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Higher Education Activism

by Hailey Parish Contributing Writer

While the recently passed state budget increased funding to the University of California by $370.4 million, the amount is still $237 million below 2007-08 levels.

The $637 million reduction in state funding in 2009-10 caused the campus to implement several cost-saving measures last year, including layoffs, fee increases, furloughs and a controversial streamlining initiative in collaboration with Bain & Company, providing the impetus for the protests.

The pots and pans march to Chancellor

Businesses on Telegraph Avenue may have been hit extra hard in light of the economic downturn as problems considered more inherent to the area — such as disturbances sometimes caused by a few homeless individuals on the avenue — may have also contributed to drops in sales experienced by some business owners.

While the economy’s recent dive has taken a toll on almost all businesses in Berkeley, owners on Telegraph say they may be dealing with a bit more of a financial impact as potential customers are sometimes discouraged from shopping on the avenue and pushed out of the area by a regular contingent of drifters who loiter in front of stores and “don’t respect the street or ... businesses,” according to Marc Weinstein, co-owner of Amoeba Music.

The businesses may be hurt by negative perceptions of the area established over the years and partially rooted in the actions of these homeless individuals on the street, leading many business owners to feel “neglected” by the city and community, Weinstein said.

“The avenue is suffering from perception more than reality,” he said. “There are still so many great businesses there, and it’s probably the best people-watching area in the country.”

Weinstein added that of his three Amoeba Music stores — in Hollywood, San Francisco and Berkeley — the 20year-old Telegraph location has taken the biggest financial decline in revenue at 50 percent over the past five years, while the San Francisco store has dropped 15 percent and the Hollywood store 5 percent.

“That number corresponds with the whole avenue,” he said.

Shawn Misaghi, owner of Telegraph Flowers — across the street from Amoeba — said that the homeless “regulars”

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Student organizers of the Oct. 7 protests met Thursday night to discuss future plans in the Tilden Room of the Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union building.

Education Activists Meet to Plan Future Protests

by Madeleine Key Contributing Writer

Despite acknowledging waning support for the higher education activist movement, student organizers attempted to recoup from the relatively low turnout of last week’s protest Thursday night by deliberating how best to rally student support.

At a meeting held in the Tilden room of the Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union building, organizers and supporters of the Oct. 7 protest gathered to plot the movement’s future including a “pots and pans march” next

week, a potential GSI strike on Nov. 1 and a yet-to-be-planned action at the UC Board of Regents meeting on Nov. 16-18.

“How are we going to reach out to the community this time? How are we going to be better?” said Marco Amaral a sophomore and member of the Student-Worker Action Team.

“The truth is, we want change now because we need change now. We can’t afford to have change occur in five or ten years. But organizing a movement is also a learning process.

What do we have to do to spark people’s interest? How do we make people care?”

Corporation Founder Donates to Potential Major Merger Causes Concern College of Letters and Science

by James Zhao Contributing Writer

by Jasmine Mausner Contributing Writer

In the midst of a major lawsuit filed by residents against the city of Berkeley for building rights on his new home, Lotus Development Corporation founder and first chair of the Mozilla Foundation, Mitch Kapor, has given UC Berkeley’s College of Letters and Science a donation of $250,000 a year — renewable for five years — towards the development of the Berkeley Science Network.

The gift, announced by the Mitchell Kapor Foundation Oct. Mitch 8, is initially inkapor tended to fund the hiring of a coordinator and begin more comprehensive planning for the network, which aims to provide resources for underrepresented high school students in the Bay Area, according to Cedric Brown, director of the foundation.

“The Kapors, both Mitch and (his wife) Freada, are very invested in insuring that students from underrepresented backgrounds have opportunities that are equal to people that come from well-resourced backgrounds and deeply understand the need for focused investments in science, technology, engineering and math,” Brown said.

John McKee, dean of Development and College Relations at the college, who is involved in the funding component of the network, said Kapor and his wife Freada Kapor Klein are frequent visitors to UC Berkeley’s campus and are involved in other campus organizations. Kapor is an adjunct professor at the School of Information and Kapor Klein is both a UC Berkeley alumna and a trustee of the UC Berkeley Foundation.

Brown said the network is aimed to connect UC Berkeley undergraduate and graduate science majors and Bay Area high school students through the Summer Math and Science Honors Academy ­— a program that targets students from underrepresented populations who are college-bound.

Kapor’s gift comes at a time when controversy surrounds the approval of his yet-to-be-constructed 6,478 square foot home in North Berkeley. Housing plans were halted after many Berkeley residents filed a lawsuit to stop construction, complaining that the house plan was too large and that the city’s approval of the project was unfairly expedited.

However, Councilmember Susan Wengraf said many Berkeley residents were in favor of the residence plan.

Some immediate neighbors had previously supported the residence’s construction.

Councilmember Jesse Arreguin

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UC Berkeley students and alumni are vocalizing discontent after hearing that three of the campus’s majors — Asian American studies, Chicano/ Latino studies and Native American studies — may be reorganized into a single ethnic studies major under a recommendation by an external review committee, while faculty have asserted that the concerns are misguided.

The committee, composed of faculty from other universities with experience in ethnic studies, reviewed the department for the first time since 1992, releasing a report of their findings at the end of September 2009. Among other provisions in the report, the committee recommended that the department incorporate the three majors into individual programs under a comparative ethnic studies major in order to make the department more cohesive.

According to the report, the interaction between the multiple majors in the department has fueled “tensions” relating to shared governance. But responses from alumni groups, students and faculty have been mixed.

In an Oct. 11 statement by the Berkeley Asian American Pacific Islander Alumni Association, the chapter called the pressure to consolidate an “assault” against the department.

“We’ve seen these kinds of attacks before, disguised through the years,” said Steve Woo, an Asian American studies graduate from UC Berkeley and a member of the chapter. “And we’re

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Helen Weldeghiorgis poses in the African American Student Development Office. The African American studies major could soon be grouped into a larger ethnic studies major. alumni donors. I mean, if you get rid of my major, where does that leave me?”

According to a study responding to the recommendations for the Chicano/ Latino studies program, the tensions between departments can be handled without significant reorganization.

Additionally, department officials have stressed that the recommendations are still only a consideration as they deliberate on the future of the de-

partment’s structure.

“We haven’t had a chance to talk with faculty yet,” said Thomas Biolsi, chair of the ethnic studies department and professor of Native American studies. “Even if we did go with (the recommendation), the majors would become programs within comparative ethnic studies.”

Despite assurances from faculty that

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by Allie Bidwell Contributing Writer

A bill that condemns Coca-Cola’s labor, human rights and environmental track records and urges UC Berkeley to reconsider the terms of a poONLINE PODCAST tential 10-year Allie Bidwell and Mihir contract with the Zaveri talk about the company died at Wednesday Coca-Cola ASUC bill. night’s ASUC Senate meeting.

Cooperative Movement Senator Elliot Goldstein, who co-authored the bill in response to students’ concerns about the campus’ upcoming contract renewal with Coca-Cola in August 2011, motioned to discuss the bill at Wednesday night’s meeting after it was first killed by a tie vote in the Standing Committee on University and External Affairs on Monday. But the 10 votes in favor of the motion fell one short of the 11-vote majority required to discuss the bill.

“The ASUC is one of the parties holding a sponsorship agreement with Coca-Cola,” Goldstein said in an email. “We have a responsibility to have an educated conversation about the details of this contract ... The Senate is choosing to stick its head in the sand about issues that students ... are trying to raise to the public’s awareness.”

According to co-sponsor of the bill and CalSERVE Senator Courtney Mc-

Donald, the bill was essentially rewritten in committee to focus less on the company’s ethical practices and more on concerns about environmental issues and a lack of transparency in the negotiations process, asking for a bimonthly report to be made to the senate describing how students’ concerns would be taken into consideration.

“All we were asking for was to create dialogue,” she said. “I was kind of appalled that people were opposed to having this open dialogue.”

The new version called for the ASUC to support a public forum with students and campus contract negotiators.

But Student Action Senator Michael Bloch said he could not support the bill because it lacked details about the forum, though he added that he would reconsider a new bill with more details. “(I) would rather have waited until that information emerged before making a decision,” he said in an e-mail.

McDonald said it would be hard to move forward when the amount of support for the forum is unclear. She said the forum will still take place at a date yet to be determined and a new bill will be written following the forum, outlining students’ demands.

“If we could send a message to Coke like ‘our eyes are on you,’ then that’s at least a small step,” she said.

Allie Bidwell is the lead ASUC reporter.

Contact her at abidwell@dailycal.org.

by Sarah Mohamed Contributing Writer

A UC Berkeley student was hit on the head with a gun in broad daylight Tuesday in one of four armed robberies that occurred in Berkeley Tuesday and Wednesday.

Berkeley Police Department Sgt. Mary Kusmiss said the two robberies that occurred on Wednesday are “likely connected,” given that the suspects used the same language when addressing their victims and wielded the same type of weapon in both cases.

Another armed robbery that the Oakland Police Department investigated Wednesday night may be related to one of the robberies that occurred earlier in Berkeley that evening, according to Kusmiss.

“We average, looking at statistics, one (robbery) a day in a given month or a little over one — about 1.25 if you really want to splice numbers,” Kusmiss said. “Last (Wednesday) night having three was a little unusual.”

No arrests were made in connection with any of the incidents.

At approximately 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, 29-year-old UC Berkeley student Pat Beck II was walking on the west side of Scenic Avenue near Cedar Street when he was approached by a man who held a pistol to his chest and demanded he empty his pockets, Beck said. The suspect knocked Beck over the head with

his gun after he refused to turn over his belongings.

“It was broad daylight in the Berkeley hills, so I was more shocked than anything,” Beck said.

Later that evening at 9 p.m., a 21year-old man was walking home on the 2600 block of Benvenue Avenue when a man with a black revolver ran up behind him and forcefully took the victim’s backpack and wallet, Kusmiss said.

At 6:55 p.m. Wednesday, a 40-yearold Berkeley resident was walking home on the Ohlone Greenway bicycle and pedestrian pathway between Rose and Hopkins streets when he was approached by three men who took his fanny pack after threatening him with a shotgun.

Just before 9:47 p.m. Wednesday night, a man and woman, both 26year-olds, were at the intersection of Wheeler and Russell streets when they were approached from behind by three men, one of whom held a shotgun to the victim’s neck and demanded his wallet, according to Kusmiss, who added that the suspects may have also committed the robbery in Oakland Wednesday night.

“Russell and Wheeler are not that far from Oakland, so if the suspects were to flee south ... they would end up in North Oakland,” Kusmiss said.

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I Wish I Were a Rich Man

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ast Friday, after a mildly depressing telephone conversation with my dad regarding that common woe of students worldwide — the dire state of my finances — I went downstairs to check if I had any mail.

Getting mail is usually a fairly predictable game for me. Being new in the country, I don’t have many contacts sending me things on a regular basis besides online book orders and the like.

This made the envelope I received that morning all the more mysterious ...

When I say mysterious, I mean downright exciting. There it was, with my own dear name in an enigmatic scrawl on the front, a jaunty sticker in the corner bearing the name of an unknown ranch from which it had been sent, an exotic air surrounding the entire affair due to my unfamiliarity to American stamps, place names and markings.

I tore it open in one fell swoop and hastily snatched at its contents. What it was made a shiver go down my spine, the hairs on the back of my neck stand fast to attention, my heart leap out of my mouth to do a triumphant jig on the pavement in front of me.

The pink slip inside was a check for two thousand dollars for me, Max Johnson, the impoverished Brit abroad.

A rich American philanthropist with a soft spot for British alpha-males had obviously decided that I was due a treat.

I had been delivered the key to finding the American Dream — all I needed now was a muscle car with a trunk-full of popcorn.

It was at roughly this point in my thought process — after considering whether it’d be better if I dressed as Elvis, Uncle Sam or an American eagle during my upcoming adventures — that I began to wonder whether this was perhaps a little too dream-like to be, well, real.

Predictably, upon further examination, I discovered that the check was for a different Max with a similar last name. No doubt you saw this coming, but I was so off in the cloud-land of infinite possibility that I genuinely thought I’d been singled out for a financial present out of the goodness of someone’s heart.

And so I was plunged back into student poverty. And what a stingy existence it is.

Recently, whilst still in my ‘cultural adjustment’ stage, at a grocery store, I accidentally bought a cabbage instead of the iceberg lettuce I was aiming for. I have no idea how I managed to make this mistake; but due to my economic depravity, I fully committed to the mistake. This involved putting it in my sandwiches raw for almost a week, desperately kidding myself that it was actually a lettuce. This was partly so I didn’t have to go through the anguish of throwing it away but also, much more importantly, agonizingly shell out the cash to buy a real lettuce.

Similarly, the other day I clumsily dropped a newly-bought bagel on the ground next to a bin. Did I turn and pick it up? Yes. Did I throw it away? No. I ate it, trying hard to reassure myself that those black specks were pepper. uch financial complaints are all the rage in Edinburgh (my home university town). There, the average stu-

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dent loves to almost gloat about how they have had to sell their wallet at some stage out of desperation for something to put in it.

This is a contrast to my experience so far at Berkeley, where people rarely even mention money on a daily basis, unless linked to wider ideological issues such as provoked last week’s protests. llow me to offer some possible reasons for this, based on my admittedly fairly limited experience of Berkeley life.

In Scotland, university fees are free.

For some, this results in a more luxurious university life due to a redirection of money for fees into living expenses.

However, for most, the effect this has is negligible in terms of the amount of money they have while at university.

Parents and student loan companies are only willing to pay enough to cover reasonable living expenses. Indeed, free tuition fees makes a university education a viable option for many less wealthy individuals, who don’t have much money to spend on a daily basis.

All of this, combined with the fact that complaining is a top contender for Britain’s national pastime, creates an environment of perpetual moaning about personal finances.

In Berkeley, however, fees are high and getting higher. This has the double effect of excluding those who cannot afford to pay and limiting the amount of money some families can contribute towards their children’s living expenses.

Although many students at Berkeley are undoubtedly well-off, there are large numbers who are struggling. Indeed even if they’re not, for most involved, university life is financially restrictive compared to living at home.

So why don’t hard-up Berkeleyites complain about their situations in public? This may be down to a stubborn pride, embarrassment, a want to appear middle-class, a reluctance to talk to an intrusive foreign exchange student or the fact that, being Berkeley students, most of them probably have half a dozen jobs to make up for a lack of parental contribution.

Whatever the reason, I must say that I prefer this state of being to that of the bitter whining that goes on in Edinburgh. Although this doesn’t eradicate the inclination to moan from my DNA, nor does it increase my income. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to lurk around the mailboxes until another American philanthropist turns up, preferably this time with something for me.

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activism: Support for Possible GSI Strike Considered Consolidation: Certain from front Robert Birgeneau’s campus home on Oct. 21 would attempt to direct a specific message of discontent to the administration, according to meeting attendees. Organizers also discussed how best to educate the general public about the potential GSI strike on Nov. 1 to raise support for the protest.

While the protests have traditionally contained many different groups, including undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and staff, meeting organizers looked to emphasize the commonality between the different groups’ causes. “The right to an equitable, high quality and just education doesn’t end with undergrads,� said Ricardo Gomez, ASUC External Affairs vice president and protest organizer. “When one sec-

tor is under attack, we need to stand up and say that it’s not okay.�

Although it is still unclear what actions may be taken at the regent’s meeting in November, several meeting attendees said protesters should focus on the regents, where decisions about potential fee increases are actually being made.

Meeting organizers hope that these varied strategies will continue to incite students to action. “The turnout on Oct. 7 showed the clear, willing desire of the campus to fight back,� said Claire Keating, a UC Berkeley alumna who has been active in the protests. “We’re just now beginning to see the depth and breadth of the restructuring that’s going to occur.�

Contact Madeleine Key at mkey@dailycal.org.

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on Telegraph are a positive part of the community, and it is only the homeless individuals coming in from outside the city that are negatively impacting business on the avenue.

Though business owners said they have not seen much of a response from the city to address these concerns, the city manager’s office started the Berkeley Host Ambassador program in 2008, in which city employees maintain a visible presence on Telegraph Avenue and in Downtown Berkeley to report problematic vacancies to the city, assist tourists, resolve disputes and help homeless individuals with drug or mental health issues enter recovery programs — generally acting as the “eyes and ears� for the city, according to Jim Hynes, assistant to the city manager.

The program is funded by the city and overseen by the Downtown Berkeley Association and the Telegraph Business Improvement District. Graduates of the Options Recovery Services program in Berkeley act as the Telegraph ambassadors and have initiated 12 referrals of homeless individuals to Options Recovery Services since 2008. “(The business committees) report

that the host ambassadors have been a very effective tool in deterring crime and problem-solving in the districts,� said Michael Caplan, the city’s economic development manager.

Hynes said the program is part of a city team that has worked to improve the homeless situation in the Telegraph area specifically. “(Program employees) play a unique function but complement very well with our other staff,� he said. “Before, we had a lot more problems with people sleeping in doorways and those kinds of things.�

But business owners on the avenue said that while the program has been helpful, it still is not enough. Many said foot police on Telegraph, which the avenue had in past years, would drastically improve the avenue’s safety while decreasing problematic behavior. “For 20 years we’ve been asking for things like better street lighting so people can feel safe when they walk down the street,� Weinstein said. “With a little tiny bit of support from the city, the avenue could be so much better, but they really do seem to be ignoring us.�

Hailey Parish covers local business.

Contact her at hparish@dailycal.org.

Groups Protest Merger

from front no action has yet been taken, various student groups have also protested against the possibility of eliminating the three separate majors. The UC Berkeley Raza community, in an Oct. 6 letter to Chancellor Robert Birgeneau, stated one of its demands was for Birgeneau to preserve the three contested majors. Similar concerns were raised during the Oct. 7 day of action in support of public education.

Some faculty have said the reactions have been too quick to judge the situation accurately. According to Biolsi, the ethnic studies faculty will continue to work towards excellence no matter what happens. “We hear the student concern very clearly,� he said. “Students want to make sure that if they come here with interest in majoring in those three areas, they have that option.�

Carla Hesse, dean of the social sciences division of letters and sciences, said other recommendations in the report that are being supported by the campus, such as increasing the size of the faculty and making graduate studies programs more competitive, are proof that the campus is dedicated to ethnic studies. “I don’t like the word consolidation because that implies downsizing,� she said. “And there is no recommendation in that report that implies cuts. It is a budget neutral, academically driven report.�

She added that she wants to ensure the student voice is heard regarding any changes to the department.

Hesse said she has agreed to meet on a monthly basis with any parties interested in the on-going process. “It is a sign of health in academic culture that we have different views,� she said. “We’re never going to agree about all the decisions, but the important thing is that we agree about the rules.�

Katie Nelson of The Daily Californian contributed to this report.

James Zhao covers academics and administration. Contact him at jzhao@dailycal.org.

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The UC Commission on the Future’s first draft proposal has feasible options officials should continue to pursue.

he state budget is finally set, but the financial sustainability of the University of California remains uncertain beyond this fiscal year, causing officials to go back to the UC Commission on the Future for innovative solutions. The commission’s first draft of its proposal was approved Monday with the hopes of getting the finalized version released by December.

Although strategies that the draft mentions need to be further discussed in depth, we are happy to see that the commission is generating feasible and altogether acceptable ideas.

Three of several systemwide changes being considered might appear particularly controversial: increasing the percentage of out-ofstate students, pursuing online curriculum and streamlining the academic process to make a three-year degree program possible. Each has its own merits, but we hope the commission realizes that all of these plans could result in severe repercussions if implemented poorly.

Currently, 6 percent of university undergraduates are from out-ofstate, according to data from 2008.

The proposed increase of nonresident students ensures that this proportion will not exceed 10 percent of the student body; 90 percent of the student body would still be from California. While we find this slight adjustment perfectly acceptable, we would caution officials to make sure

that the percentage is not eroded much further.

Online curriculum remains a sore subject for those who believe these programs would water down the value of a UC degree. We have cautiously supported looking into online education in the past and continue to do so today. However, we think it is ridiculous that proposed tuition for these classes would be the same as traditional courses. That, and likely other details, must be tweaked before the proposal can be seriously considered before online degrees are widely established.

The three-year degree program is also an innovative approach aimed to increase available slots for students. As long as the requirements for the degree remain the same, we do not see how this would result in diminished degrees. In order to make this track a possibility, however, the university should look towards decreasing summer tuition to make it on par with academic year expenses so that students have better affordability and access to take all required courses.

These non-binding proposals are still far from becoming policy and remain in preliminary stages. We would like to see thoughtful deliberations continue to ensure the future success of the university. Yet for now we can see movement forward. There is a long way to go, but at least we’ve gotten somewhere.

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The campus could benefit from education on tolerance in light of the recent suicides of five gay males nationwide.

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The string of suicides from July to September committed by five known gay males ranging in age from 13 to 18 demonstrate the deadly repercussions of allowing to exist unaddressed. And while this campus prides itself for having a largely open-minded environment, we as a student body still need to discuss the issues surrounding these recent deaths.

In particular, the death of Rutgers student Tyler Clementi illuminates the very serious threat online bullying presents in our ever-evolving generation. The alleged webcast of his sexual interactions was an unconscionable breach of privacy that transcends “bullying,” a term more commonly associated with playground taunts.

Whether the students who are being charged in Clementi’s case

were malicious or just had a twisted misconception of pranks remains to be seen. Still, in the latter and more likely case, there could have been corrective discourse at the campus level to dispel any ignorance.

Efforts to address anti-gay bullying are already in the works at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and Grand Valley State University.

There is no reason why UC Berkeley cannot not follow suit. While a worldwide commemoration day is already set for Oct. 20 to wear purple in remembrance of those lost, this campus should spearhead its own efforts to address tolerance of the LGBTQ community and beyond.

Ignorance is implicit everywhere, and we cannot be lulled into a false sense of security. One casualty, let alone five, from staying silent is already a failure.

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Prop. 19: Unfairly Hazing Dispensaries Proposition Would Only Open Marijuana to Mass Marketing and Excessive Taxation

by Lanette Davies This November, the state looks to legalize marijuana for recreational use through Proposition 19. On the surface, it seems the lift of this outdated ban would reform archaic laws, stimulate business and epitomize California as a progressive state and model for the rest of the country. So why does Canna Care, a popular marijuana dispensary, circle the capitol in a truck advertising voters to protest the initiative? Why have medical marijuana dispensary owners come together to speak out against Prop. 19?

The answer — or more accurately, the problem — surfaces in the legislation’s rhetoric. Voters who read the proposition will be surprised at what the legislation actually proposes. It’s a sloppy attempt to drum up state money and, by default, segues our state’s cannabis consumption into questionable territory; threatening the rights of medical mari-

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juana patients to have safe and reliable access to their medicine.

In 1996, California passed a reform proposition entitled The Compassionate Use Act of 1996, pioneering our state ahead of the others with the legalization of medical marijuana and dispensaries in California. The CUA opened up the sale of cannabis to people who needed it the most: medical patients. Prop. 19 threatens to retract the revolutionary steps taken with CUA. Should the measure pass, local governments are allowed to tax the medicinal plant, making the drug less feasibly attainable for the sick. The medical plant is already subject to a state sales tax, and with the addition of any new taxes, in addition to states sales and excise taxes, the medicine becomes a less fathomable option for medicinal cannabis users.

Letitia Pepper, an attorney-at-law, recently authored a document titled: “Don’t Be Fooled: Prop. 19 WILL Affect Medical Marijuana Patients and Collectives.” After heavy research on Proposition 19’s legal intentions, she discovered multiple lapses in the legislation ­— components clearly omitted to allow Prop. 19 writers leeway pertaining to medicinal cannabis. For example, Pepper sites that the initiative conve-

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niently excludes medicinal marijuana cultivation standards. Due to this omission, “everyone becomes a mere consumer, a captive market to be exploited by a few businesses that get the permits to cultivate and distribute.” Patients, although needing further privileges, will lack legal rights. What’s more, medicinal marijuana dispensaries will as well.

Dispensary owners familiar with the impending proposition are worried for their businesses and the quality of cannabis. Prop. 19 will create a monopoly on the drug. Mass production, mass marketing and mass distribution. A Walmart-esque supplier will trump the independent dispensaries that currently ensure quality and genuine service. A corporate giant will consume the pot market, with intentions of making pretty penny rather than guaranteeing marijuana such as that currently sold in independent dispensaries. Pepper details these effects, stating Prop. 19’s passing will “allow cities to legally ban collectives ... cause the price of marijuana to go up, and put the profits from marijuana into the hands of a few large businesses.”

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In the words of Dragonfly de la Luz, world-famous marijuana advocate, as quoted in East Bay Express, “being pro-legalization and being pro-Prop 19 are two different things entirely.”

When heading to the polls this November, proceed with caution: voting for Prop. 19 does not make you an advocate of marijuana legalization –it does however, create barriers for medical marijuana users, strip current cannabis users of smoking rights and

jeopardize the legal safety of juvenile marijuana activists.

Vote NO on Prop. 19 and demand our state government provide us with a more logical and effective way to address marijuana use – a way that won’t harm medical marijuana users, quash the business of locally supported dispensaries or federally incarcerate users.

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Measure R Is A Vague, Ineffectual Proposition Behind a ‘Green’ Veneer, The Measure Provides Little Indication That Anything Will Improve

by Stewart Jones Measure R is a compendium of platitudes, inconsistencies and contradictions. The ballot statement for Measure R uses the word green 23 times. It is full of superlative language and vague statements. It claims to make Berkeley one of the greenest cities in the country and is unfortunately endorsed by the Sierra Club.

However, when campaign finance statements for the yes on Measure R campaign were released a week ago, we learned who was paying for the Sierra Club mailer and more importantly that the individuals behind the campaign are hardly green in the environmental sense. Out of the $32,000 donated to the campaign, Equity Residential, owned by the right-wing billionaire Sam Zell, gave the lions share of $25,000.

He was recently slammed in an NY Times article for fostering a “bankrupt culture”. In at number two is L.B. Reddy Estate company, which gave $2500 and is owned by Lakireddi Bali Reddy, a convicted sex trafficker who was exposed and eventually convicted because he failed to maintain one of his buildings in Berkeley. Joining them as the third biggest donor with $1000 is the incumbent in District 8, Gordon Wozniak.

Everybody agrees downtown Berkeley needs work. There are far too many vacant properties, and it lacks cohesive vitality. While Measure R claims it will solve the problems of the downtown, it is actually a shell for large scale corporate greenwashing.

Measure R is not simply a vision statement as some might call it because it does specify three important things. Masked in green rhetoric, Measure R raises height limits to 180

feet and even potentially taller with a density bonus, expands the downtown to threaten surrounding neighborhoods and guts the landmark preservation ordinance, to make it easier to demolish historic buildings.

For a plan that claims to be environmentally friendly, Measure R does not require stringent green building standards to be implemented throughout the city — not just in the downtown. Neither does it have any actual provisions for open space or the creation of a plaza necessary for a livable downtown.

Furthermore, Measure R provides no guarantee that we will get affordable housing in the downtown area.

Rather than building affordable units in a project, it allows developers to pay an in lieu fee of an unspecified amount so we do not know if we will even get enough of the money that we need to build affordable housing units elsewhere.

Berkeley is the densest city in the East Bay and is getting more so — just look at all the new development under the existing plan. We are already doing our part to combat urban sprawl. The most vibrant part of downtown is the Saturday farmers market.

The downtown deserves a a plaza and a full time market hall like the ferry building in San Francisco that celebrates local and sustainable businesses.

We need a downtown that accentuates the things that make Berkeley special and the high ground in the Bay Area. Measure R takes away this potential because it is a gift to corporate interests from a weak city council that disregards public input and lacks the vision and the energy to create a downtown that is truly vibrant and a model for the future.

Vote No on Measure R — we don’t need it to revitalize downtown Berkeley. Revitalize, yes ­— greenwash, no.

For more information, please visit www.factsaboutmeasurer.org.Stewart Jones is a candidate for Berkeley City Council in District 8.

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letter to the editor Birgeneau and Barbour Had Other Options for Cuts I agree with Eric Arden’s strongest points in his defense of the women’s lacrosse team: the damaging lack of transparency in Cal's athletics decisions, as well as the athletic center and football budget, and the tremendous loss in Cal’s short-sighted decision to end women’s lacrosse as a varsity sport.

One of my daughters in eighth grade plays in the Berkeley Bears Lacrosse Club, and if the varsity lacrosse decision becomes permanent, that hurts Berkeley High, in turn hurting our middle school club program.

But the solution is not to drop field hockey. Field hockey, like lacrosse, provides a growth experience for young women to mature into collegiate student athletes and stronger individuals in life.

When the chancellor and athletic director made their misguided announcement two weeks ago, I thought: the campus’s decision to move the Water Resources Archives from UC Berkeley had to rank as the dumbest we could make; but this one comes close.

Instead of eliminating varsity sports, our chancellor and athletic director could have said something

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like this: “Athletics, including intercollegiate athletics, form an important part of life-long student development, a valid budget item in our undergraduate curriculum.

We can no longer afford, however, the national space race in programs like football and basketball to sacrifice other sports that reach a larger population of young people. The Cal diversity we prize must also be protected in athletics!

“The university’s challenges in higher public education are not unique; we just face them sooner and more intensely than others. We will provide leadership to match that challenge.

“We will stand down from the excesses inherent in nationally-ambitious gladiatorial sports, and realign our resources to preserve our intercollegiate opportunities for more students.

“We will downsize the oversized programs and budgets, and focus on regional competition to extend competitive opportunities to the most students.

“And we call on our sister public universities, in the Pac-10 and nationwide, to join us and restore athletics to the worthy perspective they deserve.”

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Cal Tunes Up for Indoors Down on the Farm

by Annie Gerlach Contributing Writer

Consider it the U.S. Open of college competition.

That’s how highly the USTA/ITA National Intercollegiate Indoor Championships, held Nov. 4-7 in Flushing, New York, ranks in the world of Division I men’s tennis. This tournament comprises one third of the collegiate grand slam, after all.

But in order to get to that tournament, the No. 18 Cal men’s tennis team must first trample the courts of Stanford’s Taube Family Tennis Center at the 2010 Northwest Regional Championships Oct. 15-19.

Sparing no expenses, Cal will send every player but one to compete in singles and doubles draws. Collegians from 13 other notable schools, most notably fellow Pac-10 competitors Stanford and Washington, will participate.

“All the schools each have a couple strong players,” junior Nick Andrews said. “The competition is always tough at an event like this.”

Indeed, Andrews himself checks in at No. 123 in the nation, and hopes to improve on last year’s round of 16 finish.

Held over the course of four days, the tournament will whittle 128 singles players and 64 doubles teams down to one champion of each. The winners will in turn secure a berth at the Indoor Championships next month.

The Regional Championships also includes a back draw, a consolation bracket for the singles competitors.

In fact, Cal’s own junior Sky Lovill won the singles consolation final at the 2009 Regional Championships.

“This is one of the last events for some of our guys,” coach Peter Wright said. “It’s a good indication of where

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Senior Pedro Zerbini is one of the top players for Cal in 2010-11. Last year, along with Jonathan Dahan, the duo made it all the way to the NCAA doubles championships. both the new and returning players stand before we head into the conditioning phase.”

Like other teams nationwide, Cal men’s tennis is really more of a springcentered sport. According to Wright, the Bears use the fall season to get into shape and work out kinks before heading into Pac-10 competition. As a result, tournaments such as the Regional Championships become pivotal showcases where individual players can improve their talent and boost their own teams’ rankings.

“There are 10 different guys on the team with 10 individual goals,” Wright said. “At this point, seeing improvement across the board would be more important than fielding a champion.”

As a whole, the Bears plan to rebound from the erratic results of the D’Novo/ITA All-American Tennis Championships, another grand slam tournament.

“The doubles went reasonably well,” Wright said. “But as far as the singles go, we didn’t impress or take advantage of opportunities.”

However, Wright insists that the team is where it needs to be and that there is a lot of depth to both the singles and duos.

“We’re interested to see who’s ready to go this weekend,” he said. “Anyone can have a breakout event.”

Annie Gerlach covers men’s tennis.

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Bears Host Longhorns in Battle of Pool Powers

by Connor Byrne Contributing Writer

The Cal women’s swimming and diving team will see its first real set of test of the 2010-11 season this weekend.

The Bears (1-0) will first travel to Stanford, Calif., on Friday to compete in the George Haines Invitational, where they will race against Nevada and cohosts San Jose State and Stanford. The meet runs through Saturday, but Cal will only be competing on Friday.

Though some of the fastest swimmers in the nation will be at Friday’s meet, most of the events are half distance races, and therefore won’t indicate how the Bears truly stack up against the other competitors, as they will not be competing in NCAA sanctioned events.

The Bears’ real test will come on Saturday, when they play host to Texas in the first meet of the 2010-11 season at Spieker Aquatic Center.

The Bears have had a solid season thus far, defeating Nevada 170-125 in a duel meet on Sept. 17 and boasting

strong performances at both the Cal Poly Pentathlon and Cal Poly Relays.

However, Cal hasn’t faced any top tier teams thus far. Saturday will also mark Texas’s first meet of the season.

“It’s a process of getting prepared.

We aren’t there right now, but every day we get closer and closer,” assistant coach Kristen Cunnane said.

Last season, the Bears and the Longhorns met at the NCAA championships in March, where Cal finished third and Texas finished 11th. Both teams were considered to be having rebuilding years and out-performed expectations.

Additionally, Cal standout breastroker Caitlin Leverenz and Texas’ Kathleen Hersey have been competing together on the U.S. national team, coached by Cal coach Teri McKeever.

The two most recently swam together in August at the Pan Pacific Championships.

Both teams are very familiar with one another, and know exactly the kind of caliber opponent they will be facing on Saturday. The match-up

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have to foul to prevent a goal and are then stuck with a disadvantage on the six on five power play.

The MPSF showdown will be an epic battle of proportions, Cal taking the 2006 and 2007 NCAA championships while the Trojans won the last two years. As much as the two teams are rivals, they employ much of the

same strategy and must use on offense the same keys they have to defend against. “(We have to defend against) sprints when we score goals and they get the ball back because that’s when they can really organize,” Everist said.

The Bears will similarly look to push the ball in transition as a source of easy goals. Although they need to step up

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should prove to be highly contested, and could be decided by the outcome of just a few key events.

“Almost every event could go either way, especially the sprint freestyle events. It will be great for our sprinters to face that kind of competition,” Cunnane said.

The Bears hope that this season will bring similar results to last year’s.

Though Cal only has one returning individual NCAA champion ( junior Liv Jensen, 50 freestyle), the team believes that it has a legitimate chance to be a contender at next year’s NCAA championships.

“We have high expectations for this group, but we are mainly focusing on tuning out the outside expectations.

That’s why we’ve been so successful in the past,” Cunnane said.

The Bears will have their first shot at living up those expectations on Saturday. A strong showing against Texas will set the Bears well on their to another impressive season.

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the pace switching from one side of the pool to the other, they have to recognize when to settle down if the opportunity isn’t there.

“You have to wait it out a little bit and work it through to get them out of position,” Everist said. “They pack it in pretty good in the zone defense and try to force you to shoot from the places they want you to shoot from.”

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Cal Seeks Sweet Vengeance Against Huskies

by Alex Matthews Contributing Writer

Just a week after its first two conference losses, the 2009 Cal women’s soccer team was hoping for some redemption with a trip north to take on Washington and Washington State.

The Bears didn’t find their redemption. Their close losses to UCLA and USC were chased by equally close losses to the Huskies and Cougars the next weekend.

A year later, Cal is in almost the same position, this time on their home turf. The Bears are returning to Edwards Stadium from a trip to Los Angeles that started with a 1-0 loss to the Bruins and ended with a tie-breaking fifth goal from the Trojans in the fifth minute of overtime. “We didn’t come to play,� senior Emily Shibata said of last year’s matches in Washington. “We can’t come out thinking this is a light game ‘cause it’s not at all. It’s revenge time.�

Cal will need that drive for revenge in lieu of the momentum they have lost since their four-game winning streak turned into a five-game winless streak.

If revenge from last year, or the recent absence of success for the Bears isn’t enough motivation, their drop from the NCAA rankings might be.

While the Huskies and Cougars aren’t ranked like the SoCal opponents the Bears visited last weekend, they still represent formidable Pac-10 competition.

Washington (9-3-1, 2-0 in the Pac-10) has outscored opponents by a total of 27-11, the exact stat Cal boasted prior to last weekend’s losses. Washington State (6-7-0, 1-1-0) started this season nationally ranked and made it to the second round of the NCAA tournament last year.

Cal will therefore need to use its first

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Senior forward Alex Morgan returned from her national team stint and scored a hat trick in 12 minutes against USC last weekend. Her presence gives the Bears a needed boost. two conference games as material to work from if they want to repair its 0-2 Pac-10 record. “We’re giving up goals in the last couple of minutes and we need to play the game all the way through,� Shibata said. “We’re getting too complacent towards the end of the game.�

With a threat like Washington midfielder Kate Deines, defensive complacency could make the difference for Cal. The 2009 All-Pac-10 senior has scored seven goals and made one assist this season.

While the Huskies’ strongest attacker is in the twilight year of her college career, Washington State’s biggest scoring threat is just beginning hers.

In her first 13 games, Cougar freshman Micaela Castain has racked up 13 points, six goals and one assist.

Yet Cal’s worries will be the smallest defensive concerns on the field. Senior forward Alex Morgan has scored 13 goals and made one assist this year, in spite of having been absent in three of the Bears’ last four games.

Morgan made for her absence with a hat trick in 12 minutes against USC in her first game back after a two-week national team training camp. Now, Morgan is focused on the task at hand. “I’m back with my team, and this is my priority right now,� she said.

Alex Matthews covers women’s soccer.

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— and field some of the highest ranking programs in the nation, among the 71 men’s teams and 80 women’s teams competing.

Last year, led by Deborah Maier, Cal women finished 13th overall while the men followed Kari Karlsson to an 18thplace finish. This year, the two look as hungry as ever, especially after the way the Stanford Invitational ended for them: Maier was a mere four seconds behind first-place Kathy Kroeger of Stanford and Karlsson finished with an encouraging but not entirely satisfying 20th-place finish.

As for the Bears who will not be taking flight for Indiana State, the Bronco Invitational will also be held on Saturday at 9:45 a.m. Heading over to Baylands Regional Park in Sunnyvale, Calif., many of the Cal runners will race locally — Terre Haute and where they will end up still on their minds.

With the bulk of cross country season fast approaching, it is all a matter of taking it in stride as the Bears attend the preseason-closing and season-foreshadowing pre-NCAA invitational: “Everything starts with meaning to do well in the NCAA’s, being (able) to qualify, and (doing) well in the Pac-10,�

Sandoval said. “Everything we’ve done in terms of our training, in terms of our mental preparation is all to be able to take the steps that we’re taking right now.�

Terre Haute is where it all begins and ends for the Cal cross country team, but as for everything in between, both Sandoval and his team are optimistic.

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No-Surprise USC Still Presents Defensive Challenge for Cal goalie Justin Parsons to perform comparably to the Cardinal goalie Brian Pingree’s 14 saves. Parsons got his paws The conferenceThe seasonDaily continues to on 13 saves last week against UCLA. Californian DUMMY “This is the first time that (Parsons) unfold tomorrow as No. 2 Cal (11-2, 1-0 in the MPSF) swims down south to has suited up and started in big games top-ranked USC’s McDonald’s Swim so every game he gets more and more comfortable,” Everist said. “He’s a Stadium for the 10 a.m., match.

This being the second conference young goalie and these are his first real game of the season for tomorrow’s con- starts in big games because last year testants, the Bears held down the No. as a freshmen he didn’t get that many 3 Bruins 11-8 while the Trojans (15-1, minutes as far as the big games went.”

The Trojans, although tough to tus0-1 MPSF) got stuffed 5-3 by the No. 4 sle with, will come with the same game Cardinal last Saturday.

The Stanford-USC game yielded a plan they have come to be known by.

“They tend to post up a lot, you have notably low score. “(The score) has to be a little bit of to always be aware when you play them both good defense and bad offense,” Cal because they move a lot and try to isocoach Kirk Everist said. “It sounds like late mismatches in different places,” neither team shot the ball great but the Everist said. “You have to anticipate (Stanford) goalie also stepped up and that they’re faking going one way and trying to create isolations on the other limited their good opportunities.”

“Stanford played really good defense side of the court.”

Monitoring off-the-ball movement which helped their offense. That’s something that we’re going to need to will be important for Cal because if USC gets positioning inside, the Bears do as well,” he added.

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Vaunted Cal Defense Ready to Invade Troy

by Katie Dowd Daily Cal Staff Writer

USC coach Lane Kiffin sounded a little testy when he was asked about the Cal football team’s 52-31 dud against Nevada in the third week of the season.

“That 52 doesn’t help us unless we’re going to put (quarterback Matt) Barkley in the pistol this week,” he said.

Some 400 miles away, Cal linebacker Mychal Kendricks was also chafing at a question posed to him by a reporter.

“You have to have high expectations,” he said when asked if he thought the Cal defense would do as well as its done so far this season.

“I feel like if you don’t have high expectations, what are you doing out there playing? High expectations is what it’s all about. You’ve got to set the bar high for yourself and your team.

When I said that’s the type of defense that we expected, I really meant it.”

In the week leading up to the one of the biggest contests of the year for both squads — tomorrow’s 12:30 p.m., contest at the Los Angeles Coliseum — defense has been on everyone’s lips.

And, for a change, it’s been Cal’s.

Excepting that loss in Reno, the Bears (3-2, 1-1 in the Pac-10)have held the competition to 10 or fewer points.

They’re leading the conference in total defense, pass defense, pass efficiency defense and sacks. Nationally, they’re in the top 10 for all those categories and turnover margin. The 15.8 points per game Cal’s opponents are averaging is the least they’ve allowed since 1968.

“It’s our mindset,” Kendricks said.

“We’re real confident in our coach and within ourselves and the scheme that we bring every week, whatever it might be. It’s just worrying about ourselves. It’s not about the other team. It’s about us.”

The Trojan (4-2, 1-2) secondary is, without exaggeration, one of the worst in the nation. They’ve given up more

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Senior quarterback Kevin Riley is a combined 19-of-56 in two games against USC. He is currently averaging 186.2 yards per game.

15-plus yard plays than just about anyone and are surrendering 13.3 yards per catch. Opponents are converting 46-percent of their third down chances.

Add to that 77 yards in penalties per game, and this USC squad certainly isn’t the cool, calculating football machine it once was.

“When we get an opportunity — we’re going to have plenty of opportunities this week — we’ve got to make plays,” quarterback Kevin Riley said.

If by “we” Riley means himself, then he’s right.

Historically, Riley is no stud against USC. Over the last two years, he’s gone a combined 19-of-56 against the Trojans with two interceptions and no

touchdowns.

This year, unless your name is Colorado or UC Davis, Riley hasn’t inspired fear in you either. He ranks ninth of 10 starting quarterbacks in the Pac-10 in passing yards per game, better than only UCLA’s Kevin Prince, who is struggling to average 76.8 yards per contest.

Against the Bruins last week, Riley completed 13 passes but, thanks to 231 yards on the ground from tailbacks Shane Vereen and Isi Sofele, he didn’t need to do better.

That was good enough against UCLA, but it probably won’t be against USC. “We just didn’t throw it very much last week,” coach Jeff Tedford said. “But in this conference there’s no way in the

world you can be one dimensional and expect to be successful week in and week out. There’s no team in America that’s going to line up in the Pac-10 and just try to pound you every week … To be a complete team, you have to be efficient in the passing game.”

Of course, the Bears haven’t beaten the Trojans since their epic triple overtime win in 2003, meaning no player on the current squad has ever known the feeling of defeating USC. “I feel like everyone at least once in their college careers deserves to beat SC,” Kendricks said. “That’s what the goal is. The goal is to beat everybody, but everyone wants to beat SC.” Katie Dowd covers football. Contact her at kdowd@dailycal.org.

e want Ril-ey! We want Riley! We want Ril-ey!”

Only two seasons worth of football have ticked away since those chants rang out from Memorial Stadium’s student section. As Cal prepares to step into the Coliseum, it feels more like an eternity.

Half the student body hasn’t seen anyone other than Kevin Riley under center on Saturdays. More than half has become numbed to the consistent inconsistency.

It’s so easy to become enthralled with potential when you’re not shackled to the result.

Nate Longshore was the senior in the fall of ‘08, and having never returned to his 2006 form after suffering a bone spur, offered little hope for the future.

Riley, on the other hand, had nearly taken the Bears to the top of the football world. He had the Air Force victory. The rising son.

Everybody loves the backup — even if he technically wasn’t.

There’s no one pushing Riley the same way this fall because Cal doesn’t have a player that can perform any better. (Next year, by the way, projects to be a far rougher positional carousel. Brace yourselves, everyone.)

Without that pressure, he was supposed to have his best season ever. He

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Cal Looks to Re-Start Win Surging Bears to Face SoCal Rivals Streak Against Washingtons

by Kelly Suckow Contributing Writer

by Christina Jones Contributing Writer

The Cal volleyball team saw its 15match winning streak end last Saturday at No. 5 USC. Tonight, the No. Cal 6 Bears (15-1, 5-1 in the Pac-10) return volleyball to Haas Pavilion to try to start another streak against Wash- WHAT: ington State.

Cal digs Like Cal, the for the vs Cougars (6-9, 0-5) cure dropped their last against match. But, 2009 WSU Pac-10 Coach of the tomorrow night.

Year Andrew Palileo is yet to pick up WHERE/WHEN: a Pac-10 win in the Haas Pavilion at 7 p.m. young season.

“They haven’t had success yet, so they’re even more dangerous, hungrier,” coach Rich Feller said.

“Their chance for salvation is probably to come in here and beat one of the two teams in the Bay Area, and they want to go home with some feelings of improvement. So we have to guard against that and just play our game.”

The Cougars’ offense runs primarily through junior outside hitter Meagan Ganzer, who with 5.44 kills per set average, ranks second in the Pac-10 and third nationally. She has certainly been a bright spot for an offense hitting .122 in conference matches.

“We’ll be able to defend against her,” defensive specialist Meagan Schmitt said. “We have such great outsides on our team and we have some male Cal volleyball players come in to hit against us, so we have great outside hitters in practice to get us ready for that.”

Cal will counter on Dig for the Cure

Night with outside hitter Tarah Murrey, who has logged the second-most conference kills and is coming off a careerbest 34 kill performance against USC. The Bears, however, are not a onetrick pony: middle hitters Shannon Hawari and Kat Brown, along with opposite side hitter Correy Johnson greatly contribute to the team’s .313 hitting percentage. That stat puts the offense, paced by senior setter Carli Lloyd, at third in the country.

Since the two Washington schools recently played each other, Feller’s team has been able to scout the Huskies, who the Bears will square off against on Saturday night, while preparing for the Cougars.

Cal has sputtered a bit this season when playing lower echelon teams on the backside of two weekend matches.

This time, however, the Bears will face the better team second, which it sees as an advantage in terms of focus.

Without overlooking Washington State, Cal has its eyes set on its draw with Washington, which runs the up-tempo offense the Bears have employed this season.

“We practice against (the fast offense) everyday,” Johnson said. “So I feel we’re more prepared as a blocking team and defensively. It’s just who’s going to do it better.”

Defense will be pivotal against the top-rated offense in the country, and Cal’s blocking has shown itself to be up to the challenge, leading the league after tallying 17 blocks in each match last weekend.

Another streak Cal will look to start is a winning streak at home against Washington. The Huskies swept the Bears in their last two trips to Haas Pavilion.

Christina Jones covers volleyball.

Contact her at cjones@dailycal.org.

A little more than halfway into the season, the Cal men’s soccer team has a lot of success behind them. According to coach Kevin Grimes, however, there is still a lot of the road left to travel and ground to cover.

After looking at where the No. 10 Bears stand right now, things seem to be coming together on the field.

The team’s philosophy of constant improvement and its ability to perform has established a successful foundation.

And it’s working.

“I think we are playing the best soccer that we have played all season. We have steadily gotten better every game,” senior Davis Paul said.

“I just think that right now, we are at the top of our game and we are just going to try and move forward with that.”

Two more stops the players have yet to hit on their schedule are San Diego State and UCLA this weekend.

Cal (7-2-1, 3-0 in the Pac-10) takes on the Aztecs (7-3-1, 1-2-0) on Friday at 4 p.m. at Edwards Stadium.

The Bears’ last victory against SDSU was in 2007, after Andrew Wiedeman put away the only goal of the entire 90 minutes.

Despite Cal’s impressive record, this year’s matchup will be no exception when it comes to competition between the opponents.

Senior forward Raymundo Reza will undoubtedly be a force to be reckoned with when it comes to putting the pressure on the Bears’ stingy backline of Demitrius Omphroy, Scot VanBuskirk, A.J. Soares and Steve Birnbaum.

With 40 shots, six goals and 16 points to lead the Aztecs, the Colorado native will be sure to keep goalkeeper David Bingham on his toes in

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Senior Davis Paul is a statistical and emotional leader for the Bears. Paul has five goals and five assists, both team highs, and has played in all 10 games this season. the net.

“He has had a lot of goals over his career,” Grimes said. “He is a very good player and definitely someone that all teams need to keep an eye on.”

The next leg of Cal’s weekend is against rival No. 13 UCLA (8-2-1, 3-0) on Sunday.

A young team with a lot of talent, the Bruins’ squad shares the throne with the Bears for the leaders of the Pac-10.

In the net, junior Brian Rowe has not let a goal past him against a conference contender for the past three games.

Looking at both San Diego State and UCLA’s squads and records, this

weekend’s matches are sure to be tests of what lies ahead if Cal continues on the road of success.

The Bears’ past performances have gone in their favor. They have had the ability to showcase the hard work they have been putting in throughout the season.

Cal is not ready to say it is satisfied yet. These next two contests will present challenges to what the squad has built so far.

“I think we still have room to grow,” Grimes said. “I don’t think we have arrived yet. I think we are doing well, but we have more in us.”

Kelly Suckow covers men’s soccer.

Contact her at ksuckow@dailycal.org.