business practices and urging the campus to reconsider the terms of its contract. The student bill is scheduled to be reviewed tonight by the ASUC Senate Committee on University and External Affairs and may move to the senate floor on Wednesday, said Cooperative Movement Senator Elliot Goldstein, an au-
thor of the bill. The contract with Coca-Cola expires in August 2011, although negotiations to renew the contract are already under way and will likely be wrapped up by January, according to ASUC Auxiliary Director Nadesan Permaul. According to junior Amman Desai, an environmental engineering major and coalition member, the bill calls for “more ethical beverage companies to be on our campus and ... doesn’t allow for one company to have a monopoly.” The current Coca-Cola contract includes an ethics clause stating that “licensees shall commit to conduct their business according to a set of ethical standards which include ... respect for the unique and intrinsic value of each
human being.” But the student bill raises concerns about Coca-Cola’s labor, human rights and environmental track records in India and Guatemala, domestic health and sustainability practices and the lack of consumer choice and efficacy inherent in exclusive contracts. The current contract, an agreement between a consortium of four campus units — the ASUC Auxiliary, Residential and Student Service Programs, the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics and the Recreational Sports Facility — “grants Coca-Cola limited exclusivity for the sales and distribution of its beverages at specified venues … in return for sponsorship fee, sales commissions,
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who had some kind of connection to the groups, was present at each meeting to represent those who could not attend. Only a few students were present at Friday’s meeting. “(The architects) seem really genuine and open to what we have to say, but it is definitely in a phase right now that is very idealistic, and I wonder what actually will happen,” said UC Berkeley junior Julia Heidelman after Friday’s meeting. “We need more students involved ... I wonder why it wasn’t more public.” The architects said Friday that student groups called for, among other things, a larger performance space, a kitchen, retail space for coffee shops and grocery stores, as well as spaces to gather, study and rest. Although the project is still in a “conceptual” programming phase while the architects collect feedback, former Graduate Assembly President Miguel Daal said the general layout has been determined. Eshleman Hall — given a seismically “poor” rating in a 1997 study — will be demolished, and a longer, lower building will take its place. Southern and western additions will adjoin the Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union building, and the Cesar Chavez Student Center will also undergo changes. The programming phase of the proj-
ect will end in January and will be followed by the schematic design phase, which will end in spring 2011. Construction is expected to begin in 2012, according to Daal. Plans for the buildings’ interiors remain undetermined. Architects at the meeting spoke of forming the new spaces into clusters, each containing student groups sharing a specific, similar area of interest. They also noted that they want to improve how students share resources, especially when it comes storage. “That’s what we’re really looking at is optimizing efficiency within a framework that is extremely inefficient right now,” said Mario Violich, a principalin-charge from the architecture firm. Joseph Guzman, former graduate student co-chair of the Lower Sproul Student Council, said student aspirations for the project were as varied as improved sustainability, a permanent multi-cultural center and the formation of a dynamic, centralized student union. “It’s a project that means a lot of different things to different people,” Guzman said.
Emma Anderson of The Daily Californian contributed to this report. Contact Nina Brown at nbrown@dailycal.org.
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Nearly 1,400 Bay Area residents spent Saturday dumping their efforts into removing trash and plastic from the Berkeley Marina shoreline while hun- ONLINE VIDEO, SLIDESHOW dreds of thou- See Bay Area residents sands of people work together to clean across the globe participated in up the Berkeley Marina. the 25th annual International Coastal Cleanup. Event participants focused primarily on the disposing of plastic bags, food wrappers and other single-use items, as well as drastically reducing the amount of plastic used at the cleanup itself. Volunteers at the Berkeley event in 2009 collected 8,329 food wrappers and 5,017 plastic bags at the marina. Data on trash collection from this year’s cleanup is not yet available as of press time. Close to half a million people in 100 countries take part in the event every year, according to the website of Ocean Conservancy, the group sponsoring the event. Participation at the marina this year — named by San Francisco-based environmental organization Save the Bay as one of the top 10 trash “hot spots” in
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product and supplies donations,” said Mike Weinberger, the director of recreational sports, in an e-mail. Contract negotiations are only open to Coca-Cola representatives, stakeholders in the contract and ASUC President Noah Stern as a voice for the student body. The student bill calls for greater transparency and student involvement in contracts. “I think it’s a misnomer to talk about transparency when you’re talking about business negotiations,” said Permaul. “This is not a public activity which involves politics or public policy — this is a business contract.” Though he acknowledged the coalition’s concerns about Coca-Cola’s practices, Stern said student groups implicitly express their support for privatepublic partnerships when they request
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funds from the ASUC and must be turned away due to a lack of resources. “The ASUC and student groups benefit dramatically from this contract,” Permaul said. “It is the second largest revenue that the ASUC receives annually.” As part of the current negotiations, the campus consortium has proposed greater compensation from Coca-Cola and monetary funding of recycling programs. It is waiting for a response from Coca-Cola by mid-October. Should Coca-Cola’s response be favorable, negotiations will continue. Otherwise, the campus will submit a request for proposal, and the consortium will consider other bidders. Under this process, Permaul said, the contract “could change to another entity, like (PepsiCo Inc.).” Contact Noor Al-Samarrai at nsamarrai@dailycal.org.
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mbassador (n.) — an authorized representative or messenger, an official envoy. Being in Berkeley is especially fun because there’s always something to rant about. The residents complain about the students, the students complain about the professors and the professors complain about the regents. There’s a nice chain of discontent going on. I know that I am especially inclined toward dwelling on the negative — a fact usually pointed out to me when I’m at home in sunny southern California during the breaks. My defense is that I’m a product of my environment and that negativity is normal at Cal, where it rains sideways for weeks at a time and the constant academic pressure makes for a fairly neurotic student body. However, deep down, many of us know Berkeley isn’t as bad as we frequently exaggerate it to be. Several departments give a top-rate education, the campus is beautiful, our clubs and Greek life provide plenty of opportunities to make lifelong friends and the dating scene is ... existent and not altogether horrible. Still, it’s not very in vogue to talk about how great our school is. We’re already in. The application process is over, and we can drop the enthusiasm. But some people really love this place. And I mean they love it with a passion that cannot and will not be denied. They love the campus unashamedly and speak its praises daily. You have probably seen and made fun of them by now, the only people that can smile and hold attention at 10 a.m. Yes, I’m talking about the masters of enthusiasm and backward walking — the tour guides. Of course, they’re technically called “Campus Ambassadors,” an especially apt term considering that they’re the first stop for many inquiring parents and their school-age children. They service everyone from celebrities, diplomats, politicians and executives to former classes going on a nostalgia tour before their reunions. They are selected to represent us and our beloved University. And they make a pretty good impression, too. They’re easily the friendliest group of people I’ve ever found in the administration maze that is Sproul Hall. They were all smiles and hellos and asking me about my day. It was almost enough to make me want to sign up for a tour of the campus that I’ve spent the past few years on. Many “Ambassadors” speak multiple languages. They’re charismatic, have great leadership skills and come from a diverse selection of sports, clubs and majors. So, you know, typical Berkeley students. doubt I’m the only person who wonders how they do it. How much is there to know about this place, anyway? How do they deal with all those inevitably unenthusiastic faces and dumb questions? And most of all, how can they talk about how great this place is when they go through the
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same, if not more, anxiety-causing factors than the rest of us do? They were, as always, happy to answer my questions. I interviewed Kirsten Anderson, a senior who, while not only was a double major in anthropology and integrative biology, has also given countless tours and has worked at Visitor Services for three and a half years. Again, typical Berkeley student. She admitted that sometimes tours could be difficult. While most people had good questions, short attention spans and not having reason to follow her for ninety minutes made things difficult. There were always a few people, especially in groups of middle-schoolers, who just didn’t care about how the university was founded or the histories of our many fascinating departments. f course, there is always the occasional homeless person who tags along midway and scares the parents into grabbing their kids by the shoulders. And that’s not even mentioning what Berkeley students sometimes shout to heckle the tour guides and scare the prospective undergraduates. “Cal sucks. It’s awful! Don’t go here; it’ll suck out your soul!” But I guess that’s all part of the Berkeley experience. She said that even the bad days weren’t that bad. I asked why she didn’t quit after all this time. “I love it here,” she said. No, seriously. “I really do.” She said that the slight negative aspects weren’t enough to dissuade her from the rush that comes from being able to share the campus’s histories, secrets and legends with a new group of eager and curious listeners two to three times a week. And that’s when the island of cheerfulness that is the Visitor’s Center began to make sense. These students were so used to talking about the highlights and pluses of Cal that they no longer dwell on the negative parts. That’s how they could all stay so surprisingly happy, upbeat and positive. So, shockingly, I think there’s a totally non-cynical lesson to be learned here: Happiness could be all in learning to appreciate your surroundings. Even if it is Berkeley.
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Volunteers also marked up tally sheets to take inventory of the waste, data which will be used by Ocean Conservancy to lobby for environmental policy change — such as for California Assembly Bill 1998, which would have banned plastic bags in retail stores had it been approved by state legislators earlier this month. According to Donald, trash accumulates along the Berkeley coastline because of its location, as rivers flowing into the delta feed into the bay and deposit trash along the city’s shoreline. In past years, event participants may have also added to the overall waste in the area through the use of plastic water bottles, plastic trash bags and plas-
tic ware, according to Donald. But in accordance with recommendations by the California Coastal Commission, organizers at this year’s event emphasized eliminating these and other single-use items as much as possible, and volunteers used reusable buckets and gloves instead. But city residents and UC Berkeley students also add to the amount of trash in and around the waterways, Donald said, adding that the run-off from Strawberry Creek is the dirtiest in the area. “There’s no question Berkeley students aren’t doing their share,” Donald said. “Somebody should clean up the creek every day — the trash doesn’t go away.” Contact J.D. Morris at jmorris@dailycal.org.
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who occupied Wheeler Hall on Nov. 20, settled for the stayed suspension but expressed concern over the vague language of the settlement. “Initially I didn’t want to settle,” Levenson said. “At the same time, I figured … I didn’t want the focus to be on the ongoing campus struggle with the campus code of conduct. It defers attention from bigger issues in this case, which is the fee hikes.” Yousur Alhlou of The Daily Californian contributed to this report.
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Oakland Underground Film Festival Celebrates Independent Cinema With Emphasis on Local Talent
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he annual Oakland Underground Film Festival is only in its second year, and already it has begun to fulfill a lot of its potential, screening underappreciated films to the Oakland community. On Friday night, the Festival took a decidedly music-oriented bent, screening documentaries about the Tokyo avant-garde scene and the brief rocksteady movement in Jamaica. On Saturday, a live dance battle and turf dance video screening primed the audience to be immersed in the different subcultures that the documentaries covered. The Festival’s biggest challenge
will be for it to mature into an event that truly calls to the East Bay. Located at West Oakland's Linden Street Brewery, the venue had a certain romanticism to it. It was particularly fun seeing trains roll by just 20 feet behind the screen. The Festival’s isolation from major transit points - nearly a mile from the nearest BART station – severely limited options for the many residents in the Bay Area who don’t have a car. Still, the films more than made up for the offbeat setting. After all, the Festival was all about pushing limits — in essence, the underground. —Max Siegel & Nastia Voynovskaya
his pleasant documentary introduces us to more than a dozen rocksteady stars, who reunited in Kingston, Jamaica to rerecord the old songs that made them famous. Rocksteady is the precursor to reggae, a mellower version of ska that cropped up in the mid-sixties. Of course, such labels are hardly set in stone. In a memorable interview, musicians argue about whether a Bob Marley song should be considered reggae or rocksteady. “Rocksteady” thrives on the stories of these individuals, many of whom made songs knowing they couldn’t make a living off of music alone. It’s particularly refreshing when we see these musicians as humans, not legends. One singer was so nervous about recording that she took tranquilizers; while recording, she inexplicably loses her voice. “Rocksteady” would have been even better if it had delved into Jamaica’s political connection to the musical genre. The artists mostly cite the lack of jobs in Kingston as problematic, but this is a simplification that depoliticizes what was a more turbulent time. Music can indeed soothe the soul, but it can also reflect more troublesome tensions. —Max Siegel
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hings began on an abrasive note with “We Don’t Care About Music Anyway,” a documentary about Tokyo’s avant-garde music scene. A more apt title might have been: “Guitar Torture,” “Cello Abuse,” or, most disturbing, “Turntable Pounding.” This is a difficult but thought-provoking film that thrusts viewers into the frigid world of avant-garde music. Speaking at a roundtable discussion, the artists express their disenchantment with modern-day, economically stunted Japan. Their music — some would argue noise — isn’t so much a show of creativity as it is a loud submission to an unhappy future. The filmmakers dutifully show entire performances, which are beautifully shot, but you yearn for more direction; the documentary filmmaker needs to take charge of his subjects. Otherwise, the artists’ music comes across as all bluster, with little soul. Take the surreal set in which a guitarist wearing silver Spandex plays otherworldly music on a salt field. The directors digitally manipulate her body so she occasionally disappears. Then you realize: These are artists who are trying in vain to make a statement in a world that has already left them behind. —Max Siegel
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armen Rosa the Champion put up a fight for the equal treatment of indigenous women in Bolivia — literally. Shedding plenty of her opponents’ blood but never her skirt, the pioneering female wrestler of her nation became the subject of director Betty M. Park’s new documentary, “Mamachas del Ring.” And while her story doesn’t satiate viewers with a typical happy ending, Carmen Rosa’s charming demeanor and fierce resilience challenge rampant cultural prejudices and inspire a fresh appreciation for her commitment to her sport. Although full of bright clothing, bustling city scenes and plenty of performance spectacles, the film depicts the discrimination indigenous women face in Bolivia as well as the dominant culture’s appropriation of their identity for the sake of entertainment. The microcosm of Carmen Rosa and the other three Mamachas of wrestling, while an unfamiliar subculture on this continent, serves as an insightful analogy to the adverse affects of gentrification in many American neighborhoods. While Carmen Rosa and her colleagues face mistreatment for their colorful indigenous skirts and nontraditional occupations, their appearance is exaggeratedly mimicked in other wrestling matches as a sort of freakshow attraction. With several comical Claymation sequences to accompany Carmen Rosa’s matter-of-fact narration amid the footage, the film presents a quirky, sometimes lighthearted take on pressing social issues. While the men of the wrestling world and even her husband attempt to bar her from fighting, Carmen Rosa continues her journey as far as she can take it. Flipping skirts and gashing foreheads in the ring, Carmen Rosa the Champion reminds the viewer that the struggle for gender equality is far from over. La lucha sigue! —Nastia Voynovskaya
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ttending a concert is a slippery slope. It may force you to realize how lifeless and socially inept your favorite singer actually is but it can also escalate your attachment to the artist from mildly interested to hopelessly devoted. Vampire Weekend accomplished the latter with their Saturday performance at the Greek, kicking off the second half of their Contra tour. Exuding the confidence that comes with having two certified-gold albums under their belts along with the hearts of screaming fangirls, the quartet launched an aurally and visually explosive set that displayed their endless energy.ß In light of the recent lawsuit regarding the Contra cover, gone was the wide-eyed portrait of Kirsten that accompanied the first half of their tour. Instead, fans were greeted with a nifty backdrop that appeared at first to be swirls of “White Sky” lyrics. When the band slipped into somber numbers, however, it transformed into an illuminated map of the fictional “Port of Contra,” providing an aesthetic representation of the tracks. Openers the Very Best set the audience swaying with their ridiculously catchy blend of electronics and Afropop. But the second Vampire Weekend leaped onstage, their exuberance made the Very Best look like introverts. Understanding that the best way to pump
up an audience is to give them something to dance to, Vampire Weekend shed their polished Ivy League shells and acted out the rock star dream. Bassist Chris Baio entertained the crowd with his hops and pelvic thrusts while Chris Tomson pounded the life out of the drums. The band recognized that music is simply one aspect of the concert experience. Though the other opener, Beach House, pulled off an eargasmic exhibition of dreamy complexity, they seemed disconnected from the audience and performed behind an impenetrable wall. By striking contrast, Vampire Weekend constantly used the crowd to enhance their performance, whether asking for vocal backups or wiggling fingers. It was also rather flattering to know that they did their research on the city (unlike the Very Best, who kept calling us “San Francisco”). Prior to “California English,” Koenig made a shout-out to Berkeley’s Hapa club and later hoped that we could let go of our resentment towards Palo Alto for Blake’s sake (he of the “New Face”). Say what you will about the quality of Contra, but put Vampire Weekend on a stage, and it’ll be a struggle to resist their infectiousness. Their presence has an intensity that is absent from their studio sound. Whatever disposition a song might convey on record, Vampire Weekend amplified that onstage, flying across a spectrum of emotions. They fired out crowd-pleasers such as “Giving Up The
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hose expecting a sob-fest on the decline of print journalism might have left “Michael x Michael” scratching their heads. The event, hosted by the Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism this past Thursday at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre, showcased a discussion between Michael Lewis and Michael Pollan, both Berkeley residents and New York Times bestselling authors, on the subjects of contemporary journalism and non-fiction writing. Pollan, perhaps best known for his books on U.S. food politics and “nutritionism” in (respectively) 2006’s “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” and 2008’s “In Defense of Food,” is also a Knight Professor at the J-School. He has written about harvesting sea salt and the biochemistry of bran flakes and somehow managed to make it bestselling. Lewis is a different animal: while Pollan handles a sticky issue with critical gloves, Lewis’ work is more autobiographical. Working as an associate for Salomon Brothers in the late ’80s, he was exposed to the insanely lucrative world of bonds salesmen (see Oliver Stone’s 1987 film “Wall Street” for a liberal artist’s rendering). Amazed by his associates’ financial success and pure blockheaded brazenness, he published articles about the company as “Diana Bleeker,” before leaving to work as a financial journalist. His bestsellers include “Liar’s Poker” (1990) and most recently “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine” (2010), which explains the build up to the U.S. finan-
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Face to face. New York Times bestselling writers Michael Pollan and Michael Lewis engage in a discourse on the state of journalism at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre. cial crisis. Lewis currently works as a contributing editor to Vanity Fair. So these two bestselling Michaels sat in business-casual armchairs and chatted about journalism. The event’s staging resembled a good-natured if not contrived pre-dinner-party chat: A small table sat between the two Michaels, as they made congenial conversation about their careers. Picture “Between Two Ferns” but without the interrogation, or any actual ferns. There was no facilitation to the event save for an introduction by the J-School
dean, so the dynamic was pleasantly relaxed and free-form, just shooting the shit about Greece’s financial implosion and where to buy an entire cow. Refreshingly, little time was devoted to lamenting the decline of print journalism. It may be an unavoidable topic nowadays in such forums, but the reactionary rhetoric can be seen as highly reminiscent of the movement from vinyl LP to CD to MB — that inevitably, with that shift from the physical to digital, a necessary part of the form would
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here’s been an unsettling rumor in circulation that Flying Lotus, dynamic ringleader of the Brainfeeder collective and L.A. laptop beat scene, puts on a subpar live performance, that a large public setting dulls the textural subtleties of his music one normally collects on halfbaked afternoons. But Friday night’s packed concert at the Mezzanine in San Francisco officially banished this myth to the abysmal pits of hell (where such a rumor probably started), as FlyLo, with drummer Ronald Bruner Jr. and bassist Thundercat, forged a mutual relationship between live music and electronic soundbites. FlyLo's beats continually morph into seemingly disparate strains of thought — shifting, fidgeting, rupturing — and yet he manages to logically reconnect the dissonant clamor of industrial noise to the fuzzy, 8-bit quirks of Nintendo systems. So it would only seem natural for his role to also change as he sandwiched himself between Bruner and Thundercat. But FlyLo transcended the dichotomy of “me vs. them” that often emerges in live sets with electronic acts. Rather than sticking out as a DJ in the group, he blended in seamlessly as another musician. In the same vein as an old-school jazz-cat or even like his deceased auntie Alice Coltrane, FlyLo laid down the material for themes to build upon. Thundercat might layer a bass line with a pulsating fury, as he did for “Dance of the Pseudo Nymph,” whereas Bruner almost stole the show with blistering drum fills that had you wondering why you hadn’t heard of this guy before. At times, due to the loudness of the drums, the sharpness and density of FlyLo’s beats were slightly softened around the edges; they felt more like sketches than fleshed-out drawings. But given this only happened occasionally, the overall vivacity of the musicians offset this minor mishap. FlyLo was indeed the orchestrator, mapping out the direction of all these activities, providing the foundation for creative flight, while with a swift flick of the wrist or dexterous tap of a button, moving the
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Lotus position. Flying Lotus’ set Friday night optimized the combination of electronic looping and live instrumentation, with drums by Ronald Bruner Jr. and Thundercat on bass. audience into a frenetic ecstasy. And if your music rests on the notion of the remix, of crossing genre boundaries, then anything is up for grabs: Radiohead’s “Idioteque,” Lil Wayne’s “I Feel Like Dying” and even his own tracks, such as “Massage Situation.” The show called for 9 p.m. but FlyLo didn’t appear onstage until 1 a.m., further increasing the anticipation for those who waited in line for up to an hour sipping on 40s. In the meantime, DJ Centipede and dubstep guru Caspa sufficiently controlled the crowd until the master himself came out with a toothsome grin and dark shades. Whereas Caspa barraged the audience with signature drop-heavy “wahs” that nonetheless moved listeners to dance, FlyLo came in from a different angle. He lulled the audience through tactful pacing and tasteful tempo shifts, preferring circuitous movement instead of a direct line of transmission. And that’s the beauty of his music: He leaves you guessing as to where he’ll transition to and arrive at next. As he positioned himself behind his laptop, FlyLo flung his hands in the
air with the audience following suit, as if they were possessed and could be manipulated by his every agile movement. But the most rewarding parts of the show were the hints that he was just as much possessed by his own music. You could see it in his face, in his laughter and fluid motions, completely absent of pretense. The laptop was no longer a separate vessel detached from FlyLo, but became an extension of his body, spitting out sludgy riffs to wrap your mind into a cosmic swirl. With the show culminating a little after 3 a.m., this meant only one thing: Taking the notoriously wild 800 bus from SF back to Berkeley. Amidst sagging faces, bloodshot eyes and the odor of FlyLo-induced sweat, two middleaged, burnout hippies were loudly debating music. “I saw Phish twice last year. They killed it!” “The folk band Cornmeal — killed it.” Among the 40 other bands rattled off, one important name was left unspoken. FlyLo. And he killed it. Wrap your mind into a cosmic swirl with Justin at jbolois@dailycal.org.
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Their dedication to their work was so evident during their show that they could get fans screaming and dancing around to even their subpar tracks. As further proof, you know a band has really struck a chord in their audience when, after tossing their picks and sticks into the crowd, sheer chaos ensues. Word of advice? Hide the sacred object in your bag and run for your life. It certainly worked for me. Take a sabbatical in the Port of Contra with Cynthia at ckang@dailycal.org.
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be lost. The two Michaels lauded the growth that long-form journalism has garnered in the digital age, where the Internet allows for an expanded reader forum and omnipresent access. Both Michaels stressed that the potential of long-form journalism lies in books (gasp!). Securing a book deal can attract movie studios, hopefully creating a successful evolution from magazine article to major motion picture. It happened to Susan Orlean’s New Yorker article, “Orchid Fever,” developed into Spike Jonze’s feature-length film “Ad-
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Munoz Gets a Birthday Tie With Bears’ Draw Against Pioneers early edge. Freshman Ryan Neil took advantage of an open net when goalkeeper Teale Stone stepped out and answered It was a good day for Michael Munoz Denver’s lead with his first career goal. Following the first half, things startof the No. 14 Cal men’s soccer team. After he was sidelined with a knee ed to get a little heated. injury in the preWith three yellow cards, two directThe Daily Californian DUMMY season, Munoz was m. soccer ed towards players and one towards the finally cleared to Denver 2 bench, Denver seemed to be responding play for the game the pressure the Bears put on right Cal 2 to against Denver out of the gates in the second half. (3-4-2) on Friday at “I think both teams showed that Edwards Stadium as the Bears fought they really wanted to win this match, to a 2-2 draw in double overtime. no one was backing down on tackles About 30 minutes into the second and doing what they had to do to make half, with Denver leading 2-1, Munoz sure they got the ball,” Cal midfielder came in to replace defender Scot Van- Tony Salciccia said. Buskirk for Munoz’s first appearance When both teams stood scoreless in all season. the first 10 minutes of overtime, anIn the last minute of regulation, other overtime period was added. midfielder Chris Ortega’s square kick Despite some close looks from the across the box found Munoz’s right Bears in the end of the second extra foot. The ball hit the top of the cross- period, there were no successful atbar and bounced down, causing a bit tempts to connect net and goal. of controversy as to whether or not the “I thought it was a pretty good socball hit over the line. It was confirmed cer game at times ... obviously in the by the side referee and therefore last couple of minutes, we were a little marked the equalizer the Bears (4-1-2) bit of a mess — Cal was throwing evneeded. erything they had at us,” Pioneer head “(The ball) was clearly over,” Munoz coach Bobby Muuss said. said. “Off the crossbar, straight down It was the fifth overtime game for and it bounced back out.” the Bears this season, the fourth that Munoz’s first goal of his college ca- extended into double overtime. reer could not have come at a better “They fought us tooth and nail the time, considering that Friday was also whole 110 minutes, the game could have his 21st birthday. went either way,” coach Kevin Grimes “It was the funnest game I have had said. “It came out a tie, and it probably in a long time,” he said. was the right result. I think both teams Just as predicted, the entire game had good chances, we might have had was an even battle in both speed and a few more, but at the end of the day it strength. was what it was.” ACROSS It was Kellan Christensen who put the first goal in the net in the first 10 Kelly Suckow covers soccer. 1. men’s Location minutes of play to give the Pioneers an Contact her at ksuckow@dailycal.org.
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backbreaker. Tedford? He’s now 0-1 in the second of back-to-back road games since 2003. His critics will start crying out again, resounding with the cliched accusations of “playing not to lose.” It’s hard to argue against that when a 4th-and-1 on the six-yard line turns into another chip shot. More fuel for the fire came near the end of the final frame. Cal lined up on a first-and-10 with a chance to extend its 9-3 lead. The Bears were 27 yards from the end
ceptional coverage, kept the quarterzone, so Shane Vereen naturally ran it three times to burn all of Arizona’s back mostly contained. timeouts. Giorgio Tavecchio’s 40-yardCameron Jordan had nothing bad er flew wide right. to say after the game. His unit was a If fortune favors the bold, the Bears beacon of light last Saturday. were leprous beggars. And after one of the most heartThe defense, though, was as inspirwrenching losses of Tedford’s tenure, ing as the offensive playcalling was the team will be gnashing their teeth stale. until Homecoming. Even without Mike Mohamed They say the road to hell is paved for long stretches, the linebacker’s with good intentions. The Bears will sprained big toe still plaguing him, need a little more than that to pave it proved it could hold up against a one out. dangerous offense. Thursday, May 3, 2007 The line harrassed Foles all night, Pray for salvation with Jack at sports@dailycal.org. and coupled with Darian Hagan’s ex-
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Trip to Desert Was Hellish For Bears
Daily Cal Staff Writer TUCSON, Ariz. — Nick Foles came to Arizona’s rescue again. The Wildcats’ floppy-haired hero brought his team back to life for the secMULTIMEDIA ond consecutive Go online for a video, week, tossing podcast and slideshow the game’s only touchdown to from the Daily Cal staff. preserve a 10-9 win at Arizona Stadium yesterday. Then-No. 9 Iowa had to watch Foles complete five of six passes on his gamewinning drive. The unranked Cal football team (2-2, 0-1 in the Pac-10) got another punch in the stomach when he launched a 51-yard bomb to wide receiver Juron Criner. Three plays later, the pair hooked up again — this time on an effortless strike in the end zone with 1:11 remaining. The junior wideout had been battling turf toe since facing the Hawkeyes, but his five receptions and 59 yards sure didn’t make it look that way. The Bears’ attempt at a comeback fizzled shortly afterward. What looked like an easy catch by Marvin Jones went off his hands. Safety Joe Perkins snagged it and took off for 18 yards, the clock ticking away the entire time. “I’ve never been part of a football game that hurts more than this game,” safety Chris Conte said. “Not in my life, ever. This is the worst I’ve ever felt after a game.” The fireworks that ended it belied the defensive slugfest that bogged down the first 57 minutes. The Pac-10 entered the weekend as perhaps the nation’s most pass-happy conference, with Arizona (4-0, 1-0) and Cal both averaging over 30 points per game. That stat took a hit in the warm Tucson night, the Bears settling for field goal attempts on most of their drives — one a 33-yarder knocked into the left post — and squandering tailback Shane Vereen’s seventh career 100-yard game. The offense was largely conservative, rarely deviating from the run. Quarterback Kevin Riley’s passes never stretched the field. Freshman
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the best game of his life, leading the team with eight tackles and barely keeping his feet inside the end-zone sideline on an interception late in the first half. Until the final drive, that was the only series Arizona extended beyond 39 yards the entire game. Defensive Cameron Jordan logged a sack, forcing a fumble which Mychal
UCSON, Ariz. — Jeff Tedford stormed through the locker room doors, bellowing out answers to any reporter foolhardy enough to pester him. Giorgio Tavecchio tried his best to smile. Chris Conte fought back tears. If the Cal football team had demons at Arizona Stadium before, the place might as well be Dante’s 10th circle now. It was 2008 when the Wildcats last hosted the Bears. They had barely crawled its way back into the AP poll, a No. 25 team that fell back below earth when its 10-point halftime lead turned into a 42-27 loss. A worse nightmare happened two years prior, with Cal then bearing a lofty eighth-place ranking and a chance to clinch a Rose Bowl berth. Cornerback Antoine Cason snatched Nate Longshore’s pass and scampered 39 yards for Arizona’s first lead. Lavelle Hawkins fell at the one-yard line, and DeSean Jackson stepped out of bounds before the touchdown. Final score, 24-20. Saturday finally looked like the Bears’ turn to play the spoiler role. The game was ugly as sin for the most part, with both offenses doing about enough to not be moving backwards, but a 9-3 lead was still a lead. One big play changes everything in these games, and the big one came when Nick Foles’ late long ball finally connected with Juron Criner. Cal still had some time for one final drive after the eventual touchdown, but it was practically damned after that
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Wide receiver Jeremy Ross topples over as he goes for a pass from Kevin Riley. Ross ended the night with two grabs for 17 yards. Keenan Allen, whose sprained ankle was reportedly 100-percent all week, saw a sparing number of snaps. He totaled a catch and a carry, the latter a reprisal of his designed pass play against UC Davis. Even Vereen took over once during the first drive of the second quarter, but he slightly overthrew Riley in the end zone. That series ended with three points. If the defense was looking for re-
demption, however, it more than earned that. Seven days completely turned around a unit that was shredded by Nevada, even with linebacker Mike Mohamed still limited by his sprained toe. There was no pistol offense to deal with this time, and the pressure forced Foles into 64.1 percent completion rate, 14 below his season average. Conte played what may have been
Bears Remain Perfect Cal Swims Ahead After Half to Beat Davis With Sweep of Arizonas by Byron Atashian Contributing Writer
by Jonathan Kuperberg Contributing Writer
When Arizona State recorded the first four points of Sunday’s match, it conjured up images of the No. 8 Cal volleyball team’s volleyball previous contest. Against Ari- Cal 3 zona on Friday, the Arizona State 0 Bears dropped the first two sets before rebounding to win the match. They didn’t let that happen again on Sunday, as Cal defeated the Sun Devils in straight sets (25-23, 25-21, 26-24) at Wells Fargo Arena in Tempe, Ariz. “I think we had a little bit more energy on our side of the net,” senior setter Carli Lloyd, who had a game-high 45 assists, said. Outside hitter Tarah Murrey notched three kills during a six-point run that gave the Bears (12-0, 2-0 in the Pac-10) an early first set lead. The squads matched each other until four straight points by Cal. Murrey capped off the run with a kill to put the Bears up for good for the set. “I think we played a consistent and clean match,” Murrey said. “We knew if we played aggressive and as a team we could take them in three.” The junior couldn’t quite equal her
career-high 28 kills that she registered against the Wildcats (10-14, 0-2), but played a much more efficient and effective match against ASU, Murrey recorded 20 kills with only three errors for an impressive .472 hitting percentage. “Tarah was great today,” coach Rich Feller said. “She passed well, hit real smart ... able to do kind of whatever she wanted.” The Sun Devils (5-9, 0-2) trailed the entire second set but built an early lead in the final frame. But ASU’s momentum came to a screeching halt when the team came up against Kat Brown. The Bears’ middle hitter recorded three kills and a block assisted and Cal never trailed again. “We just needed to get the next point and eliminate their runs,” Murrey said. “We have a lot of perseverance (and) we’re willing to fight and grind.” The match between two fast tempo offenses went by quickly until the coaches slowed it down at the end. Down 23-20, the Sun Devils called a timeout and came out with three straight points to tie the score. Cal called a timeout of its own and, after trading errors with ASU, strung together two points in a row to pull off the road sweep. Jonathan Kuperberg covers volleyball. Contact him at jkuperberg@dailycal.org.
The No. 3 Cal men’s water polo team swept its schedule this past weekend at the Davis Mini Tournament in Schaal Aquatics Center. The Bears (7-1) shut out Redlands, 15-5, on Saturday before trudging past No. 11 tournament host Davis 13-8 later on that afternoon. Cal gave playing time to its players deeper in the rotation against the unranked Division III Bulldogs (5-7), saving a large part of the first string veterans for the match-up against the Aggies. This didn’t keep the Bears from punching in a dominating win, however, going into halftime with an 11-2 lead. Redshirt freshman goalie Michael Boggan played the entire game against Redlands, registering three saves. Freshmen Collin Smith and Perry Short and sophomore Mason Cox pitched in with two goals each. Junior Travis Bickham and sophomore Marin Balarin each led the team with three goals apiece. The later match against the Aggies (11-4) wasn’t such a breeze, though, when compared to the Bulldogs, who fell short in all three of their games. Cal was actually tied with Davis at seven goals each heading into halftime. At the end of the third quarter, the score was still close at 10-8 before the Bears pulled away in the fourth with a 3-0 run to seal the game.
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Ivan Rackov scored two goals in Cal’s 14-4 rematch against UC Davis. The junior, who leads the Bears with 18 goals, also notched two in the teams’ first meeting this season. This weekend marked the second time Cal faced the Aggies this season. The rematch was dramatically different than the season-opener at Spieker Aquatics Complex on Sept. 4, when the Bears had a decisive 14-4 victory. In the rematch senior center Zach White helped salvage the day from disaster, logging an impressive five goals, one of which came in the instrumental fourth quarter 3-0 run. The two other fourth quarter goals came by the hands of junior Luka Saponjic and freshman Giacomo Cupido.
The Bears seemed to let their guard down early before wising up in the second half, possibly because they were expecting an effortless win similar to the season-opener. Cal has to keep in mind through the rest of the season that the most dangerous teams tend to be the ones with nothing to lose. The Aggies won their two other tournament games, 5-4 against Santa Clara and 14-12 against Redlands. Byron Atashian covers men’s water polo. Contact him at batashian@dailycal.org.