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Campus split over cuts of five Athletics teams Many Faculty, Students Say Cuts Are Necessary To Restore Funding for Academic Departments

Elimination of Varsity Teams Marks Painful End in Last Season for Cal Coaches, Athletes

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Chancellor Robert Birgeneau’s announcement Tuesday that five athletics teams would no longer represent UC Berkeley on an intercollegiate level sent shock waves across the nation, leaving people to wonder about the future caliber of the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics. But some faculty said though the cuts were hard, they are a step in the right direction, allowing the campus to redistribute funds back into academic programs hit hard by budget cuts. The cuts fall in line with many faculty and students’ desire to redirect campus resources from athletics back into academic programs, particularly in light of California’s precarious financial situation. Lack of state funding has trickled down to the campus and caused cutbacks in staff, services and supplies across campus departments. While the decision to eliminate men’s rugby, men’s baseball, men’s and women’s gymnastics and women’s lacrosse from intercollegiate competition was dubbed “difficult and painful” by Birgeneau and Athletic Director Sandy Barbour, some faculty agree that the decision is necessary as the department attempts to reduce its reliance on campus institutional support to meet its annual budgets. “Where we went two years with no hiring of faculty, where we went a year with furloughs, where we laid off 500 workers, we could not justify university support of intercollegiate athletics in the area of $15 million, $20 million,” Birgeneau said at a press conference following the announcement of the cuts. Birgeneau added that the department will not cut any more teams. On Nov. 5, members of the campus division of the Academic Senate approved a resolution asking the campus to end all campus support to the athletics department and instead focus on redirecting funds to struggling academic programs. The Task Force on Intercollegiate Athletics was then established, charged with advising

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For months, talks of cuts loomed large over the Cal athletics department, but until Tuesday, it was just a grim possibility. After Tuesday’s press conferAUDIO SLIDESHOW ence, the reality finally hit. Mihir Zaveri comments For weeks, on the press conference rumors swirled and the cut teams. about which, if any programs would be discontinued, but nothing was conclusive until Athletic Director Sandy Barbour spoke with the teams about two hours before conducting the press conference. Each squad was informed that its 2011 season would be the final one. “It’s a shame, it’s an absolute shame,” said former center fielder Brett Jackson. “Part of my dream was playing baseball at Cal. Cal opened up huge opportunities for me and my career, and I owe so much to the program, the coaching, the experience I had at Cal.” The cuts will mean different futures for the 163 student-athletes affected. Chancellor Robert Birgeneau announced that all students on scholarship would have their tuition honored, but it is almost certain that some will transfer to continue their athletics careers elsewhere. Of the five sports cut, only baseball and lacrosse lend themselves to potentially high transfer numbers. Cal men’s gymnastics was one of two West Coast programs, leaving the athletes few nearby transfer options, and women’s gymnastics has been campus’s weakest sport for more than a decade. For some, it means the end of the athletic opportunity once promised to them at Cal. For others, it is an abrupt conclusion to their current careers. “For me to be in this position where I’m almost battling with this same university, it is almost surreal to me,” said rugby coach Jack Clark, one of eight coaches terminated. “I think Tuesday was the hardest day of my life.” The cuts signaled an end to two-century-old traditions, as well as an Olympic sport. For some like Clark, who has

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Committee Presents Details of Sunshine Ordinance to City Council by Stephanie Baer Daily Cal Staff Writer

Almost 10 years since an open government ordinance was first proposed, the city of Berkeley could, within two years, bask in the benefits of an ordinance that would shine light on the inner workings of city government. At a work session Tuesday, the Citizens’ Sunshine Committee came before the Berkeley City Council to discuss the implications and components of an open government ordinance, also known as a sunshine ordinance. City staff also presented their analysis of the committee’s ordinance draft. Though the committee has developed multiple drafts of an ordinance since it formed in 2007, the council

had not met with the committee and city staff until Tuesday. Shirley Dean, former Berkeley mayor and treasurer for the committee, said although the committee had to “fight like heck” to bring the initiative to the council, it was refreshing to hear council members’ confirmation of the ordinance’s importance at the meeting. “It was like the flood gates opened and people were ... for the first time saying, ‘Yeah, they’ve got problems,’” she said. California’s Brown and Public Records acts make basic guarantees regarding access to public meetings and documents, and state that local jurisdictions can expand upon those guarantees. “We may differ on an awful lot of the political issues in Berkeley but that doesn’t mean that we don’t agree on

the basic problems presented by the sunshine question,” said committee member David Wilson at the meeting. The committee’s initiative petition — which has garnered more than the needed 2,779 signatures — is currently being verified by the Registrar of Voters for placement on the November 2012 ballot. City staff will return to the council with their own draft in January. At the meeting, Wilson highlighted three of the committee’s main concerns with current city operations — the timing of meetings and agenda availability, the process for public record requests and enforcement of open government policies — which several council members agreed warrant attention. “My interest really is for us to have an open government that’s responsive

to the citizenry and still allows us to proceed in a manner that we don’t induce some self-imposed paralysis on the government,” Councilmember Max Anderson said at the meeting. Currently, nine local jurisdictions in the state have implemented a sunshine ordinance, according to Dean. She said the committee used several ordinances, including San Francisco’s, as models for the Berkeley initiative. In 1993, San Francisco passed its own sunshine ordinance, which was then strengthened in the late 1990s, according to Richard Knee, chair of the San Francisco Sunshine Ordinance Task Force. Knee said although the ordinance is “one of the strongest in the nation,” it does not provide sufficient enforcement abilities. “There are far too many who still ...

want to do their best to skirt the requirements or withhold as much information as they can,” he said While Knee and Dean agreed that enforcing the ordinance may be a constant struggle, council members, staff and committee members maintain that Berkeley has the stamina to increase public access to city government. “We could look at what other jurisdictions are doing,” Councilmember Laurie Capitelli said at the meeting. “I know that Berkeley is really great at inventing wheels, but it takes a long time to invent the wheel so maybe we could learn something from that.” Stephanie Baer is the lead city government reporter. Contact her at sbaer@dailycal.org.

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Suspect Arrested in Alleged Hit and Run, Vehicle Theft

Police arrested a man who was allegedly under the influence while driving a stolen pickup truck following reports of a vehicular crash on UC Berkeley property in Albany early Saturday morning. UCPD received a phone call at about 4:19 a.m. Saturday reporting that a truck had crashed into one of the landscaping units in the parking lot at University Village student housing in Albany. Officers from UCPD and the Albany Police Department arrived on scene at around 4:26 a.m. and were informed that the suspect was on the third floor of one of the village’s buildings, allegedly attempting to gain entry into one of the apartments, according to UCPD Capt. Margo Bennett. Bennett said the suspect — identified as Musid Nassir Abdallah — appeared to be extremely intoxicated and, following a third-floor resident’s

allegations that he was ringing their doorbell and attempting to force the doorhandle, was taken into custody by UCPD officers at around 6:55 a.m. Abdallah is being charged with driving while under the influence, vehicle theft, hit and run, tampering with a vehicle, a probation violation, possessing a knife on university property and public intoxication. “This is not a frequent type of crime we have occurring,” Bennett said. “We certainly will be working with the (district attorney) to pull together the information they need to successfully prosecute this, and the rest of it really is in the hands of the court system.” Bennett said after checking the truck’s license plate following the incident, it was revealed that the vehicle was reported stolen from somewhere in Oakland. According to a UCPD crime alert describing the incident, Abdallah received psychiatric evaluation after his arrest. —J.D. Morris

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UC Berkeley’s graduate school programs have made the grade in 48 subjects, according to a recent national survey released Tuesday. The survey, conducted by the National Research Council, evaluated 212 U.S. universities on 20 criteria, including size, number of faculty publications and demography. Sixty-two fields were selected, of which 52 UC Berkeley fields qualified. The fields surveyed had to produce research doctorates comparable to other universities’ programs nationwide. UC Berkeley’s graduate programs were number one for schools that achieved rankings in the top 10 nationally with 48 programs, followed by Harvard University with 46 and UCLA with 40. Jeremiah Ostriker, professor of astrophysics at Princeton University and chair of the committee in charge of the survey, said research for the survey began in 2001 when the committee

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his past April as I was finishing a test for my political science class, my fiancee Lisa sent me a text message saying that we needed to talk. On my way home from class I called her, and what she told me made the Los Angeles sun feel a little warmer. “I didn’t think there was one, but I can kind of see it very faintly. I think that means ...” she said as the last part of her sentence hung in the balance, perfectly communicating its message without a need for words. The little pink line doesn’t lie, and if all goes according to plan, somewhere near Jan. 11 we will become parents. I don’t know how to convey in words how ecstatic I felt the day I found out that Lisa was pregnant, how crazy it was to hear the baby’s heartbeat for the first time or how wonderful it was to find out we are going to have a little girl. I also don’t think I can convey in publishable words how ticked off I am that before she is even born, our daughter is getting the cold shoulder from the health insurance industry. In a recent LA Times article, it was reported that most of the major health insurance companies are planning to circumvent the new health care regulations requiring them to insure all children by simply not offering policies to kids. According to the report, Anthem Blue Cross, Aetna and other insurance companies will stop selling new child-only policies in California, as well as in many other states. This will lead to an unbalanced market, and surely other companies will follow suit. Yes, kids already on insurance rolls and those under group plans, like most employee benefit plans, will retain their benefits. However, this makes it harder for an estimated 80,000 California children without insurance to gain the coverage supposedly mandated by the new law. These children whose parents work at jobs with no benefits or with benefits not covering family members will be denied insurance. The companies contend that they don’t sell that many child-only policies anyway. That’s probably because before the enactment of the legislation they found excuses like pre-existing conditions to weasel out of coverage anyway. et’s not forget the story of the baby in Colorado who was originally denied insurance last year for being “too fat.” I’m amazed that the callous megalomaniacs that run the health care system will continue to get away with screwing over innocent children. They claim that, due to the new law, their costs would be much higher to cover children seeking these types of plans because parents would only seek health insurance for their kids once they’ve already gotten sick. Whoever said this must not be a parent. My daughter isn’t even born yet, and I already know that I will do everything to protect her. I will always

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Telegraph Street Vendors’ Hours to Be Extended cial zone in the area. This amendment will extend street vendors’ closing hours from 9 p.m. to 12 a.m. and give vendors an extra 30 minutes to set up and dismantle their operations. “Part of the idea is to allow them to open at night to have a more vibrant area, and I think people will feel safer when there are eyes and ears on the streets,” said Councilmember Kriss Worthington, who represents District 7, which includes Telegraph. The ordinance was proposed in June by the Telegraph Business Im-

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Robert R. King make sure she is safe. I will protect her from the yucky boys at her school. And I will do my best to make sure she gets preventative care so she doesn’t get sick in the first place. I’m also sure I’m not the only one that thinks that way. Luckily, due to the fact that I’m a student, I believe that I will be able to have her insured through the school plan, but that doesn’t solve the problem for all the other children being denied coverage. The report noted that the Obama administration offered a solution to the companies of selling child-only policies during certain enrollment periods, an offer obviously made in vain. Additionally, the administration noted that families seeking insurance for their children could possibly find coverage in the high-risk pools being set up by the new legislation. t’s great that these companies are being allowed to skirt the law so that families will have to pay more for “high-risk” insurance, even if their kids are perfectly healthy. There is another option for some families. Those that qualify can enroll their children in state-run programs. The problem is that plans such as Medi-Cal are already stretched beyond capacity and thousands of children don’t qualify. However, there may be some hope for kids in California. Assembly Bill 2244 mandates that any company refusing to offer child-only coverage would not be able to sell any individual insurance in California for five years. The bill awaits the signature of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, should he decide to sign it. The bottom line remains: If the bill isn’t signed, we’re still in the same mess. This also doesn’t take into account the fact that thousands of children in other states will still be denied coverage. I also won’t be surprised when insurance companies find other ways to ignore the supposed regulations of the health care bill. This is all an on-par example of how the waffling of the White House and the rest of the knuckleheads in Washington, D.C. has failed the American people and our unborn children.

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The Berkeley City Council unanimously approved changes to an ordinance Tuesday, extending the hours of operation for sidewalk vendors along Telegraph Avenue to midnight in hopes of increasing business and creating a safer atmosphere on Southside. The ordinance, which goes into effect on Oct. 27, is part of a larger effort by the Telegraph Business Improvement District to create a 24/7 commer-

provement District, according to Dave Fogarty, the city’s economic development project coordinator. On June 22, Worthington proposed an item to the council asking the city manager’s office to give its opinion on the matter. “After consulting with the other staff, I drafted a report saying that the extension would not have any negative impacts,” Fogarty said in an e-mail. The council unanimously approved the amendment during its first reading

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on Sept. 21 and gave its final approval a week later after allowing for public input. In addition to providing a safer environment, the new hours will give street vendors more flexibility by allowing them to set up earlier, Worthington said. “This will give them time to load or unload food carts,” he said. “Once in a while they block traffic, so this way they can bring it out and set it up when there’s no traffic to get in the way.” Despite this advantage, Fogarty expects that relatively few vendors will take advantage of the extended hours. David Dominguez, a partner owner of La Villa Taqueria — a Mexican food truck at the intersection of Bancroft Way and Telegraph — said the later hours would bring more customers.

“I think it’s positive that we can stay here later, especially on weeknights,” he said. “But we also have a restaurant on Channing and Dwight, and that’s why we don’t set up until 11 a.m. It’s hard as it is because we prepare here and there.” Craig Becker, owner of Caffe Mediterraneum and one of the main proponents of the ordinance, said that the time extensions will help promote business in the Telegraph District. “There are always complaints about loud parties and student drinking, while Telegraph at late night is dead,” Becker said. “Let’s move the party at Telegraph. It makes no sense to have a dead commercial district with these demographics. We really need to lighten things up.” Contact Karinina Cruz at kcruz@dailycal.org.

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Telegraph Avenue street vendors, including Sheila Farrell’s jewelry business, can stay open for three more hours — until midnight — once a new ordinance takes effect.

Demonstrators Rally Against Possible State Cuts to Child Care by Yousur Alhlou Contributing Writer

A crowd of approximately 500 protesters gathered on the steps of Oakland City Hall Plaza Wednesday to rally against possible cuts to child care funding in California’s proposed state budget. Despite an already delayed state budget stemming from a divided Legislature, the proposed budget threatens to eliminate subsidized child care programs across the state, which would affect more than 10,000 children in Alameda County alone. The crowd — composed of demonstrators from 10 child care and development agencies, subsidized providers, parents and students — marched from the 12th Street Oakland City Center

BART station and assembled in a noon rally at the plaza after marching in Fremont earlier that morning. Most of the crowd donned identical white T-shirts that said “Children on Board.” Due to the lack of state reimbursements since July 1, most subsidized child care centers — including the King Child Development Center and the Hopkins and Franklin preschools in the Berkeley Unified School District — are facing severe program cuts, job eliminations, diminishing fund reserves and zero support from banks too nervous to distribute loans, according to district officials. Camille Llanes-Fontanilla, lead organizer and director of development and communications for Kidango — a statewide nonprofit providing daily child care to more than 2,500 children in the

Bay Area alone — said she is uncertain about the stability of the organization’s $2 million monthly budget and the state’s child care system in general. “We want to encourage our legislators to make a decision quickly ... Any cuts to child care would be detrimental to our families,” she said. “Children should be our priority,” said state Assemblymember Sandre Swanson, D-Alameda. “If we can’t stand for our children, then as a state, we are morally bankrupt.” Parent Gina Jackson said at the rally that child care keeps children learning and parents working. Although Llanes-Fontanilla said she anticipates that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger may sign a budget by Friday, most agencies are preparing for

the worst, according to rally speaker Beatriz Leyva-Cutler, vice president of the Berkeley Unified School District Board of Education and executive director of Bay Area Hispano Institute for Advancement, who foresees “fiscal peril” if a fair budget is not passed. Although many people voiced their concerns, Jennifer Greppi-Freitas, an organizer for Parent Voices — a parent-run advocacy group — maintains a hopeful outlook about the state’s decision to continue child care funding. “For every dollar we spend on early childhood education, we’re saving estimates from $7 to $10 in the future on other services,” she said. “Let’s invest today.” Contact Yousur Alhlou at yalhlou@dailycal.org.

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People’s Park was the site of two separate battery incidents that occurred late Saturday and Monday nights, bringing the total of simple assaults on UC Berkeley property since August of this year to 82. The first incident occurred Sept. 25 at around 10:35 p.m. on the southeastern quadrant of People’s Park. At approximately 10:14 p.m. Sept. 27, the second incident took place at the park’s west side, which was resolved later that night by officers from UCPD at around 11:49 p.m. According to UCPD Capt. Margo Bennett, two suspects approached the first incident’s victim and told him to take his belongings and leave the park. When the victim did not immediately comply, the suspects hit him multiple times, Bennett said, leading the victim to pack up his belongings and leave the park. The victim and suspects had left the park and could not be found by the time UCPD officers arrived on the scene. The first suspect was described by police as male, about 20 years old, 180 pounds and six feet tall. The second suspect was a male between the ages of 15 and 16, 5-foot-7 and about 150 pounds. The victim did not sustain any major injuries, and UCPD officers are currently conducting an investigation to locate both the victim and the suspects. During the second incident, the victim was approached by the suspect and complied to his request to meet him on the west side of the park, since the victim reportedly knew the suspect on a first-name basis. The suspect, who was identified as Wilbert Armelin, demanded $500 from the victim, who said he did not have the money, Bennett said. As a result, Armelin allegedly punched the victim once or twice on

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the cheek and ears with a closed fist. The victim was treated at and released from Alta Bates Summit Medical Center. The suspect has been charged with battery, and a records search revealed that he had an active warrant from BART Police Department for fare evasion. He is currently being held at the Berkeley Police Department Jail. “It is not unusual for the homeless population to get in altercations with each other,” Bennett said. “But it would be misleading to say it’s a frequent occurrence.”

Professor of public policy and former task force member Michael O’Hare said as the department moves forward to become financially self-sustaining, it must continue to utilize faculty oversight to make sure it addresses how money will be spent and how future plans will be executed. “This is a division that has gotten in trouble financially before,” he said. “Cutting teams is seven-twelfths of the loaf and it is definitely progress. But the questions that still remain are: where is the money to retire the loans to the renovation of Memorial Stadium and the building of the Student-Athlete High Performance Center? Where is money to maintain those facilities? I haven’t seen those questions addressed anywhere.”

headed the rugby program since 1984, Tuesday’s announcement signals a possible end of a national powerhouse. For others like men’s gymnastics coach Tim McNeill, it is the end of an opportunity to lead his alma mater. “It’s a real shame,” McNeill said. “We almost reached 100 years,” Every program recognizes that these reductions were an inevitable consequence of a delta exceeding $13 million, but the pain of losing a program still resonates. “All of a sudden it’s just gone,” said Cal women’s gymnast Alex Leggitt. “It has been really hard to see, especially as the captain, the look on my teammates’ faces when they told us, to see them cry like that.” Though the reductions brought great hardship to each of the five sports, the eliminations of baseball and rugby remain the most polarizing. Cal baseball won the first College World Series in 1947, and Cal rugby has been a staple at Berkeley for more than 130 years. Despite weak attendance and average success in recent years, the Bears had nine players play Major League Baseball in 2010. Rugby’s popularity continues to proliferate in the United States, and up to this point, Cal has set the national standard. Six former Cal ruggers have represented the United States at the Olympics, 46 have played for the U.S. national team since its inception in 1975 and 117 were named All-Americans since the modern-day All-American team was formed in 1984. The relegation comes at a difficult time for the rugby program. The wildly popular international sport is making headway on both an international and domestic level. “Now is the time when it goes back into the Olympic games, back into the PanAmerican games and back into the World University games,” Clark said. “ABC and ESPN are battling NBC Universal for the rights to rugby competitions … Cal gets unbelievable publicity in that.”

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was excited to hear the results. “We just posted the rankings with champagne in the faculty room because when your ranking is somewhere between number one and number one, you feel really good,” he said. “You look at the tremendous success here, and it shows, if you believe Berkeley is an elite institution, these results certainly confirm that.” Across the UC system, eight other campuses received top ratings for graduate programs — UC Davis, UC Irvine, UCLA, UC Riverside, UC San Diego, UC San Francisco, UC Santa Barbara and UC Santa Cruz. At the time of the survey, UC Merced did not have fully established doctoral programs. UCLA, which ranked third, reported 33 programs in the top 25 percent. Alberto Garcia, a UC Berkeley history graduate student, said the accomplished faculty drew him to the campus. “I also think a big, important factor is the collegiality of the grad students,” he said. “We’re not in competition with each other; we’re all supportive of each other.” Contact Victoria Pardini at vpardini@dailycal.org.

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Birgeneau on how best to remedy the department’s financial troubles. Last semester, Birgeneau created an additional advisory council — composed of four faculty and four alumni donors — with the same objective. Over the course of the last six months, both bodies have analyzed the department’s operations to try and find a way to best cut costs while still maintaining a robust athletic program. According to Calvin Moore, former chair of the task force, former member of the advisory council and campus professor of mathematics, neither group recommended that the department cut teams as the primary method to combat the financial situation, instead suggesting that the department

focus on across-the-board cuts to curtail its financial woes. “I think their deliberations and analysis came to the conclusion that you can’t reduce campus support to $5 million by 2014, keep teams at the highest level of competition and still have a full compliment of 29 teams,” he said. “You can do two of the three and the chancellor chose the most important ones.” In fiscal year 2008-09, institutional support for the department totaled $13.7 million, the largest amount in its history. Moving forward, the question remains as to how the department will effectively reduce costs on a yearly basis to meet its target goal of $5 million in institutional support — recommended by both the task force and the advisory council — in only four years.

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his weekend Golden Gate Park will turn into San Francisco’s version of “Big Rock Candy Mountain.” No, there won’t be Look for previews cigarette trees and reviews at blog. or whiskey lakes, but the dailycal.org/arts. Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival gets pretty darn close to the spirit of the hobo-Americana standard. Free music in the bucolic heart of American counter-culture, full of free-wheeling kicks, congresses of banjo pickers on and off stage and the wondrous sight of kegs in wheelbarrows. Yes, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass is a barrel full of monkey-fun. For a festival imbued with such joyful appreciation of freedom

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and eccentricity, Warren Hellman might seem a strange patron. At first glance, the founder and funder of Hardly Strictly Bluegrass might seem out of place at his own festival. An investment banker by trade, Hellman logged hours at firms like Lehman Brothers. But upon closer inspection Hellman’s life has been just as eclectic as his festival. Hellman was a bluegrass and folk fan growing up in New York. He played water polo for Cal in the ’50s while earning a degree in business administration; after that he served two years in the army before attending Harvard’s MBA program. Somehow, through all this and a successful career in banking, Hellman has been able to retain his love for American folk music. He evens has his own band, the Wronglers (playing Sunday at 11 in the morning!). The genesis of Hardly Strictly

came from an idea he had been carrying around for some time. “I had this fantasy of putting on a bluegrass festival someday,” said Hellman. In 1999 he teamed up with Slim’s manager Dawn Holliday to make the dream a reality. In 2001, the first year of the festival, Hellman “wasn’t sure if anyone would show up for bluegrass in San Francisco.” But people showed up to see nine acts play in the single-day incarnation of the festival. The two highlights, for Hellman at least, were the performances by Hazel Dickens and Emmylou Harris. Each year since, Hardly Strictly has grown steadily, not just in attendance (which topped out at 750,000 for three days last October), but also in acts and stages. What started as two stages has transformed into six stages and 78 acts. It’s experienced a few bumps, however. Record heat required that

$50,000 worth of water be purchased one year, and the concurrent Fleet Week stars the Blue Angels drowned out the tunes in 2007, yet overall Hellman considers the festival’s run a success. Over the last nine years Hardly Strictly has showcased some of the best American folk music has to offer. Ralph Stanley, Doc Watson, Gillian Welch and John Prine have all graced Speedway Meadows’ various stages. Hellman’s favorite acts are still Dickens and Harris, who date back to the beginning of the festival, although he also notes that “Robert Plant and Alison Krauss put on a fantastic show in 2008.” This year Hellman is looking forward to seeing the Ebony Hillbillies, a group that started out busking in Queens. Hellman is especially proud of the “hardly” section of the festival, which brings

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never realized how cool Aston Martins are until I saw Daniel Craig drive one off a cliff as James Bond in “Quantum of Solace.” I never realized how refreshing Coca-Cola is until I watched Simon Cowell sip a big red cup of it on “American Idol.” I never realized how charming American Airlines is until George Clooney handsomely sat aboard an AA aircraft in “Up in the Air.” After seeing each of these things, my regular nightly dreamscape was replaced by a repeating plot of flying an AA plane into an Aston Martin while Daniel Craig and George Clooney shower me in Coca Cola. Or so these companies would hope. With the advent of TiVo and other ways to digitally record and watch TV shows and skip those doggone commercials, companies need a new way to convince us how awesome their stuff is and how we should totally buy it. The answer: product placement. Excuse me for a moment while I puke all over myself. OK I’m back. What could be worse, what in the world could be worse, than films and television shows bending their plots to suit a corporate sponsor? Don’t answer that question. Of course there are worse things than this. This is a sick world we live in. I shall rephrase. What could be worse in this whole Thursday arts section than the idea of any of these works being infiltrated by advertising smut? Take, for instance, the review in today’s paper of Cal Shakes’ “Much Ado About Nothing.” Look for it. Read it. Isn’t it a pretty review? Who wrote that again? Anyway. Shakespeare of course wrote with outside pressures, making sure he didn’t tread on any Tudor toes in his histories. But imagine the following corporate-sponsored Shakespearean play: “Much Ado About Quinn’s High-Quality Quills.” This is a terrible example; I will abandon it immediately. All right, it’s open mind time. God I hate this part. It’s possible, I admit, for product placement to add to a piece of art. This can be seen in comedies for purposes of irony. Tina Fey’s “30 Rock” is littered with brands. Alec Baldwin once sang an ode onscreen to the McFlurry. Fey later claimed that no cash exchanged hands for the McFlurry bit — it was product placement done to benefit the plot. And who could forget Stephen Colbert’s Doritos Spicy Sweet Pennsylvania primary coverage from Chili-Delphia. I know I couldn’t; it was too delicious. Colbert grasped the reins of product placement and tasted the spicy sweet monetary awards. He also earned some chuckles in the process. Success. But can product placement succeed beyond the accommodatingly ironic sphere of comedy? Jason Reitman’s 2009 “Up in the Air” suggests so. Rather than inventing

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rom rooftop murals to hand-cut stickers decorating stop signs, the diverse forms of noncommissioned public art constantly lurk in the peripheries of Bay Area streets. On certain walls, new illicit artworks creep up as quickly as they are erased into oblivion, swallowed by smears of beige or silver and resurrected as blank canvases for the next user’s disposal. But before street art grew to encompass various subcultures and techniques, early graffiti writers pioneered their art form on train tracks and in alleys when it wasn’t yet a collector’s commodity, let alone a term in anyone’s vocabulary. Commemorating the originators of Bay Area street art and its surrounding b-boy culture, the San Francisco urban art gallery, 1:AM, currently offers an extensive interdisciplinary group show featuring some of our region’s foremost graffiti greats. Aptly titled “The Classics,” the exhibit samples contemporary paintings and mixed-media works, vintage drawings and documentary photography by artists active between 1983 and 1990. Curated by Nate1, an artist and entrepreneur who got his start during the discipline’s West Coast golden age, the exhibit honors the not-too-distant past of an art form still not universally recognized. In addition to exemplifying the ’80s West Coast graffiti aesthetic, many of the works in “The Classics” testify to their creators’ devotion to their discipline. Spray cans regularly appear as the subject matter of some pieces and the medium of others. Kasper WCF’s painting, “Madcap Spraytown,” features a cartoonish cityscape with spray can skyscrapers emitting puffs of white clouds from their nozzles, the whole scene distorted as if by a fish-eye lens. Meanwhile, Robz opted for a panel made up of spray cans rather than a canvas; his “Risk Now Rob” renders a concrete wall bearing the work’s title in shining, interlocked letters. Flaunting the fruits of several decades’ aerosol practice, Vogue TDK’s “Teenage Love” immediately engrosses with its photorealism. The Krylon spray cans depicted in a hazy glow on the canvas, with their gleaming pink, lime green and silver caps, appear to be rendered in oil paint or acrylic, but were executed entirely in spray paint without a single brush. Other works offer glimpses into the early graffiti scene’s accompanying lifestyle. “4 Elements,” a bright, geometric

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Trout mask replica. Jonathan Moscone’s production of ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ runs through Oct. 17 at the Bruns Amphitheatre.

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he world must be peopled. Everyone can master a grief but he that has it. He that has a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man: and he that is more than a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a man, I am not for him. These are but three of the many morsels of wisdom dotting Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing,” now showing at the California Shakespeare Theater. Nestled in the hills of Orinda, Cal Shakes Artistic Director Jonathan Moscone has been handed the triple gift of a stellar cast, an enchanting set (designed by Daniel Ostling) and an unstoppably witty rom-com. With all this, he has brought something enchanting to the Bruns Memorial Amphitheatre through the creative combination of these lucky theatrical elements. One of Moscone’s most effective choices was in casting Benedick (Andy Murray) and Beatrice (Domenique Lozano) as the older and more mature characters they were intended to be. This is not to say that Murray and Lozano are particularly old, only that they are markedly older than the

young star-crossed couple of Claudio (Nick Childress) and Hero (Emily Kitchens). These latter characters appear as the epitome of youth, wide-eyed and rosy-cheeked and falling in love too fast. Meanwhile Benedick and Beatrice, at first bitter and cruel to one another in their “merry war” of wit and words, provide a comical reflection of Claudio and Hero’s consuming infatuation, proving that love makes fools of people no matter their age. Another effective line of contrast in Moscone’s production can be drawn between the first and second halves. Prior to the intermission, the action is pure comedy, with smiling actors traipsing about the stage in airy costumes and airy moods. This only serves the drama of the heartbreaking fallout at Claudio and Hero’s wedding, when he publicly shames and falsely accuses her. We see the innocent Claudio of the first half descend into the cocky, cruel-hearted creature of the second, having been fooled by the deceptions of the play’s sourest grape — Don John, played by the one and only Danny Scheie. It would require the brutal destruction of a protected forest’s worth of California pines to produce enough paper on which to write the praises

of Scheie as Don John (the bad guy) and Dogberry (the night constable and blundering egoist). That kind of a statement would cause any editor to shudder and use the word “effusive.” But such an editor has never heard Scheie utter the word “thither” in such a way that would induce a fit of giggles in the coldest and most rational of newspapermen. Certainly it is the cast that leaves the most lasting impression of Moscone’s “Much Ado.” The way Beatrice brazenly clamors over the audience during the eavesdropping scene; the little tender looks swapped between Claudio and Hero when no one is looking; the tragedy of Leonato (Dan Hiatt) grieving his only daughter’s fall from grace. On the backs of these talents, the show is carried merrily forth. There is not so much as a moment’s pause to allow any measure of boredom or distraction. Always some new action or wit is charging forth at full throttle, via a dramatic entrance marching to center stage, or more often in the form of a clever claim from the stubborn mouth of a defiant character only minutes away from being vanquished by love. Prevent the brutal destruction of pines with Hannah at hjewell@dailycal.org.

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mixed-media canvas by Crayone, alludes to hip-hop’s four pillars: DJs, MCs, graffiti writers and break dancers. Executed in spray paint with impeccably smooth precision, four stylized faces frame the edges of the canvas in a spiral. Punctuated with blossoms of stylized arrows, the faces’ curved lines merge with the bright, abstract details, a window of graphite designs at the center accentuating the sunny yellows and oceanic blues. Born out of a climate that encouraged spontaneous forms of expression — like the improvised movements of break dancing and the fluid verbiage of freestyle rap, to name a couple — many of the works featured in “The Classics� point to the egalitarian mentality hip-hop aficionados remember of the West Coast golden age. Without institutions to govern the underground art form, the only prerequisites to earning renown in the local graffiti scene were sharp skills and quick reflexes for escaping the authorities.

“In hip-hop, it didn’t matter if you were white, if you were Asian, if you were black. Most of the crews back then ‌ were doing (graffiti) just because they wanted to be the best,â€? Nate1 proudly recalls of the milieu of his coming of age. “And when you’re dealing with that, then all the other bullshit of society goes out the window.â€? The photography featured in the exhibit attests to this accepting attitude. Besides a green and neon orange canvas demonstrating his chaotic letter style, the exhibit includes Picasso TWS’s vintage photos of fellow artists in front of their graffiti works. One photo, titled “Cloud 9, Sno, and Crayone,â€? shows three teenage boys goofing off in the back of a tagged-up bus, captivating the viewer with their carefree camaraderie. Influential graffiti photographer and author Jim Prigoff ’s 1980s photos depict murals from all over the Bay Area, with artists of different ethnicities and genders standing before their work. A member of the crew MPC, or Masterpiece Creators, Nate1 has witnessed

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fans from different musical genres together. He cites Gogol Bordello, who played the festival in ’08, as an act that puts on great shows and brings new fans to folk music. When asked about San Francisco’s status as a musical destination he waxes historical. “Folk music has been an integral part of San Francisco life since the the Gold Rush miners brought songs from all over the world.� Hellman sees San Francisco’s musical explosion in the ’60s as a

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continuation of this tradition. Even music like, in this reporter’s opinion, soulless electro has a place in the city — LovEvolution, a day rave at Civic Center, has shared a Saturday with Hardly Strictly for the last three years. However, this year the dance has been cancelled, which Hellman thinks is unfortunate. “I want as much music, as many events as possible in San Francisco.� Yet Hellman’s support of music isn’t limited to the other side of the bay. He’s been a historic patron and

Money saved. But the embedded advertisement has perks beyond mere financial savvy. “Up in the Air� scores major believability points for its incorporation of real-world brands. Which is the point of a brand — to make us feel comfortable. We know exactly what we’re getting with a well-known brand, and when that familiarity translates

the culture and art of graffiti evolve since its inception on our coast. His only painting featured in “The Classics,� a diptych titled “Masterpiece Creators Yall,� is an acrylic rendering of a brick wall covered with pink and green block letters, jovial Mickey Mouse figures and boastful rhymes that leave the viewer guessing what other cheeky pieces de resistance MPC had up their sleeves. Though the exhibit’s focus on a golden age implies a utopian nostalgia, Nate1 believes that graffiti and street art have become more widely practiced than ever. But despite improvements in spray paint technology and the introduction of wheatpaste and stickers, he has watched the distinct aesthetics of different metropolises merge into a more homogeneous style since the advent of international graffiti blogs and magazines. As the lines of public art continue to intersect through the Bay Area’s different cultural enclaves, however, the writing on the wall can always be traced back to “The Classics.� Nastia Voynovskaya is the lead visual art critic. Contact her at avoynovskaya@dailycal.org.

supporter of the Berkeley folk concert venue the Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse. The club’s new building on Addison Street is “wonderful, a perfect fit for neighbors Berkeley Rep and Aurora Theatre.� Looking to the future, Hellman hopes that the festival will continue to grow, saying, “I’d like to see it get bigger. For the lineup to get more eclectic.� His wish list includes opera singers, symphonies and perhaps country legend Merle Haggard. Can’t wait for that jam session. Indulge in some hobo-Americana with Derek at dsagehorn@dailycal.org.

to film, an audience is given an extra boost toward relating to fictitious characters and their experiences. There, I said it. The incorporation of corporate sponsors can help a film. I feel dirty. Someone call up Craig and Clooney to wash me in Diet Coke. Fantasize about George Clooney with Hannah at hjewell@dailycal.org.

Men’s Gymnastics Reels From Cut; Leaves Only One West Coast Team Just One Year Short of Its 100th Campaign, Cal Men’s Gymnastics Will Cease to Exist After 2011 by Jack Wang

Daily Cal Staff Writer The 2012 season would have marked the Cal men’s gymnastics team’s 100th anniversary, another milestone in a legacy that includes four NCAA ONLINE PODCAST team titles, Jack Wang analyzes the 29 individual champions and cutting of the Cal men’s gymnastics program. 11 Olympians. The Bears will stop short with their 99th. Rumors had swirled for months about their possible elimination; those became official Tuesday afternoon. Coach Tim McNeill, a three-time national champion at Cal just three years ago, gathered the team to deliver the news just weeks after his own hiring. He wanted to give his gymnasts notice 10 minutes before their meeting with athletic director Sandy Barbour at noon, but no amount of time really softens this sort of blow. “You don’t really have words for it,� said Daniel Geri, who helped spearhead a campaign to save the program this summer. “It’s a very sad thing. You just feel crushed. I don’t know what else to say.� The Bears had collected $105,000 in donor pledges for 2012. Campuslow annual operating expenditures of $63,950 in 2008-09, according to the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Postsecondary Education, couldn’t overcome the lack of local and regional varsity competition — one of the critera used to determine cuts. Without Cal, Stanford is the only men’s gymnastics team left on the West Coast. The MPSF conference will consist of just the Cardinal, Oklahoma and Air Force. There will only be 16 collegiate varsity squads remaining

nationwide; in 1970, there were 129. Some worry this spells the beginning of the end of the sport collegiately. “A domino effect certainly is possible, just because there’s so few programs as it is now,� McNeill said. “But I’m hopeful the schools will look at what happened here at Cal and realize that’s not an OK solution ... I hope we didn’t just set an example for the rest of these schools to follow.� Added Stanford coach Thom Glielmi: “I don’t see how any athletic director would want to support a team or a program that has nobody to compete against.� The Bears’ roster still includes world-class athletes. Senior Bryan Del Castillo junior Glen Ishino are both currently part of the U.S. national team; senior Kyle Bunthuwong has also made the roster in the past. The change undoubtedly hurts their ability to continue training. If any athletes decide to transfer, they will be able to compete immediately, an exception to the usual NCAA regulations. Ishino, like others, is still unsure about his future. If he leaves, he’ll try for Stanford, where his sister Allyse competes on the women’s squad. If he stays, he will opt to work with the club team at Cal. He knows that won’t be the same. “You don’t have the same push you have from your team,� he said. “It’s really hard to motivate yourself ... It’s just for you.� The Bears will begin writing their epilogue soon, with hopes that the specter of elimination helps fuel them to one last banner year. “I’ve never seen a program come back,� Glielmi said. “That’s what’s really discouraging with the announcement ... Had they just allowed them to keep their varsity status, dropped their scholarships, the coach — you hire a part-time coach — they have no travel budget; whatever they have to do, they’ll do it. “But once they drop, they’re not coming back.� Contact Jack Wang at jwang@dailycal.org.

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The future of the Cal women’s gymnastics team had been teetering in the balance. There was talk last academic year about cutting sports to lessen the athletic department’s costs. After both the Chancellor’s Advisory Council and the Academic Senate Task Force recommended the university not cut teams, the threat of losing the program seemed to dissipate. A few days before Tuesday’s announcement, head coach Cari DuBois informed her team that the danger of elimination had resurfaced. At a Tuesday meeting with Athletic Director Sandy Barbour, the gymnasts were given the news. “At first I was just in shock,” sophomore Chelsea Spomer said. “Something that I love and have been doing for my whole life was taken away from me and I had no control over it.” Pac-10 success was one factor in the decision to retain and cut squads. The Bears have finished last in their conference 18 of the last 24 seasons, reaching as high as fifth twice during that span.

Dowd from back themselves to the team. A few years until the athletic department became self-sufficient — like they’ve promised. I’m deeply troubled by the fact that in some cases, the media knew which teams were being cut before the players did. These are young people just starting their lives. Choosing a college is an enormous decision for anyone. If tomorrow, your major disappeared forever, what would you do? The 163 student-athletes affected by this have no contingency plans. Some, who plan to turn sports into careers, have no choice but to transfer. They’ll leave behind friends, classmates and homes. With so much on the line, how could the university not consult the affected parties first? Unfortunately, this situation has been handled like practically all of the

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The current members of the team are not the only ones crushed by Tuesday’s news. “It is frustrating to see an approach that eliminates opportunities for student athletes,” USA Gymnastics President Steve Penny said in an online statement. “There are other avenues to explore and ways to try and address circumstances such as these without taking such extreme measures.” After reeling with this shock, team members must decide if they will remain at Cal or transfer. Junior captain Alex Leggitt, however, has firmly resolved to stay at Cal. “I am just as in love with the university as I am with the sport,” Leggitt said. Now, the team must write the final chapter in the program’s history, beginning competition in January. “It’s hard to imagine getting back into workouts and getting back up on the beam,” Leggitt said, “and working as hard as we normally do for such a great season because everyone’s just so hurt right now.” Contact Christina Jones at cjones@dailycal.org.

university’s budget cuts over the past year: without transparency or decency. They’ve given massive pay cuts and furloughs without conversation. They suddenly announce cutbacks but offer no next steps, leading to a legion of unhappy, anxious employees. As a relative and friend of many UC employees, I know this all too well. And now, they’re facing the same emotions from their student-athletes, alumni and fans. “They’ll be hearing from us. They’ll keep hearing from us,” Jackson said. “Someday Cal is going to regret they did this.” They will. Because over the last few days, months and years, they’ve engendered a new generation of frustrated, angry people who gave so much to this place only to have it taken away. Katie Dowd covers baseball. Contact her at sports@dailycal.org.

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Tori Harrison, a junior defender on the Cal women’s lacrosse team, was in her 9:30 a.m. class on Tuesday when she received an e-mail from head coach Theresa Sherry. Instead of a usual 11 a.m. practice, her coach had scheduled a team-wide meeting to discuss the squad’s elimination following the 2011-2012 academic year. “People are still absorbing,” Harrison said. “My reaction is shock. I’ve devoted the past seven years of my life (to lacrosse). I got other offers for lacrosse and basketball, but ... Cal was my dream school.” A native of Austin, Texas, Harrison had her sights set on the Bay Area early on in high school, having attended a skills camp the summer after freshman year. She is one of 18 team members who pay the majority their own outof-state tuition. The 30-player squad equally divides up $45,000 in annual scholarship money. The sport’s annual operating budget stands at $175,000, and its $105,000 coaching salary includes an assistant who is working at 50-percent pay, Sherry says.

BAUMGAERTNER from Back the university by virtue of stellar athletic and academic performance. With a team GPA of 3.0 and a graduation rate of around 90% (only NCAA sports keep exact rates), it leaves us wondering what exactly the athletic department does want from its teams. The athletic department provided decent explanations for demoting rugby to the new “varsity club” division. Cal is the only school in the country with an intercollegiate varsity rugby team and all its opponents are club teams. But for a program that has existed for over 130 years, won 25 national championships and, for a long while, was the only source of Cal athletic pride, the decision is almost harrowing in its shortsightedness. So what other reasons factored into rugby's demotion? Money? Nope. There have been dis-

“For how little our budget is, and my staff is not even close to being paid what other assistants are being paid on this campus,” Sherry said, “and our low scholarships, it didn’t make sense for us to be cut.” In just its 12th year of varsity status, the team may have been targeted by virtue of being the newest team on campus, according to Sherry. The fourth year head coach also felt that the athletic department overlooked lacrosse’s growing popularity. Along with Stanford, Cal has helped to pave the West Coast emergence for a traditionally East Coast-dominated sport. The Bears’ seven-team MPSF conference receives an NCAA Automatic Qualifier in 2011, and will add a new member (San Diego State) in 2012. “Before the recession hit, a lot of the Pac-10 schools were considering adding teams,” Sherry said. “To be honest, it’s kind of embarrassing for Cal to be cutting ... when schools are adding sports, they’re adding women’s lacrosse.” The team voiced particular concern about what it felt was limited information throughout the department’s decision making process. “We were told they were propos-

ing models,” Sherry said. “I haven’t seen any of the models that included a number of combinations of sports being cut. Some of the models did not include cutting sports at all. “To be fair, I don’t think that there were any easy ways to do this, and they needed to make a business decision. But ... I think it is important for the kids to understand that it was an objective decision and the numbers would prove that. Instead of saying, ‘you don’t understand how much went into all of this, it was a huge decision,’ show them why.” News of elimination could significantly impact a squad that Sherry expected to have a breakout season this spring. With normal transfer waiting periods being waived for all affected sports, the team’s 10 freshmen and 11 sophomores will be faced with important decisions. “We kind of just planted a seed (on Tuesday) about what their actions are,” Sherry said. “I’ll probably meet with each girl individually over the next couple of weeks. I think the upperclassmen would chose to stay here and finish out their Cal degree.”

putes about whether or not the program is fully self-sufficient, but even Barbour admitted that “rugby has a substantial endowment, and they have been raising funds on an annual basis to support the program.” Title IX? Here is the big sticking point. Title IX dictates that the athletic programs reflect the gender makeup of any university. With 65 males on a roster with no female side, rugby presents a significant challenge in this regard. That was a challenge until Clark approached the administration with a plan to fully fund and staff a varsity women’s rugby team. Clark offered to head an entire other team funded by the rugby stakeholders. This proposal would expand women’s athletics, save the men’s varsity status and wouldn't have cost the campus. It’s not surprising for a coach to formulate an eleventh hour proposal in a time of desperation, but in Clark’s case, doesn’t his track record validate such a

proposal? According to campus administration, no. Cal rugby never really asked much of the athletic department. They built their facilities, funded their own endowments, and made Cal rugby a marketable, national product. The one thing that they wanted was athletic validation by virtue of being a varsity sport. Former Sports Illustrated writer and current Yahoo! Sports columnist Michael Silver told me that the mother of Mark Bingham, the ex-Cal rugger who helped bring down Flight 93, told him that her son’s brave behavior was because he played for Jack Clark. Melodramatic? Perhaps, but these are the men that have created Cal rugby. Through Cal rugby, you hear of a glorious, century-long legacy. But all I hear now are bulldozers.

Ed Yevelev is the assistant sports editor. Contact him at eyevelev@dailycal.org.

Gabriel Baumgaertner is the sports editor. Contact him at sports@dailycal.org.

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as a varsity sport. “It's not over,” senior wing Blaine Scully said. “We’re just really confused and we’re waiting to find out what it all means. We’ll approach this season the way we always do; chins up, shoulders back.” By relegating rugby from the intercollegiate ranks, Cal removes its most traditionally successful varsity program.

itting inside the Doc Hudson Fieldhouse on Wednesday afternoon, I could not help but notice the buzzing of bulldozers as I spoke to Jack Clark about his program’s relegation to “varsity club" status. The enormous yellow machines conpushed through piles of dirt on Witter Rugby Field, where the best grass in Berkeley once existed. On Tuesday, they may as well have knocked down the fieldhouse. Tuesday’s demotion is not the end of Cal rugby, but it was enough for Clark to call it “the hardest day of my life.” A winner of 21 national championships since he took the helm in 1984, Clark was handed his termination papers on Tuesday morning. He still has one more season to coach the squad that he has led over the course of three decades, but with Tuesday’s announcement, the athletic department clarified that even with a national championship in 2011, it does not deserve to be a varsity sport. It’s hard to believe that a team can have a terrible year in a year that it won a national championship, but even after losing its beloved home field in April, things somehow got worse. To be fair, it has not been a kind year to anybody in the athletic department. Sandy Barbour was forced into making what will probably be the hardest decisions of her career. The process of lowering the large athletic delta has been arduous to everybody involved. But here is the problem: By placing rugby on the chopping block, the campus administration undermined standards by which any team, program or administration should abide. Berkeley takes pride in its excellence, but decided to cut the shining athletic beacon. Cal rugby is about validation, merit and ethos. It is about loyally representing

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After weeks of speculation about downsizing, the University of California announced that Cal men’s rugby ONLINE PODCAST would be one of Gabriel Baumgaertner five sports cut analyzes the relegation from the university’s inter- of rugby.

collegiate athletics program effective 2012. The demotion marks the second significant blow for the program this year; the team lost its home field in March to construction. Unlike the other four sports, men’s and women’s gymnastics, lacrosse and baseball, the rugby team will be classified as the school’s first “varsity club” sport and will compete against the same teams that it has during its time

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hotel is a isolated, dissonant place when you’re alone. But there, in a lonely room in North Carolina, Brett Jackson lay on his bed and remembered, his voice shaking as he spoke. “We just can’t believe that nothing could be done,” he said. “The worst is that we wish we’d been given an opportunity to save the program. It was so abrupt.” Jackson, a center field stud in his three years with Cal baseball team, was drafted by the Chicago Cubs in 2009.

Someday, when he wants to give back to the program that got him there, he won’t be able to. It’ll be gone. Times like these call for hard choices. This university is dedicated to higher education for the people of California. There are no excuses for an athletic department that cannot fund itself in a reasonable manner. Resources should and must go to academics first. I don’t know enough to question Sandy Barbour’s decision to cut five sports rather than issue across-theboard reductions for all teams. The issue is massive and nuanced, to say nothing of Title IX’s shackles. The way in which this heartbreaking decision was made, however — that I question. The administration acted as if there was nothing that could be done, that the parties involved could have no other recourse. It’s hard to believe that’s true. A sport like baseball could have raised substantial donations if they knew the program was on the line. Maybe they wouldn’t have been able to ultimately save it, but they could have bought time. A few years for the program to fulfill its commitment to the players who dedicated

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Despite Recent Woes, Bears Have Churned Out a Number of Major League Baseball Players by Katie Dowd Daily Cal Staff Writer

For years, the Cal baseball team has begged the athletic department to purchase lights for Evans Diamond. That, sadly for the Bears, isn’t a problem anymore. On Tuesday afternoon, it was announced by the university that baseball was among the teams that will be cut from the athletic department, effective beginning in the 2011-12 academic year. “We were continually told everything was on the table, but you don’t expect it,” Cal baseball coach David Esquer said. “Pac-10, West Coast, baseball is one of those staple sports. It’s at its peak based on College World Series returns and TV coverage. Even acknowledging there were budget problems within the state, you didn’t think it would come down to baseball.” “It puts certain sports on higher pedestals than other,” added former Cal center fielder and first round MLB Draft pick Brett Jackson. “Cal baseball

has never fully gotten the recognition it deserved. Cal baseball did great things for the school, it did great things for the Pac-10.” Esquer learned of the decision late Tuesday morning and he told players shortly before that afternoon's official 2:30 p.m., press conference. For the team, the news was devastating. “There was shock, disbelief, anger, panic. It was the whole gamut and understandably so,” Esquer said. “This is among the most important things in their lives and they chose to come to Cal to do that, and they had the rug pulled out from under them. It’s a hard day.” According to the US Department of Education Office of Postsecondary Education, Cal baseball had $296,996 in total operating expenses for the 2008-09 year. That breaks down to about $8,700 per player. Women’s basketball spent the most that year, topping $92,000 per player, and track spent the least, with about $1,600 for each participant. The baseball team hasn’t posted spectacular postseason records over the past decade. That could have played a role in its abrupt curtailing, considering “opportunities for NCAA and Pac-10 success” was among the factors taken into consideration by the university. Since 2001, the Bears have only made three NCAA tournaments in spite of fielding teams full of future major league talent.

Nonetheless, many assumed the Bears were safe due, in part, to the team’s long history, which dates back over 100 years. During that span, the Bears won two College World Series (1947, 1957) and sent countless players to the majors, among them Jeff Kent and Xavier Nady. This summer, Cal’s eight current MLB players tied for the most of any college. “Some great players that have gone through that baseball program,” Stanford baseball coach Mark Marquess said. “It’s not a situation where Cal has not been successful. They have been to the postseason two of the last four years and had first round draft picks. They’ve had a lot of guys sign. It’s been a very successful program. It’s just hard to believe.” Potential transfers do not lose a year of eligibility per NCAA rules, but Esquer does not expect to see a reduced team. “We’ve got a real special group. I think they’ve committed to seeing this through,” Esquer said. “I’d be surprised if many of our players leave because, ironically, we have a team that can contend for the Pac-10 title. We feel good about what our possibilities are, so I don’t feel that they feel like moving to a better situation. “The team they want to play for is right here.” Contact Katie Dowd at kdowd@dailycal.org.

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