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Berkeley Lab Fights Excess Energy Usage

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab’s Energy Regulations Throughout the Past Years

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Scientists at the energy technologies division of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have traded in their microscopes and petri dishes, instead tinkering with refrigerators, televisions, laptop chargers and other common ONLINE PODCAST appliances as they seek to fight a constant battle Emma Anderson and against unnecessary energy consumption. Since 1979, the lab’s Energy Efficiency Stan- Claire Perlman discuss dards group has been a contractor of the U.S. the lab’s energy impact. Department of Energy, conducting research for the department that often influences national policy. Such research — and influence — is fairly common for the lab’s energy division. The energy crisis of the 1970s and the threat from climate change today have spurred a frenzy of research at national laboratories, including the Berkeley Lab. Air conditioners, heaters, washing machines, dryers and even water heaters have all become the subjects of the lab’s analysis in the last two decades. One of the group’s first projects was to configure a refrigerator —

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Transportation Grants to Revamp City Parking Systems High School by Madeleine Key Contributing Writer

UC Berkeley and the city of Berkeley plan to provide the public with more information about their transit options after being awarded two transportation grants, allowing funding for programs and systems that will provide real-time data on the availability of parking spaces in the city. The city has received a recommendation to be awarded $2 million from the Metropolitan Transportation Commission and has been awarded an additional $1.8 million from the Federal Highway Administration to improve parking and transportation systems in Berkeley. Although UC Berkeley was not awarded either of the two grants, the Federal Highway Administration named it the

city’s project partner for their grant. City and campus transportation departments — which worked closely to develop the two grant applications — will also work together to implement proposed changes, said Billy Riggs, the principal transportation planner for the campus, adding that the two grants complement one another well. A portion of the federal grant will be used to create and install a “wayfinding” program, a new type of smart technology that pairs sensors with real-time information systems — like cell phone applications — allowing drivers to see where and when parking spaces are available on the street or in parking lots, Riggs said. “This saves the driver time and reduces the frustration of hunting for parking, and cuts down on unneces-

sary miles of driving in circles,” said Elizabeth Deakin, a professor in the department of city and regional planning who will evaluate the effectiveness of the new program, in an e-mail. It would also result in fewer greenhouse gas emissions, lessened energy use and reduced traffic congestion, she added. The city of San Francisco has begun to pilot a similar dynamic parking program. “The ultimate goal is to provide people with options so that they can be more flexible,” Riggs said. “If they have all the information, they can a more informed decision about whether to drive or take transit.” Smart parking technologies can help improve parking management systems because they are more easily able to collect data on occupancy and

turnover and enforce parking rules, Deakin said in the e-mail. According to Riggs, the earliest equipment will be installed is spring 2011, and the earliest the public can expect to experience the impacts of the grant is the middle of 2012, after a study has been conducted to determine if and how the program actually influences behavior. The city plans to use funds from the Metropolitan Transportation Commission — which awarded grants worth $33 million to promote improved transit throughout the Bay Area — to provide transit subsidies for residents that work downtown to encourage the use of public transportation, according to Riggs. Contact Madeleine Key at mkey@dailycal.org.

Demonstrators Protest Leniency of Former BART Police Officer’s Sentence OAKLAND — After demonstrators rallied to commemorate the death of Oscar Grant III and speak out for civil rights at Oakland City Hall Friday afternoon, a group of about 350 marched through east Oakland in protest of what some saw as a lenient sentence for former BART police officer Johannes Mehserle, who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in July. The demonstrators blocked intersections, downed fences and smashed storefront windows while making their way toward the Fruitvale BART Station where Grant was killed. As marchers were confronted by police blockades throughout east Oakland, they began to chant “Shut it down, shut it down!” and “No justice, no peace! Oscar Grant could have been me!” The group was eventually cornered by police at 6th Avenue and E 17th Street around 8 p.m., where about 150 were arrested on charges of unlawful assembly and disturbing the peace. —True Shields

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Student Dies After Being Shot in Head by J.D. Morris Contributing Writer

A Berkeley High School freshman died after he was shot in the head Oct. 30 and held on life support for six days, but the exact circumstances surrounding his shooting remain unclear. Fourteen-year-old Larry Malik Grayson died at approximately 4:30 p.m. Thursday, according to the Alameda County Sheriff ’s Office Coroner’s Bureau. Grayson was on life support at Highland General Hospital in Oakland in the days leading up to his death, according to Pasquale Scuderi, the principal of the high school. A Wednesday statement from the Berkeley Police Department said that the 17-year-old male suspect in the shooting — who many sources living at the 1521 Alcatraz Ave. apartment complex where the shooting occurred said was the victim’s friend — was originally booked Oct. 30 for attempted murder but that those charges would change if Grayson died. Berkeley police Lt. Andrew Greenwood said Friday that the department was unaware if the suspect’s status had changed. Alameda County Assistant District Attorney Matthew Golde said on Friday that charges have not yet been filed. “The investigation is continuing,” Golde said. “It just kind of depends what facts are gathered, and then our office will evaluate whether or not we can file charges.” The entire Berkeley High School community felt the impact of the news, according to Berkeley Unified School District Superintendent Bill Huyett, who said staff members and students alike were shocked to hear of Grayson’s death. “The immediate thing for the school is to care for students grieving and help them through this loss,” Huyett said. Counseling staff at the school were

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Based Off Past Research from front one of the least energy efficient household appliances — that consumes less energy. Their research was also the basis for two energy efficiency standards passed in 1989 and 1997 and another proposed Sept. 28 that, if passed, would go into effect in 2014. Before the most recent proposal, refrigerator and freezer energy consumption was cut by more than twothirds through the previous regulations, and with this newest standard, the department estimates that number could be reduced even farther — by 20 to 25 percent. According to Robert Van Buskirk, formerly the program manager of Berkeley Lab’s Energy Efficiency Standards group and current senior technical analyst in the appliance standards program at the energy department, the reports the department receives from the lab involve economic as well as scientific analysis. He added that once the analysis is complete and recommendations are made, the department allows for public comment, permitting potentially opposing groups like environmentalists and manufacturers, as well as other interested parties, to present their own analysis. “There is a science to looking at the benefits and costs of different policies and coming up with a net sum of both the benefits and costs,” Van Buskirk said. “The Department of Energy depends upon the researchers to come up with in-depth, fairly objective analysis on the benefits and costs of different policies from different perspectives.” The Department of Energy is not Berkeley Lab’s only governmental collaborator. The lab has an ongoing project with China to increase energy efficiency in buildings and also has sent researchers to Brussels to give energy advice to the European Union. Alan Meier, a senior scientist in the Energy Analysis Department at the lab, testified in front of a European Parliament committee last September about smart meters. “The thing that woke everyone up, including the members of the European Parliament that were present, was when I logged onto my smart meter in California for my house and showed them the electricity and gas consumption of my home in near-real time,” Meier said. “They had never seen that before. They saw how important this could be as an information tool for consumers.” Meier said he made two simple recommendations to the parliament regarding the monitoring of personal energy consumption, both of which he said will most likely be incorporated into upcoming legislation. The first was that all consumers should have access to personal energy consumption data online, which may seem like a given in the land of Northern California, where almost every house is equipped with a smart meter, but the idea is less intuitive in Europe, Meier said. “Twenty-seven million consumers in Italy have smart meters, but they have no access and cannot see their energy consumption on the web,” he said. The second recommendation is to send the personal energy consumption data to a third party organization that can provide consumers with additional services, such as analyzing consumers’ data and informing them when an appliance in their house is, for example, using more electricity than it should. However, despite the working relationship the lab has with the energy department and other international governments, Meier said he prefers to remain uninvolved with the political side of science. “If something is already elevated to the level of parliament, then it’s become politicized,” he said. “The real work gets done at a much lower level.” Claire Perlman is the lead research and ideas reporter. Contact her at cperlman@dailycal.org.

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ostalgia (n.) — a yearning for the past, often in idealized form. “When I was your age, Pluto was a planet.” This is one of the most popular groups on Facebook. Almost two million people have proudly “liked” this witticism, deciding it describes part of who they are, their unique uniqueness. Also, it’s pretty much the group you like when you are the person who goes around liking everything vaguely relatable. So, I guess a lot of us lament for the lost planet. Alas, poor Pluto. We liked you even though your classification made little sense. When I lost you, my entire perception of the galaxy changed, and it just tore me apart. OK, I doubt we’re all that dramatic. But I can’t deny that this is just a part of a trend I’ve felt recently. Since I’ve been in college, there’s been a lot of nostalgia creeping into conversations with friends, usually in wonder that things could have changed so fast. Hey, remember when the Simpsons was funny? And beepers? Watching Pokemon on VHS tapes and the screeching sound AOL used to make as you logged on? That shit was awesome. Hey now, that’s familiar! Weren’t those the good old days? Look, we totally just bonded — assuming you grew up in the same window I that I did. If you weren’t born in the years surrounding 1989 and if you didn’t grow up in the United States around then, there’s a chance you don’t know what the hell I’m talking about. When you think about it, it’s pretty normal and universal for college kids to spend a disproportionate amount of time thinking about the pieces of culture that made up their childhoods. Firstly, for many of us, college is our first time out of the house and leads to the horror that is self-reflection — we look at the beginning of our lives in order to figure out if that’s why we’re the way we are now. Also, it’s just fun to compare childhoods in order to deduce if you were messed up from the beginning. Secondly, I can’t deny that now is the time in our lives when, forced by competition to be a little more resume-minded, we may be inclined to sense our idyllic, fancy-free childhoods are over and therefore seek to grasp at whatever flimsy straws of the past we can find. ey, I know this feeling. And I’d be lying if I said that last year, when I opened an LSAT prep book and had to think about my future, I didn’t get sucked into an existential crisis that sucked so powerfully that I spent two whole days rewatching the Disney animated canon on Youtube in stupor. Sure, the ideo quality was crap and I was interrupted by a commercial every ten minutes, but it was still comforting in an odd, pathetic kind of way. I think the feeling is a little more complicated than just the angsty self-indulgence that everyone feels when they realize the past is over, and people our age have probably been feeling this way since the beginning of time. After all, the way we communicate, gather information and see the world has dramatically changed since when we were kids — which wasn’t even long ago. We’re probably the first generation of

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According to the institute, Eichengreen plans to use the funding for graduate students and postdoctoral fellowships in economic history and to attract additional Ph.D. candidates to the field, hoping to triple the annual output of UC Berkeley Ph.Ds specializing in economic history. The allocation of the funds is explicitly outlined in the proposal, guaranteeing support for dissertations, seminar series, traveling fellowships and archival work all in the field of economic history. Smaller grants will be provided for archival visits and the digitization of historical data. The larger purpose of the lab is to produce change in the field of economics by making it a more fundamentally historical, institutional and empirical social science, according to Eichengreen’s proposal. The grant is the largest of 30 inaugural grants awarded this year by the institute, according to Executive Director Robert Johnson. The New York based grant program — founded in October 2009 from a $50 million pledge

by businessman and philanthropist George Soros — is a response to the current economic crisis and aims to support new economic thinking that could change current debate and prevent future crises. “It was one of our priorities to have a program vigorous in economic history, and the quality of faculty who submitted the application, all who have strong histories of teaching economic history, give us great confidence,” Johnson said. Johnson said UC Berkeley’s large group of enthusiastic graduate students interested in research and postdoctorate fellowships in economic history outnumbered graduate students at other universities. “People on the East Coast always talk about the lack of quality and moral relevance at Berkeley,” Johnson said. “But it is Berkeley who is using economic history to bear on contemporary problems. I can’t think of a better place on the planet than Berkeley for economic history right now.”

Grayson: Many Assume Shooting Was ‘Accidental’

But if the shooting is determined to be a homicide, it would be the sixth Berkeley has seen this year. Greenwood, from Berkeley police, said this would not be out of the normal range for homicides in the city. Though the school has not made any official plans yet, Huyett said some kind of tribute will likely be paid to Grayson. “Right now everybody is still absorbing the loss and reacting to it,” he said.

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PAULINE HORCHER kids whose parents bought them cell phones — but only for emergencies. I don’t want you calling your buddies willy-nilly. That’s what the landline’s for and only after 9 p.m. Now, take care of your RAZR. Not to mention that we’re the ones who first used AIM, Myspace and Xanga — all of which restructured how we thought of friendship and are also pretty much defunct now. o, a big reason why we idolize the past, even the past of five years ago, is that because we know that stuff isn’t coming back. And the stuff that we have right now is going to be a relic soon too — particularly because the technology is always changing, always getting better. I don’t know, maybe we’re bitter because things have changed so fast. I cannot tell you how many conversations I’ve had with my peers where the phrase “Kids growing up today are going to be so fucked,” comes up, with us usually concluding that they’re going to end up being more snotty narcissists than even we are. And that’s saying something. What a bunch of weirdos, growing up on the Internet. Not like us, who were raised on good, old-fashioned television. After all, they’re in a world where Youtube, Twitter and Facebook are normal, while we still remember all the way back in 2005, before they exploded into the essentials they are now. This memory of life before, of course, lets us both love the sites and loathe what they’ve allegedly done to us and society as a whole — in true ironic hipster fashion. Naturally, any idolization of a pre-digital world seems to forget that everything took forever back then, rendezvousing was a pain in the ass, and it was significantly harder to pirate music. Admittedly, the good old days weren’t so great, and tomorrow’s not looking that bad either. However, I feel we are united in coming from a time right as the Internet exploded into the behemoth it is today, changing the galaxy in the process. And it’s a very strange kind of remembering — a world without emoticons, texting and away messages. What’s cool now probably isn’t going to be in five more years. It might even be indecipherable. After all, we’re at a point where we can hold a face-to-face conversation using nothing but initial-isms. “WTF?” “OMG. LOL.” “FML.” Oh hey, remember when FML was cool? Man, that was awesome!

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in full force on campus Friday to reach out to students and provide grief counseling services, according to Scuderi, who sent an e-mail to the high school mailing list Saturday expressing thanks for the “outpouring of care and support from our community.” “He was a strongly well-liked kid,” Scuderi said. “We’ve got a lot of tears.”

According to Scuderi, the school responded to the news after being informed of Grayson’s death at around 9:30 a.m. Friday by a spokesperson for the family who had been in contact with the school since the shooting. “We are all assuming it was all accidental,” Huyett said, reflecting an opinion shared by multiple people who live in and around the apartment complex where Grayson was shot.

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hadn’t been to Alcatraz since a fourth grade field trip. My memories were limited to the things I found interesting as a pretty typical 12-year-old — namely, playing spitting contests with friends off the side of the ferry. What I didn’t remember about Alcatraz was how beautiful the view is. The only better vantage of the Golden Gate Bridge would come from the deck of a ship passing through it. But even on a nice day, when one can see the sun’s reflection on the dome of San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts, Alcatraz is bleak. As I stood admiring the combination of metropolis and nature that makes the Bay so interesting to stare at, I felt the faint, nagging anxiety that somehow the last ferry would depart and I would be left all alone on the

Rock. It is precisely this loneliness that makes Alcatraz Island the perfect stage for “Hamlet.” We Players, led by founder and artistic director Ava Roy, transform Alcatraz into Elsinore, creating a moving production of Shakespeare’s enduring work. The performance begins during the ferry ride, then spills out onto the landing dock, moves up to the cellblock and continues all the way around the island. Virtually every scene occurs at a different location, requiring that the audience be attentive and wear comfy shoes. This kind of on-site theater has been Ava Roy’s medium since her days as a freshman at Stanford. During an interview, she told me that provoking curiosity is one of the main motivations behind this kind of work, which regularly causes unknowing Alcatraz visitors to stop and stare in confusion. “I’m trying to expand how we think about our public spaces, and engage

the audience members more fully,” she says, calling it “an experiment to see how people respond.” In her first production, “Romeo and Juliet,” she staged the opening scene in the Stanford cafeteria. As the confrontation between the Montagues and the Capulets escalated into a brawl, students eating lunch found the scene hard to ignore. Many of them followed the play as it moved out of the cafeteria and continued across the campus. “Hamlet” is full of angst, anger, violence and sadness — emotions that linger among Alcatraz’s decaying structures like the smell of salt water. Based on her previous site-specific work — “Macbeth” at Fort Point, “The Tempest” on the Albany Bulb — the National Park Service invited We Players to make a stage of Alcatraz. “My initial gut reaction was to do ‘Hamlet,’ but it felt too obvious,” says Ava. After six months

of research and deliberation, she went with her gut. “Denmark’s a prison,” says Hamlet, whose mind is a mess of emotion after the death of his father, the former king, whose brother has married the queen and taken the throne. Hamlet’s remark, and his mania, is manifest in the rusted pipes, collapsed roofs and abandoned buildings that dominate the island. While common interpretation is that Hamlet’s mind has twisted Elsinore into this apocalyptic world, being on Alcatraz opens up another possibility. Perhaps he is going crazy because Elsinore is in ruins, and yet everyone around him carries on as usual. As I followed the performance, accompanied by five musicians and Charlie Gurke's eerie, mood-setting jazz, I engaged with the play on a level beyond that of a spectator. To

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hen a throwback soul singer seamlessly transitions from Sly and the Family Stone into Green Day’s Dookie and makes the segue seem only natural, you know you have something special on your hands. With similar executions of this type of musical alchemy, singer Aloe Blacc secured for himself a position in the pantheon of tribute retro-soul performers that have been burgeoning since the breakthroughs of Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings and Amy Winehouse. Aloe Blacc arrived on the scene in 2006 as a rapper with his first album Shine Through, a neo-soul hip-hop oriented amalgam, but his departure from this stance into savvy soul singer on his most recent album Good Things has evaded the soporific sophomore slump that bands often fall prey to. Like his precursors Marvin Gaye and Al Green, both of whom were given verbal nods at the packed Rickshaw Stop in San Francisco last Wednesday, Aloe operates with the belief that music acts as a forceful device to deliver sociopolitical change. Arguably the album’s best track, “I Need A Dollar,” a dangerously catchy call-and-response offshoot of work songs of early African-Americans that also features as the theme song for HBO’s “How To Make It In America,” tracks the economic recession on a highly personal level. Lines such as “I need a dollar dollar

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go” directly refer to his layoff from a consulting firm in 2003. But as Aloe will often emphasize lyrically and emotionally, good things can arise from the direst of situations — case in point, this album. So why hasn’t Aloe been propelled to stardom on a larger scale? The album has up to four potential “hit” songs, while his backup band, the Grand Scheme, are soul aficionados that play with a professional, driving funk. One could blame it on his small independent label ties, but such ties never hindered artists like hip-hop producer Madlib. And it’s certainly not for want of talent, nor looks for that matter (just ask the group of blushing girls in front of me). There are even bands with much larger fan bases who find themselves entangled in a similar situation — the polished albums do not correspond with the myth-making status of their live shows. Midway through Aloe’s set, the slick-footed frontman requested the crowd divide itself in half to make way for a “Soul

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ow many euphemisms can you think of for homosexual? I don’t have room to list them all here. But one I had never heard before was “sweet.� Of its kind, this one seems relatively gentle; still it stands in for a subject about which many are still unwilling to speak. Tarell Alvin McCraney both explores and breaches this silence with his astonishing play “Marcus; or The Secret of Sweet.� This last of McCraney’s “The Brother/Sister Plays� is now in its West Coast premiere at the American Conservatory Theater. Marcus Eshu is 16 and trying to find himself. His father Elegba is long dead, depriving him of his only model of adult male sexuality. His mother and neighbors are reluctant to talk about Elegba, except to hint that Marcus’ father was “sweet.� Desperate for information, Marcus begins to have dreams about the man he later learns was in fact his father’s lover. Questions of inherited proclivities arise when Marcus himself seems to be “sweet.� The difficult role of this young African-American man in search of his sexual identity is dexterously executed by Richard Prioleau. His portrayal of Marcus is both movingly sincere and humorously self-aware. The supporting cast is likewise strong. The audience is granted the pleasure of a tour de force

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Daily Cal Staff Writer PULLMAN, Wash. — With about seven minutes to play at Martin Stadium, the Cal football team held a 14-13 advantage over Washington State. On 3rd-and-20, Bears quarterback Brock Mansion tossed a bubble screen to Jeremy Ross, who was stood up after a 13-yard gain. But the senior wideout, aided by a crowd of teammates, kept pushing. And pushing. And pushing. “I probably looked at the sideline two or three times to see what we we’re doing,” quarterback Brock Mansion said. “I was looking for the next signal, like ‘Should we go for this?’ All of a sudden, it’s still going, it’s still going.” Eight yards later, Cal had a first down. Five plays and a blocked extra point later, the Bears led, 20-13 — the final margin of a win that, like Ross’ clutch play, devolved into a painful struggle. Cal (5-4, 3-3 in the Pac-10) staved off an enormous upset by the Cougars (1-9, 0-7) to finally earn a road victory in 2010. It was the team’s first in six tries, dating back to last year. The Bears avoided the embarrassment of being Washington State’s first Pac-10 victim in 16 games, but still found themselves on the wrong side of history in Pullman. They were blanked in the first quarter against the the nation’s worst defense, giving the Cougars their first opening period shutout of 2010. Cal also became the first FBS team ever to spot Washington State a halftime lead in Paul Wulff ’s three-year tenure. “They really came out fighting,” Bears defensive end Cameron Jordan said. “We could just feel it. They were fighting for every yard, everything they had was going into it.” Indeed, the Cougars struck the opening blow. Running back Logwone Mitz scored from 10 yards out, capping a nine-play, 80-yard touchdown drive to put Washington State ahead, 7-0, early in the second quarter. The Cougars went into the locker room with a 10-7 edge. Led by Jordan, however, the Bears

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said, “but we gave them a couple points to get back in it.” Six points to be exact, all consecutive and enough for the Bruins to retake the lead. The squads traded points until Feller called a timeout with the score tied at 13. Murrey had been hounded by the UCLA defense after a six-kill first set and had yet to complete a kill thus far in the fifth. The Bruins dug another one of her attempts to continue the trend, but the dig bounced back to Cal’s side and the nation’s fourth-best scorer slammed it down to bring the contest to match point. “UCLA had great defense. They were really relentless,” said Murrey, who finished with a team-high 21 kills. “(But) I’m going to be an aggressive player no matter what.” Ironically, the closest match at Haas Pavilion this season ended somewhat anticlimactically with two Bruin errors. Then again, early on it did not seem like the match would even reach a fifth set. The Bears sat squarely in the driver’s seat after the first set, which they won handily with five-block effort and a .433 hitting percentage. In the second and third sets, UCLA’s defense crowded the highway Cal had been cruising on. The Bruins looked to be on the fast track to victory. “We had some ups and downs,” Murrey said. “Our will to fight and really get on the court and play volleyball ... That’s really what helped us win the fourth set and take the momentum into the fifth.”

ULLMAN, Wash. — The victory formation has gotten so rare outside of Memorial Stadium, that Cal must have forgotten when to use it. With 1:27 left on the clock in Pullman, Washington State had just one timeout remaining. Cal had a fresh set of downs ... but decided to hand off to Isi Sofele, rather than commencing with kneeldowns. Eventually, quarterback Brock Mansion ran out the clock ­­— and was he ever lucky to do so. A game that was supposed to be Cal’s guaranteed win, its tune-up before the nation’s top squad visits Berkeley, turned out to be anything but. Afterwards, coach Jeff Tedford maintained that “all wins are great wins.” Except when they’re not. Instead of abiding by recent college football custom and dispatching the Cougars early on, the Bears kept their opponent in the game for four quarters and had to hang on for dear life. No victory against a team that has dropped 16 straight conference games should ever qualify as “great,” but the Bears’ Houdini act inside Martin Stadium was underwhelming at best and disconcerting at worst. Cal may have finally clawed out that elusive road victory — the team’s first in six tries — but the game was still filled with symptoms of the team’s futility away from home: dropped passes on potential touchdowns, untimely penalties, poor field position and spotty special teams play. The result? The Bears were shut out in the opening quarter and mustered one first-half touchdown, making college football’s most porous defense look like world-beaters. They even gave much maligned coach Paul Wulff his first ever halftime lead over an FBS opponent. Luckily, no more history was made in Pullman at Cal's expense, as the Cougars suddenly remembered their true identity. The team cannot expect such fortune to strike again — even as the Bears conclude their 2010 campaign inside the friendly confines of Memorial Stadium. Against a conference doormat, a performance like Saturday’s yielded a nail-biting seven-point win. Against BCS-caliber squads in Oregon and Stanford on consecutive weekends, Cal will be lucky to make it to halftime in one piece. I can guarantee that the Ducks and the Cardinal will not settle for just two field goals if given three possessions in Bears’ territory. Bryan Anger won’t be able to chase down Kenjon Barner or Chris Owusu in the open field if the team’s punt coverage breaks down again. And Mansion definitely can’t be expected to pull more 95-yard drives out of his pocket against Nick Aliotti’s defense. Senior wide receiver Jeremy Ross said that Cal’s close victory at the Palouse will “give (the team) momentum in (its) next home games.” Perhaps. Let’s hope that it ends up being a caution flag, rather than a blueprint.

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Junior Brock Mansion threw for 174 yards and two interceptions on 14-of-24 passing in his first career start. He was sacked twice. settled down and claimed the lead after intermission. Cal’s senior defensive end made consecutive tackles on Cougars quarterback Jeff Tuel to force a threeand-out just after halftime. Jordan delivered a stellar afternoon, racking up a career-high 12 tackles (including four for loss), 1.5 sacks and a forced fumble. “Wow, that’s a lot. Then I think I’m doing alright,” Jordan said, laughing, after finding out his own defensive numbers. Fellow end Trevor Guyton also had a terrific game. Guyton was put in at the nose tackle position in place of Derrick Hill, and contributed seven more tackles and 2.5 sacks. “I was happy to see Trevor have a great game,” Jordan said. “That’s all I saw him, was in the backfield. He got

in there like a knife through butter.” With the defense holding Washington State to just 60 yards after halftime, Cal’s offense found life coming out of the intermission. The Bears covered 65 yards in just four plays on the team’s opening second half possession. Jones snatched the ball away from Cougars safety Deone Bucannon with a leaping, one-handed grab for 27 yards. On the very next play, Ross took a 27-yard fly sweep to pay-dirt and the Bears led, 14-10. The two receivers came through in the absence of freshman Keenan Allen, who stood on the sidelines with an ice wrap after tweaking his right knee in pregame warm-ups. Jones finished with 101 yards receiving on four catches, greatly aiding Mansion in the quarterback’s first ca-

reer start. Jones reeled in a 50 yard bomb in the second quarter to set up his team’s lone first-half score — a two yard run by Shane Vereen. Meanwhile, Mansion ended the afternoon 12-of-24 for 171 yards and added 53 yards on the ground. The junior signal-caller certainly showed some jitters, sailing a couple of early passes and throwing a pair of interceptions. Yet, he shook off those errors to complete 3-of-4 on the Bears’ final scoring drive. “He made very few mistakes,” said Vereen, who rushed for 112 yards and two scores. “The mistakes he did make were very fixable. I think he’s proven that he can play.” Ed Yevelev covers football. Contact him at eyevelev@dailycal.org.

Bears Follow Second Loss With Comeback Effort by Jonathan Kuperberg Contributing Writer

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Senior Carli Lloyd led the No. 2 Bears with 53 assists in their five-set win over No. 10 UCLA. The home victory kept Cal atop the Pac-10 standings.

The No. 2 Cal volleyball team beat No. 10 UCLA by two points in the fifth set on Saturday, but don’t tell outside hitter Tarah Murrey that her squad simply squeaked by. “It wasn’t really pulling it off,” the junior said. “It was working hard to win the game ... We just kept going, kept fighting and that’s how we got our win.” The Bears rebounded from their second loss of the season the previous night against No. 7 USC to defeat the Bruins (25-18, 22-25, 21-25, 25-19, 16-14), holding on to first place in the Pac-10. The Haas Pavilion crowd of 1,234 created an “electric atmosphere,” according to coach Rich Feller, but UCLA’s defense discharged Cal’s offensive attack for much of the match. Feller called the Bruins the best defensive team in the Pac-10, while senior setter Carli Lloyd said UCLA was the most defensiveoriented squad she had ever seen. The Bruins (17-7, 7-6 in the Pac-10) finished with 16 more digs than the Bears (21-2, 11-2). However, Cal countered with a season-high 18 blocks, three of which were recorded in the decisive fifth set. Lloyd opened the final frame by ripping the ball out of an opponent’s hands mid-air for a kill. By the time middle hitter Shannon Hawari returned a UCLA dig with a huge spike and another kill two points later, the Bears had opened up a 7-2 lead. “Having that lead was really good,” Lloyd

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