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More than 11 months after a three-day demonstration rocked the UC system, the conduct hearings for UC Berkeley students charged with misconduct during those protests continue to move forward, amid rising financial and time-related costs to both the students involved in the process and the campus. Since their beginning, the conduct proceedings have been clouded in contention with allegations by the students of procedural violations by the Center for Student Conduct and Community Standards and disagreement on both sides regarding causes for delays. Both parties agree, however, that the drawnout proceedings have been costly. So far, faculty, staff and students have spent approximately 438 hours this semester on three ongoing student conduct hearings, numerous pre-hear-

ing conferences and informal meetings for approximately 17 students charged with misconduct related to the protests last November, according to Susan Trageser, director of the center. The hearings for those involved in protests last November alone have created financial costs of approximately $23,000 for the campus — around $16,569 in faculty and staff time and $6,462 in space rental, educational technology services like recording and sound amplification, as well as copying expenses, according to Trageser. Hearings are paid for by the center, but with the center’s small operating budget, expenses related to open hearings or others requiring additional support are covered through the Office of the Dean of Students and the Division of Student Affairs, Trageser said in an e-mail. Given budget cuts, the office continues to look for ways to reduce costs, she added. “The Center for Student Conduct and Community Standards is always

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Sigma Epsilon Omega’s fraternity house and two additional dwellings on the property have been found to be out of city zoning regulations.

Fraternity House Property Faces Zoning Violations Krishan and Neelam Rai — owners of a Dana Street property that includes a fraternity and two additional dwellings — said they were unaware that their property, which they have owned for 30 years, is out of regulation and lacks the necessary permits to make housing a fraternity and multiple living units legal. The property is zoned as R-2A — categorizing it as a multi-unit dwelling — and features a nine-bedroom house, currently occupied by the fraternity Sigma Epsilon Omega, and two smaller units in the back, one of which is in-

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Jarvis Architects to redesign the backyard dwelling to fit requirements. “There are very few lots in that neighborhood that have one house,” Pennell said. “Most of the neighbors have two or even three dwelling units on the property.” He added that there are many illegal second units and apartments all over Berkeley. “Nobody says anything until it’s a problem,” Pennell said. In August, the Rais received a notice of violation from the city’s code enforcement unit, stating that the main building on the property was not

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habited by the Rais’ daughter and her family. A third tenant lives in rooms adjoining the main house. While zoning gives owners the right to have multiple units on one parcel of land, the owners must apply for and receive permits for the individual dwellings. “It’s kind of like a driver’s license,” said Robert Pennell, an architect at Jarvis Architects, a firm working on the Rai property. “You have it by right, but you need permission.” In June, after learning that their daughter’s house was not considered to be a legal living unit for lack of a correct permit, the Rais applied for an administrative use permit. They hired

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While the number of total registered voters in Alameda County has decreased since the 2008 general election, Elections the idea of voting by absentee ballot has gained traction 2010 in the region as dailycal.org/elections a more convenient mode of democratic participation. Of the about 386,000 vote-by-mail ballots mailed to county residents this year, approximately 155,000 have been returned as of Oct. 30, with many more ballots expected to come in on election day, according to the Alameda County Registrar of Voters. “I don’t know what to expect, but I think that (turnout through vote-bymail ballots) will be relatively heavy,” said Dave Macdonald, Alameda County’s registrar of voters. “It depends on what we get back on election night ... I expect 50,000 to 60,000 (more votes) county wise.” Section 3201 of the California Elections Code states that voters can apply to vote by mail and become permanently registered to do so. As a result, ballot cards are mailed 29 days prior to

school that are pretty difficult, so trying to budget my time between learning about microbiology and learning about the intricacies of the student code of conduct has been very difficult. It’s like having at least another class or two.” While monetary costs do not have as much of an impact on students, the emotional toll and time spent dealing with hearings, instead of working or going to class, has had the greatest impact on students, said Daniela Urban, a UC Berkeley School of Law student and member of the Campus Rights Project who has been advising students. “There are many ways that this could have been handled differently by the Office of Student Conduct that would have saved the campus and students a lot of time and money, and all that boils down to a respect for the students’ interests and rights,” Urban said.

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The six candidates for three open seats on the Berkeley Unified School District Board of Education Elections who will come before voters Nov. 2 show wide-ranging 2010 levels of funding dailycal.org/elections for their campaigns, though the race appears to be more competitive and high-profile than in previous years. According to campaign filing statements updated as of Oct. 16, Karen Hemphill — current board president and the only candidate running for reelection — has raised only $8,898, while Josh Daniels, a school finance attorney who is another candidate in the race, has raised the most at $21,713. Candidate Norma Harrison did not file statements, since she has had no contributions to her campaign, did not do any fundraising and used her own money to pay for any campaign-related expenses, she said. After Harrison, Hemphill is the least funded candidate of the race despite her current position on the board. “Many of my supporters believe I won’t have a problem getting reelected,” Hemphill said. “A lot of my contributors also contributed to other campaigns.” On the other end of the spectrum, Daniels’ funding is not only the highest in the race but is also above normal for school board candidates in the past four elections. High levels of funding across the board reflect the similar level of interest in the race, candidates said. “The amount of attention being paid to this race is unprecedented,” candidate Julie Holcomb said. “You don’t often have five or six good candidates running for three spots on the board.” Because campaign finance laws in the city of Berkeley prevent businesses from donating to campaigns, all candidates said most of their funds came from individual donors. Candidate Leah Wilson, who has raised $12,142 for her campaign, said her most effective means of fundraising was one-on-one meetings with potential supporters. She added that 90 percent of such meetings resulted in a donation. Though Daniels and Holcomb both said they received donations from political action committees on behalf establishments such as the National Electrical Contractors Association Northern California Chapter and the Construction & General [Laborers] Laborers’ Local Union, they also said those donations account for only a small portion of their funds. “I’ve had people from law school donate, friends I’ve known since kindergarten have donated, neighbors and family members have donated — the whole range truly does reflect the broad support I think I have in Berkeley,” Daniels said. Two of the candidates — Holcomb and Priscilla Myrick, who have raised $15,157 and $10,730 as of Oct. 16, respectively — have loaned their own

exploring ways to reduce costs,” Trageser said in an e-mail. While there may be costs to both sides, comparing student costs to the costs to the campus is not necessarily fair, according to Laura Zelko, a UC Berkeley junior charged with five violations of the code of student conduct for her involvement in the Nov. 18 occupation of the Architecture and Engineering building and the Nov. 20 Wheeler Hall occupation. “I understand the administration has the ability to tally up the time they spent on these hearings, but for the (Office of Student Conduct) this is their job, whereas for me, it’s really not my job,” Zelko said. According to Zelko, the last 11 months have been physically and emotionally taxing as she struggles to juggle her school work, her social life and her pending student conduct proceedings. “It’s been hard,” she said. “I’m working on a lot of prerequisites for nursing

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o we discussed what was going on in Africa. And never, ever did I say, “ Well gee, is it a country or is it a continent? I just don’t know about this issue.” Fear not, dear reader, my brain has not been completely fried by midterms, and my grammar is, for the most part, still intact. Nay, what you see above is a Palinism, sprouted from perhaps the current most amusing political figure (if you can call her that) during a FOX interview in November of 2008. Of course, these outrageous comments and claims are not just confined to the Republican camp. Both parties have had their share of mediocre performances and tiresome grandstanding. But this election cycle comes with not just the usual slew of speeches that lack content. No, they’re filled with something else — anger. Welcome to Midterms 2010, year of the outraged voter. Americans are anxious, and have good reason to be — 28 percent have less than $500 in savings, and seven in 10 have a close friend or relative who has lost their job. This anxiety has been translated into anger. The latest Newsweek poll shows that 23 percent of voters say they are angry, and 54 percent say they’re frustrated. Thus we get candidates such as Jimmy McMillan, proclaiming that “the rent is too damn high!” and people like New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, rousing a crowd by saying he told union leaders, “You punch them (teachers), I punch you.” This November 2 should be quite the event, with a projected 71 percent of registered voters going to the polls. But amidst all this anger and hysteria, one group has predictably not been riled up. Yep, that’s us. Only 27 percent of 18-to-29-year ! olds say they will definitely be voting tomorrow, in stark contrast with the 57 percent who voted in the 2008 elections. It’s somewhat understandable. We’re not prone to voting to begin with, but couple this with our irritation at rising tuition costs, slow, ancient elevators in the residential halls and two Late Nights being slashed from this year’s schedule, and we’ve got plenty of reason to send a message via boycott. The man most of us stood behind two years ago hasn’t completely come through on his promise of change. And plus, it’s the midterms. Why should we even bother? ell, there’s a story of a guard who patrols the border between two countries. One night, a man with a large bag slung over his shoulder comes riding down to the border on a bicycle. Naturally, the guard stops the man and searches the bag. Upon emptying the mysterious burlap of all its contents however, the guard finds nothing in it but ... dirt. So he lets the man go on. The next night the man comes back. And once again, the guard finds nothing in the bag but dirt. This continues for a year, until finally one night the man comes up to the guard and informs him that it is his last night crossing the border.

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LYNN YU The guard inquires, “I know you must have been smuggling something all this time. What exactly was it that you were smuggling?” The man smiles, and replies, “Bicycles.” he media likes to spin politics so that we focus on the dirt in the bag and not the bicycle riding by. The decisions our leaders make should be understandable and simple, but our vision gets clouded by the smaller details so that come election time, we’re missing the bigger picture. Damn chronically high unemployment and big government! Well, without the bailout and TARP, unemployment would be well over 12 percent right now. And without the government’s help, GM and other auto companies would have collapsed, dragging another million jobs down with it. Stupid inefficient Congress! Whether you support it or not, the health care bill is nevertheless a landmark piece of legislation, and the financial reform bill, if well-enforced, looks promising. “Alright, so they’ve done a couple of things,” you say. It doesn’t disprove the fact that politicians are sleaze bags and annoying, and Washington is tightly hung up in gridlock. True. The system isn’t perfect, but it’s what we’ve got. And simply choosing not to participate won’t make things any better. Midterms 2010 is slated to be a historic election, with the possibility of a divided House and Senate. This would mean the potential for a lot more paralysis on Capitol Hill, and a series of stalemates until 2012 rolls around. It would be foolish to sit this one out. As Daniel Webster aptly put it, “Anger is not an argument.” Neither is apathy. Now I’m not going to bother you with cheesy lines and tiresome encouragements of how your single vote is going to make all the difference in the world, ‘cause it’s not. “Then what’s the point?” you ask. Hmmm ... well as Palin said, “I didn’t really had a good answer, as so often — is me.” So that people who say things like that and mis-underestimate the status of the country of Africa will not end up in the Oval Office in 2012. And because even though your single vote will not be the deciding ballot in tomorrow’s elections, it’s still worth something. Rock the Vote, 2010.

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tripped of clothing and inhibitions, Ryan McGinley’s nymph-like models bound through nature: They climb trees, roll down sand dunes and splash in waterfalls. It makes for an atmosphere at once sensuous and innocent, like his photographs were shot in the Garden of Eden, if Eve hadn’t taken a bite out of that apple and Adam was bi-curious. McGinley captures motion better than any other photographer today, a talent that gives his photos a refreshingly visceral impact and spontaneous thrill. “A big part of my work is contingency,” McGinley says, sitting in front of a large photograph of a boy falling through a shower of fireworks. “When you plan everything out, for everything to go wrong.” At 25, McGinley was the youngest artist to have a solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art. His newest exhibit at Ratio 3 in San Francisco, “Life Adjustment Center,” showcases two of his series shuffled together. The first consists of black and white studio portraits of nude models interacting with animals, the second, McGinley’s signature landscapes of models set free in the wild. The animal series, while not as immediately cathartic as his other photography, has a wonderful sense of texture and wit, as when a tarantula crawls across a woman’s body or an owl perches on the curve of a butt cheek. His other set of photographs recalls the Romantic paintings of Thomas Cole and Caspar David Friedrich (specifically his “Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog”), in their placement of solitary nudes in sublime nature, obscured by mist and rain. These are a departure into more impressionistic work for the artist: “Alex (Giant Explosion)” could easily be confused for a painting. Yet McGinley’s portraits of man and

beast sometimes dip into an unwelcome self-consciousness, emphasized by the more natural landscapes hanging on the wall nearby that impart the feeling of tagging along for an adventure. The juxtaposition can be disconcerting, but it is hard not to smile while browsing his pieces and well worth the visit to Ratio 3 to see McGinley’s photos in the flesh, so to speak. “This is an escape,” McGinley explains. “My photographs are about this idea, this fantasy world that doesn’t exist, where people fall out of houses or through sparks. It’s just this world that I feel like, I don’t know, I really wanna live in.” He has just slid on sunglasses for an interview conducted in a place that makes a point of being well lit. McGinley has crafted this exhibit for someone to “get lost in for 20 minutes and forget about all the bullshit that’s going on in their day.” This speaks to the uncomplicated appeal of his work, of its ability to immediately transfer an experience or moment of pure joy to the viewer. In “Chloe & Amanda,” a woman and her dog lie naked next to each other, mouths agape and with the woman’s hand casually rubbing her own tongue as she smiles. For McGinley, part of engineering this “fantasy” is gathering a ragtag band of white, thin and androgynous models to embark on his annual summer road trip across America that costs around 100,000 dollars. “The people who I work with shooting my nudes are all performers. I really only want to work with artists,” McGinley adds. Whether consciously or not, McGinley doesn’t refer to his craft as taking photographs but rather as “making” them. And therein lies the paradox of much of McGinley’s work: He labors intensely to make his photographs feel organic. He readily acknowledges that editorial choice

is integral in his photography, taking an over-abundance of shots and choosing the one that captures the moment best. McGinley is now at work on a rock and roll festival documentary. Beyond that, he is uncertain. “I’m just interested in what’s happening today and maybe what’s happening tomorrow,” McGinley says. Such a mindset, of not lingering on what comes before or after, seems to fit with the mood of his work. The best way to think about and enjoy Ryan McGinley’s photographs might be to not think at all.

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ritish comedian Chris Morris gets a kick out of watching silly people try to achieve something together. “In the organization of pretty much anything,” Morris explains, “a camping holiday, a picnic, a day in the woods, a football match, a stag party — there’s a lot of scope for things to be funny. For things to go wrong.” Petty arguments erupt into shouting competitions, inadequacies are humorously revealed and people trip and fall on their faces. Laughter is almost guaranteed. Of course, his fascination isn’t unique. From the Three Stooges to “Fawlty Towers,” “This is Spinal Tap” to “The Ladykillers,” watching an inept bunch of fools mucking up is a formula that spans decades as well as continents. But is this situation inherently funny, regardless of context? For example, is it still funny when the common goal involves blowing up innocent civilians in a terrorist attack? Morris pushes this question to its logical and hilarious conclusion in “Four Lions,” a film that follows a band of English wannabe suicide bombers. Omar is the ringleader by virtue of being the least idiotic of the bunch. Barry, a converted white Brit, finds an outlet for his childish rage in radical Islamic culture; Waj, a confused simpleton, is assured by Omar that blowing oneself up is just like riding a water slide; Hassan, a suggestible lad, seems more invested in lowbrow hip-hop than religious observance; and Faisal, a quiet halfwit, straps bombs to trained crows so he won’t have to blow himself up. They communicate over the children’s social networking website Puffin Party to hatch their diabolical, hapless plots. The film is careful not to equate religion or ethnicity with stupidity or evil. Actually, given that they know more about Tupac, “The Lion King” and “Rambo” than they do about Pakistan or Islamic tradition, it might be more accurate to say that their motivation comes more from pop culture than the Quran. And the police that chase them turn out to be just as moronic and violent. “Four Lions” is certainly provocative, but Morris is no Sacha Baron Cohen. Touchy subjects attract him because

they’re more difficult to make challenge. He’s perhaps best k the infamous “Brass Eye,” a sh news programs long before “T the airwaves. An episode calle pedophilia, causing an uproar British television. When asked should be off-limits, such as ch Morris cheekily responds, “We that a suicide bomber cell form might be funny.” Answering th he says, “There’s no moral imp demand that jokes are often,” lowering his voice, “naughty.” Morris did extensive resear the film. He started off with ex ally he began attending court “army officers, intelligence offi Muslims,” and even “some ma “I met some people who told m be a second-class citizen becau Still, Morris seems as disinter history lecture than he is in sh being shocking. He’s steeped i comedy, trading in subversive u’s. He makes terrorism funny his arms about shouting, “Loo breaking social taboos!” Last Friday’s attempted atta gogues reminds us just how se is. Fart jokes these aren’t, and will likely turn some viewers o himself asserts, “Terrorism its film isn’t saying that.” Rather, much less controversial claim mundane situations are funny ering how cable news has taug almost superhuman evil geniu laugh at someone accidentally tripping over a sheep, then the won. Watch the BBC with David a

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ou know those housewares stores, nestled in the downtown areas of affluent suburbia, that sell a simpler time? This doesn’t refer to our friendly Trader Joe’s brand of affordable lager, but a certain nostalgia — tin lunchboxes and old-fashioned toys and hand-woven potpourri baskets (bourgeois and rustic). But despite the tiffany lampshades and absence of USB ports, these products are in no way authentic recollections of another time. They are overwrought affects of imitation, pushing the consumer button of nostalgia. Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan, formerly of (respectively) Belle & Sebastian and Screaming Trees, are pushing the same type of button. Their performance at the Great American Music Hall last Thursday was a sterile rendition of their well-constructed but formulaic new album, Hawk, executed in a prefabricated “beauty and the beast� duet persona akin to 1960s Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg. Put more simply, what was so disappointing about their performance was a complete lack of innovation or improvisation. It never drifted from the middle of the road to stare at a car wreck nor generate a euphoric concert experience, and that makes it all the less interesting to talk about: It was boring. The performance never broke the surface of the album’s studio-produced quality, never deviating perceptibly from the album’s cadence and orchestration. Especially with the continued devaluing of physical music media sales, a live performance is an opportunity space to emphasize and exploit the music’s latent abilities in a live context. The ticket price was equivalent to the retail price of a new CD, and you get what you pay for: an animatronic Isobel and Mark mouthing along to their album’s soundtrack. Standing about eight feet apart from each other on the stage, staring straight ahead and almost never interacting directly with each other, they reinforced the sterility of the recording studio, even without the sound booth. Their independent musical registers formed two separate hemispheres, but their performance never breached the equator. It felt like I was being let in on the dry run of a mediocre high school play, the performers running through their lines and blocking with a glassy-eyed indifference to an imagined audience. What made the expressionless performance even more frustrating is the duo’s purported homage to the turgid, smoky emotionality of the heterosexual duet. It may be a bit too much to ask that the music’s referenced genre be congruent with the relationship between the singers — being another Rosanne and Johnny Cash isn’t a prerequisite to putting out an album of similar tonality. But when your MySpace profile is likening your music to that of the aforementioned Jane and Serge, or the Johnny Cash American recordings, or Nancy Sinatra’s Lee Hazlewood productions, you place yourself within a pretty lofty context. And singing into an old-timey microphone is not enough to recreate these relationships in song. Exiting the theater that night, I left behind the warmth and low lighting of the Great American to the slick asphalt and indifferent traffic of O’Farrell. The yellow glow of the Great American’s marquee fading behind me as I biked past a luminous strip club advertising “Wild Girls,� their bodies painted to resemble jungle cats, I realized how immediately the ambience of the performance had dissolved in my memory. Being rained on in front of a strip club was more stimulating than Isobel and Mark’s performance, and probably a lot closer to something Serge would have done. Get stimulated outside of a strip club with Amelia at ataylor@dailycal.org.

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“Chapter 18� may enthrall amateur sleuths, the sleek graphics and fascinating photographs engross the casual onlooker in their lustrous repetitions. Quaytman’s works self-consciously refer to their media, but they also invite viewers to lose themselves in their eerie regularity. Nastia Voynovskaya is the lead visual art critic. Contact her at avoynovskaya @dailycal.org.

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“We will get our best poll workers that can run things efficiently,� he said. “(The super centers are) not as convenient as having a walking-distance polling place ... but we will have a higher turnout, and it is significantly cheaper.� UC Berkeley senior Valentina Prado, a forestry and natural resources major, said in an e-mail that she decided to vote by mail because it allowed her to spend more time researching candidates and propositions. Stefan Montouth, a CalSERVE party ASUC senator, said in an email that he understands why voters busy with school or work may choose the absentee option, but he also added that he prefers going to a polling place and receiving an “I Voted� sticker. “It’s exciting waiting in line knowing that your vote will make a difference,� Montouth said in the e-mail. “Whether people vote via absentee ballot or going to a voting booth, I just want people to vote.� Contact Yousur Alhlou at yalhlou@dailycal.org.

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money to their campaigns within the last month, though both said they expect to repay themselves soon. “Running a campaign is quite expensive, and that often prevents independent candidates from gaining exposure,� Myrick said. Within the last filing period, Myrick only received two donations and loaned $2,000 of her own money to her cam-

paign, according to the statements. Several of the candidates have tried to gain exposure through their own websites and presence on Facebook, though none said they placed a strong emphasis on those methods, preferring instead more traditional means of campaigning, such as precinct walking, phone banking and mailings. Contact J.D. Morris at jmorris@dailycal.org.

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The touchdown prevented Cal (4-4, 2-3 in the Pac-10) from being shut out in a conference game for the first time since 1994. “Honestly, I was kind of in shock. I was like, ‘Okay, I guess I’m going in,’� said Mansion, who looked exhausted after the game. “After the first series, when we shot ourselves in the foot a few times, it was just live bullets so everything was going faster. I was anticipating things being faster and I was trying to go even faster than I should have been going.� Because of the Bears’ offensive ineptitude, Oregon State (4-3, 3-1) happily found itself working with a short field all afternoon. the Beavers’ first four drives ended in touchdowns; two of those drives started at their own 43yard line. Tailback Jacquizz Rodgers juked his way to 119 rushing yards and wide receiver Markus Wheaton, who Oregon State has been using in much the way it did with James Rodgers, added 73 more rushing and 57 receiving. Both had their way with the Cal defense which, a week after destroying Arizo-

who got heated at a no-call on a late hit on tailback Shane Vereen. False starts and holding penalties made every step forward feel like two steps back. Vereen finished the day with 53 yards rushing behind a leaky line that also gave up five sacks. As an offense, the Bears generated 206 total yards. Bryan Anger, in contrast, had 347 yards in punts. “We didn’t protect the passer very well. We didn’t block very well,� Tedford said. “Too many penalties. Just a poor effort.� There are few worse situations under which a second string player earns 2 himself a starting spot, but # quarterback Brock Mansion finished the game admirably, if not winningly. He threw mostly screen passes in what was more of a damage control role than anything else. “The playbook gets shrunk quite a bit,� Tedford said. Mansion ended the day 14-of-24 for 138 yards and one touchdown, a 45yard completion to tight end Anthony Miller in the final seconds of the game.

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After 109 minutes of a thrilling contest against Washington, the No. 10 Cal men’s soccer team (11-2-3, 7-1-1 in the Pac-10) snared the win on one great play. Senior forward Davis Paul’s free kick from the right side found the boot of senior co-captain Hector Jimenez in the wall of players. Jimenez turned around, beating the defenders and finishing the shot right behind goalkeeper Spencer Richey for the game-winner. The 2-1 win in double overtime must have been a little sweeter for the midfielder, who was sidelined with a broken leg during the 2008 tilt with the Huskies (9-5-1, 3-4). HARD The squad came into the contest after a 2-1 win in double overtime against Oregon State on Friday. Scot VanBuskirk, Ted Jones and A.J. Soares were all missing from the back line against the Beavers. Despite the absences, substitutes Riley Kovatch and Mike Munoz held their ground in the defense. It was Paul who chipped a ball in over the Beavers’ defense to secure the win. Soares and Jones were both back in the swing of things yesterday, strengthening the defense’s effort. “Washington is a really hard team to HARD play always,� Soares said. “We beat them pretty good up there, so we knew V. EASY they would come out extra hard.� The Huskies kept that defensive front on its toes for the first half of play with 10 shots. In the backfield, senior captain Taylor Mueller was missing due to a red

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Berkeley, California

Monday, November 1, 2010

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SPORTS

twice as nice

Cal earns its second straight double-overtime in win over Washington. See page 7

Riley’s Knee, Cal Defense Get Carved Up in Corvallis No Storybook Ending for Riley

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Katie Dowd

Points given up by Cal on the road this season, to 61 scored.

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by Katie Dowd Daily Cal Staff Writer

CORVALLIS, Ore. — As the Cal football team jogged back onto the field after halftime, their hearts must have been heavy for the man they left behind in the locker room. Because although the Bears will live to fight another day, Kevin RiONLINE PODCAST ley’s future is not so certain. Cal started out slow and never re- Beat writers discuss covered from the injury to its starting Cal’s loss and remaining quarterback, falling 35-7 to Oregon prospects this season. State at Reser Stadium, adding the most heartbreaking chapter yet to its 0-4 away record. The Bears lost Riley on their second drive of the game. Under the ONLINE SLIDESHOW weight of a low take-down by Oregon See dailycal.org for State defensive tackle Brennan Olan- more photos from the der, Riley’s left knee buckled, leaving Bears’ 35-7 loss. Cal’s starter crumpled in his own end zone. Riley lay on the ground in agony for a few minutes before being helped off the field, tears in his eyes. There were eight minutes remaining in the first quarter, but the game was over. “The coaches did a great job of preparing us,” wide receiver Keenan Allen said. “We just came out flat.” Offensively, even with Riley, Cal struggled mightily to move the ball. Much of that was self-inflicted. Through three quarters of play, the Bears had 107 total yards of offense and 103 yards in penalties, including an uncharacteristic unsportsmanlike conduct call on coach Jeff Tedford,

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Marvin Jones is tackled after making one of his five catches. The junior wide receiver totaled 66 yards in Cal’s 35-7 loss, its fourth consecutive to Oregon State. Brock Mansion threw the Bears’ lone score to Anthony Miller.

Cardinal Spoils Cal’s Home Season Finale by Catherine Nguyen Contributing Writer

Any member of the Cal field hockey team will say to expect close finishes in games against Stanford. And in close matches, the outcome is defined by just a few, but significant, individual plays. A couple of late goals garnered a 4-2 victory for the Cardinal (11-5, 5-1 in NorPac), in addition to a share of the NorPac West Division championship along with the Bears. Unlike the first meeting between the two teams in September, the late goal that decided the game belonged to Stanford, and not to Cal (8-8, 5-1). With six minutes left to play, Stanford’s leading scorer Becky Dru took a shot from the top of the circle to break the 2-2 deadlock. Although the Cardinal out-cornered the Bears, 12-5, it couldn’t do much with that advantage against Cal’s defense. “Those are designed plays that we had defended quite a few successfully,” Bears head coach Shellie Onstead said. “So for them to only score once on a corner, I’m actually pretty happy about.” Less than two minutes later, Stanford capitalized on Cal’s confusion surrounding a foul call — or rather, the lack of a call. The Bears waited for a whistle for what they thought was a foul on a preceding play. The call never came, and Xanthe Travlos took advantage of the momentary disconcertion to double Stanford’s lead with an uncontested shot at the net. But as in all close games, momentum often hinges on a single play – one that might have precluded the Cardinal’s two last-minute goals and given Cal the edge in the final out-

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come. Halfway through the second half, the Bears had their own opportunity to break the 2-2 tie on a breakaway. However, Megan Shimojima’s shot from the right side went wide and Cal couldn’t collect the loose ball to fire home for a goal. “To be honest with you that’s a tough fluke — we make the breakaway here and take those two (goals) away, it was that kind of game,” Onstead said. “It was close.” Though Stanford carried its lead through the final minutes of the game, the Bears’ defensive effort had Onstead watching the clock. Cal did not have to clear the ball from its side of the field until the 26th minute. The defense allowed the Bears to set

up in front of the Cardinal’s cage in the 11th minute, when freshman Shannon Elmitt wrapped the ball around the post to give Cal an early lead. Such defensive pressure should serve the Bears well in the NorPac tournament from Nov. 4-6. There, No. 2-seeded Cal may have the chance to mete out revenge against No. 1-seeded Stanford, which broke its 11-game losing streak at Maxwell Field on the Bears’ Senior Night. “The seniors were great, “Onstead said. “You’d like to send them out with a win, but we’ll turn around and focus on next week and try to make it up then.” Catherine Nguyen covers field hockey. Contact her at cnguyen@dailycal.org.

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w. soccer

by Alex Matthews

Defender Lisa Lohre took two shots in her final game at Maxwell Family Field. She was one of three players who ended their home career schedules with a 4-2 loss to Stanford.

ORVALLIS, Ore. — A figure in gray parted the orange and black celebration that flooded out of Reser Stadium. Though they were flush with victory, the Oregon State fans lowered their voices as they passed him, a wounded quarterback struggling on crutches. “Tough break, Kevin,” one man said gently. Kevin Riley looked down, his eyes brimming with what he was too broken to say. We won’t know the extent of Riley’s injury until an MRI is done, but coach Jeff Tedford said that it looks “more serious than just your everyday sprained knee.” This could be the end of his season. And if it is, then it’s also the end of his career. Cal has been unkind to Kevin Riley. This, though, may be the unkindest cut of all. Few players in the history of Cal football have endured the kind of virulent, extended pain that Riley has endured. The abuse from message boards and fans, the booing at games, the quarterback controversies that shook his confidence, whether or not he admitted it. There were fans who called for Beau Sweeney and Brock Mansion week after week. Congratulations

The banner hoisted in the bleachers of Edwards Stadium during the Cal women’s soccer team’s home games reads, “It’s a perfect day for soccer!” That statement didn’t really apply for the Bears as they took on undefeated Stanford in Saturday’s “Bay Area Derby.” The game started with rain and ended with Cal’s fourth conference loss, a 3-0 defeat against their biggest rival. But “perfect” adequate describes the conditions on the other side of the field. The top-ranked Cardinal (16-0-2, 7-0-0 in the Pac-10) shut down the Bears to hold on to their perfect record. “In 14 years of college coaching, that’s the best team I’ve ever played against,” Cal coach Neil McGuire said. “It was like playing against Chelsea.” The Bears played with motivation in the emotionally charged match. Stanford’s offensive system was capable of breaking past Cal’s back line, but defensive tenacity kept the Cardinal scoreless for almost 20 minutes. In the 19th minute, the Bears’ freshman goalkeeper Emily Kruger’s save went out in favor of the second consecutive Stanford corner. The Cardinal’s Lindsay Taylor knocked in the rebound from that set piece. Five minutes later, Christen Press solidified the Cardinal’s lead. She turned inside of a Cal defender who was on her back, and fired the ball into the right side of the net. Press’ speed

tested the Bears, particularly Kruger, who saved nine of Stanford’s 23 shots — 10 of which Press took herself. Cal held the Cardinal off until the 81st minute, when Press finished off the game with a breakaway, drawing Kruger out of the net for a shot on open goal. “(Press has) got wheels, so that was a hard one to stop,” co-captain Emily Shibata said. The Bears spent most of the game doing the runaround against the Cardinal’s almost flawless possession. The disadvantage would cost Cal the game. “Stanford is so good in possession, so when you press you open up space behind you,” McGuire said. “When you open up space behind you, you bring in players like Press to take advantage of your back space. Unfortunately, no matter what system we played, our inability to keep the ball and their ability to keep the ball was problematic.” Losing against a team whose most recent defeat was last year’s NCAA championship against North Carolina isn’t unexpected, but the Bears (7-5-5, 2-4-1) still see room for improvement. “I’m just frustrated cause I know we’re better than that, but we played a little bit too scared at times, and it showed,” Shibata said. “We need to have that type of play, possession, speed, everything. So from that we learn.” Alex Matthews covers women’s soccer. Contact her at almatthews@dailycal.org.

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