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UC Berkeley’s Memorial Stadium was part of the largest tactical homeland security exercise in the nation this weekend that brought local and interONLINE VIDEO national law enforcement agen- Watch footage of police cies together Officers participating in for 48 hours of the Urban Shield event. emergency preparedness training across the Bay Area.

Teams from both UCPD and the Berkeley Police Department participated in the Urban Shield training event, and UCPD organized a scenario involving a dirty bomb and active shooter at the stadium. Although the Berkeley Police Department had a team participate in the event, the department was unable to host a scenario this year due to resource and budget considerations, according to Berkeley police Sgt. Mary Kusmiss.

The Alameda County Sheriff ’s Office and Bay Area Urban Area Security Initiative hosted the event for the fourth year, providing law enforcement teams an opportunity to evaluate and hone skills in crisis management, according to Sgt. J.D. Nelson, spokesperson for the Alameda County Sheriff ’s Office.

“It’s 24 solid hours of teams coming through scenarios and a lot of work for department,” Kusmiss said. “It takes a lot of resources and money, but we are excited that UCPD is hosting a creative scenario in Berkeley because it gives the university positive exposure.”

Starting at 6 a.m. Saturday, 25 teams participated in 26 scenarios located all over the Bay Area. The types of crisis scenarios varied but were all based on real life events and designed to be as realistic as possible, according to Nelson.

“We put the people through the most realistic scenarios they can face so when they encounter something like it in real life, their training will kick in, and they can solve the problem,” Nelson said.

The scenario at the stadium tested the ability of tactical teams to apprehend multiple suspects in possession of a dirty bomb in a large stadium environ-

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A Redwood City SWAT Division participates in the Urban Shield training, the largest homeland security exercise in the nation this weekend. ment. Teams were tested on their ability to use chemical agent masks and use of sniper and observer personnel, according to UCPD Capt. Margo Bennett.

The scenario was organized by UCPD, which has been preparing for the event for months, Bennett said.

“We wanted a scenario that would be rather lifelike and important for us and other Bay Area teams to go through,” she said. “This year we chose the stadium because it was empty for the away game.”

In the simulation, a sniper shot a civilian sitting in the stands as team members entered the stadium. Teams

were then informed that a chemicaldetecting device had gone off in the snack bar area. Storming the concourse, teams were hit with a barrage of thick smoke while “suspects” fled for cover behind the snack bar counter. After securing the suspects, teams searched the rest of the concourse and reported back to check-in for a debriefing session.

UCPD bomb technicians designed the simulated bomb, and teams were provided with handsets which displayed a live video feed from the concourse area, according to UCPD Lt. Marc DeCoulode, head organizer of

the event. DeCoulode said that the event gave agencies the chance to test new technology.

GPS technology tracked teams as they moved from site to site, reporting to a command center established at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, according to DeCoulode.

“It gives us the ability to track what’s going on,” DeCoulode said. “The teams are tested, but the different sites get an opportunity to practice communication in an emergency situation.”

Contact Kate Lyons at klyons@dailycal.org.

Following more than four months of punctuated contract negotiations between University of California officials and a union representing more than 12,000 academic student employees, the two parties again failed to come to a compromise Friday, settling none of the outstanding issues that were on the table when they entered negotiations.

Officials from the UC and the United Auto Workers Local 2865 — a union representing graduate student instructors, readers and tutors throughout the UC system — resumed bargaining Thursday, but negotiations broke down Friday without progress on the contentious issue of childcare subsidies.

The union’s contract, which would have expired Friday, has been extended a second time and is now set to expire Oct. 29 with negotiations resuming Oct. 27. Because of the delays and alleged bad-faith bargaining by the university, an unfair labor practices strike is being considered by the union.

While the parties are close to an agreement on some issues, several major issues — childcare subsidies, worker wage increases and bargaining team compensation — remain unresolved, said Daraka Larimore-Hall, the union’s northern vice president and a graduate student at UC Santa Barbara.

“Of the issues that are still outstanding, increasing childcare subsidies is one in which the university is taking a position that is just 100 percent without merit or sanity,” Larimore-Hall said. “They

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Report: UC Berkeley Research Influenced Too Heavily by BP

by Jessica Gillotte Contributing Writer

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The focus of research at UC Berkeley is at risk of being too heavily influenced by its partnership with BP, according to a study of 10 collaboration contracts between public research institutions and leading energy companies released Thursday by independent researcher Jennifer Washburn.

Washburn’s report — Big Oil Goes to College — examined the logistics of UC Berkeley’s contract agreement and partnership with BP, stating that the campus is compromising its credibility as a public institution. The campus administration issued an eight-page rebuttal, refuting and responding to the report’s findings, according to campus spokesperson Dan Mogulof.

UC Berkeley was one of three public institutions that won a chunk of BP’s $500 million grant to be distributed over 10 years — starting in early 2007 — for the purpose of re-

searching biofuels as alternative energy. Washburn’s report claims that the direction of the research at UC Berkeley is being overly influenced by the corporation.

UC Berkeley is currently receiving $17.3 million a year from BP to fund biofuel energy research. This amount comprises less than 3 percent of the approximately $724 million in funding received annually by the campus for sponsored research, according to the rebuttal. Mogulof said UC Berkeley was not led into the research by the money.

Mogulof added that BP asked UC Berkeley to join their global competition in 2007 to win the funding and the establishment of the Energy Biosciences Institute, where the research will be conducted, because of the campus’s research priorities — climate change and carbon neutral energy.

Washburn’s report claims, among other things, that there exist troubling

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As the city of Berkeley works toward regulating and expanding the medical marijuana industry, a California state proposition that would legalize recreational cannabis could feed the city’s growing marijuana community, though access may continue to be limited across the state.

If passed in the Nov. 2 elections, Measure T would license and tax six 30,000-square-foot growing facilities, allow a fourth dispensary in the city and reconstitute the city’s Medical Cannabis Commission. Measure S would place a tax on cannabis — 2.5 percent for medical and 10 percent for recreational marijuana if voters pass Proposition 19, legalizing marijuana for recreational use in the state.

However, other cities across the state have not yet taken steps to prepare for the possible legalization of recreational

marijuana and may never adopt laws to tax and regulate nonmedical cannabis, even if the proposition is passed.

The proposition, also known as the Regulate, Control and Tax Cannabis Act of 2010, authorizes local jurisdictions to regulate and tax commercial production, distribution and sale of marijuana, but it does not establish statewide policies for licensing marijuana-related activity, posing a problem, some say, for medical and recreational marijuana users.

“It’s a wonderful title, and that’s about it,” said George Mull, Sacramento attorney and president of the California Cannabis Association, which opposes the proposition.

He added that Prop 19 would leave most cities, which have been “very conservative” on medical marijuana issues, without access, noting Berkeley as a “rarity” across the state.

Currently, medical cannabis is regulated by local jurisdictions under Proposition 215, which legalized cultivation and possession in California for medi-

cal purposes in 1996. But, according to Mull, less than 40 of the 536 cities and counties in the state have adopted ordinances allowing dispensaries.

By legalizing nonmedical marijuana under the same conditions, Mull said the proposition could place an unnecessary burden on local jurisdictions.

“There are 88 jurisdictions in the county of Los Angeles,” he said.

“Eighty-seven cities plus the county ... all of which would have their own law ... it’s just goofy.”

Despite the difficulty in spreading access to cannabis throughout the state, Amanda Reiman, Berkeley commission member and research director for the Berkeley Patients Group, one of the city’s three dispensaries, said legalization could lead to “a more realistic education program” on cannabis, similar to education on alcohol usage. She added that research in the industry could also expand and improve.

“There’s a lot of places we can go with this legislation,” Reiman said.

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The proposition could also deflate the price of cannabis if the supply significantly increases, said Kris Hermes, Berkeley commission member and spokesperson for Americans for Safe Access, which has taken a neutral position on the initiative.

Yet in the midst of discussions on whether to support the proposition, the U.S. Department of Justice has said it will prosecute marijuana laws in the state if the proposition is passed, signifying to some, including Mull, that Californians should go back to the drawing board and work toward implementing statewide regulations. “(Prop 19) a big step backwards,” Mull said. “This isn’t the one.”

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ollaboration — (n.) The action of working with someone to produce or create something.

It’s the time of year, too far from Labor day, too far to Halloween, in the midst of the 15-week semester, that things can start to look a little ... dreary, or at least a little boring. We’re at the point where you don’t need a reminder of where you’re going, why or even the room number, but you nevertheless somehow just end up there, every week, sure as the last.

For the past few days, I’ve been hearing all about how my normally enthusiastic company has caught a case of the doldrums. Maybe you know what I mean. It always seems to be right in the middle when motivation is low, apathy is high and no one really wants to do anything.

Well, except get plastered.

And now, coincidentally, is when practically every class decides that it’s high time to make sure you’ve been paying attention for the past month and a half. After all, what’s learning without having to prove it? Stress gets high, and it can feel like altogether too much to go the road alone, especially if you’re one of those people who takes an incredible amount of units in order to prove that you are a true hero of academia.

Some students, in the face of overwhelming pressure, cloister away behind closed doors. Some, the jerks, never feel the stress because they know how to use a planner. And then there’s a third group consisting of people who know better than to trust themselves with their own work.

That’s right — it’s study group time!

Back in my earlier semesters here, study groups were all the rage — right along with being insecure about your social circle and trying to be BFFs with your randomly-assigned roommate. It was a time of high anxiety and doubt.

Thankfully, time erased all those worries with either increased self-confidence or, my old standby, apathy.

Still, I remember freshman year all too well — we were all triple majors and taking unbearably generic classes in our rush to fill requirements or the newfound hole in our lives. And, with that desperation to start things off on the right foot, we did what we thought we had to do — we worked together.

In nearly all my classes, even the ones where assignments simply consisted of writing a six-to-eight-page essay, there was that one person who thought it would be totally rad if we did all the reading together, went over the essay prompts together and let each other read the other’s work so we could bounce ideas off one another.

So of course I was in. All the cool people were doing it, after all. I think, at the peak, we had nine people in a study group for some English AC class. We were bigger than some clubs. And, like a true student group, we gradually realized that more minds were definitely not better than one as we spent half our meetings trying to schedule our next meeting at a mutually viable time. evertheless, half the people never could manage to make it and just wanted to be emailed the notes. And I always wondered who these people were

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because I had never seen them before.

In retrospect, the problems are obvious. After all, people wouldn’t logically join a study group filled with people they hardly know because they look forward to contributing valuable information. It was mainly about (not so subtle) leeching.

The media had lied to me once again.

Where were the wacky group dynamics, the impenetrable friendships? This wasn’t like Community at all!

It becomes clear that some people, like that jerk on every reality show, are not here to make friends, but here to win! At Berkeley, despite being full of brilliant people, study groups can become an episode of “Who is the Biggest Dumbass?”

Or “Mystery Date,” at least until you realize that the mystery is over and you’re actually on a pretty crappy date: Hey, we’re not talking about Nietzsche anymore! You’ve just been talking about your crippling emotional vulnerabilities for the past 10 minutes! ut I feel that I have been coming off as altogether too negative. After all, I would be pretty cynical if I were implying that college life, at least in the academic sphere, is best lived solo and that we should all bask in lonely loneliness.

As if knowing way too much about a topic the average person doesn’t care about weren’t alienating enough.

So, let me say with complete honesty that yes, studying together in a collaborative effort can work and has worked for me. It can be fun, especially if the other members enjoy wasting time in the same ways you do.

But I only realized this after I learned that there are a few dumb guidelines that I wish I could tell my slightly denser freshman self. One, not every class needs to be studied for with others, especially when the work consists of reacting with your personal feelings about things and you could just fake the reading anyway. And two, try to at least know, like and respect the people you’re studying with.

If you don’t think you could have a good conversation with them over coffee, don’t do it, especially since group studying, like group projects, tends to mean at least half the time is going to be spent on things like goofing off on an Xbox or second-hand smoking in a parking lot.

So, remember: friends don’t let friends study with strangers!

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Livermore Lab Retirees File Lawsuit Over Benefits

by True Shields Contributing Writer

After nearly two years of debate and negotiations, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory retirees filed a lawsuit against the UC Board of Regents as a response to changes enacted to the retirees’ health benefits policies after new management of the lab changed their benefits in 2008.

The lawsuit — filed in the Alameda County Superior Court by the grassroots UC Livermore Retiree Group on Aug. 11 — alleges that under the changes, the retirees are placed in a separate benefits pool and are therefore subject to higher premiums than the main body of UC employees and retirees.

After declining to renew the lab’s contract with the U.S. Department of Energy in 2007, UC transferred responsibility of retirees’ health care to Lawrence Livermore National Security — a consortium of private companies including the university. In September of 2008, the consortium altered the retirees’ health benefits.

The retirees have raised over $150,000 and contracted three law agencies to contest the changes.

President of the retirees’ defense fund and retiree Joseph Requa said

since the transfer, the lab’s decisions to alter the benefits, affecting nearly 5,000 Livermore retirees’ health care, have increased costs and caused confusion about the benefits. “(The suit is) the only way that we can get a reaction from the regents,” said Donna Ventura, a lab retiree and one of the primary plaintiffs for the suit. “We met with the board of regents and Joe exhausted every avenue trying to do so.”

Representatives from the consortium and from the UC declined to comment.

The petition filed by the group states that Requa paid about $1,000 more in premiums in 2009 than retirees in other departments under the UC’s health plan. He estimates that in 2010 this difference will increase to $2,000.

In response to the group’s allegations, the regents filed a brief Oct. 4 contending that the group “has not established any facts upon which writ relief may be granted.”

The brief also denies the legislative and contractual basis for the petitioners’ “vested right” to their health care terms prior to 2007.

Ventura said because the group retired as UC employees and not as the consortium’s employees, she and her colleagues are entitled to health

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“conflict-of-interest concerns,” that BP will “exert excessive influence over UC Berkeley’s research portfolio” and that the language and content of the contract is worrisome.

“Industry-funded research is overwhelmingly more likely to favor the sponsor’s projects and interests as compared with research funded by non-profits or government sources,” she said. “The EBI’s current academic director has equity interests in an outside biotech firm that currently has its own business alliance with none other than BP.”

The rebuttal contested this claim, stating that the institute’s director Chris Somerville voluntarily removed himself from “all operational involvement with the companies” and adding that he “does not hold a management, scientific or consulting affiliation” with the biotech firms.

Though the report claims that the contract does not grant an academic majority to the Governance Board — EBI’s main governing body — Mogulof said equal representation on the board was a “negotiated compromise.”

Four of the board’s eight members are from UC Berkeley, four are from BP

benefits befitting their service to the university and should not be singled out.

“We don’t want anything more than other retirees get,” she said. “Scientists who worked there didn’t work there to get rich, they worked there for the prestige and the benefits.”

In the retirees’ petition, lawyers John Stember, Thomas Sinclair and Dov Grunschlag state that the regents “impaired” retirees’ rights to UC-provided medical benefits by shifting responsibility to the consortium.

The petition also states that the regents’ actions violate the Contract Clause of the California Constitution.

Despite the overwhelming financial support the retirees have received in order to enact the lawsuit, Requa said there are still retirees who accept the changes.

“There are some that wonder whether we might not be better off with LLNS because of financial problems with UC,” he said.

Stember said ultimately the case revolves around contractual obligation and UC’s responsibility to honor their terms.

“What we’re saying is a deal’s a deal,” he said.

Contact True Shields at tshields@dailycal.org.

and since all actions of the board must have the affirmative vote of at least five members, each member has a veto power.

Washburn said in conducting the study, it was difficult to get in touch with campus officials, so she “simply tried to look at the actual research agreement that the university signed.”

But Mogulof said he regrets that she did not take the time to talk to faculty members that advise the administration.

“We don’t want to see and will not stand for any tainting of the integrity of our research or our researchers,” he said.

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ertainly, James Joyce, Vladimir Lenin, and Dadaist Tristan Tzara make up one of the most bizarre threesomes anyone could fathom. And yet, there they all are, icons of the twentieth century, squabbling over muffins. Yes, you read that correctly.

Muffins. Spouting from the deranged mind of Tom Stoppard and under the tutelage of director Nick Medina, BareStage Productions’ staging of “Travesties” lives up to its name in a most enjoyable manner. A travesty, by any other name, would not be so much “sweet” as Shakespeare would have it; instead, it would be more aptly described as a pungent lunacy.

And Stoppard would know Shakespeare, being the author of “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.” But where “Rosencrantz” is mired in the heyday of “Hamlet,” “Travesties” addresses the totality of a century — its art, its revolutions, its wars, its woes, and, of course, its trousers.

Trousers are of particular importance to Henry Carr — the lead of this madcap ensemble. Whether these pants be the “grey herringbone” or the “black pinstripe,” the trousers make the man. Carr knows this fact, and actor Alexander Prucha exudes it when he hobbles onto the minimalist stage with a red plaid robe, perfectly tailored pants and a flair for the fanciful. As the sweat saturates his face, Carr sets up the scene. We are in Zurich, 1917 or was it 1916? He can’t remember. Yet somehow it is through these hair-brained memories of Henry Carr, a peripheral character in James Joyce’s “Ulysses,” that we are transported into a circus of intersecting icons in what is essentially a 20th-century reinterpretation of Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest.”

If you are confused at this moment as to the plot of this show, do not worry. Just read and then you will know: There once was a man named Carr /Whose memories were rather bizarre /He gesticulates madly / Is somewhat of a dandy / And has a butler who drinks from the bar.

Get it? Good. Don’t be worried if the plot seems convoluted and/or crazy. It most definitely is, and as Carr readily points out, it is “extremely hard to follow.” However, Nick Medina’s staging is not bogged down by this

verbosity. Instead, the blank pallet he creates, with only a black sheet, books and furniture, frees space for the actors’ masterful physical comedy.

Sandwiched in between Cecily’s (Emily Stone) library striptease and actress Allison Fenner’s acrobatic tumbles in the role of Tzara, lies a play riddled with bombastic intellectual debate. One moment, Carr’s butler Bennett (played with alcoholic amazement by Julia Lienke) moseys on stage, hump-backed like Igor, and the next, he (she?) is discussing the benefits of the 1917 Russian Revolution.

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From “dialectical materialism” to “Dadaism,” the discourse never runs dry of philosophical inquiry. Though the material of these dialectical exercises can be tedious while watching, Medina and his actors undercut the dreariness through their pure joy and absurdity.

It is the topic of art, its purpose and function, which remains at the center of this unhinged madness. For Oscar Wilde, “all art is quite useless.” For Cecily, art is “social criticism.” For Tzara, art is only the “anti-art” of Dada. For Carr, art is trousers. But, more importantly, art is simply the “right to urinate in different colours” — whether that color be “grey herringbone” or the red of revolution. Art is subjective and though difficult to understand at times, like this play, it is far from “useless.”

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Worth a thousand words. Jason Jagel’s minutely detailed art draws from comics and video games for its distinctive aesthetic.

n a cramped Mission-based studio, speaking over a backdrop of rare groove funk spinning on his turntables, visual artist Jason Jagel momentarily paused his speech as if he were lost deep in thought. Known for his dense compositions, fueled by a cartoon-like plasticity and splattered with bleeding colors and narrative twists, Jagel was contemplating his reasoning behind a non-descript piece of paper with the words “a la cornbread” written in plain pencil featured in his exhibit “(I’ll Fly) Into Your Heart.”

The music had stopped and Jagel arose from his chair to flip the record.

He returned to his seat with a refreshed expression of vivacity, a fluency he had lost in that static moment. Jagel began to explain that the words were a decade-old conversational derivative from the nonsense words “buttery biscuits,” yelled out by DJ Cucumber Slice at the end of (the artist formerly known as) MF DOOM’s “Rhymes Like Dimes,” off the album Operation: Doomsday.

“It’s a phrase that is meaningless and therefore open to interpretation. I’m always on the lookout for forms, colors, images and phrases that can have slippery meaning and open-endedness to their sign.”

Ambiguous linguistic forms only touch the surface of Jagel’s heady conceptual techniques. Such an investigative quality to his work should not come as a surprise though. After all, he taught drawing at UC Berkeley as an adjunct professor in 2007. As an artist, Jagel finds boundless meaning in the periphery, a space of white noise that forces us to reconsider the idea of

stable visual meaning. Distance and perception play a large role in understanding his work, as minute drawings, which can only be identified up close, are swallowed whole by larger images and assumed into a new conglomerate shape. Images are intricately entangled with other images, and decoding their relationship is all a matter of the observer’s proximity to the canvas, of taking steps forward or backward.

Jagel comes from a rich lineage of artists: His father John was a painter, studying under the tutelage of famed color theorist Josef Albers at Yale University; his stepmother Beatrice Hawley was a renowned poet; and his greatgreat-grandfather Dhan Gopal Mukerji was considered the first South Asian Indian writer of significance in the United States. Although a descendant of this artistic nobility, Jagel grew up as more of a rapscallion than a serious scholar, a latchkey kid immersed in the ’70s and ’80s culture of video games and comic books. But talent often manifests itself in unpredictable ways.

Heavily influenced by what Jagel calls “the syntax of comic books,” he refined his imitation within the margins of grade school notebooks. Here sprung his penchant for non-linear uses of space, allowing for the stories within his work to develop through constant motion and branching out. In this chaos Jagel found a multiplicity of directions to forge new paths, ones unfounded, mutable and dynamic. His use of multiple perspectives, attitudes and scales within layers of color, image and text creates a sense of duration, something to be understood gradually over time — never was the point to fetishize these imaginary creatures, but rather to use them as narrative components. As

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he heartache that accompanies change seemed to be the theme of Saturday’s show at the Fillmore. Three acts, three hours, and endless reminders of adolescence, adulthood and the dreams that glue them both together rendered the ornate music hall a hub of nostalgia.

Growing up and growing old have never been difficult to cry about, and the Morning Benders have perfected the sigh of anguish at these persisting pains. They had their Fillmore audience sighing in defeat with them, though more in longing for the band’s past persona.

The night began with Cults, the indie pop band whose unexpected rise to fame by means of Bandcamp.com has continuously characterized their performances as they-can’t-quitebelieve-it.

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whirlwind experience, Sarle, who is still at Bennington studying performance and gender studies, says, “it’s really strange to have your life lead by options that other people present to you, especially when you’re so young, instead of choosing those options for yourself ... It’s completely changed all of our lives.”

Sarle describes the relationship between the three girls as an almost magical, psychic communion of minds and voices. In discussing how they chose the name Mountain Man, she says, “We work together musically on kind of a subconscious level, and those streams of subconscious connect to a lot of things that we care about.... One of those things is gender.... It’s not a complicated concept that three women could call themselves ‘Mountain Man,’ but it should get people thinking in some ways about questioning gender.”

Sarle, Meath and Monnig worked as a unit in writing Made the Harbor, which they recorded in only two days.

The album is 14 songs of piercing yet cozy harmonies, silky and pure as a pitcher of fresh, white milk. Its nature-inspired, lo-fi songs have an angelic tone comparable to that of Joanna Newsom’s recent Have One On Me, accompanied by an ageless country sound that gives it a pastoral feel. Songs like “Animal Tracks” and “How’m I Doin” stay true to their church-choir grace with raw, polypho-

nous vocals, while also managing to weave in infectious hooks. Meanwhile, songs like “River” glisten with purely a capella vocals, irresistible in their simple beauty. Overall, Made the Harbor is a breath of crisp mountain air.

As far as the future, Sarle says, “The harmonies that make the songs on Made the Harbor are just how we most naturally expressed ourselves at that time, but I think it’s changing as we change.” The next step in the hike for Mountain Man is a children’s album, but the trio isn’t in too much of a hurry.

“Sometimes we sit down and talk about things but it’s more like they just ... come together when the time is right.”

For now, Mountain Man is going on a short West Coast tour and will be opening for Jonsi at the Oakland Fox on the 19th as well as doing a free show at Amoeba Music on Telegraph on the 20th. Come if you like beautiful things, and even if you don’t, because Mountain Man will change that.

second show in San Francisco this year, and the band sounded learnedly polished compared to their Bottom of the Hill display a few months ago.

Twin Sister graced the stage next, enchanting the audience with their otherworldliness.

Frontwoman Andrea Estella, dressed girlishly in a large bow, whispered breathily over layers of synth beats and electric guitar, sounding markedly more grown up than she appeared.

Their engaging hour-long set almost made you forget the headlining band still to come, which is to say Twin Sister has a promising future ahead.

The Morning Benders have come a long way since their days as local Berkeley sweethearts known for the lovelorn lyricism and bedroom recordings of EPs Loose Change and Boarded Doors. Their latest, Big Echo, displays a moody musicianship that is at times unbearably cynical. But despite their new sound, the band’s female fan base has only grown.

The wild cheering of the halffilled hall felt more appropriate for the Backstreet Boys than the mellow, unassuming quartet that came on stage.

Despite whatever idea of boy band the Morning Benders fit, they have always performed well live, exemplifying an energy that doesn’t

translate on their albums.

Jumping into “Promises,” the band showcased the loping rhythms, sweet vocal harmonies and careful melodies that have earned them their popularity. Frontman Chris Chu still emotes as convincingly as in years past, plucking gingerly at his guitar with his eyes closed and brow knit, as if each note pulls a piece of him away. The band moved effortlessly into “Cold War (Nice Clean Fight),” a song off Big Echo that retains the catchiness of their older material, particularly tracks from Loose Change.

As a brief return home in the midst of an extensive touring schedule, the Morning Benders seemed comforted to perform for veteran fans. Sadly, they hardly treated the audience to old favorites. “Boarded Doors” was played in the band’s darker, more unsettling Big Echo style.

Fortunately, the band was redeemed by “Waiting for a War,” which had the Fillmore floor bouncing underfoot.

However changed the Morning Benders are from their days of boyish poeticism, their new sound-conscious style certainly impresses. Watching them last night, it was clear the band knew they were not only grown up, but ready to take on their new fame.

Send your breathy whispers to Catherine at ckim@dailycal.org.

The Morning Benders’ Saturday Fillmore Show Misses Beats That Made Them Famous

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Silent light. In the provocative works of digital artist Chris Jordan, a cascade of light bulbs floating in a galactic void serves as a metaphor for inefficient electricity usage.

id you know that 28,000 42-gallon barrels of oil are consumed every two minutes in the United States? How about that 270,000 sharks are killed worldwide everyday for their fins? Yeah, neither did I until recently, and it’s not difficult to imagine why.

Though staggering statistics such as these seem to constantly play on repeat in public service campaigns and political speeches, numbers — I mean really, really big numbers — hardly elicit an emotional reaction other than, “That’s a lot,” for the non-mathematically minded.

Photographer Chris Jordan knows statistics can often fall upon a barren mental terrain when intended to plant seeds of social and environmental consciousness. At the Hazel Wolf Gallery in downtown Berkeley’s swanky nonprofit organization headquarters, David Brower Center, the artist translates such daunting numerical figures into images of paralyzing intensity. Majestic yet also frightening, the massive feats of digital photography in “Running the Numbers” confront the viewer with stunning visual displays of the debris left behind from everyday human consumption.

Chris Jordan’s artworks wash over the viewer like waves with their beauty before gagging him or her with the plastic garbage swirling in the Pacific gyre. Each print spans several feet in each direction, unearthing a feeling of the sublime with expanses of tiny images that seem to repeat into eternity.

Just as Jordan’s colossal works soothe the eye with their geometric regularity, their accompanying statistics startle the mind with grim truthfulness. With its crisp, starkly contrasting color scheme, “Light Bulbs” launches the eye deep into its astronomical arrangement of a common household object. Large and small light bulbs float in a sea of blackness, densely concentrated at the center like an alien galaxy from a video game. But the statistic accompa-

nying the print dispels its dreamy illusion of infinity: The 320,000 tiny electric stars in this fictional galaxy stand for the kilowatt hours of electricity wasted in our country every minute from inefficient residential usage.

The digital prints in “Running the Numbers” arrange the vestiges of consumerism with patterns borrowed from the natural phenomena our collective ecological footprint erodes.

“Toothpicks” at first registers as an idyllic landscape, its creamy swirls of blue sky and white clouds floating over a wheat field. Upon closer inspection, however, the field’s artificiality becomes pronounced. Made up of 100 million toothpicks, the landscape represents the number of trees cut down yearly in the U.S. to make the paper for junk mail.

Wading into the waters of art history, Jordan’s overwhelming 8-by-11-foot magnum opus, “Gyre,” recreates Hokusai’s famous 19th century woodblock print, “The Great Wave off Kanagawa.” The stylized image of a dark blue wave rearing its foamy head — easily recognizable as the quintessential image of Japanese art in the West, or as someone’s scenester boyfriend’s arm tattoo — inundates the viewer with simultaneous awe and disgust. Reminiscent of the short, stippled brushstrokes of Impressionism, tiny pieces of garbage collected from the Pacific Ocean compose the entire seascape, putrid and poisonous despite the image’s calm.

The 2.4 million pieces of plastic in the image, Jordan’s caption explains, allude to the estimated number of pounds of plastic pollution entering the world’s oceans every hour.

While many artists work with an ideology in mind, Jordan’s aims in “Running the Numbers” are hardly subtle in spite of his works’ unostentatious visual elegance. But without pointing fingers at any particular culprit of impending environmental disaster, his monumental digital prints engage us in the task we all share in creating a more sustainable way of life.

Nastia Voynovskaya is the lead visual art critic.

Contact her at avoynovskaya@dailycal.org.

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According to Nick Kardahji, a UC Berkeley graduate student and the union’s recording secretary, under the current contract, the childcare subsidy for academic student workers is $450 a semester, a fraction of the average cost of childcare he estimates to be around $1,500 per month for preschool-age children. He added that during negotiations, the union requested this subsidy be doubled, hoping to close the gap between the costs and what the subsidy covers.

In response to specific questions about potential contract provisions, UC spokesperson Steve Montiel has maintained that UC officials “are attempting to resolve the negotiations.”

Throughout the drawn-out process, which has been marked by repeated breakdowns in negotiations, the union has consistently asserted that the UC has not been bargaining in good faith, filing unfair labor practice charges against the UC with California’s Public Employment Relations Board at the end of September. However, officials from the university have maintained that the UC has been bargaining in good faith and working to reach an agreement in a timely fashion.

“The parties are very close, and we are hopeful that agreement can be reached by the end of October,” Montiel said in an e-mail.

With this latest setback, the negotiations between the university and the union have reached record levels of delays, according to Larimore-Hall. If “unproductive and unlawful” behavior by the university continues, an unfair labor practice strike is an option that the union is considering, he said.

While Kardahji said a strike would be an effective means of putting pressure on the university, he asserted that it would not be in the interest of either party.

“If things continue in this fashion, (a strike) may well end up being the only way that the UC is prepared to listen to reason,” he said.

Aaida Samad covers higher education.

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Cal Preps for Pac-10s With Strong Effort at Pre-NCAAs

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Clancy Pendergast and Andy Ludwig were the three least inspiring people in the Coliseum.

Tedford, Pendergast and Ludwig are all smart, cerebral coaches.

They pick logic over emotion. But sometimes you need more than wellthought-out game plans. You need fire. Someone like Coach Taylor from Friday Night Lights who makes you look inside yourself and believe.

College football is not a business.

This wasn’t a pitch that fell short in the boardroom. Football is a game, and games are won and lost on the strength of heart and desire almost as much as they are by physical skill. Records are thrown out for rivalries for a reason.

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The Bears gave up, plain and Inspiration isn’t reserved for the good times, the beat-downs of UC simple, and that’s on the coaches.

Davis and Colorado. Inspiration is for These are 20-year-old kids who know deficits on the road, for dark hours in that Cal doesn’t play well on the road. dark places.

When they were down 21-0 early, The players no doubt feel like they it probably felt like 400-0. It’s the played themselves into an early Paccoaches’ job to look at the defeated 10 grave. They did. But they’ve been faces on the sidelines and shake them out of it. They’re in charge for a reason crippled by their leaden leaders.

On the flight home, the cabin of the — they’re supposed to be leaders. plane was effused with sunset light.

But instead, they preached settling If you were look for metaphors, there and salvaging. isn’t a better one. The meaning of that “I thought the guys were locked metaphor, though, remains to be seen. in, but we just didn’t make any plays Maybe it means sun is setThursday, Maythat 3,the2007 early other than the one sack on ting on the Bears. third down to give us a lot of juice on Or maybe it means that there is still defense,” Pendergast said. hope.

“I was really proud of our kids in Watch Friday Night Lights with Katie the second half,” Tedford said. “… They at sports@dailycal.org. came back and won the second half.”

men’s competition, while Florida State did the same in the women’s race.

As for how they’ll get better while Attracting moreThe K’s than any whitemoving forward, it seems like the Bears Daily Californian DUMMY sheet attire gala, the cross country Pre- will be following in the pawprints of a NCAA Invitational was held last Sat- duo that has shown its prowess time urday in Terre Haute, Ind. This final and time again. preseason meet proved to be a critiPerennial pacemaker junior Debocal transition for the Cal cross coun- rah Maier, ended Saturday’s race with try team’s and a promising indication a third place finish in the 6K. She has for the fast-approaching Pac-10 and paced the Bears in every race she has NCAA championship season. entered the last two years — and is still For the Bears, who have a longon the up and up, having placed 13th running history with these invitationin last year’s Pre-NCAA meet. als, past results may still be running For a collegiate career filled with from back through their heads as they compare a lot of (the offense) came from our many top finishes in both regional and where the team is headed. defense, getting turnovers and putting with a final score of 12-11.

On Saturday, national events, Michael Coe has chofrom back Over the weekend, the Cal men finaway good opportunities.” ished seventh overall, beating a pair sen this season to establish himself as a Cal instead opened the match with a Junior Ivan Rackov leads Cal, as passing and hitting when we needed it.” of nationally ranked schools in No. 20 No. 1 runner ­— among the other hon- 5-0 run before even letting USC on the well as the MPSF as a whole, with 39 Washington didn’t push Cal after the Michigan State and No. 26 UCLA. The orable mentions he has garnered over scoreboard. goals in 13 matches. He met his aver- break. A night after outscoring WashThe Bears’ relentless defense limited women’s team similarly surpassed No. the years. While an unsettling defeat age yet again against USC, hammering ington State 50-23 in the third and 13 Washington and No. 29 BYU on its loomed over the Bears during the first the Trojans to two goals heading into home three goals. fourth sets to defeat the Cougars (6-11, halftime compared with Cal’s eight. quarter of the race in Terre Haute, Coe way to an eighth place finish.

“He’s a real key player, he’s able to 0-7), the Bears once again did not trail “I think Justin (Parsons) had a really After a lackluster year in 2009 and and company staged a huge comeback. see a couple steps ahead both offen- after the half. Cal quelled any thought a less-than-stellar performance in last “We got swallowed by the crowd ... solid game in the goal cage, which we sively and defensively which allows of a Washington comeback with eight needed, and was helped by team demonth’s Stanford Invitational, coach and all of a sudden we’re in like 150th him to take advantage of opportuni- of the first nine points of the set. fense,” Everist said.

Tony Sandoval knew the runners had place, but we all kept our poise and Parsons, a sophomore, has been one ties,” Everist said. “He plays the game Outside hitter Tarah Murrey displayed to calm themselves down and get back slowly moved our way up,” Coe said. “I of the keys to the Bears’ recent success, like he’s playing chess; he sees the her talents on both sides of the net with into their game. passed all but six guys, so I almost got tallying 10 saves this weekend and 13 openings really well.” a double-double. She once again led all “We definitely did better than last year, the whole field.”

The supporting Bears cast rose to players in kills, with 19, good for a .311 last weekend against UCLA. He has and I think performance-wise, much The weekend’s performance has been logging heavy minutes in the ab- the occasion, threatening the Trojans hitting percentage, while finishing secbetter than what we did at Stanford,” he confirmed Cal’s position as a top consence of Wil Toppen, who is out to in- from all sides so that they weren’t able ond on the team with 14 digs. said. “This is something that we’ve been tender and not a moment too soon. In to collapse their defense in one area. jury but should return soon.

“I remember Carli … was (saying), looking forward to. Overall, we’ve made “We had some contributions from ‘Lets play all out,’” Murrey said. “She two weeks, the Bears will be leaving for Cal’s stifling defense also helped to some progress, but there’s also some ACROSS Seattle, Wash., and the Pac-10 champi- present opportunities on the offensive deeper people, Zach Greenwood had kept saying, ‘Lights out defense, lights 10. Collisionstwo and Collin Smith had a big goal for things we need to get better at.”

1. One whoend. works out offense.’”

Looking for what to get better at, Cal onships.

Ukrainian capital Everist said. “It‘s nice to get some “I think we were really11. patient with us,” with figures: abbr. may not have to look too far. Stanford Samuel Farahmand covers cross country.

F I R E CWhen R AtheSlight S turnMback A on M FriE the ball, got a lot of opportunities at production offensively out of some day 12. Founder of night, the Bears will be facing 4. Biblical book took home the first place title in the Contact him at sfarahmand@dailycal.org. the two meter, drew a couple ejections, other people, having different people A B E L H O S E A I C E Christian Science No. 2 Stanford for sole possessionRof 8. Appear frightened Zach (White) a good job of scoring makesHARD HARD # 1 was doing 13. us harder to defend first place at the mid-way mark in the Burrowing rodent Lstep E up.”

G S A P P A L A C H I A forcing the zone, we were able to get when 13. Troublesome person we have deep guys Pac-10 season.

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Play Jonathan Kuperberg 15. Clear and counterattacks,” Everist said. “So Contact him at batashian@dailycal.org.

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36. Article T O D D B O E R S E N D S Warner!s role on rasco’s diving header off of a Paul free 38. 3 __ 21 is 7 kick with 5:45 remaining was the best Gabriel Baumgaertner covers men’s soccer.

“The Cosby Show” 54. 35 Down!s home 39. Puts down Contact him at gbaumgaertner@dailycal.org. chance for either side.

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CITY OF ANGELS BECOMES CITY OF HORRORS FOR CAL by the

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42-0

Worst halftime deficit in Cal football history.

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by Ed Yevelev

One More Time But With Feeling

Daily Cal Staff Writer LOS ANGELES — Cal coach Jeff Tedford’s postgame comments spoke volumes.

“You have to give USC a lot of credit,” Tedford said on Saturday afternoon.

“On both sides of the ball, offense and defense, they beat us soundly.”

Such assessments are typically served for Pete Carroll’s Trojans — not the 2010 team, whose four uninspired wins and two last-second losses raised countless questions about focus and motivation.

After a 48-14 thrashing at the hands of USC, the Bears (3-3, 1-2 in the Pac-10) were the team searching for answers, the Trojans (5-2, 2-2) suddenly looked every bit as determined and efficient as Carroll’s well-oiled squads.

USC’s dominance — and the Bears’ ineptitude -— were apparent from the get-go at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, as Lane Kiffin and company found the end zone on six of seven first half possessions.

When the halftime whistle mercifully sounded, Cal had surrendered 372 yards of offense and faced a 42-0 deficit — the largest first-half deficit in program history.

“They made some plays, and we didn’t, and they got the start that we wanted,” Cal quarterback Kevin Riley said. “They jumped on us quick.”

Riley’s counterpart, Matt Barkley, served as the Trojans’ spring board.

Barkley tossed a school record-tying five touchdowns in the first 30 minutes against a Bears' pass defense that came in ranked sixth in the nation.

Whether sitting in the pocket or rolling out, the sophomore quarterback was sharp all afternoon.

He threw two scores apiece to receivers Ronald Johnson and Robert Woods, and was eventually relieved by Mitch Mustain late in the third quarter. By the time Barkley left the game, he had carved up Cal for 352 yards on 25-of-37 passing.

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Shane Vereen gets swallowed up by the USC defense, a familiar scene for Cal throughout the game. Vereen had 53 yards rushing.

“I was very impressed with him,” Bears' defensive coordinator Clancy Pendergast said. “He has a great skill set and is very well coached. When we got some pressure on him, he made throws under duress.”

Barkley’s top target on the day, Woods, followed up last week’s 224-yard, threetouchdown performance at Stanford by decimating the Bears’ secondary for seven catches and 116 yards.

On his second score of the afternoon, a nine yard reception to give USC a 28-0 edge, Woods put a nifty double move on corner Steve Williams to get open inside for the throw.

Though it hardly made a difference where the Trojans took possession, Cal’s’ own sputtering attack in the first half made USC’s day even easier.

The Bears were pinned deep for much of the half, opening the contest with four consecutive three-and-outs.

“They made some plays, but a lot of

what they did was on us,” Riley said. “A punt, and they’d score ... it just kind of kept on hitting us.”

USC’s own defense certainly did its part in the first half, allowing 64 total yards and one first down in the first 30 minutes, while ending two Cal drives with sacks.

However, the Bears suffered just as much from self-inflicted wounds.

Spencer Ladner saw a potential first down bounce off his hands. Even the normally sure-handed Marvin Jones failed to haul in a pass on a slant pattern, preventing a potential large gain.

Even with suspect pass-catching, Riley added to his team’s struggles.

Riley’s totals — 193 yards, with touchdowns to Shane Vereen and Keenan Allen after intermission — belied a miserable first half, which featured a 3-of-12 passing clip for 51 yards and two picks. Both resulted in eventual Trojan touchdowns.

The first interception, an underthrown deep ball for Ladner in the second quarter, squandered Cal’s lone first-half trip into USC territory.

His second miscue was even more damaging.

In the final minute of the half, Riley tried to find Vereen on a screen pass at the Cal 35 yard-line. Instead, he threw directly into the arms of defensive lineman DaJohn Harris. The ensuing return gave USC just 26 yards to reach paydirt for the sixth time.

Despite Riley’s first-half woes, Tedford never thought of benching his fifth year senior.

“I felt he gave us the best chance to win,” Tedford said.

Like the sun on a foggy Los Angeles afternoon, that chance vanished in a hurry.

Ed Yevelev covers football. Contact him at eyevelev@dailycal.org.

OS ANGELES — Derrick Hill stood on the tarmac of LAX, staring off into space, waiting to board the Cal football team’s charter plane home.

An Old Blue approached him and asked the defensive tackle why the Bears had performed so poorly against USC. Hill didn’t have the answer, but his face showed how much the question stung.

“Some guys’ hearts shrunk today,” Hill said quietly as the man turned away.

This game wasn’t about stats, plays or schemes. It was, as Hill said, about heart.

Cal is obviously a better team than the one that showed up to drop passes, throw picks, give up sacks and allow big play after big play at the Coliseum. They’ve shown that at home. But over the last few years, regardless of personnel, the Bears have played horribly on the road.

To perform that poorly goes beyond the physical. If teams like Minnesota — which lost to South Dakota — can stick with the Trojans, the Bears sure as hell could have.

But the light was already out of their eyes late in the first quarter.

Players sat on the bench, heads down.

The flesh might have been willing, but the spirit was weak.

Perhaps it is no coincidence that, in a game that exemplified how big a toll emotions can play, Jeff Tedford,

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Bruins Nip Cal With Golden Goal in OT

by Gabriel Baumgaertner Daily Cal Staff Writer

The sheer surprise and elation expressed by the UCLA bench said it all.

It doesn’t matter who appears to be the better side, it only takes one great play to win the game.

Freshman sensation Kelyn Rowe’s 25-yard wonder-strike in the 105th minute gave the Bruins a critical 1-0 victory over Cal, a heart-wrenching finish for a Bears team that controlled almost the entire second half and the opening overtime period.

The overtime loss ends Cal’s fourgame winning streak to start conference play and an eight-game unbeaten

streak.

“That’s soccer for you,” senior Davis Paul said. “All it takes is one strike like it did today.”

Led by Paul’s three shots on goal and exemplary defense from left back Scot VanBuskirk, Cal (8-2-2, 4-1-0 in the Pac-10) looked like it would inevitably score after several chances on frame and applying constant pressure in UCLA (9-3-1 , 4-1-0) territory.

Cal goalie David Bingham made eight saves, but only two presented any real challenge to the junior until Rowe’s laser hit the side netting in the second overtime period.

Paul started the Bears’ first legiti-

mate chance, streaking toward the middle and leaving a back-heel pass for midfielder Hector Jimenez, whose rocket from the top of the penalty box rang off the side post. Tony Salciccia blasted the ball into the back of the net off the rebound, but was whistled for being offside.

Paul and Jimenez teamed up for another gleaming chance with 1:25, playing give and go down the sideline, but Paul’s shot was nicely snared by UCLA goalie Bryan Rowe, who made five saves on the afternoon.

“At that point in 90 minutes we were just trying to run as hard as we can,” Paul said. “Hector slipped me

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Junior goalkeeper David Bingham made eight saves in No. 10 Cal’s double overtime game against UCLA. The Bears dropped to 8-2-2 on the season with the loss to the Bruins.

Bears Get Back on Winning Track at Home Men’s Polo Ensures Cal Doesn’t

by Jonathan Kuperberg Contributing Writer

The No. 6 Cal volleyball team, as it does before every match, came up with goals before facing No. 7 Washington.

“I feel like we achieved all of volleyball them,” senior setter Washington 0 Carli Lloyd 0said. Cal 3 “And that’s a big deal because we make a lot of goals individually and as a team.”

Whatever those secret goals were, the Bears came out with a fire that never wavered, dismantling the Huskies in straight sets (25-22, 25-22, 25-18).

It was the same old on Saturday

night at Haas Pavilion. A top team entered pumped and left deflated, another group of players stepped onto the court bobbing their heads and stepped off shaking them.

“This team has no trouble getting up for an opponent that is like us,” coach Rich Feller said. “We played very good defense. We set up a good block.

I think we made them change some things they wanted to do.”

Cal’s stalwart defense stifled Washington’s offense into a sub-.200 hitting percentage and edged the Huskies in both blocks (10) and digs (62) — a difficult thing to do, Feller said, particularly against a strong defensive team like Washington.

It looked to be a tight competition

between two tough top-10 teams early on, as the squads traded points to open the first set. But with the score at 7-7, the Bears (17-1, 7-1 in the Pac-10) went on a six-point run to break open not only the opening set but also the entire match.

The Huskies (15-3, 4-3) caught up to Cal late in the first two sets, though, and even tied it up at 22 in the second frame.

In both cases, the Bears called a timeout, regrouped and quickly won each set. “(I was impressed by) the way when we got pushed near the end of those first two sets that we were able to hold on,” Feller said. “Any time they pushed us, we pushed back a little harder. And come through with tight serving and good

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Leave Los Angeles Without Win

by Byron Atashian Contributing Writer

The No. 2 Cal water polo team (12-2, 2-0 MPSF) added a coveted win against No. 1 USC (15-2, 1-2 MPSF) to the season’s growm. polo ing collection on Saturday.

Cal 12 The 12-9 tri9 umph over the USC Trojans on their home turf of McDonald’s Swim Stadium marks the most recent powerhouse to fall to the Bears. Cal is now 1-1 against USC, 2-0 against Stanford and defeated UCLA last week to become

1-0 against it.

“Obviously having a win back-toback against UCLA and USC is big for us,” coach Kirk Everist said. “We have a lot of work cut out for us, but it puts us in a good position moving into the rest of our conference season.”

While Cal’s game against the Trojans earlier this season in the NorCal tournament was a story of playing catch-up to get back in the game, the situation this weekend was a 180-degree turnaround. On Sept. 19, the Bears were down 10-5, logged a 5-0 run to tie the game at 10 a piece and just fell short

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