Daily Cal - Tuesday, October 12, 2010

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streamline: Vice Chancellor Harry Le Grande addresses worry regarding job cuts. SEE PAGE 3

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Survey: High Number of Historic Houses in Berkeley Commission OKs Draft of Proposal for UC’s Future A Census Bureau Survey Estimates 55.5 Percent of Berkeley’s Homes Were Constructed Before 1940 by Jessica Gillotte Contributing Writer

The city of Berkeley is home to a significant number of historic, pre-World War II houses, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s Sept 28. release of the 2009 American Community Survey. The survey estimates that approximately 25,874 of Berkeley’s 46,630 total housing units were constructed in or before 1939. This figure translates to 55.5 percent, the highest percentage west of the Mississippi River. Comparably, the percentage of houses in San Diego — California’s oldest city, founded in 1769 — built before World War II is 7.2 percent. Daniella Thompson, president of the Berkeley Architectural Heritage Association, said the reason the city’s historic homes are still in livable condition is that they are built from the wood of redwood

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He also said district officials have not yet calculated how much of the district’s deficit — currently estimated at $3.16 million — will be alleviated because of the new budget. “A big part of me says, ‘We ought to behave like he actually did cut the budget, and if they reinstate (more drastic cuts next year), then fine,’” he said. Huyett said the district will not make any changes quickly both because the district will not see the new money until next year and also because the budget situation could change when a new governor is elected in November. The district’s budget had to be passed in June, so the cuts for this school year were based on the state’s May revision, and several programs in the district have already been reduced. In August, the district’s board of education voted to cut its preschool program

The first draft of the UC Commission on the Future’s final report — expected to guide the UC Board of Regents as it makes decisions to keep the university financially sound — was approved at the commission’s meeting Monday. The report, requested by UC President Mark Yudof when he formed the commission in July 2009, will aid the regents as they make crucial choices to maintain the UC’s financial sustainability in light of reductions in state funding. Most of the report’s recommendations focus on augmenting the university’s revenue, which suffered state funding cuts totaling $637.1 million in the 2009-10 fiscal year alone and forced student fee increases, cuts to various departments and workforce furloughs, according to the report. Though the recently passed 2010-11 state budget increases funding to the university, the system still receives $237 million less than it did in 2007-08. Proposals include increasing the proportion of out-of-state students to a cap of 10 percent systemwide and increasing the recovery rate of indirect costs — expenditures associated with research such as maintaining laboratory space — accrued by externally sponsored research, a recommendation that could net the university $300 million annually. Currently, the university lags behind comparable institutions by 5 to 10 percent in its recovery rates for federally funded research, on average falling 25 percent short of the total cost of research, according to the report. The university also does not fully recover the costs of research sponsored by non-federal funding sources, such as the state or private foundations. Other recommendations seek to streamline the academic process to reduce expenditures per student, including a proposal to create a three-year degree program to decrease a student’s time to degree, which would free up thousands of spaces annually for incoming students, according to the report. But some faculty fear that any such changes to the academic program could lead to a lower-quality educational experience. “The danger is not only degraded education but centralized academic policy that undermines faculty control of academic standards and curriculum as well as campus autonomy,” states a report on the commission’s recommendations written in May 2010 by the Berkeley Faculty Association. “Three year degrees, of course, are also incompatible with double majors, education abroad, and other rich elements of existing undergraduate offerings.” Other academically related recommendations include nurturing more multicampus research projects and continuing exploration of online education, a proposal opposed by the faculty association. “Since cyber-students need meet

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These studio apartments on Shattuck Avenue, like more than half of Berkeley’s housing units, are historic, pre-World War II buildings.

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Study Says Some Lizards Form Social Groups, Families Though Lizards Are Usually Solitary, Some Have Been Observed Forming Family Ties

by Victoria Pardini Contributing Writer

A UC Berkeley scientist has found that lizards, which normally lead solitary lives, can form social groups too, according to a study released online in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Oct. 6. According to the researchers, some desert night lizards formed nuclear families, complete with two parents and a number of offspring. The close-knit family structure of the lizards differs from other species because most lizards do not interact with others unless fighting for resources or mating. The sociality is primarily explained by the fact that desert night lizards give birth to live

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Passage of State Budget Concerns City Council, School District City Officials Uncertain About Potential Effects Budget Cuts May Have On Some City Programs by Stephanie Baer Daily Cal Staff Writer

With the passage of the state budget 100 days overdue Friday, impacts to city of Berkeley programs may not be as drastic as anticipated, ONLINE PODCAST though some — especially Stephanie Baer and those to social Soumya Karlamangla services — may discuss the budget. still directly impact residents. While the Berkeley City Council

adopted the city’s balanced budget on June 22 — reducing expenditures by about $11.9 million and increasing revenues by $4.3 million — state cuts could further cut into city programs heavily funded by the state, while also directly affecting social services that some residents depend on, such as the In-Home Support Services program. “The state budget is a huge, huge document and how these things shake out ... takes a long time for us to know,” city spokesperson Mary Kay Clunies-Ross said. Though cuts in the adopted budget are not as extreme as those proposed in other drafts, Councilmembers Linda Maio and Darryl Moore said cuts to public health and child care programs are the highest concerns. The city’s Public Health Division

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Budget Issues Remain Unresolved After Funds Assigned to the Berkeley Unified School District by Soumya Karlamangla Contributing Writer

Even though the California state budget approved Friday will give the Berkeley Unified School District more money than it had expected, district officials are unsure of whether to make changes to the district’s already-approved budget. The 100-day-late state budget approved last week allocates more money for public education than the May revision, but many of those funds will not be seen until next year, according to district Superintendent Bill Huyett.

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Calendar Tuesday, Oct. 12 WHAT Concert Harpsichordist Melody

Hung presents “An Afternoon of French Music” featuring compositions by Gaspard Le Roux and others, as part of “Arts in the Afternoon.” WHEN 4 p.m. WHEre Women’s Faculty Club, UC Berkeley Cost Free. contact 510-642-4175

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other districts, the Berkeley Unified School District did not use all of its federal stimulus dollars last year, so it still has funds to use, even though the state money is not expected until July. He still expressed concern, though, about whether the budget actually resolved the state’s education issues. “Not making cuts and not raising revenue ... you can’t do both,” Coplan said. “It looks like, once again, (the state is) putting it off to another day.”

a $448,000 leap of faith, as it would not be reimbursed if the state had not approved preschool funding. But because the new budget funds early childhood education, the district will get 80 percent of that money back and will be able to continue funding preschool through the year, according to officials. “We’re in better shape than most districts,” said district spokesperson Mark Coplan. Coplan said that, unlike several

by 60 hours as well as its after-school program for low-income students — which was threatened at the state level — from serving 300 to 70 students. Even at these reduced levels, the district was not receiving state money because of the budget impasse, so the board voted last month to fund the reduced programs with their own cash reserves until Jan. 31. With this decision, the district made

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WHAT Concert Controversial rapper M.I.A. comes to the Oakland Fox, supported by Rye Rye. WHEN 8 p.m. WHEre 1807 Telegraph Ave., Oakland. Cost $35. contact 510-302-2277

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(Deputy Hawk from “Twin Peaks”) reads from the works of Sherman Alexie at “Native Tongues,” part of the reading series “FIRST PERSON SINGULAR: Stories in Character” at Pegasus on Solano. WHEN 7:30 p.m. WHEre 1855 Solano Ave., Berkeley. Cost Free. contact 510-525-6888

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— which is already scaling back its services to close a projected $3.1 million deficit this fiscal year — receives almost half of its funding from state grants and another 16 percent from the public health realignment fund, which obtains revenue from state sales tax and vehicle license fee revenues. The state budget decreases Department of Public Health funds by $77.7 million, including a $7.6 million reduction in local assistance funding for the AIDS Drug Assistance Program. Moore said the city will, if possible, step in to “fill those deep cuts.” “The Senate and the Assembly did the best job they could given the climate and condition in Sacramento ,” he said. “We’ll have to do some belt tightening and continue to freeze hiring but ... I do think we should be OK.” Another area of concern is the $300 million in cuts to the In-Home Support Services program. Under the program, the state pays home caregivers to assist the disabled with routine household activities, allowing them to maintain some degree of independence outside of a nursing home. Cuts to the program include a 3.6 percent across-the-board reduction to assessed hours for IHSS recipients — a reduction that Dan McMullan, director of the Disabled People Outside Project, said would leave some without care. “It doesn’t seem like a lot, but for some people ... you take 3 percent off of those people (and) they’re just done,” said McMullan, whose caretaker lives with him and his two sons. “Any kind of decrease to IHSS is going to hurt people ... at this point we’re just completely overwhelmed.”

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trees, which were cheap and abundant at the time. The use of redwood lumber made houses sturdy, resistant to dry rot and less prone to earthquake damage. On the other hand, some of these historic houses were not structurally sound when initially constructed, according to Jay Claiborne, senior planner for the city of Berkeley and secretary to the Landmarks Preservation Commission. Consequently, homeowners have consistently provided great attention to the upkeep of the houses. Before 1906, much of the construction utilized a basic wood frame, Claiborne said — some had no wall studs and had only corner posts and planks, which are very unstable in the event of an earthquake. But after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, steel construction — the more sophisticated approach to building safety — was implemented. The importance of keeping these houses intact and inhabited is reflected in the architectural culture they embody, according to Thompson. The 1920s saw the rise of the modern era in architecture, which incorporated the idea of living with nature by including clean lines, brown shingles and sleeping porches during construction. During the 1930s and 1940s, Art Deco and the international style influenced architects, she said. Despite the city’s rich architectural landscape, the last half of the 20th century saw an increase in demolition requests by property owners. “In the 1950s and ’60s, many neighborhood homes were demolished to make way for large apartment blocks,” Thompson said. “Finally, Berkeley residents enacted the Neighborhood Preservation Ordinance in 1973.” The ordinance, co-authored by Martha Nicoloff — a board member of the Berkeley Council of Neighborhood Associations — required public hearings for all property demolitions and required that these demolitions would not cause a net loss of the city’s housing supply. Additionally, one-fourth of housing units built had to be for lower income families. Following the ordinance’s implementation, people were alerted to what was going to be changing in their neighborhoods, Nicoloff said. Contact Jessica Gillotte at jgillotte@dailycal.org.

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ell, Miss Wertheim, I must admit, I find your thesis to be ... somewhat convoluted.� A belt dropped to the floor. “... But I think we can find a way to turn it around.� And then my man-friend proceeded to undress me. I wish I could say that I succeeded in fulfilling one of the most impressive undergraduate sexual conquests: seducing a hot GSI. I also wish I could say that I succeeded in fulfilling the most impressive undergraduate sexual conquest: seducing a hot professor. Sadly, I’ve yet to accomplish either. Instead, that opening dialogue went down, not during office hours, but in a regular bedroom with a regular guy, who, for some reason unbeknownst to me, gets turned on by the idea of a convoluted thesis. Ours was a playful kind of discussion, an indulgent joke, even. But with that last line, Mr. College took matters a step back from sexy time while reducing me to a half-naked giggling mess on top of his duvet. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the hazards of bedroom talk. When the lights go down and our clothes come off, we have a tendency to open our mouths and let the strangest shit come out. No, really. Sentences that would never normally make it past the temporal lobe have a habit of rolling off the lips, particularly when in the presence of impending sex. Up until this point, we are usually cautious to the extreme in what we say around a potential partner. The prospects of getting laid are incentive enough to listen to what our mothers told us years ago and think before we speak, lest we accidentally present ourselves in a less than desirable light. We are careful to sound intelligent without seeming pretentious; sexy without seeming too slutty. In short, we make ourselves sound like we’re semi-interesting people, the kind of people that someone else wants to sleep with. And after all that small talk, we finally find ourselves in someone else’s room, ready for action. The deal’s pretty much sealed; it’s all downhill from here, right? Right? Wrong. Impulsive speech has got to be one of the easiest ways to get totally screwed in the bedroom, and I don’t mean screwed in the good way. Our tongues have a knack for getting a little twisted, and, no, I don’t mean that in the good way, either. We become so excited over the prospect of getting lucky that our brains lose that important ability to filter the nonsensical thoughts filling our minds. o how do you know when your mouth is leading you astray? Instead of playing wait-and-see, I recommend you take a moment to reflect on some common verbal pitfalls. A few pointers:

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JILLIAN WERTHEIM 1. Steer clear of the relatives. Oddly enough, no one really wants to know that they remind you of your cousin, or your sibling, before getting down and dirty. No matter how charming the similarities might be, don’t verbalize your thoughts; incest’s kind of a mood killer. Oh, and maybe go talk to a professional about your Freudian tendencies, now. 2. On a related note (yes, I’m aware of the pun), if you’ve ever been intimate with someone that is related to the person you’re currently with, make a point not to compare the two right then and there. I’m pretty sure no guy hopes to hear, “Wow, your dick isn’t at all like your brother’s!� in the sack, and most girl aren’t thrilled to be asked, “How come your sister’s tits aren’t this great?� These are red flags, not compliments. t can be extremely unsettling to discover that you’re hooking up with a person who has already hooked up with someone who shares some of your DNA, so I wouldn’t recommend advertising your family-centric sexual history whilst in the throes of passion. 3. Make sure you’re saying the right name. I know things can get confusing after a couple of drinks, or if you’re still trying to get over the one who got away, but really, there’s nothing worse than being called by the wrong name in bed. Other options include only screwing people with the same name, or just shouting the occasional “Yes! Yes!� If you really are incapable of thinking up something to say that won’t make your partner head for the hills, take a hint from the international students and try a different language. By suddenly translating your pillow talk into, say, Farsi, French or a thick Australian accent, you sneakily bypass the obstacles that arise when using a shared language. The best part about the ol’ switcharoo is that you don’t even need to make sense, so long as it sounds good. C’est tout, mes petites mouches.

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Amid confusion and outcry about the some 200 positions to be eliminated as part of a controversial UC Berkeley initiative, Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Harry Le Grande released an explanation of how some of the positions will be removed, as well as a plan for communicating with staff as the initiative proceeds. In an Oct. 6 e-mail to campus staff, Le Grande announced that 82 of the 200 total positions to be eliminated starting in January through Operational Excellence — a collaboration between the campus and consulting firm Bain & Co. to streamline campus units and cut costs — will come out of the Division of Student Affairs in order to meet a savings goal of $3.2 million. Fifty of the division’s positions will be removed through restructuring supervisory positions into individual contributors, who will no longer supervise others, while the other 32 will be cut through a combination of attrition, retirements and layoffs. Le Grande said in the e-mail that a major goal as the initiative moves forward is ensuring that staff are as informed as administrators regarding the process in the coming months, but

he recognized that information may not always be readily available. “We will communicate and share what we know as soon as possible throughout the process and provide opportunities to gather feedback, ideas, and concerns,� the e-mail said. “Sometimes we will not have the answers to all the questions.� After Chancellor Robert Birgeneau first announced the 200 positions would be removed, many expressed uncertainty about how the cuts would affect their job. When UC Berkeley upgraded to a new version of its financial system software in July, called BFS9, some campus staff complained about a lack of communication from the administration. Linda Eason, administrative assistant for the department of anthropology, said she was worried that the troubles with BFS9 would be representative of Operational Excellence. “Getting in touch with people about (BFS9) is hard,� she said in a Sept. 22 interview. “I’m not knocking it, but the transition and adjustment hasn’t been easy, so we’ll see how Operational Excellence goes.� A major part of communication efforts with staff as the student affairs division makes changes under the initiative will come from “cluster� meetings, ac-

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cording to Susie Castillo-Robson, associate vice chancellor for admissions and enrollment. Each cluster will be made up of several of the units under the division, which includes departments such as the Career Center, child care services and New Student Services. Divisional leaders are holding their first cluster meetings Tuesday at various locations across campus. “The ... reason we’re having (the meetings) is to be available to answer any specific questions the staff might have,� said Castillo-Robson. “I think that everyone is concerned about what (organizational simplification) means ... and how we’ll communicate with the staff, but that’s why we’re having these meetings.� Directors of the units will develop preliminary plans for achieving their units’ savings targets. However, final recommendations will be reviewed by Le Grande before being submitted. “The departments are going to make their recommendations, and the clusters will meet as one group and we’ll put forward our own plan, but we won’t be the final decision-makers,� said CastilloRobson. “It’s going to be up to the vice chancellor to review the plans.�

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What a Blum(mer) CAMPUS ISSUES

Those who protested the grand opening of the Richard C. Blum Hall had poor timing and a problematic message

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ven UC Berkeley has its limits for civil disobedience. For a campus that had just seen the end of Oct. 7 rallies, the protest last Friday at the grand opening of the Richard C. Blum Hall truly surpassed the saturation point. As a result, picketers who chose to demonstrate less than 24 hours after the Day of Action seemed shallow and unimpressive. The purpose of this disruption, largely unrelated to the movement against higher education cuts and university policy the day before, was also problematic. Richard Blum, a UC Regent and the hall’s namesake, has been instrumental in creating the Blum Center for Developing Economics on campus to address international poverty. Protesters, who included representatives from local unions, claimed that this act is hypocritical since many students and workers suffer within the university system. However, the message is twisted. Those involved would not have an event or program to protest if Blum had not established this center to help poor people across the globe.

While it may have been a strategically smart place to make a statement with several prominent people in attendance, the irony of the cause made the whole demonstration entirely ineffective. Furthermore, we are bothered by ASUC External Affairs Vice President Ricardo Gomez’s participation at the protest. While Gomez claimed that he was not present in any official capacity, it is impossible to separate him from his office — especially at high-profile campus events. Gomez’s position as EAVP requires him to help students advocate for themselves and their causes off campus. Yet by participating in this poorly planned and articulated protest, Gomez likely alienated key contacts at the university and state level. Arguably worse, he contributed to an unattractive precedent for students who might now be dissuaded from becoming involved. Gomez’s presence was shortsighted and reflected badly upon his office. While Oct. 7 was a mostly positive protest, lessons learned from it one day seemed to disappear the next — one step forward, two steps back.

Fiscal Fix Needed Now STATE ISSUES

The 100-day delay to pass a state budget is the latest installment in a long history of costly California deadlocks.

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ost people would never dream of completing a project three months after the set deadline, especially if that assignment was to address a $19.1 billion deficit. Yet this is not only the reality in the California budget process; it has become the standard. State legislators ended the customary wait for a budget on Friday, 100 days after the June 15 deadline. This delay broke the record for California’s longest budget impasse. We might sound like a broken record in condemning these delays since chronic tardiness has become a given in state politics. The June deadline, ingrained in California’s constitution, is almost laughable in light of when budgets are actually approved. In the last 30 years lawmakers have only met the deadline five times. Frustratingly, no one person in the capitol can be blamed for working in this inherently flawed process, just as no individual can single-handedly break the deadlock. The 30 years of mostly missed deadlines shows that voters cannot hold their representatives accountable — delays with the current procedures seem inevitable

no matter who is in office. However, just because these inconceivable delays have become pattern does not make them any more acceptable. Something has to change and other options, like looking into adjusting the two-thirds majority required to pass the budget, must be considered. The cost to wait is too high. State workers, local governments and public higher education suffer during such delays. This year, the University of California had to borrow roughly $400 million to fund Cal Grants and operating costs — funds that should have come from the state but were gridlocked by the budget process. Although the budget has now come through with $305 million restored from the severe cutbacks last year, the university still has to pay interest on the loan it took out to keep these programs afloat. While we are glad more funding came through for the university than last year, it is hard to know how big of a victory this actually is in light of continuous uncertainty at the state level. It is time to break the cycle to make sure that this statewide standstill can finally pass.

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Continue Cal Women’s Lacrosse! Cutting Lacrosse, a Sport With Growing Popularity, Is Simply a Shortsighted Mistake by Eric Arden The need for the Cal athletic department to participate in the resolution of the current budget issues is at this point uncontested. The major issue right now is the apparent lack of transparency or engagement of the affected coaches in the process of deciding which programs to cut, and the uncertainty about whether the right cuts were made. Cutting programs of this significance can have far reaching impacts beyond the Berkeley campus on parents, players and coaches at all levels of play. Without transparency in the “process,” which includes engaging the coaches, it is very difficult for the coaches and the others who are impacted to rationalize or begin to support a direction they can’t understand. Regional and national supporters of women’s lacrosse are trying to understand how a sport that has sixth grade through high school and NCAA participation levels that greatly exceed participation levels of other Cal women’s sports, especially in Northern California, has been selected to be cut. Two comparable women’s sports programs — field hockey and lacrosse — were under consideration for termination. Without visibility into the process or financials considered by Chancellor Robert Birgeneau and Cal’s athletic director Sandy Barbour, I will offer transparency into a customer and factsbased decision process that yields a different conclusion. The first step in making this decision is recognizing the key external customers whose interest should be a major consideration in the decision process. One set of these customers is composed of the best and brightest high school students who represent the pool of applicants to Cal every year. Another important customer is the California taxpayer, who is still funding at least part of the Cal budget. How do we measure interest in a sports program? Players, taxpaying parents and opportunity drive participation, which begins as early as the sixth grade. A well-managed college sports program can extend participation far beyond the Berkeley campus. Theresa

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Sherry and her staff have provided countless hours of support to the Northern California Junior Lacrosse Association (NCJLA). The NCJLA program experienced a 12 percent growth this last year coordinating over 2000 lacrosse games across Northern California. There were 88 programs specifically for girls. Sherry has also developed the BearLax program to be the largest women’s lacrosse program in the Bay Area with players from sixth grade through high school. Recruitment of talented coaching staff from the east coast can be a challenge for lacrosse. Theresa has closed the east coast/west coast gap with talent from Notre Dame, University of Virginia, Dartmouth and even Northwestern to support her program, which includes college counseling. Select teams are formed at the high school level and organized by graduating year to maximize the visibility of these players to college recruiters. They practice and train year round for tournament play across the country. Sherry has the business acumen to recognize that a Cal scholarship dollar can recruit more California talent at in-state tuition rates and has a recruitment engine in place to achieve maximum visibility into California women’s lacrosse players. By contrast, the Bay Area Youth Field Hockey program is co-ed only and is limited to just a six training sessions in September and October 2010. Participation in women’s lacrosse vs. field hockey in Northern California is extremely unbalanced in favor of lacrosse. The NCJLA and Theresa Sherry’s BearLax program is light-years ahead in developing an infrastructure to produce exceptional California based talent and a recruitment engine to bring the best and brightest women’s lacrosse players to UC Berkeley. The National Federation of State High School Associations provides clarity regarding participation at the high school level. At the national level, more US high schools are participating in women’s lacrosse than field hockey. At the California level, the difference is striking. In the 2009-10 year, 157 California high schools participated in women's lacrosse compared to 98 California high schools participating in women’s field hockey. The perception that lacrosse is an east coast game is old school. More players from California programs are getting placed into east coast schools every year. At both national and state level, sig-

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nificantly more women are participating in women’s high school lacrosse than field hockey. The NCAA provides details regarding institutions sponsoring sport programs at the Division 1 level. The number of institutions sponsoring women’s lacrosse at the Division 1 level is 92 compared to only 79 institutions currently sponsoring women's field hockey. San Diego State University and Fresno State are adding Division 1 women’s lacrosse programs so the numbers in California are growing even in the difficult economy. The NCAA tournament final game for women's lacrosse set a record for attendance. NCAA participation also favors women’s lacrosse over field hockey. Based on high school and college participation as measured by the National Federation of State High School Associations and NCAA Sports Sponsorship statistics, women’s lacrosse is favored over field hockey. Additionally, the well-developed NCJLA organization, with Cal’s own BearLax club representing the largest number of women’s lacrosse players in the Bay Area, is expertly positioned to support the taxpaying parents and players in making the most of their lacrosse experience. In conclusion, this fact-based transparent process yields a decision to remove field hockey in favor of sponsoring women’s lacrosse. Eliminating the women’s lacrosse program when it has greater participation at the high school/ college level and significantly greater momentum in California at the youth level, seems to be missing the best interest of the majority of taxpaying parents, players and coaches participating in the support of women’s sport programs. A measure of a good management team is its willingness to embrace change when given new information. To the Cal administrators, please consider an approach to reduce sporting programs consistent with all levels of participation and with less impact to the Bay Area and California as a whole. Move forward with supporting the sports that have greater levels of participation and can demonstrate positive impact to the Bay Area and California. Honor North America’s original game and the fastest sport on two feet. Support women's lacrosse at Cal! Eric Arden has a daughter in BearLax. Reply to opinion@dailycal.org.

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ASUC to Create Grant Aiding Students Involved in the Arts The AAVP Office Plans To Raise $7,500 in This School Year for the New Arts and Creativity Fund by Allie Bidwell Contributing Writer

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Democracy at the Core of Every Co-op by Ivan Lopez There is an analogy that likens the twenty co-ops of the Berkeley Student Cooperative (BSC) to the fifty states of the United States. These twenty different co-ops have certain autonomy but all are part of one entity. With student fee hikes rising, the Oct. 7th Day of Action fresh in recent memory, the Proposition 19 and Proposition 23 initiatives up for vote on Nov. 2 and a hotly contested Berkeley City Council race in District 7 there is no better time for co-opers to become civicly engaged. The Board of Directors (an all-student-member body) of the BSC has officially and unanimously endorsed a Voter Registration Drive at the coops. Other co-opers and I have attended Cal Vote Coalition meetings and trainings. The Cal Vote Coalition is made up of representatives from different ASUC groups. It is overseen by Jeremy Pilaar from the External Affairs Office of the ASUC. Over the next week leading up to Monday, Oct. 18 (the deadline to register to vote) a core group of volunteers including Gabe Shwartzman of Kingman, Madison Margolin of Cloyne and myself from Rochdale

will go to the different coops during councils, where members of each coop engage in house self-government and we will solicit members to fill out voter registration forms. Voting in local, state and national elections can be seen as a natural extension of what is practiced at the co-ops. Each co-op has internal elections, and also elections to the Board of Directors, the body that has jurisdiction over BSC-wide policies and budget; as well as a host of other comittees, like HiCom, where students hire staff. The co-ops offer its student members plenty of opportunities to become involved and officially exercise their agency. The co-ops have a culture of autonomy, self-government, democracy and self-sufficiency and try to be responsive to the needs of their members. The External Affairs Committee believes that it is a great time for coopers to ask themselves how they fit into the larger world and how they can exercise their values to make a difference for the better. Not only will the co-ops have a voter registration drive but they will also host a Candidates Forum at Cloyne Court on Oct. 13 at 7 p.m. The three candidates for the District 7

Council seat, Kriss Worthington, George Beier, and Cecilia “Ces” Rosales will engage in a debate moderated by the League of Women Voters. At this forum, co-opers and members from the community will have a chance to hear how the candidates plan to address issues that they care about. Also on Oct. 13, all of the co-ops will sponsor a movie screening of “I AM”? a movie that explores questions about ethics and different philosophies. The hope is for co-opers and students to ask what their connections and responsibilities to the larger world community are and ask themselves, “Who am I?” From my experience being part last years successful campaign to Save Rochdale (one of the larger co-ops that had its lease renewed by the university), it is apparent that each co-op has a different culture and a different perspective but in the end we can all come together for the betterment of the entire community. Let us do it again on Nov. 2. I look forward to seeing you at these and future co-op events. Ivan Lopez is a member of the Rochdale co-op. Reply to opinion@dailycal.org.

Co-Ops Are a Unique Community In Co-Ops, Students Are Able to Find Friends And Meaningful Experiences Unlike Any Other by Daniel Kronovet In recent weeks, many people have felt compelled to ask what, exactly, is a co-op? My answer: a community of students who come together to live affordably by buying food and supplies in bulk, and splitting the work of cooking their food and cleaning their home. It is a democratically self-governed community resting on the principles of tolerance and sustainability. Most of their stories go untold; stories of young students finding themselves in the most welcoming environments they have ever been, with room to develop into the people they were meant to be. Stories of building roof-

top garden terraces, made to last. Stories of nighttime hikes into the forest to enjoy the silence, and to confess hopes and fears about the future. Stories of late-night study sessions blessed by an unexpected batch of cookies. Stories of dance parties which last for hours. Stories of true community. Unfortunately, as with any large student organization, the poor decisions of a few can overshadow all of this good, and encourage false perceptions of our culture and values. But we are bigger than the actions of a few. The Berkeley Student Cooperative is an organization that makes it possible for nearly 1300 students to live cooperatively across 20 houses and apartment

Friendships Forged in the Co-Ops Create Strong Bonds That Keep the Community Close Together by Alex Ghenis As I write this op-ed, my stomach is in pain. It’s in pain because a tray full of fresh, homemade cheddar biscuits was part of our co-op dinner, staring me in the face and asking to be eaten. And it’s because Tony came out with a 10-gallon tub of Bud’s chocolate ice cream just after, and at least one spoonful of that ice cream needed to go into my stomach too. Now I’m stuffed. Now, my mother always told me that the way to a young man’s heart is through his stomach. Well, if that’s the case, I should propose to my co-op tomorrow. Actually, maybe I should propose to Hannah, tonight’s head cook. And right now, in this

imaginary marriagefest inspired by dinner, I can’t help but wonder what would’ve happened had I not moved into Andres Castro Arms, my home, sophomore year. The dinner experience tonight demonstrated everything that has made life so great in this house. Cooperation showed itself through Hannah’s culinary masterpiece. Friendship came from Tony, and not just because of the ice cream. I’ve met him and dozens of others through my co-op, and we’ve shared amazing experiences together, from music and story night to the comfortable conversations one can only have in a home. Those friendships are still strong, even despite time and distance for

complexes in Berkeley. Our members are drawn from all walks of life, attending schools across the East Bay, with a dazzlingly diverse array of interests. Within the walls of these houses I’ve enjoyed some of my most formative conversations with some of the most intelligent people I have ever met. I have encountered skills and hobbies I never knew existed. So what exactly is a co-op? Richard, one of the health workers at my co-op, Andres Castro Arms, put it best: “a co-op is not just the place where you live, but an association of open-minded people.” If you have any doubts, knock on a door and come in for dinner. See for yourself the reality that we all love. Daniel Kronovet is president of the BSC and a former employee of The Daily Californian. Reply to opinion@dailycal.org. many. Personally, I’ve found this place to be the most welcoming space at Berkeley, and my college experience would have been incomplete without it. So when I see comments on the Daily Cal disparaging the houses and organization I love so much, I have to speak up. I truly believe that the coops are much more reflective of the comments featured on the Great Castro Fire article — supportive of management, recognizing that love for each other and our house kept us safe — than some other comments we’ve seen in the recent past. After all, moving into the co-ops was one of the best decisions of my life, and there are 1300 other people in the BSC who will tell you the same thing. Alex Ghenis is vice president of external affairs for the BSC. Reply to opinion@dailycal.org.

After nearly three hours of discussion, the ASUC Senate voted Wednesday night to pass a bill that will create a new ASUC grant to support students and student groups participating in the arts who have had trouble receiving funding in the past. This new fund will be the sixth grant offered through the ASUC, but unlike the five other ASUC grants, the finances for the Arts and Creativity Fund will come from annual fundraising and not from the ASUC budget. Academic Affairs Vice President Viola Tang said that in the past, students have had trouble receiving funding from the other grants — the Academic Opportunity Fund, the Intellectual Community Fund, the Educational Enhancement Fund, the Multicultural Fund and the Public Service Fund — because there must be an active student group with four signatories in order to be ASUC-sponsored and receive funding. “We are relieved to see the grant finally overcoming bureaucracy and moving forward to serve student needs,” Tang said in an e-mail. “After months of work in structuring our fundraising proposal ... we are highly optimistic about the effect the grant will have on our campus.” Several senators were concerned that the ASUC would not be able to provide funds for the grant in the future and said they would rather see

Tang’s office begin fundraising to prove the sustainability of the grant before passing the bill. Tang said in the e-mail the fact that it took two months to discuss and amend the bill and to convince senators that it would not negatively affect their budget has called into question the senate’s decision-making process. “The refusal of the senate to include even the opportunity for it to consider including the grant in the ASUC budget, unlike all other grants, makes us question why the ASUC should fund anything at all,” she said in the e-mail. The bill was amended to state that, for this semester, Tang would commit a portion of her stipend to fund the grant and the amount for the spring would be raised by her office. Additionally, the authors of the bill added a clause stating that the senate has the power to abolish the grant if it feels the fundraising efforts are not sufficient. Tang said in the e-mail that her office plans to raise $7,500 for the fund this year. It has also stipulated that the future directors of the fund must raise $2,500 each year and an additional $2,500 for the following year to ensure that there is sufficient funding at the beginning of the school year. Independent Senator Waseem Salahi, who voted in favor of the bill, said at the meeting that the new grant would benefit the ASUC because certain student groups would not have to come to the senate for funding. “This grant offers us an opportunity to outsource some of this work to another office in the ASUC that will be carrying its own fundraising efforts,” he said. Allie Bidwell is the lead ASUC reporter. Contact her at abidwell@dailycal.org.

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only the bare minimum of UC admissions thresholds, and will not be exposed to any of the academic-intellectual benefits of university culture, course standards will almost certainly need to be lowered,” the faculty association report states. The draft’s recommendations also stress advocacy at the state and federal levels to ensure adequate public money flow. In the decline of these two revenue streams, the draft recommends increasing private fundraising campaigns to make up the funding shortfall. The Monday meeting was the commission’s last scheduled gathering. Changes to the draft discussed at the meeting will be circulated to the commission’s membership for approval before the publication of the final report, expected to be released by the end of December, according to UC spokesperson Steve Montiel.

The commission also discussed specific recommendations at the meeting, including stronger review processes for academic programs to identify which should be consolidated or cut in these adverse economic times. The draft contains an additional section of “Contingency Recommendations,” which lists recommendations that “the Commission also deliberated ... that are worthy of additional study but need not be advanced at this time,” according to the draft. These proposals — including differential tuition by campus, downsizing the university’s faculty and workforce and abandoning all capital projects that are not absolutely critical for safety — could be reconsidered should a financial situation arise necessitating such drastic measures. Jordan Bach-Lombardo covers higher education. Contact him at jbachlombardo@dailycal.org.

LIZARDS: Species Lives Longer, Has Live Births from front

offspring rather than laying eggs, said Alison Davis, a UC Berkeley postdoctoral student and lead author of the study. “The standard sort of lizard archetype is that the lizard hatches from an egg, it grows up very quickly, it mates and then it dies,” Davis said. Desert night lizards, by contrast, form a connection between mother and offspring in giving birth. Because live births occur less frequently per year, lizards who give birth to live offspring have a longer lifespan than those who lay eggs. “They’ve demonstrated convincingly, perhaps for the first time, that there’s been a completely independent demonstration of social behavior in another group of animals,” said Ted Papenfuss, a research scientist at UC Berkeley’s Museum of Vertebrate Zoology. Davis began research for the study as a graduate student at UC Santa Cruz in August 2003. Over the course of the next five years, Davis and her team looked under Joshua trees in the Mojave Desert, observing a total of 2,120 lizards and classifying them by age group. The researchers also collected samples from the lizards’ tails to conduct paternity testing using their DNA. Juvenile lizards were found

still living with parent lizards up to three years after birth, according to the study. “What is particularly exciting is that the same sorts of patterns are observed in social mammals and birds,” said Ammon Corl, who co-authored the study when he was a former graduate student at UC Santa Cruz, in an e-mail. Because desert night lizards offer relatively little parental care after childbirth, it is not yet clear why offspring are staying with the parents for as long as they are, Davis said. She said researchers are currently attempting to discover the reasons lizard offspring choose to stay and continue to share resources rather than seeking another area. Davis said the best way to understand if the offspring are genuinely attached to their parents is to transplant juveniles to another set of parents. Barry Sinervo, Davis’ adviser in the study and a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz, said that while these “social” lizards are being found, they are slowly going extinct because of climate change. “You’d hate to have all of this biology disappear before you can show it to your kids,” Sinervo said. Contact Victoria Pardini at vpardini@dailycal.org.

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After two rounds of action, the Cal men’s golf team is on top of the leaderboard at The Prestige at PGA West in La Quinta, CA. The Bears, who have been red-hot as of late, will enter the final round of play tied for first with Stanford at 1-under par. Cal and Stanford hold a comfortable lead going into today’s round over thirdplace Washington, at 4-over, and fourthplace San Diego at 8-over. Leading the Bears in scoring are senior Stephen Hale and sophomore Max Homa, who shot sit tied for sixth with a score of 2-under par. Freshman Byeong-Hun An is tied for 10th at 1-under par. Eric Mina shot scores of 73 and 75, good enough for 21st place, while sophomore Michael Weaver sits tied for 38th. Cal currently has three players in the top-10 and all five players are in the top-40. The Bears shot a season-best team score of 2-under par on Sunday to grab sole possession of first place with a four-stroke lead. —Aaron Lee

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Six of the top ten squads in the country lost this past weekend, with the Cal volleyball team being among them. The Bears, who entered the weekend THE ranked seventh, jumped up a spot following their narrow defeat at USC, which is now No. 5. The loss ended Cal’s 15-match winning streak, giving the squad its first blemish on a previously perfect record. Stanford – the only other undefeated team going into the weekend - did not emerge from Los Angeles unscathed either. After toppling the Trojans in four sets, the then-No. 1 Cardinal took their first loss of the season against a 12th ranked UCLA team. The Bears had polished off the Bruins in four the night before. According to Cal coach Rich Feller, the trip to L.A., is the most challenging of the season, as both Bay Area squads found out. “In some ways, the split on the road in the Los Angeles area is just about like a victory, especially when you lose like three points in the fifth set (as the Bears did),� Feller said. “Ours was probably the best loss because it was a closest two teams rankwise, and it was on the road and it was in five.� With No. 17 Oregon and No. 10 UCLA each dropping a match, Stanford and Cal remain tied atop the Pac10 standings. Other highly ranked teams to lose include defending national champion Penn State, which dropped two to Purdue and Indiana and plummeted to No. 9. The Nittany Lions had a 109game winning streak snapped by the Cardinal earlier this season. “There’s a lot of parity around the country this year, and we’re a team that can play with anyone, and why not?

Murrey Continuing to Dominate This weekend, as in most, junior outside hitter Tarah Murrey was the go-to hitter for the Bears. Murrey, one of only three upperclassmen on the roster, impressed early in the season with high hitting percentages and key contributions from the back row. Those accomplishments tend to be overlooked given the fact that Cal played a relatively easy preseason schedule. With the beginning of the Pac-10 season, Murrey’s productivity has not waned, which has accorded her more recognition. The junior was named last week’s Pac-10 Player of the Week for the first time in her career. The outside hitter posted a solid .351 hitting percentage on 16 kills against Oregon and tacked on 15 more the next day against Oregon State. In Saturday’s loss to USC, her numbers were even more impressive. With 34 kills and a .394 hitting percentage, Murrey posted career-best numbers that put her in the Cal record books. It was the fifth best offensive output by a Bear, and she became the seventh player to reach 30 kills in a match. “Tarah was just unbelievable. That woman is carrying a load for us,� Feller said. “She’s hitting smart, she’s reduced her errors, she’s passing nearly perfect in the rotation, playing great defense. She has really just blossomed this year.� Murrey shrugs off the individual accolades, focusing much more on the fact that the team lost than the fact that she had an incredible match against the Trojans. “I don’t think any of us are thinking about career nights or anything like that,� Murrey said. “Just playing to win because that’s what’s important.�

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I was a walking stereotype.� His ears still ringing, Andrade at Oasis Community, Oakland High, bility. His life’s narrative is a testament walked back to his dorm room at Clark and Mandela. Each step along the to its power and a passport into the Kerr. The athlete was crying, a foreign way, Andrade helped Oakland’s chil- hearts of his students. experience for the young man. Edwards dren discover their inner scholar. In “Every day we have a choice to either had held up a mirror to Andrade, and his classrooms his critical pedagogy contribute to the trauma of children stresses community, collective success, or to help them,� says Andrade. “If you he did not like what he saw. When Andrade got back to his dorm and identifies social conditions of op- spend any time with them you realize pression so his students can better really quickly that they’re just 15-yearhe had already began to transform. An- old kids and they want the same thing Frustrated, he started by burning all address them and cope. Watching ACROSS his athletic gear in effigy. His cleats, his drade, one sees that he can be strict but that every kid wants.� 10. Church figure 1. Hangs loosely blue and gold “Cal� emblazoned jer- warmhearted, critical but supportive. “They want to be loved. They want S E L L M O M S M E T A L 11. to Canyon sound What truly sets Andrade apart is 5. No longer seys, his warmups; he burned it all. In to fresh be challenged. They want be he instills in cared for. They want to be12. Opera solo that moment, Andrade decided to fight the ethos of commitment10. supported. E L I A A L I T A V I L A Mountaintop back — he finally cared. After losing his his students. Andrade takes a class of They’re just kids and they’re 13.hurting Did not get rid of # 98 14. Metal strand M E too! N ToRfind I out S EmoreDabout E C the A Y You can beAgreen scholarship due to his grades that fall, 30 ninth-graders, known as a cohort, like anybody else would hurt if they German city beaver years __ in high he took on three jobs at the library to and teaches them all four15. were exposed to unearned 19. trauma and L O U D A N D C L E A R Green Business Programs, visit www.greenbiz. 21. Mussolini!s title perpay for tuition and recommitted him- school. His last cohort had unearned 16.a 92 160 square rodssuffering."o L ca.gov I E E M S S R S cent enrollment rate in either a UC or self to his classes and to his future. 24. French river 17. Conception Contact Chris Haugh at “I took the same approach to study- CSU. S L U R R E D B A T T E N 25. Western Indians # 100 18. Pleasure craft “If there’s a quality that he has that chaugh@dailycal.org. ing that I took to sports,� Andrade says. 26. Chomp otherCan teachS T U B S D A M E R O B E “It became a competition for me. 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Small Fall

Cal stil sits atop the conference after its challenging L.A. trip. See page 6

by Chris Haugh Contributing Writer

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n the evening of March 25, 2009, Yohaira Gil received a frantic call from her younger brother Josue Lopez-Gil’s friend. “He’s alive! Pick him up! He’s alive!” she recalls the distressed young voice on the other end of the line screaming. Moments before the call, Josue was walking with two of his friends. As the group passed along the 1800 block of 55th Avenue in Oakland, they were approached by two boys. After a terse exchange of words, one of the boys pulled a gun and shot Josue. Swooning from the pain of his wound, Josue managed to stagger down Holway Street collapsing a few blocks away. Josue, a sixth-grader, was 13 years old when he died that night. His murderer was 13 years old, too. He was shot over a spat involving a girl. In July, 16-year-old Marco Esparaza would die of gunshot wounds sustained on 35th Avenue. In August, 14-year-old Ricardo Cortez would be shot and killed a few blocks away on 47th Street. All in all, Oakland would see 104 homicides that year including numerous school-aged children. The violence, poverty and corroding schools make all of Oakland’s youth suffer. Nowhere is this more prominent than in the classroom. In East Oakland, only 23 percent of all public school students entering the ninth grade from 2002–2005 graduated, and a lamentable 5 percent were eligible for admission to the UC or CSU systems. Compared to nearby Piedmont’s 93 percent graduation rate, one begins to understand the stakes. In this context, it’s sometimes difficult to parse through the grim stories of coffins, truancy, and trammeled dreams to find hope in Oakland’s urban public schools. And yet, in the case of Mandela High School of East Oakland, hope abounds in one classroom in particular. In fact, a novel teaching style is yielding amazing, seemingly impossible results. Students once considered lost are attending their classes, doing their homework, and 90 percent or more are going to college. Who has reached these kids where so many others have failed? None other than a Cal graduate and Ph.D., named Dr. Jeff Duncan-Andrade. Andrade is an enigma whose story is bumpy and fraught with heartache. Nonetheless, Andrade’s story is one of triumph — a story of empathy, dedication and gritty determination. An educator and a coach wizened by experience, but made more committed by it. Underlying Andrade’s story is an undercurrent of love. Real unabated love forged out of the crucible of life in all its drama. Andrade’s passion transcends his students. His self-ascribed mandate is to change the way we all view the scholar, the athlete, and the progeny of America’s inner-city. ong before you could find Andrade commanding a classroom in Oakland, you would have found him on a soccer field in a working-class neighborhood outside of Eugene, Ore. Andrade was a high school standout in soccer, basketball, and track. Never considering himself a scholar, Andrade would go to class only long enough to be eligible to practice that afternoon. He was recruited to play basketball at several high-profile schools, but accepted a scholarship to play soccer at Cal. But Andrade would not last long in the collegiate athletic world. In his first

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Conference Questions Is This the Year the Bears Will Finally Prevail Against USC? The Pac-10’s middle tier is once again a log-jam, and the Bears’ match-up in Troy may be the biggest toss-up yet. USC has a talented quarterback in Matt Barkley, but can do little to stop opposing signal-callers. Cal’s defense, on the other hand, is rapidly improving under Clancy Pendgerast — yet the team’s own passing attack has been quite pedestrian so far. Who, then, should be favored at the Coliseum this weekend? For now, the Trojans’ advantage under center gives them a slight edge. With 2005 and 2009 as glaring exceptions, slowing down USC’s potent offense has not been Cal's main obstacle — even on the road. The Bears have not allowed more than 23 points in their last three outings at the Coliseum. Their last two losses in Troy, however, wasted fine defensive efforts due to their own sputtering attack. As porous as the Trojans’ defense has been in the post-Pete Carroll era, Kevin Riley’s recent performances haven’t exactly inspired confidence. Though Shane Vereen is having a fine season out of the backfield, inconsistent passing has kept the team from consistently sustaining drives. Stalling at Arizona is one thing; mustering just 83 yards against a middling unit from UCLA is another matter. As bad as USC has defended the pass, one still has to ask: can Cal have success through the air if its ground game is bottled up? USC’s defense may have changed, but that question remains the same. —Ed Yevelev

Is Oregon State Heating Up for Another Late Season Run? Last Saturday, James Rodgers’ left knee bent in a way that no knee should ever bend. There was really no reason it needed to happen. He had already reached the end zone when Arizona safety Adam Hall hit him. Flags were already down to call back the penalty. Although the coaching staff has emitted nary a peep since the injury, there’s been plenty of speculation about the star wideout missing the rest of the season and taking a medical redshirt. Rodgers, by the way, is the Beaver’s all-time leader in all-purpose yards. No one on their roster can replace that sort of production. The good news is that first-year starter Ryan Katz might have just clicked at the quarterback spot. Averaging 180 passing yards heading into the game, the sophomore threw for 393 yards and two touchdowns, adding another score on the ground. His attempts had flirted around the mid-20s all season, but they spiked to 42 against then-No. 9 Arizona. He completed 30. There’s also James’ brother, Jacquizz, one of the top tailbacks in the nation. Although his per-game yardage has dipped by about 30 from a year ago — likely due in part to Oregon State’s brutal schedule — he’ll have to shoulder a heavier load. The Beavers just inched back into the AP Poll, and they have a habit of waking up when September ends. Without both Rodgers brothers, though, the team’s chances just got a dimmer. —Jack Wang

After Defeating the Trojans, Can Stanford Win the Conference? After No. 14 Stanford defeated USC, 37-35, on a last-minute field goal last Saturday, Trojan tailback Dillon Baxter had this to say: “This is actually my first crazy game,” he said. “I liked it even though we lost.” That lack of a competitive attitude, more than just about anything else, sums up the Cardinal’s victory over SC. This isn’t to say that Stanford didn’t fight hard; they did. Quarterback Andrew Luck was 20-of-24 with three touchdowns and drove his team down the field like a true field general. When it counted, the Card played like winners. But luckily for Stanford, when it counted for the Trojans, they played like losers. For the second week in a row, the Trojans looked unmotivated in the final crucial seconds — and extremely vulnerable to the big play. Which means that, once again, Stanford still hasn’t proven that its the best in the conference, a goal that coach Jim Harbaugh committed to in the preseason. They took a weak UCLA squad down in the second week of the season and out-rallied a flagging USC team at home, but were squashed by Oregon in Eugene. From early indicators, it appears as though the Cardinal will most certainly finish in the top three of the conference by season’s end. But having already seen, and lost, to the front-running Ducks, it seems doubtful that Stanford will be able to ultimately win the Pac-10. —Katie Dowd

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