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State Budget Passes, Increases UC Funds by Kate Lyons Contributing Writer
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed the California state budget late Friday afternoon, ending a 99-day stalemate in the state Legislature and increasing funding to the University of California after the system has been hit by multiple reductions in state funding over the last three years. The new budget, which was passed by the Legislature Friday morning after a recordlong impasse, provides about $3 billion to the university — an increase of $370.4 million from last year. As part of the budget package, the state will provide the university with a one-time restoration of $305 million to help alleviate the repercussions of last fiscal year’s $637.1 million cut in funding that resulted in student fee increases, furloughs and other cost-saving measures. In addition to the restoration, the budget provides $51.3 million to support 5,121 students currently not funded by the state, $14.1 million to cover increased health care costs of retired annuitants and $353 million for infrastructure projects centered on student accessibility and seismic safety, according to a statement by Patrick Lenz, UC vice president
for budget. The rest of the roughly$3 billion in state funding will contribute to the UC’s general budget and can be allocated at the discretion of the UC Board of Regents. According to Lenz, general funds will be divided up among campuses and put toward hiring new faculty, restoring course offerings and supporting student services. “We thank the governor and the legislature for making higher education a priority, even as the state continues to face fiscal challenges,” Lenz said in the statement. “This budget demonstrates their commitment to invest in higher education to ensure the long-term economic vitality of the state.” The funds will be distributed in monthly payments of $225 million starting at the end of November, according to Peter Taylor, chief financial officer for the UC. In addition to the monthly installments, $576 million will come to the UC in the third week of December, totaling approximately $1 billion by the end of 2010. Judy Heiman, principal fiscal and policy analyst for the California Legislative Analyst’s Office, said the funding is relatively unrestricted because state-imposed requirements to receive the funds, such as minimum enrollment numbers, have not only been met but exceeded by the university.
Despite the increased funding, Lenz said in the statement that the university continues to face “significant challenges” and that permanent state support for the UC is 10 percent lower than 2007-08 funding levels, while the number California residents enrolled in the UC has increased by 16,000 students in that time. “It’s still a tough situation,” said UC spokesperson Steve Montiel, who added that the university still faces a budget gap of $237 million that the new budget does not address. But Schwarzenegger maintained a positive outlook on the budget, which was passed after an all-night legislative session beginning 11 a.m. Thursday. The main budget bill, SB 870, was voted on several times before finally receiving a two-thirds majority vote at approximately 7 a.m. Friday morning and acquiring Schwarzenegger’s signature hours later. “It is often said that politics is the art of compromise, and let me tell you, this is exactly what this budget is,” Schwarzenegger said in a press conference Friday. “Today I am proud to say that we, Democrats and Republicans, fought through all of the minefields and all of the obstacles that were in front of us and got the job done.”
Following a U.S. Department of Energy decision Thursday, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory will lead an international consortium created to pioneer improvements in building energy efficiency. The Clean Energy Research Center is an alliance of American and Chinese institutions that focuses on the research and development of new technologies for saving energy in buildings and is working to find strategies for the commercialization of new innovations in both China and the United States, according to Mark Levine, the center’s director on buildings and leader of the China Energy Group at the lab. Michaela Martin, program manager at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, said in an e-mail that the center will focus on researching energy-saving building innovations such as advanced insulation materials, improved window-glazing technologies, energy monitoring and control systems, lighting, geothermal and distributed heat pumps, and solar combined heat and power. “The most important (aspect), in many ways, is to develop a test bed facility to put all these technologies into one place and test how you can produce a very low-energy building,” Levine said. He added that after new technologies are developed, analysis of the Chinese market and cooperation with industrial partners will help to introduce the new products into both Chinese and American marketplaces. The center will receive an initial contribution of $12.5 million over five years from the American government, an amount that will be matched by industry partners, amounting to a total of $25 million in funding for the American portion of the center. The Chinese government is expected to similarly fund the center’s Chinese counterparts. In addition to Berkeley Lab, the American half of the center will unite the efforts of seven institutions — the Oak Ridge National Lab, Natural Resources Defense Council, ICF International, National Association of State Energy Offices, Association of State Energy Research and Technology Transfer Institutions, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and UC Davis — according to a lab statement. Levine said China has yet to announce the institutions it has chosen to participate in the consortium. “We’ll know when the Chinese decide to let us know,”
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Hate Incident, Hate Crime Occur On Campus in Previous Week by Noor Al-Samarrai Contributing Writer
A hate incident and separate hate crime occurred on the UC Berkeley campus last week, raising concerns about racism among members of the campus community. In the hate incident, six stickers — some of them “anti-Muslim” and one “pro-Israel,” according to UCPD Lt. Alex Yao — were placed on the display board for the student group Students for Justice in Palestine sometime before 8:30 p.m. on Oct. 5, according to SJP member Luma Hadad. The wooden display board was propped up on Sather Gate Bridge alongside many others advertising student groups. The defacement occurred a day before an SJP-sponsored event, during which peace activists from the Gaza Freedom Flotilla spoke on campus. According to members of SJP, four stickers read “Fight Islamic Extremism,” while another read “Israel Celebrating 62 Years: If You Will It It Is No Dream” and the last read “Making The World a Better Place” above the faces of Osama bin Laden, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez, all with shooting targets drawn over them. The stickers were removed by an SJP member Oct. 6 before UCPD of-
ficers could see them, SJP member Nairi Shirinian said. According to Yao, the board’s defacement is currently classified as a hate incident rather than a hate crime because vandalism must inflict lasting damage to be considered a crime. Also, at 5:12 p.m. on Oct. 7 — the national day of action for public education — graffiti in Dwinelle Hall was reported to UCPD in what has been classified as a hate crime. The phrase “No Mexicans” was written on the wall near room 142 of Dwinelle, while “No Mexicans Please” was also found on the wall of the stairwell just south of that room. Both phrases were written in black marker in letters about two inches tall and appeared to have been written by the same suspect, Yao said. UCPD is currently investigating both incidents, Yao said. According to Kifah Shah, assistant director of the campus Multicultural Center, hate crimes and incidents — especially those targeting Muslim and Arab students in the UC system — are somewhat common and are all too often “discounted by the administration (and) ... viewed as isolated incidents rather than part of a larger problem of racism.” Contact Noor Al-Samarrai at nsamarrai@dailycal.org.
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Protesters outside the Richard C. Blum Hall marched against proposals to outsource bus services and cut workers’ retirement benefits.
Sixteen Arrested in Blum Hall Protest by Yousur Alhlou Contributing Writer
While the newly renovated Richard C. Blum Hall — now home to UC Berkeley’s Blum Center for Developing Economies — was unveiled Friday afternoon, 16 protesters were arrested as part of a demonstration of approximately 45 pro-
testers who called on Blum to address their concerns regarding bus outsourcing and benefit cuts for workers. Out of the 16 arrested, 13 of the protesters — including 11 UC Berkeley students, one UC extension student and one protester unaffiliated with the university — were cited for trespassing, according to UCPD Lt. Alex Yao. Among
those arrested was ASUC External Affairs Vice President Ricardo Gomez. Yao said two other protesters unaffiliated with the university were detained and cited for trespassing and disturbing the peace. One UC Berkeley student was cited for disturbing the peace. All those detained and cited
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Corrections Thursday’s article “Memorial Stadium: Birthplace of a Legacy� incorrectly stated that Cal beat Oregon 45-24 in 2007. In fact, that game took place in 2006. The article “Cal’s Influence on UCLA Seen in Mascots, Fight Songs� in the same issue incorrectly identified Thomas Gartner as the student director of the UCLA Marching Band. In fact, he is the student director of the Cal Marching Band. The article “A Time Distinguished by Tradition� in the same issue incorrectly stated that the Homecoming Rally includes a bonfire. In fact, it does not. Friday’s op-ed “Power to the People? I Don’t Think So� incorrectly spelled Chancellor Robert Birgeneau’s name. The Daily Californian regrets the errors.
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Local Company’s Technology Mimics Human Gait by J.D. Morris Contributing Writer
New technology unveiled by Berkeley Bionics Oct. 7 could allow some previously wheelchair-using patients to stand up and move their legs with the stride of a normal human walk. The company has been working in conjunction with researchers at the UC Berkeley College of Engineering for about three years to develop the Exoskeleton Lower Extremity Gait System (eLEGS), an untethered exoskeleton for wheelchair users. Sensors in the device — which feed off manually operated hand crutches — provide patients with the ability to walk by anticipating their movements, according to UC Berkeley professor of mechanical engineering Homayoon Kazerooni, founder of Berkeley Bionics and adviser of the study. According to Tim Swift, a UC Berkeley graduate student in the mechanical engineering department who helped develop the technology, mimicking the normal walking traits of a healthy human is one of the primary objectives of the device and also one of its primary difficulties. “There’s a reason nobody else has done this before, and that’s because
nobody knows how to do it,� he said. “Walking is very difficult.� Anyone with a mobility disorder, possibly including paraplegics and victims of strokes, may benefit from the eLEGS technology, according to Kazerooni. Berkeley Bionics Vice President of Engineering John Fogelin said the device can support a variety of body types weighing under 220 pounds and ranging from heights of 5-foot-2 to 6-foot-4. He added that in order to use eLEGS at all, patients must have a significant range of motion in their knees and be able to support their own body weight. “We envision a number of people benefitting from this technology — people who are paralyzed and have an inability to walk will benefit by this device replacing their walk with natural human gait,� he said. Since the inception of Berkeley Bionics in 2005, the company has developed two other devices — the Berkeley Lower Extremity Exoskeleton and the Human Universal Load Carrier — to substantially increase a subject’s ability to carry heavier loads. But eLEGS is the company’s first foray into using its exoskeleton technology for medical use, according to Kazerooni.
The battery-driven eLEGS can sustain four to six hours of continual use and an entire day of normal walking, Fogelin said, and is intended to be used as a complement to a wheelchair as opposed to a replacement. Swift, who has been working on the eLEGS project for three years, said disabled patients could experience numerous health benefits simply from being vertical, as this technology allows. Fogelin said the company hopes to find proof of these benefits. “Are there any medical issues of being confined to a wheelchair? Yes,� he said. “It remains to be seen whether eLEGS will fix that.� By July, developers of the technology hope to have it available for use by select rehabilitation clinics across the country. Until then, clinical trials will determine the technology’s inefficiencies and pitfalls before its wider release, according to Kazerooni. The device must first become more robust in terms of design and be available for purchase at a lower cost, Kazerooni said, though an exact price tag has yet to be announced. Fogelin said he hopes the device will eventually be available for in-home use. Contact J.D. Morris at jmorris@dailycal.org.
‘Global Work Party’ Addresses Climate Change by Stephanie Baer Daily Cal Staff Writer
During a global day of action on Sunday, Berkeley residents and students dug into the problem of climate change, getting their hands dirty to learn, celONLINE VIDEO ebrate and work toward creating 350.org organizers talk climate solutions. about projects they As part of the organized for 10/10/10. 10/10/10 Global Work Party organized by 350.org — an international campaign working to unite the world around solutions to the climate crisis — community members had the opportunity to participate in up to 30 different events, including garden parties, plaster parties, bike rides and
educational activities around the city, according to Susan Silber, organizer and self-described environmental educator. Silber said the 10/10/10 efforts were meant to send a message to world leaders and encourage them to take action and help the planet reduce its carbon footprint to 350 parts per million of CO2. Thousands of groups in 188 countries held work parties on Sunday, according to the 350.org website. “(10/10/10 is) a day to have fun as much as anything and get together with like-minded people who share the same concerns and goals regarding climate change, but it’s also just one day,� said Amy Kiser, program director for the Ecology Center, which sponsored some of the day’s events with the city’s Office of Energy and Sustainable Development
and the Victory Garden Foundation. Alex Ghenis, UC Berkeley student and resident of the Andres Castro Arms co-op, volunteered the Berkeley Student Cooperative, of which he is the vice president of external affairs, to participate in the city’s day of action. Two of the cooperative’s 17 houses — Castro and Casa Zimbabwe — held garden work parties on Sunday. At Castro, co-op residents and community members — including Berkeley City Council District 8 candidates Stewart Jones, Jacquelyn McCormick and incumbent Gordon Wozniak — tilled the front yard land, built terraces, raised beds for a vegetable garden and planted shade-tolerant plants. “It’s a really good opportunity to help the environment and participate in the
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he said. “The Chinese have said they would wait until the U.S. announced what they were doing, and then they will figure out what they are doing, as sort of a phased process.� Research will not begin until the center’s Chinese partners have been chosen, according to Levine. Both the United States and China have made progress in terms of energy efficiency, he said. While China exceeds America in automobile regulations, building efficiency in the United States surpasses China’s “mixed fleet� of new and older industrial facilities. Martin said a Joint Steering Committee consisting of department officials and representatives from the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology and the National Energy Administration, as well as a Joint Advisory Panel composed of business and academic experts, will coordinate the trans-Pacific efforts. “Organizing a consortium in the U.S. is complicated — doing it across borders with the Chinese is very complicated,� he said. “The whole thing will be requiring lots of clear communication.� Contact Nina Brown at nbrown@dailycal.org.
community,� said Brad Zamft, BSC sustainability coordinator. “The residents of the BSC are committed to both beautifying their homes and contributing to lowering our carbon footprint.� Upholding the city’s commitment to climate change solutions, Silber said organizers’ next step is to develop a Transition Town Initiative, a volunteer-based movement that focuses on building “more resilient communities.� The initiative would complement the city’s Climate Action Plan, which aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent by 2050, she said. “We want to make sure that Berkeley is prepared for the challenges ahead,� Silber said. “There’s a lot of work that’s already being done and we just want to continue that work in a really organized fashion.� Stephanie Baer is the lead city government reporter. Contact her at sbaer@dailycal.org.
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fficiency (n.): skillfulness in avoiding wasted time and effort. If you want to see just how busy a Berkeley student can be, have a seat outside a classroom, ideally one in Dwinelle, right before the classes switch. You may have over 20 people around you, all with super important things to do. There’s the especially studious girl marking notes and being grossly interested in next week’s reading. There’s the guy hunched over his Moleskine, showing that he is a profound thinker and/or artist. And of course, there are a few other people texting into their phones and smiling every few seconds. All quiet. All in their own little zones and none with a wasted second. In fact, the only one making an effort for eye contact is probably the junior transfer feeling out for a study group. Now, I wouldn’t be so negative as to suggest that this isolation is because students are simply anti-social, oh no. I think it’s just because students all have so much to do. There seems to be no limit to how much we can take on. Everyone’s got a job, or a standardized test to study for or some other extremely time-consuming burden resting on their shoulders. For many of us, now is the time to get our feet wet in a myriad of activities in order to prepare ourselves for the career world. And, with hundreds of ways to get involved on or around campus, it’s easy to get involved in new commitments. It wasn’t until Berkeley that I was denied helping the unfortunate through volunteer work due to an overflow of qualified applicants. Four times. It’s probably a very good thing that we have so many kind-hearted people. However, as someone who accidentally ran a club after all the superior members graduated, I’m proof that people will join a student group without having any idea what it actually entails. And that unfortunate experience in leadership taught me that about 40 percent of people who join a club go to the mandatory meetings and 10 percent volunteer at fundraising events. The other 60 percent? They just like saying they’re in a club. It’s some kind of lame, quantity over quality form of resume padding. But it’s not just about business experience. A lot of what we do is about appearing busy — feeling like something, anything, is getting done. It wasn’t until I hit Berkeley, particularly the RSF, that I realized it was common to keep a cardio heart rate on the elliptical, listen to an iPod and take studious notes in a reader all at once. I still can’t figure out how these people can concentrate. hat’s this called again? Multitasking? It feels more like the default at this point, to do several unrelated, vitally important things at once. And while this is not necessarily a bad thing, I’m pretty sure this is why almost all of us, regardless of major or extracurricular activities, feel like there’s way too much to do.
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It’s not like multitasking doesn’t work, or that it doesn’t get what needs to be done. I just think it adds a lot of ridiculous stress to our lives because it’s really easy to get hung up on the trivialities. In fact, it’s normal to complain about how overwhelming life is. Stress is sexy, acceptable, even expected. We wear our weariness with pride and are frequently able to check our mental planners to recite just how crappy the next few weekends are looking. Makes for a lot of great excuses. Sorry, man, can’t go to the party tonight. I have to meet this really harsh deadline that may or may not exist. That’s an acceptable excuse — much more than I need some alone time and I’m sick of your face. ut it’s also an acceptable excuse because it’s true. Multitasking, putting everything on priority, is probably a big part of why that certain project or paper or test that’s absolutely vital, the one that can tip your GPA, your future and the outcome of the rest of your life, sits to the side for days at a time while you catch up on your laundry, a childhood TV show or frolicking in the forest. We can’t fight the overwhelming reality that we chose an overbooked schedule, and so we feel guilty when we aren’t being productive. So even calm moments will probably involve overviewing the day, catching up on work and planning to only be followed with more planning. It can be pretty hard to relax when all your priorities get muddled together. I think this is a big reason why I’ve met so many genuinely neurotic people these past four years. There’s just too much going on, and it’s all going on at once. I know quite a few students who’ve gotten around this by doing everything with super gusto and focus. They spend extended blocks of time studying in the library loaded with caffeine, only to later schedule all the tomfoolery and joy for the week into six poorly lit, hardly remembered hours of wild sexy hedonism on Thursday night. Work hard, play hard — it’s all very college. Is this extreme? Yes. Are people legitimately busy? Yes. But don’t tell me that you can study without a few unnecessary tabs open on Firefox. After all, it’s the stupid distractions that make life bearable!
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were released. Gomez said he was not participating in the protest in his capacity as EAVP. “My activism extends beyond the ASUC,” he said. Blum could not be reached for comment as of press time. The protest, which occurred one day after nationwide strikes on Oct. 7 in support of public higher education, was organized by American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3299 — part of a statewide union representing 17,000 workers throughout the UC system — with students and workers marching against the proposed outsourcing of campus bus services and cuts to retirement benefits.
Meanwhile, the grand opening ceremony, which began at 2 p.m., attracted a crowd of about 100 people — including students, faculty and staff, honorary guests and trustees — and featured Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and former Secretary of State George Shultz. Shultz praised Blum’s commitment to fighting poverty and to the development of a building that will “enhance” the center as “a model of effective philanthropy.” But Arnold Meza, a representative from AFSCME and a custodian at Cory Hall who participated in the protest, said he believes the center should focus its resources on campus workers before looking abroad. Despite differing opinions on the role
and policies of the center, the building does provide a space for student collaboration and exchange and is a resource for students across disciplines, said Chancellor Robert Birgeneau to the audience. Christina Nesheiwat, a global poverty and practice minor alumna who graduated when the minor was still in Stephens Hall, said the center was a valuable student resource. The minor, the largest on campus with more than 400 students, is now housed in the center. “We had to rent out a lot of different spaces on campus,” Nesheiwat said. “It’ll be nice to have a home base for students to come to.” Tomer Ovadia of The Daily Californian contributed to this report. Contact Yousur Alhlou at yalhlou@dailycal.org.
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Research Could Lead to Portable MRI by Mary Susman Contributing Writer
Researchers from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have demonstrated that it could be possible to transform a large-scale chemistry laboratory — where samples are tested with flasks, bottles and magnetic imaging devices — into a portable device, in a study published online in the journal Science Magazine Oct. 7. While the research is still in an early developmental stage, Elad Harel, co-author of the study and postdoctoral fellow at the University of Chicago who previously worked in the lab, said the scientists are studying a device called “lab-on-chip” to look at liquid samples such as blood using the technology of nuclear magnetic resonance and magnetic resonance imaging, commonly known as NMR and MRI. Harel said in the future, this research could lead to portable MRI devices that could be used anywhere
instead of sending samples to large laboratories and waiting to hear test results. “In order to follow the flow of chemical reactants inside these devices, most people use optical (methods) — for example, lasers — or they use a microscope,” Harel said. “We’re trying to use, instead, MRI and NMR, where we don’t need to attach any kind of dye and so we can look at it non-invasively.” Using these devices, scientists can zoom in on regions with high sensitivity and understand the flow patterns of the liquid samples. According to Vikram Bajaj, postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley and co-author of the study, this research has improved the imaging process of MRIs by increasing resolution and precision, which reduces the number of experiments necessary to capture accurate data. “One of the innovations in this particular study is that we can record many fewer of these pixels and still recreate the entire photograph,” Harel said. “It allows you take these
scans much, much faster, and you can still recreate the entire thing perfectly.” With these devices, scientists can also analyze different reactions in parallel, meaning they could perform several tasks at once, Harel said. “So you put ... a very small amount of blood into this device, and the blood will be split into many different channels, and each channel can do a different blood test,” Harel said. “So one channel could analyze the cholesterol in the blood, one could do the DNA ... We could detect all of these things simultaneously.” Bajaj said the future outcome of this research, which is speculative, could enable doctors and scientists to run tests themselves instead of sending samples away to bigger laboratories. “I think the hope is that one day you could imagine a very small, portable MRI device that you could have in a doctor’s office,” Harel said. Contact Mary Susman at msusman@dailycal.org.
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Thornton Wilder’s Belove Strikingly Staged at Zell by Belinda Gu Contributing Writer
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he UC Berkeley Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies’ production of Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town” opened Friday at the Zellerbach Playhouse. The Pulitzer-winning play depicts the repetitive stasis of small-town life and the inclusive attitude of the townsfolk who have no desire to venture from their confined bubble to interact with the outside world. Director Christopher Herold transports the often-deemed “quintessential American play” from 1900s Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire to a setting that
feels eerily displaced — hints of modern hues layered through the haze of age-old tradition. The production incorporates costuming appropriate to the time period, juxtaposed with elements of universality that give the piece a timeless feel. The stage was bathed under a nebulous constellation to emphasize the consistency of the stars over every human settlement and the quintessential qualities we all share. “Our Town” transcends the intrinsic attributes of human life: birth, marriage and death. Like the Stage Manager, the first character to which we are introduced, so deftly states, “Once in a thousand times it’s interesting.” The musical aspects of the play
are well-integrated and features contemporary songs and dance. Especially prominent are the fluid processions dispersed throughout the piece of shadowy figures thrown as silhouettes against the backdrop. This thread ties together the three self-contained acts and their thematic distinctiveness, and functions as a visual transition between different scenes. The casting was generally sound, with a well-balanced ensemble of actors, including Daily Cal contributing writer Gwen Kingston. The unconventional twist was that the Stage Manager in Wilder’s original text was portrayed as Stage Manag-
ers in this production, as the part had been divided into thirds, with each third assigned to a different actor. Berkeley’s production remains faithful to the minimalism implied in the written script. The use of props is scarce, the stage decor is basic and the settings are often described by the Stage Managers for the audience to envision. The blocking is complex, as there are often several simultaneous exchanges occurring, but organized in such a way that it is seldom confusing and easily processed by the audience. The semi-transparent screen that separates the dead from the living is especially ingenious. It creates two layers on the stage, impermeable to the viewers, to suggest that some things are open to the living audience, while others are secluded and reserved for dead characters. When Emily breaches this veil in the final act, it
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creates a suspended moment that contains the poignant reconnection of the dead and the living, which is intensified by the bright light spilling onto her white gown. Her subsequent return to the other side left many fingers, my own included, tingling to drag her back by her cotton dress. The aggregate subtle facets of the play contributes to its overall triumph. The performance of a dynamic cast, refreshing use of the stage and a well-preserved balance between tradition and contemporaneity are all essential ingredients to the success of Berkeley’s production of “Our Town.”
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ary Stuart,” adapted and directed by Mark Jackson for the Shotgun Players on the Ashby Stage, works as a proof-text for the notion that a play need not be “modernized” to be modern. Though this Friedrich Schiller-penned history play, a subversive lampoon of the rivalry between Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots, debuted in Germany in 1800, it could’ve debuted this past Friday at the Ashby Stage. Beneath the Elizabethan patois and Weimar Classicism (Schiller wasn’t Shakespeare, but he was close), “Mary Stuart” is about political grandstanding and opportunism. The Shotgun Players have freed “Stuart” from its deictic clutches. You needn’t have been in Weimar, Germany in the 19th century to see that this play is still vital. Caught between melodrama and epic, Schiller’s play is a revisionist take on the ordered execution of Mary Queen of Scots; Jackson’s, while faithful, is a claustrophobic immorality play, a paranoid thriller that makes Mary’s interrogation chamber look like Guantanamo Bay. Jackson sets the play in the present, but his production feels unsettlingly atemporal. By flanking the stage with three closed-circuit TVs, Jackson deals in the postmodern anxiety of surveillance. While the screens are sometimes used to display a close-up of an actor — especially effective at bold-facing Mary — they lend us a view of two sterilely lit corridors backstage. One of the production’s most shocking scenes, eerily similar to a blood-soaked moment in Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke’s political drama “Cache” (2005), happens in these corridors. Though “Mary Stuart” deals in extra-human omniscience afforded by technology, the human aspects dominate the stage. As the titular heir presumptive, Stephanie Gularte turns
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out a perfectly hammy, brooding performance despite being tethered to a chair for most of the play’s two-hours. She finds a tragic heroine in Mary, exhibiting an androgynous emotional range equal parts Hamlet and Joan of Arc. As Elizabeth, Shotgun regular Beth Wilmurt rejects the stately, farthingale-clad Elizabeth seen in traditional adaptations of the queen in film and literature. And this is where Schiller offers his boldest hand: Queen as calculating killer, a corrupt politician whose convictions supersede human lives and who mistakes ambition for morality. His treatment almost insinuates proto-Fascism. Wilmurt’s stoicism frequently belies the complexities of her character but then again, what monarch wouldn’t try to hide her emotions? While this interpretation of Mary Queen of Scots maintains a sense of ambiguity, the difference is clear between who is accused and who ought to be implicated. Religious friction is here, too, but it’s less an antagonism between Catholics and Protestants and more an issue of how much credence the two women put in faith to get out of a jam. Though stamped out by a screaming match — there are many in “Mary Stuart” — or atonal sounds by David Graves, there are moments of irreverent humor. Leicester (Scott Coopwood) is as torn between sides as he is between comedy and tragedy, and Elizabeth’s right-hand pet Aubespine (the young Dara Yazdani) shifts from droll bit character to someone wrongly entangled in a few rich plot turns. “Mary Stuart” is a chilling piece of historical fiction. The minimal set design effectively imagines parallel dystopian worlds of the past and present. Mark Jackson’s stark vision looks and feels Orwellian. It works for 1568, 1800 or 2010 but on the Ashby Stage, it feels frighteningly intimate. Kick back and watch closed-circuit TV with Ryan at rlattanzio@dailycal.org.
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Circus Oz Defies Gravity in Latest Zellerbach Performance by Rebecca Wallace Contributing Writer
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et’s start by addressing the elephant in the room — there wasn’t one. Cal Performances’ presentation of Circus Oz featured PHOTO SLIDESHOW high-flying Relive the awe-inspiring stunts, colorperformances of Circus ful outfits Oz at www.dailycal.org. and carnival music, but not a single dancing bear or lion tamer. No matter, because this Australian circus troupe didn’t need animals. From start to finish, “See It to Believe It” was gleeful and aweinspiring. The Down Under act has been performed in more than 26 countries in its 32 years of existence; this was Oz’s third appearance in Zellerbach Hall. Although the show was sprinkled with spontaneity and flexibility — of multiple varieties, Gumby being an obvious inspiration
— the performers were consummate and well-rehearsed professionals. The acts were polished and nearly flawless, despite a recurring winkand-smile acknowledgement of the clumsy circus clown stereotype. The acrobatic vignettes ranged widely, starting with a man coping with his bike falling apart — spoiler alert: It becomes a unicycle at one point. Another showcased an apparently inept circus assistant who managed to make book-stacking a heroic achievement. And of course, several acts involved contortionist positions high in the air. Even among the perilous dangling, the entire show was presented with a healthy dose of broad Australian humor. The G’Day jokes abounded, and at one point, the performers dressed up in red kangaroo costumes and, well, bounded. More than the humor, however, the one common thread in every act was the gasp factor — the moment in even the most stereotypical circus flourish which provoked a sharp in-
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take of breath throughout the whole audience. Each stunt elicited at least half a dozen exclamations of “Wow!” and “Oh dear God!” Some of the most death-defying moments came at the beginning during a couple’s act which revolved around a high pole in the middle of the stage. It literally revolved around the pole, as the two acrobats took turns effortlessly clambering up the smooth metal and sliding down in daring, often head-first poses. The man and woman were more than circus tumblers; they were athletes relying on arm muscles to keep themselves dangling perfectly and perilously in the air. Even for a show expected to be heavy on spectacle, the contraptions truly transformed the stage. Inventive uses of a drum set, long white ribbons, a seesaw, and a sparkly gold palm tree added to the thrill of each circus acts. Something like Circus Oz required a very different presentation than does a speech by Seymour Hersh or a choir concert, and Zeller-
bach and its staff stepped up to the task. The venue more than matched a red-and-white striped circus tent as a platform for acrobatic stunts. Not only did Circus Oz transform the Hall for the performance, but it also attracted a very different sort of audience. Although a large crowd, it was one light on college students and heavy in the under-10 age range. Childish squeals greeted many of the acts, and the humor rarely went beyond anything other than PG puns and pratfalls. Still, one would be a fool to write off Circus Oz as an age-inappropriate activity for the average Cal student. The audience marveled at the athleticism of the performers throwing their bodies into the air with wild abandon, but even more than that, the show was extraordinarily fun. After two hours of a constant adrenaline rush, it’s tempting to drop out of school and run off to join the circus. Dangle perilously from a high-wire act with Rebecca at rwallace@dailycal.org.
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“Jana is a little disappointed, but overall, for it being her first singles tournament, she did a great job representing Cal, as did Mari (Andersson),” Augustus said. The top-seeded doubles pair of Juricova and Andersson also came up short for the second straight year at this tournament, falling to the third-ranked Stanford duo of Barte and Mallory Burdette. Cal led for much of the match, but Stanford was able hang around. Barte and Burdette eventually pulled away and secured an 8-6 victory, earning a berth into the championship match against Clemson’s Josipa Bek and Keri Wong.
Juricova and Andersson, currently the No. 1 team, had a solid tournament but didn’t deliver the dominating performance that many expected. They are still getting used to their new returning sides, with Juricova taking the advantage side and Andersson taking deuce. The Bears will get another shot at the Cardinal when they meet in Stanford at the ITA Northwest Regional Championships, starting Oct. 22. Andersson and Juricova will likely enter the weekend as underdogs, but have two more weeks to prepare for a bounce-back performance. Connor Byrne covers women’s tennis. Contact him at cbyrne@dailycal.org.
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just 13 attempts for 99 yards. Though he got his team on the scoreboard out of halftime with a touchdown pass to Christian Ramirez, Prince was picked off once — and sacked twice — by cornerback Darian Hagan. In all, the Bears dropped Prince to the turf five times. “Our common theme was ‘Ballhawk. com,’” defensive end Cameron Jordan said. “We fully unleashed all we had today.” The same could be said for Cal’s ground game, which ran wild for 304 yards on the afternoon. Vereen had 151 yards on 25 carries, with 103 yards coming in the first half. The junior tailback consistently bounced off would-be tacklers, and reached the century mark for the third consecutive contest. “We felt like we were going to challenge them downhill,” Cal head coach Jeff Tedford said. “Some of the teams that (UCLA) had been successful against are spread teams. Houston is a spread team; Texas is a spread team. Stanford played them well running down hill against them. We felt we
were going to test them ... and make it a physical football game.” Even Isi Sofele displayed hard-nosed running on Saturday. Best known for fly sweeps and pitches, the diminutive sophomore took several direct snaps out of the Wildcat formation. Sofele complemented Vereen’s performance on the ground with a careerhigh 80 yards. While the defense and running game paved the way to victory, Cal’s passing attack far less impressive Kevin Riley finished with fewer passing yards (83) than the struggling Prince, the Bears’ first two-digit aerial output since Joe Ayoob mustered just 88 yards five years ago. Though Cal’s ground game had a lot to do with Riley only throwing 16 passes, the senior signal caller looked far from sharp. “We were inconsistent in the second half, but there is going to be days like this when our running game is on,” wideout Marvin Jones said. “We’ll take a look at our passing game on film, and I’m sure we’ll overcome it.”
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the way to the win. A stifling defensive performance, which included 13 saves by goalkeeper Justin Parsons, also anchored Cal in its first meeting with UCLA this fall. A deflating 10-7 loss to the Bruins in the MPSF finals last season ended the Bears’ season and denied them a spot in the NCAA Tournament. “(UCLA-Cal) is a big rivalry, a lot of national championships, a lot of success at both programs,” Everist said. “You don’t need any more incentive to beat a team because they beat you last year.” The win was an encouraging showing for a squad that was a preseason favorite for the national title, but fell to then-No. 5 UC Irvine earlier this month. Another key to the win that has been a theme for the Bears in the last few weeks is communication.
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what Feller deemed the season's toughest roadtrip. “It’s disappointing not so much that we lost, but probably that we sit back and go, ‘We really could have won that, not easily but we could have won it,’” Feller said. “The way we fought back after being down two sets to zero, was an incredible performance and a really gutty (effort), digging in and playing volleyball. Few things here and there cost us in the end.” Christina Jones covers volleyball. Contact her at cjones@dailycal.org.
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“The difference is between talking and yelling,” Everist said. “It’s natural when you get amped up, your cadence and your tone changes and that can be the difference between making someone confident and making someone nervous.” “Talking our way through the game breeds a lot of confidence.” The impact is even more pronounced among the younger players who don’t yet have the experience of their teammates. Freshman Max Bergeson, for example, chipped in two goals in his first multiple-score outing since Sept. 5. “It’s a work in progress but they’re getting there, I think we’ve come a long way over the last couple weeks,” Everist said. “For the most part they did a good job.”
and as it turned out, the insurance was completely necessary. Harvard (3-9), which fell to No. 17 Stanford, 6-0, on Friday, refused to go quietly, earning two corners in the last five minutes to threaten a comeback. Georgia McGillivray tallied a goal with only two minutes left to shrink the Bears’ lead to just one. “I was trying to get a little bit of stability back there, but really, I trust that they would see it out. I think there were a couple fidgets under pressure,” Onstead said. “We kind of got wrapped up in a little bit a frantic moment but it’s something they can think of on their own.” Cal held on to finish off the Crimson to bring its record back up to .500, which represents the renewal of the Bears’ confidence heading into the last four games of the season. “I think they were playing with a lot of confidence,” Onstead said. “I can hear it in the way they were organizing and in the way they’re talking. That’s what I like seeing and hearing.”
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But for the Bears (5-3-4, 0-2 in the Pac-10), errors in the first half were just Contributing Writer as crucial in determining the match. “Euphoria.” Within three minutes of kickoff, the TroThat was how Cal women’s soc- jans (8-3-3, 1-1) had shut Cal out, 2-0. cer coach Neil McGuire described his “We were not at all pleased with the team’s reaction start that we had. USC came out with to Alex Morgan’s W. Soccer far more intensity, and they were ready 88th-minute goal to play,” McGuire said. “We gave them 4 against No. 20 Cal way too much time and room, and USC 5 USC yesterday in DUMMY The Daily Californian when you give players at this level time Los Angeles. The and space, they’re going to hurt you.” score pushed the The Bears spent the rest of the game team to a 4-3 lead in its second Pac-10 trying to play catch-up, and it started game of the season. Unfortunately for the No. 21 Bears to pay off in the second half. McGuire however, euphoria came too soon. The said they began pushing numbers up, final score was 5-4 after USC netted an including placing freshman defender Emi Lawson in an offensive position. overtime free kick. Within a minute of Morgan’s goal, She assisted sophomore Lauren BatCal’s defense made a tactical error, tung in the 66th-minute goal that leaving USC freshman Elizabeth Eddy broke the shutout. It wasn’t until USC took a 3-1 lead open to receive a cross. Eddy put the ball away, evening the score and com- in the 76th minute that Cal found the tempo and intensity to compete. pleting her hat trick. Morgan, who played 45 minutes in “Most games are won or lost in the last 10 or 15 minutes of matches,” her first game back from a two-week McGuire said. “When you get to this national team training camp, was aslevel, it can just be one error.” sisted by U-23 national team member
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As the afternoon heated up in Maxwell Field, so did the Cal field hockey team. The same offense that was Field hockey held quiet last Harvard # 98 2 weekend explodCal 3 ed for 15 shots and nine corners, controlling the pace of the game in a 3-2 win against Harvard on Sunday. “We focused a lot more on attack this week, which is what we were lacking last weekend,” coach Shellie Onstead said. “Knowing that this would be a more offensive game, with the way the attack was moving, I was able to play everybody, so that was good stuff.” Cal (6-6, 4-0 in the NorPac) took control early on freshman Shannon Elmitt’s goal in the 12th minute. Elmitt hustled to put in a rebound off a corner past Crimson keeper Cynthia Tassopoulos. Another reason for the kick-start in the Bears’ offense was due in large part to sophomore Deanna Kennedy. With the score tied 1-1 in the opening
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during their careers, and there appears to be a rivalry forming between the two. Barte currently owns a career 4-1 record For the second straight year, Cal’s against No. 1-ranked Juricova, but the Jana Juricova came up empty at the pair split its two matches last year. Thursday, May 3, 2007 “It’s definitely a great rivalry. Both ITA All-American Championships. Juricova fell to No. 2 Hilary Barte players have a lot of respect for each from Stanford in straight sets (7-6(4), other,” coach Amanda Augustus said. 6-3) in the championship match of the “The championship match felt a lot singles main draw. A string of unforced like a duel match, with fans rooting for errors by Juricova allowed her oppo- Cal and fans rooting for Stanford.” Although Juricova was the top seed nent back into the set, which Barte eventually won in a tie-break. Juricova entering the tournament, many believed came out flat in the second set, allow- that Barte was the favorite to win it all. The Chatsworth, Calif., native had ing Barte to cruise to a 6-3 win in the first national championship of the the edge because Juricova had not competed in a singles competition prior to 2010-11 season. “I was up in the first set, but then I this weekend’s tournament. Both playmade some key errors,” Juricova said. ers played strongly entering Sunday’s “The important thing is I learned from match-up, as both had won every match in straight sets. Barte finished the tourit, and I’m not going to do it again.” The match marked the fifth time that nament without dropping a set. Barte, a senior, and Juricova have met >> w. tennis: Page 6
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quarter, safety Chris Conte stripped Franklin at the Bruin 17 yard line. Fellow safety Josh Hill recovered the ball, and Shane Vereen scored his second touchdown of the day three plays later. After a holding penalty and a fumbled snap by Prince took UCLA out of field goal range, Cal reeled off a 13-play, 87-yard scoring drive, ending in Keenan Allen’s 10-yard touchdown catch to put the Bears up, 21-0. Facing a large early deficit, the Bruins turned increasingly to Prince’s arm — with mostly dismal results. UCLA ran the ball just 17 times after the first quarter, and Prince was forced to pass a season-high 31 times. He completed
he Cal defense was hungry on Saturday. It had been hungry for two weeks. Starving, even. Ever since that heartbreaking, one-point loss against Arizona two weeks ago, the unit has been practically emaciated. So the Cal defense feasted — on a five-course meal dressed in baby blue and gold trimmings. How did it taste? Well, defensive end Cameron Jordan literally smacked his lips during the post-game press conference. Three times. I can’t even make that up. It hurts when a road upset over a top-10 team slips through your fingers the way it did for the Bears in Tucson. It’s the kind of pain that settles deep into your belly, the kind that makes your stomach growl until you can sate the singular craving clawing at your insides. The players had acknowledged as much when they trailed out of the Arizona Stadium locker room that night. So it was fortunate, then, that Homecoming came complete with a buffet. The main dish was UCLA’s running game, which started the day as the Pac-10’s top rushing offense. After averaging over 260 yards on the ground through five games, the Bruins managed to eke out just 26. Linebacker Mychal Kendricks — who had professed his desire to take out the Arizona — gobbled up tailback Derrick Coleman, lifting him into the air on what he called the tackle of his dreams. Mike Mohamed racked up five tackles in his first full game since
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Tailback Shane Vereen ran for 151 yards against UCLA while grabbing three passes for another 51. It was the junior’s third consecutive 100-yard rushing game and eighth in his career. by Ed Yevelev
Daily Cal Staff Writer Cal head coach Jeff Tedford admitted on Saturday afternoon that UCLA’s pistol was but a shadow of the offense his team faced in Nevada. MULTIMEDIA “It isn’t quite to the Reno Check dailycal.org for a stage yet,” Ted- photo slideshow and ford said. “Reno podcast from Cal’s win. has been doing it for a long time, and the quarterback was excellent with it. They are very efficient, UCLA is not quite there yet.” His statement came on the heels of
the Bears’ 35-7 victory at Memorial Stadium, but the difference was apparent very early on. Far from replicating the Wolf Pack’s dynamic and multi-faceted attack, the Bruins (3-2, 1-2 in the Pac-10) relied almost exclusively on Johnathan Franklin, whom Cal bottled up for 54 yards on 13 carries. Meanwhile, UCLA’s Kevin Prince could not have been a farther drop off from Nevada’s dual-threat quarterback, Colin Kaepernick. Prince was rarely a threat to run, keeping the ball just three times for nine yards. In all, a Bruins team that had rolled up 701 rushing yards over the past two contests netted a season-low 26
against Cal (3-2, 1-1). “Last week during the course of the bye week, we went back to work on the fundamentals,” Bears defensive coordinator Clancy Pendergast said. “Gap integrity, getting off blocks at every level of the defense. That night against Nevada, we didn’t play with a lot of discipline. The past three or four days (in practice), I think we made some strides as a defense, just doing those things better.” Indeed, the Cal defenders proved to be quick studies, rarely getting caught off guard or losing sight of the ball. And it wasn’t long before the Bears took UCLA completely out of its game. With Cal leading 7-0 in the first
Despite Comeback, Bears Cal Scores Upset Win in MPSF Opener Fall to Trojans for First Loss by Byron Atashian Contributing Writer
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When No. 12 UCLA upset No. 1 Stanford on Saturday night, the Cal volleyball team was the country’s only unbeaten. The No. 7 Bears Volleyball needed one point 2 to maintain that Cal title, holding a 15- USC 3 14 lead over No. 8 USC in the fifth set at the Galen Center. Trojan standout Alex Jupiter followed her tying kill with a block on sophomore middle hitter Kat Brown. USC claimed a 3-2 victory (25-19, 25-23, 23-25, 2325, 17-15) on a Brown error, ending Cal's 15-match winning streak. “Even (in the) fifth when we came up short, we were still guns out, and fighting and battling with them just as hard,” junior Tarah Murrey said. “I think we definitely can battle even harder.” The fifth set was certainly close, but perhaps more impressive was Cal’s resilience after trailing two sets to none. USC (14-2, 3-2 in the Pac-10) opened the third set with a 7-0 run, and it looked like the Bears (15-1, 5-1) would be swept for their first loss — just one night removed from a four-set victory over the Bruins. After a Trojan service error put Cal on the board, the Bears gradually mounted their comeback. Murrey struck with back-to-back
kills to bring Cal within two, and then again to give the Bears a 20-18 edge. A block on Jupiter gave coach Rich Feller’s squad match point, but the Trojans staved off defeat thrice before dropping the set. “We realized that to be successful we’re going to have to look forward because kills are going to happen,” Murrey said. “We’re playing a really good team that gets their kills and the way that we’re going to come back is to bounce back and do the exact same thing.” Blocking was key to Cal's surge, with four Bears logging seven in the effort. “If some things aren’t quite right for us, the blocking gets us back in (the match),” Feller said. “That changes the tempo. It disrupts the other team’s offense. It puts doubt in a hitter’s mind, and good things happen when we start blocking balls.” Those good things continued into the fourth set, when Cal only trailed three points into the match. After the Bears built a six-point advantage, the Trojans battled to a 21-all tie, and held off set point twice. Yet another spike from Murrey forced a fifth set. Murrey, last week’s Pac-10 Player of the Week, posted a career-best 34 kills on 71 attempts; her output marked the fifth-best in Cal history. She tacked on nine digs and a block to her stats line. Ultimately, Murrey’s heroics were not enough to keep Cal perfect through
The No. 4 Cal men’s water polo had the same kind of enthusiasm and support as Cal football against No. 2 UCLA on Saturday. Although Spieker Aquatics Complex was a much smaller venue, the stands were packed, the Bears were hyping up the crowd and their caped women’s counterpart coordinated a halftime “Thriller” dance. It had the same victorious outcome as well, edging the Bruins, 11-8. UCLA was ahead at the end of the first quarter with a score of 4-2 before Cal clicked. “We scuffled in the first quarter and I think that’s when we really rushed ourselves,” Bears coach Kirk Everist said. “We tried to take the first thing that was there instead of moving the ball. Once we changed that in the second, third, and fourth quarters we were pretty successful.” Cal’s (11-2, 1-0 in the MPSF) first-quarter haste was evident; it failed to convert on its two 6-on-5 power plays. However, it capitalized on five of the six throughout the rest of the game. The Bears came roaring back in the second quarter, holding the Bruins scoreless while they clocked in three goals to take the lead at 5-4. They continued the run by scoring the first two goals of the third quarter as well, taking and keeping control of the game at 7-4 over UCLA (9-3, 1-1). Senior Zach White and juniors Luka Saponjic and Ivan Rackov scored big goals for their team down the stretch on
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Junior Luka Saponjic notched a pair of goals in Cal’s 11-8 win over UCLA. He scored once in the Bears’ season-ending loss to the Bruins last fall in the MPSF semifinals.